Optimus explains to a surprised Sentinel that back in the brig, he'd used his blinking emblem to send a different message to Jazz in Cybertronian optical code. However, when he activates the chamber, the freezing tubes reverse direction, icing all the Decepticons on the bridge and leaving the Autobots safe. Blitzwing sneers that Optimus shouldn't have blabbed his plan where all could hear it, as now the Autobots will suffer freezing instead. On the bridge, Blitzwing, Sunstorm, and Ramjet put Sentinel, Optimus and the Jet Twins in the decontamination unit with Jazz. Sentinel demands they don't surrender, but Optimus convinces the Jet Twins to follow his lead instead, and they capitulate. Sentinel insists he be obeyed as leader, but this only prompts Blitzwing to freeze him and hold him hostage. Meanwhile, despite Sentinel's continued objections and struggling, Optimus uses him as a living spiked slingshot against Lugnut. Noting their predicament through a porthole in the storage depot, Swindle metaphorically shrugs and goes back to looting. The Jet Twins prove far more capable in space combat than anticipated, giving the Decepticons a fair amount of trouble. ![]() Optimus severs a steam duct, giving Jazz cover to escape, but then Lugnut punches a hole in the hull, sending everyone else in the brig out into space. The Decepticons then return, so Optimus tells Jazz to rewire the decontamination unit on the bridge into a freezing chamber to trap them, his Autobot emblem blinking all the while. Prime arrives almost immediately afterward and frees his fellow Autobots, earning no gratitude from the power-tripping Sentinel. Meanwhile, Swindle's greed is still holding sway, and the arms dealer leaves his prisoners unguarded so he can raid the ship's stores. Slightly charred from the backblast, Optimus enters one of the service ducts and works his way back to the brig area, grumbling as he does. He then puts them in the elevator car and slices its cables, so it explodes near the bottom just as the Decepticons pry open the doors. Taking an elevator to the ship's energon storage chamber, Optimus perforates a group of energon cubes with his axe, destabilizing them just enough. Most of the Decepticons give pursuit, with Lugnut ordering Swindle to watch the prisoners in the meantime. Rather than attack against overwhelming odds and attempt to free Sentinel and the others, Optimus takes off down the ship's corridors to better his situation. only to emerge from Swindle's chest, having arrived via the private storage dimension he uses for holding all his stock. The space bridge is activated, and Optimus steps through. With Sari's help, the terminal locks onto the field, providing stable coordinates for an arrival point. Bulkhead notes the space bridge terminal detects an unusual transwarp field aboard the Elite Guard's ship. ![]() On Earth, Optimus receives Sentinel's message, which decrypts to " Broken Lance", a coded call for help that Sentinel used with him back in their academy days. Shortly afterward, Lugnut strikes him down, but Swindle convinces the massive Decepticon to spare their prisoners' lives: Not only could selling off their Elite Guard parts earn a fortune, but they could be a bargaining chip in finding Megatron. Sentinel and Jazz put up a fight, but to little avail, and finally, Sentinel sends a brief, encrypted call for help to his old buddy, Optimus Prime (as he's too embarrassed to call Cybertron). Swindle quickly takes out Jetfire and Jetstorm with a demo of the SJ3K's other function, a stasis suspension ray. With the alarms muted by Swindle's Sonic Jammer 3000, the Decepticons strike at the ship's bridge just after the ship emerges from the energy cloud. Swindle soon frees and re-arms the other Decepticons, even if they don't have payment up front for it, as they work for Megatron, his best customer. Jazz complies despite objections, and of course, his worries prove justified: The energy strikes and flows through the ship, re-energizing Swindle and bringing him out of time-stasis. Frustrated, Sentinel tries to pull rank on Jazz instead, commanding him to take the ship at full thrust through an energy cloud, despite any risks, as that heading will be the shortest route to Cybertron. Sentinel tries to pull rank on them, since he's now technically the pro tempore Magnus, and advises them to keep it quiet, but Alpha Trion makes it clear that they don't quite recognize his authority. Perceptor, Alpha Trion and Cliffjumper indicate that the Autobot High Council has decided to make public the news of the assault on Ultra Magnus. He returns to the bridge after Jazz tells him there's an incoming message from Cybertron. ![]() Meanwhile, out in space, Sentinel Prime fruitlessly attempts to interrogate his Decepticon prisoners for info on the military cells that have been attacking space bridge outposts. " Ravage has poked me on Facebook how many times?"
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