The message bullet extracted from Swerve's shoulder proves largely corrupted by rust, but of the data sent by Agent 113—now revealed to have been the previous holder of the "Vos" codename—one intact piece of information gives the crew of the Lost Light a startling new objective to explore: the location of the supposedly-mythical Necrobot's base of operations. Rodimus has a revelation of his own, however—it turns out that the doodles he has been carving into his desk since the ship's launch are, in fact, a map to Cyberutopia just like the one Thunderclash drew, and he is much more interested in following it than looking for the Necrobot. When Rewind and Chromedome explain that they want to visit the Necrobot's world in hopes of learning the fate of Rewind's old partner Dominus Ambus, Megatron agrees to their request, and the Lost Light sets off. Ultra Magnus takes Rewind aside to talk about his departed spark brother in order to caution him to not get his hopes up for Dominus's survival, but it turns out that Rewind has already had this discussion with his Magnus, on the quantum duplicate Lost Light, and refuses to believe his claim that he can sense his brother's absence.

Presently, the Lost Light arrives at the Necrobot's rather unassuming planet, and a small group heads down to the surface in the Rodpod. They are greeted by the sight of a beautiful garden, full of holographic statues surrounded by sparkling blue flowers, and soon deduce that the statues represent those Transformers who are still living, while the empty plinths are for the dead. Homing in on the solitary life sign on the planet, the Rod Pod sets down outside a huge complex, where a noticeably jumpy Nightbeat immediately spots some movement in the building's doorway, only for the door to be slammed shut before he can reach it. While the others split up to wander about the garden and investigate, Nightbeat stands outside the door and calls to whoever or whatever may be inside... at which point, the door opens a crack, and the imposing form of the Necrobot appears to invite Nightbeat inside!

Ravage dismisses the exercise as a waste of time, but Megatron confides that that was precisely his rationale for allowing the trip: although he will accept his fate when the time comes, he is in no hurry to rush toward that final judgement. Regardless of Megatron's intent, Chromedome and Rewind are here for a purpose: soon, they have hacked into the central database that powers the holographic statues, so that they can search for Dominus's name to learn what has become of him. But before Chromedome presses "search", Rewind hesitates, unsure if, after all this time, he really wants to know the truth. Chromedome assures him that whatever choice he makes, he will stand by him, and help him continue his search in other ways—a show of dedication that convinces Rewind that the past must be put behind him. The search begins, and the result appears... Dominus Ambus of Ambustus Minor is, indeed, deceased.

Within the Necrobot's complex, the mysterious robot explains to Nightbeat that he is, actually, a totally ordinary—if very long-lived—Cybertronian named Censere. A forensic pathologist, Censere was moved to begin chronicling deaths when the death of his friend Tusk went unreported, and simply uses the machines in his complex to keep track of spark signatures and to teleport him around the universe to carry out his tasks. Nightbeat is dismayed and furious; in spite of his rationalist nature, he had truly hoped to learn that the Necrobot was proof of a higher power, a reaffirmation of the notion of life after death that Nightbeat had come to doubt since his own death years beforehand. Censere reassures him that just because he is not "magic" does not mean that the Afterspark does not exist, and explains that his understanding of life and death is not absolute: he was, for instance, alarmed to see Nightbeat and many of the other Lost Lighters, as he believed they were already dead.

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