As Ratchet and Drift struggle to hold off the D.J.D. and their allies, Drift observes Kaon's horrified reaction to Ten striking The Pet, then seizes the little creature and threatens to kill it in order to stay the villains' hands. A distraught Kaon orders everyone to stand down, and Ratchet, Drift, and Ten are then airlifted to safety by their own ship, piloted by Ravage. Helex, furious, overturns Kaon's order and everyone opens fire on the ship, damaging it and sending it falling out of the sky.

Elsewhere on Necroworld, Tarn and Megatron meet in front of Megatron's statue, where Tarn is left incredulous by Megatron's request that the D.J.D. spare the other Autobots if he surrenders to them. Tarn speaks of Megatron's inspiring legacy and all the lives that were willingly sacrificed to his cause, but the weary Megatron regrets everything, even his own life. Disgusted, Tarn launches a brutal physical attack on his former leader, knocking his Autobot insignia off, hoping to reignite his lost fire by forcing him to fight back. But the battered Megatron refuses to rise to the bait, citing both his newfound pacifism, and the fact that the Fool's Energon he is fuelled with makes it impossible anyway. Megatron chuckles, reflecting on the side effect of Fool's Energon that can allegedly change a 'bot's personality... and realizes that, even if that is true, despite his lifelong fear of mental tampering... he's better the way he is now. Realizing that the 'bot he once worshipped is gone, Tarn blasts him point-blank in the chest, and is about to deliver a second, fatal shot when a third party suddenly arrives on the scene and orders him to stop... a third party named OVERLORD!

Ravage manages to crash Ratchet and Drift's ship at the entrance to the Necrobot's fortress, and the group takes cover inside. The Autobots are happy to see their two old friends again, but Skids is confused as to why they are here; it turns out they came in response to a call Velocity made on the communicator First Aid gave her, which the D.J.D.'s signal blockers had cut off before she could speak. Velocity had thought she was making contact with First Aid himself, and immediately makes a rather terrible first impression on Ratchet. Infinitely more tense is the concurrent reunion of Drift and Rodimus, the latter still feeling guilty over letting Drift take the blame for the Overlord debacle, and for never coming to look for him after the truth came out, out of fear he would hate him. Drift accepts Rodimus's sincere apology, but doubts his belief that they can all make it out of their present situation alive.

Overlord demands that he be the one to kill Megatron, and a fight instantly breaks out between the two Decepticons over who will have the honor. As they battle, Tarn remarks that the D.J.D. believed Overlord to be dead; the Phase Sixer explains that he was recovered and repaired by a group of mysterious benefactors, who have sent him to Necroworld to kill Megatron—an "alignment of interests," as Overlord puts it. Tarn proposes an alliance, but Overlord refuses: Megatron is his, and his alone, to end. At that point, however, the two combatants realize that while they have been distracted grappling with one another, Megatron has dragged his battered body onto the space scooter that brought him there, and escaped back to the fortress!

At the fortress, Rewind regards the Necrobot's memorial for the "disappeared", pondering the names carved into it as a means of keeping his mind busy. Presently, Nautica arrives; she wonders where Chromedome is, and the archivist tells her that they have had an argument, each believing the other should have used the teleport chamber to escape. Nautica then asks about the pair's history, wondering about the protocol for becoming either Conjunx Endura or Amica Endura in Cybertronian society. When Rewind asks her why, she remarks that their looming fate has led her to question some matters she has been avoiding...

Tarn and Overlo

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