With cogman's help, Cade delves into the Camelot past, and finds that they must take the H.M.S. Alliance into the sea to find the staff inside the ancient machine. Bumblebee, Yeager, and Viviane go to the Alliance with Cogman and Burton, who declines to go on the journey any further though cogman continues. The Alliance heads for the machine, but is intercepted by a TRF submarine. The Alliance ventures inside the machine, where Yeager find a chamber of Cybertronian Knights, as well as Merlin's staff. One Knight, Skullitron, awakens and attacks them. The TRF intervenes and attacks Skullitron, while Viviane activates the staff and the machine rises towards the ocean's surface. As more Knights rise up to fight, Soundblaster, intervenes and takes the staff from the humans with the intention of restoring his homeworld dismissing the planets doom as collateral damage.