Bumblebee nods. "The Matrix was lost long ago, in the time of the Second Prime and Second Lord," the text-scroll says. "When Megatron's plans for the galaxy first began to take shape he ordered Shockwave to search for anything that could bring him to victory. He had been calculating its likely path and position for longer than most mechs had been alive. It was not very hard for him to send Skywarp and Thundercracker to find it, and then to find where we were trying to retrieve Sam as quickly as possible."