What happened after the expert mechs began their retreat was mostly predictable.
The Lionheart, the Riot, the C-Man and the Greenaxe did not stick around so that their pilots could argue further, but straightforwardly fled into deep space.
Naturally, their enemies did not want them to leave so easily.
"WHO PERMITTED YOU TO LEAVE?! EACH OF YOU MUST DIE TO ANSWER FOR THE AFFRONT OF ATTACKING US AND DESTROYING OUR WAR MATERIALS!"
The Mars responded to this call by blasting out a full salvo of its overstrained ARCEUS System.
The damage inflicted by the resonance-empowered positron beams were not too great, but the machine had been firing them into Tireless Engine for a while now. Even if his true body was larger than his current form, the phase lord still suffered a lot of accumulated damage from getting struck by so many timers!