If Depth Charge and Optimus agreed on nothing else, they agreed on this: Rampage, or Protoform X as Depth Charge had known him, must be destroyed here, on Earth, before they could even think of going back to their own homeworld and time. As much as Optimus hated the extrajudicial nature of it, he knew he'd never forgive himself if through inaction he let another event like Omicron happen again.
Beast Wars, Depth Charge & Optimus Primal
If Depth Charge and Optimus agreed on nothing else, they agreed on this: Rampage, or Protoform X as Depth Charge had known him, must be destroyed here, on Earth, before they could even think of going back to their own homeworld and time. As much as Optimus hated the extrajudicial nature of it, he knew he'd never forgive himself if through inaction he let another event like Omicron happen again.