After battling Afghan forces in the spring of 1885, the Russians seized the oasis.

After battling Arcade, who captured Rictor ( who then rejoins ), the team is joined by the real Longshot and Darwin and meets one of Jamie's duplicates, who calls himself Cortex.

After battling several Reborn together, they part ways.

After battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Slaughter died at age 86 in 2002 days before a scheduled autograph appearance in St. Louis Missouri on August 18, 2002.

After the 1996 season, Olerud was battling veteran Joe Carter and up-and-comer Carlos Delgado for a spot at either first base or designated hitter.

After Bruce Wayne's apparent death during Final Crisis, Todd attempted to usurp the Mantle of the Bat by battling Tim Drake and Dick Grayson during Battle for the Cowl as a brutal and murderous version of Batman.

At the end of every third level, Mario has to fight a boss by either battling it or getting around it to reach a point behind them that will end the battle, similar to fighting Bowser in the original Super Mario Bros. After the game is completed, the game returns to the title screen, and the player is given the option to play in " Hard Mode.

After battling moderate drug addiction, he abandoned his Joycean / Western vision quest and joined his old friend's band, the Grateful Dead, on the first weekend in September 1967, at the small Rio Nido, California gigs.

After battling managerial control over her career the previous year, Twisted Angel became the first album released by Rimes that was not produced by her father.

After battling Cannonball, Death-Gambit was stabbed by Magik and Pixie with their magical swords enabling Gambit to reassert control over his form once more.

After ten years working in marketing – and battling alcoholism – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph.

After battling through the levels of the mine, the hunters defeat " Vol Opt ", a sentient Artificial Intelligence that corrupted and took over the machines in the mines.

After retiring from active duty, Brown began publishing a “ circular ” few-page-magazine with information on mercenary employment in Oman, where the Sultan Qaboos had recently deposed his father, and was battling a communist insurgency.

After battling AIDS, Arenas committed suicide by taking an overdose of drugs and alcohol on December 7, 1990, in New York.

After battling for several minutes, it becomes clear that the two are too evenly matched for further fighting to have much purpose.

After battling ( unsuccessfully ) several simulated villains, he reprograms the Danger Room to show Kitty.

After recuperating from his injuries, Magneto was asked to aid the X-Men in battling the returned Beyonder.

After battling alongside the Associated Newspapers ' version with the same name, it changed its name to Morning News.

After briefly battling Juggernaut, he is brought down by Ghost, who uses the nanites in King Hyperion's spine to dose him with Argonite.

After battling a DNAlien named the Gene-gnome, Krypto was never seen again, his last appearance in Superboy # 74.

After a while, however, the nWo began to fight within its ranks, with Hogan and Nash battling for control.

After recovering, Thornton enjoyed a productive second half, battling Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby for a second consecutive scoring title late in the year, eventually finishing 6 points behind Crosby with 114.

After battling through obvious discomfort, Ponting eventually retired hurt on 23 from 25 balls — the only time he had taken such action in his international career.

After battling breast cancer for a number of years, she developed heart disease and died on March 31, 1998 from complications following open heart surgery.

After the featured film The Transformers: The Movie, Megatron was reformed as Galvatron, and Optimus Prime was replaced for a time by Rodimus Prime, only to return later on.

After Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Decepticon leader Megatron disappeared in a Space Bridge accident several million years ago, the Autobots and Decepticons split up into several factions.

After a prolonged period living in self-imposed exile, the news of Optimus Prime's death brought Grimlock back to the Autobots.

After getting word from Optimus Prime that Megatron was alive on Earth Grimlock left Ultra Magnus in charge of the Graviton and took a shuttle to Earth.

After Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Decepticon leader Megatron journeyed to Earth, crash landing four million years ago and entering emergency stasis lock, Shockwave keeps the planet in stalemate until Megatron awakens in 1984.

After Omega's defeat he attacked Autobot civilians, but was beaten into the ground by Optimus Prime himself.

After the incident at one of the factories owned by Isaac Sumdac ( in which the fragment of the Allspark was the cause of this ), Sentinel Prime threatened to make sure Optimus was charged with treason for destroying the Allspark, however Optimus had grown tired of Sentinel's arrogance and reminded him despite being an Elite Guard washout, he and Sentinel still shared equal rank and told him he was on " his turf now ".

After Blackarachnia sacrificed herself to save the Autobots from a transwarp energy-overloaded Waspinator, Sentinel expressed regret for what had happened to her, even taking blame for what had happened that day, and burying the hatchet with Optimus.

After Megatron's death, Sentinel pleads to Optimus to understand why he had to betray him and pleads for his life, but Optimus states that he had only betrayed himself, of his previous ideals of freedom.

After the plague was cured by the resurrected Optimus Prime, Magnus led the defense of Cybertron during the battle for the power of the Plasma Energy Chamber in 2007.

After Megatron's subsequent covering of the incident, Orion decided to poke through the Decepticon database and learned that he was Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots.

After the disappearance of Optimus Prime and Megatron ’ s forces, Omega Supreme and Jetfire were dispatched to locate them, following a homing beacon towards Earth.

After the battle in which Optimus obtains the Star Saber, Arcee is enraged at Smokescreen for putting Jack in danger.

After learning of the existence of The Swarm, Optimus Prime attempted to reach out to Jhiaxus.

After the disappearance of Optimus Prime, Megatron and their troops four million years ago, Fortress Maximus and Ultra Magnus took fluctuating joint command of the Autobots, but the role did not sit well with Maximus, who sought an end to the war.

After Optimus drove off the Driller again, Shockwave began fighting Optimus and several Autobot soldiers, taking the smaller robots with ease until Optimus used his flight-pack mode to finish the one-eyed Decepticon.

After tipping the building over Optimus Prime flies in with his FlightTech and is able to kill the Driller, cutting off its main head by flying through the section that connects it to the body.

After the Wreckers free Optimus, the humans launch a coordinated assault on Shockwave.

After being infected with delirium-inducing cyber-venom from Tarantulas while battling Megatron's new cloned Cyber-Raptors, Optimus fell victim to the treacherous Predacon again.

After a series of experiments in creating new transmetal upgrades using the alien Transmetal Driver-yielding a transmetal 2 clone of Dinobot Megatron sought to duplicate the upgrade that Optimus Primal had undergone when he internalised Optimus Prime's spark.