Mirage would certainly have to hope his little plot worked, because as the days went by and the necessary components for the rite Megatron wanted done were slowly finished, both what was needed from Mirage's end and what could be done by others, well...

After little over a week, the preparations were done.

Mirage better be finished with his own planning now.

Cliffjumper, on his end, was practically being insufferable, but since that usually only got turned into a very short temper and sharper attitude than usual, most of the Autobots on the Ark were unaware of why he was being more obnoxious than usual.

Of course, some also just waved it away with the rather unflattering "it's Cliffjumper", as well.