Well, here it is, the first chapter of New Beast Wars. First off: I do not own Beast Wars, Beast Machines or any of its characters. Now that that's out of the way, please forgive me if any characters seem ooc, I only recently began watching the show again (thank you garage sale!). If anyone would like to correct me on or give me pointers, I'll listen. Thank you, and enjoy!
Optimus Primal and his small crew of Maximals (plus Megatron) touched down their ship on their mechanical home planet of Cybertron.
"Everyone all right?" Optimus asked.
"Great, big-bot." Cheetor said in his optimistic voice.
"Doing just fine sir." Silverbolt, the polite and honourable fuzor said.
"All systems functioning fine Optimus." Said Rhinox, Optimus's second-in-command.
"Whatever." Blackarachnia, Silverbolt's cold and calculating girlfriend said in a bored voice.
"As good as a guy with a rat as an alternate mode can be." Rattrap said, he was normally very pessimistic but right now he seemed excited more excited than Optimus had seen him since, well…. actually he had never seen himself this excited before, probably because he was finally back on Cybertron.
"Good. Cheetor, Silverbolt go check on Megatron."
The group exited the ship, checked Megatron (He was still safely secured, cursing his situation) and looked around. Instantly they could see that something was wrong.
"Wait, where is everybody?" Rhinox asked.
Something was very wrong, Cybertron was a small world, but it was densely populated, no one could hide in a place like this.
"I don't like this. Silverbolt you and I will scout the air, Cheetor, you and Rattrap will check the city and Blackarachnia, you and Rhinox will stay here and guard Megatron. "Beast Mode!" With that last word Optimus Primal transformed into a plane,
"Beast Mode" he heard the others called out (everyone except Rhinox and Blackarachnia).
Optimus and Silverbolt flew up high into the air, scouting the ground from the sky.
"I don't see anyone sir. It's very unsettling." Silverbolt said and Optimus could see that he was deeply disturbed, and Optimus couldn't blame him.
What in the Pit could have caused the entire population of Cybertron to just suddenly disappear? Suddenly he heard a loud droning sound, it was like a thousand engines all powered up at once.
"Up ahead Silverbolt, do you see anything?"
"Yes, it-it looks like a whole flight of jets. But those are attack jets."
"They might think that we're enemy Predacons, slow down and signal them when they come within range." Suddenly the jets flew forward at breakneck speeds. They then opened fire on the two Maximals.
"Wait, stop! We are Maximals!" Optimus called out to the attack jets, but they just turned and opened fire yet again.
"Silverbolt are they Predacons?"
"No sir they don't bear the Predacon insignia, it appears to resemble the Humans symbol for radioactivity." Silverbolt called out as he dodged a shot that almost grazed his wing.
"What? Another faction! How could this be? When could this have happened!" Optimus cried out, this was terrible, could this group be the reason for the lack of Cybertronian activity? "Damn it! Alright Silverbolt lets try signalling them once more, if they don't respond or open fire on us again then we will have no choice but to open fire."
"I understand sir." Silver bolt responded as he twisted his neck to avoid another sudden shot.
"Attack jets, this is your last chance, cease fire or we will be forced to return fire!" Optimus yelled out, but once again they were silent. "Alright Silverbolt, they had their warning but now it's time for us to fight back." And with that they turned around and opened fire on the group of jets.
Meanwhile down on the ground a few kilometres northwest Rattrap and Cheetor were racing along the streets, it was much easier than it had been then when they had been on Earth because compared to dodging rocks and trees, the streets of Cybertron were nothing.
"Well I checked main avenue, but there's still no activity. What could have happened here?" The last part Rattrap seemed to be asking himself more.
"I don't know Rattrap." Suddenly they heard engines revving up. They turned a corner and suddenly came face to face with a whole squad of Cybertronian motorcycles.
"Whoa, finally some life. Can you tell us what happened here?" Cheetor asked the group
"I don't know Cheetor, something doesn't feel right about this." Suddenly the motorcycles transformed and they were holding rifles. "Oh crap." Rattrap said and he and Cheetor raced down the streets as the motorcycles fired at them and then transformed back into bikes and started chasing them.
"Argh! Damn it!" Optimus cried out, he had been hit, right in the right wing, it wasn't serious but it had certainly hurt.
"Sir, you're hurt, we need to pull back!" Silverbolt shouted and then he himself was struck in the back leg.
"You're right Silverbolt, retreat, we'll go back to the ship. Notify Rhinox, Cheetor, Rattrap and Blackarachnia of what's going on." Optimus said as he and Silverbolt turned around. Suddenly he was aware of someone calling him, it was Cheetor.
"Big-bot! we've got a situation down here! There's a whole legion of soldiers down here, they're chasing us right now!" Optimus went cold all over.
"Do they have radioactivity symbols on them?"
"Uh I'll check." There was silence for a moment before Cheetor activated his radio again "Yeah they do, except it's blue instead of the standard yellow. How did you know?" Cheetor asked inquisitively.
"Because me and Silverbolt have also encountered trouble, ours are attack jets and they've got us on the run. Slight injuries but nothing serious."
"Oh man. Do you think these clowns took out everyone?" Cheetor asked, he seemed a little nervous.
"I think so, which means that somewhere out there there's more of them and they've probably got leaders."
Back at the ship Rhinox and Blackarachnia were just sitting around, ignoring Megatron's protests. Suddenly Rhinox got a call on his arm radio. He listened in and went pale (well as pale as a robot can go any way).
"Blackarachnia, we've got problems."
Rattrap and Cheetor were whizzing down the streets hoping that they had lost the drones. "Alright stop. Let's just check and see if they lost our trail." Cheetor said, he was exhausted from all the running, he really wished that he still had his jets, Rattrap was lucky he at least still had wheels.
"Alright but lets stay in beast mode, we may need to make a quick escape." They slowly rounded the corner "Ahhhh!" They both yelled, for the drones were still following them, in fact they were only a few metres away! They started running/driving away again.
"Let me help you Maximals!" Megatron yelled to Rhinox and Blackarachnia, he had overheard Optimus. "Just untie me and let me fight!"
His pleas went unheard as Rhinox looked down the streets, while Blackarachnia had climbed to the top of a building, scouting the skies.
"Damnit where are they!" Blackarachnia yelled, she was worried, even though she had once been evil and even though she was still morally ambiguous she did care for Silverbolt.
Suddenly she saw a flash of Silver. Silverbolt and Optimus had appeared in her line of vision, they were being tailed by at least nineteen jets, four of which were damaged. Down below, Rhinox heard Rattrap's engines and a whole lot of others. Rattrap and Cheetor rounded a corner, along with a dozen motorcycles closing in on them.
"Cheetor, Rattrap duck!" Rhinox yelled out to them as he activated his miniguns.
Rattrap and Cheetor transformed and jumped in separate directions as Rhinox fired and hit the drones, some of them were in mid transformation as they were hit and started writhing in agony, yet curiously they did not make a sound.
"Whoa." Cheetor said, clearly amazed.
They all watched as Optimus and Silverbolt landed but one of the jets just circled back and flew off.
"Damn it! He's probably going off to warn his superiors!" Optimus growled.
Suddenly the remaining jets started firing on the Maximals. The group took cover but wherever they ran they could see that their was no escape.
"Let me free Optimal! I can help you!" Megatron yelled.
Optimus sighed and ran towards the ship.
"Optimus no!" Cheetor cried out, shocked that Optimus could even consider freeing Megatron.
"We've got no other choice Cheetor! We're outnumbered and outgunned!" Optimus cried out as he was running.
He fired at the chains holding down Megatron. Megatron shrugged away the remains of his bonds and grinned evilly.
"Yessss! Beast Mode!" He shouted and transformed into his dragon mode, flew up into the sky and with one blast of fire, destroyed all of the jets. "Hmm, mindless drones that would rather kill themselves than retreat, yessss." Megatron said to himself. He landed on the ground "Megatron Terrorize!" He yelled "Well that was fun what's next?"
"Optimus I hate to be a wet blanket" Rattrap piped up "But if that guy did go back to get his leader, wouldn't he have a huge army? I mean he did wipe out Cybertron. I say we bail and find another planet"
"No Rattrap we will not run!" Optimus said, he was angry his lieutenant could even think about abandoning the planet and leaving it to those…those things!
"Optimus sir, as much as I hate to admit it, Rattrap is right, they will have an army. We cannot hope to defeat them in our current situation." Silverbolt said.
Optimus sighed again "You're right, Silverbolt, but where can we find an army, certainly not on Cybertron."
Suddenly the group was startled by Megatron's sudden obnoxious laughter
"You are a fool Optimal! Don't you remember? You left Earth without obtaining all the stasis pods, there was at least a hundred down there. And besides Inferno, Quickstrike and Waspinator are still back on Earth!"
"He's right Optimus." Blackarachnia said "We never did find all the stasis pods or those idiots."
"Be that as it may, our ship is simply not large enough to carry all those stasis pods back to Cybertron." Rhinox said
"Well then Maximal we shall just have to find another one!" Megatron retorted.
"Fine. Everyone back on the ship., we'll go to the shipyard" Optimus said but just as they all started racing towards the ship it suddenly exploded.
They looked around trying to find what had caused their ship to explode. Another shot rang out and this one almost hit Silverbolt, the shockwave sent him flying.
"Argh!" he cried out and landed at Rattrap's feet.
"Silverbolt!" Blackarachnia cried out, outraged.
She turned and found the source of the trouble a whole platoon of tanks had them surrounded them.
"Crap." Rattrap said.
They all opened fire simultaneously. But it was Rhinox, Optimus and Megatron's attacks that seemed to be doing the most damage, they had the most powerful weapons. Soon only 3 tanks were left and they transformed back into their robot modes. Optimus noted that they did not need an access command, perhaps they couldn't talk at all. They opened fire, their cannons were located on their sides, just under their left arms. With their cannons free, they used their hands to hold rifles, rapid fire rifles.
"Oh stand aside and let a real transformer show you how it's done." Megatron said as he shoved Cheetor and Rhinox away as he fired his fire cannon, causing the tanks to disintegrate.
"Let's move." he said and he began to walk away.
"Wait Megatron, Silverbolt is wounded!" Optimus said, outraged.
Megatron just snorted "So? Just leave him there, it's the Predacon way"
At this Blackarachnia walked up to Megatron, nobody made any effort to stop her. "We are not Predacons!" She shouted at him, angered at him for even daring to talk about abandoning Silverbolt.
"Bah! He will only slow us down." Megatron said calmly, not worried at all about Blackarachnia's sudden anger.
"Then I will carry him!" Blackarachnia said "Beast Mode!" At that she turned into her Transmetal 2 Black widow form and lifted Silverbolt and placed him on her back.
"Lets roll out team! Maximals transform and roll out!" Optimus shouted as he transformed into a truck.
All around him the others transformed too, Cheetor into a metallic cheetah, Rattrap into a giant rat with wheels, Rhinox into an organic rhinoceros and Megatron into a transmetal dragon. They ran off and headed into the direction of the shipyard. Surprisingly they encountered little to no difficulty…until they got to the shipyard.
"Well, that trip was surprisingly uneventful. Maximals Maximise!"
Optimus said and returned to his robot mode.
The others transformed as well, all except Blackarachnia who was still carrying Silverbolt on her back.
"Well, time to pick out a ship." Rattrap said.
"Don't forget, it has to be large enough to carry both us and the protoforms." Optimus reminded them.
"Hey big-bot! over here!" Cheetor shouted. They all walked over to the ship he had found. It was huge, red and looked like a H, it would easily be able to get them to Earth and carry the backup they so sorely needed.
"Are there any CR chambers for Silverbolt?" Blackarachnia asked.
"Twenty! And the rooms are perfect!"
As they walked towards the ship there was another explosion. They turned around there were tanks, but not just tanks there were six wheeled jeeps with turrets mounted on the back and in the skies were the same jets that had attacked Optimus and Silverbolt but with them were stealth jets that silently glided alongside them.
"Oh crap" Rattrap said again.
"Dammit! There's no way we could fight all of them, and if we tried to take off they would destroy us all before we could get off the ground!" Rhinox cursed.
Suddenly Megatron leaped into the vast legions shooting and slashing at every one of them.
"Megatron!" Optimus shouted, they might be enemies but no one deserved to die that way.
"Go! I'll hold them off! You must save Cybertron! GO!" Megatron yelled at them.
"Optimus, there's nothing we can do, it's his choice." Rhinox said, gently putting his hand on Optimus's shoulder.
Optimus lingered on the ramp for a moment before going into the ship. Shortly after the ship took off with, Rhinox acting as pilot with Rattrap acting as co-pilot.
Megatron watched while he was holding a tank drone by the throat.
"Fools!" Megatron smirked as he punched the drone in the face, crushing it.
"Entering the transwarp zone now." Rhinox said.
He pushed a button and the ship rocketed into another dimension that would propel them back in time, back to the dawn of man. It was there that they would find the protoforms. Optimus sat in his seat and sighed, he was looking out into empty space.
"Oh man, Optimus, are you still grieving over Megatron?" Rattrap asked.
"He gave his life to save Cybertron and buy us enough time to escape Rattrap. I can at least give him a moments silence." Optimus said
"Eh, the guy probably did it so that he could take it over, rather than those vehicle jerks."
Meanwhile back on Cybertron Megatron was fighting off the last of the drones. He had a jet drone cornered, it was motioning with it's hands for mercy, a silent plea. Megatron only grinned and raised his gun, freezing the drone in an icy prison. He looked up and saw the last of the drones fly off, getting reinforcements no doubt. Megatron smirked again
"Beast Mode!" He yelled out with his voice ringing out in the empty city.
He flew up and followed the drones, flying low to avoid their radars. When they landed he landed with them and followed them inside a large building. They walked up to a large podium, and sitting there were transformers of the same faction as the drones. They looked a lot like the drones but there were differences, they were taller for one thing, and they were different colours.
"You did not destroy the Maximals!" The one who looked like a tank drone snarled.
"And, you were followed." The one who looked like a jet drone said.
"Hmm, well you do have good radar." Megatron said smugly as he walked out of the shadows.
The jet drones all twirled around suddenly.
"What makes think we won't kill you right now!" Another one who looked like a tank drone sneered "Our drones could easily crush you!"
"Oh really?" Megatron said, raised his guns and fired obliterating the drones.
He confidently strode up to the second tank leader and picked him up. Megatron proceeded to beat him. When the leader was almost in stasis lock he dropped him on the ground and left him there.
"Does anyone else wish to fill his shoes?" Megatron asked, still with his confident smirk.
Ok, well, end of chapter one, hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter will have the Maximals returning to Earth, where the cast will explode dramatically. Now, before then, I have to ask you, the readers: Should Scorponok and Terrorsaur appear? Their bios stated that they did survive falling into lava, but there were trapped until the Beast Wars were over. Let me know in the reviews. And I do accept constructive criticism, especially regarding characters.