Hi people, this is my 3rd fanfic and my first Beast Wars fanfic (yes I know, when is he gonna stop saying it's his 4th,5th fanfic and so on, don't worry ill only do that for the next few hundred fanfics). Alright the space around Earth is disturbed by a ship or should I say ships.

Disclaimer: I don't own Beast Wars or any of the characters except this story, a cave and my characters.

Oh and PLEASE review if you even like it a LITTLE bit. Thank you.

Note: the rating and genre may change during the story is being written.

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Space, an empty void around planets, moons and stars. Like always nothing moved in the empty space, no disturbance of any kind inhabited the space around the planet known as Earth. It was always like this and will always be…until.

A vortex appeared out of nowhere and out came a Cybertronian Advanced Sky Hopper and following was a Deletron Class ship with the symbol of the predacons blazed upon the end wing. The ship fired it's forward cannons at the much smaller ship, either the pilot of the smaller ship was really crazy or really skilled he dodged all the blasts by going into a spinning diagonally while flying up and down.

The Predacon ship continued to fire until its weapon energy was completely depleted, inside the bridge of the ship were several consoles but only 2 figures, both bearing the mark of a predacon on their chests. "the weapon energy is totally dried out we cant fire on him anymore" said a deep male voice moving his fingers rapidly across his control panel.

"We'll have to try something else, put the ship on auto pilot and on a heading of 123 mark 498, we'll keep it on drift until we come back" said a slightly less deep voice but with more authority.

"Come back?" asked the other figure. "Yes, were going in fighter to fighter, grab your gear and get to the hangar".

The 2 figures made there way to the hangar and separately got into similar fighters to the Sky hopper. The fighters left the hangar and pursued the Sky Hopper which was nearing the nearby planet. The sky hopper turned around and headed right for the other 2 fighters and opened fire which the others dodged and flew out of formation later reforming and locking onto there target.

The sky hopper flew so fast and so unpredictable that it was impossible to lock any kind of target on it. The fighters decided to fire manually which was good for the pilot of the sky hopper because they were lousy space gunners without there handy computer lock.

Inside the lone Sky Hopper was 1 figure (it's a 2 man fighter) who's left hand was clutched tightly around the joystick while his other was rapidly pressing buttons on his console while his eyes (or optics) were working separately, his left eye concentrating on the radar and sensors and his other concentrating on what his hands were doing.

1 of the Predacon fighter pilots thought he'll be cleaver and stop firing at the Sky hopper and instead rush at full speed for a collision course, he might be able to clip the hopper's starboard engines to slow him down while his companion blow him out the universe.

But there was one thing that the Predacon did not know, that they were fighting a Maximal that is the best pilot in the entire Transformer's race.

The predacon pilot zoomed at top speed towards the hopper, mirroring all its manoeuvres and just at the last second of hitting his mark, a small object launched it's self of from underneath the ship and it landed and stuck it's self to the hull of the ship, in all this confusion the predacon pilot withdrew his ship from the collision and through the screen of his ship saw that there was a screen on the object and it was counting down.

5 the pilot was panicking, what should he do? 4 he tried to blast it off with the ship's cannons but of the course the lasers couldn't turn around and shoot the thing off, they would just go off into deep space. 3 he pressed the 'open' button which would open the cockpit, but in space it was automatically locked and cannot be opened. 2 he started punching the canopy with all his force. 1 BOOOOM!

The other Predacon pilot watched as his wingman's ship exploded into gas and flames, his friend, companion and wingman had just died in that explosion. 'He will pay…' thought as he reared his ship into a tight turn and fired all weapons in the direction of the hopper. Lasers, future bullets, torpedoes, beams fired in the hopper's direction.

The figure inside the hopper quickly calculated that the lasers, beams and bullets would pin him into a triangle sized tunnel where he couldn't go up, down or anything but only forward and backwards, the bullets would hit him directly which wasn't good considering that the engines are most vulnerable to bullets.

Thinking fast he released all bombs to set to explode on contact. A line of torpedoes flew over the hopper, beams fired in the right down corner whilst lasers the left down. The bullets fired in the middle and expecting to hit there mark, did not. Instead they were met with several small circular objects come face to face and then, nothing. The bombs managed to destroy most of the bullets, the pilot managed to manoeuvre slightly in the tight triangle to avoid the remaining bullets.

The remaining Predacon pilot smashed his fist on the side of his cockpit chair, In the confusion of the small explosions, he did not notice that the hopper pilot was able to break free and come up behind him. Beeping red and flashing on the predacon's console was a button which signalled a target lock on this ship and looked behind him and through the back of the window like canopy saw 4 bright orange torpedoes collide with the back of his ship, "sh-"

Off course a direct hit would have destroyed the ship but the Hopper pilot was aiming for the engines of his enemy, which with a triumphant smile saw that he succeeded and that the enemy pilot was heading for the surface of the planet.

Changing course to land on the surface did the Maximal pilot notice stasis pods in orbit. 'Wait, the only vessel I know off that has or is carrying stasis pods is…the Axalon! They must have crashed landed on this planet and then launched the pods in orbit in case they got damaged. I must contact them'.

At that moment all power on the Hopper suddenly went dead and the hopper went cruising down towards the planet beyond top speed and the pilot felt himself go hot as did the hopper reach an extreme temperature.

Axalon

"Hey eh, Boss Monkey we got some activity up there" said Rattrap looking at the Radar indicating activity in space.

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Here's a picture of the Deletron Class ship (i dont own this picture) http://darkstar013310.