I do not own Beast Wars which is owned by Hasbro (I think) but I wish I owned it. I will be mentioning this once, right here at the start of the story since I see no need to state it again.

Author Notes:
Events Before Feral Scream and up till Megatron discovers the new and improved Cheetor racing across Predacon territory at Mach 2 (after Depth Charge is rescued after he is captured by Predacons) and Megatron says that he wants that creature (Cheetor) brought to him.
Whenever I mention Dinobot it is Dinobot II unless I state otherwise. If you are not familiar with Beast Wars, I highly encourage you to check it out, it will help with picturing what is happening. For a summary, look at this wiki page which contains brief summaries for the series and it episodes en. wiki/List_of_Beast_Wars_episodes . But I still encourage you to watch the Feral Scream episodes. For visuals of the characters in Beast Wars look at this link wiki/Beast_Wars_(cartoon) and scroll down to the characters to find their character pages. You should be able to find the series in YouTube, Netflix, or DailyMotion just to name a few places to try.
Also some lines in this chapter have been taken from the show to line up better with the canon.

Megatron: "That creature belongs to me! bring it to me."

Dinobot: "It will be done."

After Dinobot and Waspinator left to capture the new and improved Cheetor. Megatron smiled evilly.

Megatron: "I have plans for you pussy-cat yessss."

Later that day:

Cheetor returned to base after 'beating' the beast that attacked him (which was himself after he mutated). Optimus grew suspicious and asked for Cheetor to show the creatures remains.

Cheetor: "I don't understand why we have to do this don't you trust me?"

Optimus: "Normally yes...but I think you're hiding something."

Cheetor: "I'm not hiding ANYTHING!"

Cheetor turned around with some green glow coming off of his chest.

Cheetor turned back around to face Optimus.

Cheetor: "You never trust me to do anything. I'm not a kid anymore but you still treat me like one."

Optimus: "I know that you aren't a kid anymore, but it is still my job to keep you safe. You've been acting strangely ever since you showed up at our door step last night and now I suspect more is going on than you let on. If you would just trust me enough to tell me then we could..."

Optimus then noticed a red dot on Cheetor's chest, he immediately recognized the dot as one from a sight on a weapon.

Optimus: "Cheetor, Look out!"

Optimus pushed Cheetor out of the way.

A red laser shot out from the bushes and shot Optimus in the chest, causing Optimus to go flying back and land. Optimus was still conscious but just barely.

Cheetor: "OPTIMUS!"

Cheetor then started to mutate into his Transmetal II form due to the already high stress ,that Cheetor had been trying to hide from his teammates, increasing to a level where he could no longer contain it.

Activating his com-link.

Optimus: "Optimus to base, Cheetor and I need back-up...I think."

Waspinator attempted to sneak behind 'kittybot'. Cheetor had finished his mutation. Optimus tried to warn Cheetor of Waspinator to which Cheetor responded to with a cocky response of, "Which Predacon, you mean this one." Cheetor proceeded to shoot Waspinator without turning around to face the Predacon.
Dinobot then emerged from his hiding spot in the bushes.

Cheetor: "You hurt my friend. I guess its time to shred some Preds."

Dinobot shot Optimus again causing Cheetor to turn feral and lose control.

Cheetor tried to charge Dinobot who just knocked him away.

Megatron emerged from a hiding spot.

Megatron: "Well done Dinobot, I'll take over now."

Megatron then shot his tail laser at Cheetor who was too
engrossed in staring down Dinobot to notice the laser coming for him.
Megatron's laser hit Cheetor in the side, sending Cheetor flying into a tree, knocking him out.

Megatron: "Dinobot bring Cheetor back to our base and place him in one of the cages in the brig."

Dinobot: "No, we should stay and finish off Optimus. We have the advantage here. Why should we pass up the chance to end Optimus, especially why would you pass up this opportunity."

Megatron: "You will not destroy Optimus, his end will come on my terms. I have plans for the pussy-cat which will devastate Optimus. Death is too kind for Optimus, you have to admit that it would be fun to torture Optimus, yessss. I know how much he cares for the pussy-cat's safety."

Dinobot: "Fine, but don't blame me when your plans fail."

Megatron: "My plan will not fail, for I have made sure that my plan will work. All the plans that have failed involved help from other Predacons, this plan I have designed and will carry out personally. Now bring the pussy-cat back to base before the other Maximals arrive to assist their teammates."

Megatron collected up the pieces of Waspinator, so that Waspinator could be repaired, while Dinobot brought Cheetor back to the Predacon base.

Optimus: Optimus had seen Cheetor's transformation, but fell unconscious when Cheetor was knocked out. He woke up just in time to see Cheetor being carried away by the Predacons. "Cheetor, no."

Some time later Rattrap and Silverbolt arrived at Optimus and Cheetor's last transmitted coordinates.

When they arrived Optimus was slowly getting up with a devastated look upon his face.

Rattrap: "Eh Optimus, where's the kid?"

Looking at the two Maximals in front of him with a sad look on his face.

Optimus: "The Predacons captured him and I discovered that Cheetor is the beast that Depth Charge saw attacking the Predacons and the beast that Rattrap saw running from Cheetor's room. It's my fault, maybe if I had questioned him sooner he wouldn't have been captured."

Silverbolt: "Don't be too hard on yourself. It's not your fault Optimus. We will rescue Cheetor, I swear it upon my honor."

Rattrap: "Yeah, whatever he said, except without all the mushy stuff."

Optimus: "Thanks. But we must return to base, maybe we can track his energy signature from there."

Rattrap: "That's what I was going to say."

Optimus: "Sure you were Rattrap."

Back at the Predacon base, Cheetor was slowly waking up. He immediately recognized the prison in the Predacon base since he has been in the cages before. The second thing that he noticed caused him to freak out slightly. He was still in his Transmetal II!

To Be Continued in Chapter 2: Dark Planning

Author Note:

Yeah I completed the first chapter in my first fanfic. I know that some of you may consider this chapter kinda short but I'm kinda using this chapter to set up the story and as a refresher for people who are familiar with Transformers Beast Wars. Please review, This being my first fanfic, I need lots of constructive criticism to help improve my writing.
Please no hateful comments and I hope to post the next chapter soon.

I would also like to give a shout-out to Starfire201, who has helped me out with fixing up and cleaning up chapters 1-3, Starfire201 may be editting future chapters as well. I suggest that you go and check out Starfire201.
Signing off,
-SkyDragon