Well, here you have it, chapter 2 of New Beast Wars. Now, I do not own Beast Wars, Beast Machines, IDW comics, or any of its characters. I'm a little surprised that its been so well received so far, but, hey, that's great! Unfortunately, I haven't read the IDW Beast Wars comics, so any information about them was gained from the Transformers wiki or bios, again, sorry if anyone is ooc. Now, as promised, chapter 2, hope it doesn't disappoint.


The Maximals had landed on Earth they had begun searching for the Predacons that were still there: Inferno, Quickstrike and Waspinator. They had been unable to find them when they had left the planet so they could assume that they were still here, its not like they could just fly off the planet.

"Ugh! We've looked all over!" Rattrap complained sitting on a rock.

"Well not quite everywhere." Silverbolt said, he had been immersed in a CR chamber and was fully healed.

"Well then smart alec, where haven't we looked?" Rattrap asked.

"There's still the human settlement."

"You don't think that they've taken over the human settlement do you?" Cheetor asked, he was clearly worried, he was very good friends with two of them, Chak & Una.

"I'm afraid it's very possible Cheetor." Optimus said softly. "Beast Mode!" Cheetor transformed and raced off in the tribes direction.

"Cheetor wait! We need their help! Beast Mode!" Optimus yelled and turned into a truck.


The Maximals had arrived at the settlement. They were all relieved (especially Cheetor) to see that everything seemed normal. The humans saw the Maximals and rushed towards him. Jak and Una ran up to Cheetor and hugged his legs.

"Hey guys!" Cheetor said, he was ecstatic.

Optimus heard Silverbolt call out. "Uh, sir I think I just found Inferno and Quickstrike."

Optimus walked over and was shocked by what he saw. Near a large pile of rubble there were pieces of metal, Inferno and Quickstrike's heads among them.

"Damn it! We needed their help! Do you think the Humans did this?" Optimus asked Cheetor

"Uh I don't know, it was probably in self defence. Hey, wait a minute where's Waspinator?"

The group suddenly noticed that Waspinator's pieces weren't among the others.

"Maybe he escaped. The guy never was the bravest Predacon there was." Blackarachnia said.

"Well it's a possibility." Optimus said thoughtfully "In any case he may still be around here, so spread out and search. Wait, on second thought forget Waspinator lets just look for the stasis pods. Roll out!"

The group split up into two groups, Optimus, Rhinox and Rattrap were in one group while Cheetor, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia in the other. Group one went east while group two went west.


"Man Optimus those stasis pods could be anywhere! Hell, some of them of them might be out of them by now." Rattrap complained.

"Be that as it may we still need to find those protoforms!" Rhinox said.

"Wait a minute." Optimus said, raising his hand to silence the group "Do you hear that?"

Indeed they all heard strange noises, it sounded like…talking.


Meanwhile on the west side the others were also hearing strange noises. They crouched down and hid behind a large bush.

"When are we going to attack those Maximals Magmatron?" A loud and angry voice said

"As soon as the scouts return Iguanus, you idiot!" A powerful and booming voice retorted "We've been over this, we can't attack until we've assessed the situation!".

"Predacons." Blackarachnia whispered.

"But how?" Cheetor asked "All the stasis pods that landed on Earth contained Maximal protoforms. You would have to mess around with their shell programs to-"

"Waspinator!" The group whispered in anger.

He must have found the protoforms and changed their allegiance. Suddenly Cheetor felt a cold metallic object press against the back of his neck.

"Uh Silverbolt, Blackarachnia?"

"Yeah?" Silverbolt asked.

"Do you uh feel-"

"Yeah, yeah we do." Blackarachnia said apathetically.

"Reach for the zzzzzkies Maxxxximal zzzzzcum!" an annoying and droning voice said.


There were three of them and Cheetor was a little embarrassed when he noticed that they were all very badly injured. They marched the group out of the bushes and surprised the group of Predacons. Much to the groups distress there were a lot of them, but there was still no sign of Waspinator.

"Lord Magmatron" one of them said, he said the lord part in a very sarcastic and snide way. "We have discovered these Maximal spies. They were listening in on you."

The one known as Magmatron (a very tall individual indeed) walked up to them

"Very good Powerpinch now let us see which one of Razorbeast's lackeys you ar-" He suddenly looked shocked. "WHAT? Silverbolt! Cheetor! Blackarachnia! But, you left! How did you find us?"

"Accidentally." Silverbolt answered honestly. "We were looking for the stasis pods but I can see that Waspinator got to them before us!"

When Silverbolt mentioned Waspinator's name the entire group laughed.

"Waspinator? That idiotic weakling! You think he did all this?" Magmatron laughed uncontrollably "No, no no! We have been unable to find that fool, we suspect that he may have flown off planet shortly before we arrived."

The group was shocked, if Waspinator wasn't behind it then who was?

"I see that you are surprised." Magmatron smirked "Well then permit me to explain. We came to Earth looking for the stasis pods, we wanted to make them into Predacons. But unfortunately I was betrayed by my technical officer, Razorbeast. He was given the task of making them into my soldiers but instead he shielded them from my virus and took off with them in tow! I'm still hunting them down, which his why those three were away from us" He motioned towards the three who had captured them "They were out hunting for them and it would seem that the Maximals found them instead."

"Actually zirrrrr it wazzzzn't the Maxxxximalzzzzz, it was-" the one who looked like a mosquito said before he was cut off.

"I don't care who it was Transquito, the important thing is the you lost! If you hadn't found these losers then you would have severely regretted coming back!" He sighed "Where exactly did the attack take place?"

"In the swamp sir." The third one spoke for the first time.

"The Swamps!" Magmatron suddenly became angered. "Scourge! Insecticon!"

Instantly two terrified Predacons scampered over.

"Jerkzzzzz." Transquito said.

Magmatron began to speak again "You informed me that there was nothing in that area!"

"Yes lord Magmatron but-" One of them said before being cut off.

"You made the mistake of lying to me Insecticon! You will both be punished severely!" Magmatron turned back to the Maximals "Now my dear Maximals there's the important question of what to do with you."

Little did they know that high overhead and hidden in the bushes, there were spies.


Optimus, Rhinox and Rattrap were all hidden behind a large rock, they could hear the conversation but not be seen.

"When are we going to attack the Predacons Razorbeast!" An impatient voice said.

"Soon Torca, but we need to wait for the spies to get back before we mobilise."

They heard another voice "Yeah, assuming that you haven't just sent them to warn the Predacons!"

Then the second voice again "I am not a Predacon B'boom!"

"So you say."

"All right break it up!" A gruff voice commanded, he sounded like the kind of guy that beat up Predacons for the fun of it.

Suddenly Rattrap accidentally shifted and kicked a like of rocks.

"Who's there?" the fourth voice called out.

The second voice then said: "It came from behind that boulder! Torca get rid of it!"

"Beast Mode!"

Something smashed into the rock causing rocks to go flying as the rock exploded. Standing over the startled Maximals was a bizarre amalgamation of African elephant and killer whale.

"What the-?" the giant thing said, it was clearly startled by the people behind the rock. "Primal?"

"What?" The third person pushed himself in front of the thing. "It really is!"

While the first three stood in awe the fourth person moved all the others aside. "You left us here Primal!" He jabbed a finger at Optimus "You forgot about us and left us here to rot!"

"Show some respect Ramulus! He came back didn't he?" The third guy moved himself and stared Ramulus right in the eye.

"So what if he did B'boom? He still abandoned us here!"

The fighting attracted others. There was a whole group of Maximals most of them just stood there looking shocked. Suddenly two pushed themselves to the front, the first one looked shocked.

"Primal?" He just stood there looking like he had seen a ghost.

"Ravage!" Optimus cried and threw himself at the old Decepticon.

He looks different Optimus noted, he used to be black but now he was white with black stripes. Instantly the Maximals all pulled Optimus off Ravage.

"What are you doing? Let go of me! That's Ravage! He's a Decepticon! He betrayed me and the others when he came here!" Optimus struggled in the groups grip.

Ravage walked up to him "Not quite Optimus. You might not recognize me but it's me, Tigatron."

"Liar! Tigertron and Airazor were both kidnapped and reformatted into Tigerhawk by the Vok and then killed by Megatron!"

"No Optimus, after Megatron destroyed Tigerhawk our sparks floated back down to Earth, mine possessed Ravage's body while Airazor's found a blank Protorform."

"Prove it! Tell me something that only the real Tigertron could know!"

Ravage sighed and looked slightly embarrassed before answering. " I was once beaten in combat by…Waspinator."

The other Maximals who had all crowded around to hear all laughed uproariously.

"Tigatron!" Rhinox and Rattrap shouted.

"I'm sorry Tigatron." Optimus said, a little ashamed. "Its just that you-"

"Its fine Optimus." Tigatron said cutting him off. "Come, I'll show you the rest of the group. There's Torca, Ramulus, B'boom, K-9, Wolfgang, Razorbeast, Geckobot, Noctorro, Night glider, Prowl II, Sonar, Snarl, Bonecrusher, Optimus minor, Polar claw, Grimlock ("The Grimlock?") Claw jaw, Stink bomb, Armordillo, Air hammer and Packrat." They walked along as Tigatron introduced them all.

Optimus noted that Tigatron said the last name with contempt, he wondered why.

"And this" Tigatron said as he walked up to a winged, female Maximal "Is the new Airazor."

"Hello Optimus, its been a while."

"Nice to see you again Airazor." Optimus said, it felt strange, they had fought alongside each other and here she was again, but in a different, transmetal body.

Razorbeast stepped forward and addressed Tigatron and Airazor. "Tigatron, Airazor, what have you learned?"

"We have seen the Predacon base. They still haven't discovered our location, and it seems that three of their scouts have run into some difficulty, it sounded like they had run into a group of transformers, only they made it clear that they weren't Maximals or Predacons. Also they seem to have discovered two more protoforms and one of the Predacons under Megatrons rule, One of them seemed to have lots of spots, another looked like a fuzor, but we were too far to make it out, and the Predacon is called Blackarachnia." Airazor said.

"What?" Optimus suddenly yelled out startling the others.

"Tigatron the spotted one was Cheetor, he's been upgraded, the fuzor was Silverbolt, and Blackarachnia is now our ally!"

"She is?" Tigatron asked astonished.

Razorbeast then stepped in "Then if we don't find them, Magmatron will surely kill them or hold them for ransom. We haven't a moment to lose. "

"Maximals Beast Mode!" Optimus Prime shouted out, and all around him the group transformed, some of them took to the air while the smaller ones hitched rides on the larger ones.


The Predacons and group two were on the edge of the swamp.

"Now my dear Maximals, we will send you on a little trip. You'll be flushing out the savages, when they go to attack you, my men will be waiting to attack them, so you see I will be killing two birds with one stone!" Magmatron said, the joy evident in his voice.

"Any plans guys?" Cheetor asked.

"Nope."

"No."

"Damn." Cheetor said.


The Maximals burst into the Predacon base startling the guards.

"Maximals Maximise!" Razorbeast shouted out.

Torca easily picked up a Predacon who was in his way "Alright Sky-Shadow start squealing! Where did the Predacons go?"

"Ugh! The…swamps…" Sky-Shadow gasped out. "To the swamps Maximals, but lets take these Predacons with us." Razorbeast said.


The Maximals were all peering out from a clearing, they could see

the Predacons and the Maximals that they were looking for. Razorbeast stood at the front, Rattrap one side, Optimus one the other.

"Alright" Razorbeast said "Me, Optimus, Rattrap and Rhinox will go and attack them directly while Noctorro, Torca, B'boom and-"

"Beast Mode!"

The group turned just in time to see Torca burst through their cover and charge out into the open.

"Is he uh, is he always like that?" Rattrap asked as Razorbeast sighed and massaged his brow.

The entire group of Predacons turned and looked as Torca dashed towards them.

"Maximals! Predacons, open fire!" Magmatron yelled out.

The entire group of Predacons opened fire on Torca, three shots hit him but they all harmlessly ricochet off him. The group tried to scatter as he got within ramming distance but most of them were hit. They saw to their dismay that even more Maximals were pouring out of a clearing. The two groups immediately opened fire. Spittor tried to rise after being hit by Torca but was crushed underfoot by Grimlock, the moment he lifted it he crawled away, moaning in pain.

"Waitaminute! Where's Drill Bit and Scavenger?" Sonar asked Snarl, who merely shrugged.

Suddenly the ground underneath them just exploded. A giant boll weevil and tank with a drill came up and attacked the two. Drill Bit tried to bite Sonar but relented when she transformed into a bat and bit him back. Scavenger was winning his battle with Snarl who had transformed into a Tasmanian devil. Up in the air a squad of fliers attacked a bunch of winged Maximals.

On the ground Transquito, Spittor, Ravage, Powerpinch and Buzzsaw all hid behind a cluster of rocks, they were under heavy fire but whenever that fire ceased they would turn and fire.

"Dammit! I can't take off with all that fire!" Buzzsaw complained.

Suddenly the fire ceased again

"Let me zzzzhow you how a real Predacon getzzzzzz the job done!" Transquito boasted and leapt out from behind the rock, holding a huge array of weapons

"Oh crap." Rattrap said as he, B'boom, Geckobot, Snarl and Ramulus dived behind a boulder while Armordillo just stood there trapped like a deer in the headlights.

Transquito opened fire on the surprised Maximal.

"Beast Mode!" Armordillo cried out and turned into a large armadillo, managing to avoid Transquito's fire.

Suddenly a loud explosion shocked the battlefield and both factions turned to see where it had come from. On top of a ridge was a whole platoon of tank drones.

"Oh no!" Optimus yelled.

"Friends of yours?" Razorbeast asked.

"Anything but." Rattrap said.

"Bah! They are nothing compared to the might of my Predacons! Attack" Magmatron shouted out "Predacons Terrorise!"

They all ran forward firing into the drones. The tank drones however just transformed and attacked with their full fury, Sonar was hit right in the wing and she went crashing down into the dirt. Spittor leapt up at a tank drone, oozing venom, the tank drone suddenly started sparking and collapsed. He tried to leap at another one but was blown away mid leap, and he to went flying, he crashed into Iguanus and the two fell to the ground. Transquito meanwhile was dancing around wildly trying to avoid the fire.

"Should we help him?" Buzzsaw asked Ravage

"No, it's fun to see him on the receiving end of fire."

Shockrat was running around wildly knocking over Predacon and Maximal alike trying to escape from the explosions. Terrorgator, Retrax and Armordillo all hid in their protective casings. Frayctl, Scourge, Insecticon, Scarem, Sky Shadow, Lazorbeak, Buzzclaw and Manterror were trying to attack while also avoiding fire.

"Damn it!" Magmatron said staring at his overwhelmed troops.

"Magmatron!" Razorbeast called out "We need to combine forces to stop them!"

"Damn it!" Magmatron yelled out "I hate it when you Maximals are right! Predacons work with the Maximals!"

"But sir-" Drill bit tried to say before he was cut off.

"Don't question me Drill bit just do it!" Magmatron yelled.

Sky hammer, Geckobot, Noctorro, Night Glider and Prowl II all took to the air and helped the aerial Predacons, Buzzsaw joined them as they flew up. Optimus Minor and Armourdillo dragged Sonar and Spittor to safety and helped Iguanus to his feet. Optimus Primal, Rattrap and Rhinox all rushed towards Silverbolt, Blackarachnia and Cheetor and cut their Energon chains.

"Come on!" Optimus told the others "We need to help them!"

And with that the entire group leapt towards the fighting Optimus transformed into a truck and sped towards a large group of drones who fired at him, some shots hit him but he managed to shrug them off. Optimus suddenly sped up and rammed the drones, most of them were hit but one of them leapt out of the way and fired at Optimus.

"Optimus Primal, Maximise!"

Optimus transformed back into robot mode and leapt up, momentarily suspended he fired at the remaining drones, all of them were hit and the moment Optimus landed the lifeless bodies of the drones collapsed. From the corner of his eye Optimus saw Grimlock torch drones left and right with his fiery breath, while up in the air Buzzsaw sped through the skies at an amazing speed, firing on the drones down below, they tried to shoot back but they only hit his exhaust fumes. Ravage and Tigatron were working together to take down more opposition. Optimus ran towards a particularly large tank drone who easily swatted away Torca. He laughed in triumph and fired at groups of the allied Predacons and Maximals

"You can talk?" Optimus asked

"Of course I can. I am Tankor leader of the tank drones!"

"You will fall"

"We will see. Vehicle Mode!"

With that he transformed into a tank and fired. Ramulus, B'boom and Manterror were hit, with the latter skidding across the ground and slamming into a tree. He tried to aim at another group but Optimus Minor leapt at him and twisted the barrel of his cannon away so that it hit a legion of Tank drones.

"Tankor Pulverize!" He transformed again and threw Optimus minor away, he flew a few feet before hitting Ravage.

"This ends here." He said with all the menace he could muster.

"Not so fast Tankor!"

Tankor turned around and saw that all his drones were dead or dying and that he was surrounded by Magmatron and Razorbeast's forces. He growled and said

"This isn't over Maximals! I'll be back with more firepower! Vehicle Mode!" He transformed and sped off, they all backed away not wanting to stand in his way.

"There's going to be more of them, we need to get back to the ship, we have to leave and get back to Cybertron." Optimus said.

"Not so fast!" they all turned and saw Razorbeast "We're not going anywhere until you tell us what's going on!"

Optimus sighed "All right Razorbeast, you have the right to know, we'll tell you…"

Optimus told them the tale of how they had landed on Cybertron and found it deserted…well almost. They recalled how Megatron had sacrificed himself to allow them to escape and how they had landed on Earth, looking for the remaining Predacons and Protoforms.

"…And that's why we're here." Optimus finished. "We need help. Without it Cybertron is doomed and Tankor and the drones will rule all."

"All right we will help you." Razorbeast said. "Magmatron where do you stand?" Optimus turned and asked Magmatron.

"I don't want those arrogant drones to rule Cybertron. If anyone is going to rule Cybertron it's going to be me! Those drones are going to be OBLITERATED!" Magmatron yelled out, causing all the nearby birds to fly away in fright.

"Good." Razorbeast said "Now we will take our injured and move onward to Optimus' ship. Maximals Maximise!"

"Predacons Terrorize!" They all ran or flew towards the Maximals ship.


"Look! Up ahead!" Silverbolt cried out.

Up ahead were two Transformers, standing in front of the Maximal's ship. One was a transmetal pterosaur, while the other seemed to be some kind of hybrid tank and scorpion.

"Magmatron, do you know anything of this?" Razorbeast asked.

"No, they're not my soldiers."

The two Transformers turned when they heard the Maximals and Predacons.

"Scorponok, Terrorize!"

"Terrorsaur, raaawk, Terrorize!"

The two transformers reverted to robot mode, Optimus Primal and his forces stopped just short of them.

"Scorponok? Terrorsaur? Is that you?" Optimus asked, how could the two be alive, he thought that the two had perished early on in the Beast Wars.

"Optimus Primal?" Scorponok asked "Yes, it is us, we managed to escape from our fiery prison, and now we have returned to aid Megatron!"

"Uh…Scorponok? Megatron's dead." Rattrap said.

"What? How? When?" Scorponok said, he seemed shocked at the idea.

"After your imprisonment, we won the Beast Wars, and captured Megatron. But when we arrived on Cybertron, we found that it had been taken over by a new faction. Megatron gave his life to help us get help." Optimus said.

"Megatron…dead?" Terrorsaur asked "Hah! About time that sorry fool bit the dust!"

"Hold your tongue traitor! We must see this for ourselves" Scorponok said "So, we'll be taking your ship now!"

"What? You arrogant fool! Can't you see that you're greatly outnumbered?" Magmatron asked.

"Oh yeah? Just try it! I've got an explosive with me! You attack, and I blow us all to Primus!"

"What? Scorponok, you twit! I've only just been freed, I'm not going to die here!" Terrorsaur yelled at his partner.

"That's why I'm only going to use it if they attack us Terrorsaur, they'd die too if they tried!"

"I don't think so!" A new voice cried out.

Terrorsaur and Scorponok looked up, only to be knocked off their feet as a white blur flew at them.

"It can't be…Chopper face?" Rattrap asked, the shock evident in his voice.

"Indeed. I thought that I would be destroyed when the Nemesis was destroyed, but it seemed that I was granted a reprieve. I hid out in the wilderness. But when I saw these buffoons" Dinobot pressed his foot on Scorponok, causing him to groan "I followed them, in case they tried to do something…foolish."

"This is fantastic news! We are all happy to see you alive Dinobot. But as I'm sure you've heard, Cybertron is in peril. Will you join us? Optimus asked.

"To deny you would be dishonourable, of course I will join you Optimus."

"Thank you, my friend. We should move, we need to get to Cybertron as quickly as possible."

"Hey, Optimus, what about these two?" Cheetor asked, motioning to Scorponok and Terrorsaur.

"Bring them along, they can help us. I suspect Scorponok will be glad to help, after all, Megatron made the ultimate sacrifice for Cybertron."


They all boarded the ship and placed the injured in CR tanks. They took off and entered the Transwarp zone. Packrat, Rattrap, Buzzsaw and Rhinox where serving as pilots and co-pilots.

"How long until we reach Cybertron Rhinox?" Optimus asked.

"About two hours, Optimus, but I think-"

Suddenly an explosion rocked the ship they all turned to look out of the view screen and saw a small army of jets.

"Buzzsaw, Rattrap open fire on the drones!" Optimus shouted out.

The weapons located on the sides all sprang to life and began to blow away the drones. Suddenly however another explosion rocked the ship, the back this time. Shots were fired, drones were destroyed, sections of ship were blown away.

"Blast! We need more firepower! Vice Grip, Injector, Scourge, Manta Ray! Man the auxiliary guns, we'll show those drones not to mess with the Predacons!"

At once, the Predacons manned the turrets, with the additional firepower, the drones didn't stand a chance. Soon they were all wiped out, leaving only debris to float in space.


A couple of hours later the Maximal/Predacon alliance touched down on Cybertron. They had destroyed all the drones on the way their.

"Where do you suppose we go Optimus?" Powerpinch said in a very surly voice.

Optimus paused for a moment and then said "The sewers. We'll make a base in the sewers." He then walked off, his new soldiers in tow.

"The sewers eh?" Terrorgator said "Man I'll be right at home there."


Meanwhile at Megatron's base Tankor was standing in front of Megatron himself. He had just explained what had happened on Earth and Megatron was less than thrilled.

"So not only did you fail to kill the Maximals but you also allowed them to get a large number of reinforcements? You IDIOT! I send you and two hundred tank drones and you are the only one to return! Worse, with not a single Protoform to show for it!" He was quivering with rage.

"Sir if you'll allow me to try again-" Tankor started

"Yes you will! Because if you fail to destroy those Maximals, then I will destroy you myself! Drones, take Tankor to the med lab, we don't want him running on half power do we?"

four hovering medical drones appeared and escorted Tankor away, "One of these days "lord Megatron" I will pay you back." He whispered under his breath.


Ok, end of chapter two, I hope you enjoyed it. I hope the quality hasn't degraded. Again, feel free to offer me pointers about the characters. Sorry to disappoint any Waspinator fans who thought he'd be appearing here. I would like to say that, as with Beast Wars, characters will die, hell, originally, Sonar and Armordillo were going to be killed off, but for now, they're safe. New chapters will be up soon. Thanks for reading!