Note: I don't own Beast wars, or it's characters. There will be OCs in here as well as self-insertion. There will be some DBZ flare in future chapters.

Chapter 2.

Estevan looked at both sides: on his side where Cheetor, his siblings and the Maximals. On the other side were the so-called Predacons. He knew that the Predacons were the bad guys because the bug Waspinator. While he was looking at both sides, Cody was bussy fixing Cheetor's Quasar Cannon. " Well this just fucking great, we're stuck in the middle of a fight that we shouldn't be in. But right now my main concern is my family, I have to get them out of here." He thought. As his brother was fixing the gun, he overheard the leaders, the gorilla and T-rex argue.

"We don't have to do this, Megatron. There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries." Optimus pleaded to Megatron. He didn't want to start a new war and get the beings on this planet involved, "Why start this up again?"

Megatron had to chuckle at the Maximal's futile efforts to persuade him, but he wasn't going to be persuaded that easily. "Peace perhaps on your side, Maximal scum. Yesss. But not on ours." The Predacons just smiled evilly at their leader in agreeing with him. "Permit me to inform you that an enemy which appears to be peaceful may in fact be merely... biding its time."

Cody was still filddling with the gun until the cocking mechanism was able to rack back. He looked in disbelief, he didn't think he could do it but he did. Hey, Cheetor, it's fixed", he whispered to the cat-bot as he tossed it back to his owner. "Rowl. Finally!"

Megatron didn't notice it, nor did the Maximals. So Cheetor had the right opportunity, but he needed to wait for the right moment. Megatron still went on with his speech, "We Predacons have never abandoned our rightful goal of galactic conquest. Noo. We have merely been waiting... for the right moment - to STRIKE!"

At that moment Cheetor jumped out from behind the boulder with his Quasar Cannon trained. "You mean like this!" He fires the canon and the blast impacted on the underside of Megatron's scaly jaw, rocking the massive T-Rex backwards. The blast does a certain amount of surface damage.

"Cheetor!", Optimus shouted. He knew that Cheetor would do something like this; never thinking of the consequences in these types of situations. He did however hope that shot knocked Megatron out for the count. But the big Predacon leader recovers immediately, rubbing the smoking jawline with a foreclaw.

"Ah. A treacherous, underhanded sneak attack." He chuckled as he looked at Cheetor, "I like you, pussycat. Yess." He had to admit, though, no Maximal ever had the chance to hit him like that with his guard down. "But it shall avail you naught. Noo. For now the power-gauntlet has been cast."

Megatron ignored the four humans for a while, until Angel jumped from the boulders and shouted. " Hey dino! I think I heard Fred flinstone calling ya, so why don't go back home like a good pet!" Estevan knew that his sister had a knack of irritating people, and she did a damn good job too. Megatron was a little fazed at this as he clenched his jaw, anxious to bite this little gnat's head off." How dare this child mock me, does she not know of who she's dealing with? Yess."

Angel was satisfied that she got under Megatron's scales, she was getting tired of his naggin. Megatron turned his attention to the girl. " You dare speak to me that way! You little gnat!", Angel only scoff at this. Her and her brothers have been called harsher names than that. Estevan then decided to step in. " We've been called worser names than gnat pal! Like you can come up with a better insult!" Estevan sneered. Megatron was growling up a storm, now he was getting tired of these creatures and wanted nothing more than their deaths.

" You dare to mock me you little prick?! Just for that, after I destroy the Maximals, I'll boil you and your friends there into Axel Grease. Oh Yess indeed."

"You'll do no such thing, Megatron", Optimus shouted. "If you're going to slag anyone, start with me." Estevan couldn't believe what this guy, this Optimus Primal was standing up for him and his siblings. He had only seen the big gorilla, but he didn't imagine he would stick up for him or his family but themselves. Megatron let out a toothy grin. "So Primal, is this a declaration of war?", Megatron asked, hoping for an excuse to destroy them. "If so, then... PREDACONS! TERRORIZE!"

Optimus wasted no time to give the go to his crew members, "Do it! MAXIMIZE!"

The foursome saw it, they saww all the animals transformed into robots. The opponents on both sides went into their TRANSFORMATIONS into robot-mode.

" Tarantulas, TERRORIZE!" The spider cackled as he transformed into a humanoid robot. His body matched his voice: slick and monstrous. His head was purple with spider eyes on his forehead, his mouth was made up of six mandibles, and his eye was a yellow visor. His upper torso was purple and muscular and his arms had his eight spider legs connected to them while his hands and lower part of his arms where two massive claws striped yellow and purple. The spider head had become the robot's pelvic structure. His legs looked a little skinny but strong.

" Rhinox, MAXIMIZE!" The rhino transformed into a hulking green humanoid robot. The head had split horizontally and the lower jaw became the robot's chest plate. The two front hooves changed into his arms each showing a hand with four fingers. The back hooves turned into his legs, the upper legs were covered by the rhino's hide making a lower torso guard, and the lower legs each had six little spikes to where the side calves were and had a robotic toe sticking between the two front hooves. His face looked human, and he had a bronze yellow jaw. His eyes were black and red, but seemed to show gentleness. He was also holding a mean gattling gun with a mace attached to it both up and down.

" Scorponok, TERRORIZE!" The scorpion's robot mode looked human with most of his body covered in scorpion shell like armor. His stomach is formed from his eight red arachnid legs. His head has only one yellow eye and his lower jaw looks like mandibles fused together. His scorpion tail is right behind him and his front pincers are his lower arms and hands.

" Rattrap, MAXIMIZE!" The rat transformed in a silver and bronze humanoid robot that was around the same height as Josh. The rat's head became the chest plate. The robot's head was completely bronze except for the top of his head which was silver and looked like a brain. The rest of the rat's form was on his back tightly packed. The robot's eyes were bright red and when he opened his mouth you could see two buck teeth. He held out a shotgun shaped blaster at the ready.

"Terrorsaur, TERRORIZE" The Pterodactyl transformed into a red and gray humanoid robot. The tail had become the protective chest plate. The wings folded and became decorative arm guards. Two spikes stuck out of the front of the feet. The pterodactyl's head was mounted on the back. The robots head was red with a Mohawk and his face plate was white with black eyes with red pupils.

The warriors were all battle ready, the only ones left were the leaders.

"Megatron, TERRORIZE!" The T-Rex transformed into a giant dark purple and gray humanoid robot, bigger than Rhinox. The T-Rex head became the right hand and the tail became a lance of some sort, being held by a four-fingered hand. The dino's legs became the lower legs with a metallic back heel balancing them. The two parts of the T-Rex's chest split and were mounted on his back. The chest of the robot looked high tech. The robot's head was metallic gray while his face plate was purple with two red eyes glowing with evil.

"Optimus, MAXIMIZE!" The gorilla turned into a gray, white, and red robot. The ape's head folded inward to reveal a metallic chest. The upper arms of the ape folded up to create shoulder armor showing a metallic structure, while the lower arms remained the same except for on each arm were mounted arm canons. The lower torso did a 180-degree turn to reveal robotic features on the legs. The robot's head was gray while the robot's face plate was dark gray; however, he had a white mouth guard that opened up to show his mouth. He had red eyes that showed fierceness but compassion.

Now Estevan had seen it all, these weren't animals; they were robots that could change into animals and vice versa. Both sides watched each other with intensity, wondering who would fire first. Megatron decided to make the first move by breaking the silence.

"Now... obliterate them!"

The Predacons open fired with all their weapons. Missiles, lasers, and blast bolts streak through the air, smashing around the Maximals. All the Maximals could do was do the best they could; they were explorers, not experienced fighters like the Predacons were.

Estevan could only watch as he, his siblings and Cheetor were trying to think of a way to get to the Maximals. Cheetor shouted to Estevan. "We've got to scramble to the Maximals before we get caught in the crossfire!" Estevan shouted back. " And just how the hell are we gonna do that? We're already stuck in the damn crossfire, we'll be killed if we get spotted!"

" Don't worry about that, I'll cover the rear you guys get moving!"

Estevan was reluctant to disagree with his action, but the situation begged to differ. So amongst the fire, Estevan led his family to the Maximals while Cheetor provided cover fire. As soon as they got close, they all jumped over the Maximals and hid for cover. "Just stay behind here and duck. Leave the rest to us!" The foursome nodded in agreement.

Cheetor scrambled to run up toward the other Maximals, but a blast striking near him caused him to stumble. As soon as Cheetor was about to scramble back up, his robotic foot suddenly gets wedged into a crack in the stone! "Rrowl! I'm - I'm stuck!"

Back to the Maximals, having taken cover behind some rock outcroppings as they return fire. Optimus was now aware of Cheetor's situation as he continued to fight. "Rattrap! Help Cheetor! We'll cover you!" Rattrap is crouched behind a boulder. A blast from the Predacons takes out a massive chunk of stone over his head. "Yeah, right!", Rattrap liked the kid, but he wasn't about to play soldier and risk his life with all that firepower out there. Optimus knew that this wasn't the time for this, "That's an order, Rattrap!"

Rattrap was going to make his point out to the big ape, "Yeah? An' you can kiss my skid plate, Fearless Leader. Cause' I ain't goin' out there an' gettin' MY pelt punctured!" Optimus growled in frustration, Estevan heard their argument and was pissed off by the rat's cowardice. " If this guy's a friend of Cheetor, then he's a lousy one!" Estevan marched over and grabbed Rattrap by the neck. " Gak! Hey what are..." " YOUR A FUCKING COWARD, YOU MISERABLE RAT!" Estevan shouted in his face. Stunning Rattrap, Rhinox and Optimus. Estevan shoved Rattrap in disgust and ran towards the preds. " Hey wait!" Rhinox tried to grab him, but he already ran off. Optimus looked as the boy that he and the others were trying to protect jumped out into the crossfire. He knew that the boy's intention was to help Cheetor, but he knew that he was an easy moving target. Megatron suddenly catches a glimpse and saw the boy running towards Cheetor, "Ah, just what I was looking for…Moving Target Practice. Yess."

"Tarantulas! Terrorsaur! Concentrate your fire on the boy! Let's…have some fun."

They began firing at Estevan to pin him down, but they didn't count on Estevan dodging them with ease. Thanks to his years of training, Estevan dodged the bullets like they weren't even there. Optimus saw the boy's maneuverability, and was impressed. But he was still in danger; seeing as how the others were being overwhelmed, and that Rattrap wouldn't go, He had to go in there to help. He was about to activate his jets, when he saw the boy do something he never expected. As he drew near Cheetor Estevan jumped as high as he could, almost higher than Terrosaur as the Predacons ceased fire, they saw the boy rolling in the air. Then stretched his left leg out and did a dive-bomb kick. Straigh towards Megatron.

Before he could react, Megatron felt the boy's kick to his head and both of them, went flying across the field. The rest of his troops were so dumbfounded, that they didn't notice Angel, Josh and Cody did their own dive-bomb kicks, and struck them with their backs turned. The Maximals were as awestruck as Cheetor was when he saw them fight Waspinator. Megatron skidded on the dirt as Estevan had he foot on Megs face. As he came to a stop Estevan jumped and did a forward flip landing with ease. Megatron groand from the impact, shaking his head he turned and face the boy with burning red eyes. " You dare to strike ME! Just for that I'll kill you, here and now!" He fired lasers from his T-rex head at the boy, but Estevan ran towards him dodging each laser left and right. As he came close, he jumped and did a backwards roundhouse kick to Megatron's head.

Feeling the impact Megatron stumbled back, as the boy landed on his hands and did a horse-kick to his face. Feet hitting his face Estevan bent his back letting his feet touch the ground, turned around and sweep kicked Megatron to the ground.

Cody was taking on Tarantulas, as the maniacally spider fired his machine gun legs, Cody jumped around like a jackrabbit smiling all the way. " Ha! Missed!" He taunt as he dodged another of Tarantulas' bullets. " Missed again! Hahahaha!" Tarantulas was getting irritated of this boy's taunts. " Stand still and FIGHT COWARD!" He kept firing until Cody jumped over him, grabbed his head, flipped over and threw the spider over head and charged at him. Still flying Tarantulas tried to stop, when Cody appeared next to him grabbed his arm, and slammed him in the ground. Then he slammed him again, over and over until he raise the spider above him and kicked the pred in the face, and the back sending him flying. As soon as he came to a hault in midair, Tarantulas fell back down screaming, and flaying his arms and legs like crazy. Cody grabbed a large branch from a tree, took a stance, patted the ground and as soon as Tarantulas was near. Cody swinged the branch and smacked the spider like a baseball play hitting the ball, Tarantulas soared across the field as Cody placed his hand over his head. " Looks like a fine hit, it's going over the field." He said as the spider flew over three trees and smacked into a large boulder. " AND HE HITS A HOME-RUN AND FANS GO WILD!" He shout and making cheer noises.

Scorponok fired his missles at Angel who kept dodging them, while taunting him. " Come on, come on scorpio. My grandma can hit better than you, then again you might wanna get your eyes check. Cause your as blind as my grandpa was!" She said smiling. Scorponok was shaking, furious as the girl was making fun of him. " Shut up and stand still would you?!" He fired again but Angel got close enough and slapped him in the face. Blinking thrice Scorponok tried to snap her head with his claw, but she side-stepped and smacked him upside the head. Shaking his head he face the girl, only to see her waging her finger at him. Baring his teeth, he swinged his claws left and right in an attempt to hit her. But she dodged his poor swipes, as she smacked him on his head over and over. Then she kicked his face. Groaning Scorponok shacked his head again, and saw her waging her finger again while she smiled. Shaking with fury he shouted while swinging his claws wildly, blindly trying to hit her. But because he was blinded by his outburst he didn't noticed her behind his back. He stopped panting like crazy looking around for the girl. " Knock knock." She said as she tapped his shoulder. " Who's there?" He turned only to be greeted by foot ramming his face. Falling down Angel grabbed him by his feet, and spinned around and around, Scorponok screamed as she twirled him around. Then she sent up in the air, as he fell screaming Angel heel-kicked him sending him flying, screaming the classic Goofy holler. She turned her back on him as he hit the ground face first, she fix her hair back smiling. " Heh, what a douchebag." She said while walking away.

Josh was fending off both Terrorsaur and Waspinator, as both flyers fired their guns at him. Josh dodged left and right then jumped on a tree and used as a springboard, and jumped towards Waspinator. The bug tried to move out of the way, but Josh managed to grab him and slammed him on the ground. Then he spung around while holding Waspinator and launched him to Terrorsaur. Terrorsaur moved out of Waspinator's way, only to see Josh jumping towards him and roundhouse-kicked him downwards. Terrorsaur crashed into the ground, as the English boy landed on top of him. Grabbing him by the leg, Josh slammed him on a medium sized rock, making screws and bolts fly off. Terrorsaur groaned as Josh brought him up and launched a hail of fists on the pred. Multiple fists pounded Terrorsaur almost to a coma, when Josh heard Waspinator buzzing behind him. Thinking quickly Josh jumped over Waspinator, as he into Terrorsaur making both of them rolling in the dirt. " Ugh ptt! Waspinator get your ass off of me!" The red dino said. " Only if Terrorsaur let's Waspinator's leg go!" As the both of them struggled to get out, they saw Josh charging at them. They broke out of their pile and had the boy in between them. The two flyers stood side by side of the boy, making sure he doesn't get out. While Josh stood his ground, both preds lunged themselves and got into a dog pile. Making a large dirt cloud as the three fought eachother. Soon the cloud disappeared and Josh stood victorious over his foes.

Optimus and his group could believe their eyes, these children who they never seen before where picking the Predacons apart like they were toys. Of course Rattrap was recording the whole thing enjoying every moment of the preds embarrassment. " Ho hoo! Now this is what I call a good show, and I got it all on tape if only I had oil and popcorn to go with this hehehe." He snickered like a kid. Optimus was amazed at this as well, but snapped out of his trance and activated his jets.

Estevan and Megatron fought, as they tried to injure the other. Megatron swinged his T-rex head downward, only for Estevan to catch it and flip the big pred over his shoulder. Estevan raised his foot high and stomped on Meg's head. The Predacon leader swinged his tail-lance to stab him, but the boy jumped over him and stomped on his body. Estevan punched Megatron's face over and over, despite him being metal and his hand were killing him he would not let that stop him. Megatron brought his T-rex head again and fired but Estevan dodged, grabbed Meg's arm kept him pinned down, and used it on the rest of the Predacons. Angel, Cody and Josh jumped out of the way as the lasers hit the preds they were fighting. Estevan then lifted Megatron with all his might and tossed him into the air, jumped and uppercutted him. While Megatron was rolling midair Estevan did a backwards roundhouse kick, and sent him towards his downed troopers. The Predacons saw they're leader flying towards them at rapid speed, before they could react, he crashed into them. Sending them into a mass dog pile getting them all tangled up.

With the Predacons distracted, Optimus was able to land on his feet beside Cheetor and fired his cannon on the stone. BOOM! The stone shattered and Cheetor's foot was freed!

When the foursome heard the explosion, they knew Optimus got Cheetor and raced back to the Maximals. Soon the foursome, Optimus and Cheetor got back to Rhinox and Rattrap on the top of the slope.

" Everyone back to the base! Let's go, let's go!"

As soon as the Predacons untangled themselves, Megatron saw the Maximals and the humans leaving, but right before Estevan turned his sights on him and gave him the coldest glare saying " The next time we meet, I'll kill you with my bare hand!" Megatron returned the glare that said " This isn't over boy! Only one of us shall live, and the other shall die!"

Soon the Maximals and the foursome were out of their sights, Megatron was absolutely furious! To be beaten and humiliated by a bunch of fleshings! This was something that Megatron would not let go so easily.

"After them! Go, you - AAARGH!"

Before he could finish, electrical fields sparkled and crackled all over his robot form, causing him extremely large amounts of pain. All the other Predacons were experiencing the same thing, even the fliers fell to the ground in agony. Waspinator was acting like a dying cockroach, "WaZz-pinat-ator cannot moooove!"

At the time, Megatron was angry but helpless. He knew what was going on. "Energon field build-up. Convert back to Beast Mode!"

The Predacons started to convert back to Beast Mode. Megatron was furious; the one chance to destroy the Maximals, and they lost it. But most of all, he had let those things-those humans, insult him in front of his soldiers. And worst of all they picked him and his soldiers apart with very little effort. Megatron was really pissed off by this. Scorponok came up next to him. " Lord Megatron, just what were those creature? How did they beat us so easily?" He asked. " I don't know my menivolent minion, but I will say this. If they so much as cross paths with me again, I'll make them suffer the most foul torment ever imaginable! Oh, yes indeed!" Megatron growled. " Soon very soon, I'll have that boy's head and hang it on my wall as a trophy. No one! Predacon, Maximal or unkown species makes a fool of Megatron and lives to tell about it! Oh yesss!"

The Maximals were walking down a cavern tunnel that would lead back to the Axelon; all were currently in Beast Mode. Angel was riding on top of Rhinox's back, while her brothers walked along side of Optimus and Ratrrap while Cheetor was scouting ahead. Then all of a sudden, Optimus came to a halt and clamped his hand down on Rattrap's neck and lifts him up to his eye level. Rattrap struggled in Optimus' stern grip. Everyone else just stopped as the Maximal leader was having a few words with the rat. "Awwwrk! Hey! Hey, what's got yer servos so bent?"

"Let's get one thing straight, Rattrap. I am Commander of this group. And when I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed.", Optimus said. It was clear that he was very angry. Not only did Rattrap didn't obey his orders, but because of that, four kids which belonged to an unknown species felt that they had to put their lives on the line because one of his crew members wouldn't follow orders.

Rattrap was just as miffed, but for not all the right reasons. "Oh, yeah. So I get vaped because you're too chicken to go yourself?"

"I will not give an order I would not be willing to do myself. But I was capable of giving you better cover fire. You were not. And you almost put those kid's lives in jeopardy,", Optimus answered. He dropped Rattrap in disgust. Rattrap rubbed his neck sullenly as they continued to walk with the rest of the group. "Well, I didn't ask dem kids ta go in my place. Come on, what you shortin' about? We got outta there alive, didn't we?"

Optimus was surveying their path ahead and then spoke coldly, without looking back. " that maybe and because of those kids keeping the preds busy, we sustained less injuries. But still it would take little time for our Beast Forms to effect internal repairs." Rattrap could only mutter in response to that, "Yeah, well, better you than me."

Estevan couldn't help but overhear the conversation; he knew that the rat was getting a scolding. He couldn't blame Optimus for being very P.O.'ed at the moment. In fact Optimus had every right to be, he gave Rattrap an order and that cowardly rat didn't even lift a finger to help Cheetor! Though aside from that. He had so many questions to ask these guys: Who were they? Where did they come from? Why were they here? How did they get here? How long have they been here?

Well, he wasn't just going to get anywhere by asking himself these questions to himself. So he decided to take a deep breath and just go for it. " Ahem, excuse me Optimus is it?" Optimus turned to the boy and spoke in a warm tone, "Yes?"

" I was wondering if I can ask you a few things? I'm sure as hell we should get some answers, considering that we almost got ourselves killed back there." He said. Optimus knew that this was coming and wasn't capable of giving all the answers. "Well, I suppose you do have the right to know what you've gotten yourself into…", the other Maximals looked at their leader, and only Rattrap gave a look of disapproval. "We'll fill you in on everything back at our ship."

Estevan looked surprised when he said the word, "Your ship?"

Optimus nodded. " Yes our ship is only a few nano-clicks ahead, we'll tell you everything once we get there." Estevan crossed his arms, thinking of actually seeing a space ship upclose. " I see. I don't believe we've been properly introduced. My name is Estevan Martinez." He said. Then pointed to his siblings, " The girl on your friend's back is Angel Martinez, she's my younger sister." Angel waved at the three Maximals. " Yo." She greeted. " Behind me is Cody Bratsch and Josh Martin they're our step-brothers." Cody flashed them a smile and crossed his arms. " What's up y'all?" While Josh only nodded. Optimus looked confused when he said the word. " These two are your step-brothers?" He asked. Estevan nodded. " We'll tell our story, once your done with yours once we head for your ship." Optimus nodded as Cheetor came up next to him from his scouting. " Understandable. Anyway it's nice to meet you four, I am Optimus Primal, commander of the exploration ship: Axalon and leader of the Maximal exploration crew. These three are my crew members. The one your sister is riding is Rhinox." The rhino nodded to them. " Greetings new friends." Optimus pointed at Rattrap. " This is Rattrap since you did shout at him for being a coward." Optimus said with a stern tone, as he and Estevan stared at the rat. " uh… yeah, hi. Ehehe" He chuckled nervously. " You had it coming vermin and you knew it to!" He sneered. That made Ratrrap feel really small from his gaze. " And I'm sure you've already meet Cheetor." The cheetah smiled. " Hey what's up again. Anyway I think we gave'em the fade, Optimus." Optimus was still on alert, "Keep your sensors on full. According to the Golden Disk theft reports there were six Predacons. One of them was missing from the battle."

Rattrap was the first to make a suggestion, "Yeah, well, uh, maybe he was destroyed in the crash." It could have been possible, but Rhinox brought up the contrary as they neared the bridge. " That kind of luck we haven't been getting' much of lately."

Cheetor was the first to react, "Tell me about it. Look!"

As they reached the bridge, they saw a brown Velociraptor standing menacingly in the center of the stone bridge. They all come to a stop with Optimus walking to the front.

Rhinox walked up next to his leader and friend, "Should we blast him?" Optimus walked up a little slower, "Keep that option open, but hang on."

The raptor spoke up as well, facing them in a challenging pose, "Attention Maximals! My name is Dinobot. I have left the Predacons to join your group - as leader."

This got the Maximals attention pretty good as well as the humans. Cheetor was the first to express his reaction, "What? Did I hear the word leader?" Rhinox was the second, "This guy's got bearings of chrome steel."

Dinobot and Optimus were nearly face-to-face but only by five feet away from each other. Dinobot raised his claws challengingly, "I hereby challenge you, Optimus Primal, to a one-on-one battle. The winner shall lead the Maximals. And the loser, shall be destroyed."

Estevan crossed his arms as the two stared at eachother waiting to see who might get the first blow. " Let's see if you have any skill Optimus as well as you Dinobot."

Well here's the second chapter my friends, enjoy the show Broly94 out!