'Myth Wars': Episode 62: "Other Encounters: Part 3: The Beginning":
(Author's Notes on Bottom)
"Oh great; first it's the Vok; now it's the Predacons…" Rattrap begins, "…what's next?" "Don't ask; you may not like the answer!" Snarl quickly interludes.
"Predacons; you heard my command…" Fenrir screams as they race towards the Maximals at full speed, "…Leave no bot functional!"
Silverbolt squints out across the advancing Predacon army. He loads two of his wing tip missiles and launches them at Waspinator and Nemesis; missing her but nailing Waspinator right in the head.
"Nice shot 'bolt…" Rattrap comments as he gives him the thumbs up. "Indeed it was…" Silverbolt states, standing triumphant with his hands on his hips.
Just then a missile impacts with his chest; sending him crashing into the Providus. "Keep your mind on the fight; fool!" Myrimidon states as he produces a bazooka-like cannon and shoots another missile at some of the other Maximals; sending them fleeing in all directions.
Elsewhere…
A group of early human anthropoids walk along through a lush green forest when the sky begins to cloud up and a tornado starts to form out of nowhere. The leader of the group waves his stone-pierced wooden club in the air and hollers at the others to run away.
"Well would you look at this?" Tarantulas mutters sarcastically as he floats through the tornado; using his powers to protect him. "It would appear that a group of pre-historical cave-dwellers have stumbled into my path…whatever shall I do?" He states as he glares down at them evilly; leaving the lone group leader shaking in terror.
Back with Megatron…
"Is all in readiness?" he asks Tidal Wave as he loads the last lump of raw energon into the ship. "Yup; that's all of it." He replies.
"Good…then all we need to do is wait for the energon-processing unit that Gigatron was nice enough to build to convert the energon into stable cubes; and then we'll be on our way…" he smirks and rubs his hands together in anticipation.
Meanwhile…
"I can not believe you let those rust buckets beat us!" Rampage screams at Depth Charge as they stand in a large clearing. Depth Charge shoves him back into a wall, "You are letting you're emotions get the best of you…" he begins, "…besides; we can not fight them when our own bodies are constantly fighting the sparks of their former hosts!"
"Yes…this is true…but we still should not have left!" Rampage continues as he rises to his feet. "I have this strange urge to kill you that I can't explain," Depth Charge begins, "Don't make me unleash it!"
"Please…we must not fight amongst ourselves…" Tigatron states as he floats in-between the two bots, "…We need to figure out a way to remove the sparks from these bodies; and then we can be at full strength to attack them!" He extends his arm in the air in triumph and fires off a bolt of electricity into the atmosphere. "Agreed." Airazor adds as she nods a little and joins the others.
Back with Tarantulas…
He uses his powers to start to levitate the anthropoid when the sound of an explosion distracts him. He looks up to see a bolt of electricity echo upwards into a cloud.
"Hmm…unusual…" he mutters as he rubs his chin lightly. Looking back briefly at the anthropoid; he tosses him aside and stares out across the landscape towards the area where the bolt came from near the edge of the horizon.
"Well…it would appear that I have a more pressing matter…" he states as he addresses the anthropoid who is now backing away from him in fear, "…enjoy your time upon this mud ball; it will end soon!"
With the Maximals…
"Here they come!" Cheetor cries out as the Predacons finish making the dash across the distance separating them. Fenrir clenches his fist and attempts to deliver an uppercut to Blackarachnia but misses by mere inches.
"Don't you know it's not nice to hit a lady?" she asks him as she regains her composure. "If I see a lady; I'll let you know…" Fenrir begins, "…Besides, chivalry is dead; just like you're going to be once I finish with you!"
"You're going to have to go through me first Predacon filth!" Silverbolt states as he tosses one of his wingtip missiles at Fenrir. Fenrir whips out his sword and slices it in half in mid air, "That shouldn't be a problem…" he smirks happily.
"Oh…Wazpinator not like doggy-bot…" Waspinator mumbles as he slowly rises to his feet, re-adjusting his head. "Are you a complete moron?" Nemesis asks as he swoops down and lands next to him. "Wazpinator not moron…Wazpinator just have really bad luck." He replies with a smile; leaving her only to roll her optics.
Snarl and Six-Shot begin to battle as Snarl punches him in the stomach; causing him to drop to his knees in pain.
"Give it up Predacon…this war is not yours to fight!" Snarl states as he clamps his fists together and smashes Six-Shot on the back of the head. He collapses fully to the ground and spits out some mech fluid. "It is now…" he sneers as he wipes his mouth and delivers a surprise uppercut to Snarl; leveling him.
In another part of the battlefield; Rhinox engages Skar in battle, pulversing him with his chain guns of doom.
Suddenly Skar collapses; and Rhinox stops shooting. But Skar looks up and him and smirks; and takes to the air into a nosedive and punches Rhinox in the face; knocking the massive bot over.
Skar stands on top of Rhinox and aims one of his shoulder cannons at his head. Rhinox looks at Skar's neck and notices a large section missing; causing him to twitch occasionally. "What's wrong with you?" Rhinox asks, both confused and trying to alter the situation.
But Skar doesn't answer; instead merely covers up his neck wound and rubs it lightly in pain. "What is wrong with you?" Rhinox asks; now completely confused.
"He's a mute." A voice states; and Rhinox looks over to see Nemesis walking up to them. "During the Predacon reformatting process; his voice-processing unit was destroyed. It nearly shattered his entire neuro-network…" Nemesis states, "…But as you can see; he's better now!" She whips out one of her swords and Skar smiles happily; realigning his cannon.
Rhinox grits his teeth and with one massive heave he throws Skar off of him and whips out his gun and starts shooting at both Skar and Nemesis simultaneously. The shots miss Nemesis and she takes off; but they hit Skar and knock him out cold. "Thanks for the news!" Rhinox laughs and half-heartily salutes Nemesis as she transforms and takes off.
About 100 miles south of all of this…
"Finally! I can see it!" Optimus states as he cruises along at full speed towards a very familiar mountain.
As he descends, he transforms into robot mode and lands near the side of the mountain; and stares up at the front of a massive ship sticking out. "I just hope you're up for a little chat…" he begins when he hears something move behind him in some bushes. Whipping around; all he sees are leaves float gently to the ground in front of the bushes.
"Hmm…" he thinks quietly to himself as he carefully looks around him for any sign of movement. Just then a mechanical scream pierces the air and he quickly turns around to see a group of 3 Cyber-Raptors stand in attack formation around him.
Optimus smiles with slight happiness, "Good…just what I need to let off a little steam…"
Meanwhile…
"Uh…that bot can hit!" MegaZarak states as he slowly rises to his feet; realigning his jaw and reconnecting a few wires.
He slowly scans across the terrain, "I know that low down pile of Autobot-wannabe trash couldn't have gotten far…" In his sights his targeting system locks onto a faint trail of air disturbance nearly 5 miles away. "Ah yes…so the hunt begins…" he smirks as he transforms painfully into beast mode and slithers away.
Back with the other Predacons…
Fenrir attacks Silverbolt; and the two lock hands as each tries to gain the upper hand.
"You fight well...for a Maximal!" Fenrir comments as he tries to twist and break Silverbolt's wrists; but Silverbolt holds his own and throws Fenrir back. "You know nothing of what we're capable of; villain!" Silverbolt proclaims as he watches Fenrir stumble backwards.
"Oh yeah?" Fenrir smirks as he regains his balance. "Fenrir…Flight Mode!" he screams as he transforms into a jet and takes to the air. Silverbolt merely stares up in shock as Fenrir zooms through the air with amazing ease and grace; almost like a professional.
"I knew I recognized that voice!" Blackarachnia screams as she watches Fenrir do aerial stunts, "You're Starscream!" "That's where you're wrong, my sweet…" Fenrir begins as he maneuvers to face her and opens up his twin gun ports, "…I'm not Starscream!"
Blackarachnia stares in shock at the new revelation and Fenrir capitalizes as he opens fire upon her. But as the laser blasts travel through the air Silverbolt transforms in beast mode and dives into the path of the blasts; taking the full brunt of the shots.
"SILVERBOLT! NO!" She cries out as he goes down in a trail of thick black smoke. "An interesting development…" Fenrir states as he hovers in the air and realigns his cannons at Blackarachnia. She stops in mid run to Silverbolt as she notices Fenrir realigning for another attack. "Not this time…" she begins as she closes her optics and her chest orb begins to glow. Fenrir watches in slight confusion as he begins to charge his cannons for another attack when he spots something moving out of the corner of his field of vision.
He turns to see a large missile that had been knocked off of the ship during the crash wiggle and float into the air. Just then Blackarachnia's optics open and glow as she uses her powers to hurl the missile directly into Fenrir. "This'll teach you to mess with me…" she looks down at Silverbolt as he quivers in pain, "…and my man." The missile collides with him; shattering him into pieces in a gigantic earth-shaking explosion of white blinding light.
The force of the explosion is so great that a massive shockwave is produced; knocking all of the robots to the ground with a powerful gust of energized wind. They all lie on the ground, temporarily knocked out.
Back with Primal…
He extends his cannons from his upper torso and aims at the central raptor. "I'm not in a good mood right now; you've caught me at a bad time!" He states as he fires and blows the central raptor away; leaving only a cloud of dust where it used to be.
The other two raptors spread out and flank Optimus; the one of the left lunging and attacking Primal in the leg. Optimus clenches his fist and punches the raptor; sending it skidding across the ground as the other raptor sinks its claws into his other arm.
Optimus shakes him loose and kicks the raptor clear across the horizon as the punched raptor shakes its head and rises to its feet again. "You guys don't know when to give up; do you?" Optimus smiles as the raptor races towards Optimus at full speed but Optimus merely lifts his foot and smushes him beneath his heel.
The last raptor reappears from behind some distant rocks and attacks Optimus as he turns his back and walks towards the mountain. Optimus senses something behind him; and turns to see the raptor jump onto a large boulder and dive through the air at him.
But with one move; Optimus catches the raptor in mid air and throws him into another rock; shattering his control unit on his back and causing him to malfunction and short out.
"Now…" Optimus says as he turns to see the two metal door entrances of their old headquarters partially standing but severely damaged, "…To get some real advice!"
Meanwhile; with his arch enemy…
"The energon cubes are ready and loaded Megatron!" Gigatron announces as he stands near the entrance ramp to the ship. "Excellent; then all is prepared…" he begins as he strolls up to the entrance, "…Tidal Wave; begin refueling the ship's engines with the new cubes. Gigatron; you monitor the engine's power level and alert me when we are ready to take off!"
He turns to look out across the landscape one last time before boarding the ship, "My destiny awaits!"
Elsewhere…
Tarantulas carefully climbed up the side of a mountain and stares over the edge of the peak down below at the four Vok agents standing around talking to each other.
Suddenly his own body begins to convulse and he tumbles back down the hill, crying out in pain as he bounces off of rocks and collides into the ground with a loud thud.
"Ooof!" he cries out as he shakes off the stun of the fall and rises to his feet. "It would appear that the Vok inside me aren't so dormant after all…" he rubs his chin in thought, "…so that leaves me with a choice: Extract the Vok from within myself and lose some of my power; or fight them and suffer great pain?"
Back with the Maximals…
"Ohhh…what hit me?" Rhinox states as he rubs his head in pain. "I don't know…" Rattrap begins as he knocks a couple of loose nuts out of his head, "…But I don't wanna go through it again; dat's for sure!"
"Oh great! Now they've destroyed Fenrir!" Nemesis states as she rises to her feet and picks up a piece of Fenrir's body. "Yeah! For once Wazpinator not get blown up!" Waspinator shouts in glee as he dances around happily. "ARGH! Shut up!" Nemesis screams as she tosses one of her blades directly through Waspinator's head; skewering him to a nearby rock. "Ah, why birdy-bot always so mean to Wazpinator?" He mutters as he tries to yank the blade out of his head; leaving her only to shake her head in disappointment.
"This battle is not over Maximals…" Six-Shot begins as he and the other able-bodied Predacons gather up the pieces of Fenrir, "…We will have our vengeance!"
Nemesis begins to leave as she remembers that one of her swords is stuck in Waspinator's head. She walks over to him and looks at him adoringly, "Thanks for taking care of my blade…" she trails off as she rips it out of his head. He smiles at her with a silly grin and he falls to the ground.
As the Predacons leave the battlefield; the Maximals begin to reawaken. Waspinator looks around in confusion; realizing that he's all alone and severely damaged.
"Uh…Maximals be nice to Wazpinator…" Waspinator grins sheepishly as Rhinox, Silverbolt, Blackarachnia, Cheetor and Rattrap all walk up to him and stare at him disapprovingly. "And why should we do that?" Rattrap comments; cocking his pistol. "Because…" Waspinator begins as he gulps in fear, "…Because Wazpinator wants to join the Maximals!"
Back with MegaZarak…
"Argh! That low down piece of slag has eluded me!" he screams in frustration. He sneers as he transforms into robot mode and begins to walk across the dusty ground, "Great…now I have two bots to kill!"
Elsewhere…
"We're ready to go Megatron!" Gigatron announces as he sits in one of the chairs inside the ship. "Perfect…" Megatron begins as he assumes the pilot's chair and presses a few buttons to engage the engines. The ships roars to life and it begins to levitate into the air, "…Now to fulfill that which has been chronicled in the Covenant of Primus: 'The Great Dragon could not be stopped; and the war of the beasts enters a new phase; that of mythological proportions and battles the likes of which have never been seen by the optics of any one; no matter the allegiance!'"
Meanwhile…
Optimus pries open the blast doors to their old base and enters the main area. The former bridge of the Axalon hangs partially broken; hovering about 10 feet above a lava bed. Optimus looks up approvingly at the Ark; and transforms into flight mode and makes his way over to the entrance.
Downloading the codes from his body; he opens the doors of the Ark once again, "Here I am in the footsteps of history again…and in the presence of the greatest leader of Transformer history…" Optimus begins as he steps into the Ark and the doors start to close behind him, "…I just hope that you can help me; Optimus Prime!"
Back with the Maximals…
"My ship!" A voice cries out as the Maximals turn to see Wing Convoy walk up to the ship with his hands on his head, "What did you do to it!"
"Oh great…guess who's back?" Rattrap mutters sarcastically. The Maximals all stare at him in contempt.
"Looks like Primal's crew's just as much of a screw-up as Primal himself!" Wing Convoy screams, examining the damage to his ship.
Just then he hears the sound of cocking weapons; and he turns to see Rhinox, Rattrap, Silverbolt, Blackarachnia, Cheetor, and Waspinator all draw their weapons with Snarl and Warpath no where to be seen.
"So that's how it's going to be… 'Mutiny on the Providus' huh?" Wing Convoy begins as he grabs his swords and assumes a battle stance, "…We'll just see about that!"
Author's Notes:
Wing Convoy's back; but no one wants him back...what will happen? And Waspinator has quit the Predacons again and joined the Maximals! How will this play out? And with the revelations of Skar's muteness and the destruction of Fenrir (temporarily); what will be the next move for the Predacons? And what of MegaZarak? How will Tarantulas cope with the Vok trying to fight back; and how will the Vok agents cope with the sparks of their former hosts fighting back as well? And will Optimus Primal get the answers he needs from Optimus Prime? And what grand scheme does Megatron have in store for everyone?
Keep watchin!