Author Note: Greetings to all my loyal followers & viewers out there. Ready to ENVISION more Beast Wars fun? Cause the "King Of VISIONS" is sure fired up to get things started right away. But lets take a moment to be 'Thankful' for this story being posted & to those that send in reviews of their support for this work. Cause it is November, and with Thanksgiving soon coming, why not aid a bit of spice to the feast. We'll soon VISUALIZE another exciting adventure of what's gonna be cooked up here & what we can't wait to see in the future. And while this has 'some' predictable stuff, there will be some changes to give a more 'interesting' development to make it just as exciting to read as the next. So with everything all set, it's time we get started on what awaits us next…shall we proceed now…?
Chapter 10: Equal Measures
A Week Later…
After Retrieving The 1st Stasis Pod & New Maximal:
We see clear skies above, all seems peaceful except, it was actually a thunderstorm. "Crruusshhmmm!" Near the mountain area, heavy thunder could be heard, as it shot in different directions. "Worbhm-Worbh-Woorbh-Woorbh…." There was a strange vibrating noise, as we try to zoom at the mountain that was being observed. "CRruushhmmm…" Suddenly, another flash of lightning was heard, but not before the scene changed.
We suddenly see none other then Optimis Primal in his Beast Mode, his eyes staring off at something that caught his attention.
"Crusuhmm…QRrusuhhPOOwwhmmm…" Suddenly from another flash, the mountain in view gets hit by a bolt of lightning. "POOWWhhmm….CRUUSFRruuhmm…" It begins to crack and blow up apart from the impact, as the mountain crumbled, but as the dust faded, inside the mountain, there was a massive Energon crystals display. "WroosughhWrrooushhmm…Wrruuuahhmm….." From it's strong showing of energy within it's raw crystal form, anyone near it would feel a pulsation of it's power ematting itself.
"Rriiieennghh…Brubrugrugrummmhh…" Then a scan scoop was seen scanning the revealed Energon, as it showed Transformer language over the readouts of the exposed Energon crystals. It was mostly high, as if the reads out were saying it was overly high-active, one wrong disturbance, and it would go off.
"CRrusuhhmmm…." Another lightning flash noise happened behind Optimis Primal, as we zoom around him to see he was watching this display from a rocky peak. "CRruushhmmm….." From another bust of the storm, Optimis looked away from the exposed Energon crystal to tap on his com-link on his right ear side. "Briigheenn…" It would seem that the Maximal Commander was trying to get in contact with someone, or those at their base. "Optimis to Command Center. Scrub the mission!" Optimis looked over his head with a stern face in seeing the weather they are handling is too dangerous with what's happening here. "Wrruushhmmm…." There was some strong wind breeze noise happening while the Maximal in his Beast Mode tries to get in reach with his friends. "Looks like one 'extremely' ill wind is blowing our way." As he wanted to hear a response, all he could hear was static instead. "GRususuhhmmm…." Optimis frowns at this, and tries again to shout louder for his Maximals to hear him. "Command center! Do you read...?" Optimis waited to hear a response, but got more static noise. "Breeisisisisiihhh!" He signs in guessing that the Energon mixed with the storm was interfering with the coms. Soon he decides to head back to the base on foot when not getting anywhere here.
"Optimis! There you are?" Optimis was soon greeted by the new Maximal, Wolfang, who spoke out loud when running up to him in Beast Mode, as he return from a scouting patrol.
"Wolfang? I was coming for you!?" Optimis replied in feeling glad to see a Maximal friend was nearby, and that he was safe.
"I've scouted my share of the area for a mapping of Energon. But this storm isn't safe to be out when one of them crystals blows?" Wolfang explained what he was doing, but he had to stop during the storm's danger level.
"My point exactly, Wolfang. We're going to have to 'hoof it' back to base!" Optimis stated out to the wolf-bot that it's time they headed back to the Axalon.
"Sounds good! I could use the exercise?" Wolfang nods in agreeing that it's safer there at their own base, then out here in this messy storm.
Then both Maximals in their Beast Modes, both ran back towards their base, in order to beat the storm.
"I just hope Jeremie and the others are okay in their homes from this mess?" Optimis thought out loud with his own concerns for friends not in the area in question. "They'll need to recover their own energy after our last adventure?" He knew after a week ago, the children had to relax and get back to their daily lives. Especially what happen with Jeremie, but with this storm, things may end up with the children not going anywhere for quote a while.
Antigo
Belpios Residence
A terrible thunderstorm was towering over Antigo as we speak; lightning was shooting around unexpectedly and rain was pouring like crazy. School was cancelled that day, due to the storm, so Jeremie and Aelita stayed at home. Michael Belpois was out on work duty with the Metal Compound Factory that he had to work with to pay the bills. Most of the workers couldn't make it over, but since the man particular lived next door, the company needed as much help and was willing to pay Mr. Belpois for the extra service. So that left Jeremie alone with Aelita, whom was in her room.
"Now let's see here? Alright, just a few more scoutings to do here & there, and we'll have a map of all the Energon around the world." Jeremie said to himself, as he typed away on his computer. During their scouting patrols around the areas that they've been in, they also mapped out all of the Energon deposits in those areas. He was making a global map to them, and was almost done; he just needed a few more maps around the world to get it all finished.
"Knock-Knock!" Suddenly, the boy heard a knocking on the door.
"Waaah?" Jeremie got a little startled, stare long enough into a book or computer screen can do that to a fella. "It's open!?" The boy called out to whoever was knocking on his door, as it turns out, it was Aelita that came in and Jeremie was a little surprised to see her.
"Jeremie, do you mind if I stay in here until the storm is over?" Aelita asked her friend while seemingly a bit nervous from the storm that was scaring her a bit, as it was not an ordinary storm.
Jeremie sweat-dropped for a moment from when Aelita said 'until' the storm passed which she must have not heard the news. "Uh, Aelita, it could take all night for it to end?" The genius boy shrug off to exclaim, as he heard this storm was so bad, it could take all night before it ends?
When Aelita heard this, she ran out of the doorway, and in a few minutes, she came back, dressed in her pajamas and holding a blanket and pillow. "Then can I sleep in your room, with you tonight, Jeremie?" Aelita said with a lot of excitement in actually wanting to be with Jeremie during this bad storm that seem to scare her a bit.
"Gaaugh?" Jeremie fell out of his seat, as he saw this from an unexpected development. "Whah-WAH?" Jeremie stood up to exclaim that the pink-haired girl wanted to spend the night with him, just cause she was scared of the storm. "NO, YOU…" He stopped to look at the girl, and he could see Aelita was doing a teary eye look that Jeremie could not stomach. "Huuuagh…Alright, you can sleep in here." Jeremie signs in defeat which perks Aelita's moment of joy to hear the blonde hair boy say that to her. "But only until my dad comes home; you can sleep with him then, okay?" Jeremie issued off that it's only till his father returns that Aelita can stay with him, for company reasons.
Aelita smiled from hearing that claim, as ran over, jumped and landed on Jeremie's bed, as she let out a giggle. "Hmph-hmph….I don't think that's possible, seeing that your father's going to be out for a while." Jeremie smiled at that comment, he just loved it when Aelita was like this; she was more like a child than a teen.
Jeremie had to sigh in defeat there; usually when his father had to be the extra help in working at the Compound Factory, he would be out until five in the morning. Jeremie then got back to work on the map; he was working for a little while until Aelita wrapped her arms around him, and that got him a little nervous.
Aelita soon asked Jeremie from noticing the work he was doing that interested her. "So what are you up to?" If this was something important for their Maximal friends, she would like to know to.
Jeremie nervously tried to talk, he never had a girl this close to him like this. "Uh..I, um.. I'm m-mapping out the E-Energon de-deposits?" The boy explained a bit of what he was doing to help the Maximals find some Energon deposits in the area.
Aelita moved in a little closer, causing her hands to go down from Jeremie's shoulders to his elbows, and her face close to his head. "Let me have a look?" Aelita was looking at the map and was completely amazed at seeing what her important friend was doing. "You did this all by yourself? Jeremie, you really are an amazing person." She didn't get a reply; usually Jeremie would get embarrassed and say something. She turned to face the boy and was surprised and got worried. "Jeremie!?" Aelita saw that his face was burning red and his cheeks were brighter red, along with his glasses beginning to fog up. "You seem warm, are you catching a fever?" Aelita asked if something was causing this to her friend.
"Ugh…ugh…." Jeremie tried to speak back, but all he could speak was gibber-gabber?
"Stay here, I'll go get some ice!" Aelita spoke in concern of what might be happening to Jeremie, like he was catching a fever, as she ran out the room and downstairs to the kitchen.
Jeremie suddenly snapped out of his daze, then shook his head with his hands holding his head, spoke out his thoughts. "I CAN'T THINK OF HER LIKE SHE'S MY GIRLFRIEND!? AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? SHE'S MY FRIEND! SHE'S MY FRIEND! SHE'S MY FRIEND! SHE'S MY FRIEND!" For a genius boy, he couldn't actually admit that he had feelings for Aelita, he uses his brains, but his judgement of the heart was a different story.
At The Axelon
We see something being worked on at this very moment from a few sparks let out from a tool trying to program them? "Brizizihh…Brritrizizizihhh!" As we zoom away, we see some tall post devices, as Rhinox seems to have finished. "Beep! Beepbeep-beep, beep?" They made some beep noises before one shrinks down to a small size. "Scrummmshhmm! Scruuhmm-Scruhmm…!" Soon the other post do soon shrink down to the form of a hockey puck. "Pobhm-Pobhm-pohm-pobhm!" During which case, Rhinox takes a breather from his work. "Huugh? That does it?" As Rhinox signs in relief when he stood, he sees all ten of these things had been brought down to size for easy carrying work. "Survey post are ready for duty." Rhinox stated out in what they have here, as we hear some radio wave sounds coming from the other part of the monitors of the bridge? "Grruummmbruuhmm!" Of course, Rattrap was working on it, as Rhinox turns to ask a question to his friend? "Hmm, any word from Optimis or Wolfang?" Rhinox wonders of those outside so they can get any intel of what's happening from those observing the weather.
Last recalled, those two mentioned bots were out on a scouting mission, as Rattrap turns to make a remark of it during the radio noise sounding off. "Nah, not a a flicker?" The rat points to the window screen showing the storm of lightning flashing outside the ship. "This storm's trashing the com-links worse then usual!" The rotten waved out to state that the storm is making it harder to use their com-links to get in contact with the others. "Anhahanh, that's bad enough!" Rattrap went off to remark that the storm's interference was more then enough to be a problem.
"Hmm, and just as we made our new security system with these survey post?" Armordillo exclaimed from picking up the hockey puck devises from the ground to aid Rhinox.
"Truushhmmm!" Suddenly, a device was attached to the table, as we see Dinobot brooding over a high-tech device which had anchored to the floor by three magnetic clamps. "Trizizizsisihm…" The top piece opens up to allow the Ex-Pred to observe the functions of the device, which from the looks of it, the device looked like some sort of bomb. "This mission is too critical to be interrupted by a minor variation of weather." Dinobot spoke out tensely about the minor setback of the weather while tinkering the device's top to adjust it's functioning properties. "Grruuhmm…." As the device was working in a fine rotation, Dinobot was looking for a tool, but couldn't find it. "RRRrughh-NRRruagh!" He let off a growl for being impatient before snapping out loud. "WHO took the Synchro-laser?" He was looking around for whoever had borrowed the tool he needed at the moment.
We see Cheetor from working on one of the damage consoles, and turns to speak towards Dinobot's request of a missing tool. "Allow me!" He replied with a smile, as Cheetor brought out the synchro-laser which flicked a few sparks from being activated. "Brizizih-Brriizizih!" Soon Cheetor walked over to where Dinobot was working on the devise, as the cat-bot leans down to work on it for the Ex-Pred. "Brisisihh…Brishh-BRritrizizihh!" From a few sparks that happen, Cheetor was inserting the tool's use until… "DRususuuuphhmm…!" The devise made an off sound which made it jumpy from the circuit cross and caused the magnetic clamps to short out and withdrew back into itself. "Huuagh?" This caused Cheetor to yelp and Dinobot to gasp when they saw this happening before the cat-bot tried to grab it, but it fell to the floor.
"DRRuusshhmmm.../Terchiiieeh!" Then it hit the floor from making a weird sound of being activated, two words; 'Uh-Oh', seem to be right. "Drughcluuffhh!" The thing ends up rolling off from the spot of where it was.
"Guagh!" Suddenly, Dinobot grabbed Cheetor by his chest plate with his big claw hands while lifting and waving Cheetor around while snapping at the cat-bot with a growling menacing tone. "You Hyper Little…" Cheetor grabbed his left hand on Dinobot's left wrist to cease the struggle action, but….
"Grusshhm…Gruushhmm…" Soon the device rolled over to the open hull door, almost about to fall down. "The BOMB!" Rattrap yelps out from seeing the device, which was a bomb, had fallen off down the hatch. "Watch out!" Rattrap had got up, got near Rhinox and Armordillo to cover his eyes and head for an explosion about to happen.
"Truushhh-Gruussuphmmm…." However, there was another noise which was puzzling to sound like an explosion, until we see Optimis and Wolfang in Beast Mode, returning up by the hatch elevator. "RRRuussghhmmmCluffhhmm….!" Once the hatch had set itself in place, Optimis looked around with the bomb device in his right hand. "Some sorta trouble?" Optimis asked while looking around with a stern face and tossing the device up and down with his right hand, wanting some answers at the moment.
"Riiinghh….Rriinnnghnnnhh, RRrriiinnghhh!" Cheetor was struggling with his legs waving out while he used his hands to get Dinobot's hand off of him. "Clumphhmm…." Once Dinobot saw that Optimis had caught the bomb device, before letting Cheetor go which he landed on the ground with a little 'off' response.
While Dinobot return to being his bit calmer self, Cheetor rubbed the back of his head to welcome back his leader while the Ex-Pred was glaring at him from knowing the trouble he caused. "Hey there, Big-bot?" Then Cheetor moved passed Dinobot with an elbow push when he walked by.
"Grruughh-GRruuaphmm….." Dinobot growls at the young cadet acting alright from the commander's return, expecting that now things won't get out of hand here.
Soon Cheetor approached Optimis and Wolfang while trying to calmly and easily explain the situation here. "We're just locking down on the old; Big BA-BANG, here?" The young cadet took the bomb from Optimis' hand to show his smily face and clapping the device in his open left palm to state what he and the others are doing. "One last adjustment, and…." Cheetor was fiddling with the device for the moment. "Brisishh-Bleep-Bleep!" The device rotated from being set before it was finished and made a click sound one more time in signaling it's ready. "There!" Cheetor proudly exclaimed at the finished work while proudly letting his leader know of their work. "We're all set to blast the Predacon base back into orbit." Cheetor exclaimed, as he had a confident smirk while patting the device in his open left palm to state what they'll do to the Predacon base. "As Space Debris!" Just as Cheetor said this, something unexpected happen. "TRiiushh-Trruusih-TRruuishm-Trruishhm…." The bomb device started getting all shaky which made Cheetor look down at it with a tiny worry expression when he looked up in concern.
"DAAAugh?" Rattrap yelped with his hands over near his cheeks, as he covered his head for another possible run of the bomb going off this time.
"Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep!/TRRruusshhmmmm….BRruunnngruu hmm…!" As the device was sounding almost ready to blow, Optimis and Wolfang had a moment's expression of concern of what's about to happen when…
"Trisish-TRriishhmmm…." The Bomb device was yelping out of Cheetor's hands, suddenly flipping it's magnetic clamps in and out with a yelping Cheetor. "Gauughh-Gaugh? Gooowuuh?" As Cheetor yelped to get this thing under control, he yelped from some electrical zapped charged, but just as he caught the thing again. "DRrruushhmmm…." Cheetor had nearly dropped it, but after he caught it, he shut it down to not cause anymore problems.
Optimis rolled his eyes back while he shook his head at this display before making this stern order. "Put it to bed." He takes a breath before stating out this next thing to state to the rest. "We're stalled." He rolled his eyes to sign in seeing they can't do the mission as every bot here was hoping for.
"WHhhat!" Dinobot turns around to snap at what the Maximal Commander is suggesting, that they can't proceed with their operation.
"Yeg-Yegh-You're kiddin' me?" Rattrap blabbers out in complete shock and disbelief while waving his hands up over like a shake empty movement, not believing this one bit.
"What are yo talking about?" Rhinox asked in a more calm manner in not getting what his old friend Optimis is stating.
"What's going on, Optimis?" Armordillo asked of what's happening that their plan was suddenly on hold, Optimis must have his reason.
"Hey, it's just a crossed quasar circuit?" Cheetor showed the bomb device to explain things while smiling to get on Optimus' good side. "I can fix it?" He believed his commander & friend thought the bomb was just showing problems, but that wasn't just the issue here.
"That storm will hit us within an hour." Optimis stated out with a stern face on what's happening outside the base, a nasty storm is coming. And the Maximal Commander can't have anybody go out in such a storm.
"An hour?" Cheetor replied with a little humor of that statement while laughing it off before making a quote on that. "Gahaugh? Not a problem, fellow beast?" Cheetor smugly said with a smirk, as he waved the bomb in his right hand while making his brag claim to that problem. "I can out run anything that the skies can dish?" He set the bomb in his left free hand again, awaiting with a smile that he'll do it, but…
"Sorry Cheetor, it's too ricky?" Optimis steps up to put his left paw on the young cadet when he said this with a sad, yet concerning voice of knowing that Cheetor maybe fast, but this is one thing he can't do. "The placement of those survey post must be thoroughly calculated to avoid contact…" Optimis raised his right hand to state out the problem and calculation of the survey post they have to be place in carefully. "With any underground Energon deposits." From Optimis' point, if those post get stuck in any underground Energon, the results will 'not' be pretty.
"Not to mention, Jeremie is still helping to plot out the map of his city area near our base?" Wolfang interrupted to state out the other issue at hand while taking the account of the consideration of the storm's approach. "I and K-9 could nearly handle this weather if we didn't know where we were running, it could lead to some serious trouble?" Even those that have their sharp senses find that without careful precautions of what hidden dangerous lie wait, could be a costly mistake.
"I'm not some dippy cub, you know?" Cheetor remarked off in protest, as he shrug Optimis' hand on his shoulder off to make his statement. "I can do this?" The young cadet complained out with a face asking for a chance. "Try having some faith in me for once?" He gazes his eyes at his commander, expecting an answer to this discussion. While he may have been given the task to watch over Jeremie and Aelita, Optimis hasn't given him any other assignments of great importance lately.
"As much as you would prefer to think so, Cheetor?" Optimis replied back while seemingly unfazed by Cheetor's outburst while making a discussion. "This isn't about you?" He stared back at the young Maximal cadet to end this discussion here, plain & simple.
Cheetor seemed a little tense from hearing this, as he backed away while holding the bomb device before turning to look back at Dinobot. "Clruckh…Frruophm…." Then Cheetor tossed the bomb over to the Ex-Pred to catch it un-expectively. "Clurkhnn…." Dinobot saw this, and caught the bomb device in his hands by surprise by this little display outburst. As Cheetor walked away from the spot while Optimis looked over at the young cadet leaving the room.
"And does it matter if we blow some Energon?" Dinobot remarked off to say which caught Optimis' attention when the Ex-Predacon was approaching the Maximal Commander to make his statement clear out while tapping the bomb in one free hand. "Maybe, it'll take a few Predacons with it." Soon Dinobot stops in front of Optimis before making his subject clear to the Maximal Commander. "That 'is', what we want, is it not?" He gazes down with a frown expecting an answer from Optimis, which he soon got.
"This mission, Dinobot, is to gain tactical advantage by taking out their base." Optimis stated out with a stern face to explain things a bit more clearly to this thick-headed Ex-Pred's mind "Defeating them does not 'mean', we have to annihilate them?" Optimis raised one arm up to state that why they wish to defeat their enemies, they don't actually wish to destroy their enemies who in reality, wouldn't share that same idea. "You seem to be having trouble understanding that?" Optimis made a grim face to snap that Dinobot doesn't seem to be getting the point of what the Maximals are doing is not destroying their foes, nearly slowing them down.
"What 'I' understand,…IS This…!" Dinobot slowly replied while starting to get a bit agitated in what Optimis is telling him. "If situations were reverse, Megatron would spare the base…." He gets up close to Optimis while making a clear snap remark to the gorilla's face to make this point clear of what would happen if the situation's roles were switched around. "AND ANNIHILATE US!" That is what Dinobot knows the Predacons would do, take out the fighters & take their possessions as keepsakes.
Rattrap flinched a bit when hearing that, it didn't sound good at all. As he looked up to Rhinox and Armordillo while Rhinox signs to wave his head at this display while Armordillo just signs at what's going on now.
"Uuuurgh?" Optimis signs while holding a close right fist while making an argument to Dinobot. "This eagerness of yours to scrap Megatron is clouding your judgement!" Optimis points up to Dinobot, about fed up and frustrated in seeing what the Ex-Pred is wanting to do.
"We Are At WAR, Optimis!" Dinobot snaps back to shout at Optimis' blindness of their case. "WAR!" At his last remark, he stands himself straight up while making this next claim remark. "I think it is YOUR judgement, that…is….clouded!?" After he pointed to put the blame on Optimis, he shoves the bomb against the Maximal Commander's chest.
Soon Optimis took the bomb out of Dinobot's hands while glaring at the Ex-Pred with stern expression of his serious face.
"Hhughmm…" As Dinobot hummed, he turns around, makes some clanking wire noise while Optimis watched him leave before his serious face changed to a concern one. Once Dinobot entered the hallway, he transformed back into his Beast Mode to walk on down it.
Optimis lowers his head down in regret of the situation this has put everyone in now. "Optimis?" As Optimis was distracted by this situation from Dinobot, Rattrap tried to sound more positive. "Dehich, dey're harmless little scanning relays." The rotten picks up one of the stack puck-size relays on the console to explain about their function. "All 'dey're sapposed ta' do is detect Pred energy signatures." He turned to Rhinox, hoping to get some help from his serious friend here. "Right, Rhinox?" After all, there shouldn't be nothing wrong with that function, so it's all good…
But Rhinox however wasn't showing an agree face while Armordillo watched what happen next. "I'm with Optimis on this one." He held his right hand out to not be apart of this 'who side is right' conversation. "Energons an untested variable." He patted Rattrap's back in stating that with Energon, it's still a bit untested to knowing how it really works? "We gotta be careful?" Rhinox takes the puck out of the rotten's hand away and puts it back on it's stack in a careful manner while Rattrap and Armordillo watched this.
"This seems to have everyone effective?" Wolfang remarked off to state when he came in more of the command room to tell his commander about what's been going on? "Once these Survey Post were set around the perimeter, we could have detected a Predacon's signature, whether registered or unregistered to warn the gang back at base of an ambush or something like that?" They believe these devices would have helped warn the bots of enemy detection, wether old or 'new', just to be on safer measurements.
"Guys! I just got back from Jeremie's place?" K-9 suddenly approached from the hallway to make a report on where he was. "And let me tell you, the weather is really bad over there. I was lucky to return, I don't think we'll see the kids until this storm dies down?" What he said did sound bad, cause if Jeremie didn't finish a map of Energon underground readings, they would be in a pickle if they were to, ever explore the blonde genius boy's neighborhood.
Optimis looked away with a concerning frown face, as he looked around from knowing everybody was upset and tense that they couldn't do the Survey Post by the storm's interference. As he looked over to where Dinobot left with a puzzling face in knowing the old Ex-Predacon, he'll wanna get things 'his' way.
Cheetor's Room
We see Cheetor in his chamber, lying down on his bunk, sulking in his Beast Mode. Cheetor knew Optimis right, but even after being made watcher for Jeremie and Aelita, he still felt like he was being held back; he just wants to show that he's capable of doing things like the other Maximals.
Soon Dinobot shows his face outside the door hatch that was open, as he peeks in, Cheetor heard his coming and spoke off a bit sad and moody. "Come in?" Soon Dinobot made some claw tapping noises on the metal, as he slowly enters the room. "Cheikcherk….." But while Dinobot looked around, Cheetor then spoke to the Ex-Pred while still a bit down. "Come to chew my tail for frizzing that bomb?" The young cadet knew Dinobot might be mad at him for what he almost did to the bomb Dinobot was working on.
"Nooo…." Dinobot exclaimed out from hearing the cat-bot remind him of that time moment earlier. "I am confident that you could fix it." Dinobot stated out some assuring news of Cheetor having a way to have fix the bomb while he goes on. "Guuagh, just…as I am confident that you 'beat' the storm and plant those survey posts." Dinobot exclaimed with his claws tapped together to state the cat-bot's talents in saying Cheetor could plant the survey posts.
"Well, then you're the only one that thinks so?" Cheetor didn't turn around, even from being lighten up by the nice comment.
"Hmmmm…" Dinobot saw this downer state, as he decided to speak something else out from recalling what happen to the young cadet. "Do not mind Optimis." Dinobot stated from remembering what happened earlier while using this, as some way to get Cheetor's attention. "Guuaaghh, to him, gahuch…you are a mere….child. Incapable of handling such an important task." He raised his right claw to point his finger at Cheetor's direction. "Gaauuugh, like you said." After he lowers his finger claw down, he stated what would seal the discussion. "He has….no faith?" To Cheetor's mind from Dinobot's view, the cat-bot just wants to be given faith & trust to handle things while not being over-protected & hold every bot back.
"Feeh, yeah well…" Cheetor turns around on his bunk with an upset face while snapping out his remark. "I could show him a thing or two?" If Cheetor did, he show Optimis that he 'could' do things that would be dangerous for anyone, and make it out of it in one piece.
"Then, uuuagh-guuagh, why not do so?" Dinobot exclaimed out his expression into a serious matter that seem to hid an agenda.
"What?" Cheetor asked surprised while looking at Dinobot like he lost his processors, was he asking the cat-bot to….do the task while disobeying orders from Optimis?
"You and the others have mapped out every Energon deposit for five hundred meters." Dinobot stated to gaze while speaking in a serious tone to explain what Cheetor knows of mapping out the Energon deposits located, along with their 'human' assistance. "And….your land speed is unequaled." Dinobot stated out that out from many Maximals, Cheetor was the fastest. "In fact, you are the 'only' one that could pull off, heeeh, this mission." Dinobot finished his statement of telling Cheetor that he can be the only one to complete a mission like this.
Soon for a brief moment, Cheetor's frown expression turns into a smile, then a sly expression in seeing where this was going. If he pulls off this mission, he'll be seen as more then a young cadet and be taken more seriously too. While Cheetor seem to think this was a good chance, Dinobot had smirked in seeing his own plans were coming together, in making someone do the dirty work, that is.
At Night
Outside The Maximal Base
"TRuushh…truch…/Pruushhhmmm….rruusvhhmmm…." Soon from outside the base's bottom hatch door, someone was coming out of it, it was a young cadet Maximal named Cheetor. "CRRusushhmmmm….." Of course, even the base inside the mountain would still hear the sounds of thunder from above. "BammGRruusvhhmmm…." Even a big flash of thunder and lightning were heard and seen from what happened, but that meant little worry, once Cheetor's ride got him on the ground. After scooping out the place to see no one around, the young cadet zoomed off at great speeds, leading from the base's hidden caves outside to the rocky terrain.
We soon see Cheetor running on some terrains of a rocky structure, during which some flash of lightning was seen. "Bragruhmm…brugrahhmm….." But Cheetor got to the ground in time to shout out his activation code. "MAXIMIZE!" Soon Cheetor was transforming into his robot form while it made a growl sound effect. "Gurgurgurah?" Once done, Cheetor looked above his head to see the storm was changing overhead, crackling with unbridled power. "BRiisitrizizihh…." That little spark of flash may have been far, but one change course of impact could make a difference.
Cheetor looked down to his chest plate, were he tapped on it to bring out a survey post as a puck, as he had taken them all before he left. "Thopm-Thopm…Brieiecah…." Once he pressed a button on it, the device was spraining to life in Cheetor's hand. "Brruushhmmm…." Soon the thing took the form of it's post form, and he held it over his head. "PRrogruhm…" Which then popped out a spear head on the bottom to be used to plunge this into the ground.
"URrrgh!" Cheetor let off a cry when he dug the thing in the ground.
"PRrighmm…/BRriinnghhnnn…" Once that happened, the first survey post was set in motion.
"Cliphcliph…." Cheetor backs away while clapping his hands together for a job well done. "BEAST MODE!" Cheetor order out which soon reverted him back into his Beast Mode state, and was about to go when… "THhoosuuhhmm…." Suddenly, a lightning bolt blasted the ground a few feet away from the young cadet. "AHhhAAAhhh? Gulphm?" The impact threw Cheetor down on the ground, as he was shaking it off from not being fazed. "Was That Suppose to Scare Me!?" He looked up to the sky to yell out in remarking what had happened. "BRRPRRiiushhmmm…." However, the storm gave off a menacing reply in a mighty thunder bolt, crashing nearby the cat-bot that left a smoke trail before fading. "Yelp?" Cheetor yelped from a sudden lost of his bravery and just dared away from the spot while the first survey post had it's tiny antenna twitched to give off a reading.
In the next area, there was a hidden mountain of Energon that had some smoke seemingly floating up from it's spot, no doubt revealed from the storm like the other one. "Prushm…./BRriighuhmm…Breighinn…." But just to the left side, we see Cheetor in Robot Mode holding up another telescope-size survey post before jamming it in the ground where it got activated. The cat-bot looks up to the sky to see how the weather seems to be holding out for him….so far?
"BRriusushhmmm…" Another flash of lightning happens, but that's just before the scene changes for us to see…a bottom chasm of Energon patterns that looks like a river line. "Worworworughmmmm….wurwurwurgurhmmm…." From the seeing and glowing works, it's active without being disturb, for fear of it's explosion once it was even the slightest bit rough on. "BRRessiishhmmm….." However, as we ext the chasm just before another flash of lightning and thunder is heard, we see a familiar cheetah running at his fast speed, almost approaching the chasm.
Cheetor was running with a focus face, but his scanners were picking up something. "Burphburph…burph-burph, beep-beep-beep-beep…." From Cheetor's view, his optic scanners showed a red square, showing just ahead was a charm filled with Energon. "Crruushhmmm…." After another thunder noise and flash, the cat-bot decided…to JUMP! "Oooowwhh!" Cheetor had leaped into the air, hoping to make it across. "Fouph-fouph, fouph!" Of course, he didn't have enough that he waved his paws around before yelping of his situation. "Waauuuhhhhhh?" Soon Cheetor drop from his mid-air spot, down into the chasm hole? "Frruushhmmm…." It looked like it was the end of the cat-bot, or was it? "Pickhmmm…." From the spot was a paw that belong to Cheetor, as he held on there while below him was the chasm of Energon radiating with energy. "Prreechgrumm…." Soon Cheetor manage to get himself up from that spot, but was a little hard with no thumbs. "Gruuphm?" After a little moan escape, Cheetor immediately went off to continue his run.
Cause this young Maximal is not done yet.
"Haugh-huagh-haugh-haugh…." Cheetor was still running during this bad storm, as he ran on a big open space field. Then Cheetor transformed into his Robot Mode which let off a cat's growl before scooping another puck from his chest plate while looking around of anything in the air? "Priciikh…/Proprowh.../Gruushhmmuph…" After the smiling cadet flipped the thing in the air, it changed into a full telescope length. "Brrisisitriizihhmmm…" Suddenly, as Cheetor was about jam the survey post in, a massive bolt of lightning nailed him. "GAaaaGhh?" Cheetor made a loud yelp when he fell, but also sent the post darting through the air like a javelin with it's hook brought out already. "Frophm-frophm…frooophmmmm…/Priickgrihmm…" Once it landed and made impact, it got stuck in the ground. "Brisisishmmm….." However, suddenly from underneath it, energy was surging into the post while opening it further. "Wurwurwurgohmpwuorphm….." The energy made the survey post bring out it's antenna to start working while the 'familiar' vibrating sound was making more pulsating noise.
Once Cheetor got himself together, he noticed where and what just happened?
"Uh oh? Energon?" Cheetor yelps from realizing he just found hidden Energon. "Wurph-wurph-wurph" As the Energon made more louder pulsating noises, the young cadet was becoming worrisome. "And it's gonna BLOW?" Cheetor exclaimed from seeing that the survey post struck Energon, and from the sounds of it, it could explode any minute.
And if nothing's done, the young Maximal will go up in a blaze; but it won't be glory but ashes.
Once Cheetor got himself up on the ground, he stood up near the energized survey post, went to reach it until…. "Briitrizizihmm…." The energy surrounding it shock the cat-bot back. "Gaaaugh? Ggoough-Gaaoow?" Cheetor yelps from the shock feedback, but shook it off from seeing he still had to get this thing out. "Briisistrizizi…/Gruusshhummmuurrphmm…." From the electric energy feedback, the Energon underneath the survey post sounded almost ready to blow. "Guuuabhhh!" Cheetor latched onto the post to pull it out, but moans from the shock of being electrified. "Grruusppphmm…/Worph-worph-worphmmm…." Even underneath the ground, the Energon was breaking from underneath the surface. "Gaaugh?" Cheetor yelps from seeing and noticing the cracks appearing under his feet. "Brrisisitrizizizhpmmm…" But the shock was too much that it zapped Cheetor back from the energy. "Gaaugh?" The Energon overflowing the survey post was still active, and Cheetor knew it, but made a stern face not to call it quits yet.
The Maximal has to fix this, by any means necessary.
Meanwhile, At The Predacon Base
"PRrusushhmmmm….." We see the enemy's base hidden from everyone, but the flash of lighting was certainly seen even in it's spot. "Brruushhmmmscrushhmm…." After another flash happened from zooming in to see it, we look inside the place.
Inside the base, it was mostly floorless in the main section. The walls and hatches descended from the ceiling, but they lowered toward an opening towards the volcanic depths. "Vrruushhmm…." Near one of the computers, Terrorsaur, in Beast Mode, was on one of the hovering platforms, examining the area to where the young Maximals' was doing.
"Beephm…beephm-beephm-beephm…." The computer spotted a blimp, and Terrorsaur moved in to examine them.
"Say…perhaps, by chance…an intruder?" Terrorsaur asked out anxiously in seeing something new was happening here.
"Bluph-Bluph.../Briizizitriizzzihmmm?" The screen lit up thousands of light points, indicating a thunderbolt crashing down on the ground.
"Aww, slag! Just storm interference." The red pterodactyl looked disappointed in seeing that what he found wasn't the case. "Should have known no Maximal would be 'stupid' enough to try anything on a day like this." He could never have been more wrong, as he tried to adjust the scanner.
Back at the mountains, Cheetor was still trying to pull out the survey post charged with energy out. "Brisistrizizihmmm…." And so far, the energy pulse was having the winning edge in this.
"Okay, so you wanna play rough, eh?" Cheetor said to the post in trying to be all tough against the survey post giving him trouble. "Trruuosphm-Trruousphm…." Of course, the survey post responded with it's energized energy from Cheetor's claim. "Fophfophfoph…." The cat-bot throws a few punches out to intimidate an opponent like with boxing movs. "Brriitririzizihh…" Of course, some parts of Cheetor's Robot Mode was short-circuiting from the Enrgon in the area, he had to work fast from knowing this? "Gruushpmm….." Soon Cheetor grabbed the telescope survey post, trying to pray it out of the ground with all his might. "Uuuurrraughh…..Nnnngh…TEaaahhhh!" Cheetor tries to take the thing unstick from the ground, only to get a small shock feedback without letting go.
"Brriisisitriizizhmm…" Suddenly from the skies, a jolt of lightning soon stroke the survey post. "PRroosuhhmmm….." Of course, while Cheetor was trying to get the thing out, didn't notice an energy sphere glowing from what he was holding onto. "Qrruushhmmm…." The thing expended enough that it just about swallowed the young cadet into it.
"OWwwhhh?" Cheetor yelps from this before he was blasted with the energy sphere that made him vanish into thin air. "PROOssphmm…Briiiiehhuummm….." He was shot out of the spot from the survey post, what or where he went, we soon find out. But it may not be a pretty picture?
The Predacon Base
Communications Room
"BRriisshhmmmiighnn…" Terrorsaur was still adjusting the scanner with his claws when all of a sudden; a power surge came out of nowhere. "Yarrghhh!" He squawked when he was blasted back from the console which Cheetor appeared on. "Gaaugh?" Terrorsaur soon to land on his butt on the other moving platforms.
"Brisistrizzizihmmm?" Back to the console, we see Cheetor looked bewildered at what happened while his body was surging from the energy. "Whoa! What's new pussycat?" Cheetor looked at his surroundings, puzzled to where he was now. "Did I get fried?" He looked to his right hand to see if it was damage from the energy feedback before questioning this situation more? "Is this…?" Course he wanted to know if this was the Transformer's afterlife, the Well-Of-All-Sparks, but that was not the case…
"Hmph-hmphmphmmm….hughhughugh!" Suddenly, an evil chuckle was heard which made the young Maximal looks up with his face on his left to see who that laugh belong too. "Welcome to the dark side!" Terrorsaur roused up menacingly, with his wings shifting over his face. "Terrorsaur - TERRORIZE!" Once he spoken his command code, he began to jump in the air to cross wheel his body. "WArruurghhh…." After the squawking noise, Terrorsaur was now in his Robot Mode after landing on the hovering platform.
The young Maximal cadet momentarily confused, yelled his own command code. "Cheetar - MAXIMize….!" Then Cheetor looked at himself to realize on his mistake, he was already transformed. "Did that already?" That was a small slip of the mind, but now's not the time for that.
"Turgh…/POWhh-POOwhh!" Terrorsaur fired his plasma blaster at the cat-bot, as he leaped away from the console just in time to avoid the blast.
"Arrughhh!/Boomhh…" As Cheetor did, a tiny explosion happened there, but not much. "Uurrgh?" Cheetor landed on another moving platform just nearly holding on to it.
"Poowhh!" Terrorsaur saw this to redirect his fire towards the young Maximal. "Poowhhh!" Course Cheetor managed to not get hit while trying to defend himself.
Cheetor was soon in a crouch stance, and returned fire with is Quasar Cannon. "THoouphmm…" He then swerved the platform upwards from redirecting his shot to adjust his balance.
"Poowhh-Poowhh….Poowhh!" Terrorsaur still fired his blaster at the cat-bot while enjoying it.
"Thoomph-Thophmm.." Cheetor tried to duck and then return fire while getting some balance on his hovering platform.
"Frrooumm…Baammghhmmm!" Terrorsaur duck away to let the shot miss him before retuning fire. "Poowhh!" And that shot was going right for the target.
"Thopmh-Thophm-Thophm…." Cheetor was trying to fire against Terrorsaur until he finally got a lucky shot. "Thoossuuphm…." His shot hit the Predacon's hover platform which shot Terrorsaur in the air.
Cheetor watched where his foe was going, as Terrorsaur landed roughy on another hover platform. "Gaauugh?" The Pred let off a yelp cry from feeling that impact landing.
While the enemy wasn't watching, Cheetor looked down to notice a control lever gear to control and steer this thing. "Rususvhmm…ruusvhhmmm…." After some squeezes, Cheetor shot off to steer his platform off as best he could from not having much experience? "Rrruuvshhhmm…Rruussvhhmmm…." And lets just say, Cheetor will need to handle this with luck on his side.
"Powh-Powh-Poowh!" Terrorosaur soon got to his senses, and started counterattacking the cat-bot.
"Rruusvhhmmm…Ruusvhhmmm…." Cheetor was trying to swing away from the incoming shots by steering his hover platform, but it was easier said then done. "Powh-Ppowh-Powh!" Terrorsaur fired another few more shots before suddenly without warning, one shot hit the Maximal in mid air. "Boomm…" Which from being shot in mid air, sent the cat-bot falling. "GGaauugh?" Soon Cheetor manage grabbed the edge of another platform nearby, just before nearly felling into the lava. "Uuuaugh?" Of course, he may have lost his weapon, but he tried to hang on to not fall to where it's really hot.
"Ruusvhhmm…Ruushvvmm…." Soon Terrorsaur moved his hover platform over towards the cat-bot with a menacing face. "I heard you were fast, kitty?" Terrorsaur snickered at Cheetor who lied on his knees from getting up on the platform. "You don't seem to swift to me." Terrorsaur soon was getting his blaster ready to finish the young Maximal.
"Yeah?" Cheetor spoke from almost being a bit tired before making this remark to that claim. "Just wait till I get in shape?" Cheetor turned around with a determined face before acting out his next action. "BEAST MODE!" Cheetor went into his Beast Mode and then went to pounce on his foe. "Reeoowohhhh!" He made a growling roar just before jumping off to pounce his foe.
"Waauuurghhh?" Terorsaur didn't have time to dodge, as the cat-bot pounced with all his strength that made the Predacon yelp in surprise. "Trrusuhhmmm….." Of course, Terrorsaur slammed into the console that Cheetor came from, as it was enveloping him in surprise energy glow. "Brisisiiuumm…/Pruusuuuphmmm…." Then was enveloped in the power surge, he was shot off in blinding flash speed before he was gone, disappeared from site.
"Whoa?" Cheetor soon stood on Terrorsaur's platform, gawked at what just happened. "Cool?" After Cheetor said this, he quickly transformed into his Robot Mode. "Rusuvhhmmm…Vruuoshhmmm…." Took control of the platform to get him out of this spot.
"Ringringirnghnnn…." But was unaware of seeing two more Predacons in Beast Mode; Waspinator flying while carrying Scorponok, and making that 'buzzing' noise.
"Uh Oh?" Cheetor spoke from hearing the noise to see with worry that he's got company now. "Vrusuhmmm…Vruushhmm…." With that in mind, Cheetor quickly scooted his platform to get him away from this situation even quicker with enemies coming up.
"Scorponok - TERRORIZE!" Scorponok announced his activation code to transform. "Clipclipcliphmm/WArruuughhh!" While doing the clipping and screeching cry, he transformed into his Robot Mode while standing on the hovering platform that was left empty.
"Waspinator - TERRORIZE!" Waspinator announced his own activation code before changing too. "Zziziziizizhhhh!" From making his buzzing noise, he transformed into his Robot Mode, but was using his wings to fly in mid-air.
"Vrruushhmmm…." Soon Scorponok used the hover platform to drive while he and Waspinator pursue to chase the young Maximal intruder.
"Thrushhmmm…Thruuushhmmm!" There was soon shots being fired which Cheetor had to hover and drive around this Pred base like crazy
"THrophm…" Waspinator fired his optic laser beam eyes while he and Scorponok were still on the chase. "Throphmm…" And lets just say getting hit by one of those is not a good feeling.
"Vruusohmm…Vruuoshhmm…." Cheetor zooms his ride around to lose his chasers while making swift turns from a wall and up near the vents. "Wooahh…" Cheetor yelps in time to duck away from one of Waspinator's shots almost getting him. "BAammmgruhhmm….." Of course, fate was on Cheetor's side when he rebounded off the ventilation, one of Waspinator's shots blasted at it, leaving a hole in it. "Vrruusohhmmm…" Cheetor flew over to check the spot out, and saw something of an escape route. "Heyeaaahhh!" Once seeing inside that there was enough room for the cat-bot to squeeze, it was time to ditch this place. "Vrruuoovhhmmm….." Cheetor steered his hover platform away from the hole by a bit while making a remark at the two Predacons. "Thanks for showing me the way out, yah lamers! Ruuargh!" Soon Cheetor went into Beast Mode quickly after making that taunt, then leaped right through the open vent.
"Vrruusohmm…..!" Soon Scorponok's hover platform came up to inspect the spot. "He's gone into vents?" Soon Waspinatior flies next to Scorponok in seeing what happened. "Wizziziiphmmuphm…." Scorponok turns to Waspinator, pats his chest to have him do something. "You better report this to Megatron!" They need to tell their leader of a Maximal intruder & where he is.
"Meeheheheh?" Waspinator turned around from hearing this to shout back while pointing at the guy? "You're zzzzecond in command?" Why does he have to tell their leader the bad news, why not this bot since Scorponok works as a second in command to their band.
"So, make it an order!" Scorponok remarked off at bit annoyed that he was making it an order of wanting this to be his order to let his leader know what happened. Doesn't matter if Megatron gets upset, this is critical of their operation.
Back At Antigo
The Axelon
Outside the Maximal base, during the storm, we see a flashing ball of blur energy coming in. "Bruusiihhmmm….Prruushhmmm…." After hitting the top of the base's roof, we looked inside the place.
"Wrruushhmmmm…./Brisisuphmmwriisphmm….." In the communications room, one of the consoles suddenly spewed sparks as Terrorsaur materialized, still in Robot Mode. "Huagh-Huagh?" He got out of his daze, looked around confused before asking himself this. "Where'd he go!" He then glanced around; nothing seemed familiar, before asking this unsure?"Where'd I go?" This was not the usual area within the Predacon Ship, so where was Terrorsaur disported.
Suddenly, Dinobot, in Beast Mode popped up from out of nowhere to 'welcome' the Predacon into the Maximal base, 'his' way. "Welcome to Enemy Arms, my former comrade." Dinobot remarked this from once being on the same side as Terrorsaur, before switching sides. "I hope you'll, enjoy your stay?" Dinobot soon spoke to transform himself into his Robot Mode soon afterwards. "Dinobot - MAXIMIZE!" Of course, during the process, his head was spinning around from the transformation, but that meant little to him.
"I don't know how you 'brought' me here, traitor? But prepare to stain the deck!" Terrorsaur snaps off to state in knowing Dinobot all to well, but he was soon caught in the Ex-Pred's grip by his head helmet.
"Bririizitrzizihmmmm…." But before anything could be done, some sound of sparks began to be heard.
"Nnnnrruughhhh…." Dinobot let off a growl, but his eyes and Terrorsaur's eyes gazed from the other to see where the noise was coming from. "Wait? Guuuagh?" Dinobot spoke from noticing something odd, the same with Terrorsaur's situation when he turn to see what was going on? "Could it be, that an accident of technology and nature has actually created…. a transporter?" Dinobot exclaimed out a theory from noticing the console was enveloped in energy. "Haaauuuhh….Hhhmmmm?" As Dinobot was interested in this from a slow exhaling action, he let Terrorsaur go while the two were puzzled by this new discovery. "Terrorsaur?" Dinobot spoke to his 'old' comrade with a suggestion out of the blue. "Perhaps, a… 'truce' is in order?" Dinobot lowered his head down to state the word 'truce' to the yelping pterodactyl Pred that they hold their argument for the moment.
"A transporter?" Terrorsaur spoke in thought of this and seeing this glowing console in wonder. "Oh yeah?" Terrorsaur then suddenly came to realization, as he stated this out loud. "So that's how that kid-cat ended up in our base?" Terrorsaur spoke off in recalling how Cheetor appeared out of nowhere, this event caused it.
"And you here. Interesting development." Dinobot spoke from seeing that Terrorsaur was here and after hearing what he said, he soon realized that who he meant, was Cheetor, as he was in the Predacon base. However, Dinobot knew that the young cadet was smart, and would be able to find a way out and back here.
"Yeah, yeah?" Terrorsaur spoke in catching on what Dinobot said to go along with it. "Sayyy…we-we could turn our truce…." Terrorsaur exclaimed out after going around Dinobot to exclaim a new formation in this development. "Into an Alliance, Dinobot!" He held his fist into a grip to declare what the two should do.
"An Alliance?" Dinobot spoke in finding this 'somewhat' interesting before he asked this crafty question. "To what end?" He like to know what this secret alliance they would make would go forth in any expansion.
"Think of the cosmic magnificence!" Terrorsaur stated out the imagination while explaining this situation's state they have here. "Together, we'll overthrow these low-grade metal knock-offs you've joined!" Dinobot was beginning to smile at hearing this, as he listens more to hear what Terrorsaur had more to say. "An-An-And then rule the Predacons with 'two' iron fists!" Terrorsaur exclaimed with his grip fist before he lifted his robot fist into the air. Dinobot looked devious; he raised his fist as well. "Nothing can Stop Us!" Terrorsaur squawked out, as the two fists twirled before they clanked in agreement. "Brriissuuustrususisshmm…." Sparks were being made from the two energized fist contacts.
Dinobot rolled his eyes to the other side with a sly smirk, as he looked on like he had 'something' up his sleeve. As for what that was, remains…a 'secret' for now.
Back At The Predacon Base
We see the Pred base from outside, the storm is still going on. "Qrruushhmmm…." But what's really happening right now, is what's going on inside.
"PPrucarkh-Powcarkh-Powcarkh-Powcarkh….." In Beast Mode, Cheetor scrambled through the ventilation system, laser fire from below, blasting holes in the ducting behind them. "Huagh-Huagh-Huagh-Huagh!" And from Cheetor's breathing, sounds like he's getting short of breath.
"Pucahph-Pucahph-Pucaphp-Pucaph!" At the same time, outside of the ducts, Waspinator was drifting above the volcanic floor, searing holes through the ventilation ducts with his stinger missile rifle.
At the same time, Cheetor clawed himself around a corner. "Scrrrisuuhmm…./Huagh-Huagh-Huagh…." Once done, the cat-bot was running out for his life with much deep exhaling of his breathing.
"Wziziziihpmm….." Outside in the open area, Waspinator looking around, while he looks over to see Scorponok.
Scorponok was looking above the vents with his right claw up with a missile inside. From his visors, they were red, as he seem to be looking up for some reason. "Gruuuphmmm…..Vrrusuhhmmm…." From his view, all the area was red censored, and a green lock scan picked up Cheetor's Beast Mode running in the vents. Soon Scorponok raised his right missile launcher claw to declare his find. "I have him, I have him!" Then he clip his claw a bit before firing his missile. "Clipclip…prouuwsshhmmm…." Once fired, it went up to punch through the vents without exploding. "PRruushhmmm…/Frruushhhmm….." Then after readjusting it's situation, the missile went off to find it's target.
"Grususuhhmmm…" Suddenly, Cheetor stopped to stare at what was ahead of him. "Proph-Proph-Proph…." From behind him was Waspinator's relentless approaching missile fire while in front. "FRrruushhmmm…." A missile coming at him from the front, it was a caught corner for him. "Shredded or Sizzled?" Cheetor asked with a gulp fear look in his eyes, he shrug off his shoulders to make this remark? "What a choice?" Two choices to face, both do not look very pleasing.
"Rrusuusvhhhmmmm…." The missile was zooming faster to hit it's target, in front of the cat-bot. "Powph-powph-powph…." While behind Cheetor was the approaching sting missiles of Waspinator. "Frruushhhmmm….." From seeing the approaching missile, the young Maximal made his choice.
And decided to run the 'other way'….towards the stinger missiles. "ReeOOOwwhhh!" Cheetor winced for a moment when he jumped into that action from the exploded sting missiles. "Fruusuhhhmmm…./BRRuuGRaauoohmm….." Suddenly, the missile hits one of the sting missiles, detonating it on contact before an explosion was bursting through the vents.
Outside, Scorponok waited on the hover platform with Waspinator in hearing something, an explosion. "Grruuspphhmm…." But both yelped from seeing the explosion rip out of the ceiling, heading towards them. "Waaahhahahahhh!/Bziziziziziziiihhh?" The two fell off from the force onto the ground without falling into the lava. "Brruushhgrruooshhmm…." But for Scorponok's platform, it bashed and exploded on the ground after the two hit the solid floor.
"FRRRuushhhmmm…" Still in the ventilation ducts, at the same time, a fireball roars through the duct toward Cheetor. "Cheetar - MAXIMIZE!" Soon Cheetor transformed into his Robot Mode, but just one thing, he was running from the blazing fire. "Yeeeeoooowww, BULLET TRAAAIN!" Cheetor yelled out from nervously running as fast as he can with the fireball catching up to him, propelling him forward.
This was gonna be close…?
"Waahhh…AAaahhhhh!" Cheetor yells out loud before he dashes out the vents air flitter system which he broke through. "Frrusuhhmmm…." The blaze pushed the cat-bot forward until it knocked him into the wall. "Gaaugh?" Cheetor yelped from the impact of the wall, but not before the flames died down. "Truuoophmmm…." Which made Cheetor fall on his rear on the ground, leaving him a bit dizzy. "Coming through?" Cheetor lowered his head down while one of his point tops on his helmet flipped out from taking that course.
The young Maximal got out of that mess, but how long will the luck last.
Back At The Axelon
As the storm continued, so did the scheming duo, Terrorsaur and Dinobot, from hearing their voices outside the base.
"Nrrrugh?" Dinobot's voice is heard, as he zoom in closer to the base. "CRrusuhhmmm….." There was another loud thunder booming noise before we hear more of a conversation. "And by…." As we hear Dinobot speak, we see the two in Beast Mode were walking down a corridor that had some peculiar-looking pod openings; this was something of a garbage disposal unit. "Simply coming in contact with the communication console, huurrrgh, 'this'…initiated the transport?" Dinobot made sure he got everything he needed to know.
Terrorsaur nodded his head while he stops near the strange device pod shot after flapping his wings to state what he did. "That's all I did; nothing to it." The key to the transport that was discover, is it's hooked to both side's consoles, so any bot that comes in contact, will be sent to the other side.
"Excellent. Guuahhuuagh?" Dinobot smiled to this, as he got Terrorsaur into position of an open disposal unit, as he snarled before making this next statement. "Then I should have no difficulty duplicating the procedure, guuuaagh,…without you." Dinobot pointed to his partner after looking around for a moment. "NrruGaugh!" Dinobot got in position before he went to tackle shove Terrorsaur.
"What…Daahhhaaah?" Terrorsaur looked surprised and puzzled by this, before Dinobot used his tail to slap the needle-nose Pred in the air. "Whipphh!" From that yelp, it made the red Predacon yelp out loud. "Daahhaaahh?" Terrorsaur sat on the open disposal unit, as Dinobot was kicking to shove the guy in. "Guugaagup, Guuagh?" Once the Pred was inside, Dinobot shuts the top door down, sealing Terrorsaur inside of it with a window view. "Crrusuhh…Culphmm…/BAannghhh…" Once seeing what was happening, Terrorsaur tried to bang on the door, and yelled, but his voice was muffled. "Hey! What are you doing? We're partners!" Terrorsaur thought that Dinobot and he would cooperate from this moment, why turn on him now.
"In case you had not realized, Needle Nose!" Dinobot was making a remarking statement to Terrorsaur not figuring something out. "Gaauuugh? I am not a team player." Dinobot reached for another lever, and pulled it. "Beeph…/Brriignniinnhh…" Terrorsaur didn't know what was gonna happen until, it happened.
"GRrusuhhuulphmm…." There was a flush/suction sound with Terrorsaur's screams. "Grruuarrghhh?" Then outside the base, was a tube shot that lead out of the ship. "Poowwhhhmmmm…." Which shot Terrorsaur out of the ship and the mountain's secret hole from where he was shot from while screaming and swirling around in the air. "Arruuurgh-Arrrugh-Arrrugh?" Terrorsaur was flown far, far away until he hit the ground away from the base hidden in the mountain. "PPoowwhhupmm…" And that little cloud of dust could be seen from that impact landing.
Dinobot soon was leaving the site, exiting the corridor into the main corridor with knowing what he knows. "Nrrrrughh?" Then Dinobot let a tiny growl in finding and being startled by running into Optimis, in Beast Mode, came around the corner.
"Dinobot, the survey posts are missing, as is Cheetor." Optimis issued out with a stern serious tone while stating things that aren't around the base. "Do you know anything about it?" He asked Dinobot in a stern tone of caution in thinking this guy might know where the missing stuff and young cadet would be.
The raptor considered his response carefully. "AAaaugh? So…that's what he was doing out there?" Dinobot waved off in stating a false reply on not really knowing where Cheetor was, but rather what happened during his last chat with Cheetor.
Optimis was puzzled by this answer, as he asked again with a not in the mood for games stern face. "What are you talking about!?" Optimis is just wanting answers, and this reply from Dinobot does not seem to make sense.
Dinobot then explained, trying to sound troubled while looking away from the Maximal Commander. "I… overheard a Predacon communication. A lightning strike on the sensor posts has had the, guuuaagh, unexpected result of transporting Cheetor into the Predacon base." Optimis held his head from hearing this, not expecting such news to be reported, but it was about to get worse before it got better. "Regrettable, yes? He has…'surely' been destroyed by…Megatron." Dinobot sadly states the well ended results of what happened to the young cadet Maximal, Cheetor.
"NOO!" Optimis said out loud from hearing this, as his rage was building. He knew he shouldn't have been hard on Cheetor, but now it caused the young cadet to do something like this, and then get sent to Predacon territory.
Dinobot then saw this as his chance to rid of Megatron, once and for all. "But take heart in the fact that, through the cat's ultimate sacrifice, we have been furnished, with a way to defeat them." Dinobot held his fist claw grip to state of a way to defeat the Predacons for good this time.
"How?" Optimis didn't care about sparing the Predacons now; all he wanted now was to avenge Cheetor's termination.
"Somehow, the relay posts, the storm, and the Energon, have all conspired to create a transporter. Which connects our com-room to theirs." Dinobot explained out that from these events and fates, they have a way of being transported. "We can beam the explosive right into the heart of Megatron's lair." Dinobot exclaimed out his plan to have the bomb be sent towards the enemy's base, thereby blowing it up and with the crew along with it.
Optimis seemed to have a stern serious face about this idea, but at the moment, he just didn't care.
Back At The Predacon Base Once More
"Wizizizziizhopizizhhmmm…." Waspinator made buzzing noises, as he and Scorponok on a hover platform looked around the corridors underneath the floor decks for the missing intruder. "Grruushmm…Brurusuvhhmmm…." Both had their weapons pointed, looking for any signs of where Cheetor might be at the moment? But from one point, Cheetor was hiding while the two Preds missed him, as he wiped off the sweat from his forehead in thinking that was a close call.
Soon as Cheetor was about to move out, he spotted one of the computer consoles which got his attention. "Well, as long as we're here, might as well roll with it." Cheetor lightly tried to think of a positive side of things in his situation. "Burph-Burphburphburph…." As the cat-bot typed on the keyboards to access the computers, a thought came in his mind. "Maybe we can finger some facts…like?" The cat-bot tried to think of how this situation could help the Maximals in knowing what the enemy knows. "Copping the maps of surrounding Energon deposits." Soon we see on the screen was a grid map, as it stretched from the Predacon base, to the Atlantic Ocean, even towards the Maximal Base. "Hold it-hold it-hold it! Oh man?" Cheetor yelps with serious and concern expressions, from seeing this before immediately accessing something that he felt needed to be checked. "Clernk…" The cat-bot pressed something while trying to get something important up. "Show Maximal Perimeter Grid-Map! Add Surrounding Energon Deposits!" He was trying to see something he noticed seemed awfully important that caught attention.
"Briggrighgrihmmurighmurighmm…." The grid maps appeared to be showing gigantic veins of Energon going from the Preds base, all the way to the Atlantic. But then the vein went over towards the area right near the Maximal base, as well as the city of Antigo. "Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep…." The grid map made blinking noises, the small glowing deposits faded in, particularly a glowing Energon vein.
"Grugrugroohh…." Cheetor growls from seeing that from the grid map's point of view, a gigantic vein of Energon ran under both Bases, and a familiar city. "The same Energon vein runs under both bases, and Jeremie's hometown!?" Cheetor realized the danger of the situation, as he concluded this. "An explosion at 'either' base would destroy us all!" The young Maximal realized this was the danger for either enemy to use, and needed to alert the others. "Make copy!" Cheetor issued to the computer console to make a copy of this grid map. "Prrusuhhmmm…./Churk-Clurk…." Soon a data-disk was popped out which Cheetor took afterwards that was made of the copy he needed. "I gotta warn Optimis." Cheetor stated what he had to do, and needed to do it fast.
"Guagh…Th-there he is!" Scorponok's voice spoke, as from near Cheetor's side, he saw him and Waspintor awaiting by the front entrance. "PRrusuhhmmmmmm…." Both Preds held their weapons, but Scorponok fired off another of his missile launcher at that cat-bot.
"Woooh!" Cheetor yelps and started running with a missile seeking him. "Wrrusuhhmmm….." The missile was chasing after the panicky cat-bot, as Cheetor was running around the room. "Huagh-Huagh-Huagh….." Cheetor was panting like crazy, trying to outrun or lose his chaser by this circling motion.
"Orrrrugh?" Waspinator spoke interested in seeing this, as Cheetor passed him and Scorponok while they were watching this.
"Haugh-Haugh-Haugh, Haauugh!" Cheetor was running around the room console place with almost running out of options until he came near those that were watching his chase.
"WAarruugh!" Cheetor jumped to let his legs over Waspinator and Scorponok who both yelled at this act before the young Maximal landed on the ground. Once Cheetor did, he was running tail towards the right side to get away from his chaser.
"Frrusuhhmm….." At that moment, the missile that was circling around was now turning to follow Cheetor out of the room.
Soon the two Preds got back up from Cheetor's stunt, only to see what was coming at them. "Get outta the way! You…" Scorponok tried to make Waspinator move out of the way before the seeking missile came by, but….
"Fruuushhmmm…./BAAammmgh…" The missile just went and soon made impact contact against the two Preds, catching them in the blast. "Grruughmmm?/Grurummmiizhhm?" Scorponok and Waspinator yelps out from the impact which blasted them away, while it seemed to leave them spinning like the room Cheetor left?
Moments From Now...
Back At The Axelon
Soon we see Dinobot holding the explosive device over the console when suddenly…
"Wait?" Optimis suddenly spoke off, Dinobot impatiently turned around to him, with the clamp only inches away. "You're positive the detonation countdown will give the Predacons time to flee the base?" Optimis wanted to be sure he was doing the right thing, as he swatted Dinobot's tail away to ask this with a serious face.
Optimis watched grimly as Dinobot clamped a cable to the explosive device and prepared to attach the other end to a terminal on the console. "Wait!", Optimus wanted to be sure he was doing the right thing, "You're positive the detonation countdown will give the Predacons time to flee the base?"
"They shall have thirty seconds." Dinobot answered off in how long the device is set for while going on. "Any more and they might be able to disarm it." Dinobot was stating with even more time, the Predacons would try to disarm the bomb.
"Uuuuagh?" Optimis didn't want to take the chance now, as he signed from this before saying this. "Guuuaugh? Proceed." Optimis stated this with a stern face, he wanted this to be done after believing Cheetor was gone.
"Hmmmm?" Dinobot smiled sinisterly at that response, thinking of how Megatron will be once he wont have a base anymore. "Curffhhmm…." He clamped the cable to the terminal on the console. "Drruushhmmm…." Electricity arced over it, planning to be making it's travel down the cable to envelop the bomb.
At The Same Moment
At Predacon HQ
"Rruusvhhmmm…Rusuvhhmmm…." In the Predacon communications room, Cheetor arrived on a borrowed hover platform and go directly to the console. "Okay! Let's take this kitty home?" Cheetor exclaimed in wanting to get home and out of this place quickly. "Rruussvhhmmm…." Once he stopped by use of the hover platform, he took the disk out to toss it on the console pad. "Clurkclurk…." As Cheetor was about to raise his hand to join the travel, the unexpected happened.
"Trruusichhmm…Trusuhmm…Brruughhnnn….." The console was surging with energy, as the disk was getting covered with a sphere of light. "Brriigihnnnss…./Qrruushhhpmmm…../PRRrusuhmmm…." As Cheetor raised his arms to block out the flashing out, the disk was gone in a flash to be replaced with. "Crruuhpmm…" Something that clamped it's anchors from the bomb to the support stanchion on the console. "Brisisitriizzihmmm…." The thing was still surging with energy from it's travels, but even then, it was making a weird sound.
"Hloy Cat's Meoow?" Cheetor yelped in shock and fear at what he saw was in front of him. "WRruusoopphmmm…." The bomb device was making a eerie sound, like it was getting ready to go off. "It's the bomb?" Cheetor exclaimed from seeing it was the bomb that they were gonna use, too bad this was bad timing. "Bruusuhh…Briizzbriiisshhphmm…." The thing was sounding like it was gonna blow soon, and from the time set, it may as well.
Back At The Axelon
The data-disk was found on the console, as Optimis lifted it up for him and Dinobot to see.
"What is it?" Dinobot asked what the device was in not knowing how that disk came to be after sending their bomb device.
"A data disk…sniff-sniff-sniff?" Optimis stated to Dinobot in what the disk he held was while he was sniffing it to find a familiar scent. "And it's has Cheetor's scent?" From realizing what he has, something import might be on it, as he stated the next order to the console computer. "Play this, Now!" He shoved the disk into one of the console's slots, wanting to see what Cheetor may have left on it.
Meanwhile During A Critical Situation
Back at the Pred Base, Cheetor was trying to figure out how to disarm the bomb.
"Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep…." Cheetor was thinking out loud over this bomb's beeping while panicking about it a bit. "AAuugh? They sent the bomb! I got to get outta here before it blows both bases!?" If this thing takes out the Predacon Base, it'll trigger a reaction to destroy the Maximal Base, and Antigo where Jeremie, Aelita, all their pals are.
"Cluckhhh…." Just then, Cheetor felt a gun being poked on the back of his head. "Ruuusvhhmm…." Cheetor looked behind him to see Terrorsaur, a little tired from flying back from the Axelon while he zoomed over on the hover platform.
"Freeze, Freckles!" Terrorsaur stated out half tired to the cat-bot who groaned at seeing this guy again. "Fruospfruopshfruosphmm…." From above the struggling young Maximal, another platform was coming down, it was Megatron. "It's as I said, Megatron! One bomb, C-O-D!" As Terrorsaur explained this, Cheetor looked up to his left to meet Megatron face to face, and the Predacon leader didn't seem to please.
Megatron heard that a Maximal had gotten inside, but didn't expect to see that it was the youngest member of the Maximal crew giving his troops trouble. "Do not attempt to escape, young one." Megatron scolded Cheetor with his frowning face in knowing how much trouble this Maximal was in. He then looked at the console and noticed the bomb before looking to Terrorsaur. "Terrorsaur, disarm it." He order his lackey to disarm this bomb before it takes them out.
"Drucauffhhmm…." Terrorsaur confidently shoved Cheetor away to look at the bomb.
"There's no time!" Cheetor stated out that they don't have much time to even disarm the bomb. "Brriizzihiimmphmm…." Once Terrorsaur open the top of the bomb's panel, he's face began to panic at what he saw.
"He-He-He's right!" Terrorsaur exclaimed out in panic in saying the young Maximal was right of how much time was left. "It's anchored down and gonna blow in less then twenty seconds." Terrorsaur held his head before turning to tell his leader that with the bomb anchored, they can't move it and the time remaining isn't enough for him to handle, which made his left eye twitch.
"I can release the anchors!" Cheetor spoke with a determine face with a right held fist, stating he can remove the anchors holding the bomb down. "Lemme at it!" Cheetor gazed at Megatron in wanting the Predacon leader to let the young cadet at the bomb to get unstuck.
"Hmmmrughmmm?" Megatron thought about this for a tense bit in wondering about such a decision from the Maximal Intruder.
"C'mon, do you want to get vaped!?" Cheetor snapped off to ask if this enemy bot wanted to be destroyed then trust him to save them all from the blast.
Soon a female voice was heard from the bomb device, giving a countdown? "10…9…." Megatron looked over at the bomb that was giving the countdown, Cheetor looked back in hopes the Predacon leader will give him a shot? "8…." Terrorsaur also looked to his leader, wondering what Megatron would do now in this situation.
"Do it!" Megatron nods while admitting his decision to let Cheetor do what he can to stop the bomb.
"Thrupowhmm…." Cheetor pushed Terrorsaur aside to get to the bomb before him.
"7…." As the computer female voice spoke in the next remaining time, Cheetor's left index finger opened up to reveal a tiny synchro-laser attachment.
"Come on, remember me?" Cheetor tried to talk to the bomb, as if praying that it recalled him from before, as he tried to probe the bomb? "Prrisisihhizizphmm..." Soon he was trying to work around in de-archoring the bomb's legs.
"6…." The computer female countdown voice spoke while the cat-bot tried to short out it's circuits as best he could.
"Old fumble fingers?" Cheetor exclaimed off in hoping that from his last tinkering, it would make the bomb be jumpy like before, but so far, the clamps were still remain in place.
"Riiizizhh…truusphmm…." Soon Cheetor managed to cut off a wire to the bomb, just as the female countdown voice was heard. "5…." Cheetor yelps in surprise, as he saw what happened next from his work of tinkering? "Rruushhmmm…Rusuhmmmm….." The bomb's anchor clamps withdrew into the device, allowing it to be moved while still ticking. "4…." The female countdown voice stated on how much time was left until the bomb would blow.
"Rrususvhhmmm…." There was a sound of something opening above, as Cheetor grabbed the bomb to throw it up. "Go!" Cheetor yelled up to a bot, with it being Terrorsaur, who was above and the ceiling was opening up for him to make his part of the act be quick.
"3…." As the female countdown voice stated the next number, Terrorsaur was in Beast Mode, and took to the sky. "Clumphm…." Once he grabbed the bomb, he was going to get ride of it up in the air.
With only three seconds to spare.
"2…" As the female countdown voice stated the next number, Cheetor looked with hopes that they made it. "Beep-beep-beep-beep…." The bomb device made louder beep noises, as Terrorsaur was above the base before tossing the device and… "1…." The female voice countdown spoke the final number after Terrorsaur tossed it away from him and above the base.
"KURBOoommmhhh….." Soon the bomb explodes in a giant fireball that would have total a large structure, as it expanded without touching the base below. "ARRruuurraghhh….ARRRrugh?" Terrorsaur however, yelped from getting hit by the explosion that knocked him off from in the air.
Below, the Predacon leader saw the flash of the explosion cease, which meant one problem was dealt with. "And now,….?" Megatron exclaimed out, before he looked over to the young Maximal to finish over business with Cheetor. "For You!" And that business was dealing with an intruder, despite being saved from certain doom.
"Sorry, this cat's gotta scack?" Cheetor exclaimed off with a smile and shrug at that statement before pointing over to the console control spot in planning to leave. Soon Cheetor transformed into his Beast Mode, leaped onto the console where he was getting surged with energy. "Brisisibriizizhhmmm…Grruuushhmm….." And with this, it only take a matter to leave the scene.
"POWWshh-POOwsshhh-POOWwsshhmmm…." Megatron soon acted on impulse, aimed his T-Rex laser to fire some shots at the escaping cat-bot. "Briisisghhsiin….PRrrushhhmmm…." But Cheetor had already vanished in the transporters' light flash before the shots hit. "PRrusuhhmmm…PRrusuhhmmm…." Which speaking of hit, Megatron's shots did hit his console device which was making it short circuit out. "Brriisisibrritirzizihmm…/Clrukkssiihmm..?" Afterwards, the screen crashed down on the keyboards, a bit damage as it were.
Megatron glared at this in seeing a Maximal got away scot free. "WARRruuguhhh…." Terrorsaur's screeching screaming voice was heard, as Megatron looked up to see with a blank face who was dropping in. "Turphmm…." Terrorsaur dropped in on the flatten console control, looking a bit roasted from the explosion earlier. "Gaurvhmphm?" He yelped from his landing, as he tried to set himself up while making a remark. "Ahhh, slag?" Terrorsaur nearly made it out of that one, and was sizzling, this just wasn't his day.
Back In Antigo
"Thruushhh.../BreakBreakBreakhhh…." As Cheetor's energy form impulses passed along them, one by one, the survey posts overloaded behind them and blew up from what happened with Megatron's shooting. "Ruusoohhmmm…/Prrusuhhmmm…/Brruushhmmm…." As the flash ball was bashing against the survey post, it comes directly over to the Maximal base.
"Brriiighhnnn…./Bruqophwoph…./Briiisuuhmmm…." At the Maximal base, in the communications room, Cheetor materialized in a swarm of electric discharge. "Bririsiistrzizihmmm…" As Cheetor look up to see Optimis and Dinobot staring at him in surprise. "Trisisitrusushmmm…." From the light shows basically flaring up a bit, the holo-image of the digital Energon vein displayed behind them. Optimis was the one surprise to see Cheetor while Dinobot was slightly surprise to see him too.
"Hiya, cats! Miss us?" Cheetor asked sheepishly with a smile in seeing if his pals missed him while he was gone.
The Next Day
The storm had passed and everyone was in the base; all the Maximals in Beast Mode and teen humans. Cheetor was basking in the glory of heroism, but not too much. Everyone learned of the giant vein and realized that they came close to blowing each other up, if not for the young Maximal Cadet.
"Hey Cheetar." Rhinox spoke from his spot near the holo-table console to congrats the young cadet on his work. "We got your disk." Rhinox stated on that they received the young Maximal's disk that alerted them of the dangers they almost got caught in. "You saved us from ourselves, son." Rhinox exclaimed out to proudly thank Cheetor for helping them realized a big mistake they almost made. "Thanks." Rhinox nods his head to thank Cheetor for the big save, not just the Maximals, but the people in Antigo.
"Heh-Yeah, heck?" Rattrap waved off while giving a smug look to Cheetor, as he leans on Rhinox's neck for support. "Ya may have step in it kid, but….guuagh?" The rotten took a breath before making a statement right back to thank Cheetor for the heads up. "Ya came out smelling' like a rose." This was meant that while the cat-bot may have step in something that smelt like trouble, he came out okay & smelt fine & dandy, at least from the rotten's perspective view.
"I alerted the our human friends of the risk you took." K-9 pointed over to Jeremie, Ulrich, William, and Aelita from the Maximal notifying them of what Cheetor did during the storm.
"Indeed, it was a risky one, but if not for that, we wouldn't be standing here?" Wolfang nods while stating if Cheetor did not risk the dangers to discover a great deal of information, they would be finished.
"Yes, we were in a counter-trap that would gone off, if not for your quick actions." Armordillo replied with a nod in giving Cheetor some thanks for his quick thinking.
"Cheetor really helped save us all, and the people in Antigo as well from a terrible explosion." Aelita stated that without that knowledge, the Predacon and Maximal bases wouldn't be the only ones destroyed, so would half of Antigo?
"All part of being perfect." Cheetor exclaimed off to comment the compliments while looking over at Dinobot with a wide and cat's grin to show he did well to prove himself.
Dinobot only stared at this from seeing that the young Maximal did survive the ordeals of a Predacon threat, but he was still not in the mood for this. "Rrruuragghh?" Dinobot let off a snarl and wordless sentiment before he shrug off his claws to wave off this moment. As Dinobot turns around to leave by the hallway.
"You think from hearing both stories, that it sounded like Dinobot set Cheetor up?" William whispered something to Ulrich in recalling what everyone heard from two different sides, Cheetor's story and Dinobot's story, well mostly the teen humans at least put two-and-two together.
"Most likely, he just couldn't wait to finish the Predacons off, figures?" Ulrich whispered back to his dark-haired friend in knowing what seemed to have happened.
Soon Cheetor's smile and wide eyes faded when he had to look at Optimis in knowing what comes next. "Sorry for disobeying your order, Big Bot?" Cheetor apologized in knowing what he did was wrong to disregard his commander's orders of not going out during the storm.
"You don't need to earn my respect, Cheetor." Optimis stated off to state this with a focus, calm, but serious face in explaining something to Cheetor. "You've always had it." From any event the two Maximals may have been in, the young cadet had the respect of the commander, just in a different state of mind.
"Wonder if that means the rest of us? Guagh!?" William asked off the thought before he got nudge in the gut by Ulrich.
"Quiet! He'll hear you!?" Ulrich hushed his friend to almost get them into trouble before Optimis heard that, but….
"I did, and that goes to all of you, weather Transformer or human." Optimis stated off to state a clear message to both sides, Maximal and human.
"Well, at least we now have knowledge of what Energon veins are under what part of the base and the city, we just have to be careful?" Jeremie stated off that with the knowledge they got, they have to be careful in not triggering that stuff, or they would end up making a chain reaction that would blow them up.
"Right! And you did end up saving the day, Cheetor." As Optimis stated all of this, Cheetor began to smile in liking this much so far until… "But be warned!" From Optimis' lower warning tone, Cheetor frowned a bit from knowing he was being scolded. "If you 'ever' pull a stunt like that again? I'll have your tail in a sling!" Optimis ushered out a warning with a serious face that Cheetor better not try another risky move like that again, or he'll have something to say about it.
"Okay! Okay! I'll never do it again!" Cheetor spoke out with a 'okay, I got it' while in trouble still, kinda face. Then as he looks away from the stern face of the serious Optimis, he spoke these words out slyly like. "Until the next time. Come on Jer, guys!" After Cheetor said that, he soon was rushing off away from the spot while Optimis yelped with a shock and serious upset face when he heard that from the young Maximal cadet.
"Hay, wait a second!" Jeremie yelped off, as he, Ulrich, William, and Aelita went off to chase after the troublemaking cat-bot friend.
"Hechechech!" Rattrap laughed off while seeing Cheetor flee with the human teens in finding that sorta ironic humor there.
"Hachachachuagh?" Rhinox let off a tiny chuckle in seeing that was funny how Cheetor isn't one to not stay out of trouble like that for long.
"Howh-Hee!" Rattrap let off a burst gutter from his belly in still finding that funny while Optimis' stern face looked to his crew.
"Hachachach!" Rhinox still let off another laugh at seeing what Cheetor pulled while Optimis seem to frown that his crew found that all funny.
"Gaugh?" Optimis suddenly let off a laugh in seeing that 'was' funny, that Cheetor was someone not to keep out of trouble for long, but that's what made the young Maximal who he is.
"Gahahaahha.../Gehaahahah.../Gwahahahahaah..." Rhinox, Rattrap, Optimis, and all the other Maximals in the room laughed off while we zoom away from the base above. The storm cleared up and a spectacular rainbow arched through the sky, over the mountains and over the city of Antigo. This was a happy day to be alive and thankful that everyone was safe.
VISION NOTES: The additional stuff was only of how the humans were doing to an extra chat about Antigo being endangered, and so forth afterwards.
Wow, now this was a VISION to get one going in wondering how to escape such a tricky situation. Now then, the VISION-KING shall now be planning another step in his work in what to present next. For the next chapter will show both sides of Maximal & Predacon, even some human allies uncovering a mystery from…some unusual standing stones? We'll be IN-VISIONING a strange case here, especially when Optimis vanishes along with a side passenger & leaves a certain 'rotten' in charge to lead the other Maximals against Predacon attack. The situation seems very thin, can the Maximals win against the Predacons, protect Aelita & get their commander back…without Optimis leading them? It's a big mystery indeed, one we'll be looking forward to the next time I post another story for us to enjoy. Till then, just kick back & enjoy the Beast Wars in this new era, for things that happened in the original, we'll be made into historical areas for our vast enjoyment for knowledge. So be sure to have patients, the next stuff will come out eventually soon…?