Chapter 11: Power Surge, Part 2
"Energon! I wonder if it's stable…" Terrorsaur muttered to himself as he inspected the flying hill.
The Predacon flew in closer to inspect the glowing mass.
"Terrorsaur- TERRORIZE!" he squawked.
He transformed back into his robot mode and poked at the energon. Before he knew it, raw, undiluted energy flowed through his systems, supercharging them.
"Let's see how Megatron likes me now!" Terrorsaur cackled as he transformed back into his beast mode.
"Cheetor, report!" Primal ordered over the commlink.
"Boss bot? That you?"
"Of course it's me! What were you doing out in that storm?!"
"It snuck up on me! Speaking of, it looks like the storm supercharged an energon deposit-"
"Repeat?"
"The storm must have supercharged an energon deposit, because there's a flying hill out here!"
At that moment, the transformed Terrorsaur flew past Cheetor.
"And it looks like the Preds have already found it!"
"Return to the Axalon ASAP. Primal out."
Back in the Axalon, Optimus Primal turned to face his fellow Maximals.
"Rhinox, you and Dinobot go give the humans a heads-up about the Predacons. Primus knows they'll need all the forewarning they can get."
"What about me, oh fearless leader?" Rattrap asked.
"We're going to check out that flying hill for ourselves."
Rattrap muttered a few curses under his breath as he followed Primal out of the ship.
"Welcome back, Terrorsaur. How was the flying hill?" Megatron asked as his SIC landed outside of the Predacons' ship.
Terrorsaur was silent as he approached his leader.
"Answer me, Terrorsaur!"
"It was quite…invigorating."
"I don't follow."
Terrorsaur smirked as his shoulder cannons activated.
"As of now, I'm in command of the Predacons!"
Before Megatron could make any kind of rebuttal, he found himself flying backwards from the Darksyde before landing about a third of a mile away.
"Terrorsaur, you treacherous worm!" he bellowed as his minion approached him.
"Flattery will get you nowhere!" came the reply.
Megatron's optics grew wide as he saw Terrorsaur draw a rifle and fire, and then all went black.
"Easier than I thought." Terrorsaur mumbled as he looked at the scattered bits of Megatron that littered the nearby desert.
Nearby, the other Predacons looked on at the scene in shock.
"Megatron! We must save him!" Scorponok bellowed.
"For once, I agree with Scorponok. Where else are we going to get a pats- I mean, fearless leader like dear old Megatron?" Tarantulas added.
"Wazzpinator gather pieces of Megatron for funeral."
"We can reconstruct him!" Scorponok insisted.
"Fine! We have funeral first, and then Shellhead and Spiderbot reassemble him!" Waspinator snapped.
"What on God's green Earth is that?" a deputy asked as he saw Dinobot and Rhinox walk into Höllenfeur in their beast modes.
"Excuse me, sir- but do you know where we can find the local leader?" Dinobot asked.
"You want the sheriff or the mayor?" the deputy asked, his mind just accepting the sight of a rhinoceros and a theropod dinosaur standing before him.
"Sheriff." Rhinox answered.
The deputy sighed.
"I'll get him from the saloon."