Author Note: Greetings to all my loyal followers & viewers out there. Ready to ENVISION more Beast Wars fun, I know you've waited for it? And the "King Of VISIONS" will now be providing the next exciting chapter with a bit of historic stuff we can be interested in. And we can even VISUALIZE another fact about how folks would feel about there being other lifeforms outside the Earth itself, and who's watching the skies, etc.? Trust me, there will be a few additional surprises to be seen here that you probably weren't expecting, and that will make the next future chapters become just as more interesting to boot. So for now, thanks for the reviews from those that like my work, and hope you all enjoy this next exciting part we're about to see now. Let's see what's gonna happen when a different order is commanding the shots, shall we now…?

Chapter 11: Chain Of Command

In the Axelon, Jeremie and Rhinox were laying back in their seats near the consoles. They had spent all night scanning the areas for stable Energon deposits that might have been useful for anything that they might need. Jeremie, however, spent much of his time looking through all the archives, trying to find information on 'the legend of the Key'. If there was anything that could have been found on Aelita, there would have to be some facts in the legends.

Unfortunately, it exhausted Jeremie and Rhinox both of their hard work, and they were fast asleep on the consoles.

Rattrap came by and saw the two nearly slacking off; he then noticed on the console computer giving off a reading of some pretty powerful Energon readings, more powerful than the Energon around them. He then walked over to the two sleepy heads deliver a shouting message. "HEY, WAKE UP SLACKERS!" And boy did that ended up doing the job a good ten four count.

Both the Maximal scientist and the human boy bolted straight up, Rhinox however fell out of his seat. "Gaurrgh…Urrghmm?" Rhinox moans a bit before he looked up to Rattrap, glaring at him while the rodent made a little smirk to a 'hello, good morning' expression.

"Rattrap, we were up all night trying to scan for any usable Energon deposits. Don't you think we could've used the rest?" Jeremie moans from flexing his aching muscles, trying to wake himself up more while looking not to happy at what Rattrap gone and did to him.

"Well, sorry, bulb, but you've got a readin' dere'." Rattrap shrug off his shoulders before waving his left hand's thumb for the two slackers to take a look gander.

Rhinox took a good look at the readings and soon spoke puzzled of what he found? "This doesn't seem possible." Rhinox tried to do a few more studies on this reading, finding it strange?

"Why not?" Jeremie asked his large friend on what the problem could be?

"Brugrughm…/Breephm..Bruphm…./Truzzuhmm…." Rhinox typed in a few commands and showed a map of the area that the Energon readings were coming from. "The readings indicate that the Energon seems to be stable." Now that got Rattrap and Jeremie's attention after Rhinox said those interesting words.

"Okay, so where's dis' Energon located?" Rattrap went off to ask on where this new source of Energon maybe found?

Rhinox pulled up a map and Jeremie was able to identify the location. "London, England. And the place is….Stonehenge?" Now this one really puzzled Jeremie, he knew and heard many tales of Stonehenge's legends, but never would guess it would be apart of the Maximals Energon readouts?

"Rhinox to all available Maximals! We got a location of Stable Energon, gather together." Rhinox exclaimed after he turned on the communicators to get Optimis and everyone else in for this little adventure trip.

Cause where they're going, it's gonna be something alright.

London, England

Stonehenge

Soon the scene opens in the early day of the morning, where we see the two moons out with the smallest furthest and the biggest just covering the sun. Soon the scene lowers itself to where there, on the grassy plains was the model structure of the famous Stonehenge.

"This isn't a natural stone formation." Rhinox's voice spoke from where the image of Stonehenge is seen at the moment.

"Gruvhmm…gruvhmm….." At this moment, we see the Maximals in the center outside path, looking around in Beast Mode. At this moment, Optimis held the scanner device in his right hand to wave it around, trying to pick up readings. At this moment, the Maximals also brought Jeremie, Ulrich, William and Aelita along when they insisted in going to see a historical spot while promising to stay close.

"Somebody….Somehow…" Rhinox was speaking still, as he looked at the structure with the same stern expression like the rest, trying to understand this place? "Built this thing?" Rhinox concluded that someone on this planet must have built these stones in place, for some strange reason hidden in mystery.

"But these scans say that the rocks contain minerals that are predate the planet's earliest known fossil records we heard in history class?" Aelita spoke from using a scanner of her own, she and Jeremie, along with their friends scanned the rocks, only to find out a small clue of what doesn't seem strange. Or so it seems?

"Yeah? Well ugh-ugh, excuse my error message, but ugh?" Rattrap spoke when he was scratching his forehead with the right hand, he shrug off his hand before asking this. "I thought' dis' planet was uninhabited? Back then, I means?" Rattrap stated out, as he decided to point out his two cents here about the planet not being populated in the earlier days which made him cringe in finding there were others here long before?

"It really is a mysterious place?" Ulrich spoke from looking around to pick up any scan leads with nothing showing from his side work.

"Bet everyone back home would be jealous of us if they knew this?" William spoke to join Ulrich after his work was done, stating about how their family and friends would find this story interesting.

"Luckily, they won't. Only my dad could be told about this." Jeremie sternly told his two friends that if they mention this to anyone that's not knowing of the Maximal & Predacon war, it could rise suspicion.

"Still Jeremie, how was this build?" Aelita spoke to her caring friend in wanting to know something that caught her attention a bit. Like who built Stonehenge?

"That's just it Aelita, scientist don't know?" Jeremie shrug off his shoulders to answer the honest truth of Stonehenge's deep mystery left like that.

"They've studied for years, and still don't have all the facts straight?" Ulrich stated out in recalling that scientist have studied this work, yet have not a clue to it's meaning at all.

"Some could say it was build by druids, or possibly a signal point for aliens?" William held his hands behind his head, exclaiming the tiny belief of some fantasy nonsense if some of it was even possible. Which 'meant' be at this moment of alien evidence.

"Then maybe, it's related to Cybertron?" Armordillo spoke in thinking if aliens visit this spot, then it maybe related to Transformers from the planet Cybertron.

"No….something about this feels strange?" K-9 shook his head with some sort of doubt, feeling that may not be the correct answer, like this may not be related to them.

"Yes, I feel that if this was related to Transformers, there would be proof?" WolFang nods in agreement, if their kind were here, then wouldn't there be proof of Cybertronian tech anywhere. Where would it be?

"Burgrughmmm…." Suddenly, as Optimis was scanning, the scanner went off. "Burgurgurvhmm…burgurgurvhmm…." It was going off like it found something, much to Optimis' serious face. "Something else is odd?" Optimis spoke from noticing the scanner had detected something. "I'm getting an Energon reading?" Optimis stated out from figuring out what the weird reaction the scanner was doing, as he continued. "It's under this pile of rocks?" He stated out, as all the Maximals looked to were there was an alter with many stones stack on top like a pyramid formation.

"Sorry to say this? But we call that, an altar." Ulrich spoke in stating what the people on the planet here like to address their customs.

"Right, we learned it was something for possible offerings?" William nods in agreeing to that statement, the history of Stonehenge is very sacred.

"Huagh…" Rattrap signs before holding up his left hand to state this out. "Jus' like bait'n a mousetrap. Baugh…" Rattrap soon took a deep breath from shaking up from the nervous feeling of this being a trap for them. "Waugh-Bulaughbluagh….This place alternates my currents?" He looks around at the stones in feeling uneasy to his eyes squinting and twiddling his fingers up that this place gave him the spooky feeling.

Aelita stood near Jeremie from what the rodent said, but he patted her hand with a smile to assure the pink haired girl, that there was no fear which calmed her nerves.

"Hmm, you know?" Rhinox spoke with a pondering thought while Dinobot was leaving him and Rattrap to move up forward. "The Energon on this planet doesn't fit with it's geology?" He shook his head in thinking something was off about this planet when the Maximals arrived here. "Hard to believe it could have formed naturally?" He spoke a bit deeper with his eyes almost closed with a serious face, pondering very much about the planet's mystery with the Energon.

"It is strange, like why was Energon here and yet no one has ever bother to mark it's discovery yet?" Aelita asked puzzled towards her human friends in why no one on this planet has ever found any traces of Energon. It was very strange?

"I'm not sure, it's like the Energon has been kept a secret until everyone here arrived, and now we're looking for some?" Jeremie shrug off that question for some reason, any big discovery about the Energon was never made public…almost like nobody wanted the word to get to anyone's ears to hear and learn about it. But why?

"Well look at what's happening there?" Ulrich spoke in getting everyone's attentions towards a spot, namely…where Dinobot was and what he was doing.

"Gurvhmmm" At this moment, Dinobot was seen trying to pull out a large rock with his own claws. "Gurghmm…GURRaauhmm…" Dinobot was grunting when he lifted the heavy rock up off the altar spot before tossing it aside. "Cluffhmm…." The rock hit the ground with the Ex-Pred looking like he was doing the heavier lifting job. "However it got here, we must remove it!" Dinobot lifts his head up and held his right claw in a grip in stating what everyone has to do. "Before the Predacons do!" Dinobot finished what he was stating, that they must work fast to get the Energon before their enemies show up.

"Luckily the tourist won't come on this closed day, or we be thrown out for messing with an altar? I could almost image the loud ruckus from that?" William shrug off to silently exclaim to his pals nearby that as long as the tourist or authorities are not here, they won't get busted. But he did not know how wrong he would be lead to believe?

"Stomphmmm…stomphmm…." There was some loud stomping 'booming' sounds which weren't the only things that got the group's attention. "Ah, Dinobot." The voice of Megatron was heard that made the called person look to it's direction. "Stomphmm…stomphm…." More stomping feet were heard, as the scene shows Megatron in Beast Mode coming from behind a standing stone. "That Predacon chip still 'ticks' inside your treacherous hide!?" Megatron motions off to exclaim in speaking out with pure distaste in recalling Dinobot was once a Predacon before stopping to look at the Maximals and the humans that were hiding behind their friends. "And I think we WILL take it! Ye-s-s-s." Megatron snort off to stretch his head in stating in determination to the puzzled group of a wicked plan to take the Energon crystal lying in wait. "No Energon Crystal to small…" He looks back at the group, to make this simple exclamation statement. "I always say?" He shrugs off his arms that no matter the size, Energon is still Energon, so any is fair game….for him.

"Wizizizihimmm…." There was buzzing noises, and from behind Megatron, came Waspinator in Beast Mode. "Wazzpinator - TERRORIZE!" Waspinator spoke out his command code, as he soon transformed into his Robot Mode. "TRzizizizizhhh…." He made a bit more buzzy noises, even in his transformed state.

"Terrorsaur - TERRORIZE!" Then the voice of Terrorsaur was heard, as he flew from behind Megatron to transform into his Robot Mode too. "GRUAAArrughhh….." Terrorsaur made a screechy squawk roar out, as he set himself up with his weapon, even Waspinator was set with his sting missile.

"Powhm-Powhm!/POuhm…PUuohmm….!" Soon Waspinator and Terrorsaur were firing off their weapons energy blast, right at their targets. "Bamm…Bammm….BAAammm…." The Maximals, still in Beast Mode were trying to dodge, as their agile and quick bodies could do against this surprise attack.

"Lazorbeak - TERRORIZE!" Then from above, came Lazorbeak in Beast Mode, just before transforming into his Robot Mode. "RAARURAGGhhh…." Lazorbeak makes his own screechy squawk roar, before taking out his laser pistol, and was taking aim all around below him. "Powhpowhpowhpowhm…." He was blasting like a crazy person, using lots of fire-power without care, making more of the Maximals become more cautious.

"Target the Maximals! But leave the Key in…'Perfect' condition. Ye-e-s-s-s!" Megatron issued his order's swiftly to his men, noticing Aelita was present, they have plans for her, wickedly evil plans indeed.

Aelita was frighten by those words while Jeremie, Ulrich and William tried their best to shield their friend even in this middle of danger.

"MAXIMALS! Duck Around and Protect the Children!" Optimis issued a direct order to get the human children to safety. At that moment, Armordillo, K-9, and Wolfang were already trying to lead the four children a bit out of the line of fire.

"Purgurpurgurpurgvhmm….." Tarantulas in Robot Mode was hiding behind another standing stone spot, firing his galling machine guns from his spider legs "Powh-PowhPOwwuhmm…/BRugruhm…/Trushmm…." The rapid machine guns were hitting the dirt while Optimis, Cheetor and Rhinox were running around the altar spot to get behind it for cover.

POuuhm…Pouhmm.../Powhpowhm…." At this moment, Terrorsaur and Waspinator still in the air, firing more of their shots.

"Bam…Bammmgruhmm…" At this moment, Rattrap and Dinobot quickly ran to get behind a tall standing stone for some protection from the exploding blast shots.

"Man?" Rattrap looked behind the pillar, as he looked away to make this remark. "Yer' old friends don't miss a 'beat', do they?" Rattrap made a remarking sarcasm of Dinobot's 'old' Predacon pals were able to hear what Dinobot said, thinking it was an invite.

"Dinobot - MAXIMIZE!" Dinobot looked away from not caring to answer, as he shouted out his activation code command to transform. "RAARruughhh….." He makes a loud roar, as he was transforming to Robot Mode while Rattrap was transforming too.

"Chiiichitchitchitee…." Rattrap was making chittering noises when he finished transforming, just as he saw Dinobot bring up his Rotating Tail Blade and his Rotating Sword installed into it's center.

"Keep them away from the crystal!" Optimis spoke from behind another pillar at Rattrap's spot while he and the other Maximals had transformed into Robot Mode, he knows that the Predacons want whatever is inside the altar.

"Oh yeah, sure?" Rattrap sarcastically replied in hearing that order very clearly from Optimis. "Give us the DIRTY Work!" Rattrap shouted back in exclaiming in remarking that he got stuck with the more dirty work to get himself in the crossfire while up top in the front, Scorponok was seen in Robot Mode, searching for any targets.

"Clamphm…" Scorponok clamped his claws from not finding anyone at first, until Rattrap held his stasis rifle in knowing his foe is there.

"Powhhmm..powhmm…." Rattrap stepped out at his target, aimed and shot out his blast shots at the Predacon.

"BRAgruhmm…" During Scorponok's search, he wasn't noticing he was under fire. "Duagh?" Scorponok yelped from when a blast shot off a piece of the rock that almost got him. "BRagruhmm…" Then another of Rattrap's shots hit under the Predacon, but only destroyed apart of the stone structure. "Hey?" Scorponok snapped from trying to regain his balance from almost falling off and from two miss shots almost getting him. "Clamphm-clamphm…" He clamped his right claw and looked forward with his missiles ready at the moment.

"Prushhm…POWhh…/PRruushmm…" Cheetor suddenly rolled out from behind the altar to step up, and aim his weapon to fire a plasma shot straight at the target.

"BRagruhmm…." Just before the enemy could launch a missile strike, the unexpected blast got him. "GAAuulgh?" Scorponok yelped from the hit that exploded from impact on his chest plate. "WAaugh?" He lets out a tiny cry while he lost his balance to fall off the standing stone figure. "GLuphm…." And when he came to the ground, it made a loud clank of metal hitting it. "Gaugh?" He lets out a moan from his impact on the ground with his head on it, arms lied across, scorpion tail lying off with his two legs dangling backwards.

"Scratch one!" Cheetor exclaimed with a trumpet cheer in seeing he's won that outcome.

"Teheheheheehh-hachachach…." Then Cheetor yelped from the wickedly evil laugh being back by Tarantulas, as he was on the cat-bot's right side about to strike when…. "Trupowhmm…BAmmgruhmm…." From out of nowhere, a blast shot was fired that impacted against Tarantulas' chest spot. "GRuuagh-gualphm..?" Tarantulas yelped with a cry of pain from that attack that knocked him backwards off to fall on the ground.

"Thruushmm….." We see the smoking rifle gun belonging to Rattrap, as he wielded it up and looked back at Cheetor with a smile for saving the young cadet from that old spider.

"Russhm…Pophmm…" Cheetor made a thumbs up sign with a smile in thanking his rodent pal for the save awhile we hear Tarantulas' moans.

At this moment, the four human children were hiding behind the farthest pillars with only K-9, Wolfang and Armordillo as protectors.

"PRuuushmmm…/Bammgruhmm…." Suddenly, they duck from a surprise blast attack that came from Razorclaw sneaking about.

"BRizizizihh….." Then from above, they yelped from buzzsaws almost hitting most of them. "Clushh…clushm….." Luckily, they only dented the stones, but they all looked up to see Manterror flying above. "Come out Maximals! Surrender the Key to us, and we 'might' show you mercy?" Manterror demanded the folks to surrender with the Key, if they wish to live.

"The 'might' part, is not guaranty, of course!?" Razorclaw remarks with a sly smile, as they didn't care if the Maximals were gone, so long as their prize is in their hands.

"If there was any villains to use that line…?" William spoke from hearing those all too familiar threats.

"They never keep their word." Ulrich finished in exclaiming that listening to villains make promises can never be the most trusting.

"Guys…?" Aelita spoke with her friends a bit nervous in not wanting to be taken, should the Predacons win.

"Don't worry Aelita, we won't leave you." Jeremie looked back to give his assuring word that he, Ulrich and William, will not let Aelita out of their sight.

"You got that right, now watch them while I do some damage!" Armordillo spoke to look back at the kids, then at Razorclaw before making a charge. "RArrrughhh….." He charges out, weapons in hands before firing his laser blaster out. "PRuushhmm…." The laser was going straight towards the enemy which Razorclaw quickly noticed it.

"PRuushhmmm…/BAmmgruhmm…" Razorclaw used his other claw to counterattack with his own lasers that exploded to make a smoke cloud? "Waugh?" He yelps from out of the smoke cloud, was Armordillo himself.

"Guuraghh…" Armordillo roars out a battle cry, as he wields a chain and mace weapon in his hand. "Clankhnn…." He delivered a strong melee hit that bashed Razorclaw out of his way.

"Baaah, I shall show you a thing or two…..?" Manterror snaps from above, as he quickly dives down to make a surprise attack from behind until….

"Now!" K-9 shouted to signal to his comrade nearby of the enemy movement.

"Roger!" Wolfang nods, as both Maximals had their blasters out and prepared to fire after Armordillo quickly made a dive out.

"Proushhmmm…/PRrooffsuhmm…." Both Maximals fired their laser and missiles at the same time, all heading right for Manterror.

"BAmmgruhmm…." Which the impact hit the Predacon that knocked him for a loop. "GAaugh?" Manterror yelped from soaring out of their sight before the Maximals tried to keep guarding the children.

"Fliers incoming?" Rhinox spoke from near Optimis, as both looked up while they saw what the Maximal scientist was stating.

"Frusuhhmm…" Soon from above, Terrorsaur, Waspinator and Lazorbeak were flying around to make an attack.

"They're Mine!" Optimis issued out with a sear of determination to face the number of enemy fliers. "Brusuhhmmm…" He ignited his booster jet rockets to fly up in the air after the foes.

"Frusuhhmm…." Soon the Predacon fliers decided to charge on over where Optimis was coming up, armed with their weapons.

"Trushhmmm-Cluphm…" Optimis brought out his shoulder rocket launchers from behind once he was a bit air-board.

"Frusuhmm…." The Predacon fliers were soaring underneath, planning to drive upwards to attack Optimis.

"POwhh-Powhhmm…." Soon a serious expressed Optimis fired his two missiles out at the approaching targets.

"BAmmgruhmm…." One of the fired missiles exploded right where Waspinator was coming in. "DURrraaArugh?" Waspinator yelped from the impact which knocked him off while Terrorsaur and Lazorbeak just arrived.

"Frushhmm…KurBoomm…." The other missile missed Terrorsaur and Lazorbeak which both yelped before the shot exploded on the ground.

"Try this, Maximal!" Laxorbeak exclaimed out, as he brought his weapon out to fire again. "Click-click!" But the thing wasn't responding right, and it dawn to the Predacon, he's out of ammo. "Arrrugh! I've run out of ammo already?" Lazorbeak cursed in seeing he has no ammo left after recklessly misusing it. "We'll if we can't have that Energon, then neither will you Maximals!" The Predacon stated that if they can take the prize, neither will the enemy.

"Right!" Terrorsaur replied in understanding that idea, as he knew what to do. "Frushmmm…." He waved his right arm down with his blaster for a last ditch effort. "PRooffruhmm…." He fired his charge shot which was going down below where the others where. "FRuushhmmm….." The energy shot was approaching the altar which Cheetor ran to the left side and Rhinox forward to get out of the shot's way.

"WAauuugh!" Optimis gasped in shock to see that Terrorsuar was doing a last ditch effort to try to take out his comrades, by destroying the Energon under the altar.

"Everyone! Watch Out!" Aelita shouted to her friends from seeing that they had to watch out for that attack.

"GUrBOWRrughmm…." Soon as Rhinox's slow running was trying to flea, the shot makes contact with the stones on the altar, a huge explosion soon happens. "GRuuuvvhhmmoomm…." The explosion sent all the rocks off and sent anyone nearby flying, namely Rhinox. "WARruuughh…WAarruuuuuAAaghh….." Rhinox was slowly heard yelling out in surprise when the explosion happened, as he was in slow motion during the whole event. "Clrushhmm…." Then Rhinox soon hit the dirt after just getting out of the explosion of bright flames. "Gwuuagh?" Rhinox yelped from the ground contact, as he had his hands over his head.

"Grugrugvhmm…." The rumbling sound was heard and a few rock debris was falling around which luckily, Rhinox covered his head for the old guy to duck and cover routine.

"Rhinox, you okay?" Armordillo asked from rushing over to make sure his comrade was alright while the others were just slowly standing up from the explosion.

"I think are problems are just beginning? Look!" K-9 spoke from pointing for him, Wolfang, and the four children to notice something much bigger happening here.

"Wurwurwurgruvhmm…Bruvruvruvhmm…." Suddenly after the flame extinguished from the spot, the altar stand had a small smog from the fire, but there was a low humming sound. From within it, was a small and dark blue crystal making the familiar Energon sound.

"VRruushhmm…." But then the crystal was making a strange vibrating sound which meant one thing to Megatron, who saw the action happen, the Energon was cracked and going to explode. "Terrorsaur! You FOOL!" Megatron looked up to snap at his lackey for what he has gone and done. "Gruuvvhshmmm…." The sounds of the vibrating humming sounds were getting louder, meaning very clear what was happening. "You've released the crystal's energy." Megatron waved his tiny arms out in stating that the crystal they seek'd is about to unleash it's energy. "I-I-I-I-It is useless to us now!" He shook his head in blind frustration in seeing that they can't use this Energon for themselves now. "Back to Base! Beast Mode!" Megatron yelled out in stating his order for all the Predacons to retreat back to base which he was turning around for.

"Bruusvhhmm…Bruusvhhmm…." The small Energon crystal in the center under the altar was flashing a lot, sparks were effecting everywhere that something was bond to happen.

"Wizizizhum….." Waspinator was heard flying in Beast Mode along with the rest of the Predacons, as they fled the scene.

"Wurwurgruvhm-Wrugruvhmm…" The Energon's humming vibrating sounds were getting a bit more deeper which had Rattrap and Cheetor come out from seeing this and their enemies run. "Fruushhmm…." Soon Optimis landed on the ground from descending, as that got everyone to look at the Maximal Commander. "Beast Mode, Maximals!" Optimis stated out his orders to the Maximals in knowing the danger ahead. "And prepare for Energon Waves!" As Optimis spoke to look back and forth, Dinobot and Rhinox came out along with Wolfang, K-9 and Armordillo with the four children by their side in knowing time was of the essence.

"BRizizizhmm…brizizihumm…." Now the Energon pulse were increasing, as it was starting to almost sound ready while making the area shake like a tiny quake. "Wurwiurgruvhmm-Bruvruvruhmm…." The Maximals were fleeing in Beast Mode of the scene with Jeremie and his group running together with them, just as a bright light was happening behind them. "BRaaavuuhhmmm….." The light was a sphere shape, covering the area with a strange harmony bell tone sound, but no one was taking the time to look when trying to evade an explosion. "FRusuhvmm…." Suddenly, the entire Stonehenge was glowing, released a pulse wave from the ground, as the glowing energy was concentrating in the center. "Bruusvhhmm…PRruushhmm…" Then without any warning, instead of an explosion, the crystals energy was being deflected upwards.

"BRuuvhhVRruuhm….." The Maximals were far enough with their hands holding their heads for what was to happen, but the deflected energy was just firing upwards with it's sound still being heard. Aelita took a quick peek and saw how odd the explosion was reacting to the stones. It was…unusual?

"FRusuvhmm…." At this moment above the planet, the deflected energy was shot into space like a searchlight beam, going farthest towards somewhere.

"Brzizitruzuzhhmm…." Back on the ground, Stonehenge was glowing with energy from within the center, concentrated beams were focusing on the center exploding like that was being launched into space. "Prrusuhmmvruvhmm…." Then without warning, one flash afterwards, the stones stopped glowing and all that remained was the half-destroyed altar. "Briziztrzuhmm?" Even the tiny Energon crystal wasn't flaring so much after it's energy was unleashed. "Pruushtrizz-trisuhm..trizizhum…." Then without much warning, the crystal burned out to shatter into a thousand pieces while it sounded like something was being shut down.

Soon the Maximals and their human friends peeked out from under their stone shelter from expecting an explosion, but that all changed from what they witnessed.

"Hmmm?" Rhinox was slowly beginning to get his thoughts from what he saw of such a serious situation. "Like I said." He spoke in whisper in letting the others know of what he mentioned before hand. "Those stones aren't natura?" Rhinox concluded his theory with a stern gaze eye expression about Stonehenge, seem to be very true to his words.

"What in the galaxy was that!?" Cheetor asked out from gazing with wide eyes in being amazed at what they just saw. That was far out from anything they've seen yet?

"I know one thing, that was no explosion?" William spoke from noticing that whatever that was, it wasn't an explosion.

"Gee, that's clearly the understatement there?" Ulrich shrug off to comment William's sheer deduction skills on that mark, it the rhetorical sense of the matter.

"Look kind of like a…." Rhinox turns around to answer at Cheetor's question about what they all saw. "A signal?" Rhinox exclaimed out that what they saw, may have been a signal sent out into space. "But to who?" Rhinox asked puzzled when he looked upwards into the peaceful skies, wondering if that signal beam was meant to be responded by someone.

"Well, huagh…?" Optimis slowly spoke in getting everyone's attention, took a breath to continue. "Perhaps we'll learn the answer?" He looks to his crew with a serious face in knowing that they may know the answer, just one question about it. "Someday?" He looks up to the skies in feeling that whatever they saw, they may get an answer to it someday soon.

"For now, we best return to base along with the kids here?" K-9 spoke that they may as well head back to their base now, and bring the children home too.

"Lucky thing we develop a remote signal, now the Trans-Warp Gate won't need one of us to activate all the time? Come on!" Armordillo spoke from taking out a tiny remote signal device, stating with this, they can return to their base with the gate even if no one is operating it.

As the Maximals were walking off to active their gate back to base, the human children were discussing the matter of what they saw.

"Jeremie, was this ever mention about Stonehenge?" Aelita asked her friend if this sorta event had ever happen on the boy's planet. Being new & all that?

"There was something about a signal to aliens, but this is the first actual proof to ever be discovered?" Jeremie responded a bit unsure at first, knowing that this path of Stonehenge sending a 'signal' maybe true in one of it's mysteries.

"Well we need some clear evidence to figure more about this place out, like fast? But the websites probably don't have much details about it, if no one ever noticed a crystal Energon underneath?" William exclaimed that they need some clear facts about the most focus about Stonehenge. But the internet might not have much since whatever they want to find, it might not be label there for their needed knowledge.

"Then we need to hit the books, and some of the older ones relating to this. And last I call, the only actual proof dating about Stonehenge's history isn't at the school library?" Ulrich explained that what they could do at this moment was find a book, but the library is out at the moment. "But I do happen to know 'who' might spare us one!?" Ulrich exclaimed with a smile in knowing that he knows someone that could possibly help the group out. But just 'who' would that person be, was another mystery?

Back At Antigo

Near A Different Neighborhood?

At this time around night time, Ulrich was on his way to the Ishiyama's house where Yumi and her family live. He recalled that the last person that got the book about Stonehenge was Yumi, and figured it might help on the subject while also trying to not reveal about the Maximals and Predacons on that matter. Yumi seem like the right person to help since she was officially the human group's friend. If there was any conspiracy on Stonehenge that all the new stuff might leave some traces out and only the older books that have any real proof on the matter to help the Maximals out, then Yumi might know.

"Okay Ulrich, time to ask for a little historic help here?" Ulrich spoke to give himself confidence, as he stopped by Yumi's house on his bike and had almost forgot what it looked look. It was an average two story's home, tan-bare walls and dark-turquoise ceiling roof top with three windows and a door in the left middle side and three windows above with a stone fence with metal fence poles and two gates of entry from the porch to the drive through. "Dinghn-donghn…" Soon after he stepped up to the front door and rang the doorbell, he had to wait for an answer.

"Crunhmm….." Soon the door open to reveal Yumi with half wet hair and wearing a dark-violet bathrobe. "Ulrich?" Yumi replied in surprise to see one of Jeremie's friends came here at this late hour. "Wh-What are you doing here at this hour?" She motioned to ask what Ulrich could possibly want at this time.

"A little help with Jeremie, actually? And I figured you could be the one." Ulrich interpreted his own response that he was here to help his friend and that Yumi could be of help. "So, can I come in?" He asked from noticing if it was alright for him to enter Yumi's home or not to discuss the matter.

"Very well, let me just change?" Yumi nods to allow Ulrich to enter, as she turns quickly to get inside to head up to her room while Ulrich let himself in and shut the door afterwards.

After a few moments, Yumi was changed into her usual outfit before she meant with Ulrich waiting for her.

"So what do you and Jeremie need, I'm afraid shop-class stuff isn't on my stock?" Yumi asked on what Ulrich and his friend Jeremie needed from her anyway?

"I recalled you rented a very old book about Stonehenge, one that you said was the true deal and wasn't mislead about the actual history?" Ulrich spoke in stating that he was here to see if Yumi had the book about Stonehenge she got from the library a while back.

"Yeah, so?" Yumi nods in response while puzzled to why Ulrich was asking her about this.

"We…we need it to finish a project we're working on?" Ulrich rubbed the back of his head, looking away a bit to explain what he and his friends needed the book for, without telling much. "It's a report about Stonehenge and some myths that circulate around it." He stated off a false lead on why he needs the book without mentioning the Maximals involvement. "But the trick is, we're trying to have it be mostly around the alien related stuff, and as far as we know it, the newer books the Government publish out are trying to outshine the old with a few missing parts about it's mystery?" Ulrich explained that from last knowing, none of the other newer books have what was once mentioned about mystical places, and Stonehenge is something he and his friends have to get to understand.

"That's true?" Yumi slowly nods with a thinking moment and held her chin with her hand to pause about that statement. "Well, I don't normally do favors, but…?" Yumi was about to say from knowing that since Ulrich needed the book she had to make this 'project' go better, but loaning something out of favors wasn't her thing.

"Please Yumi, you're the only one I know that can help us out in understanding more about this mystery?" Ulrich pleaded to the girl, as he took Yumi's other hand in asking her to help out with this important task. "Ugh?" Then Ulrich stops himself to yelp from noticing, he was holding Yumi's hand.

"Uagh?" Yumi also yelped a bit while blushing a bit of Ulrich's action of holding her hand.

"Um…sorry? Got…carried away there?" Ulrich apologized while letting Yumi's hand go and looked away with a little blush on his face shown.

"Well, since you asked and seem very determine? I'll help you out." Yumi slowly responded with her blush disappearing and acknowledging Ulrich's determined act. She leaves to head up to her room, as Ulrich waits, he was surprise to find Yumi with instead of the book, it was a huge file case with the title 'Stonehenge' label on it. "This here's a basic written, photo, and evidence file folder I made about Stonehenge." Yumi explained what she holds in her hands, as she gives this to Ulrich who accepted it without question. "It should cover more then the book you were asking for, especially since I only got that for my little brother to get him fascinated." Yumi explained that what she had would help more out then what the old book she got would do, much to Ulrich's surprise.

"Thank you, this is going to help us out a lot." Ulrich nods with a smile while thanking Yumi for her aid, this will surely help them out.

"Just remember to return it when your done." Yumi asked out for Ulrich to return her file, as he was preparing to leave.

"Kay! Thanks again, Yumi. See ya!" Ulrich nods in understanding the message, as he soon exit's the door to give Yumi a wave. Once outside, Ulrich places the file in his backpack, strap it on his back and got on his bike to start riding off to get to the Maximal Base with his latest find on Stonehenge.

That Night

In the vastness of space, in Earth's orbit, it all seemed quiet and peaceful. "Gruvvruvhmm…/VrushmmVRusubhm….." Until the cold vastness of space crackles with energy, and then a strange wormhole opens up. "Brusuhmm…." Then out of the wormhole, a streamlined golden alien-looking probe pulls through it. "Vrusuhmm-vruuvhmm….." It goes to the planet Earth and through its atmosphere. "Frusuvhmm…." As it's blazing at the atmosphere, it takes on a golden form, just like it's outer shell while drifting downwards.

Area 51

The legendary base to where the great Roswell Conspiracy was real. But it wasn't a base of paranormal research; it was an experimental weapon base. "Beep-beep, Beep-Beep!" Inside the place, one of their radar men pick up a bleep reaction form the radar devices flashing a dot on the screen.

"Sir, the radar just picked up something going into the…?" The man was about to report this over to his superior officer, but then all of a sudden, something happened. "Beep-beep, brahma…." The bleeping blip light went & disappeared soon afterwards, almost like what appeared was never there "Wait a minute, there was something there, but it's gone? I…I don't understand if the equipment is malfunction?" The man at the radar exclaimed from thinking something was wrong here.

The person standing behind the radar man looked like he was in his twenties, had black hair fix straight, and sunglasses over his brown eyes. He worn black pants, black boots, tan-grey shirt with a black tie and a black overcoat that was left open. There was an I.D. pad name on his suit label 'Agent Bishop' which was his name to fit his FBI appearance.

"It must have been a radar ghost, don't bother reporting it? I'll make the needed precautions, just get back to work." Agent Bishop exclaimed out to conclude what happened was nothing important, and wanted the radar man to forget what he saw.

"But…but sir?" The radar man was about to object, but Agent Bishop was already walking off and away from being told otherwise.

As the man walked away, Agent Bishop was thinking something in his mind. "This isn't the first time something like this has happened; that strange explosion in Antigo, the sudden energy pulse, and strange creatures in Europe last week where a giant mantis spotted in the sky fighting some half human ape." He then stopped his thinking, as he was in his office before taking a look out of his floor's window to speak to himself. "I'm not sure what's going on, but it's obviously something big?" Agent Bishop exclaimed from thinking that whatever is going on, it's got ties to the Maximals and Predacons who are still in the dark with the agency. But he'll figure out, how to get to the bottom of it.

Back At The Axelon

Optimis was in his beast form, sitting outside the Axelon under the roof skies above giving light and reading a book to himself. "Hmm?" Suddenly, Optimis' curiosity had him look up where he had caught a glimse of what was falling out of the night stary sky that glowed like a bright golden light.

"Optimis!" Suddenly, Ulrich came running in to speak to Optimis on what he's manage to get for the group. "You guys are not going to believe this, but?" But just as Ulrich would have said more, he looked up from where Optimis' view was..to see the falling object in the sky. "Okay, that's new?" Ulrich exclaimed from being a bit speechless in finding this was a surprising new twist of mystery.

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Where The Predacon Base Is Located Inside The Volcano

The scene shows that Megatron had caught a glimpse of what was falling out of the sky above the volcano's view top that gave the right angle. "Fliers, incoming Stasis Pod." Megatron turns to speak out his orders to those behind him on what he has assume is falling from the sky. An object from the Maximal ship with a protoform awaiting for them to get their hands on.

"Bizizizihmm…../Flophmflophm…" Soon coming out of the Predacon ship was Waspinator and Lazorbeak in Beast Mode like Megatron was, awaiting his orders.

"Plot vector to crash point!" Megatron issued his order to his fliers, knowing that they must discover where that falling object is going to land.

"Aruughh….calculating now." Lazorbeak squawk out from him and Waspinator getting the calculations in while the two flew or buzzed off towards the horizon, with Megatron lumbering after the two.

Inside The Axelon

Back at the Axelon, the monitors were showing a digital diameter of the lands layouts while showing from the night moons on the right, but a digital sketch out of the falling object.

"Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep…." From the screen, a falling green line with a blinking red dot was descending from the sky, as what it's image looked like was seen before showing it's landing point. "Gurgurvhmm…." The computer made some calculated sounds, as Rhinox in Robot Mode sat near the console monitor controls with Optimis standing with his arms crossed with Ulrich and Jeremie checking out what was happening at this moment.

"Wrong profile for a Stasis Pod?" Rhinox shook his head in stating with a serious face on what they were looking at, was not a Stasis Pod from their ship, as the profile seen was not matching it.

"Then I guess it's not a rescue ship for you guys?" Ulrich questioned a thought that perhaps that thing falling might have come to help save the Maximals that crash landed on their planet. Scratch that idea?

"If the ship's computer doesn't recognize it as that, then it's not a rescue ship?" Jeremie sadly shook his head to sadly disregard that what they saw, was not a rescue ship for the Maximals, unfortunately.

"Beep-beep-beep-bep…" The monitors still were beeping, showing the image of a digital stone structure pattern.

"But…" Rhinox spoke from seeing from the white square image of the falling object and the red blinking spot in the center of the stone structure. "It isn't a meteor either?" Rhinox looked to Optimis and the two human boys, stating that this was not even a meteor that had fallen, as the scans show something 'odd' about it.

"Prime!" Optimis spoke off with a determine voice in becoming interested in this thing. "Where's it headed?" Optimis looked down towards Rhinox in asking on the destination of the falling object.

"You won't believe this, the coordinates say it's heading…." Rhinox looked to double-check the coordinates and was really surprised in where the falling object was heading towards. "Right for…." Rhinox was looking at Optimis and the two boys with a stern puzzling face in what he's about to say. "The Standing Stones?" Rhinox exclaimed out with a wide eyed expression, not believing the object has gone directly towards Stonehenge.

"Stonehenge?" Jeremie & Ulrich both repeated in surprise to hear that the mysterious place they were studying is being the center of attention once again, but from something going towards it. "And just when we thought we came close to solving it a bit here with these notes on it's mystery?" Ulrich falls in a chair console in feeling that just when he had some help getting some clues about Stonehenge, something appears that could just as easily explain about it.

"It's okay Ulrich, your notes can still help later if you type them into the system computer." Jeremie assured his friend that what he got will indeed help in their cause, as he looks to the Maximal Commander for something. "Optimis, I like to ask to join you, maybe I can help with the notes Ulrich managed to find for us, in understanding what we might be dealing with?" Jeremie requested to join on an expedition back towards Stonehenge, no doubt offering to aid in understanding the newest mystery that has arrive here.

"Alright, but I'm calling in Dinobot and K-9 for this, while Cheetor escorts Ulrich here safely home." Optimis nods in finding no objection to that offering aid while planning to gather a team. "Ulrich, you'll have to let Aelita and William know what we're doing afterwards, as well as to let Jeremie's father know where he is." Optimis looked to ask Ulrich to let the other human children and Mr. Belpois know what's going on here. "I just hope this goes well?" Optimis spoke with a silent tone that even he doesn't know what he or the others will find?

Stonehenge

During The Night Time

Soon the scene shows Stonehenge at nighttime, where standing in the center of this mysterious place, was what looked like an alien probe of origin. Just hovering in the very area where the altar used to be structured? At this time, Optimis accompanied by Dinobot, and K-9 were all in Beast Mode with Jeremie tagging along before they stopped right in the center at what they had found.

"This…is amazing?" Jeremie spoke in 'awe' in what he couldn't believe it; here he was, standing near a probe sent by another advanced civilization. "This must be what Ulrich got from Yumi, that it's actually some place to signal aliens?" The boy exclaimed out in thinking how many people would never believe this, and it's something to be sure of.

"But this is not Cybertronian, it's something…else?" K-9 stated from noticing that this probe was not made by Cybertron, so what was it? That was the question they needed to figure out.

"Yes, it looks like somebody answered that signal?" Optimis responded in seeing that this alien probe is without a doubt, something unreal that someone responded to the signal. "But who?" Optimis shrug off his shoulders in wondering who could have responded to the signal sent. This puzzled everyone for a brief moment?

"Powhm…." Suddenly, before anyone would give an opinion, there was a shot noise heard that made Optimis turn to the source. "BOomm…." But of course, The Maximal Commander was too slow to respond, and the shot exploded off his chest.

"Guuragh?" Optimis yelped out a cry when the blast sent him flying backwards while the others held their arms up from the surprise attack before seeing Optimis' down state.

"Optimus!" Jeremie called out, as he quickly goes over to check on his wounded friend to see if he was hurt.

"Huuragh?" Optimis lets out a little breath, as he was injured at the moment, but still functional.

"Brizizizuzzhmm…" There was a buzzing noise, as Dinobot and K-9 turn to see…Waspinator in Robot Mode flying down from the air. "Cliphmm…." Waspinator landed on the ground, his Sting Missile out which explains who fired on Optimis.

"Surprise!" Lazorbeak called out from soaring out right next to Waspinator, letting everyone know he's in, transformed in Robot Mode, and fully loaded with more energy blasters.

"Stomphm…Stomphm…" Then from behind the two Predacon fliers, soon came Megatron in his Beast Mode from making the stomping sounds. "Whatever this fascinating device is?" Megatron spoke from noticing the probe from behind his minions, interested in the find. "We Predacons claim it as our own. Ye-e-s-s-s." Megatron held his tiny claws together in declaring the probe was there's while Waspinator and Lazorbeak were holding their weapons to prepare for battle.

"Gurgurgurvhmm…." Dinobot was snarling and growling with his claws tighten in fury at seeing this. "Urghmm…" Dinobot lets off a low growl that the enemy has caught them off guard and is making claim to the unknown probe.

"Megatron - TERRORIZE!" Megatron yelled out his command code to begin his battle with the enemy. "Bruigrvhhmm…Gruvhmm…." Soon his body was reacting to transform himself, as Megatron spin his sides to face forward in Robot Mode now. "Clupfruhm…." He stomps on the ground to further himself more, his left hand holding his tail base weapon, prepared to fight the Maximals before him.

"Dinobot - MAXIMIZE!" Dinobot held up his closed claws before announcing his command code to transform as well. "BRuuaaRAARRrughh…." After making his raptor roar screech heard, his body transforms into his Robot Mode self. "Fophm-fophm-fophmfophm…" He brings out his Rotation Tail Blade in the left hand and his Rotating Sword in the right to be armed for battle.

"K-9 - MAXIMIZE!" K-9 spoke out his command code in preparing for battle with the enemy. "ArrooWOooooh!" He lets out a howling noise before he's transformed into his Robot Mode, and gets out his missile launcher tail, his riot shield from his back, even revealing his missiles store in his robot abdomen to fight the enemy.

"Optimis, can you stand? Maybe even transform?" Jeremie asked his Maximal friend if he can stand, Optimis took a bad hit there. It's going to be hard if he can't transform into Robot Mode for this upcoming battle?

"Urgh…Uhm…Urghm?" Optimis moans a bit, as he struggles to push himself up even with a little help from Jeremie's side.

Just as it seemed like the three Predacons were about to march over the two only Maximal warriors for a fight… "Trusuhvmmm….." Suddenly without warning, the alien probe was glowing a bright light blue color underneath it. "Grruuvhhmmm….." It was glowing a bit brighter by the minute, as both Predacons and Maximals were witnessing this.

"Nerugh…Urghmmm?" Optimis was just about on his feet which made Dinobot and K-9 looked back to their wounded commander, as they return their gaze forward. "GruuuArughm?" As Optimis was about on his feet, planning to transform no less, as Dinobot and K-9 prepared for what was to come.

"Ugh guys? What's happening?" Jeremie asked with a nervous face in seeing that the probe was starting to act a bit strange all of a sudden. This, could be bad for their situation?

"Brruuuvhhmm…gruuhmm…." The alien probe glowed a bit more brighter, much to the three Predacons standing so close to it. "BRinginigIiinnghhnn…." Then it made a weird sound, as it looked really lit up, which made Waspinator and Lazorbeak step back along with Megatron in seeing something about to happen until… "PRRusuhhvuhmm….." Then without warning, a powerful energy wave burst was unleashed from the probe that went across everything, including the ones nearby.

"BRizizizitrizzizihumm…." Without much preparation, it started to effect the Predacons to spasm out, their electric systems shorting out wildly.

"GARruuAArugh?" Megatron roared out in pain from what he was feeling, as he kneeled on one knee, held his face with his left hand, only to left it up with glowing eyes and mouth with his body electrically shorting out.

"Dizizi-DRuuZrrughm?" Waspinator let out a moan cry before he falls backwards with his mouth flashing light out and his body electrically shorting out.

"ARRRuuaaakkh?" Lazorbeak was in the same boot when he fell down with a screeching cry on his front, eyes and mouth glowed out and his body electrically shorting out.

"Trizizitruzuzhhmm…." And even the Maximals were feeling the effects of being electrically shorted out.

"BRAauuWAArrughhh!" Dinobot roared out in pain on his hands and knees, mouth and eyes glowing while his body was shorting out.

"WORRruuwwwoooh?" K-9 fell on his half side spot, howling in pain with his eyes and mouth showing a glowing effect too while his body was shorting out.

"ARruuagh?" Optimis lets out a cried to cover his glowing eyes and a bit of his mouth while his body was electrically shorting out to be on one knee.

"What's happening here? Guys? Optimis?" Jeremie asked shocked and surprised, as he saw everyone but himself were effected by what hit them. Believing it to involve machines and not organics, Jeremie tried to help keep Optimis up since he was still trying to transform.

"Gruuvhmm…Brususuhmm…." Suddenly, the alien probe glowed from one side of itself before…. "PRrusuhhmmm….." A strange light was fired off passing K-9 and Dinobot, directly over towards Optimis spot while they were shorting out at the moment.

"PRuuswwooofhumm…." The shot of light hit Optimis right on the chest point while he was down. And once more, Jeremie was with him & got involved in what happened next.

"GAAaughh…./AHhhhh?" Optimus lets out a scream of pain to stood up and wave his arms out, as he and the screaming Jeremie by surprise, were being covered in the light. "WruusUOphmm…." Then without warning, the light that covered them vanished, leaving no traces of Optimis or Jeremie from where they stood.

"Gruuagh…Guuagh?" Dinobot struggled to stay awake while the alien probe was still glowing before the Ex-Pred looked at the spot of where his commander and human ally where. "Optimis….Belpois…?" Dinobot slowly said the names of the ones that had vanished before his eyes. "Clrufhmm…" Then Dinobot slipped from his hold and fell across the ground being unable to stay awake. "Uaagh?" Dinobot lets out one little moan, as he begins to slip into an unconscious state. "Drusuhhmmm…." His optic eyes were shutting down, as he and even K-9 slipped into an out cold state.

One Hour Later

Within The Axelon?

Later on, Dinobot was slowly regaining consciousness in some strange machine while in Beast Mode during the moment.

"Hmmm?" Dinobot lets out a tiny breather from starting to awake from what happened to him. "Drugrughmm…" A computer beeping noise was heard, helping to wake Dinobot up further. "Hmmm…Huuuagh?" Dinobot was breathing, as all he could see were shapes, then lights, and then finally he focused to see his comrades. "Gruuuaghmmmm?" Dinobot was starting to get his senses back from seeing all the transformed Maximals around looking either concern or patient of his awakening while Aelita, William, and Ulrich stood from the side to looking at Dinobot's condition. "GRruuaghmm?" Suddenly, Dinobot regain his awareness, but it ended up being something different when he looked around with cautious. "MAXIMAL TORTURE CHAMBER!" He screeched to yell out from believing he was in some torture place and the Maximals before him were his enemies. "GrugurgRAArughhh!" Dinobot roars out, just before he bust out of the opened CR Chamber doors to plow down his so-called enemies.

"Duuawooh?" Rattrap yelped from getting his back bashed against the floor when Dinobot trampled him since he was in the center.

"Hey?" Cheetor yelled out from what Dinobot did while Rhinox and the others looked between Dinobot's behavior and a fallen rat.

"RAArruughWAArrugh!" Dinobot roared out while screeching to a halt against the console controls in being cornered. "Gruuuargh!" Dinobot snarled in seeing no way out before turning to face his foes. "WARRruuaRRagh!" Dinobot roars out in getting ready to fight the Maximals he believe to be his enemies that wanted to torture him, as he stood up straight and arms hold out into battle position.

"What's wrong with him?" William asked Ulrich and Aelita of why Dinobot was acting like he was their enemy instead of their ally.

"He must have thought we were his enemies from within his old sub-conscious mind?" Aelita stated a theory that inside Dinobot's brain, he must have thought he was still a Predacon, and believed to be in Maximal enemy territory.

"Well he was a Predacon, perhaps his subconscious mind must've kicked in?" Ulrich shrug off in guessing that a part of Dinobot made him forget who he is now, that must have been some impact.

"Whoa!" Cheetor spoke with his hands held up to calm Dinobot down, as Rattrap slowly got up with one hand on his aching shoulder while some of the others were almost ready for a fight. "Hey, power down! You're on our side now. Remember?" Cheetor tried to reason with Dinobot, placed his hands to his chest plate and then waved them off to exclaim that the regressive bot is a Maximal now, not a Predacon or their enemy.

"Gruurrughmm?" Dinobot was slow to respond to that reply with unsure expression before his memory slowly was coming together, in a calmer manner. "Augh…Affirmative?" Dinobot slowly and weakly answered with a wave off his left claw to nod with eyes looking to the ground, remembering he is a Maximal now.

"And Maximals, don't have torta' chambers!" Rattrap soon shouted back with a wave off of his arms that what Dinobot thought was something Maximals don't really have. "Huagh?" As he took a breather, the rodent was suddenly looking the other way with his left hand holding his chin at the thought. "Al dough ya' know?" As Rattrap mutters on second guessing that idea, it kinda made him grin about such thing. "Hechhechhech? I can get behind that idea?" Rattrap chuckled off in thinking with a grin that the idea of torturing Preds sounded nice to him while Cheetor looked with a stern face at what Rattrap was suggesting they do from now on.

As everyone in the room ignored what Rattrap said, Dinobot was a bit weak from just still standing and very much tired at the moment. "Nrrrugh how….guffhm?" Dinobot slowly and weakly spoke in about to ask something of his comrades. "How did we get here?" Dinobot finally asked out a bit tired, wondering how he and K-9 even manage to return to base.

"You mean you don't recall?" Wolfang asked a bit surprised that neither of the two that return, remembers anything.

"You called for a TransWarp Gate, and then return back to the cave here?" Armordillo briefly explained that the two Maximals returned to their base of operation, by the TransWarp Gate they have.

"We found you and K-9 dumped in front of the command base hatch?" Rhinox answered off with a serious face that when the others came around, they found Dinobot and K-9 at the mentioned area. "Scrapped down and…." He stated out from seeing how badly damage the two were, but there was something else he slowly stated. "Alone?" He spoke in mystery that only Dinobot and K-9 were the only ones found, the others they were with weren't found anywhere which concerned Rhinox.

"Ahh?" Rattrap exclaimed out in finding this a bit humorist before saying this. "Just like two innocent orphans in a B-Movie." Rattrap held his hands up to his face and waved them off downwards to play a little tease humor of how this seem somewhat familiar from a movie theme.

Dinobot was slow to gather things together in his head, from still feeling a bit weak, even after being repaired? "Optimis?" Dinobot utters out the words by whisper, suddenly remembering what happened to his commander.

"Gruvfh-gruvfh, gruvfh-gruvfhm….?" Rattrap was clamping his metal feet across the floor before responding to that question. "Yeah?" Rattrap then waved over to where a still tired K-9 was while he makes this statement. "Since seeing K-9 doesn't remember a thing from getting KO'd?" Though he stopped himself short before saying this to his comrade. "Eh, no offense?" Rattrap raised a hand up to not be rude to his friend, as it was just a slipped joke at the moment.

"Urrgh? Non taken?" K-9 shrug off from rubbing his head in not being bothered by that comment by Rattrap, seeing he was knocked out cold, and all the memories of what happen with the probe and the Predacons was all he had before…that burst of energy happened.

"We were hoping that the innocent orphan baby…" Rattrap looked back to his pals to state what he and the others were hoping to hear something from Dinobot of the question, when he looked back with his hands on his hips? "Could tell 'US', what happened to Optimis?" Rattrap held up his left hand in asking the patient Dinobot of where their commander is. "Not ta' mention wat' happened ta' Jeremie, who was with you'ves?" Rattrap exclaimed that not only their commander wasn't here, but Jeremie Belpois wasn't anywhere either.

"Dinobot?" Aelita suddenly spoke, as she slowly approached Dinobot with William and Ulrich accompanying her, in wanting to know the answer of the missing people. "You must know, when Jeremie's father told me his son didn't return yet and reached me, and William before Ulrich said he was here last time he saw him going with you? So please, where are they?" The pink haired girl pleaded, wanting to know where Optimis and her friend Jeremie was, everyone wanted to know. They are deeply worried.

Dinobot held his head down low to regretfully answer those questions of where Optimis and Jeremie are. But it would not be pleasant. "Optimis Primal and Jeremie Belpois…." He moves away from looking at the others, as he soon spoke of the sad news. "Were terminated." He gripped his fist in feeling that this was the hardest news to tell the others.

"Huuuagh?" Cheetor gasped in surprised of such news, not believing that to be true.

"That's…are you sure? K-9, what did you…?" Armordillo spoke off in not believing this, and wanted K-9 who was there, to say otherwise.

"I'm…not sure? But….I don't think Dinobot is lying, I…did hear their screams, even if I never saw it?" K-9 shook his head to hold his aching noggin, some flash moments he never saw, but he heard the sounds…of those that may have been finished off.

"No…?" Aelita gasped in the absolute worst to take this grim news that was too much. "Ugh…Hugh?" She nearly fell down from being weighted by the seriousness of the truth, but luckily, Ulrich and William were able to hold her from behind her shoulders. "Jeremie…?" Aelita mutters out before looking away at the only two human friends she had, tears coming from her eyes before she covered them with her hands against William's chest to lean against.

"Aelita?" William slowly spoke in feeling sad about losing his friend, but even more so that Aelita felt so depressed, that he and Ulrich placed a hand each on the whimpering pink haired girl's shoulders to ease some of the pain.

"Aelita, please don't be sad, we're here for you in this tough case." Ulrich tried to assure to Aelita, that she's not alone or feeling lost that they lost their good friend Jeremie, and even Optimis suddenly.

Rattrap raised an eyebrow from hearing this was something completely farfetched, even if this came from Dinobot. That Optimis & Jeremie were gone, like that?

"An alien probe has…." Dinobot turn his head a bit towards where the others are behind him, as he raised his right claw to grasp on the subject he's explaining about. "Landed near the Standing Stones you call, Stonehenge." Dinobot exclaimed that the unknown alien probe he, K-9, Optimis and Jeremie found was at the place he mentioned before lowering his claw and looking away. "Huuagh?" He took a deep breath to gather the information of what happened when he was there. "It…admitted an energy burst during Optimis' transformation?" He held his left claw from discussing what soon happened next during the events of Optimis' situation with Jeremie by his side before he shook his head sadly to say this last part. "He vanished. And there was no trace of Belpois when he tried to aid him?" Dinobot stated lastly at the group with a sorrowful expression in what had happened to Optimis, and even to Jeremie in the crossfire.

"Wait a minute?" Rhinox spoke with a raised right hand a bit in finding something odd in that explanation while Cheetor and the other Maximals had sorrow stern faces before looking at the scientist. "Why was he transforming?" Rhinox asked out a question that seemed very curious, which made the other Maximals looked to Dinobot to hear the reason, why Optimis was going to transform at Stonehenge unless….it was an emergency.

"Predacon Attack!" Dinobot snaps out to exclaim, as he turns around to mention with a serious face on the reason of the transforming part. "We have no time for further analysis now!" Dinobot waved off his left claw in stating they don't have anymore time to be discussing the matter here. "We must, make another attempt to secure the Probe from the Predacons! Quickly!" Dinobot issued out a quick order that they need to get the alien probe before the Predacons have a shot to claim it. "Huagh, Rattrap!" Dinobot took a breath when addressing Rattrap before saying his reason. "Come with me, along with Armordillo, K-9 and Wolfang. The rest of you shall follow afterwards to provide backfire, and the children will stay here in the base, out of harms way." Dinobot was ordering that he need the rodent and some reinforcements for what must be done.

Of course, as Dinobot was ordering, a certain rat was not one to go along with this. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa-whoa,…WAIT!" Rattrap was waving his arms up in having Dinobot stop right there from what he was doing. "Standby here! Time Out!" Rattrap exclaimed from wanting Dinobot to cease, as he lowers his hands to ask this. "Who died and made you, Prime? Scaleface!" Rattrap pointed his right finger before shoving his face up in asking why Dinobot was starting to take over and gave commands, like he's the Maximals leader suddenly.

At that moment, everyone was looking at Dinobot who had their attention from this situation where he looked at everyone. "Optimis may or may not be certainly scrapped while Belpois case remains unknown." He waved out his arms to coolly state the situation of the reality of their fallen friends. "And I…." He placed his hands against his chest to declare something about himself. "As the most powerful of the group…." He held his right claw in a fist to proclaim this message out. "Shall replace Optimis." Dinobot exclaimed about taking command as Optimis' replacement, much to the others surprise. "Anyone who disagrees, guagh…" As he was speaking this out with a sly serious expression about any objections. "May challenge me…." He held up his left claw to himself that any that want to to go against Dinobot, may face him. "Now…?" He said this with a 'bring it on' response in feeling cocky of facing anyone of the group that would want to challenge him for leadership. "Dinobot - MAXIMIZE!" Dinobot then went off to speak out his command code for his transformation. "BRAWwRAAArruughhh…." He lets out a raptor's roar when transforming into his Robot Mode at the moment. "Bruusfru….frussvhmm…" Then as he stood, he brought out his Rotating Tail Blade in the left hand and his sword in the right hand for any that wish to face him now.

"You've been meson' with th' wrong mouse!" Rattrap spoke off, as he approached Dinobot and had his blaster placed right underneath the Ex-Pred's chin when he got in his face. "Chopperface!" Rattrap remarked to insult Dinobot, as he was the one challenging the so called Pred, in calling the shots.

"Hold a second, we're all friends here, remember!?" Wolfang raised a hand, as some of the Maximals and the three children watch what was going to be a brawl fight until….

Just as Dinobot brought his sword up near Rattrap, as the two were about to fight when…Rhinox stepped between them. "Wait!" Rhinox pushed the two that were going for the other's throat to cease at this moment. "We're not Predacons here?" As Rhinox tried to break up a fight, Rattrap tried to poke his blaster at Dinobot's side.

"Boy, is that a good thing." Ulrich utters out in a small relief to be glad on that account, otherwise, the base would look worst from the brutal fighting.

"We'll settle the chain of command in traditional…." Rhinox spoke with a calm expression in explaining how they can get this argument settled. "Maximal Fashion." He looks over to Dinobot in telling the Ex-Pred how they shall handle this ordeal before looking over to Rattrap to state the terms of the idea he had in mind. "By Secret Ballot." Rhinox stated out with a serious face that if they want to solve who gets to lead & command, then what he suggested would be the only thing to do so.

"Secret Ballot? Wha-what's that?" Aelita asked from rubbing her teary eyes dry to ask a bit more calmer on what this 'Secret Ballot' that was a Maximal tradition was about.

"It's were we choose who leads us by who gets the most acceptance by the crew, and it's in secret, so it's kept fair play without knowing who sided with who." K-9 gave a little explanation to the three human children on how their system works, and by the sounds of it, some of the human children like William and Ulrich recognized it as voting.

"So it's…like voting? Man, sounds like Earth and Cybertron have some connection of settling debates of leadership?" William replied in getting what the Maximals would do, a fair voting should help make things be settled easier, or at least, he and the rest of the crew hopes so.

At The Predacon Base

At This Very Moment?

"Thrusustriziztrusuphmm…." At this moment, we see an energy liquid base tube that was a Restoration Pool, and inside it was a familiar T-Rex figure inside.

"GArruyughh…ARrrugh!" Megatron suddenly pops his head out of the Restoration Pool with a roaring pain. "WRRuuuAArrghh…." Megatron moans out from the pain with his body glowing with energy, as we see his head not only sticking out, but Tarantulas and Scorponok were there on their hover boards in seeing the recovery process. "URrarughh…AUuuraagh…AAaauurrghhh?" Megatron slowly lets off a few more moaning cries, as he was slowly rising up from the Restoration Pool with his body still glowing from the energy helping to heal him.

"Gluphmm…." Soon the scene shows from a few spots away from Megatron rising out, Lazorbeak and Waspinator, both in Beast Mode were glowing a bit too.

"BRriiinn…Bruurrriizzhh…." Waspinator lets off some moans too, buzzy ones, as he tried to flap his insect wings from coming out of the Restoration Pool.

"ARruuarrgghhh?" Lazorbeak lets out a groan filled squawk cry in feeling some aching pain what he has, just like the rest.

"Arrughh….Arrruuugh?" Megatron lets off the last of his painful moan cries, as the pain was wearing off now. As he, Waspinator and Lazorbeak stopped glowing while on hole base floor pads used to rise wounded soldiers in and then out after repairs are complete, and while letting the liquid drip back in the chamber.

"Wizizihmmm…/Flophmflophm…." Waspinator and Lazorbeak flapped their wings to get a feeling while Megatron shook his head downwards to get the weariness out of him now.

"Megatron back!" Scorponok spoke in sounding relief to see his leader was back. "Megatron back!" He held his arms up to announce with relief that his leader has return to them after being so worried. "Scorponok alone with Tarantulas, Terrorsaur, Razorclaw and Manterror!" Scorponok points his right claw to Tarantulas nearby from being alone with only just these members. "Wooh-wooh, very bad!" He quenched from imaging how bad it was for his leader to not be around.

"You, Lazorbeak and Waspinator…were returned to us, badly damaged? Even after using the TransWarp Gate to return?" Tarantulas spoke to lean forward before straightening up with his right pincer claw against his chest in explaining what has happened to those that return to them with a shaking head, and sounding concern which sounded slightly false.

"Arrugh, really, nice to know you guys care enough to worry what would have become of you without our leader along with the rest of us?" Lazorbeak screeched out before making his own remark that so far, the group of Predacons seem to care for their leader first and the rest second.

"Ye-e-s-s-s?" Megatron soon spoke with his head held high in recalling something of memory. "I remembered now?" He exclaimed off with one held left claw in remembering what happened to him. "Optimis…?" Megatron looked away from his eye gaze in remembering his foe. "Optimis Primal!" He spoke again with more sounding serious tone in his voice in remembering something of his old foe which was…. "Terminated!" Megatron gripped to shake his claws in exclaiming he remembered seeing Optimis was terminated on the spot after the probe's burst of energy waves knocked them unconscious.

"Wiziziziphmm…./Flophm…flophm…." Soon Waspinator and Lazorbeak flew up behind Tarantulas and Scorponok in Beast Mode, as they all awaited what their leader would say after hearing the news that the Maximal Commander has vanished.

"Quickly!" Megatron soon spoke out over to his gathered troops before him. "Scorponok!" Megatron called out to his second in command with his orders. "You, Lazorbeak and Waspinator get back to the Standing Stones, and GAURD THAT ALIEN PROBE!" He issued out with much determined thought while the latter parts were extra forceful in what the Predacons must do now.

"Wizizhummmvhrumm…." Waspinator was flapping his wings loudly before he & Lazorbeak followed Scorponok who used his hobbler board to travel. "Vruuvhmm….." Which at that moment, Megatron and Tarantulas saw the ones leaving by wings or hover board.

The scene changes to outside the opening for the Predacon base, as something was about to happen here.

"As for us?" Megatron spoke out from coming out of the darkness of his base. "This is a perfect opportunity." Megatron exclaimed out that for the Predacons, this was something of a chance for them while Tarantulas and Razorclaw crawled passed him. "Ye-e-s-s-s." Megatron nods in being excited and liking what he's got cooked up.

"Arrughhh….Arrugh!" Terrorsaur was soon seen flapping his wings out of the base's entry point followed by Manterror while they fly over Megatron's head top spot.

"Guuagh, I know just how those weakling Maximals…" Megatron exclaimed off where he stopped to brief his gathered troops on what's probably happening at the Maximal base. "Will respond to Optimis' and that boy's death." Megatron declared out to his minions listening to how the Maximals are going through without a leader. "Huagh, a Confusion?" He held his right claw outward and looked upwards to state something of the Maximals situation. "Bickering?" He moved his head and right claw over to the other side to describe another thing happening to the Maximals. "Ugh, Recriminations!" He then happily exclaimed that next part out with tinkling his claw talons in imaging such irony for his foes. "The perfect opportunity?…For a surprise Attack." Megatron slowly clapped his claws before lying them down, as he evilly responded with a wicked plot to catch the Maximals by surprise during Optimis vacant absence.

And this will serve as the turning point to acquire victory in the war, including…the Key.

Back At The Axelon

We see everyone around the center table, all awaiting the results of the voting which Rhinox was counting by a scanning computer in his hands to see who would be leader.

"One vote for Rattrap." Rhinox read out one of the first starting votes and looked to Rattrap on his name being mentioned.

"Hmmmmm?" Rattrap heard this and soon smirked with a sly expression that he got the first vote around.

"One vote for Dinobot." Rhinox read out another vote, as he looked to Dinobot for getting the next vote in the lead.

"Hmmmrrghhh?" Dinobot only made an impatient mood sound, as he didn't care about this, as he only cared about securing the probe.

"Three Votes for Rattrap." Rhinox spoke to let Rattrap know he got three more votes for his side.

"Hmmm, hmmm?" Rattrap smirked with pride in hearing he got more votes for his winning.

"Three votes for Dinobot." Rhinox then looked towards Dinobot to state the stacked votes that were up for his winning.

"Mrrughmmm?" Dinobot only let off a tiny gruff moan while being calm and patient to see what the results would be.

"Well, it's down to the last two votes?" William spoke to his human friends in realizing there were ten of them in this room that voted.

"Who do you think is going to win?" Ulrich whispered off in not knowing who voted for the other, or who might win in the end.

"Let's just hope it turns out alright. If we get to the alien probe, maybe it might have some clue to what it did to Optimis and Jeremie….?" Aelita mutters out in thinking that as long as things go okay, then nothing else matters, especially if they get to the probe, it might help them figure out if by a 'slim' chance, Optimis and Jeremie were actuality, alive.

"Driguhmm…" Rhinox tapped on the computer to check the last two votes to see who would win. "One more vote for Rattrap." Rhinox spoke to look at Rattrap, as he had the the leading vote, as the Maximal scientist looked around the room. "And…" Everyone was on edge, even Aelita, Ulrich and William wondered who would win this now before going after the probe. "Briignhnmm…" After Rhinox typed on the computer scan to see the last vote to determine the results. But…? "Huuaaagh?" Rhinox suddenly signs with a defeated tone, his arm lowered down in seeing the last vote to decide things. "Another vote for Dinobot." Everyone that was nearby heard this news and did not expect that, even Rattrap flinched a bit when he heard this. "It's a tie." Rhinox declared out that the voting ended up being a tie, so no one really lost, but no one really won neither. It's a draw.

"Heeey?" Rattrap yelps out with his jaw dropped, not believing this one bit. "CLUmphmm…./"Whaaaat? In a blinded upset action, Rattrap slammed his fists on the Holo-Navigator desk console and looked over everyone who was there which also made them see how ticked the rat-bot was of this unexpected outcome. "Which one of yus, yus' traitas' voted for the Predacon?" Rattrap pointed his finger and slammed his left hand on the table in demanding to know who sided that Dinobot would lead.

Everyone glanced at each other before all eyes turned to look at Rhinox, as he responded to the request unfazed. "It's a secret ballot." Rhinox stated out with a calm demeanor on his face before explaining. "No one has to say who they voted for." From this statement, it was clear, whoever wanted the other one to win, would not be noticed, so that there would be no faults in the others thinking differently about their friends.

"Dinh-Hmm, Wahaahahaha…." Suddenly Rhinox and everyone else turned towards Dinobot's side, as he let out a harsh laugh with his right hand to his chest. "Ohohohohoh….Great system, your….Democracy." Dinobot exclaimed out while lowering his right hand down, seeing he couldn't be helped from the irony. "No mechanism to break a tie." Dinobot held his two hands up in a grip in stating with a humorist smile that this vote was suppose to tell who would be the new leader in command, and it ended up as a tie without a way to settle it.

"Some power play, Leatherlips!" Rattrap exclaimed off when everyone looked towards the rat, who wasn't to pleased by the results to even point and insult Dinobot. "Huaagh…You know?" Suddenly, Rattrap took a breath, crossed his arms together in thinking of a suspicious idea. "I'm startin' ta wonder if that alien probe had anythin' ta 'do' with Optimis' and Jeremie's disappearin'?" Rattrap went off to say and waved his arms out in thinking maybe it wasn't the alien probe, but Dinobot who did the crime, which made some of the others look to see how Dinobot would handle such a response of being accused.

"GRuuRAArguhh…." Dinobot lost it there, as he made a yell out in fury of what he was accused of. "Creihn…Clurrashhmm….." He ended up grabbing and tore the desk table out of it's bolts and threw the table aside. "I've heard ENOUGH, from this scrawny thief!" Dinobot exclaimed off in blind fury, as he pointed and approach Rattrap to speak his mind of what the rodent said. "To set the score straight, Cheese-Eater. I, in never in my existence turn away from my code." He waved his right arm out in exclaiming he is not one to turn away from that which is his warrior code. "I owe Optimis my life and allegiance for saving my life on the bridge that day, even if I helped saved him from that event on that Mountain of Energon." He explained himself that he owe Optimis for sparring him and saving his life, to that, he honors it even if he repaid a debt. "As for Belpois, my code doesn't involve slaughtering a defenseless child that also helped in saving both our lives, especially if they're a teenager." Dinobot screeched out in telling Rattrap that he would not sink low to harm Jeremie who would be defenseless, to which even Aelita was surprised along with the other human children to know this. "So to settle this!" Dinobot returned to the subject back at hand, knowing what this argument was still about. "I….shall break the tie, and be your new leader!" Dinobot set and lowered his hand from the chest, looked to the others before his right hand made a grip in declaring to be the new leader. "Huuagh, BY FORSE, if necessary!" Dinobot took a breath, looked to Rattrap to declare with a furious look of what he'll do to get to be the leader of the Maximals. "PRRusushhuumm….." Before Rattrap could put up his defense, Dinobot fired off his green optic eye beams that hit the rodent.

"GAAuuuaagh?" Rattrap let off a surprised scream while he was shot backwards while the others watched in surprised shock. "CLuffhmm…" Rattrap ended up smacking against one of the glass doors of the floor hatches. "GAaaugh?" Rattrap let out a moan from where he hit and in an upside-down back against the glass state position too. "CLuufhmm…." Then he fell off from there and his body smacked with his face to the floor. "Gaugh…Gaaullh?" Rattrap let off a few groans from his impact, not a very pleasant feeling.

"GRaarughh…" Cheetor growls at Dinobot for doing that, as he got ready to fight the Ex-Pred too.

"NRrruaughhh?" Dinobot made a growl, as he set himself in position to fight, as Cheetor sided to Rhinox, as he and the other Maximals prepared for a brawl out.

The three human children watched in worry if anything short of a miracle could stop this when…. "Trugrudreem,…." There was some computer sounds, as if something was activating before….

"Maximals! Come In!" A voice was heard out that sounded disembodied of an echoing voice which got everyone to stop and look at a spot where the sound came from? "Do You Read Me?" As the voice replied back, the entire group saw the voice was coming from the console by a comm. mike. "Maximal Command Base?" The voice repeated again in addressing the base of where the Maximals are, as it was sounding very familiar until…. "This Is Optimis!" The disembodied echo voice exclaimed that he was Optimis Primal which made everyone freeze up in shock to hear his voice again. This meant their commander is still alive.

"Drufhmmm…drufhmm…drufhhmm…." Rhinox was was approaching by his stomping feet, as he reached the comm. mike. "Optimis?" Rhinox spoke to the mike, as from behind him were Cheetor along with the other worried Maximals and human children looking over his shoulders. "Trusuhmm…" Rhinox pressed the comm. button to activate a signal sender to where this transmission is coming from. "Optimis, this is Rhinox? Where are you?" Rhinox replied back while asking where his commander and friend is with concern.

"Trusuhmmm…" There was a breaking signal during the communication while they all heard from Optimis' side.

"That's hard to say?" Optimis' echoey voice bounced off to say in being unsure himself. "As near as I can figure…" As Optimis was stating what he gathered to tell, as even Dinobot was listening carefully. "I-I have no body?" What Optimis said got many in the group to wonder that puzzling fact, even Dinobot was puzzled." My consciousness is intact, but my…" Cheetor listen in, wanting to know a bit more of what's happening, as everyone else was on edge. "My physical molecular structure is being stored and scanned….Inside the alien probe." Optimis' echoey voice of sounding disembodied replied out, much to everyone near the comm. mike in what they heard from their Maximal Commander.

"Trrusuhmmmm…." The signal noise returned, allowing someone else to speak in, which then to the others surprise, Aelita reached for it.

"Optimis! Is Jeremie there with you?" Aelita spoke in asking Optimis if her friend Jeremie was with him, if he survived, then the boy she cares for must be okay to. She hopes?

"Trusuhmmm…." There was another signal noise, as the pink haired girl and everyone prepared for the news.

"Yes he is." Optimis' echoey disembodied voice answered off with an assuring tone while going on. "I think the same thing is happening to him as well? I don't think they're harming him, just only scanning him like me, but differently?" What Optimis said made Aelita nearly get close to breaking into tears, as she couldn't have been more happier to hear that.

"Feww?" Even William, Ulrich, and Cheetor were glad to hear this news as well, the young cadet had nearly lost a friend and almost failed to protect the genius boy.

"Truushmmmm…." Soon the signal noise return for anyone else to make a reply to Optimis.

"Gurgh…gihhnnn" Suddenly, Rattra pushed Rhinox out of the way, as he was going to say something. "We'll come and get ya' two." Rattrap said in wanting to help rescue Optimis and Jeremie from inside the alien probe. "Just keep static!" Rattrap held his arms out in asking for Optimis to keep speaking through the static, so they know he's alright along with Jeremie too.

"Trusuhmm…." There was another static noise on the signal when the group heard this near the comm. mike console.

"Just beware of a Predacon attack." Optimis spoke out one more time from the disembodied echoes of a cautious warning. "They'll be after you now that you're outnumbered." Optimis stated out that with him temporally out, the Maximals are out numbered which made many of the Maximals and the three children have serious expressions of the dangers. "Rattrap!" Optimis' voice suddenly called out to a certain rodent which made Rattrap flinch up in being spoken too. "You're in charge!" Optimis exclaimed out that Rattrap would take command, which made Rattrap looked pretty pleased to have the job with his smile and fist grip in bottled excitement.

"Cluffhm-cluffhm…." Rhinox gave a congrats pat on Rattrap's right shoulder, as everyone glanced at the other in hearing who got to be in command until Optimis returns.

"I'm sure you've worked out the chain of commands peacefully?" Optimis' echoey disembodied voice stated out on how the chain of command worked out, as everyone, even Rattrap glanced over to Dinobot who looked a bit annoyed where the cocky rodent made a smile that he won the right of leadership.

"PRruussvhhmmm…" Suddenly while everyone was distracted about the new chain of command, a blast shot was heard. "BOOommmgruvhmm…./Crackiashhmmm….." There was a loud boom sound that shook the base and sounded like something fell and broke to pieces.

"Briignnhmmm…..Briiighnnmmm….." Suddenly, the alarms were going off which got Rattrap and everyone alert of something shaking the place up.

"PRruushvvmm….." There was another blast sound noise, which was followed by a boom. "BOommgruvhhmm….." Which in term, shook the place up and got everyone to think the roof would fall down on them.

"Right about one thing anyway?" Cheetor exclaimed out from noticing something over the rumbling of the base. "Briignhmmm…brightmm….." The alarms were still going off like crazy, as the cautious young cadet knew what this all could mean.

Outside The Axelon

Out near the cave entrance, Megatron and his Predacons were standing outside the Maximal base in Robot Mode.

"PRRuussovhmm….." Megatron fired his T-Rex beam right against the Axelon shields while the ones on the ground fired; Tarantulas & Razorclaw, and Terrorsaur and Manterror attacked by air.

"We're under Predacon Attack!" Cheetor's voice exclaimed from the scene of Predacons attacking the Maximal base.

"PRruussvhhmmm….." Megatron fired another T-Rex blast beam against the base's shields that took it.

"Prugrugrugruvhmmm….." Tarantulas was firing his spider leg machine guns against the base's shields.

"Brizizizhhsshmm…." Manterror spins around before unleashing his buzzsaws to clash against the defense shields.

"PRRususvhhgruuvhmm….." Razorclaw used one of his blasters inside his claws to hit the shields as well.

"Prophm-porphm…." Terrorsaur fired from his small blaster two energy shots that impacted against the base's shields.

"PRusuvhhmm…PRrushvvvmmm….." Megatron was seen firing a few shots of his T-Rex's head while he cracked a wicked smile. "PRruussvhmmm….." He see's that with the enemy at their weakest, it shall be easier to conquer them. "PRusuvhhmmm….Prrusvhmm….." Megatron fired another of his laser beam against the base's energy shield's trying to hold.

"PRophm…PRrooffuhmm…" Terrorsaur's blaster fired two more charged shots that impacted against the shield's defense.

"Pruussvhhmmm…./Prophm-prophm…" Megatron and Terrorsaur both fired at the same time, giving further increase of their barrel attack.

"Prugrugrugurvhmm…." Tarantulas fired more of his legged machine guns against the Maximal base front.

"BRizizihmm…./PRushhvvpruussvhhmm…" Manterror and Razorclaw fired their own buzzsaws and blast shots that impacted the energy shield, weakening it along the way.

Inside The Axelon

"KURPRrooovhhmmmm…./CRuushmm…." There was another explosive force that also came with something breaking along the way.

"Guagh?" Cheetor yelped from the impact of that explosion, as everyone else tried to keep it together.

"Over five enemy units outside?" K-9 spoke from seeing the monitors, seeing up to five Predacons attacking with Megatron in the lead.

"Briiignhmmm…briggnhmmm…" The alarms were going off like crazy, at that time, Ulrich and William tried to at least help keep Aelita safe for their pal Jeremie's sake.

"And they're trying to go through the shields?" Wolfang spoke in noticing that their shields are taking a beating.

"ARrrugh, they musta slipped pass my 'Traps', we got no other defenses up yet?" Armordillo cursed in seeing that somehow, the Preds found a way around some of his traps which is how the system here didn't notify him of their coming.

"Briighnmmm…brighnnmmm" The alarms still go off, as everyone was in a mess now, and they had to act fast.

"Well….Commander?" Dinobot looked to Rattrap, as he slowly spoke in awaiting something. "KUrppoofhmm…kurpooffhmm…." There was another big explosion that shook the base, as everyone waited on what the new commander had to say. "What are your orders?" Dinobot asked out in awaiting to see how Rattrap takes command of leading the Maximals.

"PRroofhmm…Kurprroofhmm.." There was more exploding sounds outside the base before followed by a bigger explosion. "BOommgruvhmm…" That shook the base and didn't help with Rattrap trying to think straight with the explosions and on-going alarm sirens. "Um…dughm…we're?" Rattrap was a little out of play here, as this was his first day on the job. "Boomgruvhm" There was another explosion outside the base, and Rattrap had to come up with a game plan here, and fast. "We-we-we're scrapped if we sit inside? Uuugh?" Rattrap exclaim the first stuff that staying inside was no good, so they had to try a different tactic. "KurProofhmm…." Another explosion happened that shook the place, as Rattrap tried to think some more. "Prepare…for a Sortie!" Rattrap slowly responded and held up his right hand to declaring what they do.

"BRrugruvvhmmm…" Another explosion hit the base which shook it while everyone heard the rat's orders.

"A frontal attack?" Dinobot grimly exclaimed out what the new commander was suggesting. "Briignnhmm…brighnnmmm…." The alarms were still going off, and for most felt like slapping their heads from what plan Rattrap cooked up. "Huuugh…Pure Madness!" Dinobot stated out that such a plan was foolish against these odds, even he was not that reckless. "BOommgruvhhmmm…." Another explosion shook the base and everyone inside, the attacks outside are still coming.

"Brignnhmmm…brighnnmmm…" The alarms still sounded off, as everyone was on edge. They need a course of action here?

"No! Rattrap's right!" Rhinox held up his left hand to speak to everyone, stating that Rattrap has a point here. "Powsruvhmm…../BOomgruvhhmm…." Another blast shot was heard before it impacted on the base that exploded. "We'll be buried in here, and most of us 'alive' if we stay here?" Rhinox held his arms up in stating that if they stay any longer, the Maximals will be buried alive, and with human children around, they might not last long like machines can. "Let's go!" He pointed towards the exit for them to head out and stop the Predacons.

"KurBoomm…." Another explosion happened, as all the Maximals were leaving the room to get themselves ready for battle, except for the three children who stayed in knowing they shouldn't get in the way.

"Briignhmm…brighnmmm…" As the alarms go off, Rhinox was about to go to follow the rest out, but Rattrap was still by him, as he held up one hand to have the large Maximal cease.

"No Rhinox!" Rattrap stopped his large friend with something else on his mind now. "KURBOomm…/Crusshhmm…." Another quake shaking explosion happened along with something of glass breaking, as the new commander spoke. "You get to work!" Rattrap pointed to Rhinox in stating with some confidence in what he's doing. "BOomgruvhmm…" Another explosion happened that shook the place, as Rattrap gave his reason. "We need a device to extract Optimis from that probe. That, an free Jeremie too?" Rattrap waved out his arms in stating that they need their Maximal scientist to develop something to free Optimis and Jeremie from the alien probe. "BOmmgruvhhmm…/Cruushvmm…." Another explosion happened that shook the base and broke more glass stuff inside? "Plus, if you need assistants, ya got three kids here? Have them help out, somehow?" The rodent pointed his thumb at the three human kids that could give Rhinox a hand in making the device they need since they won't be partaking in the fighting.

"KRuuvvKrroovmmm…." Another explosion happened, as Rattrap ran off to join the others once Rhinox had his orders.

"Brignnmmm…brighnnmmmm…" The alarm was going off, as only Rhinox was left alone with the children with another task to be worked on instead of fighting off Preds. "Ouurgh, no?" Rhinox slumps his shoulders down to sign with such a difficult task to handle.

"I take it that it's easier then it sounds?" William replied in thinking that asking for such a device is easy to say, but another thing to make one.

"That, and for it to be done?" Ulrich exclaimed that they need to design such a device to free their trapped friends, inside the alien probe.

"We'll help you Rhinox, just tell us what you need, and we'll assist." Aelita spoke to Rhinox with a pleadful expression to allow the three children to help which Rhinox nodded in being appreciated for such help.

Outside The Axelon

The Predacons were still firing their attacks directly at the Maximal base.

"Purpurprugruvhmmm" Tarantulas fired more of his machine gun legs outward some more.

"Prowhm-prowhm…" Terrorsaur kept firing more of his blaster's shots from the air.

"PRruushhvmmm…" Megatron fired another laser beam from his T-Rex head figure.

"Briziziziz" Manterror launched more buzzsaws in the air at his target.

Prruushvvmm….." Razorclaw just kept firing his laser guns right at the enemy's base.

"PRugurgurvhmm…." Tarantulas took a moment before continuing on to fire another machine gun shots.

"Prowphm-prowhpm…." Terrorsaur still fired more energy shots at the Maximal base.

"Truussffvhmm…." Suddenly, the floor hatch was starting to open up, as some Maximal feet were seen coming down it.

"Purpurpurgruvhmmm…." Tarantulas was still firing some more shots from his machine gun legs.

"PRrrussvhhmmm…." Megatron had fired another laser beam from his T-Rex head at the base.

"KurPOOowwvhmm…BOommvruhmm…." Explosions were happening from around the hatch doors, as Rattrap came out with his Maximal troops to begin their frontal attack plan. "PRruvhhmmm…prossvhmm…." Of corse, as Megatron fired more laser beam shots against the shields. "Gruussvhhmm…." It was creating a smoke screen, covering up the Maximals that came down and out of the base.

"URraarrugh?" Megatron growls while gazing his eyes at the spot where the Maximals had appeared. Where are they?

"Proowh-Proowhm…." Suddenly, as the smoke was clearing a bit, the Maximals were running out of the dust smoke cloud with Cheetor firing the first shots.

"PRuomphm-prouphm…." Rattrap was also firing his blasters shots, as he lead in the middle of the group with their weapons of guns, missiles, and swords.

"PRruussffhhmmm…./PRrussfhhmmmm…." K-9 and Wolfang each fired their own missiles out to hit the targets.

"Frufruphmfruphmfruphm…." Even Armordillo was wielding his chain and mace weapon in hand in wanting to smack this around.

"Ahh, they've come to meet their death." Megatron exclaimed out with a sly grin in seeing the enemy leave the opened hatch for a frontal attack. "Face to face!" Megatron declared outwards of what's happening, as he soon takes charge.

"PRoowhm-Proowhmm…." Cheetor was firing his plasma gun out, as he and the other Maximals lead their charge assault.

"PRuusphm….PRushpmm…" Rattrap also was firing his blaster too, in hoping to hit the enemy while they were running.

"Stomphm-stomphm-stomphm-stomphm-stomphm…." Megatron was stomping on forward to charge right at the Maximals while his forces continued to attack.

"PRowhm-Prowhm…" Cheetor was still firing while the Maximals still were charging.

"PRusphm…prupshm…." As Rattrap was blasting, Dinobot soon leaped ahead of the group for a flying kick.

"Wooh, that's new?" K-9 exclaimed from what he saw Dinobot do just now.

"Stomphm-stomphm-stomphm…." Megatron was still charging onwards even with Dinobot jumping for a leap kick.

"GRuuAArrughh….RAArrughh…" Dinobot roared out from approaching Megatron to get a perfect kick hit which was…. "Clkiffumm…." Right on the mark, Dinobot stopped and kicked Megatron right in the chest.

"RAaruughh….?" Megatron cried out from the hit that shot the Predacon leader backwards from the leap kick maneuver. "Cluphm…?" Megatron crashed on the ground on his back from being kicked off.

"Pruphm-pruphm…/PRowshm-Pruoshm…" Rattrap and Cheetor continued firing while the others saved their fire power, as they ran ahead of Megatron to face the other Predacons.

"Prusffhhmmm-Prusfffhhmm.../Prophm-prophm/Proowhm-proowhm…." K-9, Wolfang, Cheetor and Rattrap continued to fire their shots while approaching their foes.

"Prugrugruvhmm…./PRrusvhmm…." Tarantulas and Razorclaw were still firing their machine guns and laser blasters right at the enemy base.

"Guagh?" Tarantulas yelped from the Maximals were coming at them now and from a shot that almost had him.

"Here they come, perfect!" Razorclaw smirked with a sly wicked grin in seeing the prey come to them.

"Purgurgruvhmmm.../PRruuvhhmmmm!" Soon Tarantulas and Razorclaw were firing their attacks at the Maximals approaching them.

"Proosuhm-proushm…/Brizizizhhmm…." Terrorsaur and Manterror flew over their group to fire their shots of energy blast and buzzsaws at the enemies.

"Prushhmm-Prushmmprushmm…." The Maximal group was running still full force against the attackers attacks. "Prushmmm-Prushhmmm…" Soon Rattrap has his team duck behind a boulder rock for some shelter from the fire. "Boommm…Boommvruhmm…" Of course, some energy shots hit that boulder from where the good guys were ducking behind.

"PRovhhmmm-prouuvhmm…." As the Maximals were seen behind the boulder, they lean their backs while noticing the shots from above. "Fruvhmm-fruvhmm…" Most of the Predacons aims were missing them so they felt safe. "PRrushhmm…TRushhmm….." Of course, that changed from when some shots impacted the boulder and made them cover their heads for protection.

Inside The Axelon

The scene shows that inside the Maximal base, we see Rhinox working on a metal crate, trying to use some tools to build some device to help Optimis and Jeremie out of the alien probe.

"BOommvhmm…" There was an explosion outside, not as shaky like the others, but just heard.

"Prisihmm-prisshmm…." Rhinox had some spark glow from his tool, as Aelita, William and Ulrich were trying to bring any tools that Rhinox would need.

"Brignhmm…." Rhinox connected one piece of the antenna to the device's body, as he started to use the tool.

"Poouhmm…" There was another tiny 'boom' noise outside, but the ones inside were too busy to worry about that.

"Making a device that will extract both physical, molecular structure, as well as an organic matter from an alien probe?" Rhinox exclaimed out to explain how the device is going to work in freeing Optimis and Jeremie from an alien probe of unknown origin makes him have almost self doubt in his voice, even as he was working.

"Beep-beep…?" The device had it's green light flashing, as it was starting to sound like it was functioning properly.

"Man, I gotta be a miracle worker?" Rhinox signed off to exclaim with a remark that for him to make such a device is easier then a slice of pie, since this task was very tricky.

"It's okay Rhinox, we know you can do it." Aelita turned to give Rhinox some encouragement in believing he can do the task.

"I appreciate the confidence, but I'm wishing I had some help myself, like Jeremie to give me some expert aid?" Rhinox thanked Aelita for the shared vote of confidence, but at his steady paste of using his brain power, he'll be lucky to get this device working right.

"Prrushvmm…" Rhinox added another spark mark on designing the device very carefully, as he and the others looked at how far it's getting complete…?

"PRRuussvhmmm…." Then there was another blast shot outside the base, which soon hit the shields. "BOOMmgruvhhmm…." The explosion happened outside which also caused things not bolted to the ground to shake a bit.

"Grrughhmm?/WAaaugh?" Rhinox moans out while the three children yelped from the sudden lost of balance of where they were standing.

"CRusffhumm…crusfhmmm…." Suddenly, the device Rhinox and the kids were working on fell and crashed on the floor. "Crackcreekhumm…." Broke into a few broke off part pieces that flew in the air and fell to the floor which made a lot of them not like the looks of their situation of a mess to clean up.

"On No?" Rhinox placed his left hand on his face to nearly slap it in agony, there goes his work and has to start from scratch.

"Don't worry, we'll pick up the pieces!" William assured Rhinox they help, as he, Ulrich and even Aelita helped re-set things to help Rhinox not give up on finishing what he started.

"Just hope the others outside are doing better then we are here?" Ulrich exclaimed in feeling that putting together a device is hard enough without all the constant explosive quakes happening outside where the battle isn't over yet?

Outside The Maximal Base

Back at the battle going on outside, Megatron was just getting to his feet from Dinobot's earlier display of knocking him down for a moment. "Gurhachacha-hachachah-hahahahaaah…." Megatron chuckled out, as he soon stood up on his own two feet in front of Dinobot in a good battle position, like he found this amusing.

"Haaaaay?" Dinobot spoke and moved his left hand to signal Megatron to come at him.

"Clurrfh-clurrfhmmm.." Soon Megatron approached Dinobot, as he was recklessly bashing his weaponized arms against the traitor's blade. "Trusufhmm-trusuhfmmm…" A jab with the T-Rex head and then the tail, Megatron was hitting Dinobot's sword with his armed weapons.

"Trushhmm-trushhmm-trushhmmm…." Dinobot manage to block some of the barrage of attacks from Megatron with his sword in both hands. "Trushhmm…trusfhmm…." Dinobot seem to just about had the upper hand with blocking everything until… "Gruuffhmm…trrussfhumm…." Megatron had manage to land a blow to Dinobot's gut and swung his left hand that knocked the Ex-Pred's sword out of his hands.

"Urragh!" Megatron roared out, as he waved his T-Rex head to hit Dinobot, but he ducked down in time.

"GRruaughh…."Dinobot roared out from below Megatron, as he delivered a counterstrike. "CLrruffhmm…" Dinobot manage to deliver a punch to Megatron's gut which paralyzed him for a brief moment. "GRuuArrugh…" Dinobot roared with his arms raised up and soon made his next move. "CRruuFruhhmm-cruussfhmm…" Then he delivered a high-knee kick against Megatron's chest which made the villain stumble backwards.

"Druussfhmmm-drusffhmmm…" Dinobot then began to go all barrage with fist against Megatron's front side. "Gruusfhhmm-gruusfhmmm…" His fist bashed against Megatron's metal body with all he had. "Bruusgrufhhmm-brusfhhmm-grussfhmm, gruuffhmm-gruusfhmmm…" Dinobot was really bashing and punching Megatron around the gut and face like a rage doll while the enemy couldn't defend at the moment while being pushed backwards.

"Purprupurpurgruvhmmm…/PRusuvhmmm…." Tarantulas and Razorclaw were still firing their machine guns and laser blast at the Maximal enemies.

"PRoouwphm-prowuhpm.../Brizizizihmm…" Terrorsaur and Manterror were also firing their energy shots and buzzsaws to hit the Maximals in hiding.

"Purpurprugruffhmmm.../Prouphm-prowuhmm…" Tarantulas and Terrorsaur soon focus their attacks at another target in particular.

"Trushhmmm…trushh….TRUUSshhmm…." The base's energy shield was taking the energy shot impacts, but from it's low green glow, it seem almost out.

"Proophm…/PRruussfhmmmm-PRrussffhmm…." Cheetor, Wolfang and K-9 fired more shots from their weapons against the Predacons.

"Froouphm…frouphmm…." But the other shots from the Predacons just went pass the Maximals in hiding

"Prowphm-prowhphm…" Cheetor fired again, but Rattrap looked back with some caution & concern on his face at where the Preds fired, even Armordillo was puzzled by this too.

"Vrusuvhmm-russvhmm…." Rattrap's scanners showed the door hatch which was still left opened. "Bleep-bleep!" Suddenly, the scanners locked in on something on the hatch doors from finding something. "Vrrusuhmmm…." The image was zoomed in for further look which appeared to be a control console. "Bruughnn…bruughnnn…bruughnn…." The image of what looks to be the shield's circuitry wasn't looking to good, as it was dropping down low with the alarm going off. "Huuagh?" Rattrap gasped in surprise shock to seeing this was happening suddenly.

"Powhm-powhm-powhm…." Cheetor tried to keep shooting back more, but that wasn't the real problem to deal with.

"Oh No?" Rattrap groans out to exclaim with a serious worried expression that spells trouble for the Maximals.

"What's wrong?" Armordillo asked from noticing how Rattrap was acting strange, like he noticed something.

"We gotta plow down them Preds, and fast guys! The shields won't last much longer!?" Rattrap gave a brief explanation that they needed to hurry or all would be lost for them

"Then it's time to out number them with some firepower!" K-9 suggested out a new change of tactics, as he brought out his shield in arms.

"Right, we got shields, cover us!" Wolfang agreed to his ally, as he brought his own shield to defend him, as the two were going to use them while the others covered them a bit.

"Prouphm-prohpm-prohm…/Prooshmproshmproshm…" Soon Cheetor and the latter who popped up to join, Rattrap were firing more shots against the Predacon enemies. "Prosuphmprouphm-proshmproshm…/Prowhmprowhm…" They were giving it all they got to try and pin down the enemies for a brief moment.

"ArroooWOooofffhhhh…." Both K-9 and Wolfang soon charged out with shields in hand and charged forward to attack.

"POoowhhmmm-poowhmmm!" Soon the Predacons on the other side were ducking their arms over their heads from the fire power while those in the air dodged with ease, just as Tarantulas ducks behind a rock with Razorclaw.

"RAarughhh…." Both K-9 and Wolfang jumped to tackle Razorclaw down and Tarantulas nearly ducked in time to get bashed.

"Frusuvhmmm…." However, Terrorsaur soon flew over and away from being targeted.

"Proushmm-proushm-proushm…/Prowhm-Prowhphm-prowhpm…" As Rattrap and Cheetor were firing, Terrorsaur flew pass the two which Armordillo hand signal them which Cheetor tried to blast the red-Pred out of the sky.

"Dinobot!" Rattrap looked behind to shout this message towards Dinobot still in battle. "The shield's circuitry is hit!" Rattrap told the Ex-Pred of what's happened to their shields, as they were hit badly. "Get it BACK On-Line!" Rattrap barked out in wanting Dinobot to help get their shields to return online by rebooting them.

"BRruagghh!" Dinobot lets off a moan, as he was wrestling his hands against Megatron's T-Rex head trying to take a bite out of him. "I am currently…engaged!" Dinobot looked back to regretfully tell Rattrap he can't deal with the request while facing his foe.

"That's an ORDER!" Rattrap sternly went and shouted in barking his repeated order to the Ex-Pred not listening to him. "One more missile hit and our shields are gone for Good!" Rattrap explained out that if another missile or more hits their shield, it's offline and their base will be unprotected.

"Fruusphmm…frusouphm…." Megatron waved his arms down to hit Dinobot, but he missed which gave the Ex-Pred an opening.

"Cruffhmm-crufhmmm…." Dinobot manage to hit more punches against Megatron, who yelped back before grabbing his arms to hold him.

"Propwphm-prowphn-prowhpm…" Cheetor still was firing his shots, but Rattrap wasn't looking to please with how this was handling things.

"Come on…PLEEEEASE?" Rattrap went off and waved his arms out to pleadfully ask that Dinobot listen to him which was useless at this moment.

"Rattrap, you go, we have things covered here, and I'll cover you! GO!" Armordillo stated to the rat that things are handled here, and the rat is the only one who can make it.

"Prowhm-prowhm-prowhpm…" Cheetor was still firing which after Rattrap thought for a moment, gave in to what he had to do. "Prowhm-prowhm-prowhm…" As Cheetor still kept firing, Rattrap decided to take a chance and run ahead.

Above the scene where Megatron and Dinobot still fought, Terrorsaur noticed Rattrap trying to run back towards the base. "PRoowhmm…Proowhm…Proowhmm…" He fired three energy shots from his blaster downwards which let him crack a smirk. "Frouphm-frouphm-frouphm…." Soon as Rattrap passed the engaged Dinobot and Megatron, Terrorsaur's shots went passed them from above. "Gruusvhmmm…PRruuvhmmm-PRrussvhmmm…." The shields took the next hitting, as the energy took the impact, just about…

"Hech-hech, hech-hech…" Rattrap was seen running as fast as his body could move while patting a bit. "Eh, eh, eeh, nechh?" Rattrap was only a few meters away from reaching back to base to save the shields from going down. "Hech, heck, nechh?" Rattrap still was struggling to keep up his running paste, as he had to keep trying.

"BRrusvhhmmm….Grruvhmmm…." Soon the shield console on the hatch door showed a low energy reading, meaning the power left was almost at it's end. "Briignhmmm-Briighnnmm…." The alarm sounds went off, Cybertronian language shown the warning of what's to happen.

Soon Manterror was in his spinning form, as he went to get Rattrap. "Hahahaha, you left yourself open! FooolllGAaaugh?" But then without warning, something bashed him against the head which was…Armordillo's mace and chain weapon. "Krumm…BOommm…" But it also made him press something on the ground, which ended up exploding where he stood. "Gaarughhh!" Manterror yelled out in pain while shot backwards from the explosion.

"Hmphm, I had the rat's back, and I'm proud to see my explosive traps are still effective against Preds!" Armordillo remarked with humor to seeing that he still had his touch for being a great trap setter and covering for Rattrap.

"PRoophm…Proophm…Proophm…." Soon Terrorsaur fired three more of his shots downwards to hit the target. "Fruushhmm…." The last three shots were coming close to the Maximal base, and once they hit, the shields go down.

"Ech, ech, heck…." Rattrap was still running, as he was almost there with only a few feet more to go. "Not this time!" Rattrap spoke out in declaring that he won't let this next hit even make the shields go offline.

"Fruusohmm…." The three energy shots fired by Terrorsaur were nearly at the base.

"GEeugh?" Rattrap ducks down across the floor, and rolls over? "PRoowhmm…" There he took aim and fired one shot directly at the distracted Terrorsaur while his three shots were still coming.

"Frruusohmmm…." The three energy shots were just about to close in when…

"Gaaugh?" Rattrap rebalance himself to roll and stood up to soon press his hand on the control console. "BRrusushvhmmm…." At that moment, the shields were rebooted and back online, again at full power. "PRuusfhmm-PRrussfhm..PRrusfhhmm…." Soon all three of Terrorsaur's shots were absorbed by the recharged energy shields, no longer in danger.

"Haaugh?" Terrorsaur gasped at seeing this, but that wasn't the only one. "BOommhhmm?" Without much warning to dodge, Rattrap's shot hit Terrorsaur which exploded on impact. "WRAarrugh?" Terrorsuar cried out from the hit which shot him backwards in the air.

"Gruuvhmm…." Back with Megatron and Dinobot's fight, the T-Rex head seem to have Dinobot's left arm in a hold. "Cruffhmm…" Then Megatron bashed Dinobot's head with his tail weapon in his other arm to knock the traitor out.

"GRrauughhh?" Dinobot lets out a growling roar, as he was having up to here with this. "BRrusushhmm-grruusvvushmm….." Then his optic eyes were glowing bright white, as he looks up to Megatron with a little trump card in play. "BRuussgruussvhmmm…." Then he fired his optic green beams right at Megatron's chest which made the foe release Dinobot and also was being pushed back. "Frroouphm…." Then he was sent flying backwards into the air from Dinobot's optic blast, launching him away from the Ex-Pred.

"Gruufhmm…" Then Megatron landed hardly on his back against the floor which ended up aching him. "Uuuragh?" Megatron lets out a moan, as he begins to stand up, just as Tarantulas came from around a rock corner to see his leader get to a sit up position before he noticed the spider.

"Dii, I suggest we withdrawal, Megatron?" Tarantulas suggested some good advice of the situation they are having at this moment. "Huuagh, the true prize, AND reinforcements…." Tarantulas took a breath to explain out that they have something much greater to gain with backup to aid them. "Await us at the Standing Stones called; Stonehenge." Tarantulas finished to explain that they still have something waiting for them all back at Stonehenge, the alien probe.

"Yes?" Megatron soon spoke in agreement once he stood up. "The alien probe!" He stated out over to Tarantulas in recalling the alien probe that is still at Stonehenge. "Withdraw at once!" He gave the order to Tarantulas that they shall flee for the time being to get the prize that still awaits them.

"PRophm-prohm.../BRrusuvhmmm…." Cheetor and Dinobot were firing their plasma blast and optic beams against the Predacons with the rest of the Maximals before Rattrap walks up to them after he fixed the shields to see the enemy flee.

"Prophm-porhm-prohm-prophm…/PRrusshvmmm…." We see Megatron, Tarantulas, Razorclaw running while Manterror and Terrorsaur flew to escape while some energy blast and missiles were fired off to chase the enemy away from the Maximals and out of the cave.

At the moment, the Maximals looked to have a moment to relax. Or so it seemed? "Brusstrizizsrruuzzhmm…." Without much warning, all the Maximals began to surge with Energon and were starting to short out.

"BrauuARrgh?" Dinobot lets out a roar in feeling a slight bit of pain from shorting out.

"Giiagh?" Rattrap yelped from the shorting out surge, as he tried to speak. "We've…been…in Robot Mode…for too long?" Rattrap slowly stated out between the static noises when he tried to state this situation the Maximals are dealing with. "Geeaugh…Beast Mode!" Rattrap soon spoke out the order for everyone to return to Beast Mode immediately before it gets worst.

Soon all the Maximals returned to their Beast Mode states, and the Energon surge build up completely vanished afterwards, making them fine again.

"Like we needed you to point 'that' out?" Cheetor shrug off his shoulders in exclaiming that they were all knowing what to do when an Energon surge build up happens to them.

"Huagh?" Rattrap signs with a small relief in his voice, feeling almost tuckered out. "Well…huagh…At least they're gone." Rattrap slowly spoke between breaths to look out that the Predacons are gone, so everything's okay at the moment.

"For now, but next time? I'll make sure my traps are better set if they had Tarantulas and Manterror find and disarm them, it's no wonder they got in so easily?" Armordillo proclaimed out what he''ll do the next time the Predacons attack their base, somehow he didn't expect the clever brains to disable his traps he set, he'll work harder to make sure he's prepared for any enemy.

"You were so selfless putting that shield back on line." Dinobot turns over to speak to Rattrap on the calling of the situation he did with a grip left claw while the rest were too caught up in fighting. "Guuagh…I outta followed your command?" He took a breath, held his left claw in a grip in feeling he should have listen to Rattrap when he gave an order to prevent the shield from going offline. "Huagh..I…?" He took another breath, almost feeling somewhat hard to say this while Rattrap listens in more. "Am Dishonored?" Dinobot looks away, drops his left claw in feeling shame for not providing the effort to aid his comrades and let Rattrap try to take the risk instead.

"Deeagh…?" Rattrap was shaking his head a bit in how to reply in seeing Dinobot was down, while he normally tease, he didn't feel like this was a good time. "En, next time?" Rattrap exclaimed out to look at Dinobot, stating with a sure attitude, that next time around, Dinobot can do better.

"For now, we best see how far complete Rhinox is with that device to free Optimis and Jeremie?" K-9 spoke out that they need to hurry inside to see if their Maximal scientist friend has finished the device they need.

"Correct, and I feel Aelita will want to come along and won't accept no? So the children will have to be close to us for protection." Wolfang nods while pointing out that they may have to bring Aelita and her friends along, for it does involve their missing friend Jeremie and they can't just be left out of it.

Soon the Maximals turned around, as they were heading back over to the Axelon while the scene zooms upwards from where the group, their base are seen from in a hidden mountain with a waterfall going underneath it.

Stonehenge

During Day Time

Soon the scene changes to where the golden alien probe is, as it was still centered in Stonehenge. From around the corner, we see the Maximal crew transforming into their Robot Modes, weapons in hand and Rhinox with his device. Also along with the gang was William, Ulrich, and Aelita, who saw the first look at the Alien Probe. Aelita looked at it and felt, nostalgic, it was the same as it was on the Axelon. But this felt, like it was only half of something she remembered.

"Hey Aelita? Hello, are you awake?" William waved a hand in front of the pink haired girl, seeing she wasn't showing anyone active at the moment or lost in thought.

"Hmm! What?" Aelita suddenly snapped out of her thinking thought moment to look back at William and Ulrich who seem to see something distracted their friend.

"You okay, you seem to zone off, is it cause of this probe and where it came from?" Ulrich stated out with concern if Aelita was lost from seeing this actual alien probe before her, like she either was lost in thought, or something else.

"I guess so, I just…felt something strange?" Aelita spoke a bit understanding, but at the same time, not quote sure how she even knows it.

"Just be careful not to get near it, we still don't know much about this thing?" K-9 warned the three children to be extra careful, they can't have whatever happened when he was here, be done again to anyone else.

"But in any case, we'll have Optimis and Jeremie retuned safely back to us, just relax my friends." Wolfang assured the three children that they will success in getting their friends back which helped ease some pains with hoping relieves.

"Beep-beep-beep…." The device was starting to get activated after a couple of tries, as Rhinox stares at it. "Huuagh?" He signs from seeing the device he and the three children helped build was going to be used for extracting anything from the alien probe. "I don't know if this is going to work?" Rhinox spoke with half doubt in the device he built, as he tries to look for any final checking while it sits on his right wrist. "But it's as ready as it's ever going to be." Rhinox exclaimed out in feeling that he's done all he could, now he just has to try it out.

"Sniff….sniff-sniff-sniff, sniff…?" Rattrap however was sniffing around in Robot Mode, with his gun at the ready from detecting something. Something….fishy? "Eh, too quiet here?" Rattrap deduced out to his pals in finding the area too silent for his taste.

"Clumphm…." While the Maximals and human children were all gathered around the probe, a familiar Rex-leg figure had stomp into an appearance.

"I thought for sure the Predacons would be making for da' probe." Rattrap explained out in thinking the Predacons would have been here to guard the probe from the Maximals. So why were there not anywhere near it?

"HAah!" Suddenly from behind the Maximals, Megatron and his entire Predacon troops were gathered together in Robot Mode with their weapons at the ready. "Excellent Prediction!" Megatron congrats Rattrap for his pre-guessing thought of knowing how the Predacons would think in remarking the response. "Commander Rattrap!" Megatron exclaimed loudly with a taunting voice to remark Rattrap's role as the new commander.

"Heeh?" Rattrap yelped a bit, as he, the Maximals all turn around to find the Predacons behind them, even the three children were surprised that the enemy caught them in a trap.

"Let's see how you fair, in the battlefield?" Megatron expressed out with a toying remark in how well Rattrap goes in commanding anyone when out during a battle which is…now.

"PRuuushhh!/Prowh-prowhm!/Purgrugrugruvhmmm!/PRooufhm-Proufhmm!/Brizizihmm!/PRrushhmmm…./Prrusvhm-Prrussvhm-Prrusvhm!/PRRrusuvhhmmm….." All the Predacons fired off their attacks at once, from Scorponok's missiles, Terrorsaur's energy blast, Tarantulas' machine guns, Waspinator's Sting Missiles, Manterror's buzzsaws, Razorclaw's laser guns, Lazorbeak's constant energy blast fire, to Megatron's T-Rex head firing a beam.

"Proproprovhmm….proproprovhmm!/Prowhm-prowhm…" Rattrap and Cheetor provided some extra cover while Dinobot fire his optic lasers to give cover fire, K-9 and Wolfang used their shields to protect the three children, as the Maximals took cover a bit behind the probe.

"Proowhm-prrowhmm…/PRrooshmmm-Prroshhvmm…." Waspinator and Scorponok were firing their extra shots along with the other Predacons during this moment.

"Proprogruvhmm-proprogruvhm….." Rattrap tried to return as much fire back, but he shouted to those behind the probe. "Rhinox!" Rattrap yelled in back of the alien probe for Rhinox to hear him over the noise. "Proporporgruvhmmm…progrogruvhmm…" He fired a few more rounds from his gun while still talking to his pal. "Get Optimis and Jeremie outta dat probe!" The rodent issued out for his scientist pal to get their leader and friend out quickly. "Proporprogruvhmmm…." Rattrap tried to keep up the firing, but he had to pull back behind the probe along with the other Maximals taking cover.

"Proofuhmm.../Prruufhhmm-prruffhmm…." Some extra shots passed by Rattrap from energy shots to missiles that manage to miss him, luckily while the rat checks to see Rhinox going to do his job.

"Optimis?" Rhinox called out to his friend inside the probe, as he raised up the extraction device. "Can you hear me?" He asked out in hoping to hear that his friend is there, inside the alien probe.

"Loud and clear, Big Guy." Optimis' voice responded in an echoey disembodied sound from outside the alien probe's walls.

"I'm going to try to extract you both." Rhinox said in letting his commander know he's going to try and free Optimis and Jeremie from the probe now, as he brings the device he and the three children put together. "Bringgruvhm…" The device was activated, as Rhinox soon aims his right wrist up to the probe. "Bruvuvruvruvruhmm…." It sent out a pulse wave, as it was trying to extract the ones trapped in the probe.

"Proprogrugruvhhm….Progrugrugruvhhmmm…." Rattrap continued to give some extra cover fire from behind the probe with his blaster.

The other Maximals also were giving cover fire from behind the probe while some even tried to get behind a pillar to launch their attacks.

"PRushm-prushmm!/Prrooushmmm!/BRruushvmmm!/Kurboomm-Boommm" There were some shots fired from the others either distracting, or making the Predacons dodge. Megatron looked to Waspinator who return the gaze, as the Predacon leader gave a wave signal from his T-Rex head in signaling the wasp to 'go from behind the enemy' sign.

"Prophm-prophm!/Proprogruvhmmm…" There were still some shots, but Waspinator received his orders to salute to his leader's command before rushing off to do his task.

"PRushhmmm-Prowhsmm-Prroshmm!/BRrususvhhmmm….." Cheetor and Dinobot were trying to give cover fire with their plasma and optic beams to hold the enemy back.

"PRuussfhhmmmm…/PRrrusuvhhmmmm…." K-9, Wolfang, and even Armordillo fired their missiles and blasters to give any cover fire to their allies.

"Disisqrrushvhhmm…" Suddenly, as Rhinox was trying to free his friends from the probe, it somehow was not effecting right.

"Rhinox, anytime now?" William asked if something was suppose to happen about now, but nothing did.

"Arrugh! It's not working?" Rhinox growled in frustration, as the device was not working right.

"Aelita, what went wrong?" Ulrich asked Aelita of what could have gone wrong with their plan to free their friends.

"I'm not sure, we put it together as best we could?" Aelita shook her head in being lost as well, unsure why their device didn't free Optimis and Jeremie from the probe?

"Prrusvhmmmmprrusvhmmm.../Prowhphm-prowhm…prowhmm…" While everyone else was busy blasting at the enemies, none saw Waspinator behind a pillar, and ran off towards another pillar. "Proproporgruvhmmm…/Prowhm-prowhm-prowhm…./Brrusvhhmm…." By the sounds of it, everyone was very distracted, but Waspinator snuck behind the pillar he hid behind, just as he stops from noticing from in front were Rhinox, William, Ulrich and Aelita by the probe. "Prowphm-propwhm-prowhm…." More shots were heard, making lots of nosies which Waspinator looked back at and decided to use as a stealth approach within the noise.

"Hmm, this whole area is full of stable Energon radiation from the probe?" Rhinox moans out to himself and the children of the situation while unknowing Waspinator was behind them. "It's like this whole PLACE is a single device?" Rhinox exclaimed out in theory to see that Stonehenge is somehow one single device to operate. Question is, why, and how can they deal with it & free their friends?

"So how can we get the others out if….?" As Aelita was about to ask, she nearly gasped which was followed by William and Ulrich from seeing something on the probe.

Rhinox stared up, and like the children, saw the probe reflected to his surprise, Waspinator was sneaking up behind the big Maximal.

"Hmm?" Rhinox's optic eyes looked to his left side where Waspinator was closely approaching him with his Sting Missile in hand. "Listen, on my mark, get down." Rhinox whispered a tiny message to the children which they nod slowly in not tipping off what to do against the stealthy enemy, and try to behave like they haven't notice Waspinator at all.

Waspinator was soon almost close upon Rhinox and was about to strike until….

"TRiiusushhhvmm….." Then without much warning except when the three children duck low, Rhinox swung around by his left side holding his active machine gun in hand. "Bangbangbangruvhmgrugrugrvhmm…." And he fired off his barrage fire directly at the sneaky Predacon.

"Trusffrusfrusfrushmm…." This surprise counterattack caught Waspinator by surprise which knocked his weapon out of hand and took the attack. "NRruuuaarrregghh? GauuarAArrughh…Arrrugh?" Waspinator cries out from being pushed back by the constant firing of Rhinox's attack bashing his body. "GUrraWWAAururggh?" Waspinator lets off more moans from the shooting was pretty much tearing parts of him off. "Weeweeweeriigninn…." His optic image scan was showing he was still being shot at by Rhinox's machine guns, as they were going off crazy in alarming. "GRruauaWAarrrugh?" The wasp bot lets out moans even with his vision showing he's being hit very hard by Rhinox's attack.

Heavy ain't it?

"Bangbangbangruffruffgruffhvvmm….." Rhinox's attack was still firing that pretty soon the scan image went into static fuzz. "GRugurgruvvhhArrughhmm?" Waspinator lets out another crying yell while backing upwards, as the shooting continued to hit him enough to break off his right elbow from the body and start showing signs of shorting out. "GUurraRRuuvhhmmm?" Waspinator screeched out again his cries in feeling pain from the constant assault that was not ending for him or the increasing damage blows.

"Frususffhmm…." Finally, Rhinox cease his attack with his weapon leaking smoke trails that escape it's hole points of ammo while he saw how his work did to Waspinator, as the other Maximals still kept attacking the other Preds.

"Ouch? Bet he'll be feeling soar in the morning?" William cringed in seeing that Waspinator was really not looking too good about now, as he and the other children saw how much one bot could take.

"Can't tell if he's lucky to still be in one piece or unlucky to have taken such a beating?" Ulrich remarked off if this wasp-bot was either lucky or unlucky in his life's case of surviving that attack.

Waspinator looked almost like a walking corpse, one missing hand, a missing antenna on his wasp figure chest-plate and a busted left eye on that same chest plate, which all in all, he looked terrible. "TRuuzz-drrssuiizzhhmmm?" Then without warning, he began to short out with energy from being too badly damage. "BurbruGruugruvhmm…" Waspinator let off a moan from feeling his energy was shorting him out from the damage. "Sttizizitrizizhmm…" The static he presented soon did something, just as he leaned on one of the pillars…Which seem to glow? "Grruuvvuuhmmm?" Waspinator let off another last moan while still keeping his place against the pillar which was reacting to his energy. "Spizizitrizizspizzihmm…." Then not just that, but from Waspinator's interaction was causing the whole other stone structures to glow with energy?

"Is…that suppose to happen?" Aelita questioned puzzled to her friends, William and Ulrich were also confused by this matter. That was not something to be seen within Stonehenge?

"Hey…?" Rhinox spoke in seeing this surprise new act that was happening before him and the rest. "GRruuvhhmmm…" Then without warning, all of the stone structures of Stonehenge was showing a blue aura glow of energy. "This Whole Place 'IS' a single device!" Rhinox shouted out over to everyone within the place, now seeing what Stonehenge is really suppose to be, a single device that needed to be charged to work. "Vruuvhmvruuvhm-vruufhhm…." Stonehenge sent out a pattern of waves that were effecting the probe, as it glowed bright blue for a moment. "GRruussfruvhvmmmm…." Then without another warning, the probe was bathed of it's bright light, and was opening up like a flower. "Wrususvhhmm….." As it slowly opens, Megatron gasped from seeing this happen before him with wide eyes which could be shared by the other Predacons too. "Brigrinn-brigihnn…" Flashing beeping noises were happening, as we see lots of techno-organic machinery inside with cameras, fang claws from the inner walls and a center orb. "Froossuhhmmm…." As it continued to open, even Rattrap was staring wide with his eyes and mouth, the other Maximals were shocked to see this too, even the children were amazed by this. "Brignrigrgnnmmm…" Inside the probe, it was still opening, but more of it's insides were seen along with the orb in the center some how…opening out by separating two hatches of it's shell. "Grususfhmm…Grruufhhmm…." Soon the entire probe was opened completely when it made a bang sound, now exposed for all to see. "BRrisiszziisiimm…./PRRrushmmm…." Then a bright light beam escaped which imploded out of the probe before refocusing on the edge structure. But also when it did that, a second light was seen on the ground next to Aelita, William and Ulrich. "Frrususvhmmmm…." Then the light faded with a single image appearing from the ones on the ground and in the air.

From the ground of the beam of light, materialized itself into an unconscious Jeremie much to Aelita and the boys surprised joy and which also meant one more thing.

In the air materialized was none other then Optimis Primal in Robot Mode, hovering in the air with a smile.

"Look who's back!?" Optimis addressed to Megatron and his crew with seeing he's back again. "And Feeling Prime!" Optimis' eyes squeezed together with feeling all well and ready to get himself battle ready now. "PRoowuphm-proowuphm-proowuphm-proowuphm…" He then brings out his arm missile launcher from his left side to aim at the enemies below him. "Fruumm…KurBoommm…." One went near a surprised Scorponok that exploded and knocked him soaring backwards. "BAamm…Bammm…" Two more shots knocked Terrorsaur and Tarantulas out backwards. "BAmmm-Bamm…BOomm…" Even Manterror and Lazorbeak in the air were hit along with Razorclaw from the ground, got sent back from the attacks that hit them. "PRoowuphm…" Optimis fired one more shot which was aiming directly towards the last Predacon standing.

"GuuAArrugh?" Megatron yelped with surprise that he was being targeted next and braced himself before… "Bommgruvhmm…" Just as he raised his arms to protect himself, Optimis' attack bashed against his defense which imploded on impact. "Crrufhhmm…" Megatron hit the ground hard from not stopping Optimus' attack.

"Frususvhmmm…." Soon Optimis' jets were slowly bringing him down to land where the rest of his Maximals were swarming over to stand by his side, weapons set if the Preds try anything. Now that the odds have turned.

"Way to go Optimis!" Cheetor turns to happily welcome back his commander with a cheery smile. "Weh-weh-welcome back!" He lets off a chuckle in being happy that Optimis had return, and in time to save them no doubt.

"Right, good to have our old commander back with us." Armordillo congrats Optimis on making it back and taking out the surprised Preds when their guards were down.

"It's a miracle of your return, sir." K-9 exclaimed from feeling proud that his commander has returned to the Axelon crew.

"And we are thankful for that." Wolfang nods in being very glad that his new friend has return safely, along with Jeremie too.

"GruuaaRagh?" Megatron was seen grunting to stand up a bit while staring at the Maximals. "The Day…." Megatron started to say with a bit of regret tone in his voice. "And the Probe…" He raised his left hand's tail weapon to exclaim about the alien probe to state this. "Is yours, Optimis. Yesss!" Megatron exclaimed in seeing that the Maximals have won this battle and seized the Alien Probe as well, much to his disappointment. "Just beware!" Suddenly, Megatron spoke, as if giving the Maximals a fair warning. "Not all aliens are beneficent…after all." He finished to exclaim his message to clearly state that not all aliens are peaceful creatures before turning to leave. "Bruugrvhhmm…grufhmm…gruvhmm…grufhmm…." He was stomping his feet to the ground as he was leaving, followed by his Predacons trying to pick themselves up or get their damaged companions with them.

As the Maximals were seeing the Preds leave & planning to use a Trans-Warp Gate out, Optimis turned to Rattrap to say something. "Rattrap." At the mention of his name, Rattrap looked to see what Optimis had to say. "You commanded well in my absence." He held his right hand to his chest and waved it off in expressing a 'job-well done' statement on Rattrap taking command while he was gone.

"Deeeiigh…." Rattrap held the back of his head with his free left hand in how to reply to that compliment. "Commands a pain in the tail." Rattrap shrug off his hand to exclaim that the commanding thing is not easy for him to deal with. "Geeaugh?" He chuckled off a tiny laugh before making this statement. "Especially with dis' pack o' hyenas." He shook his head to express how trying to lead this group of Maximals was already tough enough for him. "You can keep it!" He waved up his hands to exclaim that Optimis is better suited for the job then he ever would be.

Aelita lifted Jeremie up a little and then he started to wake up and notice the pink haired girl along with his two best pals behind her while trying to get words out. "A-A-Aelita? Guys?" They all smiled that their genius friend was alright and Aelita just hugged Jeremie much to his surprise. "Aaugh?" Jeremie yelped a bit from Aelita's emotional effort, as she didn't know why, but she felt like she was whole again.

"Welcome back, Jeremie?" Aelita spoke with nearly tears coming down her eyes, being so thankful the person she cares for is alright.

"Well Einstein, you just set a record on having us worried 'sick' about you?" Ulrich replied with a smile, as he and William helped Jeremie up while Aelita ended up releasing the hug to only hold the blonde boy's hands.

"But what was it like being in that thing?" William asked the genius boy a question that got them all curious, & needed answers. What it was like being inside an alien probe?

"To tell you the truth, I haven't a clue?" Jeremie sheepishly smiled with a shade of red in being embarrassed to not remember since he was out cold during the entire event.

"Hahaahahah?" Some of the other Maximals except Dinobot couldn't help but laugh and smile at the fine image of their human friends being together again.

"Well, this is a happy end, we got our friends back, and a prize to boot?" Armordillo commented out the good results of today, they get Optimis back, Jeremie back, and the Alien Probe as a bonus.

"I'm more concerned with this probe right now?" Optimis stated with a deep thought about this Alien Probe, as he rubbed his left hand's fingers under his chin. He's trying to think what to do with their new find?

"Trrususvhhmmm….." Suddenly with a warning, there was a weird noise that soon got everyone's attention.

"Hugh?" Optimis yelped a bit before he looked back, as everyone saw something strange happening.

"Trrusuvhhmm….PRrususvhhhmm…." Suddenly right before their eyes, the Alien Probe was suddenly fading bit by bit to what was inside before. "PRRroossuvhmm…." Then just like that 'boom' sound, it completely vanished from sight of the Maximals and children's view.

The Maximals and the teens looked in confusion at the probe's disappearance. What just happened here?

"What the spotted heck was THAT all about?" Cheetor asked off completely baffled and puzzled to what they just saw even was real. The probe just disappeared completely?

"I don't know?" Optimis looked to the young cadet to shrug off his shoulders to respond his clear answer of not knowing either. "I suppose they found out everything they needed to know about us." Optimis looked upwards when he stated out a clear theory of whoever sent the probe, wanted to learn who or what was on the planet.

"Yeah?" Rhinox spoke out which got Optimis and the others attention to look towards him of something he had to say. "They know we got destructive capabilities…" Rhinox stated out the first thought, stating that those here, Maximals and Predacons have weapons to cause harm. "And reasoning power! Both Cybertronians and humans." He looked up to state another thought that though they are a known threat, some from the Maximals and good people of Earth have the known ability to reason and come to better conclusions of different subject matters.

Without warning, a fog was coming in which Jeremie noticed. "Guys, we should finish this discussion back home, the fog's coming in?" The boy warned his friends, as the fog was covering the surrounding area except the light shinning over Stonehenge, making it as eerie and mysterious as before. "What ever the mystery is of who studied us, we know that it might be the ones responsible for Stonehenge?" Jeremie exclaim that for the ones that sent the probe, they may have a had at the creation of Stonehenge itself?

"Right now, this fog should give us cover so no one sees us here?" Aelita spoke in seeing with the fog, they can get on a Warp Gate to transport home before the authorities arrive. After the commotion that happened here, someone might have noticed?

"Right, from the government people you mean, which was lucky they never found out about this entire event?" William stated out that for them, coming into contact with the Fed's would not be good for the Maximals first appearance. As Earth's friendly alien visitors, it might need more time & effort before that comes into picture.

"Hmm, I wonder why? After everything, we were lucky no one ever came by or even found out something happened that involved actual alien beings wanting to study us, never was found out till now?" Ulrich spoke with a thought that after everything they did around Stonehenge, no one was brought to see what happened. It felt 'too' much like a lucky coincidence for some reason?

"Nrrrugh?" Dinobot was beginning to think this over in his mind a bit about the whole Alien Probe thing before speaking? "But why would they want to know? The ones who sent the probe?" Dinobot looked to the others in asking why these unknown aliens want to know about them, Maximals, Predacons, even the human beings. "And….More importantly…." Dinobot exclaimed out to catch everyone's attention on another matter they may need to deal with from a serious face. "Who are they?" Dinobot spoke in mystery that whoever wanted to know about them, they have no idea who they are. "Friends?…Enemies?…." Dinobot spoke off these suggestions if the aliens are either friendly or if they are enemies to them. "Or…" But then Dinobot came up with a different idea that puzzled his mind. "Something…." He turns to look outward, almost thinking of something much greater then what he thinks. "More…?" He gazes up to the skies, wondering if whoever the aliens are, they are something far more then any of them would even imagine.

Soon the scene changes to outside in space where we see the planet everyone is on.

"Hmm?" Optimis's voice is heard off from where this image is seen before he replied to Dinobot's statement. "Good question?" Optimis replied in feeling that what was said was a wondering idea to be sure of knowing as well. "I wonder when we'll find out the answer?" Optimis puzzled out to ask when any of them may get to know of such an answer. During this scene, we zoom away from the planet over to the vast empties of space, where only the stary skies are seen with questions of wondering when they will get to know of these unknown 'alien beings' either now or sometime in the future…remains to be seen?

VISION NOTES: Some form of Code Lyoko TV Series reference is seen between Ulrich & Yumi.

The new character to be seen as a government FBI agent, Agent Bishop, some can think of him almost like the same Agent Bishop who was seen on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series. So if you know his personality & such, it'll make things interesting.

Well my patient fans, you have seen another VISION to behold. And trust me, the VISION-KING is trying his best to provide such good work in the stories here. But enough about the other stuff, time to get ready for the next chapter story. For in the next, had to figure out a pretty good match work like the original series, where both Maximal & Predacon begin to go after…the first Stasis Pod that falls from outer space & lands on the planet…within an Arctic Region. We'll IN-VISION this action adventure, and just as the area makes it hard because of weather issues, Trans-Warp Gates can only get a few inches towards the pod's location, and only fliers can be fast enough to get to it. And when Optimis is down, only the other Maximals will go off to rescue their comrade. But during the moment, the Maximal Base will be left with Optimis & another Maximal while the human children stay put…until their enemies come knocking in. Can the gang get by & hope to reach the pod before the Predacons can get to it? One thing's certain, when things begin to look bad, they'll need to rely on good old….WHITE TIGER instincts! So kick back & relax, we'll probably see this adventure show up around the beginning of 2014. Till then, enjoy the work…