Beast Wars

Suppose Nemesis Parts One and Two had never occurred?  Imagine that the Beast Wars continued to be waged?  This fanfic is a continuing story about what would happen, starting with Episode 51.

Chapter One: The Tale of the Forest [Part One]

            The Planet Earth rocked off its hinges as a Transwarp Explosion shattered the Energon and transformed the Beast Wars forever.  Everything in the universe would be changed forever.  The pulses emitted, the Quantum Surge, stretched out its power nearer and nearer to Earth.  Seemingly a side effect, the surge knocked off stasis pods to the ground.  Little would Maximal nor Predacon realize, one of these pods would change their lives forever.

            Rhinox awoke from his sleep, sometime in the middle of the night.  He didn't know why he had imagined the Transwarp explosion again, a dream he had dreamed for many nights now.  He wasn't even online when it occurred; a dose of cybervenom from Blackarachnia kept that from happening.  But those days weren't of concern now.  He knew that in the morning a very important day was going to occur.  Possibly the day the Beast Wars would finally be over.  He turned and went back to sleep.

            The following morning, the Maximals awoke, one by one, and gathered inside the Command Center of the Ark.  As dawn's early light approached, as did the end of the Beast Wars, it seemed.

            3 Megacycles after dawn, Optimus Primal, Tigerhawk, Depth Charge, Cheetor, Rattrap, Rhinox, Silverbolt, and Blackarachnia were all waiting in the command center for Optimus's big noble speech.  And finally it came.

            "All right, people," Optimus began, "We've been fighting this war for a long time.  Some of you I've fought with from the beginning.  Some of you I've just now come to know.  But Megatron is out there somewhere, baseless and betrayed by his minions.  Now is the time.  Today is the day that we will end the Beast Wars.  But first, we have to find him.

            "All right, I want to divide into groups and began searching.  If you find any Predacons, do not engage!  Report back in thirty cycles.  I want one flyer with each group.  Rattrap, you're with me.  Rhinox, go with Depth Charge.  Cats, you're together.  And Silverbolt and Blackarachnia, go but comply with the mission!"

            "Your words are well received," answered the birddog.

            "Heh! Betta be!" remarked Rattrap.

            "All right, let's move out!" commanded Primal.

            Depth Charge reverted to vehicle mode.  "Come on, rhino."

            Megatron paced on the plain that his remaining troops stood.  They seemed pathetic to him.  Quickstrike, Inferno, Waspinator, Dinobot, and Rampage.  "Blast!  We are without a base!  That cursed Tigerhawk, he's with the Maximals now.  Perhaps I will be forced to revert to an old tactic."

            Inferno saluted.  "What tactic is that, my queen?"

            Megatron smiled.  "Hmmm….we must return to the Scorponok II and rescue any pieces of my Transmetal 2 technology.  Perhaps I can create loyalty instead of trying to force it out of troops that lack it."

            "I will be loyal, my queen!" bellowed Inferno.

            "No doubt you will be…" muttered Megatron.  "All right, all troops to the Scorponok II immediately."

            Megatron, Inferno, Waspinator, Dinobot, and Quickstrike began moving, but Rampage stayed behind.  "Why should we?" he asked.

            Megatron grunted.  "What did you say?"

            Rampage snorted.  "Yess…the Maximals will most certainly win the war now.  Why should we even continue on your side?"

            Dinobot smiled and opened up his chest to reveal his dark spark.  Squeezing it, he smiled.  Rampage immediately began discharging energy, and followed behind the rest of the Predacons.

            Far above this, hiding, a figure watched through a grove of trees.  Who were these creatures?  Not…friends… he thought.  I have no friends…No one to come to me…No nothingMany a stellar cycle have I searched for Transformers…and these are who I find?

            Back at the Scorponok, the remainders of Megatron's troops began searching for the equipment used to create Dinobot.

            "Excuse me, master, but how do you plan to create Transmetal 2 Predacons without the alien sphere?" Dinobot asked Megatron.

            "My unwavering servant, I do have a plan for that.  No doubt that as we speak the Maximals have all departed their base searching for us.  In fact, now is the perfect time.  Unfortunately, my only servant with the brain capacity to obtain that disk wasn't my servant at all, and now he is destroyed.  Apparently I will have to go myself.  Oh, Inferno?"

            "Yes my queen?"

            Megatron smiled and spoke, "You are in charge.  As for myself, I will take a quick trip to the Ark.  Teletran 1 I will deal with when I get there.  Ta!"  And, as a great dragon, the leader of the Predacons departed towards the Maximal base.

            "Any sighting so far, little cat?" Tigerhawk asked Cheetor as they flew throughout the midday sky.  The cheetah was riding on the top of Tigerhawk's back as they searched for Predacons.

            "Nothing, big cat," he answered.  "Hold on.  Go to coordinates 7, 2, 9.  Sector Tau.  I think I see something down there."

            "Certainly."

            The two felines traveled, then, over to an encampment of rocks.  In fact, these stones were the same encampment in which Optimus was sucked into by the Vok so many stellar cycles before.  "So, Cheetor, what did you see?"

            "Some kind of an animal, I think," answered Cheetor.  "Land it, Tigerhawk."

            So Tigerhawk landed himself and Cheetor got off.  They both transformed.  Tigerhawk morphed from its fuzored self to a powerful Vok-enhanced robot, and Cheetor, a transmetal 2, changed into a science-and-nature bred speed machine.

            "Hey, Preddies, if you're here, you might as well surrender!" cried Cheetor so everyone within one hundred meters would hear him.

            Then something emerged from behind one of the stones…it spoke in a low grunt.  "They left already."

            "Huh?!" Tigerhawk bellowed as he turned.

            The two felines turned and viewed the stranger.  It was definitely an animal.  It was a ram…except changed.  Instead of hair, it had a hard red metal skull, with glaring green eyes.  Most of the front of its body was covered in red armor, but the back had brown, smooth hair.  Two gigantic horns protruded from its head, made out of ivory.  "I said they left already."

            Cheetor looked amazed.  "What the Matrix are you?"

            The ram looked at them.  "That's no concern to you."

            "Hey!" shouted Tigerhawk.  "Are you Maximal or Predacon?"

            "I guess you could say I'm neither," he answered.

            "Hmm?" asked Cheetor.  However, the stranger Ram turned and began to walk off.  "Hey!  Atleast where did they go?"

            "Don't know.  Said they went somewhere called the Scorponok.  Anyway, I gotta go."

            Cheetor turned to him Com-Link.  "Hey Optimus, we gotta situation over here."

            The monkey's voice was heard over the sensor.  "What do you mean?  Megatron?"

            "Uh, no.  Some ram guy told us that Megatron is back at his ship, the Scorponok!"

            "I don't quite understand.  I'll be right over," said Optimus.  And the Com-Link went off.

            The ram turned back to Cheetor.  "Sorry, kid, but I got no time to talk. Unless of course, you wanna fight."

            "Will that make you stay here?" asked Tigerhawk.

            "Of course.  Always lookin' for a fight.  Gets the juices goin'.  Wanna go?" asked the stranger.

            "I'll take ya," said Cheetor, "if it'll make you stay."

            "Fine," said the ram.  "Ramulus, transform!"

            "That's his activation code?" said Tigerhawk.

            And so Ramulus transformed.  His front legs emerged as shoulder pads.  His arms had two sharp silver and blue blades.  His face had two dark red eyes, a mean frown, and two silver horns protruding from the top.  His beast mode's horns were now used as a weapon.

            "All right, 'Ramulus,' " said Cheetor, "you ready to do this?"

            "Always," answered Ramulus.  "Let's go!"

            And the fight began.

TO BE CONTINUED.  Reviews and comments appreciated…I got into Beast Wars a couple of days ago again..watched all of my tapes of every episode.