Disclaimer...agian! I don't own Beast Wars. Only Pantha and the ship. And this idea. So don't sue me! (Sees sticky note) I also don't own...Reeses Peanut Butter Cups? BUMBLEBEE!

Bumblebee: Uh-Oh. (Runs)

Come back here!

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"Kid! Kid, you okay!" Pantha heard a voice call to her. Her optics clicked on and she saw Rattrap leaning over her.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. How is everyone?" Pantha asked, standing up.

"Eh, der fine, kitten. Der all in de CR Chambers, healin'."

"Good." Pantha looked out of the ship's windows to Earth's wide open plains. She let out a sigh, "My father helped defend this planet. I'm not going to let the Preds kill us all to rewrite the future." She put her hands behind her back and stood like a leader, "Megatron won't take the life of another Transformer..."

"Kid?" Rattrap started, but noticed Pantha was to busy thinking about something, so he left her to go check on the others be himself.

As he did, Pantha made a silent promise to herself. "I won't let him rewrite the future. Last time he did, he almost won. This time, though, he won't get the chance. I'll stop him for you, dad. Where are we? When?"

Rattrap sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh...Earth in the year 1,000,00 BC."

"Humans are alive then. We need to be careful and protect them. Don't let them see you unless it's unavoidable. Understand? Tell the others. I'm going out to scout."

"Now hold on der, kitten. We can't just-"

"You're as stubborn as my father said you were." Pantha muttered, referring to Rhinox's journals. "Do what I said. And hide this place in a cloaking device."

"Already done, kitten. We look like a normal mountain."

"Good." Pantha murmured as she walked towards the exit. "Be careful, you hear?"

Rattrap looked at the new leader and sighed, "Hey! I got a question! Ya wanna listen, femme, or are ya gonna have a attitude like ya do now!"

Pantha turned around to face the Rat 'bot. She growled. "Listen you-! Never mind, what's your question? I have work to do, ya know."

"Why isn't Botanica 'ere? I thought all Maximals where s'pposed to come! Yet she ain't 'ere!"

"Botanica isn't here because the Maximal Elders needed her to stay there to watch and make sure the organic part of 'Techo-Organic' was working correctly. Plus, they needed her to remain safe since she's critical." Pantha turned, "Now, again, if you'll excuse me, I have scouting work to do."

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Pantha sighed as she trudged through the dense forest. The sound of the nearby waterfall roared in her delicate cat ears so loudly, she couldn't hear anything else. As she looked around the forest in beast mode, she heard a footstep behind her. It was a soft one, but she heard it. Pantha turned around quickly as she transformed and came face to face with the murderous 'bot she had heard so much about.

Rampage looked at her and smiled an evil smile. He reached out a grabbed the young fembot by the throat. He lifted her into the air and stared into her rare, green optics. "I can sense it...you don't fear me. Why? Tell me!" He tightened his grip on Pantha's throat.

"I do not fear you because I know you better than you would think." Pantha managed, "I know that you're not the monster you are out of choice. That you're...only like this because the Maximal Elders decided to torture a poor spark and put it into an unused protoform. I know...that because...my mother worked on you. She said that she couldn't see why the other scientists enjoyed to torture your spark. You're nothing more than a Transformer without a childhood. Without anyone to care for you, you became the murderous being you are because of the torture everyone put you through. You murder because you don't know any better. Because it makes you feel better."

Rampage growled and threw Pantha to the ground. As the fembot coughed and held her throat, Rampage pulled out a bigger, better weapon. He aimed it at Pantha, but couldn't fire. The young commander's optics locked with the murderous 'bot's and they both froze. Rampage could tell that Pantha was frightened, but he didn't care. Something inside him wouldn't let him kill her. as easy as it would be right now, her frozen and his gun pointed at her spark, he just couldn't do it.

Rampage doubled over in pain suddenly, grabbing his chest, and then fell to the forest floor. Pantha saw this and scrambled to her feet. She grabbed the gun from Rampage then threw it away. As she watched the poor beast suffer, Pantha knew what she had to do. She bent down and turned Rampage over so he was lying on his back. She pulled out a taser and shocked the bot so he was knocked out.

Pantha smiled, "Please don't take that as an attack." She muttered as she patted Rampage's chest. She pushed a button on her communicator, "Pantha to Maximal base. I've got an injured Pred here and I need some help. Requesting a CR Chamber be prepared for my arrival. Pantha out." She picked up the unconscious Rampage and slung him over her shoulder. As she struggled to carry him back to the base, she thought about his spark. "If you had died, why isn't your spark whole? I'll ask Rattrap."

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Me: There. Y'all happy! New Chap up and I see a-

Rampage: Don't even.

Me: C'mon! Romance.

Rampage: D'oh! (Anime fall)

Depth Charge: Oh, yeah! You bring him back, he tries to kill Pantha and you put a romance in there!

Me: Got a prob with that!

DC: Nope. (Plots to come back and kill Rampage)

Me: No chance, DC. R&R, please.