Also, in this universe, the Maximals and Predacons know nothing of humans, other than the language, I have no clue why. And that Megatron ends up thinking even though Anna a.k.a. Phoenix is a disgusting lowly creature, being human, is naieve enough to use against the Maximals. or something like that. Also, in this universe, 3rd War and the RP series never happened. so Anna doesn't know anything about the Beast wars or
Feel free to point and poke fun. It won't bother me. In fact, I may join you. heh.
okay, okay, so on to the fiction...
-----------------
By the time Optimus Primal and the other Maximals got back to the base, Anna had gotten acquainted with, ticked off at, and then forgiven Rattrap, and gotten to know a few things about their technology. Rhinox had left the pod in the science lab, and met with the rest of the Maximals on the command deck.
"I don't understand." cheetor commented. "If you're a bio, why did the pod go through the normal process of choosing a form?
Anna shrugged. "I guess it thought I was a protoform." she replied.
"What I want to know is how you got into that stasis pod." primal asked as he walked in. "I dunno. I was at my favorite spot by the river, then there was this blue flash, and I was in the stasis pod, crashing to the planet."
"But the pod landed in an energon field. You should have been put into stasis lock by it." airrazor commented. Anna once again had to bite her tongue about being a biological life form, not a mechanical one. "What is energon, some sort of electromagnetic field or something?" she asked. Tigatron padded in, still in his beast mode. "Yes, it is. But it effects us all." he answered quietly. He looked over at the lift. He didn't like it here. It was too closed in. He'd rather be... out there. In a jungle somewhere. Among nature.
"Eh, except in beast mode. or in here." Rattrap added. Anna nodded. "I see." she shrugged. "It doesn't effect me." she was tempted to say something, but let it go. She guessed they didn't know anything about humans, did they, now?
But while the Maximals chatted, the Decepticons schemed...
Megtron growled, looking over his troups. They had lost yet another stasis pod. and failed to get rid of that worthless human-creature.
"We should have slagged that human the moment we saw it. But nooo, we had to fail." Megatron gave waspinator an angry glare. The wasp eeeped and tried to buzz behind Scorponok and hide. Blackarachnia glanced at him. "But what would the Maximals want with a human anyway?" she shrugged. "I thought we were alone on this planet."
"True." megatron replied thoughtfully. "And I doubt Primal would have a human as part of his crew..."
"Immunity to energon, maybe?" Scorponok suggested, batting waspinator out from behind him. The small mech flipped head over stinger afew times, buzzing loudly as he tried to regain his equilibrium, and froze midair at Megatron's stare. He eeped again, almost inaudibly.
"Perhaps, yeess. but not to our weapons."
"So can we go slag it now?" Scorponok asked anxiously.
"No. We have to have a plan first. Undoubtedly those Maximals are protecting it." megatron said the faction name liek it was a disease. "Then, we may be able to use that...human to obliterate the maximals. yeesss." the tyrannasaurus rex leaned back in his seat and steepled his fingers, allready thinking of a plan.
Meanwhile, back at the Axalon, anna had learned about the beast-bot interaction, and how the alt mode and robot coexisted to protect the Maximals and Predacons from the planet's unstable energy fields. Tigatron and Airrazor decided to head back out to the jungle, and Anna asked if she could tag along. Primal voiced his concerns over Anna being outside the base, and the Predacons, but she argued Tigatron and Airrazor would both be there to protect her. she folded her arms and gave him a defiant stare. The Gorilla just sighed and agreed. But told her to be back soon.
(and yes, that was a cheesy plot device. But it was nessesary to the storyline. eh, go figure.)
The jungle was lush and green, and birds chirped and sang in the distance. Airrazor was flying over the canopy, in case any unexpected visitors came into the area. An orange flower caught Anna's eye, and she reached over and looked at it closer. "Yaknow, if I could have any form in the world, besides human, I think id be a tiger." she kinda regretted not being able to 'transform' or have a mechsuit, like she'd seen on those cartoons on tv where the human could transform into a car or something.
That caught Tigatron by suprise. "Why?" he asked. The human shrugged. "To be swift, silent, powerfull yet gracefull. Deadly, yet peace-loving." a smile crossed her face. "At one with nature, so to speak."
Tigatron nodded. "I know what you mean." the girl turned to him, suddenly kind of embarrased for going on like she had. "So, if you could be something else, what would you be?" she queried, trying to start a conversation. She never was good at that, though.
"Me?" the white tiger tilted his head slightly to one side in though. "I don't know. A butterfly, maybe?" a monarch butterfly flittered by, it's black and orange wings reflecting the light coming through the trees. His eyes followed it for a second before replying. "But I am content with what I am." he finally said.
They walked a little further, and a twig snapped in the distance. The tiger shushed the girl and whispered "Tigatron, Maximise." the whirring of gears was barely heard as he went from beast mode to robot form. "Stay here." he whispered to the short blonde human. He crept forward, quietly looking in-between two palm plants, Anna's face appeared on the other side of the bush from Tigatron, looking for the noise, too.
Cheetor had also wandered into the forest, and Airrazor had landed to talk to him.
"I really like him, I just... don't know what to say to him." she shrugged. Anna smiled secretly. She knew who she was talking about. She and Tigatron quietly retreated, leaving the two to talk in privacy. "Airrazor likes you." Anna whispered. "So go talk to her." Tigatron opened his mouth to ask her how she knew that, but knew she was right. And asking how she knew that would only give away the obvious. The feeling was... mutual.
Anna smiled and went back to eavesdropping.
She didn't catch the part where she couldn't talk to Tigatron alone because Anna was with him. All she heard was "...but that slaggin human is in the way." Cheetor shrugged. "So she likes big cats." Airrazor glared at him.
The cheetah loooked at the ground. "Sorry... not helping, am I?" he muttered.
Anna started to retreat back into the shadows, but Tigatron didn't see her, and decided to rush forward at that moment exposing them both.. "Airrazor, I... he trailed off, realizing not only was Cheetor still there, but Anna, too.
Airrazor gave the human a look.
Anna and Tigatron glanced at each other.
Anna gave him an encouraging motion and dissapeared back into the jungle. "Hey Anna, wait up." Cheetor called, and ran to catch up.
Tigatron looked at the greenery they had dissapeared through, and started forward. Airrazor took a step forward, also. Suddenly there was an explosion and a startled scream.
"No! Let me go!" Anna suddenly remembered the falcon's words. She looked over at cheetor, who'd been knocked out, and back at Terrasaur's evil grin. She shut her mouth and stopped struggling...