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Note: This story takes place one week after "A Different War".
Going Home, Chapter 2
By TVfan
The Ark
"I can't believe it," Optimus spoke as he stepped into the last room that Blackarachnia and Rattrap had searched.
"Yup," Rattrap spoke, "We were going room to room, and here it was. It's always in the last place you look."
Blackarachnia gave a disapproving sigh, wishing she could get out of spending time in Rattrap's presence.
"You two did well," Optimus answered, "I didn't think you would find a whole shuttle, but here it is!"
"This whole ship is strange," Blackarachnia spoke, "There are no records in any of the history tracks, Maximal or Predicon of there being a shuttle onboard the Ark."
"There are no records of the Beast Wars in our history tracks either," Optimus pointed out.
"That's because the Beast Wars are our present," Rattrap said back, "They're going on right now."
"But chronologically speaking we are in what is our past and Earth's prehistoric past," Rhinox answered, "It is a great irony. Our present is both simultaneously taking place in our time and here in Earth's past. It actually proves many theories that Maximal and Autobot scientists have about time over the years."
"What? That it's possible to go sideways, as well as backwards and forwards in time?" Rattrap asked.
"No, more that time can not truly be altered," Rhinox answered, "The theory is that time flows in a set pattern that we determine as we go and record it once it has past. The main point of the theory is that once an event has happened, it can not be altered."
Rattrap, Blackarachnia, and Optimus looked at the Maximal's chief scientist with a look of confusion.
"It would mean that the entire Beast Wars was meant to happen, as well as the Great War which technically preceded it in terms of history," Rhinox answered, "According to their theories, nothing can change the past."
"But Megatron is trying to change history," Blackarachnia pointed out, "and was very nearly successful when he first found the Ark."
"As I said, it is only a theory," Rhinox answered, "And one that is debated. I personally believe that with the ability to travel back and forward in time with the Transwarp Drive, it is possible to change the future, but it could still be possible that there is truth in both theories. There may be no records of a shuttle on the Ark because took it to Cybertron in our time before the Autobots and Decepticons woke up to start the Great War."
"Either way, it is a way home," Optimus answered, "Now all we need to do is finish our 'dealings' with Megatron."
The Nemesis
"I don't know which is worse," Megatron growled, "The fact that Rampage was destroyed or the fact that only his team managed to make contact with any of the Maximals."
"I'm sorry boss, but we couldn't find any," Quickstrike whimpered, "Maybe they think we've all been destroyed and are lounging in the Ark?"
"As much as would like to think that they are being lazy, I highly doubt it," Megatron growled back, vocally showing his displeasure, "Even if many of them think that the 'war' is over, Depthcharge and Dinobot are still among the Maximal ranks."
"But Depthcharge had grudge against Rampage," Inferno asked, "Wouldn't he leave the Maximals now that Rampage has been destroyed."
"Despite his apparent mistrust of Primal," Megatron answered, "Depthcharge is probably like any other Maximal. With no ability to leave Earth otherwise, it is likely that he will remain with the Maximals, and fighting us may now become his means of escaping direct service for Primal."
"Then we shall have an excellent opportunity to destroy him!" Scorpinok answered, "If his rivalry with Primal still stands, he might take his missions alone."
"Perhaps," Megatron answered, "But our primary effort needs to be on inflicting heavy losses on the Maximals, an effort that you failed to do."
"We'll try harder, boss," Spine said with a sigh.
"Good," Megatron answered, "Because we need to inflict heavy casualties on them if we are to win the Beast Wars."
"What is your command, Royalty?" Inferno asked.
"We are to continue our ambush operations," Megatron answered, "We will continue to make random patrols of the territory that is halfway between our base and the Ark. The Maximals will likely step up their efforts to find us after this recent engagement, which will mean that we will at least get more opportunities now to find them."
The Ark
Silverbolt and the stasis pod recovery team landed at the Ark to find the doors closed, as the computerized defenses had been left online to guard the ship for the moment. He quickly moved to help Airazor open the doors to allow Tigerhawk and Whiteout, who were carrying the stasis pods that they had recovered from where the alien Tigerhawk had left them.
"Hopefully there has been some progress getting everything ready to go home, including capturing the remaining Predicons," Tigerhawk commented as they walked into the Ark.
Deeper inside the Ark, Rattrap and Rhinox were working on preparing to get the Autobot shuttle that had earlier been found for the return trip to Cybertron. Like the rest of the Ark it was built to hold something closer to the size of the Autobots and Decepticons and would easily fit all of the Maximals and Predicons inside it. They were now double checking everything that would need to be done before it would be ready to leave.
"Yah know, this thing may be large enough to hold everybody, but uh, how are we gonna keep the Preds from doin' anything?" Rattrap asked, "They didn't exactly put brigs in shuttles you know."
"We may just have to lay them down with their binders on," Rhinox answered, "We can't waste time building a 'brig'."
"So when Meg's breaks free, he can just launch us into chaos while we're still in space?" Rattrap asked.
"The bindings I made will hold him," Rhinox answered, sounding rather hurt and annoyed that someone would thing that his inventions didn't or wouldn't work.
"It's nothing personal or anything, and I mean no disrespect to your skills, Rhinox, but Megs always manages to have something up his sleeve that helps him escape or at least win some battles," Rattrap answered, "Remember when Ravage first showed up. Despite the fact that I rightfully thought the guy was bad news, he at least wanted to off Megatron at the time, and somehow, that guy managed to persuade Ravage, not only to free him but to join him. Megs will do something that we didn't anticipate and will break free."
"Do you always look at the bright side, Rattrap?" Rhinox asked, realizing that the transmetal rat was just using his intense sense of pessimism.
"I'm just tryin' to be realistic," Rattrap answered, "past experience has taught me that being overly hopeful or dismissive of potential problems is dangerous, no matter what the situation."
"The cuffs are linked to our own radio signals," Rhinox answered, "They will activate on the detection of a Predicon energy signature."
"And suppose Megatron decides to change his codes?" Rattrap asked, "If only to get out of the codes. Dinobot's energy signature reads as a Maximal on all our scanners despite the fact that he came online as a Predicon."
"That's because we altered all our scanners to recognize him as a Maximal by identifying his cybernetic DNA and his spark rather then merely recognizing his activation codes," Rhinox answered, "Optimus will also have to request that similar changes be made throughout the Maximal network when we get back to Cybertron."
Rhinox then sighed for a moment, "simply switching activation codes won't do it. Megatron's cybernetic DNA would give him away as well as his own spark's energy signature."
"And you have all that on file?" Rattrap asked.
"Optimus has had me working on this ever since the Beast Wars began," Rhinox answered, "It wasn't easy work, especially considering all the other stuff I've had to build, fix, or invent."
"Okay, I trust ya, but I'm still holding my biggest gun when we take the Preds back to Cybertron," Rattrap answered.
"Let's check the engines," Rhinox spoke, deciding to drop the conversation, "It's the only thing we haven't checked in here."
The two then made there way into the rear section of the shuttle. The engines were all in perfect working order, but there was a slight problem.
"There's no transwarp drive," Rattrap said in a very surprised voice, "Why doesn't it have a transwarp drive? The technology, or at least the earliest versions of it existed when the ancient Autobots were around."
"They must have only used shuttles for short trips," Rhinox answered, "although it looks like we can easily install the Ark's transwarp drive cell."
"Making sure it can get these sublight engines to work right is another story," Rattrap commented, "Most mechanics generally overhaul the entire engine if they were faced with something like this and install an engine designed to use a transwarp cell. Modifying a sublight engine to do that is dangerous and risky."
"We don't have any other choice, and you know it," Rhinox answered.
"You think they might be in this area?" Optimus asked as Cybershark and Squeak delivered their report, while looking at a projected map on a display screen.
"That's where Waspinator, Rampage, and Stingfin attacked us," Cybershark answered, "I can only assume that there the rest of the Predicons are operating in that general area."
"And Depthcharge destroyed Rampage?" Optimus asked as he glanced back at the CR chamber behind him.
"That's what he said," Squeak answered, "Although he was so badly damaged that we couldn't truly check to make sure."
"There was a lot of Rampage's body among the wreckage though that floated to the surface immediately after the explosion, and his body didn't come up to the surface the way Depthcharge's did, so he's probably dead, though," Cybershark added.
Optimus looked back at the CR chamber that Depthcharge had been placed in when they had returned to the Ark and sighed.
"To be honest, I hope so," Optimus answered, "What Rampage did to Depthcharge really was something that shouldn't even happen to the worst of the Predicons. It really changed him, maybe now, he will be different. Back to the way he was before."
Cybershark was about to say more when Silverbolt entered with Airazor.
"We've recovered the stasis pods that the alien Tigerhawk hid," Silverbolt reported, "Tigerhawk and Whiteout are busy taking them to the main control chamber, where the old Autobots and Decepticons are."
"I'd better get to them quickly before they set them all down," Optimus spoke quickly, "Rattrap and Blackarachnia found an Autobot shuttle that we can use. We'll need to take the pods there."
Conference Room, the Next Day
Optimus sat down at the end of a long table as the rest of the Maximals gathered around it to prepare for the latest briefing on what would need to be done to finish the war.
"We are going to continue our patrols to find where Megatron is hiding," Optimus spoke to begin the meeting, "and as I ordered before, our primary emphasis is to capture and arrest at least Megatron. Rhinox has recently perfected the cuffs that will be needed to insure that the Predicons do not cause us any further trouble."
Optimus paused as he watched the others nodded. Optimus then continued with his briefing.
"In the meantime, we have uncovered an Autobot shuttle here in the Ark," Optimus continued, "It s imperative that we move the rocks that cover the Ark so that the shuttle can take off."
"Remove the rocks?" Blackarachnia asked, "Primal do you know how many tons of rock are sitting on top of the Ark? It would be easier to renovate the interior and move the shuttle outside."
"Those are my instructions," Optimus answered, "Besides, considering that the Ark is sitting on a volcano, we would have to move the shuttle quite a long ways away in order to safely launch it. The Ark itself would at least be able to buffer the effects of the shuttle's engines starting from upsetting the volcano."
"So who will be assigned what jobs?" Stagstripe asked from his seat.
"Dinobot will take a small team to scout for whatever location Megatron is using as a base," Optimus answered and then turned to face the transmetal two raptor, "and I leave the membership of that team up to him."
"If this mission is only a scouting mission, I should only need Rapther for assistance," Dinobot answered.
Optimus nodded, and then continued with his briefing, "Rattrap and Rhinox will be busy working to prepare the Autobot shuttle for the return journey to Cybertron."
"We might need some help other then just the two of us," Rhinox spoke, "Either in getting ideas for some of the possible problems we will face or at least providing us with and extra set of hands."
"I can help with any technical problems you will have, and Silverbolt can provide the extra set of hands," Blackarachnia volunteered.
"That's good," Optimus nodded, "The rest of us will be moving rocks, but we need to be prepared to deal with the Predicons should Dinobot and Rapther find where Megatron is hiding."
Later
Dinobot and Rapther slowly made their way over the same are that Cybershark and Squeak had earlier been sent to patrol. They stopped once they got to the area where the battle had begun. Dinobot looked up at the top of the ridge above them an began looking for a way to scale the rock face.
"So, out of curiosity, what will you do when we return to Cybertron?" Rapther asked as they climbed up to the top of the ridge.
Dinobot scanned the open ground that seemed to head toward a forest in the distance.
"Is this really the time?" Dinobot growled back, "I chose you alone because you have a warrior's skill and knowledge that mindless chatter in battle is dangerous."
"It will be several miles before we reach that forest and we're in the middle of very open terrain," Rapther answered, "We'd see a Predicon or would be seen by one before they have the chance to hear us."
Dinobot only gave a growling sigh, knowing that she was right. The ground they were on was very flat and open before it moved into the forest, which was a long way off.
"You didn't answer my question," Rapther asked, "What do you intend to do once we return to Cybertron?"
"I do not intend to return to Cybertron," Dinobot answered.
"What?!" Rapther gasped.
"Your Maximal elders will prosecute me just as they will Megatron," Dinobot answered, "And I would be dishonored, as I never should have joined with Megatron in the first place."
"But you've done just as much to stop Megatron as any of the others," Rapther answered, "If it weren't for you, I might have been activated as a Predicon."
"Acts of dishonor are never undone," Dinobot answered, "And governing laws do not accept the mitigation of honorable acts. The Maximal elders will view my actions in helping Megatron steal the Golden Disk as unforgivable. I will suffer the same fate as Megatron."
"So what do you intend to do?" Rapther asked, "Return to the Predicons?"
"No," Dinobot answered, "The Maximal elders will imprison me for stealing their relic. The Tripredicus Council will have me executed for treason. I intend to remain here.
Find some new honorable venture to carry on."
"Your spark would naturally extinguish over the years before any sort of 'honorable venture' would come," Rapther answered, "You could volunteer to train warriors for the Maximals. To be prepared if anything threatens peace in the galaxy."
"The Maximals do not have warriors," Dinobot answered, "Even if I am not punished, Cybertron holds no world in which I will fit. Where does a warrior fit when there is no war for him to fight? No glory to be won in battle? No conquest to win? No wrong to be righted? No enemy to be thwarted. I would not fit in on Cybertron and I would think that you could understand that."
"I can understand that much, but there are outposts and colonies that the Maximals have," Rapther argued, "Not all of which are in the safest parts of the galaxy. You can defend them. Either way, that would be a better solution then just remaining here and expiring before the first organized human civilization even forms."
"I take it you agree with Optimus in wanting me to return to Cybertron then?" Dinobot growled.
"Yes, although for reasons other then what Optimus would have," Rapther answered, "And I will fight to the very end of my being to see that you are not just simply punished for one mistake."
"A true warrior does not feels such feelings," Dinobot answered and looked toward the forest, which was now getting closer.
"It is not dishonorable to feel them at the right times," Rapther answered back, "And you could stand to feel them during times when you are not in battle."
Dinobot gave a growling sigh and then continued walking. Rapther only growled back and followed. As they entered the forest, they still, had not found any sign of Predicon activity. They did find that there were plenty loose boulders and the terrain was becoming much more varied, and both raptors became more alert as to monitoring their surroundings.
After about an hour of searching they came across something that looked most unnatural.
"This looks as though something crashed through here," Rapther commented, looking at a deep groove in the earth and a series of bent over trees.
Dinobot looked at the bent over trees which looked like a letter 'v' the longer he looked at it. His red optics then narrowed at the sight of the damaged earth.
"What do you suppose did all of this?" Rapther asked as she looked around.
"The only thing that could have done this would be the Nemesis," Dinobot answered, "But Rampage destroyed that ship."
A missile then suddenly came out of nowhere, and both Dinobot and Rapther were forced to dive behind some of the piled up earth to avoid being hit by it. When the looked over the mound of earth and rocks, they saw one transmetal two scorpion crawl into the gorge created in the earth and a tansmetal two pterosaur come down to a low altitude to hover above it.
"Actually," Scorpinok answered, "Rampage only crashed the Nemesis. It won't fly again, but it is still in one piece."
"Which is more then we can saw for you!" Terrorsaur added in triumph and fired his optics lasers at the two Maximals.
Dinobot and Rapther rolled away and watched as Terrorsaur's optics cut a tree that was near them in half. It fell to create a strong barrier between them and the two Predicons.
"You deal with Terrorsaur," Dinobot ordered, "I will deal with Scorpinok."
"Divide and conquer?" Rapther asked back.
"Divide and conquer," Dinobot nodded.
Rapther then stood up and unleashed a long volley of rockets at the hovering Terrorsaur. The rockets hit the Predicon in the chest and forced him back a few feet. This gave Dinobot the time to leap over the fallen tree and land a flying kick into Scorpinok's chest, taking the other Predicon to the ground. He raised is powerful sickle-like talons and prepared to use them to slice Scorpinok's head off of its shoulders, but the transmetal two scorpion managed to lift one claw up and Dinobot only cut his enemy's weapon's systems in half. Scorpinok then kicked Dinobot and scrambled to his feet.
Scorpinok then looked up at Terrorsaur who was still trying to avoid repeated barrages of Rapther's rockets.
"Destroy the female!" Scorpinok ordered, "I will deal with this one."
"Roger," Terrorsaur answered and zoomed off to try and get a better firing position on the female transformer.
Once Terrorsaur was on the other side of the fallen tree that Rapther was using for cover, he then showered the area with shots from his own blaster. Rapther dove away to prevent taking any direct hit, but the shock waves that were the result of the explosions of Terrorsaur's shots threw her forward. As she got to her feet, she found that Terrorsaur was only preparing to fire again.
"What? You're not going to come down here and fight me face to face?" Rapther challenged.
"And give away my advantage?" Terrorsaur answered back, "Not in your life!"
Terrorsaur fired again, which Rapther leaped to avoid. The blast hit the stump of another nearby tree, causing it to topple over. Rapther noticed this, smiled to herself and ran off into the maze of trees.
"Have it your way," Rapther taunted the pursuing Predicon.
"You're short one claw," Dinobot spoke, "You'd best surrender."
Scorpinok only lifted his tail and fired a precision missile directly at Dinobot. The resulting explosion threw him against the side of the trench that they were in, and Scorpinok added to that with two missiles from his other claw.
"I'm short one claw, but I'm certainly not out of the fight," Scorpinok answered.
"External armor damaged 89, circuitry protecting spark at 97," Dinobot's internal computer spoke as Dinobot ran a quick diagnostic.
Dinobot silently cursed. Most of the damage was done by missile that doubled as Scorpinok's stinger. While cutting off one of Scorpinok's claws reduced the Predicon's firepower, it did not remove the transmetal two scorpion's most powerful weapon. With Rapther dealing with Terrorsaur at the moment, there was no way he could defeat Scorpinok without killing him, at least not in his mindset. He then quickly focused on Scorpinok's tail, which the Predicon was holding still, as if preparing to fire another missile.
"You will regret not having surrendered," Dinobot growled and fired his optic's lasers at full power.
Scorpinok ducked, expect the shot to be aimed at his head or chest, and then screamed in pain as Dinobot's lasers hit the tail missile he had just loaded and as a result of the exploding missile and laser blast, destroyed most of his tail. Dinobot then lunged forward and sliced at Scorpinok's arm with his claws again. He did leave a deep gash, but in his attack did not cut the arm off of the shoulder and allowed Scorpinok to raise that claw and fire at Dinobot's back.
This time, Scorpinok's shots did not do as much damage in one shot as the Predicon's first volley had. As Dinobot recovered, however, he found that Scorpinok had rushed quickly to the top of the trench and made it impossible for Dinobot to easily charge again. Scorpinok hit Dinobot again with two missiles from his remaining claw and knocked Dinobot down. Dinobot answered by firing his optic's lasers at Scorpinok's chest. The blast pushed Scorpinok back and into a nearby tree, but didn't do much more in terms of visible damage.
Dinobot then leaped out of the trench, crouched low and swung one leg around to trip and bring Scorpinok back to the ground as the Predicon tried to get up. When Scorpinok tried again, he swung one of his taloned hands down in a powerful arc and sliced open the armor on Scorpinok's chest. In his pain, Scorpinok fired a missile directly into Dinobot's chest and threw him back several feet.
"Now to finish this," Dinobot growled as he pulled himself back onto his knees and saw that Scorpinok was practically standing over him, with a missile prepared to fire.
"Don't move if you know what's good for you," Scorpinok ordered.
Dinobot wasn't sure what to make of this. Scorpinok was obliviously ignoring great pain, as his last attack revealed the Predicon's spark chamber, yet he was willing to stand directly face on of the Maximal's better warriors. He admired the bravery, but again frowned on the stupidity.
Dinobot then fired his optic's lasers right into the slash he had just made across Scorpinok's chest. The laser energy easily penetrated into Scorpinok's spark chamber, and the Predicon, screaming with pain, was thrown back several feet until he hit a tree and exploded.
"One down," Dinobot sighed, "Diagnostic."
"External armor damaged 78, circuitry protecting spark functioning at 85," his diagnostic computer answered.
"Now to finish off the other one," Dinobot grumbled and began to walk in the direction that he had last seen Rapther move in.
Rapther moved quickly as Terrorsaur fired on her from above and behind. The Predicon's shots destroyed trees as Rapther deliberately ran by them. Her plan was to have Terrorsaur damage a large tree and then have it fall over on him, but so far, most of the trees were too small to hold Terrorsaur down and on top of it, fell the wrong way, and opened up the Predicon's line of fire.
"I'm gonna catch you!" Terrorsaur said jubilantly.
Rapther finally arrived at a large tree that might fall on Terrorsaur when he would hit it. She stopped so that when Terrorsaur fired, the shots would hit the bottom of the tree and fall toward the charging Predicon.
"And it's going to be easy," Terrorsaur smiled and fired every weapon he had at the Maximal femmebot.
Rapther quickly dove away and let her trap to its work. Terrorsaur's fire destroyed the bottom of the tree and it quickly began to fall forward into the transmetal two pterosaur's flight path. The Predicon found himself going too fast to stop himself, and he flew right into the trunk of the tree, which pined him to the ground. Rapther then destroyed Terrorsaur's discarded blaster with a round of rocket fire.
"Now, who's going to catch who, now?" Rapther asked.
Terrorsaur tried to free himself, but found he couldn't lift the trunk of the tree and decided to buy time by at least driving Rapther off. He fired his optics lasers at her, but the Maximal only ducked down, and pulled out her tail whip from where it was coiled up on a 'hook' built into her back. Rapther then slung her whip, so the energon charged tip made a strong 'crack' right across Terrorsaur's optics. It didn't destroy the Predicon's optics, but it did put his optic's lasers offline.
"Will you surrender now?" Rapther asked.
"Never!" Terrorsaur vowed, swinging his fists wildly.
"You have no weapons and are pinned under a fallen tree," Rapther pointed out, "and you have no reinforcements. We are under orders to capture any Predicon we come across, if at all possible, although I'm sure that Dinobot has already killed Scorpinok."
"Suppose Scorpinok won?" Terrorsaur asked.
"He didn't," Dinobot answered as the transmetal two raptor appeared in beast mode, in order to perform internal repairs.
"Will you surrender now?" Rapther asked, "Dinobot and I have no necessary problems with killing you if you keep fighting."
Looking up at Rapther's confident face with sharp metallic teeth showing and Dinobot's glowing red optics, Terrorsaur decided that with no help nearby, it was better to surrender. He hoped they wouldn't kill him anyway, and held out his hands to be cuffed. Rapther pulled out a pair of the specialized cuffs that Rhinox had produced and placed them on Terrorsaur's wrists.
"I'll hold him and you push the tree off of him," Rapther ordered while placing her hands on Terrorsaur's shoulders, insuring that he didn't get up and run away.
Dinobot nodded and moved to push on the fallen tree with all his might. It was difficult for him in his beast mode, but after several minutes of grunting and digging into the ground with his feet, the tree was finally pushed off of Terrorsaur. Rapther then lifted the Predicon into the air and pointed him back in the direction of the Ark.
"Now, march, slowly," Rapther ordered, "We'll keep our weapons trained on you if you run."
The Nemesis
"Ah, Waspinator like monitoring duty," Waspinator sighed with contentment, "Not shot once."
"Your luck will run out if you have nothing to report," came Megatron's voice from above him as the Predicon tyrant jumped down from his throne to monitor Waspinator's work.
Waspinator gulped and pointed to his screens.
"Just following Scorpinok and Terrorsaur's progress in investigating some energy signal," Waspinator answered.
"Then why do I see two Maximal energy signatures leading one Predicon energy signature away from our base?" Megatron growled, slamming Waspinator on the head with one of his fists, "And you failed to alert anyone of any Maximal presence near our base?"
"Scorpion-bot not report as Maximal," Waspinator answered with an obvious whimper, "Only report as energy signal."
"Rally the other teams and send them to Terrorsaur and Waspinator's last known coordinates," Megatron ordered, "I want to know which was destroyed or damaged and which was captured. If one is damaged, bring him back here to be healed. One is destroyed, salvage his parts for use in defending the Nemesis."
"Yes, Megatron," Waspinator whimpered.
Megatron, meanwhile, turned and left the new Predicon command center. Things were going bad and he knew it. With Rampage already destroyed losing Terrorsaur and Scorpinok, one destroyed, one evidently captured made his situation worse. He was losing his vanguard force with which he needed to crush the Maximals. Waspinator and Inferno were his only remaining transmetal twos, other then himself, and he had no regular transmittals to at least help them. There was also the fact that of his two other transmetal twos, he would only trust Inferno in a fight. He might need to draw on the Nemesis's shear firepower and lure the Maximals into an attack, but that seemed to stink of desperation in Megatron's mind.
The Ark
Optimus and the other Maximals had removed a large amount of rock that had covered the crashed Autobot starship. They had only done enough so that only the very top of the Ark was visible and they still had a lot of work to do uncover the rest of the ship.
"Hey, bigbot," Cheetor called over to Optimus, "Dinobot and Rapther are on their way back, and they got a guest."
Optimus looked up to see Dinobot and Rapther forcing Terrorsaur to march before them. He also noticed that the transmetal two pterosaur was wearing Rhinox's new cuffs.
"Did you find where Megatron is hiding?" Optimus asked as they got close.
"Not exactly, but we believe we've found what might lead us to that location," Rapther answered.
"It is possible that the Nemesis structurally survived the crash that was caused by Rampage's attack on Tarantulus," Dinobot explained, "Megatron has likely found it and is using it as a base."
"What? The Nemesis exploded when it crashed," Optimus replied.
"That may have only been dirt being thrown into the air by the Nemesis's crashing," Rapther informed the Maximal commander, "We found a rather deep groove in the Earth, and the Nemesis could be the only thing to cause it."
"Is Megatron using the crashed Nemesis as a base?" Optimus questioned Terrorsaur.
"I've only agreed to surrender myself as a prisoner," Terrorsaur answered, "I will not help you defeat Megatron."
"He's been like that since we took him prisoner," Dinobot reported.
"Well, if you're right in your report," Optimus sighed, "It means we might finally be able to win the Beast Wars once and for all."
To Be Continued…
