This is a new story I've started to, hopefully, get back into the swing of things. It's also the replacement for my New Queen story that I've put it on hiatus.

I know I should be updating my already existing stories with new chapters, but I just can't really fine the urge to do it. So for now I'll be working on this new one for a time.

As for those that are new to my stories I hope you enjoy. Also please leave comments, helps me know your actually interested in seeing where this is going.

Now on to the story!

Chapter Published: 6/7/2023


Things were not looking good for the Autobots.

They had been fighting the Decepticons for possession of the Omega Keys, which were to be used to activate the Omega Lock and restore their dead world. At first things were going well for them. They had successfully taken the keys from the Decepticons and had managed to reach the Omega Lock's location first. Not long after the great machine had assembled itself Megatron arrived. The tyrannical leader suggested they hand over the keys. And when he was asked if they refused he brought out his incentive.

The Decepticons had captured their human friends and brought them to Cybertron. What's worse is that they threaten to open capsules that they were held in, and expose them to the planet's toxic atmosphere. An instant death to be sure.

Which is where we are now.

"Now, Optimus, hand over the Omega Keys or we can all watch as your human pets instantly parish." Megatron requests with a cruel grin. He then turned to his second in command. "Starscream."

"Jaaaack~ It's time to come out and plaaaay~" Starscream taunts before then raking his pointed digits against the glass of the capsule.

Jack cringed away from the noise, but once it ceased he turned and glared at the seeker. "Go ahead. The Autobots were prepared to sacrifice themselves for my planet; I'll do the same for theirs."

"Me to creepy!" Miko proclaimed, agreeing with Jack's sentiment

"Mmhm." Rafael timidly agreed.

"Perhaps we should oblige them."

The Autobots wanted nothing more than to rush forward and save their friends, but the Decepticons held all the cards. Optimus took a moment to think before looking to Megatron with resolve.

"If my decision dooms the future of the Autobot cause on Cybertron then so be it, but I will never forsake our human allies." With that Optimus raised his blade, the Star Saber, and stabbed it into the ground before backing away to his fellow Autobots, letting the blade be the dividing point for both sides.

From there the Autobots exchanged the Omega Keys for the kids. It wasn't an ideal situation, but they would not allow their friends to be harmed because of their involvement with them. Once the exchange was over with a Space Bridge opened up and Decepticons began pouring out. The Autobots were surrounded in moments, blasters pointed at them ready to fire.

"Now bare witness as a new era dawns on Cybertron." Megatron inserted one of the keys into the Omega Lock, he cohorts doing the same one by one. As the ancient machine activated the tyrant raised his arms in triumph. "Behold, the age of the Decepticons!"

Once the Omega Lock was fully activated Megatron test fired it. A beam surged forth from the machine and hit one of the destroyed buildings in the distance. Everyone watched in awe as in mere moments the building was restored to perfect condition, as if it were brand new.

"You have what you want Megatron. This conflict is between Autobots and Decepticons, allow me to return the humans to Earth." Optimus requested. He wanted to get the kids out of harms way as soon as possible.

"Oh I wouldn't recommend it. They'll be far safer here." Megatron watched as Optimus's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing into a glare. He the turned his gaze to Starscream. "Is the Space Bridge locked on target?"

"Per your instructions, Lord Megatron." He answered with a bow.

"Excellent." Megatron returned his gaze back to Optimus with a wicked grin. "Why rule only one world, when I can rule two."

A Space Bridge then opened up above the Omega Lock and Megatron immediately fired the Omega Lock. A massive beam erupted from the machine and into the Space Bridge, much to the Autobots horror.

"No..." Was all Optimus could say as he watch this unfold.

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Within high orbit of earth a Space Bridge opened up and a massive beam of energy surged out and struck the planet. The lands nearest to the point of contact shook from the sheer force of the impact. People in a nearby town could only look on and watch, wondering what was going on.

But within the Autobots base of operations, Ratchet was trying to figure out what was happening. Typing away at his terminal he tried to get into contact with the others. "Optimus, do you read? An unknown energy spike in Earth's atmosphere is crashing all my systems. Please tell me this is related to the activation of the Omega Lock."

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"If the Omega Lock can restore Cybertron it'll do the same to Earth, right?" Miko asked optimistically.

"No. It will cyberform your planet in favor of its new Matrix, destroying all indigenous life in the process." Optimus refuted.

"Such raw power!" Megatron proclaimed in awe. "What should I call my new domain, New Kaon? Or perhaps Gilded Earth?"

Optimus needed to make choice here and now. As his gaze moved to his comrades has saw as their human friends' outcry, demanding that the Decepticons leave their planet alone. Then, as Megatron and his underlings laughed at their victory, he focused his sights on the Omega Lock's control console.

He knew what he had to do.

With a new resolve he brought out an arm blade and slashed at the drone in front of him, sending him flying into Knockout. Using the sudden surprise to his advantage he rushed towards the Star Saber and quickly pulled it out of the ground. He then swung it around and bisected three drones that tried to jump him. With no time to waste he made a beeline to the control console, but was intercepted by Megatron. The tyrant let out a war-cry as he brought out his Dark Star Saber and clashed their blades together. Unfortunately for Megatron that single strike was parried by the Prime and just as quickly cleaved the arm off. As the Decepticon leader cried out in pain Starscream, Soundwave, and Knockout quickly opened fire on a fast approaching Optimus. The Prime blocked their blasts with his blade and dodged one of Starscream's rockets before using the seeker as a stepping stone to launch himself into the air. They could only watch as Optimus brought his blade down on the console with all his might.

The resulting explosion sent those closest flying and the rest reeling as the Omega Lock came apart at the seams. Large chunks of the machine rained down on those beneath it, crushing a few unfortunate Decepticons in the process. The Autobots did their best to shield their human charges from the explosions and falling rubble. As the last bits of the once great machine imploded a blinding light erupted from its center and massive wave of energy washed over everyone in its vicinity.

As things began to subside, Optimus wasted no time in looking for his fellow Autobots. It didn't take him long to find them, but what he saw next horrified him. The capsules that held their human charges, their friends, were smashed open. But to his confusion the humans themselves were nowhere to be seen, even as his comrades looked to him for answers.

"Optimus, where are the kids?"

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Today was supposed to be a simple day for Rattrap. A routine scout patrol in sector five, simple right? Nope, fate had other plans for the rat. Said plans involved a stasis pod deciding to make landfall, near his position no less. Now he has to go and reach the pod before the Predicons get to it, alone. Not the most ideal situation.

It took a bit to reach the landing sight, moving through jungle foliage isn't fun, and thankfully there were no Preds in sight, caught a break there at least. As he moved passed the last of the foliage he saw his prize, the stasis pod, resting neatly in a barren clearing save for a few boulders here and there. Rattrap transformed to bot mode as he approached the pod and activated its side panel controls. A quick look showed everything to be in working order. Now he just had to activate the pods DNA scanner and hope it fines the protoform an alt mode fast.

"Now hopefully the Preds don't decide to show up, but knowing my luck they'll come at the worst possible time." Rattrap finishes with a sigh. He then pulls out his blaster and eyes his surroundings. "Best be prepared for the inevitable."

"Scan complete. Compatible life-form found. Beginning transformation sequence."

Light flashed within the pod for a few moments before subsiding. With a hiss the pod opened and its occupant got out in a daze. He was around 2 meters tall (6'6) with a bulky superstructure covered in brown, scaly beast bits and some sort of spiny shell on his back while his more robotic parts were covered with a red casing. His forearms, hands, and everything beneath the knees were bulky and covered in scales with sharp digits thanks to his alt mode. Their helmet and face were the same brown as their beast parts with a maw like mouth, but his optics appeared to be offline. As he brought a hand up to rub his head the Maximal insignia could be seen on his forearm.

Rattrap looks up at the new guy, him being 1.8 meters tall (5'10) he kind of had to, and greets him. "So... you got a name newbie?"

"W-what?" The Maximal asked perplexed, his optics were flickering briefly as they tried to activate.

"Your name pal." Rattrap rephrases. This guy sounded young, like somewhere around Cheetor's age, maybe even younger.

"Raf-Rafael." He managed to get out, just as his optics came online. With orange optics blazing to live Rafael could finally see who he was talking to. "It's nice to meet you..."

Rattrap raised brow as Rafael trailed off and stared at him wide eyed. "What? Do I have something on my face?"

"Y-your a Cybertronian."

"Why thank captain obvious I would have never known that." Was Rattrap's snarky reply. He was getting antsy now. The Predicons hadn't shown up yet and he wanted to be out of here before they did. "Anything else you'd like to point out?"

Raf was about to reply, when he noticed his hands. He looks at them and gasps, shocked by what he saw. The shock grew more and more as he looked over the rest of his body. It was blatantly apparent that he wasn't human anymore and he didn't know how to process that fact very well. Which led to Rafael being hunched over, hyperventilating, and clutching his head.

Rattrap stared in bewilderment as Rafael had a breakdown right in front of him. He didn't really know why he was acting like this but his patience was running thin as it is. So he went around Raf's back, raised his hand, and promptly delivered a hard whack to the back of the head.

Rafael was sent sprawling to the ground with a cry. He let out a whimper, rubbing the back of his head to help alleviate the pain he was feeling. Looking to the culprit of his injury, he made his fear and confusion obvious to the Maximal. Only to be met with a hard look from the rat.

"Listen here bucko; we don't have time for you to have a personal crisis. The Predicons could be on us at any moment, so I suggest you save it for when we get back to base, capeesh?"

"Oh but I think you should stay a little bit longer Maximal!"

Rattrap and Rafael didn't even have a moment to react before being sent flying by an explosion right next to them. The landing wasn't exactly pleasant and it had left the two completely dazed, but still functional. Rattrap was the first to recover and quickly pull out his blaster from his back, pointing it at his attackers, only to gulp as he laid eyes on his assailants.

There stood three Predicons in total near the edge of the clearing. Megatron, leader of the Predicons. The loyal second-in-command, Scorponok. Lastly, there was Terrorsaur. All of whom were pointing their weapons at Rattrap and Raf. Scorponok's smoking missile pods showing that he was the cause of the explosion.

"Ah it would seem that you've already awakened the protoform, how unfortunate." Megatron stated with a sigh. "Guess we'll have to do away with the both of you now, yesss." He then raised his T-Rex head/hand and fired lasers from its mouth.

Rattrap quickly rolled to the side to dodge the shots. Once he stopped rolling he immediately returned fire, scoring a hit on Megatron's shoulder. The counter attack had the three Predicons scatter for cover. The rat did the same, dragging a still dazed Raf as he looked for his own cover. By the time he found some clumped together boulders that would work he was once again under fire. Wasting no time he tossed Rafael over with all his strength before following suit as well. Now safely behind cover Rattrap wastes no time in shooting back at the Preds.

As that went on Rafael had finally managed to clear his head and moved to stand up. He was quickly pulled back down as a missile flew right over where his head was a moment ago. Then he received another whack to the head by a thoroughly irritated rat.

"You got a death wish pal?" Rattrap asked. "You don't just stand up while in the middle of a fire fight, that's a one way ticket to scrap yard!" An explosion against their cover shook them for a moment. "Now make yourself useful and help me with these guys!"

"H-how?" Raf asked. He couldn't really think of how he could be of any use to this fight.

"Oh I don't know; maybe pull out a blaster AND SHOOT!"

"I-I don't think have o-one." Raf meekly got out before more blasts rocked their cover.

"Don't have one!? That's a load of baloney. Check your data banks and something will pop up!" Rattrap ordered as he kept firing on the Predicons.

Rafael just stared at him in confusion. Check his data banks? How does he do that?! It's not like he can just think of checking his data banks and it would suddenly-a notification appeared across his vision. Raf was stunned by this, it had actually work!? He quickly shook his head, he needed to focus and see if he had a weapon of some kind on him. With a thought a 3D model grid of what he believes to be himself was shown to him, noting that he looks kind of like a turtle. He watched as the model was zoomed in on near the top of his shell, notably the part right behind his head. Nodding to himself he reaches a hand over and grabbed that part of him as the model disappeared. The part he grabbed easily disconnected and he brought it in front of him to see just what kind of weapon it was.

It looked to be a gun with two red barrels and section of his shell on top of it. The thing that left him confused though was its lack of a grip. He questioned himself of why that was when the model of him appeared again. It should him that the gun was meant to attach to his arm. Understanding this he did as the model showed and moved the gun over his right arm. He felt it click into place and he nearly jump for joy at successfully arming himself. Another explosion against his cover reminded him of his current predicament and WHY he was arming himself.

"Seems you do have a blaster." Was Rattrap's snarky remark when he sees that Raf now had a weapon. "Now help me with these Preds!"

Over on the Predicons side Megatron was pleased with how events were turning out. At first when they arrived a lone Maximal had gotten to the pod first, which was upsetting, but now proved to be a boon. The Maximal was outnumbered and his new comrade seems to be a useless one. Yesss, a nice turn of events indeed.

"Terrorsaur, take to the air and flank them." Megatron ordered.

"Yes Megatron" Terrorsaur acknowledges as he takes to the sky and circles around. With clear line of sight he opens fire on the two Maximals with his shoulder cannons. "Eat this Maximal scum!" He cackles.

Most of the shots missed them, but one had managed to nail Rattrap in the chest. In a panic Rafael pointed his gun at Terrorsaur and fired. Not use to the recoil Raf was knocked on his aft. Luckily hit shot managed to hit the Predicon, sending him crashing down to the earth below.

"Nice shot." Rattrap compliments.

"T-thanks." Raf mumbles out as he rights himself.

Megatron was not happy with what had happened. "Useless idiot!"

"Do we press the attack Megatron?" Scorponok asks as he continues firing missiles at the Maximals.

Megatron contemplates this suggestion for a few moments before realizing something much more advantages. "No Scorponok, all we need to do is wait."

Rattrap peaked out of cover to fire off few more shots when it happened. His body began short-circuiting as blue energy began coating him, and warnings were flashing across his eyes. This can only mean one thing. Energon build up!

"Beast mode!" Rattrap quickly transformed into a rat and the surge of energy ended. He then heard a thud and looked to see Rafael still in robot mode. "Kid what are you doing?! Change to beast mode now!"

"I-I don't kno-know how!?" Raf garbled out. He could feel his body going haywire and the pain that accompanied it was terrible.

"Say it, think it, hell even sing it, just transform or else its lights out for good!" The rat told him.

"Bea-beast mode!" Rafael shouted and immediately began transforming. His head quickly disappears into his body as the chest plate rises up and over the area where his head was to connect with the shell. As he falls on all fours his feet twist and fold with a tortoise head extending out from between them.

Now fully transformed Raf found himself looking in the opposite direction, much to his confusion. He begins to slowly turn around, not used to moving on all fours in such a way, when a big purple foot stomps down on him.

"Aw, it seems time has run out for you Maximals." Megatron gloats. He then reaches down with his T-Rex head/hand and grabs Raf by his head, lifting the kid up to eye level. "It's a shame that the Maximal got to you first, but then again you've proven to be not that much of a fighter. You certainly would have made a terrible Predicon." He slowly began squeezing the T-Rex head's jaw around Raf's head, earning a pained cry from the kid. "Now it's time to end your miserable existence, yesss."

All Rattrap could do was watch as the kid slowly had his head crushed. He made to stop Megatron, but Scorponok and a still functioning Terrorsaur was quick to block him. "Any chance we can talk this out?"

Scorponok just smiled evilly and aimed at him.

"I thought so."

Just as all seemed lost, salvation came. Scorponok was blown away by a blast to the chest and Terrorsaur was quick to receive one as well. Everyone looked to the sky and saw certain flying gorilla.

"Optimus!" Rattrap rejoiced.

"Primal." Megatron scowled. Guess it was time to cut his losses. "Predicons, retreat!" He ordered as he dropped Rafael and ran. His subordinates followed right behind him.

Optimus Primal landed and transformed into a gorilla. He then moved to check Rattrap and Rafael. "You two alright?"

"Cutting it a bit close there, boss monkey." Rattrap states. A few seconds later and he would have been slagged.

"Better late than never. So you going to introduce me to our new member?" Optimus asks.

Raf managed to get back on his feet, though his was still pounding, and nervously spoke. "H-hi there sir. My name is Rafael, Rafael Esquivel."

Optimus looked at curiously." Strange, your name doesn't match your alt mode or sound Cybertronian." Primal rubbed his chin. "In fact it sounds almost human."

"That's because I am human, or was anyway." Raf clarifies.

For a moment neither Optimus nor Rattrap said a word. Could you really blame them though? This all sounds too far fetch for them, even with all the crazy things that have been happening since they crash landed here.

"Kid, you sure you didn't knock something lose in there during the fight?" Rattrap skeptically asks.

"I'm telling the truth!" Raf defended.

"Well then I guess you have some explaining to do when we get back to base." Optimus states before, making his leave. "Come on, I want us back to base within the hour."

So the three began their journey to the Maximal base.

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Meanwhile Megatron was in a foul mood, a foul mood indeed. They had failed to get to the protoform first, which was already upsetting. Then, just as they were about to kill the Maximals, Primal had to appear and ruin that as well. Blast it all!

Terrorsaur and Scorponok were wise enough to keep their distance from their leader, lest they be on the receiving end of his wrath. "At least we managed to get a few good hits in, right Megatron?" Or perhaps not in Terrorsaur's case.

Megatron rounded on the red flyer and bashed him over the head. "If you hadn't been so useless we would have kill those Maximals before Primal showed up!"

Before Megatron further beat on Terrorsaur his attention was drawn away by Scorponok. "Megatron look."

He looks at Scorponok before moving his sights to where he was pointing. There, resting half submerged in a lake was a stasis pod. Megatron grinned as began approaching the pod. "Perhaps this day hasn't been so fruitless after all, yesss."

To be continued?


This chapter took me awhile to get done, but here it is.

So Raf has joined the Beast Wars, now that's a interesting premise if I do say so my self. As for his appearance, he looks like Snapper from the toyline just as a Maximal.

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Now for other news. Jack and Miko will join in later on in the story so don't about them. Also I'll be adding some other characters, one extra Maximal and four predicons, to even out both sides. Who these character will be I'll leave up to your imagination. Though here's a hint, they're based on the toyline for Beast Wars and one is from Beast Wars II.

So that's about it. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and I can't wait to see your comments, I like reading what you have say on my story.

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