(Hi everyone, how are you all doing this month? Are you being nice and kind to each other? I'm only asking because tis the season after all. Funny story about this chapter though... I was actually hoping to post it last week or two weeks ago, but preparing for the holidays and my job sort of delayed me.

*Rubs the back of his head with a sheepishly expression on his face, while saying* My bad!

Well here's a chapter I hope you find as funny as I found the episode I based this on.

Now to address a couple of Reviews:
SulliMike23: Spoilers, but they're gonna make things more complicated.
RonaldM40196867: Both Pokemon and Transformers are both unique in their own way so I can't decide on one or the other.
Gamelover41592: You're right, but they don't even know about the Secret War yet, however they will be before this 'season' ends.
Guest (Oct27): Thank goodness they're not yet aware of each other, huh? Well what their interest in ENergon is, I thought I already spoke about it in the chapter let alone after Optimus got a copy of the data from Team Flare's experiments.
Guest (Nov07): He already did got some sense talked into him, both by his friends AND by Airblazor.
Stone-Man85: Careful what you wish for, buddy. Because you're about to see him again in this chapter.

Notice: I would like to thank a good friend of mine, Stone-Man85, for how two of the chapters in his Beast Wars story. Take a look at some of his works, I'm sure you'll find them interesting.

Reminder: I would like to remind you all about the ideas that popped into my head during my hiatus and it's everything listed under "Undetermined" or "Challenge" in my page is yours to pick if you want to write. I'm available for advice if you wish to proceed as such. I am encouraging everyone, to write if you want to. Let me know in an PM after you find an idea that you want to write so I can help you with it. They are all on my profile page and are awaiting you to look at them, please look at them after you read this chapter and review it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Pokémon or Beast Wars they are the properties of their respective owners.
The fox-like Maximal, Foxfire, is an OC Maximal made by my friend, Stone-Man85, in his "Beast Wars" story. Please look at his story if you get the chance.

"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Communications"
"COMPUTERIZED VOICES."
"{Pokemon translation}"

Before we start the chapter I wanted to thank all of you who have remained patiently for me to be able to return to myself after my traumatic experience years ago and refound my rhythem to write again fully again, which I hope will be seen in this chapter if not the last couple of chapters.
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It was a bright sunny day in the Kalos Region for Ash and the gang.

Days had passed since they last ran into any Predacons in the Kalos Wetlands, however, since then Ash and the gang ran into Team Rocket stealing food from Panguru. They had a strange dream(?) of going to a haunted manor where they had ran into a man who apparently was a ghost living with three Ghost-Types. They had entered Laverre City and Ash won his gym badge from the gym leader Valerie, adopted Noibat into their Pokémon family, helped teach Noibat how to fly during a relay race, and took part in a Pokémon movie starring Pikachus.

Now the gang had just arrived on the property of the Pokéball Factory and were staring in amazement at how large the factory that made all Pokéballs in Kalos was. Seeing the size of the factory itself made Bonnie beam, "It's huge…"

Serena found it amazing. Clemont couldn't hold back the tears of joy he was keeping in at how he was finally there just as he had dreamed.

"We've been waiting for you. We welcome you to our dream factory." Three voices said in greeting from behind the kids, which made them turn to see three adults there. A woman with violet hair, a man with periwinkle hair, and a woman with her hair in a bun and glasses.

The Woman with violet hair in a factory uniform, stated, 'I'm the Senior Assistant Manager and I'm oversee the production at this facility."

"As her assistant manager I'm her second in command." The man with periwinkle hair in the same uniform said smiling at them.

The woman next to them wearing a business suit instead of a factory uniform, "I'm the secretary of the plant production and I'm third in charge."

After the kids parroted what the three said, the Senior Assistant Manager stated, "The Plant Manager of the factory asked us to welcome you and give you all a premium grand tour for all your hard work as top upcoming trainers."

The two other remarked, "Aren't you kids lucky."

The kids cheered hearing this while Ash said, "Wow, thanks a lot!"

"Right this way please." The Senior Assistant Manager (S.A.M.) said and proceeded to lead them into the main lobby where they saw many different models of Pokéballs that had been made since their first invention some hundred years ago.

The three employees who greeted them smirked, as the kids lost themselves at the window showing all the different type of Pokéballs, Those three factory employees were really Jessie, James and Meowth from Team Rocket. Their latest caper scheme seem to be working without a hitch as they led the kids into the assembly line of the of said Pokéballs from their overall construction to their being spray painted with color.

"Whoa, what an operation!" Ash remarked seeing how the Pokéballs were being made. It was different from when he and his friends: Brock and Misty had gone and met Kurt who lived in Johto to make those specialized Pokéballs for them a year ago.

"Everything's fully automated." Clemont audibly observed as he saw it all.

"Of course. We only use only the latest in cutting-edge production technology." The disguised Meowth stated, in his secretary disguise.

Clemont was beside himself with amazement, "Fascinating! Oh, I wish I could see it up close!"

The disguised James glanced at Jessie who nodded and spoke the next bit of lines, "All right everyone, please listen. For the next part of the tour, we're gonna lead you guys up close and personal to the assembly of the Pokéballs in person soon."

"Are you serious?" Clemont asked excitedly.

"Of course." The disguised Jessie answered, "But first thing's first. Please allow us to inspect your Pokéballs."

This made the kids look surprised. Serena spoke up, "I don't understand."

"Yeah, why do you need to look at our Pokéballs?" Bonnie asked, not understanding.

"You see, we must ensure that they are not damaged nor messed with so that your Pokémon don't just suddenly run off without saying a word. Allow us to bring them to be repaired and then return them, as easy as 1-2-3." James explained, "And it's free."

That made the kids feel even more at ease, happy to find such people who were looking out for them. Clemont and Ash were the first to go digging for their Pokéballs, then did Serena. Dedenne got off Bonnie's head for Clemont to return to his Ball. As the disguised Meowth went over telling the kids, opening the case, unaware of the symbol at the side that was hidden, "Now please put them in this custom-made Pokéball case."

The kids began to put the Pokéballs with Pokémon inside within the case, not seeming to notice how the case had been built for the exact number of Balls the kids had on them. Meowth smiled as he closed the case making it face upwards as they heard the case locking. They were unaware of what appeared to be Cyber-webbing at the ceiling of the assembly room.

Ash turned to the two humans, "One thing though, my Pikachu doesn't like going inside his Pokéball."

This got on Jessie's nerves and she leaned forward, "Of course not, we al-"

Only to be saved by James who got between them, "-ready figured as much, but fret not we made this specialized case for it to not bring out any of those bad feelings that made your Pikachu dislike being inside such a Pokéball."

Ash placed Pikachu in the case, which made him complain. The boy from Pallet Town assured him, "Hey, it's only gonna be a little while, Buddy."

"And, if you don't mind, we'll take Pikachu's Pokéball as well." Meowth politely requested, holding his hidden arms out for the Pokéball, which Ash handed over easily.

Excited, Clemont told the others, "And now it's time for our personal tour of the factory!"

"Not yet." Jessie spoke up, making the kids look at her. She said, "What I mean is that we have all the time in the world."

"We first want to give you all a special room that simulates what it's like for a Pokémon to be in a Pokéball." James added which made the kids excited to hear and want to try. Though Clemont and Ash remembered how the Maximals reacted when they mentioned the purpose of a Pokéball. And initially Optimus thought that the purpose of the Pokéballs were like slavery.

But they were curious how it was like for the Pokémon and agreed to it anyway. The three disguised villains went and lead down deeper into the factory and into the main hallway where the kids began to get even more curious. Serena was the first to speak, "This is quite a walk, isn't it?"

"We're taking you to a place with unconventional, cutting-edge, science." The disguised man stated, "So naturally it's in an unconventional location."

"And the genius behind it all, our beloved Plant manager, will be there to greet you all." The disguised woman said.

Clemont was excited, "Yeah? I can hardly wait!"

Serena nodded, feeling like their reasons made sense. They soon reached a pair of doors and said, "Right here is where the special room is. Please step inside."

The kids hurried inside unaware of the danger as they entered the darkened room. As soon as they did, Ash blinked confused, "So… this is the place?"

"It looks like an ordinary storage room to me, and I don't see this Plant Manager."

"This is what it's like to be inside a Pokéball?" Bonnie asked.

The doors closed and locked behind them.

"What's going on?!" Ash demanded going to the windows of the doors. The three chuckling villains then removed their disguises to reveal themselves to the kids. Going into their motto.

"Team Rocket it's you!" Ash shouted after they finished their motto, unable to believe how he had fallen for their tricks again!

"And being clueless can only prove that it's you." Jessie remarked back, confidently.

"We were just minding our own business confiscating all the factory fresh Pokéballs when you just happened to show up." James explained.

Meowth held up the case that had all their other Pokémon and said, "So we decided stealing Pikachu and all your other Pokémon is exactly what you lamebrains deserve!"

"You won't get away with this!" Ash promised, glaring at the guys who've been after his Pikachu for a year now.

"Oh, but you haven't discovered the best part, Noo.."

Hearing that familiar, deep, voice, made the kids freeze up as they turned to the way they had come and saw Megatron standing there, in Robot Mode, grinning at them.

"Megatron!" The kids gasped seeing the Predacon leader.

Ash regathered his courage and demanded, "What are you doing here?!"

"Ah, yess. Allow me to set the stage." Megatron jovially began telling the tale to them, "My forces and I were just continuing our mission in glorious conquest, when our mutually known trio of inspiring villains just happened to contact our base, informing us about this Pokéball factory. With my curiosity peaked at examining these marvelous devices that you humans use to store and carry your Pokémon with you, I had assembled my forces to enter and assist them in taking this factory into Predacon management."

Looking back at the trio, Megatron remarked, "They may appear incompetent, but you must respect their tenacity to their goals as well as their ability to disguise themselves, Yess.."

The trio (and Wobbuffet) felt tears of pride in their eyes hearing such a compliment from the Predacon Leader, "Oh, Megatron!"

Megatron flashed a toothy grin before he continued, "When they then proposed of taking your collection of Pokémon without even fighting you, we constructed this case which houses the exact number of Pokémon you have, especially after you released your more powerful Goodra at the Kalos Wetlands."

Meowth showed them the top of the case which had the Predacon symbol on it, even as the kids sweated in fear at how Megatron knew about what went on in the Wetlands.

"So, while these three continued to lead you down here, my forces were grabbing as many as they could of these Pokéballs for the purpose of reverse-engineering, for us to use against our Maximal enemies."


The other Predacons were gathering as many Pokéballs as they could to deliver back to their base for research. Buzzinator looked at the Pokéballs in his claws curiously.

While up above, Serviperella kept the factory workers webbed up, and watched, as she was downloading any data they could about the Pokéballs and the difference between each Pokéball model.


Megatron finished smirking, moving passed the locked doors of the room they had been trapped inside of, "So, I thank you, children, for your contribution to the Predacon Cause."

He then proceeded to walk away grinning at how this plan had worked out so well. Ash slammed his fists into the glass, shouting, "You're not getting away with this, Megatron!"

Ignoring the boy, Megatron stopped and turned to the trio, "I'll be seeing how the harvest of the Pokéballs is progressing; you three deal with them how you see fit, before joining us."

"Aye-ye!" The three, four, saluted, Megatron then left. With them still saluting, the distraction gave Pikachu time to slam his body against the glass of the container he was in. With only one hand available James lot his grip on the container and Pikachu forced the container out of his hands, smashing it against the floor, freeing him.

Pikachu gained some distance from them before readying himself to face them in a battle. The three screamed at how Pikachu escaped. Meowth meekly replied, "That case keeps him from zapping, I didn't know it's weak to physical force."

Jessie and James turned angrily to their feline comrade and shouted, "NOW YOU TELL US!"

Taking this distraction, Ash ordered, "Pikachu! THUNDERBOLT!"

Pikachu nodded, charged up and sent a Thunderbolt with Team Rocket's names on it. Jessie sent her Wobbuffet forward which used Mirror Coat to deflect it. Pikachu jumped back to keep the attack from hitting him. Thinking quickly, Meowth used Pikachu's Pokéball to have him return. Piakchu dodged all of the red beams, forcing Team Rocket to send out Pumpkaboo and Inkay.

"Pumpkaboo, Shadow Ball." Jessie ordered

"Inkay, Psybeam." James did the same.

Pikachu dodged the Shadow Ball, making smoke from the impact. However, Inkay was able to get behind Pikachu before firing a Psybeam which hit Pikachu, causing another explosion. Seeing his chance, Meowth shouted, "Get into the ball, now!"

The ball fired the red beam into the smoke at the shape that was Pikachu. The moment the red beam from the Pokéball hit the shape, it vanished and the beam returned to the ball signifying one thing that mad Ash cry out, "PIKACHU NOOOOO!"

Seeing this, Team Rocket cheered overjoyed at finally getting Pikachu! They even rubbed it in the gang's faces with Meowth starting it, "We caught you-know-who!"

"Thanks to you~!" Jessie cheered following after Meowth.

"Boo hoo~!" James added following behind his friends.

Wobbuffet was the last to gloat and hurried off to join the Predacons back at stealing more Pokéballs.

Inside the locked room, Ash was outraged at Team Rocket getting Pikachu, "Those guys!"

He slammed his fist against the door, clenching his fist tighter and demanded, "GIVE ME BACK PIKACHU! PIKACHU!"


When they made it to the assembly room, Megatron noticed the overjoyed expressions on their faces and asked, "I take it you were able to deal with those children?"

"More than that, sir." Jessie stated as the Team Rocket members all pointed at the Pokéball in Meowth's paw, "We finally captured Pikachu!"

"Uh, well done." Megatron stated, still confused as to why they made it their life's mission to capture that one little rodent, "I am pleased that you finally were able to get the Pokémon that has alluded you."

The team rocket members began to sniffle, specially Jessie, James, and Meowth as they wailed happily, "You have no idea how long we've waited for this moment!"

"For a whole year, since meeting that twerp, we've been hoping to get that Pikachu for the Boss!" James cried into his arm.

"But every time we tried to take it; we kept getting Blasted Off like there's no tomorrow!" Meowth wailed rubbing the tears out of his eyes.

The Predacons blinked or stared weirded out by this. Buzzinator stated, "Rockets make no sense to Buzzinator."

"They're crying over an electric rat?" Terrasaur asked, confused by this.

Megatron cleared his throat getting everyone's attention, and asked, "And the children? Were you able to take care of them?"

This got the three villains to stop their recounting as Jessie said, "Oh, we left the twerps in the room."

"You what?!" Megatron shouted, his sudden outburst made the criminal members jump as he glared, "If what you said is true then you should have gotten rid of them by now!"

"Uhh… Megatron sir, I don't think I'm following…" James spoke up, feeling a chill down his spine, "Are you saying that you wanted us to…"

Megatron looked at the man and answered with three words, "With extreme prejudice."

"Hey now, I know we're the bad guys, but isn't that going a bit too far?" Meowth asked him, feeling nervous.

"Please, they're just kids." Jessie said, waving off the Predacons' wanting them to destroy the kids just because they got in their way, "Besides we should focus on our ill-gotten-booty."

Megatron kept his face neutral, before shrugging, "I suppose you are correct. Why don't you go ahead and collect the remainder of the already made Pokémon Balls while my forces take care of some unfinished business."

"Right!" The trio agreed and hurried off to do just that. Megatron's expression hardened as he turned to the Heliolisk Predacon, "Heliosneak, take Terrasaur and Buzzinator to dispose of the children. They may not be with the Maximals anymore but, that does not mean we should let them go."

"Right away." Heliosneak nodded as he hurried off to where the kids were with the two flyers. Megatron turned knowing that, despite their claims of being villains, the four who introduced them to their criminal organization were not as willing to go those further steps to being true villains, not like their leader, someone who Megatron felt as though he needed to keep an optic on, just in case. Especially as he looked up to where Ariadosus and Seviperella were in the main computer room.


Ash was breathing heavily as his anger began to grow, especially with how the fears of losing his best friend and partner were coming back, something he'd been underlyingly concerned about since Pikachu had amnesia that one time in Hoenn.

Serena wasn't sure what to do… it looked like that they were trapped without any way to defend or stop the Predacons… She clutched the Maximal Comlink device in her hands. She would've called for help, only the sealed room seemed to keep any signals from exiting the room and also there was Ash's current state that she was concerned about… For as long as she could remember since first meeting the boy from Pallet Town, at Prof. Oak's Summer Camp in Kanto years ago, she had the deepest respect and a somewhat secret crush for Ash.

Ash kept slamming the doors of their prison as he murmured, sadly, "Pikachu…"

"Pikachu!"

Everyone looked out the window and saw Pikachu, Ash's partner, standing there, smiling to them.

"Pikachu? But I don't…" Ash said trying to understand.

Pikachu then tried to explain with his words and actions, which Ash seemed to catch on and asked, "you mean… in that brief second?"

Pikachu nodded, remembering how he had dodged the 'return beam' from his Pokéball at the last second before going to the vent, opening it and crawling inside for him to hide until Team Rocket were gone and Predacons weren't around.

This made Ash smile at the quick thinking of his best friend, praising him, "Great job buddy!"

Pikachu became bashful at the praise.

"Get us out of here Pikachu! Use Iron Tail!" Ash ordered. Pikachu nodded before jumping into the air and used Iron Tail on the door. The door remained solid despite how many blows it received from the Electric-rodent.

Hearing the sounds of heavy sets of feet, Pikachu heard Ash say, "Pikachu! Hurry and hide!"

Pikachu nodded and did so back in the vents. Just as Ash saw three Predacons from Megatron's command coming over. Hardening his face, Ash asked, "What do you three want?"

The three Predacons raised their weapons, pointing them at the kids. Heliosneak was neutral, Buzzinator became serious, while Terrasaur was snickering, showing he didn't feel anything for what he was about to do.

Clemont held Bonnie close by, while Serena gasped fearfully at the three preds, Ash stared in shock, "Wait… What're you doing?!"

"Nothing personal kids, yer just backn' the wrong side of dis war between us and the tyrannical Maximals." The western speaking Predacon said as he and the other two were about to pull the triggers when…

Pikachu came running out, his tail empowered by the energy of his Iron Tail and used it to knock the closest of the three Predacons into the others. Buzzinator landed on top of Heliosneak and Terrasaur, which made the Aerodactyl push and shouted, "Watch it, Buzzinator! I know you turn into a multi-eyed bug, you should know better!"

"ME?! That wazzn't Buzzzinator's doing." The Beedrill Predacon shot back, "Zzomething hit Buzzzinator."

"Yeah sure." Terrasaur snorted getting himself off Heliosneak.

"{You're not gonna hurt my friends!}" A voice, declared. Heliosneak saw Pikachu standing there glaring defiantly at the three Predacons.

Terrasaur blinked, "Hold on… isn't that the yellow-rat those Rocket-idiots are crazy about?"

"Buzzzinator thought they caught it…" Buzzinator… buzzed.

The Heliolisk Predacon put two and two together and spat, "It tricked them!"

He then raised his rifle and ordered, "Fire!"

And began to open fire while Pikachu used Agility to dodge them. The sounds of the Predacon weapons going off caught all sorts of attention.


From another part of the corridor, the members of Team Rocket were all carrying huge bags full of Pokéballs for them to use on a truck they 'got' for their heist. Then they heard the familiar sounds that made them stop.

"Did you hear that?" James asked.

"Sound like weapon fire, from our Predacon cohorts." Jessie remarked, confused at why the Predacons were firing their weapons.

"But that other sound. I thought Pikachu was in here." Meowth stated looking at the ball in his paw.


"{I won't let you hurt my friends!}" Pikachu yelled, while using Agility, and avoided the weapons fire from the Predacons to keep them from hurting his friends.

The Beedrill Predacon whined in-between firing his pistol, "Yellow rat, fazzter than we can scrap."

"Just keep shooting! That rodent's gotta run out of steam at some point!" Terrasaur squawked as he kept firing his pistol at the Pikachu. Firing at every direction, even at the door, nicking one of the corners.

Heliosneak shouted, between bursts, "Shaat-up! No wonder we haven't overthrown the Maximals by now!"

Ash watched feeling helpless and shouted in fear when a spot close to Pikachu exploded, "PIKACHU!"

Pikachu was sent flying, hitting the doors, that held the kids, Bonnie couldn't stand to watch and closed her eyes wishing it was a nightmare. Serena and Clemont looked away after hearing Pikachu hitting the door. Ash cried out, "PIKACHU!"

Pikachu looked up at his friend assuring, "{I'm okay, Ash.}"

"Huh? What's going on here?"

Everything went silent while Pikachu, the Predacons turned and saw Team Rocket there, which made Pikachu sweat drop from being found out by another of his enemies. It became very tense for the four crooks that had been after Pikachu for what felt like an eternity since they first met the said Pokémon and his trainer on the night of Ash's 10th birthday.

"WHAT/WOB-THE/BU-HECK/-FFET!" the four from Team Rocket screamed in shock, seeing that Pikachu there before them and not inside his Pokéball.

"Then that means…" Meowth cautiously stated, looking at the ball in his paw. Then the ball opened up and revealed it was empty. Meowth let out a scream at seeing this.

Jessie and James finally noticed the three Predacons and asked, "Who invited you three down here?"

"Shut it!"Terrasaur growled as he was getting tired of Pikachu's interference. He pulled out his rifle shouting, "That rodent's getting in my gears."

He was about to finish Pikachu off when…

"Wait! Wait! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!" Meowth shouted waving his arms frantically, jumping in the Predacon's line of sight, "That Pikachu's the world's strongest Pikachu! Imagine how much stronger the Predacons can be if you can reprogram one of those stasis pods and had it scan Pikachu! I bet that Pred'll take out those maximal chumps easy!"

That made the three Predacons think. Meowth sighed thinking, 'Oy vey… I knew these guys were war-centered, but I didn't think they were gonna just make Pikachu go ka-blewie! Need to play into their wants, especially to help them win that Poké Wars of theirs.'

Heliosneak nodded, "That would be a boost to our forces to have such a powerful being be scanned by one of our future recruits."

"Buzzinator think we zzzhould tell Mmegatron." Buzzinator pipped up.

Terrasaur however, "No slaggn' way! That rat can't be any stronger than us! It's an organic creature! And everyone knows organics aren't as powerful as us."

Those who were organic definitely took offence at that, even as Terrasaur tried to make sense to his comrades, "They're nothing compared to us! The only reason why we're even using DNA scanners is to shield ourselves from the Energon fields outside, remember?!"

While the villains were distracted, Pikachu saw Ash motioning to the vents then the vent near him and got what his trainer was trying to tell him. Since Team Rocket didn't have t he case filled with the Pokéballs that housed his friends and teammates, Pikachu thought he should find it to get backup.

Terrasaur aimed his rifle at the humans who were supposed to be their allies, "If it wasn't for that then we'd be conquering this planet in our real bodies not have these disgusting fleshy-forms hiding us!"

Heliosneak glared at the older Predacon, "Surprised ta hear that malarky from you Terrasaur, 'specially since you seem ta enjoy flying about like a Aerodactyl."

"What do ya know!?" Terrasaur screeched back, "You've only been online for-"

He started shorting out. As did the other two, when he squawked, "Slag! We've been in robot mode too long… Poké Mode now!"

And immediately the three Predacons returned to Poké Mode and felt the pain stop.

"NOOoo!" Buzzinator's cry made everyone turn. To the Beedrill Predacon, "Yellow rat ezzcaped!"

And as he buzzed, Pikachu was gone, gone into the vents again.

Unable to contain his anger, Terrasaur turned on the Team Rocket, "YOU Idiots! You let that thing escape!"

"Hey, don't blame us for Pikachu's escape, Granite-Beak!" Jessie shot back, reaching for the case that had the twerp's Pokéballs inside, then gapped and asked, "Meowth, where'd you leave the case!?"

Meowth's fur-faced paled and exclaimed, "As soon as I find out we'll all know!"

And hurried off to find it. James called out his Inkay and had it chase Pikachu through the vents. Buzzinator held his needle arms to his face, "What do we do? What do we do?!"

"Don't panic!" Heliosneak shouted before issuing the following orders, " Terrasaur follow Meowth and make sure Piakchu doesn't find the case. Destroy it if you have to! But our leader will be furious if you do so find it and bring it back!"

Terrasaur was about to protest but received a thunderbolt from the Heliosneak, which now apparent to him was a weakness to his Poké mode. Heliosneak glared, "Now!"

Terrasaur hobbled after Meowth to get the case… With the schemer out of the way, Heliosneak then ordered, "Buzzinator, find da boss and tell him what's going on here!"

Buzzinator saluted before flying off. James looked at the Predacon who remained, "While those two do that, what are you going to do?"

"I'll track Pikachu and coordinate with my comrades." The western-saboteur Pred answered closing his eyes and focused sending out electricity to try and find Pikachu.

Jessie blinked, "I forgot! Electric-types can communicate through electricity and your Poké mode is a Heliolisk!"

Heliosneak gave a pointed look at Jessie and asked, "Any wonder why your own organization's doubting you right now? Now shut it, this isn't as easy as it looks… Need all of my concentration…"

That question about the organization they work for doubting them made Jessie and James balk back fearfully at the claim. While they were distracted with the problem before them, they had completely ignored the kids.

Seeing a hole where one of the lasers hit the door, Serena looked towards the villains who were just outside the door and grew concerned about them over hearing her. Serena whispered, "Ash… can you distract them?"

"Distract them? Why?" Ash whispered back confused.

Serena looked at the villains, making sure they weren't listening or watching before she revealed the Maximal communicator to him.

Ash eyes widened. The night they left the Maximal base he thought he told them to get rid of all the Transformers related things, like the communicator. Serena must've hidden it while Ash was checking the others for any 'alien war machines' to protect them.

When Ash was about to get angry for Serena doing this, he paused remembering how Airblazor had comforted him after Team Rocket tried to make Prof. Sycamore's Garchomp Mega evolve. The boy's face on the communicator made Serena worry, before Ash looked up and nodded, "Okay, get out of sight, I'll make a distraction."

Serena's fear turned to relief. Nodding, she did as her crush said and moved out of sight from the three outside as Ash began to bang on the door and shout, "HEY, TEAM ROCKET! WHAT'RE YOU DOING!? LEAVE MY PIKACHU ALONE!"

Ash's action certainly provided cover for her as she hid and activated the communicator. After seeing she got a signal thanks to the hole in the door frame, She spoke into it, "Maximal Base, do you read me?"


Pikachu came out of the vents in the main assembly room that he and the others watched before being taken prisoner… Pikachu was annoyed at how long it took him when he had to deal with the Inkay that joined Team Rocket. He then looked around, wondering to himself where the case that had his friends was.

He found it, and he also found a small number of Predacons as well. Pressing himself as far as he could to keep from being seen as he looks for the case. He found it near one of the controls, which happened to have Megatron standing next to it. Pikachu felt himself sweat at seeing the Predacon Leader standing next to the case that held his friends.

"Such impressive power for something so small…" Pikachu heard Megatron muse as he examined one of the newly made Pokéballs in his hand, "If only they could be used for more… creative uses."

Pikachu didn't have time to wonder what the evil mastermind was thinking about using such a Pokéball for when he heard Megatron speaking into his comlink, "Megatron here."

After a moment of silence he exclaimed, "WHAT!?"

"You incompetent bumblers!" Megatron shouted angrily taking a step away from the case,

"MEGATRON TO ALL UNITS! THE BOY'S PIKACHU HAS OUTSMARTED THE BUMBLERS! SEARCH THE ENTIRE FACTORY! FIND! THAT! PIKACHU! I WANT IT FUNCTIONAL!" he roared marching off away from the case. Pikachu gave a sigh of relief after Megatron left.

"AND IF YOU TERMINATE IT, I WILL HAVE YOUR PROCESSORS MOUNTED ON MY WALLS AND USE IT FOR TARGET PRACTICE!"

After hearing that Megatron and the other Predacon in the room had left, Pikachu made his way to the conveyer belt that'd lead him to the case, unaware of the eyes watching him. Just as he got close, the Conveyer belt suddenly stopped making poor Pikachu land on his face. Then the belt began moving in reverse, just as webbing shot out.

"'Ey! What gives!" Meowth, the one who reversed the conveyer belt's direction shouted as he was wrapped up in webbing as well.

Ariadosus came down on a string of webbing and snapped, "You fool! I was gonna capture that little rodent when you did the stupid job like that!"

"Oh, excuz me if ya need te work on yer people skills!" Meowth shouted, struggling against the webbing intensely.

Ariadosus turned, looking at Pikachu, "So we meet again, rat. I'm gonna enjoy experimenting with you, like I wanted to that night."

"{ARIADOSUS!}" Pikachu snapped, angrily.

"Aww, how sweet you remember me." Ariadosus mocked getting his Poké mode body on the conveyer belt to follow the electric-mouse Pokémon.

Pikachu glared hard shouting at the demented Predacon, "{YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ASH!}"

"Oh, boo-hoo. I hurt your little friend's feelings." Ariadosus mocked, making his way to Pikachu faster on the conveyer belt, "If only the Maximals didn't get in the way, I'd love to see how it is that your kind and the humans on this planet formed a symbiotic relationship. Especially since humans from Earth aren't always known to be sharing and caring types. Maybe he and his kind are just waiting to show they're true, selfish colors."

"{I DON'T CARE!}" Piakchu shouted back, cheeks sparking, not caring anything about what the insane Predacon was saying now, "{Ash and I are friends, best friends! We're partners! I'll never let anyone hurt him or our friends and family! And how you made him actually hate your people was the limit!}"

"Then do something about it, rat." Ariadosus egged, not really scared of the small rodent, "I ate bigger vermin than you since that night. And after I'm done with you I'm gonna do a more thorough operation on him to see how he made my Stasis Web explode like that."

Piakchu's glare hardened, ready to battle this Predacon to keep Ash safe. They launched themselves at the other Pikachu going in for an Iron Tail while Ariadosus fired String Shot after String Shot.

Pikachu swung his tail, breaking through the String Shots effortlessly, before sending out a Thunder Bolt at Ariadosus. The mad scientist ducked to the side, transformed then used his Ariados legs function as machine guns at Pikachu, who dodged, and hit the assembly machinery behind him.

The small explosions echoed throughout the factory while Pikachu went in close to use his Agility. Meowth looked terrified as he came to a realization, his face twitching in fear, 'Holy Arceus… That crazy ped-scientist is really trying to make Pikachu go kablewie… We might be bad, but that's downright crazy!'

He then shouted, "PIKACHU!-"


The kids tried to get out of the room they were in, but hearing Megatron's voice on the comms made Jessie, James, and Heliosneak hurry to find Pikachu. Leaving the kids alone, though under protest from the Predacon.

As Clemont was about to have his latest invention to force the door open, they heard the familiar sound of a portal opening and they saw a large shape approach them.


Pikachu breathed heavily after dodging all of those shots from Ariadosus' spider legs. He briefly lost track of the insane con before he heard, "PIKACHU! LOOK OUT, ABOVE YOU!"

Immediately Pikachu jumped as something tried to land on top of him. Terrasaur looked at the Meowth, annoyed. Unlike his 'friends' he didn't see the importance of this and just say there watching before he can find a good time to take the yellow rat out himself.

Ariadosus, in Poké Mode turned angrily, "You fool! Why are you warning your enemy?!"

"Becuz, You're trying te do more than knock 'im out! You're tryng to take him down for the count!" Meowth shouted, before his mouth was covered by webbing. Courtesy of the Predacon who muttered, "That's the idea."

He then looked at Pikachu who glared, cheeks sparking. Sure, Meowth and he were enemies, but the fact that Meowth knew that the Predacons were playing for keeps, proved that Meowth knew how bad the Preds can be.

Pikachu went and used Iron Tail once more. Ariadosus jumped back and fired Poison Stings at the Pikachu.

Pikachu got hit and received some damage, but was lucky not to get poisoned. Pikachu then got up sent an Electro Ball at Ariadosus, causing him to fire a sludge bomb in retaliation.

Feeling the effects of the explosion, Ariadosus noticed he was pushed back and asked, 'That rat is stronger than me?!'

That really got to Ariadosus' ego, to think how a small organic creature could push him back. Him! Ariadosus! A Predacon!


The kids stood back as the doors were ripped open and revealed that those who came were the Maximals, with Rhynox being the one who forced the doors open.

"Rhynox!" The kids cried out, happy to see the large, grey, Maximal.

Rhynox smiled and said, "We were able to get your message."

"How many of them are here?" Optimus asked, happy the kids were safe, but needed to focus on the upcoming battle.

"Don't know exactly but we know Megatron is hear." Clemont commented.

That got Optimus serious and said, "Lead the way."

Before turning to his team, "Maximals, prepare for battle."


Back in the assembly floor, Ariadosus used the activation code, "Ariadosus: Terrorize!"

After transforming, he pulled out his weapon, "Slag Megatron's threat, I'm gonna put you down for good!"

Meowth was scared now. He heard a buzzing of wings and saw Buzzinator flying in. He then saw the Predacon Crogunk on one of the larger machines as he asked, "What's going on here?"

"Croakster! Bug-eyes! Here! Here!" The two saw Meowth being tired up in webbing, but catching their attention as the Punk-warrior asked, "Yo Dawg, you trying to tie yerself?"

Meowth struggled in his webbing, wiggling intensely, "Hurry and get me outta here so we can stop Ariadosus from making Pikachu go kaput!"

This surprised the two as they heard Megatron's orders like everyone. And knowing what would happen to them if they allow anything to befall Pikachu under their watch made the two Predacons act for their own survival.

"Buzzinator: Terrorize!" Buzzinator cried out, transforming and going after Pikachu

"Croaker: Terrorize!" Croaker shouted, transforming, then went to take out

Terrasaur, watched from his perch. He thought about what was going on below him and how it involved Pikachu, 'Why the slag should I catch that thing instead of putting it out of our misery? I mean it's not like…'

He then stopped and thought. Maybe Megatron would reward those who caught the Pikachu functioning. Especially forgive him for that time he was super-charged. Which made him feel motivated to get the Pikachu too, "Terrasaur: Terrorize!"

Croaker tried to hold Ariadosus down as he said, "Whoa, man, I know ya wanna get rid of the twerp-kachu, but Megatron's gonna merk ya 10x over."

Ariadosus snorted, elbowing the new Predacon over and hissed, "Shut it! That rat's been getting in my way for too long! I'm taking it out!"

Croaker fell but flipped back on his feet and got ready to fight. He was afraid of Megatron more than he was of the insane spider-like Predacon.

"Ha! Now we gots ya!" Meowth shouted running after Pikachu, seeing Pikachu before him as he stood before the conveyer belt. The Predacon flyers came flying in on either side of Pikachu in a pincer formation, and tried to grab him with the scheming Aerodactyl Predacon shouting, "I got it! I got it!"

Meowth snickered seeing, raising the electric mouse's Pokéball in one paw and the case holding the others in the other paw. Just as the beam was about to shoot out, one of the factory hands grabbed his head and pulled the cat-like Pokémon over to the conveyer belt, as the case was put into another conveyer belt, away from everyone.

While that had happened to Meowth, Pikachu jumped over the two flyers causing them to fly into each other and fall on the belt. Both of the original Predacons came to their senses in time to see they were approaching a compressor that would have flattened them if they weren't careful. They screamed and crawled as fast as they could to keep from being smashed.

Meowth landed and was helpless as the conveyer moved him towards the three. Pikachu jumped over him, leaving him to hit Terrasaur who bumped into Buzzinator. The Beedrill Predacon grabbed the Pokéball that fell from Meowth's paw and tried to make Pikachu return. It was comical to any onlooker to see the chase between the four on the conveyer belt to keep from being crushed by the compressor (The pred-flyers and Meowth), or captured by the villains (Pikachu).

Meowth ran as fast as he could on both of his rear paws shouting, "Now get back 'ere, before I make ya get back 'ere!"

Pikachu gathered energy in his tail, then stopped running as he got in close to hit Meowth with an Iron Tail. Meowth yelled from the attack where Pikachu landed on solid ground again. The villainous Pokémon was hit into the air and, again, caused the two flyers to be hit, too. Sending the two back closer to the Compressor. Meowth fell off the conveyer belt and watched what happened to his comrades. Croaker was pushed near him as he saw too.

Buzzinator and Terrasaur screamed as they were smashed flat by the compressor. When it opened the two flyers, now paper-flat, floated comically away as Terrasaur groaned, "Why us?"

"Buzzinator… cannot feel whole body…" Buzzinator whined, the only thing that wasn't flattened was the hand holding the Pokéball.

The two winced seeing the fate of the flyers, as Meowth muttered, "Oh vey… Glad it's not me this time."

"Scrap… me too." Croaker agreed.

Croaker looked down and asked, "Yo Homie, where's dat case?"

The question made Meowth freeze up, "Uh oh…"

Cackling could be heard when they saw Ariadosus standing there holding the Case in his claw-like pincers, "Finders keepers."

He swung away on a web-line. Everyone shouted, "Stop!"

Before he could get far, however, he was hit with an Electro Ball. Ariaosus landed on a conveyer belt which rolled him away. Everyone turned to see Pikachu being the one who fired it as he shouted, "{Get away from my friends!}"

Pikachu was so focused that he didn't notice Meowth getting both Pikachu's Pokéball and the case. He grabbed onto one of the Arms and swung away, "Na-na! You can't catch me now Pikachu!"

Pikachu taking the challenge, used Quick Attack to increase his speed. He then jumped and used Croaker's head as a spring board to help the Electric-Type get to Meowth quicker. Meowth smirked, seeing his plan to get Pikachu to him, and dropped down. Quickly turning around while Pikachu was in the air, the talking Meowth exclaimed, "Yer Ball's waitn'!"

Only for another arm to grab the Pokéball and carry the screaming Meowth off. Croaker, rubbing his head, watched as Pikachu jumped after and grabbed on the case where Meowth had cried out for help. The Punk Predacon snorted, "Easy for him to ask…"

He went off to try and help his ally. Croaker watched as Meowth and Pikachu fell into what looked like a vat of metal bits and jumped when the lasers shot in their direction finding it funny to watch, to be honest, "Dang, wish I had popcorn."

Both Pokémon held onto each other screaming, "SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF TIS CRAZY TING ON THE DOUBLE!"

But his pleads fell on deaf ears as Croaker was on the floor laughing his head off, his legs kicking in the iar while his hands were on his stomach. Until a light explosion went off, with newly minted-made Pokeballs came rolling out. And just as the Croagunk-Predacon had finally calmed down, he was sent laughing on the ground, slamming his fist as he saw Pikachu and Meowth in a ball shape.

"Hey! What're ya doing?!"

Hearing the voice made Croaker see Jessie, James, and Heliosneak coming, as the western 'Freedom fighter' Predacon glared, "You heard our leader, why aren't you catching that Varmint agent of the Maximals?"

"Oh, give me a slagg'n break 'Sneak. I'm just having fun after what happened to them." He nonchalantly thumb-pointed to what happened to the flyers, and Ariadosus. Wondering how messed up his comrade's programming was.

Heliosneak narrowed his eyes before he said, to the two, "You two. Find a way to get Meowth out of this mess and try and capture that there Pikachu for our revolution. I'll inform our leader"

Jessie and James nodded as they hurried to the computer room. Even as Meowth, after being spray painted to have a camo-look, shouted, "Hurry!"


Seviperella continued to download every bit of data about the Pokéballs for their cause. Finding them a scientific curiosity at how all of Pokéballs are able to turn matter into energy to store Pokémon inside each ball, especially how certain models are capable of catching certain sorts of Pokémon.

She heard the door slam open and saw Jessie and James coming in who said to the webbed-up Factory workers, "Don't get up on our account!"

The man, the real factory manager, blindly looked around and muffled shouts, "Hey let us go!"

"What are you two doing here?" Seviperella demanded, as the download was very delicate at this moment and these two fools might damage it.

"Sorry about the haste, but we need to catch Pikachu." James said moving to a separate computer and began to input a command. Which spray painted Pikachu to be blue with red marks.

They heard Croaker laughing again at Pikachu's expression and new color. Jessie, getting impatient went to take over for James and put in a different command, which made Pikachu look more like Riolu now. The machine then painted him to resemble a Repeat Ball. Which made Meowth and Croaker laugh louder. The laughter got the attention of other the Predacons.

Meowth remembered what he was looking for he saw the case being taken by a claw and painted in the colors of the Heal Ball. Which confused the two at the controls, "Hold on, that's not what we wanted."

Seviperella rolled her eyes, muttering, "I'm surrounded by idiots…"

Jessie glared at the Predacon in the room and asked, "Are you doing this?"

"Why would I bother doing that when I have something more important to do. Like downloading all important data of these Pokéballs your species use." Seviperella muttered before Jessie grabbed her by the arm and growled, "Then why don't you help us get the systems to work instead of just getting info, you could've asked us!?"

This severed the cord that connected the she-snake from the systems as she screamed, "NO! You severed my connection! Megatron's gonna have my head!"

"Oh, who cares." Jessie waved off while typing in a complex code which took Meowth and Pikachu to a cleaning machine.

Jessie and James smirked as they saw the end result, "There all squeeky clean."

"Considering what that cat gets into, I'd sat it's an improvement…" Seviperella muttered as she was seriously contemplating the usefulness of these two instead of a duo like Attila and then saw her teammates and muttered, "Then again…"

Croaker watched this before falling on his back laughing his head off, "St-stop! Ha-ha! Yer killn' me! My sides are hurtn'!"

James then shouted, "Croaker! Hurry up and catch that Pikachu before-"

It was too late as the two who landed on the conveyer belt connected to the cleaner had them fall off and into a chute that took the two Pokémon into another part of the factory.

"Wonderful job." Seviperella exhaled annoyed, she then activated her comlink, "Megatron. We had the mouse, but those bumbling idiots from Team Rocket lost it. The flyers and Ariadosus are in Stasis Lock because of that rodent."

"And the Data?"

Seviperella remained silent before stating, looking at the screen, "Eighty-seven percent has been copied, thanks to those bumblers I don't have the entire data file on the Pokéballs. My program will delete any traces of our code from their systems before deleting itself as pre-pogrammed."

Things were quiet, too quiet for the she-viper's liking before Megatorn stated, "Get that data back to Base immediately. Anything that isn't there we will have to start from scratch, or ask our partners from Team Rocket to fill in the blanks."

"As you command, Megatron." Seviperella said, as she hissed, "Poké Mode."

She would have stayed but in order to download the data safely she had to redirect energy from her weapons array to her field dampeners to keep from transforming which would've corrupted the data in her data tracks for her to down load to the Predacon computer.

She then slithered away to escape through the vents and call for a Return through their teleport system function.


In the hallway where he was, Megaton snorted, "Incompetent…"

"Megatron!" His comlink was brought to life.

"Report, Skorupinok." Megatron said answering the comlink, as his SIC reported, "The human children have escaped and they have Maximals with them!"

Megatron felt his eye twitch at the annoyance of this had growled, "And the Samples? Have they been secured?"

"Yes, sir. All necessary samples have been extracted per your orders." Megatron smiled hearing the answer, "Well today can't be considered a total loss now, can it? Noo.."

He chuckled as he marched away, activating his comms again, "Scythecutter, activate the Return function for all units other than myself."

"Yes, Master." Was the ninja-like Predacon's curt reply.

Throughout the factory the Predacons who were damaged because of Pikachu were teleported back to their base to be repaired in the Predacon CR chamber, before doing the same for Seviperella (waiting on the roof), Croaker and Skorupinok who both just got zapped by Pikachu when they got in the mouse and his trainer's way.

He then continued marching along, speaking to himself, "Time for me to put a little tragedy into this bad comedy, Yess.."


Meowth couldn't believe his luck. He was so close to catching Pikachu, but hearing that the Twerps and the Maximals were heading his direction, he got the case and high tailed it out of there.

He was silent through most of the drive out of the factory, thinking of the extreme methods the Predacons were gonna go to deal with anyone that got in their way… Especially considering how the twerps are just a bunch of kids who always get in over their heads.

"Pikachu have escaped once again. Not to mention how the Maximals came to save the Twerps too." James recounted.

Jessie however smirked, "But even with the setback with our partners, we still got away on top."

"if you can call dem dat…" Meowth muttered still annoyed.

Just as they got to the ground floor time slowed down and they saw the Main Twerp and Pikachu standing before the factory. The three of them froze in utter terror at seeing the boy and Piakchu there as they drove off with Jessie and Meowth shouting at James, "Stepp on the Gas!"

"Ten-Four!" James shouted pushing on the gas pedal hard to get away quickly.

Before they could get past the front gate the truck they were in was hit by something that made it jump high into the air.

Before they could land head first into the ground a Slaking came and caught the truck, skidding back but remained strong thanks to using Strength.

When they stopped inertia, the Slaking slammed the truck down and snorted. The back of the truck opened revealing their ill-gotten-booty of Pokéballs, and Wobbuffet. Jessie and James fell to the side of the opened door, and saw the Slaking and how it was full of energy. They began to sweat as Jessie asked, "You don't think…"

"It can't be…" James tried to deny.

"Team Rocket. Get out of the truck…" The Slaking, Optimus Primal said, glaring at the two.

Whimpering at how menacing the angry Maximal leader looked, they complied, "Yes, Sir…"

They climbed out and waited patiently, and fearfully. Optimus stood before being joined by Cheattor and Foxfire with Airblazor above as the feline of the group asked, "Hey, where's your bad cat?"

"Pikachu!"

All eyes turned upwards to see Meowth his back to the Maximals. Meowth shouted, "Let's settle this once and for all!"

Holding the case, he shouted, "You want this back? Then you'll have to face me in a duel, Capise!?"

After hearing Pikachu's shout accepting the duel, Ash looked at his best friend and partner, "Are you sure Pikachu?"

"Optimus can we not do anything to support Pikachu?" Foxfire asked, concerned.

Optimus sighed, "Like it or not this is an official duel and we can't interfere…"

Cheattor was surprise to hear this, "But, Big Bot, you know you can't trust that alleycat. He's a bad guy."

"I'm afraid it's out of our hands." Optimus stated, "Just keep an eye out should someone decides to try something underhanded."

They all stood and watched while the air became tense. Meowth held his claw ready to use his Fury Swipe. And Pikachu readied his tail to use Iron Tail.


Unaware to all, Megatron stood at the rooftop of the factory humming to himself as he readied a specialized rifle. The Predacon leader looked through the scope, "Yess, partake in any means of combat you wish, Meowth."


Everyone waited before Pikachu and Meowth ran at each other. Meowth rushed in, his claw ready to use Fury Swipe. Pikachu jumped into the air to swung a downward Iron Tail only for Meowth to reveal what was held by his tail. Pikachu's Pokéball.

"Dirty Fighter! Dirty Fighter!" Cheattor shouted seeing the under handed move.

Foxfire closed her eyes unable to watch anything else while Optimus narrowed his eyes. Pikachu used what strength he could to move out of the way of the beam in mid-air and hit Meowth with the Iron Tail. The impact made the Pokéball fly out of his hand and into Ash's awaiting hand.

A second passed while Pikachu fell to a knee. Meowth was the one to fall face first, KOed by the Iron Tail.

The Maximals, and Ash, cheered Pikachu's victory while the others of Meowth's team went to check on him.

Cheattor smiled as he came approaching the duo. That's when Ash hurried over and shouted, "Team Rocket! You guys lost!"


Megatron then focused on Ash and Pikachu, looking at then through the scope of his rifle, "But, know that your defeat will usher in a big victory for the Predacon Cause."


Airblazor was sitting on the tree watching before she noticed a glint from the factory and saw something that made her ask, "Megatron?"

She then followed the angle of his barrel and saw it was aligned on the two, and gasped, "Oh no…"

Airblazor then activated her comms, "Cheattor! You need to get Pikachu and Ash out of there! Megatrons' trying to snipe them!"


"What?!" Cheattor asked, turning to see what she said was true and hurried. He used Agility to make it faster as he shouted, "Ash! Pikachu!"

While he transformed and took the shot for the two as the Liepard Maximal hit the ground and slid some feet.

"Cheator!" Optimus cried out seeing the young bot in the state he was in. He and the others hurried to where Cheattor was and checked him, which made Megatron growl in frustration at the interference of the young Maximal.

Ash looked surprised to see what happened to Cheattor and turned to where Megatron was hiding. Who, knowing what would happen, stated, "Descretion is the better form of Valor, yess…"

He teleported back to Base.

Team Rocket froze up seeing the anger in both Pikachu's and Ash's eyes as Jessie tried to say, "N-Now wait just a moment."

"Y-yeah We-we weren't involved in that."

"Oi Vey… I don't think he believes us." Meowth whimpered knowing what was going to happen as Ash ordered, "Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"

Pikachu shouted out as he did the move and Team Rocket was sent flying, disappearing into the horizon. After they disappeared from sight. Ash and Pikachu hurried over and asked, "Cheattor?"

"Just stay back." Optimus said, making sure no one crowded the injured bot, who chuckled weakly, "Hey Ash. You and Pikachu doing okay?"

Ash hurried over and knelt down beside him asking, tearing up, "Why'd you do that?"

"I know you don't think so, but we are buds… And that's what buds do for each other. Right?" Cheattor asked coughing a bit, "I'm just sorry I wasn't able to get you in time when Crazy-bug took you that night…"

He then closed his eyes, which made Ash and Piakchu fear the worse. Before Optimus said, assuring the boy, "Don't worry, he's just in Stasis-Lock. But we need to make sure he gets back to base to be repaired."

Ash remained silent, unable to believe what happened. Optimus transformed, picked Cheattor up, and commed, "Ratitrap, open the Gate now! And get the CR chamber prepped!"

Serena was the first to come out as she saw the Maximals leave. Which was good because the Factory employees weren't ready to learn about the Poké Wars yet…

Ash was still trying to process everything that happened; he kept seeing Cheattor taking the blow for him. Time passed, everyone came out to talk and also get the case opened. After seeing how all the Pokémon were safe and sound Ash's group was able to have a real tour of the factory as thanks for helping them and stopping Team Rocket. So far, the only ones that the Factory workers saw were Team Rocket and all the damage was because of the battle that happened, especially as Rhynox had deleted all video footage evidence of the Predacons or Maximals appearance inside the Factory. Pikachu was hailed as a hero for single handedly stopping the crooks, which was mostly true. While Ash was happy how everything went, he couldn't help but wonder what Megatron wanted with the Pokéballs…


When Megatron returned, he stormed into his chambers and slammed his arms against his wall, "BLAST THOSE MEDDLING KIDS! HOW dare that Maximal pull such a heroic nonsense! How dare that rodent get in the way of everything we have worked hard to take!"

He then breathed heavily before he realized, smirking, "While it was true that the boy and his pet Pikachu survive…"

He then pulled out the Pokéball he examined earlier, "The Maximals won't be expecting the fruits of our collaboration when it's ready."

Megatron let out a villainous laugh, holding the Pokéball in his hand as he did.


(Alright! WHOO I can't wait to tell you all what I'm gonna get ready to do! YEAH! I have to be honest when I saw that episode this chapter was based on, "Frenzy Factory Fiasco" years ago I was laughing my guts out by how funny it was. So, I hope that the Poké Wars version was as equally funny to you.

Well… you know… before it got serious. Especially when Megatron actually considered to try and eliminate Ash and his friends when they got to the factory. And as some other authors of their Pokémon x Beast Wars crossovers might have mentioned I wanted to give a small glimpse into what the Maximals first thought of the whole Pokémon/Human Relationship in the series.

If anyone is interested where I got that thing Cheattor shouted, it was something from the Batman & Robin movie that came out in 1997 where one of the scientists in that movie shouted it during the last fight between Batman and Mr. Freeze, and I thought that was a good funny thing to add to the showdown between Meowth and Pikachu in that chapter. And how Croaker was just laughing his head off was a reflection on how I saw that who thing of Meowth chasing Pikachu throughout the main assembly floor was so hilarious.

So if there's any other questions please PM or ask in the Reviews.

But what is it that Megatron is scheming with the Research data of the Pokéballs and the 'samples' they were able to get away with? Stay Tuned, as the Journey continues…

P.S. I don't know how to do this as a trailer/preview so I'm gonna just be straightforward and tell you all.

Instead of a regular chapter I'm gonna post the as a separate story the Poké Wars version of a Pokémon Movie, can you guess who? Let me give you a hint:

"Allehooparing!"

Trust me it's going to be epic, especially for something you might see at the end of said 'movie'.

So, until my posting of the Poké Wars movie and the next update of this or any of my stories, Happy Holidays!)