In a faraway galaxy, known as the Primus Nebula, there is a planet of huge alien machines known as TransFormers, which are divided into two groups: the Maximals, the descendants of the Autobots, and the Predacons, the descendants of the Decepticons. The two teams were at peace for a long time. Or so they thought.

It was 12:00 AM Earth time on Cybertron as Optimus Primal held tryouts for his exploration crew. He was supposed to explore the planets that were not inhabited and set up colonies there. So far, of the crew that would be, the following were awake: Spotnox, an armored vehicle Maximal, Bottrap, the dump truck Maximal, and now Optimus was interviewing a ‘bot named Speedor who he was really sure was going to be the last one. "So, Speedor, are you fast and good at calculating?" Optimus Primal inquired.

"Y-yes sir." Speedor answered.

"Well… welcome to the team!" Optimus Primal said.

" YES!" Speedor yelled excitedly. The TransFormers that would be in Stasis Pods, a pod that put the TransFormer inside into a painless coma, were Blastrazor, Arcutron, Araknia, Sprinferno, Sporca, Dindjector, and Slagromunus. Optimus Primal helped his crew load the Stasis Pods onto the exploration ship called the 'Axalon'. But, unbeknownst to the Maximals, a Predacon named Megatron was watching in the shadows.

"Ah, Yesss… The Maximal Primal has hired henchmen to go with him on the mission, and maybe I should do the same before the heist…" Megatron said with an evil smirk on his face.

" What do you mean, Megatron?" said a voice from behind him.

" Ah, Scorputron, you return." Megatron said to the bulky, black, and claw-armed TransFormer that had just walked up behind him.

" I mean, you idiot, that I need more lackeys," Megatron explained. Scorputron was smart, but he was as dumb as a rock at times. "Oh." Scorputron’s voice was in his "I knew that, I just wanted it to be confirmed" tone."

"Come, we must go to the prison and bail out some… Uhh… old friends…" Megatron said. Then they set of for Cyberpolis Prison.

Later at the Star Ship Renting Bay…

"Yes, you fool, I would like to rent a starship!" Megatron said to one of the ship-owners. "That will be 74,546 Energon Cubes," the clerk said, "and have a nice supercycle!" Then Megatron and his new crew-- consisting of Terratrox, the jet Predacon, Wasptropit, the helicopter Predacon, Dinotrene, the tank Predacon, and Tarantror, the motorcycle Predacon. They didn’t get aboard the ship, but they did get their weapons out of subspace and headed toward the Cyberpolis Energon Bank!

"Understood." Optimus said.

" You mean we have’ta take down some Preds and with dem hav’n da Golden Disk?!" Bottrap said in his Brooklyn accent.

" DUH! Can’t you listen trash-boy?" Speedor said. "Hey! Don’t get dat mouthy with me!" Bottrap squealed. "STOP!" Optimus roared."If you two don’t stop bickering right now I will put you on probation!" Optimus said sternly." WARNING! WARNING! STAR SHIP AHEAD!" The Axalon’s computer said. "Maximals to your posts!" Optimus and Spotnox said at the same time.

"Blast! The Maximals have found us!" Megatron said. "INITIATE WEAPONS!" he said. "Open fire!" 

On the Axalon they did the same. "They’re warping!" Spotnox said.

"LOOK! Their transwarp engine is malfunctioning!" Speedor said. "It’s sucking us in!" Then, they warped. They came out into our galaxy, only 250,000,000 years ago.

" This isn’t the Earth we were going to!" Megatron said. "The transwarp engine must have malfunctioned! Slag!" Megatron cursed.

"We’re going down!" Scorputron said.

"Wazztropit too valuable to die!" Wasptropit said in his buzzy voice. 

On the Maximal ship, Bottrap was freaking out too." We’re all gonna die!" he squealed.

"Spotnox, release the Stasis Pods!" Optimus commanded. Then it happened. BOOSH! All the prehistoric creatures turned to look at the giant pieces of metal hitting the ground.

" WARNING. WARNING. Energon surge. WARNING." The Maximal’s and the Predacon’s computers continuously said. "Scanning a replication now." A beam came out of each ship. By doing this, it scanned beasts of all kinds. For Optimus Primal, it scanned a gorilla, "Beast mode," he said. For Speedor, it scanned a cheetah.

" I’m now… CHEETOR!" he said as he converted into his beast mode. Spotnox got a rhino, "I rename myself Rhinox!" he said as the robot turned into a beast. Bottrap’s beast form was a rat. "Just call me Rattrap." He said as he TransFormed.

 The Predacons got beast modes, too. Megatron’s was a t-rex. "Ah, yess. A mighty beast-form for a mighty tyrant." He said. Terratrox was a pterodactyl. "OH YEAH! I still get to fly! And my new name is Terrorsaur!" The red pterodactyl said. Wasptropit was a wasp." Wazzptropit now named Wazzpinator!" Waspinator said. 

Dinotrene TransFormed into a Velociraptor." I am Dinotrene no more, say hello to Dinobot!" the new Predacon said. Scorputron, as you can guess [it’s just such a big DUH!], was a scorpion." I am now Scorpinok!" The black scorpion said. Tarantror scanned a tarantula, "I am Tarantulas!" The black spider’bot said.

"Predacons, we have a new transformation code… Megatron TERRORIZE!" Megatron said. "Wazzpintor TERRORIZZE!" Waspinator said. "Scorpinok TERRORIZE!" Scorpinok shouted. "Dinobot TERRORIZE!" The newly named TransFormer said. "Tarantulas TERRORIZE!" Tarantulas said. "Terrorsaur TERRORIZE!"-- As he said "Terrorize" he got this squawk in his voice. 

The two teams then went outside their ships. Neither ship was in sight of the other. "Well, we best get started cleaning up the scrap metal around and inside the ship." Optimus said.

"This good lookin’ cat is gonna explore!" Cheetor said.

" No! Wait!" Optimus yelled as the cheetah ’bot sped away.

"Too much Energon interference to call him on the comlink." Rhinox said to Optimus. "Slag." Optimus cursed. 

As Cheetor was running, he saw two other cheetahs. "Hey cats!" Cheetor said as he ran up beside the other cheetahs.

"Raw?" Said one cheetah. They had just ran up beside a tree when, "BUZZZZZZ!" A loud buzzing noise had come from nowhere. The other two cheetahs hissed and ran away. "What? It’s just a big bug." Cheetor said. "They act like it's supernatural… And the only way to explain that is Robots in Disguise!"

"Wazzpinator see puny cheetah Maximal. Wazzpinator TERRORIZZE!" The buzzing had come from Waspinator.

"Cheetor MAXIMIZE!" Cheetor yelled. 

Then Cheetor pulled his pulse cannon from his subspace and fired at Waspinator. BANG! "Wazzpinator fill pain in his head." The shot had hit Waspinator straight in the head.

"I gotta get back to the base." Cheetor said. Then while Waspinator was trying to get his head out of the ground [the shot had caused him to crash] Cheetor turned into beast mode and ran away. A few cycles later… "Cheetor’s nearly back Optimus." Rhinox said. "Good. I’m going to have a word with him." Optimus said.

"Oooooh." Rattrap said quietly. Then Cheetor came through the door. "Waspinator… Fight… Head in ground." Cheetor said this so fast that it rivaled the TransFormer 'Blurr', a warrior from the Great War.

" Cheetor what were you thinking?!" Optimus said.

"Sorry Big Bot." Cheetor said.

"Now what were you saying?" Rhinox asked.

"I followed two other cheetahs until I got to a tree, then a Pred came out of nowhere, it looked like Wasptropit, but he said his name was Waspinator." Cheetor replied.

" Wasptropit… I was da’ one ta’ bring dat’ one in." Rattrap said.

" What do you mean?" Rhinox said.

"I use ta’ be a memba’ of Thu’ Cybutronian Police Force before I joined this slagging team." Rattrap said.

"Maximals, we must confront the Predacons now, but we must stay away from the Energon." Optimus said.

Then at the Predacon base, "Megatron, you are an IDIOT!" Dinobot said. "This is not the real Golden Disk!" Dinobot had just scanned the Golden Disk, and found it was a copy.

" Excuse me? The troop doesn’t call the tyrant an idiot." Megatron said.

"Well, then let’s see who’s really worthy to be commander." Dinobot said." TERRORIZE!"

The two Predacons TransFormed at the same time but Megatron was too fast for him and had blasted Dinobot far away. "AWWWW!" Dinobot yelled as he was hurtled away. "Anyone else want to fill his shoes?" Megatron said.

" Warning. Warning. Maximal Energon signatures detected." The computer said." What?!" Megatron said." PREDACONS TERRORIZE!" Megatron shouted.

" MAXIMALS MAXIMIZE!" Optimus yelled. Then, the battle began. BANG! BOOSH! CLANK! There were Energon cannons firing, bomb launchers shooting, and some TransFormers were using melee combat. Then finally, the Maximals’ plan began. All the Maximals directed their shots at Megatron. "AWWWW!" Megatron said as dozens of shots pelted him, "Predacons retreat!" Megatron commanded. "Maximals, our mission is done!" Optimus yelled. The two groups then retreated back to their bases. At the Maximal base…"Maximals, you did good out there." Optimus said to the team.

"Rhinox, can you pinpoint the Stasis Pods?" Optimus asked Rhinox.

"It’ll take a few nanoclicks to get the exact location, sir." Rhinox responded.

"I’m not in a hurry. Cheetor, any Predacon activity?" Optimus asked to the cat ‘bot.

" Nope." Cheetor replied. "Good." Optimus said.

"Oh boy, look it’s dat weirdo Dinotrene!" Rattrap yelled to Optimus. Optimus ran over to the hatch and stepped into the elevator chamber.

"Monitor both he and I." Optimus ordered. Then the elevator went down. When Optimus got outside, Dinobot was standing there. "Dinotrene, what do you want?" Optimus coolly asked.

"First of all, it’s Dinobot. Second, I want to join the Maximals… AS LEADER! We will fight to the death, scrapping every piece of our opponent, for the position of commander." Dinobot said in his scratchy voice.

"NO! Maximals aren’t like that!" Optimus shouted. BOOM!

"AWWW!" Dinobot screamed because he was shot in the back by Terrorsaur and Waspinator.

"Wazzpinator got Maxzimal!" Waspinator blurted out.

"You idiot! You moron! You just blew our cover!" Terrorsaur screeched.

"Dinobot! " Optimus ran and picked up Dinobot.

"You can’t blazzt Wazzpinator!" Waspinator said as Optimus fired with his arm blaster.

" But I can squish him!" Optimus fired at a rock and it fell right on top of Waspinator. A muffled" Ouch" came from underneath the rock. Terrorsaur picked the boulder up off Waspinator. When both looked up, Optimus was already in the base and the autoguns were pointed towards them." AIIIIIIIIIII!" They both turned to beast mode and flew off, but Terrorsaur got shot a few times.

" SQUAWK!" He said as four shots Swiss-Cheesed his wings. Optimus put Dinobot in the CR chamber for healing. A couple of cycles later…

"You didn’t have too do that, Primal." Dinobot said. "But, I will thank you, and if you will, I join this… Uhh… team." Dinobot was shaking hands with Optimus.

"Why should we trust ‘im?" Rattrap whispered to Rhinox.

"Because Optimus does." Rhinox replied also in a whisper.

"Oh, you mean we gotta trust the Boss Monkey and Chopper-Face too?" Rattrap asked in his rhetorical tone.

" Ok, Dinobot, welcome to the team!" Optimus said.

"Nice to have another teammate." Cheetor said to Dinobot.

"Yeah, what eva. I still don’t trust ’em." Rattrap said.

"I see we’re not going to get along well, Vermin." Dinobot said with his optics glowing green.

" Oh, is that supposed ta’ scare me? Night vision?" Rattrap said with a chuckle. BANG! A laser beam shot from Dinobot’s eyes. Rattrap managed to dodge it, but only by an inch. "WOW!" Rattrap yelled.

" STOP!" Optimus screamed." Dinobot, since you just got here, I’ll let you off. But Rattrap, you get all night duty. 7:00 PM tonight until 7:00 AM tomorrow." Optimus then sent everybody to their quarters, Dinobot’s was in a large closet, where he could design it anyway he wanted. "I should have known those two would have acted that way. Dinobot is ill tempered anyway. And Rattrap will set anyone’s temper off." Optimus thought to himself as he lie down." Now for a good night’s rest." Then he went to sleep mode.

The next day was a training day for the Maximals and Predacons. At the Maximal base they were practicing melee combat. Then after a few hours of training, the Predacons attacked. I cannot give details, because the Cybertronian files are in the Predacon alphabet, which I cannot read. The only info I have is there was no casualties, but the Predacons won.

At the Predacon base…"I’ve seen better battles, but at least I won." Megatron said.

"That’s it! I’ve had enough insults!" Terrorsaur yelled, referring to past insults. "I’m going to get rid of you and take over!" Terrorsaur said stepping towards the Energon reserves. "What are you doing?!" Megatron said. Then Terrorsaur touched the reserves. "AWWWW!" he screamed as he got more powerful. "You're going to die, Megatr-" Terrorsaur began, before being shot by Scorponok.

"Nice shot , Scorponok." Megatron said.

At the Maximal base… The Maximals were resting. "Maximals, when we get back to Cybertron, this war must be named. Named the… B E A S T W A R S !!!"

And so it is.