PAST PRESENT FUTURE 

By: Mark Harris
 


A spark travels through space and time with no concern for its own well being or anything else. A ship is heading straight for it; the spark goes right through the ship crippling it, sending it heading straight for a nearby sun. The crew scrambles to the escape pods but the pods are disabled. They scream as they feel the heat of the sun consuming their ship. Their blood begins to boil and their skin to bubble. Their screams become deafening, it only fuels the soul of the spark to the brim to hear the screams. It turns to watch the ship crash into the sun. “Mwahahahahahahahahahaha! I love screams first thing in the morning.” The spark continues on. 

 

A techno-organic planet looms in the distance. The spark heads straight forward to it. “This can’t be Cybertron it is so slagging organic. Damn Maximals must have messed it up making it only habitable by the insane Predacons, Decepticons, or the peace mongers.” It continues on anyway to Cybertron. He explores the planet randomly attacking the Techno-organic Cybertronian inhabitants. “This is definitely my home, I must put a stop to this before it can happen. I need a body though.” He continues exploring the new and unimproved Cybertron for a natural Cybertronian body. 

In a museum of Cybertron’s past he finds some left over Vehicons. “Megatron’s been busy since I left his company. I was right; this planet’s current state is the entire Maximals fault for this ugly world. Megatron must have had a hidden base just in case his original base was taken by the Maximals.  I must find it and see if he has any unused plans, because none of these are to my liking for a flight capable body.” He begins searching for the hidden base he believes to be real. 

Back on prehistoric Earth the third Beast Wars is experiencing its latest battle. Grimlock is near stasis lock, Jawbreaker had both legs blown off and was still attacking with his eye lasers and using his arms to walk. Dark Night was flying between rocks, attacking as soon as his guns cleared the rock. Scorponok and Terrorsaur were too slagged to fight back and were in beast mode, letting the beast mode affect internal repairs. Scourge and Stink Bomb were doing their best to combat the forces of the Maximals. They are even closer to stasis lock than Grimlock and they manage to get in one last good hit each to Grimlock before they convert to beast mode, grab their fallen comrades and take off. 
 

The last two attacks put Grimlock into stasis lock. Dark Night grabs Jawbreaker's legs and put them back on. Dark Night then accesses Grimlock’s override beast mode measures and puts him in that mode. The two then ropes up Grimlock and drags him back to base and puts him in a CR Chamber. Jawbreaker goes into repair mode, to conserve energy and to help internal repairs until he can get into the CR Chamber himself, his leg joints needing the most work. 
 

“Damn those new Predacons sure are slagging tough, so is Grim, but we need to be stronger as well. Jawbreaker needs to be stronger so he isn’t nearly killed in battle like last week. (This battle was not in any episode) He will just stand there and attack no matter how much damage he sustains and no matter how much pain his pain receptor warning system creams for him, he just takes it and nearly gets himself killed. We need to find the Transmetal 2 Driver.” Dark Night searches the files for every mention of it hoping to find its fate and location. 
 

Scourge and Stink Bomb have placed their Transmetal comrades into the medical station. There they are being repaired by a drone brought online and given Vok knowledge of Transmetal, Transmetal 2, and Fuzor schematics so it can make all and any repairs needed. The drone much like CatSCAN is a Fuzor comprised of a whale and elephant named Torca.