Behold
the Power...
By: Solar(HDW
Disclaimer:
I do not claim authorship of any of the Beast Wars characters presented in
this story. Beast Wars belongs to Hasbro and Mainframe.
Note:
This story takes place in season one.
Part 1
Rattrap hid in the shadows with a gun ready in his hands. He sneaked up to the
Predacon base preparing for the hardest stealth mission of his life. Getting
past the automated defenses was a breeze and no one was guarding the place
where he was about to enter. Rattrap cut a hole into the side of the base and
entered.
When he got to the next room there was no floor. Instead, the bottom of the
room was filled with lava and there was no way to cross.
“Come on, dere’s got ta be a way in dere.”
Rattrap looked around until he found a large air duct that seemed to lead into
the other room. He climbed into the air duct carefully. Sensing something
wrong, Rattrap stopped halfway.
“Somethin’ ain’t right here.”
He slowly placed a foot on the floor beneath him. Just as he touched it, part
of the duct fell into the lava. It was one of Megatron’s traps.
“Woah! Megatron’s getting’ tricky but he’s gonna have ta do betta
than dat!”
Rattrap went into beast mode and jumped across the hole. He felt the floor
falling but kept running. One by one, pieces of the bottom of the air duct
fell into the boiling lava as Rattrap ran across them. He finally got out of
the air duct and into the next room.
The next room was oddly bare. The door was just ahead so Rattrap transformed
back into robot form. When he walked further into the room, Rattrap suddenly
heard a small click! He had activated another trap. A thick metal door sealed
the way he had come in and the two sidewalls, now glowing with energy, were
closing in on him. The only way out was the door ahead of him and it was
steadily being sealed by another metal door.
“Wohoooaaahhh, nooooo!!”
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Part 2
The walls were closing in fast. Rattrap panicked. There wasn’t enough time
to make it to the other door.
“Come on, come on! I gotta think of somethin’. What did Rhinox say
about dese machines? Somethin’ about the controls bein’ in da floor.”
Rattrap studied the floor and found a small groove that indicated where the
controls might be. He blasted that spot with his gun and quickly pulled out
the wires. The walls shut down and the door ahead had just enough room for him
to crawl through.
He made his way slowly through the following hallway (which was filled with
laser beams) rolling, dodging, and crawling until he finally came to his
destination. The room was wide and was set up almost like a mini stadium in
which the spectator could look down at something spectacular. And for Rattrap,
it WAS spectacular. Right in the middle of the room, encased in a force field,
there was the biggest hunk of cheese Rattrap had ever seen. The entire wheel
of cheese was four times bigger that Rattrap’s head. He whistled.
“Man, now dat’s what I call cheese!!”
Unknown to Rattrap, there was a camera on the ceiling watching his every move.
Megatron watched the screen with disgust.
“How dare that Vermin!! Already he has gotten though most of my defenses!
For months now that rat has been stealing the base’s cheese but no longer,
nooo. Inferno!!”
Inferno rushed into the room.
“Yes, Royalty?”
“Go into the Cheese Chamber and dispose of that Vermin!!”
“Ye---”
Before Inferno could reply, Megatron grabbed him by the throat before he could
call him ‘Queen’.
“Just go!!”
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Part 3
If he could, Rattrap would be drooling. Right there in front of him was the
gigantic wheel of cheese. He inspected the force field carefully.
“Mmmm. I think I’ve got somethin’ for dis.”
Rattrap pulled out several small devices and placed them around the force
field. Within a few seconds, the barrier was down. He was about to reach for
the cheese when Inferno stormed into the room.
“Step way from the Royalty’s cheese, Vermin!”
Rattrap backed away slowly as he was instructed but stopped so that he was
only a few feet away from the cheese. Inferno eyed the rat-bot.
“Step away further. No tricks.”
“Okay, if dat’s what you want.”
Rattrap started to back away slowly again. He began to pick up speed and
didn’t stop. He was headed straight for Inferno.
“That’s enough, Rodent. Stop. Stop!!”
Rattrap pretended not to hear him and kept going until he rammed right into
Inferno, knocking the ant-bot to the ground and his gun out of his hand.
“Eh…Opps! Is dis far enough for ya? Hehehe.”
Rattrap went back to the cheese and made a run for it through a side door.
Megatron, who was watching the whole thing, was furious.
“That fool!! Rattrap must not escape!!”
“Megatron to all available units. This is a code R. Prepare for a full
assault.”
“There is still one dangerous option…”
Rattrap ran through the hall as fast as he could. “Not much longer and
I’ll be out of dis place. Then…”
Rattrap stopped in his tracks. Before him was Megatron’s last and greatest
trap. There were three huge pictures on the wall ahead of him. One was a
picture of Megatron dressed up like Barney dancing around idiotically, the
second was a picture of Megatron at the beach, laying down on a towel like one
of those fashion models (*eww, eww!!* That one’s for all you Megs fans
*wink*), and the third was a picture of Megatron holding a scepter and dressed
in a red robe and a crown.
The sight was too much for Rattrap. It was as if someone had hit him with a
ton of bricks. He passed out.
A few seconds later Megatron and the other Predacons came into the room. They,
too, caught sight of the pictures and had to shield their eyes. Even Megatron
shuddered.
“I will never let you talk me into doing that again, Terrorsaur!”
“Hey, it worked didn’t it.”
Blackarachnia walked over to the unconscious Rattrap and kick him. “Is he
dead?”
Megatron picked up the cheese and walked over to where Rattrap lay. Megatron
was about to say something when Inferno stormed into the room. The ant-bot
immediately saw the picture of Megatron that had the crown.
“My Queen!!! In her true glory!!”
He approached the picture and humbly began bowing to it. Megatron ignored him.
He pointed his T-rex cannon at Rattrap’s head.
“Farewell, Rodent!”
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Part 4
At that moment, Rattrap began to come to his senses. He opened his eyes only
to see Megatron’s laser pointed right at him. Rattrap knew he was done for.
Then he saw the cheese in Megatron’s hand. The cheese? No. He could not let
Megatron have all of that wonderful cheese.
Rattrap got up and socked Megatron in the jaw. With the strength of three
transformers, Rattrap picked Megatron up and threw him through the wall. He
took the cheese and started running away with several angry Predacons right
behind him.
Rattrap ran until he was lead back to the room with the lava. He looked around
nervously, trying to figure out how to get across now that the air vent was
gone.
“Man o man. What am I gonna do now?”
He started to panic as the gunshots from the Predacons flew by until he saw
one of the pieces of the vent beside him. He picked the piece up.
“I think I got an idea. Man, I hope dis works.”
Rattrap put the cheese into his sub-space pocket. He backed up as far as he
could then made a running jump towards the other side of the room. He
positioned the piece of the vent under his feet and used it like a surfboard
to get past most of the lava. Just as the board was about to sink, Rattrap
leaped for the doorway. The Predacons came in just in time to see Rattrap
leave.
“He’s getting away!”
“Quickly! Go this way!!”
But the Predacons were too late. Rattrap was already too far away. Megatron
screamed. “No! Noooooo!!”
All of the Predacons, except Tarantulas (who was lactose intolerant anyway),
gathered around their leader. Terrorsaur was the first to speak
“What’s the big deal? We have more cheese, right?”
“No. We don’t.”
Waspinator flew next to Terrorsaur in beast mode. “Rat-bot took all the
cheezzzeee?”
“We will make more of it for the Royalty!” Inferno saluted with the
word Royalty. Blackarachnia just shuddered.
“Eww. Do you know how disgusting it is to make that stuff?”
Back at the Maximal base, Optimus and Rhinox were sitting in the control room
when Rattrap walked in. Optimus eyed him suspiciously. “Where have you
been, Rattrap?”
“Eh, just around.”
“How much cheese did you steal from Megatron this time?”
Rattrap pulled out the cheese. Rhinox shook his head. Optimus sighed. “Rattrap,
were going to have to have a long talk about your behavior.”
“Hey, I can’t help it. I AM a rat, ya know.”
Rattrap began to walk to his room. Rhinox chuckled. “Now, if only he was
this enthusiastic about his important missions.”
Optimus couldn’t help laughing. “Yeah. Megatron wouldn’t stand a
chance then, would he?”
They both watched Rattrap walk away, happily munching on his cheese.
The End.