Victory
By: WickedWoman
If it's good, alright, if not, well… I’M KEEPING IT UP NO MATTER WHAT! BWAHAHAHAHA *cough* *cough*. Well, on with the story.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Beast Wars or the episode Victory.
DinoBot had just been shot in the back (literally) by Scorpinok’s missile. He slowly raised his damaged back up, as he could not feel his legs at all. DinoBot then growled angrily as he fired his laser optics at the approaching Predacons, hitting Scorpinok and Tarantulas. The Predacon leader, Megatron leaped out of the way of the blast and behind a giant rock for cover. He charged up his Dino-head laser as another beam from the Predacon traitor’s optics, ready to fire back. His plan to convener the Axalon had gone too far to go up in smoke because someone overheard his scheme now and there was no way he was gonna let it happen. Besides, there was five Predacons against one traitor, what could go wrong?
*****
“I’m goin’ after DinoBot!” Optimus Primal shouted in beast mode. Rhinox turned around just as the Maximal commander turned to leave. He could not believe what he had just heard from his oldest friend.
“We have less than two megacycles ‘till lift off.” The scientist stated rather bluntly. “This ship’s barely holding itself together, I can’t shut it down!”
Optimus, just two seconds from the entrance, turned back around. “I don’t want you to. If we’re not back in time, lift off without us!”
“No way!”
“That’s a priority order!”
Rhinox sighed in defeat as Optimus transformed. The Maximal commander then grabbed a shield and went down the entrance way. The lift suddenly stopped in mid way as the maximal cheetah appeared.
“Wait up, I’ll go with you! Cheetor, maximize.” He transformed.
“CHEETOR, NO!” Rhinox yelled.
“Get back to your post, Cheetor,” Optimus exclaimed. “That’s an order!”
“You can’t get to DinoBot without backup,” Cheetor protested. “Besides, Cybertron won’t be the same without you!”
This time, it was Optimus who sighed in defeat. “Alright,” he said “just hurry up.”
“I’m your bot!” Cheetor grabbed a shield and jumped down.
*****
Megatron fired his weapon, seizing DinoBot’s continuous attack while causing him to flip onto his back. The other Predacons began to fire at Optimus and Cheetor, who had just come out of the base.
“Cover me,” Optimus said. “I need to get to DinoBot.”
“You got it Big Bot!” Cheetor began to fire in defence as Optimus used is jet mode to fly through the barrage of missiles and lasers and land down in front of DinoBot. The Predacon traitor then lifted his head to look at his new commander.
“This…is strategically…unsound.” DinoBot managed to say. Optimus then picked DinoBot up and placed him on his shoulder.
“Tell me about it when we get to Cybertron.” Optimus then began to fly up to get his fallen comrade to safety but was unable to due to getting blasted by Terrorsaur. Seeing this, Cheetor lets out a growl and begins to fire upward, giving Megatron to blast him out of the way.
“Now, to the ship!” The four Predacons on the ground began to race towards the Axalon. Suddenly, the auto guns came online and began to fire at them, first taking out Scorpinok, then Blackarachnia, then Tarantulas and finally, Megatron.
*****
Optimus got up from the ground to find that the energon was beginning to mess with his circuits, thus transforming back to beast mode. Suddenly, he began to hear a rumbling noise getting louder. Realizing it was the ship taking off, Optimus picked up DinoBot and began to carry him to the ship. He also noticed Cheetor getting onto the lift and noticing the ship was pulling up. He could hear Cheetor shouting out his name as the ship was beginning to lift off the ground. Finally reaching the ship, he lifted the Predacon traitor above his head and threw him onto the lift then jumped into the air as high as he could. Luckily, Cheetor was able to grab his arm.
“Got Big Bot!” Cheetor said triumphantly. From Optimus came a nod and a smile. Little was expected as Scorpinok raised from the ground and fired a missile. The missile then hit Cheetor’s arm thus causing him to let go of the Maximal leader.
Optimus began to fall from the Axalon as Cheetor couldn’t believe what had just happened. The Maximal leader then finally hit the ground. As he lay down on the ground which once supported the maximal base, Optimus could only look up helplessly as the mighty ship which once was an exploration ship left the planet without him. Optimus sat up and transformed as he noticed Megatron racing towards the ship. Wanting the others to at least head back home, he fired a missile, thus knocking Megatron down, but not before he could hit the Axalon. The Maximal then stared at the ship as it flew out of site. Thus, not expecting the punch given by the Predacon leader.
“What an unexpected turn of event.” Megatron said as the Maximal commander hit the ground. “I find your maximal spy camera, I come up with a fool proof plan to reach my goal and it all comes crashing down like a pile of flames.” Scorpinok and Terrorsaur lifted Optimus to his feet and held him, not letting him escape.
“The Traitor then hears my plan and runs here to warn you!” Megatron continued to rant. “Then, when I have him at my mercy, you have to rescue him and ruin my second chance for triumph!” He then turned his back on his captive opponent. “Take him back to base. I will see to his punishment there.”
Scorpinok and Terrorsaur did as they were told. Tarantulas and Blackarachnia then approached the ever-angered Megatron.
“So,” Tarantulas asked. “What do you have planned for him Megatron?”
“I say we just destroy him.” Blackarachnia suggested.
“No.” Megatron said as the spiders looked confused. “I must seek a better way to punish my enemy. For after I am done, Optimus Primal will wish that he had only been destroyed, yesss.”
*****
Three weeks later, the Predacons found a stasis pod in their territory and realized that Megatron’s blast towards the Axalon ship prevented the stasis pods from being rescued. Finding that the spark had been extinguished, (because Rhinox and Cheetor weren’t there to save it) they were ordered to destroy the protoform and bring the stasis pod to Megatron. About a week after that, the spiders had found another stasis pod and created Inferno, who’s logic circuits were still dominated by his beast mode. However, they were caught and punished for their treachery. Megatron kept the pod.
*****
It had been two months after the Axalon had left for Cybertron and the Predacons had been coping with the situation. They had received more energon, although almost half of it kept disappearing or being destroyed, and have been able to keep themselves entertained with fighting amongst themselves and hunting for prey on the planet. Suddenly, Scorpinok, who was on scanner duty, noticed a bleep on the computer. He then turned towards Megatron.
“Sir,” Scorpinok said. “I have detected four stasis pods near Grid Zaran.”
“Former Maximal ground.” Megatron said. “Send the closest unit to capture them and re-program them as Predacons. And send Tarantulas to the coordinates.”
“Yes sir.”
*****
Inferno arrived to Grid Zaran first and quickly noticed the stasis pods.
“The royalty will be pleased with this find.” The fire ant said as Tarantulas appeared.
“I think I’ll do the honors.” Tarantulas stated.
“I’m keeping my optics on you, spider.” Inferno said. “The royalty will not accept any more treachery. As you all ready know, he doesn’t have to worry about keeping anyone functional anymore.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.” Tarantulas then walked over to one of the stasis pods and held back a chuckle. He pulled out one of the spare Predacon chips he had but suddenly heard a noise. He turned to see nothing but Inferno, watching his every move.
Tarantulas didn’t care for Inferno much, sure, he created him but his had wanted to make another one of his kind but foolishly forgot to place the spider he had in the scanner’s view before putting the Predacon chip in. He had hated Inferno ever since and the fire ant being completely loyal to Megatron didn’t help matters either. Tarantulas then turned around just to see the stasis pod hatch open up. Tarantulas looked inside only to be grabbed by the throat by a pink and red tentacle. Inferno stood his ground only to have an orange leopard with black-spots jump right on top of him.
“Predacons,” the leopard shouted. “Time for you to go down! Caterina, maximize!” with that, the leopard transformed into a medium height orange femme bot with black spots.
“Oh just great,” Tarantulas groaned as he struggled with the tentacle around his arm and neck. “I thought we got rid of the fur balls.” As if on cue, another tentacle began to slap Tarantulas in the face several times. Enraged, Tarantulas threw out the tentacle, which belonged to a pink, red and purple squid, onto the ground.
“Burn, maximal!” Inferno said as he aimed his weapon to Caterina’s head.
“You don’t burn a lady, you tin-horn idiot!” came another voice. (just humor me and give this one a Texan accent) Inferno turned around just in time to see the pink, red and purple squid transform. “Name’s Claw Jaw, and don’t you forget it!”
The transformer known as Claw Jaw then fired ink gun at Inferno, thus hitting his optics. As the fire ant stumbled backwards, Caterina kicked Inferno over to Tarantulas. The spider began to chuckle.
“Another female huh?” Tarantulas said. “This should be fun.” Just then, a black ox transformed into another robot and lifter Tarantulas over his head.
“You are one sick bug!” The transformer then threw Tarantulas into a tree. Inferno began to fire until a black bull rammed into him.
“They’re all Maximals?” Tarantulas exclaimed. “What are the odds in that?”
“We must report to the royalty at once.” With that, Inferno and Tarantulas then retreated. Caterina then turned to Claw Jaw and shook his hand.
“Job well done!” Caterina said. “I am so glad we could think up this plan before those morons showed up.”
“You said it littl’ lady!” Claw Jaw agreed then turned to the transformed and the bull. “And who the heck are you?”
“Bone Crusher.” said the transformer. He then turned to the bull. “And I don’t know who the hell he is.”
“Taurus, maximize.” The bull transformed into another transformer. “Watch it. Let’s just be grateful that we were able to come online before those guys showed up.”
“Yeah guys,” Caterina said. “Let’s just get outta here before their boss shows up.” With that, all four Maximals split up and leave the area.
*****
“Four Maximals!” Megatron bellowed. “I could probably accept just one Maximal but four???”
Inferno and Tarantulas were standing before Megatron. They had just finished telling him exactly what happened.
“It appears that the Beast Wars are back up and running, yesss.” Megatron said. “Send available units around the coordinates. We must find those new Maximals as soon as possible.”
Inferno saluted and then headed off. Megatron then turned to Tarantulas.
“Now,” Megatron said. “You are going to give me the names of all four of the Maximals at once.”