The Allied Wars, part 1

By Festus3 festus3@netins.net

Background goes to black and white words go across the screen “WHAT YOU SAW...”

FLASH! Replays the scene were Blackaracnia blows up Waspinater's Starscream-possesed body and his spark is thrown into space.

FLASH! Black screen “WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE.....”

STARSCREAM: (FLASH! Starscream screeches in anger as his spark spirals through space.) I will have my revenge! (Then there is a disturbance in space, like a ripple in water that shoots a red orb out of the rift, it collides with the spark.) AHHHHHH! (The two objects spin wildly and careen into a stasis pod.)

FLASH! Black screen “NOW.....”

FLASH! Tigatron, in beast mode, and Airrazor, in robot mode, are walking though a dense jungle at night in the middle of an argument.

AIRRAZOR: (Swinging her arms in frustration.) We shouldn't have left them, that tilts the advantage in the Predacon’s favor, especially if the two stasis pods are functional!

TIGATRON: (He calmly responds.) Don't worry, they’ll be fine, Rattrap is a good leader. (He stops suddenly.)

AIRRAZOR: What is it? (She prepares her wrist-guns and looks around.)

TIGATRON: SHH! Up ahead past those trees, Maximize! (He transforms and starts to walk slowly and cautiously toward the trees and dense bushes ahead. His hands part the bushes to reveal a ship, the size of the Axalon but shaped a sort of battle-ax, from front to back: the bridge, a long and thin ‘neck’ corridor that leads to the very large back section, sprouting from the main back section are three fins, coming out of the top, left and right sides. The whole ship has a dark and eerie appearance.)

AIRRAZOR: By the inferno! Is that what I think it is?

TIGATRON: Yes! (His voice cracks with surprise.) It's a ship. (He regains composure.) Let me scan it. (A visor goes down over his eyes, he looks at it a couple seconds and gasps, in his vision you see this image.) There’s ten transformers in there! Neither Maximal or Predacon, and a huge power flux. Let me see if I can identify it. (Camera goes to his view and you see a new symbol, the head and fore-legs of a goliath beetle. His visor goes up, with a chill in his voice he speaks.) Go back to base now, fast!

AIRRAZOR: Why? What’s wrong!? (She is starting to sound worried.)

TIGATRON: I have a very bad feeling abo- (WHOOSH! All at once the ground under him shatters and he is sucked down.)

AIRRAZOR: Tigatron! (She runs over and looks in the hole where Tigatron was standing, a small rustle is heard behind her, she whirls around, wrist-gun ready.) Tigatron? (Another rustle beside her, she turns. Out of the hole comes a voice, scratchy yet deep)

Voice: No, not Tigatron, he-he-he-he.... (More rustles and then two glowing yellow eyes the size of softballs appear in the hole. Airrazor rockets up and away as fast as she can.)

AIRRAZOR: I've got to tell the others. (Something catches her eye, a metallic glint, she goes to the spot and sees two stasis pods, unopened, one next to the other, dug into the ground, she lands beside them.) Yes! That's two more Maximals! (She opens the control panel on one.) Now how do I do this? (She hits a couple buttons and a scanner pops out then, she goes to the next one and repeats procedure, its scanner pops out, the first one finishes and goes back in, when the second one is done scanning it starts to go back in but breaks off.) Uh-oh! I hope that doesn't damage it. (The first one opens and a blue baboon jumps out.)

B'BOOM: B'boom Maximize! (He walks up to Airrazor.) State your name and purpose for getting me out of the stasis pod.

AIRRAZOR: Uh-um OK I am Maximal Airrazor and I have released you from the stasis pod because we are in time of war. (She looks at him and thinks Oh great a Maximal version of Inferno. the second pod opens, a clawed reptilian hand grabs the end and a dilophosaurus, with a rattlesnake head and neck joining at the frill, and two scorpion tails where one tail should be, hoists itself out, a fuzor.)

WHIPLASH: Whiplash Maximize! (When transformed he is a mid-sized transformer, the snake’s head and neck are jutting out from between his shoulders and arcs over his head, the two scorpion tails are connected to his shoulders, one on each. He looks at B'boom, then at Airrazor.) Hsssss, are you, em, Maximals? (His head moves from side to side as he looks over the possible threat.)

B'BOOM: Yes.

WHIPLASH: Good! Good, Hsssss, Whiplash not like Predacons.

AIRRAZOR: Okay, I'll explain everything later, can either of you fly? (Whiplash coyly raises his hand like a child in school.) Okay you carry B'boom, we got to get back to the base, follow me. (Airrazor takes off, Whiplash throws down the dilophosaurus fin, it floats like a hover pad, he and B'boom step on, a little cramped.)

B’BOOM: Don’t touch me.

Back at the Maximal base, transmetal Cheetor, in beast mode, is asleep on his back on the computer console in the middle of the bridge, Silverbolt, also in beast mode, is curled up on the floor asleep, Dinobot, in robot mode, is asleep at one of the computer consoles, and Transmetal Optimus, Transmetal Rattrap and Rhinox, all also in robot mode, are having a conversation.

OPTIMUS: Well the last couple weeks have been a sort of a vacation but we must be on the lookout for Predacons.

RATTRAP: Vacation!? Vacation? More like slaggin' borin’ if ya ask me!

RHINOX: Rattrap's right no wonder they're asleep. (He looks over his fellow Maximals.)

OPTIMUS: Yes, I guess you better wake them up Rhinox, it’s about time for a drill anyway. (Rhinox starts to walk toward them.)

RATTRAP: Wait. (He puts his hand on Rhinox’s shoulder.) Allow me. (He walks over to the table where Cheetor is asleep, rubs his hands together, and tips the table so Cheetor lands on Silverbolt.)

CHEETOR: Whoa! Ooof! (He yelps as he lands on Silverbolt.) Hey! Rattrap, that was major low. (Rattrap is giggling to himself, when Silverbolt speaks from underneath Cheetor.)

SILVERBOLT: Yes it was Cheetor but we were asleep on the job. (He jumps to his feet, sending Cheetor flying off-screen, you hear a thud and some instruments being disturbed.) Sorry.

RATTRAP: Now, fa' old Dino-butt. (He walks over to him and yells in his ear-) Dinobot the Preds are attackin! (Dinobot is on his feet in a second with his sword drawn.)

DINOBOT: Where!? Where are they!? Finally some action! (Rattrap begin laughing hysterically.)

RATTRAP: He-he! Gotcha!

DINOBOT: Rrrrrr, annoying vermin, when I'm through with you! (He starts advancing on Rattrap.)

OPTIMUS: Enough you two! The reason I wanted you awake was that I need patrols while we shut Sentinel down to work on the auto-guns. (Dinobot immediately heads out.) Good.

Back at the Predacon base, Inferno, in robot mode, is standing at the surveillance controls, alert as always. Transmetal Tarantulas, in beast mode, is curled up and hanging from the ceiling asleep, Waspinater, also in beast mode, is eating off of what looks like a square foot sugar cube. Blackaracnia is not there and transmetal Megatron is asleep in his chair. Quickstrike, in beast mode, is asleep on a hover board, but his snake tail is awake, it looks around curiously, then hits a button on the little keyboard and the hover board flies down a hallway, bouncing against the walls, Waspinater begins laughing hysterically.

WASPINATER: Hehehehe! Ooh, two-head almost slag himself, Waspinater not dumb like him. (He starts to fly away and rams right into Tarantulus.)

TARANTULUS: Fool! I was resting.

WASPINATER: Spider-bot always resting, him lazy.

INFERNO: Both of you be quiet and let the royalty rest!

WASPINATER: Fire-bot meaner than Spider-bot. (He mumbles as he goes back to his sugar cube. Just then the hover board carrying Quickstrike flies through and crashes off a wall, landing on the ground.)

QUICKSTRIKE: Dagnabit! I think I broke my tail. (He looks at his tail, it’s bent and tied in a knot.)

Computer: Alert! Alert! Three Maximals are passing through grid Cirinus!

MEGATRON: (Just waking up.) What? that's strange the Maximal base is the other way, they're coming from the wrong direction, hmm, no matter. Inferno! Waspinater! Take care of them.

INFERNO: Yes my Queen. (He bows and takes off with Waspinater, Megatron rubs his forehead.)

MEGATRON: I really wish he would stop calling me Queen.

Scene goes to a spot a little while later, in the air above a mountainous plain Airrazor, B’boom and Whiplash are flying slowly above the ground.

AIRRAZOR: Be careful this is Predacon territory.

WHIPLASH: Whiplash can take on any Predacon! (He states boastfully.)

B'BOOM: Maybe so, but- (He is interrupted by a missile that narrowly misses him, he looks to the source.) Who are they? (He points to two oncoming Predacons.)

AIRRAZOR: It’s Inferno and Waspinater! This is your chance to prove yourself Whiplash. Inferno starts to land, B'boom jumps off the hover board and starts toward him.)

WHIPLASH: Whiplash will take the bee! (He lands, picks up his saw/shield frill, and throws it like a frisbee. (Camera goes to close-up of Waspinater, chest up.)

WASPINATER: Hm? (You hear a whooshing sound.) You mizzzed Waspinater. (The camera zooms out to reveal that waist-down on Waspinater is gone.) Eh! Waspinater has no legs! (He starts to fly away.)

WHIPLASH: Hsssss, oh no you don't! (He picks up one of Waspinater's severed legs and heaves it, in the distance the leg hits Waspinater and he spirals out of sight. B’boom is firing his gun at Inferno, who dives behind a rock.)

B’BOOM: You are a good warrior, but not good enough! (Inferno jumps up on the rock and fires his flamethrower down on B’boom, who falls backwards, badly burned.)

INFERNO: No it is your fighting skills that are insufficient! (Inferno grabs the immobilized B’boom’s foot and starts to take him back to the Predacon base.)

WHIPLASH: Hssssss I don't think so! (He picks up his saw/shield and throws it at Inferno, it arcs in the air and severs the arm holding B'boom.)

AIRRAZOR: Whiplash, get B'boom, the Predacons will probably send reinforcements! (They fly off, Whiplash swoops down and picks up B’boom. Inferno jumps up and fires as they retreat, hitting Airrazor.) Ahhh! (She screams in pain, Whiplash catches her in his free hand and struggles to carry both of them.)

Back outside Maximal base Dinobot is on patrol.

DINOBOT: Oooh, even patrol is boring! (You hear a slight hum from Whiplash’s hover pad, Dinobot turn and yells into his comlink.) Optimus there's someone flying in! They've got Airrazor! She’s wounded! (He doesn't wait for Optimus’s response and starts firing his eye-beams. Whiplash dodges the shots, lands on a bolder and carefully sets down Airrazor and B'boom.)

WHIPLASH: Here we go again! (He readies the two scorpion tails on his shoulders and the snake head sticking out of his back, pulls out his saw/shield that starts rotating like a table-saw, and pulls out a sort of green light saber.) Come on!

DINOBOT: You shall need a new battery when I'm done with you! (He pulls out his sword and runs at Whiplash, Whiplash in turn charges, as they run by each other Whiplash is a blur as the tails, saw/shield and light saber slash vigorously, Dinobot runs for a couple feet in one piece.) Ha you missed! (Then he falls into a bunch of pieces, his head rolls to the side.) All Maximals attack! (He keeps on shooting his eye-beams, Whiplash dodges the lasers and picks up the head.)

WHIPLASH: Have a nice flight. (He drop-kicks the head, it sails and lands in front of the oncoming Rhinox, Cheetor and Rattrap.)

CHEETOR: Ewww! Beast mode! (He flies up into the air and starts to come down at Whiplash but the fuzor throws his saw/shield, Cheetor swerves to miss it and rams into a boulder. Rhinox takes out his Chainguns.)

WHIPLASH: Not good! (Rhinox howls as a wave bullets starts pelting Whiplash, he teeters for a moment, then falls forward.)

CHEETOR: All right we got him! (He shakes away his headache. Optimus flies down and lands.)

OPTIMUS: Yes, you did. (He turns to Dinobot’s head.) Did you even bother to find out if he was a Predacon before you fired? (Dinobot's eyes wonder off.) Look on his chest, does that look like a Pred energy signature? (Optimus points to a Maximal symbol on Whiplash’s chest.)

B'BOOM: He’s Maximal. He staggers up from a-top the rock in beast mode.) He was protecting us. (He points to Airrazor.)

RATTRAP: Who’re you? (He looks at him, as surprised as the rest of the Maximals.)

B'BOOM: I am B'boom, that is Whiplash . (He says pointing to the burnt and dented robot.) We were attacked by two Predacons by the names of Waspinater and Inferno, Airrazor and I were defeated, Whiplash saved us.

RATTRAP: Whoa, whoa, whoa, you’re tell'in me dat that weirdo over there took on Inferno, man no wander he slagged Dino-dip.

OPTIMUS: We must get Airrazor, Whiplash and Dinobot to the CR chambers. (He starts to walk away then stops, his voice quickly changing tones.) Where’s Tigatron?

B'BOOM: Who? (Optimus’ head drops.)

Inside Maximal base, Dinobot and Airrazor are out of the CR chambers and everyone is sitting around. Whiplash wakes up and starts yelling from inside the CR chamber.

WHIPLASH: Hssss, I'll slag you all! (He Breaks out of the CR chamber and advances on Dinobot. B’boom holds him back.)

B'BOOM: Wait, they're Maximals, they attacked you because they didn't know who you where. (Dinobot and Whiplash exchange angry glares.)

OPTIMUS: Airrazor what happened to Tigatron? (He steps up to Airrazor.)

AIRRAZOR: Tigatron was sucked down into the ground, by...something, we had found a ship, with something like ten bots inside, neither Maximal or Pred.

OPTIMUS: That's impossible! They couldn't change to a completely different signature, the- (Suddenly Megatron's voice interrupts over the radio- "This is Megatron all Maximals meet us in grid nebulas on neutral ground--

--We have matters to discuss." Optimus's voice finishes over an announcement at the Predacon base.

MEGATRON: Hmm, the Maximals wish to speak with us- (Tarantulus jumps in.)

TARANTULUS: You can't be serious! Don't even consider it the-

MEGATRON: Quiet! Treacherous spider! The Maximals want a meeting we'll, so meet them.

WASPINATER: But what if Maximals attack? They outnumber us, Waspinater not want to take a chance.

MEGATRON: Ahhh my dear, simpleminded Waspinater, have you ever known a Maximal that is that clever or sneaky, no, I believe it has something to do with the hasty return of the three Maximals yes, but still we must be cautious. (Blackaracnia moves her hover-board closer.)

BLACKARACNIA: But what if they do attack?

QUICKSTRIKE: Yea.

MEGATRON: Don't worry about that. We will meet them.

Scene returns to the Maximal base.

OPTIMUS: Well, Megatron wants to meet us, hmm, he kept his word before.

CHEETOR: I say we do it! We outnumber them, we can kick their tails if they try anything!

SILVERBOLT: The Predacons are dirty and underhanded, but Cheetor is right we could most likely beat them.

OPTIMUS: Then we go, all opposed. (The only one to raise his hand is Rattrap.) Except Rattrap.

RATTRAP: Awwww slag! (He slams the computer console.)

Scene goes to a rocky area with some shrubbery and tall rocks, the Predacons land first, Inferno is carrying Quickstrike, Waspinater is carrying Blackaracnia and Megatron is carrying Tarantulus. Then the Maximals arrive, Dinobot, Rhinox, B'boom and Rattrap are taking the ground Dinobot is riding Rattrap and complaining, Rhinox is carrying B'boom on his back. Optimus, Airrazor, Silverbolt, Cheetor and Whiplash are flying.

MEGATRON: Well Optimus, why did you summon us? (Optimus gives Megatron a confused look.)

OPTIMUS: What do you mean we summoned you? You’re the one that told us to meet you here. (All Predacons and Maximals look at each other and a silence settles over the whole area.)

WASPINATER: If Maximals didn't summon, who did? (He starts shaking and looking around.)

RATTRAP: What da slag is goin' on here!?

DINOBOT: If this is a trap, it’s very confusing. (He looks over the Predacons.)

Voice: Sorry your confused, insolent Maximal! (Everybody looks around to find where the voice came from, Waspinater has turned white as a sheet.)

WASPINATER: Waspinater recognize voice. Ahhhhhh! Starscream! (He starts to fly away but is shot down by an unknown and unseen gunman, he falls to the ground.) Ouch. (A cloak bubble opens and a Goliath beetle walks out.)