QUAKE: How do you know?

DARKRAZOR: I have the whole data-base, they left Earth around the year five thousand, they traveled back in time to find a new home out of the way of history.

BRUTALLION: What happened?

DARKRAZOR: They were all in crio-stasis, the autopilot failed and they crashed.

QUAKE: Perfect hosts.

DARKRAZOR: The ship is huge, it crashed in perfect condition because of the advanced shield technology. (She goes through some more computer data.) The hive has only been able to gain entry to sections of the ship, they have infested three of the five million humans since it crashed about twenty years ago.

QUAKE: It's almost sad. Heh heh heh. (He obviously has no emotion what-so-ever for the humans.)

DARKRAZOR: This could prove to be a useful bargaining chip, but no-one is to find out about this, not even Tarantulus. As far as you two are concerned, it never happened. (She begins to laugh and the other two join in.)

Scene goes to a familiar cargo bay in the Maximal base, the place where they launched the three pod-fighters containing Silverbolt and his team, the three left over are still there, one is fallen on its side from when they first arrived on the planet but they are in perfect shape. All the Maximals are standing there in robot mode, listening to Dinobot.

DINOBOT: So Whiplash and I have agreed that we should send one pod-fighter out to the sixteenth planet, further if necessary, a team of two.

PARRATOR: Who's going to do that? (A siren goes off, Whiplash runs up to a computer.)

WHIPLASH: I'm reading eight Predacons!

PANTHOR: Eight? That number doesn't sound right.

WHIPLASH: None of them are the Titans, (He takes a moment to look at the monitor.) I don't believe it, two of them, they're Teraductile and Bombshell!

DINOBOT: What!? Tarantulus has found a way to bring his troops back? How?

WHIPLASH: He must have used a worm-hole.

DINOBOT: But I thought the Allied Wars where erased after the destruction of the orb.

WHIPLASH: They were, but the worm-hole machine has been in that time, as long as it closes before the orb is destroyed the Allied Wars will exist in a half-past. (No one understands what he has just said.) He can go back to the normal past or to the abnormal past.

PANTHOR: (He pulls up his gun.) Let's just slag the Preds and sort'em out later. (Dinobot draws his swords. The Predacons are flying over the jungle, the non-fliers are being carried by the fliers while Tarantulus drives underneath them. They reach the foot of the mountain, there is no one there. Tarantulus stops and transforms into robot mode, he looks up, the sun is just above the horizon, above him looms the Maximal base, the back, and largest part of Starscream's Phantom, the three wings still gripping the mountain's face like a claw.)

TARANTULUS: Were are they!? (A faint yell comes down from on top of the mountain, Tarantulus turns his head upward, he zooms in and sees Dinobot standing on the very top of the mountain, Dinobot makes a 'come here' gesture with his finger.) How dare you taunt me Maximal!? Predacons! Terrorize! (The Predacons that haven't already transform.)

CHAMELEOTRON: Inferno! (He transforms into the original, non-transmetal Inferno and flies up to the top of the mountain, on top of the mountain the Maximals are waiting just behind a rock lip, Batteram and Transquito come over the edge first, Panthor shoots Transquito in the chest, the transmetal Predacon is flung backwards and falls to the ground far below, Waspinator nails Batteram in the face, Batteram flips back and flies down to the ground face first.)

BATTERAM: Ahhhhhhhh! (His head sticks in the ground and the rest his body crumples up. Drone stops just before he goes into view of the Maximals, he pulls up his turbine gun, the abdomen/gun splits into four and begins spinning, pink plasma begins to form as the gun charges, Pestalance looks up over the edge and sees Drone charging his gun, the blue and white robot aims his gun and fires straight into the plasma charge, the explosion sends Drone flying through the air like a comet, it also blows away the Maximal's hiding place. They scatter across the ground, Anacronda swoops up over the edge, his broad hang-glider wings, made from the snake's skin, block the sun, he drops Tarantulus who tackles Dinobot. Dinobot is taken off-guard and falls back, he drops one of his swords, Tarantulus picks it up and the two start dueling.)

DINOBOT: What do you mean to achieve with this futile attack spider? (They continue to slash at each other.)

TARANTULUS: That, is for me to know and you to- (Tarantulus flies to the side from an energy shot, Dinobot turns and sees Pestalance, gun still smoking.)

DINOBOT: What are you doing!?

PESTALANCE: I thought you could use some-

DINOBOT: Help!? I don't need help from you CLONE! (Pestalance looks as if he has been stabbed through the spark, Dinobot looks away, ashamed of what he has said, he does not get to think about it long because Bombshell fires his grenade launcher and the shell explodes between them, Whiplash is blocking the shots from Anacronda's blaster rifle. He turns on his saw/shield, it starts spinning faster than the light can see, he draws his light saber on and looks to Anacronda.)

WHIPLASH: Think fast traitor! (He throws his saw/shield to the side dives forward, the scorpion tails on his shoulders and the snake head coming out of his back slash and snap through the air, he turns into a blur as he travels through the Predacon, he stops behind him, the thin robot stands there for a moment, then falls to the ground in shreds, Chameleotron, still transformed into Inferno flies down from above, he pins Whiplash to the ground and aims his flamethrower at the Fuzor's face.)

CHAMELEOTRON: I could get used to this body. (Whiplash smile and pushes Chameleotron's head up, the Predacons sees the flat object fly at him, his head tumbles through the air, Whiplash stands up and catches the shield as it comes back around. Teraductile flies into his back from behind, Whiplash lands on his back and Teraductile leans over him.)

TERADUCTILE: Clear! (He puts his hands palm down on Whiplash's chest and jolts him with electricity, Whiplash goes into stasis lock.) I think I've lost another patient. (A red, razor sharp feather flies through he air and lodges in his shoulder.) Ahh! (He looks up and sees Parrator standing in front of him, his beack-gun aimed straight at the Terrorsaur-like robot.)

PARRATOR: The doctor, is out! (He fires and Teraductile flies off the top of the mountain, he turns around and sees a grenade shell fly by his head, the second one hits him in the chest, Bombshell smiles at having taken the Maximal out by surprise. Bambard looks down over the edge of the mountain, a huge, black, spidery hand grabs his head, the rest of Darkrazor's body comes up over the edge, she stands there, she is in her nightmare-creature beast mode, she spreads her six arms in the air and raises her huge crested head, from the depths of her throat she releases a petrifying battle-cry, Tarantulus looks up off the ground.)

TARANTULUS: About time you got here. (Darkrazor flings Bambard, the young robot flies through the air and slams into Pestalance.)

DARKRAZOR: Darkrazor! Terrorize! (She transforms and starts firing her double mouth gun, her shoulder guns and her eye lasers.)

TARANTULUS: Where are Brutallion and Quake?

DARKRAZOR: You think they can climb up here? (She continues firing like crazy, Bombshell is looking around for a target when an orange boomerang flies by his head, he ducks, a transmetal kangaroo jumps from behind him and hammers the short robot with his strong feet.)

BOOMERANG: 'Owdy mate! How 'bout a scuffle? (Before Bombshell can get back up Boomerang leans back on his tail and delivers another two-foot kick, Bombshell flies back and slides into a rock, Boomerang jumps into the air and transforms, Bombshell brings up his turtle-head grenade launcher, Boomerang grabs the muzzle and aims it straight up, it fires and the shell flies through the air, the two begin to wrestle around on the ground, Bombshell pins Boomerang, Boomerang looks up and sees the grenade shell coming back down.) Oh slag. (The two are blown over the side of the mountain. At the base of the mountain Quake and Brutallion are transformed and ready to fight.)

BRUTALLION: Come on, come on. I know they'll be here soon. (Boomerang and Bombshell land on the ground, embedding themselves in. Quake looks down at them, suddenly, the forest explodes. The Amazons come out of their hiding places and begin firing. Quake looks up in time to see one of Pyereen's fireballs hit him in the face.)

QUAKE: Ah! What the!? (He and Brutallion draw their weapons, Brutallion fires his huge fusion cannon, the energy beam passes over Dragoness and Shellshock and keeps going, Quake fires his seismic gun repeatedly, the three tongues mounted on the end of the gun snap the air, looking for a meal.)

DRAGONESS: (She turns to Pyereen and Shellshock.) Come with me, (She points to the top of the mountain.) Quadroblade! Springblaster! Cover fire! (Quadroblade aims her twin chain guns and fires, Springblaster aims her twin blasters at the Titans and begins firing. Dragoness takes off, Pyereen flies up holding Shellshock, Quake sees an opportunity jumps and grabs Shellshock, he throws her to the ground.)

QUAKE: Ha, this is gonna be a blast! (he points his seismic cannon down at the fallen Maximal, the three tongue/mouths mounted on the end latch onto her, one on each hand and one on her left leg, they hold her in front of the muzzle of the gun, he points it straight up, Pyereen dives down and grabs onto Shellshock, she then aims her Flamethrower down the barrel of the cannon.)

PYEREEN: Bad choice! (Quake looks up and freezes in horror, Pyereen fires and dives to the side, the shot travels down the barrel, BOOOOOOM!!! Quake is thrown on his back and Pyereen and Shellshock spiral through the air, Quake transforms to beast mode, his huge worm-like body lays on top of the ground for an instant, then he rams his beak down into the ground and goes under, Tankeel jumps out of the trees and transforms to her beast mode.)

TANKEEL: I'll keep him busy! (She rolls up into a ball and begins to roll herself on the ground with her two arms, Quake hears her moving and follows her through the trees, the only indication of his movement is the rise of the dirt as he passes underneath. Springblaster and Quadroblade keep trading fire with Brutallion, Pyereen and Shellshock join back in. On top of the mountain Dinobot, Waspinator and Panthor and dodging Darkrazor's whip and double-mouth gun. Dragoness flies up and fire her laser rifle, the shots hit Darkrazor in the back of the head, she turns around and screams in rage.)

DRAGONESS: Come on! Titan! (Darkrazor's tail-whip cracks the air, Dragoness easily dodges, Dinobot, Waspinator and Panthor begin firing at Darkrazor's back. The tall robot turns and looks down at them.)

DARKRAZOR: Get the slag away!

WASPINATOR: Okay. (Waspinator converts to beast mode and begins to fly away, Dinobot grabs him by the leg.)

DINOBOT: Stay and fight coward!

WASPINATOR: (Muttering to himself.) Waspinator forgot lizard-bot used to be Predacon too. (Dinobot overhears it and looks at the ground, he looks up to see Darkrazor right in front of them, she towers over them, her eyes glowing, preparing to fire her eye lasers, Dragoness flies down and rams her full weight into the back of Darkrazor's head, the Titan grows dizzy from the blow and falls down. Dragoness lands next to them.)

DRAGONESS: Come, we have to help the others. (The four come down over the top of the mountain, Dragoness carrying Dinobot and Waspinator carrying Panthor, all four of them fire down on Brutallion's head, the shots catch him off-guard, he turns his shoulder guns upward and fires them, the shot from his left shoulder misses, the shot from his right shoulder hits Dragoness and she drops Dinobot, he lands on his feet and runs over to her, she has a hole burnt in her side.)

DINOBOT: Are you all right? (he reaches down to help her up, she takes his hand, then tugs him down harshly on top of herself, the fusion beam passes inches over them, Dinobot helps her up and all of the remaining conscious Maximals concentrate their fire on Brutallion, he is quickly overwhelmed, he reaches into a compartment in his leg and throws something to the ground, a blinding flash of light disorients the Maximals long enough for Brutallion, still in robot mode, to sprint into the jungle.)

DRAGONESS: Let him go. (Parrator comes down from the top of the mountain.)

PARRATOR: They're gone! Darkrazor and the Predacons! I came down for a second and when I went back up they'd all disappeared.

DRAGONESS: We'd better head home to then.

SPRINGBLASTER: Hey, where's Tankeel? (The camera shows Tankeel rolling across the ground, a raising mound of dirt following her, she rolls over a rock, the mound stops.)

QUAKE: Ahhh! My beak!

(Scene goes to that night at the Maximal base, the Maximals are in the cargo bay with the three pod-fighters, the bay door is open, showing the multiple moons in the night sky, Pestalance and Waspinator are saying goodbye. Pestalance comes to Dinobot, Dinobot looks to the floor in shame, Pestalance shakes his hand.)

PESTALANCE: I know you'll get Rattrap back. (Waspinator and Pestalance get into their pod-fighter and take off into the night sky.)