The Noble Rescue
By: Nibblix and Wes 


*Authors's Notes: Hello everyone, Wes and Nibblix here 
again! Here is our latest story which we roleplayed out 
together! It involves the introduction of a brave new warrior, 
can you guess who? :) Anyway, all characters except Nibblix and 
Slasher Red, in this story are copywrites of Hasbro, Mainframe, 
and ect. Nibblix and Red is owned by Nibblix herself, and the 
new name for the new Maximal (who is a toy character) was also 
created by her! This story picks up right where For the Royalty 
left off, as Fern is still hunting down Nibs to recapture her. 
Enjoy!*

	Miles from the Axalon, near the edge of the desert 
region, Inferno flys forward still on his butt propeller. He 
scouted the land before for the golden hamster known as Nibblix. 
He promised himself he would take revenge on her for escaping, 
and he knew she couldn't have made it back to the Axalon by now.

        A kilometer or so ahead, Nibblix is still scurring away 
from the Darkside as fast as she can even though she is partly 
recovered. She hears Inferno coming, and that drives her to run 
faster. She knows that she is no match for Megatron's warrior in
 her state.

	Inferno looks like some insane robot from the air, and 
his head zips to and fro, "Must find Nibblix, enemy of the 
Royalty!"

	Inferno's scanners go off, and he blurts around towards 
Nibblix's direction, they signal in on her, and within seconds, 
Inferno has her pinpointed, "Ah! At last!"

	Nibblix's early warning sensors go off.  "Oh no!  
Inferno is going to send me back to Megatron if I do not escape 
this area soon."  Nibblix quickly finds a place to hide and 
thinks up a plan fast.

	Inferno hovers to the ground, and clutches to his flame 
thrower. He marches around in a circle and glares about, "She is 
here somewhere, and I shall find her!"

	Nibblix notices the ground soft on her toes.  She starts 
to dig furiously and soon she is underground.  "Maybe Inferno 
will not find me."

	Inferno's sensors began to click on again, and he scouts
 for Nibblix. He soon finds her paw prints, and follows them. He
 growls as they dissapear down a hole. 

	"Clever female, but not clever enough! BEAST MODE!"

	With that, the tall Predacon warrior converts to fire 
ant form, and burrows after through the hole, digging to make it
 larger as he goes along for himself to go in.

	Nibblix mutters softly when she hears the skittering of
 ant legs following her. She quickly enters a narrow area and
 enters a very dark area. She giggles because she can see well
 in the darkness. Nibblix pauses for a moment to get some 
breath. She is still not up to 100% power.

	Inferno comes to a series of different passageways, and 
he knows Nibblix went down one. As dirt from the tunnel ceiling 
flutters by, Inferno pokes his large head into the long tunnel, 
"This way!"

	Nibblix begins to really tire out and bumps into 
something in the dark. "Ouch, what the slag is that?" 

        Nibblix feels the object and a grin forms on her face.  
She must be dreaming because she just found a stasis pod 
underground.

	Inferno skitters out of the wrong tunnel and back into 
 the series of passageways. He grunts, and begins to burrow 
towards the other end of the stasis pod that Nibblix is not at. 

	Nibblix opens the control panel slightly buried in dirt 
near her, and punches in the activation code for the pod with 
the last bit of energy she has before blacking out from 
exhaustion. But before she passes out, she manages to stay 
online long enough to send a distress signal. She hopes someone 
will find her soon, and everything goes black. Inferno is 
unaware that the protoform has been activated, and he continues
 to burrow towards it. 

	Inferno bonks his head on a metallic object, and jumps 
back in fright. He rubs his head with his thin, twig ant legs, 
and stares at the metallic end of the Stasis Pod beside him, 
"Ah, the ultimate treasure! A stasis pod! Must recover it for 
Megatron!"

	With that, Inferno forgets about Nibblix, and clamps 
his pincher teeth down on the Pod, and then he begins to burrow
 upward. Within moments, the Predacon arises from the dirt of 
the ground, and tugs the stasis pod tenderly out.

	Inferno converts to robot mode, and stands over the Pod 
with pride written all over his face. He stares at the controls 
and blinks oddly at them, "Hmm...the Pod has been activated, and
 it does not seem to be damaged. Maybe a new Predacon is already
 on its way!"

                        ****************

	At the Axalon, Rhinox detects the faint distress signal
 from Nibblix, "Slasher Red, I detect a faint reading near the 
Predacon territory. Check it out because it might be Nibblix."

	Slasher Red growls, "I will find her and bring her back
 for repairs."

	Rattrap comes in from the hallway as Rhinox talks to 
Slasher Red. His audios perk and he walks over to Rhinox, "Mind 
if I give her a hand Big Green?"

	"Slasher Red, take Rattrap with you and hurry." Rhinox 
ordered.

	Rattrap smirks, and walks quickly to the lift, "Come on
 Red, we'll get her back before yer friend Chopper Face even 
realizes were gone!"

	"Watch it vermin, that is no way to talk about Dinobot 
around me." snarls Red, following Rattrap to the man lift.

	Rattrap rolls his optics, and folds his arms gruffly,
 "Yeah yeah, sure. Hey, I ever tell ya about the time ol' Dino-
Face found out the hard way not to try to redecorate my 
quarters?"

	Slasher Red snarls louder, "Keep it up Rattrap and I 
might forget which side you are on and eat you."

	Rattrap steps away from Red slightly, "Hey hey, don't 
even THINK about it!"

	"Then I suggest you leave Dinobot out of the 
conversation. Got it!"

	Rattrap gulps, and the man lift begins its descent to 
the ground.

	Slasher Red makes a mad dash in the direction Rhinox 
told her to go before the manlift even makes it to the ground. 
Rattrap converts to beast mode, hops off the lift, and 
slowly dashes after Red.

			   ***********

	Moments later, Slasher Red pauses because she hears 
something. She quietly slinks into the bushes ready to ambush 
any unsuspecting Predacon. Rattrap is a bit behind, and doesn't
 even pay attention to where he's going. He continues to run in 
the open towards the direction Slasher Red went.

	Slasher Red sniffs the air and snarls softly because she
 smells Pteryxia in the area. Red notices Rattrap heading in the
 direction she senses her worst foe at.  Slasher Red dashes
 ahead of Rattrap and prepares herself for battle.

	Slasher Red transforms into her warrior mode with her 
cyber-slasher and sword activated.  As she sees the Predacon 
flier near by, she fires her optics at Pteryxia. Pteryxia 
screaches from afar and turns into her robot mode. She fires her
 poison darts at the enraged Slasher Red.

	Rattrap sees the femmes break out into a fight, and 
sighs, "Looks like they can't seem to get along. Rattrap, 
Maximize!"

	Slasher uses her cyber-slasher to deflect the darts.  
"Hah, you think that was tough? Try this one Predacon."  
Slasher fires her optics and throws her sword at Pteryxia.

	Pteryxia leaps out of the way in time to avoid the 
attack, and sneers in frustration.

	Rattrap gets out his rifile and unleashes a barrage of 
laser shots at Pteryxia, "Heya, try this on fer size!"

                         ***************

	A bit away, Megatron enters the area. He kept a radio 
silence connection to Inferno, and knows about the stasis pod, 
 "Excellent! Pteryxia is diverting the Maximals attention, 
yess. Inferno have you opened the stasis pod yet?"

	Inferno radios his leader from afar, "It seems to be 
waiting for the right moment to open Royalty! It looks done, but
 shall not open!

                          *************

	Meanwhile, Rhinox radios Rattrap. "Did you find Nibblix 
yet? If she remains in stasis lock for to long her spark will 
extinguish."		
	
	Rattrap continues to fire his rifile, "Kinda busy buddy!
 We'll get to her shortly!"

	Suddenly, the stasis pod opens and a streak of grey 
flies high into the air. This catches Inferno completely 
offguard. The new Maximal heard the radio transmission and 
sniffs around for the missing Maximal.

	Inferno stumbles backward, and falls onto his propeller 
butt, "Royalty! Something has arisen!"

	"Aroooooooooh!  I think I found something of  this 
missing someone." says the new Maximal when he locates Nibblix's
 scent. He dives into the hole his pod emerged from and locates
 the hamster with little problems.

	Rattrap blinks from afar as he sees the creature emerge 
from the Pod and dive into the ground, "What the smeg is that?!"

	Slasher Red blinks and remembers the reason she and 
Rattrap left the Axalon.  "Nibblix might be in trouble."

	Rattrap flips forward into beast mode, "I'll check it 
out!"

	The little gray rat scurries over to the hole, and 
reaches it shortly. He peers down it, and can hear something 
going on down there, "Nibblix...uh....new creature person, ya 
down there?!"

	The new Maximal flies out of the hole carrying his 
passenger.

	Rattrap blinks as the new Maximal flies out, and gets a
 clear look to see some sort of flying wolf with wings holding 
Nibblix, "Huh? What kind of creature is that?!"

	The new Maximal realizes that Rattrap is one of his 
friends, and stares down at the rodent.  "Greetings, my name is 
Tracker. I must get your friend to safety."

	Rattrap blinks confused, "Uh huh...nice to meet 
you...Tracker."

	Tracker returns to robot mode and gently lays Nibblix on
 the ground.

	Inferno, now back to his feet, charges at Tracker, "You!
 You are not of the Royalty's faction! You shall BURRRRRRNNNN!"

	Inferno fires a large plasma bolt at Tracker with a 
dreadful sneer on his face.

	"Really?  You dare to threaten me and this little lady?"
 Tracker smiled.  

	With that, Tracker pulls out two wing darts and throws 
them at Inferno.  He quickly shields Rattrap and Nibblix with 
his large fuzor wings from the plasma bolt.

	The wing blades smash into the plasma bolt, blowing it 
up in mid air. It steams away, and Inferno throws a temper 
tantrum, "No! How dare you disrespect the Royalty's way!?"

	 Tracker snarls, "Your Royalty's ways are wrong. I 
serve what I believe to be right. You are not worthy and your
 assault on my lady proves it."

	Rattrap looks at Tracker and Inferno and shakes his 
head, "Oh great. They're both loyal to some insane cause...."

	Tracker leaps into the air with Nibblix in his arms, "I 
must get my lady to a medic before she dies."  With that Tracker 
heads in the direction of the Axalon.

	Rattrap watches Tracker take off, and scurries after,
 not wanting to be left behind with the Predacons, "Hey, wait 
up! Come on Red, let's go!"

	Slasher Red quickly follows the strange Maximal carrying
 her little friend.

			***************

	Minutes later, as the group approaches the Axalon, 
Sentinel beeps online and keeps the shields up. The computer 
does not know Tracker, so the auto-guns go online.

	 Snowstalker is at the Command Center, and notices the 
auto-guns going up outside. She takes a seat at a station, 
and monitors the activity on the computer screen, "Hmm...who's 
that holding Nibblix?"

	Snow turns around in her seat and motions Rhinox over, 
"Rhinox, we have an unknown entity outside with Nibblix and 
the others."
	
	"Yes, and it looks like Nibblix is in bad shape."

	Snowstalker presses the button, and the shield fades 
from existence. The auto-guns hum, and fold back into their 
waiting position.	

	Tracker lands softly onto the ground.  "Do not be 
afraid, I am Tracker. our friend needs help."

	Snowstalker speaks over the intercom to the outside, 
"Please bring Nibblix inside. There is a man lift which will 
take you into the ship that is lowering down now."

	Tracker obeys Snowstalker and climbs onto the man lift
 being careful not to injure Nibblix.
	
	Rattrap scurries to the lift before it ascends upwards,
 and he hops onto the edge as it jerks slightly and begins to 
enter the ship. Within seconds, the group finds themselves in 
the large front of the ship known as the Command Center.

	Tracker blinks at the other Maximals present.  "Here is 
Lady Nibblix."

	Snowstalker glances over at Rhinox, and smiles at how 
nice Tracker seems, "My name is Snowstalker."

	Rhinox quickly rushes Nibblix to the CR Chamber and 
places her in it.

	Rattrap transforms and steps off the lift as it descends
 to pick up Slasher Red. He points over to the large brown and 
green Maximal and smiles jokingly, "That's Rhinox, and I'm 
Rattrap, master spy and leader of the Maximals!"	

	Snowstalker laughs at Rattrap, "Don't listen to him OR 
believe him, he's just a wisecracking guy who is NOT leader. And 
what's your name?"

	Cheetor enters the room. "Oh wow, you found Nibblix."

	Slasher Red arrives on the lift, and looks at Tracker, 
"The kid is Cheetor."

	Tracker views all the Maximals and smiles with 
satisfaction, "I am Tracker."
	
	Optimus Primal comes out of the hallway leading to his 
office, and straightens up as he notices a new face and all the 
Maximals assembled, "Greetings everyone. And who is this?"

	Tracker looks up, "I believe that you are the leader. I 
am called Tracker."

	Optimus Primal extends his hand, "Indeed. I am Optimus 
Primal. It is a pleasure to meet you Tracker. From the commotion 
I heard on my way to hear, I believe we have you to thank for 
saving Nibblix."

	Tracker replies, "It was all in the line of duty.  I am
 glad to be of service."

	Optimus gives a bright smile and shakes Tracker's hand,
 "Welcome to the Maximals Tracker."

	Tracker smiles back and shakes Optimus Primal's hand.  
"Thanks."


                           The End