"I'll handle this." Optimus says then flies off.

On flight, he goes to meet Terrorsaur and Waspinator, who are both overwhelmed by Energon oversaturation. They fired their weapons anyway at Optimus, but he blasts them away with a pair of arm-built missile launchers.

Outmatched, both Predacons turn back to Beast Mode and fly away.

"Yeah, fly away, you yellow-plated scrap heaps!" Smokescreen taunted.

Optimus would soon feel the oversaturation taking him.

Dinobot notices the retreating of his former comrades, proclaims "Now! While they are weak!" and decides to capitalize by blasting his eye lasers at them, but he continously fires so quickly, he struck up multiple stalactites, causing structural debris to fall a large boulder that could have killed Rhinox if he didn't dodge in time.

"That was a close one." Bumblebee sighed.

"Sure it was for you."

"Why-"

"Megatron and Starscream. While Jack was with me." Arcee noted.

"And so many others that involve us getting into caves." Smokescreen noted, earning him an eyeroll from the femme Transformer.

"Still, that was reckless of Dinobot." Ratchet noted.

Rhinox breathed relief as he stares at the boulder.

"I knew it, ya TRAITOR! Ya tried t'scrap my pal!" Rattrap proclaims, furious at Dinobot's accident that nearly crushed Rhinox.

Rattrap tackles Dinobot, stands over him and points his gun at his face.

"Once a Pred, always a Pred!"

Optimus lands and turns back to Beast Mode.

"Ease off, Rattrap! It was an accident!"

"Sez you!"

Optimus pushes Rattrap out of Dinobot and pulls him face to face.

"That's right. Says me. You want to question my orders one more time?" emphasing the last three words by tapping his finger at Rattrap multiple times.

After a moment, the rat gives in, unable to argue with his superior.

Optimus and Magnus shook their heads.

"I know Rattrap should have known better than question orders, but accidents happen." Ratchet commented.

"It's not by anyone's right that they should judge anyone based on an accident, old friend." Optimus added.

"I don't trust Predacons." Rattrap says bitterly.

"We've got enough trouble with Megatron's crew without fighting among ourselves." Optimus says.

"Now come on." the Maximals later moved out throughout the night.

The next morning, the Predacons have managed to reach the other side of the mountain.

"So much Energon! Yesss. its power! I can almost taste it!"

"The Energon fields would destroy us as robots in less than a minute. We will have to stay in Beast Form." Tarantulas notifies.

"Gee, thanks for the note, Professor Obvious." Smokescreen joked. This earned him a laugh from Bumblebee and Wheeljack and an amused chuckle from Arcee.

"And Optimus and the Maximals are coming."

As the Maximals also close in on the mountain, Megatron snorts and states...

"They must stay in Beast Form as well. And I will handle Optimus personally!"

By the time Optimus and the Maximals reached the mountain, he saw Megatron at the other side. From either side, the Maximals and the Predacons in their Beast Modes enter and face each other.

"Across the galaxy, it has come to this, Optimus Primal. Face to face, tooth to claw. Yesss. Have you anything to say?" says Megatron as his Predacons stand by his side.

"I'd say that's prime. Let's do it."

Optimus roars as the Maximals and the Predacons take to battle to each other once again.

As both parties charge at each other with a collusion result, both take to one-to-one battles, both on equal numbers. Optimus backhands Megatron, Terrorsaur dodges Rhinox's ram that leads him through rocks, Rattrap jumps at Tarantulas to blind him.

A battle of beasts commenced over Energon all around them.

The Autobots were throughly impressed. While they had used vehicle forms for long-distance combat or what have you, they never thought their descendants were capable of using their forms for aggresive uses that normal Earth animals would do.

Megatron tackles Optimus to the ground and prepares to bite his head off, only to meet resistance from Primal's ape strength.

"Admit defeat, Maximal! The Energon shall be ours!"

"Not if I can help it!" Optimus protested.

Optimus smiled at the spirit of resistance.

Primal eventually pushed Megatron and kicked him off, throwing the Predacon crime lord to a formation of rocks which Megatron gets stuck. Irate, Megatron struggles to pull himself off of the rocks lodging him.

"Surrender, Megatron! You're trapped!" Optimus demanded.

"NO! You shall not defeat ME!" Megatron refused.

"And I thought buckethead was this stubborn." Bulkhead commented.

Wheeljack snorted.

Megatron breaks out of the rock formation then charges, ramming Optimus straight at a rock wall that breaks creating a hole. Before Optimus can recuperate, Megatron snaps his jaws at Optimus' leg, sending the Maximal commander a great deal of pain.

"Oooooooh!" says the young Autobots.

"That's gotta hurt." Wheeljack commented.

Optimus raises his fists to get Megatron off him twice. He barely manages to stand up in spite of his gashed leg, then picks up Megatron by his tail, swings him around Mario style and throws Megatron at a far wall. The latter manages to keep an eye, but Optimus eventually falls to his back, grasping his damaged thigh.

"It is over Megatron!" Optimus proclaims, believing Megatron defeated.

"I admire his courage in spite of suffering from a broken leg, but villainy does not go down easily." Optimus commented.

"It is NEVER over! Noo!" Megatron proclaims angrily, then transforms to Robot Mode. Despite suffering from Energon oversaturation, he fires a missile at the downed Optimus Primal.

"He fired a missile at Primal despite that? Is he crazy?!" Arcee asked.

"Stubborness is a difficult trait, Arcee." Optimus replied.

"Still, it's crazy of him to turn to robot mode despite that tarantula basically saying it's suicide." Knockout commented.

With a missile intended for him, Optimus braced for his life... but Dinobot jumped in time and used his tail to deflect the missile to another wall, but this one causes an eruption that does not sound like a good omen for both parties.

"It's gonna blow!" Rhinox warns.

"Time t' FADE, heroes!" Cheetor says.

Cheetor and Dinobot race out of the mountain, as Rattrap loads the injured Optimus to Rhinox and rides on his back, prompting the rhino to flee before the mountain implodes.

On the other hand, Megatron struggles to move despite suffering from oversaturation, but far enough as the mountain implodes in a white flash around him.

"NO!!!!!!" he cries out, defeated.

The Maximals eventually made it to safety as the mountain explodes in such a flash that all that remained was just a crater.

Everyone was stunned.

"What a shocker. Now we know that destroying that much Energon with just a mere missile could cause such a catastrophe." Knockout commented.

"Funny, I don't remember Energon exploding like a city going up." Ratchet said scratching his chin.

Before Optimus can thank Dinobot, the latter replied...

"My action did not imply loyalty, Optimus. owed you my life. Now we are merely... even."

"I'll accept that."

"Yeah, well at least Megatron's gone, an' so's th' Energon. It's over! Can we go home now?" Rattrap asked.

"I don't think so, cheese-eater. Megatron might still be around along with his gang." Smokescreen surmised.

"No Rattrap, for now we're stranded here, with the Predacons, on this unknown planet. Megatron may be back, and there is still more Energon. If they ever get enough Energon, they could conquer the Galaxy."

Confident and unable to run, Optimus then declares with full intent to stop the Predacons.

"What is he-"

"I think he is, Ratchet." Optimus says, smiling at the knowledge that there are still those willing to fight against the Predacon threat.

"So for now, let the battle be here. On this strange primitive world. And let it be called -- BEAST WARS!" Optimus says one last time before it fades.

"Beast Wars? Doesn't that-"

"No Bumblebee, it does. And to think the Predacons had their names from the ancient Cybertronian beasts of before puts a chill to my servos."

"Oh yeah, them. Any of you heard from Predaking lately?"

"Nope, aside from nabbing Starscream for an 'old debt', nothing much has been heard from them. "

"Maybe they've turned back to the Jungles of Hexacrol for solitude?" Ratchet suggested.

"Be that as it may, it's best to leave them to their peace while we work on ours. Now, has much changed Cybertron while I was gone?"

"We're nearly finished with Iacon, Prime. Kaon, Kokular, Mexalus and Seradron are next in our list." Smokescreen answered.

"Omega, may we leave?"

"You may."

The Autobots take off their seats and leave the Chambers, leaving Omega Scion all alone to finish recalibrating the Orb.