Megatron saw this...

"I see. So you allowed a fool like Terrorsaur to take charge so you could definitely see his leadership qualities? Wise."

"Megatron... you, you will allow me to lead?"

"A wise tyrant always allows a fool to take the lead in a crisis." (Megatron: just so he can take charge to handle the crisis efficiently while the fool falls beneath it. I like that.)

"Release my lieutenant, and prepare to counterattack!" Terrorsaur ordered.

"Predacons, terrorize!" The Predacons countered the assault in force.

"We're outnumbered!" Rhinox notified.

"They've transform the protomaximal, but we have a secret weapon. Fight on!" Primal activated his jets and flew up.

"Time to prove your loyalty to the Predacons in battle!" Terrorsaur tested Rattrap. "Fire on Optimus!"

Rattrap complied and fired at Primal, sending him falling to the ground. Again.

"Rattrap! It's true!" Cheetor growled in anger and charged.

Blackarachnia attempted to finish Primal off, but Cheetor fired, disarming Blackarachnia and sending her a deal of pain.

"Now that does put a smile on my faceplate." Arcee said.

Cheetor charged at Blackarachnia, but the Predacon waited until Cheetor was close enough and knocked him down with a foot to his chest.

"Oooh." said Bumblebee.

"Another time." she said, then leaves Cheetor and Primal alone with a foot on Cheetor's face.

Dinobot steps in, stopping Terrorsaur before the latter could shoot, headbutts him and tosses him aside, then approaches Rattrap.

"Oh no. I have awaited this meeting, traitor." he grabbed Rattrap "Prepare... to terminate!" and prepared to tear Rattrap apart. 

"No!" Rattrap cowered.

Megatron eventually intervened, saving Rattrap by grabbing Dinobot in the head.

"Time for the final test, maximal, yes. Predacon hero, or Maximal spy?" then positions Dinobot in front of Rattrap. "Destroy the traitor Dinobot!" 

Rattrap intensely prepared his gun, with Dinobot scowling to see if the 'traitor' is truly loyal to the Predacons.

The Autobots and the Predacons were silent, wanting to see how this goes out...

"He's MY lieutenant. Destroy him, I command you!"

After a while, Rattrap instead shoots Terrorsaur, allowing Dinobot to exploit the confusion to free himself and beat Megatron up, the latter spat out a tooth and fell on the ground.

Predaking smirked while Megatron facepalmed.

Optimus rolled his eyes, the Megatron he knew would not fall that easily.

"NOW! Get Rattrap out of there!" Optimus ordered, prompting the Maximals to flee. Rhinox transformed into Beast Mode, and plowed through Scorponok and Waspinator, and stepping on Megatron.

The Autobots (but Prime, Magnus and Ratchet) laughed at the plight with the Predacons. Megatron remained indifferent.

"Lets go!" Rattrap rides on Rhinox' back.

"Mission accomplished, return to base!" the Maximals retreated from the battle, running back to the Axalon.

Leaving the recovering Predacons all alone without Blackarachnia.

"Now... Which of you, 'glorious victors', would still follow this fool's lead?"

No one sided with Terrorsaur.

"OOF, that's cold." Knockout commented.

"Yes... So I calculated, And thus ends the 'glorious' rein of Terrorsaur. A lost battle, a missing Blackarachnia, and who knows what damage inflicted by a Maximal spy." Megatron raised his voice too loudly that it caused Terrorsaur's head (which was recently but supposedly reattached) to fall off of his body.

"Oh my achin' head..." Terrorsaur moaned.

Those who knew Starscream and knew the similarities had a bit of a laugh.

Back at the Axalon...

"Now, I will terminate the traitor myself." Dinobot prepared his weapons to execute Rattrap.

"No" Optimus intervened "Allow me...to congratulate him. Well done, Rattrap." which shocked the crew. Causing a shocked Rhinox and Cheetor to look at each other.

"You have the chip?" Rattrap presented it to Optimus, surprising the Maximals.

"It's a Maximal decoder. They must have recovered it from the wreckage crash." Rattrap said.

"No wonder they hacked our communications! They were using our decoder!" Cheetor surmised.

"That was right. There was no betrayal. The fools had only intercepted Maximal messages." Predaking agreed.

"Seems the Maximals have gotta keep their comms tight for now on to prevent Predacon surprises." Bulkhead added.

"You mean his capture, and his betrayal...were all a set-up?" Dinobot asked, earning a nod from Primal.

"Yeah." Rattrap said.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Rhinox asked.

"We had to keep it a secret, to keep his cover safe. Especially during the battle, although ..." Primal rubbed to where Rattrap shot him. "you didn't need to make it THAT believable."

"Hey... What can I say? I was trying to miss." Rattrap replied.

Both Primal and Rattrap gave complimentary glares at each other.

The Autobots were gobsmacked. Their descendants had set up the betrayal in order to find out what really was the cause of the latter's losses.

"Are you all ready for the next?" Omega Scion received nods, and he prepared the Orb for another viewing...