[Energon drain. Stasis lock imminent.]

"No! Not now!" Terrorsaur screeched, but his power was diminished. He angrily growls "I'll be back for you as soon as I replenish my power!" he transforms to his Beast Mode and flies back to his power source.

"Got to... get to Rattrap. Not... much time!" Primal said, in between his wounds and exhaustion.

Both Tarantulas and Rattrap wrestled against each other upon rolling to the edge, struggling to get the upper hand, but Rattrap kicks Tarantulas off.

"You can't win vermin, I am your SUPERIOR!!!" Tarantulas arrogantly proclaims.

"Stick it up your command module, eight-eyes!" Rattrap taunts.

"Oh ho, the rats' got the manifolds to talk back to his 'superior'." Knockout chortles.

Tarantulas charges at Rattrap, but the latter picks up a patch of mud that he throws at Tarantulas' eyes, blinding the Predacon, then leaps out of the way when Tarantulas falls off the edge and gets splatted at the cliff face like a broken spider.

The Autobots had a mirth of amusement seeing the Predacon fall blind.

"I take it back, Rattrap might have been a coward, but he's got the cunning and the wit." Ultra Magnus replied.

"Well, he's not exactly a warrior class, is he Magnus?" Bulkhead asked.

"Not really Bulkhead. More like a saboteur class." Optimus answers.

"Does that sound familiar?" Wheeljack looked at Arcee, but she glared back to silence him.

"That will teach you to mess with the rat!" Rattrap concludes, but stands around the edge to wait for Primal. He saw Terrorsaur flying around and complains "Ah man! Looks like Optimus lost this round That means - I'm one gone rat!"

"Must recharge... Must..." Terrorsaur flies around the formation to get the power he craves again, but he saw...

"Demolition charges! They'll tear this mountain to pieces!" then instead flies away. The charges detonated immediately, prompting Terrorsaur to pick up the pace flying away while Tarantulas suffers a euphemism then leaves a web line from his spinneret to make a bungee jump landing,

"Well, at least I'm going out with a bang." Rattrap was about to give up but Optimus Primal climbed up to meet with the rat Maximal.

"The only place we're going is home." Primal exclaims.

"Yes! Saved by the leader!" Bumblebee cheers.

"Fearless Leader! I thought you were scrapped!"

"Well, we'll both be if we don't hurry! On my back, quick!"

Rattrap clings on to Optimus' back.

"Make like a bird." Rattrap pleaded.

"Can't. The energon blast would fry my circuits permanently! Just hold on tight."

"Oh man, oh man, oh man!" Rattrap panicked.

"Don't tell me you're gonna...JUMP!..." Optimus jumped off the mountain, clear of the blast in a near second.

Wheeljack, Bulkhead, Knockout, Smokescreen, and Bumblebee 'oooooohed' at the sight of the stunt.

"Holy cranks! Primal's outta his mind!" Wheeljack proclaims.

They fell too quickly to a forest where Primal eventually negates the fall by hanging on to a branch.

"We're dead, right?" Rattrap asks, unsure if they really died.

"Not this time... but my arms feel like refried rubber bands Would you mind taking a little weight off my back?" Primal asked as his arms beginning to sore, prompting Rattrap to scurry off Primal and climb up a branch.

"You do know that was crazy." Rattrap retorted.

"Sometimes crazy works." Primal climbs up "By the way - you did good up there."

"You weren't so bad yourself...but, ah... don't tell anybody I said so." Primal smiles and nods in agreement.

"Good to see that they're getting along in spite of their previous disagreements." Prime said, earning nods from Ultra Magnus and Ratchet.

At the outskirts of the Darksyde...

"Blast those Maximals! They destroyed my power. But at least I got rid of Megatron." Terrorsaur curses, the last sentence he says with self importance in mind. He reaches to the entrance of the Darksyde... but someone familiar greets him midway, flanked by Scorponok and Waspinator.

"Well, well. Look- who's - back!" Megatron emphasizes the last three words with contained malice.

Terrorsaur paled and squeaked, but the screen faded to black.

The younger Autobots and Knockout laughed, knowing well the punishment Terrorsaur would receive. It was a shame they couldn't witness it. Arcee just shook his head off, Optimus, Ultra Magnus and Ratchet rolled their eyes, and Wheeljack and Bulkhead chuckled.

"Oh manifolds, imagine what happened if we saw what happened to that needle-nosed glitch punk. I would have paid Omega 100 energon pieces for that!" Bumblebee said, calming down.

"Needless to say, with Megatron restored, he would have a severe penalty to deal on Terrorsaur for usurping him." Optimus assumed.

"At least we know now that even with his subordinates, Megatron doesn't allow others to take command off his hands."

"And why is that, Ultra Magnus?"

The Autobots gasped, looking at a familiar giant of steel, an inch taller than Optimus still.

"Megatron."

"At ease Autobots. I've not reformed the Decepticons."

"You have quite the nerve to show your filthy frame, Megatron."

Predaking and his Predacons arrive, and transform.

"What have you to say for your crimes against my people?"

"Predaking. Times change, as well as I, for my time as the oppressor is now over. Rest easy, I am not here to be your enemy. I wish to view this future. As much as the Autobots."

While the king of the Predacons find it hard to believe... they did realize they punished Starscream first, with his remains unknown. He held his hands at Skylynx and Darksteel.

"Very well, Megatron. We will parley for this moment of peace. But know this: if you dare turn on us once again, we Predacons will not hesitate to bury your frames and your chassis to the very steel you step on."

Megatron was not phased by the threat and replies...

"Duly noted. Predaking."

"You guys wanna tell us what you're doing here?" Bumblebee asked

"I came to visit an old friend. Why, am I not allowed to make such a call?"

"No, but..." the warrior piped up but he was cut off...

"I came to see this very future about a faction whose title is the same as my army. Though, I am far from surprised to see a future Megatron be in charge of unruly underlings."

Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack rubbed their arm servos, knowing too well of their loss to the likes of the Predacon king.

"Though, I do not mind it, they are not my Predacons, but what sparks my curiosity is these 'Maximals' the other Predacons so vehemently oppose."

Optimus steps forward and says...

"What you have witness may have been the very future which we are all not part of but possibly descended from. It is true. Primal has declared the Beast Wars on the Predacons as a way to oppose whatever evil scheme they have in mind, whether it be for reasons we are yet to discover. Rest assured, questioning and asking will not get us to that point; all we can do is witness why it has happened. Along with the very time we are yet to see."

Megatron looks back and forth and replies "Well then, I don't see why not. We will have to witness this. And I promise you I have no intention to turn on you all."

"We will see, Megatron." Predaking says with an underlying tone of distrust.

"Omega Scion, prepare!"

"Very well..."