Wolf Fang

By: Wicked Woman

Disclaimer: I don’t own Beast Wars. I only own two characters: Caterina and Taurus.

            On a distant planet away from Cybertron, in the lush green jungle behind a dark swamp and open fields, there was a cave with a transparent shield covering around it. Inside the cave was a dug in fortress with a small amount of computers around a council table. Around the table, stood four transformers. Caterina, the new and less-experienced Maximal leader, was telling her comrades about her discovery from 3 hours ago.

            “…and that’s about it.” Caterina finished. She wasn’t too thrilled with talking for hours on end but it was an important issue and she couldn’t just keep it to herself.

            “You expect us to believe this slag?” Bone Crusher bellowed as he stood up.

            “Well…yes.” Caterina looked down at her feet.

            “Bone Crusha gots a point there littl’ lady.” Claw Jaw said calmly. “I mean, we’re talkin’ ‘bout Terrorsaur and Bug-Eyes. They’s could be lyin’.”

            “But… they’re not!” Caterina protested.

            “And how would you know that?” Bone Crusher scoffed. “And don’t even try sayin’ that they told you so.”

            “They were as much desperate to get out of that cave as I was.”

            “Bull.” Claw Jaw said. He then noticed Taurus looking up. “Uh, no pun intended.”

            “Thanks,” Taurus said. “I think. And I think the Preds weren’t lying.”

            All three Maximals turn to their scientific friend.

            “I’ve heard about Optimus Primal. He has a lot of potential. He could’ve fought in the army but instead chose to join the exploration team.”

            “Boring.” Catering muttered.

            “Let me finish.” Taurus said. “Anyways, the ship, which was actually called The Axalon, left for a mission but vanished.”

            “So?”

            “So,” Taurus glared at Bone Crusher, having enough of being interrupted. “Two megacycles after the Axalon left, there was a report that a group of Predacons on a ship.” Taurus looked at the files from the stasis pods he had been reading. “Apparently, they had just stolen the golden disk. That ship disappeared too.”

            “What’s yer point?”

            “My point is that Megatron’s ship could be the ship who stole the golden disk. And Optimus’ crew followed them by order.”

            “Oh.” Caterina said.

            “So, where are them Maxis workin’ with Prime’s Descendant?”

            “I have no idea.” Taurus admitted.

            All three Maximals turned to their leader.

            “Hey, I don’t know either. Wait,” Caterina said. She then thought for a second. “Terrisaur and Waspinator did mention something about how the Axalon left planet and Optimus was left behind.” The maximal feline then gasped. “That means Mega-Moron may be after him!”

            “Why?” Claw Jaw asked.

            “Because he’s an Optimus.”

            “So?”

            “So, it’s a well known fact that all Megatrons will want to kill all Optimus’.” Caterina remarked.

            “So,” Taurus said. “You’re sayin’ that we need to find Optimus before Megs does?”

            Caterina nodded. 

*****

             “Hmmm, it appears that the Maximals are more resourceful than I expected, yesss.” Megatron was pondering in his floating chair while his troops were standing on platforms in front of him. After a few cycles, Megatron turned his attention to all of them.

            “I want you to find every single pathetic Maximal and bring them to me.” He ordered. “I do not wish to have to deal with anymore nuisances.” All the Predacons nodded and left.

            “The only other thing I am interested in are those stasis pods. I must find them all to ensure that there are no more Maximals for me to deal with. Four is more than enough as it is, yesss.”

 *****

             Taurus was now in his quarters working on his secrete project. It had already been three days straight since he began to work on it.

            “Now, if I can just get some peace and quiet…” Suddenly, Claw Jaw ran into the room.

            “Can’t you see I’m busy?” Taurus said.

            “Sorry. But I just wanted to report that I found a monster load of energon.”

            “Great.” Taurus said. “Just leave it in the command center but give me about two handfuls of it, okay?”

            “You got it.” Claw Jaw rushed out of the room as Taurus smirked.

            “That odd to keep him away from here for a while.” Taurus then went back to work on his project. Claw Jaw then came back a few cycles.

            “Here’s the energon ya wanned.” Claw Jaw said. “Hey, what’s that?”

            “It’ll help us with our problems if I can finish it.” Taurus simply said.

            “Oh, ok then.” Claw Jaw then left the room. Taurus then picked up the sincro laser when suddenly…

            “HEY! TAURUS!”

            Startled, Taurus dropped the laser and sighed. “That’s it.”

 *****

             Terrorsaur was flying in the air, trying to find any sign of any Maximal.

            “I’ve been searching for them for megacycles and I haven’t found anything.” He grumbled. “Why doesn’t Megatron do his own slaggin work instead of playing with that stupid duck!”

            Terrorsaur then landed in the jungle, where Inferno and Mantorr was.

            “What was that, drone?” Inferno asked.

            “No sign of the Maximals.” Terrorsaur said. “They’re not dumb enough to show up in the open like this… well, maybe the last crew was.”

            “The royalty has given us a mission.” Inferno said. “We must honor his words and do as he says.” With that, Inferno left further into the jungle. Mantorr went after him, leaving Terrorsaur behind.

            “He’d probably shoot himself in the head with his own weapon if Megatron ordered him to.” He muttered, then began to flap his wings and fly off.

 *****

             Taurus and Bone Crusher were both walking in the Jungle, in beast mode.

            “I guess I’m glad you came out to scout the area with me.” Bone Crusher said.

            “Well, I had to get away from Claw Jaw and his continuous ramblings.”

            “Better than Caterina beggin’ one of us to take over command.”

            “Good point.” Taurus then looked up to the sky. “Wish it was like this.”

            “Wish what was like this?”

            “Cybertron. The sky here is so beautiful, though I have to admit, I’d go nuts without computers and technology and stuff like that.”

            Bone Crusher shrugged. “I guess. Personally, I don’t care what my surroundings are. I guess that’s why I was best suited for this mission.”

            Taurus nodded. Suddenly, the internal computer beeped.

            “Warning: Stasis pod: Detected. Grid: Zarmetra.”

            “Back to work huh?”

            “Oh yeah.” Taurus answered. Both Maximals then ran off north. They then came across a stasis pod in the middle of the jungle. The pod looked like it landed properly. Taurus transformed and walked over to it.

            “Computer,” he said. “Activate DNA scanner.”

            “Unable to comply.” The pod’s computer responded. “DNA scanner is offline. Repairs must be made to scanner to scan for life forms.”

            “Great.” Taurus sighed.

            “What?”

            “The DNA scanner needs repairs if we want to find this guy a beast mode.” Taurus walked over to the pod and opened up the scanner department. “This is gonna take some time.”

            Bone Crusher turned around to find Terrorsaur, Inferno and Mantorr all transformed and weapons aimed to them.

            “Uh, we’re a little low on the ‘time’ scenario there, Taurus.”

            “Just great.” Taurus said. Bone Crusher transformed and fired a torpedo out of his mouth. All three Predacons dodged the attack.

            “You work on the machine, I’ll handle the idiots.”

            Bone Crusher began to fire multiple missiles at the enemies. Terrorsaur rushed in to destroy him but the Maximal ox grabbed the Predacon by the foot and threw him as far as he could. Inferno was about to set fire to Taurus when Bone Crusher picked him up and threw him back to the ground, making a large body print of him. Mantorr got back up and growled angrily at the Maximal.

 *****

             Caterina was walking in another part of the jungle in beast mode.

            “How can I warn them that there are Preds near their position when their comlinks are off and I can’t find them.” She stopped walking and sat up the best she could in her Jaguar mode. “If I ever find those two, I swear…”

Suddenly, she sniffed the air. “Hey, I found them.” Caterina moved further into the bushes and saw a dark figure.

            “Well, I found something.” Suddenly, the figure came out of the shadows to reveal that it was a blue and silver wolf. It began to growl at the Maximal leader.

            “N…n…nice wolfy…”

            The wolf licked its lips. Caterina the realized what was on the menu and darted out of there with the creature close behind her.

            “Whoa, whoa, bad wolfy!!!”

 *****

             Bone Crusher failed to tackle Mantorr down but wasn’t about ready to give up. Mantorr laughed long and hard as the Maximal tried, unsuccessfully, to hit him.

            “Is that all you can do?” He scoffed.

            “Shut up!” Bone Crusher spat. “I didn’t win the Cyber-tech prison Wrestling match just to be punked by some freak with pincers.”

            Bone Crusher then jumped for the Predacon again but Mantorr got the best of him again. He grabbed him in a lock hold and began to squeeze his enemy.”

            “What was that you were saying, Maximal scum.”

            Meanwhile, Taurus was just finishing repairs on the DNA scanner.

            “Come on, come on…”

            The red light on the right then changed to green.

            “Yes!” Taurus then closed the hatch. “Computer. Activate DNA scanner.”

            “Activating.”

            Mantorr was literally squeezing the life out of Bone Crusher. He didn’t know how long it would be before his arms were literally ripped out of his chestplate. Mantorr laughed maniacally as he began to squeeze harder. Then, out came Bone Crusher’s scream.

            “It is no use escaping. I will win and I will take you’re Maximal hide back to Master Megatron!”

            Suddenly, Mantorr was head butted by Taurus, losing grip of his victim and slamming through several trees. Bone Crusher hit the ground as Taurus began to pant.

            “Took…you…long…enough…” Bone Crusher wheezed

            “Better…late…than…never…” Taurus coughed. “…why…did…Megs…get…the…powerful…warrior? It’s…”

            “Lemme guess, not fair?”

            Both Bone Crusher and Taurus looked up to see Terrorsaur flying back over towards them.

            “No life forms, detected.” Terrorsaur heard the message from the pod and began to laugh.

            “Oh, this is rich.” He squawked. “I’ll get to destroy the two of you and get a new Predacon in the ranks as well.” Terrorsaur then aimed his weapon at both Maximals. “Prepare to…”

            “Hey…hey…HEY! WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!!!”

            Terrorsaur turned around just in time to see Caterina running out of the bushes with a very hungry wolf chasing after her.

            “PLEASE WOLFY! DON’T EAT ME! I’M NOT LUNCH!”

            Suddenly, the stasis pod began to beep rapidly and began to scan the wolf, who stopped in his tracks, whimpering in fright.

            “NO!” Terrorsaur screamed.

            “YES!” Bone Crusher and Taurus cheered. Terrorsaur then walked up to the wolf.

            “Why you little…” Terrisaur the fired at the wolf, who dodged and ran back into the jungle. Terrorsaur smirked in triumph until Caterina transformed and pounced on him and began to punch him several times.

            “I don’t care what he tried to do to me…” Caterina then began to hit his head on the ground. “You…don’t…hurt…WOLFY!”

            Taurus and Bone Crusher looked at their leader dumbfounded. No one noticed the stasis pod hatch opening up. Terrorsaur threw Caterina off of him and got up. Only to be thrown down again by a wolf. Bone Crusher began to snicker even as Terrorsaur rolled onto his back and was face to face with the wolf, baring his teeth. Taurus and Caterina aimed their weapons at Terrorsaur and Bone Crusher cracked his knuckles.

            “I’ll be back!” Terrorsaur then transformed and flew off. Taurus and Bone Crusher began to suffer from the energon surge and transformed back to beast mode. Caterina then ran to the wolf and hugged him.

            “WOLFY!” She cried with excitement. “YOU’RE OKAY!”

            “Let go of me.”

            Caterina let go of the wolf in shock.

            “Wait,” Taurus said. “you can talk?”

            The wolf then transformed into a white, silver and blue robot. “Of course I can, and my name isn’t ‘Wolfy’ it’s Wolf Fang.”

            “Oh,” Taurus said. “Well, my name is Taurus, this is Bone Crusher and our leader, Caterina.”

            Wolf Fang pointed to Caterina. “She’s our leader?”

            “Not anymore!” Caterina said excitedly. “You are now!”

            “Nice try kid!” Bone Crusher said.

            Caterina began to groan. “Well, why not?”

            “Because I just got here.” Wolf Fang answered.

            Taurus looked up at the sky. The sun was setting. “We’d better hurry.” He said. “By now, Terrorsaur’s probably tell Megatron what our whereabouts are.”

            All three of them nodded. Caterina and Wolf Fang transformed back to beast mode and headed back to base.