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Time surge - A beast wars fanfic (part 1/2)

hi guys! today I want to do something different from usual I wrote a Beast wars fanfic, it's kinda small but I hope you guys like it

Word count: 2275

PLOT: the maximals find a stasis pod after a long time without them, but there seems to be something wrong with this one

4 million years ago

The maximals wake up at the sound of the alarms blaring off the Axalon’s main computer.

“It seems our sensors have located a stasis pod” informs Airazor, as she sees the set of coordinates given on-screen; Rattrap walks into the command center, his face showing surprise as he processes the situation “how long has it been since the last one, I really started to believe we had found all of the missing protoforms?” Optimus, the leader of the maximals, looks at the coordinates, it is an area a few kilometers away from the maximal base “we need to hurry to it before the predacons have a chance to activate it. The last thing we need at the moment is for Megatron’s troops to increase their numbers!”

The maximals rush to the location of the pod, Rhinox leading the way with his big size, Cheetor is next to him, running like the wind, not much behind them are Rattrap and Dinobot, while Airazor and Optimus soar the skies above them; as soon as the team reaches the pod, it becomes evident something is wrong, the pod is glitching dramatically and making abnormal noises, Rhinox approaches it and gives it a profound look, just like a youngling looking at a shiny object… “hm, interesting” “what’s interesting big guy?” asks Cheetor “it seems the time jump affected this pod, my sensors detect remains of quantic energy damaging the pod” Cheetor walks closer to the pod “which means…?” “the pod is a literal time bomb, if it explodes, it could create a wormhole that would consume all time and space” at the sound of those words, the spotted Maximal backs off quickly.

“Then why are we waiting? we have to destroy it before it destroys us!” yells Dinobot as he walks towards it while holding his sword, but Rattrap still on beast mode gets in the way, making Dinobot trip and fall “Chillax Choppa Face, you heard what Rhinox said, that thing could consume time and space if it explodes, do you want to take the risk?” argues Rattrap “at least I am willing to act, instead of merely standing like a vermin….” “Oh yeah?” begginns Rattrap “well at least I-” “Enough!” interrupts Optimus Primal “Rhinox, can you try to release the quantic energy from the pod without it causing a disaster?” Rhinox reflects in silence before changing to bot mode “I’ll see what I can do, but don’t get your hopes too high…”

Life of a predacon is no fun, Waspinator knows this, he has been soaring the skies pointlessly for quite a while now “Waspinator can’t fly anymore, Waspinator wants to go back to Darksyde” his laments sound through the mountains, but there’s no one who can hear them and pity him.

through his comm link he hears Megatron’s voice “Waspinator, what’s your status?”

“Waspinator is tired, no maximals in sight, can Waspinator go back now?”

“No Waspinator, the maximals are the exact reason I called you, our scanners located them a few meters away from your location and it seems they have encountered a stasis pod, yesss” Megatron explains, finishing his sentence with that weird ‘yes’ he tends to do when talking. “Go retrieve it, I will be sending backup to your location soon, yeesss” with that order, Waspinator went to the given coordinates as he lamented his situation.

“What’s the situation Rhinox?” Asked Optimus Primal to his comrade “have you managed to stabilize the pod?”

“not yet, quantic energy is quite delicate, any wrong move could be fatal, so I have to be extremely careful” reported the large maximal

“Understood, keep working”

It has been quite a while since Rhinox started working on the pod, and the group was starting to become impatient, especially Cheetor “ugh! How long will it take? I’m dying here!”

“quiet kiddo, none of us wants to be here but we are not complaining” Rattrap shuts him up

Suddenly the peace is interrupted by a buzzing sound coming from the sky, the maximals go into battle positions. “It’s Waspinator! I’ll handle him” yells Cheetor, as he charges with his gun in hand

In a few blasts he downs Waspinator, who transforms into bot mode and gets ready to engage, but before he can fire at anyone, the Maximals shoot at him and the poor predacon is blasted to pieces.

Cheetor grins at the victory “that was easy” but Primal knows better than to celebrate before time “If Waspinator saw the pod then most likely Megatron knows about it, everyone stay alert, Rhinox, we need you to hurry up, the pod must not-” “Fall into Predacon hands?” it was to late, Megatron had arrived and behind him were Blackarachnia, Tarantulas, Scorponok, Inferno and Terrorsaur “I’m afraid it’s too late for that, we are taking the pod, so stand back unless you want to be obliterated, yesss” “Megatron, this pod is dangerously unstable, don’t engage” Optimus tries to warn Megatron to no avail. “Maximal lies; Predacons, terrorize” the predacons follow their leader’s orders and rush to their foes “Maximals, protect Rhinox and the pod!”

battle ensues between the two factions as Rhinox works on the pod, at this point everything he has tried to release the quantum energy had failed, and he was quickly running out of options, suddenly, his train of thought is interrupted when Tarantulas, the sneaky spider appears behind him “how about you step away and let me handle this?” Rhinox pulls out his gun at him and coldly answers “over my lifeless husk” that gives enough time for Cheetor to pounce to Tarantulas’ back, pinning him on the floor “I got your back Rhinox'' he makes a soldier salute at him, but as Tarantulas starts getting up, Cheetor goes back into battle stance, dragging the Predacon away from his comrade, who goes back to his thoughts; suddenly, he comes up with an idea, triggering the pod’s activation protocols! that could dissipate the quantum energy, but if could also detonate the pod, it was worth the risk trying

“Optimus, I need all of you to clear the area” Rattrap lands next to Rhinox “yeah… that’s easier said than done” he remarks, while covering his face from the firing from Scorponok’s blaster before running at him.

He is right, there is no way for the maximals to get away from the pod while the predacons want it, so he will have to get the pod away from THEM before trying anything, in a quick movement, Rhinox changes to beast mode, puts the pod on his back and run away from the battle; this doesn’t go unnoticed by the predacon leader “the maximal is taking the pod! get him” but his troops are unable to comply, as the Maximals have subdued them “what?” “it seems your men aren’t in conditions to follow, Megatron” mocks Optimus , who shoves Megatron into the ground, then he looks up to where Rhinox was heading “I hope your plan works my friend…” from below, Megatron laughs in silence, Cheetor notices “what’s so funny?” “nothing” responds Megatron with an innocent tone, Dinobot looks at him with suspicion, whenever Megatron is happy it cannot be good, he looks around at all the Predacons, there’s Terrorsaur, Blackarachnia, Tarantulas, Waspinator’s head trying to reach for his arm and Scorponok, he finally takes notice, Inferno is missing “where is Inferno?” Megatron laughs dramatically “oh you shall see, yess”.

A few meters away, Rhinox is preparing to activate the pod without noticing he is being watched, before pressing the activation button, he caresses the surface of the pod, as if he was adressing a child “don’t worry, if this works, you will awaken” “oh it will be okay” Rhinox turns around, finnaly seeing Inferno, the red ant Predacon is standing right in front of him “deliver the protoform to me, my queen will greatly appreciate it” as Rhinox internally cringes at Inferno refering to Megatron as his ‘queen’, he gives him a glare of defiance while slowly reaching out to the pod’s controls, the ant predacon takes notice “stay away from that panel” Rhinox stays still for a few seconds, then he slowly puts his hands up and backs away from the pod, Inferno starts walking towards it while laughing maniacally, what he didn’t know is that it had already been activated, when he was about to start reprogaming the protoform inside the pod as a predacon, the scan antenna appears on top of the pod and it starts searching its surroundings for an alt-mode, but as it does it starts glitching and shaking, the terrain it scans starts changing to show different time periods the cybertronians don’t recognize, the ground moves and electricity surrounds the pod as it emmits a blinding light.

When the light dissipates, Rhinox looks at the pod, realizing it had disappeared “what?” “what have you done!? where is it!?” the maximal turns at Inferno, who by the look of it, is enraged at the absence of the pod, he points his gun at Rhinox’s head “you shall be terminated for this” but before the ant can do anything, Cheetor fires from his back, behind him, the other Maximals approach, Inferno gets ready to fight them all but Megatron’s voice in his commlink interrupts it “Inferno, head back to base” he sighs before answering “yes, my queen” with that, Inferno takes off, heading to the predacon ship.

The maximals approach Rhinox, Optimus leading the group “where’s the pod?” Rhinox looks back at where it should be, a slight sadness visible in his optics “gone, the time surge caused by the activation of the pod caused a wormhole effect which made it disappear from our timeline” all the other maximals look at the scene in silence, until Optimus orders “let’s head back to base”

1983

“Hey kid! the control panel for the carousel broke again!” “on it!” another night, another ‘technical difficulty’ at the fair, ‘why is it that on the most busy days it happens the most?’ thinks Olivia Larson as she follows the carousel operator through the crowd of people.

After some walking, she reaches her destination, and as she expected, there is a good line of angry people in front of the carousel, she sets down her tools and opens the panel to start working on it “there’s the problem” she says to herself as she reaches to her toolbox for the things she needs; she works steadily for a while, taking her time, but at a constant pace “can’t you work any faster?” Olivia sighs, of course, there has to be THAT lady in every single game she attends to, as much as she would want to obliterate her, she has to conform with giving her usual answer “not if I want to do this right ma’am” with that short answer she keeps working, until she hears another voice complaining ugh! How long will it take? I’m dying here! Exasperated, Olivia drops her tool and stands up “as I said, I want to do this right, so it will take as long as I need to-“ “who are you talking to?” a very confused man in the line asks “none of us were talking” she looks at him surprised, ‘is this a joke?’ She thinks ‘I clearly heard someone’ “eh… Olivia? are you done?” asks the carousel operator behind her, Olivia turns around at him and pauses briefly “n-no, but I’m almost”.

After a few minutes of working, she sighs satisfied, she looks at the operator, who was standing next to her “alright, try turning it on now” he turned his key, and the carrousel started spinning and playing that cheesy song it plays; while turning her eyes at the song, she stand up, suddenly, she hears another voice stay away from that panel she jumps at the sound of it, and looks around trying to find whoever was talking “are you okay Olivia?” it’s the operator guy again, what was his name again? Tim, Kim… maybe Jim “Olivia?” he asks again “oh! yeah, I-I’m fine, I’m just tired, I will go check out and head home” “okay, see you tomorrow” “Bye!”

As Olivia entered her bedroom, she still felt uneasy “calm down Liv, you are just tired, get some sleep, you will see that by morning it will all be back to normal and you will be alone in your head again” she said to herself as she shoved herself into bed without even changing clothes “just sleep…”

Usually when waking up, Olivia is received by the sunrays coming from her window and the sound of her alarm clock aggressively forcing her to consciousness and reminding her she couldn’t stay in her soft bed, but that morning was different.

The sun was hitting her directly to her face, there was no alarm clock, and no soft bed; instead there was… the sound of wild birds and a hard rock floor underneath her?

“what the…” she looks around as she stands up “am I dreaming?” suddenly, she tripped on a rock and went nose-dive into the hard painfull rocks “not a dream! not at all”

It was all real, she was really in the middle of a dryland with no sign of civilization on sight, no food, no water,and no way to communicate with anyone but herself “calm down Olivia… you will be okay, you just need to walk, there must be a town or something nearby.”

Unknown to her, there weren't any human settlements where she was, or should I risk sounding cliche and say…

When she was

“Optimus, we have detected a sudden burst of quantum energy in the area”

To be continued...