Transformers Prime: Maximal Revolution

Chapter 2

In a park surrounded by forest a little girl played while her mother was on her phone. Every once in awhile the mother would look up to make sure her daughter was staying in sight, the park was near the mountains so it helped to be cautious. But as the little girl just ran in circles kicking her ball she turned her attention back to her phone.

The little girl ran around giving her ball little kicks so it wouldn't go far but when she was close to the trees she stumbled giving a harder kick that accidently sent her ball rolling into the line of trees. With a glance at her mother who was still on her phone the little girl snuck into the trees.

Among the large trees the little girl couldn't see where her ball had gone, she continued walking until she finally spotted it. Rushing forward she pick it up when a noise made her freeze. Looking around she didn't see anything but another noise, almost like a snort made her realize that some of the tall objects near her weren't trees. Looking up. . . and up she gasped at what she saw. The giant creature regarded it's tiny visitor with a tilt of its head as it gazed at her.

"Bella! It's time to go!"

At her mother's call the little girl dashed out of the forest as fast as she could run. "Mommy! Mommy!" She yelled excitedly, "I saw a giant unicorn!"

"That's nice dear, we need to go," her mother replied picking up her daughter and heading towards her car.

"But I did mommy! I really did see a unicorn!"

As the mother loaded her very excited little girl into the car she was unaware of a pair of green optics watching them from the shadows of the trees.

Not far in a farm yard a cat hissed at the large intruder invading it's territory. The large creature was not imitated by the smaller creature's threatening display, instead it leaned closer to sniff even as the cat arched it's back and hissed some more.

Suddenly a man walked into the yard carrying wood, the large creature dashed into the trees but not before it was seen. The man was so shocked at what he saw he dropped the wood, before the creature was out of sight he remembered to pull out his phone and snap a picture. No ones will believe this, he thought.

In the Autobot base things were almost back to normal, Ratchet was working on his Synthetic Energon while Raf worked on his computer. The others currently in the base were Miko, Jack, Arcee, Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

Things were pretty quiet till, "Look at this," Raf called getting everyone's attention. The young boy had been going through conspiracy web sites looking for anything on the Autobots.

"What is it this time? Bumblebee again," Arcee asked earning an annoyed beep from Bee.

"No, look." Raf pulled up a larger image for everyone to see. It was a blurry image of some-kind of creature. Above the picture was a headline reading, :Phantom Cat Sighting:

"Phantom Cat?" Smokescreen asked, "What's that?"

"It's what they call sightings of big cats in areas they shouldn't be, like panthers in North America or England."

"You know it looks kind of metallic," Jack pointed out.

Ratchet finally came over to look and his optics widened when he saw the picture, it was very blurry but, "Is that Ravage?"

"Since when does he have wings?" Arcee said. Everyone turned back to look at the image, it did seem to have wings.

"Maybe it's some new kind of Decepticon?" Smokescreen suggested.

"Maybe, or maybe something else." Everyone turned to see Optimus joining them.

"What do you mean?" Ratchet asked.

"Look where the picture was taken." Everyone turned back to the screen and saw the name of the location, 'the Appalachian Mountains.'

"Wait. . . That's where Shockwave's creepy lab was," Smokescreen realized.

Arcee looked at Optimus horrified, "You don't think. . . the Predacons survived do you?"

"Predacons? Survive. What are you talking about?" Wheeljack had entered with Bulkhead and Ultra Magnus. They were shown the image and Wheeljack cursed.

"Do you think it. . . or they have joined with the Decepticons?" Arcee asked.

"There is always that possibility," Optimus answered. "But the Decepticons may not know of their survival. . . yet."

"I'll check for more sightings," Raf offered.

"It's amazing that some survived that explosion," Magnus spoke up.

"If there's one thing I've learned," Optimus said, "It's that life is resilient."

Inside the Nemesis Megatron was scowling at the same image. "So at least one of the beast's has survived," he growled.

"Well as long as no one tells you-know-who we could probably clear this mess up," Knock Out said.

Soundwave pulled up the coordinates for everyone to see. "It would seem it hasn't traveled far from my destroyed lab," Shockwave observed.

"Hopefully that means they will be easy to track," Megatron growled. He turned to the gathered Cons, "Remember I want these creatures destroyed without Predacon finding out!"

"Nothing will go wrong," Starscream boast. "I will see to it personally-"

The seeker yelped when Megatron growled and thrust his face near his. "I will hold you to that Starsscream! No more mistakes!" He then turned to the others. "We don't need any more monsters running around and delaying our plans. They are to be found and exterminated!"

"You mean more of those Predacons survived?!" Fowler was not happy.

"At least one," Optimus answered. "Were unsure how many could be out there."

Fowler started pacing, "If one of those creatures hurts someone will have big problems. It's only a matter of time before they run into someone."

'It's true," Raf spoke up. He turned his laptop to show a map of the Appalachian Mountains. "There's lots of hiking trails around there that people visit."

Ratchet groaned and rubbed the bridge between his optics, something he picked up from humans. "That's all we need."

"Will be able to handle it," Bulkhead boasted as he elbowed Wheeljack. When no one answered him he looked around, "Um, right?"

"So, what do we do?" Arcee asked.

"Reconnaissance would be out most likely option," Ultra Magnus said.

"But what are we do with them when we find them?" Smokescreen asked.

"There's an Earth saying," Optimus said, "Will cross that bridge when we come to it." He had his back to the others deep in thought before turning to look at everyone, "Until then we need to know how dangerous they are and what the Decepticons are planning. Autobot's, we need to become Beast Hunters again."