"Isn't the sunset beautiful?" Airazor asked Tigatron. They were watching the sunset just outside the Maximal base.

"Yes, it is" agreed Tigatron.

"It's so nice to be back with all this natural beauty"

"And it's nice to be standing next to the most natural and beautiful lady on the planet" smiled Tigatron.

Airazor smiled back.

For a moment, there was silence as the two stared at each other. Then they drew closer and kissed.

Meanwhile, someone was spying on Tigatron and Airazor. That someone was Chatalia. She knew that she shouldn't be spying on them, but she couldn't resist.

"What'cha doing?" asked a voice from behind her.

"Cheetor! You scared me!" said Chatalia.

"Sorry. So, why are you spying on them?" asked Cheetor.

"I wasn't spying on them," Chatalia said quickly.

"Right" said Cheetor pretending to believe her. "By the way, I got you something"

"Really? What is it?"

Cheetor pulled something out of his subspace pocket. "I found this while I was patrolling along the beach," he said as he gave her a seashell.

"It's beautiful! Thank you Cheetor!" she said as she went and gave him a kiss.

"Wh-?" Cheetor was too shocked by the action to say the rest.

"What's wrong with you? You act like you never been kissed before" teased Chatalia.

"I wasn't exactly expecting that" replied Cheetor.

"Well, usually when you give a girl a gift, it usually means that you're officially in a relationship"

"Is that good or bad?"

"It's a good thing, silly!"

Optimus and Dinobot were in the control room watching the lovebirds over the monitor.

"It's disgusting," said Dinobot.

"It's called love Dinobot. Maybe someday you'll be in love too" said Optimus.

"I doubt that very much Optimus. Anyway, they should be paying attention for any Predacons"

Optimus shook his head. Now there would be something to see, Optimus thought, Dinobot with a girlfriend.

"I'm bored" complained Manterra. She and Tarantulas were in his lab. "So when do you plan on getting rid of Megatron?"

"Soon enough," replied Tarantulas. "As soon as I finish my master invention, my plan will go into effect"

"Just what is this 'Master Invention' you keep talking about?" asked Manterra.

"You'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, I have to return to base before they miss me," said Tarantulas.

"Of course. Wouldn't want Megatron getting suspicious, would we?"

Tarantulas left the lair.

Manterra went over to the computer console and started to play a game of solitaire.

"I'm bored, bored, bored. Solitaire is sooo boring…" she complained to herself.

The next morning, Chatalia was waiting outside the base for Dinobot so they could go patrolling together. She hated that Optimus always had to put them together for patrolling. But she wasn't going to let that ruin her good mood.

Finally Dinobot came out of the base.

"It sure took you long enough" said Chatalia to Dinobot.

"I was talking to Optimus. He wants us to patrol sector Onyx," said Dinobot.

"Isn't that where all the volcanoes are?" she asked.

"That's the place"

"Cool! I've never seen a real volcano before!"

"Are you insane?!"

"No. I'm just in a very good mood that not even you can ruin"

Dinobot sighed. "Let's go already".

With that, the two set off on their patrol.

Manterra was still bored and was still playing solitaire. "…Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, boredboredboredboredbored. Okay, now I'm getting bored of saying 'bored'"

A red light flashed on.

"What's this?" she pressed a button on the computer. An image of a stasis pod appeared on the screen. "Another stasis pod. I should tell Tarantulas, but he said he won't be back until this afternoon. But I have to do something. Computer…" she started to give the computer a command, "…activate jamming device. Prevent Predacon and Maximal bases from detecting the signal"

"Acknowledged. Jamming device activated" chirped the computer.

"Now I'll show Tarantulas what I can do," Manterra said, "Computer, where is the pod headed?"

"Sector Onyx, Maximal territory" replied the computer.

Manterra felt a bit uneasy about going to Maximal territory, but she had no choice.

"Beast mode!" she transformed into beast mode as she left Tarantulas' lair.

Chatalia and Dinobot were headed towards sector Onyx. Chatalia was trying to annoy Dinobot by singing.

"Tell me why, ain't nothing but a heartache. Tell me why, ain't nothing but a mistake. Tell me why, I never want to hear you say, I want it that way…"

"Will you shut-up already?" snarled Dinobot.

"No. I'm in a good mood, and I want to sing" said Chatalia.

"Then why don't you sing a real song?"

"Like what?"

"Like a song that has no singing in it"

"Well then that's not much of a song. Wait, I think I know a song that has no singing that you might like" she started to hum to the Star Wars theme song.

Dinobot growled to himself, "Why me?"

"Hello down there!" said a voice from above. Chatalia and Dinobot looked up and saw Airazor in beast mode glide down and land on a tree branch nearby.

"Hey girl, what's up?" Chatalia greeted Airazor.

"Nothing much. What's up with you?" said Airazor.

" Well, I just had a wonderful time with Cheetor last night. We spent most of the night talking and looking up at the stars. So what do you mean by 'nothing much' when I asked you 'what's up'? 'Cause that's not what I saw going on with you and Tigatron"

"How do you know? Unless… you were the one spying on us, weren't you?"

"Yeah, it was me. So give me the details"

"Well…" said Airazor a bit embarrassed, "…we did a lot of talking and stuff"

"What kind of stuff?" smiled Chatalia

"Will you two talk about this another time when I don't have to listen? What are you doing here anyway Airazor?" asked Dinobot.

"Optimus told me to come join you guys" explained Airazor.

"Fine, but you two have to pay attention for Predacons instead of talking" said Dinobot.

A few minuets later, the trio had arrived in sector Onyx. The area was volcanic, but right now none of the volcanoes were active. The ground was covered with black rocks and bones of creatures long gone.

"Welcome to Jurassic Park" joked Chatalia.

Airazor laughed.

"Hey Dinobot, is this a relative of yours?" Chatalia said as she pointed to the fossilized remains of what appeared to be a velociraptor.

"You're so funny I forgot to laugh" Dinobot said dryly.

"Guys, look!" said Airazor suddenly.

"What?" asked Chatalia.

"In the sky. I think it's a stasis pod!" replied Airazor.

"Where do you think it's going to land?" Dinobot asked Airazor who could see the pod best because of her beast mode vision.

"Over there" she said as she pointed in the direction the pod was going.

"Let's go!" said Chatalia as she started running towards the direction Airazor pointed out.

The other two went to catch up with her.

When they arrived, the pod had already crashed.

"It's damaged bad" said Chatalia.

"What was your first clue?" Dinobot said sarcastically.

"Shut-up" Chatalia snapped.

"What should we do? I don't think any of us know anything about stasis pods" said Airazor.

"Warning," said the pod's computer, "scanning circuitry is damaged. Must be repaired or protoform spark will terminate in two hours"

"Like I said, what should we do?" said Airazor again.

"Simple, you do nothing and leave the pod to me!" someone shouted.

"Who said that?" demanded Chatalia.

A huge praying mantis came out from behind a rock. "I said that! Manterra, TERRORIZE!" she transformed into her robot mode which was bright green and light blue.

"Where did you come from? I never saw you before" said Dinobot.

"Doesn't matter. You're all going to die anyway" Manterra said as she shoot some razor sharp disks at the Maximals.