The Maximals were able to jump out the way of the flying disks.

"Dinobot, MAXIMIZE!"

"Chatalia, MAXIMIZE!"

"Airazor, MAXIMIZE!"

The Maximals took out their own weapons and started to fire on Manterra. Manterra avoided the attacks and shoot some more of her disks. The Maximals took cover behind a rock to avoid getting hit by those razor disks of hers.

"Airazor, Chatalia and I will keep the Predacon busy. I want you to contact Rhinox over the comlink and ask how to fix the pod" commanded Dinobot.

"Right" said Airazor as she went for the pod.

"Who died and made you Prime?" demanded Chatalia.

"Now is not the time to argue. We must provide Airazor with cover fire" said Dinobot.

The two came out from behind the rock and fired at Manterra. Manterra shoot more disks hitting Dinobot right in the chest knocking him unconscious. Chatalia fired her quasar at Manterra who just shoot even more disks at Chatalia. All the disks missed her except one, which got her hand knocking her quasar gun out of it and severely damaging her hand.

"Bitch! You just ruined my good mood!" shouted Chatalia as she fired her wrist missiles at Manterra. The missiles hit Manterra giving her some damage, but she was still standing. She took out a large blade and went to attack Chatalia. Chatalia jumped out of the way just in time. She took out her whip and whipped it at Manterra who put her blade in the way of the whip, which coiled around it.

"You missed" said Manterra.

"Not really" replied Chatalia. She pressed a button on the whip handle and an electric charge came out and went through the whip, then to the blade, and then to Manterra. While Manterra was getting electrocuted, she managed to push her blade so that it touched Chatalia. Now both of them were getting electrocuted, until the electricity built up and they shot apart from each other.

Manterra got up weakly and stared at Chatalia who was too weak from getting electrocuted to get up. Manterra made her way towards Chatalia, blade raised about to strike. Just when she was about to bring down her blade, she felt a sharp pain go through her back. She looked down and saw a sword had gone right through her. The now conscious Dinobot pulled his sword out of Manterra as she fell to the ground and went into stasis-lock.

"Thanks for helping me" said Chatalia.

"I wasn't helping you, I was just getting rid of this problem" Dinobot replied.

"What ever. Beast mode," said Chatalia as she transformed into her beast form. "Computer, activate internal repairs" she told her internal computer.

Dinobot did the same.

Meanwhile, Airazor had just contacted the base on her comlink.

~ "Another pod? Are you sure? I detected no pod landings" ~ said Rhinox over the comlink.

"It's another pod alright. But it's really damaged, what should I do?"

~ "Do you know what's wrong with it and how much time you have to fix it?" ~

"The computer said something about the scanning circuitry. And by now, we have less than two hours" said Airazor.

~ "That means I won't be able to get over there in time. I'll have to tell you what to do over the comlink" ~

"Okay, so what do I do?"

~ "First, open up the computer panel. Look inside and see if there's any damage to the wiring" ~

Airazor opened the computer panel and looked inside.

"Yeah, one of the wires has come loose" she said into the comlink.

~ "What color is the wire?" ~

"Red"

~ "Alright, do you see an outlet that's marked '014'?" ~

"Yes, I see it"

~ "Good, stick the wire in there" ~

Airazor did what Rhinox said.

"Scanning systems online" chirped the computer.

~ "Is it working now?" ~

"Yes, thank you Rhinox"

~ "No problem. I'll send Optimus to come meet you guys" ~

"Okay, Airazor out" she shut off her comlink.

Just then, Dinobot and Chatalia returned from fighting Manterra.

"Were you able to fix it?" asked Chatalia.

"I think so" replied Airazor.

"Scanning for life-forms" said the pod's computer as it scanned the area.

"Do you think it'll find anything alive out here?" asked Chatalia

"Well, there are those bones everywhere" said Airazor.

"Oh no! That means it's gonna be another dinosaur!" Chatalia realized.

"Scanning and replication complete. Protoform may emerge" said the computer.

Out of the pod, came a red velociraptor.

"And it just has to be another raptor! He's probably just as crabby as Dinobot!" said Chatalia

"Hate to disappoint you, but I'm not a 'he'" said the raptor.

"You're a girl? Okay, so that's a good thing… I think" said Chatalia.

"And I'm not crabby either" replied the raptor.

"Hello, I'm Airazor. That's Chatalia, and that's Dinobot" Airazor said introducing everyone.

"Hello to you too. I'm Raptora"

"I guess we should all head back to base" said Airazor.

The four Maximals headed towards the Axalon.

Later, when the four Maximals had returned to base.

"No! Not another Chumper-Face!" said Rattrap.

"Good work you three. You were able to get the protoform online and back here in one piece" said Optimus.

"The only question I have is why didn't the computer detect it?" said Rhinox.

"I don't know" said Optimus.

"Do you think it had anything to do with that new Pred we saw?" asked Chatalia.

"What new Predacon? The newest one is Jetstorm" said Optimus.

"This one was a praying mantis. She called herself Manterra" said Chatalia.

"We never heard of her. Do you think the Predacons have figured out a way to jam the pod signals?" asked Optimus.

"It's possible. It would explain the new Predacon and why we never detected the pod signal" replied Rhinox.

"Then why did they just send one Pred after the pod?" asked Rattrap.

"I don't know" said Optimus, "I really don't know"

"I bet you're getting tired of saying that, aren't you?" commented Rattrap.

"SHUT-UP RATTRAP!!!" shouted everyone else in unison.

"YOU WHAT!!!" shouted Tarantulas loud enough to wake the dead. Manterra had just finished telling him everything that had happened.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know that there would be Maximals there" apologized Manterra.

"But you were supposed to remain a secret. Now the Maximals know of your existence!" said Tarantulas.

"But they won't be able to connect you with it. They think I'm Megatron's"

"I guess you've learned your lesson on trying to take on the Maximals by yourself then, and will not go out without my permission again"

"Yes sir" Manterra bowed her head and left the room leaving Tarantulas by himself.

If she's telling the truth about what happened, Tarantulas thought to himself, that she nearly slagged both Dinobot and Chatalia by herself. She must be very powerful. Primus, Megatron has trouble fighting Dinobot alone! Manterra might be just the one to take Megatron out!

"Hehehehehehehehehe!" he laughed to himself.

I hope you enjoyed this story. I'm always open to comments or suggestions. You can e-mail them to Kitty_1322@yahoo.com. Next story in my series, "The Past Revealed".