Chatalia was walking through the halls of the Axalon. She was in robot mode. Her robot mode was completely silver except for the parts from her beast mode, which were black. The way her beast mode parts went into her robot mode was the same as Cheetor's old form. Her helmet looked more like Blackarachnia's except she had something that resembled a tiara on it. She had a thin silver face and cat-like emerald green eyes. Her lips were also silver and inside her mouth she had sharp teeth that looked a lot like vampire's teeth. For weapons, she had a whip, a quasar gun, and wrist missiles like the ones Tigatron had. She also had claws that came out of her fingers like cats' claws did.

She was singing to herself a song by a human named Britney Spears, "My loneliness is killing me, baby. I must confess, I still believe. Still believe. When I'm not with you, I loss my mind. Give me a sign. Hit me baby one more time!"

She stopped singing once she reached the control room's entrance. She was just about to enter when Dinobot exited. "Out of my way female!" Dinobot growled.

"Jeez, what the inferno is your problem?" she asked sounding just a little annoyed.

Dinobot growled back at her and stalked down the hallway. Once he was out of sight, Chatalia sighed to herself. Why did he always have to be in such a bad mood all the time anyway? Just then Rattrap appeared. "Hey Shit-Head" Chatalia greeted the vermin.

"'Ey feline" he greeted her back. Primus! Rattrap hated the new nickname Chatalia had given him.

"So, what did you do this time to piss him off?" asked Chatalia referring to Dinobot.

"Why do ya right away presume dat it's my fault?"

"Because usually when someone's pissed, it's usually your fault"

"Everybody needs a hobby"

"Well stop it!" said Chatalia angrily, "The last time you pissed him off like that, I was the one stuck with him for patrolling! Do you have any idea what it's like having to patrol for Predacons with a very crabby velociraptor?"

"Yeah, actually I do. Anyways," said Rattrap trying to change the subject, "Fearless-Leader wants tah see ya."

"Oh joy!" said Chatalia sarcastically. She went into the control room and saw Optimus and Rhinox at the computer console. "What's up?" she asked.

"I want you and Cheetor to go check something out," said Optimus.

"What is it?" asked Chatalia.

"We've detected a strange signal coming from the desert sector" replied Optimus.

"Could it be from the aliens you were telling me about?" asked Chatalia.

"No, this signal is different," said Rhinox, "It matches neither Maximal, Predacon, nor alien signals."

"That's freaky," said Chatalia.

Rhinox nodded in agreement.

"So where's Cheets?" she asked.

"He's waiting for you outside," said Optimus.

"Alright, ciao!" said Chatalia as she went into one of the ship's elevators and left.

Tarantulas was walking through the halls of the Predacon base heading towards the control room. Tarantulas knew that he would have to return eventually, so he left Manterra at his lair. Just as he was returning to base, those idiots Inferno and the new Predacon, Jetstorm, had found him. They said that Megatron wanted to see him. Now they were escorting him to Megatron, who obviously wasn't very happy about his disappearance earlier.

They entered the control room and found Megatron and Waspinator there.

"So Tarantulas, where were you?" Megatron said calmly. But Tarantulas knew that he was really angry.

"Well… you see Megatron. I was so into my work that I never even notice the pods." That was the best excuse Tarantulas could think of. Excuses weren't exactly his strong point.

"Well then next time be sure to leave your com-link on" Megatron snapped. He really didn't believe Tarantulas' excuse, but he needed him to do a job for him.

"As you wish" said Tarantulas wondering why he got off so easily.

"Good, now I want you, Inferno, Jetstorm, and Waspinator to go to the desert sector to check something out for me. I have detected strange signals coming from the area" said Megatron.

Oh great! Tarantulas thought, now I'm stuck with three of the most stupid Predacons ever!

"And…" Megatron continued, "…I want you to be on the lookout for Maximals."

"Yes my Queen!" said Inferno doing a salute.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!!!" yelled Megatron.

"Yes my…" Inferno stopped when he realized that he was about to do the same mistake again, "…leader"

"That's better. Now go!"

The four Predacons transformed into beast mode and left.

"So, how long do you think it's gonna take us to get there?" asked Chatalia who was riding on top of the transmetal cheetah in her beast mode. She was riding on top of him because he could fly, and they figured it would be faster flying and that they could hopefully get there before the Predacons did.

"We're not far, we should get there soon" replied Cheetor.

"Good, 'cause I'm getting tired of looking down and all I see is sand, sand, and more sand!" complained Chatalia.

"Yeah, I know what you mean" agreed Cheetor.

"You know, I kinda fell sorry for humans in those movies where they get lost in some desert and they have no food or water" said Chatalia.

"Me too. That reminds me of this really good Earthling book I once read in high school where two children got lost in the Australian desert. I think it was called 'Walkabout'. Well I don't think you're interested about that though" said Cheetor.

"No, no! Please, tell me what happened!" said Chatalia wanting to hear the story.

"Okay. These two kids are going to Australia to visit a relative. But their plane crashes in the desert, and since it was one of those small planes, there is only the pilot and the kids. The pilot doesn't survive. So the kids are all alone in the desert. They have only the supplies that they could recover from the crash debris.

"Anyways, eventually they meet up with this Aboriginal boy. The kids try to communicate with him, but he doesn't speak the same language. But he soon gets the message that the two kids are lost and hungry, so he helps them by getting them food and water. As time goes by, the kids are traveling with the Aboriginal boy through the desert.

"Well that's really all I can remember about the story, but I do know that the kids do eventually find their way back to civilization." Cheetor finished his story.

"That was a really nice story, thanks. It passed the time," said Chatalia.

"No prob." said Cheetor.

"Hey what's that?!" Chatalia said suddenly.

"What?" asked Cheetor.

"Look at the horizon, it looks like some kind of mountain"

Cheetor looks into the horizon. "Yeah, you're right! But are you sure that's a mountain?"

"Maybe that's what's making the weird signal. We should go check it out!" suggested Chatalia.

"Right!"

The two Maximals took off towards the horizon.

A few moments later they reached their destination. What they thought was a mountain, wasn't a mountain. It appeared to be a pyramid, like the ones the ancient Egyptians once made. Cheetor landed to let Chatalia off of him.

"Cool" she said.

"You're telling me" Cheetor agreed. He turned on his comlink, "Cheetor to base, do you read?"

~ "Optimus here. What did you find?" ~

"Some kind of pyramid. You know, like those Egyptian ones"

~ "But that's impossible!" ~

"Would you like us to get a closer look?"

~ "No, just wait right there for me" ~

Cheetor was about to reply when he heard in the distance "FOR THE ROYALTY!!!" coming from Inferno.

"Uh oh, we got Pred problems!" said Cheetor into the comlink.

~ "Try to hold them off the best you can. I'll send reinforcements! Optimus out" ~

Cheetor turned off his comlink. "Cheetor, MAXIMIZE!"

"Chatalia, MAXIMIZE!"

"Looks like we're going to have ourselves a fight!" said Jetstorm to his fellow Predacons.

"Wazpinator will deztroy cat-botzz! Wazzpinator, TERRORIZZZE!"

"Jetstorm, TERRORIZE!" Jetstorm's transformation was a lot like Waspinator's. His coloring was mostly different shades of green. He had insect looking red eyes and a huge mouth and no nose. For a weapon, he had a really big gun that was formed out of his beast mode tail.

"I guess I should join in the fight too then," said Tarantulas reluctantly, "Tarantulas, TERRORIZE!"

Inferno was already in robot form so he didn't need to transform.

The Maximals and Predacons exchanged blows to each other. Cheetor and Chatalia tried their best to fight back, but they were outnumbered.

"This is hopeless, by the time we get any damage on them, we'll both be slag!" said Chatalia.

"Do you have a plan?" asked Cheetor.

"Nope, I was hoping you did" said Chatalia

"Well, like Rattrap would say, we're all gonna die" said Cheetor quoting Rattrap's favorite line.

"This is too easy, can't these Maximals fight?" asked Jetstorm.

"Wazpinator happy it eazy. That way Wazpinator no get blown up!"

Just then, a part of the pyramid started to glow. It then shot out a beam of energy right at the Maximals. The energy beam started to make the Maximals glow too and then they disappeared into thin air.

"Hey! Where'd they go?" asked Jetstorm confused.

"Interesting…" said Tarantulas to himself.