Beast Wars: Battle for Equestria

"Are you certain that your clone is alive, Dinobot?" asked Megatron while repairs were made to Dinobot II. "That he lives again?"

"Affirmative," replied the clone, through the pains of his ongoing repairs. "He and that vermin friend of his halted my plans of bringing two more living hosts back to you. It seems that it will be impossible to consider another type of attack as long as…"

But, Megatron wasn't interested on listening anymore and silenced Dinobot II from saying another word.

"Never say anything is impossible my faithful servant," he interrupted, holding his dragon mouth in front of the clone. "For you see, there is always a Plan B after a Plan A, yes."

Megatron then turned to see Soundwave and Shockwave several dead bodies of large hulking creatures, hooking them up to a series of more stasis pods that had been recovered. Dinobot II looked at them with a confused expression on his face.

"But…they have been deceased, Megatron. How do you expect them to fight for you?"

"I have my ways of making anyone fight for me," answered Megatron. "For you see, according to research on this land, these creatures that are before you were loyal and fierce warriors of the conqueror, the Storm King. Their spirits have moved on, but their bodies remain, just waiting for the chance to be melted down into flesh for a transformer."

As Megatron spoke, Shockwave turned on the transformation driver and the energies from the driver melted the dead bodies down, the energies going into the stasis pods.

"But, most importantly," laughed Megatron. "It makes it more economical to just use bodies rather than waste time on finding stasis pods."

"But royalty," remarked Inferno as he flew in from another part of the cave. "Are you certain that we should do that? Leave the Maximals to obtain their comrades?"

"That is correct, Inferno. Like I said, its economical."

With a bright flash, the doors to the stasis pods opened and out came a goldenrod and dark brown bison, snorting as he came out. Megatron chuckled at the sight of the newly hatched Predacon.

"Terrashock, terrorize!" bellowed the bison and he transformed from beast to robot, before taking a knee to Megatron. "I am Terrashock and I pledge my service to you, Lord Megatron."

"And so you shall," chuckled Megatron in response. "Bring in the next host, Shockwave."

"As you command, Megatron," answered the Predacon scientist as he turned to see Soundwave bring in another corpse of the Storm King's army. "Hurry up, Soundwave! We mustn't keep our leader waiting!"

The Predacon Panther groaned as he hooked up the corpse and with another flip of the switch, the body was melted down and this time, a purple wolf stepped out of the pod, growling and snarling.

"And who might you be?" asked Megatron.

"Steeljaw, terrorize!" howled the wolf and transformed, doing the same thing as Terrashock. "I am Steeljaw, Predacon hunter dedicating my service to you, Lord Megatron."

"Excellent, my fine warrior. Now join your comrade in arms."

Saluting Megatron, Steeljaw did as he was told. As the hours ticked away, the Predacons worked around the clock bringing more and more dead servants of the Storm King in to become Predacons.

"Now, we have more than enough of you to launch a full scale assault," laughed Megatron, looking out amongst the legions of newly created Predacons. "But, its important for you all to understand that what you are purposed to do is to obey me and only me alone. We all have one purpose in mind and that is to restore Cybertron to its former glory…under Predacon rule! And in order to restore Cybertron, we have to have a work force to do the work and these four legged creatures are just the workforce we need!"

With those words, Megatron and the rest of the Predacons broke into laughter upon hearing this from their leader.

"However, we must prepare for the battle that is to come," said Megatron, quickly silencing them. "Spread out to the far reaches of this land and build your respective grounds. Once our strength reaches its full potential, we strike at the heart of this land, wherever it is! Now go!"

Spreading out, the army of Predacons dispersed and Megatron watched like a proud father over his sons.

"I think you see now," he said to the remaining Predacons that stayed behind including Terrashock and Steeljaw. "That I know dead bodies can prove useful, for this is what I expect the Maximals to be eventually!"

"Um, you know that these here pods can't work forever," cautioned Quickstrike, only to receive a glare from Megatron. "I…take that back."

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

"Continue to grow our forces, of course," answered Megatron. "I want to have an army of so many Predacons that not even the Maximals nor the creatures of this land can overcome! This will soon be the climax of the Beast Wars!"

And Megatron once again laughed loudly for all his fellow Predacons to hear.

…

Meanwhile, Optimus and the rest of the Maximals returned to Canterlot with several stasis pods in tow.

"Optimus," asked Cheetor, panting heavily from pulling the stasis pod behind his back. "Do you think that these are all the pods that is out there?"

"To be honest, I'm not sure, Cheetor," answered Optimus. "But, we need to keep looking. If I know Megatron, he's probably at this very moment creating a large army to overpower us. We must be prepared at all costs."

"Easy for you to say," remarked Nightscream, putting down a stasis pod. "These Pods weigh a ton if you ask me!"

"They may be heavy, but they are our comrades who are at risk of being turned into Predacons," replied Optimus, wanting to stay true on what was really at stake. "And we can't let that happen, Nightscream."

Just then, Rattrap and Dinobot came towards them.

"Did you find the clone of Dinobot?"

"We did and he was about to have himself a taste of pony," answered Rattrap. "Fortunately, Chopper Face and I managed to save them. Besides, what would Megatron want with four legged ponies anyway?"

"To create an army of Predacons using both living and dead bodies," said Rhinox, who was standing in another room with Waspinator. "Yes, I know it seems hard to believe, but…"

"Say no more, Rhinox," interrupted Optimus. "But, we won't follow up with Megatron's sick method of bringing transformers to life. We know better than to treat all organic life forms with respect and honor."

"If that is all but true, Fearless Leader," remarked Rattrap. "Mega dip isn't going to listen to anything you have to say. I mean, who knows? He could be creating a clone of every one of us like Dino Dip here."

Rattrap's sarcastic manner led to a low growl from Dinobot, instantly telling him to shut his mouth up.

"And in inspecting the pod that Princess Twilight brought back to me," explained Rhinox. "I found something of deep importance that we also need to take note of."

"And what's that, Big Green?" asked Rattrap.

"That Megatron is not the only threat to keep an eye on. I have a feeling that Tarantulas might still be alive as well, hiding somewhere."

This made Cheetor feel very confused and bewildered, for he could remember witnessing Tarantulas being destroyed when he tried to extract the alien influence from Tigatron.

"Are you sure about that, Rhinox? Because I saw…"

"Yes, but remember also that Megatron was also after the sparks of the dead transformers who had died during the Beast Wars."

"Why would Megatron want to go after Tarantulas' spark?" wondered Optimus. "They never liked each other to begin with."

"Perhaps," said Rhinox. "But, Megatron has plans for Cybertron and this land according to his own rule and only time will tell if we can stop them from coming to fruition."

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