"Sadly, this is the last of the viewings I have now given out..." Omega Scion sadly said.

"You mean this is the last we'll see of the future? Are the Maxies going back to Cybertron?" Bumblebee asked.

"Definitely, Bumblebee." Omega Scion replied very curtly.

"But wait, what about the Nemesis?! Pred-Megs has control of the Decepticon warship, what are the Maxies going to do now?" Warpath asked.

"That, Warpath, is what will be seen today... but for now, enjoy this viewing while you may..." Omega Scion replied.

Before the leaders requested, Bumblebee asked "Let's see it then, Omega Scion."

Shocking Prime and Megatron, and even Predaking.

"My, your little warrior is quite the bold one, Prime." Predaking spat out.

"Very well, Bumblebee. Commencing final viewing in three...two...one..."

Pushed back to the beach as the Nemesis rains firepower unimaginable to mere mortals, Primal and Tigerhawk moved to ground.

"That's our NEMESIS, alright! How I missed raining fire upon the Autobots when their precious Ark was laid a pile of junk!" Breakdown smirked.

The Autobots frowned, Bulkhead mostly.

Starscream cackled in agreement.

"I am Alpha and Omega. The beginning, and the end." Megatron quoted.

Knockout replied "Oh please, you don't have sharply dressed hair, a katana that can slice through dimensions, a son with a mutated arm that was later cut off, fascinatingly fresh blue clothes and a brother who was the favored son of the mother."

"Optimus to Rhinox." Primal hailed. "We have a Code One alert. Deploy Operation: Eternity."

The Maximals were shocked.

"I am that which is, which was, and is yet to come. And you will know my name is Megatron, when I lay my vengeance upon you." Megatron quoted, savoring in his moment of power.

"You have already read the Covenant of Primus?" Dinobot questioned.

"Just the good parts." Megatron pressed a button which rained more destruction on Primal and Tigerhawk.

Thunderblast panted. "Yes.... bring no mercy to the fools that oppose you, oh mighty Nemesis, emissary of the divine Megatron..."

The aforementioned 'god' whom Thunderblast prasied cringed.

"For pity's sake, Megatron, no more!" Primal barked as he and Tigerhawk took flight, firing their weapons at the Nemesis.

"Fools! You dare bring your paltry weapons to bear against the mighty Nemesis!" Thunderblast taunted. "Your pitiful weaponry is no match for the holy firepower the emissary brings..."

Unfortunately, even as they dodged the Nemesis' barrage of missiles fired at the broadside, Primal was struck down by a missile soon enough.

Thunderblast laughed manically. "Pathetic! No Maximal firepower could ever dare stand before the machine blessed by the almighty Megatron!"

Starscream agreed, minus the 'almighty' part.

"Ah, company." Megatron brushed off flippantly. "Ta-ta, Optimal Optimus. Well, I'll say one thing for my namesake, he liked his artillery big and plentiful."

"Yeah, he does. KA-BLAM!" Warpath cheered.

Megatron rolled his optics.

"Now, where was I? Ah yes, mindless destruction! Good for the Spark, I always say."

"My own spark has changed." Dinobot mused. "It feels, at last, complete." inspecting himself as if he is in a crisis.

"Dinobot..." Grimlock muttered.

"Yes, the destruction of Rampage, no doubt." Megatron flippantly dismissed "Bring us around. Vector 6-2, on the double!" he ordered.

Primal regrouped with Tigerhawk.

"We didn't even scratch it." Tigerhawk admitted.

"No scrap, you didn't prick the ship." Bulkhead pointed out.

"Quickly, go to your fellow Maximals. Prepare them." Tigerhawk suggested. "If Megatron destroys the Ark and its occupants, history, as we know it, will unravel."

"You can't stop that thing alone!" Primal protested.

Prime sighed. Many times had he witness friends sacrifice themselves for him for a chance even if they would lose their Sparks in the end. "Sentinel..."

He remembered how Sentinel sacrificed himself to save his in the end while he was wounded.

"Perhaps." Tigerhawk admitted "But it is my destiny to try. I will hold the line here. Go!"

Seeing that he already made his choice, Primal sadly departed back to Maximal Base.

"Operation: Eternity? What the heck is that? And how come I never heard of it?" Rattrap moaned while packing inside the Ark.

"Can we discuss this later, Rattrap?" Rhinox barked while lifting a crate much bigger than he is.

"Come on! Boss-bot calls up with his gears in a grind, and suddenly I've got to pack up my Pred parts collection? Man, you know how many pieces of Waspinator I've got?"

"Rattrap, we may have to move the Ark." Rhinox stated.

"What?!" asked the audience.

"Wha-?"

"They're going to what?!" gasped Sideswipe.

"Move the Ark?! Are they going to commandeer the Ark?!"  Ratchet asked.

"It may seem they are. Because it may be their only option left against the Nemesis." Prime replied.

"But what about Tigerhawk?! He can take that thing, right?!" Warpath said.

"No, he may not be enough against the Nemesis, Warpath." Prime replied.

Tigerhawk, alone casted forth a storm of lightning that weakened the Nemesis.

"Failure on three primary circuits.  Power cells depleted. Weapons off-line." Dinobot announced.

"Blast that Tigerhawk!" Megatron cursed. "My forecast was for clear sky all the way back to Cybertron!" once the sky was clear enough he saw Tigerhawk defiantly standing against the Nemesis. 

"A brave stand...and noble." Dinobot acknowledged.

"Ah, perhaps." Megatron sneered, then ordered "Computer, divert all available power to primary weapon and give me target lock."

The Nemesis' systems complied as Tigerhawk prepared a beam containing the might he had, then it fired. Yet it was much stronger than Tigerhawk's, so even if he had the might of the Vok... the Nemesis' firepower was much more than he can take.

Tigerhawk ultimately perished.

"NO!!!!" Air Raid, Bumblebee, Smokescreen and Cliffjumper shouted.

"Rest well, Tigatron and Airazor. You have accomplished your duty as Maximals. As proud Autobots." Prime spoke out his eulogy.

Thunderblast laughed. "Silly tiger-bird. Your Vok powers is no match for the holy might of the Nemesis!"

Having returned to base, Primal hailed "Tigerhawk, do you copy. I repeat, do you copy?! Tigerhawk!"

Without a reply from Tigerhawk, Primal's systems announce...

[Unit Tigerhawk: terminated.]

Air Raid sobbed, knowing too well that Airazor perished as well.

He was always rather fond of her even.

Bumblebee, Smokescreen, Jetfire, Ironhide and Bulkhead seethed in anger.

"NOO!" Primal despaired. Knowing too well that Megatron is far gone beyond reason, he swore "This ends here, Megatron. No more good friends will be sacrificed to your insane ambitions, I swear it. No more!"

Rattrap opened the door that Primal pounded out of grief and jokingly questioned "Err... You knock?"

With Inferno and Quickstrike...

"You see 'em run, partner? Like shotin' protoforms in a stasis-pod!" Quickstrike taunted as he mercilessly fired at the hapless protohumans.

"The Royalty will be pleased! The new colony is ours!"

"Ready for... huh?" Dinobot was cut off while aboard the Nemesis. "This all seems hauntingly familiar...but why?" he was beginning to remember...

"Dinobot... you've returned." Grimlock smiled.

"You saved the valley... you saved the lives of those who live here, and of those who are still to come."

Remembering his glorious sacrifice, Dinobot snapped out to focus to Megatron...

"I suppose, given my imminent godhood, these primitives should really be beneath my attention. Ah, still, no score is too small to settle, I always say." Megatron boasted.

"HOW DARE YOU?!" Predaking snarled.

The Autobots were angered upon the realization about what the future Megatron intends to do.

Thunderblast, on the other hand, just merely salivated at the demi-god following the steps of her god.

Just as he was about to prepare firing the Nemesis' cannon, Dinobot stopped him shortly.

"You would turn the full fury of this mighty warship on a lone anthropoid? Tell me, Megatron, where is the honor in that?"

Grimlock, Dreadwing and Predaking smiled. Dinobot was beginning to remember what he truly is.

Angered at his orders being questioned by his minion, Megatron barked "You DARE use the H word to me?!"

"I... I... apologize." Dinobot backed down. "I merely felt our power should be conserved for the larger battle."

"Duly noted- and ignored." Megatron pressed the button anyway, causing the Nemesis' cannon to prepare to fire.

"NO!" Prime yelled.

"YOU MONSTER!" Bumblebee shouted.

"Royalty! My Queen! We're down here!" Inferno called.

"I don't like the looks of this!" Quickstrike commented.

But the Nemesis' cannon fires at the valley they were in, incinerating both to ashes.

"Nooo!" Inferno yelled as he was distintegrated by the fury of the Nemesis' cannon. Yet the protohuman whom Megatron intended as a target managed to take cover from the cannon fire.

"I told you." Megatron smirked.

"In his quest for godhood and power, the future Megatron sweeps aside those he considers useless for his goals."

"With the Nemesis in the way, the Ark may be the only hope for the Maximals to win the Beast Wars..." Prime noted.

Back in the Ark, Primal questioned "Rhinox, what's our status?"

"Almost all the equipment's aboard." Rhinox replied. "But I'll need time to put  up the Arc's main engines!"

Before long, the Ark raises up a full alert.

"Megatron!" Cheetor realized.

As the Nemesis comes forth to their territory.

Starscream smirked. "I love it when the mightiest ship in all of Decepticon history comes to bear..."

"Targeting grid 3H. Full pulse spread!" Megatron ordered then snapped to Dinobot "Bring fusion cannon online and prepare to fire!"

"Negative. Fusion reactor currently at 65%." Dinobot said.

Megatron snapped his fist in frustration.

"Looks like they've been stalled. For now. But with the Nemesis at their gates, the Maximals are running out of time, Commander." Ultra Magnus assessed.

"Then they have to work quickly as possible. The future Megatron's lust for power and arrogance can be useful to them." Prime stated.

"It's been off-line to long." Rhinox replied to Primal "We don't even have the power reserves to FLY, much less FIGHT!"

"There is no other choice!" Primal stated. "Megatron's gone too far and you know it! Just do it!"

Rhinox complied, unable to object. He tried to activate the Ark through it's navigational systems, but it shorted out.

"Scrap! The Maxies are held back." Air Raid said.

"Bad news." Rhinox muttered.

"Gear... just in time for one of those really ominous silences." Cheetor sighed.

"Tell me about it." Rattrap agreed. "Somehow, ya got to know Megs ain't just decided to lighten up!" but suddenly he started to float up due to his lighter weight compared to his heavier comrades.

"Attractive beam!"

The Nemesis' attractive beam was breaking through the mountain's natural cover and absorbing right into the underground machine processors.

"Weird. The Nemesis' augery systems were never effectively implemented due to performance issues with the drill." Shockwave stated. "But I guess the Predacons took their time to correct that when it was cancelled."

Brawl cared little. Being on the attractive beam operator was his favorite job.

Vortex taunted "Nowhere to hide now, Maximals! Nowhere to run!"

"And the stone of their protection shall rise upward for ever and ever. As they who live and war as beasts confront their final cycle." Megatron pontificated holding the Covenant of Primus.

"Another quote from.... Megatronus Prime, I believe." Starscream pointed out.

"It was actually Nova Prime when he discovered the beasts." Thunderblast corrected.

"Fusion cannon at 70%." Dinobot announced.

"This has to stop! At any cost." Primal yelled as he made a desperate assault on the Nemesis, yet a rock knocked him off course.

Starscream laughed. "How incompetent you are. Pathetic!"

"Fusion reactor currently at 90% and rising." Dinobot announced.

"Yess... Soon, it will all be over." Megatron stated. "Any Maximal still alive will perish along with their ancestors." then relished on the future he savored for "And the new, glorious era of Predacon rule will have begun."

Awakened, Primal saw that he was clearly close to the attractive beam's augery blades and ripped out one of his wings to throw it at the systems, jamming it entirely as he then jumped into the augery system by an emergency hatch and opens it up, exposing the interior of the Nemesis as he goes inside.

"All Primal needs is a bit of luck, as you Autobots would say." Megatron spat out.

Prime just kept silent.

Meanwhile, with the Maximals...

"Blackarachnia, is that capacitor circuit ready?" Rhinox asked.

"I need a conduit cable to finish the connection." Blackarachnia replied while working on the capacitor itself. "Aha!" she snatched one of Rattrap's weapons whose tip she snapped out to make a conduit.

"Clever spider. It seems Tarantulas has taught you well." Shockwave admitted.

"Ya' emasculatin' femme-bot!" Rattrap cursed.

Blackarachnia then used the severed weapon as a conduit cable, completing the connection.

"Yes! Main thrusters now connected to Teletraan 1!" Rattrap announced.

"Couldn't have said it better myself Rattrap." Rhinox complimented.

"Nor do I." Arcee agreed.

"Last chance, bots. Start ignition sequence." Rhinox started.

"YEAH! GET THE ARK RUNNING!!!" yelled Warpath.

"Just a few more nano-clicks..." Megatron muttered yet he gasped "What?!" as Primal broke through on-deck, confronting Megatron himself. 

"Oh, well, come on, let's have it." Megatron groused, taunting Primal. "The usual 'destiny and honor' speech."

"The time for speech is over." Prime spat out.

"Speech this." Primal launched a fist right at Megatron's face, amusing Dinobot.

Megatron was not amused. He remembered Prime having launched such a fist to his face before when he mocked him for attempting to use 'reason' back when they first started their first battle. He just had no idea that Prime was in no mood for reasoning that day.

Most of the audience snickered and laughed. Mainly the Autobots and Predacons.

"HOW DARE HE?! NO ONE SHALL STRIKE AT THE GOD'S DESCENDANT!" Thunderblast yelled.

Back at the Ark...

"Fuel pumps!" Rhinox demanded.

"Fuel pumps activated." Silverbolt announced.

"Stand ready for ignition..." Rhinox muttered.

Ignoring the Cybertronian equivalent of a broken nose Primal left him with, Megatron returned the fist right at Primal's face, one which was strong enough to break out a scrap tooth from the latter.

"AND THAT IS WHY YOU DO NOT STRIKE A GOD, YOU MISERABLE MONKEY!" Thunderblast yelled.

Megatron smirked. He remembered striking at Prime so hard half of his face had fallen off. Right after their fight at the Iacon Archives.

"Come on, BigGreen!" Rattrap gasped. "Light this candle, will ya?!"

"Ignition... NOW!" Rhinox yelled.

"AND THEY'RE CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF!" Warpath cheered.

The Ark seemed ready for take off until the energy it possesses melted the conduit, causing a failure in launch.

"Or they're just gonna stand there to be fried by the Nemesis." Breakdown taunted.

"And there came a hero who said: 'Hurt not the earth. Nor the sea. Nor the trees. Nor the very fabric of time!' But the hero would not prevail!" Megatron taunted.

"Finish the quote, Megatron." Primal dared. "Nor would he surrender!" he jumped right at Megatron, only to get caught at his grip as Megatron caught and slammed him to the ground and incinerated right at his circuits, cackling manically then tossed him aside from the back. He approached Primal menacingly and dodged his chest-built autocannons by jumping towards Primal up close with a stare that spells death and throws him again before Dinobot himself.

"Ooooh boy, Megatron's got a real serious upgrade to take Primal on like he means business." Bulkhead said.

"But what about the Maxies?! They've gotta find a way, right?!"

"Without a replacement for the conduit, they're finished. Unless..."

"Unless what, Ratchet?"

"Unless there is an alternative."

"No power. No weapons. We're all gonna die." Rattrap sighed.

"Yup." Rhinox agreed.

All hope seemed lost for the Maximals.

"Deactivate tractor beam! All power to main fusion cannon! Victory is at hand!"

The Nemesis' tractor beam deactivated, snapping the Maximals back to gravity.

"A coward's victory." Dinobot muttered while working on the systems "The Ark is defenseless... not much sport in this."

[Class 3 emergency data. Downloading.]

Something caught the Maximals' attention.

[Warning. Schematic downloading. Class 3 emergency data.]

"Huh? What the heck does this mean?"

"It means we just might have a weapon!" Rhinox rallied the Maximals "Come on!"

"Just when defeat is near, a miracle comes for the Maximals." Ratchet realized.

"NO! I refuse to believe it!"

"Believe it or not, Thunderblast, it may be now their only hope." Elita stated.

"Computer, bring fusion cannon on-line! Divert all power! Fusion cannon at full power. Then now, while they are helpless, destroy them!" Megatron ordered.

"Megatron, no!" Primal yelled.

"And you will be there to witness it's end, Optimus Primal." Megatron said to Primal, much to his horror. Then he breathed fire at Primal for painful emphasis.

Starscream smirked. Torturing Autobots was his favorite routine.

The Maximals converge around the shuttle bay of the Ark..

"WOW! An Autobot Shuttle!" Cheetor gasped.

"The history tracks never mentioned this!" Blackrarachnia admitted.

"My ancestor, Ratchet, often used this shuttle to save as many Autobot casualties as he can while he operated in the Great War. It was used mainly as his airlift hospital." Rhinox admitted.

Ratchet's eyebrows creased in shock. "It seems Arcee is not the only one who is related to the Maximals biologically."

"Who knew the rhino there had your brains and Ironhide's brawn, Ratch?" Knockout teased.

"Silence, you!"

"Make me, grandpa."

"History's still being made. Let's move!" Rhinox ordered.

"I am Alpha and Omega, Optimal Optimus. Now and forever." Megatron transformed to Robot Mode "Until the end of time!" he continued out of overconfidence snapping his wings forth.

"YES...." Thunderblast panted.

"Destroy them!" Megatron gloated then ordered to Dinobot.

"Negative!" Dinobot refused.

The audience gasped in shock.

"Dinobot.... he's regaining his honor..." Arcee stated.

"What?!" Megatron was slowly giving in to anger at Dinobot... "What possible reason do you have to disobey me? I am your master! I am your creator!

"And I... have my honor!" Dinobot spat out.

"THAT'S THE DINOBOT I KNOW OF!" Grimlock shouted.

Dreadwing and Predaking smiled.

"Honor above all else...." Dreadwing muttered.

"Stand aside, traitor." Megatron then swept Dinobot aside to Primal "And observe as I fulfill my destiny!" until the Nemesis blares out an alarm "What?!" as the Autobot shuttle speeds towards the Nemesis.

The Autobots cheered.

"NO! NO! NO! NO! NOT WHILE THE DEMI-GOD IS AT HIS MOMENT OF TRIUMPH!" Thunderblast cursed.

"For everything that ever was." Rhinox muttered.

Ratchet smiled. He once said that himself.

"That was familiar, old friend. No wonder Rhinox inherits your wisdom and knowledge."

"I couldn't be any more prouder than that..." Ratchet admitted to Prime...

"NO!!!!" Megatron yelled as the shuttle smashes through the Nemesis' deck and right into the window, snarling Megatron into the hull, causing destruction to ironically fall in the Nemesis as Primal and Dinobot were seperated in the chaos.

"Dinobot, save yourself!" Primal called.

"Come on Dino-boy! At least live for one more day for honor!" Grimlock yelled.

Dinobot refused and saluted "Farewell, Optimus Primal." as he was destroyed by the exploding Nemesis.

Primal closed his eyes in acknowledgement of an old friend that died regaining his honor as he flew out of the Nemesis, regrouping with his subordinates as the Decepticon warship exploded in the horizon.

"It's done." Primal muttered.

The Autobots cheered. The Renegatrons were silent and the Predacons roared in acknowledgement of Dinobot's last sacrifice.

"All is as it should be, at last." Primal then convened around the Ark with the captive Megatron to force the original Megatron's Spark out of his descendant, and placed it back to where it belonged.

The future Megatron snarled "Enjoy your victory while it lasts, Optimus Primal. I will have my revenge..."

Primal merely nodded with "We'll see about that." and ordered Rhinox holding him from behind "Get him out of here." as the latter complied escorting the restrained Predacon lord to his cell.

"I suppose I should thank your descendant for returning my Spark, Prime." Megatron acknowledged.

"You definitely should, Megatron. He had done what the humans say 'doing you a favor'."

Megatron nodded merely.

"The Beast Wars are over... for now." Primal stated.

Rhinox announced. "Ready to initiate transwarp sequence."

"Let's go home." Primal ordered.

"Man, them Maxies have got to visit us sometime!" Wheeljack said. "I'd love to hear what wacky stunts they've done before the Beast Wars."

"In the spark of an enemy, there will be salvation. And in the darkest hour, there will be a light." as the shuttle then takes off to space.

Prime smiled, having said such a thing when they departed from Cybertron to Earth.

"Yeah, from a very unexpected source, old Chopper-face's clone." Rattrap admitted. Who would have thought? I wished he was here with us..." as he drooped down in sadness.

"You still missed Dinobot." Arcee stated.

"And let us never forget those other brave bots whose sacrifice safeguarded past, present and future." Primal stated.

The Maximals silently acknowledge their lost comrades. Tigatron, Airazor, Depth Charge and most of all, Dinobot. Their sacrifices had ensured their victory.

"You know what the best thing is? We don't have to see Mega-butt's ugly mug again till we get back to Cybertron!" Rattrap acknowledged as the shuttle opened up a transwarp bridge back to Cybertron. With the defeated Megatron screaming in the hull.

The Beast Wars has been won... with a heavy cost. They may now return home...

Everyone fell silent. The Autobots mostly in respect of the descendants that were lost in the war.

"Their sacrifices ensured the freedom of not only Cybertron... but of all that remained." Prime hailed.

Yet Thunderblast was fuming at the loss of the future Predacons.

Meanwhile, back in Earth...

"Ahh... Waspinator happy at last." as the wasp ex-Predacon was now surrounded by many a worshippers that now revere him as a god. As the protohumans began celebration using the remains of Inferno and Quickstrike.

The Orb cuts off silently afterwards...

The audience was silent, when Omega Scion announced.

"I begged your pardon, everyone. But as Megatron felt..."

"Yes, I may have felt that the Beast Wars was half-way over. In Earth, it is done. But on Cybertron... I would have wished to see what happens next."

"Why is that, Megatron?"

"Because Optimus, I feel that their battle is far from over. There may be other players in control, yet I cannot tell. Not unless I see it yet."

"Unfortunately, Megatron." Omega Scion said. "The Orb will need time to showcase more viewings of the future. You are correct, there is more to come, but I cannot display the details right now. You may all leave."

The audience silently departed the theater.