Contest of Champions

Chapter 2: Team CFVY vs Tarantulas, Waspinator, Inferno and Quickstrike

It had been a few hours now since the four Predacons known as Tarantulas, Waspinator, Quickstrike and Inferno found themselves in a random forest. And it was quite clear by then that if Megatron wasn't leading them, the Predacons would have lost the Beast Wars a long time ago.

"The royalty entrusted me to be second in command, not you, spider!" Inferno bickered as he and the other three Predacons traversed the forest in their beast modes. "I shall lead!"

"You couldn't even lead an army of your own kind to a picnic!" Tarantulas retaliated. "What chance would you have at leading us!?"

"It's been three hours and they still won't shut up," Quickstrike groaned as the two continued to argue with one another.

"Wazzzpinator is getting a headache," Waspinator responded as he placed two of his wasp legs onto his head.

"I will not allow a traitorous spider to lead us!" Inferno continued.

"Better me than some trigger-happy lunatic who can't go five nano-kliks without setting something on fire!" Tarantulas shouted.

"Keep talking and perhaps I will do that to you!" Inferno responded.

Unknown to any of them however was that they were being watched.

"Have I gone crazy or are those Grimm talking?" Velvet whispered to her teammates.

The four Predacons were not the only ones to find themselves in this forest. Not too long ago, Team CFVY of Beacon Academy were practicing for the Vital Festival Tournament when a bright light blinded them and they found themselves here. They too wandered the seemingly empty forest in a search for answers only to now discover a tarantula, a wasp, an ant and a scorpion with a cobra head for a stinger, all abnormally large, speaking with one another.

"I'm not sure these even are Grimm, Velvet," Coco whispered back. "If they are, then they're the ugliest ones I've ever seen."

However, Coco's statement did not go unheard. While Tarantulas and Inferno continued to argue and Waspinator tried to tune the two of them out, Quickstrike heard something to his left and turned to see Velvet's rabbit-like ears poking slightly out of the bushes. Upon making this discovery, the Fuzor started to chuckle sinisterly.

"Hey, fellas!" he shouted, catching his fellow Predacons' attention. "Looks like we got ourselves a couple a' eavesdroppers."

"Shit!" Coco silently cursed as she pulled Velvet downward, but not before the other three Predacons saw what Quickstrike had discovered.

"It was just a rabbit, Quickstrike," Tarantulas stated.

"Oh, that so, eight-eyes?" the Fuzor asked before using his claw to slash at the shrub Team CFVY were hiding in, revealing themselves to the four machines.

"Spies!" Inferno exclaimed. "Probably sent here by the Maximals! Predacons, terrorize!"

He, along with Waspinator and Quickstrike, proceeded to transform into their robot forms, much to the shock of the huntsmen and huntresses that discovered them.

"Yep, definitely not Grimm," Coco stated.

Tarantulas, however, hesitated to terrorize just yet as he noticed that the humans had evolved far past the hominid stage of evolution. And he also knew that even after millions of years of evolving, no human was born with rabbit ears.

'This is not right,' he thought to himself. 'We can't be on Earth any more. And even if we are, this isn't the same time period.'

His thoughts were interrupted however when Coco spoke up once again.

"No worries," she said to her teammates as she grabbed her designer handbag. "We'll just kick their shiny, metal asses just like the Grimm."

Hearing a human carrying a handbag threaten him, naturally, caused Quickstrike to burst out laughing.

"Oh no, I'm shakin' in mah boots!" he remarked with sarcasm. "Whatcha gonna do, lil' missy? You gonna hit me with yer purse?"

Coco, practically unphased, lowered her sunglasses to look up at Quickstrike, who was still laughing at her.

"Something like that," she answered.

In an instant, her handbag transformed into a large minigun and pointed it upward towards the Fuzor, who of course instantly stopped laughing.

"...Eep," he practically squeaked before running away in a panic. Coco responded by shooting a barrage of bullets at the Predacon, hitting him with such great force that he was sent flying forward through a path of trees much to the other Predacons' shock.

"Anyone else?" Coco asked, catching their attention.

"...Wazzzpinator not it," Waspinator answered as he backed away while shaking in fear. Inferno, however, screeched in a hostile manner and pointed his flamethrower at the four of them.

"Burn, human fools!" he shouted before setting his weapon ablaze while laughing in a crazed manner, not caring that he was going to start a forest fire at this rate.

"You'll burn us all if you keep that up, you idiot!" Tarantulas shouted as he ducked to avoid a torrent of flames that were coming his way. "Now, listen to me! These humans are far too evolved to-"

"Silence, spider!" Inferno shouted back before using his rockets to fly towards the now scattering Team CFVY, with Waspinator close behind.

Knowing he wasn't going to get anywhere by trying to convince his fellow Predacons that something was amiss, Tarantulas figured he might as well kill these flesh creatures to try and get them to focus on it instead of them. Besides, it wasn't like he needed an excuse to kill something.

Not to mention, he hadn't eaten anything in the past several hours.

"Tarantulas, terrorize!" he said before transforming into his robot mode and joining his fellow Transformers in battle.

Inferno went after Yatsuhashi, still laughing like a raving lunatic as he fired his blaster at him, only for the huntsman to evade every blast he sent his way. He then got out his massive greatsword and lept onto a tree, using his legs to launch himself towards the insane Predacon, slashing at him with great power, sending him hurdling backwards. However, he then used his boosters to stop himself and fly towards Yatsuhashi, using his blaster to knock him against another tree.

Tarantulas, meanwhile, chose to go after Fox, and readied his blaster as he charged towards him. Fox, however, instantly reacted by flipping backwards at the last second to avoid the blaster fire and plant his feet on the side of a tree branch before lunging towards the devious spider Predacon. Thinking that he was simply going to smash right into him and break several bones in his body, Tarantulas simply chuckled and didn't move a mechanical muscle.

This meant that he was in for quite a surprise when Fox made contact and the sentient machine was sent hurdling backwards several yards and through several burning trees before sliding harshly on the ground to a stop. Once he got back on his feet, he exclaimed in anger over what had transpired and transformed into his cycle mode, speeding his way towards the huntsman. However, Coco then lept down from a branch, her minigun now back to being a handbag, and smashed Tarantulas to the ground with it, stopping him right in his tracks.

Unfortunately, this meant that Coco was unable to see the green laser blast that hit the ground beside her and Fox, causing the two of them to be sent flying to the side. The two of them then saw Quickstrike emerging from the flames.

"Nobody humiliates me like that and gets away with it, sugar-plum!" he shouted.

Coco was already scowling at the Fuzor in response, but then her sunglasses proceeded to fall off in two pieces, causing her to let out a slightly audible gasp. Now practically snarling, she proceeded to launch herself towards Quickstrike, her handbag ready to smash his face into the ground, only for him to jump backwards out of the way.

"Yee-haw!" he shouted before Coco's handbag smashed onto the ground, leaving a small crater behind in the process. Fox attempted to assist her, only for Tarantulas to suddenly transform and grab him.

"Where do you think YOU'RE going?" he asked before smashing him into the ground and activating the buzzsaw on his blaster. However, before he could use it against Fox, Inferno suddenly smashed right into him, having been hit by Yatsuhashi's blade. This in turn caused Tarantulas to release Fox, allowing Yatsuhashi to help him back to his feet.

"Have either of you seen Velvet?" he asked.

"Over here!" Velvet's voice suddenly answered as the huntsmen turned to see her jumping across the trees to avoid Waspinator's stingers.

"Bunny girl can't run from Wazzzpinator!" the Predacon said.

"Who said anything about running!?" Velvet responded before running up one of the tree's bark and lunging herself towards Waspinator, kneeing him in the face before flipping and heel kicking him at the top of the head, sending him hurdling down to the ground. However, her victory was short lived, as when she landed on a branch, she noticed Quickstrike tossing Coco against another tree before grabbing her with his massive left hand.

"Coco!" she exclaimed before the box strapped to her back created hard-light projections of two gauntlets onto her fists.

Quickstrike, meanwhile, was savoring the moment as Coco struggled to free herself.

"Happy trails, partner" he deviously said before positioning the cobra-head he had for a right hand towards her head. But before he could use it to decapitate Team CFVY's leader, an explosion caught him off guard. Both he and Coco looked up to see Velvet rocketing towards the Fuzor from above much to their surprise.

"What in tarnation!?" the Predacon exclaimed, dropping Coco in the process and allowing her to flee what was about to happen. Velvet's fist then punched Quickstrike square in the face with an explosive force that instantly put him on his back before landing beside him to regroup with her team.

"Velv, you've been building that up all semester," Coco pointed out.

"Well, seemed like fighting robots was as good a time as any," Velvet shyly responded, only for Yatsuhashi to notice something.

"Get back!" he yelled, catching the others' attention before dodging a rocket blast courtesy of Inferno, though not without landing harshly on the ground. They then turned to see all four of the Predacons pointing their weapons at them, forcing them to find cover in the form of a huge boulder as they fired at them.

"Keep firing!" Tarantulas ordered. "If we attack them all at once, we may finally be rid of these annoying flesh creatures!"

"For the glory of the royalty!" Inferno shouted before cackling like a maniac once more.

"Any ideas, Coco?" Velvet asked her team's leader as the boulder started to crack.

Coco, as she attempted to think of a plan, turned her head to the right of the rock to observe the Predacons. Specifically their weapons.

"I just might," she answered with a smirk before turning to her Faunus teammate. "Think you can catch the ant's blaster?"

"I...I think so," Velvet answered, somewhat unsure.

"Go get it, Velv," Coco replied before Velvet lept back into the trees. "Yatsu, Fox, let's keep their attention on us."

Once Velvet went back into the trees, the Predacons instantly noticed this.

"After her!" Tarantulas commanded, only for the bullets of Coco's minigun to catch them off guard.

"Hey, rust buckets!" Team CFVY's leader shouted as she continued to fire at them. "Over here!"

"Waspinator, deal with the fourth one!" Tarantulas ordered as he shielded his face from Coco's bullets.

"Anything to not be here right now!" Waspinator replied before flying upward.

While that was going on, Velvet, perched onto a tree branch, pointed her camera towards Inferno's blaster, ready to capture a photo of it. However, a familiar buzzing sound caught her off guard, causing her to turn to see Waspinator flying towards her. At the last second, she captured a photo of his weapon instead before running and jumping through the branches, dodging the stingers the Predacon fired at her.

"Wazzzpinator not forget what bunny girl did to him!" Waspinator angrily said. "Wazzzpinator SCRAP bunny girl!"

He then fired his stinger once more, this time hitting the branch that the Faunus landed on, causing her to gasp audibly as she lost her balance. However, as she fell, she rolled herself around to where she was backside up with her feet pointing towards the evil Transformer, all while hard-light projected a smaller duplicate of Waspinator's weapon onto her right hand, much to Waspinator's shock and confusion.

"Wha!?" he exclaimed before Velvet fired two stingers right at Waspinator's wings, causing him to plummet downward.

"Fox, heads up!" Velvet shouted to her teammate, as Fox turned around and looked upward to see a now petrified Waspinator heading towards him.

"Oh no," was all Waspinator said before Fox lept up to him, delivering a barrage of punches, kicks and slashes from his arm blades before delivering a final punch to the metal gut that let such a powerful force that the Predacon burst into pieces.

As he, Inferno and Quickstrike continued their assault on Coco and Yatsuhashi, Tarantulas started to notice the pieces of Waspinator falling to the ground all around them.

"What the-!?" he exclaimed before hearing a clicking sound. He and the other two remaining Predacons looked up to see Velvet on a branch, holding her camera while smiling and waving to them.

"BUUUURN!" Inferno shouted as he aimed his blaster at the Faunus, only for Yatsuhashi to dash towards him, delivering a slash from his blade that knocked him onto his back. Tarantulas and Quickstrike too attempted to shoot her, only to get hit in the back by Coco's minigun before landing on top of Inferno.

"Velvet, now!" Coco commanded as Yatsuhashi jumped away from the three Predacons. Velvet's hard-light then projected a duplicate of Inferno's blaster, causing the Predacons' optics to widen as she aimed it towards the real blaster. With one shot, the blaster detonated, sending Tarantulas and Inferno flying far away, screaming as they did so, while Quickstrike was sent sliding across the ground before using the teeth of his cobra head to stop him as he hanged from a tall cliff. The Fuzor struggled to get back up, only to then see Team CFVY walking towards him, Coco smirking with her hands on her hips.

"Uh oh," was all Quickstrike could say.

"Happy trails, partner," Coco remarked before kicking the Fuzor's cobra head, causing him to let go and fall from the cliff, screaming.

"Well that was...something," Velvet said as she only now noticed the damage done to the forest. "What now?"

"We just keep walking til we find some answers as to where the hell we are," Coco answered.

"What if they come back?" Yatsuhashi asked.

"Trust me, Yatsu, they're not gonna bother us again," Coco answered as she and the rest of her teammates continued on their path, all while Waspinator struggled to move his head forward.

"Ugh! Wazzzpinator...cannot...reach...Wazzzpinator's...torso!" he said, only for Coco to smash his head with her handbag, sending it flying away before crashing somewhere else.

"Thank you..." Waspinator groaned.

SCORE

Grandmaster: 1

Bill: 1

Next fight: Jenny Wakeman vs Triborg

DISCLAIMER: RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and Beast Wars is owned by Hasbro