LOL, thanks for that! Drama and a humorous whiplash!

Reading up on this story now. I'm familiar with the Beast Wars series, so it shouldn't be a problem even though it's been a while since it last aired on television.

I'll start by complimenting on how you started the story with the description of where Optimus Prime and Megatron. It did look like that they're having a cowboy western-type standoff with their weapons at the ready. I always did want to see something like this.

The suspense is so heavy in the middle that even some of the characters do want to help them. This shows off how Prime and Megatron are archenemies throughout the entire franchise as a whole.

I do enjoy the deadpan snarker moments between Prime and Megatron during their "showdown", even if they haven't opened fire at each other yet. The twist that they're playing a video game even threw me off the story at the time. Nice writing on that. Megatron whining like a spoiled child who was defeated on his first game certainly gave me a chuckle or two.

The ending was also awesome with Starscream being the smug guy who feels that he's in charge.

If there's anything I'd mention, it's that the story could have been better if it was a little longer. But other than that, it's a real funny story. XD

Chose this for RLT because I was a fan of Beast Wars.

The setting is colorful and the action is well-described from a befittingly grand omniscient point-of-view with Megatron taunting and Optimus stoically doing what needs to be done. The switch to the loyal sidekicks adds a human (especially because one of these sidekicks *is* human) point-of-view. Miko's little girl toughness is cute. The line about Bumblebee's beep no doubt being something wise is funny.

Ah, lovely twist! Kind of a mirror-in-a-mirror effect of the transformers playing themselves in a game of transformers. But of course, they should be adversaries who win, lose, then get ready to play again. Neither should ever be the final victor or we'll have no more transformers. And then you give us two more amusing bumps in the story: Miko so frustrated that Megatron and Optimus are hogging her game that she cries; then Starscream enjoying his brief time playing at being the supreme leader, thankful that Miko bought the game.

I've noted some little grammar nits below, but overall I found this very well-written, especially with the switch-up between the doom-laden opening and the switch to humor.

Nits:
Scene 1, paragraph 1: [...cause {{either}} of the two...]
Paragraph 5: [{{remove: Both warriors}} {{H}}aving finished their self check-up, {{both warriors}} began to walk towards each other with grim purpose. ] [...which looked red thank{{s}} to the sun.]
Paragraph 7: Move "Optimus wasn't fazed" to the beginning of the next paragraph.
Scene 3, paragraph 2: ["You…will not defeat me…so easily," Optimus gasped out, his vocalize{{r}} hitching from the strain. Megatron chuckled, squeezing a bit more, and slowly lifting Optimus up from the ground, until {{the}} Autobot's feet dangled a few inches off the sand.]

I'm so sorry this has taken me such a long time! Just as an FYI, I know very little about Transformers and nothing at all about Beast Wars. I'll do my best.

I like the initial image you bring to the story of the two redoubtable little figures in the midst of a sandstorm (I had to read a couple of times, since I thought at first that it was a snowstorm. I think it was the mention of cold that threw me.) I felt the first sentence was a little passive and could be reordered or reworded for better impact... perhaps ground it more firmly in the POV of one of your characters?

[it's greetings] its greetings, without the apostrophe :)

The battling figures had some nice visual imagery, but I felt that it would really come to life with a little more description and slower pacing, particularly paying attention to other senses than the visual. Here is where I think grounding it in the POV of one or the other would really help - you could concentrate not just on what you want your reader to see (like a tv screen) but on what that character would hear, see, smell, feel and taste.

[Optimus wasn't fazed] THANK YOU FOR NOT WRITING "PHASED." (Good Lord, that is a major peeve of mine, lol.) I think you did a good job of Optimus's unfazed dialogue here, and that this sentence is a bit of a "tell" rather than the "show" you immediately work on. Similarly, you tell us later that Optimus "hated pointless bloodshed", but is there a way you can show his revulsion instead?

[her hands grabbing] I would be tempted to take out the "hands" here, as the grabbing gesture already tells us she was using her hands.

[Her green pal] "console her" is a dialogue tag, so Bulkhead's dialogue needs to end with a comma rather than a full stop/period.

Awww, that's a cute ending! I think this could easily stand to be longer and more detailed, but I really like the overall concept and the last line is well placed. Thank you for writing x

Haha! Loved it!