Chapter 1

Here there be Pokémon

The land shook with their impact, the second ship –for that's what they both were- slid to a stop; its landing forming a new clearing for the forest, after a few minutes a small object rose from the side of the ship and shot into the air, hovering in place as it emitted two wide bands of yellow light.

The yellow bands passed over hundreds of Pokémon going about their daily lives, picking out and selecting two dozen different pieces of DNA and reconstructing the creatures. As it passed a museum in a nearby town; an ancient power reacted to its presence. It had been deep in slumber for years, perhaps centuries, waiting for the right being; and although this wasn't exactly what it had expected, at last here he was, it was time.

The tower shook as the rest of team Plasma made their presence known, as per his instructions. N knew he only had a limited time to awaken Zekrom, White was probably already on her way up the tower and his men would only stall her for so long. But he wanted her here, watching him awaken Zekrom should encourage her to seek out its legendary counterpart, Reshiram and he could finally know who was right.

Ever since that day, the day he had first met White all those months ago, he had been unsure about whether his ideals were right or not. Seeing her interact with her Lillipup… it was the first time he had ever seen a captured Pokémon happy. That had been the first seed of doubt and with every battle he had become more unsure. Eventually he had decided to use the legendary Pokémon to prove to himself once and for all who was right.

And now here he stood at the top of the tower, the dark stone sat on a pedestal a short distance in front of him. So close. He reached out only to stumble back as the entire tower shook, dislodging a few stones from the ceiling.

Cautiously N pulled himself to his feet and looked around. That tremor had been even worse than blowing a hole in the base of the tower! Had White's Excadrill misfired an earthquake attack or something? He had thought White was smarter than that, letting loose a ground type in an ancient tower like this.

Again he approached the dark stone, but just as he was about to reach out a touch it a purple light washed through the room. Upon contact with the dark stone the whole thing began to spin, energy flowing out in waves, before it froze…. And disintegrated into nothing.

When White finally reached the top, her Archen following close behind, she had been ready for an all-out battle against the green haired teen. Instead she found him standing next to a pedestal at the opposite end of the room, his back to her.

'N?' the king of team Plasma turned to look at her and she got a glimpse of a small pile of black sand sitting on the surface.

'Zekrom… Zekrom's gone… he rejected me… my ideals… perhaps… perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps team Plasma is wrong…' head down, he walked past her and vanished down the stairs.

White stood there, staring at him even after he was long out of sight as her mind tried to catch up. She turned her gaze to the room, lingering on the pile of black dust laying innocently on the pedestal, before turning to look at Rocca who let out a questioning Arrrrc?

Was that it? All the loss and pain that so many people had suffered at the hands of team Plasma, all the pain so many Pokémon were put through at their hands. After all N's bravo and conviction, was he really giving up just like that? Was it really over that easily?

Returning Rocca to her Pokéball, White started to follow after N when she received a call on her Xtransceiver. Answering, White saw Professor Juniper. Bianca and Cheren were also connected but to her surprise instead of her usual, cheery self; the professor's face was blank.

'Professor Juniper! What's wrong?' White picked up her pace down the tower.

'White, we found Reshiram! It was in Nacrene Museum all along!'

'Isn't that a good thing Professor?' Cheren inquired, 'now we can stop team Plasma!'

'The problem is it, well, it disintegrated into dust…'

'Professor, I'm coming in from Dragonspiral tower; I'll be in Nacrene city soon.' White switched off her Xtransceiver and raced down the stairs. Rocca was still too young to fly so she had to get to the Pokémon centre as quickly as possible and pick up her Tranquill. Something weird was going on here and she was determined to find out.

On-board the Axalon, a small (at least in comparison to most of his species) Cybertronian pulled himself out of a CR chamber and looked down at his new form in bewilderment. 'Aw man, ah 'new dis was a weird planet but dis is just plain ridiculous!' He tried to get a better look at the long tail standing straight up behind him but the best he could get was a quick glimpse of white before it shifted out of view again.

'Ha! You look like a neon target with all those yellow stripes, now look at this form! Sleek, powerful, now this is built for speed! Like that earth animal… ha! That's it! Call me Leopard!' A large purple and yellow cat stepped out of a CR chamber, a hooked barb of a tail swinging behind it.

'Ah think dat's a Cheetah ya thinkin' of'

'But leopard sounds way cooler.'

'Well if ya namin' ya'self after an earth animal den why not? Ah think Rattrap sounds 'bout right for me.'

'This is incredible. In all my research I've never seen anything like these forms before, there's no record of anything like this in the data banks.' The two 'bots turned to look at the newest arrival to the group and couldn't help but take a step back at the sight of the huge Cybertronian before them.

'Whoa, that's one giant insect' the newly named Rattrap couldn't help but comment as he eyed his old friend's new form. The transformer was a huge insect, easily twice as large as Leopard, he was covered in red and purple armour with a black underneath, he had eight small forelegs and four huge back legs that supported his body, making it look like he was constantly rearing up. It was a rather imitating sight.

'So, watcha' callin' ya'self?'

'I guess Centinox works… where's Optimus?'

'Here Centinox, and I agree, these forms are… unusual, but they will be key in our survival on this planet.'

The final CR chamber opened and emitted the final member of their group.

'Big bot…' Leopard's words died on his mouth as his eyes widened in awe at their leader Optimus Primal.

The only thing they could describe his beast mode as was a giant, white dragon, so big he could barely fit into the chamber; flames flickered off his tail as he stepped out and turned a set of cold blue optics on the rest of the Cybertronians.

'We may need energon to function, but in this case it is too much of a good thing, these beast modes should protect us from the worst of the effects.'

'So old friend, what now?'

'What now Centinox? We may be on an unknown and possibly hostile world, but our mission has not changed. We must find and take down the Predacons before they repair their ship and escape.' He stepped past them and up to the small console set up to one side of the medbay, accessing the ships systems.

'Maximals, our first duty is to find a viable source of energon and scope out the surrounding area. The Axalon picked up a race similar to humans on the scanners so we have to be careful, who knows how the local life forms will react to us and with the present threat of the Predacons' I'd rather not risk it. Our crew may be safe from the high levels of energon on this planet in their stasis pods, but it means Megatron has us outnumbered.' He sighed as the series of short range scans he had made were completed, the results making no sense to him. 'This is one unusual planet, wherever it is.'

'I'll scope out the area big bot! With my speed I can outrun anything!'

'Leopard! Wait!' But the catformer had already vanished into the control centre and down the elevator.

Leopard darted between the trees outside the Axalon, annoyed by how the closed spaces of the trees made it difficult to build up proper speed. What was the point of been fast if you couldn't build up speed? Off to the side he saw an opening in the tree line and he turned, seeking out the possible open space beyond.

The moment he exited into the clearing though, he knew he had made a big mistake. Before him sat what looked like a human… and next to him was a giant bird (at least, he was pretty sure birds weren't supposed to be bigger than a human) and an even bigger creature seemingly made entirely of blue and red rock.

'Hey, a Liepard! Gigalith, Rock Slide!' In a matter of seconds the male had scrambled to his feet. The rock monster -Gigalith- let out a roar and slammed two of its four massive legs against the ground, sending rocks flying up from the ground towards the young Maximal. It was only thanks to the reflexes born from stellarcycles of flying spacecraft that stopped him from been reduced to a pile of scrap metal then and there.

'Smack Down!' again Leopard barely managed to dodge the incoming rock, which was moving at an even faster speed. The stone ruffed synthetic fur as it bushed past his side; jumping gyros that was close!

'Wow Unfezant! Look at those reflexes, he'll be a great addition to the team don't you think?' The brown and grey bird next to him let out a trill in response.

The next high-speed stone hit his tail as he dodged; there was a faint crack as something broke and Leopard shouted in pain, stumbling. It was only pure luck that the next rock missed him as he stumbled away. This shouldn't be happening; he was a pilot for Primus sake! Not some Predacon gladiator without basic warning systems.

It was at that moment Centinox came racing out between the trees and rammed into Gigalith, knocking it off its feet.

'A double battle? Cool! This will be great practice for the battle subway! Go, Unfezant! Use Air Slash!' The giant bird next to him raised a wing and slashed it out from in front of its body; sending a powerful blade of air into Centinox's side. The Maximal let out a shout of pain and staggered back; energon dripping through a crack in his outer armour.

'Centinox!' a brown and yellow blur shot past Leopard and latched itself onto Unfezant's wing.

Rattraps attack didn't even seem to faze the bird as without prompt it released another attack, knocking Rattrap away before turning its attention back to the faux-Scolipede.

'Unfezant! Air Slash the Scolipede again, knock it out! Gigalith! Rock Slide! Don't hit the Liepard, I want it alive.'

The two creatures readied for battle; the bird shot into the air just as the rock creature slammed both its legs against the ground, forcing a mass of rocks into the air. The human turned and started to head towards Leopard, who was struggling to his feet, his tail hanging at an awkward angle sending a slew of error messages to his processor.

This was the scene Optimus Primal arrived to. The Maximal commander had been unable to follow his teammates into the forest due to his recently gained bulk and he doubted he would have ever been able to leave the clearing at all if it hadn't been for the discovery of his wings. Somehow, despite the fact that his wings were hopelessly small in comparison to his body, they were still able to carry him over the tree tops and towards the sounds of battle.

He had been expecting a lot of things; mostly an all-out battle between his teammates and the Predacons, so the sight of a human edging on a group of natives wrecking his team took him completely by surprise.

Seeing Centinox and Rattrap's impending doom at the hands (or rather, the feet) of a walking rock pile, Optimus dropped down in front of them, bringing a wing up as a temporary shield as the rocks bounced off his thick armour, leaving a number of small dents in the metal but causing no permanent damage.

The human stepped back from Leopard (and Optimus couldn't help but wince at the odd angle his tail hung, that had to hurt) and turned gaping at the giant white behemoth standing in front of him.

'Un-Unf-f-fezant… uh, attack?' the command came out as more of a question but the bird still followed it out, preparing to let off another Air Slash.

Optimus leaped into the air and swung a wing at the bird, the clawed hand at the end smashing into Unfezant and knocked her to the ground.

The terrified human pulled out two small objects and pointed them at the two creatures. 'Unfezant! Gigalith! Return!' The Pokémon vanished into a burst of red light, blinding the Cybertronians

By the time their optics readjusted, the human was gone, leaving nothing but a churned up clearing and felled trees to signify that he had ever even been there.

The Maximals pulled themselves to their feet and Optimus grabbed Centinox, carrying him back to the base, Rattrap helped a dazed Leopard to his feet and helped him stumble back the way they had come.

'What were you thinking Leopard! You're little runabout almost put Centinox permanently off-line!'

'I'm sorry Optimus… I wanted to test out my beast mode; I didn't know something like this would happen.'

'And even if he hadn't, this still would have happened eventually,' the three Maximals turned to see Centinox exit the CR chamber looking good as new 'these organics are a lot stronger than anything the Maximals, or even the Autobots, have ever encountered before.'

'Yeh, ah mean, both me an' Centinox got hit by da same attack but it a lot more damage ta him then ta me for some reason.'

'In robot mode we should be strong enough to defend ourselves but the high levels of energon would put us into stasis-lock in a matter of cycles without our beast modes to protect us'

Transforming into robot mode for the first time since their reformatting had been an interesting experience for all of them. Normally been reformatted would leave a Cybertronian with at least the same paint job and weapons. However Leopard had lost his blue colouring to a dark purple that covered most of his frame, leaving only a number of patches and the spots covering his frame yellow. To his dismay, his trusted blaster had also been replaced with a weapon somewhat reminiscent of a long whip with a barbed end.

Rattrap was now covered in yellow lines that just screamed 'target' and his two handguns had been replaced by a single white rifle (a type of weapon he had very little experience using). The only good thing to come out of his reformat was that he was taller than before, but he was still the smallest Cybertronian on the planet so it was kind of a moot point.

Optimus Primal had changed the most. He was huge, almost the size of a small Autobot instead of the old minibot size that all Maximals and Predacons had upgraded to. His chassis was completely white and his jetpack had been replaced by his new wing-arms. His left arm had been replaced with a large cannon that even when inactive, glowed a dull red with energy.

As Centinox transformed however, it was obvious that Centinox had also gone through a mass reformat, possibly even worse than Optimus. His chassis was primarily red with purple armour plating. The medic had gone from a bulky frame to a tall, thinner one with a set of horns adorning his head and a number of larger and smaller ones down his back- the largest pair sticking out over his shoulders. In fact the only thing that hadn't changed seemed to be his personality and voice synthesiser. Leopard almost didn't recognise the bot anymore.

'If we have to compete with the local life as well as the Predacons, I'm not sure how long we'll survive,' Optimus looked tiredly at the remains of his crew- at that moment he looked like he had the entire world resting on his shoulders, 'our only hope is that the Predacons are having as hard a time as we are, and that they keep a low profile.'

'Ya really expect the Preds ta stay on the down low? Come on Optimus! Dese are Predacons we're talkin' 'bout. Loud an' flashy's more like deir style'

'We can only hope Rattrap, we can only hope…'

A large red reptilian head poked out from the foliage lining the north side of Route 5, its mouth opened in a snarl as it watched a number of young humans walk past, chatting away happily as a number of small animals scurried back and forth around their feet or flew over their heads.

"No, no, no. It's all wrong, this isn't earth, it cannot be. Megatron you fool! First you failed to destroy the Maximals following us, then you can't even navigate to the right planet!" He snarled quietly to himself in a parody of the argument he had had with his ex-leader only a megacycle beforehand.

Dinobot glared at the organics walking past his hiding spot, as if the events of the past solarcycle were their fault rather than his own and that of the cowardly fool Megatron was. He inwardly berated himself for not noticing sooner, preferably before he had become trapped on some primus forsaken mud ball in the middle of who-knows-where. Even with the guidance of the golden disk, the idiot had still managed to get the wrong planet, it had all been for nothing.

And when Dinobot had challenged him for his right to lead this small crew of Predacons he had cemented himself as a coward and an incompetent leader in Dinobot's optics, which had led to this…

As far as Dinobot saw things, his only hope of getting back at Megatron and getting off this tiny organic world was to take over the Maximals that had followed them here and lead them against him. But first came the task of tracking down their ship, and he had no idea where they had landed, let alone getting to them. These organics were slowing him down, but he had seen how they treated the native life-forms, no doubt they would think the same of him, and he really didn't need them slowing him down even more with their pointless battles.

Dinobot was on a mission and on his honour he would succeed, even if it meant going offline to reach it. But first he had to find the slagging Maximals and without the Darksydes computer system that was going to prove a problem.

Authors notes:

Upon discovering the Beast Wars Crossover section on fanfiction, I was deeply disappointed with just how few decent stories there were and how most of those had never been finished. So, several months later when I was rewatching the old series while playing Pokémon Black, it came to me; why not write my own Beast Wars/Pokémon crossover from a completely different viewpoint then what I had seen on fanfiction so far.

Obviously by using the game instead of taking the easy route of the Anime like most people left me with a number of rather annoying problems, most of which I believe I've fixed. Because of these problems the Beast Wars Plotline and characters as you know them are going to be rather different to how they were in canon but hopefully it's still recognisable for the most part.

In trying to be as accurate as possible to the game, several of the Maximals and Predacons have had to go through compete redesigns to fit their Beast Modes, please don't hate me for what I've been forced to do to make this crossover work, for the most part I've tried to base the characters designs off of a mixture of their several different remakes throughout both the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series. I'm not sure how well it actually worked...

~EclipseSeeker