Transformers Prime react to Beast Machines: Transformers

The Weak Component

"Maybe, but with Rattrap defecting to Megatron, who knows how that will end?" Jetfire pointed out.

"Maybe Rattrap's pulling out another of his tricks, like back then at Earth." Grimlock tried to guess.

"No... he's really going to do it." Elita spoke next.

"So easy you say, as in wanting an audience with you." said Rattrap as he then approached far enough to be within earshot of Megatron.

"So this is how the world ends, does it? Not with a bang, but with a trifling rodent barring my way to pure mechanical perfection?" Megatron replied grimly. "What do you want?"

"Speak for yourself, Megz. I'm here to work a deal. I hadn't transformed right." as Rattrap suffers another transformation fit. "You got noise-makers? I want them noise-boxes." Interested, Megatron levitated the platform Rattrap was in towards him.

"In exchange for what? Last time we had a bargain, you turned on me." Megatron sternly replied.

"Any mass of dirt I got on my Maximal comrades." Rattrap replied. "From top to bottom."

"TRAITOR!" Grimlock, Warpath, Jetfire, Ironhide, Skyquake and Dreadwing shouted.

"How could you?" Arcee replied, her fists shaking in fury.

"I mean, Rattrap's 'betrayal' back in Earth was a set up, but this... this is treason!" Ultra Magnus replied, as livid as Arcee.

"I have a counter-offer. One that includes removing your Spark, freeing you of your miserable existence as a filthy beast!" Megatron replied, with a Spark extractor at the ready at Rattrap's face.

"You did not 'free' anyone of their existence... you condemned them to a fate worse than deactivation." Prime replied in silent anger, prompting Elita to calm him down.

Megatron felt nervous.

Though nervous, Rattrap quickly spoke next. "Not so fast. I got me a signal code relaying me to my buddies. Touch my Spark and they'll come to slag you up." holding a Maximal signal relayer the size of a metal coffin.

Megatron chuckled "Oooh, yes, do it, call for your friends."

Seeing that Megatron remained unpertubed by his friends, Rattrap nervously hissed "I'll do it!"

"Oh, please do. You wouldn't be here unless you had nowhere to turn to, do you now, Rattrap?" Megatron replied, wanting Rattrap to do it...

"Do it, you little scrapper. Call them." Ironhide replied through gritted teeth.

"Come on, grandnephew, do it." Arcee replied.

but Rattrap ultimately desisted, dropping the signal box to the abyss below.

"Curse you, rodent!" Ironhide hissed. Arcee couldn't get any more furious now.

"Every war has treason, Ironhide. You need to see who is willing to do so, to see it." Starscream taunted.

"Yes, especially from someone like you..." Onslaught muttered, Shockwave and Skyquake agreeing.

"It seems you're at a crossroads, my friend. Finally, you realize the truth that Optimus has led you astray..." Megatron replied with a 'reassuring' tone in his voice.

"I uh... ain't really ready to fly the Vehicon flag yet, if you know what I mean." Rattrap replied.

"Maybe not, but I can offer you that myself. All I ask, for one night only, you will stand by my side as Optimus and his filthy beasts would come for us. What do you say?" Megatron replied, attempting to sweeten the offer by showing Rattrap a heavily armored and armed exoskeleton; one loaded to the brim with thickened diecast, laser guns at the arms and a tube-built missile launcher at the shoulders.