Sorry if this chapter's short, but this is sort of a teaser for the next one. Hope to all of you out there are happy for this update… even though it's kinda small.

Beast Wars

Chapter 31: The Trigger; A New Element Pops Up pt.1

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Predacon Base

Labs

A huge, transparent chamber was set up in the center of the Laboratory. An entanglement of power cables was patched to the Chamber from assorted power sources. A continuous pulsating electrical "storm" whirled inside the Chamber. The sound of huge surges of power was heard as it fed the terminals, rapidly boosting the power to its ultimate limit. The components were exploding, laser beams shot out wildly from the various consoles. The overall atmosphere showed that Megatron, Blackarachnia, and Scorponok were in the middle of a dangerous experiment that was on the verge of going out of control.

Megatron was at the main console panel, overseeing the experiment. Its circuits were on the brink of overloading. Sparks flew from the various controls as he ordered Blackarachnia, "Connect the collider cables!" she typed in a few commands and additional cables were robotically connected to the Chamber. He then ordered Scorponok, "Boost particle ionator to triple capacity. Increase Chamber Pressure!" Scorponok raced from one high tech console to the next; punching buttons, adjusting controls, the works.

Scorponok looked at the readouts and shouted, "The circuits—they're overloading!"

"Let them! Activate the accelerator…FULL FORCE!", Megatron shouted. "I want to see bolts of lightning! Exhaust fumes shooting out like steam! And little sparks spoofing out! Oh, yesss!" the mighty Predacon leader then turned to the side (facing the readers), and muttered, "Victor Frankenstein… eat your heart out. Yess."

Suddenly, a huge explosion transpired in the chamber; the entire lab shook and debris fell from the ceiling. Those who were caught in the explosion, were none other than Blackarachnia and Scorponok. The two were completely covered in soot from head to toe in the front. It would look pretty comical, and adding to it, the scorpion Predacon hacked out a puff of smoke.

"I always hate it when this happens," he muttered.

"You should see him use the toaster," Blackarachnia popped out.

As it cleared, the chamber opened and out of it, was a figure kneeling on one knee, all Terminator style, completely naked and had its head lowered. Although the steam clouds were too thick to even make any sights of the figure out, it was definitely humanoid.

… and it was definitely female.

The figure did turn out to be female, as the figure finally stood up. The girl's figure was slim, and yet physically fit; even though her body was slightly shadowed, it showed her lovely figure, including her long hair that went down to her back. Megatron, followed by Scorponok and Blackarachnia, raced in to examine her as she stopped, allowing the light to only touch her legs, right arm, flat stomach, and left hand. Her head was only silhouetted, but one thing was spotted… a pair of topaz eyes.

Megatron smirked as he saw the newborn 'clone' of sorts. "Excellent, yess. With your looks and power, a Predacon's intentions, and a mind capable of any battle situation to overcome… you'll go places, my dear." Megatron leaned back in his chair while checking the creature's vital signs, "Starting with Antigo, Washington," He then turned to the girl as he explained. "As soon as all the preparations are made, I need you to go there to gather some… intelligence."

A Week Later

Halfway around the World

Back in America

Antigo Mountains

Late Night

It was night as the pine trees swayed with the cool evening wind. The winds were howling against the rocks of the mountains that stood proudly near the cove of the ocean. Then, suddenly, a falling star fell down upon the darkened forest near the town community nestled behind the mountains. As soon as the strange object reached breaking point, it crashed directly into the ground, nearly blowing a Buick-sized crater. As the dust clouds and the moonlight hid it from any sight at all, a strange hissing sound came from the crashed object; a light showed brightly for a moment, and then finally died out. And then all of a sudden, something encased in shadow caused by the moonlight slowly wadded out of the dust clouds and out the crater, that looked like a human shape.

As soon as the shadowy figure stepped in the moonlight, it was finally revealed to what… or who it was. It was a fifteen year old girl, Caucasian, but with skin as white as chalk, slim but slender figure, with dark brown hair that reached down her back, with two bangs that detailed the sides of her face, and had topaz colored eyes. She was wearing only a black skin tight body suit, with no shoes or seams of sorts, but looked like one of those adult footsie jammies, except this one had gloves and no zipper, as well as a turtleneck to boot. On the shoulders, back hands, hips, knees, ankles, belt buckle, and collar bone, were small silver circles acting as some sort of imports of sorts. On her back, was a black pack of sorts, slung on both arms snugly.

She walked along the grass, leaving behind whatever she had come in from, with much grace and mystery shrouding her origin. She stopped as soon as she was on the main road… that overlooked all of Antigo's town. She tilted her hip right and placed both her hands on her hips as she sighed in exasperation, "So… this is where I'm supposed to find the intelligence?" She shook her head as she made for the town, "Well… I might as well check as soon as I'm set up here."

Next Chapter: the Trigger; Prisoner and a New Warrior Born pt.2