I don't own Beast Wars or Beast Machines or it's affiliates but I do own the human characters in this fanfic.
This story takes place in the year 2006. 10yrs after the Beast Wars and 5yrs after the Beast Machines.

"Beast Wars: A New Begining"
by Brian "Shadow" Carter

Prologue

After the "Beast Wars" ended, the "Maximals" finally made it back to "Cybertron" with "Megatron" in tow. During the transwarp trip, Megatron escaped the ship and landed on Cybertron. When the maximals crash landed, they were struck with a virus. They discovered that 2 of their comrades disappeared. The maximals eventually were reformatted with new bodies thanks to the "Oracle". They also discovered a brown colored bat that they thought was an ordinary bat. It wasn't an ordinary bat. It was a maximal stuck in beast mode. The bat known as "Nightscream" introduced them to a fruit that'll alter their minds and act like regular animals. The "Vehicons" attacked the maximals. Finally, the maximals came to their senses and found their comrade injured. The maximal leader "Optimus Primal" reformatted Nightscream usin the power of the Oracle.

Short time later, the maximals discovered one of their comrades "Rhinox" was known as "Tankor". After that, a black widow spider known as "Blackarachnia" made a discovery about one vehicon general known as "Jetstorm". Jetstorm was known as her one and only love, "Silverbolt". Then she found out that a vehicon general known as "Thrust" was no other then the "Predacon" warrior "Waspinator". Blackarachnia managed to get Silverbolt back and used his built in scanners to scan a fossilized condor. Silverbolt rejoined the maximals. Another maximal joined the ranks. She scanned a plant. She was known as "Botanica". The war continued on and Optimus and Megatron battled until they both sacrificed themselves.

2 months later,

The maximals were at peace. A maximal warrior was sitting in the bar as usual. He spoke in a New York like accent. Similar accent that cabbies use. His beast mode was a rat. His name was "Rattrap.
"Eh, More energon tonic, please.", The rat said as he placed his order.

"You had enough, Rattrap.", explained the bartender.

"Rattrap, you're needed at hq.", ordered a voice over Rattrap's commlink.

The voice belonged to another maximal warrior known as "Cheetor".

"On my way, boss kitty.", Rattrap said with a drunken look.

Back at maximal headquarters, a yellow cat lookin creature with black spots walked in and spoke.

"Rattrap, you're in time. We have recieved a message from the elders. Megatron is still alive and he has broke out 3 of the most dangerous vehicon generals. They are known as Mirage, Strika, and Scavenger. He even kidnapped a maintance bot a reprogrammed as a pred. He stole a battle cruiser and reprogrammed the whole ship. We have to pursue him back to Prehistoric Earth.", Cheetor explained.

All the maximals boarded a ship called the "Destiny". The crew was Cheetor, Rattrap, Nightscream, Blackarachnia, Botanica, and Silverbolt. The ship was equipped with power of the Orcale to refomat any protoforms and upgrade them to new "Transmetal 3" modes.
The rest of the maximals were placed in small oval shaped crafts called "stasis pods". The Destiny took off and entered tranwarp. They caught up with the battle cruiser known as the "Eclipse".

"Silverbolt, open fire on the ship.", Cheetor ordered.

The maximal ship fired on the predacon ship.

Meanwhile, inside the Eclipse, the "Predacon" leader Megatron sounded the alarms.

"Fire all missles, now. We're under attack!", ordered Megatron.

The Eclipse opened fired on the Destiny. The missles hit the cargo area where the pods were.

"The stasis pod cargo room has an hull breach. Even the landing gear was taken out, Cheetor.", Silverbolt explained.

"Fire missles at the preds ship now.", Cheetor ordered.

The Destiny fired on the Eclipse once again. Both ships pummeled towards "Earth". The stasis pods spilled out of the Destiny and scattered over the planet. Both the preds and the maximals ended up in stasis lock from the crash. They were never heard from again till again.

Or did they?

Read Chapter One: The Awakening! Two humans discovers an alien craft near a Californian Zoo. What will they make of them?
Find out in the next chapter of Beast Wars: A New Begining.