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Megatron Beast Wars and Beast Machines - Beast Wars

Megatron Beast Wars and Beast Machines - Season One

Upon arrival on prehistoric Earth with his small number of troops, and pursued by a small contingent of Maximals (with only Megatron aware of where and when they truly were), both sides adopted beast mode transformation, which would shield them from the high levels of Energon radiation that blanketed the planet. Megatron adopted the fearsome form of a tyrannosaurus rex, and immediately began his schemes for the future. The discovery of vast reserves of Energon on the planet left Megatron unwilling to actually follow through with the plan laid out by the original Megatron, which was to locate the Ark and kill Optimus Prime as he lay in stasis, thereby altering history and preventing the Autobots from winning the war. Megatron did locate the craft, but decided to blast the tunnel he had dug closed, and began his own plans to amass power through the collection of Energon.

Some time into the "Beast Wars," as Maximal leader Optimus Primal termed the conflict, a third factor came into play - a race of mysterious aliens known as The Vok, who were, in actuality, responsible for seeding the planet with the excesses of Energon. After some encounters with remnants of their technology left on the planet, and the discovery of a second Golden Disk of alien origin, which foretold their coming to Earth, Megatron entered into an alliance with the Maximals in hopes to stopping the Vok's plan to sterilise the Earth with a massive heat beam. Optimus Primal was to pilot a stasis pod, loaded with explosives and transwarp cells from Megatron's craft, into the Vok weapon, destroying it, but Megatron pulled a double-cross, sealing Primal in the pod.

Megatron Beast Wars and Beast Machines - Season Two

This failure forced Megatron's hand, and he attempted more dangerous means of victory - though still unwilling to fully implemented his namesake's plan, he attempted to alter history in another way, by preventing the evolution of human life, thereby stopping the race from aiding the Autobots in the Great War. The plan was foiled, however, and the Golden Disk destroyed by Dinobot, leaving Megatron with no remaining options. However, before he could take any further steps, the transwarp wavefront from the explosion that had destroyed the Vok weapon reached Cybertron, alerting the Predacon rulers, the Tripredacus Council, to the location of Megatron. Recognising him as a rogue who posed a threat to their own schemes, they dispatched Ravage through time to dispatch all those involved in the Beast Wars. Masquerading as a Maximal ally, Ravage successfully captured Megatron, but when he bore witness to the recording made by the original Megatron, his old commander, on a shattered fragment of the Golden Disk, he promptly switched sides and aided in an attack on the Maximals that ended with his death. Megatron, meanwhile, played his hand, and returned to the Ark, unleashed a full-force point-blank blast upon the slumbering body of Optimus Prime.

Megatron Beast Wars and Beast Machines - Season Three

Megatron took a particular interest in the transformation that resulted from Primal's brief integration of Prime's spark - an evolution into a new, more powerful body that encouraged Megatron to duplicate the process with his own namesake's spark. Stealing aboard the Ark once again, Megatron took the spark of the original Megatron into his body, only to find it particularly hard to control; as the sparks battled for dominance, Tarantulas betrayed Megatron by having Quickstrike (who was using a device to control the massive power of Optimal Optimus) hurl Megatron into a lava pit. Shortly after, as Tarantulas exited the Ark, Megatron rose from the pit, the power of his ancestor's spark having mutated him into an all-powerful Transmetal 2 dragon form. This form has the ability to fire bursts of superheated plasma, as well as some sort of freezing substance from it's dragon mouth.

In this new form, Megatron then began his most daring scheme yet - seizing the power of the crashed Decepticon space cruiser, the Nemesis, he attempted to unleash its power on the Ark, engaging Optimus Primal in a final battle as his own troops fell all around him. Before the final blow could be struck, Rhinox crashed an Autobot shuttle into the Nemesis, crippling the ship, which crashed, halting Megatron's plan, and finally allowing the Maximals to capture him. Chaining him to the hull of their craft, they blasted off from Earth and entered transwarp space, heading back to Cybertron

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Beast Wars", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki