Everything was pleasantly cooler, air traveled freely, light tried to climb behind her eye lids, and then the most noticeable difference, she could move. Her joints ached but where free, the light burned her optics but she had never missed anything so much, free. The brown optics opened as the pupils thinned, adjusting to the light levels. Her optics followed her left fore limb until she reached her talons, they moved a little. She could feel, she could move, that was enough.

 Megatron stood with Shockwave who was looking at a screen, it had vitals and a scan of the beast's internal structure. Megatron looked in through the window of the room at the creature of the ground. Massive with heavy, thick armor, armed with fangs, claws, and razor sharp spines, as well as muscles to wield those weapons in deadly symphony, sheer primal magnificence.

"Lord Megatron, don't expect to much from her just yet, she has been in protective stasis since at very least the cataclysm," Shockwave advised. "I see," Megatron responded, "About how long do you speculate until it will be ready to fight?" he asked. "A few cycles perhaps, but we know nothing about her, it could take longer or shorter," he answered. Megatron nodded, that timeline was acceptable ."Lord Megatron, with your permission now that we see what war machines predacons were, I want to upgrade some of our soldiers," he explained. "How so?" Megatron asked."By acquiring predacon remains and putting them back together we give them something to scan, and replace any portion we don't have with information from our new asset." he explained. Megatron was quiet thinking on it, watching as she started to move her claws. It's brown optic reached the window with his helm in it. As soon as her optic analyzed it the command raced through her nuro circuits, ATTACK!

She was up and charging at the small port hole like window tilting her head down. She rammed it, the two horns on her nose broke through the glass. The leader of the decepticons would have lost one or both of his optics if not for his reflexes. She still tried to destroy the class, but it was to small for her to get at anyone on the other side, but that didn't stop her from trying. "Whatever you need," Megatron agreed watching the beast try and dig at the port hole.

The days passed, but time wasn't relevant to predacon kind. She spent her time pacing the length of the room she was confined in. There was nowhere to go, nothing to do, she needed to get out. What were these creatures? Why where they so interested in her? There where hundreds of her kind, why was she so interesting?

It didn't take Shockwave long to gather the predacon remains he needed for the experiment. He had a few sets on hand as he had wanted to try something of this nature for some time. Now all he needed where subjects, Megatron instructed for cons to join Shockwave in the lab. Shockwave recognized 3 of them as the group who had found the predacon.

TJ was leaning against the wall that he didn't know was one of the walls of the predacon's containment. He shifted and glanced in the port hole and stumbled back almost winding up on his aft. "The predacon is in here?" he asked glancing back at his associates, he was most worried that they were here to feed it.

"Yes, she has been here for the past week," Shockwave answered as he typed on a computer. Split Spark and Enigma went over to look through the window.

"It's just like those stories. The ones about the early early days of cybertron, where the great warriors of old fought monsters to prove themselves," Split said watching the creature, she was sleeping, or so it seemed, keeping still with the occasional movement of her tail or audio receptor.

Shockwave took a tray and filled the syringes with a clear liquid before dosing each individual, no one resisted, they where below him in rank, they had to listen. "So why are we here?" Enigma asked towards Shockwave.

"I have come up with a process by which we can create predacon soldiers, and you will be the first," he answered turning towards them. Admittedly no one had expected him to actually answer, and now that he had there was some tension in the room.

"How?" TJ asked, Shockwave motioned for them to follow him, he led them down the hall to an alternate room.

The door opened and the light turned on illuminating the room. There were at least twelve completed predacon skeletons in the room. All were huge, and half of them had wings. "You may take your pick, then scan," he instructed, they spread out looking at all the skeletons. Split Spark and TJ were acting like kids at a museum, staring wide eyed at everything, where as Enigma acted like the mom, only looking at things that interested her. TJ was first to stop in front of a form, "Wait, so when I scan this...?" he wanted to know what he should expect to happen.

"You will transform to your new alternate mode," Shockwave answered.

"Am I still going to have my vehicle mode?" he asked.

"It's unknown what will happen," Shockwave said.

TJ hesitated for a second but then scanned the skeleton in front of him. He transformed like he always did, it sounded a bit different but in moments there was no longer a con but a beast standing before the group, "Awe yeah!" he chirped enthusiastically, his tail wagging. He stood as tall as the skeleton, it was one of the largest in the room, with a dragon's head with two thick bull like horns. His body was strong built and heavily armored with two large wings. Red spines ran down his back to his tail where a red club was attached.

"I look so cool!" he yelled, this prompted Split Spark, the other con, and Enigma to pick their beast forms and scan.

Split Spark transformed into a creature who looked half horse half cat. It had a strong but slim body, casual brown plating, its front limbs where cat paws and the back ones where hooves. The head was a mix of feline and horse, cat ears, horse nose, with feline teeth and eyes. The main was colored black that continued down his back stopping at his two cat like tails that joined at the base. It wasn't as large as TJ's beast form, but it looked like it was definitely faster. "That was amazing!" Split prompted looking himself up and down in admiration.

The fourth con that had joined them opted to scan next , as he transformed his frame started smoking, "It burns!" he yelled trying to stop his transformation. Instead flame broke out under his armor, he screamed, then he dropped as the light in his optics shut off. The population of the room watched in silence, until Shockwave broke it to take verbal notes to his recorder. "Subject four did not survive the first transformation."