Beast Wars End Game Maximals

Months after the Beast Wars were thought to be over, several unaccounted for stasis pods came online, releasing new Maximals and Predacons upon prehistoric Earth, including the enormous Predicon 6 changer war criminal, Sixshot.
Sixshot was able to round up his new team easily enough, and led them to discover the truth of what had happened that landed them all in this strange new place. When encountered by the 3 new Maximals, Sixshot gave the order to kill them all, planning to alter the future to his own design by tampering with the offline Autobots and Decepticons on the Ark.
The Maximals narrowly escaped their destruction, and struggled to survive until they came upon the mangled remains of the once fierce warrior, Tigerhawk.
Ramulus, being a top notch medic among other things, was able to use parts from an old Stasis pod to reformat what was left of the barely flickering spark of Tigerhawk into a new body. Though the Tigertron side of Tigerhawk was gone, having sacrificed itself to shield and save the components that made up his beloved's personality, Airazor was back, and with a new transmetal 2 body. After Torca explained the situation, Airazor accessed the alien files in her mind to locate the Ark, and made haste to its location. Once inside, she did the only thing she could do to hopefully stop the Predacons...

When Sixshot and his team of Predacons arrived at the Ark, they were surprised to find themselves in a viscous firefight with not just 3, but 5 Maximals, led by the legendary Autobot hero Optimus Prime, who was now in Maximal form.
Prime understood the stakes, and had no intention of letting these Predacons alter his future, or leave the planet.
Once the mess was cleaned up, he would rejoin his brothers in stasis lock on the ark, and let the events that must be unfold as they should.