Once Dinobot realized there were two moons circling the planet, he assumed they were not on Earth, and challenged Megatron for leadership. Dinobot was sucker-shot into the distant horizon by one of Scorponok II's missiles. After their first fight with the Predacons, the Maximals returned to base, only to encounter Dinobot blocking the way. Dinobot wanted to fight Optimus Primal for leadership of the Maximals. During the fight, the other Predacons arrived and tried to kill both Primal and Dinobot. Primal saved Dinobot's life and offered him to join the Maximals. As a result, Dinobot made the alliance with them, much to the disapproval of Primal's troops, especially Rattrap.
Dinobot's first exploit with the Maximals was to stop the Predacons from taking over a mountain that had been blown open, revealing massive energon crystals. The Maximals won the fight and Dinobot stayed by their side ever since.
Not long after, Optimus Primal wanted to chart the known area for energon deposits and blow up the Predacon base. Cheetor, wanting to set up the sensor relays for this project as soon as possible, was not allowed to do so due to a storm. Dinobot convinced the eager Maximal to go out anyway, and in doing so, a chain reaction of lightning, energon, and the sensors to create a teleporter between the Maximal and Predacon comm rooms. When Terrorsaur learned of this, he and Dinobot made a brief alliance that ended when Dinobot cast him out the Maximal ship.
Dinobot then told Optimus of the teleporter and how easy it was to place their bomb into the Predacon base. Primal did so reluctantly, but on the other end, Cheetor discovered that a vein of energon connected the two bases. Cheetor managed to disarm the bomb and get back, destroying the teleporter in the process.
When Optimus was kidnapped by the alien probe, Dinobot tried and failed to take command of the Maximals. With Rattrap declared the temporary leader by a comm signal from Primal, the Maximals defended the Axalon from the Predacons until Rhinox was able to build a device to free Optimus from the probe. Optimus was recreated with a new body and the Maximals won the fight.
When the stasis pod containing the protoform who would become Blackarachnia crashed onto the planet, Primal and Dinobot raced to get at it before the Predacons could, but arrive too late. Dinobot suspected a traitor, but Optimus suspects something else. Primal sent Rattrap to pretend to defect, hoping he could find out from the Predacons if they had some kind of listening device.
When a probe from Cybertron entered the solar system scanning for them, the Maximals tried to build a device to relay their location to the probe. Dinobot questioned what would happen to him upon returning to Cybertron because he was a Predacon criminal. Although he didn't like the idea, he helped build and defend the device, which was eventually destroyed nonetheless.
When Dinobot and Primal were surveying the land, they where attacked by Scorponok, who attached one of his Cyber-Bees to Primal. When it malfunctioned, turning Primal violent, Dinobot urged him the Maximals to set Primal lose on the Predacons. Primal did so by himself and obtained the cure.
When the Predacons were seemingly destroyed in an energon explosion, the Maximals planned to salvage their ship so they could fly the Axalon home. Dinobot wanted to stay behind, feeling he would always be a Predacon. When he discovered the Predacons hiding, planning to take the Axalon, Dinobot tried to warn the Maximals. Primal helped him and during the fight the Axalon was grounded for good.
Megatron's next plot against the Maximals was to make a clone of Dinobot to infiltrate them. Although having every likeness off the original, the clone was loyal to Megatron and could not transform into a robot mode. When the clone met up with the real Dinobot, it trapped him in a cave and took his place. The real Dinobot freed himself, confronted his clone, and ate him.
When the Axalon's energon shield was stolen, Dinobot was forced to remain in beast form, which slowly took over his behavior. Dinobot's animal instincts told him to hunt for food, so he went after Rattrap. Tigatron helped the Maximals deal with their beast instincts, while Airrazor got back the energon shield and returned it to their base.
When searching for energon Rhinox, Rattrap, Cheetor and Dinobot where blinded and damaged by an energon explosion caused by Scorponok. Thanks to Rhinox, they got to safety in time to avoid stasis lock.
When Tigatron's friend [Ed: Or mate, perhaps?] Snowstalker was killed in a fight with Inferno II, Tigatron quit the Maximals and went to live in the jungle. Dinobot convinced Tigatron to keep on fighting.
After the destruction of the alien moon weapon, Dinobot noticed that now, there was only one moon in the sky, and realized they really were on Earth! Dinobot tricked Waspinator into letting him into the Predacon base and stole both the Golden Disks (one was recovered by Inferno on Earth). Dinobot hid one of them and the other he gave to Rhinox.
Thinking that Megatron was all but fated to win, Dinobot rejoined the Predacons. There, he discovered that Megatron intended to give an advantage to the Decepticons, who were currently unconscious in the Ark somewhere on the planet. By the time Dinobot realized where his true loyalties lay, Megatron had retaken both the golden disks.
Dinobot went after the Predacons when they attempted to annihilate the early humans. Megatron figured that this would help his ancestors, since the Decepticons were often defeated with the help of humans. Dinobot single-handedly defeated all the Predacons, but severely damaged in the battle. Dinobot took on Megatron using the only weapon he could find.... a stick. He connected the stick to a rock, making it a hammer, and hit Megatron with it. He then he took the Golden Disk from Cybertron and shattered it. The Maximals arrived in time to force the Predacons to retreat. Dinobot died there on the spot. Dinobot's spark was then seen flying off into space.
Article submitted by Nick Péron.
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