This is another one of my favorite shows Beast wars. Decades after the transformers war, Optimus primal and his Maximal exploration crew went on a exploration journey, only to be attacked by The new MEGATRON, Leader of the Predacons, which are Descendants of the Decepticons.
Megatron attacked optimas's ship and went through a transwarp hole, which is known better to us humans as a time portal. Optimus was forced to eject most of his crew which were in stasis pods to orbit around a very early version of earth. Then the ships crash landed with no way to get back to cybertron. Thus starts the BEAST WARS!!
Every now and then a protoform in one of the stasis pods ejected from the Maximal ship comes crashing down onto earth, to add a new member onto any team. Maximal or Predacon? Optimus will never know until he gets to the crashed stasis pod to try to recover the cybertronian.
