Editing The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!

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|seriesissue=[[The Headmasters (manga)]]
|prev=The Headmasters issue 1
|next=The Headmasters issue 2
|title=Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beest!
|image=BattleBeasts01.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[TV Magazine]]
|date=August, 1987
|writer=[[Masumi Kaneda]] 
|penciler=[[Ban Magami]] 
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''With White Leo and Rodimus Prime away, the Decepticons and their Beastformer allies make another attempt to conquer planet Beest.'''

==Summary==
With [[White Leo]] away on some business, the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] and their unit of evil [[Beastformer|Beastformers]] seize the opportunity to launch a second assault on Planet [[Beest]].  Responding to an SOS from the [[Autobot]] Beastformers, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] deploys [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] and his team of [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] to investigate.

[[Image:Cain-slash.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Kane is able!]]
[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] and [[Brainstorm]] discover [[Alligatoron]] and [[Predaking]] attacking a unit of Autobot Beastformers and quickly swoop in.  Allowing themselves to be captured, they give the Autobot Beastformers enough time to escape.  Elsewhere, [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] are being attacked by the "Fever Vegetation", [[Reproganmar]]; spikey flora that suck energy out of robots somehow.  At the last minute, however, they are rescued by [[Kane]] and the other Autobot Beastformers that sent the distress signal.  After telling his life story, Kane, the Autobot Beastformers, Chromedome and Hardhead sneak over to the Decepticon camp.

There, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] chuckles over his capture of Highbrow and Brainstorm.  Alligatoron wishes to use them as bait to lure White Leo into a trap, while [[Weirdwolf]], [[Skullcruncher]] and [[Mindwipe]] simply ask that they be given the Autobots' [[Transtector|transtectors]] after they're done with them.  With no time left to wait for White Leo to arrive, Kane distracts the Decepticon Headmasters, giving Highbrow and Brainstorm the chance to break free.  The Decepticon Beastformers ready themselves to attack, only to quickly be massacred by a storm of arrows.  White Leo has returned!

[[Image:BattleBeasts18.jpg|right|200px|thumb|White (Leo) Power!]]
White Leo, along with his back-up unit of Autobot Beastformers, waste no time in chopping several Decepticon Beastformers in half.  Meanwhile, the [[Trainbot|Trainbots]] arrive and quickly transform into [[Raiden]].  Defeating Predaking with a mighty "J.R. Kick", they free the Autobot Beastformers still being held captive.  Elsewhere, Kane is about to be eaten alive by the Decepticon Headmasters when the Autobot Headmasters show up to his rescue.  Combining their firepower into the "Headmaster Grand Laser", they defeat the Decepticon Headmasters.  Galvatron orders all Decepticons to return to [[Chaar]], save for Alligatoron and the Decepticon Beastformers, whom he leaves to fend for themselves.

The Autobots savor their victory, relieved that White Leo and the Trainbots returned from [[Athenia]] just in the nick of time.


==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
* [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (1)
* [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (2)
* [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (3)
* [[Brainstorm]] (4)
* [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]] (5)
* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] (6) 
* [[Shōki]] (28)
* [[Suiken]] (29)
* [[Getsuei]] (30)
* [[Kaen]] (31)
* [[Seizan]] (32)
* [[Yukikaze (G1)|Yukikaze]] (33)
* [[Raiden]] (34)

|c2=
* [[Predaking]] (7)
* [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (8)
* [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (21)
* [[Skullcruncher]] (22)
* [[Mindwipe]] (23)
* [[Weirdwolf]] (24)

|h3=[[Beastformer|Beastformers]]|c3=
* [[Alligatoron]] (9)
* [[Killer Fish]] (10)
* [[Drillfrog]] (11)
* [[Yellow Giraffe]] (12)
* [[Elephan]] (13)
* [[Battle Bear]] (14)
* [[B-Fox]] (15)
* [[Big Serow]] (16)
* [[Goldar]] (17)
* [[Kane]] (18)
* [[Wild Thunder]] (19)
* [[Bowdog]] (20)
* [[Snake Bomb]] (25)
* [[White Leo]] (26)
* [[Flykick]] (27)
* [[Rabbit Kid]] (35)
* Misc. Beastformers

}}
==Notes==
*This issue takes place some time after the ''[[The Headmasters (cartoon)|Headmasters]]'' episode ''[[Rebellion on Planet Beest]]'', when the Transformers first met the Beastformers, but before ''[[Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1]]'', which begins the story which writes [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] out of the series. 
*Hordes of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] are shown alongside [[Predaking]], which makes no sense from a Western perspective, as the Sharkticons were allies of the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]] and not the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]].  In the Japanese canon, however, the Sharkticons were labeled as [[Predacon (G1)|Animatrons]], thus making their appearance alongside Predaking ''somewhat'' logical.
*The [[Monsterbot|Monsterbots]] were left behind on planet Beest in ''[[Rebellion on Planet Beest]]'' for the sole purpose of protecting it from further Decepticon activity, yet no mention of them is made whatsoever.  Apparently, they didn't do a very good job.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/japanese/battlebeasts.php "Great Decisive Battle of Planet Beest!" in English]


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