Editing Pacific Ring of Fire

[[Image:Pacific_ring_of_fire.jpg|250px|thumb|I fell down, down, down, to a Pacific Ring of Fire...]]

The '''Pacific Ring of Fire''' is a chain of volcanos on [[Earth]], running along the coastline of the various continents bordered by the Pacific Ocean. As it is a notoriously geologically unstable region that is home to over 75% of the world's volcanic eruptions, the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] have taken a stab at exploiting it more than once.

==Fiction==
===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====''The Stargate Battles'' comic====
In the late 1990s, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] hatched a plan to generate energy by stimulating the tectonic plates that form the Japan Trench, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Striking a deal with the Japanese Prime Minister that kept their activities secret from the [[Autobot|Autobots]] in exchange for non-aggression, the Decepticons had [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] use their pile drivers in the trench, creating a series of earthquakes that yielded an impressive amount of [[Energon cube|energon cubes]]. Unfortunately for the villains, the Autobots got wise to their scheme when Japan's [[Professor Ōnishi]] realized that none of the earthquakes were being preceded by natural phenomena known as "earthquake clouds", suggesting they were being artificially generated. The Autobots arrived to battle the Decepticons, at which point [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] had Rumble and Frenzy kick off the most devastating quake yet. Although severe damaged resulted, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] was able to stop the quake when he ventured into the trench's depths and used his holograms to take down Rumble and Frenzy.  {{storylink|Activation}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
In 2011, Decepticon emperor [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] schemed to put the Pacific Ring of Fire to much more destructive use, planting a series of [[plasma energy]] bombs in strategic locations all along it with the intent of tearing the planet apart. After Scorponok had planted several devices, including one in Alaska,  {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg}} the Autobots' [[human]] ally [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] detected the pattern in the villain's movements, and the Autobots were able to use it to track him down to the Kamchatka Penninsula. In the battle that resulted, the power-drained [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] was hurled into a volcano by Scorponok, but the lava only succeeded in re-energizing him, allowing him to defeat Scorponok by perforating his weak spot with the [[Master Sword]].  {{storylink|I Risk My Life for Earth}}

The Decepticons subsequently fled Earth, leaving the Autobots to deal safely with the explosives they had left behind. [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] and [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] were in the process of removing a set of five bombs when a volcanic tremor started the explosives' timer, and they had to race the bombs into space to save the Earth from their devastating detonation.  {{storylink|Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1)}}

==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire The Pacific Ring of Fire at Wikipedia]

[[Category:Generation 1 locations]]
[[Category:Headmasters franchise]]