Feral Scream Part 2

Cheetor is behaving oddly after the accident, and a new Transmetal 2 creature is stalking both camps.

Summary

Last time:
Megatron and Waspinator used the Transmetal Driver and Rampage's spark and some lightning to create Dinobot II. Cheetor and Depth Charge showed up and there was a big explosion that logically would have killed Cheetor. Depth Charge brought the Transmetal driver back to the Maximal base and tossed it away (but he is unaware Blackarachnia stole it). Dinobot II captured Depth Charge, but Depth Charge was saved by a mysterious cat-monster thing. Later, Cheetor shows up alive at the Maximal base. Rattrap and Silverbolt actually don't appear at all.

Primal checks on Cheetor, who is napping after he collapsed in front of the Maximals' current base, heavily damaged from the fight with the Predacons. After making sure Cheetor's okay, Primal has a discussion with Rattrap, mentioning that Cheetor has refused to use the CR Chamber.

Cheetor doesn't sleep soundly, though. From the cat's chest, a strange appendage grows, and Cheetor dreams of himself revealed to the other Maximals (except Optimus) torturing him into an ugly, mutated monstrosity. Cheetor awakens, glad his dream was unreal, but finds himself caught in a green light expanding out of his spark.

Rattrap, awakened by the noise, heads to the lower level to see what's wrong. Before reaching Cheetor's room, a large cat monster bursts out of Cheetor's room and knocks Rattrap over, before rushing away. Optimus comes to help Rattrap, who (incorrectly) assumes that the big ugly monster has gotten Cheetor.

In the Predacon base, Megatron hears the roar of the roaming beast and checks the radar. He figures out that Cheetor has been upgraded, explaining who his nemesis from the most recent battle was. Waspinator is sent to capture Cheetor.

Silverbolt returns to the Maximals' base, having failed to locate Cheetor (and jealous of Blackarachnia's concern for the feline). Primal puts together what we already know, and forces an account of the previous episode out of Depth Charge.

Awakening in a cave, Cheetor finds back in his Transmetal (one) form again with only vague memories. Later, Dinobot II and Waspinator find the cave, and after shredding Waspinator into shred, Dinobot proceeds to hunt the mutant. But inside the cave, he finds Cheetor has already left.

Again, Cheetor shows up outside the Maximal base. He tries to explain that he's taken care of "the monster" (that the other Maximals yet are totally sure is actually Cheetor.) Optimus, being less gullible than Cheetor is clever and says go to find the creature's remains. Away from the other Maximals, Primal and Cheetor talk, but before Cheetor can admit the truth, Primal's chest is fried by Dinobot II.

The emotional stress of the concern for Cheetor tears the cat back into his Transmetal II form. He easily blasts away Waspinator away. The two Transmetal II's duel with each other, slashing each other in their Beast Modes. When Rattrap and Silverbolt arrive, Dinobot is smart enough to retreat.

Optimus reaches into the feral Cheetor, awakening his intelligent persona. Back at the Maximal base, Cheetor tries to keep his cool while he flirts with Blackarachnia. Cheetor misinterprets the affection from Blackarachnia as something personal, when really she's more interested in his technology - and how she can get some of it for herself.

Quotes

"I think it's time to shred some Pred."

-- Cheetor

Stats

Writers: Jules Dennis
Original Air Date: February 7, 1999

Major Characters (in order of appearance): Cheetor, Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Rhinox, Silverbolt, Blackarachnia Dinobot, Waspinator Megatron, Depth Charge)

Notes

• The contents of Cheetor's room:
  • A photo of himself and Primal from the first season.
  • A big trophy.
  • A model of the solar system.
  • What could possibly be a model of a Cybertronian city.
  • A photo of Blackarachnia.
  • A potted plant.
  • A miniature model of the Axalon.
  • A clock with a kind of holographic display to indicate the stages of Solar cycle

• Megatron's observation that Cheetor is moving at Mach 2 is likely an exaggeration.
• Waspinator was able to find Cheetor, while Silverbolt didn't. So, Waspinator is a better tracker than Silverbolt?
• Cheetor having trouble controlling his beast mode is similar to the plot of Call of the Wild

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