Flame (planet)

Flame is a planet in the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Beast Era

Flame is a harsh world whose freakish life-cycle makes it a wonder of the universe and a thing of savage, cosmic beauty.

Flame is a lumpy ball of scorched magma, broken craters and searching heat. As it circles its binary star in a rapid unstable orbit, the planet moves through the solar prominences passing between the stars—and is subjected every few hours to unimaginable, punishing heat capable of boiling and even evaporating the metal body of a Transformer.

Despite Flame's forbidding condition, life not only endures but flourishes! As the planet moves away from the searing solar prominences, buried seeds push up into the cooling atmosphere, and fast-growing caterpillars emerge from protected sub-surface pockets and metamorphose into butterflies fluttering above a landscape that sprouts with flowers in every color of the rainbow.

It is as if spring has come with a blast and all the life forms have awakened in an instant.Big Convoy is moved by the sudden beauty, "Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron"

When the atmosphere begins to heat again, the butterflies undergo a second chrysalis back to worm-form and retreat to safety below the ground before tongues of flame lick the atmosphere and wipe the surface clean of everything which had grown in the last few hours.

Fiction

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Magmatron discovers that Flame's orbit has shifted since it was last charted, now passing between its two stars. While most of the Maximals are recovering from injuries suffered on a mission, Magmatron lays a trap for Big Convoy, using two Angolmois capsules to trick him into thinking a new capsule is located on the planet.

Big Convoy arrives on Flame and finds he's been followed by his old comrade, a fellow "lone wolf" named Rockbuster. Big Convoy declines an invitation to form a fighting duo as they had in the past, explaining that he now has responsibilities to his crew. His crew, meanwhile, is playing video games and watching sports.

As Big Convoy continues to make his way to the Angolmois signal, the barren planet bursts into a sudden spring, turning lush and verdant. Deep beds of flowers grow up from the rolling hills, providing cover for the low-slung Rockbuster to follow Big Convoy unseen.

Magmatron confronts Big Convoy and offers to fight him one-on-one (a rematch from their first encounter) with the two Angolmois capsules as stakes. As the struggle wears on, Magmatron transforms into his "Dinosaur Combiner" mode and pins Big Convoy in a deadlock hold, neither of them able to escape. The planet Flame begins to enter the solar prominence, and Magmatron reveals his plan to teleport away at the last moment, leaving Big Convoy here to be destroyed. Rockbuster intervenes, however, and the two Maximals make their way to Rockbuster's shuttle.

Despite the increasingly hazardous conditions, Big Convoy opts to remain behind, as he believes that his troops will come to find him, and if he leaves, they will continue searching and be destroyed. As it happens, he is correct.

Big Convoy is uncommonly moved by the experience on Flame, making a rare grateful speech without Vector Sigma jogging his elbow. Then Break ruins the moment with an insulting gesture. Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron