Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur
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Tornado passes the time aboard the Tidal Wave by recording his thoughts and arguing with you.
Synopsis
Squadron X mounts an attack on Torax Prime in an attempt to draw out the Wreckers, but quickly realize that their Autobot foes aren't coming – the Great War has ended. Fang, Triton and Crosscut all attempt to disobey Macabre's orders to stay put, and are summarily executed by the Squadron's leader. When Earthquake subsequently goes mad, blowing up himself and Macabre, Tornado and Ferak are left as the group's last surviving members.
The duo flee Torax Prime in a cobbled-together ship, but find themselves pursued in deep space by an Autobot fighter craft. The Decepticons are saved, however, by the timely intervention of the Tidal Wave and her crew of Star Seeker pirates. The ship's captain, Cannonball, agrees to take the pair aboard on the condition that they assist with an enigmatic heist he is planning.
Tornado and Ferak fall in with the crew's everyday pillaging and plundering, including one raid that leads them to a vault containing a parchment map that relates to Cannonball's grand plan. Ferak and existing crew-member Axor bond over their shared love of weaponry, whilst Tornado develops a distaste for Olin Zarak, a young Nebulan who inherited the Scorponok body from his father and acts as muscle for the ship.
The Tidal Wave passes into the Demon's Maw, a region of space rendered devoid of light by gas clouds. The crew pass the time in various ways, with Stormcharge and Turbolift hunting vapor-rats, whilst others listen to tales of the Star Seekers' history from the ship's ancient bartender, Thunderlane. Eventually, however, the monotony is broken by an attack by a vast space monster. Thanks to forewarning from the bartender's pet sonicondor, Ferrocious, the pirates are able to react quickly, but not before the creature swallows part of the Tidal Wave and several of her crew-members, including Thunderlane. The ship is nearly lost, but a cunning Cannonball has Master Gunner Brimstone hold fire until they are nearly inside the creature's mouth, allowing them to fire down its throat and send it running.
Leaving the Maw, the Star Seekers restock supplies on the planet Greengard, picking up Rockhopper, a near-Cybertronian who never leaves his penguin-like alternate mode, as a new maintenance technician at the same time. Not long afterwards, Cannonball makes a grand motivational speech for the crew, aided by the Chairman, a robot who acts as speech writer, teleprompter and – in alternate mode – the captain's chair.
