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| - 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 stubbornly refused to use the CR Chamber, but has gone into his own room instead, this behavior an effect of Cheetor's mutation. 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 and Depth Charge) 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 all the commotion and noise, heads down to the lower level to see to what's wrong. Armed with a firing weapon and a firing weapon only as his best defensive, he is ready for anything that happens Before reaching Cheetor's room, a large, unknown, untamed cat monster goes crazy, bursts wildly out of Cheetor's room and knocks Rattrap over, before rushing away out of the scene and into the night. 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 as it gallops in the shadows of the stormy night 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 along with Dinobot II (because sending Waspinator against someone who took them all out before would be just plain stupid). Cheetor continues to gallop, with the help of his new rocket booster on his new body's back, someplace else at full speed. Silverbolt returns to the Maximals' base in St. Hillary's Mountain reporting nothing, not even good news, at all, having failed to locate Cheetor (and also jealous of Blackarachnia's concern for the young feline). Primal puts together what we already know, and then comes to the decision that they must force an account of the previous episode out of Depth Charge if they are to have a chance of finding any more clues, connections, ideas and/or otherwise about Cheetor's disappearance and the unknown cat monster. Awakening to find himself in a cave with no clue as to how he got there, Cheetor finds himself back in his Transmetal (one) form again with 0% of anything but only vague memories. Later, Dinobot II and Waspinator find the cave, and after shredding Waspinator into a million peices for his incompetence, Dinobot proceeds into the cave to hunt and take the mutant into Predacon HQ himself. But inside the cave, he finds not even a single trace of the creature as Cheetor has already taken off. Again, Cheetor shows up outside the Maximal base and tries to explain to the others that he's taken care of "the monster" (that the other Maximals yet are totally sure is actually Cheetor). But Optimus, being a little less gullible than the youngster, is extremely clever and says go to find the creature's remains. In a forest, away from the other Maximals, Primal and Cheetor talk, but before Cheetor can admit the truth, Primal's chest is unexpectedly fried by Dinobot II's eye beam. The emotional stress of the concern for Optimus tears the cat back (but permanently) into his Transmetal II form. Waspinator and Dinobot hear a loud roar and move in. But when the Maximal Commander warns Cheetor that he's under attack, he easily blasts Waspinator out of the picture. Dinobot appears, Cheetor transforms out of robot mode and the two Transmetal II's duel with each other, slashing each other in their Beast Modes like savage beasts in a survival of the fittest war. But when Rattrap and Silverbolt arrive on the set, Dinobot is smart enough to immediately retreat. Optimus reaches into the feral Cheetor, awakening his intelligent persona and removes that of the inner feral beast from him. 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.
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