Beast Wars 7 - 8 Watch Along

Beast Wars 7 - 8 Watch Along 7 Fallen Comrades - One of the orbiting Maximal stasis pods crashlands in the planet's icy northern wastelands. Bent on retrieving the pod first and reprogramming the blank protoform within into a new Predacon, Megatron incapacitates the flight-capable Optimus and forces the Maximals to head for the pod on foot. The other Predacons successfully block their path and reach the pod first, but Dinobot remotely starts the protoform's activation sequence from the Axalon. Upon discovering the empty pod, Megatron blackmails the Maximals by threatening two nearby white tigers, but one of them transforms into a Maximal and introduces himself as Tigatron. Tigatron helps the other Maximals defeat the Predacons, but the damage sustained during the crash makes him prefer his beast mode and the planet's natural wilderness. Tigatron agrees to support the Maximals in any way possible before departing with the second white tiger. 8 Double Jeopardy - While attempting to retrieve another fallen stasis pod, Optimus and Dinobot are ambushed by Terrorsaur and Waspinator and lose the pod, the latest in a series of failed missions. As Optimus accuses intelligence supplier Rattrap of treachery, Tarantulas reprograms the blank protoform into the black widow spider Predacon Blackarachnia. To prove his loyalty, Rattrap is sent on a dangerous scouting mission into Predacon territory, where he is ambushed by Terrorsaur and agrees to switch sides to save himself. With Rattrap's help, Terrorsaur deposes Megatron as Predacon leader and imprisons him, but the other Predacons also imprison Rattrap. The Maximals attack the Darksyde as Megatron and Rattrap independently escape; Rattrap destroys a Maximal codebreaker inside the Predacon communications system, while Megatron allows the bumbling Terrorsaur to lead the Predacon counterattack against the Maximals. Rattrap turns on Terrorsaur and escapes with Optimus, who informs the other Maximals that Rattrap's betrayal was merely a ploy for him to infiltrate the Darksyde and destroy the codebreaker.