Spider's Game
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Spider's Game is a first season episode of Beast Wars which first aired on January 6, 1997.
[edit] Plot
Another of the Axalon's pod fell to Earth. Blackarachnia uncovered Tarantulas' lair. Tarantulas wanted to get a hold of an intact stasis pod so he could make a ship capable of leaving Earth, and his computer system discovered a falling pod. He sabotaged both the Maximal and Predacon computer systems so neither side would know of the pod, but Tigatron also spotted the falling pod. Tarantulas and Blackarachnia were the first to the pod and the protoform was infected with a Predacon shell program. Although Tarantulas attempted to format the protoform as another spider, he was too late and it had already scanned a fire ant, becoming the dangerously unstable Inferno. As Tigatron closed in on the pod's landing site he was attacked by Waspinator, but saved by Airazor. Tigatron sent Airazor off to get the pod as quickly as possible. Inferno emerged as a Predacon fire ant with a violent personality dominated by his ant nature. Inferno attacked Tarantulas and Blackarachnia as invaders and set to protecting his colony, the stasis pod. Inferno then attacked Airazor. Blackarachnia played along and convinced Inferno she was sent by the royalty of the colony. Tarantulas went after the stasis pod while they were occupied.
Noticing the pod was gone, Inferno hunted down Tarantulas. Airazor went for help as Tigatron tracked the Predacons. Megatron's equipment came back online and he sent Scorponok to bring Tarantulas and his finds back to base. Tigatron caught up with Tarantulas and destroyed the pod so it wouldn't fall into Predacon hands, but then he was attacked by all the Predacons. Inferno vowed to destroy Tigatron and all his kind for the destruction of his colony, but he was seriously injured when Optimus Primal and Airazor arrived to save Tigatron. Scorponok then returned Inferno to the Predacon base for repairs.
