The Probe (Beast Wars)

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The Probe is a first season episode of Beast Wars.

[edit] Synopsis

Cybertron sends out temporal probes to try and locate the Maximals's location and time and rescue them. The Maximals detect the probe, but it moves out of range before they can get a signal to it. They plan to duplicate their transwarp signature in order that the probe will home in on it on its way out of the solar system. The Maximals begin to build a signal array in Predacon territory while Tigatron acts as a lookout, encountering Waspinator and neutralizing him before he is ambushed by Tarantulus and an experimental weapon of his that forces its victim to remain in beast mode. Optimus Primal sends Cheetor to investigate, and Dinobot reveals that he is bitter because Cybertron is not his home. Meanwhile, Tarantulus uses his weapon on Tigatron and Cheetor, incapacitating both of them. Scorponok and Terrorsaur discover the Maximals's array and send a report to Megatron. Back at the Predicon base, Cheetor accidentally reveals that the object on the Predicons's scanners was a probe, prompting them to attack the array. Scorpinock arrives first and is repelled while Cheetor and Tigatron escape their cages and go to the repair bay to get themselves out of beast mode. The rest of the Predicons attack, and the Maximals defeat Blackarachnia and Tarantulus, but not before Dinobot, Rattrap, and Optimus are hit by Tarantulus's beam. Rhinox arrives and defeats Megatron and installs the transwarp core, but before he can enter the final code, he is transformed into beast mode, and Megatron destroys the array, and the Maximals's hopes of returning to Cybertron. Cheetor and Tigatron arrive and manage to destroy the weapon and chase off Megatron, but the mission was a failure.