Tigerhawk

Tigerhawk's History

Tigerhawk was the result of a forced fusion of Airazor and Tigatron's bodies by the Vok to deal with the tamperings of Megatron and the Predacons during the Beast Wars.

Concerned with Megatron's constant meddling with the timestream, the Vok extracted the Sparks of the inert, captive Maximals Tigatron and Airazor. Their bodies were merged together to form the staggeringly powerful Tigerhawk. Inhabited by two members of the Vok species, Tigerhawk travelled to Earth as a blindingly powerful energy comet.

Tigerhawk's energy-ball plunged to Earth, impacting and utterly destroying the Darksyde. Declaring himself the emissary of the Vok, they charged Megatron with "the willful disruption of time and space", and demanded Megatron's immediate surrender. Megatron was not so keen on this idea, and ordered a Predacon attack instead. Tigerhawk engaged and defeated the entire Predacon force, then shot down Megatron. Optimus Primal arrived at that point, concerned that if Megatron was killed, the Spark of the original Megatron would also be destroyed, thus worsening the damage to the time stream. Tigerhawk dismissed Primal's concerns as intolerable interference, and buried him in the ground with a wave of his hand. Tigerhawk was seconds away from executing the unconscious Predacon leader when Tarantulas disabled him with specialized versions of his arachnoid helper-drones.

Tigerhawk awoke to find himself a captive in Tarantulas's lair. The spider attempted to destroy Tigerhawk's mind by forcefully removing the Vok presence inhabiting it. Due to a fluke coincidence, Tarantulas only succeeded in destroying himself. The Sparks of Airazor and Tigatron, which followed Tigerhawk to Earth, merged to become one and entered Tigerhawk's body.

Tigerhawk's memories appeared vague—at first they seemed not to remember being Tigatron or Airazor, yet after a moment he recognized Earth as "home". They remembered enough specifics of the Beast Wars to find surprising the appearance of Cheetor as a Transmetal 2 and Optimus Primal in his "Optimal" form.

The Maximals were pretty impressed to have Tigerhawk around, with Optimus Primal quoting scripture from the Covenant of Primus about a "mighty warrior" from "the heavens". The Predacons, for their part, were scared oilless and Rampage told Megatron that there was nothing he could find that could work against Tigerhawk. Unfortunately, that wasn't true: Megatron discovered the Decepticon warship Nemesis! Tigerhawk and Optimus raced against time to back up Depth Charge and stop the Nemesis from being activated, but to no avail. After a brief fight, Tigerhawk offered to hold the line while Optimus went back and warned the others.

Despite holding their own for quite some time against the legendary warship as well as simultaneously draining the ship of its power, Tigerhawk was killed by the ship's main cannon. Dinobot respected their actions as "a brave stand, and noble", while Optimus swore that no more of his friends were going to die because of Megatron's ambitions.