to the extent of looking up to him. Scorponok was arguably the lone original Predacon who was completely loyal to Megatron; the other four original Predacons - Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, Waspinator, and Dinobot - all tried to usurp Megatron's position as leader at one point in the first season. Megatron did not reciprocate this loyalty and treated Scorponok as disposable as the rest of his minions. In the season-one finale, he joined Megatron and Terrorsaur at the alien structure, where the Maximals Rattrap and Optimus Primal were trying to get inside to rescue Airazor. Due to the truce, however, and their hopes of the Maximals' possible destruction within the structure, the Predacons decided to help them. They used Scorponok's toxic sting so that they could enter the forcefield in an attempt to retrieve Airazor. Scorponok announced to Megatron that he had one mega-missile to shoot at the Maximals while they were inside. With their plan to destroy the Maximals thwarted, Megatron, Terrorsaur and Scorponok returned to their base, which proved to play a significant role in the demise of Terrorsaur and Scorponok when their base was hit by the quantum surge. Scorponok seemingly died along with his rival, Terrorsaur, in the second-season premiere, when they both fell into a pit of magma as the quantum surge hit the planet from the destroyed Vok "Planet Buster". After this, Inferno took his place as Megatron's second-in-command. Ironically, the very thing that supposedly destroyed Scorponok just happens to be one of the few things his armor was immune or resistant to. He is virtually impervious to heat-based attacks; however, magma was the cause of his demise. IDW Publishing Scorponok had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing. According to his biography published in the Beast Wars Sourcebook, Scorponok actually survived the events of season two and was turned into a transmetal scorpion, but he remained trapped in the magma, unable to escape until after Megatron was defeated and the Maximals left with him for Cybertron. What happened to Scorponok afterwards is unknown. Toys Beast Wars Scorponok (1996) The Scorponok toy was repainted as Double Punch in Japan in 1998 and as Botcon Sandstorm in 1999. The commercial for Scorponok referred to him as a "robot in disguise with a killer bee inside!" Beast Wars Transmetal ScorponokA transmetal toy of Scorponok was released as McDonald's happy meal toy. Transformers: Robots in