Transmetal Driver
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The Transmetal Driver is an alien artifact from the Beast Wars: Transformers series. It appeared in season 3 in the possession of Megatron, seemingly from nowhere. It is generally accepted by fans he discovered the alien technology off screen at one of the other alien sites from a previous episode.
At first he used it to produce cyborg velociraptors made to hunt down protohumans, but later used it to produce a transmetal 2 clone of the deceased Dinobot, using the interior of Rampage's spark. Cheetor was caught in an energy bolt from the Transmetal Driver and after a delayed reaction, was transformed into a new transmetal 2 form.
Depth Charge stole the Driver and thought that he destroyed it by throwing it into some lava, but Blackarachnia saved it and hid it for herself. Blackarachnia tried to use the Transmetal Driver to remake herself into a transmetal, but was interrupted by Silverbolt. This caused her to malfunction, resulting her Predacon shell program to degrade and threaten her life. While Rhinox attempted to remove her Predacon programming, Tarantulas caused a power interruption which allowed failsafes within her programming to take her offline, but the alien Transmetal Driver activated and remade her into a new transmetal 2 Blackarachnia, minus her old Predacon programming.
The Transmetal Driver would later appear in the Botcon comic book story where it was used by the Vok to help create Primal Prime.
