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First published	December 27, 2008
Story	Naoto Tsushima
Line-art	Naoto Tsushima
Colors	Sayuri
Packaged with	Eighth wave of Henkei! Henkei! toys

"The quick warrior who roams the wilderness appears!!"

Synopsis

Hound is trying to catch Ravage from pilfering away a large sack of energon cubes but unfortunately loses the tricky cassette after an hour's chase. However, he catches an Autobot signal...

Meanwhile, Starscream is gloating over the loot, desiring the same power of Galvatron that he saw, and is about to attempt the same thing to achieve the same results. Interruption comes in the form of someone loudly praising Starscream for being quite the gourmet of the unknown speaker's homeland's energon. The speaker is revealed to be a cheetah, proclaiming that as king, he can't just let lazy bums "borrow" for themselves without asking. Just as Starscream quickly gets over the fact of a talking cheetah, it transforms into Cheetor and promptly makes short work of both Decepticons about the same time Hound arrives, saying that living to fight is the establishment of "survival of the fittest". Hound finds the "law of the jungle" philosophy beautiful.

Cheetor invites Hound to come back to play again in the safari park, to which the Autobot happily agrees.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

• Henkei Cheetor has a habit of ending most of his sentences with "Jā-n", a habit he maintained from the Beast Wars Metals manga. Although he isn't the only Transformers character to have an odd speech habit—certain Japanese characters can give hints of their personalities by how they speak, with the way they end sentences as one possible method.