Soundwave quits his job to continue his rivalry with Blaster, which doesn't roll with Devil Z.
Synopsis
Soundblaster establishes a disco club called the Dancitron in Akihabara, and once it's grown popular, he uses ultrasound music to hypnotize all the visitors into attacking Twincast's Broadcast Blues establishment to get him the Zodiac. Having two similar incidents in his memory banks, Twincast's buddy Rewind recalls that the first was solved by dousing the victims in water and the second by playing music from a giant speaker in Optimus Prime's trailer. Twincast goes with the latter solution and undoes the spell with his own music, but Soundblaster takes advantage of the distraction and steals the Zodiac. Finding himself surrounded by the Autobot Headmasters, he unleashes the power of the Zodiac at them, forcibly transforming their transtectors into the closest things they can get to "base modes".
Next, Soundblaster figures that if the Zodiac can transform a robot into a base, the opposite should hold true as well. He hurls the orb into the Dancitron, which reacts to his wishes and transforms into a transtector in the image of his original Soundwave body. Combining with the body, the restored Soundwave points his gun at a frightened Twincast and tells him that the whole plan was for the purpose of continuing their battle... then lowers the gun. He explains that now that Twincast is no longer a warrior, there is no victory in defeating him in combat: in order to win on equal terms, he too must become a musician and defeat Twincast in the arena of the music industry. His decision to leave Decepticon Tera-Kura Co. enrages Devil Z, prompting Megatron to lecture him about the folly of controlling his subordinates through fear alone. Devil Z won't take his lip and wires him into the chest of the Galvatron body, which he then uses to attack Soundwave.
Wanting to free his leader from Devil Z/Galvatron's clutches, Soundwave grudgingly accepts Blaster's offer to help. They deploy their cassettes devices together, and Rewind and Laserbeak distract Devil Z long enough for Ravage to cut Megatron loose. Blaster then shares with Soundwave data on the Eurythman harmony, allowing them to blast Devil Z with a combined harmony strong enough to shatter him, defeating the entity for now. Soundblaster looks forward to dominating the world with the power of the harmony and Zodiac, but his ambition is crushed when Twincast tells him he designed that harmony to only be playable once. This only fuels his hatred towards Twincast, and he vows that his Dancitron will crush Broadcast Blues on the music market.
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Notes
Continuity notes
- The Dancitron originated in "Auto-Bop". This episode also featured the first example of musical brainwashing in Rewind's databanks, as water was used to cure it.
- The second incident mentioned by Rewind took place in Music Label fiction, a minor story that featured Optimus Prime using giant speakers to combat Soundwave's plan to brainwash humans with evil MP3 players.
- The 2007 Takara timeline placed this event in 2007, despite Optimus Prime having been dead in this continuity at that time. No reconciliation of this contradiction is offered in this story.
- As Devil Z wires Megatron into Galvatron, he mentions having done the same to Scorponok as BlackZarak, in the events prior to Masterforce.
- The harmony comes from "Carnage in C-Minor", and Soundwave mentions remembering the feeling of having it in his tapes.
Transformers references
- Rumble appears as a blue version of his Titans Return toy, though a Legends version decoed in his blue cartoon colors was never released.
- Soundwave mocks Blaster with the line "Ikare sound ga!" (イカレサウンドガ!, "A crazy sound!"), which is a reference to his insult in the Japanese version of "Auto-Bop", where he says "Kuchidake no ikare sound ga!" (口だけのイカレサウンドが!, "A crazy sound that's all talk!").
- Blaster's club/stage is named after the episode "Broadcast Blues", the Japanese version of "Blaster Blues".
