Arachnix

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Arachnix
Gadget
User(s) Black Phantom Functionality Drone combat Status Destroyed

Arachnix, also called the Arachnix Drone, was a male unique robot-wweapon made by Black Phantom.^[FO:MSG]

Functionality

Arachnix and his duplicates in the Television Episodes.

Arachnix was loyal to the Black Phantom.^[HiA] He usually sat on his shoulder.

Arachnix had the ability to self-replicate himself, creating perfect duplicates, and the duplicates could fuse back into him. These copies all targeted the enemies of Black Phantom. Arachnix's head looks like Thornraxx's.

Arachnix is a variation of the Meteor Blaster. He was capable of firing energy blasts from his mandibles, and he could be used as a normal gun because he had a handle on his stomach. Arachnix could create a small ball of energy that could be held in his mandibles and could sting a robot. Arachnix and his five copies could use their mandibles to make an energy cage with green lasers for bars to imprison several foes that are around Nathaniel Zib's size. However, Zib and anyone around his size could put his hand through a gap between two of the bars. The energy cage could be broken by an energy blast from Anti-Quaza.

Biography

At some point, Black Phantom built Arachnix. Arachnix became his loyal pet.

When the Breakout happened, Black Phantom and Arachnix snuck inside the Hero Factory's Villain Storage Unit through a hole and infiltrated the building in a plan to steal its schematics. After all of the Heroes in the building went to do their solo missions to capture the villains who escaped from the Villain Storage Unit during the Breakout, Arachnix created many duplicates of himself, and they went to the building's Mission Control, where they captured Mission Managers, including Professor Nathaniel Zib, and his assistant named Quadal. The drones put the Hero Factory employees in six energy cages to imprison them. Black Phantom appeared and introduced himself and Arachnix to the staff members. Arachnix witnessed the Black Phantom putting the building in lockdown and putting up its force field called the Fail-Safe Shield.^{[Episode 8]}

Arachnix recalled all of his duplicates to fuse back into him. When Black Phantom became aware of the Hero Daniel Rocka being trapped in the Villain Storage Unit because of the lockdown, Black Phantom pulled Zib out of his energy cage and made him lie to Rocka that the staff is doing a Core Breach Drill. Arachnix helped Black Phantom with this by watching Zib. Black Phantom and Arachnix put Zib into his energy cage. Later, when Rocka got out of the Villain Storage Unit and started to contact Zib, Zib pressed an alarm buttom to drive Black Phantom and Arachnix away from the staff members, so Zib could talk to Rocka without being spotted. After Black Phantom and Arachnix found nothing and then went back to Mission Control, they noticed a motion sensor alarm. Black Phantom discovered that Rocka had gotten out of the Villain Storage Unit and suspected that Zib had helped Rocka. When Black Phantom was trying to use an elevator shaft against Rocka, he sent Aranchix to destroy Rocka. When Black Phantom used a piece of Anti-Quaza to shut down the staff members, he also destroyed the energy cages along the way.

After Rocka survived being crushed by an elevator platform in the elevator shaft, Arachnix created an army of duplicates and used them to attack Rocka. However, Rocka destroyed the army before he went to Akiyama Makuro's quarters. Arachnix then reunited with Black Phantom when Black Phantom was preparing to use the building's Assembly Tower to destroy the whole Hero Factory. After Rocka shut down the Fail-Safe Shield and then his fellow Alpha 1 Team members, Preston Stormer, William Furno, Mark Surge, and Nathan Evo, came back to the Hero Factory after having completed their solo missions, the five Heroes found Black Phantom in the Assembly Tower and pursued him to try to cut him away from the Assembly Tower's power core. Black Phantom sent Arachnix to attack the Heroes. Arachnix created another army of duplicates and then he and the army fought the Heroes. While the Heroes were fighting and destroying the drones, Rocka went to confront Black Phantom himself. By the time Rocka landed on Black Phantom's back, his fellow Heroes finally destroyed Arachnix and all of his duplicates.^{[Episode 9]}

Example Usage

Black Phantom used Arachnix as a launcher during his fight with Daniel Rocka in Breakout: Issue 1.

Set Information

Side view of the drone

The Arachnix Drone is included in the set 6203 BLACK PHANTOM of early 2012, comprised of 14 pieces as well as a piece of spherical ammunition. Included are two launcher pieces which, when squeezed together, can fire the sphere.

Trivia

• In the Black Phantom set, Arachnix is silver, and his eyes and energy blasts are green. However, in the television episodes, he is red, his eyes and energy blasts are red, and he has a scorpion-like stinger tail.

External links

• Information on HeroFactory.com (archived)