[Open][Freewheeling, with little coordinate markers on the screen]

[skidaddle]

[Skids is driving, the camera showing rocks and dust flying as he whisks by. The terrain seems smoother here, and as he's cruising along he passes by a little red flag...then another. Then another. Coordinate marks tick off across the screen as he goes.]

This is a little announcement to declare two things, so if you like good news listen up.

First of all...I'd like you all to welcome 4 to the Law Committee. He filled out the form, it checked out. If anyone wants to vote him off, take it up with Black Arachnia. Or Miko.

[It's pretty handy, having someone to delegate to.]

Second of all...

[And now is one of his favorite times--showing off. Without slowing down he transforms, leaping off the ground in mid-transformation and rolling forward. The camera is a mess of dizziness for a moment before a solid object slams down in front of it--a thin, slender rod....
topped with a red flag.]

Today marks the day the last road in the haven is plotted.

[He stands, dusting off his hands, looking a little too pleased with himself.]

Now, I'm not in the Law group, but if I catch anyone pulling flags out over the next few lunar cycles until the roads are in? [His face gets reaaaally close to the camera--is that a green tint in his optics? It wasn't there before.] Then I'm going to hunt you down, and shove them in places only your maker has seen. Got it?

Good.

[A moment later he's back in vehicle mode, zooming along as if that display of aggression wasn't completely unusual for him.]

[Sadly, he doesn't make it much further before his engine starts sputtering.]

PERCEPTOR. SEND MORE OF YOUR ENERGON TO MY COORDINATES, NOW.

[Someone has been taking a little too much of that Synth En.]

Comments

[Video]

[notyourblueangel]

"Good stuff"?  What do you mean?

[Why does he NOT like the sound of that?]

[Video]

[skidaddle]

I mean the energon that Perceptor was testing.

You should try some.

[Its delicious.]

[Okay, no, actually it tastes like slag, but it does wonders for his speed.]

[Video]

[notyourblueangel]

[He grimaces, instantly more wary – not of Skids himself…not even really of Perceptor per se. No, it's that fragging swill that the arrogant Autobot had refused to consider testing – REAL testing – more thoroughly before being willing to just pour it into other mechs' tanks to see how it did. And . . . now he's wondering if his caution, as ill-received as it'd been (which was actually an understatement), had been for good reason.]

Thanks but I'll pass.

Skids . . . how are you feeling? You don't, ah . . . don't seem quite yourself.