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[While Skids might never admit openly that he likes showing off...he likes showing off. He likes the way gravity works, he likes the way you can calculate trajectories using different forces to turn unconventional weapons--such as, say, the dead body of a half-transformed comrade--into deadly flying time-bombs waiting to explode. He likes target practice, and he likes aerial maneuvers. He likes flower arranging, and he likes haberdashery. He likes skills he hasn't learned yet.]

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[Right now, he likes ramps. While he is positive that this chunk of motor-vehicular-catastrophe fell through the lambda from some sadistic circus, he is not going to look a gift-cart under the axles. It is not his fault that a wicked half-pike with a 360 degree loop now exists on the edge of the junk pile, but it would be sinful not to at least try it once. He has even outfitted the end of the ramp with a pile of logs--though why he has done this will remain a mystery unless you see the video through to its end.]

Just in case this does not go as I expect it to, I have a few announcements to make.

First--I seem to be cured. Most of you know this, but I'm making it official. Pharma got rid of the problematic 'devouring the energon of the living' thing.

[Even if he still had the mandibles. Win some, lose some. He'd win more if he got to torment Prowl with them later.]

Second--since we've had a number of new folks...Hi. I'm Skids. Ex-Diplomat, Autobot, and in charge of the Zoning Commitee. I've seen a number of you talking about feeling marginalized, so I invite you to contact Black Arachnia and join one of our Special Committees.

Making a difference starts here.

[The application is attached.]

Third--Nexus is possibly the best Firstforged, and...

Fourth--I leave my possessions to the Road Crew, Dead End, Chromedome, and Perceptor. Here goes.

[At which point he transforms, and rolls sloooowly to the edge of the concrete jungle with the loop-de-loop at the end. For the rest--]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[For the rest there is the sound of tires on pavement, an engine roaring, glass breaking, and...just after the sky turns into the ground and the ground turns into the sky, there is an explosion which comes from underneath the logs.

You can see them in the video, flying in the path of Skid's just-launched descent like a game of deadly frogger gone horribly awry. Logs. Everywhere. Falling.

Then, there is the sound of transformation. Just once.

The sea of logs parts, and is followed by a cloud of splinters...and what lands on the ground just beyond is either an attrocity--or the coolest thing ever.]

I did mention that Nexus was the best First-forged, didn't I?

[Meet Skid's second alt-mode--a wood shredder. Also, he may have broken more than one strut trying this, but he is not going to ruin the moment now.]

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That would be good.

I might be able to get myself out of this alt-mode first...

Here.

[There's the sound of transforming, and the outside panels that the shredder is comprised of fold up...until they make a device on Skid's hood that Fracas might recognise. It looks a bit like the Apex armor device.]

Well, now I'm a car again.

[He's closer to a van, but don't tell him that.]

[Fracas's wings twitch a little in surprise, but he narrows his eyes and gets a little closer to the screen. Huh. That's interesting.]

Huh. That thing on your hood looks kind of like this... armor I've seen before.

Well. That others Vehicons saw and I saw the footage later, anyway. But it didn't turn anyone into a wood shredder I don't think.

Nexus gave it to me.

I can take it off, but if I keep it on then I get an extra alt-mode and some...yes. Some armor, that is exactly how it goes.

What does the one you've seen turn into?

It turned into this un-destroyable exoskeleton thing. It was called the Apex Armor.

Starscream used it once and survived a Predacon chewing on him. But I heard he lost the suit to a human.

A human probably had more need of it than a robot did.

Mine is not destructible, but it is very cool looking. I'd show you if...well. If I weren't mildly concerned that transforming might rip something vital out of my interior.

Probably. But she was kinda the enemy. And like. Karate-chopped Vehicons after that. I have to be offended on principle.

Yeah that. That would be bad. So let's not do that. Should... do you need someone to come take it off of you?

...Karate-chopping people that look exactly like you is a good reason to have a prejudice against someone.

[He didn't really see how anyone could karate-chop anything that looked like Fracas, but...well, Decepticons.]

What?

Oh, no. It comes off easily enough, I just need to get my struts looked at before I try transforming again.

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