A Transformers Alphabet: Engex / Excitement
Continuity: IDW
Characters: Skids, Swerve, Tailgate, Rung
Note: Before I wrote this one, all I had was a note for myself reading, "SWERVE GET ROLLERSKATES???"
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Skids walks into the bar, hears someone shout, "Watch out!" and dodges just in time for something to zip past him, followed almost immediately by a loud crash.
"What the slag was that?"
"I'm ok!" Swerve shouts. He sounds oddly…muffled.
Baffled, Skids turns to look and sees—Swerve's feet, sticking up from where he apparently just toppled headfirst over the bar. There are—"Why do you have extra wheels on your feet?"
"They're rollerskates," Tailgate says cheerfully as he and Rung haul Swerve upright. "Brainstorm made them."
"That's not a why."
"We watched an Earth movie."
"That's not a why either."
"There was a restaurant in the movie," Swerve says as he brushes himself off, "with servers in rollerskates. I thought it'd be fun for the bar."
Skids stares at him. "All right, that was a why, but it's only raised more questions."
Rung lets out a lengthy vent of only mild, even affectionate, dismay, which seems insufficient given the situation. "I told him I don't think anyone's particularly craving 'engex on wheels,' but naturally he didn't listen to me."
"A good gimmick is great for business, you know? Adds some excitement!" Swerve's threateningly unsteady on his feet, and now he's making a drink, which strikes Skids as absolutely the worst thing he could be doing right now. "Seriously, I think I can make this work."
