LG20 Skids

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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第20話
First published	May 28, 2016
Story	Hayato Sakamoto
Art	Hayato Sakamoto
Packaged with	Legends LG-20 Skids

Conflict strikes when the dimensional investigator Skids tries to return the Legends World's interdimensional visitors to their original universes by force.

Synopsis

Skids, a dimensional investigator, deems there to be too many Transformers from other dimensions living in the Legends Universe, and sets out to send them all back home and seal off the dimension (with special "keep out" tape). This concerns Rattrap, who doesn't want to lose his new friends, and Megatron and his female soldiers have no intention of leaving and confront the investigator, who calls forth the Skids Squadron, a team made up of alternate versions of himself. He then exposits to nobody in particular that he got his power to manipulate spacetime when he discovered quantum particles able to cross dimensions and bathed himself in them, and now he's become a powerful defender of peace throughout the multiverse instead of the overlooked nobody he was before.

While the Skids Squadron battles Megatron, Skids himself takes on Nightbird Shadow and Slipstream, shrugging off the latter's pleas that only prison awaits her back home. Despite his injuries, Megatron gets between Skids and his subordinates, warning him not to lay a hand on them, but the self-assured investigator exclaims that he's now stronger than even Megatron and uses his "Full Burst Mode" to blast the Decepticon leader with a lethal barrage of firepower. As he sees Megatron's underlings crowd around his body, however, Skids realizes to his shock that a Decepticon just sacrificed his life for his comrades, something Waspinator credits to the sense of justice that awakened within him during the G-2 era.

Rattrap and his friends then form a wall around Megatron's body and tell Skids that there are no factions in the Legends world: it's a place where everyone lives in peace and harmony, and Skids isn't protecting that peace, he's ruining it! Realizing the locals are right and that he's the bad guy here, Skids undoes the seal and leaves, but says he'll continue to monitor this dimension. A mysterious, tiny, but alive Megatron then climbs out of the Decepticon leader's remains, to the pleasant surprise of everyone present.

Later at a web cafe, Skids looks into his own appearances in the Transformers fiction available in the Legends Universe and is shocked to learn he only had two lines in the whole cartoon, yet he's also kinda happy he got any at all.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals/Autobots	Predacons/Decepticons
G1 Skids (1) Metroplex (2) Rattrap (3) Binaltech Skids (9) Clocker (10) Screech (11) Q-Transformers Skids (12) Perceptor (13) Silverbolt (15) Tigatron (16) Legends Rhinox (17)	Slipstream (4) Blackarachnia (5) G1 Megatron (6) Nightbird Shadow (7) Beast Wars Megatron (8) Waspinator (14)

Notes

• Skids's backstory, ability to summon alternate versions of himself, and presence alongside Screech are all from his Quantum Operative toy bio, suggesting it's the very same Skids in a different body (the one from the Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize- universe, according to Ask Vector Prime).
• Megatron's business, rendered "Tera-Kura Co." in volume 15, is "Tera Craco" here.
• Clocker's name in Japan is, of course, Skids, which earns him a spot on the Skids Squadron.
• As in volume 13, Waspinator refers to Megatron's brief time as a good guy in the G-2 story pages.
• Megatron's inner robot is based on the toy sold in the west as Generations Titans Return Nucleon, and is hinting on a new storyline for the Legends releases of Titans Return toys.
• Skids is watching a scene from "Quest for Survival" in which his cartoon counterpart is surprised by the existence of robotic insecticide.