Outlier (group)

Outliers are Cybertronians who have special abilities that do not have anyhting to do with their alternate modes. Do to their unique abilities, outliers are generally disliked by other Cybertronians.

Known Outliers:
Windcharger, who's arms act as magnets.
Glitch, who has the ability to render non-sentient objects non-functional by touching them.
Skids, who can quickly perfect any new skill he wants to.
A student who can generate forcefields.

Fiction

Senator Shockwave opened a school known as the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology where Cybertronians could not only study science, but Outliers could go to live safely and develop their abilities. Skids joined the academy as a trainee theoretician Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism and Shockwave soon began to suspect he was also an outlier. Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading Orion Pax, a friend of Senator Shockwave's, needed a few recruits to pull off a heist to steal a bomb that was set to blow up during a funeral for Nominus Prime and kill hundreds of innocents. The Outliers Glitch, Windcharger, and Skids joined Pax's team. Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading