Skids

**Skids** was an Autobot, the twin brother of Mudflap and the younger brother of Jolt, who arrived on Minecraftia after the Battle of Mission City. He transformed into a Chevrolet Beat. Skids was shot and killed by Devastator during the Battle of Egypt.

## Biography

### Early life

Skids was born on Cybertron at the same time as Mudflap but after Jolt. Skids left his homeworld, when Optimus Prime commanded the Autobots to leave Cybertron.

### Arriving on Minecraftia

Skids arrived on Minecraftia, after receivng Optimus' message, along with Sideswipe, Mudflap and Jolt. There they joined NEST, an Autobot-human alliance. One of the Autobots, J4U, was also recreated into Subwoofer.

### Battle of Shanghai

In 2016, NEST detected energon readings in Shanghai. Skids travelled there along with Mudflap, Sideswipe, Subwoofer, Jolt, Ironhide, Robert Epps, Michael and NEST team A, but not before he and Mudflap received new upgrades. There Subwoofer went on to evacuate the city, while Skids stayed with the army. He later followed Michael who had the energon detector to an ally. Michael ordered the Autobots to stay behind in case if there was nothing in there, despite Ironhide's warning. In the ally were actually Decepticon Protoforms, who killed Michael and sevral other soldiers. In the following call, Epps commented that the

Protoforms were pushing them back, to which Skids replied to let 'em try. He was supported by Mudflap, although opposed by Sideswipe. He later helped Mudflap and Sideswipe kill sevral Protoforms that came out of the ally. When they arrived back at the base, Skids said to Subwoofer to tell Jolt that if he was as good at killing cons as he was at killing fun, there would be no war. The rivalry between the twins and Jolt was mutual, as the older Autobot found them annoying and said to Subwoofer that he wants to grab them by their necks and give them a little shock. Skids' presence was later questioned by Seymour Simmons, as he, Sideswipe, Mudflap and Jolt arrived on Minecraftia without the aknowledgement of the goverment.

### "Saving" Subwoofer

After Ravage stole the last fragment of the cube, Optimus told Subwoofer to bring Sam to him in order to talk with the boy. After doing so, Subwoofer drove Sam back to his college where he was attacked by sevral Protoforms and Breakdown who knocked him unconcious. A distress signal was sent to NEST upon that, so

Skids and the rest of the Autobots went to rescue Subwoofer. By the time they arrive to the stadium where he was kept howevhere, the Autobot already killed is opponents as Breakdown didn't kill him. Do to that the Autobots began to suspect that the Decepticons wanted them distracted. This was true, as in the meantime Starscream went to resurrect Megatron.

### Finding Megatron

After Megatron was resurrected, Skids and the rest of the Autobots returned to the NEST base. There he ran in panic along with Mudflap and sevral soldiers while Simmons, Morshower, Lennox, Optimus, Subwoofer and Bumblebee discussed the situation. Subwoofer later bumped into him when he and Prime went on to have a conversation in private although it turned wrong and ended with Subwoofer leaving the Autobots. He then went to get Sam and Mikaela before they got captured by Grindor who took them to Megatron and Starscream bzt they got saved by Optimus. Optimus was later on killed by Megatron allowing the Decepticons to launch a full-scale invasion.

### Hiding

Following Optimus' death, Skids went into hiding with Sam, Mikaela, Subwoofer, Bumblebee, Jolt and Mudflap in Greenfield. While they were there, Sam revealed that he was experiencing weird visions about the matrix. Subwoofer who didn't know what this was asked Bee and Jolt if they knew what the matrix was and attempted to ask the twins too but quickly said that they couldn't know that. Jolt and Bee were unaware of what the matrix was as well causing the group to cluelessly sit next to their campfire. Sam then asked Sub why did he leave the Autobots, so Subwoofer told them a story that went back to Cybertron when he was still J4U and

when he was guarding an Autobot Sector with Arcee whom he loved and her sisters Elita-One and Chromia with the story ending tragicaly as all three sisters got killed by Sideways, Breakdown and Starscream causing J4U to leave Cybertron for Minecraftia. His story was then interrupted by Simmons who came to apologize to the Autobots and to resupply them. He told them that he found the group with an energon detector and that after Prime died another signal appeared not far from them. Skids and the rest of the group then went to the Greenfield Museum of Natural History where they awoke an elderly Aerialbot Jetfire who told them that he hid the matrix of leadership from the Fallen who killed his brothers and that he cannot be stopped without a Prime but although Optimus was dead, they could resurrect him with the matrix. This came with a risk though, as the proces could make a nuclear explosion, a risk that they were willing to take. Jetfire then created a wormhole which the group used to travel to Cairo where they learned that Jetfire forgot where the matrix was. They decided that they will destroy every block if they had to because Prime would do the same for them.

### Finding the matrix

The group soon started to dig up the sand and took down an entire hill before starting to dig up trenches. Finding nothing, they went back to Jetfire and Subwoofer asked him if he was sure that this was the right place because they haven't found anything yet but quickly realised that they had a headstart on the Decepticons as they were looking for the matrix too, although he didn't know what they would do if they showed up in Egypt as there was only six of them against the entire Decepticon army. The group then went to a well located at the bottom of the hill and after he checked if there was anything in it, Sub told the rest of the Autobots to go in it in order to take a bath. In frustration, Sub punched the ground once he came out of the

well only for it to not be real sand - instead it was a trapdoor disquised as sand. They then climbed down the ladders that were placed on the walls and realised that they were in the Tomb of the Primes. In the middle Subwoofer found the matrix of leadership and contacted Ironhide, telling him to bring Prime to Cairo but their call was secretly overheard by Soundwave who alerted Megatron who told him to alert The Fallen and send all available Decepticon forces to the location in order to end the war. The group then went back to Jetfire where Sub told him that they found the matrix and that he needed to take Simmons to the city where they were supposed to regroup. Skids joined Sam, Mikaela, Bumblebee, Subwoofer, Mudflap and Jolt on their way to the city.

### Fighting the Constructicons

While the group was driving through the desert, they suddenly spoted Demolishor, a massive Constructicon, causing them to hide behind a hill. As they walked closer, they saw that he was accopanoed with the rest of the Constructicons and that they were standing between them and the city. The group then climbed on top of the hill where Subwoofer shot Demolishor sevral times before they charged at the Decepticons. Skids went into a fight with Mixmaster, but the Decepticon simply used his shields to knock him back. During the ensuing battle Mudflap perished but Skids couldn't mourn his death as he was attacked by Hightower and Long Haul,

although he managed to survive with the help of Bee, Sub and Jolt. He was soon set on fire by Demolishor, causing Skids to go away from the figh for some time. He later rejoined it when he and Jolt attacked Hightower who attempted to sneak up on Subwoofer. Skids took refuge behing Sub later on, which made the older Autobot realize that Mudflap was gone. The two were attacked by Long Haul, with Sub asking Skids for backup but he wouldn't respond. He helped his three comrades take down Overload and later stood beside them when they were attacking Demolishor and Hightower although he never shot himself. After Hightower was gone, Sub told Skids that he was doing good and moments later Jolt killed Demolsihor. The group began to celebrate their victory but it was shor-lived as the corpses of the Constructicons combined themselves into Devastator while a large army of Protoforms arrived.

### Death

Following the formation of Devastator, Skids and the rest of the Autobots charged at the Decepticons. The young Autobot was quickly shot and killed by the Combiner, causing the rest of the Autobots to swear vengeance on Devastator, whom they killed later on. Skids was mentioned by Subwoofer later on when the group arrived into the city, with him saying that they couldn't suffer anymore losses. He was mentioned again during Optimus' resurrection by Jolt, who told Ratchet that he had to sacrifice himself to resurrect Optimus, saying that if Prime would not live again, Skids and Mudflap died for nothing. This was enough to convince Ratchet into letting him sacrifice himself, and Optimus was resurrected soon after.

## Apperances

* Transcrafters: Revenge of the Dragon
	+ ROTD EP 1 (First apperance)
	+ ROTD EP 3
	+ ROTD EP 4
	+ ROTD EP 6
	+ ROTD EP 7
	+ ROTD EP 8

 **Transcrafters**
 **Revenge of the Dragon**