"I am very good at getting attention," she laughs. "If I get to be the brightest, hottest, most frightening thing on the field, that's half my battle won." She may have embarrassed herself a bit with her new powers, and she certainly didn't walk away from the Forge unchanged... but she does revel in that thought. Besides, her brother and sister Guardians are a flamboyant bunch, most of them. A bot's got to work to stand out.

"You know," she says thoughtfully, turning her helm in her hands, "the only time we saw one of those speeders was right after y- it got dragged out of a junkyard. How do they handle over rough terrain?"