Ex-Jet

Refashioned from a defunct Sweep, the Ex-Jet is the Ex-Bots' very stylistic mode of transportation.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

After the end of the Great War, a Sweep wound up in a boneyard on the Proximax border. During the Grand Uprising, Ex-Bot member Bazooka found it, and with the assistance of Skavenger liberated it. Aware of Magmatron's distaste for using lobotomized Builders as vehicles, Bazooka tried restoring its mind to see if it would aid them willingly, only to find there was nothing left of the mechanoid. When the Vehicon Apocalypse broke out, Bazooka quickly had the jet refuelled and repainted, so as to avoid being shot down as a Builder transport. While he was at it, the Predacon performed a few upgrades, giving the Ex-Jet a vast array of fancy weapons, an advanced IFF system and a stealth array.

The Ex-Jet was flown to Nova Cronum, home to the Grand Mal and the center of Vehicon operations, rescuing a squad of the National Maximal Army when they arrived. When the Grand Mal, now under the direct control of Lord Imperious Delirious, took to the air, the Ex-Jet assisted in attempting to break its shields. However, Bazooka's scans determined that only projectile weapons were having any impact. Thinking quickly, Bazooka decided to turn the Ex-Jet into a projectile. Tricking his conjux out of the ship, Bazooka then piloted the jet in a suicide charge at the Grand Mal. The resulting impact destroyed the jet and Bazooka, but did seriously impact the Builder base's shields. Derailment

Notes

• The Ex-Jet is a "virtual redeco" of the Generations Deluxe Class Scourge mold.^[1]
• The Ex-Jet's name and color scheme reference the X-Jet from Marvel's X-Men, which would later receive an actual Transformers toy as Ultimate X-Spanse.

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