Merman? Is that what I will become? I've always wonder what it would be like to have an aquatic alt-mode.

[He won't be able to hide in the ground anymore, but the water holds many opportunities. Scorponok takes the card, moves to where his chest subspace pocket would be, and stops.]

I should buy a wallet before I leave. [He chuckles and keeps the card in his hand.] Where do I begin? I've reverse-engineering weaponry and technology from other planets, then used that to create something beneficial to myself or my clients.

[It was all very illegal.]

My passion was in melding the organic and mechanical - incorporating the strengths of flesh-based communication systems with out wires and code. Wooden drones, infinitely regenerating soldiers, blood-vessel display systems. Not all succeeded, but those that did, oh, was I proud of it.