Octopus Pot Marked Express Home Delivery Service

Attacking Ikard is akin to taking a potshot.

The Octopus Pot Marked Express Home Delivery Service (蛸壺マークの宅配便 Takotsubo Māku No Takuhaibin) is the one-man delivery service run by Ikard. With his spaceship, he travels the known universe to make deliveries. He'll go through a lot of trouble to find those he has packages for and is nothing but professional in his conduct. However, he is a lousy pilot, at least when it comes to landing, so it's a good thing he has picked a spaceship that is very durable and keeps pilot and packages safe no matter the impact or motion.

Fiction

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Scuba's family had all pitched in to buy him the Tako Tank and Ikard took it upon himself to get the vehicle delivered to his cousin. After Maximal HQ was of no help, he did his own searching and eventually came across the information that Scuba was active on Gaia. He took his ship there, but the only ones who noticed that a spaceship had entered the atmosphere were Starscream and BB. When Ikard got out of his ship and announced that he had a delivery for Scuba, they opened fire. Ikard ran back inside and continued flying around to look for Scuba. In the process, he hit Gigastorm in the head when he was about to eat Lio Junior and thus the young warrior was saved. This also gave the Maximals a breather to meet with Ikard, who at first was worried when he didn't see Scuba among them because if he didn't locate him now, it'd take a year before he could return. Scuba showed up moments later, though, and after signing for the delivery he was the proud new owner of the Tako Tank with which he forced the Predacons to retreat. With the threat vanquished, some niceties followed and the Maximals invited Ikard to stay for a while. He, however, had more deliveries to make and so went on his way. The New Weapon, Tako Tank

Notes

• An octopus pot is a pot laid on the seafloor for an octopus to find and make it its home. They're easy to catch with pot and all because they tend to stay put. Ikard's spaceship is shaped like an octopus pot.