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[show_my_cannons]

*a truck is idling in an alley near the apartments.  It's a large, modern truck, with an odd insignia on the back tailgate.  Even stranger, this truck has what appears to be an ID tag like those that everyone wears dangling off its side mirror*

...

This is not the Bureau.

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[thesoulbound]

-=Huh? I running car?=-

I thought they rationed all the petrol for just the.. tanks...

-=Eyes the shiny, futuristic truck.=- Wow.

[show_my_cannons]

*the truck sits there for a moment before the engine apparently "dies", and it goes quiet*

[thesoulbound]

....

And then it turns off? -=comes closer, wondering if it ran out of fuel.=- I wonder how it got here. I've never seen anything this... new... -=looks around, trying to figure out if there's an owner.=- And the soldiers haven't cannibalized it for parts. Amazing.

[show_my_cannons]

*and it does growl--engine kicking on again and headlights blazing*

[thesoulbound]

AHH! -=leaps back, blinded suddenly.=-

S-stop! Your vehicle's in danger of getting damaged if the soldiers find you running it! -=But he doesn't remember seeing someone in the cab.=-

[show_my_cannons]

*Engine revs again, but the truck backs a pace down the alley*

They tried that.

[thesoulbound]

-=Somewhere, Ed's screaming at his brother not to follow the big bad truck.=-

Uh... I'm not surprised. -=tries to peek into the cab to see the person talking.=- Who are you?

[show_my_cannons]

*the door flicks open--"go away get off watch the paint" gesture--while the windows are all very tinted*

...

Designation? Ironhide.

[thesoulbound]

-=Elric = STUBBORN and CURIOUS.=-

Mr. Ironhide? -=still trying to look and finally settles, giving up.=- They gave you a housing assignment, right? They... didn't give you a place for your.. That's a truck, right? Automobile, did they?

[show_my_cannons]

*rolls backwards again*

It comes with me. And I'll stay here.

[thesoulbound]

Well, you can't put a truck in the apartment. And there's a curfew here.

[show_my_cannons]

*the engine goes quiet again--thoughtful?*

What happens if you're out?

[thesoulbound]

The soldiers usually beat you up and throw you into jail. Or worse.

...

I'm Alphonse, Mr Ironhide. Nice to meet you.

[show_my_cannons]

*and with a gloriously 80's sound effect, the truck proceeds to unfold and... stand up, looming overhead, while crouched back in the alleyway*

...

They can try.

[thesoulbound]

-=and this is the part where Al falls back on his ass, watching with this awe struck look on his face.=-

...

A-a transmutation?!

[show_my_cannons]

*shakes his shoulders out, muttering*

No. Transformation.