NAUTILUS MOVIE NIGHT!!! [OPEN]

[quality_friend]

Who: Dana, Kid Flash, and anyone who wants to join!
What: A post-storm open movie night, so everyone can wind down and have fun together.
Where: The cinema in the Southern District
When: Starting Friday evening
Notes: Mingle! Bring your own movies! We're having fun here!

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[surreptitiously in the back]

[roninknight]

Clearly, something was up. Drift did not normally wake up covered in paper advertising social things. So he's suspecting, as he does, that it's a trap.

He does one last patrol of the snowmen, because he suspects they're just a matter of time before they come alive in some frosty giant army of carrot-nosed evil, before he rolls into the back of the theater.

Lurking like a lurky thing. You don't see him, all white and red and car or anything. He just...blends...right...in. SUBTLE.

[quality_friend]

Dana totally didn't notice the CAR drive into the theater. She definitely didn't make a mental note that next time, the flyers should ask that Cybertronians come in human form.

"Drift? It's going to be hard to actually watch any movies from there."

[roninknight]

It was the paint job, wasn't it? He'd fit in fine in the gutters in his old, drab deco. But those Crystal City mechs and their big bright primary colors....

So much for stealth. "I'm good back here."

Besides, he's not here for the movies. He's here for the inevitable trouble.

[quality_friend]

She should've expected that he wasn't here to be social. Oh, well.

"Well then, could you at least switch to human form? You're taking up a lot of room."

[roninknight]

Drift doesn't go anywhere to be social. Because every time he tries, he fails pathetically.

Like...here, for example.

"Oh." An awkward silence. "Sorry. I'll just leave, then." He shifts gears into reverse, rolling carefully backwards, out of the theater.

[quality_friend]

That wasn't what she wanted!

"Drift, you don't need to leave! Just- be smaller? Or we could set something up in the parking lot, maybe..."

[roninknight]

"Said I'd been turned into a human. Never said I could do it myself."

True, embarrassing confessions. He has no idea how to change his form.

"Don't worry. I'll just be outside."

[quality_friend]

That... was a good point. And truthfully, she didn't know how to set up a drive-in screen in the parking lot.

"If you need anything, just... honk, I guess. And I'll come out and see you, if you want."

[roninknight]

"Be fine. Easier to patrol from out here anyway."

He didn't want to see your stupid movies anyway. *sob*

[fastaskenyans]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. NO WAY was anyone going to wait outside when there was an awesome party inside.

So, Wally stopped next to the pair to meddle help as per his usual. "I'm pretty good at bending," he said, swallowing a mouthful of popcorn. "I can help with that, if you want. You could be, like, undercover, or something. Never know when we might need, uh, extra security." to ruin fun

[roninknight]

Drift sucks at parties, Wally. Like, he has no clue. He only came because there were like 14,000 announcements stuck to him about it.

"Pretty good at bending." Why doesn't that sound really confidence building? "What did you have in mind?"

[crazylikefawkes]

"We've almost endless options, after all." As usual, there was something in V's voice suggesting he found the situation faintly funny; the masked man strode over, surely smiling. "Your human form is the first, but I'm aware you aren't exactly exceedingly fond of it. As an alternative, we could Bend you down to an approximately human height without altering anything else... and I must acknowledge that these are only the most immediately apparent options, being interested---of course!---in whatever answer Wally had been about to offer."

He stopped and turned slightly, to face the boy and nod to him. "I oughtn't've interrupted; I ought to apologize." The fact acknowledged, he seemed disinclined to do any such thing and instead turned to Dana, tipping his hat. "Dana."

[quality_friend]

Dana nodded in response to V's greeting. She noted that she'd barely felt any panic when he appeared; counseling was working for that, at least.

"Don't apologize; you're offering suggestions, trying to help."

[fastaskenyans]

Wally grinned, waving a hand in dismissal. "Like Dana said, no need to apologize! Anyway, I was pretty much going to offer the same thing." He shrugged.

And hey, 'pretty good at bending' is really just him being- such a rare occurrence!- on the modest side. He's been here for over two and a half years, after all, he's had loads of time to work on bending. And it's something he trained in pretty extensively when the whole Isis-crisis was looming around.

Peeking at Dana from the corner of his eye (hey, she seemed ok with V! Awesome!), Wally turned his attention back to Drift. "It's worth a shot!"

[roninknight]

'Worth a shot' was probably responsible for a host of bad decisions, but, well, why ruin the streak.

"Not fond of being small and weak, no. Not really." But he could recognize 'ganged up on' when he saw it. This was three against one. "All right, fine. But...still not going to get me to eat that chocolate ice cream."

So gracious, he is.

how bout a little faith, robro

[crazylikefawkes]

“I ought to, but I’m not going to, even if I have been admittedly intrusive about it.” V winked, his mask moving as fluidly as flesh before firming again at its original expression, and offered Drift a shrug. “I’m well aware, which is precisely why I emphasized the option of altering only your size. Yes, you’d be small… but you’d still have a distinct advantage over almost any opponent, and the exceptions would soon be overpowered by other people present.”

Surely you can trust the man who helped you escape Holiday.

“Which will it be? I assure you, you will not be pressured into sampling dairy products if you opt for a human form.”