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[weaponsparked]

[Residents of 5718 Cunningham Lane, there is a Corvette in your driveway -- if it still exists. Since... an Autobot isn't going to fit in the house, after all. It just sits there, still, silent, looking for all the world like a perfectly ordinary car.

Until the engine suddenly revs, and it streaks backward into the streets. For a second, it

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[freakinblur]

[Scout's out on patrol/cleanup duty, and he stops to stare at the car. He's never seen one like that before. He wonders who's driving it.]

[weaponsparked]

[Well. That human looks familiar. The car pulls to a halt... with the distinct impression that Scout is being watched.]

[freakinblur]

That's a fancy-lookin' car ya got there. [He walks over to the driver's side window, trying to see who's behind the wheel.]

[weaponsparked]

I know I am.

[Is that car's voice familiar? Probably. And the window rolls down to reveal... no one in the car.]

[electrowhipit]

[ At some point, that Corvette is going to get a transmission ]

::Sideswipe? Are you there?::

[weaponsparked]

[His answer may just be a little frantic.]

::Jolt! Yes! Yes, I'm here!::

[electrowhipit]

::I--- Where are you?::

[weaponsparked]

::Heading for your street. Now.::

A- I figured Hitler totally needs to see this....

[springtime4me]

[Looking at the car curiously. Wondering if it belongs to Mr. Sideswipe.]

Ahahah, hey there not-son!

[weaponsparked]

... Hitler?

[The car doesn't actually move, but there's a feeling of being watched. And that voice may very well be familiar.]

Re: Ahahah, hey there not-son!

[springtime4me]

[He jumps back in surprise. He hadn't thought anyone was in the car. Then again.... that voice hadn't sounded like someone inside a car....]

......Mr. Sideswipe?

[weaponsparked]

Yes.

[And, without warning, the car unfolds. Panels flip, twist, warping like a piece of metal oragami, until there is a tall, silver robot standing in the car's place.]

Are you all right?

[evers_hacker]

[Having just come out of the hospital and missing what had happened, April is walking the damaged streets of Mayfield with a frown on her face.]

[weaponsparked]

[He's about to pass her when he recognizes her. Vaguely. And then, it's only as "Jolt's Friend".

The Corvette slows.]

What happened to you?

[evers_hacker]

[The voice is slightly familiar to her, so she answers while still looking around.] I, ah, got into a fight...

[She trails off when she spots the car and blinks at it before she stops walking completely.

She's torn between fangirlish glee and confusion (had the voice come from the car?) and it shows on her face.]

[weaponsparked]

[The car seems to... be staring at her. If that's even possible for a car to do.]

With what? That mess at the dairy?

[hontobakabaka]

[Pulling herself out of the building shell she's been hiding in, Ruri slowly heads down the streets, waving slightly to the car that doesn't belong in the 1950's in a tired way to see if she can get its attention and see who is driving it.]

[weaponsparked]

[The car slows, stopping a few feet away. No driver emerges, however. Despite that, there is the distinct feeling of being watched.]

... Are you damaged?

[hontobakabaka]

"I'm bruised, a few cuts, but otherwise I'm just exhausted. Are you an AI, or remote?"

[weaponsparked]

Then why are you wandering around? Go recharge or whatever.

[A pause, and then, indignantly.]

Neither.