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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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[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.

[hontobakabaka]

"I was planning on it. But, town is kind of mess."

[She peers at the car a bit more]

"I see, some sort of sentient car then that doesn't have a computer based OS. I've never witnessed something like that, and I've spent most of my life working with computers and mecha."

[weaponsparked]

So I'd noticed.

[The engine revs, a sound like a scoff coming from the speakers.]

I am nothing like anything you have ever experienced.

[hontobakabaka]

"Probably. Lots of things here are like nothing I've experienced. That and I'm only 15."

[She shrugs, voice still neutral and with a deadpan look]

[weaponsparked]

... Is that supposed to mean something to me? I'm several thousand years old.

[hontobakabaka]

"How many non whatever you are lifeforms did you interact with when you were 15?"

[weaponsparked]

I had killed several, by then, actually.

[If only because he doesn't count Decepticons among his kind.]

[hontobakabaka]

[She looks down and sighs]

"....So have I. Its not a good feeling is it?"

[weaponsparked]

[He scoffs, and the car unfolds. Panels flip, twist, warping like a piece of metal origami, until there is a tall, silver robot standing in the car's place. The better to display his disdain.]

It's fantastic.

[hontobakabaka]

[Still deadpan, completely unimpressed by the giant robot]

"Oh, maybe its me then. Something about pushing a button and having a fleet the size of France disappear is... Kind of disheartening."