A new car!

Meanwhile at Yankee Stadium…

“Woohoo!” Cheered out Valaria and Franklin, trying to get N’Kalla and Jo-Venn to join them as the crowd went wild with the home run. Nearby, Ben and Alicia listened in on the game through a radio together, eating popcorn, and smiling as they heard the four kids cheer and holler along with the crowd as the game intensified.

“Isn’t this fun?” Asked Franklin, smiling from ear to ear. “First home run of the season, this is great!”

“I don’t understand this game.” Smiled Jo-Venn, caught up in the elation around him. “Are they supposed to kill the little white ball or capture it?”

“They’re supposed to hit it as fast and as far as they can, and while its in the air, those players run from one base to the other until they return to the starting base where the one player batted the ball.” Explained Valaria.

“REALLY?! So, they don’t eat it?” Asked N’Kalla with a screwed expression, the Skrull girl scratching her hair in confusion as the crowd continued to cheer and watch the ball fly into the air. “Shame…”

Listening in on the four kids cheer and holler when another ball was struck and the players ran from first to third, Ben and Alicia leaned up close to each other and grinned.

“Do you think the others will be okay back home Ben? I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Malice.”

“Eh, it’ll be okay der Alice, We’s got like half a dozen Suzies back home to keep an eye on’er.”

“Are you sure?”

Shrugging, the big stone skinned man smirked as best he could to the blind woman and hugged her close. “Eh sure, they cans handle it, lets just enjoy the game. I bet Reed’s got them all sorted out and head’n back where they belong.”

*

“It’s a car?”

Picking themselves up off the floor and approaching what came out of the portal, the group of Susans looked to each other and back at what they were looking at. A small, four-seat automobile with a blue and chrome finish sat idle with its engine still humming at the far corner of the lab, where it had drifted to a stop after the portal closed.

Checking the vehicle over, the alien looking Susan scratched her fingers through her tentacle filled scalp and shrugged. “Looks like a hatchback to me.”

“Yeah, looks like it… Who the hell is Chrizzler? Never heard of that car brand before.” Asked the succubus, bent at the waist and looking at the car brand and logo.

“Well… It’s an improvement.” Commented the Invisible Woman. “At least its not another me.”

“Yeah, shame you couldn’t get a better car, hey Reed, you think maybe you could get a Lambo in here next time?”

Suddenly the car’s engine stopped. Startling everyone when it was quickly followed by the hum of some strange electric generator from within that grew to an alarming pitch. Stepping back, the group were startled when the car began to disassemble right before their very eyes. Components detached and folded up like parts to some complex puzzle, forming arms that sprouted hands that pressed down on the floor while legs came into shape and sat up to stand. The chassis folding in on itself, reshaping into a human torso with a head extending out between unfolding shoulders that clanked and locked into place and a curved chest plate wrapped around the front and fastened together. With the transformation nearly complete, the head looked down as it continued to form, showing precise, interlocked components taking the form of a woman’s face with florescent blue glowing eyes and gold coloured fiber optic strands extending out from the top of its head to form the illusion of long flowing blond hair that draped down the humanoid robot’s shoulders and back. Tilting its hip and folding its delicate arms under the slope of its upper chest, the 12-foot-tall robot scowled down at Johnny and spoke.

“Sorry little brother, but I wasn’t in front of a car dealership when I got turned into this!” Blinking her mechanical eyes with a smooth metallic ‘click’, the mechanical Invisible Woman looked around to all the many versions of herself and raised a metallic eyebrow in confusion. “Come to think of it, how are you human again? And why do you all look like me?”

“Holy crap!” Blinked Johnny, stepping back and looking to his sister, who in turn was stunned silent looking up at the robotic version of her looking back at her in confusion.

“Great Scott! Is that YOU Susan?” Asked Reed, stretching out his neck and arms with a pen and note pad in his hands as he studied the humanoid machine, turning its attention down to him with a warm smile on its chrome face.

Bending down to sit on the floor with her hands resting at her knees, the mechanical Susan Storm smiled down at the man and combed a few strands of her blonde wires away from her face. “Reed! You’re human too? How is that possible, I thought we were all hit by the all-spark.”

“All what?”

“Well, I think some explanations… And a greeting is in order. Welcome to our dimension. I am the Reed Richards of this reality and this is Susan and Johnny Storm. I created a multi-dimensional portal which you see behind me, I was working on it early yesterday and it led to some… Accidents.”

“Accidents indeed.” Scoffed Susan Von Doom. She and the other two Susans behind her shared in the armor-clad tyrants demeanor.

“Yes, well, I was trying to get them home and it would seem I accidentally pulled you into OUR dimension instead.”

“REALLY! Huh…” Leaning to the side to focus on the Invisible Woman of this universe, the mechanical giantess narrowed her glowing blue eyes and blinked. “I’ve forgotten how puny I used to be when I was human, then again, after becoming Cybertronian, everything just seems small to you.”

“Cyber what?”

“Cybertronian!” The tall robotic Susan explained as she sat up with her hands at her hips. “I was exposed to an artifact called the all-spark; a matter reorganizer that converted me and my friends into techno-organic beings.”

Extending her arm forward to the others, she opened her hand for Reed to touch. “Here, feel.”

Accepting the offered hand, Reed traced his hands down her metallic fingers and palm with great curiosity. The surface looked and felt like the consistency of steel, and yet it yielded to his fingers pressing down, like toughened flesh. Despite the surface looking like exquisitely crafted, interlocking components, they were almost organic in their symmetry and design. Like she was BORN a machine instead of built like one. He could even make out some of the components that comprised her vehicular mode incorporated into her frame.

“This is fascinating! A machine with organic properties… Do you have the equivalent of nerves and senses? Can you tell the temperature of the room? Does this hurt?” He asked, gently poking her finger with the pointed tip of his pencil.

“No…” Seeing him travel up her finger and over her palm with the pencil still poking her, the smile on the Cybertronian turned to an annoyed smirk. “But that IS annoying, stop that.”

Pulling her hand away, the Cybertronian woman looked to the others and narrowed her eyes to the glowing naked woman at the center of the room with a lab coat over her shoulders.

“So, what’s her story?”

Turning their attention to the cosmic being at the heart of the lab, the others seemed apprehensive to answer.

“She… Hasn’t been too talkative of late.” Sighed Susan, realising how crowded the lab was now. “Since you might be here for a little while, would you like a place to stay?”

Tapping her chin in thought, the metallic giantess shrugged. “I don’t know… Is there still a garage in this building?”