Late Night Joyride

Back at the Baxter building, specifically the parking lot of the large living complex, the cybertronian Susan Storm sat idle with boredom in her parking space. Unlike the other more organic versions of her who by now had completely fallen asleep in the late hours, this Susan was very much awake. She had spent her time passing the hours keeping an eye on everyone through HERBIE’s security system; seeing the wendigo curl up like a cat in her bunk while the Succubus joined her in the adjacent bed. Johnny watching a late flick before heading under himself, she even tried looking into the provided room of the less savory versions of herself… Strangely finding nothing. She worried briefly but was also told that the deterrent that kept them all in check was the same Susan who now floated in the lab alone, mulling over her own thoughts alone.

Looking over the recorded security footage and what the woman could do after she vaporised one Susan who threatened to kill everyone, it was enough to make even her consider keeping out of trouble. But trouble and boredom tend to meet hands FAR to often, and Susan was VERY bored indeed.

“Damn I miss being able to go to sleep… Or dream, at least that would kill the next few hours until everyone wakes up in the morning.”

Changing the views and feeds from the interior of the building to without, Susan gave the streets an appraising eye, finding a sense of nostalgia in finding the sidewalks teeming with people walking through the city, calling for cabs or buses and the throngs of vehicles honking at each other to get to their destinations. With options thin as they were for what to do to kill the time, the blue hatchback revved its engine, and pulled out of the parking lot to take a drive out into the busy nightlife of New York city.

Cruising downtown in the middle of the night, Susan continued to see cars drive by at either lane across from her on the road. As far as they were certain, the driver was a blond woman in her early thirties, smiling passively as she signalled and turned to go deeper into the city. On her drive, she even spotted a few of the models of vehicle she had based her alternate form on. Out of curiosity, she looked up online to see how they fared in the public eye… If she still had the capacity to blush, she’d be fuming.

“Best ‘family’ vehicle of the year?!”

Going over pictures of the vehicle on the internet, her shock only grew. Mostly from seeing version of her vehicle as a delivery car, taxi… Even a cat grooming delivery vehicle.

“Oh god!... That’s the Autobot equivalent of an old cat lady!”

Parking on a free space near the curb of a business high-rise, she gave everyone the shock of their lives when she transformed right in front of them. Unfolding and coming apart only to reassemble and transform into a towering humanoid robot, turning her attention to the mirror reflection of the tall windows of the building’s lobby to give herself a look over. Turning and posing before her reflection and tossing her long, golden, fibre optic hair over her mechanical shoulder, the 12-foot-tall robotic woman pursed her chrome lips in a pout as she bent at the waist and rested her hands at her knees, giving her reflection an alluring stare.

“Johnny was right, I should have picked a muscle car, at least it would match the rocking hard chassis I’ve got going on.” Raising her arms over her head and tilting her hip to give another pose, she was certainly giving the humans nearby a show as they took dozens of pictures from their phones staring up at her. Even at her height, she was stunning… For a blue and chrome plated humanoid robot with the face and body of a super model. She was tapping her finger to her lip in thought, trying to figure out her next move when she heard the heavy deep beat of club music reverberating everything around her, followed by the powerful thrum of a v-8 engine roar by. Turning her attention to the source, the mechanical giantess spotted a group of muscle cars drive by at high speed, slowing only to get a better look of the tall autobot woman looking back at them all with an alluring grin. Once they drove off with a rev of their engines, Susan’s smile grew with ideas.

“Hmm, perhaps I might be able to fix this after all…”

Transforming back into her vehicular mode, the blue hatchback tried to keep up with the sports cars as they drove off to a far end of the city. About a half-hour’s drive out to the highways, Susan was rather pleased to find a band of night racers who parked their cars row by row, letting their engines rev and spitting fire from their exhausts.

"Hmm, oh yes, Suzie like!”

Slowly driving by one muscle car after the other, the crowd of men and women watched on in confusion as this petite blue car drove through. Some even called her out as a police car in disguise, barking out threats for the ‘granny car’ to drive off. All shouts and jeers died instantly when the car stopped dead in front of a Maserati and transformed into her 12-foot-tall self to look down and admire the muscle car from her vantage point.

“Hmm, attention grabbing horsepower, curves that catch the eye, POWERFUL headlights… And I just love the shade of pearly blue you’ve got going on.” She purred, addressing the sleek European Sportscar sitting idle while the owner stared up in surprise. Turning her attention to the surprised man, she gave him a wink before stretching her arms out and stare down at the vehicle with her eyes glowing. “Don’t mind me handsome, I’m just changing my wardrobe.”

Yellow light spilled from her eyes, sweeping over the car both vertically and horizontally, scanning it from the inside out. When she was done, her grin spread into a smile as she closed her eyes and waited. All the car owners and drivers stepped out of their cars and got up from where they were sitting to look up as the towering robot began to shift and change. The metal plating of her body reshaped and changed colour to match the metallic pearl blue as the sportscar, while the more rigid and angular parts of her body began to bend and remold into a smoother and curved shape. When it was all finished, Susan tilted her hip to rest her hand while admiring the redesign of her body with her other hand. Flexing, twisting, and posing, she ate up the photos the crowd were taking of her.

Turning her head to look down with a winning smile and tossing her long blonde fibre optic hair over her shoulder, Susan gave the crowd a kiss she blew from her metallic fingers and posed. “If you like what you see now, wait until you get a load of this.”

Immediately, the robot began to come apart, disassembling and refolding components of herself as she fell to her hands and knees. Wheels forming and panels reconnecting until her transformation was complete, and in her place was an identical version of the car she just scanned. But she was not done yet. Her holographic pilot appeared sitting on top of the hood of the car, wearing a fashionable blue dress with matching shoes. Giving the group of women around her an appraising look just like she did with the car, she inspected some of them hanging off of their boyfriend’s arms or showing off next to their own vehicles. Looking down at her attire, with a flicker of digital pixilation, her modest clothes were replaced with low rider latex pants that looked skin-tight, heeled shoes, a metallic blue tube top and a high waist denim jacket that exposed her midriff.

In the same split second, another flicker occurred where she gave her fingernails and lips the same metallic pearl blue finish as her vehicle mode, a blue sapphire piercing in her belly button with matching earrings and mascara to finish off her new look. Giving herself a look over and liking the new appearance, Sue turned her attention to the other drivers and smiled, giving them all a wink as she stood to her feet and stretched her arms over her head and shimmied her hips to show off her legs.

“Hey boys, wanna have a joy ride?”