Sign Nexus. Sign Area. I Roam Around Around Around

[misslucysleeches]

There's a newcomer to the Nexus today -- a woman in her very early thirties, with bright red hair and a forest-green sweater, sitting on one of the provided couches and looking at travel brochures. She wandered in earlier, and after the obligatory "?!?/can I get back" moment, has decided that she might as well do as the sign asks and ask a question. She spreads out her brochures on a table in front of her and looks up.

"So, random strangers! I'm a wanderer, and I've wandered almost all of the United States. So I think it's time I broke into international travel. Since it's my first time in this regard, I figured I'd at least start out by going to one of the more well-known cities, and see where adventure leads me from there."

She holds up three brochures.

"The question of the day is, then: London, Paris, or Rome?"

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[random_xtras]

Sam smiles back. "Do you want to hold him while I transform?"

[misslucysleeches]

"Okay," Lucy says, game. "You'll have to show me the right way, though. I've only held a human babies and kids a few times. Dunno if what I remember from that will work for him."

[random_xtras]

"It'll work fine." Sam gently transfers the little guy. "Just let him rest his head on your shoulder... like that, and put an arm under his bottom."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy carefully takes him, doing her best to follow Sam's instructions. She nods when she thinks she's got a good hold on the little one.

[random_xtras]

"Now don't drop him when I get bigger." Sam turns to Optimus.

Optimus nods. "I'm ready to catch, if I need to."

[misslucysleeches]

"I won't," Lucy promises. No matter what happens, she is determined not to drop this kid.

[random_xtras]

Isaac, for his part, snuggles close with a soft sigh. He feels just as warm and comforting as most sleeping bittyfolk.

Sam nods, and then seems to static out of existence. A moment later that beautiful classic muscle car he'd been sitting on is rising up with a soft whisper of metal on metal till it's become an 18 foot tall cybernetic person with a face that looks a lot like an older version of Isaac's, and blue optics that manage to still look like Sam's eyes.

[misslucysleeches]

Awwww, he's so precious. And Lucy keeps her promise not to drop him, even as her eyes widen at the sight of the car transforming. "Whoa," she breathes, trying to look up at Sam's face.

[random_xtras]

Sam settles down on his butt so that he doesn't loom so much, then grins. "Still Major Sam Walker. I tried using a Cybertronian name when I first wound up like this, but my CO and my co Major told me to get bent and wouldn't call me by it."

"Optimus doesn't say things like that." Optimus frowns at Sam.

"He never told Jazz not to say it, though." Sam chuckles.

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy snickers, even though she looks a little confused. "Do you mind me asking about 'when I first wound up like this?' I thought Transformers always started out as -- well, Transformers."

[random_xtras]

"Well, yeah, usually." Sam frowns a bit as he thinks back and wonders yet again how he wound up existing. "But I'm not the original Sam Walker for my reality. I just came online a few days after he died, with all his memories and personality glitches. My Cybertronian crew and the humans on base just decided to treat me like the original, and I didn't have any say in the matter."

[misslucysleeches]

"Huh." Lucy's -- not entirely sure what to say to that. "Well -- it seems you've made a good life for yourself nonetheless." She nods down at Isaac.

[random_xtras]

Sam slowly reaches one gentle big hand to touch his son's back with a finger.

"Isaac was born before I changed," he says quietly. "My wife wound up LOLed human, and..." A shrug.

[misslucysleeches]

"I see," Lucy says slowly. And she does -- she thinks. She sees enough, anyway. "He's a cute little guy."

[random_xtras]

"Thanks." Sam's voice and expression are soft as he looks at Isaac.

But then he looks at Optimus. "Your turn. The true form."

"Transforming 'bots are one thing," says Optimus, frowning. "I've had people hyperventilate when they see my true form."

[misslucysleeches]

"Is it that -- strange?" Lucy says, frowning and rocking Isaac a little (she needs something to do with her hands, but since they're full of kid, this is the best she can do).

[random_xtras]

"It's not strange," says Optimus quietly, rubbing the back of his head. "It's just, well, big. And a bit intimidating to some." He lets his hand drop and offers to take Isaac. "I'm a Guardian Fae Dragon Changeling."

[misslucysleeches]

"Sorry," Lucy says, grimacing. She hadn't meant to cause any offense.

On the other hand, when he announces what he is. . . Lucy blinks a few times. "Guardian Fae Dragon Changeling," she repeats, trying to get it settled in her head.

[random_xtras]

"Yeah," says Sam, his mouth quirking in an amused grin. "That blonde said this was fairy land. Well, there's one of the fairies."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy can't help but smile back. "Good point. Well then, show me what you got."

[random_xtras]

"Do you want us to take Isaac?" asks Optimus, then hesitates slightly before adding, "You seemed to want your hands free."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy looks down at Isaac thoughtfully, then holds him out. "Might be for the best. You mentioned something about hyperventilating, and I really don't want anything to happen to him."

[random_xtras]

Sam nods and carefully takes his son with one hand, then holds the little guy close to his chest and clicks to him softly. Isaac, being only the size of a human child, looks quite small next to his modestly sized father.

"Okay." Sam quirks a brow ridge at Optimus. "Go for it."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy nods, arms folded across her chest now, mentally preparing herself for dragon. She's seen pictures in books and in movies, of course, but that's probably nothing compared to the real thing. And she doesn't want to freak out and look like an idiot.

[random_xtras]

Optimus nods and quirks a bit of a grin. Then he steps back, and is suddenly surrounded by the red and blue sparkles. Within their swirling circle his form seems to expand and fold out like a flower, till the lights die away to fully reveal a huge and beautiful red and blue dragon. Big as he is, that feeling of trustworthiness remains.