Meanwhile, At The Academy
The Multiversal Reincarnation Central Academy had a courtyard near the eastern dormitories where the Truck-kuns liked to gather between missions.
It was a wide open space, which was necessary for practical reasons. Truck-kuns were not small. Fitting several of them into a normal common room had been tried exactly once. The resulting structural damage led to a formal policy change and a very awkward conversation between the Facilities department and the Department of Vehicular Reincarnation.
The courtyard worked much better.
On this particular afternoon, six of them were parked in a rough circle. Their engines idled in the way that meant they were relaxed and talking rather than on standby. Their chassis gleamed in the academy's artificial sunlight. They came in different sizes, different models, and from different universes of origin, but all of them were unmistakably Truck-kun.
