Do you think Swerve stays behind after the bar closes, Swerve tries to see how much engex he can handle? (He's jealous about how much the bigger bots are able to drink.)
So, I do think Swerve eventually does stay behind once the bar closes to chug on Engex. The nagging feeling of how much he could handle has been growing as of late, and there’s no way he is going to do this act in public. What if something embarrassing happens?
But seeing other mechs knock back large drink after drink while mechs like him could only use what he called ‘children’s cups’ in comparison wasn’t fair. He wanted to drink with the big guys. Okay, maybe he’d never get up to that kind of limit, since he ran short on certain aspects. But there had to be something he could do.
Right?
On the first night, he only manages to finish a few cubes. His stomach feels full, and he kind of chickens out. Any little noise has him jumping, looking over his shoulder, and/or calling out to see if anyone is there. He tells himself this is stupid. Tosses the empty cubes and goes about cleaning up the bar.
Time goes by, and he just isn’t happy. Why? Well, he’s not liking his scrawny stature. Ok, he may not be as twiggy as Whirl, or as lanky as Chromedome, but still. There wasn’t anything he could do about his height. But there was something he could do about his width.
Despite the first failed attempt, he tries again, after checking that the coast is clear and the doors are locked. He watches some podcasts as he works on drinking cube after cube. This time, when he feels his abdominal plating grow taut, he only forces one more cube down.
Slow and steady wins the race, right?
The next night, it’s the same routine. Lock up. Pick a show. And drink. This time, he drinks two more cubes than the night before. This routine continues for a week or so, and the results start to show. His plating had been loosened and resized a few times, the protomesh seeping out in soft doughy rolls. While still short, everything about him widened. His midsection was obviously more convex. His hips grew broader, and those thighs rounded. Not to mention the butt he now sported!
On the outside, he felt softer. Cozier. The extra weight that thumped with each step of his pede definitely made his presence more known. But the best change was the feeling he felt inside. His mood lifted as he laughed at the podcast, frame reclined back to make room for that expanded belly. That belly now bubbled out freely since his abdominal plating went flying across the room.
Yes, he felt heavier, but that feeling just seemed to ground him. Feeling his frame taking up more space was delightful. Running his servo in lazy circles over his hard, beach-ball-like belly was rewarding. He was on his eighth cube, and that belly was full, sloshing around with all those cubes he consumed. He was happy, enjoying his shapely, more curvaceous frame.
And from the looks he would receive from patrons as he strutted around his bar, he wasn’t the only one who had noticed these lovely changes either.
:D :D
