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You Can Do Magic by HighRoad

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In Westport, Connecticut High Road is trying to find his way back to New York City where Optimus Prime told him to look for trouble. As he drives around a residential area he sees Samantha Stephens, a blonde green-eyed widow, walking to her car. She said, "Oh dear. I've locked my keys in the car. Oh well." She twitched her nose and nothing happened. She continued, "Oh my stars!"

Then High Road pulls up and asked, "Is there a problem ma'am?"

She replied, "Yes I've-" She turned her head and walked closer to the black car and said, "Okay, who's the wise witch?"

He asked, "Witch? I'm not a witch."

Then High Road transformed and continued, "I'm an Autobot."

She replied, "Oh I've heard of you guys." Samantha realized she had told him too much already, "Oh no I might as well go all out. I am a witch. A real live house hunting, broom riding, cauldron stirring, card carrying witch."

High Road said, "Don't panic I believe you. I'm lost."

She said, "I've got an idea. If I give you directions to-"

She pauses.

"Where are you going?"

High Road said, "New York City, my boss Optimus Prime told me to patrol the Big Apple."

Samantha asked, "Will you do me a favor?"

He said, "Maybe, what is it?"

She continued, "I need to go into town anyway will you transform and take me to where I need to go, because I've locked my keys in the car and my powers are temporarily lost."

He said, "Okay under one condition, when you do get your powers back give me a copy of them so I can survive Bigbot."

She asked, "What is Bigbot?"

He answered, "Bigbot is a saloon in Cybertropolis on Cybertron."

Then High Road transformed and Samantha got in and they rolled out.

In New York City to her first destination, the supermarket, High Road asked, "What did you decide?"

She answered, "Yes, as soon as I get my powers back you may have a copy."

He said, "That will be prime. I'm High Road tell me about yourself."

Samantha began, "Well, my name is Samantha Stephens and in 1964 I fell in love with a mortal and married him. My mother Endora hated that fact and hated Darrin. Most of the time she called him 'Derwood', but other times she called him other names that started with the letter 'D'. And she sometimes called him 'What's-his-name'."

He interrupted, "Poor Derwood, I mean Darrin."

She continued, "She turned him into many things over the years. And my father, Maurice, liked him even less. On our first wedding anniversary Aunt Clara, one of my relatives that was actually fond of him, popped in and gave him a golf cap. Although it didn't fit so she tried to put a spell on it to make it fit. Well she goofed."

High Road asked, "Goofed?"

She continued, "Yes, for a witch she is a little eccentric. Anyway instead of shrinking the hat she turned Darrin into a chimpanzee. "

He said, "Ouch."

Samantha continued once again, "Yeah, really. And there was another time when I was writing a play for the centennial pageant of the end of the Civil War. Then Darrin criticized my first draft."

High Road said, "I'm a writer myself, I know how bad first drafts can be. Of corse my stuff are adventures of other Autobots and myself. When I get back to my apartment in my bar in Cybertropolis on Cybertron I'm going to write this little meeting down. Part of some stories and all of one other I've written from being told events. The best example is my last story about Autobot guns helping a worldly superhero while he was busy saving people around the world. The tale was told to me by Optimus Prime's gun, Blastmaster."

She asked, "Adventures of guns?"

He replied, "Actually they are called Targetmasters. Robotic exo-suits that humanoids wear to let them transform like us."

Samantha continued one more time, "Now back to my story. Anyway when my husband criticized my first draft so I conjured up three key characters to help create more richly textured scrip. The three characters where an Indian, a Victorian woman, and a confederate officer. The problem was they kept popping back in whenever I though about the pageant. So they then told me in order to get rid of them for good I had to finish writing the pageant. When Tabatha, my oldest of two children, was born my mother offered Darrin to turn her into an adult for a while just to see what she would look like when she grew-up. She didn't of corse but when my twin cousin Serena showed up he thinks she is the grown-up Tabatha. The only difference between Serena and me is she has black hair while mine is blonde."

High Road stopped at her first destination the supermarket.

She got out and said, "I'll be right back in about ten minutes."

She returned and put the groceries in High Road's trunk, then she got back in and said, "Next stop McMann and Tate. Last time Adam, my youngest, came to visit he left a file on the coffee table. Now during the time Darrin was working on the Robbins Baby Food account Robins' assistant, the weasel, George Barkly, hired a private detective to make sure Darrin's lifestyle is keeping up with the wholesome image of the company. Charlie Leach, the detective and friendly neighborhood blackmailer, caught me at a bad time and found out I am a witch. So I had to make a deal with him to refurnish his apartment if he kept my secret. Only I doublecrossed him by unfurnishing his apartment worse than it was. Then I zapped him to Mexico, but he made his return only to see my mother turn a different client into a cat. The client was Toni Devlin, Toni with an 'i' not a 'y'. Well, Leach wanted me to zap up one million dollars in cash. So I zapped up a money tree and the next day the bills he picked were shriveled. And to get Ms. Devin back I turned him into a mouse. When I found out Tabatha is a witch I didn't have the heart to tell Darrin right away, but mother wanted to tell him immediately to see him fall on the floor."

She continued, "After a day or two I finally broke down and told him." They reached the building where the offices of McMann and Tate.

Samantha gets out and walked in and up to Adam's office to hand him the file, she walked back down to High Road then got in and he drove off.

On there way back to 1164 Morning Glory Circle Samantha once again continued, "When Adam was born daddy cast a spell around him so any mortal than looked at him instantly thought he was the cutest baby in the world. Mother and I blackmailed him into removing it by telling him the Witches Council would hate the publicity for our marriage. And when Darrin signed the currently popular, current for 1970 anyway, singing team Boyce and Hart for a client sponsored television special Serena wanted to get them to play for the Cosmos Cotillion. Serena performed a song for Darrin and I that she wanted them to sing. The song was called 'I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind'. At first she couldn't get in to talk to their manager Chick Cashman. So she puts a spell on them to make them unpopular and their fans turn on them. They accepted Serena's gig offer. When I popped in at the end of her song she agreed to take the spell off when they had finished it. And another time I was summoned to Salem, Massachusetts, by mother who was Lord High Chairman of the fete, to appear at the Witches Convention. So Darrin and I made a vacation out of it. The following year we went to Europe, this time it really was a vacation. Our first stop was the Tower of London, where the Crown Jewels are kept. I inadvertently helped a sixteenth century nobleman out of a painting a witch named Malvina condemned him to. When she found out what I did she sent me back to the time of King Henry the IV. Not only that but she removed my memory too, so I'm told. When I kissed Darrin before King Henry the IV was going to kill him after a duel I regained my memory. There was much more to it of corse by what I wasn't told. Our second stop was Scotland to visit Darrin's cousin Robbie who owned a resort hotel on the Isle of Skye. Well, a German by the name of Baron Von Hauser tried to collect a three million-dollar reward for the Loch Ness monster's capture. I called on Serena to take the spell off Bruce, a.k.a. the Loch Ness monster, she agrees but he turns the tables on her and turns her into a mermaid. He turned her back to keep the publicity she would have stolen from him. Next stop Pisa, Italy. Esmeralda, my yoo-hoo maid who's powers are almost as bad as Aunt Clara's, got Aunt Hagatha to stay with the children while she popped in and admitted to being the cause of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So she fixes it, but we traveled back to when she brought Banano his lunch every day so she could remember the spell. She remembered it and went back so she can make it lean again. Then went to Rome where mother gives life to the Venus statue to cause the usual trouble for Darrin, the client and his wife. I counteract her trouble by giving life to the Adonis statue. I finally get her to agree to remove the spell at the same time I remove mine. Forth on our vacation, Paris where mother popped in to warn me daddy was coming and he wasn't in a good mood. She zapped up a fake Darrin to get the real Darrin off the hook. Daddy finds out and he was madder than before. He zaps Darrin to the Eiffel Tower, then when Darrin gets back she turns him into a statue of Napoleon which daddy breaks. He pretends to be too weak to put him back together until mother threatens to move back in with him. Then he has the strength to put Darrin back. Our final stop is London once more where the ghost of the Eight Duke of Whitset takes over his body. To solve this problem I summon the Duchess of Whitset and the Duke vacates his body and he walks off arm in arm with her. After all that we return home. There was time the Witches Council sent a committee to test Adam for any signs of his powers. Daddy gave him help by putting a booster spell on him. Well, he finally admitted that to the committee so he removed it. Adam then surprised all off us by doing a bit of witchcraft all by himself. The final moment viewed by the Witches Council was when my mother put a truth spell on a unicorn shaped pin Darrin bought me. Unicorn is my favorite animal. She did that to prove to me that mortals can't stand to tell the truth. It caused trouble when a prospective client and her cowardly husband were over with Larry Tate, Darrin's boss and the world's biggest kiss up. The spell even threatened the cost of the account. All ends well as the truth of Darrin and Larry, directed toward the client, helps them to get the account instead of losing it. Darrin even got a raise from Larry in the process."

They pull into Samantha's driveway and she gets out and called, "Dr. Bombay, Dr. Bombay, emergency come right away."

Dr. Bombay popped in and said, "Now what's the problem Samantha?"

High Road transforms startling Dr. Bombay.

Then the doctor said, "Oh my, what are you?"

High Road replied, "I am a Transformer, more specifically an Autobot."

Dr. Bombay zapped up a tuning fork and hits High Road with it.

He asked, "Hey, can't you find something else?"

"No."

Then he turns to Samantha and said, "Left elbow."

She does so and soon her witchcraft is restored.

Dr. Bombay popped out and Samantha turned to High Road and said, "From my witchcraft I give a copy of power, to this robot so he will not cower, in Bigbot he will survive to protect and trive."

Months later in Scorponock, Galvatron is plotting an evil scheme. Is it a theft, murder, or something worse? Find out in the next story.