Casper met with Ashley after math class. She was still wearing her pink scarf, and with the blue stripe down her back that she'd ask Casper to add to her being. Casper wondered if later he could sublimely offer to Synthetics to change their colors and forms if they ever got tired of them. True, then they'd have always been those instead. So maybe it would have been a self defeating offer.
They found Helix's address and found a bus leading to the general neighborhood. Casper was about to get on. He already changed the bus driver. His favorite animal had been a rhino, and his favorite color neon blue. His clothes vanished from existence, leaving only his driver's cap. His feet became round and stumpy, and a tiny thin tail poked out of his rear. His body became enchanted inflated rubber in the shape of a humanoid animal. His finger became larger and stubbier. And of course, there was the large horn on his nose and thin pointy ears. He was surprisingly smooth, rather than having a tone of wrinkles like you'd expect from a rhino, but he still had the general shape. The mold lines appeared on his body, and his bottom sealed up, and his crotch became a budge of empty air. His nipples were gone, and his belly button was now a nozzle. On his rear was the bar code all of Casper's kind had.
"Come on dear," Ashley said suddenly, "It's not THAT far, let's just walk-"
"I'm not sure that's-"
"Oh come on, some walking will do us good!"
Casper wondered . . . how should he informed Ashley she was pregnant? Better question, how was he and Ashley going to explain to their parents they had decided to tie the knot? He wondered what weddings for Synthetics were like, then again, if they were raised by humans or around humans, they likely adopted the same traditions and faiths as their creators.
Whatever the case, as Ashley pulled him along, the bright sun shinning on their rubber bodies, Ashley squeezing the air out of his arm, and Ashley rubbing against him making a squeaking sound as she led him along . . . for once Casper didn't feel like transforming every human he saw . . . he just wanted to . . . enjoy the moment . . .with her.