Thought this would be perfect too ;333
Love the art btw @amethyst257 ❤️
Now try imagining how the lemons felt when Leland Turbo was crushed and then came back as a vampire. It would basically be the boat scene from Dracula but ramped up. With his very competent Renfield/James Bond ally? food source? friend? perhaps something more?
Coming from @cars2-renaissance's theory about the location of Leland's death on Tony Trihull, upon the cubing of the spy the lemons were relieved and immediately boxed up the corpse to present to Zundapp as proof that C.H.R.O.M.E. Tony Trihull had a smidge of uneasiness at Leland's cubed body, but then brushed it off as merely nerves.
No one is stationed to keep an eye on the box as preparations are made to move the supplies for the Allinol and the camera ray gun. They don't notice the funny rattling and creaking as Leland's body is forcibly uncubed and reformatting him into an unrunning fuelthirsty vampire car. Then the newly risen Leland dug through the floor of the box and into the oil rig once it was placed down.
The first thing that was amiss was a very subtle feeling that all of the lemons were being watched. Not in the typical law enforcement/intelligence agency/surveillance watched, but something far more primal and unnerving. Finn also notes the watching when he arrived on the oil rig, more specifically aimed at his movements and position.
That went out the window when the lemons found out about the missing corpse of Leland Turbo upon revealing the now empty crate and a scream of terror. Finn had barely managed to restrain the hungry vampire from devouring a lemon and had sounded the alarm.
Yeah, I like me some vampire Leland too 😄
Also, sorry it wasn’t the car version, I personally like drawing human versions better 🤷♀️
I have a very very specific animatic that I imagine in my head. Undecided if I want to pay or kill to see it realized /j.
Just before the Professor is on the oil rig but a bit after Leland is cubed by the lemons, a (miraculous?) change happens to our poor spy.
Just like what happened to our favorite haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury, an unnatural life takes hold of our dearly departed C.H.R.O.M.E. agent.
The entire cube shakes and trembles as the internal systems are rearranged and readjusted to the unrunning life of a vampire car. The internal temperature drastically drops, creating frost on the inside of the crate.
The first parts of Leland Turbo to be repaired are the tires. The lugnuts are drawn from his own metal frame as the rubber is reinflated and tire spikes emerge out.
Next are the wing mirrors, bursting out from the sides and elongating into the elegant bat ear shapes.
The entire frame then shudders as every dent, compression, scratch and fracture is undone. Even the maroon paintjob is completely recovered as the windshield collects all of the shattered glass pieces and fused back into a single pane with a permanent tint. The teeth are forcibly changed into razor sharp fangs as the oral lubricant also drops to freezing cold temperatures.
The last thing that is fixed is the eyes, a gradual gradient in the irises from their original living color to a bright blood red and the pupils shift from round to snake like slits.
@cars2-renaissance, @little-red-irish-jaguar, @kenzie-the-drawer, and any other fan of Leland Turbo