Team Building 101 (open?)

[Shadow]

For the most part, Shadow choose to ignore the snow camo'ed 'con. He seemed to have flipped out due to their talk of Shockwave then rebooted and pretending the conversation never happened. Though this was an interesting reaction and she thought about testing the crazy mech's mind further, she had more pressing matters to attend to. It wasn't good to keep her superiors waiting so she allowed Kickback to lead her to the wash rooms. It was a large room divided into stalls and didn't appear to had a separate room for Femmes and Mechs.

"Thank you for thy guidance M'lord Kickback. Mayhap you would care to join me? In my early career, such times were used as team building exercise and aided in bring a unit closer together." The predacon offered seemingly oblivious to anything seemingly "bad" about the idea or how it may appear towards others. The black dragon saw nothing out of the ordinary about it, having little sense of more personal relationships due to her own life up to the current being largely without such relationships. She had friends once of course but nothing beyond that, the war kept her far too busy and working under Shockwave discouraged even that.

The black femme turned on the fluid streaming apparatus and started to lather some cleaning solution from a nearby jar. It was nothing fancy, but it did the job well enough and didn't damage one's paint like some other foreign world cleaners did. She took a brief glance over her shoulder to see if the bug had decided to take her up on her offer.

[Kickback]

Ohhhhh he wasn't going to miss this opportunity for the world.

Not for anything.

Kickback couldn't believe he was actually in the same facilities as the newcomer female. Then again, he spent most of his time around Shockwave. Or the other Insecticons. Not that he minded their company, it was simply that well... Shockwave. And the other Insecticons.

"I would be delighted. No need to call me Lord, I am merely another servant of Master Shockwave," Kickback replied smoothly, optics lingering a bit over Shadow's figure while he was certain she wasn't looking.

He decided to make a test of this.

"Would you like assistance with that?"

[Shadow]

The knight was about to object to calling Kickback anything less but bit her glossa. If The Insecticon wished to be addressed as an equal, and she couldn't fathom why he would, she would honor his request. "Very well then, Sir Kickback, and t'would be most helpful to have you." She stated, After all their were parts between her wings that were difficult to reach.

Shadow turned away a moment to fetch another jar of the solution before handing it the Grasshopper. "Indeed I would, If thou wouldst get between my wings...?" She asked graciously. "And what of you? Thy must have a place in mind that is hard to clean?" She stated, intent on returning the favor.

[Kickback]

Kickback's face was pretty much this:



When Shadow requested to have her back washed. He took the jar and attempted to not look like a completely unforgivable letch. When she asked him if he had parts of himself that needed washed, he nearly dropped the jar and struggled to catch it.

"... p... place that's hard to clean?" His processor looped for a few moments. "M... my back, between my wings as well. Looks like we have a similar problem." All the skirt-chasing bravado in him had melted right out and gone down the drain along with the soap bubbles.

[Shadow]

The predacon looked over her shoulder at the insecticon noting a odd change in his demeanor. Though what could have provoked it was beyond her. "Is something amiss? Yon jars are a bit slippery, do be careful Sir Kickback. Shockwave discouraged waste of supplies and I do not think Emperor Megatronus wouldst be pleased about it ether." The femme stated as more of a friendly reminder or caution then to chide her new team mate.

"Indeed, thou does have one, surely." She confirmed for him as his processor looped. "Oh? One would not think it to look at they frame." The black dragon stated curiously as she wondered why it took him so long to respond, it was a simple enough answer. Without warning the predacon transformed, and moved to attempt to swiftly pin the Grasshopper in place. "The spot here? I see. Allow me to get that..." Shadow offered, figuring she could get at it better with her glossa in this mode. She recalled a rumor that stated some solutions were damaging to an Insecticon's wings so she didn't want to chance it.

[Kickback]

"waaaaahahashdfhsafsd--!"

Kickback was somewhere between shock, fear and ticklishness, a couple of blocks down the road from "please keep doing that for about five minutes more--!".

Silently he was praying there weren't any security cameras in here. He'd forgotten to look in his haste to watch Shadow bathe.

He squirmed pathetically beneath Shadow's claws; the tables had abruptly turned, and all his plans were face down in the shower right alongside him.

[Shadow]

"Do hold still, thy fidgeting makes this task more difficult than need be, Sir Kickback." The femme stated simply as she continued the task before her diligently before simply deciding that it would be better to clean his entire two wings in this manner. The dragon took to cleaning them in much the way a mother cat might clean her kitten. Shadow then paused a moment before deciding to clean the rest of him in this manner. The Dragon started with his back strut then moved up to his helm and antenna. "Thou certainly do require a detailed cleaning, doth not thy brethren aid in they cleaning?" Shadow question as she continued her 'assualt'.

[Kickback]

"N-no because if they t-tried this I would have to kill them d-dead for it," Kickback replied.

***

Somewhere in the distance, watching on a security feed, Shockwave observed the behavior going on in the showers. Something deep inside his cold, emotionless chest stirred. His optic focused on on the scene, lenses irising open to take in the most minute of detail.

Could it be? Could... he actually be feeling something after so long?

"Ha."

With that out of the way, Shockwave returned to work.

***

Kickback attempted more protests, but as he was face down in the water it just came out as "bbbllblblbblbrrrblbbfff!". His antennae stood straight out from his body and he shuddered slightly, tensing up.

[Shadow]

"Yet you trust me with aiding in your cleaning? I am indeed honored!" The knight stated misunderstanding the hint completely. She proceeded to the bug's limbs next, first the arms then the legs and peds. Finally it seemed she was finished before she realized she missing his aft. That was certainly silly of her, that was a very important place to clean! The predacon to care to correct this with the same care she took with his wings before rolling him on to his back. "Almost finished, I'm starting to see why your kind might find this practice enjoyable, it is sort of." Shadow stated amused.

[Kickback]

Kickback was stiff as a board, trying his best to inch away from that tongue before it got too close to something REALLY sensitive and then ---

He suddenly relaxed. His antenna drooped like the ears of a basset hound.

He raised one hand into the air, pointer finger skyward, and almost drunkenly replied, "... you can just... leave me here... for a few minutes.... I'm good now."

[Shadow]

The predacon tilted her head. "But thou art not yet cleansed. I wouldst be doing thee a serious deserves if I left you like this." Shadow insisted Her assault renewed as she saw her fellow Decepticon was in no state to clean himself. perhaps he was running low on energon? She made a note to get him some after they finished. The femme's glossa glided over the grasshoppers shoulders and chestplate. She then lick his faceplate and lastly the pelvis. "There, Now thou art clean friend! Rejoice!" The knight stated proudly before transforming back to her robot mode. She had her own cleaning to finish.

[Kickback]

"... oh I'm 'rejoicing' all right," Kickback muttered, unable to move. He just stared up at the ceiling with the stupidest look on his face.

[Shadow]

The dragon proceeded to wash her herself her horned helm, arms, legs and chestplate all the way down to her peds, and nearly right above the Insecticon that probably needed an adult by now. After finishing all her other areas (which she cleaned extensively) she knelt down to the bug. "Doth thou require energon? Perhaps I can send for a Squire to bringeth forth some to thee?" The Dragon stated wondering if that had been what ailed him as she stared down at her fellow 'con. Her frame still dripping with fluids from the shower that was now shut off and on to the prone grasshopper. "Or perhaps thou wouldst like a towel? Or a buffing! Tis not a proper cleaning without one!" Shadow suggested with a grin.

[Kickback]

Kickback squinted his optics at Shadow.

"You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?" he accused, smirking.

[Shadow]

Purpose? What did the Insecticon mean? "Hmm? Of course! This is ideal for Team building! We learn more about one another and learn to work together at a common goal. My Unit and I participated in this excessive many times." The Dragon announced proudly before attempting to pull him up to his peds.