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[stabbywheelfeet]

WHO: Sideswipe & OPEN
WHERE: The Junk Pile || OR || Around Vector's Temple
WHEN:  RIGHT NOW (2/20) 
WHAT: Training. Keeping in shape. AKA: Sideswipe is restless after recovering, and needs to move, or else bother Mirage forever.
WARNINGS: None.
Note: Two options for interaction! Note which one you'd like in the subject!

[A - Vector's Area]
[There is a sportscar tearing around the temple grounds. Faster than probably necessary. Louder than probably necessary, too. But he finally felt himself again. He finally felt up to moving about. And it was either this, or pester Mirage into wrestling with him.]

[He has a feeling that would do more harm than good, at this point. Things between them are awkward enough without him leaping on the red bot. So here he was -- driving around, stretching both his wheels, and, as he hits a corner hard, his legs. He slides into the transformation, turning the drive into a long-legged sprint.]

[It feels good to run. He feels better than he has in a long time, getting out and moving like this.]

[Do you approach or try to catch the speeding silver blur?]

~ ~ ~

[B - Junk Pile]
[And later, he takes his run out to the junk. There's no real place for him to practice his blade work, aside from this nasty place, and even after his run, there's still too much pent-up energy for him to go back to their room now.]

[There are a few large pieces of rubble standing upright as he pulls in. His headlights flicker for a moment, before he suddenly slams on the accelerator, and charges the nearest pillar. At the very last second, he transforms, sweeping a blade low, before yanking his arm up in a sudden, quick slice.]

[It carves a deep line across the pillar.]

[He swings around on one foot, coming back down in a stabbing lunge that leaves a hole straight through the pillar. But he doesn't stop there.]

[It's like some kind of madcap ballet, the way he spins and slices, kicks and stabs the imaginary enemies. Nothing is on his mind, for once, but the thrill of the fight. The excitement and energy from defeating your enemy, no matter if they were just practice or not. Where he is doesn't matter, the conflict between himself and his closest friend here doesn't matter.]

[There's only the fight. And he is utterly focused on it.]

Comments

B

[badboybikerbot]

[WELL if he's so focused on the fight then maybe he won't notice this green asshole on a motorcycle rolling up near by and just watching him do shit for a few minutes. Really though this was probably the most entertaining thing Gunmax had seen all day. He even gives the guy a little golf clap.]

You get points for style, but the execution was a little sloppy.

[yeah don't mind him he's just REALLY BORED.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He's thrown off for a moment, hearing the sudden voice, the clapping. No one had been here a second ago.]

[But this is Sideswipe we're talking about. He rolls with it, turning one final slice into a lazy turn, spinning to face the speaker. Not someone he immediately recognizes -- and the overall design is... different. His optics flick up and down the stranger once, before he decides they aren't immediately a threat...]

[... and strikes a pose.]

Hard to get points for style if there's anything sloppy about it...

Either that, or you don't know good execution when you see it.

[badboybikerbot]

[Oh God did that guy just

he did he's totally posing. Seems legit. Gunmax just gives the dude a shrug, clearly not all that impressed with the flashy display. He works with Shadowmaru okay you're gonna have to do better than that.]

I have to admit, when it comes to flipping around like a figure skater, I'm not much of a professional.

[stabbywheelfeet]

Fortunate, then! I am.

[He just beams. And paces forward a few steps -- okay, it's more like a few skating steps, but still. He'll put a hip waggle into it, anyway. Anything to show off leg and curve.]

[He's damn proud of his frame, okay. Everyone should admire it.]

And I can tell you, there is no one in this Haven with better moves.

[badboybikerbot]

[Either this dude thought he was a professional runway model or something or his hips were seriously out of alignment. Either way, Gunmax manages to look completely unamused, crossing his arms and leaning against his bike.]

Uh huh. Pretty bold words, don't you think?

[stabbywheelfeet]

I'm a bold sort of bot.

[The swagger didn't stop. If anything, it got a little worse as he approached. And paced around the bike, examining it.]

It's only fitting I use bold language.

[badboybikerbot]

[nope, definitely some kind of hip alignment problem. Nobody SWAGGERS like that on purpose. Is that a word? It is now.

Gunmax keeps his optics on Flashy McFlipsalot. He doesn't like people eyeballing his bike okay]

Hate to break it to ya, baby, but now you just sound like a try-hard.

[stabbywheelfeet]

[He had something witty to say there -- or at least he thought it was witty, anyway.]

[Except then there's the word "baby" and he stops, tilting his head.]

Hold on. Go back. What did you call me?

[badboybikerbot]

I called you a try-hard, weren't you paying attention?

[Seriously everyone is baby he doesn't even register it.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

No, not that one, that one is dumb.

[He waves a hand, planting the other on his hip.]

Baby.

I like that.

[badboybikerbot]

[yep THAT'S some optic rolling you can't see because there's kind of a visor in the way. BUT IT'S THERE.]

Oh come on, I call everyone baby. Don't read anything into it, yeah?

[stabbywheelfeet]

[You know, the more he looks at this guy, the more he's reminded of a smaller, slightly less vulgar Roadbuster. Which is... weird, to say the least. Because if Roadbuster ever called him "baby", he'd probably have kicked him.]

[He shrugs. Part of him still stings a little from the "sloppy" comment... and so...]

What if I want to read something into it?

[... hit with the attempt at fluster.]

[badboybikerbot]

Tch. Then you'd be wasting your time. Knock yourself out though, I guess.

[sorry pal, Gunmax doesn't fluster easily.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

I just might. You might not like the results, though.

[The strutting continues. Yep. Totally doing a little turn on the catwalk.]

[badboybikerbot]

No kidding? It's already grating on me.

[PSH you do your little prancy buffoonery bullshit. Gunmax is going to look at something more interesting now. Like that crap you were chipping up earlier.]

[stabbywheelfeet]

Really? How sad. Because I'm enjoying myself.

[Yeah, Gunmax you can look at the damage to the random bits of pillar and trash all you want.]

[He's going to eye that bike.]

[badboybikerbot]

Uh huh, good for you.

[oh he notices, and he doesn't like it.]

What're you starin' at?

[stabbywheelfeet]

I know.

[That doesn't stop him.]

Your attachment.

[badboybikerbot]

[well then. glaring intensifies.]

Attachment. Really. You got a problem? Not everyone can turn into a vehicle.

[stabbywheelfeet]

No? Whyever not?

[And those hands are back on his hips, utterly nonchalant.]

[badboybikerbot]

Wasn't designed to.

[man as long as they aren't anywhere near the bike gunmax don't give no fucks]

[stabbywheelfeet]

Why not?

Even drones can transform.

[badboybikerbot]

Dunno. Never cared enough to ask. Gettin' a bit nosy there, aren't you?

[stabbywheelfeet]

Not really. Consider yourself lucky.

[He beams.]

I could do worse. Just ask the bot I made tell me about his night activities.

[badboybikerbot]

Ahh, so you really are a creep. I figured as much.

[unimpressed bot is unimpressed]