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raisedbymoogles) wrote2010-02-26 11:24 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2010-02-26 11:24 pm
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This doesn't count as being productive.
Had this hanging out in a notebook, so I polished it up and typed it.
When the first drop hit his roof, Hot Rod's training (lovingly pounded into him courtesy of Kup) took over and he dove for the shelter of a rocky overhang with a cry of warning. Get underground, his every circuit screamed, but there was no nice safe underground on Earth. Hot Rod felt very exposed and vulnerable, flinching as the sky pelted him with cold rain.
The fact that the twins were staring at him like he'd gone insane didn't help. "Uh - acid rain?" he prompted. "Decepticon weather-bombers?" He bristled when Sideswipe started to laugh.
"There's no acid rain here," Sunstreaker explained with a gruff look at his brother. "Something about the atmosphere. It rains all the time, but it's not dangerous, just annoying."
"Really?" Hot Rod peeked up suspiciously at the Megatron-colored sky, but Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were standing out in the open, sheets of water pouring over them and everything, and they weren't collapsing into sparking piles of scrap. He cautiously ventured out into the open, and opened his hands as the rain - clean rain, not the weaponized kind he'd been taught to fear - washed generously over him.
"Huh." Hot Rod started to smile. "This is... kinda cool."
The fact that Hot Rod spun out twice on the way home was less cool, in Ratchet and Kup's estimations, but Hot Rod was eagerly looking forward to his next chance to practice driving in Earth's rain.
When the first drop hit his roof, Hot Rod's training (lovingly pounded into him courtesy of Kup) took over and he dove for the shelter of a rocky overhang with a cry of warning. Get underground, his every circuit screamed, but there was no nice safe underground on Earth. Hot Rod felt very exposed and vulnerable, flinching as the sky pelted him with cold rain.
The fact that the twins were staring at him like he'd gone insane didn't help. "Uh - acid rain?" he prompted. "Decepticon weather-bombers?" He bristled when Sideswipe started to laugh.
"There's no acid rain here," Sunstreaker explained with a gruff look at his brother. "Something about the atmosphere. It rains all the time, but it's not dangerous, just annoying."
"Really?" Hot Rod peeked up suspiciously at the Megatron-colored sky, but Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were standing out in the open, sheets of water pouring over them and everything, and they weren't collapsing into sparking piles of scrap. He cautiously ventured out into the open, and opened his hands as the rain - clean rain, not the weaponized kind he'd been taught to fear - washed generously over him.
"Huh." Hot Rod started to smile. "This is... kinda cool."
The fact that Hot Rod spun out twice on the way home was less cool, in Ratchet and Kup's estimations, but Hot Rod was eagerly looking forward to his next chance to practice driving in Earth's rain.