AN: Originally, this fic was going to end at chapter 9… But inspiration struck me recently; so… here is an epilogue! This is happening while all four of the Dare Club are stuck on cleaning duty; their 'dare' from Megatron. Some Cybertronian time units you might need: nanoklik = 1 second, solar cycle = 1 day, cycle = 1.25 hours (1 hour 15 minutes) (note: IDW definition of a cycle), breem = 8.3 minutes, klik = 1.2 minutes.
"I know we said we are the Dare Club and all…"
"I can tell that there is going to be a 'but' in that sentence Starscream." Airachnid sounded amused.
"…But that doesn't mean he can give us a dare as punishment!"
"Especially one that involves cleaning the ship from top to bottom!" Knock Out really didn't want to do this.
"We can't stand around in here all day though; the longer we leave it, the longer it is going to take."
"Dreadwing is right. Let's be getting out of Med-bay… before Breakdown comes in here and tells us to that is…" Knock Out began to trudge towards the door.
"This cleaning is probably going to be tiring work, right?"
"What are you getting at Airachnid?" Knock Out looked puzzled.
"We'll get less tired if we don't have as much armour covering us up…"
"I'd like to keep what modesty I have left, thank you!"
"I didn't say we had to do the cleaning in our protoforms… Besides, some of our bits would get in the way…" Airachnid sniggered when all of the mechs blushed; they knew exactly what she was getting at! She removed some of her armour until only her chest plate and pelvic armour remained.
"See? And we can give some of those weird Vehicons that like to faint over you lot a shock!" She told them, standing with her hands on her hips. The mechs all looked at each other before deciding that they'd have to do this; she'd make them if they didn't. They removed most of their armour too, until they only had on their pelvic armour.
"Do we have to go ask the Vehicons for cleaning stuff, or does he…" Starscream pointed at Knock Out. "Have any stored in here?"
"I have stuff for cleaning mechs, not walls and floors!"
"Right then, time to go surprise whichever Vehicons are in charge of the supply cupboard!" Airachnid walked towards the door and the others followed her.
A short while later…
"Did you see those Vehicons?" When all of them had walked up to the supply closet, the two Vehicons had let out a shriek of joy before collapsing. Dreadwing didn't find it as funny as the other two did though.
"I think they'll know about it when the shifts change over; if they haven't woken up before then!" Starscream put the cleaning supplies down and looked to the others.
"Are we going to make a start, or stand around here a bit longer?" They all picked up one of the sponges before dunking it in the bucket and scrubbing the walls with it. It didn't take long for them to start to get bored of doing this.
"How on Cybertron do the Vehicons assigned to cleaning duty not offline from boredom?!"
"Maybe you should ask them, Knock Out!" Airachnid pointed at the two Vehicons just coming around the corner.
"How do you manage to do this cleaning without getting bored?" The others sniggered; Airachnid didn't actually expect him to ask them.
"We splash each other with the liquid, make the others drink it, pour it over each other's heads…" one of them told the group. The other one's optics flashed before she ran off to find some of the other female Vehicons.
"In other words, you mess about when you are supposed to be cleaning." Starscream looked grumpy.
"Err… Yes Commander." The Vehicon didn't dare lie.
"Dismissed! You should have duties to be doing!" Starscream waved his hand at the Vehicon in a dismissive manner and the Vehicon walked off.
"Megatron is going to be cross when he finds out that the corridors aren't completely clean…" Knock Out pointed up at the top of the wall. None of them were tall enough to reach it.
"Maybe that's why the drone gave us one of these…" Dreadwing grabbed the mop and proceeded to scrub the top of the wall with it. He didn't realise this was splashing water about; and so got a shock when he got hit.
"Hey! Watch the paint!" Knock Out growled at him.
"You lot are taking this way too seriously!" Airachnid told them.
"What happens after we are done all of this cleaning?" She asked them. All of them looked confused.
"The Dare Club is disbanded."
"I thought it was disbanded now…" Dreadwing trailed off.
"No, it's not. Didn't Megatron say something like 'after we've done this job, the Dare Club is disbanded.'?" All of them thought for a few nanokliks before coming to the same realisation.
"So that means…" An evil grin spread across Knock Out's face.
"We can dare each other to do things!" Starscream looked like he was working out what to dare each of them.
"As long as we make sure to keep making progress on the cleaning; I don't see why not!" Dreadwing sounded eager for this.
"In that case; since I was the one who reminded you all about this fact, I'll dare one of you first!" Airachnid looked around the rest of them evilly. They looked worried; she was good at thinking up evil dares for them to do!
"I wonder what this stuff…" She pointed at one of the buckets full of cleaning fluid. "Tastes like?"
"I can't imagine it would taste very nice somehow; or we wouldn't be using it to clean the floors!" Knock Out's argument made sense.
"In that case, I dare…" She paused and all of them froze; they didn't want it to be them!
"… Dreadwing to drink some of it!" Knock Out and Starscream both sighed in relief. Said mech however, groaned.
"How much…?" He sounded really apprehensive.
"If you manage to swallow one mouthful of the stuff, then I'd say you did it." Airachnid told him. Dreadwing reluctantly picked up one of the buckets and tipped a small amount of it into his mouth. He quickly spat it out again, sticking his tongue out of his mouth and shaking it about; trying to get rid of the taste. The other three burst out laughing at his antics.
"You wouldn't be laughing if you had to drink this stuff! It tastes like soap!" Dreadwing still hadn't gotten all of the taste out of his mouth.
"You still haven't drunk any of it!" Starscream told him, still laughing at him.
"No way! I'm not swallowing that stuff! I'll do whatever forfeit you can think up; but Primus; please don't make me drink that stuff!" Dreadwing pleaded with them.
"You forfeit?" Airachnid sounded disbelieving.
"Yes!" He sounded like he was pleading.
:: What should he do as a forfeit, do you think? ::
:: How about doing the rest of the solar cycle's cleaning in his protoform? ::
:: That's just cruel Knock Out! ::
:: That makes it the perfect forfeit then, doesn't it? ::
:: I suppose so… Screamer… ::
:: You do not get away with calling me that just because… :: Starscream trailed off; he was about to admit something he'd rather Knock Out didn't find out.
"The other two seem to think your forfeit should be to spend the rest of the time we have to spend cleaning for this solar cycle in your protoform." Airachnid tried to sound like she didn't really like this idea.
"Fine." The other two mechs looked shocked; they didn't think he'd agree to it that quickly. Dreadwing had already removed his pelvic armour and stored it in subspace before the other two had regained composure.
"Right then; shall we get on with this cleaning?" Dreadwing asked, picking the mop back up and scrubbing at the tops of the walls. The others quickly decided to join in; thinking that Dreadwing might give them an evil dare later if they didn't help.
A couple of cycles later…
"How do the drones manage to do this cleaning for so long…?"
"Quit whining, Knock Out. That doesn't ever speed up punishments!"
"You'd know all about that though, wouldn't you Screamy?"
"You do not get away with calling me names like that just because…" Starscream then stopped; realising just what he was about to tell anyone within hearing range.
"You said something similar over the coms earlier as well. How would that, and I'll assume this, sentence end?" Knock Out sniggered when Starscream's cheeks turned bright blue. They looked around, and spotted two Vehicons wandering along the corridors, drinking energon.
"You there, why have you got that?" Starscream looked confusedly at the Vehicons.
"Because it's time for a refuelling break; it's the middle of the solar cycle after all!" One of them told the group before heading off towards the Vehicon area with his friend. They all then checked the time.
"So it is!" Dreadwing told them, putting down the mop.
"Let's go before there's none left!" Starscream ran off down the hallways and the others followed, at a slower pace. When they got to the mess hall, Starscream was impatiently tapping his foot.
"What took you lot so long?" He then walked through the door and the others followed. Starscream filled up a cube for each of them before eagerly lifting up one of the cubes.
"Starscream." Said mech put his cube down and glared at Knock Out.
"What?"
"I dare you to lap the energon from the cube like a turbo fox!" Starscream's jaw dropped at the suggestion.
"Right now…?" He could see that there were quite a lot of Vehicons and Insecticons around to witness this.
"Right now." Knock Out smugly told him. Starscream whined in response but put the cube down on the ground.
"If any of you dare kick my aft, I'll be sure offline you!" He told the other three before getting down on to all fours beside the cube. Some of the Vehicons noticed and pointed. They told the others and so all of the other Decepticons in the room were watching him. He then started to lick at the energon at the top of the cube, much to the amusement of the rest of the Decepticons in the room.
"Who'd like to see the turbo fox wag its tail?" Knock Out asked the rest of the observers. A chorus of 'yes's' reached his and Starscream's audios. Starscream looked up and became nervous when he saw how many there were watching him. He groaned before wiggling his aft back and forth a few times. His cheeks flushed bright blue when he'd done that; this was so demeaning. He then went back to lapping up the energon, trying to ignore the amused giggles of all the robots watching him.
:: Hey, do you think I should get him to 'wag his tail' again? ::
:: If you want, Knocks. ::
:: I think a certain someone wouldn't follow out his threat if you did it, Airachnid. ::
:: What do you mean, Dreadwing? ::
:: I dare you to kick his aft when he 'wags his tail'! :: Airachnid didn't like the sound of this but quietly moved to stand behind Starscream.
"I think the turbo fox should wag his tail again." Knock Out told the group, mainly for Airachnid's benefit. Starscream lifted his head up from the cube and began to shake his aft again. Airachnid swung her foot out and kicked him, knocking his head forward into the cube. He shrieked in outrage; how dare someone kick him! He shook the energon off himself before grouchily saying.
"Who was the dolt that thought it would be funny to… Airachnid?" He looked around and saw who was stood behind him.
"Hey there, Screamy." She didn't look nervous; she knew he wouldn't offline her.
"Why'd you…?" He trailed off; he'd worked out exactly why she did that, and who told her to. He stood up and put his hands on hips.
"You did say you would offline anyone who dared to kick your aft."
"Oh, I'm going to offline you…" Starscream's voice turned seductive.
"…with kisses." He then quickly kissed her before she could protest. Airachnid didn't seem to mind… for a few nanokliks. She used a string of webbing to stick his arms above his head.
"What!? I thought you…" He was being backed up by a rather cross looking Airachnid. She'd quickly got him pinned to the wall. Ah! Not again! Those Vehicons will go around spreading more rumours! He started to squirm, not liking this.
:: Don't worry, I won't hurt you… unless you want me to. :: Starscream moaned, now imagining her biting him. She touched her lips to his and started running her hands down his sides, very gently.
:: Airachnid, stop that! ::
:: Why? :: She asked mischievously.
:: You know I'm ticklish… :: She moved her hands and stroked a different part of his body; making him try not to moan, his cockpit was sensitive! She felt his body relax and so moved her hands to a different task; removing his pelvic armour. She somehow managed to slide his armour off him without him noticing. She quickly put the plating in subspace and heard a ping. 'You didn't just…' She quickly replied to said com with. 'Yes Knock Out, I did strip him; but you, or anyone else, better not tell him…' Airachnid sounded a little worried; he might not like this…
:: We won't, but I'm not sure about the Vehicons! :: Dreadwing told her; Knock Out had apparently patched him in. She then leaned back from Starscream and removed the webbing from his wrists. He let his arms fall to his sides and seemed happy to be free of the webbing.
"I almost thought you were going to…"
"Maybe I will, later!" Airachnid smirked and he moaned; he liked the sound of that!
"In that case, I look forward to it!" Starscream told her with a wink. Airachnid walked over to join the others and have her cube of energon. The female Vehicons and Insecticons who liked Starscream all collapsed, while the other females snapped a picture of him before walking off with the males.
"What was all that about?" He asked.
"Not sure… my mech I'm going to make scream later!" She told him before drinking some more of her cube.
"Hey! Less of that! What we do behind a locked door is not open for discussion!" Starscream blushed.
"Shall we get back to the cleaning now?" Knock Out walked towards the door and Dreadwing followed, leaving Starscream and Airachnid behind.
"How about you and I get some?" Airachnid asked Starscream. He squeaked in response.
"Airachnid… Anyone could see…" He whined. Airachnid looked down a little bit. His voice might be saying no… But his body is telling me yes! She thought amusedly.
"We'd better go and help the other two; before we're missed." She walked towards the door and he followed her. It didn't take long for a couple of Vehicons to appear out of one of the other rooms along the corridor. They turned and saw the two officers. Both of them thought they looked thinner than usual and tried to work out why this might be. One of them looked at Starscream and let out a high pitched shriek. The other one whispered to her.
"What are you making that noise for?"
"Just, look at him!" She tried to stay as quiet as possible; even though she was becoming rather excited. The other Vehicon looked at Starscream and quickly covered her face to stop herself from shrieking too.
:: Damn… Airachnid is lucky. ::
:: Yeah… She gets to frag him! :: Both of them then let their optic bands flicker; they had to show the others this! She and her friend walked off, happy that they had got proof for the rumours; Starscream did have the hots for Airachnid, if she could do that to him!
"What was that about?" Starscream asked Airachnid after the Vehicons had walked off.
"What was what about?"
"The Vehicon shrieking like that?"
"You have only got on just enough plating to protect your modesty… And you do have an amazing physique… He must have liked what he saw!" Airachnid lied about him being covered up, but she meant the rest of her comment. Starscream preened at the praise, before walking off towards where the rest of the Dare Club had to be. Airachnid followed along behind him, apparently she'd seen enough of that for now. It didn't take long for them to reach where the others were busy working.
"It took you long enough to join us… What the frag have you been doing?" Knock Out asked them but commed Airachnid something different.
:: What'd you have to remove his plating for? Now I feel like I should be devoid of my armour too! ::
:: If you want to show off your assets to the Vehicons again, go right ahead! Starscream might wonder why you are doing that though… :: She answered him.
"Discussing what might or might not be happening later…" Starscream told Knock Out cryptically.
"Frag is right!" Airachnid reached around and rubbed her hands up Starscream's chest.
"Hey! Stop that!" Starscream shook her off of him and moved over beside the other two.
"I thought you liked to be rubbed and stroked… Particularly your…"
"What happens between us behind a locked door is not open for discussion!" Starscream interrupted her, his face turning bright blue; he couldn't believe she was going to tell anyone who was watching about that!
"Are you going to help us, or are you just going to stand about squabbling?" Dreadwing grumbled at them, without turning to look; he'd seen quite enough of mechs in their protoforms while in the Dare Club. Airachnid and Starscream both went over to help clean the walls.
"Is it just me, or this corridor colder than it was?" Starscream asked them about a couple of breems later.
"You must be imagining things… Screamer!" Airachnid sniggered; he still hadn't realised what she'd done to him… yet.
:: You still feel like the odd mech out? :: She commed Knock Out; hoping he'd get the idea. He shuddered, hoping she'd forget what he'd said. He quietly removed his pelvic plating and put it in to subspace; he hoped before Starscream could notice. Starscream did look at both of the other two though, when going to rinse out the sponge.
"I thought you didn't like being naked."
"With you and Dreadwing working without any armour on, I feel kind of left out…"
"W-what do you mean?!" Starscream looked very worried.
"You don't know?" Knock Out started to laugh at him; he really was clueless!
"You haven't got a scrap of armour covering you up and you didn't realise?" Dreadwing started to laugh as well, Starscream groaned in realisation. Those Vehicons earlier must have been shrieking because they could see my spike…
"In that case… where is it? Armour doesn't just disappear…" Starscream was confused.
"Yours apparently did!" Airachnid told him with a smirk.
"You know where it is, don't you?!" He shouted crossly back at her. She then pulled his pelvic plating out of subspace.
"Does it look like this?" She held the plating up and giggled.
"Hey! Give that back!" He moved towards her but she scuttled off on to the ceiling with aid from her spider legs.
"I'll give you your plating back… if you do something for me." Airachnid made sure to stay well out of his reach.
"What do you want me to do?" He was trying to sound confident but it wasn't working very well.
"Stand with your back to that wall…"
"That doesn't sound too bad…"
"And make it look like you're stroking your mech parts!"
"No way! I've been completely humiliated by you twice today already, without doing that as well!"
"You'd prefer for me to keep this armour then?" Airachnid gave him a look that made him whine.
"Fine." He grumbled something after this that sounded like ' pain-in-the-aft femmes…' and put his back against the wall. He wrapped one of his hands around his spike and smirked at her. Airachnid climbed down from the ceiling and her optics flickered. There are quite a large bunch of Vehicons who would probably like to see that image. Airachnid held out the armour to Starscream who quickly walked over to grab it. Knock Out pulled his plating back out of subspace and pulled it back on the same time Starscream did.
"Why'd you remove my armour anyway?" Starscream asked her, a blush working its way across his cheeks.
"Because, you have an amazing body; and I think I shouldn't be the only one to see you all hot and aroused…"
"A-aroused? Wait, was this when the Vehicons saw us in the corridor?"
"Yes… They saw you with your assets all hard and…" Starscream let out a high pitched shriek when she told him that!
"I suppose we'd better get back to work…" Dreadwing suggested to the group.
"Leave Starscream and Airachnid to work out a solution to that problem… in berth later!" Knock Out told him before picking the sponge back up.
At the end of the solar cycle…
"I suppose we need to get rid of this dirty water now…" Knock Out seemed happy that the shift was over; that was hard work!
"I can think of one way to get rid of it…" Airachnid silently commed Starscream a suggestion. He seemed to like the sound of it and then told the poor mech what he was going to be doing.
"You know how all dirty water ends up being filtered so we can use it again?"
"Yes I do; where are you going with this Starscream?" Knock Out asked.
"In that case you should also know that the room where you take the dirty water to, has a design that means water poured will always land in the drain."
"Yes… Again, where are you going with this?"
"I dare you stand in said room and have the dirty water poured over you!" Knock Out winced; he didn't like the sound of that!
"Don't you think I've been punished enough; having to clean all day for our Lord's apparent amusement?"
"You made me play turbo fox!" Starscream screeched, not caring who heard him now; the Vehicons who were there would have told everyone exactly what happened in the mess hall anyway… Knock Out growled, not seeing a way out of doing this.
"Fine… Let's get going before the Vehicons start heading there…" He stalked off along the corridor towards the room, leaving the others to carry the buckets.
"He sounds really annoyed; what'd you do?" Dreadwing asked Starscream.
"I haven't done anything to him… yet." Starscream picked up one of the buckets and followed the medic. Airachnid and Dreadwing grabbed the other two buckets, before following the other two.
A short while later…
"Hey, Knock Out!" Dreadwing shouted at him and Knock Out turned to face the door.
"Are you going to stand there and make me wait much longer? This is… Wait. Why are there only two of you?" He was just going to rant at them about making him wait when he noticed something.
"Airachnid will be along in a moment." Starscream told the medic. This seemed to reassure him.
"Right then. I'll just wait until… AH!" Knock Out cried out; he'd just felt something… wet get poured over him. He then heard the other three members of the Dare Club laughing at him. He looked up and saw Airachnid on the ceiling with an upside down bucket in her hands.
"You like your cold, surprise shower doc?" Airachnid asked him. Knock Out growled at her; unable to believe she had snuck up on him.
"Was that really necessary?" Knock Out shook himself off.
"Completely necessary, dear doctor… And you have to stand there for a couple of kliks longer."
"Why?" He whined at Starscream.
"Because…" Starscream walked towards Knock Out slowly, in a threatening manner.
"Raise your arms." The medic reluctantly did so; getting the impression Starscream would force him to anyway.
"This. Is. Payback!" Starscream then tipped the contents of the bucket over him. Knock Out tried to move back so the water missed, but apparently Airachnid had climbed down; as he was stuck in place by some of her webbing. He cried out again; he was sure they'd put ice into these buckets, the water was freezing!
"I wouldn't be screaming that much… yet." Starscream looked smugly at Knock Out, who was desperately trying to wriggle free of the webbing.
"You only have one more bucket of this dirty water to stand under." Starscream taunted him. He growled at the Seeker, wondering how he found out about his dislike of dirt… Knock Out looked around and noticed Dreadwing had disappeared. Scrap! He must have snuck off when Starscream was taunting me…
"Look up to the ceiling." Starscream commanded. The medic looked upwards, not liking this one bit. He then felt the cold liquid slowly running down his back; making him shudder. A couple of nanokliks later, the water stopped.
"Thank Primus! Now if one of… AH!" He then saw the bucket being raised up before it tipped again, showering him with what must have been the rest of the contents. Some of the water had gotten into his mouth and he quickly started spitting it out; it tasted vile!
"You must have some sort of fetish for having gross stuff rubbed and poured on you that you didn't tell me about, Knocks." Knock Out recognised that voice and stopped wriggling his tongue about. The other three members of the Dare Club started to laugh; this was the second time that Breakdown had seen them pouring something slimy and horrible over Knock Out.
"Breakdown?! This isn't what it looks like…"
"Really? Then explain what it is, because I get the impression you're getting them to do that to you because it turns you on." Knock Out's cheeks turned bright blue; he really wasn't into that!
"What are you doing here?" Knock Out decided to try and get Breakdown away from that topic.
"I actually came here to dispose of this…" Breakdown lifted up a bucket filled with, what Knock Out assumed was, more dirty water.
"You lot left this in the corridor."
"In that case you are more than welcome to, as you put it, 'turn him on'!" Starscream sniggered at that thought. Breakdown moved towards Knock Out with the bucket of water.
"Please, Breakdown… Don't do this. I haven't done anything to you!"
"Except pretend to be Airachnid. You know I like her!"
"I think Breakdown is still annoyed by the fact he kissed Knock Out." Airachnid whispered to the other two, who both nodded. Breakdown then tipped the water over Knock Out's head. Said mech shrieked in response; this felt more like lubricant than water.
"Alright! So I shouldn't have pretended to be Airachnid and flirted with you but… Was that kind of punishment really necessary?" The other members of the Dare Club started laughing again; Knock Out really didn't want to say that apparently forbidden 'k' word.
"Airachnid seems to think I have a sexy kiss; do you?" Breakdown knew he was making his friend uncomfortable; but he didn't seem to care.
"I'm not into mechs! I'm not going to answer that!"
"You have a crush on Optimus Prime!" Dreadwing chose that moment to shout; making Knock Out turn a brighter shade of blue.
"You haven't told them what that actuallyis yet?!" Breakdown seemed surprised.
"And you also haven't answered my question!" Knock Out groaned he'd hoped Breakdown wouldn't push the matter.
:: Yes, you do. But I'm not one to go for mechs! ::
:: Just checking to make sure, what with you hanging around Commander Starscream and all… ::
:: You are joking right? I'd never even think of such things! He's far too stuck up! ::
:: Yeah, I'm joking. You don't need to worry about me coming after you either; I'm not into mechs either. ::
"Are you two finished arguing over com link?" Starscream tapped his foot impatiently. Breakdown removed the webbing stuck around Knock Out's feet and said mech walked off towards the other three.
"I think that is quite enough excitement for one solar cycle! I'm going to the wash racks; any of you coming?"
"You're just going there to get rid of the muck we just poured on you!" Airachnid taunted.
"But I think me and Screamy will be following you… So we can take a shower together…!" Airachnid sniggered and Starscream blushed; he knew what she was getting at.
"I've told you not to call me things like that!" Starscream grumbled.
"In that case; I'm definitely not following!" Dreadwing walked off towards his quarters while the other three headed to the wash racks.
A few solar cycles later…
"There are only a few areas left to clean; and if we get them finished maybe Megatron will finally be happy with our progress…"
"So you can impress him I suppose, Megatron's fan-mech?" Starscream decided to try and annoy Dreadwing.
"I wouldn't tempt me…" Dreadwing warned him.
:: If you want to dare him; go right ahead! :: Airachnid seemed to like the sound of this.
:: You could make him shout out the details of his and Airachnid's relationship! :: Dreadwing seemed to like the suggestion that Knock Out had given him.
"No, you'd like Thunderblast to do that, wouldn't you?"
"I've warned you. I'll just have to dare you to do something really nasty now!" Starscream stiffened; he didn't like the sound of that.
"You know how one of the areas we have left to clean is the Vehicons' area?"
"I don't like the fact but, yes I knew that." Starscream told him.
"And you also know how the Vehicons like to gossip; don't you Screamy?" Airachnid tried to bait him.
"You don't get away with calling me that name just because…" Starscream caught himself before he blurted that out.
"You have started to say that quite a lot over the past few days. How would that sentence end Starscream?" Knock Out asked innocently. Starscream's cheeks turned bright blue in response.
"How about you tell us exactly what you and Airachnid get up to behind closed doors?" Starscream looked shocked; Dreadwing wasn't usually the one to ask about these sorts of things.
"No way! I'll never tell!" Starscream sounded adamant that he wasn't going to tell anyone.
"I dare you to shout out the details of you and Airachnid's relationship when we are in the Vehicons' area!" Starscream shuddered.
"I… really have to do this?"
"Yes; and I would have made you shout out just your 'crush', like I was made to do, but then you decided to annoy me." Dreadwing told him smugly; he'd been asking for that punishment!
"Can't I forfeit?" Starscream asked hopefully.
"No." Knock Out told him; he wanted to know about it as well!
"Unless you'd like to let all of the Vehicons' stroke you for about a breem, in your protoform?!" Airachnid suggested as a forfeit; she'd make sure that the Vehicons who had the hots for him knew about it, so they could stroke him there.
"I'm going to end up completely and utterly humiliated whichever I choose here, aren't I?" All three of the others nodded their heads and Starscream whined in response.
"Shall we start heading towards the Vehicon area?" Dreadwing began to walk towards the door and the others followed; Starscream slower than the other two.
Vehicon area, about a breem later…
:: How am I supposed to do this? I can't just randomly blurt it out now can I? ::
:: Starscream, unfortunately, has a point Dreadwing. :: Knock Out looked disappointed.
:: I'm not sure how he should do this either… :: He reluctantly admitted.
:: I might be able to help with that… :: Airachnid walked over to Starscream and wrapped her arms around him.
"Hey! Some warning would be appreciated!" Starscream did like being cuddled, but didn't like it when anyone snuck up on him.
"I thought you liked it when I cuddled you, darling." Knock Out and Dreadwing were trying not to laugh; Airachnid was behaving overly romantic, they thought on purpose.
"I've told you before not to sneak up on me!" Starscream shouted at her; drawing the attention of the Vehicons milling about in the area. Airachnid commed one of the Vehicons stood around in the area.
:: Some of you come over and ask him about what exactly it is we get up to… I know some of you are dying to know! :: This seemed to encourage a small group of female Vehicons to come over.
"Why are you letting Airachnid hold you like that, Commander Starscream?" The Vehicon at the front of the group asked him. He looked back to Dreadwing as if to ask 'Do I really have to answer this?'
:: Don't keep him waiting Starscream. :: Starscream whined at Dreadwing's response and turned back to the Vehicons.
"Because… " He paused, as if overcome by nerves for a couple of nanokliks.
"I like it when she cuddles me…" His cheeks went pale blue; he didn't like doing this one bit! The Vehicons seemed to like his answer.
"When you got kissed in our shower area, was that your first kiss, Commander?" Knock Out and Dreadwing looked shocked; this was the first they'd heard of anything like that!
"They must have gave the Vehicons quite the show, what with Airachnid pinning him to the wall!" Knock Out whispered to Dreadwing.
"I think those two have been at it longer than we thought."
"Either that or Airachnid was quite enjoying teasing him!" Knock Out suggested. Dreadwing seemed to agree with him.
"No… Err, we'd kissed once before that…"
"Do tell." One of the other Vehicons sounded interested and the others seemed to want to know as well. They sound like a bunch of gossipy femmes… Starscream thought before answering them.
"It was in the Insecticons' training room; after their training session."
"I think I saw the picture of that…" One of the Vehicons who spoke earlier told him.
"Tongues?" The first Vehicon asked. Starscream's cheeks went bright blue; these Vehicons definitely did sound like some of the femmes back on Cybertron.
"Yes. He's really good!" Airachnid told them. Starscream then felt her running her hands up his sides.
"Stop that!"
"Why, does this…" She wiggled her fingers against his sides and he squeaked; trying not to laugh.
"Tickle?" She asked innocently. One of the Vehicons then asked.
"He's ticklish?!"
"We have had tickle fights before." He told them, thankful that Airachnid had stopped tickling him.
"That can't be all there is to your relationship, can it?" The only Vehicon who hadn't spoken asked him innocently. Trust one of them to have their head in the drain, I think the humans say…
"We… might have interfaced a few times…"
"What do you mean 'might' Starscream? We either did or didn't, and since I've heard you screaming my name when you overload; I'd dare say we did!" Airachnid's comment made the Vehicons squeal and Knock Out and Dreadwing burst out laughing; Starscream's face had turned bright blue again!
:: If any of you want details, I'll tell you later; let the poor Seeker recover! :: Airachnid told the Vehicon stood at the front, who passed the message on to the others.
"We'd better let you lot get on with your cleaning; come on guys!" One of the other Vehicons who wasn't asking any questions told the rest of them. The Vehicons started to file out so the Dare Club could get on with the cleaning.
"I can't believe you told them that!" Starscream shrieked at her.
"What about you being an actual screamer or…?" Airachnid's response made Starscream whine.
"Everyone is going to call me by that nickname now…" He looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.
"So then Screamer, are you going to help us finish off the cleaning in here; or are you going to stand there like an idiot?" Knock Out asked Starscream with an amused smirk; that had been just the kind of thing he'd wanted to find out!
"I suppose I'd better help…" He walked over to grab one of the buckets and then dragged his feet towards the Vehicon area; one of them would be bound to have told all of the others…
About a cycle later…
"There are only a few more corridors left to clean…"
"And the Bridge; shouldn't one of you ask Lord Megatron if we can go in there to clean?" Airachnid told them; she wasn't going to be the one to do it!
"His fan-mech should do it." Starscream suggested. Dreadwing ignored the quip and commed Megatron.
:: Sir, we need you to not be in there so we can clean. ::
:: Oh… Is it here you are cleaning next? I'd better find somewhere else to do my dre… scheming. :: It didn't take long for Megatron to come through the doors, rubbing his optics.
"I can't help feeling he was taking a nap!" Starscream whispered to the others, who started sniggering.
"What are you two dolts sniggering at?" Megatron turned to glare at them.
"Starscream just told a funny joke, my liege." Knock Out lied; hoping the apparently just woken up Lord didn't realise.
"Enough messing about! I'm not in there now, so you can get to work!" Megatron stormed off.
"What were you two sniggering at?" Dreadwing asked when Megatron was out of audio range.
"I'd said 'I can't help feeling he was taking a nap!'" Starscream told Dreadwing.
"I know he was; he usually does at this time of the solar cycle."
"Are you certain you're Dreadwing? I thought Dreadwing worshiped the ground Megatron walked on!" Knock Out acted overly shocked.
"Obviously you being in the Dare Club has made you rebellious!" Airachnid sniggered.
"I think I know just the sort of dare to give you now, Dreadwing!" Starscream told him.
"You know how Megatron was just in here…"
"Taking a nap on that throne there, yes Starscream." The others sniggered.
"I dare you to write something on that throne there, using the cleaning fluid!"
"But…" Dreadwing pointed at a certain mech who hadn't moved, but probably heard what they'd just said.
"Drat! That blasted Soundwave sees and hears everything." Starscream sounded annoyed.
"Dreadwing would get caught if he tried anything…" Knock Out seemed disappointed.
"We could get him to move so we could clean the area around his work station; I could write something while he is away…"
"We might be able to shift him for a few kliks…" Airachnid hoped so; there weren't any cameras to catch them in here!
"Soundwave, Megatron has said you can have a 5 klik break while we clean around here." Dreadwing hoped Soundwave believed him. Soundwave nodded his head in understanding before heading off towards the door. After the door had closed they quickly got to work.
"We'll clean around here, you write something on that." Starscream pointed at the throne.
Dreadwing thought for a few nanokliks about what he could write on there. Then, an idea came to him. I wrote it on his wall; I suppose writing it here for all to see would be ten times worse! Dreadwing dipped his finger in the cleaning fluid and drew a heart shape. I can't help feeling there was something missing last time… Like maybe an arrow… He drew an arrow sticking out of the heart's top right and bottom left. He then wrote the same two names that had been in the heart that was on Megatron's wall. He stood back to have a look.
I'll just have to make sure that Soundwave gets the blame for this again; he won't notice the drawing on the throne… But Megatron will! Dreadwing then started cleaning around the base of the throne; before Soundwave came back in and realised what had been going on. The other three members worked their way towards him, to make sure that it looked like they'd all been working in the same area.
Not long after that, Soundwave walked back through the door. He noticed it did look a lot cleaner beside his workstation and got back to work; leaving the Dare Club to their cleaning. About a breem later they'd managed to clean the room completely, and so quietly walked out.
:: Soundwave is going to get a fright when Megatron shouts at him again! :: Starscream wished he could have been there to see that!
:: Of course he is; Megatron's crush is scrawled on his throne for anyone who goes in there to see! :: Dreadwing decided not to mention that had a picture of the drawing for a Vehicon to scatter across the Nemesis network.
:: Guess we'd better make a start on the rest of the corridors… ::
"Wait a klik, Knocks." Airachnid held up one of her hands. He turned around to see what she wanted and then stood still.
"You know how both myself and Starscream are ticklish?" She asked him.
"This is going to be another dare, isn't it?" Knock Out wasn't sure he liked the sound of this.
"What about you?" She asked him; ignoring his question.
"No! Of course not! Where'd you get that idea from?" He told them a little too quickly.
"In that case it shouldn't bother you being stuck to the wall for half a breem while we tickle you then, should it?"
"Wait, wha…" Now he knew he didn't like the sound of this!
"I dare you to stand still for half a breem and be tickled!" Airachnid looked at him to see if he looked bothered by this dare. He hadn't made a sarcastic comment but didn't look too scared by the prospect.
"You said stuck to the wall a nanoklik ago…" Knock Out hoped he wouldn't regret bringing that up…
"Stand with your back to that wall, both arms above your head." Airachnid pointed to one of the walls of the corridor. He reluctantly went and stood beside the wall like she'd told him to do. She shot some webbing around his wrists to hold his arms still. I hope that no one else sees this… I'll end up looking a complete fool!
"Why'd you make him raise his arms?"
"Because, if he's anything like you, he'll try and use his arms to protect himself." Airachnid paused.
"And, if he is ticklish at all, maybe one of his tickly spots is under his arms; like you, Starscream" She said his name like that on purpose and he growled in response. The last time they'd had a tickle fight, she'd won; and he ended up screaming at her to stop it!
"Do I have to tickle him, or can I just watch you two torture him?" Dreadwing asked.
"T-torture?! I don't want to be tortured! It hurts!" Knock Out looked scared.
"In that case, do you forfeit you coward?" Starscream smugly asked him.
"Yes!"
"Are you a mech or a petro-rat? At least Starscream takes his punishments like a mech!" Airachnid asked him. Knock Out grumbled before shouting at her.
"I'll do this, if just to prove I'm no coward like a certain flyer!" Airachnid and Starscream both flexed their claws at his response. He tensed up; he wasn't fond of claws being raised at him, they tended to result in his finish getting scratched! He then felt two sets of claws lightly wiggling against his sides. The other three saw him squirm a little and bite his lip.
:: It seems he is ticklish… ::
:: Now to get him to start pleading with us to make it stop! ::
:: Like you do, Starscream? :: Starscream growled at Airachnid's response. He decided not to say anything to her and instead tickled under Knock Out's arms. He wriggled about a bit, but apparently that part of his body wasn't sensitive either. Airachnid lightly rubbed her fingers against his stomach. That got a response.
"Not there…" He whispered, as if trying not to show that this was affecting him.
"What am I not supposed to do… this?" Airachnid wriggled her fingers across his stomach, slightly harder this time.
"Ah! No!" He wriggled about with more force; trying to escape and trying not to laugh. Starscream seemed to think that he could help here and started to join in. That did it.
"Hey! Stop it! This isn't funny!"
"Then why are you laughing so much, Knocks?" He tried to growl at Airachnid but it ended up more of a squeak when Starscream decided to start tickling his sides.
"Haven't… you… tortured… me… enough… yet?" He managed to gasp out between fits of laughter.
"I think not; you need at least another two kliks of this 'torture'; Airachnid said half a breem after all." Starscream told him.
"Please… stop…! I'll-do-anything!" He quickly gasped out. They paused in their tickling for a few nanokliks.
"Anything?" Airachnid asked him.
"Did I say that out loud?"
"I heard it; and I'm stood over here out of the way!" Dreadwing told him.
"Scrap. What is it you want me to do…?" Knock Out seemed resigned to the idea of doing something horrible now. Starscream and Airachnid shared a look before turning back to him. They both had an evil smirk on their faces.
"You know how you kissed Breakdown a few solar cycles ago…?" Starscream sounded smug.
"I really don't like where this is going…"
"Your forfeit is to shout out what you think of his kissing!" Airachnid told him. Knock Out whined in response.
"Do I have a choice?"
"You can stand still and be tickled for another two kliks and shriek like a femme, or you can shout out what you think of your best friend's kisses for all the Vehicons to hear!" Starscream smugly told him.
"Can you let me down from the wall? I think I'll just shout out what you said…" He asked Airachnid reluctantly. Her smirk widened. She walked over and removed the webbing from his wrists. He walked slowly towards the middle of the corridor. He raised both of his hands to his face and shouted along the corridor.
"I think Breakdown has a sexy kiss!" Knock Out could have sworn that it echoed in that corridor.
"I wonder if Breakdown is wandering the corridors…" Dreadwing innocently commented. The comment however made the other two burst out laughing.
"If he is, I hope he heard that!" Starscream seemed to like this idea.
"You into mechs, Knocks? What with you kissing Breakdown and that crush on Optimus Prime…" Airachnid sniggered; his cheeks had gone pale blue.
"I'm very much into femmes; or I would be if Starscream hadn't claimed the only femme on the Nemesis!" He told them suggestively. They heard something coming over the intercoms just after Knock Out had spoken.
'Why did nobody tell me I could come back in here? It looks like it's been clean for a while now…'
"That sounds like its coming from the throne room…" Dreadwing told the others; who also went quiet and listened.
"Who dares?!" Megatron went silent at that point. His cheeks went pale blue for a few nanokliks. The only mech I've ever told about this was… Soundwave. Megatron growled in realisation.
"Soundwave, care to explain why you decided to write on my throne?" Megatron managed to sound calm, but the Vehicons in there knew to stay back; his temper was extremely unpredictable.
"You don't really believe that I threw that do you?" Soundwave played back a recording of Starscream's voice.
"You are the only one I confided in about this; so explain who else it could have been!" Megatron raised his voice at the end. Soundwave remained silent; he knew it had to have been one of the Dare Club, but he had no way to prove it!
Meanwhile, in the corridors…
"And so Dreadwing manages to blame his dare on Soundwave for the third time!" Knock Out grumbled; he wished he could get away with these sorts of things!
"Speaking of dares…" Starscream trailed off; hoping Knock Out would get the idea.
"Isn't it your turn to dare Airachnid?" Dreadwing asked him.
"You know, I do believe you are right!" He turned to look at her.
"I know now that you have been fragging Starscream…" And I heard from his mouth! Knock Out thought amusedly to himself.
"Hey! Don't say that so loud!"
"Shut it, Screamer." He then turned to look at her again.
"But you also don't seem to mind kissing other mechs…"
"Care to explain how you know that?" She asked him.
"Breakdown seemed in a rather good mood after you got him to kiss you; and I don't think it was just because of that." Knock Out smirked at her.
"I'm not the only one who thinks he's got a sexy kiss." Airachnid told him and he growled in response.
"I wonder if you'd be willing to kiss other mechs as willingly as you do Breakdown…" He told her. Dreadwing hoped that his twin wasn't the mech in question. Starscream silently hoped Soundwave was. Airachnid seemed to have an idea what he was going to ask now.
"I dare you to kiss the next high ranking officer to come around that corner!" Airachnid smirked and turned to whisper to Starscream.
"That isn't part of the Dare Club, before you tell Starscream to walk around there!" Frag. How'd he know I was going to do that? Airachnid grumbled; she'd been caught out.
"What if Megatron comes around that corner?" Airachnid shuddered at the thought.
"Then you better hope he doesn't mind femmes just kissing him for no apparent reason!" Knock Out told her smugly. She scowled; hoping it was either Breakdown or Skyquake that appeared next, the other two might rip her apart if she tried anything! They all then heard the sound of footsteps from around the corner.
"I wonder who it is…" Dreadwing hoped it wasn't Skyquake; he'd get a very nasty shock!
"I hope it's Soundwave!"
"I don't think we'd get much of a reaction from him, Starscream." Knock Out sounded smug.
"And anyway; where would I kiss? I'm not even sure he has a mouth I could kiss!" Airachnid then heard the footsteps get louder. It sounded like they were just out of sight, so she walked towards the corner.
"We need to stop finding each other in the corridors like this!" The mech that walked around the corner didn't seem as surprised as he probably should have been.
"Is the same thing that happened the last few times we met in the corridors going to happen again this time, Airachnid?" He asked her.
"You might be in luck, Breakdown." She told him, before trying to back him into the wall.
"Not this time." Breakdown spun her around so she had her back to the wall and was pinned against it.
"Wha-what are you doing?" She seemed nervous; she didn't like being backed into a corner like this. Is this how Starscream feels every time I do this? If so, I can see why he doesn't like it!
"Making sure you don't escape before I can…" Breakdown didn't finish telling them what he was going to do, as Airachnid pushed her lips against his. It only lasted a few nanokliks before she pulled away. Breakdown then heard laughing coming from somewhere and looked around. He spotted the other three members of the Dare Club stood not far from where he and Airachnid were, all laughing at this.
"You better not be pretending to be Airachnid again, Knock Out." Said mech stopped laughing now, the other two started to laugh harder!
"I'm not pretending to be Airachnid, I'm right here!" He told Breakdown.
"Com me something only he would know, if you really are Knock Out; you should be able to tell me one of his secrets." Breakdown apparently still hadn't got over kissing his best friend.
:: You buff out all of my scratches when Screamer or Big M decides to scratch my finish for street racing… :: Knock Out hoped that he hadn't told anyone else that…
:: You must be Knock Out, only you call Megatron that! :: Knock Out sighed in relief at what Breakdown told him.
"I'll let you all get back to cleaning; it won't do itself after all!" Breakdown wandered off in a slightly better mood.
"Looks like Airachnid is just as willing to kiss other mechs, Starscream!" Dreadwing told him and he stopped laughing.
"She'll have only done that because you dared her to…"
"Are you sure about that?" Knock Out asked, motioning for her to come over to him. She walked towards him; much to Starscream's annoyance. She stopped a few steps back from him.
:: You said you were into femmes… ::
:: I do believe so, where are you… ::
:: How would you like to get your tongue into my mouth? :: She thought she heard a moan before the answer came through.
:: I think I'd very much like that. ::
:: Come here then, robotic Romeo! :: Knock Out could almost hear her sniggering at the end. He did as she told him and was now stood in front of her. She quickly shot webbing at his hands, to stick them by his sides.
"Hey! What are you…" He didn't get to finish what he was saying as she pressed her lips against his. He felt her sliding her tongue against his lips so let his slide out to battle for dominance. Starscream couldn't believe it. Just what does she think she is doing? I thought she liked me! He saw her lean back at that point and so shouted at her.
"What were you doing? I thought you chose me!"
"She was making me feel good, and annoying you apparently!" Knock Out told him flippantly.
"I did choose you, but you are so easy to annoy… I thought it would be fun to kiss other mechs and wind you up; you are funny when you get frustrated!" Airachnid then laughed at his reaction. He growled at her.
"You better be willing to make it up to me…"
"In berth, I'll bet." Knock Out suggested. Starscream's cheeks went blue at the suggestion.
"I wasn't thinking of that at all! Get your head out of the drain for once!" Starscream shouted at him.
"Come on you three; there are only a few more corridors to clean, and the quicker they are clean, the quicker we can go and get clean ourselves." Dreadwing picked up one of the buckets and wandered off around the corner. The other three followed behind him at a slower pace.
Two cycles later, Officer's wash racks…
"I'll be glad to get all the muck off; I'm sure Megatron poured… whatever that horrible stuff was over the floor of that corridor on purpose!"
"The muck didn't bother me all that much…"
"Maybe because you were purposefully making me clean the floor, and you purposefully waited until after I'd cleaned along the walls to start your cleaning, Starscream!" Knock Out growled at him.
"What, do you not like dirt Knock Out?" Starscream asked innocently; he knew fine well Knock Out didn't like to get mucky, and had made him clean off the muck on the floor on purpose. Payback for him convincing Airachnid to kiss him earlier! Starscream smugly thought to himself. A few nanokliks later, he was sure he could feel something stroking his…
"Airachnid! There are other mechs here! Do you mind?"
"No I don't, and neither do you if what I'm feeling digging into my stomach is anything to go by!"
"Ah! You'd better be joking!" Starscream's cheeks went bright blue.
"You are so easy to wind up, you know that?" She sniggered and he growled at her.
"You two, you do know that anyone could walk in at any time." A voice came from the other side of the bath. Airachnid turned her head around to look at him, without moving from where she was sat.
"Dreadwing, I pretty much told the Vehicons that Starscream is my berth mate; that means everyone else on the ship will know by now!"
"That doesn't mean you can sit on his lap Airachnid, stroking his…" She heard a voice that wasn't one of the Dare Club and actually jumped. She and the rest of the turned around, looking a bit spooked; they hadn't heard anyone open the door!
"How was that sentence going to end Breakdown? I hope you remember I'm your superior!" Starscream told him crossly.
"I was going to say cockpit; since none of you would be stupid enough to be actually naked... right?" Breakdown didn't like the silence that answered him.
"Apparently Breakdown wasn't here when we were wandering the corridors in our protoforms for the solar cycle!" Knock Out told him.
"What!? You actually did that?"
"In other words, we all have seen each other naked before." Airachnid snuggled into Starscream at that point, turning his cheeks pale blue.
"Tell me I didn't just hear that…" Dreadwing turned around and looked at his twin, who was stood in the doorway.
"Hear what?" He asked.
"That you were wandering around the corridors in your protoform…" Skyquake answered him, hoping that this wasn't the case.
"I have wandered around in my protoform and might have even been seen by more than a few Vehicons…" Skyquake whined in response to that answer.
"Why is that a problem?" Knock Out asked him.
"We are twins…" Skyquake pointed at Dreadwing and then at himself while saying this. "I'm sure you can figure the rest out."
"Are you just going to stand in the doorway, or are you going to join us?" Starscream asked. Skyquake's answer was to walk inside and shut the door. About half a klik later, both he and Breakdown and climbed into the bath beside them.
"No pelvic plating, you two!" Airachnid told them.
"W-why?" Skyquake nervously asked.
"Because none of the other mechs have got any on, that's why!" Dreadwing's cheeks turned slightly pale blue when she said that; he didn't want his brother to know that! Breakdown removed his while Skyquake was asking about it and put it on the side of the bath. After he saw that, Skyquake reluctantly did the same. Airachnid quickly ducked her head underwater. She heard muffled cries that sounded like 'Hey!' and saw the hands of two of the mechs in the bath move to hide their private parts. She'd quickly managed to take a shot of Skyquake before he covered himself up. I think that the highest ranked Vehicon is going to want that image! She lifted her head back out of the water and quickly spotted both of the mechs' cheeks were blue.
"Why'd you do that?" Skyquake nervously asked, not sure he would like the answer.
"She apparently likes to look at mechs who have their length on show, and compare them." Knock Out told them.
"Anyway, how do you guys expect to get clean in here without any soap?" Breakdown had moved his hands down by his sides now, apparently not bothered.
"I do believe Breakdown has a point." Knock Out then looked around for the soap.
"Starscream has the stuff over here." Airachnid told them. He seemed to realise this fact just then and picked up the bottle. He poured some of the fluid into the bath and then swirled it around with his hands, creating lots of bubbles.
"I suppose your sweetspark is going to get you nice and clean, eh Screamy?" Breakdown asked him suggestively.
:: I'll do your back Knocks, before you ask… :: He commed his friend; he didn't want the others to get the wrong idea.
:: Anyway, Screamer and Airachnid will wash each other, and so will the twins. So only you would be able to do that. ::
"Don't call me that!" Starscream shouted at Breakdown.
"Come on, you get up there and I'll wash you." Airachnid gestured for him to get out of the bath and he obliged her, keeping his back to the other mechs. The others apparently thought this was a good idea, as they quickly copied Starscream and climbed out. Airachnid then climbed out beside him and started dipping the sponge in the bubbles, before lathering them over him.
"Don't you think you could cover your parts with bubbles?"
"I suppose I could Star; after all I have done that before!" She was reminding him of the time when he'd ended up pinned to the wall in the Vehicon wash racks. She scooped up some of the bubbles and used them to cover her parts up. She had a mischievous thought then. She filled the sponge up with water and squeezed it out over Starscream's head.
"What was that for?!" He got a bit of a shock.
"For the sake of frightening you; and it obviously worked!"
"Right, that's it!" Starscream scooped up some bubbles and rubbed them on Airachnid's head.
"Oh, I get it; you want to have a fight with this stuff…" She paused and scooped up some bubbles.
"Then you got one!" She rubbed the bubbles down his stomach roughly. When the other four looked over at them they'd backed away from each other a little, and were trying to throw clumps of bubbles at each other.
"Are they… fighting?" Dreadwing asked.
"I think they're playing with the bubbles. It just looks like they're fighting." Knock Out told them.
"Either way, looks kinda fun." Breakdown very carefully grabbed a handful of bubbles; making sure that Knock Out wasn't looking. Dreadwing hadn't noticed Skyquake doing exactly the same. Both he and Knock Out got a shock when a handful of bubbles was rubbed in their faces.
"I hope you'd like to find out what this soap tastes like, Breakdown…" Knock Out moved to get a handful of the bubbles. Dreadwing had also picked up some bubbles and he threw them at Skyquake. It appeared that they were all going to fight with the bubbles.
A short while later…
Megatron was wandering along the corridor, not far from the wash racks. I'm sure I heard laughter coming from along the corridor… He got closer to the wash racks and he was definitely sure he heard it now. When he reached the door, he quietly slid it open. He saw the six officers he couldn't find (He knew where Soundwave was; working at his workstation, as usual) rolling and playing in white stuff he thought had to be bubbles. They were mostly covered in them but he could see that they clearly didn't have any armour on (he was thankful the bubbles covered that area on all of them!).
Starscream was kneeling beside Airachnid, wiggling his fingers against her sides (Megatron couldn't work out what kind of torture that was, but Airachnid was telling him to stop it; so it had to be bad). Dreadwing and Skyquake were the two rolling around in the stuff, occasionally stopping when one of them had their shoulders on the ground (Megatron thought the humans called this wrestling; but he wasn't sure). Knock Out was also being subjected to whatever kind of torture it was Airachnid was enduring, but it was his stomach that Breakdown's fingers were rubbing against.
Megatron blinked in disbelief closing the door and walk off back along the corridor. I think I'll just leave them alone for now; they have finished their cleaning after all…
AN: I think I'll leave that there. I don't think I need to say any more. They've finished Megatron's dare and so the Dare Club has been disbanded. I couldn't work out how to end this, so sorry if the ending seems really bad… And Starscream and Airachnid are together! (In this fic anyways)
Dreadwing seems to be very good at getting Soundwave blamed for his pranks (that the others dare him to do)! Knock Out (and Starscream and Airachnid) are ticklish (apparently) and have fights with others (or each other in the case of Starscream and Airachnid)! In case you were wondering the bath is like a Cybertronian sized hot tub type thing and the 'soap' is bubble bath type stuff for Cybertronians. Hope you all enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!