Don't Dance
For Onslaught, strategy was the closest he got to dancing. It wasn't that he couldn't dance -- he had attended the required courses at the Academy, after all. The problem was that most traditional Decepticon dances were intended to be performed by fliers in general and Seekers in particular. A groundpounder's boot jets were simply no substitute for wings.
Besides, how could twittering about to music compare to the rhythmic grace of the battlefield?
Blast Off knew the traditional Decepticon dances as well. He'd attended the same classes as Onslaught had. Unlike his brother, he'd been told that he was quite graceful. Though the implication "for a shuttle" had always been there, under the surface of every complement.
But could a Seeker spin between planets? Could a Seeker hold himself in orbit, not flying but falling in a painfully slow, carefully controlled fall? Let those poor, atmosphere-bound fools believe themselves superior. Up here, it was he who was the dance master.
Brawl didn't dance. Dancing was for officers and flyboys, not mechs like him who actually worked for a living. Besides, there was something downright suspicious about the whole process of flitting around in an arena. The whole thing reminded Brawl too much of air strikes for comfort.
No, Brawl didn't dance. Instead, he annihilated his enemies -- be they Autobots, fellow Decepticons or training drones -- with a graceful ruthlessness.
For Swindle and Vortex, it was deal making and interrogation respectively. Or at least, that was their story and they were sticking to it. Both were too tied into the Combaticons' rebellious groundpounder image to be seen doing something as conventional as any of the traditional Decepticon dances.
Dancing to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This," was a different story. Particularly at 36,000 feet in full view of the passengers and crew of Oceanic Airlines flight #8869 non-stop from LAX to Hong Kong, was another matter entirely. On the whole, the experience had been considered well worth it for the four energon cubes they'd won from Skywarp.
At least until the video footage surfaced a week later.