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Chapter 24

Soapy

Sunny sighed as he let the shower pour over him. The water was mercifully washing away the countless drowned insects.

"That was bad." Sideswipe said in a reminiscent tone. He was much calmer now. No more dancing. No more yelling. Just him and Sunny half un-armored in the warm shower.

"Yeah." Sunny agreed, widening his optics in retrospect. "We're fine now, though." He added, oblivious to the fact that Chromia had recorded it all and was still recording them with a smirk on her face.

"Well… the things are kinda smeared…" Sides noted as he removed his midriff plating.

"EEEeew. Don't even say mention the squished ones." Sunny said, grossed out at the prospect.

"Disgusting things, bugs…"

"Just don't. I won't be able to stand the words 'bug,' 'beetle,' 'insect,' or 'arthropod' for several months at least."

(Chromia's smirk widened).

Sides eyed the soaps. Sunny's optics followed his. "I don't think they would miss a little." Sides hinted.

Sunny looked speculative. "Yeah… I don't think so either, and besides, I hear they share their stuff among each other a lot."

"Huh?!"

"That's what I heard."

"Weird." Sides said with a grin, intrigued at this behavior in the interesting other make.

"I know, right?" Sunny said, approaching the soap. "They're all pink?"

"Odd." Sides said, "I mean, what do I know about femmes' showers. I would think that they'd have different colors for each of them, but who knows. Hey, they all share, then I guess it's all the same."

(Chromia pressed her fingers tightly over her lips to keep from hooting with laughter at this point).

"I guess that makes sense…" Sunny said hesitantly.

(Chromia grinned at their naivety).

The twins turned off the showers in order to not waste water while they soaped up, and then Sunny took one of the soaps as Sides took another. Sides sniffed his. Sunny raised an optic-ridge at him. "Does it smell funny?" he asked.

Sides shook his head. "No. Smells kinda good… you know… like Arcee."

"Uhhhh… okay." Sunny gave his twin an odd look.

"What?" Sides asked raising a hand palm upwards.

"You don't like Arcee, do you?"

"No way!" Sides exclaimed. "That's ridiculous. I don't like Arcee. I don't. I mean, I like her, but I don't like like her. I do think she smells nice though."

("Wow." Chromia said, chuckling).

"Well, okay." Sunny said, set at ease.

The two mechs had stripped some of their armoring initially, but now they removed almost all the rest of it. They kept their front pelvic pieces in place; they were in the femmes' showers, after all, and they really didn't want to risk exposing specific anatomy.

(Chromia smiled. There wasn't a mech on base whose body came close to being as hot as Ironhide's).

Sunny dipped his fingers into the soap and rubbed them on his washcloth. Then he began to scrub himself. Sides did the same with his borrowed soap. The soap foamed up on their sleek metallic bodies.

"Duuuude. This bubbly soap." Sides commented in amazement.

"Ours is bubbly, too." Sunny said, grimacing at how pink the suds were.

"Not like this, though."

(Chromia squirmed in eager anticipation of what would soon happen-).

"Oh, whatever." Sunny said dismissively as he soaped up his armor.

"What, jealous of the pretty bubbles?" Sides teased.

"You're crazy." Sunny said, wadding up his washcloth and throwing it at his brother's bare back.

"And you're my twin." Sides told him, grinning as he soaped up his own armoring.

"And you laugh because I can't do anything about it." Sunny added with a good-natured grumble.

Sides chuckled at the joke and shook his head. "Seriously, though, I think this soap is a little too bubbly."

"Bubbles I can handle." Sunny said, "I personally think it's a little too pink."

Sides chuckled again. "Well, I won't disagree there." He said as he turned his shower back on. He stepped into the spray of water, and the bubbles swished away. He gasped in horror, and his face twisted up in a look of terrible shock.

(Chromia grinned with unmitigated delight).

Sunny looked over then and gasped so hard that it glitched his venting system and made him choke. Sides gave his shoulders a heavy thump. Sunny gasped again in relief, but he stared in shock.

"Y-y-y-you…" Sunny stuttered, "You - you're PINK!"