28 Meme Soundwave
Chapter (prompt): Bath Time
Rating: K
Words: 1488
Characters: Soundwave + Cassettes

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It always amazed him how much destruction could be caused by two hyper sparkling in less than a breem, especially when either himself or his creations had been watching the little pit spawns the entire time.
It didn’t matter how quickly he managed to catch one of the glitches because the other would always manage to escape and hide. They especially liked the ventilation system.
He swore his spark had stopped when he saw one of his sparklings head first in the vent.

Today, when he had been out shopping and left his older cassettes in charge, his vorn old sparklings had managed to redecorate his entire living room. So now his furniture was upside down and to add insult to injury his once light grey walls were covered in small purple drawings, which could only have been done with sparkling-grade energon. If the sweet smell was anything to go by.
He ran his index finger down one of the doodles and stuck the digit in his mouth, his glossa immediately assaulted by the taste of overly sweet energon. He sighed; he had only been gone for two breems to get more energon.
‘Why me? Why does Primus hate me so much?’

A loud crash and startled yelp drew him out of his self-pity session. Concerned, especially when he heard the unmistakable growl of his eldest creation, he began walking down the small hallway that joined onto the living room. The sound of terrified squawking brought him outside of his berth room. Bracing himself for the carnage that surely awaited him beyond the white doors, he pushed the button that would let him into the impending carnage.
And he wasn’t disappointed...

Hanging from his berth by what appeared to be the sparklings blankets, was one of his youngest Buzzsaw who was squawking shrilly in protest at being hung upside down.  Underneath his berth was where the growling was coming from, he kneeled down and sure enough there was his eldest, Ravage, hissing and snarling at a giggling blue sparkling who was holding onto a distressed Laserbeak.
“That is ENOUGH!!”
All movement stopped and 4 pairs of optics turned to look at him. Laserbeak took the sparklings distraction to escape her younger brothers’ hold and fly over to the safety of her creators shoulder.
Soundwave absent mindedly began stroking his distressed cassette, eying his blue sparkling warily.
“Where is Frenzy?”
‘He’s in the vents again’ was the tired response.
Sighing, he walked over to Buzzsaw and untied him, the cassette trilled gratefully before jumping onto Soundwaves’ right shoulder; bending down to pick up his ‘youngest’ sparkling he grimaced.
“And how did Rumble managed to cover himself in energon?”
‘He did that when he was painting the front room’ Laserbeak twittered in reply.

Ravage cautiously crawled out from underneath the berth and glanced up at Soundwave.
‘I think the little glitches are going to need a bath’
It was hard enough getting them to stay still for an astrosecond, let only the two breems it normally took to wash the twins.
‘We’ll help!’
He turned to his right and regarded Buzzsaw quietly.
“No, I’m not going to let you drown my sparklings” he said coolly.
Buzzsaw mentally pouted.
‘I wasn’t going to drown ‘em, maybe dunk them under for a little bit but not drown them’
“No”
‘But...’
“No Buzzsaw”
The golden cassette huffed and turned away from Soundwave.
‘They deserve it lil’ gli...’
‘”Saw knock it off already’ Ravage hissed, tail swishing back and forth in annoyance.

Frenzy began struggling in his hold; Soundwave adjusted his grip on the sparkling in order to keep him still.
“Ravage, help me find Rumble please”
‘Course’ the black femme answered, darting into the nearest air vent.
He waited anxiously listening just in case Ravage decided to take her sparkling hunt a little too far. Frenzy began growling and gnawing his hand in an attempt to escape, Soundwave just shifted the sparkling so he was lying against his chest and out of reach of his hands.

Soon enough, Ravage appeared a squirming black sparkling held tightly in her jaws.
‘Suggestion, glue the little fraggers afts to their berths’.
Soundwave nodded tiredly, taking the struggling sparkling away from his ill-tempered femme. Who by now was looking positively murderous and you could see why, considering her face was now covered in energon.
Noticing her creator staring at her face she growled.
‘The glitch threw a cube at me when I tried to grab him the first time’
Soundwave smiled slightly and secured his hold on his mutinous twins. They reminded him a lot of his old partner sometimes.
‘Are you going to bathe them?’ Laserbeak chirred.
Not bothering to answer he strolled out the room Laserbeak and Buzzsaw still attached to his shoulders and Ravage slinking along behind moodily.
‘Ravage can you run their bath please?’
Without answering Ravage slipped in front and into the bathroom, whilst he took the now fighting sparklings into their room to grab a couple of towels.
‘Done’

Soundwave slipped the twins into a one arm hold and snagged a few towels with his now free hand.
‘Now the real fun begins’ he thought dramatically, getting three identical moans of despair as a reply.

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“NO BATH!!”
Ravage’s ears drew flat against her head as Rumble screamed hysterically.
“NOOOOOOOOOO!!”
She whined in discomfort as the shrill tone rang around the tiled room, not daring to offer help to her creator and risk Frenzy making another escape attempt.
She had finally managed to get the little fragger to calm down and get into the small sparkling size tub after sixteen attempts to run away.
The blue sparkling was currently splashing away in the tub and cooing every now and then to Buzzsaw, who was sat watching the troublemaker from the edge of the tub also making sure he didn’t do a runner.

Ravage turned off her audios and nudged Frenzy gently, the sparkling giggling madly as she began cleaning him awkwardly with a small soapy clothe held firmly in her mouth.
She felt a small splash of water land on her tail, she curled her tail around her body and cast a quick look towards Soundwave who had finally managed to get Rumble into his own tub but was still struggling to get him to stay long enough to be washed. She watched as Laserbeak tried to help make the black sparkling calm but only managing to be dragged into the water herself.  
Ravage scoffed and returned to rinsing off her little brother who was starting to slip into recharge as the warm water ran over his delicate plating.
  
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Soundwave growled slightly in frustration as Rumble made to run away, again.
This time however he managed to grab the sparkling before he could get out of the tub. He sighed and began scrubbing his squirming sparkling down. How he got this filthy Soundwave would never know.
Laserbeak was sat in the tub as well, looking slightly annoyed at being forced into the tub by her brother.  

Rumble began to calm down as Soundwave made small circular motions against his back plating, the same technique his own creator had used on him in order to send him into recharge. He had to say it worked wonders on his twins.
Chirring and twittering emitted from the small sparkling as Soundwave continued the motion against Rumble’s back until the sparkling was nearly into recharge; washing the sparkling down he sighed in contentment as the sparklings optics began to flicker and he yawned.
Hopefully he would be able to get more than three cycles worth of recharge himself tonight.
He gently pulled the now recharging Rumble out of the tub and placed him in a large fluffy blue towel Laserbeak gave to him.

He glanced over at Ravage he had also pulled a recharging Frenzy out of his tub and into another towel. Ravage trotted over to him, Frenzy held within his towel and waited patiently for Soundwave to take the lightly snoring sparkling.
‘Thank you for your help’
Ravage just mentally grinned at him and jogged quietly out the room, Buzzsaw and Laserbeak following.

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Soundwave glanced down at his sparklings as they recharged peacefully next to each other.
‘Finally a little piece and quiet’
He turned around to face Ravage who was watching him curiously.
‘You alright?’
‘Fine’ he removed his mask, only know realising he had it on the entire day, and smiled at his eldest.
‘Just tired’ Soundwave patted his lap and Ravage took the invitation quickly jumping up and curling into a ball on the offered spot.
‘You should recharge then’
‘I will’
Soundwave looked at his twins again and smiled contently, even though they were a major pain in his aft he wouldn’t ever want to give them up.
A soft snort made him look down at Ravage who was watching him with one red optic.
‘You’re on your own there’