trans_9 | Aim to Win [Closed, pre Beyond the Sea Plot]

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Aim to Win [Closed, pre Beyond the Sea Plot]

The excitement of the poddrop had died down after a few days and Lash found herself back to her usual routine on the ship. It was rather amazing how much she could manage to do each 'day', from working in the labs, to shop management to training in the sensoriums. Truthfully, everything served to keep her occupied, which was an excellent thing--if Lash ever got bored anywhere it was a sure setup for a disaster of terrible repercussions. Probably explosive ones. Speaking of which...

"Fire! Fire!"

One of the ship's sensoriums was now being taken by her as she played it wisely and used it to tested out various prototypes before building them. They'd come out with a lot of robot parts to build thanks to SHODAN's rampage, and she was going to make the most use of what she'd gotten. With a typical Lash twist and flare, of course.

The soldier obeyed and fired the first cannon with a button press, the cannonball flying out and landing far away. Lash kept tabs using a CO pad, analyzing how the prototype fared. Upon landing, the cannonball opened itself up amongst the surprised enemy soldiers and turned into a small robot with turrets built on each side.

"Tee hee! It works, it works! Now, if I adjust the energy here, I should be able to build a small army, and that would be useful to aid during away missions..."

As she was about to approve it, the robot exploded. Soldiers, trees, dirt and burnt robot pieces flew into the air, landing close by.

"Oh oops! Hmmm...better not put that much energy into that one. The crew could lose a few arms and legs like that!" She said it with such a calm voice too, even if she was speaking to no one but herself and the nearby soldiers. With a small flick, she brushed off a piece of cracked robot, and began another prototype test.

Just another typical day for a wunderkind.

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"Nah, all I had was large pools to dip the machines in for cooling. Washing was a river thing and maybe a shower if you got lucky." She looked down at her toes and idly moved them as she continued, "When Kaya showed us the swimming pool, I didn't even realize people made large squares of water to swim recreationally."

She grinned, thinking about it.

"So does that mean crystal cutlery again?"

"Sometimes," he said, shrugging. In an instant he banished the sea, the ships, the Prinnies (remember all of those things?), and the shameless ice cream coating the two of them had, replacing it all with a stylin' modern Jacuzzi that was even now filling. "Mostly that was just to impress you, though. Normally I eat with more sturdy stuff. Being delicate and genteel too much is lame."

"Okay good!" she replied earnestly. "I didn't think they were my kinda stuff either. Maybe to throw as weapons maybe but definitely not the---oooh!" She looked at the Jacuzzi with a keen interest, as the clear blue water filled up and was reflected in the sky. "It's like a...smaller swimming pool!"

One could say almost intimate.

"Yeah, but warm, and..."

Zetta reached out with a foot to flip on the jets. Suddenly the water was bubbling and moving, as he stepped carefully into it.

"Come on in."

This should have been a romantic moment right there and then, and truly Lash was really impressed with this and when she was prompted to do so, carefully stepped up the small wooden steps to get inside but...

The great Wunderkind Lash, master of mountain climbing and sticking to the sides of buildings...slipped right into the hot tub the moment her foot touched water and was suddenly falling face first into it.

Zetta, midway into settling down comfortably, instantly shot to his feet to catch her. The action was purely reflexive, and for all that he was moving at ludicrous speed, surprisingly gentle, as Lash (and probably ONLY Lash) knew he could be.

So it sort of was romantic? If Lash could pretend for a moment like she wanted anyone to save her ever.

~~"Oh Zetta Oooh.~~

It was plenty romantic but Lash was Lash. It wasn't the fact Zetta had saved her really (and the fact she wasn't annoyed at that spoke lengths of how much she had changed) but rather she had slipped at all.

"I-i didn't think it would be that slippery!" she managed to stutter. "I'll have to be more careful or something...thanks."

"If I interrupted you doing an awesome backflip into the water, I'll feel bad," he joked as he gallantly swept her into his arms, then sat down in the hot tub with her in his lap. "Hey... if you fire up your Power Ranger stuff while you're in a swimsuit, do you still get the same uniform as always?"

She gave him a stare that was half 'are you serious' and half 'actually I never really thought about it.'

"Uhhh...I would think I'd end up in the same outfit, yeah. I doubt there's a swimsuit edition for no reason. There's no real advantage to fighting in one, right?" Well apart from eye candy but she doubted the powers that be(tm) and Zordon would really have thought all about that.

After that she got surprisingly quiet for some reason. It's just...they bubbles and hot water combination was pretty neat.

"Kind of disappointing, not having any fanservice for the beach episode. Then again, the outfit doesn't show your face anyway, so I never really liked it."

What an odd state of affairs: Zetta is the one rambling on, while Lash is the quiet one!

Indeed it was. At that comment, she did stick out her tongue, however.

"Pfft! That's kinda the point so the foes can't see what we're thinking, I'm guessing. A bit like having a pair of sunglasses helps block a person's face." She leaned back even more.

"Do they all have bubbles like this?"

"That's the point of a hot tub. If it was just a big pool of warm water, it'd be called a bath."

Oh, and he flicked water at her tongue, but he hadn't imagined any soap or bubble bath or anything into it, so that was okay.

"Never really had many baths ei--pfffftftft HEY!" She brushed away at the water regardless, and gave him a tiny stare (which was hard since she was sitting on him so it was more, looking upwards at him). At least before a tiny bit of the water in the tub hit him from the left side.

Sensoriums. Bending rules. She could do that.

And he poked her, very delicately, in her side with one claw. "Who are you, Kaya?"

Okay, she laughed at that one. "Nah! I don't think I could do the whole water bending thing. Not when I can do the lightning stuff with the Ranger powers and all." Electrical powers were cooler anyway.

After saying that, she let herself sink even more into the tub. It was causing her hair to start to curl up from the humidity rather comically, mind you.

"Good, because I'd probably have a lot of explaining to do all around if you WERE Kaya," Zetta said. He didn't exactly approve of her sliding off his lap to sink deeper in, but hey, she was new to hot tubs, he could let her go to appreciate it.

~~Lash sank into the depths and was never heard from again.~~

It got to the ridiculous point where the water reached her neck and her hair was struggling to stay in its normal manner, instead either curling or falling from the water and humidity buildup. Her skin was getting pretty red from the heat, but she didn't care.

Wow, cold showers were gonna be really lame after this.

"This is great!" she said for what was probably the third time in a row. "So people get these just to relax I'm guessing? You can't exactly take a bath in this."

Frankly, Lash's hair was an entertaining show in and of itself. As usual! He watched it waver in the heat with an amused, fond smile. "Relax, hang out, get amorous. They're comfy and intimate, so they have lots of uses!"

After Zetta had explained this to her, suddenly Lash disappeared into the water.

...Okay, that was kind of weird.

Suddenly, the water in the tub parted as Lash launched herself towards him in the most mature display of maturity ever as she tried (because you know, Zetta was Zetta) to tackle him.

Her efforts were sort of successful... insasmuch as Zetta's back was against the side of the tub, so he couldn't go bowling over backwards if he wanted to. Still, he did slip down father into the water as she grabbed him, laughing.

"Tee hee hee! I totally got you!" she cried out, triumphant at her small victory that was utterly pointless, but don't tell Lash that. She began to wonder if she should do that again...

"And I got you!" Zetta roared, pouncing forward to grab the Wunderkind. Turnabout was fair play! "Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! Witness the true power of the Overlord's grabby hands!"

Oh dang, she should have really seen that one coming. Lash let out a small yelp of surprise before they collided, and she burst out laughing.

"H-hey! H-hey that's not fair! Not fair!"

Aim to Win [Closed, pre Beyond the Sea Plot]

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