😘 A big bugs bunny style smooch
"The frag rat?" Depth Charge looks confused as he stares at Rattrap on his chest. The drones giving puzzled squeaks too as they watched.
"Boy never thought I'd say it, but I'm sure glad to see yah, fishsticks!" Rattrap barely acknowledges that he just kissed the larger maximal. Depth Charge was not the first and probably not going to be the last teammate to suffer such a fate. The rodent gave his chest a playful pat. "What's say yah give me a lift outta here, before that boom-box I planted over there goes off, eh?"
There was an alarmed squeak from Deep Optics, the ramora drone giving a distressed wiggle. Depth Charge's own optics widened a bit before the mech reflexively pushed Rattrap up higher to a shoulder. Same place his symbiote could grab onto easily.
As tall and as big as he was, even with the heavy pectoral fins...Depth Charge could, in a term, book it. Just in the way rattrap had been running in the first place.
"What are you wai-EY!" The transmetal rofent gave a squeak as he was shoved over the taller's shoulder, held like a piece of luggage as DC started to haul-aft away from the blast zone.
"Geez, you're quicker than I thought there, oyster-breath. I meant fo-" Rattrap looked back at the site. 3. 2. 1. "Oh boy.."
The bomb went off, the explosion shaking the ground but luckily far enough behind them by now to not hit them with the blast. Unfortunately it had also accomplished what the rat had set out for it to do, which was to bust the makeshift 'dam' the Predacons had set in place. Loose rocks and water began to rush towards the duo at high speeds and pressure.
"For once that aquatic beast mode ah your's is gonna be useful, SWIM!"
He Could take the risk ans transform, to risk that rough water.
...but he was not going to.
The hunter and former guardian gathered up his center of balance and slowed his pace enough to get the footing to jump up. It was not an extreme jump, the beast mode pectorals made that hard. However it was enough of a boost to help Depth Charge's secondary jets and help with thust.
He was not going to fight that flood if he did not need to. Depth Charge hummed as he landed on high enough ground to watch the flood. He arched an optic ridge off. "......that....looks like a story happened there."
Honestly he'd forgotten the othe mech even COULD do that, he was certainly not complaining though. Instead of facing the wall of water head on they were safe AND dry, seemed like a step up for sure.
Once out of harm's way Rattrap gave a relieved sigh and fell limp while still hanging over the larger Maximal's shoulder.
"You're tellin' me, it's been a day for sure." He sat up enough to prop his helm up with a hand, elbow resting on the ray's broad back kibble. "Yah carry me the rest ah the way back and I'll tell yah all about it."
