Strange Beginnings

[Olivia Erickson]

((December 18, 2027 // somewhere near Tranquility // Time: 10:35 AM ))

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Olivia let out a cheerful giggle as she wandered the halls of a crazy robot alien scientist's lab. Said crazy scientist, was her father, Tarnish. Olivia was one of his latest creations, his own Techno-Organic daughter. The brunette found life in her father's lab to be very entertaining and fun, despite only having been out of the lab once to get some clothes for her to wear. Speaking of outfits; Olivia was dressed in a black vest, a pair of darker green cargo pants and a pair of comfortable converse shoes, her long, wavy brunette hair falling around her shoulders and her back freely. She was often seen wearing outfits like this, something comfortable with no big restrictions. The lab was usually filled with Tarnish having fun in one of his latest creations, and normally Olivia watched and observed what he did for the sake of saving herself from eternal boredom. It was on a particularly early morning, that Olivia was just patiently walking around the lab before she managed to stumble upon a small radio. She tilted her head and raised an eyebrow, before she plopped down on the ground and began to investigate the little machine in front of her. A few minutes passed and she finally found the power button and surprisingly, the radio still worked.

The radio blared out with a very lively dance song, one that Olivia had seen on a TV station not too long ago. The TV station it was on frequently played music videos, and she had managed to catch the song "Champagne Showers by LMFAO" playing on the TV station. Once she had seen how the dancers danced in that video, she made it her mission to learn how to dance as good as them. She admired a specific guy who had a box on his head, known as the Shuffle Bot, for some reason it made her think about what her dad would look like if he could dance. {Stupid box head guy..} She thought to herself, a grin crossing her mouth as she remembered the dance moves he performed in the video. "Let me show you how it's done!" She said with a proud grin and jumped to her feet as soon as the song switched from lyrics to the dance beat. She picked her feet up off the ground and rapid paces and performed the Party Rock Shuffle for which LMFAO was absolutely famous. This was Olivia's past time, and she absolutely loved dancing with all of her heart. There was nothing better than dancing in her mind, and it was all thanks to the Party Rock Crew.

Olivia was not paying attention to anything but the beat of the music, and even went so far as to jump on top of a rather unstable tabletop and perform the shuffling dance on top of that. She was having the time of her life, so who cared if the table was a little unstable?

[Bulkhead]

Bulkhead had been asked to look after Olivia since he didn't have much else to do, so he wasn't sure what to expect when he arrived. The mech who was just as bulky as Tarnish yet a little shorter had been jamming out to his own music, though in his case, it was death metal and in some cases, heavy metal - two totally different types of metal. The current song he was raging out to was called In Your Face by Children of Bodom. So, Bulkhead walks into the room making an epic air guitar sequence as he gets more involved with the song.

The army green Autobot was literally head banging and tapping to the fast paced beat with his hands. When he entered the room and saw her dancing on the table to music he never listened to, he stared - certainly not shy enough in the least to avoid doing so. What was this stuff humans liked so much? Was it hip hop? Electronica? He couldn't put a name on the type of music he was hearing. Sure it was fast paced, but he wasn't sure what to make of it! He loved his metal and hard rock, and he never listened to anything else! The music was rather fitting for the Bot after all - he was big, and generally quite mean in battle...

"Oh hai there." he greeted as he turned down his music. "I'm Tarnish's cousin! Tarnish wanted me to look after ya a bit. Name's Bulkhead!"

((Bulkhead is makin me look up popular death metal bands now...not really a fan of the screaming part of it but it helps with muses >3))

[Olivia Erickson]

Olivia was still in her own little world of electronic pop dance music and nothing could stop her from dancing like a crazy maniac. She continued to dance around on the unstable table top, until the song changed on the radio. Instead of Champagne Showers, it was now Boom by the Italobrothers Ft. Calprit. She stop for a moment, and simply tapped her foot on the ground with the drum beat beginning for the song. Nodding her head as she did so, this had a really good beat so far, if it picked up, she'd be set golden for a new dancing song. It was right when the beat of the Italobrothers picked up, that another song cued in. The song was a completely different genre from her dance music and so she looked over her shoulder to see a large green mech enter the room.

At first, Olivia thought it was her dad, but she realized he was a little bit shorter than Tarnish, and his face looked different. She watched Bulkhead in amusement as he air guitared to the heavy metal music he was listening to. She didn't know who this guy was, but he was entertaining! Right after Bulkhead made his air guitar entrance, Olivia proceeded to do a dance style known as Jumpstyle. It was one she was only familiar with, and had only seen it briefly once on a television show. She danced to the beat of Boom for awhile, Bulkhead's heavy metal music making the dance beat hard to make out. She danced as best as she could before she finally stopped dancing, due to being completely out of breathe. She tiredly placed her hands on her hips and began to take deep breathes to catch her breathe.

She then heard a surprisingly friendly voice greeting her. She looked up, the big green mech was now right beside her and the radio. She waved her hand frantically, and decided it was nice of him to turn his music down, so she would do the same. With a sudden jump from the table, she landed right next to the radio and pressed the off button to turn the radio off. She looked up at Bulkdhead as he introduced himself as Tarnish's cousin who had been asked by Tarnish himself to watch over her. "Its nice to meet ya Bulkhead!! My name's Olivia!" She greeted back, excited to meet somebody new and to make a new friend. "So you're my dad's cousin, eh? I can see the resemblance! When you first walked in I thought you might have been Tarnish!" She placed her hands on her hips and looked straight up from the ground towards Bulkhead. The only thing bad about having giant alien robots for parents and friends, is that she might develop neck problems in her distant future.

[Bulkhead]

"Yeah we got the same body type all right, though he's a much darker green, and he's two toned. I'm well...this. Army green I guess. Or olive, whichever you prefer." Bulkhead nodded, making his steps more cautious as he entered the room, trying not to hit anything. "He's out testing Goliath, his latest creation. Dunno if you've seen any of that in progress, but I must say, it's pretty impressive! Though, for him to create a petite little thing like you, that's equally impressive. Didn't think he was into the whole parenting thing though, honestly. Bots do change just as humans do, but hey, it's a surprise nonetheless!" he shrugged, kneeling down near her, but not too close.

"So it sounds like you like yer music. I'm a death metal fan myself, but I'll listen to other genres as long as it isn't rap. Or country. Primus, no rap or country! I guess that includes most hip hop. Anything that isn't too mainstream honestly." He shook his head vigorously, the grating sound of country nagging at his processor in remembrance of the occasions where he'd hear it on other people's radios.

[Olivia Erickson]

Olivia nodded her head in agreement as Bulkhead listed the differences between himself and his cousin. "You've got that right! From a first glance you could be mistaken, but if you look at the details, you two are a far cry from twins." She said with a light chuckle at the end and watched as Bulkhead carefully entered the room, taking extra precaution not to hit anything. She listened as Bulkhead said that Tarnish was out testing Goliath, another one of his creations and that made her tilt her head. "Oh yeah, Goliath. I haven't really seen much of him, but Dad has told me a little bit about him so far." She shrugged her shoulders as Bulkhead knelt down in front of her. That was a relief, she wasn't looking just straight up anymore!

"Heh, yeah. For some reason or another Tarnish decided that he wanted to give it a go, and well, I'm the product! He's been a good dad, he took me shopping for clothes not long after I was created and then enrolled me in what they call, 'School.' I'm not all that sure I like the idea of school, it just sounds boring." She replied with a light sigh before plopping down on the ground in a criss cross applesauce position with her hands in her lap. Bulkhead began to question what kind of music she was just listening to, and she laughed mildly at his obvious distaste for rap and country. "Well, the song I was listening to at first was called Champagne Showers by a group called LMFAO. They're technically a rap group, but I find them to be more like a dance and hip hop group. Now as for country, I just refuse to listen to that stuff. It's just plain ol' boring!!"

She let out a light laugh for a moment and brushed the hair off of her shoulders. "I see, I haven't listened to much death metal music yet. But whatever you were doing earlier when you entered the room, sure looked like fun!! What were you doing? Was it some kind of a dance move?" She questioned, her eyes beaming with curiosity.

[Bulkhead]

"We have 'training' but we don't have 'school'." Bulkhead snorted. "Sounds a bit overrated." He recalled how the smaller being danced moments before, marveled at the intricacy and pace of movements. He knew other leaner ones of his kind who could incorporate similar styles, but it was nigh impossible for a Bot of his stature to learn such moves. He could shuffle slightly with moves similar to the ones Olivia was performing, just a little more reserved and cautious.

He began to mimic it, making the floor thud a little, but he didn't run into anything. "It's called an 'air guitar'. I picked it up from other humans." Bulkhead chuckled, demonstrating again as he hit play briefly on another death metal song selected on random. "I'm a rocker, were I human I'd be thrashing with an electric guitar!"

[Olivia Erickson]

Oliva nodded her head in agreement, "Heh, Ya got that right! I did a little bit of looking on the internet about it, and it looks boring! I'd rather watch my dad rant and make some kind of a new crazy invention which would inevitably explode in failure."[/b] She replied with a laugh at the end, she loved being able to criticize her father's creations, but she supported him anyways. She let out a content sigh, before a small scuffling noise could be heard.

She looked over to Bulkhead who was mimicing the Shuffling that she had been doing earlier. She chuckled and raised a brow, feeling the ground thudding underneath her feet. She watched him curiously as he explained that he was playing an air guitar earlier. She laughed as he demonstrated the same thing yet again to some more of his death metal music that he had playing. "You'd make one of the best rockers, Bulky!!"[/b] She jumped out and mimicked Bulkhead's air guitar right at his side. "Lets ROCK!" She proudly exclaimed.

[Bulkhead]

"Have ya heard Down With The Sickness by Disturbed?" Bulkhead starts playing it, head banging and literally stomping to the beat, mocking the voices of the singer. It wasn't exactly his favorite kind of death metal, but Bulkhead certainly didn't mind listening to heavy metal as well. "OHWA-AH-AH!" He messed around with the air guitar a bit on the choruses, stomping around and head banging, the floor thudding all the while. If he wasn't careful, it might start cracking beneath his feet!

[Olivia Erickson]

"Down with the Sickness?"[/b] Olivia inquired with a tilt of her head as Bulkhead began to play the music. She listened to the beat of the drums, they were very catchy. She began to tap her finger against her leg to the beat of the drums and listened as Bulkhead imitated the singer's voice through the intro, where the drum began to pick up and then suddenly Bulkhead screamed something in unison with the singer that Olivia could not make out the words.

She nodded her head to the beat of the song as the rest of the instruments kicked in to create a very metal sounding song like the ones that Bulk was listening to moments ago. "Very interesting, to say the least! I like it!"[/b] She shouted in approval and raised a thumbs up to Bulkhead.

[Bulkhead]

Bulkhead chuckled. He turned down the volume a bit. "This won't be the last you hear of rock from me. I'm all about rock 'n death metal! It's one of the things I've grown to love here on Earth. So you wanna get out of this joint? I like to stay busy these days since there's thankfully not a whole lotta action goin' on. Maybe I could take you for a drive somewhere and we can share music! Bring an mp3 player if you got one? Tarnish didn't say you had to stay here after all." Bulkhead didn't fancy staying in Tarnish's lab for too long because of their size, even being a little smaller than Tarnish, Bulkhead found it much less comfortable than Tarnish did. To him, the lab was cluttered, hard to navigate through - a bit like a maze, and a bit stuffy.

[Olivia Erickson]

Olivia smiled kindly to Bulkhead's chuckling and when the music died down, so too did her bobbing head, though she did continue doing it for a few beats just to add a comical moment. She listened as Bulkhead told her that rock n roll was one of the things he had come to love about planet Earth. This made the little techno organic curious about Earth, and what else she could possibly discover that she could love about it, besides dancing of course! Then Bulkhead decided to toss out the idea of getting out of Tarnish's lab and going out for a drive. Olivia nodded her head excitedly, "I'll do ANYTHING to get out of this place. Its BORING."[/b] She emphasized the words mainly to make Bulkhead laugh, but also because she was very serious about those two words, she would do just about anything to get out of Tarnish's boring ol' lab that she had been stuck in for at least a few hours now.

Bulkhead's mentioning of an MP3 player made Olivia tap a finger to her chin, "Lemme go look if I have one!"[/b] She exclaimed and took off in a sprint down the hallway, running right underneath and between Bulkhead's legs before she took a sudden turn into room down the hallway. Olivia's room in Tarnish's lab was not all that special, and technically it wasn't completely her's. It was more so just a storage closet that Tarnish did not use that frequently and had modified it to fit Olivia's needs. There was a nice plush bed with a couple of plush pillows, and even a stuffed dragon, as well as a small desk with a lamp, pens and pencils, notebooks and a new backpack. This only took up a small portion of the room, which Tarnish had decided to block off with a wall on one side and a glass pane on another to keep himself from accidentally putting storage on top of her furniture.

The techno organic rummaged through her desk drawers, before exlaiming, "Ah-HAH! Thought you could escape did you!?"[/b] She then reached into a drawer and pulled out a small MP3 player and then turned to head out of her bedroom/storage room to meet Bulkhead. "I found it Bulkhead! Lets go!"