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[Breakdown]

     The water around Breakdown's pedes didn't bother him so much and the facility didn't look all that bad to him. Sure the lights may not be the best and it looked like the walls would cave in at any moment, and who knew what was probably crawling around in the dark places they couldn't see. He'd still been in worse bunkers than this by far in his time at the front lines, so as far as he was concerned this was still high-class living. Not that Knock Out would agree, though ( and probably wouldn't want him to bring up).

     The dark blue mech followed behind Shale, glancing about here and there to see where they were going and which directions they were taking. In the case they needed to get out in a rush, Breakdown wanted to have some grasp of where he was. He was pulled from his thoughts when she stopped humming and started to talk but he didn't look her way.

     Breakdown didn't understand this 'autotuned' thing that Shale was talking about. He didn't get to listen to much in the way of earth music since the time always seemed to escape him. Even when they were on patrol they had to focus. Scouting? Same thing. Knock Out did watch some of those horror movie flicks with him at times so the suspenseful music they always played when the bad guy showed up was about the limits of what he was exposed to.

     "I really don't get to hear much of it outside of that stuff they play in those human scary movies."

     He looked at the object she indicated once she asked for assistance with it. The piece of metal was easy enough for him to get out of the way- probably easy for her as well- but he wouldn't complain. He had offered and he really wasn't one to take back his word... even if it were made to Autoscum. He just had to play nice. Knock Out had warned him to do so.

     "Piece of cake," he said and reached down to grab the corner of the metal plate in both servos. With not even so much as a grunt for effort, he hauled it up and lifted it up and turned to place it against the wall at their side to put it out of the way.

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Shale wasn't surprised. She figured most Decepticons didn't pay any mind to Earth things. Probably found them "useless" or "annoying". They weren't entirely wrong to be fair. There were some things these organics did that still confused her. But it wasn't all bad.

"Some of it is pretty good, but there's a lot that.. Well isn't."

She shrugged to punctuate the end of her statement. It all just really boiled down to personal preferences in the end. What she found "bad" another may find extraordinary. But she stood by her opinion and tastes.

Swiveling around as Breakdown moved the paneling Shale glanced at the now open floor.  A hole had been dug and insulated to serve as the breaker for the power in this rock. Several conduits lined up neatly inside, distributing the power in equal amounts all throughout the base.

They looked a little old and overworked. No doubt they'd been torn out of whatever means of transportation the Neuts had and were repourposed quite some time ago. Shale shifted and knelt down to get a closer look. She'd need to switch a few out before they fizzled out and whatever materials in them that were salvageable went up with them.

"Ancient as these things may be it doesn't look like this is the root of the problem. Might have to check the wiring on the way back."

As she thought outloud to herself she could swear she heard the distant sound of shattering glass. There went another one.

[Breakdown]

"Actually, no. Scratch that. I've heard some other stuff." Breakdown did listen to other things, not a lot and he didn't understand the different 'types' of human music or what it was called, but he did like to blast other music in the medbay when Knock Out wasn't around- stuff his partner didn't really enjoy but didn't scold Breaky for enjoying. "It's usually really loud and has a lot of instruments and sometimes the singers are yelling or get these raspy voices. I don't know what the fleshlings call it. Metal? I think that may have been it. Don't understand why it would be called that but it seems right."

Shale seemed the type to know what he was talking about or at least could point in the direction of what it was. Not like Breakdown actually cared too much about it, but maybe knowing the genre could help if he ever got around to asking Knock Out to find some more for him. The medic may have not liked it, but Breakdown knew that if he asked nice enough the little red mech wouldn't tell him no. Not grumble about it? That he couldn't guarantee.

The thing she focused on didn't look so good and while he'd seen worse, that was due to other circumstances. Breakdown just figured the odd contraption here was from limitations on supplies, with taking what they could and make it work. At least they were resourceful, even on such a primitive planet such as this.

"Well, at least the Neuts did something right, then," he commended in regards to the breaker and what he saw. "Maybe we should check for where some of this water came from while we're lookin' in on the wiring. If some of this liquid seeped in and damaged the wiring on the way out of the wall it may save us some time inspecting the area... if it don't present itself right away to us, that is."