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Proper Kaiju Cleaning

Dec 31st, 2019 (edited)
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  1. ============Prompt============
  2. >Kaiju cleaning
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  4. “Don’t worry sweetie you get used to it! It only took me about 14 tries and 22 OSHA reportables till I didn’t move an inch.”
  5. “What was that last part?!”
  6. “14 Tries!”
  7. --------------------------
  8. >standing beside a gantry, watching as your view fills with grey, and not the grey of steel but that of a body casually making her way into the spot normally reserved for jaegers
  9. >mechanisms click and whine
  10. >engines and servos awaken as they pull the pieces into place around her body, encircling it as her tail dutifully swishes out of the way
  11. "Maintenance crews to stations."
  12. >they ready the high pressure washers as a nozzle swings into place above
  13. >red alarm lights die down, replaced with yellow caution lights spinning
  14. >a siren rings and a deep claxxon tones
  15. "Initiating procedure: shower in 3... 2.... 1...."
  16. >hot water pours from the nozzle as jets spray from the overpressurized firehoses
  17. >steam pours off of her body as sand and grime washes off
  18. >her hide foams up, seasalt reacting with sweat and shampoo
  19. >A pleased sigh rumbles over the noise of heavy rainfall pattering to the ground below, punctuated by a heavy clunk of a rear hoof touching down on its front, the trucks and guide vehicles having long gotten out of the way as she settles in
  20. >the frog of the hoof exposed, the high pressure hoses get to work on digging out bits of seabed rock and apparently an octopus that had taken refuge
  21. >Jenkins had to go chase it around and toss it into a saltwater tank on what was little more than an airplane luggage transportation truck waiting off to the side
  22. >this wasn't the first time
  23. >it used to be that she was too small for jaeger cleaning procedures, stuck to her little chambers because the world preferred not to remember she even existed
  24. >but things were different now
  25. >now as tall as the mechas sleeping beside her in their own gantries, she was the largest thing in the room
  26. >she lacked killmarks etched into their steel hulls or inked across slate-clean spots
  27. >her body just regenerated or absorbed whatever marks were on her by the time the week was over
  28. >she lazily shifted her weight to let them clean the other rear hoof, anchors tied into her hairs swishing to the side with gravity
  29. >such is life as mankind's made protector, finally acknowledged
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