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The night shift comes around and Kix should honestly be in his bunk. His insomnia is bad tonight and sleep is unlikely to find him for some time. He leans back in his creaking medbay chair with a sigh and puts his datapad down on the desk, rubbing his eyes with the heel of his palm. The medbay is thankfully empty tonight so no medic is due to come relieve him.
He decides to take a wander around the empty corridors, not wanting to stay in the medbay nor disturb his sleeping vode. Pushing up out of the chair with a grunt, he leaves a flimsi-note on his desk with his comm code in case someone appears whilst he's out and turns the lights down before leaving the bay.
Kix strolls along quiet corridors, the hum of the ship’s engines as they make their way through hyperspace, and the slight clicking sound of the climate control being the only sounds accompanying his footsteps on the durasteel floor.
As he nears the mostly disused training gym he hears the sound of vode having a spar. Curious as to who else is up during the night cycle and why they've chosen the gym furthest from the barracks, he heads towards the sound and leans against the open door frame. A couple of their newest additions that the Captain picked up off of that Rishi Moon are on the mats, circling each other. They've stripped down to their bodysuits and lower armour, the rest neatly stacked to one side.
One feints to the side and then dives forward, the other ducks away, slipping away from their vod’s grasp.
“Hey get back here,” they grumble, twisting around to follow their vod’s movement.
The second vod chuckles and dances out of his reach again.
“Son of a tube,” the first vod swears, trying not to grin as he goes for another grapple.
His vod comes up to meet him, sweeping out their legs and both tumble to the mats, both trying to pin the other. Kix can only see flailing limbs as they try to get the upper hand over the other one.
One of them starts to laugh, although Kix is sure it sounds more like a giggle.
“Oi, th-that's not fair!” they manage to choke out amongst the giggles.
“No rules against it Echo,” the vod doing the tickling teases.
“R-regulation sev-ven eight fi-” Echo tries to say, trying to squirm away from his brother.
“Absolutely not,” his vod replies, “you’ve quoted that one at me before and I'm sure it's for-”
The vod doesn't get a chance to finish as Echo wiggles free and manoeuvres his leg around his vod’s and levers them over. Pinning them with a whoosh of air and the smack of limbs against the mats. The vod now pinned tries furiously to escape the pin, but to no avail.
“Just tap out Fives, you aren't getting out of this one,” Echo says triumphantly, looking down at his pinned vod.
Fives huffs and sags a little. Echo opens his mouth to taunt his brother further when a piece of leg armour flies across the room with a clatter.
Echo's attention lapses for a moment, distracted. “Hey, that's mi-”
Fives surges up, capitalising on Echo's momentary distraction, knocking Echo off and darting away. Kix’s hand comes up to his mouth as he tries to suppress the laugh threatening to escape. Fives darts off, Echo in pursuit, and scoops up what looks like Echo’s right shin guard and clutches his prize.
“How did you even?” Echo puffs out between laughs, “mir’sheb get back here!”
He lunges for Fives' legs who squawks as he slips on the durasteel and they both clatter to the floor in a tangle of limbs. After a brief scuffle Echo extricates himself victorious and speeds away in the opposite direction. Tables turned, Fives pursues him around the room, one foot sock-less. Echo makes a sharp turn and Fives misses the turn, skidding across the floor.
“This is why you shouldn't wear socks to spar, di’kut,” Echo taunts.
“Shut up. My feet get cold easily,” Fives grumbles.
“Future ARC troopers don't get cold feet,” Echo teases as he flings the sock back at Fives. It hits Fives with a suspiciously damp-sounding thwap across his forehead and drops to the floor.
Kix watches on, immensely amused as Echo ducks a bottle of water that flies by his head. He suspects this may go on for some time yet, and he hopes it'll help his vode get much needed sleep when they finally tire. Although they better karking not end up in his medbay tonight.