Dinotrux: Concrete Facts
Chapter one: Trapped!
A lone trux lay listless under the hot sun. All that was visible was his head and neck. The cracks on the misty grey floor implied where the rest of his body remained. His optics flashed in the form of a blink. Finally plucking up the strength again, he struggled against his rocky prison; refusing to give up again. His engine revved and clattered as he strained and struggled... but to no avail. The T-trux let out a exasperated and angry roar, and his head slammed into the ground once again. If only he hadn't been so stupid as to wander into D-Structs's trap. He wouldn't be spending these last two days stuck here. But how had this happened? How did D-Structs come up with this one? Perhaps he'd been following them; seemed likely. Would he know anything without spying on them. Ty glanced down the path he'd come down, and recalled the battle he'd lost. Just two days earlier...
"He's got to be here somewhere." Ty persisted aloud. The gang had split up to look for their little green and yellow buddy, and hadn't found any sigh of him since heading to the ravine for a parts run the day before. Ace, Waldo, and Click-Clack were instructed to stay in the garage... just to be safe. "Whatever took Revvit," he'd told them, "might come after you guys too." Ty had guessed it was D-Structs, that tin-head had been known to do it before. Why wouldn't he try it again?
"Rev!!" Ty called out again, glanced this way and that. He had entered the backlands awhile ago. 'Why would he bring Rev all the way out here?' He thought, but then he thought about it further and realized.
"This is D-Structs we're talking about." He concluded vocally. "He's always taking great lengths to get rid of us."
"I couldn't agree more, Ty." A voice answered behind him, one in which he recognized... and dreaded.
"So I was right to come looking for you here?" Ty snapped, beginning to circle with the larger T-trux.
"Only because you're soo predictable, Ty." D-structs sneered back. "But I guess that scrap-head; Skrap-it, is good for something after all."
"Where is Revvit?!" Ty growled, narrowing his optics.
"Oh don't worry," the Black and Grey Trux taunted, faking concern. "He's in a safe place... you in the other hand. Well... you're soon to be scrap-metal." D-Structs bellowed a mighty roar and plunged forward. Ty released a roar of his own, and countered with a bite to his enemy's neck. He pushed as hard as he could to send him back. But D-Structs swung his tail around, locking his claw onto Ty's tail and ripping him off of him. The two bashed heads for a while, then went to their tails. A slap to the face by Ty's wrecking ball, earned him a claw to the head. D-structs bit down on his neck and slammed into the rock to his right. Ty tried to recover himself, but was blindsided by D-Structs' head bashing his. Giving him a hard shove, Ty was sent back into a tree that snapped like a twig. He rolled over with it and into the, somewhat, open spaces of the cement fields. The two T-trux's fight commenced further, D-Structs biting Ty's neck and dragging him down; rolling him again. The Black T-trux came again, but Ty was ready for him this time. He backed away from his snap, as swung with all his might bashing D-Structs right up 'side the head. He was about to come again, when the black and grey T-trux rammed into him. Sliding back he felt a gooey-ness under his treads, looking down he realized he'd found and a wet cement pocket. He spun his treads to get out like before; but D-Structs slammed into his head again, and pressed down on him. Shifting his weight into the Red T-trux, Ty strained as hard as he could to push back. But the liquidy ground and weight holding him down, was making his body slowly sink. He could feel the cement getting higher and higher on him, spinning his treads as fast as he could to harden it. Smoke began to bellow from his engine, and it made terrible crunching noises from the stress being put on it.
"That's it Ty." D-Structs groaned, through gritted jaws; pushing harder. "Dig yourself in deeper!"
"And let you miss out on all the fun? Never!!" Ty snapped back, pressing harder still. But then... BANG!! Ty let out a screeching roar, as a black cloud of smoke burst from his master cylinder vent. He groaned in agony and D-Structs cackled above him.
"Face it, Ty" D-Structs told him. "You've lost." And with that he turned to leave, and didn't look back... not even for a second...
Ty sighed, looking up he blinked in the intense light of the sun. A robotic squeak and metallic chattering filled the air.
"Great. Not these guys again." He sneered to himself. Scrapadactyls flapped and squawked from the skies above. Swooping down they snapped and pecked at him, Ty thrashing his head around at them. Two or three of them crowded around him. Bashing one away, another one bit at the pipes under his chin, to which he slammed his head into the ground on top of it. His roar, though hoarse, and off-beat, finally scared them off. Ty scowled after them, then softened it to his same listless expression again.
"Revvit!!" Skya cried, upon catching a glimpse of the Green and yellow Rotilian Reptool scurrying in their direction.
"Where've you been Rev!" Ace questioned as they reached him.
"Yeah, you've been missing for, like, all day." Ton-Ton informed him.
"Uuh, almost two days.. actually." Click-Clack shakily corrected the ankylodump.
"Yeah what did you do? Take a wrong turn?" Dozer complained.
"I have a great sense of direction!" Revvit protested. "I was on my way to the ravine when I got chased by the Skrap-tools and attacked by scrapadactyls! And a wild dragon-flobter carried off the bolts I was bringing. So I had to go back to the ravine and get new ones."
"O..oh no! A..are you o..okay?" Click-Clack stammered nervously.
"I am fine." Revvit nodded. "But I was being followed by the skraptools, and they seemed to be trying to keep me away from you guys."
"Well we've been looking everywhere for you!" Ace put in.
"Ty's been worrying about you since you didn't show up yesterday." Skya told him.
"Really?" The reptool paced closer. "But-.. where is he?" Everyone looked around now realizing the absence their leader in Red.
"Hey you're right, dude," Ton-Ton realized, "where are is Ty?" Skya peered around some more, craning her neck up higher.
"Yeah, I can't see him." She admitted.
"Great! Now we have to hunt down Ty, now too?!" Dozer groaned, rolling his eyes.
"I wonder what is keeping him." Revvit commented suspiciously. "It is very unlike him."
"Uh huh, like it's unlike you to get attacked and chased around the crater." Waldo remarked sarcastically. Revvit shot him a distasteful glare, then turned to the trux.
"We must spread out again, to maximize our potential for success. Ace, Waldo, and Click-Clack, we will require your assistance as well."
"Ah..hah..h..all right!!" Ace cheered, "let's do this!!" Revvit and Click-Clack called for their dragon flobters, and the four tools flew away to find Ty.
Ty's metal burned in the sun, he wasn't sure how much hotter he could get; but would then discover that he could.
"Ugh, any hotter and I'll be on fire!" He gasped. His optics were beginning feel heavy, and he knew what that meant. His engine clunked under the ground and he felt awful because of it.
Revvit zipped through the air, jerking his dragon flobter this way and that.
"Come on Ty." He murmured to himself. "Where are you?"
Ty tried one last time to struggle against the cement hoping that it would crack, even a little. He craned his neck back, and tried to move his treads but an internal shock forced out a painful roar!
Revvit heard a thunderous noise in the form of a roar, a roar he recognized all too well; even despite the unfamiliar flatness to it. He pulled his dragon flobter up short, then yanked it in the direction of the noise. Urging the creature faster, he followed the noise on past the boarer between the Flatirons and the Backlands.
"Why would Ty be all the way out here?" Revvit thought aloud.
Ty groaned as he recovered from the shock.
"I've really gotta stop doing that." He realized his voice a little shaky, distastefully remembering that horribly painful explosion. A twig snapped and Ty looked towards it.
"Oh no." He breathed, knowing what was about to show up.
The green and yellow reptool scanned the ground below, hoping desperately to spot the big red T-trux that was Ty Rux; but found sadly nothing. But another roar and the sight of the cement fields, pointed Revvit where he needed to go.
"He-yah!" He called, snapping the dragon flobter to go fast.
Coming over to where he could see, what he found shocked him beyond measure...
Ty snapped at the scrapter, it snapping back at him. His position limited his ability to move; and what he could reach. Grabbing one in his jaws, he threw it best he could; but another one quickly replaced it. Bashing it with his head it rolled away, landing on its feet it snarled at him.
"Ty!" Revvit gasped. But Ty was so busy that he didn't hear or see his little buddy hovering high over the battle. Ty roared and they finally retreated back into the forest. Without wasting another moment Revvit flew down to him. Hopping off the dragon flobter, he scurried up to the red T-trux; as he plopped his head down onto the hard ground again.
"Ty!!" Revvit cried jumping up into his nose. Ty's optics shot open.
"Rev?! Uh- where have you been? And how did you find me here?!" The T-trux was amazed.
"That does not matter right now." Revvit shook of the question. "How did this happen?"
"D-Structs." Ty said, silently cursing himself again. "He must have followed me out here and used you as a way to get me alone."
"What are you talking about?" The reptool cocked his head at him.
"Didn't he take you prisoner, so that the rest of us would spread out to find you?"
"A-no. I was chased by Skraptools, and attacked by Scrapadactyls, I never saw D-Structs at all."
"Huh, but he said... ahhh never mind. I'm glad you're ok."
"I am more worried about if you're ok." Revvit told him, looking him over. "This is bad..." he drilled into the ground next to Ty. "Very bad. I must go get the other trux immediately!"
"I know, but-" he struggled against his cement prison. "What can you do? This stuff is thick and doesn't break so easily."
"I know, but there got to be some way to get you out." Revvit decided. "There has to be."
"I'm stuck, Rev." Ty struggled against the cement and that same painful shock erupted again. He grimaced and Revvit jumped forward.
"Ty! You must stay still, it sounds like you may have sustained internal injuries. If you continue to push you're engine further, you will fry everything in your system." He spun his bits in thought. "I cannot do this alone. I must find the others. And we will come up with something, together, to get you out. I promise!" He hitched a ride on his dragon flobter and raced away.
"Be careful Rev!" Ty called after him. "And hurry!" Then he glanced down at the light grey floor. "Not that it isn't already too late." He mumbled to himself.
Hey guys! I've been wanting to do a dinotrux fic for a while, but hadn't really had a good idea for one. But here it is! This story concept I actually came up with before I was on fanfic. When I watched the episode "Cementasaurs"(love this episode btw). I really liked this episode because Ty got into trouble and the reptools had to work quickly to help him get out again. Plus Ty is my favorite character, and I enjoy seeing him getting into a jam that Revvit obsesses over until it is resolved. Same with the episode "Speed", I love Revvit in both these episodes(and more) because it shows how much he cares about Ty. Which I love to see from him! And it is likewise vice versa!! For me and for the characters themselves. Anyway hope you like it. Thx!!
