Shonin when you review could you please type slower or something? I sometimes can't understand half the things you write in them.

By the way; here is the disclaimer: I do not own Beast Wars. If I did Dinobot would have a girlfriend or something, there would be more femme bots, and he and Depth Charge wouldn't have died. (Neither would Inferno)

CHAPTER 10

Yume stared at her hand then up at Dinobot. His concern had surprised her. Since when did he care about her? When did he care if she got hurt? I wonder what brought this on? she thought to herself, looking at Dinobot's scaley hand. It was surprisingly soft, it felt almost like her baby brothers skin...

Dinobot saw the look on her face and whatever had made him concerned for her wound melted away. After a moment of staring at her burn he let her hand go and walked away from her, letting out a breathy sigh. She stared at him then her wound for a moment then stood up, suddenly thirsty. Maybe I shouldn't have eaten those chips... She looked around herself. I'm so thirsty but, where would water be?

"What are you doing?" he asked her, when he looked back at her.

She met his gaze. Her eyes were unsteady and nervous. "I'm thirsty," she replied sounding as if he should already know the answer.

Not again! First she was hungry, now she was thirsty. It was her own fault eating salty chips. This is ridiculous! Now I'm going to have to find a stream or something for her to drink from...grrrr... "Fine," he said, grabbing her arm. He started moving. She cried out and he stopped. He let her go when he realized he'd hurt her.

She held her arm and stared at him, the fear from before back in them and seeming to be getting worse. She took a few steps away from him, holding her arm, suddenly fully aware of the burning pain in her hand. She ground her teeth, tears suddenly running down her cheeks, trying her best not to cry out at the pain, trying not to seem even weaker than she already was. Why did he have to say something? I wouldn't have paid that much attention to it if he hadn't of said anything.

She looked at him with those big gray eyes. He could tell she was in pain and he could read in her eyes that she blamed him for it. He frowned. What had he done? She was the one who burned her hand. He couldn't be blamed for that. Still, he knew she wouldn't see it that way because he hadn't even bothered to warn her about the bars. Maybe it was his fault, a little. He wasn't going to admit it though.

Suddenly he heard the sound of water. He listened hard as the girl stared at him then he said, reading the question in her eyes. "I hear water."

Her eyes suddenly softened as a sigh escaped her lips. He turned from her but looked back long enough to say. "Come."

She quickly grabbed up her backpack, ignoring the weight, and followed him deeper into the forest. A little later she and the raptor came upon a slowly flowing river. She stared at the water, relieved then quickly made her way over to it, thrusting her hand into it. Immediately the burn cooled off and she sighed again before scooping some water into her other hand and drinking it. Right now she didn't care what yuckies it might be inhabiting it, all she cared about it that she was no longer thirsty.

Dinobot watched her from a short distance away. She seemed to be all right and the water was shallow so she couldn't fall in and drown, not that that was what he was worried about, he could care less if she had. He went back into robot mode and leaned against a tree, crossing his arms and still keeping an eye on her. Sentient beings are so fragile, he thought. Like porceline... like a spark... so easily harmed and ruined... How can such a species live for so long? This thought brought his thinking back to the Golden Disk they'd taken with them when they'd escaped the Predacon base. It had mentioned humans helping during the Great War. Humans might be fragile but they could endure. They used more than brawn in things like that.

Suddenly a spray of water hit him in the face, yanking him out of his thoughts. He growled in anger, tearing away at the liquid soaking his face, as if it could be removed that easily. He glared at the stream, half expecting Rattrap to be standing there laughing at him, that sort of thing seemed like something he would do.

Dinobot saw no Rattrap though, only Yume, standing ankle deep in the water, her boots off and her hands dripping. She stared at him, her eyes wide with playfulness but also shadowed fear. So it had been her! He glared at her, contimplating how to react. He couldn't exactly come at her with his sword drawn like he might have done to the vermin. If he did she would probably accidently be killed. Instead he snarled at her and demanded. "What are you doing?!"

She met his eyes for a moment then looked away. "I'm sorry," she said, leaning down in the water and splashing it lightly. "I just thought we could have a little fun and..."

"Fun?!" he demanded, his voice more angry than he really felt. "There is no time for fun! You are in the middle of a situation. We stole the Golden Disk and Megatron has probably sent everyone to come after us. We should be preparing for a confrontation, not playing in the water like fools!"

Yume said nothing. She kept her eyes on the water and let her hand lazily make circles in the liquid. She'd only been trying to get him to stop frowning so much. She'd been hoping a little fun would make him nicer. But it hadn't worked. She concluded that he hated fun. All he thought about was the situation that she hadn't forgotten. She knew they had to be careful. She knew they were in even more trouble because they had stolen the disk. She knew the Predacons still wanted her for some reason. She just didn't want to be reminded about it anymore. She looked back up at him. He hadn't moved from his spot near the tree. He was still standing there, glaring at her with those red eyes. He seemed to be expecting her to say something. Apologize maybe? But why would she do that? She hadn't done anything wrong.

Instead she slowly made her way out of the stream and back onto the shore. She put her boots back on and walked up to him, keeping her eyes on his and forcing herself not to look away this time. His face looked a bit surprised that she was meeting his stare but he said nothing. She stood under him, only two inches away, and looked up at him. She hadn't really noticed how tall he was before and now guessed that he was about twice her size. She opened her mouth and asked in a low voice. "Why do you always think such things?"

He was taken aback by her question. He hadn't expected her to ask him such a thing. If it had been someone else he might have answered the question quite easily, or been offended, but now... something about the way she'd asked it gave him pause. He cared nothing for her but the tone of voice she'd used made him hesitate to answer. Why did he always think about such things? He'd never thought about it before and he didn't like thinking about it now. He clenched his teeth and snarled at her. This caused her to finally break eye contact and she retreated back to her backpack. He heard her mutter. "I'm sorry," as she went. She had better be!

Yume sat down on the grass and stared at her reflection in the water. It frowned back at her and seemed to be scolding her, scolding her for being so bold. She quickly slapped it out of existance.

Tarantulas had finally found Yume and Dinobot's trail. He'd just happened to come across the freeway the raptor had created in the woods when he'd crashed through them. The spider laughed quietly to himself and headed down the freeway. He found the spot where they had been before they'd moved to the lake and paused a moment, listening. There was no way they could leave that quickly and not make a sound. Soon he heard the sound of voices. They were coming from his left. He quickly changed direction and ran toward them, still chuckling to himself.

Megatron stared forlornly at the spot where his disk had been. He didn't like the fact that it was stolen especially by a human girl and that taitor Dinobot. He hoped his minions would be able to get back but something told him they most likely wouldn't. He growled and pounded his fist on his desk. If you wanted something done right do it yourself, they always said. It was usually that way for him anyway. This time wouldn't be any different. He frowned at his screensaver, an animated version of himself beating up Primal and pushed himself away from the desk. He looked at the place where the disk had been one last time then transformed into beast mode. He made his way out of the base and ran across the plains, bent on finding the three things he lost.

Yume watched her reflection waver then slowly return to its true form, only instead of the reflection being her it became Dinobot, or at least him looming over her. She gasped and leaned back, suddenly aware of metal limbs supporting her back. She looked up and saw him frowning down at her. She gasped to herself. She hadn't even heard him come up on her!

"I...I...," she stammered. "S...s...sorry. I didn't know you wanted to-"

He growled silencing her. Yes, she was still annoying and he was getting sick of her constant stammering. He wished she'd just get over it. Instead of scolding her he looked into the shallow water, disregarding his reflection, he knew what he looked like. He thought he'd caught something out of place in the reflection of the opposite shore in the water and stared intently at the stream. Nothing. He was probably seeing things.

Yume had not noticed whatever he thought he'd seen and coward under him, wishing he'd move away from her already so she wouldn't have to worry about him chomping off her head or falling on her. Finally Dinobot moved and headed away from her and back to the tree, looking a little distracted. She sighed in relief and closed her eyes. Her mind started to wonder...

Sparks surrounded her as she stood overlooking a metal metropolis. In the sky a giant blue machine of some sort floated above the quiet city, a stark contrast to the blood red sky. She was shocked at the quite of such a large product of civilization and it's lack of people going to and fro... Where was everybody? Where had they all gone? Suddenly a spark that looked different than the others floated in front of her face. She stared at it, feeling as if she knew it... It seemed to call out to her...

Yume was startled out of her daydream as she felt a large metal hand reach out and grab her from behind. She screamed and tried to get away until she realized that it had been Dinobot who had grabbed her. She looked at him, her eyes full of questions then saw a small crator in the spot where she'd been sitting. She stared at the spot, realizing if Dinobot hadn't of moved her she'd be dead.

"What-?" she began but Dinobot's growl shut her up.

She looked at his face and saw his attention was on something across the stream. She looked where his eyes were focused and saw a giant purple and yellow spider creature standing across the water on the opposite shore. Her eyes bugged out as she watched it change shape and go into robot mode. The spider robot laughed a crazy laugh, held up a gun, and shot at them.

Dinobot growled again and jumped out of the way, dumping Yume behind a large stump. "Stay there!" he ordered, before he pulled out his sword and ran at the spider, eye lazors firing away.

BOOM!

Yume heard the explosion and looked around the stump to see what had happened. Dinobot seemed to be okay but a huge crator in the ground told her another bomb had gone off. She was glad it hadn't gotten Dinobot. "Go Dinobot!" she screamed watching him shoot the spider in the chest with his eyes lazors.

Dinobot looked over his shoulder at her, clearly surprised by her sudden change in character and also annoyed. "Get behind that!" he ordered her when he saw her peaking at him.

She quickly ducked behind the stump again.

She heard insane laughter and then Dinobot's growl. She heard a machine gun go off, then another explosion, and then a loud pained shriek. The sound made her freeze for a second then she peeked around the rock and spotted Dinobot on the ground with what looked like a giant hole in his chest. She froze again for a second then got out from behind the rock and started for him. Before she got too far, a giant blue and white web flew into her, knocking her to the ground. She screamed in horror as the spider thing walked over to her, still laughing. It aimed a kick at Dinobot as it went by but, injured or not, he was able to avoid it. The raptor grabbed the spiders leg and knocked it off balance. The thing let out a yelp and fell to the ground.

Yume tried to get up but the web held her down. She watched helplessly as the spider righted itself, aimed its gun at Dinobot's face, and fired. She screamed in terror as the raptor's face seemed to explode then watched as he slowly fell back and his head hit the ground once again. She watched him, silently praying that he'd get back up. He didn't and she felt tears coming to her eyes. He was dead. it was her fault.

"No," she whispered as the spider came over to her. "No."

He leaned down and laughed in her face. She screamed in terror and then fainted.

Tarantulas stared at the girl, confused. He had never met anyone who had ever fainted at the sight of him before and he was slightly offended at the reaction. Her scream was annoying as well. All well. It wasn't important. He shrugged it off and drug her away, laughing to himself.

Ratrap and Airazor arrived in the area surrounding the Predacon base just as Terrorsaur and Inferno flew out of the base. The two Maximals watched the Preds fly away then looked at each other. "I wonder where they're going," Airazor said.

"Who cares," Ratrap said, starting down the slope toward the Predacon base. "We're not here for that. We have to look for the dreamgirl and chopper-face."

"Why do you call her dreamgirl?" the falcon girl asked.

"Because her name means "dream" that's why," he replied, pointing a claw into the air as he stood on his hind legs. "And it just seemed to fit."

"Hmm.." she flapped her wings and rose into the air. "Let's just go down there and check already." then she flew off.

"Hey wait for me, bird lady!" Rattrap called, chasing after her as fast as he could.

When they got close enough to the base they crept cautiously toward the entrance. Just as they were about to enter the hatch flew open and Megatron, in beast mode, came stalking out, his face full of determination.

The two watched him go then looked at eachother again. "What was that about?" Airazor asked.

Rattrap shrugged, he had no idea. The two quickly sneaked into the base before the hatch closed behind them.

Terrorsaur flew a few feet behind Inferno, watching the crazed fire ant laugh at something only he thought was funny, as he tried to think of a way to get away from the other Predacon without being noticed. Oh he could have tried to get away now but Inferno kept on glancing back at him and saying stuff about the Royaly and how much he wanted to burn the traitor and the girl, besides if Terrorsaur had tried to get away from him the fire ant would have demanded to know where he was going and he didn't feel like answering stupid questions. The flying dinosaur didn't care if Inferno torched Dinobot but he didn't want the crazy ant killing the girl in the process, nor did he want him to melt the Golden Disk.

That Megatron, he thought. Why couldn't he have gone after the Disk himself? Of course he already knew the answer but then again Megatron might come after it himself if he got angry enough.

Terrorsaur frowned. He just remembered something. When he'd left he had not seen Tarantulas in or around the base. That could only mean one thing. He'd also gone after them. The flying Dinosaur growled. That spider won't get her before I do! he vowed.

She was running from something. Something with a loud voice. It bellowed behind her and she covered her ears to block the sound. The ground below her reflected her fleeing figure as it it were a mirror. She glanced at her reflection only once, realizing she was running across the surface of the Golden Disk. Before her was a mountian. She ran toward it but something blew it up. When she looked again it was gone. Just then she realized she was no longer running across the disk but through a valley. A vallety ablaze with gold and black fire. She ran through it and spotted a figure on the ground. It was incased in shadow and seemed to be looking up at another figure.

Suddenly it got up and lunged at the other shadow, knocking something shiny out of its hands. The first shadow caught the object and raised it above itself releasing a bright green light that shattered the object. As the pieces fell the shadow fell with it. She froze in her tracks and stared. Something shiny came out of the shadow and began to float in the air. She watched it go, awed by the sight when suddenly the object froze and hesitated, slowly hovering back down to the shadow. She watched it hover a moment before it slowly went back into the shadow and was again hidden in darkness...

Yume woke to laughing. She opened her eyes and, as they focused, took in what looked like a dark place reserved only for mad scientists. She blinked then stared wide eyed at everything, not exactly sure where she was or what soem of the strange objects before her eyes were used for. Her arm felt cramped but when she tried to move realized she couldn't. She looked at her stubborn limb and discovered she was stuck to a giant blue and white spider's web. She gasped and tried to get free. The web held her and she realized it was hopeless to try.

Her fear came back almost instantly when she realized she was trapped. She tried to see past the gloom, hoping against hope that somewhere in it was Dinobot coming to get her out of this. There was no Dinobot and she felt there would never be one again as the memory of his demise came flooding back to her brain. She sniffled at the thought and felt tears running down her face. It was all my fault...

"Aww is the little human crying, tehehehehe.." a voice in the shadows asked.

Yume gasped and looked around herself again, trying to spot the owner of the voice. It sounded so close as if it were right beside her...She turned her head and found herself staring into four pairs of yellow eyes.

"Hello," the owner of the eyes said, chuckling to itself as it spoke.

Yume's answer was a scream that echoed through the caverns.

A/N

I got my Dinobot toy! I am so happy! Now I just need to get the rest of them. I'm gonna collect the 10 anniversay additions and when I have them all I'm gonna put together Transmutate! Man I hate camp. I kept getting weird ideas about Dinobot's spark possessing Yume. (Don't ask) Maybe I should drown her... No that would be a bad idea. I think if I make a sequal I'll put the Vok in it.

NO DINOBOT' IS NOT DEAD!