Inter-LOAFERS: Dance-Dance-Feva!

By Xenomorph666

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

DigitalMan and K2 are © My close friend.

Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.

Universe: Spliced-verse (Misfit-Verse, Evil Dead, Mask, TMNT, Planeteers, Beast Wars)

Spark of a Hero

"Rodent, what are you looking at?" Dinobot hissed as he came upon Rattrap who was busily surfing the internet.

"Remember how the Scions said our whole world was a show here?" Rattrap said.

"Yes." Dinobot growled.

"Well I've been searching for some episodes." Rattrap said.

"Which ones?" Dinobot asked.

Rattrap's face fell and he didn't speak foe a few seconds. "Don't worry about it lizard breath. It's not important."

"Let me see." Dinobot swung the monitor around and the words on the screen assaulted him. Honor, Glory, Dinobot, Hero, Sacrifice. They all burned into his spark like a hot coal in a childs hand. He slammed the monitor on the ground. It was the last word that burned him his spark the greatest though; friend. "WHY?"

"Because you ain't been the same." Rattrap sighed. "Your insults aren't even half as inventive and you're always of thinking."

"Why would you call me a hero or even a friend?" Dinobot stomped dangerously close.

"Because you are." Rattrap's voice was laden with a strange sadness, and Dinobot could only turn and roar in anger.

"What was that all about?" Cheetor asked as he came in and Dinobot brushed past him.

"None'a your business Spots." Rattrap snapped.

"Okay." Cheetor ignored the angry transmetal.

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"Who does he think he is?" Dinobot growled to himself as he swung at the practice dummy in his room. "I am no hero."

"As of now I must agree." Raptor appeared by his old advisor. "What troubles you my friend?"

"Nothing that concerns you." Dinobot hissed.

"As the only God of Honor for your beast form; I disagree." Raptor smiled.

Dinobot went to argue but just shook his head. "Even you presume to tell me I have honor that still yet remains?"

"What is a warrior with no will to fight?" Raptor asked.

"Nothing." Dinobot growled lightly. "But a coward."

"No." Raptor said. "A warrior with no will to fight is a lost warrior."

"A lost warrior is useless." Dinobot sighed.

"Then let me show you the path once more…" Raptor said.

"Stasis lock commencing." Dinobot could not react fast enough to hold off the strange lock.

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Dinobot awoke in a familiar yet distant world. It was the valley and around him, the world burned. Raptor and another cloaked in white stood beside him.

"Why have you brought me here?" Dinobot hissed.

"We didn't bring you anywhere lizard." The one in white spoke. "You brought us here."

"Maven, calm yourself." Raptor spoke softly. "We are inside your spark Dinobot, in your memories; your last memories before you were brought back."

"I figured that much out for myself." Dinobot hissed.

"Watch." Raptor pointed to the final moments of Dinobot's first life. "You ignored your own suffering to prevent that of others."

"I stopped Megatron from destroying history!" Dinobot snapped.

"You let compassion into that cold metallic heart." Raptor's voice was barely audible. "Don't deny it Dinobot, you weren't thinking of the disc while you fought the Predacons and when you finally did you stopped to save an ape's life."

"ENOUGH!" Dinobot roared. "That was the past, a life ruined b treachery." The scenes flashed to the clone's memories of the clone's battles.

"They are memories." Raptor brushed them aside. "Not actions. Not choices. Your honor has not been taken; you have abandoned it because you fear it."

"I do not fear my honor!" Dinobot shouted. "If anything I wish I could reclaim it."

"Then do so." Raptor growled as he took on his own raptor like form, it was more majestic and covered in feathers than Dinobot had ever remembered. "Or will you cower in your ponderings and forget that honor is not a code of actions but the actions within the code."

Dinobot could not speak and he let the shame of his fear cloud over him. Then he awoke on a stasis table in the Maximal repair bay.

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"Well, you gave us quite a start." Rhinox smiled.

"Hero-bot awake?" Waspinator buzzed closely by him and monitored his vital signs.

"Leave me annoying bug." Dinobot hissed.

"But Wazpinator been watching you for daaaaayz." Waspinator sounded hurt.

"Days?" Dinobot hissed in displeasure. "Has it truly been that long, but for me only minutes passed bye."

"Yup." Rhinox said cheerfully. "Optimus wants to see you outside with the others. Everyone's here."

"What for?" Dinobot was wary.

"Perfection decided TigerHawk need a party for being the first Maximal infant in this world." Rhinox chuckled.

"Lovely." Dinobot rolled his optics. "Still, it is better they are here."

"They're outside." Rhinox said as he accompanied the raptor-bot outside.

"Waspinator is not joining us?" Dinobot looked curious.

"Turns out the little bug is an expert repair bot." Rhinox chuckled, "Of course seeing as how he gets slagged so often he'd have to be. That and he's got a surprise he's finishing for T.H."

"Who?" Dinobot asked.

"TigerHawk, we're calling him that for short." Rhinox kept n smiling as they exited the base.

Dinobot immediately took his beast form and slammed a spare katana into the ground before Optimus. His beast form retained much of the design of the Transmetal 2 form, but lightly colored "feathers" were dusted across his body and the bottom jaw was closed to fit into the top

"Dinobot?" Optimus asked

"Though the actions were not mine, the memories of treachery still haunt my mind. It is these memories that have re-written my honor. No longer do I strive to be the perfect warrior; for I have already attained such status in the eyes of those I trust. No, for now my honor will be in my actions and in my actions I will live. My blade was smelted in combat, it was tempered by countless battles and finally in compassion it has been truly forged." Dinobot transformed into his robot form and plucked the katana from the ground and held it to the sky. "My blade is now guided by experience as a warrior and held by the compassion I have learned from you; my friends. For a true warrior knows not only the fire of battle, but calming waves of compassion."

The grounds were quite for a few seconds before Depth Charge leaned backwards to look at Dinobot. He could hardly believe what he was hearing and he had never known Dinobot. "You feelin' all right lizzy?"

Dinobot threw his arms up in defeatand scoffed in anger. "Why does the fish follow in the rat's footsteps of all bots it had to be the competent one?" He then stamped angrily back into the base.

"Ahhh, that's our choppaface." Rattrap smiled as he leaned against Tigatron.

"Hero-bot make beautiful speech." Waspinator said from the entrance as he carted out three large cakes. "Chocolate, Lemon and Energon! Everybody dig in!"