HEY GUYS! It's been a really long time, but I'm super happy to be continuing this fic! Tally and her tiny bots are one of my favorite Transformers fics that I'm doing, haha.

SO!

Credit for #26 goes to Princess of Dreams!

Credit for #27, #29, and #30 goes to Anonymous BW Fangirl!

Credit for #28 goes to Ersatz Writer!

As always, suggestions are definitely welcome! I love seeing what kinds of situations you guys wanna see Tally and the bots in~

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26. Apparently, I need to stop leaving things in plain sight.

(When I say "things", usually I just mean especially breakable things.)

(But I'm starting to think maybe I need to lock up everything that's not a sponge.)

(Case in point, when I moved out of the house into my own place, my mother gave me a teacup.)

(It used to belong to my great-great-grandmother, who was an artist and painted the cup herself.)

(In fact, admiring the cup and hearing stories of my great-great-grandmother during my childhood was part of what inspired me to become an artist.)

(If she could do it, why couldn't I?)

(Unfortunately, I made the mistake of displaying the cup in my bedroom.)

(It was mostly for inspiration while I was working – so I could look over at it if I was feeling frustrated or art blocked, and it might help.)

(It should be noted that the cup wasn't really fragile. It was made of tin… which I guess is kind of strange for a teacup.)

(Yet, somehow, my itty bitty friends managed to bust it up.)

(To be fair, it was Prowl who noticed that some bots were roughhousing near it, and apparently he came to tell me as soon as he noticed.)

(Any guesses as to who exactly is at fault here?)

(If you guessed Blitzwing and Ironhide, you'd be right.)

(Though I'm a little sketchy on the details, somehow they got into a fight, and the teacup got in the middle of it.)

(It ended up being dented all to hell, with some of the paint chipped off.)

(I may have yelled a little too loudly and putting them in the freezer for three hours was probably a bit much, but come on.)

(That teacup is the last thing I have of my great-great-grandmother, and they got careless and wrecked it.)

(From now on, I'm keeping anything sentimental in a storage unit far away from the house.)

27. As hard as this is to hear, bots (ahem, Red Alert), it's not polite to glitch all over our guests.

(Obviously I had to make this rule mostly because of Red Alert.)

(I love the little guy, he's my buddy. Now that we've gotten to know each other, I'm always gonna protect him.)

(That said… he's gotta stop doing things like glitching on my sister.)

(She doesn't visit too often, maybe once a month.)

(It's still more than our parents come to see me, though.)

(Ever since she found out about the tiny bots, she likes seeing them when she comes over.)

(She seems particularly close to Shockwave, probably because they're both left-brained scientists.)

(Although their technobabble is beyond me for the most part, it's kind of nice to see her bonding with these guys.)

(As usual, unfortunately, Red Alert's processor jumps to the worst possible scenario. He thinks that instead this is her 'conspiring' with Shockwave, giving knowledge to the Decepticons, and therefore being anti-Autobot.)

(Which has led to this strange theory of his that she's actually a Pretender.)

(When I asked about that, he said a Pretender is basically a Cybertronian who can take a form other than a vehicle or machine.)

(Like, say, a human.)

(The last time she visited, Red attempted to launch an attack on her.)

(Needless to say, it, uh… failed rather spectacularly.)

(Mainly because as soon as he got near her, he started glitching and fell into her lap.)

(It was kind of painful to watch, honestly. My sister was horrified and concerned, asking me at least five times if he was okay.)

(Shockwave just stared at Red with his one giant optic. He's hard to read, but he seemed pretty unimpressed.)

(I tried to be fast in picking poor Red Alert up off my sister's lap. The damage was already done, though.)

(Nothing I said would bring him out of it. Even though he came out of it on his own, he was still pretty upset.)

(After dropping him off with Ratchet just in case, I apologized to my sister and let her know that Red was fine – just easily panicked.)

(I'm pretty sure when I came back, Shockwave was trying to talk my sister into taking him with her.)

(Dammit, Red.)

28. Apparently we all have to work together to scour every single inch of the house. We found someone new in the freezer.

(Listen, it's not like I went looking for these little guys!)

(When I moved into this place, they found me. You'd think that if there were anyone hiding, they would have come out by now.)

(Everyone else thinks I'm relatively safe.)

(I take care of everybody, I only punish when it's needed, and I'm definitely not in the business of hurting my tiny friends.)

(To the best of my knowledge, all the bots who have shown themselves are the only ones in the house.)

(So, really, in my defense, there was no reason to think maybe there was a bot stuck somewhere.)

(Right?)

(… Well, as it turns out, wrong, I guess.)

(This is when my punishments come in handy. Swoop decided to be a bad dino, so I had to put him in the freezer for an hour.)

(When he came out, he was frantically telling me he'd seen someone else in there.)

(There was no one else being punished at that time, so clearly I had to investigate.)

(I mean, poor guy seemed freaked out, and Swoop is one of those who rarely freaks out.)

(So I had a look inside the freezer…)

(And, lo and behold, holy frozen shit, there was a bot back there.)

(Apparently he was far back enough that nobody had ever noticed him, including me.)

(There was also a huge layer of ice crystals over the area where he was that kept him from being seen.)

(Obviously the only humane thing to do was chip the ice away, get him out of there, and warm him up.)

(Several of the other bots stayed by my side as I undertook this endeavor with the help of First Aid and a hairdryer.)

(Notably, Starscream stayed very close, because according to him, he recognized this mech as one of his friends.)

(When the little guy finally thawed out, he seemed awfully confused by his surroundings.)

(We all had to explain to him what had happened to transfer the bots into these small plastic bodies, and who I was.)

(After he got his bearings, he cordially introduced himself to me as an Autobot scientist named Skyfire.)

(Surprisingly enough, he and Starscream did actually share a tight hug as soon as Starscream spoke up to him.)

(To be totally honest with you, the whole thing made me really happy.)

(After all, Starscream's a Decepticon, and Skyfire's an Autobot.)

(The two of them are clearly good friends and were overjoyed to see each other.)

(What that means to me is that there's hope.)

(Maybe their war isn't going to last forever.)

(Maybe all of them can find some peaceful ending to it instead of this thing ending with everyone dead.)

(Regardless, now Starscream and Skyfire both have a friend back, and I've got a new one.)

(But after this little debacle, we're all gonna have to go on a hunt and turn this place upside down.)

(If anyone else is in a similar predicament to Skyfire, they're not gonna be unnoticed for much longer.)

29. One cookie means ONE COOKIE.

(Sometimes I wonder if the bots are deliberately playing dumb and trying to piss me off.)

("You only get one cookie" is a fairly simple statement, no?)

(Like, listen. Cookies at the supermarket are $1 for a box. That's not bad.)

(Except for the fact that sugar is the main thing that powers the bots' plastic bodies – although, some of the scientists are trying to make some kind of synthetic energon stuff.)

(Yeah, shut up, I don't pretend to understand exactly what they're doing or how it'll work.)

(Anyway, cookies are the easiest things for them to eat as a snack if they need energy aside from meals.)

(What I plan for is one whole cookie per bot per day. The ones I buy come with twenty cookies in a box.)

(With how many bots I have to take care of, that equals out to three boxes a day to be on the safe side.)

(Twenty-one boxes of cookies a week.)

(Yes, the supermarket people think I have a problem. Oh, well.)

(There are usually a few extra cookies at the end of the day, but I use those for the next day.)

(Or I would, if some bots didn't sneak them out of the box while I'm getting ready for bed.)

(I swear, these guys are worse than toddlers.)

(More than one cookie equals a bot who's gonna be bouncing off the walls while everyone else is trying to sleep.)

(So, you can see why one cookie means ONE COOKIE is a very important rule here.)

(Occasionally a bot who's bigger and needs more energy may need a second cookie.)

(Shockingly, however, those bots aren't the ones who are stealing cookies.)

(Instead, because of this rule, I'll have to find a different snack for the ones who need a little extra energy.)

(So, the bots who aren't cookie thieves?)

(They can blame Bumblebee, Blitzwing, the Jettwins, and of all fucking bots, Soundwave.)

(Good job ruining it for everyone else, tiny terrors!)

30. If you fall asleep where I'm unable to see you, it's not my fault if you get almost-crushed.

(This has to be one of the most obvious rules I've ever jotted down, really.)

(All the bots know I'm like ten times their size, and they still haven't learned that they need to be sure I see them?)

(I mean, I'm careful and I make sure to look before I do something like sit down!)

(But accidents happen.)

(I will admit, I'm super sorry that this happened, and I did apologize.)

(We all need to make sure that Wreck-Gar remembers that it's not a good idea to nap between the couch cushions.)

(In his defense, he was probably looking for stuff like pennies or lint to add to his 'useless junk' collection.)

(Also in his defense, I'd been working on a commission in my room and hadn't been out in a while. I'm sure he thought he was safe.)

(Although it was a mistake of mine, it was also just poor thinking on his part to fall asleep somewhere like that.)

(Because he was wedged between the cushions, I couldn't see him, and kind of just plopped down on the couch to watch TV while taking a break for lunch.)

(What I got in response was a high-pitched yelp followed by a bunch of crying.)

"OWWW, MY ROTATOR CUP!"

(… Listen, as soon as I realized what happened, I got up and dug him out!)

(Followed by booking it to Ratchet's makeshift Med Bay and staying there till he was done patching Wreck-Gar up.)

(Even though this was an accident, we need to make an actual rule about it.)

(I definitely do not want to hurt any of my little buddies.)

(… Well, unless they hurt me first.)

(At least Ratchet was able to cheer up Wreck-Gar by giving him a 'Best Patient Ever' sticker.)