Oh my goodness...thank you for still sticking around and waiting for me to get my lazy ass in gear!
I can't believe I'm to chapter seventeen! Holy crap!
So two more characters are going to show up!
And its two bots we all know and love!
Mmm...Ketchup and Mustard...heehee...
And people, you gave me some very good guesses...but sadly, I will not reveal too much.
But I will say this...No, Tai's mom was not an Autobot.
But once again, thanks again for all of the love!
Onward!
Chapter 17
My hair is falling out!
'Mmm...the smell of smoke and old metal!' Tai took a deep breath as she and Sam continue to hike through the piles of sharp piles of metal. She had always been quite a grease monkey growing up. When she was younger, her dad and Blurr would take her to junk yards all over the city to find used parts for his many projects in the garage. She built her own little R.C. car when she was five...without Blurr's help. She still had that thing somewhere.
Snapping out of her nostalgic memories, she looked back to her cousin and their autobot companions, wondering why they were taking so long.
'Ow...sonuva...ow!' Sam was muttering as he kept getting poked by pieces of metal that happened to be sticking out. Blurr and Bumblebee were bringing up the rear being careful not to step on anything to valuable.
'Ahh,thisbringsbackmemories!' Blurr said to Bumblebee as he stepped on a door less, windowless, and tireless car with a loud crunching noise. 'Whoopsie!'
'Why is that?' The yellow bot asked curiously as he carefully skipped over a pile of tires. Blurr just rolled his optics at the youngling's forgetful memory and stepped over an old truck.
'ThisisliketheplacewhereRobertfoundmegenius!' He snapped, flicking Bumblebee on his helm which caused him to click in indignation and smack him on his shoulder panel.
'Hey! Don't make me come back there!' Tai called from on top of a tall pile of hubcaps and bumpers. The two bots looked at her innocently before Bumblebee spoke up using a clip from a movie.
'Well he started it!' The voice of Sid the Sloth echoed from his voice processor as he shoved Blurr childishly.
'I don't care who started it!' Sam than chimed in, feeling like he was dealing with a four year old...two giant four year olds. 'I'll finish it!'
Tai shook her head with a laugh and turned back to the view in front of her; just a few more yards ahead was two large billowing clouds of smoke.
'Boon daba...she exclaimed with great relish!' She whispered to herself. 'Autobot craters at twelve' o'clock!' She called out to anyone who would listen. Blurr appeared next to her and narrowed his optics, scanning who was in the crater; his optics widened.
'Ohfanslaggintastic...' He muttered irritably. Why did it have to be those two? Tai looked at her guardian confused as he made his way over to the craters.
Bumblebee on the other hand looked excited and he was skipping behind his older comrade, twittering and clicking happily. Sam had never seen him do that before...it was kind of embarrassing seeing his robot guardian skipping like a school girl.
'Who in the name of rinoplasty is it?' Tai muttered to Sam as they watched their two guardians approach the two craters.
'Dunno...whoever they are, Bumblebee must like them...and Blurr is annoyed by them.' He answered. 'Let's get a closer look.'
'Sam I can't get any closer...Hey, watch it!' She exclaimed as he climbed up next to her and grabbed her arm for support.
'Hold still, will ya?' He snapped as he pulled himself up.
'Ow..douche, you stepped on my foot...!' She exclaimed, causing both Blurr and Bumblebee to glance back at them.
'Whoa...whoa...' Sam felt his feet slip and without thinking, grabbed onto Tai's arm again which caused her to shriek and lose her balance as well.
And that in turn caused both of them to tumble head over heels down the hill of bumpers and hubcaps before Bumblebee or Blurr could get to them. With two cries of pain, they both hit the ground; Sam, however, let out the highest pitched shriek that Bumblebee had ever heard. It turns out when they landed, Tai landed on top of Sam...her knee bashing right into his crotch.
'Sam...Tai, are you two okay!?' Bumblebee called down to them while Blurr was trying hard not to laugh at Sam's expense.
'I'm okay...' Tai called up to them, rolling off of Sam who was still whimpering, his eyes wide and his face pale. 'Sorry dude...'
Sam grimaced as he sat up and stood up with her help. 'Hey Bee...do me a favor?' He asked in a high pitched tone.
Bumblebee clicked in response while Blurr leaned his elbow on the high pile of junk with an amused expression on his metal face.
'Tell me how many times a guy can get kneed in the nuts to where he can't have kids?' He squeaked doubling over when a sharp pain travelled through his lower body. Bumblebee clicked with mirth at his charges high voice while Tai shook her head with a grin.
Her grin, however, faded when she saw the two new bots were advancing towards the group. Bumblebee and Blurr stopped in surprise but soon realized they didn't want to hurt them...but...
'Uhh..Sam?' She jabbed him in the side.
'Not now Tai, I'm whimpering in pain and agony...' He ground out between clenched teeth. 'And worrying about Mikaela dumping me because my testicles are destroyed!'
Tai smacked him in the ribs with her fist and continued to jab him.
Even though she was hardly afraid of anything...except the dark and the red optics and losing everyone she had come to know and love...the sight of two very large unknown robots was a little frightening to say the least, even to her.
'Sam...' She said in a high voice when the two figures rose what appeared to be cannons in their direction.
'Sam, Sam...SAM!'
With a growl of annoyance, he finally turned around.
'What!?'
His own eyes widened at what he saw.
'MOVE!' Tai screamed as two missiles were than launched at them. They both dove onto the ground, keeping their heads ducked as metal debris and shrapnel rained down on them.
Of course, Sam either had the worse luck in the world or he was very accident prone; but he looked up to see a rather large hubcap falling toward him...his eyes widened in foreboding. He tried to get out of the way but his pants got caught on a sharp piece of metal.
Bumblebee would not make it to him in time...he and Blurr were trying to hold off the psychotic new bots.
'Sam!' Tai's voice rang out and than she was suddenly on top of him, the hubcap hitting her smack on the head. She slumped down on him, unconscious.
'Tai!' Sam yelled out in alarm as he finally got his pants unstuck. She was completely limp as he turned her over, a large gash now very visible on her forehead with blood gushing down the side of her face.
'Sunny! Sides! Stop shooting!' Jazz, who had sped over at the sound of Tai screaming, shouted at the two new comers while Blurr rushed over to his fallen charge.
'Sunstreaker!' The voice of Optimus boomed over the commotion. 'Sideswipe! Stand down! That's an order!'
Said mechs lowered their weapons and backed away, looking confused or, in Sunstreakers case, annoyed.
'Tatyana!' Blurr's voice echoed across the junkyard as he gently stroked her back with a large finger. 'Wakeup...pleasewakeup!'
Psyche, somehow sensing her owner's distress, came bounding over with loud barks and growls with Lennox and Epps right behind her. With the no ones help, she carefully climbed down the large pile of junk, her ears tucked against her head in distress. The large dog reached her owner and nudged her head with her large nose, whimpering and whining softly. She turned to the new big things that had hurt her Tai and started growling, her teeth bared and her hackles risen...Hell hath no fury like a great dane scorned!
'Whathaveyoudone!?' Blurr was getting near hysterical as he yelled at the twins. Epps kneeled down next to Tai and checked her pulse.
'She's got a pulse' big dude...' He said to the frightened mech. 'She's just unconscious...Oh man, nasty cut there...' He gently sat her up in a sitting position and held her against him for support and gently brushed her hair aside so it wouldn't get in her cut.
Sam was nearly losing it for the third or fourth time today; she took a hubcap to the head for him...no way would this heal quickly like earlier. 'C'mon Tai-dye...wake up!' He said urgently, holding her hand in his.
Mikaela was kneeling next him and with a tissue, was gently dabbing at the blood on Tai's battered forehead, being extremely careful as to not hurt her anymore than she already was.
'Look...we didn't...we thought...' Sideswipe, the humans had found out his name was, said while backing away from the growling earth creature.
'We thought they were bugs of some kind!' Sunstreaker exclaimed while he climbed all over his brother, trying to avoid the teeth and the drool.
'Do they look like insects to you!?' Ironhide was way beyond pissed off...those fraggers injured Tatyana; horribly from the looks of it and no one messed with someone Ironhide secretly swore to protect.
'They're humans! This is their planet you moronic imbeciles!' He pointed his own plasma cannons at the frightened looking twins. 'They're our friends!'
'We didn't know!' Sunny whimpered, cowering under the weapons specialists' angry glare.
'Ironhide...stand down!' Optimus boomed once again. He had had enough of violence to last him at least an orn or two.
'They injured Tatyana, Optimus!' Said mech snapped at his commander. 'I should have the right to blast their afts to the well of allsparks and back!'
A loud groan of pain made the mechs turn.
'Ow...fuckity fuck...fraggin dammit...jesus...' Tai was sitting up, her eyes closed tightly as she rubbed at her head.
Everyone stared once again when the large gash seemed to fold in on itself before sealing up, becoming flawless once again...the only evidence she was ever injured was the left over blood still fresh on her forehead.
'That is...creepy...' Lennox muttered. Everyone nodded in agreement but Tai didn't seem to notice.
She looked pissed off, her blue eyes once again turning to the color of lightening as she marched fearlessly up to the twins.
'Psyche...leave them!' She demanded sternly to her dog. Psyche stopped growling at the twins and wagged her tail at the sound of her owners' voice.
'That really, really hurt...' She said, her voice laden with anger and annoyance at the two new Autobots. 'You are just really lucky I didn't get killed...because if you did, I would have so haunted your asses!'
She turned and saw her distressed guardian; her eyebrows rose when she saw his large metal hands shaking.
'Blurr...you okay?' She asked softly, walking over to him and placing both of her much smaller hands on his large hand.
The speedster than scooped her up in his large hands and cradled her to his shoulder like someone would a toddler. She was surprised but rested her head on the warm metal of his shoulder panel.
'It's okay big guy...' She said with a soothing tone. 'I'm fine...nothing can bring me down!' She managed to get him to hold her in both hands and she sat with her legs hanging. 'Especially with my new Wolverine healing powers!'
Blurr laughed in spite of himself. 'Iwasfrightenedyouhadexpired...'
Tai smiled a reassuring smile up at her older brother bot. 'I'm not going anywhere...remember, I gave you the pinky swear.'
'Youwerefive!' Blurr exclaimed, placing her down next to Sam and the other humans before standing to his full height.
'I still remember!' As she said that, she hip bumped Sam than Mikaela.
'Whoa whoa whoa whoa!' The yellow twin spoke up. 'What in the pit is going on here?'
It was no easy task explaining everything to the twins; Blurr explained how long he had been on this beautiful planet, how he had befriended Robert Witwicky, practically raised Tai, and so on and so forth.
Optimus explained the whole thing with the glasses and the battle with Megatron, how Sam offlined him by shoving the cube into his spark, how they had formed an alliance with the human soldiers, and told them about their new base.
'So...we can't harm these fleshie things?' Sunny had asked, sounding somewhat disappointed. Sideswipe whacked him on the back of the head. 'Watch the paint!'
'I have the urge to throw something hard and sharp at that one...' Tai muttered to Epps, who tried to turns his chuckles into coughs.
'I heard that!' Sunny growled down at the pesky little squishie. Tai glared right back at him...it was official, she and this mech were going to have problems. After a few seconds of intense glaring, the yellow twin turned back to his superiors.
Tai than made incredibly obnoxious faces behind the yellow twins back, turning half way around and giving him a hearty kiss-my-ass sign than she finished by giving him the finger.
'Stop it!' Optimus hissed down at her. She gave him a pouty face and plopped herself on the ground, looking bored with her arms crossed.
'Alright...on to business.' He continued, giving her a look when she started mimicking him behind his back. 'Onto...' He gave her another look when he saw her do it again. 'Tatyana...' He was using that tone that clearly said Do-that-again-and-you're-gonna-get-it. She gave him a very cute smile and hid behind Sam, who had his face hidden in his jacket in embarrassment.
'You two need to find some vehicle modes.'
'Taken care of Big O!' Sunny said with a smug look on his face plates. Optimus pinched the bridge of his nose plates. Great...another name for Tatyana and everyone to call me behind my back!
'We found the perfect ones when we were travelling above this planet, despite the fact that we were going over thousands of miles per hour!'
'Can we just get going please?' Ratchet snapped. Primus, help him...they haven't changed a bit.
'Alright...alright, keep your aft on!' Sunstreaker waved off the medic. So without further ado, the two twins folded down into their car modes.
Mikaela and Tai and Sam both gawked at them in amazement and awe. Before them where the twins now stood, were two 2009 Lamborghini murcielago's...one red, one yellow.
'I think my eye's just orgasmed!' Tai gasped out, walking forward to get a better look. Blurr felt his spark pound with worry and very slight jealously. He prided himself on his vehicle mode because Rob had kept him clean and fixed...but now with the Sonic the hedgehog bumper sticker and the necklace hanging from his head...he figured it out.
He was no longer Robert Witwicky's car...he was Tatyana's. He was always meant to be. Well...he had a change to make...
Without a word, he turned and headed for the exit.
'Blurr?' Tai asked in confusion, seeing her guardian leaving. 'Where you going, big guy?'
'Where's he going?' Ironhide asked equally confused.
Tai glanced at Sam and shrugged before the two of them bolted after him. Once Blurr reached the exit, he transformed into his Dart mode and took off.
'Hey!' Tai yelled, running down the street after him. 'You asshole! Where the flip are you going?!'
'Tai! Wait a min...' Sam couldn't finish because Tai was already half way down the dark deserted highway. 'Ah forget it!' He heard the thunderous footsteps of the other bots, the roaring of the twins engines, and the shouts of the humans behind him.
'What happened?' Maggie gasped out, leaning onto Glen who was panting just as heavily.
Psyche was whimpering softly, laying down on the ground...her ears flat. Lennox stooped down and stroked the dog's pointy ears soothingly.
'No idea.' Sam shrugged. 'Blurr just took off...wonder why.'
'Where Tai go?' Epps asked, noticing she wasn't there. He had really come to care for the teenage girl; ever since he had saved her all those years ago...he considered her one of his own kids.
'She just bolted after him, god she runs fast!' Sam couldn't see where she was, and now he couldn't hear her.
Jazz didn't like the fact that she was out there in the dark...chasing after that slagging glitch. How dare he just take off like that?
'Now I'm getting worried.' The silver mech turned to Optimus, him being the tallest one besides Blurr.
'Hey Optimus, can you see her?'
Optimus looked down the road and focused his optics. He spark pounded with worry when he couldn't see the young human girl or her Autobot guardian...all he could see was the dark of concrete and the desert sand.
'Where are you, Tatyana?' He muttered, feeling Ratchet scanning the area as well.
Meanwhile with Tai.
Tai couldn't run anymore.
Breathing heavily, she collapsed in the middle of the road hoping no truck would run her over...including Optimus.
'This is insanity...' She panted, wiping beads of sweat off of her forehead. 'Why did he leave me?'
She was getting very nervous...she hated that feeling. The feeling of abandonment. Why would her guardian just abandon her?
Was it because she thought the twins alt modes were the shit?
'Man, Tai...' She muttered, smacking her on the forehead. 'You just had to say that didn't you...' She laid back on the concrete, letting out a frustrated breath.
'Some little sister you are...' She draped an arm over her eyes and sighed loudly once again.
A roar of an engine caught her attention and she craned her neck to take a look. Jazz, who was in car mode, was heading for her. She got up and brushed the dirt off of her. The familiar sounds of transforming reached her ears and she smiled.
'Hey dude.' She said with a small grin. Truth be told, her good and peppy mood went right out the window when she couldn't catch up to Blurr.
Jazz noticed immediately and kneeled down in front of her. 'Couldn't catch'em?' He asked, holding out a clawed hand for her.
Without a second thought, she grabbed it and felt herself being lifted up and placed against his warm metal chest. Besides Blurr and Optimus, Jazz made her feel protected and safe...not to mention loved.
'He'll come back...' He said reassuringly to her, using one of his claws to stroke her back carefully.
Tai took a deep shaky breath.
'I hope so...'
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Where did Blurr go?
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