Here we are at chapter 22!
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Chapter 23
How could this happen to me?
'Whoa...bumpy...ow, my pelvis...' Tai muttered as she rode across the rough terrain. She could feel her uterus taking abuse from the uncomfortable seat. Little did she know that she was quietly being pursued from behind. Luckily, Ravage was a very quiet predticon, able to sneak up on his victims without them knowing it.
Tai looked up sharply when she heard a twig snap. Ravage cursed under his breath, crouching down to avoid her gaze.
'Hello?' She called, looking around the trees curiously. 'Blurr, if that's you...I'm gonna throw a rock at you!'
Ravage lowered his ears as the girl shrugged a couple nano-kliks later and took off, peddling once again.
He continued to follow her.
A few meters later, Tai stopped again but his time for a bit of a rest. 'Whoo...tired...Lance Armstrong can kiss my thorax!' She wiped the sweat that was beading on her forehead. As she was about to sit down when she heard another twig snap.
'Alright...who the hell...' She turned sharply than her eyes widened at what she saw.
A large, sharp looking metal cat of some sort. 'Oh shiznit...' She muttered, reaching into her bag for her phone with a shaking hand. 'Nice kitty...' She said shakily. 'Good kitty...' She quickly dialed Sam's number.
Sam and Bee pulled into the base a little while later. 'What up guys?' Sam greeted, carrying a coffee and a folded up piece of cloth. It was black and covered with buttons.
'Isn't that Tai's?' Sideswipe asked curiously. Blurr and Jazz looked up from the giant TV.
'Yeah, she left it at my house...just thought I'd return it before she heads for work...'
'But...she said she was heading to your house to retrieve it...' Ratchet said with uncertainty. 'That was thirty minutes ago...'
'Really?' Sam asked nervously. 'She never showed up.'
Optimus and Blurr glanced at each other with fear in their optics. 'Is she alright?' The leader asked, fear in his voice. Before Sam could answer, his phone went off, Tai flashing across the screen.
'Oh shh...there she is...' He quickly answered. 'Tai...where are you?'
'Sam.' Her voice whispered harshly, she sounded afraid. 'I have a bit of a problem...good kitty...nice kitty...Don't tear me limb from limb, kitty...'
Sam turned to the bots and asked. 'What kind of problem? Tai where are you?'
'I'm by the quarry...there's a giant cat...' She continued to whisper. 'I don't know who it is...it's made of metal...it has sharp teeth...'
'A giant metal cat?' Sam asked, giving Optimus the 'WTF?' look.
'Hurry up...and get...hey, get away from me...no, bad kitty...Sam!...Blurr...! Daddy!' The next thing they heard was a scream than the line went dead.
'Tai!' Sam yelled out. 'Tai!' Still nothing, just the dull beeping of the dial tone. 'God mother fucking damn it!' He cursed loudly.
Before anyone could say anything, Blurr transformed into his charger mode and tore out of the hanger, leaving a trail of smoke. 'Autobot's! Roll out!' Optimus quickly yelled, transforming into his truck mode and driving through the hangers. Everyone else followed without question.
'Hold on, Tai-dye!' Jazz said out loud. 'We're on da way...'
Meanwhile, Tai was not having much luck. As the huge metal beast came at her, she quickly picked up the nearest thing she could find to use as a potential weapon; a broken branch. Quickly picking it up, she swung it back and hit the thing in the face. It did nothing but shatter the rotting wood, and giving Tai a nasty splinter.
'Shit, shit, shit...' She cursed loudly. The beast than crouched down and lunged, his huge front claws digging into the flesh on her chest.
With a scream, she felt herself fall head over heels down the rocky and dirt covered edge, landing hard on her side. She felt three of her ribs crack at the impact and she gasped out in pain. 'Oh fragging fragton...that hurt...' She gasped, pushing herself up. She felt blood streaming down the side of her face and onto her shirt as she pushed herself up to her feet. Her arm felt very heavy, looking down she noticed her shoulder was dislocated.
'Oh...great...' She muttered, clutching it in pain. A low growl reached her ears, looking up she saw the beast heading for her again. 'What do you want?' She shrieked, backing up and falling backwards. Of course, he didn't answer but kept stalking towards her, his sharp fangs bared.
'Ravage: Desist.' Her eyes widened at that familiar voice. No...it can't be...
'We meet again, Tatyana Topaz Witwicky.' There he was, like a horrible ghost.
'You...you're supposed to be dead...Blurr killed you...' She stuttered, standing up and clutching her to prevent it from swinging around.
'That worthless Autobot could never offline me.' He sneered, stepping toward her. 'I have come to finish what I started.'
Tai stood there, shaking in fury and terror. She felt sick to her stomach facing the Con who killed her father in front of her very eyes. 'I'm not afraid of you!' She yelled out a few minutes later. With a grimace and yell of pain, she jerked her shoulder back, relocating it back into place. 'Not anymore!'
Soundwave looked surprised but he quickly recovered. 'Foolish fleshing.' He gestured to Ravage, who growled loudly and lunged for her. She tried to dodge out of the way but the big metal cat was too quick for her. Her eyes widened when she felt the beasts jaws close around her arm tearing at her flesh clean off. A huge set of claws suddenly came up and slashed at her face. She felt sick when she felt her skin literally hanging off of her skull.
What happened next, no one was expecting. Tai's eye snapped open, turning the powerful lightening blue color before her fist collided with the side of Ravage's head, sending the stunned beast like Decepticon flying. Seeing this as a chance, Tai took off running away while Soundwave was momentarily distracted. But she didn't get far.
The next thing she knew, she went flying as a huge explosion went off behind her. After doing about five or six front flips, she landed hard on her front. She lay there, gasping as she felt a sharp numbing pain in her chest, rolling over she looked down and nearly screamed in fear. The middle of her chest was torn open, blood gushing everywhere.
Her head falling back onto the hard ground, she looked up at the cloudless sky as her vision started getting blurry.
She knew what was going on...she was dying...she could feel it...she could see it.
'Blurr...Sam...J..Jazz...' She gasped out softly, her eyes starting to close. 'D...Daddy...'M' sorry...'
Than everything went dark.
Skidding to a halt, Blurr transformed into robot mode and fell to his knees.
'Blurr!' Optimus exclaimed in alarm. 'What is it?' The leader knelt down next to him, placing a hand on his shoulder.
'Somethingterriblehappened...Tai'sintrouble...' He looked up at his commander with anguished optics. 'Wehavetohurry...!'
Sunny and Sides transformed into their robots modes and looked around along with Ratchet and Ironhide. Sam ran over to Blurr as Bumblebee transformed and stared down the street, in hopes of finding any clues as to Tai's whereabouts.
'Prime!' Ratchet exclaimed, running over to the path that appeared to have tire tracks. 'Bicycle tracks.'
'Tai must've gone that way.' Sideswipe stated, causing Sunstreaker to look at him. 'Gee, ya think?'
'Well than, let's go...' Ironhide powered up his cannons and blew a huge path through the trees. Optimus glared at him but didn't say anything. 'Come on!'
Blurr was way ahead of them, using his super speed to get him as quickly as possible. His optics widened.
Sam heaved and panted as he finally caught up with everyone else. 'Her bag...' He than picked up her phone, which was covered with dirt and than noticed her bike was there with a bent wheel. 'Where is she?'
Blurr didn't answer but his optics widened at the signature he felt. 'No...no,itcan'tbe...'
Optimus appeared behind him along with Ironhide. 'Soundwave.' Ironhide growled, his cannons pulsating. 'I thought you said you took care of him.'
'ApparentlyIwaswrong.' Blurr than slid down the side of the quarry and landed swiftly on his feet.
'Special agent Blurr...so nice of you to join.' The Decepticon sneered, his red visor glinting in the sunlight.
He seemed pleased...that was never a good sign.
'Whereishe?' He shouted. 'WhereisTatyana?'
'Your fleshing charge?' The con asked with malice. He looked up when the other Autobot joined, along with another human. Sam cowered slightly under the giant con's gaze; he had never seen a Decepticon like this.
'Where is the girl Soundwave?' Ironhide snapped angrily, his cannons pulsating and aiming for the con's spark.
'Ahh...that pathetic human girl means a lot to all of you as well...' He than laughed his familiar evil computerized laugh. 'Ravage: Bring forth.'
Sam's eyes widened at the sight of the big metal panther-like creature, carrying something in his mouth. He couldn't tell what it was at first but than something caught his eye...bright green fingernails against bloody fingers. He than gasped loudly, his hands shooting to his mouth. The thing hanging limply in the beasts mouth was Tai.
With a growl, the con carelessly tossed Tai's lifeless body onto the ground near Sam and the Autobots.
She landed on her front, face down; her arms sprawled on either side of her head, any revealed flesh gashed and cut up badly, and gushing blood. Her shirt was torn and stained red with blood...fresh and old.
She wasn't moving.
She wasn't even breathing.
Optimus's optics widened at the mangle body of his newly found daughter. Walking forward slowly, he knelt down by Tai's body and gently touched her back, getting blood all over his fingers.
Ironhide felt his optics widen at the horrific sight of their new comrade. Powering up his cannons with a growl of rage, he pointed them at the evil Con, preparing to offline him for good.
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe didn't know what to think. Even though Tai was a pain in both of their afts and never let them do exactly what they wanted, they did consider her a little sister. Anger coursed through their systems at the Communications officer, both of their optics darkening.
Immediately springing into Doctor mode, Ratchet rushed forward and turned the girl over. His optics widened as he heard Optimus gasp loudly and shutter his optics. In his whole career, he had thought he had seen the gravely injured but nothing like this. Her chest cavity was torn clean open, her face all cut up beyond recognition. But what shattered his spark were her eyes.
They were wide open and yet unseeing, they were just staring up past them and into the sky.
'She is one of us...' He whispered, gently touching the silver metal that was inside Tai's chest where a normal human would have had ribs and bones. And where her heart should be was a small, dull blue pulsing spark.
They all jumped when a silver and blue form dropped to his knees by them. Blurr had not said a single word since Tai was dropped at their feet like a broken toy. His optics gave away his emotions; Rage and grief.
The speedster gently reached down and stroked her hair away from her lifeless eyes. He felt energon tears come to his eyes as he than glared at Soundwave, who was just standing there, petting Ravage as though he was praising him.
'ShewasallIhad...' He muttered, his voice shaking. 'ShewasallIhad...'
'Blurr...calm down...' Optimus said in a soothing tone.
But apparently he wasn't the only one who was starting to lose it; they all turned when they heard Sam yell at the top of his lungs and saw Jazz drop to his knees with shaking shoulder panels.
'No! Bee! Lemme go!' They could see the human struggling against his guardian's futile attempts to hold him back. 'TAI!!' He yelled. 'TAI!' He finally broke free and ran over to his fallen cousin. Sliding next to her, he almost fainted at the gruesome sight of her injuries.
'Oh god...please...Tai-dye...' He pushed Ratchet's hand away and scooped her up, and held her against his shoulder, staining his shirt with her blood. 'Wake up...please, wake up...Don't die, you can't die...'
Soundwave broke through their grieving silence with a laugh. 'Who would have thought...one so small, could endure so much pain?' He than smirked. 'Soundwave superior. Girl inferior.'
At that, Blurr saw red...getting up slowly, he brandished his cannon, which was pulsating enough to impress Ironhide. 'Youwillregrettouchingher...' He growled, walking forward slowly.
Soundwave sneered, and brandished two red swords, glowing brightly like the flames from hell. 'Soundwave accepts challenge.'
'Blurr...wait!' But Optimus's words were ignored as the Blue Speedster launched himself at the ruthless Decepticon. 'Autobots! Move!' Optimus ordered, brandishing his own energon swords while Jazz leapt way ahead of him, shooting missile after missile at the tall Decepticon.
'NO!' They all stopped short when they heard Blurr scream. 'Letmehandlethisone!'
'Blurr! You glitch!' You can't handle him on your own!' Ironhide yelled.
'YesIcan!' He growled out as Soundwave pushed against him. With a yell of fury, Blurr once again sent the Con flying.
Optimus turned from the fight to gaze down at Tai, she didn't seem to be doing very well.
Ratchet was working feverishly on Tai's mangled arm. He decided to just peel away the dead skin to reveal a robotic arm, much like that of a protoform. The sight made Sam feel sick to his stomach. The CMO recognized the signature has the daughter of Optimus and Elita but due to the fact that she absorbed into an organic human, her development was severely behind. No matter what kind of programming he could do, he could not speed it up.
'Come on, Tatyana.' He begged, no pleaded, with the lifeless girl. 'Fight for me...come back...'
Sam had closed Tai's eyes, not being able to look into them any longer. Her eyes were usually bright and full of life...not dull and unseeing. 'Ratchet, isn't there something you can do?'
The Autobot doctor gave the poor human a sympathetic look. 'Sam...I'm doing everything I can...'
They all looked up when they heard Soundwave let out a roar of fury, showing he was in full battle mode. But Blurr was not giving in. Energon leaked from the gaping wounds on his frame and his left optic had gone out, but he still kept fighting.
'Such an act is foolish...Your energy is depleting.' Soundwave's voice had a malicious smug tone. With one mighty punch, the Con sent the mortally injured speedster flying about fifty yards and into the quarry wall.
'Blurr!' Sam yelled out. Blurr spit out a few droplets of energon, pushing himself up slowly. He felt his systems starting to shut down but he fought against it fervently. He would not let Soundwave win.
'You...killed Rob...' His usual fast tone was considerably slower, due to the damage to his throat. 'Than you...kill my little...Tai-Dye...you'll never stop...' He than got up with amazing strength, his hydraulics wheezing loudly.
'He's not gonna last much longer...' Sideswipe sounded torn. Blurr has been one of his friends since before the war, it pained him to see his old friend in so much pain; emotional and physical. 'Prime, you gotta stop him...'
Soundwave powered up his cannon, aiming for the head of the fallen Autobot. 'Goodbye...Special Agent Blurr...'
But before he could fire, a large shrunken swung at him and knocked him off balance.
'Well, I'll be fragged...' Ironhide muttered.
Barricade stood on the top of the quarry, his red optics narrowed at his former Officer. Sliding down the rocky hill, he stalked over to the flabbergasted Soundwave. 'You were always a dirty fighter, Soundwave.'
He stopped mid-stride when he caught a glimpse of Tai. His optics widened in shock as he slowly approached the group surrounding her.
'Oh primus...' He gasped. 'What happened?' He than noticed the bite marks and the scratch marks. 'Ravage.' He growled in anger.
He glanced over at Blurr, who was struggling to stay upright.
Soundwave's red visor glowed brightly in mirth.
'Do not waste your energon...he will be offline soon...' Two rockets of white hot flame appeared underneath his feet, and he took off in the sky. Deciding he was far enough up, he unhooked on of his swords and took aim.
He saw Optimus and Ironhide run over to Blurr to help him up, smirking he swung his arm back and let it go.
The sharp projectile flew through the air at lightening fast speed.
'Blurr...are you alright?' Optimus asked as he and Ironhide continued to run at him.
Blurr looked up and smiled lightly. 'I..will..be...' Before he could finish, the sword struck its target. It tore through his stomach panels with brutal force and landed at the feet of the Autobot commander and the weapons specialist.
They both skidded to a halt, their optics widening in horror.
Blurr gazed at his two superiors with a dazed and shocked expression. Bright blue energon started streaming from his mouth as he staggered slightly.
'Tai...dye...' He muttered before falling onto his side with a sickening crash.
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