Lavi didn't know how far she ran in her confused state before she collapsed to the ground on trembling knees. What did she just do? One moment she was happily exploring the beginnings of a new relationship, her first relationship, and the next she was acting like some kind of savage as she tried to force herself on Kyle. Her hands were shaking as she remembered how the smell of Kyle's interest in her had unleashed something in her that actually frightened her. She couldn't control herself as that other side took over. It was only the fear of her hurting him that snapped her out of it.

She stared now at those hands a very long while as they shook. "What is wrong with me... Maybe I am a freak..." She fought back the tears. Tears of frustration of being what she was. Why couldn't she be normal?

"No, you are not. You are my daughter." Father's calm voice came to her before his arms did. She couldn't see in her tear blurred vision, but she clearly felt him wrap his arms around her.

"Daddy... I'm so scared... I-I-" She tried to tell him, but the words wouldn't form past her shame and fear.

"I know turtle dove, I saw what happened." He had pulled her against him by now and his deep voice vibrated against her as he calmed her. "I was expecting it actually."

She sniffled and wiped her eyes before pulling away from him a bit. "What? Were you spying on me again?"

"Of course, it's what I'm supposed to do." He just calmly smiled as he fixed her now crooked mask that had shifted as she cried. "What you are going through is normal. Normal for us anyway. I supposed I should have broken the subject to you sooner, but I really wasn't expecting you to find someone just yet. Not really sure if I was ever expecting you to find someone."

She blushed a little, very embarrassed over it all still. "I really like him Dad... And now I'm scared that I scared him away..."

"You didn't pretty girl." Kyle came into her view then and knelt down next to her father. "Confused me a little, but your Dad explained some things to me, and it makes more sense now."

"Explained what?" Her confused face went back and forth between the two.

Father gave her a wry smile. "Pumpkin, I'm about to embarrass the hell out of you, but what you are experiencing is your animal side reacting to your first potential mate."

He was right, he did just embarrass the hell out of her. Lavi's face was flaming and she hid it in her father's chest. "I'm going to die from embarrassment... I'm going to be the first ever life form to do that..."

'Oh no sis,' Ty then joined in 'you may wish you did, but you won't... I had a similar conversation with him before he went looking for you when i relieved him of guard duty. Much to my dismay...I managed to survive it. Never been so embarrassed in my life.'

Lavi just groaned into her father's chest.

"I know, not the thing you were expecting to hear. But it needed to be said."

"But did you really have to say that in front of Kyle?"

"Yes, I did. He needs to understand certain things you are going to have to deal with until you learn to control it. It wouldn't be fair to him otherwise."

"Lavi," Kyle said "look at me..."

"No." She flat out refused, still hiding her face. "I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to look at you without blushing again."

Both of them laughed a little before Kyle reached out his hand and turned her head so she didn't have a choice but to look at him. "I think you are pretty when you blush. Look, I'm even still standing, with no broken bones, after talking to your Dad. You gotta give me something to go through that nightmare of a discussion. I was worried he'd pound me to a pulp there for a minute."

"I was about too." Came Father's flat tone.

"Oh, Daddy..." Lavi sighed.

Father just shrugged. "I just don't want you to grow up yet. If beating him into a puddle of pudding delays that...then I was willing to do it."

"Will you quit!" Lavi turned to glare at him, and saw the wide mischievous grin Father had on his face. In spite of herself, she laughed.

Kyle also chuckled a little. "There you go. See? What happened earlier isn't the end of the world."

"Still...it scared me. It still scares me."

"Only because you don't fully understand what's happening little one." Father's eyes were calm as he looked at her, and that in turn kept her calm. "You've never felt close to someone like that before, so you didn't know your body would react the way it did. The first few times are rough, I will tell you that. But it does get easier to control down the line."

"So, is this like some kind of mating season thing? Am I going to have to put up with this every year now?"

"Have you been reading those cheesy ass fanfic stories your mother reads again?"

Lavi blushed. She had been...

Father shook his head. "That's not how it works Lavi. We've evolved to the point where our instincts aren't set into one particular season. This could have just as easily happened in the wintertime. Our instincts have been, how should I put this, tamed a bit due to our transformation in this form. But only to the point where we don't go in a lust filled rampage for a few weeks a year. They still come up enough to remind us that they are there, but they are also more controllable than that basic need to reproduce. You just need time to learn how is all."

She nodded, still a bit embarrassed over the whole ordeal. Wasn't really a conversation she had expected to have with her Father...and Kyle of all people...

Kyle didn't seemed phased too much over it, he actually reached over and took her out of her Father's arms. Well, he tried too. It was a tugging match between the two of them for a moment until Lavi glared at Father to make him let her go. He finally did with a sigh and a wistful look at them.

"It's ok Lavi. It's a part of who you are. I accept it. We'll just take it slow alright?" He placed a finger under her chin and lifted her face to him. "I'm not scared of it, and you shouldn't be ashamed of it."

She wrapped her arms around him, a few tears leaking down her face.

Leonardo watched with a small smile. His eyes softening as he saw how happy she actually was with him. "Turtle dove, it seems like you made a good choice with him." Then he eyed Kyle a bit critically. "I might have to train him a bit to toughen him up though."

"Dad...why do you have to do that?"

"Because I can. Didn't I tell you that already?" He grinned again. "I'm your Father and that gives me every right to be an ass towards him."

This time they all laughed a little at that, and the uncomfortable mood was now pretty much gone. "Oh Daddy," Lavi giggled "I love you." She turned Kyle lose and gave the large pain in the ass parent a hug.

"I love you too lil bit." He stood up and pulled Lavi by her hand to her feet. "Come on, let's get back before your Mother comes stomping out here to yell at me."

Kyle had just gotten to his feet when a light flared up in the sky. Lavi had just a moment to see that it was another meteor shower before one of them broke from the rest and headed straight for them. What in the...

The next thing she felt was Father ramming his body both into her and Kyle, slamming them both into the ground under him as the thing hit, sending chunks of dirt and rock flying everywhere. All of them covered their heads as best as they could as Father's shell took most of the hits. He still flinched a few times when a decent chunk hit his exposed legs. He waited until everything stopped falling before he quickly rolled off of them and onto his feet, ignoring the blows that his legs had taken.

Lavi was the second one on her feet even as the expected form came out of the crater in front of them. Slowly it rose up, it's purple eyes clearly visible in the dust cloud surrounding it. She also noticed that it was bigger than the last batch that came in. Easily clearing the ten foot mark. This one was closer to twenty.

Father just stared it down as it did the predictable thing and started to stomp towards them, slow and measured paces as it locked it's eyes onto them. "Lavi."

"Yes Father?"

"Get back to the others, I'll draw it away."

"I will do no such thing!" She flared. Angry that he even suggest it.

He broke the gaze from it, and turned his eyes to her. "Lavi, get Kyle and get out of here."

"Dad-"

"Go!" He almost roared at her. "He isn't equipped to deal with this. Not on his own."

Lavi bit back her retort, because he was right. Out of all three of them Kyle was the most vulnerable and she had to get him back where he could team up with others to hold back these things. She still had to bite the inside of her cheek in frustration though. Her hand grabbed Kyle's arm and she practically drug him along back towards where they had set up their campsite, and quickly lost sight of her Father in the trees and dust.

What she finally found was a mini war zone when she made it back to camp. Rounds were being fired everywhere and her own family was scrambling around in the chaos, finding their own places in the battle. Even as she emerged from the treeline Uncle Raph was already up on top of one, taking out the eyes on it and diverting it's attention away from a fleeing Aunt Cait who was being drug out of the way by Ari. When the predictable upwards reach of the bot began, he quickly flipped out of the way leaving the head now wide open for a headshot, which Sunstreaker quickly took advantage of. The red masked turtle hit the ground amid a shower of sparks and flaming bits before he sped away to his next target.

Kyle had by now pulled his arm out of her hand and ran right for one of the trucks that was speeding towards him, and his weapon came flying out of it before he caught it. "Been looking for you!" the thrower, Cindy, told him from the passenger seat. "Was starting to get worried that you might have gotten stepped on."

"Not likely." Kyle snorted his reply before he hopped onto the vehicle and then Lavi lost sight of him as it sped off to engage another bot.

She didn't really know where she fit in in this mess, but she did know her Father was out in the woods, alone with one of these things. That was something she would not let stand. Lavi had done what her Father had asked, now it was time to go back and help her sire. She made it about two steps before that was prevented from happening...because she was lifted into the air.

"And where exactly do you think you are going youngling?" Hide asked her as he removed her from the sights of another purple eyed target, then blasted that target.

"Dad is still out there!" she snapped back at him, even as she began to make her way down his arm. "And he's outmatched if that thing keeps getting back up like the last time!"

Ironhide readjusted his grip on her, then placed her on his shoulder. "Hold on." Was the only warning she got before he started to run into the forest she had tried to get too.

It took them mere moments to make it back, way quicker than it took her to get to camp, but it still seemed like forever to the worried turtle. Lavi perched on that shoulder as she guided Hide, impatiently waiting for the clearing to come into view. And when it did she really didn't like what she saw. It had managed to pin her Father down, and he wasn't moving as a foot came up to step on him. A foot Hide promptly blew off even as it began it's downward stomp.

"Go to him." The black bot growled at her even as he unleashed another volley at the thing, and yet another. Knocking it away from the dazed turtle on the ground, and blasting it to tiny pieces as he advanced with each grim step. "I'll handle this."

This time there was no restraining hand to stop her as she flipped off of the Autobot, hit the ground, and rushed to the prone, limp, body on the ground.

"Daddy!" Her voice now filled with the worry that she was feeling as she knelt next to him. "Dad!"

His groan at being pestered was a welcome sound to her ears, just as welcome as the sight of his limbs moving. "Didn't...I tell you to go back...

"You told me to get Kyle out of here, and I did. You never specified that I couldn't come back for you."

"I shouldn't have had too." He struggled to his feet, Lavi helping him even as Hide blasted his opponent into so many tiny pieces that it didn't have a chance in hell to get back up.

"Still the noble, self sacrificing reptile I see." Hide said as he calmly reached down and picked the struggling turtle up. "You should be grateful she brought this to my attention."

A heavy sigh came from Father even as he collapsed in Hide's hand. "I am Hide, I just wish they'd listen when they are told something."

A snort was his answer. "Just taking after their creators. You are just about as hard headed, and so is Vicky. It's only natural for them to show the same traits. Climb up Young one and let's get this stubborn creature some medical attention."

Father rolled his eyes as Lavi climbed back up with a giggle before once again perching on the massive shoulder. After she was settled Hide began the trek back to camp, the sound of a muttering Leonardo causing both of his saviors to share a knowing grin at his expense. Lavi just shrugged. It was his own damn fault, he shouldn't have pounded those morals so deep into her, because now he was stuck with her the way she was.