Ty and Skya were leaning on each other, her long craning head resting on top of Ty's strong, large T-trux head. Both had their eyes closed and were smiling after a evening of… interfacing. Neither thought it was possible for two different trux to mate, but somehow they did. It had finally begun a couple moons past. Skya had sheepishly come up to Ty after a build and a very dangerous adventure where they nearly lost one another.

"Ty.." she began in a way that was completely un-Skya-like. "I… Look we both nearly died today." Ty, for once looked at her in a different light. He had been truly scared of losing Skya on one of their crazy adventures and was thinking the same as she was. They said at the same time "Life's too dangerous to stay afraid!" then they stopped and laughed nervously, then looked back at one another. Her left eye light cracked, his right eye light missing. It was at that moment that they rolled forward and kissed, that first awkward kiss.

'That was three moons ago', Ty thought feeling Skya's warm head resting on top of his own. Her eye light had long since been repaired, but his was still gone. It was much harder to find the kind of scrap needed to replace a T-trux eye than that of a far more common Craneosaurs. He had gotten used to monocular vision as he began to let his other senses guide him.

It was about the time Ty began to think about laying eggs with Skya, and he was just going to suggest that, when he heard the familiar sound of D-structs, his rival T-trux for the crater valley they lived in. He had had enough of that trux. Ty decided it was time to stop kidding around. He would rip D-structs apart or be scrapped trying.

Ty gently laid Skya's head down on a nearby rock that was roughly as tall as he was and quietly rolled away to meet his rival for their final battle. He had been working on his technique, as well as having some upgrades installed. He would return to show Skya a beaten, scrapped D-structs. He would make the crater safe for his family.

"So you heard me and came alone anyway" D-structs said in his oddly smooth, cruel voice. "I'm surprised you have the ball bearings!" he added to goad the younger T-trux.

Ty surprised D-structs by not commenting, only letting the light from his good light-eye shine ominously. Ty had no play left in him; he was all business now. He realized that his mistake was that all those moons ago he had had no real reason to fight this T-trux. Even all the previous fights beside his team and Skya were to protect a place, friends… now he was fighting for his future family, and his body began to flow with new, more violent, murderous energy.

D-structs felt the change in Ty and rolled a half track backwards. He was not so sure he could keep Ty distracted long enough for his cronies to trap Skya. It was supposed to be a normal thing, kidnap her, play with Ty's head a little and try to get him to leave. But this… this would be different, and for the first time in many moons the older T-trux was anxious for battle.

The air between the two male trux approached absolute zero.

Both knew this was a fight to the death. Only one T-trux was rolling away tonight. As it should be... each felt it was him.

The battle began without preamble or banter. Ty rolled forward as fast as he could, roaring, his tiny arms reaching forward expecting to grab his opponent bodily.

D-structs easily dodged the forward attack, except that's what Ty wanted, he spun and slammed his wrecking ball into D-structs face, and the battle was on.

Not far away, Skya was blinking her eyes open, missing Ty's warmth beneath her head."Ty?" she said quietly, still groggy from a nearly complete shutdown of sleep. She was surprised how comfortable and safe she felt around Ty… even more than ever before. But before she could comprehend what was going on, she heard Blayde's soft, commanding voice. "Don't bother trying to move craneosaur. That's extra thick shockarachnid webbing around you… you're stuck".

Skya tried to move her foot tracks, but to no luck: the magnetic shockarachnid web was completely restricting her movement. Then she felt someone pushing her from behind. They were taking her somewhere. She tried to roll her tracks backwards, but she wasn't strong enough. She heard the cruel laugh of Splitter and felt him pushing her forward.

"Don't bother yelling for Ty" Blayde said again, her words dripping with cruelty. "We're going to take you to him… to watch his end." It was then that Skya heard the combat between the two rival T-trux and, once she was within sight of the battle, what she saw horrified her. Ty had murder in his eye. He had already managed to rip off one of D-structs arms and held it in his gigantic mouth, seemingly to chew on it as he pondered what to do next to the older, crafty T-trux.

"About time you got here!" D-structs said in annoyance. "A little longer and I might have been in real trouble!" he gestured with his remaining arm. "Ty has gone completely insane, even for him. So I suggest we… put him down." D-structs said with cold, malevolent finality. The now quartet chuckled with cruel glee.

Skya felt something being placed in the web around her then *SLAM, WHAM, THUNK!* She could hear a terrible noise and she found herself completely unable to move as Pounder had driven large metal spikes into the ground, preventing her from moving. They wanted her to watch Ty's defeat.

"TY!" Skya screamed, causing him to snap out of his murderous reverie for a moment. "TY GET OUT OF HERE!" she yelled at him "The valley NEEDS YOU! RUN!" she yelled as loud as she could, but Ty only shook his head.

"No!" He rumbled. "I'll kill D-structs… then I'll scrap the rest of you!" he said, looking at Blayde and the others, causing them to roll back. They didn't want to lose limbs themselves… but they knew that they would be able to win in the end... They hoped.

'What a strange thing for him to say.' Blayde thought to herself. 'Normally he's completely ok with running…' she paused in thought and then looked over at Skya and it began to make sense to her. But a moment was all she had to ponder this.

The violence began less than a moment later as D-structs spun and sent his tail claw, clenched into a tight ball, flying at Ty's face. Ty dodged and was about to take a bite out of the tail ball when he felt the three horns of Blayde slam into and across his back as she drove by, creating a shower of sparks to fly and light the ground igniting some nearby brushes, adding an eerie backlight to the program.

Next it was Pounder's turn to slam his mighty pilon into Ty's tail, embedding it into the ground, just missing Blayde as he did so. Ty pulled as hard as he could but couldn't get free.

The cruel quartet paused for a moment, watching Ty struggle to free his tail, laughing at him. "Give up and le..." D-structs began his usual 'give up and leave' speech, but Ty just roared at him louder and with more ferocity than any of them had heard before.

"NEVER!" Ty yelled. "I'll never give in to you! I've never surrendered before, I won't start now! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU COWARDS UNTIL YOU'RE JUST…" *CRUNCH* D-structs had had enough of Ty, the buildings, the lot. He swung his tail harder and faster than he'd ever done before and it landed straight on Ty's mouth and crushed it, sending D-structs detached arm flying.

D-structs then rolled forward and grabbed with his remaining hand one of the hydraulics that held Ty's mouth together and ripped it free sending fluid shooting everywhere… first fluid had been shed, and it wasn't going to stop there. D-structs then leaned in and grabbed Ty's half limp, crushed jaw in what looked like a bizarre kiss and ripped it from Ty's head, throwing it a dozen feet away.

Skya could only watch in horror as her … her mate had his jaw smashed then ripped off. Part of her mind was sure Revvit could fix him… she hoped. She knew if only she could get into the battle she could still save Ty, get him back to the garage. She knew in her heart Revvit could save him! Revvit could fix anything wrong on Ty!

Skya knew she had to escape. She saw what she need to get out of the webbing not far away. Then it'd be an easy task to save Ty and run away!

"Ty" D-structs began in what sounded calm and reasonable voice. His own hydraulic fluid leaking from where his left arm had been. "This is hardly a fair battle…" He continued with cruel intent. "Splitter… help poor Ty out." and Splitter spun-up his giant saw blade and with the help of Blayde began to saw into Ty's tail, inches from his main chassis.

Ty screamed in incoherent pain, with no jaw to help form words, as his tail was severed from his body. He fell forward without the counterbalance onto his ruined face. D-structs then grabbed Ty's head, his thumb claw in Ty's missing eye socket and dragged him back up onto his tracks.

"Come now Ty" D-structs began a mixture of controlled anger and relieved victory, "weren't you going to…" He paused then laughed out of relief, "Kill us all?" The victorious, vicious older trux taunted, growling. He then backed up quickly allowing Pounder to speed in, head turned and raising upwards rapidly to slam hard into the underside of Ty's jawless head. The helpless T-trux flew two dozen feet straight up.

D-structs then swung his tail at Ty's feet, causing Ty to turn in mid air, his chest now parallel to the ground. At that moment Splitter raced underneath Ty, his only eye wide as he saw the ground, and the massive spinning, diamond coated blade that had cut off his tail, slammed into his chest. Ty's had much thicker metal on his chest than his tail, but that wouldn't mean much as Ty felt D-structs's jaw clamp onto his left side while Pounder lifted himself up so he could lean on Ty's right side, pushing him harder into the spinning blade.

Blayde had seen enough. She enjoyed bullying and beating down lesser trux, yes. But she had no desire to torture or murder them. She turned away from the needlessly cruel scene towards Skya. The poor craneosaur was in a world of disbelief as she was being forced to watch her boyfriend being torn to shreds. Blayde may have been a cruel female, but female she still was. It had been too late when she realized the two were mated.

It may have disgusted her on a fundamental level… but she had no desire to kill another's mate. She had already had that happen to her long ago.

She disabled the webbing around the paralyzed trux and left before she could witness the murder of Ty. Skya didn't notice when the web was loosened or the murmur of apology "I... I didn't think it would go this far." Blayde disliked Ty, maybe even hated him, but she respected him as an opponent who used his head more than his motor.

D-structs saw Blayde's actions and paused. He looked over to Pounder and saw the same expression in his face… this had gone on too far. They only meant to hurt, scare, taunt Ty into leaving the valley, not to kill him. They both let go of the tortured trux at the same time, expecting him to be thrown far away because of the speed of the blade.. But he didn't.

Splitter had his own way of balancing Ty on top of his blade, but Ty's natural size and weight kept him on the spinning blade of death which was already in a good way into Ty's thick chest plating.

"That's enough Splitter, let Ty go." D-structs commanded. He didn't expect that Splitter would disobey him.

"No!" Splitter said defiantly. "NO! His oils will bathe me" He then made a disturbing giggle. 'He's enjoying this', the others realized.

"The oils, they bathe me, the liquids of the insides keep me." Splitter explained, then paused for another one of those insane giggles of his "They keep me strong and healthy and they feel SO GOOD!" he finished with a lustful growl. It was only then that D-structs finally understood the trux he had aligned himself with was an insane psychopath!

"When I was just a little trux I had my first taste of the fluids!" Splitter continued, almost humming to himself as he wiggled and balanced Ty's screaming form on top of his blade. "I sped under a craneosaur." He began to feel the end of Ty's chest plating as ecstasy began to overcome him in anticipation of Ty's chest fluids. "I CUT IT OPEN! And it's guts covered me!" he continued about his first kill. "They were so warm and squishy and wet! All kinds of fluids misted over and bathed me... It was GLORIOUS!" he then giggled into what became an insane cackle.

D-structs had heard more than he wanted to and slammed his nose into the underside of Ty, sending him flying off the blade, but not before it pierced his chest piece, slicing through several vital hoses and other important things, his bodily fluids spraying through the cut in his chest piece.

Ty screams took on a gurgling quality of pain then went silent as he hit the ground. All the while Skya could only watch in horror, shaking her head, telling herself over and over that Revvit could fix it, he had to!

Ty had landed on his face, various mechanical fluids leaking onto the ground, mixing with the dirt to create a mud of viscera.

Skya was stunned. She didn't notice D-structs slamming into Splitter… but she did hear, and would remember for all time Splitter's insane screams and giggles of ecstasy at Ty's suffering.

"Skrap-it" D-structs said quietly, noticing that Skya was still out of it, even though she'd been freed. "I need a new arm…" D-structs said to his personal semi-faithful tool. Skrap-it twitched and nodded. D-structs didn't want to wait around to see what Skya's reaction would be, seeing the little tool working on her now, very scrapped… 'friend?' D-structs wasn't sure what they were to one another, and he didn't care. He was tired, damaged and sick from the murder. Right now he just wanted to return to his cave, have his arm repaired, and sleep until the nightmares stopped. This wasn't his first scrapping, and he expected the nightmares. They were almost old friends by now.

She never heard D-Structs apology and promise to leave the garage alone. She didn't hear Pounder's pile driver slamming into Splitter as the insane trux drove off, chased by the poundersaurolophus.

It took her several minutes to realize the Trux she loved more than anything else in the world was in a pile of parts, fluids and scrap.

"TY!" she screamed, rolling forward, frantic. "Ty, don't worry, we'll get you home and fixed up! You'll be ok. YOU HAVE TO BE OK, TY!"

Seeing Skrap-it dancing around, running towards Ty's motionless body exclaiming how 'he finally had his very own scrap trux to play with' lit a raging fire of anger and hatred in Skya. She quickly rolled and hopped up into the air and landed on the tiny scraptool, popping it like a metal zit, before completely flattening him. He never felt it, but somehow it gave her supreme satisfaction.

Skya thought she heard Ty moan and her heart soared. He was alive!

Ignoring Blayde who was hovering nearby, Skya rushed over and gently rolled Ty onto his back. Most of his engine was still inside of him, she thought. His chest cavity filled with liquid moments after she placed him on his back though, worrying her.

"Sky… uuhh" Ty managed to whisper. "Ah… uuvvv oooo"

"I love you too! Ty, please stay with me!" she said, tears streaming from her eyes, and she zoomed here and there around the area, gathering as many of his parts as she could find. She had to leave his tail for now. His jaw and chest were what was important. She then looped her tongue around his chassis and pulled as she drove towards the garage in the center of the crater.

Suddenly she regretted their secret meetings being as far from the garage as they could safely go. They were still yet to tell the others of their mating. That they took each other as theirs until rust caused them to cease.

"Alk oo mee Aye!" she tried to say as she dragged her delirious lover. "Talk to me Ty".

"Remember when we first met?" she heard Ty babble. 'You didn't think it was possible for two different trux to get along and help one another, let alone live together.'

"Yeah, I do" Skya smiled a little among tears. That first time she was curious beyond what was safe in this world. But he and that little tool seemed to get along as real friends, she had to see what he had in mind.

'Heh, you were so funny, so sure this couldn't work, but you were willing to try… I've always loved that about you Skya' He continued'

"Yeah" she said, tears running down her cheeks. She could see the beacon in the night. They were getting there, closer, closer. She blew her horn as loud as she could to wake the others up, then went silent and resumed talking to Ty.

"I always found you and Revvit a strange pair. You, so HUGE, him ... so small but brilliant. Don't worry, he'll fix you up just right!" she said then listened to Ty continue.

'I loved truxing it up with you and the others so much all these moons. Now I'm all truxed up' he said and gave a gurgling laugh.

"Yeah, I love truxing with you Ty" she could see the others rushing out towards them. "We made it Ty, you'll be ok!"

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TY?!" Dozer demanded, horrified at Ty's condition. Skya released her tongue and looked around for Revvit, who was already running towards them along with Click-Clack, Ace and Waldo. They were just as shocked as the trux were at Ty's injuries.

"There's no fixing that…" Waldo whispered seeing the huge gash in Ty's chest plate as he ran toward him as fast as his legs would take him. He knew from his experience that this wasn't going to end well.

"Shush! Don't talk like that! Revvit scolded him. "This is Ty and we have to try!" The reptool said not wanting to admit Waldo was most likely right.

"Where's Revvit?" she asked frantically. A moment later she saw the reptool and the others approaching as fast as they could. WIth a grateful sigh of relief she thought 'Ty will be alright!' then said "You can fix him, Revvit, can't you? You can fix anything! You are all so…" then she stopped. The expression in all the others' faces was of loss and mourning. The other reptools began crawling over Ty's body, forcing themselves to be detached… this was just another trux who was badly injured. They told themselves in one way or another.

They looked wide eyed at the massive cut that ran almost the entire length of Ty's chest as it leaked fluids from the served tubes and hoses inside. It was easily wide enough for a reptool to pass through it if they pleased. It was hard to look at and the tools could only imagine how much that had hurt.

Almost fifteen minutes passed. The only noise were the reptools running all over, around in and out of Ty. Their gears spinning as Revvit and Click-Clack tightened or adjusted bolts and screws here and there. "He's gone isn't he?" Click-Clack said very quietly to Ace as they tried to fix a pipe to the engine.

Ace only nodded before shushing Click-Clack. "It's not our place to say that.. It's" she started but stopped. She knew what Ty meant to everyone, especially Revvit. He was the de-facto leader of the Reptools and this wasn't something any tool should say".

"This just ain't right." Waldo said from inside Ty as he just stood in a growing puddle of fluids staring at unbelievable amount of damage to Ty's internal structure and parts. Nothing inside Ty moved. The conveyors and gears were motionless and his engine was silent and cold. It was quite the eerie sight and feeling. "What kinda monster would do this to another trux."

Finally the reptools couldn't hold back any longer. They knew it before they examined Ty. They worked on dead trux before to perfect their skills. But this. When that dead trux is your best friend... Revvit banished everything out of his mind. He was a professional and he had a job to do. "Skya…" Revvit began quietly. "Ty's… gone."

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Skya screamed. She began to look insane with grief until Revvit climbed up her body and her long neck to her face and looked directly into one of her eyes.

"Skya… he's been gone for hours." Revvit said, the enormity of what had happened was beginning to hit him. His best friend … was gone, forever.

Skya slowly shook her head. "But we were only thirty tiks… at the overlook."Skya said weakly. Looking around at the gathering mass. Trux comforting one another as they saw the battered, rent opened body of their beloved leader on the ground. She was in disbelief that their meeting place was so far away that Ty couldn't survive his wounds.

"Skya that place is half a day away if you were dragging Ty the entire way." Revvit countered.

"But… but it was dark when we left.. He was talking to me minutes before I... well... I…" Skya tried to counter, slowly breaking down as reality began to set in. It wasn't twilight around her, it was dawn. A new day was beginning. A day without Ty. One of many for the rest of her life.

"Ty please you gotta wake up!" Skya said rolling forward and nudging Ty with her long neck hoping beyond hope itself to get a response from her lover. She never got a response to her pleas and nudges but that didn't stop her from trying over and over again all the while her friends watched her with sad faces. It hurt them to watch this. "Ty please no!" She wailed again.

"Skya." Ton-Ton said as he rolled toward the craneosuar "He's gone. There is nothing we can do now." Ton-Ton told her the sadness clearly evident in his voice.

There was then a gasp and revving of engines in anger as a enemy showed up, pushing a great many parts causing them to take up a defensive posture around Ty.

"Skya…" Blayde said, Everyone was watching her, most with contempt. Dozer had a strange look on his face. In her dozer blade were assorted parts, including Ty's severed tail that Skya had left behind. "Skya… I've been quietly following you for … the better part of the night. You've been rambling to yourself." She paused and indicated Ty's cold chassis with her horns. "Who have you been talking to this entire time?"

Skya then began wailing and moved to be beside Ty. She fell to the ground and curled up to his cold steel corpse. She did not stop crying until the sun was high in the sky. As the other Trux slowly went to their daily positions, knowing that mourning or not, the crater would not take care of itself, Revvit stayed with Skya.

"Skya" Revvit said quietly into her ear. "We need to move Ty to a safer place. Otherwise he... " He stopped as he felt his own tears finally overcoming his professional demeanor. His best friend was dead, and he was talking as if this was just another Trux. This was TY!

Click-Clack came up beside Revvit and put a hand on his friend's shoulder. Revvit broke down an embraced his long time friend and cousin. "OH MY GOD TY'S DEAD!" the small reptool screamed and began weeping into his friend's arms.

Later in the day Blayde approached Skya. "Look" she began and Skya only looked up from her place on the ground next to the body of Ty. Suddenly Blayde couldn't be harsh on this one. She wasn't just mourning a friend. As she had deduced before, she was mourning a lover.

"How long?" Blayde asked instead as gently as she could.

"M-m-moons" was all Skya could say before devolving into tears and incomprehensible weeping.

"What do you mean how long?" Revvit asked, managing to pull himself together and face the once enemy that talked to Skya. He was ready to dive inside her and literally tear her apart from the inside out. The bits along his back beginning to quiver in defensive anger of his friend.

"They were mated." Blayde said plainly, noting Skya and Ty. "I was asking how long they had been keeping it a secret." Revvit's jaw nearly fell off. He looked at Ty then quickly at Skya and it began to make sense. He and Click-Clack were always with their Trux. But lately... The last some moons this had been different. Both Skya and Ty had been disappearing for hours on end.

"Bet the wrench, um.. Ace? knew." Blayde said. "Females understand these things." She said as Ace ambled over.

"What did I know?" she asked.

"About Ty and Skya" Blayde said.

"Oh yeah, moons." Ace said plainly. "But I thought it's be an invasion of their privacy to tell anyone, yes even you Revvit." She finished looking at the reptool who appeared to want to protest but thought better of it. And that was that. Word spread faster than wildfire across the crater city that Ty and Skya had been mated and then the story of how he came to be murdered.

Finally Skya and the others dragged Ty's body into the garage with Blayde's help. Blayde still didn't care for the builders, but something tugged at her that forced her to stay a little longer. She had long since lost all of her sycophants, and she admitted it was nice to speak with Dozer again as friends.

Soon though the pain of losing her lover became to much to bear. Not being able to look at Ty's body anymore because of the pain it caused her she retreated into Ty's old cave where she had spent many nights with the T-trux. She refused to leave, drink or eat ore. Her depression was threatening to reunite her and Ty sooner than anyone around wanted. She simply laid on the ground in the cave and wallowed in her own depression. Her friends became more and more worried for her as the days went by. They would each come to visit her and talk to her, trying to help her. They also tried to piece together what actually happened that dreadful night since she had yet to tell them what she witnessed. They were shocked when Blayde finally told them everything they wanted to know.

No matter what Skya refused to eat or drink. Her stomach hurt, she assumed it was the hunger.

Blayde didn't know what compelled her to do it but she decided to try and help Skya. Seeing how hard she was taking Ty's death and how it caused her condition to deteriorate was worrying her friends. "Skya…." Blayde said uneasily as she slowly rolled into the cave and dropped some ore next to the growing pile her friends had made. She half expected Skya to snap at her and she was right.

"What the hell do you want?" Skya snorted at her not even giving her the courtesy of looking at her. Pain and sadness saturated her voice. "Why are you even still here?"

"Look I can't change what happen or what I did even though I honestly wish that I could." Blayde said with a twinge of guilt in her voice. "No one deserves to lose their mate trust me I know first hand. But you can't do this to yourself. Do you honestly think this is what that T-trux would have wanted?"

"How the hell would you know what it's like to lose a lover?" Skya said with venom and sadness in her voice as she finally picked her head off the ground and turned to look at the dozeratops. She was fuming with anger that Blayde would even claim she knew how she was feeling. Her look caused Blayde to roll back slightly. "If you hadn't tied me up I could have saved him!" Skya yelled at her.

"Because I lost my mate too Skya." Blayde said. "His name was Razor and I fell in love with him and we went on a date just like you and Ty did out by the cliffs but another dozeceratops followed us. He was jealous of Razor and threw him off the cliff right in front of me. My anger got the better of me and I threw him of the cliff like he did Razor." Blayde told the craneosaur as she remembered the past. "I never really got over that and that's why I turned out the way I am now." Blayde said sadly.

"I-I had no idea that happened to you Blayde." Skya said as her expression softened a bit. "I'm sorry about that but that doesn't make what you did to Ty and I right." Skya told her somewhat sympathetically.

"Yes I know I prevented you from saving the T-trux and I'm truly sorry for that ." Blayde said doing her best to sound honest because for once she was being honest. "I'm not asking you to forgive me. I wouldn't forgive me either I am asking you to let your friends help you through this. Your mate would want you to to carry on." Blayde told her while looking her right in the eyes and throwing her some ore with her tail claw. "Now eat something ok?"

Skya was silent as she processed everything Blayde was telling her. It all kinda made sense to her. If Ty saw her now he would be disappointed in her for rejecting her friends help. It was foolish of her now that she thought about it and it ashamed her that it took one of their enemies to get through to her. She looked at the ore Blayde threw to her for several moments before finally taking a bite.

"I'll try." Was all Skya told her before she turned away from Blayde effectively ending the conversation. Not having anything else to say to the grieving craneosaur. Blayde rolled out of the cave and left her alone.

Later that day Revvit was checking on Skya and looking over her when he noticed something odd and went to Ace to consult.

"Skya." Revvit said gently into Skya's ear. "You have eggs manufacturing." Skya's eyes slowly began to focus. "You need to start processing ore soon or you won't be able to finish making your and Ty's eggs." He finished. It was all that he needed to say to bring Skya back to the world of the living. After three days of gorging herself on ore, Skya was feeling a little better and was up for returning to living, if only for her children.

When Revvit suggested to Skya that they make a type of mausoleum for Ty's body and she grudgingly agreed Blayde even volunteered to help with dozing duty. That and his corpse was scaring other trux away from the garage.

The memorial to Ty was completed quickly in mournful silence. Only the revving of engines and movement of stones was heard. Revvit's plans were followed exactly with no intercommunication needed… or wanted.

Finally, when it was done Blayde asked the only logical question. "What now?"

The trux all deferred to Skya who had taken to having Revvit on her like he had ridden on Ty all that time. It had taken some days but Skya was back as they knew her and there was steel in her voice whenever she spoke. However before anyone could respond Revvit spoke first.

"First" he began "We build a place for Skya's eggs to warm and hatch safely." The silence was as strong as when he had declared Ty dead, but this time, instead of dread and sadness, it was unrecognized hope and joy.

"What" Blayde asked.

"Do you mean?" Dozer finished for her.

"Woah cool" Ton-Ton and George said. The other trux in the village all began to give their congratulations to Skya when she beckoned for silence.

"What do we do after my… our eggs are secured Revvit?" Skya asked, trying to contain her own adulation that somehow her and Ty's one night of coupling had produced offspring.

Revvit looked deep in thought. "There really is only one thing we can do… isn't there Blayde?" Revvit said, looking at the alpha female dozer. She grinned in a way that made several trux nearby back away. Then she nodded back at Revvit to explain.

"Revenge" Revvit said plainly.

There were murmurs of assent from around the group along with some that were unsure.

"I'm ok with revenge lil dude." Ton-ton said with an uncharacteristic amount of seriousness in his voice. He was angry and only the released fluids of another trux would quell his anger this time.

To everyone's surprise George nodded. "Sometimes you need to stand against the waves so that you can enjoy the peaceful waters beyond." he said in his calm, serene way, but with a glint of burning hot anger just behind his eyes.

"Ty wanted to protect his herd… we are his herd. We have been for a long time now. Dozer said. "And his children are going to be born into a world where we don't have to worry about T-trux like D-structs destroying their home!" He continued with anger building, not just within him, but all trux around him including a couple of the 'lesser' T-trux that had come to live under Ty's peaceful guidance and teamwork.

"It won't be easy" Blayde said, knowing someone had to warn the builders of what they were facing. "If you attack D-structs will retaliate with everything at his disposal… and you builders have made a lot of trux mad with your cooperations!" She said, knowing she meant herself. She wondered if she was going to be considered a builder herself soon… and if that would be such a bad thing.

"I say bring it!" Skya said. There was no mercy in her tone. "We are stronger as a group and we are a large group!" she continued. "We will not let this pass" And there was a murmur of ascent in the crowd. "We will not lay down any more and let our loved ones be harrassed by bullies!" And the murmur of ascent became a shout "YEAH!"

"We will not let Ty's death be for nothing!" She yelled over the growing cacophony of agreement for war. "WE WILL FIGHT!" and there was a roar of agrheement from all the trux in the crater. "AND. WE. WILL. WIN!"

"YES!" they roared back.

It was decided. There would be war. Ty's death sparked the anger that had been simmering for a long time. Now, with the death of their peaceful, protective leader by such cowardice, their rage was given a point of clarity. In order to build a more prosperous future, D-structs and his group would have to surrender and join them... Or die.