Sorry it's been forever since I've last updated anything!
Damn writers block! Curses!

But hopefully, this will be appealing to everyone!

Onward!

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Guilt and the many injuries of the Hybrid.

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Devastator was never one to feel too many emotions. Granted he felt elated whenever he pleased his master, the apprentice, or whenever he made the two little ones laugh. But recently, he had discovered a completely new emotion that was still eating at him and keeping him up all night.

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It had been a relativly normal day on Diego Garcia, sunny, peaceful...save for the sound of four plastic wheels on the tarmac. Tatyana Topaz Prime was known for her skateboarding, she found it easier to get around base that way, along with nearly giving her father a spark attack or two when she would grab onto Barricade's bumper so she could get some serious air on her ramp that Que and Wheeljack built for her. She was very good at it, save for a few times where she nearly flew off of her board and would've broken her tailbone if Jazz hadn't caught her.

The Combiner admired her tough nature but he figured she sometimes forgot she was part human and could still potentially hurt herself very badly, he remebered when she fell down a flight of stairs and broken her cheekbone in two places. He did not like the pained look on his Master's face when he saw his daughter in pain but it only lasted two hours before her internal repair systems healed the bones. He let out a sigh like grumble as he continued his patrols around the island, being bored out of his mind and was what humans called, pouting.

His Master and The Apprentice were in yet another Government metting with the fool Galloway, and sadly, the Combiner was banned from all pending meetings.

Sigh.

Life was truly unfair sometimes.

Wasn't his fault he had caused that fool to scream like a femme.

Or so he liked to think anyway.

As he let out a great yawn that nearly sucked up a nearby tank, something out of the corner of his optic caught his attention. A small sillouette flying and flipping through the air before landing and zooming off.

The Hybrid was at it again.

And upon closer inspection, he noticed she wasn't alone. Samuel and Leonardo were skateboarding as well, under the supervision of Bumblebee and Barricade. And by the looks of it, the two Wiwicky's were trying in vain to teach Leonardo how to even stand on the board. And clearly, the hybrid was showing off her skills to make the human feel inferior about his own...but maybe Devastator was imagining things.

"Nice one!" Sam called as Bumblebee whirred in agreement and Barricade nodded with a grin as Tai skidded to a halt.

"Thanks!" She called as she expertly flipped her board with some clever foot work and zoomed off again, zig zagging down the tarmac. Devastator continued to watch for a few minutes before letting out a rumble and continuing on his way, not seeming to notice that the Hybrid was heading straight toward him.

What happened next, no one was prepared for. Barricade looked up just in time to see his charge heading for danger, so he had to act fast. "Tai! Watch out!" He yelled in alarm, getting the attention of Sam, Leo, and Bumblebee, just as Devastator placed his foot down.

His massive frame froze when he felt something hit his foot. Something small and light but with enough force to cause him to stop.

Tai gave a yell of alarm and pain when she crashed right into the massive foot of the huge combiner, causing the petite Cyborg girl to fly off her board. As she held out her hands to cushion herself and hopefully prevent any horrible injury, she hit the tarmac hard, her face, elbows, and knees burning as she felt her skin scrape against the ground. But what was worse was the loud crack that caused her to yell out in agony and anger:

'FUCK!" She swore loudly, her eye and optic closed tightly and her white teeth gritted to the point her jaw popped.

"Oh that's just fantastic.." Barricade grumbled, getting up from his sitting position and racing over to her, Sam and Bee right behind him. When the ex-con reached his charge, he knelt and gave a quick scan to see what exactly Ratchet would be dealing with and how pissed off he would be. The human side of her face was red, raw, and bloody while her robotic half was scratched and dented, her optic blinking rapidly as it tried to adjust itself. Her bright blue tank top was stained with red dots as the wounds on her face bled in little droplets. A long stream of bright red and blue energon blood slowly cascaded down her leg along with the cut on her elbow. But what was worse was her human arm, which was bent at an alarming angle.

"'Cade, give it to me straight, how bad is it?"

"You want honesty?"

"Not really, no."

"It could be worse."

Tai gave her guardian a dry look just as Sam and Leo and Bee ran up to where she was laying. "You okay?" Sam asked as he kneeled by his cousin.

"Yeah, I'm good." She grunted. "I'll be fine, just a few scratches, lemme just..." Whatever she just did was a huge mistake, because as soon as she tried to get up on her own, a white hot jolt of pain shot through her arm like a bullet, causing her to yell loudly.

"I think it's safe to say that more then a few scratches." Barricade said with a look of concern.

Unknown to the group, the Combiner watched the scene below him, feeling his spark beat unbelievebly fast. What had he done?

He injured the daughter of his Master and by the wave lengths of pain he felt from her link to him, quite terribly as well.
"Come on, klutzy ass, get up." Barricade said, carefully helping her up by placing his clawed servo on her back.

"I'm withering in pain here, can I get just a scootch of compassion from your hard ass?" Tai managed a grin through the pain.

"Not a chance, sister."

"Ah well, can't blame me for asking!"

With the help of her cousin, Tai started the long trek back to NEST headquarters, no doubt having to face the wrath of the Hatchet, who clearly wasn't going to happy when he saw the state she was in, along with her father and sparkmate.

As if on que, a loud honk caused everyone to jump and the Combiner to flinch.

Optimus Prime, Jazz, and Ratchet.

At the sight of his banged up daughter, Optimus screeched to a halt and transformed, concern, fear, and worry written all over his faceplates. Jazz too transformed quickly, feeling his mate's pain through their bond, it wasn't life threatening but it still felt painful and unpleasant.

Optimus was the first to speak. "Sweetheart, what happened?"

"Fell off my board, actually I did quite an impressive swan dive into the tarmac." She grunted as she limped over to where they were. "Hence the ground beef that is my face." Barricade snorted slightly. "Shut up, ass." Tai grumbled, fighting back her own grin. Jazz knelt down as she came closer

"You need help, babygirl?" He asked in concern.

"I'm in a lot of pain but trust me on this, I've had way worse." She hissed out as her arm gave another painful jolt. "Ow...shit..." She whimpered as she tried to take her mind off the pain. "Think Fallout New Vegas...Think fallout New vegas..." She chanted to herself as she thought of her favorite video game. That did the trick...or the fact that Ratchet just stuck a needle full of pain killers in her arm. Huh. Maybe that did it.

"Wow..." She said with a laugh as she felt her arm go numb. "That stuff...kicks ass...!" She swayed slightly only to be caught by Jazz.
"Fifth time in the past two years...that can't be good for her human bone development..." Ratchet mumbled to himself as he made his way to the Medical Bay with Jazz holding Tai close to his spark to comfort her. Devestator watched as the Apprentice carried off the giggling, injured hybrid with sorrowful optics, fear gripping his spark. What he had done was unforgivable. Tatyana was injured because of his stupidity...if she had been going a bit faster or was a few seconds earlier.

He closed his optics tightly.

He preferred not to think about it.

Optimus looked over and noticed the Combiner was being very quiet and distant. What was the matter? Deciding to ask him later, he made his way to the Med bay to be with his daughter.

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(A few hours later.)

Tai bit her lip in concentration as she played on her newly purchased 3DS, whoch was already sporting a few skull stickers and even her name in boxy, cartooney letters on the front. So what if she payed over two hundred dollars for it, customization was amazing.

"No, Link, go to the left! The left!" She exclaimed as she tried in vain to fight off a Wallmaster. "Crap! Crap Crap!" She cursed in frustration as the hand took her character back to the beginning of the temple. "Son of a bitch!"

Optimus had been on his way to check on her when he heard her yells. He smiled, clearly no broken or damaged limb was going to stop her from doing things she loved. He figured as long as she could move her fingers, she could still play her video games. Poking his head in, he noticed the scrapes on her face were already almost completely healed due to her interanel repair systems along with the scrapes on her knees and elbows.

Tai looked up when she heard the massive door open and she smiled broightly when she saw the regal form of her father standing there.

"Daddy!" She exclaimed, placing her game console on the arm of the couch and scampered over to him, smiling. Optimus knelt down and carefully stroked her shaggy hair out of her face. "How are you feeling, sweetheart?" He asked.

"Pretty good!" She said as she swatted playfully at his finger. "My face is no longer on fire, and Ratch had me so doped on pain killers that I barely remember how he got the cast on! The only real pain I feel is my ego sort of shattering into a million pieces and falling down a storm drain..." She sighed, once again imagining a puff of white air flying from her mouth anime style.

Optimus chuckled before quickly changing gears and turning serious, something about earlier with Devestator clearly bothering him. Over the past few years, Tatyana had take many a tumble off of her board and had sustained a few minor scrapes, cuts, and bruises...but this time, he felt like there was more to the story then her just falling from her board.

"Tatyana, I want you to explain something to me." He began. "How exactly did you fly off your board?"

Tai froze. Crap...why did he have to be so observant?

Play it cool, Tai! She thought to herself.

She laughed nervously, brushing her black and red hair out of her face. "Oh, you know me, Dad...Miss trip over a small pebble and embarass myself in front of a large audience!"

Optimus gave her a look, clearly not buying it for a second. "Tatyana Topaz Prime." He said in a warning tone. The techorganic cringed. Full name usage meant she was one step closer to getting the famous Optimus Prime lecture and she had had her fair share of those.

Taking a deep breath, she sighed loudly. "Okay, alright...see, it sort of, kind of went like this..." She then went to explain exactly what had happened...or what she could remember anyway. About fifteen minutes later, she finished her story with..."So the short and gist of it, I nearly became road kill...but luckily, I avoided that...Thank Primus's boxer shorts..."

Optimus was now sporting a grim expression on his face. True, she had avoided any fatal injury but it had been a close one. Way to close for his liking...if anything would've happened to her...

He snapped out of his thoughts when he felt his daughter hug his ankle tightly. "Dad, just do me a solid and don't be mad at Devi!" She begged. "It was my fault! I have the attention span of a squirril who drank a Rock star!"
"Tatyana! Be calm, my child!" Optimus said quickly. "Be that as it may, he needs to pay more attention to those around him, not always focus on what is going on outside of the island." He then closed his optics tightly as the mere thought of being without his precious daughter ran through his processor again. "I could've lost you."

Tai looked down at her bright blue converse in awkward concentration...she was never really good at comforting people but she sometimes amazed herself. Like that one time with Barricade...

"Dad...I'm fine...alive, breathing, all that crap...this arm will heal, and the skin will mend, try not to dwell on what could've happened...focus on what did happen...nothing! I'm not dead and I'm not gonna be dead for an incredibly long time! Now buck up, Mister! Stop thinking about it, or else it will just keep you up all hours of the night and you'll be so delirious with excaustion that you'll end up seeing Abe Lincoln in a hula skirt doing La cucuracha with Liberatchie!" She then paused as the full blown image filled her processor. "Holy crap, that is a mental image!"

Optimus gave his daughter an odd look before chuckling. "You know me, Tatyana, it's my job to worry about your well-being...I am your father after all." He then gently scooped her up in his hand and brought her closer to his face, until they were touching foreheads. "It still amazes me that nothing can brign your spirit down, no matter how much pain you're in...and don't worry, I am not angry with Devestator...odds are, he is angry enough with himself already.."

Tai nodded, running her robotic hand through her spiked up hair. "Most likely...maybe he needs one of your famous pep-talks!"

Optimus nodded. "Hopefully, this one will go better then my attempted one with Ratchet.."

"I demand to see life's manager!" Tai yelled, doing a very bad impression of the Medical bot causing the Prime to laugh.

"WHAT WAS THAT?" Yelled the all too famalair voice of said Doc bot.

"Nothing!" Both father and daughter yelled at the same time.

Optimus then gently placed her back down on the floor and stood to his full height. "I shall go have a talk with him, hopefully he hasn't decided to take his anger out on anymore more visiting cars..."

Tai giggled as the memory of Galloway's very nice Mercedes Benz became part of the Combiner's face. "But you gotta to admit Dad...it was funny as hell..."

Optimus smirked. "Indeed."

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Devastator continued to pace back and forth nervously, anxiety and fear gripping his ancient spark and clouding his processor, blocking all logical thinking.

The daught of the Prime was injured because of his stupidity...if he had been watching where he was stepping...Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

What was going to happen to him? Surely, he was going to be punished for endangering the Offspring of a Prime. What was his Master going to do to him? Would the little ones look at him and always think about what he did to their mother? Would the Apprentice hate him?

He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't notice his Master's truck form heading for him and transforming.

"Devestator." He started. The voice of his Master startled the Combiner so much that when he turned he fell over and landed right on his face, causing the Hanger nearby to shake violently. Optimus quickly held it up as he tried to regain his balance.

"Master! Please forgive me! I did not mean to offline the Hybrid...please, do what you will! I derserve it!"

Optimus blinked as the Combiner contiuned to spew out sentences of punishment, banishment and so on and so forth. He tried to say something but it fell on deaf Receptors. So with a mighty leap, he jumped up and grabbed onto the Combiner's jaw to quiet him.

"Devestator, be calm!" He yelled, getting his attention. The titan stopped and looked at his master with frightened optics, unable to completely relax.

"Devastator, I came to speak to you about Tatyana and this whole situation."

That caused the anicent mech to whimper like a dog.

"Tatyana is not offline, in fact, she is perfectly fine except for her arm. She's even playing her video games even as we speak." Optimus watched as the Titan relaxed immensely at those words. "I just need you to calm down and listen to me very carefully. Tatyana and I are not angry with you...granted, I'm a little annoyed that you were being very careless. You need to pay attention to what is going on inside of the base rather then outside it."

The Combiner nodded feeling ashamed.

"And please, try not to dwell too much on what could have happened...try to focus on what did happen. Nothing." The Autobot commander smiled reassuringly. "If you let this guilt consume you, it will only cause you a great deal of stress and sadness. Tatyana is alive and that is all that matters. And she is wanting to see you."

The Combiner stared at his master in amazement. The hybrid was asking for him? Wanting to see him even after what he had done to her?

Optimus turned and started walking back to the main hanger, glancing back to make sure the Combiner was following.
"Come along now, Devestatar."

With a heavy grumble of uncertainey, the ancient mech followed.

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"I am so going to kick your ass...you don't even know how hard your ass is going to get kicked!" Sam exclaimed as he and Tai were once again engaged in an epic showdown of Super Smash brothers brawl.

"You are going down like a cheap porn star!" Tai retorted, managing to lay a deadly blow with a baseball bat to Meta knight, laughing as he went flying off screen.

"How in the hell are you able to do that with one hand?"

"Stupid...Cybertronian technology is advanced enough to play a simple video game with ease..." Barricade said from the large table where he was engaged in a game of poker with Sunny, Sides, and Dino. Where they found cards big enough was beyond the understanding of the humans.

Tai smirked at her guardians words. "Cade, thanks for having my back!"

"Don't mention it...read'em and weep, Gents..."

"Dammit!" Dino exclaimed in anger. "Fuck you, fuck your shirt, fuck your car mode, fuck your hopes and dreams, and fuck your way of life!" With that, the red Ferrari stomped out of the room.

"Dino...go lay down!" Tai called, with a giant grin.

A giant middle finger came from the doorway, causing the technorganic and her cousin to crack up.

"Before you know it, he's gonna start giving himself turrets and random muscle spasms in his face.." Sam said, shaking his head and turning back to the game.

A few minutes later, the room started shaking slightly, causing everyone present to look up casually.

"My Prime senses tell me that something is coming..." Tai rubbed at her temples, making an odd face as she looked through the door.

"Prime senses..." Barricade snorted, ducking when he saw a blue converse flying toward his head.

Optimus opened the hanger doors and stepped in. "Tatyana, someone is here to see you." He smiled and stepped aside, revealing the anxious face of the Combiner, who was avoiding looking at the Hybrid, for fear of anger for injuring her.

"Devi!" She squealed excitedly, extending her small arms wide open and running to him. "My friend!"

The Titan looked at her in shock at her happy attitude towards him...she was excited to see him...she didn't seem angry at all...in fact, she was acting as if the whole incident never happened.

With her uninjured Cybertronian arm, she grabbed onto his lower jaw and hoisted herself up to where her feet were dangling.

"Dev...I'm not mad...this is nothing, I've had way worse injuries then this!" She let go and looked up at him, craning her neck in the process. "Now buck up, Mister! I'm alive and the world can take a deep sigh of relief!"

And with that, she gave the Combiner a small friendly kiss on his lower jaw and went back over to her cousin, ready to kick his ass.

"You see, Devastator?" The Prime said with a kind smile. "No matter what happens to my Tatyana, her spirit remains strong and persistent..."

The Combiner gazed at the Hybrid's brioght green cast with still a sad look but the look on her face as she laughed at her cousins failed attempt to get an item known as a pokeball to use against her, his spark lightened slightly.

She was a very happy, joyous person.

Thank Primus for small miracles.

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Good god! This was long...tedious...life consuming!

But hey, that's fanfiction!
I hope you all like it!

It's been a crap long time since I've updated any of my shit!

And I promise, Revenge will be updated next!

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