By: Sinead
Part Three
�Well wot?�
�Do you?�
I looked at the �Raptor in front of me, and sighed. �I donno.�
He chuckled, and pointed across the canyon. �Look carefully at the other side.�
�Yeah, I did that.�
�Now . . . slaggit. They moved.� I looked at him strangely, and he shook his head. �What you were supposed to see, was Rattrap and Primal. They�re joining us the rest of the day.�
�Where are we meetin� them?�
�In the canyon.�
�We�re climbin� bloody down?!�
�Not here, Velocitrana, it�s a sheer drop.�
�Naw, really?!�
He shook his head, and started walking south. I trailed after him, mumbling evil words. At one point, Dinobot glanced over his shoulder, and smirked. �If your sister heard you say that, she�d just about kill you.�
�Better�n climbin� down a cliff face!�
�It isn�t a . . . the Pit, you aren�t saying . . . are you afraid of heights?�
�Took yeh long �nough!�
Dinobot chuckled, shaking his head. �You�re right! By the Pit, it did take me long enough to figure out why you were so disagreeable!�
�Hey!�
�Calm down. I�ll see if Primal and Rattrap can meet us up here, instead.�
��E�ll ask why, an� then yeh�ll-�
�Tell him about that redwood we found out of place. Happy?�
I snarled, and walked a few paces away, then sat. Dinobot shook his head, and called Optimus on his comm-link, telling him what he said he would.
Half an hour later, with some calming words, I was waiting with Dinobot for the two other Maximals. Primal landed, and Rattrap jumped off his back. I felt my eyes widen at the thought of flying, and Optimus asked, �Velocitrana? Are you all right?�
�Wh-why d� you ask?�
�You�re kind of pale.�
�I�m-I�m fine.�
�Heh! I bet dat she�s afraid of heights!�
I glared at the rat, and he ducked behind Optimus. �So? What iff�n I am? Nothin� wrong wi� it!�
�I was . . . right?�
I snorted, and said, �Yeh want t� see �ee red�ood now? There�s only �bout three hours left o� light.�
Optimus reverted to his beast mode, and we set off east, walking into the forest. We showed them the redwood, as well as other plants that seemed placed oddly, not falling in with the scenery. I shook my head, and then, finally, it was dark. Optimus and Rattrap left. I sighed, and scratched my side against a tree, where I had an itch I couldn�t reach.
�Today was the most annoyin� �un o� my life,� I said to Dinobot, who was setting up a lean-to. It was drizzling lightly.
He snorted. �I understand you perfectly. Hold this, will you?�
I Maximized, and held up the three tree limbs, while Dinobot tied them together with two others, forming a smallish dome. We gathered other limbs off of the trees, and set them up around the dome, creating a shelter, not entirely waterproof, but durable. I crawled in, and curled up, once it was finished. Dinobot came in after me, and we sat in silence. There wasn�t anything to really say, anyway. Well, in my opinion. He broke the silence, by saying, �Well?�
�Well wot?�
�Oh.�
�Wot are yeh doin�?� I asked, feeling him shift around behind me. The lean-to was large enough for us to sit up in. And that was what Dinobot was apparently doing. �Iff�n yeh lean against �ee side, it�ll fall apart!�
�I know.�
�An� yeh�re sittin� up why?�
�I have to ask you something.�
�Yeh could �ave asked me while lyin� down.�
�Not this. I had to see your face.�
I blinked. �So?�
He sighed. �I . . . I wanted to know . . .� His voice failed him, and he shook his head. �Never mind.�
�Okay, lemme ge� this straight. First yeh ask me �Well?� an� I wonder what yeh�re doin�. Then, yeh practically bring �is hut down aroun� our ears, an� �m still wonderin� what yeh�re doin�. Then yeh say �at yeh wanted t� see m� face when yeh wanted t� ask �ee somethin�, and-�
�I love you.�
My jaw dropped. Dinobot chuckled. �That got you quiet, and quickly, as well.�
�Are yeh serious? Yeh�re . . . yeh�re not lyin� t� me, are yeh?�
�Why would I?� Dinobot asked, touching the tip of my snout with one talon compassionately.
I looked at my own talons, the six of them, and sighed. I looked up at the �Raptor in front of me, and took a deep breath. �I . . . I guess . . . slaggit, no, I know, that I . . .� I sighed again, and said in a whisper. �I love yeh too.�
That night was not what you�d expect, like kissing, and . . . well, okay, we kissed. Only a couple times, I swear! Okay, you got me, more than a couple times. But nothing else happened, I swear it upon my and Dinobot�s honor! And you know how seriously he takes his honor. We admitted things that we never had told anyone, ever, in our lives. I hoped that that night could�ve gone on forever . . .
�Did you find anything out of place?� Optimus asked. �Other than that redwood.�
�Negative,� Dinobot replied. �Plant growth was normal, and animal population was normal as well.�
�Huh. As if you�d be watchin� anythin� othuh from Velocitranuh da whole while!�
�Rattrap!� we screamed. �We� being the whole Maximal team. Dinobot was close enough to breaking free from Rhinox�s grasp, and skin the vermin alive. I was close to doing that myself, only Optimus was the one who was holding me. I sighed, and snarled out, �Yeh bleedin� git! �Ee next time yeh say somethin� like that agin�, I�ll bloody kill yeh!!!�
He grinned, and shot out of the room. Optimus and Rhinox made us promise that we�d leave Rattrap alone, as they went after him themselves. That left me and Dinobot alone in the command center. Alone.
I sighed, and sat in a small stool, leaning against the console behind me. Dinobot walked over, and touche my shoulder lightly. I smiled up at him, and his taloned finger tapped the end of my nose lightly as well. He grinned at me, and I saw what he was thinking through his optics. We dropped to our beast modes, and ran out of the base, to spend the night out in the wilderness.
And Rattrap found out that he was right after all.
For once.
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