Untold But Unforgotten (Taz/Up Fanfiction) EDITING PERIOD COMPLETE!

Chapter 8

With Up running to their destination and Taz shooting every metal thing in sight, they seemed unstoppable. Finally, they were there. "I've gotta put you down, Taz. You gonna be OK?" Up said.

She rolled her eyes. "Up, think of who jou're talking to. I'll be fine. Just go!" Up set her down and she continued shooting sentinels. Up ran towards the supply, glancing over his shoulder often to check on her. He blasted five sentinels in one shot.

"Nice one, Up!" she called. He kept running.

"Nice one, Up!"

"Gabriela," came a voice from behind her. She spun around as fast as she could while still on the ground.

She blinked. No. It was impossible. They were gone. She had been at their funerals. They were never coming back.

But then, how were her mother and brother standing before her?

Taz examined them closer. Their skin was too shiny, their features to symmetrical. She remembered that Tacito's right eye had been distinctly large than his left. He had been self-conscious about it and she'd made many lopsided jokes over the years.

This wasn't her family.

"Jou are robots," she whispered.

The one that looked like her mother smiled. Oh, how she missed that smile. "No, Gabriela. We are jour family." They even sounded like the real thing.

She shook her head. "No."

Tac- The Tacito Robot looked at her, smiling his goofy grin. Taz wanted to cry. "Vamos, Gabi. We'll go home. Come with us, please."

The other robot suddenly began singing, causing Taz to freeze. It was a song that her mother used to sing to her and Tacito at night. She had found it and translated it to Spanish. No one knew about that except her, her brother, and her parents.

That's when the pieces clicked. A picture flashed to her mind of when she closed their eyes the day after their deaths. The large, gaping head wounds that she hadn't examined to closely.

They had taken their brains. Not their emotions, but their memories. She didn't know how, but knew it was true. That crossed the line. She aimed her zapper at them.

Her mother just kept singing.

Tacito looked in her eyes, and she saw the pale glint when the sun hit him. "Gabriela. Don't do this. We're jour family."

Taz looked right in his eyes. "My family is dead. Their minds should have died with them. Now they will. And my name," she said, finger on the trigger, "is Taz." She fired. The robot fell.

Stopping her singing her mother took one step closer. "Too late, hija," she whispered, before Taz shot her down.

She wanted to break down crying. She wanted to scream her sorrows to the sky. Right then, more than anything, she wanted to die.

Suddenly, she was grabbed. Cold metal wrapped around her waist. Her zapper fell from her grip as she panicked. Her mind flashed. Memories flooded her.

She was being pulled away.

She was crying for Tacito to save her.

She was going to die.

Yes. She was going to die. Because, right in this moment, with the robots' arms tight around her, she was as helpless as she had been the year before. Tears streamed for her eyes as she prepared to die.

Up was almost there. Oh, so close.

"Help me! Help me!"

The cry was no different than it had been a year previously. He spun around and saw her, clasped tightly in the arms of several robots. She clearly didn't know she'd cried out. She wouldn't have done that; she would have wanted him to focus only on the task at hand.

But right then he didn't care. He didn't care that he was putting the entire world at risk. He didn't care that he might lose his status as Commander. He just didn't care.

He had to save Taz. He began running, as fast as he could, completely forgetting the threat behind him.

Taz. He thought, her name running repeatedly through his head. He had to get to her, had to save her. Taz. Taz. Taz.

That's when he himself was grabbed from behind. He struggled as he was lifted into the air. He looked down again at Taz, who stopped her own struggle and looked up at him, meeting his eyes. He turned away.

Up looked and saw Optimus Prime standing before him. He struggled, but to no avail. Prime's chest opened. Up closed his eyes. He took a deep breath and whispered four words, "Taz, I love you."

There was a searing pain, and the last thing he heard before blacking out was her voice. Her amazing, sweet voice that even sounded beautiful while letting out an ear-piercing, heart-shattering scream.