Tech Week Day 7
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This has been one of the most fun creative experiences I’ve done in awhile. I wish I’d had more time to work on this prompts but I’m still happy with what I’ve done. I’m glad to have been apart of this and shared my love of this absolute nerd. So thank you @tbbtechweek for setting this up, and I hope y’all enjoy this send off to the week.
“Why did they have to make us so different!” Tech yelled.
The Batch had just gone through another round of bullying. It had gotten to such a point that Wrecker and, surprisingly, Hunter had snapped. Beating the Regs to a bloody pulp after they’d hurt Crosshair. They’d been dragged off not long after, leaving Tech and Crosshair in the lurch.
“I-If they had just made us more like the Regs, or even made us look like them then we wouldn’t have to deal with this.
He’d gotten this frustrated before, but to hear him yelling was an odd experience for Crosshair. As while he listened to him release this stress into the world he was tending to his bloody nose and bruised lip.
“We could have gone through more extreme training, it might be tougher but we could still-”
“That wouldn’t be possible,” Crosshair cut in, “We’d still end up where we are now. Look at Hunter, he’s the most like them and they still go after him!”
Tech gasped for breath, having winded himself from all the yelling, tears began to fall down his cheeks as he realized his vod was right. There was no way they could escape this, in any timeline.
“It’s just- in our nature Tech. We can’t be like them, no matter what way you look at it. But they can’t be like us, and that makes us better than them!”
Tech sank to the floor, nodding along to what his ori’vod was saying.
Crosshair sat down next to Tech, rubbing his back to comfort him.
He leaned against Crosshair, wrapping his arms around his vod and squeezing him tight.
“Then I guess we need to show them how much better we are…” his voice wavered but the determination within it still shined through. Looking up at Cross he could tell that he was excited by that statement.
“We’ll show them all.”
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tech sighed heavily, before him stood the same ori’vod who had once told him that.
As Wrecker demanded why he hadn’t returned to them he felt the need to give a reason.
A reason Wrecker could understand, and something that he could latch onto as to why a member of their aliit would betray them like this.
“Let it go Wrecker,” the words felt heavy in his mouth. He didn’t want to say what he knew he had to, and yet. “Crosshair has always been severe and unyielding.” The next part hurt him the most, “It is his nature. You cannot change that, he cannot change that.”
“Why are you defending me?” Crosshair asked, Tech could almost sense a bit of pain in the man’s voice.
“I am not,” he quickly clarified, “understanding you does not mean that I agree with you.”
He watched Crosshair intently, his eyes shot down for a moment before meeting Tech’s again. He could tell then that what he had said had indeed hurt his vod. But there was no changing the facts.
There was no changing what Crosshair had done to the Batch and the choices each side had made. There was no changing how many times they’d left Crosshair behind or how many times Crosshair chose to not reach out to them. Each side had made their choices and now had to deal with the consequences.
These facts would never be able to be changed.