A/N: Yay! I think this is the first RB human/Cybertronian switcheroo fic EVER!

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Dani Learns An Important Lesson About Touching Blue Glowy Things

"Well, this was a disaster."

So spoke Kade, quite rightly, as he, Graham, Dani, and their substantially more robotic and vertically endowed respective partners were currently stuck in a large and empty cave on the coldest day of the year.

The rescue had started out promisingly. There was a mountaineer, predictably, who had also, predictably, trapped his leg under, predictably, a rock. The six had, predictably, freed him, and then, unpredictably, the cave collapsed, trapping Chase, Chief Burns, and the mountaineer outside, and the rest inside.

Therefore, quite predictably, the resident humans were quite cold and annoyed. The Autobots among them were not, although Heatwave for one definitely wouldn't have said no to a group of Firestar clones bearing warm Energon and maybe a polishing cloth while they were at it.

As it turns out, a cave has an insulating factor of about minus fifteen, and so the cold air somehow seeped through the non-existent pores in the rock blocking the cave opening.

"C-c-c-can't you d-d-d-dig us out or s-s-s-something?" Kade asked Heatwave tersely.

"Do I look like Boulder?" the fire engine replied.

"Fair p-p-p-point. B-b-boulder, can you d-d-dig us out or s-s-s-something?" Kade redirected the question.

"Nope. I think I cracked a piston earlier. Should have let the Energon start flowing before I lifted that rock. Can't even use the seismic imaging in case the cave roof destabilises and crushes us horrifically." Boulder replied in a remarkably cheery tone. "What an experience, eh?"

"Not really, Boulder!" Blades fretted, curling himself up a little. "The walls are closing in, I swear!"

"That's just flyer programming acting up. They don't like enclosed spaces. Feel trapped." Heatwave explained, seeing Dani's sudden worried look. "He'll be fine."

"I d-d-didn't r-r-realise y-y-you got d-d-different p-p-p-programming d-d-depending on b-b-b-body type. F-f-f-f-fascinat-t-t-ting." Graham noted.

Dani looked unsure. "R-r-r-relax, B-b-b-blades. You're okay." she reassured the helicopter, rubbing his leg panelling gently, her teeth chattering. Blades smiled weakly and picked Dani off the ground, placing her on his shoulder.

"Long as you're all here, I'm fine." Blades promised.

Dani smiled back with blue lips, as a cold draught ghosted around the cave. The three humans shivered in unison.

"Boulder, what's the ambient temperature in here?" Heatwave asked, catching onto the slight movement.

"Around minus six degrees." Boulder replied, checking his instruments. "Has been for the past ten minutes or so."

"Scrap. Okay, Kade. Get in. You'll stay warmer in my cabin." Heatwave said.

"H-h-h-heated s-s-s-seats and everything?" Kade asked, a wry grin on his bluish face.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Just get in before you get hypothermia and die."

Heatwave lifted Kade up to his chest windscreen, opening it to deposit the fireman inside, then closed it again and reapplied the airtight seal. Boulder mimicked him with Graham.

Blades put out a servo for Dani, who stepped onto his palm then collapsed into it. "I'm ok-k-k-k-kay..." she mumbled. "J-j-j-j-just a l-l-l-l-little light-headed."

"Oh, no; that's acute hypothermia right there." Graham exclaimed from Boulder's chest. "We need a heat source, right now. Your heaters won't do it, Blades."

"Oh, that's fine." Blades answered.

He opened his chestplate up, the plexiglass canopy and seat folding up and away to reveal an oval depression in Blades' chest which held a glowing, pulsing, blue ball of energy. Blades gently lay a quietly mumbling Dani down in the bottom of the spark chamber and closed the clear plexiglass of his canopy over it.

Dani came around to a calm blue light and a soothing warmth over her whole body.

The sounds of guttural, angry Cybertronian (probably Heatwave; he had an abrasive bass when speaking his first language) filled her ears. Someone directly above her snapped back in smooth yet aggressive Cybertronian (Blades; he was only assertive when he spoke Cybertronian, and had a light tenor which made the alien language sound quite pleasant in an angry way). A third Cybertronian voice (mellow and airy without being flippant, a deep baritone; Boulder, for sure) spoke up and silenced the other voices.

They seemed to have come to a compromise, so Dani opened her eyes.

She was in what might have been Blades' cockpit, but above her, attached to the almost chamber around her by small arms, was a huge ball of blue fire.

Describing it honestly, it was beautiful. She reached out a hand, and as she touched it was suddenly aware of three separate consciousnesses screaming at her to not do so.

Unfortunately for her, she was far too late in realising this, and the spark shone and exploded into blue light at her touch. Dani was blasted out of Blades's chestplate and into the wall, where she was aware of Blades' horrified expression and a vague Tchu-Tchu-Tchu-Tchink noise before she blacked out.

Stasis lock: disabled. Core functions now online.

Commence primary_systems boot-up? Yes/No

YES

Primary_systems booting up...

Preparing first-time processor load sequence...load sequence complete.

Engaging Energon pump; designation pump_primary...engaged.

Energon flow accepted, cycling engines...Engines active.

Servos powering up...servos online.

Commence secondary systems boot-up? Yes/No

YES

Secondary_systems booting up...

Scanning memory banks for alternate mode...no alternate mode found. Continue regardless? Yes/No

YES

Opening air intakes...air intakes open.

Calibrating internal chronometer...calibrated. Terrestrial time set: 04:20:04. Stardate set 03.421.6/4

Onlining auditory and optical sensors...online.

Dani opened her eyes.

The first thing she noticed was that the bunker underneath the firehouse had gotten a whole lot smaller.

Don't ask how they got out of the cave. It happened, okay?