Cody kept an eye on the emergency camera for a few more minutes before he and Frankie hurried down to the bunker to meet up with the bots as they brought Blades home. Chase and Boulder carefully carried Blades inside between them, lying him down on the floor. "What happened? Can you help him?" Cody asked, "Is it-"

Boulder cut him off with a hand and a slight smile. "Don't worry, Cody... Blades is our medic, but we've gotten our share of medical training too."

"I'm ffffine." Blades mumbled, trying to wave Boulder away.

"No, you're not." Salvage replied as he and Blurr came over. "Nobody who's 'fine' collapses in the middle of a rescue after having a transformational seizure... Besides, you're burning up."

"Don't you mean cold...? I'm cold..."

"No, you feel cold." Graham informed, "We humans call it a fever. Your body's overheating, so the air feels colder than it would if you weren't overheating."

"But why am I overheating...?"

"I don't know. But we're going to figure it out."

Blades whined, tilting his head to the side and looking at the wall. "...So thirsty, too..."
He tried to roll over and reach for the energon cubes, but Boulder stopped him. "But-"

"We'll get you some energon in a minute." Boulder assured.

Blades sat up, his eyebrows furrowing. "Stop treating me like a protoform...!" He whined, "I'm not that much younger than you!"

"I know, Blades."

"I don't need you guys taking care of me!" Blades squirmed out of their grip and got up onto his feet. "I'm...perfectly-"

"No you're not." Boulder caught the helicopter-bot as he started to fall again. "Sit down on the couch."

He helped Blades sit down, the helicopter-bot leaning his head back against the wall.

"What do you remember, Blades?" Cody asked. "Before you fell outside at the fire scene."

"I...I was just watching the others...And then I felt kinda dizzy and my thoughts got all fuzzy... Next thing I know, I'm lying on the ground with my legs trying to morph into struts without me..."

"Uh huh." Boulder took the medical scanner Blurr had brought to him and ran it over Blades' body. "...You are low on energon..."

"See...?" Blades looked over at the humans. "Oh...Hey, Frankie..."

Frankie waved with an nervous giggle.

"Here..." Salvage handed Blades an energon cube, helping the copter-bot drink it after Blades spilled a little down his front. "...Just take it easy."

"This rusts...!" Blades whined as he paused in his energon consumption. "First Dani leaves me, and now...Now... What was I saying?"

"You were thinking about taking a stasis nap."
They all looked up as Heatwave rolled into the bunker, letting Kade and Chief out of the cab before transforming into bot mode.

Blades' eyes narrowed. "No...I don't think so."

"Well, it was worth a shot." Kade replied. "Any ideas on what's up?"

"Still working on it..." Boulder murmured, "...The scans are showing a buildup of partially-solidified energon in his subspacial compartment, it's like his body's rerouting most of his energon there and has been for a while."

"But why?" Heatwave questioned, "...A more thorough evaluation would-"

"NO!"
The helicopter stood up in a surge of strength, moving away from the others. "No probing...!"

"Nobody said anything about probes, Blades." Blurr informed. "So just...sit down, and we can-"

Blades shook his head, "Leave me alone! All of you just...j-just-"

The helicopter's optics flickered before becoming a bright orange, and he transformed into pterosaur mode before taking off into the air.

"Blades!" Cody cried.

"He's gone completely wild." Chief muttered, "Boulder, do we have any patches left?"

"A few. I'll grab one."

"The rest of us will try to get him down." Heatwave replied, watching for a brief moment as Boulder ran for their storage room before focusing on his sick teammate.

The dinobot was flying around the ceiling frantically, probably looking for a way out. As long as he didn't figure out how to open the elevator to the garage upstairs, he was sealed in the bunker.

"Blades, calm down!" Blurr called, "Does anyone know what dinobirds eat!?"

"Gah, we need Dani for this...!" Kade muttered, "Her ignoring us is what caused this mess!"

"We don't know how true that statement is..." Frankie muttered.

Blades' claws scraped at the ceiling; he knew it opened and was trying to get free. He was giving panicked screeches, before landing up on top of the platform Heatwave's karate tower stood on. His wings folded back and he bent down, screeching at them as if complaining about his imprisonment.

"Blades, just stay there, okay...?" Salvage murmured, "We know you're feeling out of sorts, and we want to help you."

"Hey guys...?"
They all turned as Boulder spoke, accompanied by a scraping sound like metal on the floor. It turned to indeed be metal on the floor, but woven and flattened together into a hollowed-out shape. "...Does this look familiar to anyone?"

"It looks like a-"
Chief paused as Blades took off again, this time gliding over and landing inside of the shape and settling down in it. "...A nest."

"Well that explains all that metal going missing from the scrap piles." Salvage murmured, "I was wondering where that all went."

"But why'd Blades make it?" Frankie expressed, "And why didn't he tell you?"

Blades screeched as Boulder came towards him with the patch, but didn't attack him.

"Shh..." Boulder whispered, "...It's okay..."
He placed the patch onto Blades' side, and after a few seconds it activated. He jumped back as Blades got up, wings flapping and head tossing about for several moments before he relaxed.

"...Did it work?" Kade murmured as Blades stood still.

"...Nnn...W-What...?" Blades murmured, shaking his head and his optics opening again. His optics still bore a yellowish tint, leaving them the faintest hint of green, but he was mostly there.

"Blades...How're you feeling?"

Blades looked down at the nest. "D-Dizzy...What happened? The last thing I remember you guys were playing video games."

"You don't remember the fire emergency?" Heatwave asked.

"No..."

"Or having a seizure and collapsing?" Chase asked.

"No...?"

"Or freaking out when somebody mentioned a more thorough scan and going into dino mode...?" Blurr asked.

Blades shook his head. "No...I don't remember anything like that... When did this get out here?"

"A few minutes ago while you were wild in dino mode." Chief walked over. "...Do you remember making it?"

"Yes...I did..." Blades looked down ashamed. "...When nobody was looking."

"Why would you keep it a secret?" Chief asked. "It's nothing bad, right?"

"I dunno... I just...I had this nagging feeling in my processor to make it. I'd go out in the middle of the night and collect pieces and make it, little by little... It's been going on since before Dani left. After she left though, the feeling only got stronger and without her being here to go on missions with me, I had more time to work on it..." Blades looked down. "...I'm sorry."

"Blades, you need to tell us these kinds of things." Heatwave informed. "We're your teammates, your family. We care about you..."

"I know...I know..." Blades suddenly grimaced, wrapping his wings around his torso as he dropped to his knees. "Ah...!"

"What's wrong?"

"I...I don't know...!" Blades closed his optics. "...F-Feels like there's an obstruction or something...Like I swallowed my scoop claw...!"

Boulder shifted the scanner, running it over Blades' body, his optics widened as he looked at the readout. "That's no scoop claw...!"

"What is it then?" Blurr asked.

Boulder was quiet for a moment. "...I thought it was just a myth, but...He's carrying."

"Give me that." Heatwave took the scanner, smacking it a little in an attempt to change the readout, but it remained the same. "...No way."

"Two sparkbeats, a distinct energy signature, it all makes sense."

"But it's not a real thing!" Blurr exclaimed. "...Is it?"

"A recent alert from Cybertron's High Council says it is." Quickshadow informed. "Came up on my reports about a week ago."

"And you didn't mention it until now!?"

"I was going to! But then you dragged me into that historical drama business and I was so bored I forgot all about it until just now!"

"Wait wait wait..." Kade waved his arms. "Hold on just a second here... Blades is pregnant!?"

"In human terms, yes." Salvage replied.

"But...We just...I mean, you...What!?"

"We're just as surprised as you are." Boulder expressed. "As far as I know, this has never happened before. We're not even trained on it because it was thought to be nothing but a legend."

Blades sighed, lying back down in the nest. "...So what do we do...?"

"We put you on Medical Leave, for one thing..." Heatwave replied.

"Not that I wasn't spending all my time here in the Firehouse already..."

"And we keep an eye on you more closely. Keep your energon levels steady, that sort of thing."

Cody looked over as Frankie started to giggle. "What's so funny?"

"Sorry, I'm just invisioning a tiny autobot in a diaper like Robo-Baby."

"We took care of Robo-Baby," Boulder remembered. "How much harder could this be?"

Blades grimaced again. "...I have a feeling this is going to go downhill very fast..."