Dents and Bruises

Talking:

"English or other Earth language"

"Cybertronian"

'Thoughts'

:Comm. Links:

(Bond talk)

"Recordings or telephone conversations"

Flashback or change of time or place

Time changes:

Nano-klick=1/2 a klik. Klik= less than a second. Breem (cybertronian minute) = 8 minutes. Cycle=hour. Joor (Cybertronian hour) = 6 hours. Solar cycle=day. Megacycle= 1 week. Orn= 13 days. Groon= 1 month. Deca-orn = 3 months. Stellar cycle= 1 year. Vorn=83 years.

Rated T for good reasons, the ones in this chapter being language, slash, hinted child abuse, mentions of slash, talks about sensitive topics and anything else I might have missed.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my OC's or any original ideas I patched in to fill in any blanks left by the show. If you recognize it from somewhere else it's probably not mine.


Graham slowly came to, his whole world a haze and everything was way too hot. He wondered why this was until he started coughing on smoke.

"F-fire…?" then he remembered what had happened.

*Flashback*

Graham and Boulder were updating the security systems so that no one—namely Miles and Evan or Dr. Morroco—could steal anything from them in the ware houses when suddenly they heard the sound of screeching tires and a crash outside.

Boulder looked out the window and launched himself at Graham the way a cat pounces on a bird. "Graham, look out!"

Then there was the sound of glass shattering and debris hitting metal and everything went dark.

*End Flashback*

Graham coughed as he called out for his partner. "Boulder… *cough* *cough* Boulder! Where are you?"

"Graham, are you alright?"

Graham looked up and saw Boulder was directly above him in a planking position, keeping the roof from collapsing down on them.

"Boulder, what…" he coughed on more smoke, it was getting thicker now. "What happened?"

Boulder looked down at his human partner, who was still on the ground where he had landed when the explosion hit and was now trying to fix his glasses, and said. "The fuel tanks outside exploded and the warehouse caught fire,"

Carefully standing up, Graham looked around and tried to see through the smoke and flames; what he saw was that the building was becoming more unstable by the second. "This place is going to come down. Can you move?"

Boulder shifted but found he could only move a little bit and looked behind him to see why that was and found that a couple of steel girders were laid across his legs, pinning them, and a large slab of the ceiling was across his lower back, preventing him from reaching back to push them off. "No good, I'm pinned,"

He looked around and saw the small side door was open and gently shoved Graham towards it. "Graham, go,"

Graham looked at the open door and then up at Boulder; a couple months ago if anyone told him to just leave the Rescue bot behind he would have done it without any second thoughts besides 'It's just a machine, machines can be replaced', but now…

Graham hesitated. "Boulder, hang on, maybe we can get the girders off your…"

He was cut off by a coughing fit that brought him to his knees, the smoke was starting to sting his eyes now.

Boulder caught him before he fell to the ground and racked his processors for a possible solution; while he wasn't an emergency vehicle like the others he was still a Rescue Bot. 'Come on, Boulder, you're a Rescue Bot. RESCUE, for Primus sakes,'

Then he remembered he had a holoform now and activated it; since he had stayed up most of the night tinkering with it his was the only one that looked human.

He looked down at his holoform—which was of a tall sturdily built man with tanned skin, golden eyes and dark hair wearing a hard hat that was the same green he was with a matching flannel shirt, blue jeans and brown work boots—and admired his handiwork before looking at the debris that trapped his real body.

'According to the Doc and the tests we ran, our holoforms are just as strong as our real bodies. I should be able to move those,' he looked down at Graham. 'First things first, I need to help Graham,'

He lifted up his partner as though he weighed no more than a novel and carried him over to the opening he had told his partner to go to before and ducked through it just as Chase had come around the building to check if the area was clear.

However, Chase didn't recognize his teammate's human holoform and thought it was a regular human and treated him as such. "Please evacuate the area, citizen,"

Boulder looked up at Chase. "Chase, it's me, Boulder. I'm using my holoform,"

Chase realized his error and stopped using the fake monotone. "My apologies, Boulder,"

Chief looked over and saw Boulder carefully place Graham on the ground and ran over after telling the man he was talking to to stay put. "Graham,"

Boulder held up his hands and reassured the Chief. "He'll be alright, he just lost consciousness because of the smoke,"

Chief looked at the holoform, not quite believing what he was seeing. "Boulder?"

The holoform nodded. "My real body is pinned underneath part of the ceiling inside so I used my holoform to bring Graham out here,"

Chief Burns knelt down next to Graham to check his pulse and if he was breathing, letting out a sigh of relief that he was. "Remind me to thank the Doc for giving you guys those things,"

He stood up and addressed the two bots that were there. "Heatwave and Kade will be here any minute and Dani and Blades are on their way, in the meantime we'll see what we can do to get you out of the fire Boulder,"

Boulder nodded and said "According to Doc Greene our holoforms are just as strong as our real bodies. I'm going to go see if I can dig myself out with mine,"

Chief Burns considered this and nodded "Alright, but be careful,"

As Boulder ran back into the ware house, Graham started to come around with a groan.

Chief Burns grabbed his son's shoulder. "Graham, are you alright?"

Graham nodded. "Yeah, I'll be okay," his voice was raspy after breathing in that much smoke. He looked around and saw he was outside. "How did I get out here?"

Chief Burns helped his son up when he saw he was trying to stand. "You passed out inside the warehouse because of the smoke and Boulder used his holoform to carry you out here,"

He looked over and saw the man he had been speaking with before was trying to sneak away. "Hey, Chase, it looks like our old friend is trying to get away again. Could you make sure he stays put?"

"Certainly" Chase trotted over and blocked the man's exit. "Halt, citizen, you have been asked to remain where you are until the situation has been handled. After which you will be embraced by the firm, but fair, hand of justice,"

Just then Heatwave pulled up and transformed as soon as Kade jumped out of his alt. mode. "Why do you always say 'embraced by the firm but fair hand of justice'? Can't you just say you're going to either arrest them or write them a ticket or something?"

"Either way justice will prevail," Chase spun around to slide his ped in the path of the man when he tried to sneak past him. "I repeat: Halt, citizen!"

While the two were talking Kade had run up to his dad and Graham. "What happened here?"

Chief Burns sighed. "That speeding driver Chase and I were after lost control of the car. He got out but the car crashed into some fuel tanks and caused them to explode and the building caught fire,"

Graham pointed at the building. "Boulder's still inside. He used his holoform to bring me out here after I passed out from the smoke and went back inside for his body,"

Heatwave walked up to the building and started to put out the fire by shooting water out of the nozzles in his servos while Kade hooked up a hose to a nearby fire hydrant to help.

A few minutes later Blades arrived and started dumping loads of water and fire retardant onto the building.

:Sorry we're late. Had to go back to the firehouse to drop off Cody and get the scoop claw.:

Chief Burns activated his comm. link. "Better late than never, Dani. Glad you two made it,"

Blades did a quick head count and noticed someone was missing. "Where's Boulder?"

Graham answered him. :Boulder's still inside. Part of the ceiling came down on his legs, he's trapped.:

Heatwave touched one digit to the side of his helm and activated his comm. link. :Boulder, can you hear me?:

:Loud and clear, Heatwave. I'm trying to dig myself out with my holoform but there's these two girders across my legs that are still partially attached to the ceiling. One wrong move with those and the whole place could come down.:

:Okay, we'll help dig you out as soon as we get the worst of the fire out of the way.:

Heatwave cut off the comm. line and used both servos to put out the fire while Blades dropped another load of water on the building.

Several dousing of water later, what little glass that remained in the warehouse windows exploded and more flames erupted from them.

Inside the warehouse, Boulder instinctively flinched away from the hot shards of glass and other debris from the windows that fell on him, unintentionally kicking away one of the girders that both pinned him down and held up the rest of the ceiling that his shoulders were braced against.

"Oh, scrap" the uncharacteristic curse slipped out of Boulder's vocalizer when his arm-servos gave out as the rest of the roof came down on him.

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Outside, everyone watched as the roof of the ware house caved in on itself like a house of cards.

"Boulder…" Without really thinking about it Graham ran to the warehouse, only to be stopped by Kade.

"Hold it right there, bro. Leave this to the pros," he ran over to the building, pulling on his oxygen mask as he ran.

Heatwave was also going over to the ware house and looked down at his human partner. "If that's true then why are you here?"

Kade voice was muffled by his oxygen mask. "Ha ha, Shut up,"

Heatwave rolled his optics as he broke through what was left of the garage door on the warehouse and started removing as much as the debris as he could lift, calling out for his teammate in Cybertronian.

"Boulder! Boulder, where are you? Answer me, slaggit!"

Heatwave dropped the piece of beam he was holding and jumped back as Blade's scoop claw dropped down and lifted away a good sized chunk of debris, revealing a beat up green servo.

"Boulder!"

Heatwave lifted the debris that was covering the rest of the mech and shouldered it aside while Kade put out any lingering fires so they would stop spreading to keep the blaze off of the Rescue bots while Heatwave got Boulder out.

When he finally got the slab of debris out of the way, Heatwave saw that Boulder had been knocked into stasis by the collapsing roof. "He's out cold, gonna have the drag him out,"

Heatwave started to do just that but then he realized a problem. "Scrap, if I let go of this thing it will just fall right back down on top of him,"

He leaned against the sedan-sized chunk of the roof and touched one digit to his comm. link. :Chase, Blades, could one of you give me a servo here? I can't pull Boulder out and lift this scrap off him at the same time.:

Seeing Chase was busy with crowd control—a small mob of onlookers have gathered to see what was going on—Blades landed outside the ware house and opened his canopy to let Dani out. "I'll go. You check on Graham,"

Dani grabbed the first aid kit and ran over to her brother while Blades transformed and timidly went over to the opening in the garage door that Heatwave had made looking around to see if any more of it was going to fall.

"Anytime, Blades…" said Fire Rescue bot growled, making Blades jump and scurry over to Boulder to grab him under his arm-servos and drag him clear of the debris so Heatwave could drop the rubble he was holding and the two carried Boulder outside.

Blades and Graham examined Boulder while Heatwave and Kade finished putting out the rest of the fire and Dani stubbornly followed her equally stubborn brother, trying to put a burn salve and bandages on his cuts and burns.

"Hold still Graham,"

Graham shrugged his sister off. "I'm fine, Dani,"

Dani huffed and put one hand on her hip while the other hung limp at her side, holding the roll of gauze she had been using. "I still think you should get checked over, just in case,"

Graham looked down at Boulder. "Boulder first. He's worse off than I am,"

Chief Burns came over to them and looked at all of them before looking down at Boulder. "How bad is he?"

Blades tried to wake him up but shook his helm when it didn't work. "He must have gone into stasis lock when the roof fell…"

His olfactory sensors flared when he scented the air and he caught the smell of burnt rubber. "…and if that smell is what I think it is some of his wires or tubing might have melted, but we won't know for sure until we can get him back to the firehouse,"

Chief Burns nodded and called the fire station. "Cody?"

:Yeah, dad?:

"See if you can get a hold of Doc Greene, we might need his help fixing Boulder up," he cut off the call and looked up at Blades, who knew more about Cybertronian anatomy than he did. "Is it safe to move him?"

Blades considered for a moment before answering. "Very, very carefully,"

Chief Burns nodded "Alright, if we can't just carry him I can see if the owners of the warehouses can lend us a flatbed to bring him home with,"

Chief Burns looked over to where Chase was preventing the driver they had been after earlier from leaving while also trying to keep the crowd back by moving back and forth like a sheep dog to block anyone that crossed the line and repeating the phrase "Halt, you are required to remain here," to the driver and "Please keep the perimeter clear," to the other people.

"Now if you all will excuse me, I need to speak to a man about a speeding car…" he went over to the man with long dark hair who was wearing a leather jacket and white pants and crossed his arms. "Now do you see why we have to obey the speed limit?"

He pointed at the fuel tanks that still had the man's car embedded into it, the smoldering warehouse and Boulder, who was lying on the ground like a toy that had gotten run over by a car.

The man looked at the damage he had caused and then back at the police officer. "I'm sorry Chief, I tried to stop when you were trying to pull me over but my brakes wouldn't work,"

Chief Burns saw how that would have made sense but since this man was a repeat offender for speeding with a reputation for reckless driving on top of all the damage he just caused, he couldn't just let it slide. "I know, Raoul, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to see your license and registration anyway,"

Raoul took out his wallet out and got out his driver's license but then he realized something. "Uh, my insurance card's in the… car,"

They both looked at the wreckage, which was burned to a crisp when the fuel tanks blew, and the Chief sighed as he looked back at Raoul. "Well, luckily I've seen it enough to have most of it memorized and your information is already in the system,"

He held up the driver's license he had been handed and went over to Chase who had transformed into his alt. mode so Chief Burns could update the police computer data base. "Unfortunately, this also means I'm going to have to suspend your license,"

Raoul gawked at him. "My license?'

Chief Burns looked at him sharply. "Only temporarily, but if I find out you have been driving anywhere within the next three months it will become permanent,"

He quickly entered the information into the terminal in Chase's console and took out a special stamp and stamped the words "Suspended" across the card.

Chief Burns got out and handed the man the license back. "This is the third time I busted you for speeding and reckless driving and this time you not only caused damage to city property you endangered the lives of everyone in the area, including the two people inside the warehouse you just lit up,"

Raoul hung his head in shame as he took the now useless laminated card back and put it in his wallet. "Guess I'd better get used to walking," he looked up at Chief Burns. "By the way, you said there were two people in the warehouse. Are they alright or did they…"

Chief Burns looked at where Graham was looking over Boulder as best he could without any tools. "One of them was my boy Graham who was doing some work on the warehouse's security systems, the other…"

He quickly thought up a half-truth. "… was a friend of his that was helping him out. He was badly burned and needs a doctor but he's refusing to go until they get the Construction bot loaded up to be transported for repairs,"

What he didn't say which "he" was which; Boulder was the one that was helping Graham and was badly injured but it was Graham who refused to leave or be checked over until the mech was safe.

Raoul seemed to be relieved when he realized no one had perished in the fire and asked "There wasn't anything important in there, was there?"

Chief Burns looked over at Graham; or rather he made it look like he was looking at Graham, he actually glanced up at Chase who shook his helm minutely and told him through the comm. link :We emptied the warehouse of its wares this morning so none of it was damaged or in the way while Graham and Boulder were working.:

Chief Burns turned back to Raoul and relayed the message to him, wording it to make it look like he just remembered that was what happened.

Luckily the warehouse supervisors were kind enough to loan them a flatbed trailer and a truck. Graham rode with the dock worker driving said truck while Blades flew to the fire house to get everything ready to fix up Boulder once they got there with him.

Kade and Heatwave stayed to make sure the fire was put out for good while Chase and Chief Burns dispelled the crowd and gave Raoul a ride home so there was no chance of him getting a hold of a vehicle and driving himself.

When Blades and Dani got to the fire house, the Copterbot didn't even bother landing on the roof as he normally did, he just touched down in the drive way.

Dani was confused by this as she jumped out and pulled off her helmet. "Why did you land out here, Blades?"

Blades transformed and opened the garage door. "Landing on the roof and taking the lift down here and then down to the bunker would have taken too long,"

He ran inside as soon as the door was open enough for him to duck under. "I need to get the med. bay ready for when they get here with Boulder,"

When he stepped off the bot's lift down into the bunker, Blades passed the control center where Cody spun around in the chair. "I called Doc Greene like Dad told me to. By the way, Optimus Prime called while you guys were out, I told him what was going on. He said he would call back later and if you need any help to call someone named Ratchet,"

Blades raised an optic ridge. "The Autobots' medic?" he had heard stories about the C.M.O. and after meeting the mech when Optimus had him examine the Rescue bots when they first arrived on Earth he believed every single one of them.

But while the grouchy old medic made him nervous, Blades knew if he would be a nervous wreck if he started working on Boulder and suddenly realized he had no idea what he was doing.

Cody nodded. "Yeah, and Ratchet seemed to hear us because he said he might not be able to come here but if you really need his help he can talk you through it on the comm.s,"

Blades took a deep intake of to calm himself and let it out in an obviously forced sigh of relief. "Oh, that's good,"

Just then they got a call from upstairs from Dani "Guys, they're here,"

Blades clenched and unclenched his fists to get his servos to stop shaking before grabbing a wheeled frame that was under the med. berth and cranked it up the attach to the underside of the berth which detached from the wall to make a bot-sized gurney.

"Show time" he pulled the gurney with him as he ran over to the lift.

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Meanwhile

A young girl walked up the dirt road known as Canyon road, humming a song she had learned in music class that day.

The wind plucked at a few strands of her raven hair that had fallen out of her ponytail and she looked up to the ridge that was known to the locals as "Griffin Crest"

'I wonder why they have a fence around it? Are they trying to keep something in or are they trying to keep something out?'

The girl shrugged. 'Oh well, probably not my business,' the girl continued her walk until she got to an old cabin that still had the "sold" sign in the front yard.

The girl quietly let herself in and looked around to see if anyone was home and closed the door behind her, wincing when the sound was louder than anticipated. 'Ah, Crabapples! Not exactly a ninja, are you?'

The girl froze for a moment to listen for any signs that someone might have heard that. Hearing none, she went into the kitchen to fix herself a quick snack to eat while she worked on her homework.

Since no one else was around, she thought she would take advantage of this fact and sit at the table to work for her homework/snack time rather than in her room like she normally did.

However she lost track of time and let her guard down, gasping when she realized it was dark out and she could see headlights shining into the window as a car pulled into the driveway.

'Oh no, they're here,"

The girl threw her books and papers into her back pack and ran up the stairs just as the door opened and someone came staggering through. She prayed they didn't see her but ran faster as a man's voice shouted with a slur. "Hey! You…"

She just made it to her bedroom but somehow the person chasing her caught up and pulled the door closed. "Where do you think you're going?"

The girl cried out as the door closed on her hand.

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Blades walked to his quarters in a daze, he had been operating on Boulder ever since they brought him back to the firehouse.

Even with the help of Graham and Doc Greene and with Ratchet talking them through anything they didn't know how to do—just because Blades was the team's medic didn't mean he knew everything about Cybertronian medicine—via the comm. line they used it took until late at night to get him patched up.

Now it was up to the mech's own self-repair systems and adequate rest to get him back on his treads and peds.

Graham had fallen asleep in the med. bay in the chair he sat in when he decided to keep him partner company and Doc Greene went home so the Copterbot was going to his quarters for some recharge himself, dreading spending the night in his room alone after having a roommate for so long.

On his way back to the quarters, Blades found Chase in the main area by the T.V., watching the late night news if the sounds were any indication. "Chase, what are you doing up so late?"

Chase looked up at him. "As it would appear, you were correct in your implied assumption that Heatwave was close to having his heat cycle. While we all agreed to share quarters in the event one of us need to be isolated when we moved in I did not feel comfortable letting myself in while you were with Boulder in the med. bay,"

He glanced at the T.V. "That and I heard many humans referring to this program called 'C.O.P.S.' and I wanted to see what it is about,"

He looked back up at Blades. "How's Boulder?"

Blades sighed "He'll be okay… I think. Right now it's a waiting game," he looked down the hallway that went to where the quarters were and slowly turned to look back at Chase. "Heatwave's in your guys' quarters, right?"

"Yes, why do you ask?"

Blades hesitated before walking away. "The room is yours tonight. You remember the code?"

Chase looked up from glancing at the screen again only to find Blades was already gone.

He picked up the Cybertronian sized remote that Doc Greene had made especially for them and debated whether he should turn down the volume so he wouldn't disturb any of his fellow Rescue Bots since Cybertronians have excellent hearing and everyone else would be trying to recharge or if he should turn the volume up in case Blades and Heatwave weren't actually planning on recharging.

Chase blushed at the thought of the latter option as he pressed the small button with the plus sign on it, not wanting to think of his teammates doing… well, whatever they were doing it had better not be on his berth.

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Heatwave lay on his berth, trying to recharge but couldn't; his entire lower body ached, his spark was pulsating so vigorously that it felt like it was trying to break its way out of his chest cavity and his whole frame felt like he was on fire.

After what felt like hours of solitary confinement in the quarters he usually shared with Chase, he heard a knock at the door.

He knew it wouldn't be Chase since the police mech knew the current situation and none of the humans were able to knock on the door hard enough the make that much noise so that left only Blades and Boulder and since Boulder was in the med. bay…

"H-Heatwave?"

'Yep, it's Blades,' Heatwave winced as he hauled himself to his peds and staggered to the door, he almost opened it but stopped himself. 'Get it together Heatwave,'

"Blades?"

He heard a scraping noise against the door and Blades answered. "Hey, Heatwave,"

His lover sounded shook up and he wanted to make sure he was alright but he had a responsibility to his team to check on Boulder as well. "How's Boulder?"

Blades told him the same thing he told Chase and bit his lower lip component before sheepishly asking "Heatwave… can I come in?"

Heatwave took a shuddering intake to calm himself and his systems, his frame shaking from both "excitement" and an attempt to restrain himself. 'Down boy…' "Blades, I… maybe it's not the best time for that,"

Blades pressed his helm and his servos against the door and leaned on it, not knowing Heatwave was doing the same on his side. "Heatwave… I ran into Chase in the main area, he told me what was going on…"

"Slagger,"

Blades continued. "Heatwave, remember what we talked about last time this happened?"

Heatwave rattled his memory banks. 'Pit, I don't know. That was eons ago,' "Blades, that was over thousands of vorns ago,"

Thinking that meant Heatwave had changed his mind about it—about how they agreed they would help each other through their heat cycles when Blades felt he was ready for interface—Blades hung his helm and his shoulders drooped. "Oh, well, um… it's okay. I just wanted to help you but if you don't want me to I understa…"

He was cut off when the door opened and he was suddenly in Heatwave's arm-servos and the mech gave him a heated kiss; both figuratively and literally given how Heatwave was living up to his designation right then.

Heatwave broke the kiss and said with his vents heaving "You talk too much,"

Blades blushed as Heatwave led him over to his berth and the two sat down. "So… how do you want to do this?"

Heatwave shrugged and kissed Blades again. "Don't care… as long as… we do… something,"

Blades reciprocated the kiss but knew Heatwave was going to need more than that in a moment. He adjusted his grip on Heatwave and said between kisses. "I know… but… gotta be…"

He pulled away and put a coy digit to Heatwave's lip components. "Careful,"

The red mech growled impatiently so Blades grasped his shoulder and explained. "Heatwave, with you being in heat there's an increased chance of you sparking and you won't be able to do your job very well if you're Carrying,"

Blades pulled away from Heatwave and looked down at the berth padding and dug his servos into it "And from what I've seen you probably don't want sparklings anyway,"

Heatwave paused for a moment and lifted Blades' chin to kiss him before saying "Robo-baby was cute but it felt like Doc was mocking us,"

Blades smiled, elated that Heatwave didn't really hate kids. 'So there's hope yet… in the future anyway,'

Heatwave convulsed and his cooling fans kicked on. "If we're going to do something better do it now," he looked up at Blades with feverish optics and panted. "Firewalls on?"

Blades ran a quick systems check and nodded. "Yeah, yours?"

Heatwave nodded and pulled Blades close. "Anything else we gotta do to be… you know… careful?"

Blades pushed away from Heatwave, ignoring the mech's whimper and went over to the door.

"Blades, you horrible tease!"

Blades locked the door and made sure the human door into the room was also locked before turning around with a mock-hurt look. "I was making sure the door was locked," he got a mischievous smirk and slowly walked towards the berth with a slight hip sway. "Why? Did you want me to tease?"

When he got back to the berth Heatwave pulled him close and fell back so the Copter bot landed on top of him. "Blades… anything else?"

Blades considered for a moment before rolling over and switching your positions. "How about you spike me this time? That way there's no chance of you sparking at all. I can't go knocking up our team leader, now can I?"

Heatwave rolled his optics at the human phrase and managed to get out one last—partially—coherent thought through his vocalizer before his mating protocols took over. "Blades, are you sure?"

Blades nodded shakily. "Y-yes, I said I was ready, didn't I?"

Heatwave ran his digits along the transformation seams in Blades' side and said in a husky voice "And what might my 'Cutting Edge' want me to do to him?"

Blades stiffened at the nickname he hadn't heard in so long it might has well have belonged to a stranger, his engines revved not unlike they did right before one of his races back on Cybertron way back when as he reached up and wrapped his arm-servos around his lover's neck.

When he broke the kiss he whispered shakily. "Make the pain go away, Heatwave. Yours and mine. Help me forget today…"

Heatwave looked down at the orange-and-white mech for a moment before grinning wolfishly and nuzzling a hot spot in the crook of his neck. "Babe, when we're through here you'll be lucky if you can remember which way is up!"


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