It wasn't long before the rest of the Firehouse was awake, and it seemed like everyone went to the garage to check on the situation. Blades was sitting on the edge of the nest, watching his son crawl around the inside. "Use your feet...!" He chuckled, gently nudging the tiny pterosaur's legs up under him, but as soon as he'd get moving again, he'd go back to dragging them behind him as he used his hands to pull himself along.

"What's up?" Cody asked.

"Well, he's mastered the 'Commando Crawl...'" Blades muttered. He nudged his son's legs back under him. "Watch." He stepped back, and once again, the tiny bot just dragged them behind. "...I'm trying to show him, but-"

"He'll get it." Cody assured, stroking the sparkling's head with a hand. "He's only a day old, after all."

"Right!" Graham agreed, "I mean he's already crawling. We humans take months to get to that point."

Blades smirked, "I'm not worried...Well, maybe a little. I mean, who knows what all that abuse to his egg could have done to effect him, you know?"

"He'll be fine..."

"Yeah...Fine."
Their eyes all turned to the door as it opened, and a shape rolled in, covered wheel to rooftop in snow. "Heatwave?"

There was a faint thumping, and then the snow broke off of Heatwave's door, letting Kade's leg stick out as he kicked it open. "Whew! That was...Eventful."

Heatwave sent heaps of snow plummeting to the floor as he transformed into robot mode, shaking the white substance from his chassis and shivering. "I'll say...Next time the Rubios should just stay home...!"

"Oh no!" Dani teased as she entered the room, "It's the abominable snowbot! Whatever shall we do!?"

Heatwave glared at the human, "Okay, snow can be fun. I admit to that." Heatwave brushed snow off of his helmet, "...But this is too much of it!"

"Can't say I disagree with Heatwave." Chief murmured, "It may be pretty, but it comes with its own problems."

Blades chuckled, and then looked down as his son squeaked. "What is it?" He followed the tiny bot's gaze to the pile of melting precipitation on the floor. "...The snow?" He collected the infant into his hand and walked outside of the garage. The entire island was still covered in a thick blanket of white, though thankfully none was presently falling from the clouds.

The little dinobot squeaked, and Blades lowered him down closer to the snow drifts by the firehouse. "You like the snow?" His son squirmed, reaching for the snow, and Blades gently placed the sparkling down on the ground. The little bot cooed, poking the snow with his tiny fingers and pulling little handfuls of it into his hands. His optics were wide as he played with the frozen substance, and Blades couldn't help but smile. The others came out and smiled as well.

"Aww...!" Dani cooed, "I almost wanna make him a little hat and mittens...!"

"You can't knit!" Kade expressed.

"But I could learn!...Probably..."

Taylor wrapped an arm around her, "I don't really see you enjoying knitting that much...It's not very thrilling."

"Touche..."

Blades watched for a few more minutes, and then scooped his son up into his hands once more. The little bot fussed, reaching for the snow again. "Hey, there will be plenty more playing later. We don't want you to freeze your circuits by getting too cold." His son whimpered a little bit more, but stopped as Blades rubbed noses with him. "I have got to think of a name for you...You can't be 'Baby Bot' forever."

"How about 'Tiny?'" Kade suggested, "That fits."

"But only temporarily." Heatwave informed, "He may wind up being not so tiny when he's full-grown."

"We're not doing 'Dinobutt.'" Boulder interjected as Blurr opened his mouth. "I know you better than you think..."

"Either way he looks much more active than when he hatched." Dani observed, "I guess that means he's gonna be okay."

"I'm just glad it's all over..." Blades murmured. "...Now I can finally relax, and just-"

He jumped as a loud noise came, and then extreme cold as a blast froze his right leg to the ground. "What the-"
He then looked where a pair of humans had a large weapon bolted down to a mobile platform and aimed at him.

"Let's just make this simple for all of us, aliens...! Hand it over..."

Blades' optics narrowed as he grumbled, "...Oh for Slagging Spark's Sake-"

"We're only asking once...!"

"Evan and Miles..." Blades hissed, "How many prison escapes is this now? Four? You'll have him over my dead spark!"

The rescue bot gasped as they fired at him again, ducking down and wrapping himself around his son as the blast slammed into him. A solid wall of ice formed around them, trapping the bot in place.

"Blades!" Heatwave shouted as his teammate froze over, and then they all ducked for cover as the twins fired at them as well. "Blades, are you-"

We're okay! We're okay... Blades assured through the comms. J-Just cold...

Heatwave gave a sigh of relief, and then turned back to their adversaries. "We need to take that freeze ray off their hands...!"

"I'm with you." Kade agreed. "But the question is how to do that without being frozen ourselves."

Heatwave overlooked the scene, and then saw Evan slipping away towards Blades. "Oh no you don't!" He fired water at the twin, knocking him back before ducking back behind his cover. The twins fired at the building, and Heatwave fired back. "Hey...That'll work."

"I want in on this." Boulder murmured, forming a snowball and flinging it at the twins. "Take that!"

"When did this become a snowball and water gun fight?" Dani asked into her comm. link as Blurr and Salvage looked at each other with grins of mischief.

"Just now..." Chief informed as Chase caught on and got some snow for his own projectile. "Rescue Bots...Fire at will!"

The Rescue Bots fired in intervals, some firing while others made new snowballs and then trading places. With the bots spread out all over the square, the twins were being bombarded with snow from all directions. Every time they'd try to fire at one of the bots, a massive pile of snow would come crashing down at them, taking out their aim.

In the midst of the super-sized snowball fight that had turned the firehouse yard into a battlefield, Servo took this as a good chance to run into the fray and start up another game: Keep-Away. He snatched the remote control from Miles with a growl and then took off running towards Boulder.

"Come back with that, Mutt!"

"Good boy, Servo!" Graham hissed as he took the control device from the dog's mouth.

Chief held up a hand, ceasing the onslaught of snow before walking towards the twins. "It's over, you two... You've lost."

"Hardly...!" Evan sneered as he tapped a button on his watch, and Graham gasped as the control panel began to fizzle and he dropped it to the ground.

"It's gonna overload!" He shouted.

Chief Burns gasped as the freeze ray began to whine and shake, making a run for cover. He didn't know if he'd make it, but Chase broke free of cover and transformed, the Chief landing in his seat as the ray exploded. Energy shot out in all directions, freezing anything it touched, and that included Chase.
Inside the rescue bot's cab, Chief yelped as Chase tipped to the side and he was thrown back against the door. The ice hardened, holding the police car in a diagonal position, and Chief could hear the ice stretching across his partner's chassis. There was a horrible squeaking as it crept into Chase's plating and pried it apart little by little. Chase grimaced, his expression on screen one of pain. "Chase, are you-"

"D-Don't worry...!" Chase hissed, opening one optic. "...I've felt worse...!"

Now the Burnses were down two bots and one human. The twins started to make their escape, but Quickshadow swerved out in front of them, grabbing them as she transformed into bot mode and held them up. "Nice try, Chaps, but you're not going anywhere."

The fight finally seemed to be over, and the Burnses slowly peeked out of their hiding spots.

Kade was the first to reach Chase. "Dad!?" He shouted, pounding on the ice.

I'm fine, Kade. Chief Burns assured through the comm. Don't worry.

"Phew...!"

Dani tossed a can of de-icer spray to Kade, and then pulled out her own and began on Blades. "Come on partner, please be okay...!"
The mist melted through the ice, and with loud cracks the rescue bot broke free, giving a moan as he fell onto his side in the snow with his son in his arms. Dani ran over to his face, bending down and stroking his helm. "Are you okay...?"

Blades' optics opened a little. "C-Cold... I'll be okay...!"
The rescue bot's arms creaked as he moved, exposing his sparkling. The little bot squeaked, crawling out of his father's grip and then nuzzling Blades with pitiful squeaks. Blades grimaced as he got back onto his feet with help from Heatwave, and Boulder carefully picked up the sparkling.

"Come on...Let's get back inside..."

"Ow ow ow ow...!"

"Sorry, Chase..."

The police bot winced as Boulder used a tool to bend his plating back. The pain was less than it had been, but even after he'd been defrosted, his engine had refused to start and his joints were frozen, resulting in the other bots having to push him back into the Firehouse. "H-How's Blades...?"

"Warmer..." Blades replied. He sat by the space heater, his little one in his arms fast asleep. "Okay, so far I've been attacked by Madeline Pynch, Evan and Miles, and Lord Chumley. I'm not going to name anyone else or else potentially jinx myself, but seriously... Is every person we've ever slighted after me now?"

"Pretty close..." Heatwave muttered. "What's your point?"

"This place used to be safe..."

"No, you are not running away!" Blurr insisted. "We'll figure this out."

"I never said I was going to!" Blades looked down as his son shifted position, "I've been away from home too much lately... It's just...These past few weeks have really given me a new perspective on the greed of humans, and what lengths they'll go to get what they want."

"And I'm sorry you had to see some of our race's uglier side." Graham apologized.

"You Burnses are amazing...If any of you go bad, I'll be seriously diappointed."

A sudden sneeze from the youngest rescue bot caught their attention, especially when a bolt of blue left his beak. It went upwards for a moment, and then exploded with a soft poof, the scattered remains falling down as little pieces of ice.

"Whoa!" Kade teased, "Talk about having a cold!"

Though Dani elbowed her brother hard, Blades was smiling, and he picked his son up, holding him up so that they were optic to optic. "...Snowblast...That's what I'm going to call you."

"Welcome to the family, Snowy." Blurr greeted. "Just don't give us all frostbite with that."

Blades' smile widened as Snowblast cooed, reaching for Blades' face with his little fingers. "...I am going to do everything in my spark to keep you safe..."

"So..."
They turned as Frankie slid down the firepole to the floor before leaning against it with a grin. "...Which one of you is next?"

"Don't even joke." "Certainly not!" "Let's not think about that right now."

The Burns all grinned as the rest of the bots all began to get flustered at the question.

"Whatever happens...We're all here for each other." Chief informed. "Until the end of the line."

"Until all are one..." the bots responded.