chapter 1
Many years ago Heatwave visited Cybertron and had a fling with his old girlfriend Hightemp. He left because he had to get the academy ready to start teaching ones to be rescue bots. Then his girlfriend discovered she was pregnant she didn't want to hurt her boyfriend's career so she decided to birth her child and care for it by herself.
She was happily expecting her sparkling and then came the accident. To save her life and her son's life they did an emergency C-section. Her son was born safe and sound and she was so happy to finally hold him. "Hot shot," she said when she held him. She raised Hot shot with love and affection. She got a job to help take care of Hot shot and one of her friends would watch him when she worked late.
Then one day Hot shot waited and waited for to come back from work and she didn't come back his mother's friend was worried. Then an officer came to the house and explained that Hightemp had disappear shortly after where she worked caught on fire and she couldn't find her she was missing.
Hot shot missed his mother and he wanted her so badly. He was growing up and becoming a fine cube player and later became a rescue bot recruit. Hot shot had a picture of his mother and it meant a lot to him. Today he dropped it Wedge picked it up and looked at it. Hot shot saw Wedge had it and snatched it away.
"Don't touch this don't any of you ever touch this!" Hot shot snapped.
Wedge looked shocked as did the others. "Sorry Hot shot I shouldn't have touched your picture but you dropped it and I wanted to give it back," Wedge told him.
"Sorry," Hot shot said.
"Who is the lady in the picture?" Medix asked.
"That's my mother," Hot shot said.
"Wow you look so much like her," Whirl said.
"Thanks," Hot shot said.
"I hope we can meet her," Hoist said.
"That most likely is impossible, because she is most likely dead she disappeared in fire at the restaurant she worked at, no body was found and she wasn't seen getting out she is most like gone," Hot shot said.
"Hot shot we're so sorry about your mother," Wedge said.
"It's okay, she was very kind and brave and athletic, I also have a letter she wrote to my father she never sent to him but I never opened it." Hot shot said. "It says Heatwave on it, but I doubt it's our teacher Heatwave just another bot named Heatwave but I am not sure about this." he said.
Heatwave came in and saw Hot shot's picture. "Hey where did you get this picture of my girlfriend?" Heatwave asked.
"This is my mother, it's my favorite picture of her," Hot shot said.
"Hightemp is your mother?" Heatwave asked.
Hot shot nodded and pulled something else out and handed it to Heatwave. He saw it was Hot shot's birth certificate. He saw Hightemp's name on it and his name. Then Hot shot handed him the letter.
Heatwave was shocked to say the least. "I think a fraternity test is what is called for." Ratchet said. He took samples for Heatwave and Hot shot. Hot shot wasn't sure what to think of this. He looked a like his mother but his mother didn't have those water blasters like he did, but Heatwave had them. He had big blue optics while his mother's were green, Heatwave's were blue.
Ratchet took a look at the results. "Well what are the results?" Heatwave asked.
"Yes the suspense is nerve wrecking!" Hot shot said.
"Okay the results are in, and it says you are Hot shot's father Heatwave," Ratchet said. "It's 99.99% on the CNA matching," he said.
Heatwave looked at Hot shot and Hot shot just got up and walked out of the room not knowing what to think. "I think you should talk to him," Ratchet said.
Heatwave went outside and saw Hot shot playing cube probably to sort out his thoughts and feelings. "Hot shot, I would like to talk to you," he said.
"Okay," Hot shot said coming over. "Yes?" he asked.
"Hot shot I know I wasn't there for you or your mother if I had know I would have come and brought her to earth and we could've been together," Heatwave said. "So how is your mother I hope I can see her," Heatwave said.
Hot shot sighed and told him about the fire where his mom worked and how she was missing and no body was found and no one saw her come out. How no one knew if she was dead or alive. How he was currently living with his mother's best friend.
"Hot shot I am very sorry but now we know more, I know you spent most of your life without a father and I never been a father I am willing to try if you are," Heatwave told him.
"Okay," Hot shot said with a smile. "You want to give this is a shot?" he asked playing with the cube.
"I don't know Hot shot I never played cube before, I played lob ball and was champion at it, but never played cube, all I did was watch other bots play it." Heatwave said.
"Well you won't know until you try," Hot shot said.
"Um okay," Heatwave said. The cube was activated and it went all over the place. "This thing has a mind of it's own," he said.
"Just try to find a way to catch it," Hot shot said. Heatwave decided to give it a go and managed to catch it.
The two of them played cube for about an hour. "Okay I say that is enough," Heatwave said.
"It's fun playing cube, me and my friends here really enjoy," Hot shot said.
Heatwave had a thought. He did some research and found out other Cybertronian schools had cube teams and he thought students might have some fun and learn more about teamwork and each other's strengths and weaknesses by playing on a cube team.
"Okay recruits I know how much all of you love watching cube and playing cube, so I decided for us to start a cube to team to compete against other Cybertronian schools." Heatwave said.
"Awesome a cube team," the recruits said.
"We need a team name," Whirl said.
"How about the Amazing Rescuers?" Hot shot asked.
"I like that," Hoist said.
"Same here," Wedge said.
"I like it too," Medix said.
"That's a great name," Whirl said.
The rest of them agreed.
"Okay we now have a team the Amazing Rescuers," Heatwave said. "Grimlock since you played cube when you were younger you will be the coach," he said.
"Got it," Grimlock said.
The recruits sure were excited about playing cube against other school. Hot shot began to warm up. "What are you doing?" Wedge asked.
"Warming up, it's always best to stretch and do some exercises before you start playing a sport or doing any physical activity," Hot shot said.
"Well I do just fine in working out without it," Wedge said.
"Wedge take my advice, it's always best warm up, if you don't there is a higher chance of you getting hurt," Hot shot said.
"I'll be fine," Wedge said.
Medix came over and saw Hot shot warming up. "Hi Hot shot," Medix said.
"Hi Medix just warming up," Hot shot said.
"That is a good idea Hot shot because that way you are less likely to get hurt," Medix said. "Is it okay if I join you?" he asked.
"Go ahead," Hot shot said.
"Okay recruits now that you are all warmed up we can start practice," Grimlock said.
The recruits started their drills. "Ouch," Wedge said.
"You alright?" Hot shot asked as he and the others came over.
"I think so I was running when all the sudden my leg became stiff and sore." Wedge said.
Medix and Ratchet took a look. "It looks like a tight pulley nothing worry about just have to loosen and all done," Ratchet said.
"Great now I can play again," Wedge said.
"Hold it Wedge Ratchet hasn't cleared you yet," Grimlock said.
"No I haven't I noticed you were moving kind of rough and stiff did you even warm up before you started?" Ratchet asked.
"No I didn't," Wedge said.
"I told him to but he wouldn't listen," Hot shot said.
"But why do I have to warm up it's just exercise why should warm up just to play a sport if that is what it is?" Wedge asked.
"You could hurt yourself like earlier you should count yourself lucky that this one was just a tight pulley which is like a muscle cramp in humans, you could've hurt yourself much worse than this," Ratchet said.
"All athletes warm up before, practice and before a game." Hot shot said. "That is why you see me before cube doing all that stuff to help me play better and lessen my chances of hurting myself," Hot shot said.
"I guess I get it, warming up is important," Wedge said. "So can I play again?' he asked.
"Sure but after you warm up a little," Ratchet told him.
Things were continuing to change at the academy.