Transmutate prologue
Heatwave's Sunday was the same as all the rest: wake up, get daily ration of Energon, take a long and hot shower (when you're a fire-response bot you need really hot and long showers to feel the heat because your armor is very heat resistant), and give Optimus the week's review of rescues, what the humans did, etc., if there wasn't an emergency going on.
"Heatwave! Would you quit using all the hot water?"
Heatwave turned his helm in the direction of the voice. It was Kade, dripping wet and in a towel (and no, Heatwave wasn't on step three of his Sunday routine, he was going to give the review).
"I told you that I can't feel that much heat with my armor." Heatwave calmly replied.
"Screw you and your stupid armor!" Kade shouted.
Not again, Heatwave thought, this happened nearly every week, "Shouldn't you turn off the water after showering?"
"Of course, I-" then Kade remembered something, "dang it!" He then ran to the elevator. He forgot to turn the water off.
Now Heatwave could contact Optimus.
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"... and then Blades fainted," Heatwave told Optimus. "Who knew Bret could pull off a costume like that?" (It was a very scary zombie.)
"What did the humans say when he fainted?" Optimus asked.
"Kade said that they should probably refuel us."
"Good."
"Well, I guess I'll contact you next week," Heatwave was about to turn off the monitor.
"Before you turn off the Monitor," the Prime began, "I have some news for you-"
"You're gonna let me join your team?" Heatwave eagerly asked.
"No."
"Aw..."
"This is for you and your team."
"I'll get them."
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A few moments later, Rescue Squad Stigma 17 was in the monitor room.
"This is very important to all of you," Optimus told them, "four more Autobots a Maximal, a Pretender, and a Transmutate will be joining your team. Chroma," a picture of a femme with a color scheme like Chase's and her alt. mode, a police motorcycle appeared on the screen. Chase thought she was hot. "First Aid," a clip of an ambulance rolling onto a military base was shown. The ambulance transformed into a robot, which had a battle mask and visor covering his face and electro-magnetic clamps in his wrists, powerful enough to lift 20 tanks, as shown in the clip. Blades frowned, fearing he knew why First Aid would join them. "Brains," a small bot who turned into a laptop was seen. "Wheelie," a clip was seen of a toy monster truck transforming into its bipedal mode. "K-9," a picture of a German Shepperd was seen. Boulder got a lump in his tanks because he knew Chief Burns wouldn't allow a dog in the house. "Lindsy," the only picture there was, was that of a blonde in an animal control outfit. "and Jacqueline Morici." the teen was looking at a horse. She had blue hair and eyes until she looked at the camera and they turned brown and hazel.
"How will we find Chroma and First Aid humans?" Boulder asked.
"We are still working on it."
"What are the Pretender and the Transmutate gonna do?" Blades asked.
"They will be animal control."
"Now I won't have to get Mr. Pettypaws out of that stupid tree anymore." Heatwave said.
"One more thing," Optimus said, "Jacqueline has trouble controlling her Transmutate abilities sometimes. She has been known to be violent. Good luck with your new teammates."
The screen turned off.
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"One of them's a dog?" Chief Burns said.
"Yes," Chase said, "Boulder is worried you won't allow him to stay."
"Well," Chief thought for a moment, "I guess we could have K-9 stay for a while, but I don't think he should stay long. You know the rules."
"Yes sir."
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"Animal control would be nice to have," Graham said. "This Jackie girl seems to take good care of them."
"Yeah." Boulder said. And maybe she'll give us some tips on dogs.
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"What do you mean you don't like the new medic?" Dani asked.
"I think he handles gory stuff better than me," Blades said sadly.
"You don't know that for sure." But he probably does.
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"So, Chase has a crush on this girl?" Kade said, laughing a bit.
"Yeah," Heatwave said, also laughing, "she is way out of his league!"
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Three days later.
Chief arrived at the military base at 07:00. When he got out of the car he heard barking. He looked to Building E and saw a German Shepard running to him, looking ready to attack. Just when he thought he was going to be bitten, the dog sniffed him. The dog backed up.
"K-9, Maximize!" the dog said before transforming.
"Never gonna get used to that." Chief said.
"Hi," the Maximal said extending a servo, "I'm K-9."
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"Jackie, Chief Burns is here." Wheelie said into the comm. link.
"She likes horseback riding." Brains explained.
"And how old is she?" Chief Burns asked.
"16,"Lindsy said, "she socializes better with animals than humans."
"Good to know."
"So, this is the flesh bag?" a female voice said.
Chief turned around to see two Autobots, one white, and one blue.
"Chroma, " the white one said, "don't be mean."
Chroma rolled her optics.
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Jackie and Abby, her horse, arrived just in time to leave. Jackie grabbed her bags and got into the car.
Chief looked at her as the car started to drive to the ferry, bots, and animals in tow.
"You're gonna love Griffin Rock." Chief said.
"Don't make promises you can't keep, Dude." Jackie said. She noticed a puffin flying by and decided to talk to it and see if it had been to the island.
Chief looked in shock as her hair and eyes turned blue. That might be a problem.