Blades was tossing and turning in his sleep, trapped within the grip of a nightmare.

xxx

Crashing. Fire. Cybertronians screaming. Energon splattering and catching fire. A severed helm landing in his lap.

xxx

"AAAHHHH!"

Jackie woke up, startled by the scream. She walked to the door, old Easter Bunny, Snowball, in hand. Everyone was running past her. She figured one of the Rescue Bots had a bad dream. She saw some of the Burns had used the fire poll. She activated her Transmutate mode, blue hair, silver skin, blue eyes, and a jetpack-thing coming from between her lower shoulder blades, and flew down the fire poll-thing. Good thing she wasn't wearing a nightgown. She followed the Burns and her three sorta-friends to a room on the Rescue Bots ship. She saw Blades crying and whimpering in the fetal position. She figured that he screamed and himself because she knew she smelled something bad.

"It's all right Blades," Boulder said, calming his teammate down, "it was just a bad dream."

"N-no it wasn't," Blades said between sobs, "It was a flashback."

"Ya had to say it," Chroma said meanly to First Aid.

"You don't think I feel bad enough!" First Aid shot back.

"C'mon Abby," Jackie whispered to her horse, "Let's go help calm down Blades."

Jackie and Abby walked as quietly as possible and hid under Blades' berth. They waited until everyone was gone, which took 30 minutes, then Jackie poked her head out.

"Is it safe to come out?"Abby asked.

"Yep."

Jackie walked over to the night stand to help her climb into the berth. Abby saw her struggling a bit and used her head to push her up.

"Thanks Abby." Jackie whimpered.

"You're welcome,"Abby said, "now help me up."

"Herp!" Jackie was struggling with helping her horse up. She yelped when she felt someone or something touch her lower back.

"What're you doing here?" a tired voice said.

Jackie turned her head around to look at Blades.

"To sleep with you in case you have another bad dream," Jackie said, grunting because she was holding her horse.

Blades extended his arm to pull Abby up. Jackie crawled onto his chest.

"G'night," she whispered.

"Same here." Abby yawned.

Blades put a servo on Jackie's back and closed his optics. Maybe I won't have that dream again now. he thought before getting a good night's rest.

Xxx

First Aid was taking Blades' his daily rations when he saw Blades sleeping with two guests. He walked over to the berth and woke them up.

"Guys," he said softly, "it's time to get up."

"Why?" Jackie yawned.

"Chief's going to introduce us to the town, remember?"

"Food first!" Abby said.

"Food first," Jackie said, "then introduction."

Jackie and Abby got out of the berth. Blades started to get out but First Aid stopped him.

"You're on bed rest, remember?" First Aid reminded Blades.

"I'm just going to the mech's room," Blades told First Aid.

"Okay, but remember that you need rest."

Then First Aid left to get ready to meet to townspeople.

xxx

"We have to pretend to be mindless machines!?" Chroma said, clearly upset.

"Yes," Chase said trying to explain. "We have to pretend to be mindless machines so the townspeople won't suspect anything."

"Wha' a'out mif?" Jackie asked with a mouth full of food.

"Dye your hair blue."

"Okay."

"And possibly wear blue contacts."

"Nuh-uh!"

"She doesn't like to stick thing in her eyes." Chroma said.

"Where will I live?"

"She wants to know if there's a farm or something to keep her horse." Lindsy explained.

"I'll talk to Chief about her living place later." Chase told them.

xxx

First Aid retracted his battle mask and visor for the first time at the fire house. He splashed some cool water on his face.

Okay First Aid, he thought to himself, don't worry. These bots won't harm you. They won't beat you. They won't molest you. He looked in the mirror and put a servo near a scar on the right side of his face that a former teammate, someone he trusted, hit him with a sword while drunk. A lot of bad things happened to him because of that mech. He took a deep breath. "Rotors w-won't find you here." First Aid tried to keep back some tears, but a few escaped.

"Hey, First Aid."

First Aid drew his battle mask and visor and turned around. Heatwave was behind him.

"The others are ready to go," Heatwave said, "you okay."

"Yeah, I'm okay."

Heatwave looked at him suspiciously. "All right then."

First Aid relaxed a bit.

"But I want to talk to you later." Heatwave told him.

First Aid tensed up. Why did he sound so angry?