Blades, Boulder, and Chroma walked up to the MHQ.
"Two words," Blades said. "Road trip."
"And I thought you were joking," Chroma said.
"We told ya," Blades said, regarding the whole-time travel fiasco.
"But it's still hard to believe, though."
"We're gonna need a bigger road." Boulder said as they looked at the huge vehicle.
xxx
Inside, Cody was telling Heatwave how to drive it.
"Cody," Heatwave said, "I know how to drive."
"Or do you?" Jackie said, mostly because she didn't understand how non-beasties could see in their alt. modes.
Kade was talking to himself about the date plan with Hayley: "... and maybe we'll have some hummus."
"What're ya' talkin' 'bout?" Jackie asked Kade, due to her social disorder making her unable to take two sentences and understand both.
"Exactly what I was thinking," Heatwave said with a chuckle.
"My date with Hayley tomorrow." Kade answered.
"That chick you knocked up?" Jackie said as Cody left.
"Yes, Jackie," Kade said between clenched teeth while Heatwave tried not to laugh, "can you not remind me?"
Vrrrn... VRRRN!
"Huh?" Jackie and Kade both said. They looked at Heatwave, who was looking at the dashboard and had the expression that resembled a teen who finally got his/her driver's license after years of bugging his/her parents about it.
SCREEE!
"AAAHHHH!" Kade screamed as his chair practically flew back, nearly slamming him against the wall of the MHQ.
Jackie, who was sitting on a rail, gasped as she fell back, dropping 15-20 feet before landing on her head. She whimpered quietly before blacking out.
xxx
"Wow," Boulder said, "Kade must be a good driving teacher."
Boulder really is mostly brawn and low brain, Chroma thought.
xxx
Heatwave made a sharp turn.
"AAHHH!" Kade was still screaming, "Slow down!"
Heatwave screeched to a halt.
"Guys," Chief Burns said over the comm. link, "I'm in pursuit of a speeder on Old Canyon Road and require assistance."
Heatwave grinned a bit. Maybe the MHQ will stop the speeder. "On our way," he said before putting the pedal to the medal.
"AHH! Come on!" Kade screamed.
xxx
First Aid was driving to his directed coordinates, where Heatwave was getting driving lessons. He slowed down when saw the road end.
Looks like I'm on foot, he thought while transforming.
As he was walking, he saw something shining. He squinted his optics trying to figure out what it was. Are those, he thought, headlights?
Vrrr...! The sound of an engine met his audio receptors. Before he knew it, a large vehicle was coming at him.
"Woah!" He dodged to his left to avoid getting hit.
Snap!
First Aid gasped. He looked at his ankle. It was broken. The pain started to come.
xxx
Chief and Chase were struggling to catch up to the speeder, but he was too fast. Chase's sensors picked up a signal. A large object was moving quickly to the road.
What? Chase thought.
The MHQ came out of the woods and onto the road.
"AAHHH! Daddy!" Kade screamed.
xxx
Jerry was changing the tire of his bus when he saw a pinkish convertible speeding towards him. A larger vehicle drove over the convertible and opened its back, which the convertible drove into. The vehicle stopped right in front of him. The next thing he knew, he was on his back and Chief Burns was next to him. He figured he fainted.
xxx
Chroma and Boulder were on their way to help Chief and Chase stop the speeder while Blades took Cody to the firehouse when they found First Aid crying a little while holding his leg.
"What happened?" Boulder asked. "Are you okay?"
"M-my ankle," First Aid said, "it's broken."
xxx
"Never do that again!" Kade said to Heatwave. He started to run out of the MHQ. "Gonna be sick..."
"Hmph! I wasn't that bad," Heatwave said. "Jackie, do you thi-," Heatwave started to ask when he noticed that Jackie wasn't sitting on the rail where he last saw her. Nervous, he looked down. He saw Jackie on the floor, unconscious and bleeding. "Oh, no. No, no, no, no. No!" Heatwave said as he gently picked up Jackie. He commed First Aid. "First Aid, I need you here, now!"
"I can't," First Aid replied, "my ankle's broken."
"Uh, okay, you, uh, get your leg fixed."
"You okay? You sound-" Click! Heatwave hung up on First Aid. He ran to Kade, who appeared to have vomited.
"Kade, we need to get Jackie to the hospital!"
"Fine," Kade said. Then he noticed the blood. "Oh, boy. Quick, get in your alt. mode!"
Heatwave transformed and Kade put Jackie in the back seat, minding her head.
"Okay," Kade said bucking in, "Let's go."
Heatwave drove as fast he could to the hospital.
xxx
Cody finished his math homework and took the fire pole down to the garage. He walked over to Blades and Frankie, who were playing a dancing game.
"Wow, Blades," Dani said as she watched, "you're really good at this game."
"Hey, Frankie," Cody said, "do you want to go to the Hall of Inspiration with me?"
"Not now, Cody," Frankie said, "Maybe after platform 12."
"Oh," Cody said disappointed, "okay." He walked over to Heatwave and Chase, who were playing a strategy game.
"Swordsman takes your flank," Heatwave said, moving a blue circle over a magenta circle on a green grid. The magenta circle disappeared.
"And archer takes your swordsman," Chase said, moving a magenta circle over the blue circle, which disappeared.
"What are you guys playing?" Cody asked.
"The Cybertronian name is untranslatable," Chase said.
"'Chase Always Wins' is a close second!" Heatwave, who was a bit angry, said.
"Can I play?" Cody asked.
"The game is currently set for two players," Chase said.
"Oh," Cody said, again disappointed, "I'll see what Boulder and Doc Greene are up to."
"Okay," Heatwave said to Chase, "beat this move!"
Chase beat him.
xxx
Cody was walking to Boulder and Doc Greene when...
"Hey," a female voice with a slight Japanese accent said. Cody looked in the direction of the voice. He saw a girl, around Jackie's age of Japanese descent, with pink highlights, a dark purple tee, shorts and purple leggings, and a pink cell phone in her hand. "Do you know where the..." She looked at a text on her phone, "Griffin Rock Hospital is?"
"Who are you and how did you get in?" Cody immediately asked.
"I'm Miko, Jackie's friend," the teen said. "Ratchet said I could come if I behave myself."
"Oh," Cody said, "I would tell you where the hospital is... but I keep forgetting"
"That's okay," Miko said, "Do you thi-"
"GANGWAY!" K-9 screamed.
Cody and Miko jumped out of the way
CRASH!
xxx
Two minutes earlier...
"Okay," Brains said, holding a pencil and paper, "let's see how you do in your transmetal mode." Brains looked at Wheelie, who had a camera. "Camera ready?"
"Yep," Wheelie said, "I'm so gonna win the bet."
"What bet?"
"To see if I wipe out," K-9 said, "which I will not!"
"We'll see about that!' Wheelie said pressing "record."
"Let's just do the test..." Brains said.
K-9 activated his transmetal mode. His transmetal mode's base color was a blue a few shades lighter than Chase, and had white mid-leg down on the front ones and knee down on the back ones, and had two white rocket things on his hips.
"Ready," Brains said. K-9 got into position. "... set..." K-9's rockets started. "GO!"
K-9 zoomed off, dashing through the obstacles that Wheelie and Brains set up. I so won't have to wear that costume! he thought. Then he felt his hindquarters getting ahead of him. Uh-oh. "GANGWAY!" he yelled. The next thing he knew, there was a bucket stuck on his head.
xxx
Chroma was calmly reading an eBook when she heard a crash. She went to investigate and discovered that K-9 had failed at using his transmetal mode, again.
Cody and Miko were trying to get the bucket off K-9's head while Wheelie laughed and Brains looked at the video footage to see what went wrong this time.
Chroma got the bucket off K-9's head.
xxx
Cody and Miko went over to where Boulder and Doc Greene were. They appeared to be working on some inventions.
"What are you guys doing?" Cody asked.
"And what the heck is on your head?" Miko asked, looking at the thing on Doc Greene's head.
"It's an inspiration counter," Doc explained. "So far, I've had," the number 43 appeared on the screen, "43 inspirations, 44 if you count the inspiration counter."
"And these are energizers," Boulder said, answering Cody's question. "We R and D'd them," he turned on his energizer (it looked like a drill), but it shorted out and smoke came out of it, "... too much D."
"What the-" Miko said. then she gasped as she picked up an item that looked like a fancy Lightsaber handle, "is this a Lightsaber?"
"Of sorts," Doc said. "It has three functions: Lightsaber," he turned a dial, like on some flashlights and an energon blue light formed from the hilt, resulting in a Lightsaber light, "lasso," the light turned into a lasso, "and Taser." the light receded and two prong things came out and some electricity sparkled between them.
"I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Jackie was talking about Star Wars, rodeos, and tasing people."
"Yes."
"I don't think she'll ever stop talking," Boulder said.
"She's just trying to socialize," Miko explained.
Cody noticed something on the table that resembled a lava lamp. "What's this?" he asked as he picked it up.
"It's a vacuum accelerator," Doc explained. "It can teleport items. Would you like to see how it works?"
"Yeah."
"Let me put my cellphone on record," Miko said as she pushed a button on her phone.
They walked over to Kade, who was working on the MHQ.
"Try it now, Dad," Kade said. The engine sputtered. "Ugh! I'm never letting Heatwave drive this thing again!"
Doc put the vacuum accelerator in Kade's tool box and pressed a button on the remote he held in his hand and the tool box teleported.
xxx
Ratchet had finished First Aid's leg and was washing his servos when...
BONK!
"Ow!" Ratchet exclaimed when something hit him on the helm. He caught the item in his servo and looked at it. It was a tool box, but with an odd tool that resembled a lava lamp. "Who threw this?!" Ratchet said as he looked around. "Well I'm keeping it." he muttered when no one answered. He places the tool box in his subspace.
xxx
Kade went to get something from his tool box, but it was gone.
"Hey," Kade said, "who took my tool box?"
Cody, Doc, and Miko laughed.
"Give me back my tool box you guys!"
Cody took a half step back.
"Relax, dude," Miko said, "we'll give it back."
Doc pushed the button again. Nothing happened.
xxx
"Whoa!" Ratchet yelled as his body teleported from outside of the med bay to... the moon. "What the ..." Ratchet wondered as he took the tool box out of his subspace and looked at the odd tool. "Must be a teleporter of some kind."
xxx
"That's odd," Doc said pressing the button a few more times, "it worked on the previous tests. Something must be tampering with the return."
"Don't you know where it is?" Cody asked.
"Not exactly."
"Cody," Graham said as he came out of the MHQ, "come check this out."
Cody and Miko walked into the MHQ.
"It's a mobile command center," Graham explained, "like the one in the firehouse."
"Cool," Miko said snapping a picture.
"Noble," Cody said as he sat in the seat.
The emergency line went off.
"Griffin Rock Emergency," Cody said as he answered it.
"Some guy's stuck on the lighthouse." the caller said.
Cody pressed a few buttons and the lighthouse appeared on the monitor- and a parasailer was stuck on the top of it!
"What the-?!" Miko mouthed.
"We see you Mr. Whitaker," Cody said, "I'll send help right away."
"Rescue Bots," Heatwave said, "roll to the rescue!"
The bots did that. Chroma would've gone with them, but she was looking for Ratchet, who had mysteriously disappeared.
xxx
The bots arrived at the scene and Dani had a feeling that she knew the rescuee.
"Oh, my gosh," Dani said, "it's Taylor! Remember, Blades, we helped him land his plane."
"What's with the sudden interest and how do you know his name?" Blades asked.
"I know all the pilots names on the island."
"Name two others."
"Can we focus on the rescue?"
Blades rolled his optics as he lowered his winch so Kade could get Taylor down.
xxx
"Dad," Frankie said, "I can't find the vacuum accelerator anywhere."
"You guys try finding Ratchet," Chroma said.
"Uh, I think a high tech prototype might be more important!"
"Well, excuse me, but I'm talking about one of the last Autobot medics on this stupid dirt pile!"
"Now isn't the time for arguing, guys," K-9 said (he was still at the firehouse because of the crash landing, so to speak.), "and has anyone thought that Ratchet found the vacuum whatever and put it in his subspace?"
"Yeah," Brains said, "I've been tracking Ratchet's signal and it's been popping up in every other place in the world."
"Say what?" Chroma said in shock."
xxx
Meanwhile, in the MHQ, an unconscious Ratchet teleported to the front of the vehicle where you couldn't really see him.
"You know what," Chroma said, "I'm going to the monitor room to see if I can-"
Then the MHQ teleported.
"Well," Chroma said with sarcasm, "this day keeps getting better."
xxx
"Chief! Chief! Chief! Chief!"
"What, K-9?" Chief Burns said into the commlink.
"We got good news and bad news," K-9 said.
"The good news," Brains said, "we found Ratchet and the teleporter."
"The bad news," Wheelie said, "Ratchet probably put it in his subspace and teleported into the MHQ, where Cody and Miko are, and teleported the MHQ."
"Where di-" Chief started before Chroma cut him off.
"I'm trying to find them!" Chroma called. "They have their cell phones, right?"
"Chroma!" a female voice said through the inter comm.
"What now?"
"Jackie ran out of the hospital," the voice was Lindsy, "I think she's transmutating!"
"Chief, we're gonna look for Jackie." Chroma hung up.
xxx
Cody was climbing down from the MHQ's MCC when his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID. It was Doc Greene.
"Hi, Doc Greene," Cody said.
"Cody, do you know where you are?" Doc said with worry.
"In the MHQ at the firehou-"Cody was cut off when he heard Miko gasp and swore something in Japanese. He ran over to the wind a saw that the MHQ was in the middle of the river. "Make that the river."
"Daddy says the vacuum accelerator has an emergency reboot button on its side," Frankie said.
"The what?" a male voice said.
Cody and Miko looked behind them and saw Ratchet. Miko held out her hand and had the give-it-or-else look ok her face. It took Ratchet a few seconds to realize what they needed and gave them Kade's tool box. Cody took the teleporter and pressed the red button. Nothing happened.
"It's not working," he said.
"Don't worry you two. we're on our way," Doc said, "In the meantime, think buoyant thoughts!"
xxx
"Ughhh!" Jackie groaned as she struggled not to transmutate. I feel like the dude in An American Werewolf in London!
CRRA-ACK!
Her bones began to morph. Jackie said a few words she heard in school, the kind you don't say in front of your parents.
RI-IP!
"D'aw, not again!"
xxx
"You're where?! Chief exclaimed, "Don't worry, we'll be right there." He turned to the Bots. "Cody, Miko, and Ratchet are in the MHQ, which teleported into the river."
"Feel free to take Heatwave, Kade said halfway up to Taylor, "it's not like his doing anything."
"You do know we're on the same comm." Heatwave growled.
xxx
"You sure this is a good idea, Brains?" Chroma whispered.
"Uh, yeah," Brains whispered back. "Have I ever had a bad idea?"
"People are staring at us!" Chroma whisper shouted at Brains.
Who could blame her for being mad? You'd be mad too if you were in you motorcycle mode with two minibots on your seat-thing, or saddle or whatever, and a German Shepherd with a pilot's hat with socks for the ears in the side car, and you were driving through town!
K-9 looked up.
"What is it Lassie?" Wheelie joked. "Did Timmy fall down a well?"
"He probably just heard something," Brains said, "like a parrot or something."
On the opposite side of the road' a green animal control truck (minus the bed cover) drove by, stopped, and backed up. The driver rolled down the window.
"What are you guys doing?" Lindsy, the driver, asked.
"Looking for Jackie," Wheelie said.
"On a police motorcycle?"
"All Brain's idea!"
"Well, I was thrown under the bus quickly," Brains sarcastically said.
"In the truck, now," Lindsy said.
The two mini bots and K-9 got in the truck.
"Aren't you gonna tell-" Wheelie started before Lindsy picked Chroma up and put her in the truck's bed, as if she weighed as much as an average bike, and strapped her in. "Dang, you're strong!"
"C'mon," Lindsy said as she climbed in the cab, "I picked up Jackie's transmutate energy levels somewhere in the forest." She pointed to the screen on the dashboard" "See how high they are?"
"We'd better find her before someone else does!" Brains said.
"Man, she's gonna crankier than Godzilla during PMS!" Wheelie said.
"Okay, 1: Godzilla's a male, and 2: he's a reptile," Lindsy said.
"I thought we weren't gendering characters from their voice actors."
"Anyone, male or female, can wear a Godzilla costume."
"Here we go again," Chroma said in annoyance.
xxx
The three Rescue Bots, two Burnses, and Greenes arrived at the river. Boulder and Chase let their human partners so they could rescue Cody, Miko, and Ratchet. The three bots went into the river and under the water to prevent the MHQ from sinking any further and resurfaced. Chase and Heatwave opened the back.
"Cody, Miko, climb towards us!" Heatwave said.
Cody and Miko slowly walked towards Heatwave and Chase when the vacuum accelerator started up and teleported the MHQ, four bots, and two humans to the nose of Mount Griffin, hanging on for dear life!
"Not good!" Cody said.
"Scrap!" Miko exclaimed.
"AAAAHHH!" Ratchet screamed.
xxx
Jackie, who had morphed into a dragon the size of a small elephant, was sniffing a young fawn who was also sniffing her.
"You went from human to beast from a head injury?" the mother asked.
Jackie made a noise that said "yes."
"Did it hurt?"
Jackie nodded her head.
"AAAAHHH!"
The three jumped in surprise.
Jackie didn't know what noise and movements to say "I gotta go," so she tried by using a method she used in human form. Gently, she put one talon on the mother's head and closed her eyes. She then left, trying to fly.
xxx
"On the bright side," Boulder said, "I don't think anyone else has seen a view like this!"
"We're gonna die!" Ratchet and Miko screamed.
"No we're not!" Heatwave screamed back.
The MHQ tipped forwards (the front of it) causing Cody and Miko to be thrown to the front. Cody caught the back of the large driver's seat and Ratchet caught Miko and held her against his chest.
Cody gasped as the vacuum accelerator slid to the open back. Heatwave caught it.
"There are times when I wish gravity was not a law," Chase said.
"What're de adder tms?" something yelled at Chase.
Everyone looked in surprise at a blue dragon hovering 50 yards away.
"You guys see the blue dragon too?" Heatwave asked.
"Yes." the others said in unison.
"Guys," Lindsy said over the comm. "Jackie's transmutate levels show that she's near Mt. Griffin."
"She transmutated into a dragon, right?" Heatwave dryly asked.
"Probably, why do you- You're stuck on Mt Griffin, aren't you?"
"Kind of..."
"'Kind of?!" Ratchet shouted, "We're balancing on-on part of the mountain!"
Jackie used a claw to tap her nose, trying to tell Ratchet exactly where.
"You know," Lindsy said, "I'm gonna set up this drone I won in a contest so I can find out exactly where you guys are."
"JACKIE, TRY AND HELP THE RESCUE BOTS!"
K-9 yelled into his comm.
"Gnya-ah!" Heatwave exclaimed, almost losing his grip. "Loud!"
"Sorry, Heatwave."
"Jackie, what are you doing?!" Chase screamed as Jackie began to rip him off the back-door ramp.
Helping you, ya stuck up, cop-bot! Jackie thought to herself as she held Chase as tightly as she could.
"Don't drop him, don't drop him, don't drop him!" Heatwave yelled frantically, not knowing that Jackie was trying to help.
Everyone was freaking out when Jackie let go of Chase and used her mouth to grab his foot. Chase started to have a panic attack when she stared swinging him back and forth.
"N-no, no, no, no, no, no!" Chase screamed. He felt Jackie's bite loosen a bit, but she bit down a little harder. "Please, don't kill me!"
I'm not, ya big baby! Jackie wanted to tell Chase. She swung her head and most of her body back-Hope these two and a half weeks of Wii bowling and swing paid off, because I only got one shot at this- and let go of Chase as she swung forward.
FWAM!
xxx
"Chase!" Cody yelled.
"Uhh..." Chase moaned.
"Good, he's waking up," Miko said.
Chase's optics slowly opened. "What happened?"
"Jackie threw you a little too hard," Miko said.
"Why are we on the ceiling?"
"What part of 'little too hard' did you not understand?" Miko deadpanned.
"When Jackie threw you, you hit the windshield and caused the MHQ to lurch forward and the next thing we all knew, we were upside down on the back of Mt. Griffin," Cody said.
Chase tried to sit up, but his spine stung.
"Ah!" he exclaimed.
"Chase, you okay?" Heatwave said as he entered the MHQ.
"I think Jackie hurt my back," Chase said.
"Can you stand?"
"I can barely sit up, what makes you think I can stand?" Chase was getting a bit annoyed.
"At least your shirt didn't rip when you transmutated!" a young feminine voice said from Heatwave's cabin.
"Uh, yeah, turns out Jackie's clothes sometimes rip when she transmutates," Heatwave said while blushing a little, but no one noticed.
"You owe me a new shirt!"
"Okay, okay, I get it, you're pissed at me."
"I'm just lucky m-"
"Jackie, play your dino killing game!" Heatwave said.
"What happened to Boulder?" Chase asked.
"Crushed by the MHQ," Jackie answered, "Ratchet and Blades are fixing him up, then I'll help get the MHQ right-side-up"
"Jackie, is the MHQ hooked up?" Blades asked.
Dragon Jackie nodded her head.
"Okay, I'll j-just l-lift up the-whoa!" Blades exclaimed as Jackie accidentally pushed the MHQ as she took off flying towards the firehouse.
"Blades, slow down!" Dani said as they descended way to fast.
"Never thought I'd hear you say that!"
The vacuum accelerator started to power up.
Everyone closed their eyes and braced for impact.
THUMP!
Miko was the first to open her eyes. "We're not dead guys." She said with a sigh of relief.
The back of the MHQ opened and relieved the they were at the drive in.
"This stupid teleporter is more trouble than it's worth!" Heatwave said as he threw it.
"I'll escort Boulder and Chase to the firehouse," Ratchet said.
"Ratchet, my injury isn't that ba-" CRAK! "-A-ad!" Chase exclaimed.
Ratchet gave him a "yeah, right" look. "Can either of you transform?" he asked.
"I-I think so," Boulder said a bit out of breath.
"Me too- Gah! - nope," Chase sadly said.
"I'll come back for you later," Ratchet said. "C'mon, Boulder," Ratchet said as he transformed, "we don't have all day."
"I don't think he likes us," Blades said.
"He's just grumpy," Dani said, "I think."
"Guys," Miko said, " Jackie says there's an intruder in the firehouse!"
Heatwave rolled his optics.
Miko's phone pinged as she got another text. "She also says we can find Kade and the parasailer by using the MHQ to triangulate where they are and using the ground ridge in a bottle to teleport there."
"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard," Heatwave said.
"She's been reading about the Philadelphia Experiment again," Chase added.
"I think she might be right, about how we can find Kade and Tayylor," Blades said while looking teasingly at Dani.
"Don't push it!" Dani said.
"Look, the ground bridge in a bottle is obviously the vacuum accelerator and Jackie could've been talking about the MHQ's GPS."
"You could be right," Heatwave said, "Kade was using the MHQ for playing his date with Hayley."
"Wow, you actually listen to him," Blades said in surprise.
"Don't tell him!"
"Well," Miko said, "we have one of the two things."
Everyone looked at Heatwave.
"Eh-heh-heh, right," Heatwave said as he face-palmed.
xxx
"Lindsy, are you really taking Jackie's text seriously?" Chroma asked.
"Uh, yeah," Lindsy answered, "I mean it's really only a matter of time 'til..."
"A 'con finds us," K-9 finished.
"C'mon," Chroma said, "what 'con in the right mind would come here? They'd get scraped by one of those crazy inventions!"
K-9's ears perked up. "Jackie and First Aid are in deep trouble," he said very scared.
"What'd you think it is Lassie?"
"I-I don't know. I just have this feeling, like a Beast Sense."
"Thought I saw Fowler's chopper land on the firehouse," Brains said.
"Please tell me it was black," Lindsy nervously asked.
"Black and orange or red," Brains said, "I couldn't recall tell because somebot" (he glared at Wheelie) "decided to make the drone spin faster than a NASCAR tire!"
"What, it was funny." Wheelie said.
"I'm still dizzy, man!"
xxx
The three Rescue Bots and three humans were looking for the vacuum accelerator.
"How far did you throw it?" Blades asked Heatwave.
"Hey, no one complained when I was lobbing champ three years running!" Heatwave shot back.
"What's 'lobbing'?" Cody asked.
"It's a popular sport on Cybertron," Miko explained.
"How'd you know that?" Heatwave asked Miko in surprise.
"One of the bots back at base told us."
They all turned when they saw Doc Greene's Jeep show up.
"You won't believe what hit my windshield!" Doc said as he showed them the vacuum accelerator.
"Dang, Heatwave you have a good throwing arm!" Miko said.
"Cody," Chief Burns said as he ran to his son, "you're all right."
Cody hugged his dad.
"Where's Boulder?" Graham asked.
"The Doc Bot took him back to the firehouse," Miko answered.
"What happened?"
"Jackie happened," Chase said as he rubbed his aching back.
"Speaking of which," Chief said as he pulled a cell phone out of his pocket, "anyone care to explain this?" He showed them some footage of a blue dragon ripping open the helicopter landing pad and squeezing in.
"She thinks there's an intruder in the firehouse," Miko explained.
"How am I gonna explain this to the neighbors?" Chief muttered.
"She figured out how to find Kade and Tayyloor," Blades said, again, looking teasingly at Dani, who growled at him, "Jackie figured it out."
"With her intelligence?" Frankie said unbelievingly, "I don't think so. Have you guys even been listening to her?"
"I hear that she's been getting good grades," Miko said as she crossed her arms.
"Why don't I see Jackie's text?" Graham asked. Miko handed him her phone. "Yeah, I don't get it." he said after looking at the script.
"Don't worry, I figured it out," Blades said. He explained Jackie's idea.
"That should work," Doc said.
"Woah, whoa, whoa!" Frankie said, "we're not really using Jackie's plan, are we?!"
"You got a better idea?" Miko said as she put her hands on her hips.
"No," Frankie said with a sigh.
xxx
Ratchet was opening one of the firehouse's garage doors so he and Boulder could get in when he heard something breaking. "Looks like Jackie's here," he muttered. "All right, Boulder," he said as he helped Boulder stand up, "let's get you to the med bay."
As they took the platform down to the shouting bunker when they heard an unfamiliar voice shouting something in Cybertronian.
"Uh, is anyone there?" Ratchet asked as he walked towards the med bay.
KEW! KEW! THUMP! THUMP!
xxx
"Everyone strapped in?" Chief asked.
Everyone confirmed.
"All right then," Miko said, "let's rescue the jerk!"
Cody, Frankie, and Doc looked at her.
"That's what Jackie would say. Heh heh."
Cody pushed the button on the vacuum accelerator and they teleported to the coordinates.
Kade and Taylor, the guy that was stuck on the light house, were trapped up a tree with a bear below them.
Heatwave stepped on the MHQ's gas pedal and drove very close to the bear to scare it off. That didn't work so he tried again, but the engine died, so he honked to horn. Again, didn't work. He ran out of the MHQ so he could try scaring it off again.
The bear roared at him.
Just as he was gonna scream at it (That was his plan), a red blur landed between them and let out the weirdest screech he ever heard. The bear ran off whimpering.
The blur was a dragon.
Heatwave instantly grabbed its mouth shut and put and arm around its middle so it couldn't fly away.
The Burnses went to help Kade and Taylor.
Heatwave dragged the dragon behind the MHQ.
"Chase, help me hold him down while Blades ties him up!" he whispered.
Blades groaned.
"That's another transmutate!" Miko whisper-snapped.
"I feel like fight or flight," the dragon said muffled.
Heatwave quickly released it.
xxx
After about three tries, the MHQ teleported to the basketball court on the firehouse property.
"Um, Taylor, would you like a ride home?" Dani asked.
"No thanks, I'll take the bus," Taylor said. He handed her a paper.
"What is it?" Miko asked.
"His number," Dani said all dreamy eyed.
The red dragon transmutate, who turned out to be a 29-year-old female, asked, "So you think you'll have sexual relations with him?"
"And the moment's ruined."
A chuffing sound came from the firehouse.
"What the?" Heatwave, followed by Blades, Chase, the transmutate, and the humans, went to investigate. When they got to the bunker, the found Ratchet and Boulder lying on the floor, unconscious.
"Oh, my gosh!" Lindsy, who just came from the tunnels, said as she got out of her truck.
"I'll contact Prime!" Chroma said as she transformed.
"I'll contact a medic," the adult transmutate said as she got her cell out.
xxx
"It's a miracle they all lived," the medic, Red Alert, said, "especially the transmutate."
"Hoverer," Jackie said.
"Huh?" Frankie said.
"She means it was probably a bot whose alt. mode was a helicopter," Joyce, the older transmutate, said.
"I'll take Jackie back to the hospital," Lindsy said as she handed Jackie a shirt.
xxx
It was around 10 p.m. when First Aid woke up.
I'm back in the med bay? He thought. He remembered a bot trying to kidnap him and a blue blur before he blacked out. He saw Heatwave recharging in the corner. "Heatwave?"
Heatwave woke up and ran to his side. "You okay? Need anything?"
"Is Jackie okay?" he knew the blur was Jackie.
"She's fine." Heatwave said. "You?"
"A little tired."
"Well having a passed-out dragon on top of you will do that..." Heatwave joked.
"Whaa..." First Aid stared to say before he blacked out again.
xxx
"I send you to kidnap an immobile bot and you fail!?" a shadowed hover yelled at a black and red-orange one.
"I-it's not my fault he woke up!" the black and red-orange one said. "Give me another chance!"
The shadowed one glared at him with dark green optics. "Take him to the chamber."
Two dark grey hovers grabbed the Halloween colored bot and dragged him away screaming.