Chief Burns poured coffee into his reusable travel mug and added Half & Half.
"I hope Chase is ready for his first day back on the job," he told K-9.
"Me too," K-9 said as he opened the tuber ware drawer.
"What are you doing, K-9?" Chief asked as he put the cap back on the Half & Half.
"Well, you're bringing your coffee with you," K-9 said as he transformed into his bipedal mode to pick up a container, "I think I should bring my breakfast with me, too."
"I guess you could, but we have to see if Chase is okay with it."
The phone stared to ring.
"Emergency dispatch," Chief said into the phone. "We'll check it out, Mr. Harrison."
"What happened this time?" K-9 asked as he put a scoop of dog food in the container.
"Mr. Harrison said that he saw a terrorist get off of the ferry," Chief said as he hung up the phone.
"Misinterpretation," K-9 said as he snapped on the container lid.
xxx
"Sir, you have no right to search my luggage without a search warrant," a 24 year old woman in a hijab said.
"I have a hard time believing that!" Deputy Barney said.
"How the heck did you become a police officer?!"
"What's going on here, Barney?" Chief said as he and K-9 walked in.
"I'm going through this terrorist's stuff to find a bomb!" Barney said.
"Oh, my God..." the woman groaned.
"Did you get a search warrant?" Chief asked.
"She's a terrorist, isn't that enough?" Barney said.
"Racist much?" the woman crossed her arms.
"Barney, you do realize that you're violating her right of privacy, right?" Chief asked.
"Then what's this!" Barney pulled out a black box, "I bet its a-"
It was a badge. A police badge.
"Can I go now?" the woman asked.
Chief unlocked the cell door.
"Seriously, how'd he become a police officer?"
"No idea."
xxx
Heatwave and Chroma were training in the Sigma's storage.
"So, what are you into?" Heatwave asked Chroma.
"Fail videos, teen and up anime, crime shows, and kicking aft," Chroma said as she punched a dummy.
"I'm into war," Heatwave said.
"Hmm..." Chroma looked Heatwave up and down. "You know how to fight?"
"Heck, yeah."
"Well then, show me whatch'a got!" Chroma got into a fighting stance.
"I'll go eazy on ya!" Heatwave also got ready to fight. He lunged at Chroma.
FWAM!
"Too slow!" Chroma taunted as she pinned him with an arm behind his back.
Heatwave freed himself and shoved Chroma against a wall.
"Like I said, I was goin' easy on ya!"
"So was I!" Chroma kicked Heatwave in the face.
Heatwave growled and spit out a denta fragment as a slight stream of energon came from his olfactory sensors.
"We can quit if you want," Chroma said.
FWAM!
Chroma was now pinned against a wall by Heatwave, whose face was very close to hers.
"A warrior never quits!" he said.
She tried to headbutt him, but accidentally...
Smeck.
They were so physically close.
Heatwave got a little closer.
Smeck. Smeck.
Chroma couldn't believe what Heatwave was doing and kneed him below the belt.
xxx
"Heatwave!" Kade said as he went to the fire pole. "Lindsy wants us to pick up Jackie from the doctor's!"
"Why?" Heatwave groaned, still a little sore.
"Because Lindsy's in a meeting and won't be back for a few hours."
"Can't we just let Jackie wait?"
"Lindsy said she'll give us $100."
Heatwave rolled his optics before transforming.
xxx
"... and that's how I figured out how the Boov procreate!" Jackie said to Heatwave and Kade.
Kade and Heatwave just looked at her in WTF faces.
"Procreate means make babies," Jackie said.
"We know what it means," Kade said.
"And how can that be number three?" Heatwave asked.
"It's my brain," Jackie said.
"But Oh said he almost went number three when he thought he was gonna die," Kade said.
"Sometimes blood misses the legs in fight of flight..."
"What?!" Kade and Heatwave said at the same time.
Jackie looked out the window. Her eyes went dragon.
xxx
"... and that's how I became a police officer," the woman in the hijab said.
"Your name's Asmalid?" Blades asked.
"After my grandmother."
"OH GOD!"
"I DON'T WANNA END UP LIKE THAT GUY IN ALIEN!"
"What the heck?!" everyone in the bunker said.
The platform came down with Jackie and Heatwave.
"Jackie didn't- I-I mean y-you wouldn't?" Graham stuttered.
Jackie smiled. "I scared him."
"Why?" Dani asked.
"Don't ask," Heatwave said, "Kade's fine, a little shook up, but fine."
Xxx
"What?" Jackie said, "Brains only showed it in storyboard I didn't pay much attention."
"I still don't think it's allowed," Chase told her.
"When did Heatwave and Chroma start dating?" Jackie looked at the two bots on the other side of the bunker.
Chase looked in the same direction. Heatwave and Chroma were arguing about something, Chase used his audio receptors' unique advanced listening to hear them.
"W-we'll talk about the film later," Chase walked to his room.
xxx
"Chase! Wake up!" Heatwave pounded on the door to Chase's quarters. "We got an emergency!"
"What's taking you guys?" Kade asked impatiently through the commlink.
"Chase you better not-" Heatwave's optics widened when he opened the door.
Chase was gone.
xxx
"Harry! Harry!" a woman screamed as she held onto a piece of her and her husband's boat.
A figure, bigger than a great white, swam under the wreckage.
A man surfaced and gasped.
"Harry!"
Something pulled the man under.
"Harry!"
xxx
"Chase," Jackie said tiredly as she knocked on the barn floor, "I know you're down there."
"No I'm not!"
"We got to stop the sharkticon."
"It's the middle of the night, go to bed!"
"But the sharkticon!"
"Ghost stories!"
"At least give me my suit!"
"You have a suit?"
"The metal life jacket!"
Jackie opened the plank she was knocking on and put her arm through the slot.
Chase handed her the jacket.
"How will it keep you from sinking?"
"Take me to the docks and I'll show you."
xxx
"I can't believe we weren't allowed on the boat," Heatwave complained, "they need us Rescue Bots."
Wee-o we-o we-o!
"Where were you, Chase?" Chroma asked.
Chase said nothing as he let Jackie out and transformed.
"Sharkticon!" Jackie ran to the end of the dock.
"Those aren't real," Chroma scoffed.
"No, they're real," Heatwave countered.
The bots then began to argue over the existence of sharkticons.
SPLASH!
xxx
The husband and wife were okay, but Blades wasn't.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Blades whimpered as First Aid applied disinfectant.
"Quit whining, you still have your leg," First Aid said.
"Yea-ow! Still got my leg."
"Hey, guys!" Chroma popped her head in the med bay.
"Ah!" a startled First Aid jumped into Blades arms.
"WOAH! WOAH! WOAH!" Blades flailed as he fell off the med berth.
CLAMPF!
"Oh, gosh!" Chroma half ran into the med bay. "Are you okay?"
"I will be once First Aid gets off me!" Blades said.
"Let's got, First Aid," Chroma grunted as she pulled the medic off Blades.
"Is he okay?"
"In a little bit."
xxx
Chase was sitting in the security room, playing computer chess.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
"Oh, Cha~se," Chroma said.
"Yes?" he muttered.
"My partner and I are about to go on our first patrol! Wish us luck!"
"I will," Chase said as he checkmated the computer.
xxx
"First call of the day," Asmalid said the Chroma "'Zombies in empty apartment'."
"Is that a horror movie?" Chroma said with a laugh.
"Nope."
"Let's get it over with."
"This is the apartment, right?" Asmalid asked the landlord.
"Yes, and there are no zombies," the landlord said.
Something fell in the apartment.
The landlord opened the door.
A lot of eyes were looking at them.
"That's a lot of owls," Asmalid said.
xxx
"What's that weird camera you have for?" Heatwave asked Kade.
"I'm going to start putting videos of our rescues on YouTube," Kade said.
"Really? What if an emergency goes bad? What if someone dies?"
"Okay, just not those."
"What kind of camera is it?"
"A GoPro, genius!"
xxx
"Good, you guy ar-" Asmaild stopped mid-sentence, "Really, Kade, a GoPro?"
"Heck, yeah."
"Get it over with." Chroma said via comm.
Asmalid opened the door.
"How. Many. OWLS?" Graham asked.
"Who left that window opened?" Lindsy asked.
"I'm glad I brought my GoPro," Kade said.
xxx
"Jackie ate a what?!" Miko asked Ratchet.
"A Sharkticon," Ratchet said, "now we just have to get it out of her."
"You're not gonna cut her open, are you?" Raf asked.
"I wish," Ratchet muttered.
"They're gonna make me go dragon and throw up!" Jackie said.
"EW!" Raf and Miko exclaimed.
"Like a large constrictor!"
"Double ew!" Miko said.
"You gonna get it on video?"
"Totally, dude!"
"Why?" Arcee asked as she and Bulkhead walked in with a large tarp.
xxx
"Owls?" Heatwave whispered to Chief Burns via comm.
"That's right, owls," Chief said.
Five minutes passed.
"SCRE-ACK!"
"AH!" Kade screamed. "Bad owl, bad owl, bad owl!"
Kade ran out of the building being chase by a large barn owl.
"I told you, Kade, don't touch the owlets!" Lindsy called out the window.
"That should go on YouTube!" Heatwave chuckled.
xxx
"Jackie's drooling a lot!" Miko said as she filmed dragon Jackie.
"Grk," dragon Jackie kept making that noise.
xxx
"Heatwave, I think Jackie's gonna be back tomorrow," Chroma said as she walked into Heatwave's quarters.
"That's good," Heatwave said as he walked out his cleaning quarters.
"Too bad she missed the tarp!" Chroma showed him the video Miko sent her.
[BTMPTH!]
["How is that thing not dead?!"] Miko screamed.
["No idea,"] Ratchet said.
["I'll kill it,"] Bulkhead said.
[CHOMP!]
["GE-OWCH! GETITOFFGETITOFFGRTITOFFGRTItoff!]
[N-N-NO, JACKIE DON'T-] Arcee shouted before Jackie breathed fire and the fire alarm went off.
Heatwave chuckled. "Seriously, how did that thing alive?"
"No idea, we're still figuring it out," Chroma said.
"Can I show you something?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"Just come," Heatwave pulled her into the cleaning quarters.
"What are you-"
"Stay still," Heatwave put a washcloth against her audio receptor and began to clean it.
"Whoa!" Chroma jerked her head back. "What the heck are you doing?!"
"Cleaning your audio receptor ..."
"I can do that by myself!" Chroma stormed out.
She began to send Optimus Prime a message claiming unwanted attention from Heatwave.
"Chroma?"
She looked at who spoke, Chase.
"Are you all right? I heard you shouting."
"I-I'm fine," Chroma sent the message.
"Did Heatwave do something to you?"
"I already sent the complaint."
"He did. What did he do?"
"Grr... first, he kisses me in the middle of sparring, then he tries to apologize with a date, and now he tried to clean me!"
"Chroma," Chase carefully grabbed her shoulders and turned her towards him, "Heatwave hasn't been around a femme in a long time. He may have been trying to court you."
"Let go of me!" Chroma shook Chase off.
"Sorry if I angered you..." Chase had the hurt puppy look in his eyes and lowered his head.
"I'm going to watch 'Mysteries of Laura'," Chroma walked into the bunker.