The whole rescue team, animal control included, were having a fun time at Blossom Vale.
Blades and Dani were using the waterfall as a water slide, boulder was painting the scenery, Chase and Chroma were on a walk, Chief Burns was teaching Ally and the twins how to fish, Emerald was studying the wildlife, Kade and Heatwave were skipping rocks (or trying to), Lindsy was checking Abby's lead to make sure it was secure and that the branch Jackie tied it to wouldn't break, and the others were getting lunch ready.
"Hey! Gummy worms!" K-9 grabbed a bag.
"Those are Jackie's," First Aid took the bag from him.
Jackie's hair and eyes turned blue as she looked at Abby. "Abby likes it here."
"She's right," Boulder said, "It's a very beautiful park."
"All the wildlife is as healthy as can be," Emerald added.
"That is due to an 82% drop in littering from last year," Chase said when he and Chroma returned from their walk.
"Yeah, where's the trashcan? Chase wanted to pick up every single speck of trash we came across, even the compost," Chroma held up a bag of mostly compost.
"To think we almost lost it to a housing development!" Graham said.
"Luckily, the council denied the request," Chief said.
"Yeah, I saw the mayor and his wife snorkeling here yesterday," Ally added before the four fishers got splashed by Heatwave's 'skipping stone'.
"Dude!" T.J. exclaimed.
"Not cool!" Raychel said.
"That's enough!" Chief said.
"You got my hijab wet!" Ally started to take off the wet fabric.
The commtab started to beep and Cody picked it up.
"Someone fell into the Old Hodkins well!" Cody said.
Jackie grabbed her horse and a fishing pole before leaving.
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"All right, people, stand back," Chief said to the crowd around the well.
"Her name is Cathy!" Priscilla grabbed Chief's arm.
"Oh, Ally, did you convert?" Mrs. Pinch asked.
"No," Ally said as she adjusted her ponytail.
Cody, Jackie, Wheelie, Chief Burns, and Kade looked down the well.
"It's too small for an adult, Dad," Kade said.
"Why do you think I grabbed this?" Jackie held up the fishing pole.
They then looked at Wheelie.
"What?" the minibot asked.
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"Hang on, Cathy," Wheelie said as Chief Burns lowered the bot down.
"Camera's working," Brains said.
The wall crumbled a bit.
"I'm scared," Cathy said.
"Thrust me, I'm way more scared that you are right now, and I'm a flippin' robot!" Wheelie reassured. "Heeey, wait a minute!" Wheelie reached the bottom and picked up a doll. "Pull me up!" he shouted.
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"A talking doll?!" Kade asked.
The team, excluding the big guys, groaned.
"Cathy!" Priscilla snatched the doll from Wheelie. "Ugh! You got her all dirty! Mom, will this diminish her value as limited addition?"
"Unfortunately, yes, sweetheart," Mrs. Pinch said.
"Well, since you dropped her down there, you can by me a new one!" she got ready to throw the doll to the ground when Jackie grabbed her wrists.
Jackie's eyes went dragon. "Gimme the doll," she calmly said.
"Okay," Priscilla handed the high schooler the doll.
"First it's toys, then it's animals," Jackie sighed.
"We need to fence off that well," Lindsy said.
"I'm sorry, Charlie," Mrs. Pinch said, "I'll reimburse the team." She saw the bots. "Impressive robots. I've seen them in action before. How much for the whole set?" She pulled out her check book.
"They're not for sale, Madeline," Chief Burns said.
"Yeah, government issue!" T.J. crossed his arms.
"Oh well, come along, Priscilla. We have tennis practice," Mrs. Pinch said.
The two she-devils left.
"Can I have the doll?" Blades asked Jackie.
Jackie handed him the doll.
"I love you!" the doll said.
"Aww!" Blades squealed.
"That's just what the makers' decided what to have prerecorded for her to say when you squeeze her," Brains said.
"Aww..." Blades sadly said.
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Chief Burns, K-9, and Cody were walking out of the ice cream shop.
"Why the long face, son?" Chief Burns asked. "That Choco-Atomic Blast not working out for you?"
"No, the Pinches act like they own the whole island," Cody said. "Why are people like that?"
"Well, they are multimillionaires," K-9 said barely moving his lips.
"Wow, that was really good, K-9!" Chief Burns said. "But, yes, some people think they have anything if they have a lot of money."
"Speaking of which," Chase began, "thank you, Chief Burns, for not selling us."
"You don't sell out friends or family. Well, depending on the circumstances, pets, maybe."
K-9 whimpered.
"Don't worry, K-9, we won't sell you," Chief Burns reassured.
A cell phone vibrating on the bus bench drew their attention.
Chief Burns answered the cell. "Hello, Chief Burns speaking. Did you lose your phone?"
"Agh!" K-9 whimpered and rubbed one of his ears.
Chief Burns dropped his strawberry ice cream. "The project is the priority."
"Dad, what's wrong?" Cody asked.
"I have some business to take care of. I'll put this away in the lost and found. Can you and K-9 walk home?" Chief Burns asked.
"Um, sure, Dad," Cody said.
Chief Burns and Chase drove off.
"Chase," K-9 used the two-bot signal, "keep an eye on Chief Burns. Something's not right." he turned to the dropped ice cream. "Five second rule."
"Don't you want your vanilla bean?" Cody held the ice cream cup.
"And let the cone go to waste?"
"You'll get worms!"
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"Dad, I'm so glad you're-"
"Chief Burns cut Cody off. "I'm wiped out, Cody, we'll talk tomorrow." he got in the elevator and left.
"What crawled up his tail pipe?" Chroma asked.
"We evacuated Blossom Vale," Chase said. "Chief Burns said there was a sulfur leak."
Blades yelped in fear.
"We don't get sick from that stuff," First Aid said.
"But there wasn't any signs of a leak all day," Chase said.
"Chief Burns probably had a reason," Heatwave said.
"Something's not right," Cody said.
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"K-9, did you notice that Graham and Kade are acting like-" Cody gasped when he saw that K-9 had a huge head injury.
"Acting weird like your dad?" K-9's metal skull was showing. "I noticed."
"Who did this?"
"Graham did. Let's get the others. And call Lindsy to patch me up."
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"That's gnarly," T.J. took a picture of K-9's injury.
"Cody, was Graham rough with his toys?" Jackie asked as Lindsy patched K-9 up.
First Aid walked in with a small energon crystal.
"Here, K-9. Eat this, it'll replenish any you lost."
K-9 gobbled up the crystal.
"Just overheard an argument on the team channel," Chroma said. "Dani and Blades put out the fire with Ally."
Blades, Dani, and Ally arrived.
"Good thing those high schoolers helped us put out the fire," Ally said.
"I wish I could shoot water out of my knuckles like Heatwave," Blades said. "Nope, that'd be weird."
"K-9! What happened?!" Dani saw the injured Maximal.
"We'll tell you on the way to Blossom Vale," Cody said.
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The rest of the team arrived to see Heatwave, Chase, and Boulder getting large boulders out of a giant bot-made hole.
"What are you doing?!" Dani exclaimed.
"Why are you doing this?" Cody asked.
"This is our priority!" Heatwave answered.
"Says who?" K-9 asked.
"Me," Chief Burns answered.
"The fuck's going on?" Jackie asked.
"Lang- eh, I'll let it pass," Lindsy said.
"Ground contamination," Chief Burns said before handing them the yellow cell phones. "These will make sure no one will listen in on us. Let's test the-"
K-9 bit his hand and drew blood.
Chief Burns reached for his gun.
First Aid had noticed everyone's odd behavior and the bot's unnatural green optics. He used his electro-magnets to snatch the gun. "Did you dope up the others?!"
"Kids, get to Emerald," Lindsy said, "and take K-9."
The trio got inside Emerald's cab.
"My future conjunx would never agree to this!" Emerald locked her doors.
"The cell phones are emitting a weird signal that-that makes them, I-I don't know! Zombies!" K-9 said.
They heard a loud thump and saw First Aid and Blades throw an out cold Chroma into the pit. Chase was holding an energon stained rock.
"Jackie jumped into the driver's seat. "Go! Go! Go!"
Emerald sped off.
"Why aren't we going to Doc Greene's?" Cody asked.
Jackie put a gummy into her mouth and chewed. "We can't trust humans or big bots."
"Hey, what about me?" Emerald asked.
You saw what Blades, First Aid and Chase did," K-9 said. "First Aid's a pacifist, Blades is a total mom, and Chase would never hurt someone he loves."
"Brains found one of the cells," Jackie handed Cody a gummy. "Eat it."
Cody ate the gummy. "OW!" he held his ears.
"What the- was that a transmutate gummy?" K-9 asked.
"My ears popped SO loud!"
"You'll hear your muscles moving for a few minutes," Jackie said.
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The un-hypnotized members of the team were in the bunker underneath Jackie's barn.
"The only way I can think to stop the phones island wide- they all have 'em- is to take down the cell tower," Brains said.
"C'mon, let's go!" K-9 said.
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Priscilla banged on the driver's window. "Why the hell did you try to run ME off the road?!"
Jackie put the dead evil cell to the window.
"That's the new cell my mom's company's making. Where did you get it?"
Jackie lowered the window just a little. "They're brainwashing people and big bots."
Priscilla's mouth dropped. "Well, turn them off!"
"We can't. We have to turn off the cell tower," Jackie handed her a gummy. "The cells won't affect you if you eat this. It'll last six hours."
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Boulder rubbed his head. "Wha- What happened?" he saw the broken cell phone and remembered what happened.
"If they try to escape, do NOT be afraid to take drastic measures to stop them," Chief Burns said to someone over the yellow cells.
"Oh, no," Boulder said.
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The four walked through the forest when Boulder walked in front of them.
Jackie activated her agsaber, K-9 transformed and activated his blasters, Cody tried to get the crossbow Jackie gave him loaded, and Emerald got into a fighting stance.
"Don't worry, it's me," Boulder said.
Emerald asked him a question in their native tongue, which he answered.
"It's him," Emerald said.
"We have to destroy the phones."
"We know, that's why we're going to the cell tower," Jackie said.
"It's the other way," Boulder pointed to Blossom Vale.
"But that's Blossom Vale! The others will be there!" K-9 said.
"We can destroy the team's phones."
"Let's try it," Emerald said.
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"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Jackie yelled when they were surrounded.
"Frankie's a smart girl, you five," Chief Burns said.
"Okay, Plan A!" Emerald yelled.
Jackie ate a handful of gummies and they ran to the cell tower.
Chase and Heatwave attempted to ram Boulder, Emerald, and their passengers off the road while Blades chased Jackie in the sky.
"Emerald, on the count of three!" Boulder said. "One, two, three!"
All three rammed down the cell tower, turning off all the cells on the island.
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Chase was crying after everyone who was hypnotized was told what happened. "I-I can't believe I did that to her!"
"Oh, my god!" Ally covered her mouth.
"I didn't know you could hypnotize people with phones," Graham said.
"And it works on bots, too!" Boulder reminded.
"Why would someone want to dig up Blossom Vale?" Heatwave asked.
"Gold Rush?" Jackie suggested.
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"Jackie was right," Graham said in the morning. "There's lots of gold underneath the ground."
"I bet it was the company or an ally of theirs," Jackie said.
"Let's fill in this hole and replant," Heatwave said.
"Looks like we'll get some help," Blades said.
A group of townsfolk showed up with trees and gardening supplies.
"Like I said, people love this place," Cody said.
A black car pulled up and Priscilla got out in a gardening outfit. "I'm here to help."
Jackie walked over with the school sheep that already had babies.
"Can you watch them?" she asked.
"Why?"
"Fertilizer. Make sure they don't eat the new trees."
Priscilla handed her a folded-up paper.
Jackie walked back and gave the paper the Chief Burns.
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All the bots were back at the fire house.
"You thought we were drugged?" Heatwave asked First Aid.
"That isn't exactly something a medic would ask at first," Blades said.
"M-My dad did something to make me ask," First Aid said.
"What did he do?" Chase, who had taken the day off, asked. "Did he abuse drugs?"
"S-Something like that..."