Blades and Boulder were watching the Crawfish Race on TV.
"Were the sharks busy?" Heatwave asked.
"Do you want to sit with us?" Blades asked. "You can pick what we watch next."
"SVU okay? Chicago Fire's off season."
"Well, I—"
Boulder was cut off by First Aid running in from a groundbridge. "It wasn't my fault!" he sobbed.
"First Aid, he didn't mean it like that!" Razor chased after him onto the Sigma.
"And it's a 'no'," the mechs said together.
["Abby, NO!"]
"Oh, no! Scuttle Tail!" Blades exclaimed.
"Okay, this is more entertaining! Heatwave said.
"Unknown, mustachioed intruder, trespassing is against the law," Robot Chase said as he picked up the 'intruder'.
"Curses, foiled again," Cody said in a fake accent.
"Cody?" Boulder asked.
"What's with the mustache?" Heatwave asked.
"I have a role in my school's play. I'm the villain," Cody said. "Bad News Bruce."
"But, you are neither a villain nor a 'Bruce'—you are a Cody Burns," Chase said.
"I'm just pretending. Using my imagination, you know, for fun."
"I fail to see the good in falsifying one's identity."
"It's like in the crime shows you watch," Blades said. "And police sometimes go 'undercover' to catch more bad guys."
"Maybe these detective movies will help you understand," Cody said as he got the DVDs.
"Hustle up, Team. There's been a break in at the museum," Chief Burns said.
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"Hey, careful, bro! You break that and our plans go to trash!" Myles said.
"Too late for that, bro," Kade said as the lights turned on.
"Evan and Myles, put your hands in the air!" Chief ordered.
"Why stop at our hands, Chief?" Myles said as he and his brother escaped.
The team attempted to use Doc Greene's new security system, but Evan and Myles had hacked it and it attacked the bots.
Ally dodged the hands and shot out the joints, releasing the bots.
"Thanks, partner," Chroma said as the bots got out of the limp hands' grip.
"I think Evan and Myles are jamming the cameras. I can't get a visual!" Cody said.
"We can ask Jackie to help when she's back from Wayward," Heatwave said before his right knee buckled. "Ah! Chief, can I take a day off?"
"This is why Razor wants you in healing stasis at least an hour a day," Blades said.
"All they took was a chunk of mechanite. It's pretty, but not rare or worth anything," Graham said.
"Maybe they're attempting a scam," Ally said.
"Or we scared them off before they got to the good stuff," Boulder said.
"They're up to something. I just wish I knew what it was," Chief said.
Chroma noticed the look Chase had in his eye.
Xxx
"Hey, Chase, wanna train?" Heatwave asked.
"I cannot. I am busy studying these informative motion pictures Cody gave me," Chase said.
"You're watching movies."
"I am conducting research."
"Care if I join you?" Chroma asked.
"By all means."
"Heatwave, Ion's willing to spar."
Chase and Chroma watched the movie.
"I believe I am starting to understand 'undercover'," Chase told his mate.
"I did some undercover work, as well," Chroma said. "Managed to put away quite a few bad guys, one mob, and find a few bots."
Xxx
"Have you guys seen Chase?" Cody asked.
"He's studying with Chroma," K-9 said.
"By roleplaying," First Aid crossed his arms.
Xxx
Dani walked into the command center where Chase and Chroma were.
"Okay, let's try this again WITHOUT the self-narration," Chroma said.
"What are you two doing?" Dani asked.
"Attempting to use my imagination to expand my knowledge of law enforcement," Chase said.
"And where did you get the hat?"
"He bought it online," Chroma groaned.
"Apparently, one size really does fit all," Chase said as he took off the fedora.
"Evan and Myles just stole Huxley's broadcast satellite!" K-9 said. "We need to roll out!"
"Rescue Bots, roll to the – ow! I'll take the command center with First Aid," Heatwave limped into the command center.
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"Chase, are you… narrating?" Chief asked they went to the scene of the crime.
"He's seen too many old-timey detective movies," Chroma said.
"It works 99.8% of the time in filmic evidence to catch the criminals," Chase said.
"If it helps, I'm all for it," Chief said.
"What are they up to?" Dani asked.
"Maybe they want to watch TV," Blades suggested.
"I doubt it's that innocent, Blades," Chief said. "I'd give anything to know what they're up to.
That got Chase thinking.
Xxx
Jackie had hitched up Abby to a tree and ate a snack. She saw a building out of the corner of her eye.
Xxx
Heatwave went into the Sigma to check on First Aid. "Everything okay?"
"I had to give him some sedatives, but he'll be fine," Razor said. "Thank you for letting me stay overnight."
"Anything to help my team. Wanna help in the Command Center? Another set of optics doesn't hurt."
"Not a problem."
The two watched the security feed.
"For an elder human male, Chief Burns is quite agile," Razor said as Chief dodged the evil twins' car.
"They actually think they can use Chase as a getaway car? Heh. I'd like to see them try," Heatwave said. "Any second he's gonna hit on the breaks."
"Heatwave."
"Any second."
"Heatwave."
"Just give him a minute."
"Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen."
"What? He's out of camera view!"
"Told you."
Xxx
Ionix was driving when a horse and rider stopped him. The frag?
"You should get tinted windows," the rider dismounted her ride.
Ionix transformed, waved his arms and screamed.
"You're lucky this isn't a popular drive. You're Optimus Prime's kid, right?" she asked.
"Who are you? His pet?" Ionix stepped into the woods.
She flew into his face. "No, just what the cons are most afraid of."
Xxx
"Stealing a police car?! Chief Burns just got chief burned. Let's put this dish on big mama," Myles said.
Chase transformed after the evil twins exited the warehouse. "Police log. Undercover mission. Something tells me these two mugs are cooking up a plan so big they'll need more cooking supplies." He walked around the warehouse. "I must report their activities to my chief. So, I'll—no, no, Chroma would say that next line is too cheesy." Chase saw… "Hmm. This must be the shopping list. Their next ingredient must be from Doc Greene's lab. Yes, that's better." Chase tried his comm, but it didn't work. "What would Chroma do in this situation?"
"Hey! Hold it right there, robot! Where do you think you're going?" Myles asked.
"Awaiting input," robot Chase said.
"Nice! Check it out, bro. This hunk of junk has to do everything we say! Hey, Cop-bot! change into a car!"
Chase did so.
"Now back to a robot! Hop on one foot! Do push-ups! Now act like a chicken!"
Chase did all of that.
Evan said something only his brother could understand.
"Repeat after me: 'Evan and Myles rule. The Burnses just drool'!" Myles translated.
Chase did a minute gulp. He hated insulting others. "Evan and Myles rule. The Burnses just drool." He managed out.
"New orders, Gearbrain. Steal us some floatium from the lab."
Well, that's the ingredient.
"I said move it!"
Chase transformed and let them in.
Xxx
The team was trying to figure out the reason for the evil twins crimes.
"Maybe they're bored?" Blades asked.
"Kleptomania?" K-9 asked.
"Razor, what do you see?" Chroma asked.
"Hopefully, just a science experiment," Razor said.
"I don't think so," Ionix said as he walked in carrying Jackie.
Chroma went for her blaster, but Razor stopped her. "What do you think it is?"
Ionix put Jackie's picture onto the main screen of the Command Center. "A tech wrecker. There's multiple ways of making them; bombs, firearms, satellites, etc. But they always have one key component: mechanite. I don't know exactly how, but it can disable any and all technology."
"What happens when it's used on us?" Boulder asked.
"It depends. Have these guys stolen anything else?"
"A satellite," Heatwave said.
"Then it will weaken us. We should be safe as long as we're underground. I'll start making a few individual protection shields for us."
Xxx
Chase snuck into Doc's lab. I better self-narrate in my mind only. He opened the garage door and walked in.
Trex activated and roared at him.
"Down, Trex. Good boy," Chase said as her petted the robot dinosaur.
Chase got the floatium.
Xxx
First Aid and the good twins came back from their hospital protection shield drop off.
"Hey, First Aid," Ionix said.
"Where's everybody else?" First Aid asked.
"There was a break-in at the lab."
"I-I'm going to recharge."
Xxx
Chase came to a screeching halt when he turned a corner an saw the entire team blocking the driveway.
"Police-bot, stand down!" Chief ordered.
"Tell Chief Burns what we taught you to say! Do it!" Myles ordered.
Xxx
"Evan and Myles rule. The Burnses just… drool," Robot Chase said.
"Did he just…" Graham trailed.
"Insult us? Yep," Chroma whispered.
Chase charged them and got away.
"What the frag?!" Heatwave exclaimed.
"Cody, can you track Chase?" Chief asked.
"No, sorry, Dad."
"If we don't stop those guys who knows what will happen?!" Blades said.
"Maybe their tech wrecker won't work," Boulder said.
"'Tech wrecker'?" Kade asked. "The heck's that?"
"Ion thinks that what Evan and Myles are making," Heatwave said.
"Wait. Can that hurt Chase?" Dani asked.
"We don't know. It could weaken him, but we don't have enough information about the machine yet," Blades said.
"If he's going undercover and tries to dismantle it—I-I don't even want to think about it!" Chroma said.
"Everyone back to the firehouse. I want to ask this 'Ion' a few questions," Chief said.
Xxx
"Relax, Chief," Ionix said. "It's nonlethal to Cybertronians, only your planet's technology will be affected, but not perminatly."
"Well, that's good, but we need to contact Chase. I don't want him to get hurt," Chief said.
"Is there anyway we can contact him?" Dani asked.
"We can try morose code, I guess," Ionix said. "Do you have any plans for when the tech fails?"
"We're planning on asking Jackie for a few horses and our twins gave a couple shields to the hospital," Chief said.
Ionix sighed. "So, HALF of the shields I made aren't going to be used the way I wanted? That's just dandy! Look, if any of you bots see a red light, head back here, ASAP! Now, I took a better look at the picture and it looks a bit unstable, so we're gonna have to contact Chase to make sure it's not activated."
"Wait, 'unstable'? What if Chase gets hurt?" Cody asked.
"Then we put him in healing stasis post-surgery. Duh!"
Xxx
I feel like I'm going to be sick, Chase thought as he recorded the evil twins.
Evan put a device on the outside of the warehouse and a green light surrounded the building.
Chase had received a coded message and started to decode it.
Myles turned on their machine and sprayed it with floatium.
"Stay inside the green light, robot. Unless you want to be fried like all the other tech in town," Myles said.
The machine raised and the evil twins left on their skateboards.
It was at this time that Chase had finished decoding the message. It was to prevent the machine from activating and to remove the mechanite.
"Oh, dear!" Chase attempted to contact his team on a variety of signals. "Exclamation of frustration!"
"Ha! Can't even curse like a real mech!" a garbled voice said.
"Who is this?"
"Maybe someone who can help you. I see you have a tech wrecker to handle, and an unstable one at that. Hmph! What else you'd suspect from humans? They're lucky it didn't blow!"
Chase looked around. "Where are you?"
"In the skies. You want my help or not?"
Xxx
Ionix handed Heatwave, Blades, and Boulder the only three shields he had left. "Kade! Get off the game and help your town!"
"Uh, why?" Kade asked.
"The red light from the tech wrecker has been spotted!"
Xxx
Chase was using his police tape to make a lasso to get the tech wrecker down.
Xxx
"Okay, you're on the Broadside's ERU channel now!" Ionix said. "We'll be in touch incase the cell tower's hit."
"Thanks, Ionix. Let us know if you find Chase," Chief said as he got on his bike.
Jackie flew to the team. "Has anyone been attacked by a giant robot bird? Buzzsaw's in a bad mood again."
"We'll ask around," Ally said.
"I'll get more first aid kits," Raychel said.
Xxx
Evan ran into the bank and opened the vault. He laughed as he put wads of cash into his bad.
He ran out and a giant metal bird sunk its talons into his right shoulder and tried to take off with him.
"B-B-BRO!" he managed out.
Xxx
"Did you just check your knot again? I told you, it won't fly off."
"I just want to be sure," Chase said. "They put a glass container that is sealed around the mechanite. What do I do know? And are you certain that using the floatium on myself, tying myself to the warehouse with ultra-rope and lassoing the tech wrecker was wise?"
"Ugh! Yes. Now open the panel and listen closely…"
Xxx
Chief and Ally watched as Myles tried to get Buzzsaw off of his twin only to get knocked out.
"I'll call Jackie and for paramedics," Ally said.
"I'll help Evan," Chief said. "D-down, Buzzsaw! N-nice robot bird!"
Xxx
"Are you certain it's the blue wire?" Chase asked. "You could be a Decepticon for all I know and be trying to kill me."
"I may be a Decepticon, but I mean you no harm. Heck, all of us are amazed you're alive! Don't you know that Griffin Rock is a death trap?"
Chase turned off his comm and snipped the red wire.
The machine began to malfunction.
"Oh, I fragged—"
Xxx
Blades and Dani took both sets of twins to the hospital when everyone heard and/or saw an explosion of red smoke and light.
Xxx
"Chase!" Heatwave screamed.
"Oh, man!" Kade got inside Heatwave's cab. "Guys, I think one of the old private warehouses just blew up! Any word from Chase?"
"I think he was there. That's where his signal last showed up," Ionix said.
"ROLL TO THE RESCUE!" Heatwave shouted.
Xxx
The team arrived at the broken warehouse. Kade was there to meet them.
"Heatwave says it's too unstable for humans to enter," he said.
The bots walked in and saw Heatwave cradling Chase.
"No!" Chroma ran to her mate. "Is he…"
"Alive, but barely," Heatwave said.
"Oh, Primus! Was he knocked in here from the sky?!" Blades exclaimed.
"From the looks of it, yes," Boulder said.
"I'll contact Ratchet," Ionix said as stepped outside.
Blades scanned Chase. "This isn't good! He's losing energon internally and his spark's out of sync!"
"Chase, if you can hear me, I want you to know that… you're my best friend I could ever ask for and I had a crush on you!" Heatwave let a tear fall. "B-but don't worry, the crush is gone!"
"Chase, you will always be in my spark," Chroma said. "I'll never forget you."
Ratchet came in. "Don't say good-bye just yet."
Xxx
Chase walked back into the bunker for days later. "How have things been since I was gone."
"Real quiet," Blades said. "Our favorite days!"
"Razor's letting me go out tomorrow," First Aid said.
"We're doing some work on the Darby Ava and Razor thought it would be good for him to tag along," Boulder said.
"Chroma's been drowning herself in work and Joyce and Ion have teamed up," Heatwave said. "Chroma's on patrol right now."
"Who's Ion?" Chase asked.
"Ionix. Optimus Prime's son," Boulder said.
"Heatwave, may I have a word in private?"
"Sure," both mechs walked into Heatwave's room.
"A crush on me?! Are you serious?!"
"I told you, it's gone."
"When did it go away?"
Heatwave looked at his peds and took a deep breath. "A-after what happened… w-with Rotors."
"Oh, Primus, I feel sick. I'm sorry, I feel sick. What if we never got the new additions to the team? What about then?"
"Who the frag knows! You?"
"I would report you to the Rescue Ethics Department, that's what."
"Chase, I swear on my life that I don't have those feelings anymore! Please! Don't report me!"
Chase looked him dead in the optic. "If it weren't for these events in the past six months I wouldn't care if you dropped dead!" Chase stormed out and K-9 howled in pain.
"You stepped on my fragging leg!"