Chroma and Emerald exited the groundbridge into the bunker the next day.
"Chase!" Chroma jumped into her mate's arms and kissed him.
"Oh, dear!" Chase said in shock.
"Oh, sorry. I forgot you have amnesia."
Blades and Heatwave started to laugh.
"I can't believe you got laid!" Heatwave wiped a tear from his optic as he laughed.
Chase blushed as he held Chroma's hands.
"Why don't we go over to Jackie's?" Chroma asked.
"If she's more mature about me losing my virginity, then yes," Chase said.
Chroma led him to the tunnel.
"I'll go with them. Make sure they don't get lost," Emerald said.
"We'll catch up later," Boulder said. "Can't you act a little more mature?" he asked the rest of his team.
"Because he's the first of us to lose it!" Blades said between laughs.
"I totally thought it would be me!" Heatwave said.
Firestar, who was walking by, dropped the energon glasses she was carrying.
The glass broke all over.
"Mom? Are you okay?" Heatwave ran over to his carrier.
"O-oh! Yes. I've just had a lot on my mind lately," Firestar said.
"I'll get some stuff to clean this up," Boulder said.
"Have you been getting your rations?" Blades asked.
"I-I have," Firestar said.
"I'll get some energon anyway," Blades went to get the ration.
"It was me again, wasn't it?" Heatwave sighed.
"A-a little bit," Firestar admitted.
"I know my origins and Inferno needs to accept that it was an accident."
"Accept that what was an accident?" Kade asked.
"None of your business!" both fire-bots said.
Xxx
Chief Burns and Ally were on patrol with Inferno.
"Ally, you've been a bit preoccupied today. Is something going on?" Chief asked.
"The chief of police back home got really sick and our department is very small. My town wants me to join the PD to help them keep the town safe. I-I want to help, but… I don't want to leave here. It's so cool!" Ally said.
"Well, if it's temporary, go for it," Inferno said.
"Great minds think alike," Chief said. "Inferno, if you don't mind me asking, what's your relationship with Heatwave like?"
"Yeah, shouldn't you be a bit more concerned about your thought-to-be-deceased son?" Ally asked.
"Well… it's tricky," Inferno said. "The extra biomech is one thing and I've come to accept his sexuality… but he isn't my son."
"He's your stepson?" Chief asked.
"No. He's not my son. I'll explain later."
Xxx
Chase and Chroma were at Emerald's, helping her Pretender and transmutate with cleaning the barn.
"Thanks for helping us," Lindsy said.
"Normally, Slayer would be guarding the animals, but he's recovering from yesterday's stampede," Wheelie said.
"Whose fault was that?!" Slayer said over the comm.
"The island NOT SINKING," Jackie said.
"How long have Chroma and I been together?" Chase asked as he cleaned up some cobwebs.
"About six months," Lindsy said.
"And we were…?"
"Yes, Chase, we interfaced," Chroma said.
Chase blushed.
"Hey, Jackie, can you go check on First Aid for us?" Lindsy asked.
"Sure!" Jackie went T1 and flew off, starling Chase.
Chroma sighed. "I'll explain."
Xxx
Heatwave was looking all over the bunker and Sigma.
"What are you looking for, Heatwave?" Blades asked.
"I don't know. I think I lost something, but I don't know what it is," Heatwave said.
"Did you find anything?"
"I found some medicine in my medicine cabinet. I think it's recharge medicine," he handed Blades the medicine bottle.
"Looks like it was prescribed by a bot named 'Razor'. Maybe you should talk to them. I think there's a battleship for their base."
"Then I guess I'll take a look," Heatwave left the bunker.
Xxx
Chase, Chroma, and Emerald reentered the bunker.
"I wonder why we were called to this meeting by Chief Burns," Chase said.
"He's probably going to help you jog your memory," Chroma said.
The team gathered in the recreation area of the bunker.
Chief saw that everyone but Heatwave was there.
"Okay, where's Heatwave?" he asked.
"He's going to see if Razor can help him with his memories. He found medicine prescribed to him," Blades said.
"He remembered her?"
"Actually, I did."
"Well, I hope he doesn't get lost. Anyway, Heatwave's parents want to explain somethings about him."
"Blades, Boulder, Chase, as his team, I assume you already know of his hermathus," Firestar said.
"Yeah, it was one of the first things we talked about when we were ordered to get to know each other," Blades said.
"He seemed embarrassed, but it was somewhat mild, I guess that's why he told us," Boulder said.
"Although I found it to be too much information," Chase said.
"He was so not cool with you going after him with stereotypes," Blades put his hands on his hips as he glared at Chase.
Everyone looked at Chase.
That explains why he acted the way he did at Heatwave's crush reveal, Chief thought.
How the hell did Heatwave a crush on him?! Kade thought.
Firestar glared at him. "What stereotypes?" she stood threating.
"Chase, I suggest you keep your trap shut for the time being," Inferno said as he put his arm around his mate's waist.
"B—" Chase was cut off when Chroma put her servo over his mouth.
"Continue," Chroma said.
Firestar calmed herself and continued. "You should know why he has it. When Inferno and I were trying to start a family, I told him about my hermathus. In femmes, it causes problems with the ova. We went to a fertility doctor, but there was a mistake. Inferno doesn't carry the hermathus gene and we were going to—well, you get the picture—and use my healthiest ova to create a sparkling. There was a mix-up with the data and they used a donor who did carry the gene. When Heatwave came into being, we checked to see if he got it … and, well, h-he did."
Inferno looked away. "And that also meant I had to go on trial for bigamy charges."
"Inferno, those charges were dropped, and the clinic was sued. Anyway, when Heatwave was transitioning from child to adolescent, he noticed his body wasn't acting the way the other mechlings' bodies were. That was when we told him. He went into a depressed state, and we got him medicine to help him mature. He and Inferno argued almost weekly, with Heatwave threatening to find his 'real' father and live with him."
"And then there was that time he screamed at her that he should have been aborted."
"Which he apologized for. He came to terms when he was around the age of that girl who rides a horse everywhere, but he and Inferno have never gotten along since then."
"Uh, why did you tell us that?" Kade asked.
(A/N: because I wrote so, Kade. Because I wrote so.)
Xxx
Heatwave walked through the Broadside trying to find the CMO.
As he continued to walk he heard horrid off-key singing.
"What in the…?" he walked toward the ear bleeding noise.
"All I wanna do
Is see you turn into
A giant robot
A giant robot!" the singer sang.
"For Primus' sake, Jackie! Stop singing!"
"We're not gonna combine!"
Heatwave walked into the room and saw the Protectobots he met, a medic, and a human teen 'singing'.
"A-hem!" Heatwave cleared his throat.
"Oh, hi, Heatwave," Jackie said.
The four Protectobots greeted him. The leader looked a bit ill.
The medic quickly embraced him in a hug.
"Woah, what?" Heatwave gently pushed the mech away.
"Oh, yeah," Blades said as he led First Aid back to the Protectobots. "Some members of your team have amnesia and didn't even remember the humans. You gotta give them some time to remember you."
Heatwave left and felt an evil glance.
The human then flew next to him.
"Gah!" Heatwave backed up against the wall. "What the frag?!"
"Oh, sorry! Didn't mean to scare you. I'm a transmutate, remember? You're looking for Razor, right?" she asked.
"Y-yeah, I am."
"Follow me then."
Heatwave followed the transmutate to Razor's office.
"Heatwave wants to see you," Jackie said.
"Thank you, Jackie. You may leave," the femme said.
The transmutate left.
"Huh, you're Razor," Heatwave said. "I thought you were a mech. No offense."
"It's alright. I know you have amnesia," Razor said. "Do you have any questions?"
"Why am I taking this?" he handed her the medicine.
"Oh, you were having some bad dreams," Razor put the medicine in her desk. "You shouldn't need it for now."
"Shouldn't I still be taking it?"
"Let's see how you do without it for a while."
"I also noticed a scar on my lower abdomen. What happened?"
"You had a harmless growth in your gestation chamber."
Heatwave got a bit nervous. "Um, Blades was looking for our medical files. Do you have them?"
"Yes, I do. Are you okay? You don't look too good."
"Oh, I'm fine. I better head back to my team," Heatwave left.
Xxx
"So, Ally has to go home now? We've barely known her!" Blades said.
"Don't worry. You'll remember about her soon enough," Cody said.
"And she'll be back as soon as the officer back at her home gets better," Chroma said.
Boulder walked in with a Cybertronian binder. "Blades, I think this is yours."
Blades took the binder and looked through it. "What's a 'coming out' party?"
"It's a celebration for when someone comes out of the closet," Cody said.
Chase, Boulder, and Blades looked at him in confusion.
Chroma explained it in their native tongue, causing the mechs to gasp.
"Who would do such a thing and why?!" Blades exclaimed.
"More importantly, who was it for?" Chase snatched the binder.
"Why are you overreacting? What's wrong?" Cody asked.
"Sorry, Cody. I-it's our culture. Two mechs or two femmes having romantic relations is very controversial," Boulder said.
"A-ha! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!" Chase declared. "I knew Heatwave was a faggot!"
"Chase! Watch your language!" Chroma scolded.
"Take that back!" Cody said.
"Great, now we have to contact the Rescue Ethics Department," Blades said.
"Optimus Prime gave all emergency response bots a direct order NOT to contact them!" Chroma said.
"Why? What happened?" Boulder asked.
"He discovered that they were corrupt and have been for eons."
"Well, I assume they have gotten control of themselves," Chase said.
"You were okay when First Aid came out with Heatwave," Cody said.
"TWO faggots?! Oh, I am contacting the R.E.D. now."
"Chase, no!" Chroma got between him and the command center. "Cody, stop talking and get Chief Burns here, now!"
"On it," Cody said. He pressed his comm. "Dad, we have a situation. The bots found out that Heatwave's bi and First Aid's gay and they aren't taking it well."
"On our way, Cody. Try to keep them calm before Heatwave and First Aid get back," Chief said.
"Geez, how's Chase gonna rereact to Heatwave's crush on him?" Kade asked.
"Heatwave had a WHAT on me?!" Chase exclaimed.
"Uh, did I just make this worse?"
"I'm not going to report Heatwave, I'm going to kill him!"
"Kill me for what?" Heatwave asked as he reentered the bunker.
Chase's left arm transformed into a blaster and he began shooting at Heatwave as he let out a sting of Cybertronian curse words.
"When did you get a BLASTER?! Heatwave screamed as he dodged the shots.
"I don't know!" Chase calmly yelled back.
"Chase, stop shooting! You'll hurt somebody!" Blades said as he, Boulder, and Chroma protected Cody with their Energizer shields.
K-9 landed in the bunker with his blaster ready. "I hear shooting! Who do I shoot?!"
"Help me with Chase," Chroma ordered as she got her blaster ready.
"Wait!" Heatwave turned to face Chase. "Chase, please stop before you hurt somebody." He put a hand on Chase's shoulder. "Pl—AUCH!"
Chase shot Heatwave in the stomach!
"Do NOT touch me again!" Chase aimed his blaster at the red mech's head.
"Deactivate your blaster right now!" Groove ordered as he and his twin aimed their blasters at Chase.
Chase looked at his blaster. "Uh, h-how do I do this?"
"Just imagine your hand," Streetwise said as their Blades and Hot Spot took Heatwave through the groundbride.
Chase transformed his blaster back into his hand and was arrested.
The humans and Heatwave's parents arrived.
"Cody, are you okay?" Chief asked.
"What happened?" Dani asked.
"Chase freaked out when Heatwave walked in and started shooting at him!" Cody said.
"We didn't know he was serious about killing him!" Blades said.
"Yeah, this is why people have a hard time with cops," Kade said.
"You didn't help!" everyone said.