A/N: I'm back again! I'm surprised by how many people have read this fic already! Thanks so much!
Disclaimer: I do not own Rescue Bots. I only own Catherine Burns.
*3rd POV*
That afternoon, Cody Burns arrived at the dedication before it started.
"Cody! Come here!" Cody's best friend, Frankie Greene, age 12, waved him over.
Cody waded through the crowd towards Frankie and her father, Doctor Greene, age 46, the island's chief scientist.
"Hey Doc. Frankie." Cody greeted.
"Isn't this exciting? The tech's like nothing I've ever seen!" Frankie gushed just as Cody's father walked onto the stage.
"Ahem. Thank you for coming, folks." He said to the crowd.
"I'm not talking about the rescue stuff! I'm talking about this!" Frankie showed Cody a pamphlet with a dinosaur on it. "The new exhibit at the museum! Cyber wire is infused with crutatious DNA!"
Chief Burns kept on talking. "Our town has a long history of being on the cutting edge of new technology. Now, thanks to our friends in Washington, I give you the latest in rescue technology, the Rescue Bots!"
The pedestal that Chief was standing on rose to reveal five standard-looking rescue vehicles: a fire truck, a bulldozer, a police cruiser, an ambulance, and a helicopter. The crowd clapped politely for them and Chief shouted at them, "Robots! Transform!"
They all transformed and the crowd cheered loudly for them. The closest to The Chief was Heatwave, the fire truck, then Boulder, the bulldozer, then Chase, the police cruiser, then First Aid, the ambulance, and then Blades, the helicopter.
"These rescue robots will streamline our resources. Now, one human paired with one robot will be able to do the work of an entire police force." Chief explained to the crowd, pointing to Chase.
"Fire Department." Kade stepped forward with a superior smirk on his face. Heatwave internally rolled his optics.
"Air rescue." Dani grinned, adjusting the helmet she had tucked under her arm. Blades' rotors shivered slightly at the thought of flying.
"Emergency response." Catherine smiled and patted First Aid on the pede.
"And engineering core." Graham pushed his glasses back up his nose, and kept analyzing the comm. tab he had in his hand while Boulder fidgeted restlessly.
"Each rescue robot is programmed to respond only to their handlers." Chief said, as his family onstage gathered around him. "So you can sleep at night, knowing that Griffin Rock is protected by the best technology and humanity has to offer."
The crowd cheered again.
Suddenly, a butterfly landed on Boulder's nose. He was about to brush it off but Heatwave elbowed him and he tried to be a robot again. He crossed his eyes to see what it was and then blew at it from his mouth.
Nobody except Cody Burns noticed this and tried to tell Frankie about it, but she was too engrossed in the pamphlet about the robotic dinosaur. He climbed up onto the stage, and looked up at the green robot.
No response.
Cody pounded on its foot and stood back.
Still no response.
"Hey, kid!" Cody turned around and saw Huxley Prescott, current island news reporter, holding a camera. "Can you move? I want a picture of the Burns family of heroes."
Cody backed up and Huxley flashed his camera in the direction of the Burns family. The Burns's paid no attention to Huxley, preferring to converse between themselves. Cody sighed sadly. He really wished he could be part of a rescue, even just once.
Chief Burns' comm. suddenly beeped. "This is Chief Burns. Go ahead."
A voice buzzed and Chief reverted to his commanding voice. "Fire at the Natural History Museum!"
The fire truck robot transformed, but it was the only one who transformed.
"Hey, I didn't tell it to do that." Kade said, scratching his head.
Chief Burns panicked a bit, then composed himself. "I-it's new technology, son. Bound to be some bugs."
They all ordered their bots to transform, and quickly made their way to the Natural History Museum... Well, Dani and Blades weren't exactly getting the concept of 'quickly.'
"Come on! Faster! We're being outrun by a bulldozer!" Dani groused, yanking harshly on the steering control.
"I do not understand." Blades said mechanically, hiding a grimace.
"Not. So. Slow!" Dani shouted and pulled on the joystick.
"Fly low. Understood." Dani groaned. This was a major glitch. She'll have it checked out later.
Kade, Chief Burns, and Catherine got to the Museum first. Kade immediately told the fire truck to transform and extend his fire hose and began taming the blaze centered around the new dinosaur exhibit.
"Clear the museum of civilians!" Chief ordered.
"Please evacuate in an orderly fashion." Chase said.
After everyone was evacuated, Chase emerged from the Museum, holding a pair of mummies in his hands. "These humans did not respond."
Catherine laughed lightly, applying a smiley-face Band-Aid to a child's scrape, then moving on to another person and accepted another bandage from First Aid. "I don't think you'll be much help for them."
Chase just stood there. Chief Burns chuckled and said, "We'll explain later. Just put those on the side for now."
Chase complied.
Meanwhile, Graham was having a little trouble with his robot.
"We need to move the plants to create a fire block." Graham ordered the robot.
"But- uh-" Boulder panicked, then remembered to revert to "sparkless machine mode", as Heatwave would put it. "That would destroy the harmonious nature of the plaza's design."
"What?" Graham said, confused. Then, he shook it off and moved all the plants away from the building.
Dani finally arrived and quickly jumped out of the helicopter while Kade laughed at her. "Nice of you to show up, Dani."
"Would've been here sooner if my ride wasn't stuck in neutral!" Dani scoffed. "Next time, I'm walking."
As Dani huffed away, Blades sighed sadly and sank down on his landing studs. Cody, hidden in the bushes and stared suspiciously at the helicopter.
After the fire was put out, they Graham went inside to investigate how the fire started.
"Looks like a short started the fire." He reported when everyone gathered around the dinosaur, a tyranasaur, that had short-circuited. "But this should hold it. Cyber wire is too much for these old circuits."
Cody stealthily stuck his head into through the door, and when no one was looking, he sprinted through the door and hid behind a pillar.
"Well, at least no one got seriously hurt." Catherine said, just as a spark rained down on Chief, Catherine and Graham. They looked up in alarm and saw the head of a longnecked dinosaur ready to fall from where it was dangling by a few wires.
Chief Burns tackled Catherine and Graham out of the way, and shielded them from the falling dinosaur head...
But Heatwave, not wanting to have failed his mission, caught the head and placed it gently on the ground. Catherine sighed in relief and glanced up at Heatwave for a brief moment, then turned her attention to Graham and the rest of her family.
"I didn't tell it to do that." Kade protested, losing the arrogant air around him and was replaced with slight concern for his brother.
"I wouldn't complain." Dani replied, also shaken.
"Are you alright?" Catherine asked, checking for injuries on Graham and her husband.
"I'm fine, Mom." Graham replied, looking embarressed at the attention.
"Your robot was still in rescue mode." Chief Burns said to Kade. "You gave it the directive to save lives, so it did." Then he turned his attention to Catherine and placed a kiss on her forehead. "Thank you, sweetie."
"Your welcome, Graham." Kade's smirk returned while Graham and their dad were getting checked by their mother.
"Kade..." Catherine warned. All of her children agree that their mother could be scary when she wanted to be.
"Sorry, Mom." He replied, cowering slightly.
And while all of this was happening, Cody remained hidden, still suspicious of the robots. He wasn't sure what he was suspicious about, but he was going to find out.
A/N: Done! Thanks for reading! Should I call Catherine 'Dr. Burns' or just 'Catherine?'
Review a title too!