Rescue Bots in the World of Pokémon
Here's another chapter of my Rescue bots/Pokémon story.
mewmaster89: Anora will catch Treecko in the next few chapters of the story.
pokemonjkl: Who knows, maybe Cynthia will make an appearance in the story.
"Talk"
'Thoughts'
"Com-Link"
Chapter Five: A Family of Heroes part 2
Treecko had headed back home to its forest after Anora, Mimi and Cody had met up with Charlie and the older Burns siblings back at the park. Anora was still suspicious about the vehicles, and she was a little uneasy about riding in her uncle's new car, which she now found out that it was no ordinary robot vehicle. But she kept quiet and tried not to draw attention to herself as they drove home.
Night had soon fallen over Griffin Rock as the moon hung high within the dark sky and all was quiet at the fire house. Down in the garage, the four Rescue Bots were in their vehicle modes, while the Burns family were all upstairs. The four robots were quiet for a while before Heatwave transformed out of his firetruck form and into his Bot mode as he walked towards the far wall of the garage.
Boulder, who was still in his Bulldozer form, spoke up as he became curious to what their leader was doing: "Where are you going?"
"I need some space," answered Heatwave as he flipped up two switches on the wall before he walked over to the control console. "Chief said there's a bunker below street level. A relic of something called the Cold War."
Heatwave pushed the lever forward on the control console before the floor underneath him and his two team members began to descend downwards. Chase transformed along with Boulder as the platform descended down into the bunker.
"Apparently we're getting some space, too," stated Chase.
"Wait for me!" exclaimed Blades as he transformed and hopped down onto the lowering floor with his three team members.
The upper doors of the lowering floor closed over top as it replaced the original garage floor. Upstairs, Anora and her relatives were having supper together, while Charlie cooked. Anora sat between Cody and Dani as she took a few bites of her supper, though her mind was somewhere else as she thought about what had happened today. Mimi had taken a few bites of the strawberries that Charlie had placed in the bowl for her before the little fox Pokémon trotted up to Anora and jumped into her lap. Anora blinked in surprise as she looked down at Mimi with a smile before Cody began to speak with his family members.
"I still don't get it," spoke Cody with a confused look on his face. "How did Kade's robot know to-"
"Pass the carrots, Huh?" asked Dani to Graham as she interrupted Cody from asking his question.
Graham handed Dani the bowl before she spoke: "I noticed a glitch or two with my 'copter, but at least I had it under control."
She smirked at Kade, who glared at her over the table. Anora frowned as she placed her knife and fork down on top of the table as she decided to be part of the conversation.
"A glitch is one thing, but we saw..." started Anora, but this time she was interrupted by Charlie, who placed a bowl of mash potatoes on the table.
"Kade, Dani, Graham, you all did great work today," said Charlie as he praised his older children, who smiled and beamed with pride.
Anora sighed as she blew a strand of her bangs out of her face before she stood up from the table with Mimi in her arms.
"Is it okay if Mimi and I be excused?" asked Anora.
Charlie nodded his head at his niece before she walked towards the fire pole. Anora let Mimi climb up onto her shoulders before the young teenager slid down the pole to the garage. When she landed in the garage, she saw that the vehicles weren't there and became confused.
"Where'd they go?" voiced Anora with a frown.
Suddenly, Anora and Mimi heard a loud bang down below them. Anora looked into the hole that the fire pole extended down towards the bunker, which she had once visited a day ago. Anora looked down into hole for a moment before becoming curious as to what was going on in the bunker. She hopped onto the pole again and began to slide down it, and what she saw had her blinking when she landed. In the bunker were the four rescue vehicles that were now in their robot forms, and were moving around the room on their own. The robots were moving about like humans instead of the stiff movements like the regular robots on Griffin Rock.
The red robot was on a tall metal platform as it punched a wooden training post that was setup in front of it. The green robot was holding a painting in its hands as it studied it curiously, while the orange and white bot was leaning up against one of the walls within the bunker. The blue and white robot was using a large white cloth to clean off some of the dirt that stuck to the surface of its upper chest plate. The red robot punched the wooden post again as it let out an angry growl before it spoke in a male voice, which surprised Anora as she slowly walked a little ways from the fire pole.
"Optimus or no Optimus, I don't know how long I can put up with this." red bot as he turned to look at the other bots for a second before he went back to punching the wooden post. "Ordered around (grunt!) other's taking the credit (grunt, grunt!) Having to pretend we're tin cans."
The red robot then slammed his right fist down on the metal floor of the platform he was standing on. Anora raised an eyebrow at what the robot had said before she and Mimi glanced at one another. Anora signaled to her friend to kept quiet as the two of them continued to listen and watch as the robots talked with each other. The orange and white robot spoke up next as it continued to lean against the wall.
"Well, did you see the way my partner pilots me?" said the robot in a younger male voice as he pointed to himself before he rubbed his blue bell. "My controls are still sore. It's always 'higher, higher, faster, faster!' Still, it was nice being part of an emergency response again."
"I find our Chief quite competent," spoke the white and blue robot in an authoritative voice as he finished cleaning his chest before he turned to look at the red bot. "There is much he can teach us about earth's law-enforcement procedures."
"The humans do have strange ways," said the green robot as he continued to look at the painting he held before showing it to the others. "But that's what makes them so interesting."
Anora and Mimi shared a curious look with each other. Why would the green robot be so interesting in humans? The red robot suddenly jumped off the metal platform, and landed on the ground with a loud metal thud. The ground shook a little from the robot's landing before he straightened up to his full height again.
"I'm leaving," said the red robot angrily.
"You can't leave!" exclaimed the green robot. "You're our leader."
"Then we'll all go," said the red robot firmly as he turned his eyes to glared down at the floor in anger. "Those humans will never understand us. We'll never belong here!"
"I know what you mean," spoke a voice from behind Anora.
Anora let out a yelp of surprise before she turned to see Cody smiling behind her as he stood near the fire pole, while looking up at the robots. He was wearing his brown jacket again after he had grabbed it and followed Anora down into the bunker. Anora looked back at the robots and saw that they were staring at both him and her in surprise. Anora gave the robots a nervous smile as she slowly raised her right hand up and waved at them.
"H-hello," said Anora nervously.
The robots quickly responded by making themselves stiff once again. In the process their visors dropped down to cover their eyes as they tried to act like mindless robots in front of Anora and Cody. Anora blinked in surprise at the robots' action for she was expecting them to question or yell at them.
"Don't bother, you're not fooling anybody" said Cody as he smirked at the four robots. "Trust me. Living in Griffin Rock, I know robots. And you guys...worst robots I've ever seen."
"Cody," voiced Anora as she gave Cody a scolding look.
The four robots dropped their pretense as their visors lifted up to reveal their eyes again before the blue and white robot's shoulders slumped down in defeat.
"We've failed in our mission," said the robot in a sad voice. "Our cover is blown. If these humans know, they'll tell the others."
Cody walked forward to stand among the robots, while Anora slowly followed behind him as she cautiously looked up at the robots that stood around them. Mimi sat tense on her friend's shoulders as she prepared herself to protect Anora in case any of these robots decided to hurt the young teenager.
"Are you kidding?" questioned Cody with an excited look upon his face. "And waste a chance to know something they don't? Something this huge? I'm the best thing that could have happened to your mission, 'cause I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about earth."
Anora looked at Cody in befuddlement before the orange and white robot spoke as he gazed down at them with a hopeful look on his face.
"Can either of you teach me how to make my human stop yelling at me?" he asked in an innocent voice.
Anora smiled at the orange and white robot before shaking her head 'no' at him.
"I'm afraid that would be impossible," she said in a soft voice.
"Dani? I don't think anyone can do that," said Cody with a shrugged of his shoulders before he held out his hand to the robot. "I'm Cody, by the way."
"I'm Blades," said the white and orange robot as he gently shook Cody's hand with his large black hand.
Anora found a little bit of courage to speak next after seeing that these robots were actually friendly: "My name's Anora, I'm Cody's cousin."-She then pointed to her Pokémon partner-"And this is my best friend, Mimi."
Mimi yipped a greeting towards Blades as she wagged her tail in a friendly wave. The other three robots decided to introduce themselves to the two human children as well.
"Boulder," spoke the green robot as he pointed to himself.
"Classified," spoke the white and blue robot stiffly.
Anora looked at the white and blue robot with a raised eyebrow before Boulder spoke again as he revealed the blue robot's real name: "That's Chase."
"And I'm Heatwave," said the red robot as he stepped forward to look down at Anora and Cody. "So, Cody, now that you and Anora know what we are, name one good reason why we shouldn't leave this planet right now."
Anora was a little stumped on Heatwave's question. What would be a good reason that Heatwave and his team shouldn't leave earth? Cody was the one who saved her from answering as he gestured for the four robots to follow him. Anora hung back as she watched the four robots follow her cousin towards the tunnels that led out of the bunker. Cody had shown her the tunnels a day ago, and she had been hesitant in going through them since she didn't know anything about them. Anora was about to turn and head towards the elevator, but Heatwave stopped to turn and look back her with an expectant look on his face.
"Aren't you and your little friend coming along?"
Anora looked at Heatwave in surprise before she quickly jogged up to him, and began to walk beside him as they all started to travel through the tunnels together. The group was quiet for a moment before Anora plucked up the courage to speak to Heatwave.
"Um...I just wanted to say, thank you," said Anora as Heatwave turned to look down at her in confusion. "For saving my Uncle Charlie and my cousin Graham back at the museum."
Heatwave looked down at Anora in surprise before looking away in embarrassment: "Um...your welcome."
It wasn't long until the group came out of the tunnel that led them out to a forest. They all stood on a hill, where they were able to look down at the town of Griffin Rock.
"There are tunnels like this one all over the island," said Cody as he climbed up onto a large rock to be almost near the four robots' height. "And they all end in the bunker, great for sneaking out of the firehouse."
"And I'm guessing that you used them to sneak out to have a little time to yourself, huh, Cody," stated Anora with a raised eyebrow as she stood near the base of the large rock.
Cody looked down and shrugged his shoulders at her in a guilty manner before Boulder, who had walked a little further ahead of the group, spoke up as he stared out at the city lights with wonder and amazement.
"Whoa, it's like a million optics' set in carbon. So beautiful."
Anora and Cody, who was now sitting on top of the large rock, stared at Boulder in confusion not really understanding what the green robot had just said about the city lights.
"I...guess it kind of is," said Cody before he turned his gaze on Heatwave. "So why would you ever want to leave?"
Heatwave wasn't sure how to answer that question as he just blankly stared down at Cody. Suddenly, Blades yelped and everyone turned to look at him in alarm and confusion. The Helicopter-Bot pointed a trembling finger towards one of the trees that was two feet away from them, but more like six feet away to the young human children.
"Blades, what's wrong?" asked Anora curiously.
"I saw something shining in that tree!" exclaimed Blades in a fearful voice. "It was glowing red and it was staring right at me!"
Anora, Cody and the other three Rescue Bots turned to look at the tree that Blades was pointing to and saw two red dots glowing among the branches of the pine tree. Heatwave, Chase and Boulder grew tense as they got into a fighting stance, while Cody had a curious look on his face as he stared at the two glowing red orbs in the tree. Anora carefully gazed up at the two red orbs for a moment before smiling when she realized what they were. She then turned to look up at the four Rescue Bots.
"It's alright, those red orbs are just the eyes of a Hoothoot," said Anora as she gently placed a hand on Heatwave's leg.
The four Rescue Bots looked down at Anora with confused expressions upon their faces.
Boulder was the first to speak: "Hoothoot?"
Anora nodded up at the green robot with a calm smile on her face. Just then the group heard the flapping of wings as the owner of the eyes flew out of the tree and landed on Boulder's right shoulder. Standing on Boulder's shoulder was a round little owl Pokémon with stubby wings that hung at its sides and a fan-shaped tail. The Pokémon had brown feathers all over its body except for its stomach, which was beige in color, and large red eyes with black beady pupils. On the Pokémon's face was a large black, mask-like crest that encircled around its eyes and covered its face. The features of the crest had two protrusions at the top that resemble the hands of a clock, while the lower parts had notches that looked similar to the teeth of clockwork gear. The bird Pokémon's light pink beak was small and hooked, and the leg of the Pokémon was a light tan with five claw digits on its foot.
Blades shrunk back in fear as he pointed at the Pokémon on Boulder's shoulder: "What is that?"
"That's a Hoothoot," answered Anora with a reassuring smile. "A normal/flying type Pokémon that's able to keep time with a special organ that senses the Earth's rotation, and is known to be the original clock in ancient times."
Heatwave and the others looked down at Anora in surprise and fascination, which caused Anora to shrink a little in uneasiness.
Heatwave knelt down to be at Anora's height: "How are you able to know all that?"
"Um...research," answered Anora shyly with a blush. "I like to read a lot about Pokémon and understand what their natures are."
"You could say she's a bit of a Pokémon expert," said Cody with a smile.
Anora's blush grew darker as she looked down at the ground sheepishly: "Um...not exactly. I still have a lot to learn about Pokémon, so I only know bits and pieces of information about them."
Blades spoke up as he shyly tapped his fingers together: "Um...not to sound missed informed or anything, but what are Pokémon?"
"Pokémon are fantastic creatures that live on our planet," explained Anora as she grew a little more confident in explaining Pokémon to the four giant robots. "They come in all shapes and sizes, like Mimi and Hoothoot for example, while having amazing powers that represent nature itself."
"Oh, I see!" exclaimed Blades with a large smile on his face before it dropped down to a confused frown. "No I don't."
Anora blinked at Blades in surprise before sadly looking down as she started to think that maybe the Rescue Bots weren't going to be interested in learning about Pokémon. Just like everyone else on this island and in her old hometown.
Boulder cleared his throat, which caused Anora looked up at him as he points to the Hoothoot on his shoulder: "Anora, why does Hoothoot only have one leg? Did it lose it in some kind of accident or was it born this way?"
Anora chuckled before she answered: "Don't worry Boulder. Hoothoot does have two legs, it's just that it likes to switch from one foot to another. But it's difficult to keep track of how Hoothoot switches its legs with the naked eye since it alternates its feet very quickly."
Boulder turned his head to look at the Hoothoot in surprise and fascination: "Fascinating."
The owl Pokémon hooted at Boulder before it flew off his shoulder and headed back to its tree. Anora turned to look at Cody, who had climbed down from the rock and was now standing beside her.
"So, Cody, where do you want to take Heatwave and his friends tonight?"
Cody had a thoughtful look on his face before he smiled: "I have an idea on where we could go to help them in acting more like robots."
The place that Cody wanted to take them was a drive-in Movie Theater as they all sat on top of a large hill that overlooked the drive-in. The movie that was playing on the big screen was an old black and white movie of a large robot invading a city. The four Rescue Bots were all back in their vehicle modes as they watched the movie alongside Cody and Anora.
Anora was sitting on Heatwave's left fender as she watched the movie with a curious gaze, while Mimi sat on her lap as the little fox Pokémon stared at the screen with a light frown on her face. Cody was sitting on Heatwave's right fender with a tub of popcorn in his hands.
"This is how everyone will expect you to act," said Cody as he watched the robot on the movie screen. "See?"
Cody jumped down from Heatwave's fender with his tub of popcorn in hand before he placed it down on the grass. He stood in front of the robots to demonstrate.
"Lock in your legs, lift up your arms..." He walked around like the robot in the movie before he turned to Heatwave and the other robots. "You try."
Anora quickly gathered Mimi up in her arms before jumping off of Heatwave's fender and took a few steps back as she watched the four Rescue Bots transform into their robot modes. Boulder and Chase began to do as Cody instructed them as they walked around like the robot in the movie, while Heatwave only watched them with distain before Cody walked up to him. The boy crossed his arms over his chest as he frowned up at Heatwave with an expectant look on his face.
With a sigh, Heatwave rolled his eyes: "Really?"
He then began to do what his fellow team members were doing. Anora watched Heatwave, Boulder and Chase for a moment before she noticed Blades standing off to the side. The Helicopter-Bot was stiffly moving his arms around, while making robotic noises as he performed the robot dance that Anora had heard about from her older cousins. Anora and Mimi began to giggle at Blades' performance before Cody stepped in as he corrected Blades on what he was doing.
"I don't know where you learned that, but no."
Blades stared at Cody for a moment before taking on a deadpanned look as he began to copy his friends in their stiff robot walk. Anora smiled as she watched the Rescue Bots walk around for a moment before Heatwave came up to her and Cody as he stopped in front of them. Heatwave knelt down to get as close to the children's height level as he could before he spoke.
"Look, Cody, I understand what you and Anora are doing," said Heatwave kindly. "What I don't understand is how 'Talking-like-this' is gonna make my ride-along respect me?"
'You aren't the only one,' thought Anora while she kindly smiled up at Heatwave.
"The trick with Kade is to make him think he's in charge," explained Cody with smile. "Trust me. I've been doing it for years."
Heatwave turned his gaze on Anora: "And what about you? How long have you known Kade for?"
Anora stared up at Heatwave in surprise before nervously smiling at him: "Um, well..."
Just then, the group heard a loud roar as Chase, Blades and Boulder stopped what they were doing to look down the hill.
"Is that part of the film?" asked Blades with a confused look on his face.
Anora walked to the edge of the hill with a worried look on her face: "I don't think so."
That was when they saw the T-rex from the museum stomping down the street towards the drive-in theater.
"Oh no, it's that T-rex from the museum!" exclaimed Anora with Mimi brisling in her arms.
"I know I'm new here, but aren't dinosaurs extinct?" asked Blades nervously.
"This one's about to be!" growled Heatwave as he slammed his fist into his left hand.
Heatwave was about to charge down the hill to face the dinosaur before Cody and Anora quickly ran in front of him.
"Heatwave, wait!" exclaimed Cody as he stopped the Fire-Bot from going down the hill. "Look, if anyone sees you taking down that Dino on your own, there goes your cover and your mission."
"Cody's right," spoke Anora as she took a step forward. "We need to come up with a plan without anyone finding out that your guys aren't mindless machines."
"I'm open to suggestions," said Heatwave impatiently.
Anora frowned in thought as she turned to look down the hill to see the T-rex stopping in front of the lit up sign to the drive-in theater as it stare at it for a moment. Anora raised an eyebrow at that action before Boulder spoke when he analyzed the dinosaur's actions.
"It's attracted to the light!"
The dinosaur snuck into the drive-in as it began to lurk among the vehicles, while the occupants were unaware of the danger that they were all in.
'The light?' thought Anora before an idea came into her head 'That's it!'
Anora quickly turned to Chase before she and Cody shouted out together: "Chase, hit your lights!"
Chase quickly did what Cody and Anora asked as he turned on his red and blue headlights with his siren wailing loudly, which caught the T-rex's attention. The robotic dinosaur roared as it turned towards the hill and began to stomp towards the Rescue Bots and two children.
"That's got its attention," said Chase before looking down at the two children with a worried look on his face. "Now what?"
"We need to lure him somewhere with no people around," instructed Cody.
"The forest should be a good place to battle that robotic dinosaur," suggested Anora.
Heatwave turned to his team members: "Rescue Bots, roll to the rescue!"
The four Rescue Bots quickly transformed into their vehicle modes before driving down the hill towards the dinosaur to lure it away from the drive-in theater. Anora, Cody and Mimi were left on the hill with the young boy having a sad look on his face. Anora noticed this and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder as she gave him a soft smile.
"Come on, Cody" said Anora softly to her little cousin. "We'd better get back to the firehouse and-"
Anora was interrupted by the sound of tires screeching to a halt as she and Cody turned to see Heatwave driving backwards before he halted beside them. The Fire-Bot opened the door to his driver seat for the two children before he spoke.
"Get in!"
Anora was surprised by Heatwave's action, but quickly did what he told them. Anora got in first before helping Cody up into the driver's seat, then moved to sit in the passenger's seat. Anora was about to grab the seatbelt to strap herself in, but was surprised once again when the seatbelt moved on its own and clicked into the buckle. The same happened with Cody as his seatbelt moved to click into place before Heatwave closed the driver's side door. Once they were safely buckled in, Heatwave drove down the hill again to follow after his team members. The T-rex tried to bite down on Boulder, but missed as the Bulldozer-Bot sped passed it down the hill. Boulder and Chase drove towards the town with the dinosaur following close behind them, while Blades flew low within the air above his two team members. Heatwave caught up to his team members with his horn blaring loudly in the process. He drove up alongside the T-rex, which caught the dinosaur's attention as it turned its red eye glare on the Fire-Bot.
Anora gasped in fear as she held Mimi tightly against her chest, while the fox Pokémon growled fiercely at the robot dinosaur. Cody, who was gripping Heatwave's steering wheel, also let out a gasp of fear before Heatwave quickly pushes down his gas-pedal. He sped up to drive ahead of the T-rex, while the robot dinosaur attempted to bite down on his ladder. Cody looked down at the monitor screen on Heatwave's dash board to see the T-rex running behind them.
"He's following," informed Cody with a serious look on his face. "But we're still going to need an assist."
Heatwave's face appeared on the monitor: "I'll com-link the Chief."
His face disappeared as the screen fizzed for a sec before it switched over to the face of Charlie Burns, who was sitting in the chair inside the command center.
"Rescue headquarters, go ahead."
"Dad," Cody spoke before he started to stammer. "Uh, okay. First, don't worry. Anora and I are with the Rescue Bots."
"What?!" shouted Charlie in surprise before his face became stern, "Who gave you two permission to-"
"They did!" exclaimed Anora as she entered the conversation before she shook her head, "Uh, I mean..."
Cody spoke up to help his cousin: "Dad, I don't know how to tell you this, but the Rescue Bots aren't vehicle. They're from another planet, their aliens."
Charlie became silent as he stared at his son and niece with a surprised expression on his face.
"How long have you two known?"
Cody and Anora looked at Charlie in surprise before Cody found his voice again.
"Wait, you know?"
Charlie decided that it was a discussion for later before he spoke again: "Cody, Anora, where are you?"
"Um...funny story actually," replied Anora with a nervous smile as a sweat-dropped appeared on the side of her head.
Chase voice came up on the com-link: "Chief Burns, if I may. We are heading West-bound on Lake Street with a dinosaur in pursuit."
"A Dinosaur? Again?" said Charlie in surprise before he spoke to Anora and Cody. "Cody, you or Anora aren't driving are you?"
Cody quickly took his hands off of Heatwave's steering wheel and looked at the monitor sheepishly: "No."
"Technically, Heatwave is driving, not us." Anora corrected as she scratched the side of her cheek.
Heatwave's horn continued to blare as the T-rex followed him and his team members through the streets. It wasn't long before the Rescue Bots came towards the edge of town. They quickly drove into a large forest with the dinosaur following close behind them. When they figured they were far enough away, Heatwave and his team members quickly turned off their lights and split off in different directions. The T-rex roar in anger at losing its prey as it came to a halt before it slowly began to walk around the forest. Among some of the larger bushes, the Rescue Bots quietly hid as the T-Rex stocked close to their hiding place. Anora sat tense within Heatwave's passenger seat as she held Mimi close to her chest. She didn't dare breathe as she heard the T-Rex growl from behind their hiding place. Anora's body shook in fear before she felt the strap of her seatbelt tighten a little around her. It wasn't a constricting tightness, but a comforting one like how she would receive a hugs from her uncle once in a while back at the firehouse.
"Easy, Anora," whispered Heatwave gently.
Anora slowly nodded, feeling a little calmer as she lightly touched the seatbelt strap to show her thanks. After about a tense minute, the T-rex moved away from the Rescue Bots' hiding spot to look someplace else. Anora, Mimi and Cody let out quiet sighs of relief before they saw Charlie and the older Burns siblings coming up to them in the old police car. They all stepped out of the police car and quickly rushed over to the Rescue Bots. Kade was the first one to Heatwave as he opened the driver's side door to see Cody sitting in the driver's seat.
"Cody, you and Anora jacket my ride?" questioned Kade angrily.
As Kade, glared at his little brother, Anora quickly unbuckled herself and gathered Mimi up in her arms. She was about to touch the door handle to open the passenger's side door when it opened itself. Anora blinked before looking at the monitor screen to see Heatwave nodding at her. Anora smiled and mouthed a 'thank you' to him before jumping out and landing on the ground as the side door shut behind her. Cody unbuckled himself as he jumped out of the driver's seat and on to the ground.
"Listen, the T-rex likes lights," said Cody as he tried to tell his family about his idea as Kade quickly took his place in the driver's seat. "I think you should-"
"Less talk, more action," interrupted Kade as he quickly slammed the driver's door shut.
"Here we go again with nobody listening to us," muttered Anora as she walked up to Cody's side with a light frown on her face.
Heatwave, who heard what Anora said, revved his engine in anger at Kade ignoring Cody's offer to help. Thankfully Kade didn't notice as he buckled himself in and press down on the pedal before leaving Anora and Cody in the dust. Dani and Graham quickly got into Blades and Boulder as they started them up to help their brother in chasing down the dinosaur. Charlie quickly ran over to Cody and Anora with a look of relief on his face when he saw that they were alright. Suddenly they heard a loud roar from behind them and saw the T-rex advancing towards them. Luckily the Rescue team intervened as Heatwave raced passed robotic dinosaur thus causing the T-rex to lift up its foot. It brought its foot back down to stomp on Boulder, but the Bulldozer-Bot quickly stopped it by using his shovel to block the dinosaur's foot. The T-rex then began to chase after the three rescue vehicle as the team led it away from Charlie, Cody, and Anora. Charlie quickly led Cody and Anora to the old police car and had them go inside it.
"You two stay here," ordered Charlie before he ran over to Chase and got into him.
Anora watched from the passenger's seat through the police car's front window with a worried look on her face.
"I hope they'll be okay."
Mimi let out a worried yip of her own as she sadly gazed up at her human friend. Anora turned to look at Cody hoping that her little cousin might have some idea on what they could do.
"Isn't there any way we can help your family, Cody?"
Cody frowned as he went into thought before a smile appeared on his face.
"I might have one idea," said Cody before he picked up the radio. "But we have to let my family know about it first."
Cody quickly turned the radio onto the com-link channel, and when he did he heard Dani's voice coming through the radio.
"Come on! We have to fly closer to the dinosaur or we're useless," she grunted before she talked into the com-link on her strap. "Cody, what did you and Anora do to our robots?"
"If you want them to do what you want, you have to ask nicely," answered Cody with the intercom in his hand as Anora and Mimi giggled quietly beside him.
"Cody, get off this channel," reprimanded Kade in an annoyed voice. "This is for Emergency Responders only."
"Pipe down Kade," said Charlie to his older son. "Cody and Anora spotted the Dino first. So for now, they're on the team."
"Fine by me," spoke Graham "Got any ideas, Cody?"
"Not exactly," answered Cody before a determined look came on his face. "But I think I know someone who will."
Anora smiled in realization: "Frankie, of course! Cody you're a genius!"
Cody blushed at Anora's complement before he quickly pulled out his phone and dialed in Frankie's number. Anora kept quiet as she let Cody talk to Frankie on the other end. Cody listened to Frankie for a moment before thanking her as he ended his call.
"Okay, Frankie said that the T-rex has a switch that's located on its back." Cody informed to both Anora and his family on what his friend told him. "So we need to lure it to the ditch."
"Then what?" questioned Kade impatiently. "How are we going to turn that Dino off without getting our heads ripped off?"
Anora, finally having enough of Kade's attitude, grabbed the intercom from Cody before shouting very loudly into the device.
"If you just shut up for a minute and listen to Cody, then you'll find out what kind of plan he has up his sleeves, you arrogant peacock!"
Silence came over the end of the intercom before Anora handed it back to Cody, who was staring at her in astonishment. Anora saw his look and blushed in embarrassment before turning her gaze up towards the police car's roof.
"What? It's true," muttered Anora.
Cody only smiled at Anora before he told his family his plan. Dani and Graham headed to the police station to grab the cage of the jail cell, while Kade headed to the ditch to saturate the dirt into a mudslide. Charlie was given the task to distract the T-rex for a while until everyone was in position. Anora and Cody quickly gotten out of the old police car, and were hiding in a few bushes just close enough to the action. Back at the ditch, Kade had just finished creating the mudslide that led into the bottom of the ditch.
"Now, how are we supposed to get that thing over here?" asked Kade to no one in particular.
That was when Heatwave spoke up: "Thought you'd never ask."
Kade let out a terrified scream before letting go of the hose as Heatwave reeled it back into his gear space. The Fire-Bot quickly transformed into his bot-mode before walking up the side of the ditch. Once he stood on the edge, Heatwave turned on his lights to get the T-rex's attention. His lights caught the T-rex's attention as it began to charge towards Heatwave, who bravely stood his ground as he smirked at the incoming Dino. Anora watched intensely from behind the bushes with Mimi standing at her side. Just as the T-rex came close to biting Heatwave's head off, the Fire-Bot ducked underneath the robotic dinosaur. Heatwave then used its weight against it as he flipped the Dino over him, and threw it down onto the mudslide. The T-rex slid down the mudslide where it came to a stop at the bottom within the ditch. Anora smiled in amazement at Heatwave's bravery when he stood his ground against the T-rex.
'He's so brave,' thought Anora. 'I wish I could be courageous as him.'
Cody stood up from his hiding place and quickly ran towards the edge of the ditch. Anora and Mimi quickly followed him before they all stopped to watch as Dani and Blades appeared with the cage hanging from Blades's hook.
"In coming air support," came Dani's voice from the intercom before the cage was dropped onto the T-rex.
"Okay, let's go," said Anora as she, Cody and Mimi carefully walked down to the bottom of the ditch.
The trio quietly snuck up towards the T-rex as the robotic dinosaur widely kicked and bit at the bars of the cage.
"I hope Frankie was right," voiced Cody as he reached forward towards the latch.
The T-rex kicked out at the bars again, which caused Cody to yell out in surprise along with Anora. Cody quickly pushed the button of the panel to open it up. Underneath the panel was a lever that was set on the green rectangle. Cody grabbed the lever and began to struggle in pulling it down to the red rectangle. Anora watched her cousin struggle with the lever for a moment before frowning in determination. She quickly stepped forward to help Cody and grabbed the lever as well. The two cousins struggled as they tried to pull the lever down together, while Mimi yipped out encouragement to them.
'I'm not going to give up!' thought Anora in determination.
The two cousins pulled harder until they finally pulled the lever down towards the red rectangle. The T-rex became still as its eyes slowly dimmed from their red glow. Cody and Anora let out sighs of relief before they turned to each other with a large smiles on their faces.
"We did it!" cheered Anora and Cody as they shared a high five with each other.
Mimi yipped happily at them as she jumped up onto Anora's shoulders. Anora laughed as she stroked her Pokémon friend underneath the chin.
Later that morning
Anora, with Mimi held in her arms, and her relatives were all standing together in the dinosaur exhibit at the museum as they all stared at the display in front of them. Graham was the first one to speak as he continued to stare at the dinosaur that they were standing in front of.
"Do you think anyone will notice?"
Anora replied with a shrug as Charlie took a picture of the display. The dinosaur that they were all looking at was the T-rex they had brought back, which was lying down on its back. They soon walked out of the museum where the Rescue Bots were waiting for them outside before Charlie stopped halfway towards the Rescue Bots.
"Wait, I want to get a picture of my heroes." Charlie said as he set the camera up to hover above the ground.
The older siblings stood side by side with each other as Anora and Cody walked over to where the Rescue Bots were standing. Charlie gazed at his youngest son and niece as they stood in front of the Rescue Bots with Cody having a sad look on his face, while Anora sadly smiled at him.
"All my heroes," corrected Charlie with a smile.
Anora and Cody gazed at Charlie in surprise before Dani and Graham walked over to stand beside them along with Charlie. Kade stayed where he was as he wasn't impressed by his father adding Cody and Anora into the picture alongside Mimi.
"Come on, Dad." Kade said with a smirk. "Just because Cody and our oddball of a cousin answered one call doesn't mean they're part of the team."
"Yes it does." Heatwave said out of the blue with Kade yelping in surprise as he looked up at the robot that was his fire truck. "Or we're not."
Dani and Graham gasped in fear as they quickly backed away with their father. Cody, Anora and Mimi smiled up at Heatwave as the leader of the Rescue Bots knelt down and placed his large servo behind their backs.
"Cody and Anora are our liaisons on this mission. They're the only reason we're giving this place a chance." Heatwave leaned forward to get closer to Kade's face as he glare at him. "Are we clear?"
Kade screamed as he quickly ran over to his family, while Heatwave stood up to his full height again.
"Dad, did that thing just talk back to me?" asked Kade in a fearful voice.
"Something's definitely wrong with the robots," said Dani with a nervous smile.
"We can't use technology prone to malfunction," stated Graham.
That was when Charlie decided to reveal the truth to his family: "They're not malfunctioning. They're aliens."
The older Burns siblings stared at their father in shock: "What?!"
Anora couldn't help but laugh at her older cousins' reaction before the camera took their picture. In the picture were Kade, Dani and Graham staring at their father in surprise at what they had just learned, while Charlie had a smile on his face as he gazed at the camera. Anora, Mimi and Cody were smiling at the camera as well with Cody doing a thumbs-up, while Anora and Mimi cuddled together with large smiles on their faces. Yep, things on Griffin Rock were never going to be the same again.
To be continued
And that's the chapter of this story. Stay tuned for the next one that will be coming soon.
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