Rescue Bots in the world of Pokémon
Here's another chapter of my Rescue bots/Pokémon story.
pokemonsora01: Let's just say that when Anora gains more confidents within herself, she'll probably have to battle bad guys with Pokémon when she needs to protect the ones she really cares about. Also I have something else planned for her future, but that's all I'm going to tell you.
"Normal Talk"
'Thoughts'
"Com-link and/or monitor"
"Robot-Talk"
Chapter 7: Under Pressure part 2
Anora and Mimi stayed behind with the Rescue Bots as they waited for Cody to bring his siblings down into the bunker. The four Rescue Bots were hiding behind the corner, while Anora was standing near the bookshelf. Charlie had left the firehouse to check something out downtown after he had gotten a strange call about steam coming out of the sewers. It didn't take long for Cody to bring his older siblings to the bunker by riding down in the elevator. Once the elevator doors opened, Kade, Dani, Graham and Cody stepped out.
Kade held a look of annoyance: "This is the amazing thing we had to see? The bunker?" He turned to look at Cody with a raised eyebrow. "We've been in here a thousand times."
"Not in years," said Dani before she went to a stool and picked up a pink stuffed elephant toy that sat on it. "I used to love playing down here." She hugged the elephant before she turned to look at Kade with a smirk on her face. "Remember when you got lost in the tunnels Kade?"
"How old was he when that happened?" asked Anora with a chuckle as Mimi sat on her shoulder with a smirk on her furry face.
"None of your business," grumbled Kade as he turned away with a huff.
Graham walked over to the pinball machine that was standing nearby.
"Wonder if I can beat my old score?" Graham mused with a smile before he began to play on the machine.
While Kade and Dani watched him, Cody and Anora quietly backed away from the older Burns siblings until they were near the corner that the four Autobots were hiding behind. Cody leaned backwards to look at the Bots along with Anora.
"You're on," whispered Cody.
The four Bots hesitated as they began to argue amongst each other on who should go first.
"You go first."
"I don't want go first."
"I don't wanna go at all."
"We could go by height?"
"Wait, let me go first."
Finally, with impatience, Heatwave pushed Blades out from behind the corner.
The helicopter-Bot froze where he stood before a nervous smile appeared on his face: "Hi."
The three older Burns siblings all turned around to look at Blades in surprise and frustration.
Kade was the first one to speak in anger: "Really?"
"Don't freak," said Cody as he held out his hands in a calming manner, "We invited them, too." Heatwave, Chase and Boulder came out from around the corner as they all stood behind Cody and Anora. "We thought it would be cool if we all hung out together. You know, just the nine of us."
Mimi let out a yipped and Cody quickly corrected himself.
"I mean the ten of us."
Kade turned and started to walk away, but Cody quickly stopped him by saying a few choice words that his older brother would not admit to.
"Come one Kade, what are you afraid of?"
Kade stops in his tracks as he turned to glare at Cody, while crossing his arms over his chest. Anora shared a smile with Cody before her younger cousin motioned for Boulder to go first. The bulldozer-bot eagerly stepped forward as he made his way towards the pinball machine. Graham, Kade and Dani quickly stepped back as they stared up at the green bot with uncertainty. Boulder turned to look at Graham with a smile before he spoke.
"Is this an Earth game? May I try?"
"S-sure," said Graham with an unsure look as he walking up to the bot and stood near the side before he points to the knob on the front of the machine. "You pull this to start."
Boulder did as Graham instructed him to do and pulled it, unfortunately Boulder broke the knob off.
"Ho fun!" exclaimed Boulder excitedly before looking back at Graham. "Now what?"
Graham only groaned as he placed his hand on his forehead. Anora let out a sigh at the sight before going off to the side to stand a little further away so that Heatwave, Boulder and Blades can get to know their partners. Blades and Dani, who was sitting on the metal base of the garage platform, were quiet for a moment before Blades began to shuffle through some flashcards that Anora had made for him.
"Lovely weather we're having today, isn't it," said Blades with a smile.
Dani, who was still holding her stuffed elephant, replied: "Perfect for flying!"
"Or not," said Blades before he shifted to the next flashcard. "Uh, do you have any hobbies?"
"Flying," answered Dani.
"Oh boy," muttered Anora with a roll of her eyes.
She then turned her eyes on Kade and Heatwave, who were both sitting together but weren't looking or talking to each other. And when they do make eye contact, they would turn away from each other again. Anora let out a sigh along with Mimi when they saw that things weren't going any better with the two hotheads either.
Kade then stood up: "Yeah, I think we're done here."
Kade turned and walked towards the elevator along with Dani and Graham when they had enough with being around their robot partners. Chase, who had been off to the side watching, walked up to Anora and Cody.
"That went quite well," he stated.
"It would have been better if Kade, Dani and Graham had put aside their stubbornness and got to know you guys." Anora said with a sigh as she looked down at the ground with her hands shoved into her overall pockets.
Suddenly the alarm within the firehouse rang out and everyone quickly gathered around the small monitor screen that was located on the wall. Kade came around the corner and pressed one of the buttons to turn on the small screen. Charlie's face appeared on the small screen of the monitor with a serious look upon his face.
"Uncle Charlie, what's going on?" asked Anora with a worried expression upon her face.
"We have a situation on Main and Park," answered Charlie. "Sewers are overflowing."
"So, call a plumber," said Dani.
"With lava," added Charlie.
After he said those words a large spout of lava burst out from the sewer behind him as the manhole cover was shot up into the air. Anora heard the sound of cars crashing into each other and horns honking in the background. She could only hope that nobody had gotten caught within the path of the lava.
"This could get ugly pretty fast," said Charlie through the Com-link again. "I need the whole team out here."
Kade, Dani, and Graham quickly ran towards the elevator, while the Rescue Bots quickly rode the metal platform up to the garage to meet up with their partners. That only left Anora, Mimi and Cody to themselves before Anora quickly turned to the screen of the monitor.
"Is there anything we can do to help, Uncle Charlie?" asked Anora, hoping that she and Cody could help the team in someway.
"I want you and Cody to get on the command center com-link," said Charlie. "Your cousins and siblings will need some help working with their partners."
"Yes sir," said Anora with a salute before she and Cody headed towards the stairs.
It was a long climb up to the command center, but the two cousins and Pokémon made it just in time to see the action on the monitor screens. Cody quickly took his seat at the command chair, while Anora stood beside him with Mimi still sitting on her shoulder. On one of the screens they saw Charlie and Chase putting up barriers around a pool of lava, while blocking any traffic from coming near it. But one of the people within the cars, a young blonde haired woman, impatiently drove forward before screaming when her car drove into the large lava puddle.
"Chase, help her," ordered Charlie.
Chase nodded his head before walking towards the melting car as the woman sat on the back trunk of the car to keep herself from getting burnt by the lava. Chase offered his servo to the woman, who quickly climbed onto it as her car melted within the lava.
"Next-Time-Citizen-Please-Follow-The-Rules-Of-The-Road." Chase said as he suggested this idea to the woman. "It's-Not-Only-A-Good-Idea-It's-The-Law."
"Good work, Chase," praised Anora through the Com-link.
She then turned her attention to the next screen before an anime sweat-drop appeared on the side of her head. She saw Dani angrily pulling and shoving on Blades's controls in frustration.
"Can you be a little more-Ow!-Gentle with that?" asked Blades politely.
"Ugh! As soon as you learn how to fly," said Dani in frustration.
"Poor Blades," voiced Anora with sympathy.
Cody spoke through the microphone to his sister: "Dani, be nice, remember?"
Dani let out a frustrating sigh before she gently started to touch Blades control stick with a smile.
"Blades, buddy, I know this is hard for you, but you can do it." Dani said in a sweet voice and for a moment Anora thought that Cody had finally gotten through to his sister, until she started to yell at Blades again. "So, do it already!"
Anora sighed in exasperation, while Cody and Mimi cringed before all three of them turned to look at the next screen on their left. They saw Graham and Boulder setting up a few concrete barriers around another puddle of lava, which was raising up from the sewers. Boulder had just pushed the last concrete barrier around the lava before transforming into his bot mode. He turned to Graham with a worried look on his face.
"Do you think this is enough to hold the lava?" asked Boulder.
Graham seemed to take Boulders question the wrong way as he let out a frustrating sigh.
"Oh, you're right. It must seem like a primitive solution to you."
"Graham, Boulder's not dissing you," said Cody.
"Cody's right," spoke Anora as she entered the conversation. "Boulder's trying to help you, but you need to tell him what you're thinking first."
Suddenly the trio heard an explosion on one of the screens, and turned to see that lava had appeared near the gas station as a fire began to form on the roof. Heatwave made it there...without Kade riding inside of him.
"Where's Kade?" asked Anora as she and Cody looked at one another in confusion. "Shouldn't he be riding in Heatwave?"
Heatwave transformed into his bot mode and pointed his left fist towards the fire, but he didn't get a chance to put out the fire when a spray of water suddenly shot out at the fire from his left. Anora, Cody and Mimi saw that Kade had driven in his old fire truck and was putting out the fire himself.
"I got this covered," said Kade with a smirk. "You can move on, partner."
Heatwave turned and walked away from the burning gas station as he let Kade handle the situation on his own. Anora groaned in frustration as she leaned towards the monitor that showed Kade putting out the fire.
"You're such an idiot!" exclaimed Anora to Kade as Mimi yipped from her shoulder in agreement.
"Kade, you have to work together..." started Cody, but Kade cut him off.
"No time for chit-chat, Cody," said Kade as he flicked his Com-link off from the collar of his fire fighter jacket.
Anora let out another groan as she turned to look at Cody with an exasperated expression upon her face.
"He is so stubborn," muttered Anora.
Suddenly, a loud explosion sounded on the monitor screen as the two cousins quickly turned their eyes to see what was going on. What they saw had them gasping in fear when they saw Kade's old firetruck lying on its side on the ground with the front being damaged. On the ground four feet away from the old firetruck laid Kade, unconscious with a few scorch marks on his fire proof jacket.
"Kade! Kade!" shouted Cody through the microphone "Are you okay? Kade!"
There was no reply as the com-link, which had been thrown to the ground, was swallowed up by the lava. Anora watched in horror as the lava and fire slowly made its way towards Kade, who was slowly regaining conscious. She may not like Kade very much, but he was still her cousin and her family member. Just when the lava was closing in around Kade, Heatwave showed up and began to spray down the fire and lava from the knuckle-guards on his first. He also sprayed down Kade to wake him up as the red-head turned to look at Heatwave in surprise.
"You're welcome...partner," said Heatwave with a smirk and a mock salute before he continued on with cooling down the lava.
Anora let out a sigh of relief, along with Cody and Mimi before the main screen frizzed and was replaced with Charlie's image.
"Anora, Cody, we've cleared out most of downtown," said Charlie. "But the lava won't quit."
"What do we do?" asked Anora in a calm voice.
"If we can't plug up the leak soon, I'll need you two to send out an island-wide evacuation order," answered Charlie.
"You got it, Dad," said Cody with a nod. "But let me call someone first."
Cody pressed a red button on the control panel before the screen frizzed again. Anora looked at Cody curiously, and wondered who he was calling before smiling when Cody called out the name of the one person who could help them in this time of crisis.
"Doc Greene, are you there?" said Cody.
Anora and Mimi turned their attention the main screen, and what they saw had the trio staring in confusion. On the screen was Doc Greene, but his image on the monitor was upside down. Cody, thinking that the monitor was on the fritz, began to slap at the screen before Anora stopped him by grabbing his wrist.
"Do not adjust your monitor," said Doc Greene. "I'm upside-down over here too."
"Doc, why are you upside-down?" asked Anora with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm testing my theory that I can solve equations faster when all my blood is collected in my head," answered Doc Greene.
"Doc, is there a volcano on the island that we don't know about?" asked Cody, getting straight to the point.
"No," answered Doc Greene with a shake of his head. "But there is one we do know about-Mt. Magma, built for the world's fair of 1939. That's when they invented deep-fried cotton candy. You see, the sugar fell into the hot oil and-"
Anora quickly interrupted Doc Greene when she saw that he was getting off topic.
"Doc, how can a fake volcano spew real lava into the sewers?" asked Anora curiously.
"Well, the volcano is fake, but the lava isn't." Doc Greene answered as he stretched his left hand towards the floor and grabbed a pencil, while grabbing a small note book from his lab pocket. "When Mt. Magma was moved here, the engineers sunk a pipe deep into the Earth's core." He showed Anora and Cody the upside-down picture of the volcano with the pipe in it before realizing he was holding it upside-down and flipped it over. "Pent-up pressure in the core could push lava back up the pipe." He then flipped the notepad again to draw something else on it before flipping it once more to show the two cousins the pipe drawn into the volcano. "But the top of the volcano is sealed, so the lava would come out wherever it could like the sewers. The pressure would keep forcing lava out until it covered our whole island. Uh, that would take about 4.7 hours."
Doc Greene then reached into his lab pockets again and brought out a metal stop watch to look at it with a smile.
"Ah, shaved a full second off my calculation time." He said with pride as he turned to look back at Anora and Cody on the screen. "Hanging upside-down really does work."
"Doc, this is for real," said Cody as he got serious.
Doc Greene quickly flipped himself and his chair back up right as a serious look came over his face.
"Then, you have to get rid of the lava pressure immediately," said Doc Greene before he got out of his chair and walked away from the screen for a moment. He then came back with a large soda bottle in his hands. "Think of the volcano as a giant fizzy bottle." He shook the bottle in front of the screen as Anora and Cody watched. "To get rid of the pressure, you open it a little at a time." Doc Greene slowly began to open the cap on the bottle as it let out a hissing sound. "A small, controlled eruption should take care of your lava problem, but don't open the lid too fast or..."
Doc Greene finished his example by opening the cap too fast as the fizzy bottle erupted, and in the process sprayed its contents all around the lab.
Downtown
Night had fallen as the rescue team continued to put concrete barriers around the manholes that had lava rising up from them. Once the last barrier was in place, Charlie called for everyone's attention.
"Alright team, I just got off the com with Cody and Anora," said Charlie as his family and the Rescue Bots gathered around him. "They say we can stop this lava, but we'll have to erupt a volcano to do it."
Blades landed on the ground and let Dani out of his cockpit before he transformed into his bot mode.
"And that's the safest option?" he asked nervously.
"It's our only option," stated Charlie. "I won't lie-things might get hairy. If the volcano goes off too fast, we could get caught in the lava." He then turned to look at Heatwave, Chase and Boulder as Blades walked up to stand beside them. "I'll understand if you don't want to be part of this mission. It's dangerous. Griffin Rock isn't your home."
Heatwave and his team members glanced at one another before they looked down at the humans they were partnered with.
"If you go, we go," he said firmly.
Dani, Kade and Graham stared up at the Bots in surprise before Graham stepped forward to speak.
"You'd risk your lives for us?"
"That's what being partners means," answered Boulder.
"Wherever there's an emergency, there are Rescue Bots ready to serve, save and protect," said Chase proudly.
"We didn't have a chance to save our home," spoke Blades. "We won't let you lose yours."
The Burns family, minus Kade, smiled up at the Autobots in appreciation.
"Glad to have you on board," said Charlie before he turned to his three older children. "But for this plan to succeed, we'll all have to put aside our differences and work together as real partners, understood?"
Dani and Graham nodded their heads before Kade stepped forward. At first Dani and Graham thought that he would argue with their father, but instead he smiled and nodded his head in agreement.
The firehouse
Back at HQ, Anora, Mimi and Cody were watching the team on the monitors. They saw Graham and Boulder climbing up the path the leads to the top of Mt. Magma.
"You're almost there guys," said Anora in encouragement.
"Boulder, I'm sending you a schematic of how the volcano works," spoke Cody as he pressed a few buttons on the control board.
The schematic successfully appeared on Boulder's monitor as Graham studies it.
"Hmm," voiced Graham to himself. "Yes I see."
"Graham, you have to tell Boulder what you're thinking," said Cody.
"Oh, right, sorry," said Graham as he sheepishly smiled back at Cody before he got serious. "Okay, from this diagram, it looks like the volcano's "On" switch should be inside the mountain nearby."
Boulder soon came to their destination before stopping as he opened his window for Graham to jump out. When he did, Graham looked around with a lost expression on his face.
"But I don't know where, exactly," said Graham with a frown.
Boulder quickly raised his shovel up from the ground: "That's where I can help."
The Bulldozer-bot then slammed his shovel down on the ground, sending seismic waves, while causing Graham to flinch a little.
"Found it," announced Boulder when he picked up the readings of where the switch was.
"Whoa, you have seismic imaging?" asked Graham in surprise.
"Of course," answered Boulder gently before he started digging for the switch.
Back down the mountain where people were making camp, Charlie walked up to the campsite to tell the people to clear out.
"Head back to town, please. It's about to get hot around here."
The campers began to gather around him as they started to voice their complaints when Chase suddenly appeared behind Charlie. Their tune quickly changed after that as they quickly did what Charlie asked them to do.
A few meters down the mountain, Kade and Heatwave were waiting for some of the action to start. They were bored out of their minds as Kade sat on a rock, while Heatwave leaned up against the rock wall of the mountain with his arms crossed over his chest. Kade let out a sigh, along with Heatwave as they looked at each other for a moment before looking away. Kade pressed the com on his jacket collar, a new one he received from his Dad, as he spoke to his little brother.
"What's going on, Cody?" questioned Kade impatiently through the com-link. "When do we get to see some action?"
"In about a few minutes," answered Anora with a roll of her eyes.
She and Cody then saw Blades in his helicopter form on the monitor as he flew towards Mt. Magma before Cody announce to his brother.
"Blades is moving into place now."
Blades soon hovered over Graham and Boulder. Boulder had transformed back into his bot mode as he stood beside his partner. Once he was over top of them, Blades lowered his winch down to the duo. Boulder grabbed the hook before hooking it to the switch of the volcano.
"Blades, we're attaching you to the volcano's lowest setting," announced Graham through the com-link. "When you fly up, the volcano will turn on and blast out the lava. Get clear as quickly as you can."
"Blades and I have it from here," said Dani through the com. "Shoo, you two."
Graham quickly ran over to Boulder as the bulldozer-bot transformed back into his alt mode. Once Graham got inside of him, Boulder turned and plowed through the edging of the volcano and drove down hill. When they were gone, Blades flew up and turned on the volcano's switch before his hook released from it. The top of the volcano slowly began to open as smoke and ash began to rise out of the small opening.
"We did it," said Dani. "Now, let's just get out of-"
She was quickly interrupted when a huge plume of smoke shot out from the volcano, and covered the sky in a dark cloud around Dani and Blades. Blades began to panic as he spun around in the air.
"I can't see!" exclaimed Blades.
"Blades, go higher!" yelled Dani as she pulled against the helicopter-bot's controls. "We have to get out of this!"
"Which way is higher?" asked Blades.
Dani growled in frustration before Anora spoke to her through the com-link.
"Dani, calm down," said Anora gently. "Remember, talk nicely to him."
"I know, I know," said Dani before she took a deep breath and began to gently talk to Blades. "Blades, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I know you can't see, but I can read your instruments clear as day."
The volcano let out a loud boom, which caused Blades to yelp in fear.
"I'll guide you," continued Dani as she place a hand on top of his monitor. "You're right-side up. Just take us as high as you can. It's okay if you go slow."
Blades slowly calmed down before taking in a deep calming breath: "Here goes nothing."
Slowly, Blades rose up from the cloud of ash and was now flying through the clear skies again.
"You did it, Blades!" cheered Cody through the com-link with Anora letting out a sigh of relief in the background.
"I didn't, Dani, I did it!" exclaimed Blades excitedly.
Suddenly his rotor made a strange sound as it jolted for a second. Blades looked at Dani with a look of embarrassment appearing on his face.
"Um...excuse me. I think my rotor just hiccupped."
"It must be the ash," said Dani. "We'd better take you down."
They flew over to a nearby cliff as they alighted down on top of it. Down near the base of the cliff, Kade and Heatwave were spraying water onto the hot lava to cool it down, while making sure that none of it got passed them. Kade pressed the com-link button as his father's voice spoke up.
"How's it looking, Kade?" asked Charlie.
"This lava isn't going anywhere," answered Kade.
"Good," said Charlie. "Chase and I closed all of the mountain roads just in case. Sounds like crisis averted team."
"Way to go, everyone!" cheered Cody with a smile. "Anora, Mimi and I will be waiting for you in the bunker."
"Now that's what I call 'team work'," said Anora as she and Cody gave each other a high five.
Back on the cliff, Dani was monitoring the lava through her binoculars and what she saw had her troubled. She watched as the lava sunk back into the volcano before turning her binoculars downwards and saw the lava flowing into a hole.
"That's weird," said Dani. "The lava's disappearing."
"Wasn't that what we wanted?" asked Blades.
"Not like this," answered Dani before she called up her brothers on her intercom. "Uh, you guys? The lava over on my side is draining into some sort of hole in the rock."
"Oh, that's not a hole," said Graham when he checked on his screen-tab. "It's a tunnel."
"A tunnel?" asked Boulder. "Like the ones that all lead to the firehouse bunker?"
Graham turned and nodded his head at Boulder as he silently answered the bulldozer-bot's question.
"Wait a minute. The lava's flowing towards the bunker?" asked Heatwave as he looked down at Graham before turning his optics on Kade.
"But that's where Cody is," said Kade with fear etched into his voice.
"Along with Anora," added Heatwave as fear gripped at his spark.
Back at the firehouse, Anora, Mimi and Cody were already down in the bunker as they worked together to fix the pinball machine. But they were unaware of the danger that was heading towards them as the lava crept through the tunnel at an alarming rate of speed.
To be continued
And here's a cliff hanger for everyone, stay tuned to find out what will happen next.
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