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It was a normal evening at the Rescue Bot base when Doc Greene arrived with a new invention. It was rather late in the day, just about to get dark outside and for the team to settle in.” Now this device should allow us to shrink things to smaller sizes, it could be very useful for rescue situations where you bots are too big to help and the Burns family are too vulnerable to do the job.” He explained. He then grinned excitedly and looked at the bots.” Would any of you care to try it out? I already tested it on some tires, hunks of metal, and wires to ensure your safety.” He assured.
The bots looked at each other and Heatwave chuckled a bit.” Well I was the guinea pig for the last invention, so it ain’t my turn. Chase?” He said. Chase shook his helm.” I was the test subject for the Autobot sized hovering boots last week. What about you Boulder?” Chase asked. Boulder crossed his arms.” I just got around to fixing that dent in my back strut from the last invention two weeks ago.” He explained. The three bots then turned to Blades who instantly starting shaking his hands at them.” No no no no no! I don’t like doing these types of things! Doc’s inventions make me sooo nervous...no offense haha.” Blades protested and chuckled nervously while trying not to offend Doc Greene.
Doc laughed a little and pointed the device at Blades.” It seems everyone else agrees that it’s your turn Blades, come now! It won’t hurt at all. I promise.” He assured. Blades shook his head and backed up near the couch.” No no no! I don’t wanna!” He protested. Dani chuckled a bit and looked up at her partner.” Come on Blades, it’ll be fine.” She encouraged. Blades looked at the faces of his comrades and sighed in defeat.” Fine, but if this goes wrong I get Energon treats and I’m off clean up duty for a month.” He said and huffed. Heatwave sighed and crossed his arms.” Fair enough Blades.” He agreed. Kade then grinned and gave Doc Greene a thumbs up.” Fire it up Doc!”
Doc Greene checked the device, making sure it was connected safely to its power source before turn it on and hitting Blades with the beam. Suddenly the energy from the device fluctuated greatly, causing a temporary power outage in the Rescue Bot Base. Blades had yelled a high pitch yell in the darkness and once the power returned, everyone gasped in horror when they couldn’t see Blades anywhere. He had just plain vanished!
Heatwave immediately went into a protective panic.” Blades!! Doc what the scrap did you do to Blades?!” He demanded angrily. Chief Burns frowned a bit and sighed.” Calm down Heatwave, getting angry isn’t going to help us or Blades.” Heatwave was about to argue when a tiny sob came from behind the couch. Walking over to the sound carefully, Cody gasped as he saw the source of the noise.” Uh guys...” He mumbled and gently pulled out a definitely tinier Blades from behind the couch.
Cody could barely pick him up, but soon didn’t have to as Chase took the small Blades off of him.” It appears that Blades has indeed been turned smaller...and younger. Blades appears to have been reverted to a sparkling.” He said softly as Blades made some whimpers and coos at him. Doc Greene hummed in thought.” Perhaps the shrinking device reacted to your metal differently because you are living metal.”
Heatwave frowned deeply and looked at his tiny team member.” So how do we fix this?” He growled at Doc. Doc Greene started spouting some technobabble about how it could take a week or more to fix, which caused Heatwave to growl in frustration. The tone in Heatwave’s voice apparently upset tiny Blades as he started to sob. Chase bounced the little copter up and down, only causing the crying to increase. Heatwave growled and took him off the police car, attempting to rock him like they had with the robot baby Doc had once made. Blades however wasn’t having it and started to cry even louder. Heatwave groaned in annoyance and handed the wailing sparkling over to Boulder.” I’m contacting Optimus to see if he knows anyway to help with this.”
Heatwave had finally gotten ahold of Optimus Prime and explained the rather annoying situation. Optimus hummed in thought then spoke.” Heatwave, you and your fellow Rescue Bots are rather young compared to most Autobots and I understand that none of you have had time to learn about sparkling care. I know someone who can and would most definitely be willing to help take care of sparkling Blades until Doctor Greene can fix this mishap. They will arrive at the base shortly. Rest assured Heatwave, they’ll know what to do.” He said then ended the call.
Soon after, a knock came at the base’s door. It was very late at night now and way past the time that the team would be resting up for the next day. Heatwave opened it quickly, expecting to see a femme friend of Optimus or an old medic. He knew those types of bots were often very skilled with taking care of sparklings, being that most of those bots were also often carriers. What he didn’t expect was to see High Tide standing there.” I hear yeh got a bit of a sparklin problem.” He said and stepped inside.” Where is the wee bitlet?” He asked and grinned looking around, Heatwave still looking shocked.
Soon he was greeted by a very worn down looking Chase and Boulder, Chase holding the wailing sparkling Blades in his left hand. High Tide frowned, snatching away Blades before Chase even knew what happened.” That isn’t how yeh hold a sparklin yeh barnacle brained fragger!” He reprimanded. He soon shifted Blades so that his tiny helm was nuzzled against his chassis, Blades almost instantly calming down and cooing happily. High Tide smiled gently and pat the sparkling’s back.” There there lil bitlet. Ol High Tide’s gotcha.” He said soothingly, rubbing small circles on Blade’s back. Blades purred softly, snuggling as close as he could to the very large bot’s chassis. The rest of the Rescue Bots and the Burns Family looking at him in disbelief, mouths all agape at the scene.
This was going to be an interesting week.