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"Jamie, my Love! How could you do this?!
"I"m sorry Vanessa, but I needed more."
"More! You needed more! How could me and YOUR SON not be more!"
*GASPS*
"And tune in next week for the next episode of-"
"NOOOO!!!! PLEASE! You can’t just leave me on this cliff hanger!!!!" Heatwave just glared at the crying helicopter bot, and then walked right out the room.
"I can"t believe she"s pregnant! And with Jamie"s kid!! Absolutely not. Girl, you need to run. Far away. Neither of those dudes are good for you!" Blades yelled out as he flopped onto his side. But, as he sat there, he was only met with silence. With no response, Blades realized another fact. He was alone.
He was alone, with no one around, and nothing to do. He was bored. His TV show was over, he"s already all caught up on all of that, and he had nothing else planned today. Dani was out, Kade was on a date, Cody was at school, Chief and Chase were out on patrol, and Boulder was with Doc Greene. So, with no one here, he was bored.
He could go up to Heatwave, but he enjoyed life, thank you very much. So now he had nothing to do. I don"t know if you knew this or not, but he had nothing to do and was bored.
He glanced around the room, but nothing really caught his attention. He already used up the paint that Boulder gave him, no one is answering his text, no one-
Then a thought filled his mind.
They got this new energon now, maybe he could try to change the taste again? It didn"t really go well last time, but, when you get knocked down, you got to get back up.
So, he jumped back up, and walked up to where they stored the energon with a little bounce in his step. Taking a few of the cubes, he walked up to the kitchen. (Which for some reason has a bunch of science/energon converting equipment. Probably from Graham and Boulder)
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The first thought Chase had when he walked into the kitchen was “Not again.”
Liquids were everywhere, even on Blades" rotors, pages of notes were flying in the air, the sounds of Blades screaming “Shit! Shit! Shit!” rang out as he tried to move the bubbling container to the sink.
Chaotic, lawless, land covered the kitchen.
“What. Happened.” Was all Chase could say as the shock froze him in his step, his mind not being able to come up with any other words.
"Uhhh…"" Blades froze as the voice shocked him out of his panic rage. Both of them just stood there, frozen, staring at each other.
"The Burns did in fact make a rule against science experiments being unsupervised."
"Oh come on Chase! I have literally nothing else to do! And Boulder is too busy to help me!"
"You could always read up on the humans laws." Chase pulled a law book out of his ass or something as he spoke.
Blades audibly sighed as his body sunk downwards. "Come onnnn Chaseeeee. Don"t you want to do something else?"
"Rules are put in place for a reason. We should-"
"Then you can supervise me." Blades jumped up, grabbing Chase by the wrist and dragging him over to the mess of energon.
Not too long, or maybe it was as no one was really paying attention, it went bad. Not in the "oopsy daisy, my bad" type of bad. As in, there is no more microwave type of bad. Or oven.
Now, both of them stood there, covered in energon, smoke, and sparking pieces from what used to be a kitchen appliance. "Uhhhh, that wasn"t supposed to happen."
"Well no shit." Kades voice rang out. Behind him stood Boulder, who was also put speechless by the scene.
Chase was the first to recover. "I"m so sorry Kade, I should have stopped it."
"Its- its fine.." Kade sighed out. "This is why we made an emergency savings account for you guys…"
"That"s.. good? Well I am really sorry Kade." Blades spoke out as he saw Kade"s head fall into his hand (Not literally! His head is still on his body!). Chase"s body deflated at the sight, causing more guilt to stream through Blades.
"What were you even trying to do?" Boulder"s voice was light and quiet, most likely from shock, but it still floated out all around.
It took a second, and another quick glance at the damages, for Blades to respond."Well- um, I-. I was bored again, so I tried to add some flavor into the energy based energon we have. Ha ha ha…."
The two of them just stared at him, Blades hoping he"ll shrink right into nothingness. Or have a hole pop up and swallow him. Both are equally likely to happen. And there"s a good chance they would. They have before, why not happen again.
"Really, Blades. This again?" Kade spoke, his annoyance filling every aspect of his voice. "I thought we were done with this. Remember what happened last time?"
Blades couldn"t help the huff that escaped his vents. " I knowww! But I was bored! And my show left me on a cliffhanger! Plus! Every experiment fails a few times. Might as well try again."
Boulder just stared at him, physically pained from his own words being used against him. Blades stared back, a shy smile plastered on his face. After a moment, Boulder just sighed. And Blades took that as a win, if his small "yes" was anything to go by.
"Boulder, have any advice to, well, prevent future, no no"s?"
Kade turned and walked out, "Nope. Not doing this."
Boulder stepped forward a bit, taking in a bit more of the surroundings. Beakers had fallen over, liquids were spread around, weird swishing sounds were coming from who knows where. "Well, you should start with double checking your equations, make sure you did your math right. Maybe even scale things down a tiny bit first…"
Blades" smile grew wide, a small happy squeal leaving his vocalizer. "Thanks Boulder!" Blades turned around, grabbing the blue police bot (who Boulder completely forgot was even there), and dragged him over to the counter. Chase glanced back at Boulder as Blades muttered something to him. Boulder just smiled, and tossed a mop they left near the kitchen towards them. Blades didn"t even notice.
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Surprisingly, the next day the kitchen was quiet. And the next. And somehow the next. That should have concerned the rest of them, but it didn"t.
Though now as Chief Burns looked at the scene in front of him, he is very much regretting this fact.
The scene in front of him makes Dani"s um, well, attempt, at cooking look like an Ikea catalog. Now, scorch marks covered both the sealing and the floor. Heatwave held Blades" melted arm in a decontamination box. The smell of melted metal, both Cybertronian and oven, burned his nose canal. Where once stood his bright colored walls, now stood black boiling burns.
The day started out so nice.
And again, he knows this should of concerned him.
The TV was playing quietly as Chief Burns relaxed in his living room. He could hear the soft laughter of some of his children behind him. The day has been calm, a rare occurrence on Griffin Rock, and Chief Charlie Burns decided to bask in this by sipping a nice cup of coffee and playing his favorite tv show. His family was hanging out around the fire house, a nice background noise that calmed his mind. It was nice, calm, quiet-
and then his fucking kitchen exploded.
Well, all they heard was the explosion. It was loud, rocked the entire building. Alarms roared out as they heard what they could only assume to be splinters of metal shooting into walls. The sounds of things being ripped apart and crashing around echoed throughout the hallways.
Instinct kicked in before they even realized what was going on. All humans shot onto the floor, hands over head.
Once the shaking settled down, and one quick glance of "What the fuck?" later, the group shot up, sprinting upstairs. Dani with her med kit, Graham examining the building"s stability, and Kade doing what Kade does when his body remembers he has a brain.
And that"s how Chief Burns found himself in this situation. Staring at his advanced thousands of years old fully trained Rescue Bots who blew up his fucking kitchen.
“Are you sure you"re ok Blades?”
got to check the ‘kid’ first.
“Yeah, Chief. It"s mostly just surface damage. Give it a few days and I"ll be fine.”
“Alright, Blades. Then, can you please tell me why you thought it would be a good idea to, I don"t know, set a bomb off in my kitchen?!”
“It wasn"t a bomb! Bombs do a lot more damage then some burned walls and a destroyed kitchen that"s not helping. Ok, It was an accident and I am so sorry!”
Heatwave yanked Blades back onto the chair he set up when he tried to come closer to the Chief. Chief Burns could see the pleading look on the orange bots face. Regret and guilt spread all over it like grease on Kades sandwiches.
All Chief Burns could do at that point is sigh and count to 10. He examined the four bots and three humans all displayed out in his firehouse. Heatwave was treating Blades wounds, Dani was sitting there with him. Boulder, Graham and Kade were double checking the damage done while Chase stood off to the side, already picking up cleaning supplies.
"Alright, alright. Blades, would you please tell me what happened?" Chief Burns couldn"t keep the tiredness nor desperation out of his voice as he spoke to the …"young" bot.
"Well…um… You see… I was experimenting with energon flavors again-"
"Blades!!!" A collective sigh of pain echoed through the room.
"I KNOW!! But I was bored againnnnnn. And I already started and -"
"Yada yada yada. Skip to the explody part" Kade yelled out as he picked up a mop, his eyes glaring holes into the offending tool.
Blades glanced over back the room for a moment, with what looked like a calculating look. "Well, what I think happened was the kinetic bonds that hold the energon together were overridden with the amount of heat I chose, so it went wrong. Energon is extremely delicate, so it makes sense. Luckily I only used a small amount in a reinforced chamber so it wasn"t that bad of damage. Maybe I"ll add an energy absorbent compound to the mix. That way the range of heat I can add will expand…. What? Is there something on my face?!"
By the time Blades looked back up, everyone was just staring at him, dumbfounded looks plastered on some of their faces.
"You just-"
"Your talking Boulder-"
"Sciency…. Your talking sciency"
Boulder"s smile grew exponentially as a realization hit him. "OH PRIMUS! Some one else knows some science!" Boulder bounced up, grabbing the orange bot in a giant hug, swinging him around. Laughter filled the air as humans ducked out the way of swinging metal.
"OW OW OW! Boulder watched the arm!"
Boulder dropped Blades back onto the ground with an "Oh, my bad. Sorry about that."
After a moment, confusion took over his excitement. "How do you know that?"
Blades just looked at Boulder, while Heatwave tried not to laugh at Blades" offended face, for a moment just to make sure he was serious before answering. "Boulder…its chemical bonds… that"s basic chemistry vocabulary. There"s nothing…. I- I literally didn"t say anything other than common sense. How stupid do you think I am?"
"No no no! I don"t think you"re stupid!” Boulder yelled out, jumping to his own defense. ”Just, no one here seems to know ANYTHING about anything involving science. So, I got a little excited about just plain vocab. I"m sorry about how it came out."
"Don"t know- BOULDER! I"m a Rescue Bot field medic! Did you think I just pulled up randomly playing jigsaw puzzles with your bodies for fun? NO! Theres a lot of fucking education that goes into this! So yeah! I do know how things work! Actually, I know a lot about how your body works. Including energon! The hell you mean dOnT kNoW! You fragging glitched aft."
Blades screamed as he stomped up to Boulder, forcing him to back up, and even pinning him against the wall. Heatwave struggled to try not to laugh at the sight of Blades screaming at Boulder for his accidental insulting of Blades intelligence.
Blades eventually stomped off, mumbling as he went, "Don"t know anything my aft. I"m going to figure this out and shove it up that unicorn touched grounders aft." leaving a terrified and shameful Boulder behind.
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"...maybe we should call this something other than Atriffical Energon. That"s an entire mouth full…"
Chase froze as he heard the quiet sentence emerge from behind him. A quick spin around, and a thought of not this stuff again, with a few steps back towards the library, found Chase facing a sitting Blades who was surrounded by open data pads and electric notes sheets.
After a quick glance, Chase was still unable to determine that these all were for. But before he could look farther, Blades spoke up. "Hey Chase! I"m currently doing some research."
"Oh."
"Yup….well, how are you?"
Chase paused to a second, double checking all systems for alerts. "I am operating at exceptional capacity, but I"m assuming you meant emotional, so I"m doing pretty alright. How are you Blades?"
A small chuckled escape Blades as he looked up at the blue police bot. "I"m doing alright Chase. A little confused and slightly annoyed at our lack of information brought from Cybertron, but other than that, pretty good." Blades flicked out his rotors as a sign of curiosity towards the data pads, but quickly and quietly grumbled at them.
"Oh? What are you looking for? Maybe I could be of assistance?"
"Oh, uh. Sure. I"m just looking over some research on energon. Most of this I already know, but maybe going back over it could spark an idea to help solve my problem."
Chase walked over and sat down next to Blades, picking up another data pad. "I might not know much about energon, but maybe a fresh pair of optics and a new perspective might help?"
Blades just glanced back at him and shrugged. "Can"t hurt."
As Chase went to pick up another one, something shiny caught his attention. Next to Blades was a plate of what looked like half solid energon?
"What"s that?" Chase asked, pointing towards the plate.
"Oh! Those are my more recent attempts at altering the energon." Blades picked up a cup full of it. "It didn"t explode, but it"s not crystallizing correctly. The outside is still liquidy, and it just slowly turns to crystals in the center. But the second you touch the center…" Blades stopped speaking, and just taped the center of what was in the cup. All of a sudden, shards of crystal explode out from it, splattering the liquid all over both Blades and Chase"s faces. "..it shatters."
After a moment, Blades lifted up a towel, handing it to Chase. "I see."
"So yeah. I have some theories, but I thought I"ll look into it a bit more before I continue."
"Hm." Chases nodded along, handing back the towel once he was finished wiping off all the energon on his face. "Well, seems reasonable. I shall keep you company while you do this then."
Blades smiled up at Chase. "Thanks! I may know how energon works, but successfully altering it might take some trial and error"
And a comfortable air surrounded the two. Every now and again, Chase would ask for clarification in something, which Blades would happily explain, even if they went into a spiral of "and what is that?"s.
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Again, the kitchen fire alarm went off. But this time, they were ready.
Fire extinguishers dosed Blades in fire retardant, water rained down on the walls of the room, and sounds of "GO! GO! GO!" filled the air surrounding the now drenched Rescue Bot.
"...Thanks guys…."
"Anytime!" Heatwave replayed, a cocky smile plastered on his face. "What happened this time?"
"I set myself on fire."
"Well, don"t do that." Kade stated as he walked by.
"..WOW! Thanks Kade! So much wisdom right there! Don"t know what I do without you!"
Blades said, glaring right at the firefighter.
"Yeah, no problem. "" and Kade half-skipped away.
….
"...Imma throw him."
"Only if you"re willing to catch him." Heatwave stated as he started to wipe off the stuff painting Blades frame.
"Yeah, well… Good news though is that they are no longer exploding!"
"Oh! That"s actually pretty good." Heatwave said as he nodded along.
"Yeah, they are just not edible yet, but I"m getting there."
Heatwave glanced back up at Blades" face, a slightly concerned look was portrayed in his eyes. "So, anything to help prevent…this?? From happening again?"
"Oh! Chase is usually here! He"s back up."
"Hello"
"AH!" Heatwave launched backwards as the blue bot appeared out of nowhere. "Whyyyy! How did you do that?!"
Chase just smirked. "You got to be sneaky when undercover."
Heatwave could hear the giggles from Blades above him. "I"m fighting both of you."
"..Heatwave, he is a highly trained police enforcer. You are not. You will lose. Badly."
Heatwave just glared at the two of them, before finally stomping off screaming "Fine then! Go blow yourself up then!", but not until after he finished checking Blades for injuries.
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"OH PRIMUS"S AFT PORT SUCKING UP A STICK!"
That"s most likely also not good.
***BEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEP*****
"FRAG!! FRAG! FRAGGGGG!!!"
Yup. Not good at all.
Running up the stairs brought the Rescue team to face their kitchen covered in smoke, and Blades rapidly fanning the smoke detector.
"...again Blades? Really?"
"IT DIDN"T EXPLODE! THERE"S NOT EVEN A FIRE! It"s just burnt and smoking!" Blades rushed out quickly.
"Um, ok then. Let"s open a window, or five. "
Once the smoke left the room, thanks to Blades being a giant fan, there was now only five people left in the room. Blades, the rest of the bots, and Chief Burns.
Chief Burns walked to where Blades was hatefully glaring at his countertop. "Blades, we need to talk about this."
"I"m missing something."
"Blades, maybe you should look into a new hobby?"
…"WHAT?!" Blades jumped up, staring at the Chief while his jaw mopped the floor. "WHY!"
"Cause I don"t know how many more repairs this kitchen can take." Chief Burns just stared back at Blades, hoping that this will all blow over quickly.
"But there"s literally nothing else to do!"
Chief Burns sighed again, he can already feel a headache coming on. "We can find you a new hobby."
"But it"s so hard to do things with your human equipment! It"s not made for Cybertronians!" Blades cried out. His eyes glance back between then all, then back at the oven, then back at them, then back at the-
"Wait."
Blades spun around and immediately pulled off the back of the Burns"s oven.
"God damn it." Chief Burns pulled out a chair, collapsing into it.
Boulder walked up to where Blades was crouching down, only to be swatted away by an annoyed flight frame.
After a few minutes, the helicopter bot finally popped up. "Oh Primus I"m an idiot."
"What happened now?"
"I"m using HUMAN tech!" Blades through his arms up in defeat.
Chief Burns glanced up to the bots. ".. yeah? So?"
"Civilian human tech is not nearly as precise as I need it to be. It might be properly calculated, but it just isn"t able to continuously stay the same temperature. There"s still a slight fluctuation. I can"t have that." Blades announced to the group.
"Oh yeah! I have had that problem before" Boulder added. "Me and Graham can easily fix that and upgrade it to be more Cybertronian based. If you will let us, of course. "
Blades stopped for a moment, glaring at Boulder, before finally giving in. "Yeah sure. Thanks."
Chief Burns on the other hand, "Are you telling me that you ruined my kitchen, MULTIPLE TIMES, because my oven is based on HUMAN technology?"
"...yes?"
..
….
……
Yeahhhh Blades was cleaning the entire firehouse for weeks after that.
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"Tada!!"
"Huh? OH WOW! You actually finished those?" Was Heatwave"s response as Blades walked into the living room. All four bots were there, along with Dani, playing a card game. The four of then were sat around a table, cards distributed among them. Dani had a mug of what Blades assumed to be hot Chocolate, but the others didn"t have anything.
A thought of I can fix that went through his mind.
In his hand was a plate full of different what looked like crystals and treats. They were smaller in size, obviously meant for a small taste, but there were many. Some were different colors, some looked like they were covered in things other than energon. They were red and orange, pink and green, and lots of blue. Some were sticking out of cups, others were just laying around on the plate.
"Woah, are those rust sticks!" Heatwave jumped up, grabbing one of the long orange sticks, which looked dipped in some blue liquid and frozen. To Dani, it looks more like a pretzel stick dipped in chocolate had a baby with rock candy. Well, a very large rock candy.
"No way! I haven"t had one of these sense we found that vendor back on Cybertron." Heatwave smiled as he bit into the hard stick. "How the- this actually tastes like a rust stick."
"Woah Blades! These are so cool" Boulder said as he hopped up, reaching for the plate. "What else do you got there?"
"Well, I got some Energon Candy, Rock Bites, Craters, Blast Melts, and some others I forget the name of. " As he spoke, he pointed to the different things on the plates.
Dani watched as Boulder picked up a cup of what looked like different colored crystals. They looked like there were crystals that were smashed like broken glass. Boulder took one of the pieces, and popped it in his mouth.
Chase looked back at the plate, a curious look on his face. "It appears you figured out most of the problems?"
Blades beamed at the fact. "Yup! Well, most of them. While I don"t have a lot of receipts, I did manage to scramble up a few. They are kind of broad and basic, and I had to use some substitutes, so it might not taste the best. It"s going to be trial and error, so I"ll appreciate some feedback."
Heatwave, who had swiped one of Boulders rock things, laughed at that. "Ok, good. Cause these things are definitely missing something. And I really don"t want to act like how everyone else does when Dani- OW!"" Heatwave grabbed his side from where the green bot next to him jabbed him with his elbow.
"When I what?" Dani asked, glaring at the four bots in the room.
"Uhh well, I think I should go and finish cleaning up the kitchen!"
"Oh would you look at that! It"s almost me and Kade’s patrol time! Got to go!"
"Oh what"s that Graham? Got some science homework you need help with? Sure I"ll help! Sorry Dani. Got to go!"
"Well, Dani. It appears that, in order to help save you-" One quick grab from the orange bot shut up his vocalizer before he could finish.
"AND CHASE IS GOING TO HELP ME!"
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