The happy newlyweds had decided to wait until school was over in a few weeks to go on their honeymoon, and so for now, it felt just like business as usual. With his duty as best bot over, Heatwave could finally relax and focus on the important things.

"DAAAAAAAAAADEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Heatwave groaned, his forehead resting against the wall as Downpour screamed inside his quarters. He heard something hit the wall with a thud, and then more angry, upset screams. "Now I know why they call it 'Terrible Twos'..." He muttered, "Except for her, it's three months."

"She'll get over it." Chief assured, "I had to do the same thing with Kade, and you're already doing better than I did those first few nights."

There was another thud, and more screaming, but Heatwave could tell her cries were weakening; she was wearing out and would go to sleep on her own soon.

Blurr meanwhile, was sitting across the room with his hands over his audio receptors. "And this is what you humans go through all the time? Why...!?"

"Have a kid someday and you'll understand," Dani replied with a smirk.

"Dani! Don't say that!" Heatwave scolded with a grin, "...No child deserves Blurr for a parent."

The smile that had appeared on Blurr's face faded, and he got up with a grumble. "I'm going for a drive...!"

"Aww... Be nice, Heatwave." Boulder murmured, "It's not his fault he has little experience with kids."

"It is his fault, because he runs away the second 'babysitting' is even mentioned." He looked around, "Speaking of experience with kids, where's Blades? I thought he'd be watching his tv by now."

"He and Chase went out on a patrol about an hour ago." Dani answered, "They should be back soon."

Heatwave raised an eyebrow with a grin, "Blades went flying without your prodding? Is he ill?"

Heatwave, we need you and Boulder out here now. Chase informed over the comms, We have a serious mudslide situation that requires immediate attention.

"We're on our way, Chase." Heatwave turned to the others, "Salvage, keep an eye on Downpour and Snowblast. We'll be back."

"Yes Sir!" Salvage announced with a salute, and then Heatwave and Boulder transformed, picked up their partners along with Dani and Chief, and then drove off.

No more than five minutes had passed when Quickshadow came rushing in. "Salvage, where are the Rescue Bots? We have a situation."

"Yeah, the mudslide. They're all already on-"

"No no no. The proximity sensor on Dino Island's been triggered."

Salvage stood up a little straighter, "There's intruders."

"Yes. Someone needs to go and investigate, and Sigma 17 are the only ones who have dino modes that won't set off the native population."

"Okay okay..." Salvage paced for a moment, "So we don't know how long the mudslide situation is going to be a priority, but if we wait too long then the dinosaurs might be put in danger, but those of us who are available don't have dino disguises..." He paused, "...Yet."

"What're you suggesting?"

"That we each scan a dino form and then go to Dino Island to investigate."

Quickshadow sighed, "We don't have many options...We'll need High Tide to take us, I don't know the first thing about piloting the Burnses little boat."

"And Blurr will probably be upset if he gets left out..." The recycling truck tapped his comm link. "Blurr, meet Quickshadow and me at the Natural History Museum."

What, why?

"Trust me, you don't wanna miss this job..."

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"Keep quiet, we don't want to alert anyone else that we're here."

"I can't believe you brought the sparklings with us."

"I told Heatwave I'd watch them." Salvage defended, "Besides, they aren't hurting anything..."

In fact, Snowblast wasn't doing much of anything. He'd been doing practically nothing but sleeping for the past few weeks, something that worried Blades but Chief insisted was totally normal for a baby. Heatwave wished Downpour would sleep as much as Snowblast did, she instead was channeling her inner cat and would look you directly in the optic as she knocked stuff over, all while hissing her newest word.

She was being obnoxious, and she knew it.

High Tide's ship was docked in a hidden cove on the island, and from there the backup rescue personnel had carefully treked inland, keeping an optic out for any intruders or native dinosaurs. High Tide stayed behind with the sparklings and his ship, prepared to defend it if anything showed up unannounced. Quickshadow couldn't help but smirk, however, as he'd insisted on testing out his new plesiosaur form while he was at it, disappearing under the waves without a sound.

Her processor went back to earlier, when Cody had told each of them what their dinosaur forms were and what their strengths were. Hers was called a Parasaurolophus, or a hadrosaur, for short; able to walk on both two legs and on all fours, and could communicate over long distances by sending out calls through their trumpet-like crests on their heads.

Salvage's Ankylosaurus form was armored and bore a large club on its tail for knocking attackers about, and Blurr's velociraptor form was fast and agile, just like him on the race track.

Quickshadow led the team as they wandered along the shore, searching for signs of the boat the intruders would have used to reach the island.

She paused, lifting her tail to halt her companions.

"Do you see something...?" Salvage whispered, hauling himself up over the top of the ridge they were on. "Whew...Walking on all-fours is exhausting."

"Shh..." Quickshadow hissed, and then pointed to the small boat lingering just off the beach below. "...It's a fishing trawler... Looks like their engine sputtered out and they're trying to fix it."

"So they're not here to hurt the dinos. Great." Blurr muttered, "So we came all the way out here and got these new forms for nothing."

"No, not nothing." Salvage reminded, "The humans may not be a threat to the dinos, but the dinos might still be a threat to the humans."

Quickshadow nodded in agreement. "We need to make sure the dinos don't find out that they're here. We need to find and distract them."

"Aaaaand how do we do that?"

"Salvage, stay here and keep an eye on the humans. Let us know when they leave and are out of the danger zone, but stay out of sight. Blurr, come with me."

Blurr groaned a little as he followed the femme further inland, but didn't openly argue. "I still don't know how you plan on keeping the dinos occupied..."

"I'd think you'd know perfectly well what my plan is, Blurr... You're so good at getting people to chase you, after all..."

That wasn't what Blurr had wanted to hear.

He followed Quickshadow into the trees, listening for any signs of their organic counterparts wandering above-ground. With luck, they were all still underground and would stay there until the humans had long left the island's perimeter. A sudden chirp from their comms, however, made them stop.

Heatwave to Blurr, do you copy?

"Scrap." Blurr muttered quietly with a grimace, and then his voice shifted to a high pitch as he responded. "Hey...!"

Blurr, where are the sparklings? And where are you, for that matter?

Told you we should've left a note. Salvage informed.

"We uh... Went out for fajitas...?"

Quickshadow groaned and rolled her optics, "Oh. For the love of-"

Fajitas... That's the best you've got.

"...Salvage did it."

Oh sure, throw me under the bus, why don't you?

"Throw you under...What?"

It's an Earth expression, jeez.

Quickshadow groaned, "The sparklings are fine, Heatwave. We had a mission come up and we couldn't leave them unoccupied back at the Firehouse. High Tide's watching them on the ship."

And it is no easy task! High Tide informed with a grunt, the Squirt keeps trying to throw overboard whatever she can push off the deck, and I think I broke the little birdie because he's been doing nothing but stare at me for the past fifteen cycles and I don't think I'm that interesting.

"You're not." Blurr confirmed.

Heatwave gave a sigh through the comm. How much longer do you all will be gone?

"Not long. We just have to wait for the humans to vacate the beach and then we'll be in the clear."

So before dark?

"If not, we will inform you."

Okay...

"Don't worry, Heatwave. Nothing's going to happen to Downpour, she's perfectly fine."

Right...Heatwave out.

The comms closed off again, and Quickshadow gave a smirk. "New parent issues..."