A full week has passed since the mountain incident.

Which means Hotshot and Medix can now be released from the medical bay.

The young couple held servos as they tried not to giggle at Blades nagging at them.

"You two better not do anything stupid for the next month! Am I clear?!"

Hotshot and Medix had the goofiest looking smiles on their faceplates, "Crystal."

"Good", Blades said as he shooed them out, "now go and see your team. They've been bugging me all week!"

Hotshot and Medix chuckled as they ran off.

Once the coast was clear, Hotshot stopped and turned to his boyfriend, "Wanna race to the break room?"

Medix gave him a look.

Hotshot shrugged, "Suit yourself."

Hotshot transformed into his ATV mode and took off.

Gullible Medix fell for it as he transformed and sped off after him, "Hotshot, you know the rules!"

Hotshot slowed down beside Medix, "So why are you doing it too?"

"To do this."

Medix then sped up, pulled a 180, reversed in front of Hotshot, and then transformed.

Hotshot slammed on his brakes and transformed, "WHOA!"

Medix braced himself in time to catch his boyfriend in his arms. He slid to a stop as he held Hotshot up and over his shoulder.

Hotshot squirmed, "Hey! What the heck Medix!? Get me off your shoulder!"

Medix skillfully brought Hotshot down and held him bridal style, "My mistake. Do you prefer this position instead?"

Hotshot blushed heavily.

Medix brought his face closer to Hotshot's as he said smoothly, "I'll take that as a yes~"

With Hotshot now really stunned, Medix could calmly, and safely, carry him to the break room.

Upon entering the break room, their beloved team was already laughing.

"Nice catch Medix!", Wedge yelled as he, Whirl, and Hoist ran over to them.

Medix was able to set down Hotshot in time for his team to crush both of them in a group hug.

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The recruits all relaxed on the infinity couch as each of them took turns to talk about what the young couple has missed.

And, of course, said couple was snuggled together as they listened in.

"Professor Heatwave actually didn't give us any homework for the week", Wedge said happily.

"Professor Boulder brought us back to the zoo so that we could help in building better and safer enclosures for the animals", Hoist added.

"Oh thank Primus", Medix said in relief.

Hotshot smiled as he held him closer.

Whirl continued, "Oh! And Professor Blades made us clean the whole Academy. Again."

"Wow. And I thought my Medix was a clean freak!", Hotshot joked.

That earned him an elbow to the side.

Wedge laughed at that, "You should've went for his crotch, Medix. That really would've shut him up."

Medix bursted out laughing as Hotshot yote a pillow at a guffawing Wedge.

"Oh and one more thing...", Whirl said deviously.

Hotshot and Medix looked at her, "What?"

Hoist finished for her, "New rules: If a pillow flies through the air at any given time, even if it doesn't hit anyone, that automatically means a pillow fight must commence."

Hotshot's face lit up like a kid in a candy store.

Medix looked ready for war.

All of the recruits slowly collected as many pillows as they could, never daring to take their optics off of each other.

Soon enough, the recruits were ready to fight. Each of them glancing at each other to see who was foolish enough to start.

Expectedly, Hotshot was that fool.

"PILLOW FIGHT!! YEET!", he screamed as he yote a pillow at Hoist.

The recruits commenced a fight of pillows so epic that screaming, laughter, yeeting, wrestling, ambushing, falling, and exploding pillows deemed itself appropriate.

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The recruits were scattered in various areas of the room. Each of them out of breath and on the floor yet smiling and giggling at each other.

With feathers everywhere.

"I can't believe you all ganged up on me!", Hotshot said as he was sprawled out next to the arcade machines.

"I can't believe you let us", Whirl said as she sat up from the infinity couch.

Hoist groaned as he sat up on the tire chair that he normally did meditation on, "Medix, you throw too hard..."

Medix chuckled softly from his position next to the large tractor tires on the other side of the room, "Sorry Hoist. Being a medic has some advantages."

Wedge snorted as he layed across the couch next to the entrance, "Don't tell me you're going to start throwing wrenches like Ratchet does."

"I already am. But if I stay with Hotshot any longer, it may be a permanent thing."

They all bursted out laughing.

Then they all went silent when Boulder walked in.

Boulder slowly looked around at the feathers scattered all over the floor.

Whirl spoke up, "Professor Boulder, we can expl-"

Boulder started chuckling, "No need. It's obvious that you all were just having fun, right?"

"Yes sir", the recruits replied.

"And no one was hurt, right?"

"Right!"

"Well actually-"

Hotshot slapped his servo over Hoist's mouth.

Boulder chuckled again, "No harm, no foul. Just promise that you all will clean this up before the other bots see this."

"We promise!"

Boulder smiled and then left the room as the recruits slowly made their way to the infinity couch.

They all collapsed into it, excessively giggling once more at the immense amount of feathers everywhere.

"I take it we're gonna wait to clean this all up?", Medix said as Hotshot snuggled into him.

"We've just got to do it before anyone else sees it", Wedge said with a smirk.

"Which could be at any given moment..."

"Well yeesh if you're so worried about it, just clean it up yourself", Hotshot said jokingly.

Medix socked him in the groin.

Hotshot proceeded to fall onto the floor, straining as he grabbed his groin out of instinct.

Wedge laughed the hardest out of all the recruits, tears falling as he gave Medix a hi-four, "Holy s-"

"WELP", Hotshot wheezed, "there goes my chance of having sparklings with someone in the future."

Medix's faceplates flushed a very dark blue as he saw Hotshot look directly at him when he said "someone".

Wedge caught on real quick, "OH MY PRIMUS NO YOU TWO ARE TOO YOUNG FOR THIS BULLS-"

"NOT NOW, DUMMY!", Hotshot yelled back, "I said in the future!"

Hoist snorted, "Yeah Wedge, they need to bond first!"

"Not to mention being in conjux."

"PROFESSOR BLADES!", Medix shrieked, "IT'S NOT-"

"What it looks like? Oh please. It's exactly what it looks like."

"Well this just got awkward...", Hotshot said as he sat next to a very embarrassed Medix.

"You set yourself up for that", Wedge sassed.

Whirl looked at Medix, "Why are you embarrassed, Medix? This isn't the first time Hotshot has done something like this."

"That's not what I'm embarrassed about...", Medix whispered, "I'm embarrassed because Blades heard this..."

"Why?"

"Because", Blades said as he stood over them, "he knows I'm about to go and have a little chit chat with him and Hotshot."

Hotshot looked at Blades, "Wait what??"

"Oh Primus...", Medix said as he buried his face in his servos.

Blades looked over at them, "Come along you two. The rest of you need to clean up these feathers."

With that, Hotshot and Medix nervously followed Blades out of the room.