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annabelle-creart · 25 days ago

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The Multiversal Storm

The Time Heatwave dreamt Boulder tried to kill him (maybe)

Context: There is not... okay, there it is, I wanna think @elclipzis still remembers this

TIME AGO, I was a tiny little shitty multifandom girl... I'm still but whatever, once I dreamt "Heatwave, Camille, Cosmo and Lily are trapped in a labyrith made by a mad scientist" and then I decided to tell my friend Eclipzis about it and managed to make a story out of it (even a irl friend of mine knows about it) and thanks to that dream I made all the things that built the ground to make Life of Rescue Bots possible (and with other dream adventure but with the rescue team and more smoked...)

BUT NOW! YOU WILL SEE THE STORY THAT INSPIRED THAT!!!!!!!

Also, lil' poll for the spanish speakers if you wanna read it in spanish

Second part of context: Heatwave and Boulder are not a pairing (yet) when the events of this fic, because is technically a different universe (really really different to Life of Rescue Bots Au and the og TFRB) (and this fic was one of the things why I ended up shipping them... yes, this is old as heck)

Characters:

Heatwave: adult Transformer, rescue bot. Serious, grumpy, caring. He's from the series Transformers Rescue Bots

Nani: 13 year old witch. Funny, inmature, magic dependent. She's an oc from my side blog @the-garden-mv

Camille: adult, blood and plant witch, sensible, curious, careful. She's from the Webtoon Muted

Cosmo: Oddparent fairy. Funny, weird, child-like. He's from the Oddparent Fairies' Nickelodeon series (I'm not a fan of said series but he appeared in the dream and I had to put him there :v)

Lily: teen, student and Glitter Force magical girl. Shy, kind, cute. She's from the Netflix's original series Glitter Force

Now: story :D

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A normal thing was to be out of the recharge pod at morning, to stretch a bit and then go to the normal routine, to watch on Boulder, to yell at Blades' tv program choice, to have small talk with Chase, to laugh at Kade's disgraces, to give Cody a ride to school when Chase can't

But this shit wasn't normal

In first place, Heatwave was standing in the middle of a forest, feeling like the day he was put on-line for the first time- which he could remember perfectly- maybe it was morning or evening, he couldn't see the sun, and surprisely the trees were bigger than him, both tall and of large width. There was no animal sound or wind, and he was completely alone

"The heck?" He told to himself, to at least comfirm he was on his senses

He started to walk, not knowing where to look or what to find, he took a look on his visor but his compass didn't worked, and his map systems didn't made any coincidence with the place, and silence was starting to overwhelm him

"CHASE!" Heatwave shouted to the air, waiting response, nothing came "BOULDER!" It was a forest, maybe they were near, maybe, "BLADES!" He shouted again just in case, but no response was made

"HELLO!" Heatwave felt it like a whisper because of the distance, but it was clear it was a shout out loud

"WHERE ARE YOU?" Heatwave replied, again with a shout

"HERE! FOLLOW MY VOICE!" It was clearly a femme, and out of ideas, Heatwave followed the voice "HERE!" She shout out again, like if playing Marco Polo

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

"HERE!" That was a different voice "HELP ME!"

Something in Heatwave woke up at those specific words, part of his code inmediatly put on march "WHERE ARE YOU?" He shouted even louder, looking everywhere on the ground or on the trees

"DON'T STOP YELLING!" The first voice continued shouting, it even felt near

"HELP- AHHHH" Heatwave finally reached the person, and yep, it was a tiny human, not what he expected but better than anything

"Are you okay-?"

"DON'T- STAY THERE!!" The tiny human shout in fear

"HEY!" The first voice got again his attention, a human "DON'T COME CLOSER!" She threatened with both hands up, like prepared to do something with them, but she had nothing on her hands, surrounding Heatwave slowly to reach the tiny human, but in fear, the tiny human started to run as fast as could "wait! I just- Don't come closer!"

"I will not make you harm!" Heatwave replied fast, not thinking about his protocol of acting like a robot, and it's not like it was important now "My name is Heatwave, code Third-Iacon-Sigma-17B, Leader of Rescue Team Sigma-17B from Third Distric of Iacon, now Leader of Griffin Rock's Rescue Bots. I came to help" Heatwave knelt to be closer to the young woman, who stepped behind at every movement the mech did

"There's someone inside you?" She asked "I don't know- monitoring you? Controlling you?"

"...no" he answered, lowering his faceplate "I'm autonomous, but I'm not allowed to do harm to living beings, that's against my code"

"Fine..." she answered, lowering her hands "I'm Camille, Heatwave, right?"

"Yes, Camille. By coincidence, do you know where are we?"

"Don't you?"

"My compass doesn't work and there's no coincidence on my maps"

"I don't know either where are we, and I can't find my... friends, any of my family"

"Neither I can, my comm link is all static. And our only hint just went away"

"Sorry, is just- I have never seen a being like you"

"Good, no human is supposed to know about us, we're hidden because we have no place to go"

"I'm sorry for that" Camille put her hand on her chest in condolence but didn't dared to get closer to the mech

"Well, we need to move, we have to search for something that can help us or something" Heatwave offered his servo to Camille "we'll go faster if you get on me" he waited, Camille didn't knew if to trust but didn't had right now any other option, so, she sat on his servo, Heatwave got up and put her on his shoulder to start walking. Heatwave haven't noticed before the woman's taste was similar to Dani's, shorts and a brown cardigan with boots, but her hair was as red as his plating and long, combed in one long, messy braid, but mainly, she was steady as a rock, probably hoping not to fall

"Do you always have people on your shoulder?" She asked, maybe to distract herself of how high it was

"No, only Kade or Cody, sometimes Sissi" he replied "ah, Kade is my work partner and Cody is his younger brother, Sissi is my apprentice"

"The three are human?"

"Kade and Cody are, Sissi is like me but tinier"

"I see. Wait, do you hear that?"

"What?" Heatwave stopped to hear, but his audial was barely on the same range a human ear would be, which wasn't normal, but she could hear it

"Is like running water?"

"Finally! Something that is not green. Where?"

"There!" she pointed with her finger, at which Heatwave went, not running but fast enough to get there quickly, with Camille glued to his audial, not wanting to fall

In a couple of minutes, both were on a beach, and they could finally see the sun and the sea

"How´s that possible?" Heatwave was hit by a nostalgic feeling, the sun was blue, full of light, while the sea was painted like in three different tones, this kind of view could only happen in Cybertron, and in Boulder´s paintings of home... this view was too similar to one of their paintings...

"How´s that possible?!" Camille said the same in a strange tone, more like surprised and confused "the sun is not blue!"

"Not on Earth, Cybertron´s sun always was view as blue" he said, and her mouth just opened more "Cybertron is my home... was" melancholy was about to hit Heatwave again with more strength until they heard laughs, child-like laughs, and running water, geysers! Above the geysers are kids?!

"Hey there!"

"Hey! Big guy!"

Both heard near from the two kids at the geysers, who let themselves fall on the ground

"Down here!" Someone said, and they both looked at the sand "Hi!"

"Hello!" Camille replied, as Heatwave returned his servo to her for her to get down

"Kids, what are you doing here!?" Heatwave asked them, kneeling alongside Camille, and worried for their safety after just playing falling from a geyser

"Hey! How do you know there´s another kid? She´s right there, and hidden" that was definitely not a kid, the voice was high but enough old to be a common man, just... a tiny man? And his complex didn´t helped "oh, do you think I am still a kid?"

"I told you nobody would believe you" the little girl said to her companion, the tiny, green-haired man "Hi! My name is Nani, this is Cosmo, and right there is Lily, but she´s shy. What are your names?"

"Ah, I´m Camille, this is my, eh, companion, Heatwave"

"Why are you two alone in the middle of nothing?" Heatwave asked worried by the two new guys

"We were playing in the geysers!" Nani replied with a :D type of smile

"That´s why I´m worried, people don´t play with geysers, geysers can kill people! They´re too strong! How are you okay?!"

"...because this is not real. This is a dream"

...are you kidding?

"Did you know that when two witches sleep together, they can share dreams?"

"It seems it applies to fairies too! But I´m still not sure how" Cosmo replied with a thinking pose, on one of his hands there was a wand with a star-shaped end

"Ah, no! Because that´s a myth! And I can confirm because I´m a witch and I have slept with various witches and even a demon and nothing happened!" Camille reacted, now more confused and raising her voice, this was definitely really weird

"I don´t sleep..." Heatwave said from nowhere, trying to show a point "I´m Cybertronian, we don´t sleep, we are made to recharge, not to... dream?"

"hm... well, now that´s weird" Nani doubted

"If it´s not a dream, then, what is it?" Cosmo looked at her

"Paint encounter?"

"Please"

The kid and the... fairy? Went to a spot on the sand near the forest, there on the shadow of a tree was the little human from before, now Heatwave could see it was a young teen, of yellow, short hair and some kind of uniform, like the ones girls use on the animes Blades' watches, but accompanied with a yellow and closed cardigan, different to Camille´s because she used it opened, leaving a white shirt at the view, the kid used a long-sleeve shirt with stripes and a long, golden skirt that barely showed a pair of purple shoes, the fairy used a normal white shirt, black pants and a tie and... a little floating crown?

"What are you doing?" Camille asked, now more confused and irritated

"Making a theory" Nani replied

"With paintings?!"

"The paintings were already here, we´re just using the ideas" Cosmo replied with 0 worries, only drawing in one of the incomplete canvases with Nani "is that an evil queen?"

"Yes! Maybe some evil queen put us to sleep. What is that?"

"It is Timmy, he has a lot of funny wishes, maybe he wished for something like this! But where is Timmy then? And why I don´t remember him making the wish...?"

"And what is that?"

"I didn´t made it, didn´t you?"

"No, but hey! It looks a lot like Heatwave!"

"Wait, sorry?!" Heatwave´s expression became of confusion "Pass it to me" he opened his servo, then, the kid walked aside with Cosmo. The canvas was big! One Heatwave could perfectly get on his servos, there was sketches made with pencil all over the canvas of weird things, the geysers, the evil queen, a weird kid, all bad drawings of theories of how they came here, but in the middle of them a light pencil sketch of was half-finished, only the surrounding of a full-bodied bot were recognizable, said bot was leaning its helm on something else, then a memory took Heatwave by surprise, of a time Boulder and he were with the Burnses at the beach. Boulder put their helm on his shoulder that time "What the..."

"Am" the kid stood there, waiting for the canvas "excuse me, we were doing something"

"I´ll stay with this" Heatwave replied quickly and sure, this didn´t had sense, but Boulder and Sissi were the only ones in the firehouse that could draw and this kind of sketch was Boulder´s sign, whatever kind of signal of them or his team was a blessing "Do you know where can I find more of this?"

"All are over the sand" Nani replied, wondering why Heatwave would like them back

"I..." Nani barely heard from her side, Lily wanted to say something but was still made a ball under the tree "I saw some at the forest, surrounding the beach"

"At the forest?"

"Where?" Heatwave asked in a rush, she pointed and Heatwave started running in that direction, still with the canvas on his servo

"Wait! Heatwave! Where are you going?!" Camille tried to call him, but there was no reply, Heatwave had all his helm on the sand, searching for something strange

Another canvas was buried on the sand, near the geysers, geysers... geysers! Once Boulder painted geysers, but Heatwave never saw it finished, this wasn´t finished!

Digging and searching for something, Heatwave found another, the cups of trees of a big forest of baobabs, this one was complete, and it look Identical to the forest! Boulder once told Heatwave how a forest would look if instead of pines there were baobabs, this was that painting, this was that forest!

When Heatwave couldn´t find anything else on the sand, he searched for the forest, digging and scanning, another canvas, this was unfinished birds posing on a tree? But there weren´t any-

Birds started to sing in the distance...

Heatwave continued searching, scanning, digging, another... notebook? No, this was Graham´s first Earth anniversary for Boulder, the sketches Boulder never shared with anyone... Heatwave couldn´t look at this one, it was secret for a reason and he wanted to respect that

"Heatwave!" He heard from behind, the humans just ran after him "Are you okay?" Camille was trying to catch her breath as Lily and Cosmo, but Nani looked okay, maybe she was accomplished to run fast

"Yeah- just..."

"Are those birds?" Nani noticed in the environment, she heard the birds sings... birds! Damn! "Estolas!"

"What?!" Camille, Lily and Cosmo said in choir

"ESTOLAAAAAAAAAAASS" Nani yelled with all her lungs, loud, a lot, but enough to be heard all the forest, and even to scare the birds, she waits... "nothings happens... where is that bird-?" she couldn´t end her phrase, because directly at her face, a big, damn big owl hit her "ESTOLAS!"

"RUN EVERYBODY!!"

"IT CAN TALK?!" Heatwave got scared, definitely the only one in the group that wasn´t accomplished to talking animals, and no one reacted to Estolas' advice. Not until they heard a roaring motor behind and the typical alarm big vehicles have when they drive backwards

"What is that?" Cosmo asked, scared, scared as heck, trembling like a leaf in the wind

"I SAID RUN EVERYDODY!"

A roar came from the baobabs, surprisingly getting them to the ground, a bulldozer took them all appart in nothing and without even try it, as loud as a machine could be, and as fast as no machine ever seen

"FUCK!"

"AHHHHH!!!"

"RUN ALL!!"

"BOULDER!" Despite the other's screams and panic, and Estolas advice, Heatwave took a step foward to watch on the bot, knowing perfectly of who was that green and strong roar "Are you okay? Is everything alright? It's me!" Heatwave called the bots attention, making them stop. The others hide behind a treez waiting for Heatwave and both curious and afraid of what is he going to do, until the bulldozer transformed, but instead of the worried or sweet optics Boulder would have in this kind of situation, only something that Heatwave barely knew about on that bot were there "Boulder? Is everything okay? Where are the rest?"

"And you still dare to ask?" Acid got out of Boulder's mouth with those words "after everything you had done?!"

Something definitely was wrong

"Boulder- what are you talking about?"

"I asumed you wouldn't understand at first but didn't expected you to be so-"

"Boulder, what is happening?! This is not you!"

"Why not? Because I'm the always good and sweet? Well, you know something? FUCK IT!" Boulder raised their voice box with fierce, even making Heatwave step behind at the surprise "because I'm TIRED of being it- specially with YOU!" Usually the tool Boulder would use to fix was now a weapon they wanted to use to strike Heatwave, he could step behind and get far from them

"Boulder- please, listen!"

"I'm tired of listening to you!"

Like if time got slower for a moment, Heatwave repeated it in his helm... how was this possible...

Estolas was about to take Nani by the shoulders when she felt a big hand take her, same Nani, and Cosmo, and Lily, and Camille

"EVERYONE STAY STILL!" Heatwave then put them all in his cockpit, hoping they would be okay with all the movement, but Heatwave was the fastest and couldn't just wait for them to get on place. Heatwave now only knew it was a bulldozer that transformed again and chased them but didn't paid attention to it, it definitely didn't sound good, and his comm link didn't worked either, so, he just dedicated to run as fast as could, at least to keep the rest safe-

Wait a minute, what if all that rage was like the time Boulder got infected by those nanobytes, or whatever it was!

When Heatwave couldn't feel that roar anymore and saw a slope, he stopped and hid there, sitting to keep himself smaller and hoping no one have seen them, opening his cockpit for the rest to come out

"Is everyone okay?" Heatwave asked, still catching fresh air to cool a bit his systems

The moment the cockpit opened, Lily jumped from it to throw up, solid, definitely throwed up because of the movement, even coughed a couple of times

"What was that?!" Nani yelled at the big bot, surrounded by Estolas wings and catching air "what the hell happened with that thing?!"

"That's not a thing!" Heatwave replied in defense, with a gaze as serious as could, but noticiable it was just a facade to his worry "that's my friend..."

"What a friend you have!"

"What just happened?!" Camille finally got up and tried to go out, Heatwave helped her and the other get on the ground

"I don't know" Heatwave answered, thinking "but that was not my Boulder, I'm sure of it!"

"Guys?" Lily called the rest, dragging dirt away from something on the ground, Heatwave took a look as the rest, but only him searched the borders, it was another canvas, this one was finished... almost, one of the four spots of the canvas was incomplete, like if someone took it away from the picture

"Who are those?" Cosmo asked, raising an eyebrow while pointing at the canvas with a finger

"They look like robots" Lily murmured out loud

"They are my team" Heatwave replied, lowering the canvas again to the floor. When he raised his optics again, it was night, stars already got out and a bon fire was in front of them

"Now that comfirms my theory!" Nani shouted in happiness "we are in a dream! In a shared dream!"

"That's part true, dear" Estolas flied towards them all and landed in front of everyone "all of you are in a strange kind of shared mindscape, but one of you is controlling the dream, the others are just guests, and I suppose is the big red robot"

"We don't dream! It is stupid of you to think this is mine!" Heatwave yelled at the owl, then, thinking twice, how could this owl talk?

"Yes you do, you are all here for a a reason, now, any of you remember where your bodies are?"

"Bodies? We are all here!"

"No, you are not"

Everyone freezed at the strange comment, because even of they wanted to reply, no one remembered being dragged to the forest, only waking up

"But... how?" Camille tried to remember, but part of her memories were fuzzy, she only remembered being at her old house, now her Silvia's, her cousin, to visit her with her girlfriends and then she was in the middle of an unrecognizable forest with no magic

"Estolas, where have you been?" Nani stepped foward to take Estolas' feathers, but the feathers weren't right, they're usually quiet, combed and tight, but these were soft "what the-"

"The one that made this dream never touched a bird in its life, that's the reason" Estolas replied like if it was obvious "Nani, you were dragged from our arms, I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm here only because you are here, but in any moment I can dissapear because this is not a physical world, this is a mental one, and I'm not connected to it"

"Like a vi-"

"DON'T- say that" Estolas' feathers puffed in fear "this mind is terribly literal, anything that is imagined will happen, that's why it made itself night so easily"

"It doesn't have sense- nothing of this have sense!" Heatwave got again of his pedes to look at the bonfire properly, it felt hot, it felt normal, the trees the same, and the humans! And transformers don't dream...! But they can remember while recharging, to revive some memories that sometimes they get mixed with others "how is this..."

"I'm sure you all got dragged from your universes"

"Universes?"

"Wait- they are all from different universes?!" Nani exclaimed "that exlplains a lot!"

"The others are already searching why are these people all here" Estolas explained "you will go back home, all of you, I promise, but first we have to wake up you all to localize you"

"Nothing of this explains why Boulder is like that!" Heatwave yelled again, his damn processor was going this situation go in too many circles

"It does, because that bot is not real"

"How the fuck do I know that you are not real?!"

"I assure I'm real because I don't think you had ever seen a talking owl, and this kid comes with me, the rest are also real because they dissapeared, and none of them are predictable or plain, they're complex in mind and aesthetic, that green bulldozer wasn't"

"How do you know that?!"

"Because no actual real being just appears from thin air and then persecutes others with no explanation! That robot was searching for you! I had to follow that bulldozer to know where were you, and never replied to me! Like a damn zombie! And because I already met all your families"

"What?!"

"Really?" Camille got closer fast

"Are my friends alright?!" Lily asked worried

"Are they here?!" Cosmo also ran after Estolas to get an answer

"How is my team?" Heatwave knelt to have the owl closer

"They are fine!" Estolas yelled, puffing her feathers in discomfort "and okay! Who are not okay are you! You are closed on a mind with someone that wants to kill you"

"But why?" Nani raised her voice to get attention

"I don't know, this is not my mind... but I already met that green bulldozer, a bit at least, I can't analyze sparks but it seems that bot is a kind one, why would they make any damage?"

They didn't knew, had no idea, and they were kind of tired, thinking and out of reasons, specially Heatwave

"Hm. Let's all sit, this will be a long conversation"

Indeed, it was. Estolas had to explain first she is Nani´s familiar, a witch, Camille also revealed herself as one, but for some reason she couldn´t make magic, Cosmo also revealed as a fairy, an odd parent fairy, his mission is to fulfill wishes but his wand or wings didn't worked, he couldn´t fly or make any magic, same Lily, which glitter pact didn't worked either despite having it with her, and her charms weren't anywhere. Meanwhile Heatwave, well, he couldn't understand a shit, and is not like he wanted, all this was so... out of place, yet, there wasn't any other reason, but above all his problems, Boulder's words and attitudes still haunted his processor...

"Heatwave?" Camille had to raise her voice to catch his attention, finally doing so "are you okay?"

"Yeah- just- I... I'm still processing all of this..." he still watched the canvases he borrowed before, all of them were weird, but the one of the bonfire gave him chills

"About the bulldozer" Cosmo, curious, sat aside Heatwave, Camille at his other side "who it was? Because I don't think that's a kind and gentle one as everyone says"

"They are" Heatwave corrected with a sharp gaze "Boulder is the kindest and gentlest bot you one would ever met. They're an enginner and a painter, they're creative and optimistic and yet logical, they're protective and always knows what to do or what to say and is right most of the time... I still can't understand why they said all of that but even if this is actually a dream and they're not real... it feels real, they wouldn't say anything like that to anyone unless they deserve it"

"It sounds too perfect to be true" Camille joked about it, trying to calm the environment

"It is true. Boulder is all of what I said and even more"

"Ha! You sound like if you were in love of that bot!" Cosmo laughed at the fact, mostly because he sounded the same before marrying Wanda, his wife

"I am not!" Heatwave yelled at the fairy with an angry face "They're just better! That's all! And I mean, yes! Boulder is great, and caring, and easy to love but is because they're likeable! And has a funny and loud laugh, and always gives the best gifts, and the best hugs..."

Everyone stayed in silence after that reply, Heatwave's processor was again turning around the situation to the point his optics hurt and his tanks twisted, the same feeling Heatwave thought he already overcome before crashing on Earth, the same feeling it came with certain thought he wanted so much to evade

"Oh!" Camille exclaimed, finally understanding the thing "Ooooooooooh! My friend, you have the thing that starts with L"

"Yeah! Yeah! Leprosy!" Cosmo snapped his fingers like if it was a guessing game with all confidence

"No! The other- why leprosy-? Ahg- it is four letters! Starts with L, ends with E"

"Oh! Oh! Lice!"

"No! Love! The answer is love! Heatwave is in love!"

"I AM NOT!"

"Ohhhhhhh, love..." Cosmo finally understood "I still go by leprosy"

"I am NOT in love of Boulder!" Heatwave yelled again at them, getting on his pedes and walking away

"Think of it! About all the things you had said!" Camille followed Heatwave with her eyes "of how you look at them and think of them, your behavior even!"

"I'm behaving like this because it is a lie! I am not in love!"

"HAHAHA! Even I can see that you'rr lying!" Cosmo laughed at Heatwave's reaction, same did Camille, both knew it was obvious, impossible not to think that

But Lily was starting to get tired of this "STOP LAUGHING!!" She raised her voice as never did, surprising everyone around the bonfire "CAN'T YOU SEE THAT BOT DOESN'T KNOW?!" Her eyes had a strange glinting, the one her friends back at her place knew it was the most sincere thing she could do, but specially because she also knew that feeling, the eyes hurting and the twist on her stomach, she felt that everytime she was in public, but Heatwave's attitud remembered her of a very specific moment "that bot is not in love with you?" Lily asked directly Heatwave, playing with her hands to compensate her nerves, waiting for Heatwave's answer, even when his low gaze and shoulders were enough answer

"Boulder doesn't love me that way" Heatwave replied in the low, enough loud only to be heard, sitting again near the bonfire, then, changing his gaze to the bonfire canvas, to the white space where he is supposed to be, no, to Boulder, who is at the white space's side "and I don't have the spark to say it"

"Heatwave, if you don't tell them, you will regret it" Camille put her hand sympathetically on Heatwave's leg

"If I tell them and they says no, then I'll regret it" Heatwave looked at Camille with bitterness "We are alone in the planet and don't have anywhere else to go, if I tell them and they says no, one of us will have to go, and the only place left is Nevada in the middle of the war... Boulder is not a soldier, or a killer, they have a spark made of marshmellow, they wouldn't even do a good weapon without feeling guilty, and I don't want to left Griffin Rock yet"

"If it works! Or something" Lily called Heatwave's attention again "I don't think what that bot, eh... Boulder! Told you before, I don't think is true! I think that Boulder is false, you seem good, and kind too, and you had been protecting us since you met us, and I believe in you! That Boulder didn't seem to be the Boulder you know so well!" Lily gave Heatwave a shy but optimistic smile, she really had faith, a faith Heatwave could feel to thanks to her smile

"You're right!" Heatwave's humour raised again, whatever it was that Boulder, it was not real, they had now to think again of what happened and go to the adventure, whatever to go back to his team in one piece "we must resolve this mystery and get back to our homes"

"I like that plan!" Nani smiled back, clapping her hands one time

"I'm on it!" Camille, determinated, raised her fist, ready to do what's neccesarry

"Count me in!" Cosmo raised his wand, even if it does nothing, it was still his best tool

"In that case" Heatwave finally was recovering his leadership enthusiasm, even if he never worked with these guys, he could make it work, Blades, Chase and Boulder were a disaster of a team the first time he tried to command them and yet ended up being the best team of the whole district

...

"THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!!" Nani screamed in terror, unfortunately being persecuted by a weird, green and evil bulldozer by pure feet, at least she was good at running

"PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, STOP! I HEARD YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON!!" Lily, aside Nani, ran as fast as could, fortunately on her magical girl armor, bigger ponytail on her hair and a cute big and short skirt and shirt, so, she was faster than usual. Finally Heatwave could think of some magic rules for the rest to use their powers, but limited

"ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T WANNA TALK?!?!" Nani tried to talk to the false Boulder, but again, the only reply was the terrible roar of the false Boulder's motor "YOU'RE DOING IT ON PORPOUSE, ASSHOLE!!"

Meanwhile, in another place

"Ah... do you have any idea what are we searching?" Cosmo asked, looking at everywhere, moving like a hummingbird around Heatwave

"Whatever that is not normal" Heatwave answered, heavy stepd on the ground

"Ahg! I can't see or sense nothing!" Camille yelled from Heatwave's shoulder, he had been touching like ten trees but they're not real, there was no way she could sense or hear the plants "Cosmo, have you seen something?"

"Nop. Wait, that doesn't look like a tree" Cosmo pointed to a weird, grey thing, covered in the green of the moss "Heatwave! Something like that?"

The three looked at the... "oh no" Heatwave expressed when he looked at his ship, covered in moss, less paint, as if it's old glory never existed "what happened here?" Surrounded by a big crater and old, dead wood of trees that fell nearby and other tiny plants that resurrected from the burned ground, the ship standed there with an open door, Heatwave got inside it with Camille on his right shoulder and Cosmo flying above his left, but the ship didn't looked as his ship inside. A wave of melancholy, nostalgia and sadness washed him when he saw the same hallway of the rescue station he used to work in back on Cybertron, but instead of the doors of the offices of his lieutenant and chief, the photos of old workers that fell on duty, the typical red and beige colors on the walls and the windows that showed the different rooms that made the place feel like home, it was full of paintings, some were exactly the same as the photos back on the station, but others were half-made canvases. Heatwave stepped foward to look at all properly, one of the frames took his attention because it was the old photo of his last captain before he became sub-captain of Sigma-17 and captain of Sigma-17B, it was all just as he remembered, that black frame covered in magnetic medals, the day that photo was made, Heatwave's ex-captain was recieving his honor-medal, days before he died on duty. Heatwave got stuck on that photo, remembering the old days and wanting to go back more than anything. Camille asked Heatwave about the bot but Cosmo didn't payed attention to that conversation

Meanwhile, Cosmo looked around, some other photos were clearly visible, everything was so exact it didn't felt like a dream but a simulation, but Heatwave is an autonomous robot, his mind wouldn't work the same compared to humans. Cosmo got stuck in the painting of the ship from outside because he found it pretty, later flying to see another canvas of a beach where one green bot standed aside a pure white spot if their size, finding it strange, Cosmo looked at his surroundings, finding the other canvases had something similar, another canvas had a green bot dancing aside a white spot of his size or bigger, another canvas had the same green bot watching a theather scene aside a white dot, tiny because both were far away in the painting, another canvas had the same green bot surrounded by a white weird spot, like if it was hugging them, no matter what, all canvases were the same: one green bot aside a white big spot

"Guys!" Cosmo called for his companions "I don't like this museum anymore"

"This is not a museum, Cosmo" Camille corrected the fairy "this is a gallery"

"I don't care what's the difference, I don't like this place anymore"

"Why are all canvases like this?"

"I recognize them" Heatwave looked at all of them carefully, and indeed, he knew all of them "these are Boulder's paintings, but all are incomplete"

"Why?" Cosmo asked with pure curiosity

"I don't know... but I am suppose to be in those blank spaces" Heatwave started to put the pieces in place, Boulder's words, the canvases, the old ship, Chase's and Blades' ausence, but what he needed to connect everything were the two canvases he didn't wanted to see, not even in coincidence

"That painting looks a lot like The Kiss of Gustav Klimt" Camille commented when she saw the painting

"It is" Heatwave replied "I found it incomplete at a compartment on the ship, Boulder wanted to imitate the style" Heatwave answered, but his optics werr stuck on the painting aside: lots of black brush lines over a red bot. That comfirmed his theory "that bot does hate me"

"Pff! Of course they wouldn't!" Cosmo still wanted to keep optimistic "like, yes, you're grumpy, hot-head, maybe a bit rushed but you're not bad! On purpouse, who's that bot? The black doesn't let me see"

"That's me"

"...oh... nope, they hate you"

"Why would Boulder destroy this one?" Camille asked, kind of scared for the answer

"Because I ruined everything" Heatwave's voice box started to sound shattered as he made an effort to not to let himself fall "I told them everything would be okay, I told them to get on stasis and now our home was destroyed because we weren't there, all our families lost. I destroyed my team's lifes the day I made them get on this ship and now we have to live as if nothing happened because we don't have anything else to hold" Heatwave's optics started to blur, letting fall some coolant from his faceplate "I wasn't the leader they deserved, and they are all stuck in an island and is my fault..."

"Heatwave, it is not-"

"Glad to hear that" a familiar voice box interrupted Camille's attempt, she and Cosmo looked at the door of the ship, where the green bot stepped to get into it. Camille standed in defensive position as Cosmo prepared his wand if something happened

"STAY THERE, BROCOLLI SCRAP!" Cosmo called their attention

"YES! YOU- brocolli scrap did you said?" Camille reacted confused to Cosmo's insult "why brocolli scrap?"

"Leave me alone with them" Heatwave never looked again at the bot, or at anyone, just at the ruined painting there

"What?!" Cosmo asked surprised

"Why?" Camille looked at Heatwave worried

"Please" Heatwave repeated but said nothing else. Camille and Cosmo couldn't understand his change of attitud, but they have to trust, that's the only way. Heatwave offered his servo for Camille to get down, she did, Cosmo just flied away at her same speed but didn't lowered his height, mostly to look at Boulder with a fiercing gaze, but Boulder- the false Boulder- couldn't care less, using their energy to get closer to Heatwave "Boulder, I-"

POOM! Heatwave's faceplate got striked by a strong fist, really strong

"Boulder- wait!" Heatwave almost got striked again "Please- let's talk!"

"I don't want to talk with you!" Heatwave always knew Boulder was way stronger than him but this was way worse

"Boulder, please!" Heatwave begged for their attention, yet, Boulder never stopped, finally hitting at his tanks when Heatwave tried to get closer, Heatwave, distracted by the pain, was hit again by the green bot on the faceplate, Heatwave evade Boulder's next attack but concentrated on their servo he lost the other one and was hit again, Boulder nailed their digits on Heatwave, and about to be hit again, a large vine took Boulder's wrist

"STOP IT!" Camille's eyes shined of pure white to keep the vine in place, as Cosmo was about to throw a new spell

"COSMO, NO!" Heatwave yelled at the fairy, surprisely, Cosmo stopped

"But- Heatwave!"

"LET THEM GO! THIS IS BETWEEN THE TWO OF US!" Heatwave shouted at Camille, she couldn't stand to see someone being beated by who knows who "Please" but that beg, she knew how it felt...

Camille changed the vine's direction, letting Boulder go and stepped behind, pulling Cosmo by the leg so he couldn't go flying

"Do whatever you want" Heatwave looked at Boulder, waiting for anything that could happen "but I want you to know I'm sorry" his optics blurred again "for letting you fell in this planet, alone, for making like if nothing happened, I know I am a liar and stupid and I got away even when you-" Heatwave's words only made Boulder even more furious, interrupting him with a new fist against his faceplate that made his dentae hurt "Boulder-"

"I don't want your apologies!" Boulder was about to throw a new punch but Heatwave this time block it

"Can't we talk?!" Heatwave tried to get their attention, raising their voice box "Boulder, I don't want to fight with you!"

"But I want to!" Boulder throwed themselves to Heatwave, move Heatwave could barely stand

"You are not like this, Boulder-"

"Stop doing that!" Boulder raised Heatwave in the air- how did they learnt that move? Boulder never trained with Heatwave, but thanks to those trainings, Heatwave could evade his helm being crashed against the floor "stop thinking I can't get mad or fight!"

"I wasn't-"

"SHUT UP!" Boulder was made a complete beast, impossible to talk to, Heatwave couldn't tell anything else before Boulder got him out of guard, right now he was like a punching bag, until he finally got Boulder will not pay him attention. Heatwave blocked Boulder's fists and made resistence against their weight, hoping that would give him time

"Boulder, please, listen to me-"

"I do not care about you or your problems anymore" Boulder spitted like venom

"But I do! I still do care about you!"

"Why aren't we in Cybertron then? Why are we still caged in this mud-ball?! Why are we still here?!"

"I can't do anything about it-" but those words only made Boulder get angrier, using Heatwave's weight to throw him to the ground "Boulder- please- I just want to talk!"

"I DON'T WANT TO TALK, I WANT YOU DEAD!"

For a moment it felt like if Heatwave's spark drained out of his frame, a wave of regret and confusion took all his being, but overall, he felt kind of tired, at this point, he was tired, there was nothing he could do now but to wait, what? Who knows

If this shit was actually a dream, then, maybe to die here would wake him up... he really missed that word, shit, he was actually missing any kind of bad word but was trying to change that because of Cody, if Kade or chief saw him saying something like that in front of the kid, they would gave him the speech of his life, same Chase, but they had been friends since academy, he would make the speech easier for the sake of Heatwave listening, Blades would just see if there was something funny to use against them later, Heatwave would try to get him to yell at him for that and three hours later they would all be wrapped in the sofa watching modern family or whatever kind of program they choose, Dani would be Cody's pillow while Dani used chief as pillow, Kade and Graham would be awake discussing what to watch later with Blades as Chase just passed endlessly between programs to see if something catched his optic- or unless he finds Law and Order, and Boulder would be at Heatwave's shoulder, not recharging, usually Heatwave falls for it before Boulder starts feeling drained. Those are nice memories. Even if this is a dream and he's not going to actually die, it is still kind of nice to remember those things...

...

Why is, like, nothing happening?

Heatwave took a fast look over him, Boulder was still there, staying still, and their optics were drenched in coolant

Heatwave was still tired, but Boulder still more important, when Boulder let themselves fall on their knees with their servos made ball, Heatwave couldn't ignore the feeling of at least sit to see what was happening

"Boulder-"

"I hate you" Boulder finally said with their voice box glitching and trying get their tears out of their faceplate "I hate you so much, why can't I kill you?"

Boulder didn't expected an answer, but yet Heatwave replied with a hug

"Let me go! I hate you- I hate you!"

"Is because you're not an assassin" Heatwave murmured at Boulder's audial, despite they tried to get out of the embrace, even hitting Heatwave's chest "you're too soft for that. And gentle and full of life. I'm sorry I can't give you what you deserve"

"Let me go- I hate you!"

"I..."

But even in a dream... maybe Heatwave would be a coward once again

"I know" he answered

And then, strangely, all fade to black, like shutting down a tv

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End of First Dream: Cybertronian Simulation Complete

#no beta we die like cliffjumper #tfrb #transformers #maccadam #rescue bots #tf #tf rescue bots #tfrb heatwave #muted webtoon #glitter force #the fairly oddparents #yeah...#Anne has a problem #The Multiverse Storm

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