Not sparkmates...right? | A Heatshadow fanfic

The One Where Optimus Visits

>One Month Later<

"He's arriving this afternoon, 3:00 in earth time on the dot."

"Understood, Heatwave. Me and the children will be there for his arrival." Quickshadow closed the comm unit and transformed, heading for the kids' high school on the mainland.

It had been over a year since Optimus's last visit. Naturally, he wanted to see the progress the Academy had made. Being the Vice Head, Quickshadow had to be there alongside Heatwave to greet him. Meanwhile, everyone else got to do whatever.

Optimus usually came accompanied by Bumblebee, so Blades would most likely spend most of their visit around the yellow mech. Boulder had other matters to attend to regarding the lab in China, and Chase was working on more coded rescues for the simulator. Blurr and Salvage were also meeting Optimus on Griffin Rock, but they were going to stay on the island afterward.

The femme slowed to a stop in the parking lot of the school, watching the doors that the kids walked out of through her mirrors. They were almost finished with what humans called a 'sophomore year'. The other bots had volunteered to take turns picking the two up, but as most of them were rescue vehicles and Blurr was a bright purple & neon green racecar, it was easiest for Quickshadow to drop them off and pick them up without being noticed. (Nobody watched that stupid detective show her vehicle mode was in anyway.)

Quickshadow saw the children walk out of the doors. She honked, getting their attention. Frankie saw her first and waved.

"Hey, Quickshadow, can we get ice cream on the way back to the academy?" Cody asked the moment her doors were shut.

"Cody, you sound like a five-year-old." Frankie chuckled, laughing a bit more when Cody made a silly face.

"Afraid not, Optimus is arriving at 3:00 and it's already 2:30." The femme checked her internal clock to be sure. "Scrap that – 2:45."

"I didn't know Optimus was arriving today!" Cody said from the back, buckling his seatbelt.

"Heatwave relayed the message to the team about a half-hour ago. We are to meet him at the firehouse for Optimus's arrival."

"Can I come too?" Frankie peeked her head out from behind the passenger's seat, looking at the femme's dashboard.

"Of course." Quickshadow backed out of the parking lot, headed for the academy.

>10 minutes later<

Quickshadow stopped once she felt the floor of the bunker below her tires, opening her doors to let out the children before transforming. She pressed a button on the monitor at one end of the room, then ran to the middle where the kids were standing when the floor began to rise upward. One of the greatest benefits of the firehouse was the hidden bunker underneath.

The femme felt the sunlight hit her optics & looked out the open doors of the firehouse garage. There were four mechs already in the yard waiting for the Prime's arrival. Salvage and Blades were talking to the copter bot's human partner, Dani, whom Quickshadow always remembered by when they had first met.

Upon finding out that Quickshadow had been sent to work with the Rescue Bots, the girl had been excited about having another 'female' on the team (Quickshadow had later found out that was the human term for femme). She had also learned from Boulder & Heatwave (perhaps overheard was a better word to use) that Dani had convinced Blades to get over his extreme fear of heights.

The red-headed girl was perhaps one of Quickshadow's favorite humans – something she would never say out loud, because the femme refused to admit favoritism toward most things.