A/N: So this happened when I was trying to write something serious. Sadly, it was not to be.
Why aren't there more Rescue Bots fanfics on here? The show is fantastic!
Taylor is the pilot in "Lost Bell." His name is completely fabricated, (Taylor just sounds like a kind of jocky name) so if anyone knows his real name please tell me.
Helicopter Heroes is a real show, and it involves helicopters. And Britain. :D
Review, plz. Blades is happy when you review.
Blades the Overly Possessive Helicopter: Blades vs. Taylor
Cody was rubbing his eyes tiredly when the control room panel lit up with red flashing lights.
He slid the headphones on and answered the call. "Griffin Rock 'Mergency."
"Hi, Cody, it's Taylor. Can you send someone out to the airfield? My plane's floating just offshore, and I kinda need it."
Cody shook his head and blinked, instantly awake. "Are you in the sea?"
"Nah, I woke up a couple minutes ago and the plane was just there. Must've been blown into the bay by the storm last night; knew I should've tied it down or something." Taylor replied.
"Okay. Dani and Graham'll be there in a couple of minutes." Cody said, pressing their respective buttons on the panel.
"No need to rush, kid, the plane doesn't look like it's going anywhere."
Graham cracked his fingers as Boulder approached, Dani sliding down the fireman's pole shortly afterwards.
"Doesn't that hurt?" the green bulldozer queried.
"What? Oh, that. No, it's just something people do when they're preparing for something." Graham answered.
"Fascinating." Boulder said, as Blades walked in, a definite smirk on his faceplate.
"What're you so happy about?" Dani asked her helicopter crossly, pulling on her helmet.
"I'm just happy we've got a mission. Because, I, um, sort of, like flying a little bit now, you know, because I'm used to it now and everything. Also, I watched this TV show yesterday called "Helicopter Heroes", so I'm feeling a little more confident." Blades replied, pushing his index digits together nervously.
"What, flying with me has no factor into it?"
"Ah, well, no, wait yes, uh..." Blades floundered.
Dani laughed. "Let's go."
Quite quickly the Rescue Bots had reached the scene, Graham and Boulder already brainstorming ideas on how to lift the stricken plane from the bay and back onto the runway.
Dani noticed Blades was suspiciously quiet the whole way, and banged on the instrument panel when they had almost landed. "Blades? Wake up!"
"What? Oh! Sorry! I-I-I just, uh, went into sleep mode there accidentally. Didn't get enough recharge yesterday, silly me, oh dear." Blades explained rapidly, his "apologetic face" showing up on the screen.
"Why didn't you get enough recharge?" Dani asked curiously.
"Oh...um...well I've been...uh...practising flying by myself at night...um...so no-one'll see me without a pilot, right? I don't want to get in trouble with Chase or Heatwave."
"Blades!" Dani exclaimed. "You could have just woken me up; you know I love flying!"
"Well, yes, but but but then you'd be all tired and wouldn't be able to do all your rescuing in the daytime, and then I'd feel bad and I'd accidentally tell the Chief or Chase or Heatwave and then you'd be in trouble and I didn't want that so I just went on my own!" Blades rambled.
Dani shushed him as they came into land, Taylor walking up near the helipad.
"Does my hair look okay?" Dani said mostly to herself.
Blades' screen-face cocked an optic ridge. "You're wearing a helmet; no one can see your hair, Dani."
It then settled itself back into robotic stoicism as Taylor approached his canopy.
Dani slid out of the cockpit, motioned the pilot to stand back, then asked Blades to transform.
Taylor took a worried few steps further back as Blades' massive foot planted itself just a few feet away from him.
"Hi, Taylor. How'd you manage this?" Dani asked, shooting a strange look at Blades (who wasn't usually this intimidating).
"I dunno, last night it was beside the hangar and this morning it's transformed into a boat! Somehow I doubt the electronics or the engine'll be up to flying me to the mainland this afternoon." Taylor replied, scratching the back of his head and remarkably covertly running his eyes over Dani.
Dani giggled a bit at the "transformed" line and Blades' foot shifted ever so slightly towards Taylor.
He looked up at Blades. "Enough about me, though, you're looking amazing tod- – hey, uh, Dani? Is your copter snarling at me?"
"No, no, no! Just...uh...a...squinty...jaw bolt! I was going to fix it before we came but I didn't have time." Dani replied quickly. "Okay, copter-bot, let's go and...uh...help Graham with the plane, bye Taylor!"
Blades nodded mechanically, bent down, and held out his hand for Dani. She stepped onto it and Blades strode off towards Boulder and Graham. Taylor waved cautiously after them.
"What was that then?" Dani whispered once out of Taylor's earshot. "You were snarling!"
"I was not. Maybe it really is a squinty jaw bolt." Blades replied innocently, pushing the right side of his jaw upwards.
Dani raised her eyebrows. "Yeah, okay."
Graham turned to face Dani and Blades. "Right! Now we need Blades to lift the plane up with his winch and put it on the runway, preferably, uh, in one piece; we don't want a boat hitting any wreckage."
Blades transformed and Dani hopped inside, the helicopter's rotors already spinning up.
Once in the air, Graham directed them above the floating grey aeroplane and Blades lowered his winch line. The hook caught under the plane's wings and Graham gave Dani a thumbs up.
"Okay, Blades. Lift it up." she said.
Blades gunned his engine and ascended, pulling the plane slowly out of the water and then hovering over above the runway.
"Right, stop there!" Graham shouted up.
Blades stopped a little too abruptly, and the plane swung out underneath him.
There came a horrific sound of metal shearing off, and then the plane's fuselage was ripped off the wings and crashed into the concrete runway, glass shattering and metal bending out of shape; leaving Blades only holding up the wings, which promptly fell off the hook and also crashed to the ground, collapsing like an accordion.
A long, awkward silence followed, eventually broken by Blades saying "Oops" in a very small voice.
Boulder and Graham carted the utterly destroyed plane away, depositing it in a hangar and then being called off to rescue Mrs. Neederlander's cat from the mortal danger of being trapped at the top of a child's climbing frame, leaving Blades and Dani at the airfield.
They were about to take off and fly back to the firehouse when Taylor tapped on the canopy.
Blades opened it extremely slowly.
"Hey, Dani, since my plane's totalled, you think you could give me a lift to the ferry? I've got a thing on the mainland in an hour." the pilot asked.
"Oh, sure, not a problem, get right in!" Dani replied, and held out a hand. Taylor grabbed it and pulled himself up and into Blades' cockpit.
Dani tapped on Blades' altimeter as Taylor sat down in the copilot's seat, which was code for "behave."
"Something up?" Taylor asked. Dani shook her head hurriedly.
"No, just checking in case it was stuck. It happens occasionally."
Taylor nodded slowly.
"Okay, strap in." Dani said, and Blades' pulled his seatbelts across Taylor's chest rather too tightly.
"A...little...tight, actually..." he coughed, and Blades slackened his hold enough so he wasn't crushing the man's ribcage.
Taylor took a deep breath. "How'd the seatbelt come on by itself?" he asked.
"You are in a Rescue Bot. I told it to strap in, and it strapped you in." Dani replied, pushing the throttle down hard in a "what the hell are you doing, Blades?" kind of way.
Blades lifted off very quickly, and pointed himself in the direction of the ferry terminal.
"Okay, copter-bot, take us to the ferry terminal, please." Dani asked.
Taylor snorted as Blades set off. "You don't have to be nice to it. It is just a dumb robot after all."
"It doesn't like when you shout at it." Dani replied shortly, inwardly hating calling Blades an "it".
"It doesn't matter whether it likes it or not, it's a machine. It's not like you're going to hurt its feelings or whatever." Taylor asserted.
Blades physically growled.
"What was that?"
"Funky rotor." Dani quickly replied.
"Anyway," Taylor continued, "like I said, it's a machine. You can just say, "Machine, fly upside down!" and it'd do it."
"Command received. Flying upside down." Blades said in his monotone voice and swung upside down abruptly, sending Taylor into a panic and making Dani laugh.
"Copter-bot, can you fly the right way up now?" Dani asked through laughs.
Blades obliged smoothly, tipping Taylor back into his seat unceremoniously and saying "Affirmative, Mistress."
Taylor exhaled a few times, still in shock.
Dani smiled. "See? He's got a much better reaction to being nice."
"'He?'" Taylor asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You call your plane a she, don't you?" Dani retorted. "So I can call my helicopter a he."
Taylor rolled his eyes. "Yeah, but my plane's got character. This is just a dumb robot."
Dani looked ahead determinedly. "He's got character. The funky rotor and the taking of everything literally, for example."
"That's called being defective, Dani."
Blades flew extra close to a wind turbine for that one.
Taylor let out another panicked breath and reached for his seat recliner. He pulled the lever, the seat shot forwards, and he smacked his head off the instrument panel.
"Ow!" he exclaimed, clutching his forehead. "That's it, this thing is definitely screwy."
"Just sensitive." Dani replied tersely. "You have to be gentle with him or things go wrong."
"Yeah, no. Machines don't do that. This one's just broken."
Blades was directly over the ferry terminal now.
"Well, thanks for the ride, even if it was in your dumb, broken, robot helicopter Dani. You can let me out here."
"Drop Taylor off, copter-bot." Dani said.
"Roger." Blades replied mechanically.
"Say, Dani, you want to have dinner with me sometime? Maybe Saturd—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH..."
Taylor was cut off as a parachute was attached to his back and the floor beneath his chair retracted into Blades' undercarriage, sending him falling out of the cockpit.
"Blades!" Dani exclaimed in a shocked voice as she saw the parachute open far beneath the chopper.
"What?" Blades replied innocently. "You said drop him off."
"...uh...I meant, "land and let him out", obviously..." Dani said.
"How could I have known that, being a dumb, broken, robot helicopter?" Blades retorted.
"Oh, he didn't mean that..." Dani said comfortingly. "Anyone else would have been the same."
"Doctor Greene wasn't mean to me, and besides, anyone else wouldn't be shamelessly checking you out every four seconds. I'm pretty sure he was basically planning a one-night-stand. Why do you even wear such a tight flying suit?" Blades pointed out.
"He wouldn't do that! And how do you know what a one-night-stand is, anyway?"
"I watch a lot of soaps but that's not important right now because he so would do that. According to his private messages, anyway."
"Have you been hacking his Facebook profile?"
"No!" Blades said defensively. "I got Chase to do it for me."
"Ugh." Dani rolled her eyes.
"I should probably admit that I pushed his plane into the sea last night, shouldn't I?"
"WHAT!?"
"I don't want him taking my pilot in that soulless...thing, and flying around in my sky. At least in here I can keep an optic on him. Did you see his pheromone levels? If I could read minds, I'd steer clear of his, I can tell you."
"You dropped his plane on purpose as well, didn't you. Ugh. Is Heatwave like this with Kade?"
"Probably not. Heatwave doesn't care as long as he gets to put out fires. I happen to really like my partner. Uh...that's you...you know."
"Awww..." Dani replied fondly. "Thanks, Blades. I really like you, too."
Blades smiled happily.
"...That doesn't excuse you from dropping my almost-date at 1000 feet."
"Does it excuse me from persuading Chase to arrest him for attempted kidnap?" Blades asked hopefully.
"Ugh, BLADES!"
Yeah, this is unlikely to be just a oneshot...I haz 2 much of teh crack