With his control over electrical signals and even becoming them himself, he'd become a digital powerhouse, benevolent but practically unstoppable. He doesn't think much of it until one day he's on Cybertron for a visit and sees a full-blown altar in his name, complete with offerings.
"What's wrong, Chase?" Heatwave asks when he comes back through the spacebridge.
"...I think I'm now what's known as a minor deity in the Cybertronian pantheon."
Back during their Academy days, Chase and Steeljaw were both bullied for being nerds in their regarded fields of study (Chase for police work like Strongarm, and Steeljaw in subsonics) but they and other bullied recruits kinda started to form their own little support club- led by Steeljaw, of course.
Steeljaw noticed Chase had a natural gift when it came to aiming at targets, and pushed him to get better at it... Like really good at it. Chase thought his "Friend" genuinely wanted to see him succeed, and put a lot of practice into that part of his police training. He wound up hitting records and even caught the eye of some military bots for possible transfer from rescue work, but it never came to pass.
Ultimately, Chase found out that Steeljaw and a lot of the other kids were planning on staging a massive revenge deal on their bullies (Like a Team Star sort of thing) and Steeljaw had made him get so good at firearms to act as a sniper on his team, and was horrified. Not only did he report the bots and get Steeljaw arrested for this plot, but Chase swore he'd never pick up a dangerous firearm ever again...
While he would never admit it, Steeljaw is terrified of Chase, because he often used himself as a target for Chase to practice his stealth shots on, and thus he created (in his opinion) a monster that could snipe him from a mile away and he'd never know-
