AN: Im already back! is that a good thing or bad? I don't know, but anyway I noticed that the chapters in almost all my stories were short, so I tried to aim for a story with longer chapters, so I hope you guys like it! Disclaimer: I own nothing except Blackwolf. P.S: please review and give me your opinions, enjoy!
The Decepticons were defeated and driven into hiding, Optimus defeated Trypticon at the cost of his own life. Blackwolf and Arcee are finally sparkmates, bonded together, for the rest of their lives and beyond. Three months have passed and the world is still recovering from the invasion, cities were being repaired, the people who were lost in the fire of destruction were mourned, and the secret was revealed to the world, there were transforming aliens living amongst humankind, hiding in plain sight. Though some people of the world didn't like the sound of it, they did save Earth from destruction, all of Earth was in the Autobot faction's debt. Jasper was being knocked down and rebuilt, tall cranes stood, construction workers were everywhere, the government had to hire a LOT of workers to get the refugees of Jasper their lives back, Agent Fowler had told them it was how they could repay their debt, help EVERY SINGLE human who had lost their homes in the chaos of war. Though the weather was cold, it was not freezing like other places, the progress was not halted by the cold. Christmas was approaching and the humans were trying to explain to the bots' what Christmas is, but only Ratchet (typical) disagreed with the human holiday. But they were caught by surprise by what occurred next.
(The Afternoon, Halfway to the Outskirts of Nevada)
Smokescreen drove along the desert road, focused on his destination. He was deep in thought, unaware of his surroundings, just when he was knocked back to reality when "CRASH" he was completely blind-sided by another vehicle. he span out of control until he finally regained himself and looked to see who had rammed into him. He was taken by surprise when he saw a familiar black saburban approaching him at ramming speed.
He increased his sight to see on the grill engraving was a VERY worn and scratched up Autobot insignia upon it.
"Blackwolf!?"
(Several hours earlier, The Humboldt- Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada)
Smokescreen and Grimlock stood in the forest, walking as if they were looking for something. Smokescreen was so unaware to notice that Grimlock was no longer following him, seconds later he heard something come crashing down, he flipped around to see Grimlock holding a VERY large pine tree. "Me think this one look good." Grimlock grunted as he hoisted it upon his shoulder, Smokescreen shook his head and lightly chuckled.
He opened his comm device to base, "Ratchet, we found it, send us the bridge." he finished. Almost immediately, the green vortex opened, he let Grimlock go through first and followed after, moments later the portal closed behind, without a trace.
(Omega Three, Nevada)
Even though Omega Two was destroyed, the government rebuilt the base, in a more hidden location, but still built inside a mountain. On the inside, it was huge, a lot larger than both Omega One and Two combined, mainly due to the fact they now had to house a huge dinobot. The humans stood in their new living area, much larger and more comfortable with a small table to eat at (if needed), a couch with a T.V setup built in front of it with a new gaming console for the kids, a fridge for snacks and drinks, three beds for each human if they were sleeping at base and now even a small landing pad for Jack to equip or remove his suit when needed.
The three humans stood above Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Arcee, and Blackwolf, trying to explain to them Christmas. "Okay so ignore Miko's version of Christmas, it's not all about getting presents from your family." he looked to the young Japanese girl as she stuck her tongue out at him. "No, Christmas is a time where families come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's mainly a christian belief but people who don't share those beliefs can even celebrate it just so their families can come together, like how we do, but over time this wasn't a respected fact about Christmas any more, instead it only seems to be about waking up in the mornings to receive gifts from a mythical figure known as, Santa Claus." he explained, seeing Miko's bored reaction, Raf already knew this information, but their Autobot audience looked fascinated with it.
"Interesting, kinda reminds me of Cybertron during the golden age, whenever we'd praise Primus for giving our kind life...before the Decepticons strayed away from Primus, only worshiping Megatron and those that led before him." Blackwolf commented, sighing sadly, remembering how their race was once the great seat of a golden empire. Arcee patted his back and looked lovingly to him, he reached over and took the hand she held on his back into his light grasp. Miko saw the two's public display of affection and fake gagged before Bulkhead shot her a glare saying "You're too old to still be doing that" she quickly stopped and walked back over to the couch.
"So what do you guys think of Christmas, I hope you guys understand a LOT better than how Halloween went." he grimaced, remembering having to explain them that holiday. They all nodded in confirmation that he explained well.
"Sounds interesting Jack, but I have two questions." Bumblebee stated, having done studying about one of his questions and wondering about one of the things Jack mentioned.
"Ask away Bee!" he informed, happy they were that interested that they were asking questions.
"Okay so first, why are presents handed out?" the scout asked the human. Jack tried to remember that part of the holiday but couldn't place his finger on it until Raf looked up from his laptop and spoke up.
"The three gifts that "Santa Claus" supposedly brings us are to remind us of the gifts given to Jesus by the three Wise Men." He finished, closing his laptop, Jack sighed in relief that his friend made that save. Bumblebee looked content with that answer.
"How'd you know that Raf?" he asked, Raf just shrugged.
"Well, I'm a big believer in Jesus." the younger boy answered, walking to the couch to play games with Miko.
"Okay my next question, I studied some Christmas traditions and saw a picture of a human man and woman kissing under some hanging plant, what's that supposed to mean?" he asked, Jack slightly blushed, knowing he was talking about being under a mistletoe.
"Uhhh, okay, that's an original question," he rubbed the growing mustache and beard he had for a few seconds trying to find a way to explain it to the adorable scout.
"Alright, the dangling plant is called a mistletoe, the reason the man and woman kiss under it is because the mistletoe in Norse mythology is a sign of love and friendship, couples usually kiss under one on Christmas to celebrate their love for each other." he explained, this however caught Arcee's attention as well, she slightly looked to her sparkmate who was listening contently to the human and grinned at the new plan she had for Christmas when it came.
Their talking was cut off when the groundbridge opened, in walked Grimlock holding a Huge tree, Smokescreen came through in tow, Grimlock quickly found an empty enough corner and stood the tree up, balancing it before it fell. Bulkhead quickly walked to one of their tool shelves and grabbed what looked like the base of a satellite dish, once he got to the tree he measured the round length and adjusted the base he held, once it finished adjusting he signaled Grimlock to lift the tree up, he placed it down under where it sat a moment ago, Grimlock lowered it, bumping around the edges until it went through, once it was set down, Bulkhead tightened it and raised up four rods on each corner as stabilizers to keep the tree from tipping over. Grimlock released it and smacked his palms together as if dusting them off, seeing his strength's handiwork.
Miko looked over and saw the large tree, it may have been really tall, but Grimlock still stood taller that it. Miko stod in aw, she excitedly slid down the ladder and sprinted over. She ran past the donobot's huge pedes and stood in front of the tall pine. Bulkhead knelt down and offered her his palm which she of course took, standing on his hand as he raised her to his shoulder. "Aw man Bulk, this Christmas is gonna rock!" she said excitedly, hugging his helm. He smiled warmly at his human ally.
"I don't see the purpose of cutting down a tree and decorating it just for this holiday." Ratchet commented, having been there the whole time with Optimus at his side at the command terminal working, as usual.
"Well Ratchet, the tree is a symbol called the "the tree of life", a symbol to remind us of the supreme gift God gave to us." Jack explained to the medic, Ratchet only huffed, still not understanding it.
"What gift he give to humanity?" Grimlock asked, Jack was surprised that Grimlock was listening to him, he was glad that EVEN Grimlock was respecting the holiday unlike Ratchet.
"He sent his only son, Jesus to save our world." He explained to the friendly titan. Grimlock seemed to think about that for a moment before seeming content with that answer and turning back to their work on the tree. Bulkhead had three large boxes from Jack, Miko and Raf full of large, round, red, green, and silver ornaments. Bulkhead started raising Miko up to hang an ornament then lowered her to grab another, Bumblebee grabbed Raf and began to do the same, but Jack knew Arcee wasn't tall enough so he equipped his suit and activated it's thrusters and began flying down to grab an ornament and flying up to hang it.
It was going to be an Autobot Christmas.
(Unknown location, Nevada)
Almost a dozen masked soldiers jogged through the tunnel leading to their main laboratory, there standing on the control platform was none other than Silas, standing next to him was Airachnid keeping her sly smirk. In front of them was their own mech, built from old vehicon and Autobot vanguard parts from the battle of Chicago.
But it looked different, it didn't look like a bunch of random parts thrown together into one being. No, it looked as if it all fit together, as if they all came from the same Cybertronian. This was possible because of Airachnid's tricks with reshaping Cybertronian metal. "It's almost ready, once we get the head finished." Silas informed the assassin, she now grinned wickedly.
"Good, now we can destroy the Autobots' together." she said calmly, he grinned as a light appeared above their reshaping changer, out came the head, raised up by a metal arm, placed upon the lifeless body and finally connected it into place, the optics of the mech lighting up orange. The shape of the being had now come together to make a VERY familiar Autobot.
"Nemesis Wolf." he thought aloud, looking at the perfect look a like of Blackwolf, except the paint was just made solid jet black, the faceplate, servos and the bottoms of it's pedes were gray, and the built in glowing Autobot logo on his chest was a dull orange like it's optics.
"What a nice gift, I wish I knew about his build sooner, it looks much more superior to Nemesis Prime's, it contains the same amount of agility, slightly more speed, but it's strength outmatches even Optimus Prime's" he explained to the spider, she looked upon it, remembering how we had beaten her in their first encounter, after that she promised herself she would NOT make the same mistake.
Suddenly an alarm started blaring, red lights blinking, an automated female voice sounded, "WARNING N.B.E ACTIVITY DETECTED" it finished, Silas walked over to his terminal and opened a holo-map of Nevada, and there appeared an Autobot insignia icon, deep in a canyon valley, and another one appeared on the map closer to Jasper, but heading in the direction of the other one's location.
"The one in the canyon is...Blackwolf? Oh this is too good, we know where he is, I can now slaughter him for making me look like a fool!" she hissed, Silas shook his head which confused her. She then looked to the other icon, it appeared to be Smokescreen.
"Patience Airachnid, While he's out in that valley, his all, errr Smokescreen, has no backup, this should be a perfect time to test Nemesis Wolf, he'll think Blackwolf attacked him and then he'll take the blame once he returns, leaving no challengers in our way of crushing them." he explained his plan, she thought about it for a moment, it was a rather genius plan, take out the only challenger to their mech, then slaughter them all.
Victory may be in their grasp already.