Title: Transformers First Christmas
Catagories: Transformers
Genre: Family/Humor
Rating: K for mild language, crude humor, sexual humor.
Summary:
Somewhat a partner story to No World for Tommorow; On Cybertron, there really were never any holidays for the Transformers to celebrate due to the million year old war going on between Autobots and Decepticons. But what would happen if the Autobots were introduced to Christmas?
Chapter Two
AHHHHH! ROBOT SIZED SNOWBALLS!!
"Are you sure this is a good idea, Lennox?" Ironhide asked through his radio, almost a little uneasy as Will Lennox was tying a rope to his bumper. He wasn't particulary happy that anything was getting tied to his aft in the first place, but this just seemed a little reckless.
Will only grinned as he finished triple tying the rope, before giving it a sharp tug and earning a growl from his family's guardian. He ignored him though as he tugged it again, making sure it was very tight and secure before looking up towards the front of the big black truck. "Yes, Ironhide. I'm sure this is a good idea. I used to do this when I was a kid. My pap would always tie inner tubes and life rafts to his big old truck and would drag me and my friends around on it. I've done it so many times when I was a kid." He explained to him. "All you have to do is pull the raft around, go fast over the snow but not too fast so that someone will get hurt. It's a lot of fun."
Ironhide only let out a light huff as he just sat there, grumbling. He didn't like this idea but he was allowing his human to make him do this.
Turning around, Will looked over at the large rubber raft sitting in the deep snow where some of the kids were standing around, looking at it almost as uneasily as Ironhide had been feeling. Everyone was dressed for the winter fun, making sure they had the right winter coats and thick gloves. Among everyone standing around it, other than the Autobots watching curiously off to the sides, Anya Karpos and her father, Vladimir had joined them. They had been looking forward to joining their American friends in their fun activities and even the plan of making this year's Christmas the best for the Autobots. Reno Banes with them too, though he was grinning. He knew what Will Lennox was up to. He had done it a few times with his brother when they were kids. But he knew that Mikaela had never done it before.
Grinning, the Major made his way over to them and placed his hands onto his waist. "Okay! Who's first?" He asked, brightly. The teenagers, Epps, Maggie, Glenn Vladimir and even some of the Autobots were looking at him rather skeptically. None of them said a word as they just stared. "Oh come on, guys! I swear, this is going to be fun!" Will told them.
Reno snorted with laughter before he rose his hand and started forward. "I'm up for it, Billy! Why don't we both ride first, show the kids that it's safe." He told the Soldier brightly as he rose a hand.
Will grinned as he moved forward and high fived Reno Banes. He was just glad someone was willing to try it. "Okay! Sounds good to me! Front or back?" He asked as he put one foot in the raft.
"I'll take front." Reno told him as he climbed into the raft and got down on his knees, clutching the safety handles on the raft.
The Major climbed in right behind him and did the same thing as he did. He waited till both of them were ready before he nodded and waved up to Ironhide. "All right, Ironhide! Let her rip!" He called up to him.
Of course, Ironhide hesitated, not moving for the first few seconds before he vented out a sigh from his engine before he began to drive forward over the snow. It was slow at first, pulling the two men in the raft slowly. But then after another shout from Will to go faster, he sped it up. Still, it wasn't really fast enough for them.
"Ironhide! Now I know you can go faster than that!" Will called to him, though he was grinning as he held on tight. "Or should I try get Hound to do it? He might just be faster and more willing than......!! WHOA!!" He yelped when the large GMC truck roared in anger before it kicked up snow back at the two men and drove faster through the snow. "Yeah!! That's better!!" Will laughed before having to dodge a chunk of snow that came flying at his head.
Either way, the big GMC topkick truck was now speeding all over the snow field that the Autobots and their human allies had come to. It was near the Lennox farm, where they decided to have some fun. The snow was still coming down and it was deep enough for them to play in now. Especially do what Will had suggested. And now watching as Reno and Will were laughing and having a blast as Ironhide was pulling them all over the large field on the south end of Will and Sarah's place, everyone was starting to smile and grow excited. Ironhide had started getting the idea of what he was suppose to do because he went faster and began going over a few bumps, making the raft jump a few feet in the air. It only earned him a pair of cheers from the two in the raft.
Finally after about five minutes of pulling them all over, Ironhide slowed to a stop after Will had called to him. He pulled up near the kids, who were now cheering and begging him to pull them next. Will and Reno grinned as they climbed out of the raft and high fived each other. Their mission was accomplished.
That was only the beginning.
Those not riding in the rubber raft had started doing other things. Mikaela and Elena had begun making snowmen, which caught the attention of some of the Autobots. And eventually some of the others began joining in with making their own.
"What are those?" Arcee asked, her optics wide with facintation as she looked at the snowmen with her sisters, Chromia and Moonracer. Even Elita One was leaning over the two teen girls with Anya sitting on her shoulder, leaning against her warm metal. They were all just eyeing the Snowmen with facination and curiousity that it reminded the girls of curious kittens.
Smiling, Mikaela continued to rolling another large ball of snow for another upper body for her snowman. "We're building snowmen. Snow sculptures, I guess you can say. You can make whatever you want and think of." She told her femme friends. "Try it! It's a lot of fun! You can make whatever you think of."
Glancing at one another, the three sisters, Elita One and Spitfire smiled before they nodded and got to work. Each one of them began rolling around snow into big balls and then stacked them on one another just like the girls had been down. Anya even had Elita let her down so that she could join the other two in doing her own snowman.
It was a blast filled day for the humans and the Autobots. They were having so much fun riding in the raft behind Ironhide, who was having a blast himself as he tried to think of many ways of letting the raft jump a few times or even kick up snow at the twins as they tried to make their own snowbot after watching the girls. So far, they were making one that looked like Ironhide, only with a big aft. They snickering about it too while some of the humans watched them, laughing their selves. Ironhide wasn't amused when he saw the twins' snowman.
And if they weren't doing that, they were sledding down a large hill on Will's property.
Everyone were riding down inner tubes, sleds, or even on the raft once Ironhide was worn out just a little by pulling everyone around. He was sitting off to the side, roaring with laughter as everyone was sliding down the hill before Trent accidently ran into Sides and Sunny's holoforms, nearly knocking them over. Everyone had to join in laughing at the sight. Even some of the Autobots tried sledding. They would use their holoforms and slid down the hill, enjoying their selves with their humans.
"Hey, Sam!" Trent called after Sam had gotten down riding down on a sheet of metal and landing at the bottom of the hill. And when Sam looked, he let it fly.
WHAP!!
The snowball hit Sam right in the chest, splattering all over him and even landing some in his face.
Everyone nearly stopped what they were doing to laugh or just stare. The humans and Spitfire were the ones laughing while the other Autobots froze, looking shocked. They couldn't believe that Trent had just 'shot' Sam! Ratchet was even starting to hurry over with Bumblebee to look at Sam, to see how bad the damage was. "Sam! Are you all right?! Are you......!" He was asking now letting a beam of red light flash over the boy.
But he stopped short when Sam snorted with laughter and brushed the snow off. He didn't look hurt at all. He actually looked like he had enjoyed getting shot by snow. "Oh, so that's how you want to play, huh, Trent?" He called to his school rival before he quickly ducked down and scooped up some snow.
Trent shot a laugh towards him as he quickly picked up two hand fulls of snow and started to ball it up. "Bring it on, Witwicky!! I can take you!!" He called before having to dodge Sam's snowball and launching his own.
Suddenly Bumblebee and Hot Rod were jumping into the path, letting the snow hit them and they had their hands up as if telling them to hold their fire. They, like, the other Autobots looked bewildered and uneasy as they looked between the two. It didn't take a genius to realize that they thought that Sam and Trent really were fighting. "Don't fight, guys! What happened?! Why are you fighting each other?!" Hot Rod asked, almost frantic.
This just made quite a few people laugh and shake their heads before they went to join everyone around Sam and Trent, who straightened and were laughing. "They're not fighting, guys. Well.....not really. They're just have a snowball fight." Elena told the Autobots, getting a look of confusion. She made a face as she reached up and scratched her head, sharing a glance with Mikaela and Anya. They didn't know how they were going to answer this one exactly.
Snorting with laughter, Epps just placed his fists onto his waist as he looked up at the many sizes of giant alien robots. "Snowball fights aren't bad, really. They're for fun. Look it up on the Web." He told them.
Hesitating, all of the Autobots but Spitfire did as they were asked. And all at once, many chunks of metal serving as eyebrows for the Autobots rose as they looked astonished. No one really did notice the two matching, evil grins spreading on Sideswipe's and Sunstreaker's faces as they let their optics flicker over to Ironhide and Ratchet.
"So....snowball fights are just something you do while playing in the snow?" Elita One asked, her head tilting to the side.
All of the humans nodded as they looked around at everyone. It was Reno who tensed when he saw the looks on the twins' faces. "Yeah! It's just something we can do in the snow. Say," Will said as he reached down and scooped up some snow, his eyes flickering over to Sarah as she helped Annabelle walk in the snow. "You can......"
"William J. Lennox," Sarah said, her voice very thick of warning as she eyed him dangerously. She would have been pointing a finger at him if she wasn't trying to keep Anna from falling over in the snow. "You throw that at me, you will be in trouble."
Quite a few people and even some Autobots had to laugh as they looked between the married couple. Will grinned innocently as he kept turning the snowball in his hand, trying to pack it nicely. "Who said I was going to throw it at you, Sarah? I might......just throw it at Ironhide!" He said loudly before he turned sharply around and launched the snowball right at the big, black, Autobot. He started laughing when the snowball smacked Ironhide right between the optics. "Oops. That was a penalty. We're not suppose to aim for the face."
Some of the Autobots and humans laughed a little, but it was kind of weak as they looked between Ironhide and Will with worry. Especially when Ironhide's optics flickered a little between ice blue and fire red, a deep infuriated growl rumbling from him. They became a little more worried when the Weapons Specialist's cannons snapped into place on his arms, even making Will's smile faulter.
"Ironhide," Optimus said almost warningly. "We don't harm humans."
It didn't stop Ironhide from growling threateningly at Will though, his entire body shaking from fury after being fire upon by a human and not being able to fire back. Will snorted before folding his arms. "No, it's okay, Optimus. He can." He told the Autobot Leader. "It won't hurt......"
SPLAT!!
SPLATT!!
Everyone froze with shock when two seperate boulders of snow slammed into Ironhide and Ratchet, nearly sending them staggering a little. And thankfully, away from the humans. Jaws fell in alarm before all eyes and optics turned sharply to see the snickering, trouble making twins already grabbing more snow and making huge balls.
At this time, Ironhide and Ratchet lost their tempers and let out roars of rage as they whirled around, letting snow fling off of them and hit some of the others and even some of the humans. They looked ready to tear the twins apart.
"SIDESWIPE!! SUNSTREAKER!!"
The twins only grinned as they began tossing the large snowballs up and down. "Heh, you heard them, Boss." The Silver and black blade wielding said, grinning evilly at Ironhide and Ratchet. "Snowball fights are suppose to be fun. And didn't you say that we should give this entire Christmas tradition thing a try. If the squishies are doing it, it must be apart of their traditions."
Optimus chuckled as he eyed his two Senior officers as they were glaring with almost fire red glares at the twins. He only his arms and gave a shrug. "Yes. I suppose I did. Very well. Autobots, as long as you are careful with the humans, you may join in with the snowball fight." He told them. But as soon as the words were out of the Autobot Leader's mouth, snowballs began to fly and the four Autobots to actually start it was the twins, Ironhide and Ratchet. The Senior Autobots had scooped up snow before launching it at Sideswipe and Sunstreaker as fast as they could, trying to extract their revenge on the two.
"Whoa!!!" Sideswipe exclaimed as he recieved two large snowballs to the chest, sending him staggering back.
"Watch the paint!!" Sunstreaker roared when he was clipped by a large snowball from Ratchet.
Ratchet ignored him as he began grabbing more snow and balling it up as fast as he could. There was a sound of a chuckle escaping and it didn't take a genius to realize that he was actually enjoying himself with this. Everyone figured it was because he could finally throw something at the twins without damaging them. "It's just snow, Sunny!! It's not going to hurt your paintjob, you slagger!!" The medicbot just laughed before hitting the sunny-yellow mech with a lot of snow balls.
The field turned into a warzone of snowball wars. There were snowballs flying everywhere as everyone attacked someone. But it eventually split up into two sides. Some of the Autobots were on one side with some of the humans while the others were on the other side of the field.
Optimus didn't join in but escorted Sarah and Annabelle off to the side so they didn't have to get hit by snowballs. Vladimir had decided to join them, not wanting to join in the snowball war. But Anya was with them, sided with Trent, Monique, Epps and the Autobots, the twins, Chromia and Moonracer; whom had joined them recently on earth just recently and was an amazing double blader just like Sideswipe, Red Alert, Hot Rod, and a few other Autobots that the humans didn't know very much but were still learning about.
As for the other side, Ironhide and Ratchet were pretty much leading that side. Bumblebee, Arcee, Mirage and Blaster, Hound, Spitfire and a few other Autobots were teamed up Will Lennox, Sam, Mikaela, Elena, and Reno as they took on the opposite team. Everyone was enjoying their selves as they finally let it all out.
"Not going to join in?" Elita One asked with amusement as she joined Optimus to standing off to the side.
Optimus looked at her, his head held high before he smiled and folded his arms behind his back, taking the stance of a soldier and looking back at the snowball war between his Autobots and human allies. He only shook his head as he started laughing when Mirage decided to up the stakes and stealthily move over to the opposite side to nail the twins. They had both screamed in a high pitched voice, much more like femmes when he reappeared right between them. Everyone especially laughed when they tried to throw snowballs at him and he ducked so that they would hit each other.
"Oh, man!! I'm sorry, Sunny!" Sideswipe yelped with alarm before he yelped when his brother tackled him into the snow and tried to, as the humans made it out, white wash the double blader. Everyone was laughing as they just continued their little war.
Again the Autobot Leader shook his head as he chuckled, watching the scene. "No. I think this war I will stay out of......." He was saying.
Splat!
A snowball slapped him in the shoulder, surprising him. He didn't stagger because it wasn't hard enough to make him lose his balance like Ironhide and Ratchet. But it sure surprised him when it came from right beside him. He turned his startled gaze onto a laughing Elita as she tried to hide her cold, wet hands behind her back and whistled innocently.
A sly smile curled onto Optimus' face before he reached up and carefully brushed the snow off of his shoulder before he bent down and scooped up snow. "Oh. That's how you want to play, hmm?" He asked, almost mischeivously.
"Don't.....(laugh)....you......dare." Elita said, trying to sound much like Sarah but failed, miserably.
Optimus ignored her as he threw the soft snowball at his sparkmate, hitting her in the shoulder. He laughed when she gasped as if she was surprised by it before she burst into a fit of cute giggles and began scooping up snow to throw right back at him. And then their little war of snowballs began.
Of course, it caught everyone's attention when a stray snowball nearly clipped Epps, making him cry out in surprise. He turned with his own snowball to throw it at who just threw it at him before noting that it wasn't anyone on his team. His dark eyes landed on Optimus and Elita as they threw snowballs at each other several yards away, both laughing as they tried to dodge behind trees to avoid being hit. A wide grin spread on the dark skinned American soldier's face before he had to duck his head to avoid another snowball launched from Will. "Hey!" He called out, looking around at everyone. "Hey, everyone! Hold up!"
And slowly, everyone did.
"Check that out." Epps told all of them before pointing in the direction of Optimus and Elita as they snowballed each other without even realizing that everyone had stopped what they were doing just to watch them. Several smiles spread out on everyone's faces.
All three Mikaela, Elena and Anya had to coo as they watched the large Autobot Leader try and tackle Elita in a playful way right into the snow. "Awww! That's so cute! He's playing with her in the snow!" The blonde and scarlett girl of the three giggled.
"Well.....that's kind of something new to see. We never get to see Optimus playing around." Sam said as he grinned at Trent, who shared the grin before looking back.
Then came the pair of evil and creepy laughs, making everyone tense and then look up at the twins as they rubbed their hands together. They looked like they were plotting something very evil. And whatever they were plotting, it made everyone cringe and step back away. Ironhide growled at them, raising his arms a little and letting his cannons slide out. "Don't even think about it, you pair of trouble making Sparkings of Glitches." He growled at them.
The twins only grinned slyly at him as they rose their metallic eyebrows at him and leaned against each other, looking fairly like a pair of sly salesmen. "Oh, we're thinking about it, Iron. And we've got a proposition for you and Ol' Ratch. Want to join us?" Sideswipe asked, almost slyly.
There was a long pause as everyone stared at the twins with alarm and unease. But if anything else made them more uneasy, it was the evil grins that slowly spread out on Ironhide and Ratchet's face. As well as the rest of the Autobots as they glanced at one another.
"Uh-oh." All of the teenagers said at the same time.
Reno, Will and Epps started laughing as they figured out what the Autobots were planning to do to their two Leaders, Autobot and Valkyrie. "Oh, man. Optimus Prime is gonna be pissed." The dark Soldier remarked, folding his arms across his chest.
"Yeah. But I think this is going to be worth watching." Will added.
"I'm going to record this. So hold up for a minute, guys." Reno remarked as he began digging into his large winter coat, looking for his cellphone.
Optimus and Elita were now wrestling in the snow, trying to whitewash one another and laughing together. They were certainly starting to enjoy the idea of letting the humans talk them into this. Because this was the most fun they had in a long time. Especially together. Optimus really couldn't remember a time when he and Elita had the chance to enjoy theirselves like this peaceful moment.
Finally deciding to call it quits, he sat up in the snow, looking down at Elita as she laid laughing in the field. He had to just shake his head as he looked down at his sparkmate with a gentle sigh from his vents.
Elita looked up at him, smiling right back before shrugging innocently and propping herself up a little on one elbow. "Okay. Okay, Mr. Optimus Prime. You win." She told him. "Want your reward?"
Chuckling, Optimus shook his head before starting to dip his head down towards hers to lean it against her own. He had to vent out a happy sigh as he looked into her optics. "I'm just happy that you're here, Elita. After what happened on Cybertron, I....."
"Don't worry about it anymore, Optimus." Elita told him as she reached up and touched his mouth with a finger, to shush him. "What was done, was done. Past is the past. This is now. As long as we're together, fighting along side with everyone and protecting what you stand for; the Freedom of Sentient beings, that's all that matters."
The Autobot Leader chuckled before nodding.
SPLATT!
The small snowball to his forehead jolted him out of his pleasant thoughts before he blinked to look up at it then around Elita to see everyone watching them. His systems heated up just a little, melting the snow on his forehead a little faster than it should before he cleared his vocal processor, sounding embarrassed. Elita even started laughing when she turned to see that everyone, Autobot and Human were lined up to the side, watching them with smiles on their faces.
"Having fun, Optimus?" Sam asked, for it had been him to throw the snowball in the first place.
Optimus cleared his vocal processor again and began to push himself to standing up, all the while helping Elita to stand. He looked almost everywhere but his Autobots and human friends. "I don't know....." He was starting to say, making a few laugh.
Splat!
The snowball had hit him in the chestplate this time.
Again, Optimus blinked his optics before looking at Mikaela as she grinned like an innocent minx, traces of snow on her gloves proving that she had been the one to throw it. And his optics flickered over to Will and Epps as they soon launched their snowballs at him.
Splat!
Splatt!
The snowballs hit the Autobot Leader in the chest, making him just stare blankly at them, clearly not amused. "What are you......?" He was saying.
"FIRE!!" Ironhide roared thrusting his metallic finger towards the Autobot Leader, startling him.
And then all of the Autobots and the rest of the humans let Optimus Prime and Elita One have it. Snowballs went sailing at the two, whose optics snapped wide open for a brief second before they yelped and tried to shield their selves from the wet and cold ammunition. Elita was the first one to laugh as she grabbed a hold of Optimus and tried to use him as a shield so he recieved most of the hits.
When the Autobots and humans ran out of their snowballs, they just smiled innocently at the Autobot Leader, who was quite snow covered with lumps of snow all over him. It wasn't a pleasant look for Ironhide though to try and smile innocently. He looked more the devil grinning.
Optimus narrowed his optics at his Autobots and the humans, making some of their smiles fade a little. That look meant that they were in trouble. And it didn't matter that Elita was laughing from behind Optimus as she leaned around him to look up into his face. She didn't look at all worried as she met his optics and shrugged. "Come on, Optimus." She coaxed him.
And then the Autobot Leader smirked, which was creepy. Especially when his optics snapped right to all of his men, making them all step back, with alarm. "It's war now!" He suddenly burst out before quickly bending down and scooping up several pounds of snow into his hands and then opening up his arm cannons. It didn't take more than ten seconds for him to load the snow into his cannons before starting to shoot them at everyone. Snowballs when flying everywhere, making everyone laugh as they scattered. It didn't help the Autobots, Valkyries and the humans when Elita One joined them, loading snow into her cannons and bounding after the Arcee triplets and Spitfire. The femmes squealed with laughter as they ran away from their Leader, while the Autobots yelped when Optimus began pegging them with several snowballs at once, shooting every single one of them. He even shot some at the humans, making them laugh as they got hit from behind as they scattered.
High above the clouds, swooping overhead, a Decepticon Seeker nearly fell out of the sky in alarm when he caught sight of what was going on down below. Skywarp couldn't believe his optics when he actually saw Optimus Prime shooting his fellow Autobots and human allies.
'What the......Pit?! Has the Prime finally lost his processor?! He's offlining all of his allies!!' Skywarp asked himself before a wide grin spread out on his wicked face before he did a loop and shot off through the clouds, speeding back the way he came. 'I must tell Master Starscream and Lord Megatron!!'
"Optimus!" Mirage finally called after he dropped his Camo shield with Blaster hiding behind his head, trying not to get hit by snowballs. "Optimus Prime, sir!"
Optimus paused from shooting the cornered twins, after knowing that it had been their idea in the first place to gang up on him and Elita. He turned slightly to look at his Stealth Officer, raising an amused eyebrow at him. "Mirage, don't be so formal. Today we're off duty. So you don't need to call address as Prime." He told him, with amusement.
Mirage nodded as he approached. "Yes, I know. But Blaster just picked up a Decepticon signature." His words made everyone stop immediately what they were doing to look at him with alarm. "It was Skywarp flying over head. He probably saw us but he hasn't decided to engage with us. He's leaving as we speak, probably going back to report to Megatron and Starscream."
Several people and Autobots let out sighs of disappointment and shook their heads. Even the twins were starting to pout a little. "Well, there goes our day off." Sideswipe whinned, his shoulders slouched a little.
"Ah, we should probably end it anyway." Will said as he looked over at Sarah and Annabelle, who was starting to sniffle. "It's starting to get cold anyway and it's going to start snowing again shortly. We're running out of ammunition anyhow." He paused to looked around the field, noting how there was short of snow on the field from everyone throwing it all.
So with a nod, Optimus opened up all of his cannon barrels and dumped out all of the snow from within them before giving his arms a light shake to be rid of all of the water and ice clinging inside. "Yes. You're probably right, Will." He smiled as he looked around at all of the humans. "Thank you for letting us enjoy this day with you, my friends. I must say, the first Christmas activity was quite the success." He told them.
Sam, Mikaela, and the rest of the humans just nodded with smiles. They were just glad that Autobots had had this chance of enjoying their selves in the snow. "No prob, Optimus. If you thought this was fun, wait till you see what we're going to do next." Reno told them and everyone nodded in agreement.
