It's a Winter Wonderland

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Surveying the pristine glittering white expanse, Sunstreaker had to admit it was pretty. Snow was not his favorite thing, too cold and wet. But it did give the world a new and beautiful look. The mountain slope outside the Ark was covered in several feet of the fluffy precipitation.

A snowball smacked him in the back of his helm.

"Sideswipe!"

Laughter, as Sideswipe hooted at his twin and threateningly waved another fistful of snow. Sunstreaker's face took on a dramatic and mock psychotic look with wide optics. Then he scooped up some slush and hurled it at his brother with a huge grin. "Attack!"

Yelling gleefully, the pair slung snowballs back and forth, thoroughly covering each other in powder. Sideswipe dodged one and then squeaked as his golden brother tackled him to the ground. They wrestled, the red one shoving snow in the other's face. He got his legs kicked out from under him when he tried to stand. Sunny pinned his brother on his back and grinned triumphant for only a moment before Sideswipe rolled and thumped his twin head-first into the ground.

Perched upon Sunstreaker who was face down in the snow, Sideswipe loudly proclaimed, "I proclaim this land for-"

He yelped as Sunstreaker bucked him off and pounced, turning the game back to seeing who could shove more snow under the other person's plating. Several yards away and leaning back against a soft snowbank, Jazz chuckled, holding up a camera to tape the brothers. He couldn't wait to add the holiday footage to their home movies.

A high pitched scream of delight had all three pausing to glance farther up the slope. Zipping around the sparse pines, a streak of yellow headed their way. Jazz raised his voice so the wind wouldn't carry it away.

"Docbot is gonna kill ya Bee!" The huge smile on his face belied the fact that he wasn't too worried about his own warning.

Laughing hysterically, Bumblebee paid Jazz no mind. Hanging onto a thin round of metal for dear life, he pressed the make-shift sled down to speed up and hit a jump. The small mech flew into the air, flipping, before landing in a spectacular explosion of white dust and kept going farther down the mountains.

They had the best sledding hill ever. The Twins stared with their mouths open. By the expression on Sideswipe's face, he was already planning to do as many crazy sledding stunts as he could before he had to be dragged to the medbay.

The plan was waylaid though, as the snowball fight that had started down the slope steadily moved toward them. Mirage lunged out of the trees, weaving erratically as Beachcomber chased after. Hound tagged the blue geologist on the back to try and save Mirage but all three of them froze when they saw Skyfire coming through the trees. Laughing and yelling warnings, they tried to dodge the giant pile of snow heading their way and failed.

As long as it was above twenty degrees, Skyfire had no trouble going out in the cold. And while he took a number of hits from snowballs due to his size, he had the advantage of being able to throw a lot more.

Easily deciding who was winning, the Twins joined the shuttle's team and started to pound the others with projectiles. Howls of the unfairness of it echoed up and down the slope followed by shrieks as cold met faces and got under armor. Jazz was quite content to film it all until a ball was lobbed his way. It smacked right between his horns and he lurched in surprise, sinking deeper into the embankment.

"Okay! Who did that?"

The guilty party refused to show themselves. Sniggers and catcalls about the spec-ops losing his touch answered instead. Stowing the camera, Jazz stood and made a show of bracing himself.

"You slaggers are all in for it now." He laughed, lunging into the snowball fight.