Authors Notes: Yay another year goes by and I still love Transformers. Except this year I'm kinda preggers so I wanted to do something kinda cute with siblings. So here ya go. Have a safe holidays and I love you all :D
O' Christmas Tree
Chapter 4
Together for the Holidays
It was all he saw when he drove down the sloshy wet streets today. People with friends, with family, even some presenting rings to female humans who would all act surprised even though some of his neural readings showed that they weren't.
Some people walking through parks, down the streets, window shopping, kids talking to some…random stranger wearing a red suit with a white beard. Yup it was official…he hated this holiday.
But it wasn't the humans fault, it wasn't the color, or lights, or even the fresh smell of pine in the air. No, it was the fact that he couldn't join in on the holiday. Oh how he missed his brother and the way they were when they were young. He wished it would go back to those days again where his brother would just draw, or they would dance with some pretty femme. He knew those days would never come again.
The mech transformed and walked over the look out. The snow slowly falling around him and the sky was twilighting over his silver form making him look multicolored pastel.
He almost missed the sound of hydraulics when they came to his audios. He couldn't even see the bot on radar. It was probably his scout training that made him do that. Sometimes Bumblebee would accidentally forget to turn off his scramblers.
His long time friend sat down and looked at the sky. "Pretty?" He asked his vocals still hurt him greatly but he tried to keep it simple.
"I've seen better." Sideswipe said to the yellow bot.
"Yeah your brother made the best art I ever seen." Bumblebee slowly turned to Sideswipe. "hey why don't you come back to the base and party with us huh? Have enough fun for the both of you. Your brother would have like that." Bee said. For some reason it made Sideswipes spark flutter at the thought of a party. It was that sort of feeling that made him transform and follow Bumblebee back to the base.
The base was decorated by human holiday sparkling lights that nearly blinded the bots when they drove up. "Hey there boys. What do you think?" Mr. Witwicky said from the top of the base with have a squad of NEST Ops helping him put yet more lights onto the roof.
"Wow Mr. Witwicky…theres so many." Bumblebee said shielding his optics.
"Yeah well it was an accident. I ordered by bulk instead of by pack for the orphanage tree this year so I figured what the hell. The shop was paying for it anyways." Ron said and waved the young bots into the base.
"Hey look it's the young bots back from the big city."
'Oh slag…Ironhide is drunk…' Bumblebee comlinked to me before being pulled over to the large metal thing used as a couch. I didn't understand the use of a couch. It was something humans used. Our chairs didn't really have backs to them until Wheeljack showed up and made some…comfortable seating. Even one he called…a recliner. Many of times I have fallin asleep in the recliners in front of the monitors. So much so that Optimus banned the chair from being in there.
Sideswipe found a cube of energon in his hand from Jolt who was mixing up one of his 'you'll never remember this anyways' brew. He drank deeply from the cube before setting it back down and looked around the room. All the bots in here he's either known through his creator or he met while in the service. He had been down a fox hole or two with nothing but one hand grenade and a thought to Primus to keep them sane.
"Thinking of home?" the soft baritone voice asked and sat down next to him.
"Yeah." His voice was more scratched then normal. Transformers don't cry, but they do feel emotional pains, and this was one that Sideswipe wished no one would ever have to see.
"Me too." Optimus said which surprised Sideswipe greatly. He didn't know Optimus had a family he would miss. Oddly enough Sideswipe just thought Optimus was a god or something from the way he fights and came back to life when Sam saved him.
"You…have family?" He asked his leader.
"Oh yes, my spark mate is the femme commander."
'of course…mate one of the higher ups as if anyone else was good enough.' Sideswipe thought
"We knew each other long before we were commanders. We worked in an energon factory together."
'Oh sweet Primus…Optimus worked as an energon farmer?' Sideswipe scoffed at that thought. The all to common human picture of Optimus laying on a bale of hay wearing a straw hat and noming on a piece of wheat filled his processor. It caused him to laugh out loud which caused Optimus to smile at the young mech.
"Is that funny?"
"Sir…don't get me wrong, its just the image of you being a human farmer that I'm thinking off…not that you have a mate." He said and nearly fell off the couch.
Optimus blinked and chuckled at that little joke and sighed. "But…Starscream killed her." The laughter died down immediately. He looked up at his commander who closed his optics at the thought. "All I have now is the memories that we shared together…and the thought that I still have family here. A family that I am thankful to have." He said patting Sideswipes shoulder.
"Whose your family here Optimus." The notion of Optimus having children among there ranks was kind of confusing to Sideswipe.
"All of my comrads are my family now." Optimus said leaning over and started to point to bots. "Ratchets the grumpy grandpa, Ironhides the drunkin Uncle, Jolt is the Uncle still in college, Arcee is the little sister, you and Bee are the brothers." Optimus said and leaned back again taking a drink of his energon.
"Okay who told you that slag?" Ironhide said stepping up behind the couch.
"Actually Sam said it, but it sounded good to me." Optimus said and laughed at the thought.
"Then…what are you?" Sideswipe said sort of bashfully.
"The proud father." Optimus said and shoved the old mech away from his drink because Jolt had cut him off.
Sideswipe looked around at his 'family' and sighed. "No matter the troubles, no matter how bad you are…"
"No matter how many pranks you pull on us." Ironhide threw in.
"We'll be here to back you up. Just like a real family." Optimus said and put his arm around Sideswipe proudly and then let go as quick as it started.
"Optimus…your so full of slag you know that. Your drunk aren't you." That voice…that beautiful voice I hadn't heard, thought I'd never hear again. I turned to look by the door where four bots stood. One of which…I thought I'd never see again. I slowly stood up and walked forward and put my hands ahead of me like I'd fall if I got to close. I reached up and trailed my fingers over his face plate.
"Sunny?" I felt my spark and his connect once again. It was my brother, the one I thought died back on Cybertron.
"Sup?" Earth slang already.
"Oh sweet Primus this is the best Christmas ever!" Sideswipe pretty much pounced his brother to the hard ground.
"What the slag is Christmas?"
