Rudolph the Red-Nosed Datsun
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Prompt: #11: Principle
Genre: Humor
Rating: G It's not what you do, it's how you do it...
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Ah, Christmas. Everyone in the ark were excitedly making arrangements to celebrate the human holiday. And Prowl had more important things to do, he decided, as he walked into the Ark's main control room.
Prowl walked past Teletraan-1, paused, took two steps backward, and stared at his reflection. Then resisted the urge to facepalm. Of all the...
He could understand a little holiday cheer, but honestly!
Gluing a pair of giant (to a human) reindeer horns atop his helmet, and holly (or was it mistletoes?) in the center of his chevron was just...
wrong.
And what was *that*? he reached up and touched the red orb affixed to his nose. He sighed and shook his head, bells decorating the reindeer antlers jingling merrily, as though laughing at him. He grumbled and walked away, towards the repairbay to see if Ratchet had any more adhesive solvent.
As soon as he had dissapeared, fresh peals of laughter sounded from the hallway. "Yes!" Jade threw up both hands triumphantly.
"Did you *see* the look on his face!?" Sideswipe guffawed from beside her.
"Yes, I did! and that was *sooo* perfect!" Jade squealed with laughter.
"Yeah, and I got the pictures, thanks to the security camera over Teletraan!" Cable laughed, enjoying the moment with the rest of them. "Bwahahaha!" All three chorused laughter. "And I'll betchya Jazz got kick out of the mistletoe, too." Cable grinned.
Jade and Sideswipe exchanged impish grins. "We're good." they high-fived. Jade grinned at the closed repairbay door.
"Yaknow, it's all in the principle. It's not what you do, it's ho you do it. "
"and what you do it for." Cable reminded. The three shared a look. "Yeah, right! hahahah!"
Sideswipe chuckled "Principles be damned, we're having a good time this holiday season!" the trio walked out snickering and broke into choruses of:
"Rudolph the red-nosed Datsun. Oh what a stooge he be,"
"Prow-wl the reindeer datsun, he's 'a never catchin me."
"Whee!" Jade finished.
More laughter echoed down the hall after them as they dissapeared back into the depths of the Ark...