CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Pre-Holiday Battle Plans
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Meg: I wish it were Christmas today. *Stares longingly at decoration*
Bumblebee: Presents!
Emma: He reminds me of Tobi…
Arcee: I'll decorate the tree!
Elita1: We should clean the base… *Looks at the guys*
*Guys cringe*
Bianca: Who's going to buy what?
Sunstreaker: Ooh, I'll get the mistletoe! *Looks at Andy*
Andy: …
Meg: ;o.o
***
A couple of months passed, and we didn't hear from the Decepticons at all. We also didn't hear from the media, which was surprising.
We also didn't have time to think about that.
It was the holiday season!
"Let's celebrate all the December holidays!" Zikya, who had been spending so much time at our house or at the base that it was like having a sister, exclaimed, on December 1st.
"Yeah! Not just Christmas," My eyes lit up. Leveret, who was sitting in my lap, glanced up at me. "But Hanukah…"
"Kwanza," Zikya added, making a list.
"Tet." I supplied, even though I had no idea what Tet was.
"And Ramadan." Zikya finished. "We'd better get busy…"
*
We gave up, though, and decided to just stick with Christmas.
The Autobots, once they found out what Christmas was, thought it was a fine idea, and we even agreed on a night to carolling.
Bia and I practiced our carols on the way to the shops one afternoon.
"Siiiiilent night…"
"What exactly is a silent night, anyway?" Asked Bee, who was travelling alongside us on the freeway.
I shrugged, even though I knew he couldn't see it. "Who knows? And where did you come from, anyway?"
"Hey, remember, I'm supposed to be your guardian…Em-Em."
"Shut up, Bee-Bee." Bianca and I said at exactly the same time.
He just laughed. The holiday spirit must have been getting to him.
"Hey, did you hear about what the twins did to Ratchet?" Bee asked us.
"No, what?" Bia and I said in unison (again).
When Bee told us, I started laughing. "What…what did Ratchet do to them?" I asked when Bee was finished.
I could swear Bee wanted to grin. "Nothing." He replied.
"Nothing?" Bianca and I repeated. We've really got to stop doing that.
The holiday spirit must have been getting to Ratchet, too.
*
Blitzwing's P.O.V:
Megatron was angry about something, but he wouldn't say what. He had been like this since Barricade got beaten at the beach recently, and everyone just did their best to stay away from him. Not only that, but we'd discovered that Starscream was still alive – somehow.
I felt like ripping out that traitor's spark myself!!
Megatron suddenly called us all to order, on the day before something the humans call Christmas.
"In one earth week's time," Megatron was saying. "We will make our presence known to all fleshlings on earth. We will take the most drastic of measures to get what we want."
When he told us his plan, I couldn't help but grin.
Not only was it a totally flawless plan, considering how wimpy those fleshlings could be, but it was going to be fun…
*
Carolling turned out to be fun – more fun then you could imagine, since Bee, Bia, Zikya and I were the only ones who had even bothered to learn our lyrics.
Pretty soon, everyone started making stuff up. And it got worse and worse. I won't tell you what stuff was sung but, by the time we'd reached the last house, Ratchet's holiday spirit had vanished, and soon the twins were running for their lives.
The rest of us just stood on the footpath and watched them.
"YOU SLAGGIN' TWINS!!!! I'LL RIP YOUR SPARKS OUT AND FEED THEM TO THE CROWS!!!!"
"Don't blame us, Hatchet!!"
CLANG!! A spanner flew through the air, narrowly missing Sunny's head and hitting a lamp post instead.
Sunny spotted Andy then, and called: "Andy, help me!!"
We all looked at her. She just shook her head. A small smile was playing at her lips.
Sunny stopped and looked devastated.
Ratchet took that opportunity to tackle Sunny to the ground.
Bia, Bee, Zikya and I exchanged a four-way glance, and grinned. This was going to be the best Christmas ever.
*
I woke up the next morning, but for a moment I thought I was still asleep.
"Em? Em?"
I struggled to open my eyes. "Wh-what? Bee? Bee, izzat you?"
"Wake up Princess."
"What time is it?"
"Seven o'clock."
"SEVEN O'CLOCK!!!!????" I screamed, sitting bolt upright and scaring the hell out of Bee. "YOU'VE WOKEN ME UP AT SEVEN O'FREAKING CLOCK!!!!????" Then I called down and said: "Merry Christmas, Bee."
He just stared at me.
*
Bee ended up spending Christmas morning with us, and so did Bia and Zikya, who had come over early as well. Nenona and Jerome must've seen this coming, because they'd gotten presents for Zikya, and even a couple of thing for the others.
"I'll be sure they get these." Bia promised, holding the bag with everyone else's gifts in them. Then, she looked at me and Bee, sitting together on the couch and watching Zikya open another present. Bia didn't say anything but, when I glance dup at her, she looked away quickly.
I wondered what was bothering her.
It didn't matter, because just then, Leveret came into the room carrying a mouse he'd caught in his mouth, and we all jumped up.
The poor mouse was still alive, so we had to get it out of Leveret's mouth and set it free again…only for it to be picked up by the resident kite bird and be carried off.
"It's the ciiiircle of liiiiife…" Zikya sang, and we all started laughing.
Even Bia.
*
Later on that day, something very interesting – and wonderful – happened.
We were all four of us at the base, hanging out with the other Autobots (Zikya and I fully considered ourselves to be Autobots by this stage, and Andy seemed to as well).
Wheeljack was standing at one end of the room, and Zikya got up off the couch and walked over to him for some reason. She stopped when she was next to him, and then looked up.
Her eyes just about bugged out of her head, and so did mine. Sitting next to me on the couch (we were playing a killer game of Need For Speed) Bee's jaw hit the ground.
"Umm, isn't that mistletoe?" Zikya asked quietly.
Wheeljack looked up, at the plant thing hanging from the ceiling. "Uh…is it?" He asked, and transformed into his holoform, looking at Zikya intently.
"See, why couldn't that have been me and Andy?" Sunny asked Sides' quietly, but Andy heard him.
"Would I have had to have kissed you?" She asked.
"Uh, yeah," Sunny smirked.
"Why?"
"Cause' it's, like, the law."
Andy just laughed. It was a pleasant, ringing sound, one that made me very happy.
Almost as happy as the sight of Zikya and Wheeljack kissing. That was a wonderful thing too.
"Merry Christmas…everybody…" I whispered, smiling.
***
Meg: I heard there's gonna be a third Transformer's movie, and maybe even a fourth! I hope Skids and Mudflap are in it! *Hugs them to death*
Sideswipe: Hey! I thought you liked us best!
Meg: I didn't say that.
Sunstreaker: But were you thinking it?
Meg: No.
Ratchet: *Looks happy* Oh, and I still haven't forgotten the little make-over you two gave me…
Sideswipe & Suntreaker: *Exchange a glance*
Sunstreaker: Running…
Sideswipe: Now!
*Both run*
Meg: Okay, umm, Happy Christmas In July, folks! *Duck flying spanner*