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Chapter 12: Christmas-Part 1

Christmas time have come in a big way as it proved its presence by turning Jasper, Nevada, into a winter wonderland as it snowed for the first time ever as everyone in the town was selling either fresh hot chocolate or roasted chestnuts. The town was busy with people who were shopping for gifts and buying the most expensive things that the stores have to offer, while the kids were enjoying their whole month worth of snow as the school had officially became closed since the first day of December as there was more snow heading their way and the school officials decided it was best to have winter break go on for a month.

Far away from the town enjoying her very first snow, Miko was on the ground doing snow angels, laughing as her new aunt was enjoying the planet's odd weather by making a nice-size snowman that was her height while the other Autobots were inside making their base look very Christmasy.

"Does it snow on Cybertron, Aunt Windblade?" Miko asked, getting off the ground to see her snow angel. It came out better than she had expected.

"No, not really, little one. We get oil rain and wind, and that's pretty much it," Windblade told her before putting the carrot on her snowman's face for its nose.

"It rains oil on Cybertron?" asked the young Japanese girl in surprise.

"Well yes, sweetie. Where else did we get oil to drink and take a nice hot oil bath?" Windblade told her as she loved the oil spas back on Cybertron.

"Never thought of it that way," Miko admitted, making her aunt chuckle. "Do you miss it?"

"A little," the femme admitted. "But someday we'll get to return and no doubt your mother will bring you with her too."

The young girl perked up at that. "Getting to live on Cybertron?" She asked. "Would that be possible?"

"Maybe," Windblade said with a smile.

In the base, on the computer buying gifts for her little sparkling, Arcee had gone on a shopping spree online since everything she was selecting would be free as Agent Fowler was getting it for her and she didn't have to spend a dime. She was grateful for his help as she wanted this to be the best first real Christmas for her daughter.

Currently, she was now looking at the many different electric guitars online and wanted to pick the best one for Miko, due to finding out that her foster parents had took her other guitar from her and smashed it into pieces in front of her.

Miko told her that when Arcee wanted to hear some tunes from her daughter, but the young girl was somewhat scared to tell her, feeling that Arcee might get mad when telling her, but she had sweet-talked the child into telling her and found out. Arcee really wished that she could meet those foster parents so she can get them for harming her daughter, but luckily for them they're locked up and Arcee couldn't blast them to Kingdom Come. Plus, the young girl had cried upon telling Arcee about her old guitar and the femme was determined to help put those bad memories far away and make better ones for her daughter. She would make sure her daughter only had good memories from now on.

"Miko would love this guitar," she told herself as she selected it and sent the list to Agent Fowler online before logging off, her Christmas shopping officially done. Jack had met her earlier and had told Arcee about some gifts he was thinking about getting Miko and the femme had been pleased with what her human partner had chosen and he seemed relieved that she approved.

Now hearing the groundbridge going off, she turned around and see Optimus in his truck form hauling a nice big tree on a flatbed as Bulkhead took it off to let the leader transform back into bot mode. "Miko is going to love this Christmas tree," the large green Wrecker said, taking it to the empty space to set it down.

"Indeed she will, Bulk," Arcee answered in a smile, letting them decorate the tree while heading to her room to make holiday cookies.

Miko and Windblade went back inside as they had enough fun time and the two loved the nice decorations. "You boys did a great job with the base. I guess you Wreckers can do other things besides smashing heads," Windblade said, chuckling on the last part.

"Oh, haha, very funny, Windblade," Wheeljack said, chuckling before putting the lights up, knowing the female Wrecker was only teasing. The lights came on perfectly and he grinned with a nod.

"You know, I can't wait for this holiday. This is just like our holiday on Cybertron," Smokescreen said, helping Miko put the star on the tree. She stood in his hand as he held her up towards the top of the tree and she held onto one of his fingers while putting the star right where it needed to go.

"Really?" She asked in surprise, curious about what holiday he was referring to.

"Really, sweetie," Arcee said, coming in with a smile while carrying a big tray of hot chocolate and cookies for her daughter and big cups of hot oil for everyone else. "On our planet, we have our own version of Santa Claus. Santa Prime," she told her before grabbing her cup.

"Santa Prime?" The young girl asked curiously.

"Santa Prime is one of the Primes back on Cybertron who deliver gifts to every bot. Both Autobots and Deceptions," Optimus said, explaining more to the girl, who was in awe at that.

After the decorations were completely up and everyone was getting things done for the day, Miko was making her own gifts for everyone, especially for her mother as she deserved it more than anything else as she was her everything. Her mom, her tutor, all of that. She was so happy that this year, she'd have a real family for Christmas.

Jack, on the other hand, was shopping for everyone as well and now was shopping for his girlfriend as he wanted it to be very special, since she told him that this was her very first Christmas.

It made Jack furious to have heard that Miko had never had a proper Christmas before and promised himself that he was going to make sure that his girlfriend would have the best Christmas ever. He also promised that he would always protect her from bullies and Cons, not caring if it involved him getting hurt in the process.

"Okay, young man, do you want this necklace?" The store man asked, curious as the young man seemed lost in thought.

Having almost forgot about where he was, Jack nodded and paid for the expensive jewelry. He had also bought another gift and after completing his purchases and thanking the clerk, Jack headed out of the store to head home. Bumblebee was parked outside waiting for him outside the mall to take him home. "Miko is going to love my gifts, especially the second one," Jack said to himself with a smile when getting inside Bumblebee.

Back at the base on the computer doing some update status of the other Autobots arrival, Windblade was currently talking to Optimus Prime's lieutenant on the time of their arrival since Ultra Magnus was busy driving the ship. "We should be there around two hours before the daytime becomes nighttime," Jazz informed her on the screen.

Smiling widely to her lieutenant as she couldn't wait for them to get there as Jazz had the best top soldiers on the ship including himself. "Okay Jazz, we'll wait until you guys get here. Oh yeah, and I'm sending you our location," she told him. While she was doing so, she heard a push and heard another voice on the screen.

"Hey Windblade, tell me something. Did you crash my ship when entering Earth?" Asked Ironhide.

"W...W...Well um, yes, I sorta did crash your ship, but Wheeljack is getting it fixed," Windblade informed him with a nervous chuckle.

"Haha! I believe that was your first ship crash, right?. Since you've been known to be the best pilot on the Wreckers," Ironhide said, laughing until Jazz butted in.

"Alright big boy, you had your fun teasing her. Anyways, Windblade, you go inform Optimus that we're coming as we speak." Jazz said before turning off contact to the base.

When done talking to Jazz, Windblade heard footsteps behind her and turned to see Optimus coming towards her. "I could have sworn that I heard Jazz and Ironhide on the screen. Are they on their way?" He asked as he had great history with both Jazz and Ironhide back on Cybertron.

"Yes sir, they will be arriving here at our base in two hours. And don't worry, they cloaked their spark signatures so those stupid Cons won't find them or our base," Windblade told him as Optimus smiled in return and headed back to his room to do Prime stuff.

Upon hearing new arrivals were coming, Miko was super excited to see more Autobots while bouncing up and down on the bed and singing Jingle Bell Rock, while Arcee couldn't help but record her happiness as she knew that her sparkling couldn't wait to meet new members of the family. "Can't wait to see Jazz and the others, huh pumpkin?" She asked before pouring another cup of oil for herself and some tea for Miko.

"Uh-huh! I'm super excited, Mom!. Now I can get to hear more war stories and have my very first Christmas!" Miko said with joyfulness in her voice.

Arcee continued smiling with joy and remembered that Agent Fowler was going to send her the gifts that night, giving her enough time since Miko would be sound asleep by then, which would make things easy for her since she didn't want Miko peeking at the gifts under the tree until Christmas Day. "Hey Arcee, they're here!" Smokescreen said as he popped his head into the femme's room before running out to see the new arrivals.

"Oh sweet, they're here! Come on, Mom!" Miko said happily as she got off the bed and ran out to join the others.

"Miko, come back and put your coat on!" Arcee yelled while picking up her daughter's furry outside coat and running out to put it on her daughter, not wanting her to catch a cold or flu. Thankfully, Miko had paused long enough to let her mother put the coat on her before running outside with Arcee behind her, ready to greet the new arrivals.

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