Chapter 13: Christmas-Part 2

Outside on the base's landing pad, watching the slightly big spaceship land down and park beside Windblade's ship, Miko was the most eager one when seeing the spaceship door open down and started seeing Autobots coming out from the ship one by one in a orderly fashion. "Well Optimus, we're here and ready to roll out, homie," said a cool, laid back Autobot wearing black shades and had a thug-like voice.

Optimus smiled to see his best friend and first lieutenant there and still had the mind set of a true warrior. "Welcome to Earth and your new home, Jazz," he told him right before Ratchet made his way through and greeted both Jazz and Ironhide as the old medic was the most happiest as seeing his good friends again.

"Ironhide!" Ratchet said, giving the big bot a strong hug.

"Haha! How are you, old rust bucket!" Said Ironhide with a laugh while giving Ratchet a good squeeze hug.

"I must died and joined the Allspark because now I'm finally meeting a war veteran and a legendary Wrecker," Smokescreen said in awe as he too heard about the legendary Ironhide and admired him.

"Oh yeah, rookie. Now you're going to be playing with big bots from now on since both Ironhide and Hound are now here," said Wheeljack before his smile changed from happy to disappointment as he once again saw Ultra Magnus.

Miko looked up at Wheeljack, knowing that he and the Wrecker Commander had quite a history from what her Aunt Windblade had told her. She told the young sparkling when Optimus made Ultra Magnus his key lieutenant and full commander of the Wreckers and the Autobot army, he was known to keep his military attitude on stand by. Over the years of battle on Cybertron, Wheeljack couldn't take it with Ultra Magnus' orders or how his ran things to the point he walked out of the Wreckers and went solo. That is, until it didn't last long from what her Aunt had told her, as Windblade personally made sure that he stayed with the Wreckers by forcing him into submission in which Wheeljack knew good and well that Windblade didn't like team break-ups or stress on losing friends either.

"Ultra Magnus? It's an honor to see you again," said Bulkhead before giving his Commander a salute.

"It's an honor to see you again too, soldier," said Ultra Magnus, crossing his arms in a relaxed stance.

Suddenly another Autobot by the name of Hot Rod slapped the Commander on his shoulder. "Come on, Ultra Magnus. This isn't Cybertron, this is Planet Earth. So take a oil break, will ya?" He said firmly.

With that being said from Bumblebee's brother-in-arms and friend, Ultra Magnus just rolled his eyes as he already had that talk from Jazz before they even entered Earth's atmosphere.

"By the way, Optimus," Hound paused on what he was about to say as he took out his metal cigar from his cigar box and went to lighting it, taking a few puffs. "Whose does this cute little sparkling belong to?" He asked, eyeing Miko with curiosity.

Arcee smiled proudly as she bent down and pulled Miko close to her. "This adorable sparkling belongs to me, Hound. Her name is Miko," she said happily.

"It's nice to meet you, Hound," Miko said politely.

"Please, call me Uncle Hound, little one," he responded back with a chuckle as Miko thought he sounded like good old Saint Nick, which made her like her new uncle right away.

"Ah, yes. Earth is like a beautiful Energon cube like the river of the pond," said a samurai Autobot by the name of Drift, who was also Windblade's current martial arts teacher.

Crosshairs, who was the smooth talker amongst them, was confused on what his fellow friend was saying as it didn't make any sense. "Drift, what in the name of the Allspark are saying?" He demanded to know.

Drift rolled his eyes as he should have known that Crosshairs wasn't taught under the form of Cybertron Martial Arts. "It's a samurai thing that you don't know about since you haven't been taught in the arts," said Prowl who was the calm one amongst them as he too was taught in the arts of being a NinjaBot. Hound just walked away from them as he couldn't take another weird saying from neither Drift or Prowl.

"Okay, I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to go inside and have a nice cup of hot oil. Because this planet is ice cold," Jazz said, feeling the cold get to him.

"Indeed. Let's all head back inside where it's warm," Optimus announced as everyone headed in behind right before Ultra Magnus shut and locked the spaceship and before Hot Rod and Crosshairs went to unload some Energon and weapons that they had with them throughout their travels. While settling down into their new home and getting to know and immediately loving Miko as one of their own, Ratchet went to activating the groundbridge to let Jack, Raf, and June come in after they had gotten word that more Autobots had arrived to Earth and the three wanted to meet the new Autobots as Agent Fowler was on his way with the gifts that Arcee had ordered. "June, Jack, and Raf. This is my weapons specialist, Ironhide," Optimus said as Ironhide took out his cannons and pointed at the three.

"You humans feeling lucky?" He asked them, scaring June a little bit as she thought she was going to get blasted.

"Easy, Ironhide," Optimus warned, though he already knew that Ironhide was just playing around as he always does when meeting new people.

"Haha, you know I'm just playing, Optimus. Besides, I just wanted to show the two sparklings my cannons, that's all," Ironhide said, putting his weapons back.

"Oh, well, it's nice to see them, Ironhide." June answered back, letting out a sigh of relief, despite hearing a laugh from Arcee and Miko.

Optimus smiled and resumed introducing the others. "This is my first lieutenant, Jazz," he told them as Jazz stepped up to introduce himself.

"Yo, what's up, my little Earth homies? How's it hanging?" He said, giving them a friendly fist pump.

"Oh, it's cool. Nice to meet you, Jazz," Raf said, giving him a smile as he had never heard of an Autobot having a gangster voice.

"Yeah, and it's so nice to see another Autobot that's cool and laid back," Jack said, meaning it at heart.

"And over here, this my key lieutenant and Commander of the Wreckers, Ultra Magnus," said Optimus, seeing that Ultra Magnus was trying to adjust to the new planet and try to loosen up with the military attitude when talking to Jack and Raf. It was a bit difficult, but at least he was trying.

When getting the introductions done, Windblade showed Jazz and the others to their rooms and told them how Earth worked and that they were going to have to download a vehicle form when going outside in public.

Luckily for them, Agent Fowler had already gotten that taken care of as he arrived during the night with a truck load of different cars and a huge crate of wrapped gifts. Arcee began to take the gifts and put them under the big Christmas tree as Miko was trying to see what her mom have brought her, but Arcee made sure that her daughter wasn't near any of the gifts throughout the night and told her to go sit down and listen to Uncle Jazz's story about the war on Cybertron and tell them how he became Optimus Prime's first lieutenant.

Though eager to see what her mother had gotten her, the young girl was equally excited about hearing another war story. She loved hearing how the Autobots kicked Decepticon butt and saved the planet more than once. She never got tired hearing those stories and sometimes asked to hear them again as she enjoyed them.

When Jazz was done telling his story, he let Ironhide and the others tell their own stories while drinking hot chocolate and eating cookies that both June and Arcee made. Miko was loving the stories from every Autobot as it was great and awesome to hear them and had her head laying down in Jack's lap as even more happiness filled her.

Jack smiled while stroking her hair nice and smooth as he looked up and saw Arcee had that stern look on her face again as she had wanted limited touching from him and Miko as she knew very well that boys could get too comfortable when having a girl on their lap or even sitting down on their lap. Jack smiled nervously and shrugged his shoulders as Arcee just let it be for one night as she knew that Jack wasn't going to pull something fresh like peer pressuring or sweet talking Miko into doing something behind her back. But to make sure that it wouldn't happen, she had threatened to blow his junk off with her blaster if he ever tried anything, which made Jack understand loud and clear, but he was determined to keep his promise as well as he promised Arcee that he would never hurt Miko in any way and would rather his arms broken than ever hurt his girlfriend. Arcee knew she was maybe being a bit overprotective, but she was a mama bear for sure, and while she did approve of Jack dating her daughter, she still wanted him to be a gentleman to Miko.

"Merry Christmas, Jack," Miko said, giving him a kiss on the lips and pulling him out of his musings.

"Merry Christmas, Miko," he replied, returning the kiss with a smile, breaking away gently after a moment so that Arcee wouldn't get on them.

For the Japanese girl, she was looking forward to Christmas Day with not only her boyfriend, but with her family too.

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