Chapter 14: Christmas-Part 3

When nighttime came on its regular schedule since tomorrow morning was the big day, June, Agent Fowler, Jack, and Raf headed home to go rest while the Autobots bid each other goodnight and headed to their quarters. Arcee, on the other hand, was heading to her room while Windblade was behind her, carrying a peaceful sleeping Miko in her arms as she insisted on carrying her to her bed in which Arcee didn't mind at all.

"Oh, Arcee, The Allspark has blessed you a sweet, beautiful sparkling," Windblade said, tucking Miko in and placing a kiss on her head.

"Yes, I know, Windblade. The Allspark have given me what I always wanted for years, and now I finally have it and she's all mine," Arcee, who didn't want to sound selfish when saying the 'all mine' part said, but who could blame her for loving daughter so much?

Windblade smiled and was very happy for her best friend who she called her sister, and though she was happy for her, she still wondered if she and Bulkhead would ever get the chance to make a sparkling. She remembered that she and Bulkhead didn't do so on their honeymoon due to the war for Cyberton and for years she prayed to the Allspark that it would one day give her a sparkling to love and spend her life with. Deep down, she believed that she just found her child amongst her, and that child was someone that she had her eye on when stepping foot into the base for the first time. Arcee looked at her best friend as she was smiling and in her thoughts as she already knew who Windblade was thinking about.

"You're thinking about Raf again, aren't you?" She asked with a smile, drinking her hot oil.

"Huh? Oh, uh, well...um, I sorta did just now," Windblade said, feeling embarrassed to even think about being Raf's official mom, knowing that he already had a family.

Arcee knew that Windblade had thought that the Allspark had given her own sparkling, and believing that Raf was the one, but it couldn't be...or could it? After saying goodnight to one another, Arcee went to sleep for a good period of time, dreaming about her home planet and dreaming about giving Miko a real future that was twice as better than she'd currently ever had and didn't regret thinking about it. Her lovable dream that she hadn't dreamed since she found happiness when adopting her sweet child. As she was still dreaming, she felt her arm being tapped repeatedly, causing her to open her optics up and see a super-excited Miko, who was smiling ear to ear, while told Arcee that her child had already been up for a while that morning.

"It's Christmas, Mom!.Can I open my presents now, pleeeeaaassseee?" Miko begged so much that it looked like she just might burst.

"Haha. Okay, pumpkin, let's go see what Santa Prime has brought for you," Arcee said with a chuckle, getting up and stretching her arms.

"Don't you mean Santa Claus, Mom?" Miko asked with her eyebrow raised and a smile.

"Santa Claus. Santa Prime. They both do the same thing, sweetie," the blue femme pointed out, as she really didn't see what the difference was.

Following her super excited daughter, who was running eagerly to the living area, Arcee began recording the moment with her Bot-sized video camera and smiled when she entered the main part base and saw her daughter picking up her first gift that looked like a guitar and had started unwrapping it.

Miko couldn't believe it as the wrapping paper revealed a brand new electric guitar that had the galaxy as background on the instrument, which was really cool, but then she noticed that it had something engraved on the side and she looked to see her new guitar had been signed by the famous guitar legend Slash! "Thanks, Mom, I love it! Love you!" The teenager said happily and she couldn't help but play her special instrument and jamming like her guitar playing hero, Slash.

Arcee smiled big and proud as she was recording every second of Miko's happiness, while the young one continued on playing and stopped to take a moment to hug her new guitar like a teddy bear as she let a few tears fall down her cheeks, making Arcee drop a few tears of her own as she saw her daughter was both happy and sad, but it was okay because she knew that Miko was going to be alright from that point on.

Throughout the early morning, the teenager unwrapped every single one of her gifts that were underneath the tree and at the end, she had new clothes that she needed anyways as she wore the same thing over and over again, so it was awesome to get some new clothes, and she also got two new pairs of purple sneakers, both Jordans and Nikes, which thrilled her to no end.

Hot Rod and Crosshairs both entered at that moment and both couldn't help chuckling. "Seems the little one is excited about her gifts," Hot Rod said, seeing the Japanese teenager's huge smile.

Crosshairs nodded, a smile on his face. "Makes me think of the younglings at the youth centers when Santa Prime would come with gifts for them," he said, his voice catching a little in the memories.

Hot Rod nodded. "I remember those times," he said softly as he had once been one of those younglings at a youth center long ago.

When the rest of the Autobots were up, Miko went to her room to get the gifts that she have spent every penny on. She brought everyone their very own buffer machine and somehow she was able to build the Autobots their very own custom made oil spa, which was the best gift that the Bots have every gotten since they loved oil just like water and thanked the little girl for her thoughtfulness.

"Thanks, Miko. You are one smart little girl," Jazz said, already using his new buffer on his arm.

"No problem, Uncle Jazz! It's the least thing that I can do for you guys," Miko said, before eating her Christmas breakfast.

"Of course, she's smart! She's my niece after all," Hound boasted, his chest puffed out in pride.

"Hey! You're not her only uncle around here," Ironhide retorted without heat.

Drift shook his head, but a smile was on his face. "Ruffians," he said, but it was without heat.

Miko giggled. "Are they always like that?" She whispered to the samurai.

"Sometimes worse," he whispered back, but the smile hadn't left his face. "But they are decent."

The teenager smiled. "I like them as they are," she said. "I've never had uncles before and they're all unique, which makes it even cooler."

Drift chuckled while Ultra Magnus gave Miko a confused look. "You never had uncles before meeting them?" He asked, gesturing to the others. "But...don't humans have several relations and such?"

"Yeah, but not when you're an orphan or foster kid," Miko said, looking a little sad. "I was a foster kid until Mom adopted me and now I've got a really awesome family."

Prowl had been listening and he looked at Miko. "You don't mind that you are the daughter of an Autobot?" He asked curiously.

She shook her head. "No way, cause Mom is so cool. All of you are," the teenager answered honestly.

Hot Rod and Crosshairs smiled at hearing that. "You're pretty cool yourself, kid," Hot Rod said.

"And cute for a human sparkling," Crosshairs said with a nod.

A few hours later, Jack and the others came in from the groundbridge with gifts in hands and went to give them the Bots, who accepted the gifts and thanked their friends warmly.

Throughout the rest of the day, Bulkhead and Wheeljack were singing Christmas carols while Jazz was playing the beats as the three made things very lively in the base, keeping the mood jovial and relaxed.

Jack was helping his girlfriend put her new diamond necklace around her neck as she never had jewelry before based on her past. "Oh, Jack," she said, giving him a loving look before looking sad. "I've...I've never had something so pretty before because...,"

Suddenly Jack gently put his hand on her mouth. "Miko, that's in the past," he said gently. "Don't focus on that. Focus on the present."

Seeing he was right, she started focusing on the present and noticed another present in Jack's hand. "Jack? What's that?" She asked, pointing to it as he smiled at her and opened up the small black box.

In it was a nice silver ring that had four small diamonds on them, making the Japanese girl shock in surprise, especially when Jack gently grabbed her right hand, gently grabbing her ring finger and placing the ring on it. "It an engagement ring," he pointed out, rubbing the back of his head as he blushed a little.

As her thoughts began processing again, Miko began wrapping her mind around the idea of what was happening. "Y...Y...You want to marry me?" She asked in shock, but also in happiness at the same time.

"Yeah, in the future Miko. I just thought it would be nice to give you something that's worth over two hundred dollars," Jack pointed out, not caring how much it had cost him to get that ring that matched her finger size.

She smiled. "Oh, Jack," she said. "Anything from you is awesome."

With that, she went over to him and gave him his special Christmas gift, a good kiss on the lips before they lay down on the couch with her on top of him and she started planting kisses all over his face and lips.

Arcee was too busy setting the dinner table to not see Miko all over Jack as she was too proud of delicious baked pound cake with white icing on it as it smelled so good. But Jack reminded himself to be a gentleman to Miko and make sure the make out didn't go beyond kissing, as he respected Miko too much.

On the other side of the base, Raf was setting down some fresh made oatmeal cookies on the table while Windblade bent down to get a good sniff of the sweet bake goods. "Mmmmmm if only it was Energon cookies, I'll eat the whole plate," she said, smiling down at Raf, who smiled back.

"Glad you like my mom's homemade cookies. Oh, and she wanted me to give you this," he said, pulling out a piece of paper form his pocket and handed to her.

Confused when seeing the paper in her hand, she went opening it and saw it was a document. "What's this, sweetspark?" She asked, getting ready to read the paper.

"It's adoption papers. You see, my mom and dad wanted you to be my legal guardian in case something happens to them, and since they see that you're a good person that always wants to hang out or even take me on an air trip to the mountains," the young boy said, smiling happily.

"But I've never met your parents. In fact, do the two of them even know that me and Bulkhead aren't human?" She asked as she was done reading the papers.

"No, but from what I told them about you two, they immediately decided to make you guys my legal guardians. And I need both of you and Bulkhead's signature...Mom," said Raf, seeing as he now had Windblade's shocked attention.

Windblade felt her spark pounding like it never pounded before as she had always dreamed of being called Mom and immediately bent down to kiss her new son on the forehead, vowing that if that did happen, she would raise him as her own.

But for now, she was happy to be his second mom and decided that that was the best Christmas gift she had ever received, besides being married to her sparkmate.

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