Thought of this while in the shower!

Had to write it down before my muse went down the drain! XD
Enjoy!

I own nothing but Tai!

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The Hot Chocolate conundrum.

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Sam Witwicky enjoyed visiting NEST.

Every time he visited, something odd and interesting always seemed to happen. Like on a particularly hot day in July.

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Sam climbed out of Bumblebee as they came to a complete stop at NEST headquarters, which was about a two hour drive from his school. Since the weather was so unbearably hot, he just decided to wear his swim trunks and an old wife beater out and about today. After watching Bee transform, Sam and his guardian strolled casually towards the recreational room.

What he saw just about floored him.

There was Tai, shockingly with no other Bot in sight, watching a movie on the giant television screen. It wasn't exactly that that floored him...it the fact that the movie she was watching was The Polar Express. A Christmas movie...in the middle of July.

Looking up when she heard Bee's giant footsteps, she perked up when she saw Sam. She was just wearing a skull littered black bikini top and red and yellow flowered pair swim trunks, her slightly longer hair was pulled back into a tiny ponytail.

'What up, skank?' She called from the big bot couch.

'Why are you watching this movie?' Sam asked. He liked The Polar Express very much as well, but when it was the right time of year. 'It's July!'

'I felt like watching it!' She exclaimed, acting as if it was completely normal. 'Come on, watch with me! The best part's coming!' She gave him her famous puppy eye look, the dreaded look that even got Ironhide to take her to get a slurpee when Barricade was out scouting.

Sam thought about it. He really did like the part she was talking about. 'Oh...what the hell?' He shrugged. 'Bee, give me a boost..'

'Aye, captain.' The yellow Bot said back, lifting his charge up. Deciding to watch this movie as well...he had never seen it before...he sat down carefully next to the humans and fixated his optics on the screen, just as the character started to sing.

'Hot! Hot!
Ooh, we got it!
Hot! Hot!
Hey, we got it!
Hot! Hot!
Say, we got it!
Hot chocolate!'

'I love this song!' Tai squealed happily, waving her arms in excitement as Sam laughed. Bumblebee twittered in amusement at the little tune. The fact that it had tap dancers waiters and a very eccentric conductor made the song even more enjoyable for the yellow bot.

'Here, we've only got one rule:
Never ever let it cool!
Keep it cookin in the pot,
You've got-
Hot choc-o-lat!'

'Man, that looks so yummy!' Sam nodded in agreement as they continued to watch the rest of movie, which wasn't very long but it was that amazing, that the two teens didn't care in the slightest.

'I love it just the same no matter how many times I've seen it!' Tai sighed dreamily.

'That hot chocolate looked so good...' Sam sighed dreamily as well. Tai's eye and optic snapped open as an idea hit her.

'Hey, you want some?' she asked hopefully. She didn't mean to brag, she made a mean hot chocolate.

Sam thought about it. Sure it was over a hundred degrees outside..but, that hot chocoltae offer was so tempting.

'Well Tai, all I have to say is...' He cleared his throat. 'Hell to the yeah!'

Bee quirked his head in confusion and amusement. His human and his cousin were very odd creatures.

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Major William Lennox and Master Sergeant Robert Epps were simply dying of heat stroke. Luckily, Ratchet was out when one of them decided to say that out loud.

'Man, it's never been this hot before!' Epps whined, wiping sweat off of his forehead and his bald head.

'I couldn't agree more..' Will panted, wiping sweat from his own forehead. Suddenly, a rather amazing smell caught his attention.

'You smell that?' He asked his long time friend. Epps nodded in agreement, sniffing the air longingly.

'It's smells amazing!' He sighed. 'It smells like...'

Lennox opened the door to the large cafeteria, which was made bigger so the Autobot's could fit inside it, and his eyes widened at what he saw.

There was Sam and Tai, sitting in their bean bags chairs in their swimming gear, drinking what appeared to be..

'Hot chocolate, gents?' Tai held up her large mug with a grin. Sam grinned as well, sporting a chocolate mustache.

'Hot chocolate?' Lennox exclaimed in shock. 'It's the middle of July!'

'So?' The blue optic of the Techo-organic sparkled. 'You know, you want some..' She tautened, wafting the aroma of the hot drink towards the two men.

'It's really, really good!' Sam joined in the taunting.

'It does smell good..' Epps sniffed the hair some more. 'Oh what the hell? I'll have a cup.'

'Make that two.' Lennox finally gave in. He was never one to say no to hot coco. Tai got up, being careful not to spill the hot drink on her.

'Two cups coming up.'

Sam heard a noise out of the door a second later. Getting up, still holding his almost half empty mug of coco, he opened the door and did a double take.

'Hey, Tai...how much coco did you make?' He asked. She thought about it. 'A pot full..why do you ask?'

'Hey, can I have some of that?' A female solder asked.

'Me too!' Another solder exclaimed.

'And me!' Said another voice. Turns out the smell had attracted quite a small mob of soldiers.

Tai's eye and optic widened in amazement. This wasn't what she had intended to happen, but hey...bring on the crowds.

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(Two human hours later..)

'Well, what a nice little waste of time.' Prowl sighed out grumpily, driving beside Optimus Prime.

'Now Prowl, you like nature just as much as I do, just admit it.' The leader teased his second in command.

'Yeah, c'mon Prowler...' Jazz drove behind them. 'You gotta admit that the eagle that attacked Red was funny as hell...'

After a moment's hesitation, the police crusier finally nodded. 'Oh alright, that was pretty funny...it's just good to be back at base.'

'No kidding.' Ironhides gruff voice butted into the conversation. As the four bots reached the base doors, they transformed into their robot forms. Stretching out his large frame Optimus Prime opened the doors for his soldiers.

'Thank you, Prime.' Prowl nodded.

'You're welcome.' Prime smiled.

'Now where is my sparkmate?' Jazz asked.

'Probably out causing trouble as usual..' Prowl muttered. Prime glared slightly.

Just then, a group of soldiers walked by, each of them carrying a mug with steam coming out of the top. 'Evening, Bots!' One of them greeted, waving his hand, sporting a mustache on his upper lip.

Optimus gave the group of look of confusion before giving a slight wave. 'What was that they were drinking?'

Prowl cocked his head to the side as he scanned the liquid. 'It appears to be a rather hot beverage.'

'But don't humans usually drink hot beverages in the winter time?' Ironhide asked.

'Yeah..' The voice of Will Lennox caught their attention. 'But sometimes, we make an acceptation.' He raised his mug with a grin before taking a sip. Epps smacked his lips after taking a sip from his own mug. 'Mm...just like Mama used to make!'

Prowl and Optimus glanced at one another.

'Prime, I gotta tell ya...' Glen walked in with a large mug of the hot liquid with a small mountain of some white fluff on top with chocolate sauce drizzled on it in swirls. 'Your daughter is the Goddess of Hot coco!' Optimus couldn't help but grin vry slightly.

Then Tai walked in, with a slumbering Sparrow on her hip.

'Goddess of Hot Coco..?' She thought about the new nickname. 'That's a new one...better then Tai kwon do...or Neck Tai...'

Optimus just grinned at his daughter with a odd sense of pride.

How many fathers can say that their daughter is a Goddess?

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Oh plot bunnies! Stop gnawing on my brain stem!

BTW..Story Recommendation!

'Meet the new Girl!' By Anika Chancer! It has Tai and Sparrow in it! Read it! Do it! Now!

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