It's been freaking cold lately over here, so this popped into my head!
Just a fun story about the fun o winter!
With a cameo appearance by Fantasy and Maple!
Love you guys!
Enjoy!
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Snowballs, Snow angels, and Starbucks
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It was quite amazing to say the least at how much the weather changed here on Earth.
Optimus Prime poked his head outside of the doors to find the ground completely covered in a blanket of white. Ah yes, snow. It was about that time of the year again.
Most of the soldiers had gone home, including Major Lennox and Master Sergeant Epps. It was rather quiet around the base.
Save for a certain someone.
Who at the moment was out with her cousin, getting Starbucks.
'Okay, tell me again...' Optimus asked Barricade, who was sitting on the Bot couch. 'Why didn't you go?'
'Because I don't like snow in my treads..or in my gears...' He grumbled, not looking up from the giant TV screen. 'And I hate going slow...Bee is way more patient then I am..'
Speaking of which, both Bots looked up when they heard a honk. The yellow bot drove in, his roof covered in white powder and ice as he pulled into the base. The doors opened and the two teens stepped out, both of them sporting heavy layers of clothing.
'God damn, it's cold!' Tai exclaimed, shivering as she clutched her large mocha. She turned off her disguise, her optic blinking rapidly and her small robotic arm whirring slightly as it tried to warm itself. 'Curse my half humanness...!' She flinched when her optic kept blinking, but with a quick slap to the temple, it set itself right.
'Thanks for the ride, Bee.' Sam patted the roof, then stepped back as the Bot transformed, shaking snow off of himself.
'Whoa, watch it!' Sam moved out of way just in time. Bee clicked in apology.
Tai chuckled before walking over over to her father and her guardian excitedly, like she always did. 'Hiya Dad!' She exclaimed happily, hugging his ankle tightly. Like she always did when she saw him.
'Hello sweetheart.' He said in a happy tone.
'Hey asshole.' She said to Barricade, who simply flipped her off. She flipped him off back, with a smirk.
Optimus felt his optic twitch slightly.
'Like I've said many times, you two are very odd.' Sam commented, taking a long sip from his own coffee. He refused to call it a mocha, that word sounded way too unmanly.
'Well, I wouldn't have it any other way!' She retorted. 'Now where oh where are my sparkmate and daughter?' She wondered aloud.
As if on que, which seemed to happen alot around here, the little white and gray femme bolted into the room, wearing what looked like a kermit the frog hat. Tai wondered where that went.
'Mama! Mama!' Sparrow squealed excitedly. Jazz then walked in, rather stiffly. 'Oh it's cold, my joints are frozen..' He whined.
'Daddy slipped and fall down...' Sparrow giggled to Tai, who was kneeling down so they were optic to eye and optic.
'Did he?' Tai asked, laughter evident in her voice as she spoke.
'I didn't see the ice, okay?' Jazz snapped, sounding embarrassed and annoyed. 'I fell, it was embarrassing! And the twins and Fantasy won't stop laughing!'
'When did you become such a klutz?' Sam asked.
Jazz was quiet for a few seconds, trying to come up with a dignified answer. 'I'm not gonna respond to that.'
'Oh babe, i think it's sweet that you made an ass of yourself in front of your offspring!' Tai chimed in. 'Every Dad does it once in a while...'
'Somehow, I sense that comment is directed at me...' Optimus in a unamused tone.
'Dad, need I bring up the bouncy ball incident?' Tai teased, laughing when her Dad face palmed.
'Why must you bring that up?'
'Because I'm your daughter and that's my job!' She said with a sweet smile. 'And besides, Ironhide still can't look you in the optic..'
'IT WAS AWKWARD!' Ironhide's voice echoed to where they were standing. Both of the Primes started slightly.
'How does he do that?' Both father and daughter exclaimed.
Just as Tai was about to say something else, she felt something cold and wet hit her in the back of the head. 'YAWW! Cold!' She shrieked. After doing a hilarious looking dance, she looked behind her to see who her attacker was.
Maple.
Her very tall, british friend.
'Got ya, shrimp!' She laughed.
'Oh you did not just throw a snowball at me while my back was turned!' Tai exclaimed, mocking anger.
'Oh I just did!' Maple retorted, bending down to make another one.
'OH!' Tai exclaimed once again, flourishing her hands. 'OH! Oh, it's on now girlfriend!' She swayed her head in time with her words as she threw away her empty cup in the trash. She yelped when the snowball hit her in the face.
'WOMAN!'
She bolted after her friend, both of the girls laughing.
Optimus watched them run off with amusement. It was rather nice seeing his daughter act like a carefree teenager. It made him laugh.
'Aren't you going to join them?' He asked Sam.
Shaking his head, Sam threw his cup away and scooped up Sparrow, who was clicking slightly in excaustion. 'Naww, I'm gonna do what I always do on snow days...go into the living room and watch TV until my eyes bleed.' He left the room. The three bots had what Tai called a 'sweat drop' moment before Optimus turned to Bee.
'Make sure his eyes don't bleed.'
He then turned to Barricade.
'Go watch the girls, make sure nothing happens to them.'
Barricade grumbled in annoyance before getting up. 'Fine, was just getting comfortable...' He left the warm Red. Room, grumbling all the way.
Optimus then sat down on the couch and relaxed instantly. Finally, peace at last.
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Maple screeched when Tai threw a perfectly aimed snowball at her chest. 'EE! Cold!'
'Got you!' The Techno Organic laughed, her hat all askew.
'YO!' A voice called to them. The two girls looked up to see Fantasy wadding towards them, trying not to sink into the snow. 'Can you believe all this snow! Crazyness!'
'Fantasy!' Tai squealed, bouncing over to her friend and hugging her tightly.
'Tai-dye!' Fantasy squealed back.
'Where are the twins?' Maple asked, walking over to her two friends and leaning her arm on Tai's head, which made the techno organic growl in annoyance.
'Trying to 'tobagan'...Fantasy made quotation marks with her fingers as she pointed behind her. Tai and Maple had a sweat drop moment when they saw Sunny trying to slide down a hill, but he ended up going less then ten feet.
'Well, that didn't work..' Sideswipe muttered, scratching his head.
The three girls giggled at their expense.
Loud, rumbling footsteps came from behind them, which caused them to turn around. There was Barricade, loking annoyed and cold.
'Cade!' Tai exclaimed, her arms wide open. 'My friend!'
'Tai, my techno organic little neck pain!' The black and white bot exclaimed mockingly.
'Oh how I just adore our banter, and our hatred for each other..it's so beautiful!' Tai pretended to cry.
'Yeah, yeah...' He grumbled. He shot a glare at Maple, who had bent down. 'You throw one of those icy projectiles at me, I will shoot you..'
Maple froze, and stood straight up.
'Oh, he'll do it...' Tai said with a smirk. 'He shot Jolt in the aft the other day...'
'He was asking for it..' Barricade growled, shaking his fist.
'He asked you to pass him a datapad...' Tai said with a amused look.
'He was interupting my show...' He growled again.
'What show?' Fantasy asked curiously.
'You don't wanna know..' Tai muttered. An idea suddenly hit her. She bent down slowly, making a perfectly round snowball in her hands while Barricade continued to grumble and growl about Jolt. She took aim and fired.
He stopped grumbling when he felt the snowball hit him in the side of the head.
'Wasn't me!' Maple exclaimed quickly.
'I do not want death!' Fantasy chimed in.
Barricade turned to his charge, who was just grinning mischieviously. 'I could've sworn that I said I would shoot someone if they threw one of those at me...'
'If you would recall, you said that Maple, not to me..' Tai retorted, acting way to calm.
'No, I like shooting at you, you shoot back...' The ex-con charged up his cannon. Tai didn't seemed fazed.
'Don't go there, sister!' The Techno Organic laughed. 'Cade then smirked and bent down, and began scooping up snow in his large clawed servos while his charge was laughing.
'Oh, Tai...' He called, in a frightening sing song voice.
Tai stopped laughing and opened her eyes. All she saw was a huge ball of white flying towards her. She gave a loud screech as she was buried.
'Bazinga..' 'Cade muttered, smirking.
Maple and Fantasy glanced at one another, holding back laughter.
Note to self,
Barricade is the champion of snowball fights.
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Bahahahaha! Wrote this at about 1 in the morning!
My muse wasn't letting me sleep!
Anyway!
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