A/N: Many thanks to all of my reviewers so far. May your stomachs be stuffed and your desire for physical possessions sated.
Mistletoe.
"Look, I just don't get this card from Astoria, okay?" Powerglide griped to his fellow minibots. On the table in front of them was the offending object: a card (obviously of high quality paper and inks) featuring two humans – one male and one female – in formal wear. They were standing under a bush of mistletoe. Snow filtered down from above them and light glowed warmly through panelled sash windows. Powerglide dated the scene – minus its inaccuracies – to Victorian England. "I mean, why is there a specific plant to kiss under in human culture? It's absurd!" Brawn shrugged.
"I find most of what humans do to be absurd," he replied with blasé. Chip overheard them and laughed.
"You know, Spring follows Winter," he said.
"Yeah, so?" Powerglide moved his hand in circles, gesturing for Chip to continue.
"Well, Spring is the time when most animals mate and produce young." Powerglide and the others were blatantly not getting the point. "Mistletoe is a fertility symbol," Chip bluntly replied, smirking and waiting for a reaction.
"Oh," Seaspray and the red plane replied together. "Still, she's human and I'm a robot! We can't, y'know, reproduce!"
"Still," Chip countered, "she is in love with you." Brawn and Cliffjumper were smiling away with the direction the conversation was going.
"Now wait here just one cycle you-"
"Oh, Powerglide!" An alluring voice called from around the corner of the common room. The leg of a human female came into view, followed by the rest of Astoria. She was wearing a thick but low-cut red dress and draped in fleecy white fur. "I have something for you!" She was twirling a sprig of mistletoe around in her fingers.
"Be right there, Astoria!" He turned to the others. They were close to fits of laughter. "See ya later, fellas," he told them cockily, standing and jauntily swaggering towards his human love. Bumblebee was the first one to crack.
"Heheh! I don't think ol' Powerglide thinks mistletoe is quite as absurd now!"
End.