This came from one of many plot bunnies that seem to want to make my life harder.

I do not own Transformers. All original Transformers belong to rightful owners! I only own my Oc Arabella, and anyone else I add.

I also do not own ANY songs, media, or name brand foods used in this story (Don't Sue me please!).

Special thanks to: Hershey gurl For following the story.

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Retrokill: Thank you! I'm glad a few people (you being one of them) found me funny. And as far as the cobbler thing goes, you should try it. There are plenty of recipes out there. Personally I (much like Arabella) Can't stand the texture of pie or cobbler. I'm still not sure why. And you're right. Evil laughter sounds way better when British folks do it. I think it has something to do with the accent and the charm of the person doing it.

DarkshadowXsunny-sides: Thank you! And one last bit of sweet for now, then we begin our decent into the Praxian cycle...*British accent* Mwa-hahahahaha!

Text:" =Two way conversation out loud for extended time.

[Text: "] = Twin bond or special bond (like family)

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Three weeks later

Third person point of view

Three and a half weeks had passed from Thanksgiving and all was well. Arabella and the twins had began planning their wedding as did Sam and Mikaela. Unbeknownst to Arabella the twins were planning something special for their wedding. Tia and Jolt continued to see each other in secret and the Decepticons hadn't attacked. The most important thing that was happening however was the one thing that no one knew was occurring, not even Arabella was aware that her Praxian heat cycle had begun.

Background on Praxian cycles

Long before the great war officially started The Praxian elders upon seeing the early signs of war decided to input a code into the next generation being created. This code makes sure that if the Praxian race's numbers decrease that the new generation would birth the next one. The stipulations to this code are that the Praxian must be of a certain age, usually towards the end of youngling hood, and maturity, meaning if the Praxian is 18,000 and their chassis can produce sparklings their code can kick in at any moment. The youngest Praxian on record to have their cycle start was 15,843 years old. Should the cycle begin said Praxian will begin courting their desired mate. If the Praxian is bonded then said bonded will usually be the mate, there have been rare occurrences where that hasn't happened.

Courting involves many steps;

1) The Praxian must give their desired mate extravagant gifts. These gifts usually tend to be shiny, or cute. This is so that the mate draws the thought of sparklings to their minds.

2)The Praxian uses their door wings to perform a spectacular dance. Many have compared this to a dance birds of paradise do. The goal is to entice the desired mate, and to let them know that the Praxian finds them highly appealing and want their attention.

3)The final step in the Praxian cycle is the hunting of the mate. The mate whether or not aware of the Praxian cycle will be harassed endlessly until he or she gives in to the Praxian's wishes willingly. To help this along, said Praxian will stalk and try to entice their mate. The benefit of this is that the Mate will not be harmed while they are being hunted as the Praxians become very protective of their mates. The Praxian will temporarily forget all of their actions while in their hunting mode. The regaining of memory typically takes 2-3 earth days, which by then if said Praxian has conceived, both mate and carrier will know.

There are a few ways to know that a Praxian is on their cycle;

-Their wings are shinier than usual.

-They show extreme affection, anger, protectiveness,happiness, sadness, competitiveness,or lack of inhibitions toward those around them and their mates.

-Their optics have a ring of color that is the inverse of their normal color.

-The emit a scent or try to smell appealing to their mate at all times.

WITH THAT BEING SAID LET'S GET BACK TO OUR FAVORITE PRAXIANS

Normal point of view

Tia: "HARD LEFT! HARD LEFT!"

Me: "Going! Going!"

The things I do for my family and faction. Tia and I were in the process of shopping in Albuquerque for our Christmas cookie ingredients and Christmas gifts when she got a ping from our money source. Our money source just so happened to be the secret underground racing ring. I originally raced by myself to raise money for my family's gifts, until I bridged back and was nearly caught by Prowl. Thankfully Tia altered the evidence of my misdeeds. In exchange for doing this, she became my driver and I became more careful about racing. So here I am racing recklessly through the larger arro's of Albuquerque. The cool thing about racing down here is that we get our money in cash.

Me: "How far to the finish line?"

Tia: "Like three and a half miles."

Me: "Where's our opponent?"

Tia: "On the right. You should know that He's a bangger, there's a wide turn up ahead where he's gonna try and pull a 2 fast 2 furious move, so keep it tight."

Me: "Righty o! Any cops out there?"

Tia: "Not that I can see... oh slag! Scratch that! We're gonna have to do a scramble!"

Me: "What's their ETA?"

Tia: "15 minutes max! And we're at least 5 minutes out! We're gonna have to grab and go."

Me: "Okay, hold on! Hard right!"

I said as we sailed around a corner. He passed us not because I pulled a wide turn but because he used nitro. Son of a glitch! Not today! I have too much money at stake to lose!"

Me: "Tia, hold on we're going to pull a Mario Kart 8!"

Tia: "No! Not the cei- AHHHH! SWEET PRIMUS ALMIGHTY!"

She screamed as I let my gladiator mode kick in and as we began driving on the wall, and up to the ceiling of the pipe. Here's the thing with my gladiator mode, it helps me focus because I get a huge rush of nitro, which is our equivalent of adrenaline. Theoretically, I can drive on the ceiling for a about a minute because my speed mixed with the sudden change in direction should keep me balanced on the ceiling. Kinda like when you swing an open bag around in a circle. The stuff inside doesn't fall out because it's going so fast it presses into the bottom. I landed as I predicted in front of my opponent, and not a moment too soon. With a triumphant roar of my engine we crossed the finish line.

Race runner: "All right! There you have it! As usual our winner is Jack and his fine ass Honda accord!"

He said as he handed Tia our wad of cash. Tia and I were using holograms to hide our appearances. the reason why is that in case there's Decepticon activity we can escape to call for back up, without being noticed. The other reason why is that in the case we get caught in a scramble, we can turn them off in our escape and the cops will be looking for the exact opposite of what we look like.

Tia: "Thank you my man! Hey I gotta grab my bitch and split. My chirper is blowin up!"

Race runner: "All right you heard the man! Lets get the hell outta dodge! Scramble on!"

Bangger: "No way man! I want my money! So you best be handin it over!"

He said as he pulled a gun on Tia and I. I was in my holoform dressed like a hooker. I was pretending to be her "bitch". While Tia drew a bigger gun (she learned from Ironhide) I was stealing extra cash from the local drug dealer.

Race runner: "Hey! You don't pull a gun on Jack!"

Other racer: "Yeah! He's got the best skills down here! You don't just be pullin' guns on guys like him! Show some respect!"

He said as he pulled out a knife and held it to the bangger's throat. Just then we heard the police sirens. Everyone ran, Tia and I hopped into my alt and drove like hell. We just barely escaped the tunnels. I know because Tia told me that they were literally 1 minute behind us. If I hadn't rounded corners so fast we would have been caught. As soon as we were street side again I found a dark alley and we turned off our holograms and headed out to finish our shopping.

Tia: "So how much did you steal?"

Me: "Hmmm. Man I rock! I got about 7 grand off that dude!"

Tia: "And we won 20 grand. Nice driving, but please stop driving on the ceiling! We're gonna get hurt doing that one day!"

Me: "No we wont. Remember tonight was our last race."

Tia: "You were serious? You sure you don't need to do one more?"

Me: "Nah. I have about 80 grand saved up now. Those big bets at the beginning helped with that. I'm good on racing for now. Who know's maybe Jack and his fine ass accord will make a come back one day."

I said as we got out of my alt at the fourth wal-mart we'd been to that day. Tia and I had slowly began shopping along with our racing, so we could stockpile ingredients and presents, while also giving us a reasonable alabi. After like three hours we finally had all of the items necessary for me to get my Christmas cookie bake on.

Tia: "Hey, your optics are doing it again."

Me: "What?"

Tia: "They have that weird purple ring around them again."

Me: " Huh. Maybe I should see Ratchet about it."

Tia: "Nah, meanwhile if my speakers act up one more time, I'm gonna see Ratchet and get them fixed."

She said as we ground bridged back. After dropping off the presents at my room and hiding them along with the cash, we went to the kitchen to commandeer it. I notified the staff ahead of time that I would be needing the kitchen, and in exchange for their cooperation I promised them each a plate of cookies. This year I would be baking for a mass amount of people so I had to quadruple the recipes I was going to use.

Mirage: "Hey ladies. What are you two up to?"

Tia: "Cookies. This will probably be the last you see of us for a while."

Mirage: "Oh? Why is that?"

Me: "Cause we're making several different kinds of cookies. We're making gingerbread,chocolate chip,sugar,oatmeal,oatmeal chocolate chip,and snicker doodles."

Tia's speakers: "I'm thinking baby you and I are undeniable, but I'm finding out love's unreliable. I'm giving all I got to make you stay, or am I just a roadblock in your way?"

Tia: "GAHHHH! Not again! Primus! Thats it! Sorry Bella you'll have to start without me. I gotta get this fixed."

Mirage: "Aaaaaand the song bird flies off again. (Snicker)"

Me: "Oh her speakers have been acting up lately."

Mirage: "Oh I know. They went off in the middle of yesterday's exercise, as well as the one last week. It is quite amusing to see her flustered. Do you require assistance with baking?"

Me: "No I got it. But thanks for the offer!"

I said as I ran into the kitchen.

Tia's point of view

Stupid fragging sound system. I haven't been able to control my speakers for a week now and it is driving me insane. I dare anyone to try and be an espionage bot in the middle of an exercise and have their soundsystem start blaring music. First of all it was embarrassing, second I had to explain to Jazz, Mirage and Bumblebee what happened. Now they won't let me live it down. If Ratchet can't fix them then I'll just have to have him remove them. The only good thing about this is that I get to see Jolt. He and I have been secretly dating for almost a month now.

Ratchet: "Ah, Tianna what brings you to my Medbay?"

Me: "Please Ratchet call me Tia. Everyone else does. I'm here because my speakers keep acting up."

Ratchet: "Oh? What do you mean?"

Me: "At random moments they-"

Speakers: "Cause your a pretty little windstorm out on the boulevard. Something like a sunset oh, you're a shooting star. And I might drive myself insane, if those lips aren't speaking my name-"

Me: "(SIGH) Do that!"

I said as I started to talk over the music pouring out of my speakers.

Ratchet: "I see. Well lets get a scan of you to see if it is a virus, or if you sustained damage to your sound system."

I laid down on the berth ignoring the music as he did a full body scan. After a few minutes of him typing, frowning, and grunting he turned to me. When he did so, my music finally stopped.

Me: "Soooo? What's wrong with me?"

Ratchet: "Well... thats just it. There seems to be-"

Jolt: "It's like a hurricane,speed train,she's a moving car. Catch her in the fast lane, oh I gotta know can I keep up with her pace? Kickin' into gear when I see that face."

Jolt came sliding into the room we were in. He was singing and dancing. I'm not gonna lie he's pretty good at it. His optics looked glossy, almost like he wasn't able to control himself.

Ratchet: "What the frag are you doing Jolt?!"

Jolt: "You can take up all my time 'cause you're the only one, that can make a storm cloud break pulling out the sun. And I can't get caught in the rain, can I get your lips to speak my name?"

Me: "Is he okay?"

{Jolt: "Help me please. I'm not sure what's happening."}

{Ratchet: "You can't control yourself?!"}

{Jolt: "No offense sir, but I wouldn't be dancing if I could control myself."}

{Ratchet: "Noted. You're gonna hurt."}

CLANG!

I winced as Jolt hit the floor. Ratchet smacked him over the head with a wrench hard. I mean really really hard.

Me: "Uhhh..."

Ratchet: "Don't be alarmed. You are perfectly healthy. I will send Jolt to do a follow up on you as soon as I finish repairing him."

Me: "Ooookay...Well...tell him that I hope he feels better after he wakes up."

Ratchet: "Oh don't worry I will."

Third person point of view

Jolt woke up about four hours later, with a serious helm ache.

Ratchet: "Ahh, hello there Jolt. How nice of you to join us."

Jolt: "Ohhh. My helm, why did you hit me in the head!?"

Ratchet: "So I could see if I was right. And I am."

He said as he continued to weld Bumblebee's hand back on. He unfortunately tried to get to the cookies that Arabella and Tia were baking, and in the process had his arm nearly torn off.

Jolt: "Right about what?"

Ratchet: "Jolt, do you love Tianna?"

Jolt: "Sir! I...I..That's-"

Ratchet: "Answer the question! Do you or do you not love her?!"

Jolt: "I...I do. A lot."

Ratchet: "Do me a favor, look at the screen to your left. You'll see her scan from earlier, and your's is right next to it."

Jolt did as he said and saw the scan of his secret girlfriend. He was perplexed by it, aside from the brightness of her spark she looked healthy. As did he.

Jolt: "I don't think I understand."

Ratchet: "Oh for the love of Primus! Jolt, you two are in love. So your sparks are calling out to each other!"

Jolt: "But...but...but that means I found my soul mate!"

Bee: "No shit Sherlock!"

Jolt: "Hey! Don't be rude! Les you want to be pummeled with a hammer by yours truly."

Ratchet: "Very nice threat Jolt! Although I use wrenches not hammers."

Jolt: "I know. But I gotta have my own tool of terror."

Ratchet: "Good point. So when are you going to propose?"

Jolt: "Propose? I'm not sure if I should. How do you even know that our sparks are calling out to each other?"

Ratchet: "You see how the light drifts out from her spark to her processor? That part of her processor controls her actions, including her sound system and what it plays. Your spark did the same thing only with you it took ahold of the part that controls your actions and what you say."

Jolt: "So..."

Ratchet: "So, your sparks for whatever reason, couldn't call out through their casing. Which meant that it had to override some of your protocalls to send each other the message."

Bee: "Every little thing I do you're on my mind."

Ratchet: "He exactly right. Jolt take it from an old medic who was too foolish and waited too long to start a relationship... you need to sparkbond with her. I know the dangers of doing it in a war time situation, but if you don't and she gets out into the field...what would happen if she was on a mission and her speakers acted up?"

Jolt: "I, she...Primus. You're right. But..."

Bee: "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

Jolt: "What?"

Bee: "You don't meet a femme like that every dynasty!"

Ratchet: "I think what he means to say is that you if you really do love her, you'll show her and propose. Oh, that reminds me, she said that she hopes you feel better."

The junior medic smiled. He was meant to be with her forever. She was meant to be with him forever. He could now profess his feelings without the fear of being wrong. Who knew he'd find love on another planet?

Jolt: "Permission to do a follow up on a healthy patient?"

Ratchet: "Just this once, permission granted. Now get the hell outta my Medbay!"

Normal point of view

It was no easy task, but we accomplished it. Tia and I miraculously baked enough cookies for the base, and for the Autobots. The reason why it was no easy task is because everyone and their mother tried to stop by and take the cookies before I could start making plates for the kitchen workers. The last one who tried to do this was Bee, and I accidently almost ripped his arm off. I screamed that I was sorry as he ran to the Medbay, whimpering. After delivering most of the cookies, Tia and I were dancing around the rec room, listening to Christmas music and decorating.

Tia: "Man this is gonna be an interesting Christmas."

Me: "Oh? How so? Ohhh can you please hand me those lights?"

Tia: "Sure here. Well for starters we're not human. And then there's the little thing about the new arrivals learning about the holiday, and the other's too."

Me: "Touche. Although I'm inclined to explain Kwanza, you have to explain Hanukkah if anyone asks."

Tia: "So we'll share the explanations of Christmas and Winter Solstice? Fine by me. When are your parents gonna come?"

Me: "Eh in a few days. Bee and I are gonna pick them and the others up."

Tia: "I cant wait to see Lilith and the others again. I miss them."

Sides: "COMIN' THROUGH!"

He shouted as he Sunny,Bee,and Jazz carried in the single largest tree I have ever seen. Will and Epps were not far behind.

Me: "Do I want to know where that poor tree came from? Thing must be at least a hundred years old."

Will: "Quite the contrary. Wheeljack made it."

Tia: "Great. Just what we need... and exploding Christmas tree. I can see it now, all of us under it, singing carols; "Tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la la, la la BOOM!" Followed by a "My bad!" as Ratchet puts us back together."

Epps cracked up. As cynical as it was, it was kinda funny. Morbid but funny. Speaking of morbid...

Tia: "Hey! I havent heard this in a long time!"

Jazz: "I'm confused. Ah thought we already celebrated halloween."

Me: "Yeah, but this comes from a classic Christmas movie!"

Sides: "Which would be?"

Me: "The Nightmare before Christmas! Man the last time I heard this was... wait-"

Tia: "When I sung it! We were going to your house and then Barricade decided to stomp on me and eat you."

Me: "Ahhhhh. Memories! You remember the words?"

Tia: "Pfft!"

She said before she began singing and dancing along to the song. I soon followed making everyone in the room stare. Will looked creeped out and Jazz was laughing, at the twins who tried to watch and put up the tree at the same time. After the song finished Tia's Radio's blared to life accidentally again. She shut them off as quickly as she could only to hear snickering from a disembodied voice. Tia shivered and arched her back, someone had touched her there.

Tia: "Mirage! I'm gonna kick your aft when I see you next!"

Mirage: "Ooo how angry the song bird has become!"

Tia: "I swear to Primus! You're gonna-"

BANG!

Mirage instantly reappeared by the door to the rec room. He was on the floor groaning in pain, because Jolt had smacked him over the head with a hammer. Didn't see that coming.

Tia: "Thank you for doing that. You saved me from having to play search and smack."

Jolt: "Any time...uh...I should get started..."

Tia: "Started with what?"

Jolt: "Say the word, I'll take my medicine. You're the cure for any pain I'm in. You stitch my broken spark. Love times two, is equal to me and you. Because love times two, is something we can do. Add all together you can't get better. That's understood. Because love times two is equal to me and you."

Tia: "Wha?"

Jolt: "Tia...in our relationship I have said that I love you. I had no clue at the time what it meant, at least not until today. Love is seeing your optics light up. Love is acting silly when you shouldn't. Love is walking along the beach at night and talking about your past with someone who cares. Love is watching the clouds roll by while holding servos. Love is watching anime for two days straight on crunchyroll. Love is buying crunchyroll premium so you can watch anime for two days straight. Love is stealing ice cream and sitting in the rafters,enjoying it. Love is cuddling underneath the stars. Love is a mystery. Love is exciting. Love is musical. Love is strong. Love is brave. Love is daring. Love is smart. Love is Tianna Amity Marquez in the mesh. Tia I, with every energy pulse of it, love you with all my spark. Would you please do me the honor of becoming my sparkmate?"

He asked as he held up a headband with a 3-D Treble clef on it. He was proposing! Wow, I knew they had feelings for each other, but I didn't know they were this strong.

Tia: "I would love to! Of course! Yes! Yes! A million times yes!"

She cried as she ran into his arms. How sweet!

Jolt: "As an early Christmas gift, I'll show you what your headband does. It is what humans call spy rigging. The Treble clef comes off and the cord attached is fire proof, water proof,Ironhide's blaster proof, and it can hold the weight of Prime. the cord itself can stretch to over 3,000 feet. The Treble clef should act as a grappling hook. I thought that you could use it...you know what with you being espionage and all.

Tia: "Thank you! This is so epic! When did you find the time?"

Jolt: "Wheeljack helped me when I didn't need to be in the Medbay."

Tia: "I'm curious, why a Treble clef? It's my favorite note...but how did you know?"

Jolt: "Personally I didn't. I chose it because of your love of music and because well..."

Tia: "What?"

Jolt: "Cause I knew you were Treble when I walked in."

He sang. Tia laughed at his bad pun. I turned around and saw that everyone behind me was grinning. Oh sweet Primus. This can't be good.

Will: "Well looks like we can sign Jolt up for the bachelor party!"

Me: "Do I even want to know?"

Sunny: "We're flying in strippers for Sam. There will be many games and other such nonsense."

Oy. I better let Mikaela know. We still have our bachlorette party to plan. I thought as we went back to decorating the tree, with the newly engaged couple joining in.

Sideswipe's point of view

I hate my life right now. There's two days til Christmas and Sunny and I don't know what to get Arabella. I asked her about it a week ago and she said that she didn't want us to get her anything. The problem with that though is that we're celebrating a holiday that is based off of gift giving.

[Me: "Hey Sunny?"]

[Sunny: "What's up?]

[Me: "What are we going to get Bella for Christmas?]

[Sunny: "I don't know Sides. Nothing seems special enough to give her."]

[Me: "What did she enjoy doing?"]

[Sunny: "Hmmm, she enjoyed talking and taking walks with us. And she loves video games, going to the movies, comic con. She is our little nerdette."]

[Me: "I think I have an idea. Remember how she used to dance?"]

[Sunny: "Yeah she was really good at it. I love how she flips and bounces around for her floor routines. Too bad she mainly practices those for combat. I bet she misses her old team of younglings."]

[Me: "Actually she is going to pick up her friends one of which she used to call her lieutenant, tomorrow. She'll see at least one of her old younglings."]

[Sunny: "Okay, but tell me Sides. What does this have to do with her present?"]

[Me: "What if we could make her, her own dance equipment? You know ribbons, and balance beams and stuff?"]

[Sunny: "That's brilliant Sides! Oh! And I got an even better idea!" ]

[Me: "Tell me after I call Wheeljack. We gotta get his help with this."]

I said as we finished our patrol. There hasn't been any action since our last battle with the con's in November. Which personally is fine with me because Sunny and I have been able to spend more time with Arabella. Although she has been acting strange. For some odd reason she has become kinda clingy. I'm okay with it but we usually are being clingy towards her. I hope she hasn't figured out that Sunny and I are sharing our wedding with Sam and Mikaela. They insisted saying that it was the least that they could do for their prank partners. Speaking of which...

[Me: "Hey bro?"]

[Sunny: "What?"]

[Me: "Got any prank ideas?"]

Author's note: Hello! Greetings from wherever you are currently reading this from! I am going to wright in Bella's friends, and aside from her cycle starting up I have one MAJOR favor to ask of you (those of you who review...you know who you are!) My plot bunny wants *Smack* OW! Okay my bad... NEEDS Prank idea's for the last possible prank war of this story! Hey if I can listen to Christmas music in June...surely someone can give me a good prank idea! Pretty please? The future sparklings will love you if you do! Please Rate,Review,Follow, and Favorite if you can and want to!

Lack of Peace, plenty of love, and long live the terror twins for causing the first two sayings!

CLYL! ❤💛💙

P.S The song Jolt Uses to propose is the main idea of how this story came to be! Give it a listen...It's called Love Times Two... not to be confused with Love Me Two Times.