CHRISTMAS DAY! [Open to All Autobot Allies/Family]

[Phantom]

Meowing, he felt himself being yanked up by somebody. No! Phantom hated being caught mid-attack! Nonetheless, he stopped kicking his legs and hopped they would have enough sense to pick him up correctly. Besides, if they didn't drop him, he did have two options. And both were fun. He'd wait to see how this ended in any case, but dang this person was fast.

~Cutlass~

The orange motorcycle's engine cut off. So, have you gotten any Christmas presents? Not many people would expect a Decepticon to know what Christmas was, but this con did his research. And it was mainly because of the fact that he had a son. And little did Jacob know it, but he was going to be getting more visits in the future. That was the plus side of his gift to Jacob. The down side would have to be that a number of Decepticons would likely want him dead. A number that would happen to be all of them. But, he was happier after he had gotten his memories back, and his pacifist nature would probably fit right in witht he Autobots. It would just make them paranoid today though. So, he was going to have to wait for a day or more.

[Jacob Collins]

"Not yet, I just woke up, told Dad I was going to meet you now and left actually." Jake admitted, of course, Chasm knew he was meeting him, he just had asked to know when. That was the good thing about Chasm knowing he didn't mind the visits as long as he knew when they were, it made things a lot easier. He sighed, then looked at Cutlass. "I'm so sorry I couldn't invite you to the big gathering... I just didn't want them to freak out, I don't want to see you hurt." He told him very calmly, he did feel bad about it, but it wasn't like he had a choice.

[Mike Knight]

Cira moved to the X-mas tree and got out the one present she'd bought for Chris (the advanced/up to date GPS and built in bot tracker/scanner thing). Holding the box out to him when it looked like he wasn't too distracted, she said: "When you have a moment, here ya go Chris. I hope you like it, it was one of the few things I could think of."speaking a little louder, she turned towards Corina and KITT and said."Corina, I have a present for you too, I know you're busy with KITT, just head over this way later when you want."the woman added cheerily. Cira bought Corina a custom designed (mainly appearance wise) machine gun- the gun was in black and grey camo, and also came with a few ammunition belts. It was a fairly light machine gun, but smaller than an M16. It was also calibrated to fire energon bullets, and Cira had a separate package which those were kept in for her.

Ian knew most small critters (and humans as well xD) preferred to be picked up certain ways. The holoform with the sunglasses, snazzy outfit with a leather jacket and naturally silver hair picked up Phantom, supporting the lower half of his body with one arm, holding the front of him with another, pausing to pet his head a bit lightly."I has a kitty!"It was hard for Ian to tell Phantom was an actual cat, as he'd nevers een the bot before, but KITT could tell. "Interceptor, that cat is an autobot...I detect very odd energy signals coming from it that normal cats don't have, all though his real spark signal is diminished."Ian paused to greet Chasm, Red Alert, Jacob, Corina, Chris, Cira, and Cutlass. A second holofrm of his with the same exact appearance briefly appeared to run to each of them in a blurr as he held onto Phantom. "Oh hey Chris, Chasm, Chris, Red, and Corina! Merry Christmas!!"he then turned to Chris, flickering to one side of the couch near Cira."I almost forgot! Merry Christmas to you two as well, by the way!"as soon as Ian said hi to most of everyone, he reverted back to a single holoform. Interceptor's original holoform that had been holding Phantom continued to focus on what KITT told him."So you're an Autobot? What's your name?"

Mike and Sarah perked up when they heard KITT's response."No way,"Mike replied, clearly quite surprised. Mike and his wife approached Ian and Phantom to take a closer look."Sorry,"Sarah apologized to Phantom."I'm fascinated--mainly with practically Autobots in general. I directed and made the designs of Interceptor and all his forms, even, built several aspects of each, etc...

Interceptor, the real form, was still focused on Arcee and Adam."Thanks Arcee! I got something for you too!"He paused, smiling down at Adam. Interceptor then pointed to the x-mas tree. Arcee's present was a set of bot-sized candles to decorate her room with, and to use when she wanted to meditate."Actually I got one more thing for you Adam, but its in my room due to its size and the fact that i didn't bother wrapping it. I just put it in a big ole box and duct taped it to call it good. I'll bring it out in a while.]He then turned to go look for the present(s?)Arcee said she had for him.

Meanwhile, KITT promptly acknowledged Corina, activating his holoform since he was currently somewhat entertained by being in this super fancy paint job and different form. Once he took Corina's present, he paused before opening it, getting something out of one of the large, side cargo pants pockets."We'll do a trade,"his holoform said in his usual calm and fairly monotonous tone. His holoform pulled out a small black box that had a mini wreath on the top of it, and handed it to Corina. inside would be a ring made of silver, which had the infinity symbol (the horizontal 8 for those that forget) on the top engraved by using small diamonds. KITT considered it a partnership ring more than an actual proposal ring--theyre relationship was indeed strong now, but Corina was far too young to think about anything serious yet, especially with him being an Auotbot. KITT also liked to think of it as a type of promise ring, but only as a secondary reason for now. After all, KITT was certain the design of the suited the purpose and theme of your typical marriage ring-KITT imagined something different for that, and neither we ready to think that far ahead obvious.

[i wonder, would Phantom enjoy catnip of any sort?

also arcee, dont forget that Cira got Corina something.]

[Aura]

Arcee smiled as she scooted a few feet away from Interceptor. "Your present is in my room! Let me go and grab it real quick! But I sure know that you will like it!"[/color]With that Arcee had zipped off to her room. She did hear Interceptor say that he had a present for her and had already shown it to her so therefore she really needed to go and grab his present. She rushed into her room and brought back all the presents she bought for people and put them under the bot-sized Christmas tree. She took a fairly long and skinny box towards Interceptor and held it out for him to take. "Merry Christmas![/color]

Corina was focusing on KITT until she noticed that Cira was here too. She turned her head quickly at her voice and because Cira was still her "teacher" in her parkour training she still referred to her as "sensei." "Aww thanks so much sensei! I'll have to dig yours out of my sack here in a minute though. I'll be over there shortly.[/color] She then turned back towards KITT as she noticed his holoform was currently active. She smiled as he took his present. She was really hoping that he would like it because it was really hard to shop for the bot who means everything to you. She noticed he paused to open the present and got slightly nervous, but when he told her he'd do a trade and handed her his present she sighed with relief. She took the present from his hand which was a small box with wrapping paper and a box on it. "Thank you so much KITT."[/color] She hated to be hasty with opening presents so the first thing she did was to mimic KITT's real form and took the bow off the present and stuck the bow on top of her head. She gave a sweet smile before pulling at the wrapping paper and completely removing it without completely ripping it up.
She lifted up the box which revealed the infinity ring studded with little diamonds. She was speechless. Never had she recieved such a wonderful gift from anybody in the world. She carefully took the ring out of the box and slipped it onto her right hands ring finger and smiled. She was almost in tears because of how happy she was. "It....It's beautiful KITT....thank you so much.[/color]
She tried to pause fro giving his holoform a monstrous hug, but couldn't hold herself back forever. She walked over to him and gave him a hug whether he was prepared for the hug or not.

Arcee's holoform (Which she calls Allie) was standing near the Christmas tree with a Christmas present in her hand. It was the one to Chris from her. She was trying to sneak it under the tree and then tell Chris when he was less occupied that she had a present for him under the tree. She wasn't going to bother him since he was probably already being bombarded with presents for Christmas and figured it would be a lot nicer to take a load off of his back.

[Archetype]

Away from all the commotion, sitting in the corner at the end of a hall was a small Autobot. One of the smallest, actually, standing at only ten feet tall in their robot form. Arc looked rather unique aside from their small size as well, their paint was an iridescent type which shifted mainly between purple and green but traces of other colors could be seen in it as well. For such a flashy paint job they really preferred not to be noticed, something their paint job oddly enough came in handy for as it allowed them to turn invisible. It wasn't that this small bot liked their solitude, on the contrary, they hated being alone. The thing was they also hated being a bother and in their mind that's all they were. They felt like a burden on everyone else, which worried them. They were already afraid of being hated but they'd spent their entire life alone, no interaction with others aside from the few sparse people they'd met while randomly traveling through space. Because of this they were rather unsure about how to interact with people and worried that if they did it wrong they would be hated for it.

To make matters worse it was Christmas. Not that Arc had anything against Christmas. It was their first time experiencing the holiday but it had become obvious fairly early on that they liked it. It wasn't much of a surprise really, everyone acting so friendly and being so happy and of course the music that filled the air. That was probably one of Arc's favorite things about the holiday, there was music everywhere. The part that was problematic was the whole gift exchange. They had come to understand that one is supposed to get gifts for their friends and loved ones as part of the celebration but they really didn't know what to get anyone and on top of that they had no money. They felt bad not having anything for anyone and thought it best to avoid the festivities so no one would be disappointed, or worse, be upset with them. Part of them couldn't help but wonder if anyone would really notice they weren't around. They partially didn't expect anyone to, and if they did notice they likely wouldn't care all that much. One thing was for sure though, unless someone intervened Arc was likely to spend the whole holiday sitting in that corner out of everyone's way.

[Cutlass]

I understand. I knew that myself. I didn't plan on it even if I was invited today anyway. Not to be rude, of course, but I can't stay long as it is. Cutlass had preparations to make. He was planning on visiting again in a few days, but that was more of a surprise visit. He truly planned on jumping ship and joining the rebels, as the Autobots were sometimes known as. Cutlass decided to do so because of the fact he had been thinking over what he had heard over his stay here on Earth. He had come to the conclusion that the Decepticons would never put an end to the war, not after the Autobots were gone, but would go on to conquer the universe. He was going to join the Autobots because he had realized that the Autobots would just as soon be done with the war, most of them at least.

~Phantom~

[Cat nip? He may have never even come into contact with it. He might, but might not necessarily]

The cat meowed. Phantom could tell this 'human' understood how cats liked to be treated. Amused by the true organics reactions, Phantom did something none of them probably expected when dealing with an Autobot. His body parts lengthened themselves partially, his body no longer compacted as the false organic skin was hidden from view. He also cut off his masking abilities, as another way of showing himself. The name's Phantom. He didn't specify any targets for that text based communique, so all the robots in the room, and all of the human's cellular phones would get it. But, directing the next one right at Sarah and Mike's devices alone, assuming they had any, he wanted to surprise them some. That's nice. I am what is commonly known as a pretender, in case you were wondering.

[Jacob Collins]

"I know you're not being rude Dad." Jake smiled lightly though he did look down sadly "It's days like these I wish you would.. You know.. Switch sides... I really miss you." He said simply, at the Decepticon base he always spent time with Cutlass. But since Chasm adopted him, times with him were few and far between. It was true in so many ways that Jake would give anything for Cutlass to change sides, he missed having his Dad around. WHen he was near either him or Chasm, he always felt safe.

[Christopher Prime]

Chris smiled at the gift he was handed, and opened carefully. Seeing the GPS, he grinned widely. This had been something he most deffinently could make use of. Looking over the different features he couldn't help but think he would have a whole lot of fun playing with this. "Thanks Cira! This is awesome!" He said happily.

--Cameron--

Cameron finally woke up and dragged himself out of bed sometime later, groaning he walked in and forced a smile to everyone in the room. Nodding over at Mike and Sarah he smiled. "Merry Christmas Mom and Dad." He then knuckled Chris briefly and grinned, looking over the GPS with him "Whoa dude, that is totally badass." He admitted.

--Adam--

Adam looked up at Interceptor I bit caught off guard. Interceptor had something else for him? He was surprised, he had never even asked for anything for Christmas in yet he had gotten all this stuff, it was amazing. He thought for a moment but seeing him going for Arcee's presents decided to hold off giving him his for a bit.

[Midnight]

Mike and Sarah both got the texts, along with Cira. Both Sarah and Mike watched Phantom transform with fascination. "We never knew about them. You seem pretty cool for a cat."Mike said while Sarah was a bit lost for words. "That's rather fascinating, i didn't realize there were different types of bots other than the two legged ones. Well, merry Christmas Phantom."Sarah added a bit after Mike replied. Obviously neither parent had met Vicky or Elina yet either!Mike nodded, wishing the cat the same.

"Hm...I have a little gift for you!"Sarah eyed a Christmas bell with a small green bow that was around her neck as a choker collar and got up, taking it off. She walked forward a bit to see if she could tie it around the cats neck, figuring he'd start squirming. It was worth a try anyway. While trying to put on the collar, Sarah and Mike both noticed their son entered the room.

"Hey kiddo, merry christmas to you too."Mike said happily."Yeah merry christmas!"Sarah agreed as she tried to tie the bell.

Ian smirked a little, still holding Phantom for now. "Hehe I wonder if he's heard of cat nip...

Cira hadn't really seen Phantom transform since her side was a bit aways from Ian. She smiled as she watched Chris open her present, glad she hit a home run with it-she'd picked it off a whim having few other ideas-and it just so happened Chris had a car now to install it in promptly."You're welcome Chris, I'm glad you like it! Hey fellow Knight, Merry Christmas," Cira said waving to Cameron. "It's not much but I have something for you," she turned back to the tree to get 2 presents-one that was a thick squared present, and the other a bit thinner and rectangular. It was in fact, a bunch of new music of artists KITT told her which he liked, along with a. The first gift had music which KITT helped her pick out, and the more rectangular one consisted of two new games as part of KITTs present for Cameron. "One of these needs to be opened after you go see KITT though."she said, handing him the present that didn't have the games in it.

Interceptor (yeah the real form) was still outside in the hangar area outside the front of the lounge opening arcee's presents. When he saw the Energon swords his optics bulged."Ooooh sweet. Ima have fun with this! It may take some adjusting to actually using weapons now and then rather just my fists and guns..."he smiled broadly."Thanks bunches Arcee! "he replied happily, spinning one of the blades around, careful to avoid anyone on his right side. (I forget if it was a pair or just one, so you can clarify that when you post next if you want.) Interceptor then dipped his head respectfully to Arcee, since he wanted to make a temporary departure. "Please excuse me Arcee, I must go get Adam's other present shortly."

Interceptor then zipped off to his berth in a silver blurr, taking his blades with him so he could store them until he had more time to play with them.

KITT smiled, his holoform hugging Corina back."You're very welcome."He then opened up the present from her and admired the beautiful design on the maroon t-shirt rather than the dull one that had absolutely nothing on it which he currently wore. "Wow. Great design. Very stylish-it outdoes this boring shirt of mine easily."he said, putting it on his holoform to try it out. It fit perfectly. "Thank you,"he said, giving her an appreciative hug in return.