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Tigatron had seen the Predacons in the area, likely collecting more energon.
Optimus and Cheetor were in the area, and came when Tigatron commed on the machine out in the sector.
However, by the time they arrived, the Predacons had taken the energon and left.
“Well, that's prime…” Optimus grumbled to himself as he went to the machine, hoping to log in the energon loss and to comm the Axalon.
He turned the machine on, and attempted to contact Rhinox.
Attempted.
The machine only produced static.
“C'mon, slagging thing…” Optimus grumbled again as he pushed all the buttons he knew.
“Perhaps it's the energon field,” Tigatron suggested.
“No, my sensors say it's fine right now…”
As Tigatron and Optimus struggled with the machine, Cheetor felt himself bored. He sat down on the snow, still in beast mode, and found himself fascinated by the snow.
It was somewhat wet, but still intact. When he put his paw in it, the snow didn't fall into the sides.
He tried packing it together. Somehow, it stayed together.
Hm.
He started shaping it into a small ball.
“Oh, I think I've got something!” Optimus cheered at the machine.
Cheetor pushed the ball away, finding the snow gathering onto it. It seemed like Optimus had figured out the machine, so they likely wouldn't be here for too much longer.
Or, that's what Cheetor thought.
“Frag!” The machine beeped again as Optimus slammed a hand down, still trying to get it work.
Cheetor's focus went back to the ball, and decided to start rolling it with his paw.
It grew bigger.
And bigger.
And bigger.
And bigger.
Soon, it got too big for his beast mode, and Cheetor transformed back to robot mode.
He started pushing it, the ball getting bigger.
As Optimus was struggling to fix the machine, not wanting to leave it broken in case they needed it in the future, Tigatron noticed the ball that Cheetor had been working on.
Tigatron moved away from the machine and made his own little ball, starting to roll it, following the way that Cheetor was doing.
Eventually, Tigatron found the ball too big for his beast mode, and transformed as well, pushing the ball towards Cheetor.
Cheetor's ball had gotten too heavy to push any further. He had leaned against it as he noticed Tigatron coming towards him.
His ball was smaller than Cheetor's but still impressive.
As Cheetor looked at the two balls, he got an idea.
“Hey, wait…let's try something…”
*
Optimus had finally gotten the machine working, and commed Rhinox, letting him know of what happened, especially with the machine.
“Alright, finally got the machine working. Cheetor, we can head back…”
He trailed off as he turned, finding Tigatron and Cheetor working on…something.
It was two balls of snow, piled on top of each other. Two sticks were stuck in the middle, resembling arms, and stones were in place of a face.
“...”
“...We were bored.”