"I'm really looking forward to the race! I wonder who's gonna be competing this year!" Snowflare bounced a little while she walked beside her mate, the very strong and very protective D16. "Who knows! Maybe Mirage! I know you think he's cute." The mech replied with a teasing smile. Snowflare only shook her helm and hooked her arm around D16's. "The only mechs I find cute are you and Orion... . Speaking of, where is he? I hadn't seen him this morning."

Just as the femme inquired on the whereabouts of her other mate, two larger mechs landed in front of her and D16. Peaking her helm over, she could spot Orion trying to reason with the two. Suddenly, D16 crashed his cart into the two larger mechs. As they turned to berate him, Snowflare slyly assisted Orion in hiding from them. Once the mechs ran off in search of Orion, D16 and Snowflare boarded the train carrying the other miners.

"Alright, Coast is clear." D said as Snowflare giggled watching Orion pop out the cart. "D16, Now I may be a little rusty but corroded, that's too far." Orion joked. "Let me guess, you checked outta the archives?" D16 asked while looking at his friend. As the mechs talked, Snowflare was busy looking out the train window. Her optics though covered, still widened with wonder and excitement like usual whenever she caught the sight of the large Sentinel Prime monument.

From the day she came online, Snowflare had always looked up to Sentinel. He was her hero. If she could meet him, she would. "Hey, Sweetspark, come on!" Orion called out to the femme before taking her smaller servo into his and kissing it. "Ugh you show off. We'll see you after our shift, ok?" Snowflare nodded as she received a sweet kiss from D16 then Orion before the three went their separate ways.

While the mechs mined the energon, Snowflare pushed the carts to the converter belt where she and other miners tilted the energon rich rocks onto the belt for them to be processed then made into the cubes the planet consumed. Her job, while not as dangerous as her mates, was still time consuming and hard on her joints. Later that day, Snowflare and another femme talked about their mates. "I suspect he's going to ask me to be his Sparkmate soon! Oh I'm so excited!!" The femme squealed before she asked Snowflare about Orion and D16.

"They're a bit of a handful but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love them very much." As Snowflare finished her statement, she noticed her two mates trudging over to their lockers. "Uh oh, something happened...I'll uh...I'll see you later Nightbird." As Snowflare made her way over to her mates, they both tried to play off what had happened to them. Eventually, Orion spilled the bolts and revealed what actually happened on their shift.

"I'm sorry Snow, but your split spark is really mad. She might not be in the mood to even talk to you. And she loves to talk to you." Orion said as he took her smaller servo into his. Snowflare simply smiled before kissing his face plate. "You two let me worry about her, I just want you two not to do something that dangerous again. I don't want to have to bury you both because you decide to play the hero." Orion nodded before he leaned in and kissed Snowflare gently and pulled away to let D16 do the same.

Suddenly an announcement came in. "Attention All Sectors. Please Stand By For A Live Transmission From Sentinel Prime." As the leader of the Cybertron appeared in holo form, Snowflare smiled brightly while D16 cheered. Orion smiled as he placed a servo on Snowflare's shoulder armor. The three along with their fellow miners listened intently to the message. Sentinel failed to find the matrix yet again but he assured the masses that he would indeed find it.

The second message was to inform that all shifts would be off for the Iacon5000. A high octane race around the city. An event that displayed the talents of many transformers. And the absolute favorite event of D16. it used to be because of all the racers and the high adrenaline it gave off. But now, it was because the race was where he and Orion met Snowflare. Many cycles ago. He remembered it as if it happened only a few moments ago.

He and Orion were never the type to really chase after femmes, mostly due to the fact that many of the femmes they found pretty were out of their class. Them being miners while the femmes were transformers. So what were the odds of the two mechs getting seats right next to mini con Snowflare and her older split spark Elita-One.

D16 knew the moment their eyes met, that she just had to be his. Things did get a bit rocky when Orion revealed he was also pining after Snowflare but after coming to the agreement they could just share, life became so much better. "Oh yea! I hope Mirage wins this year! Oooh or Behemoth!" Snowflare exclaimed as she joined in on the excitement of the mention of the race.

The very next day, Snowflare scored exceptionally good seats and waited for her mates to show up. While she waited, Orion and D16 climbed a ladder to the light looking over the starting line. "Don't be a glitch, this'll be totally worth it!" Orion said as he climbed the ladder. "Hey, you don't be a glitch. Look, I know this is like fun for you to loom around but if I miss any part of the Iacon5000 I swear I will...smelt your...face ...off..." D16's sentence trailed off as his optics were met with the tremendously gorgeous view of the racers and the crowd.

His optics then zoomed in on Snowflare as she cheered with the crowd. "Ugh Primus, how can a femme be so damn pretty? Like he must have used some kind of special energon to make her." Orion chuckled as his optics zoomed in on her as well. "Beautiful sight. Can you believe she's all ours? Don't you wanna impress her? Don't you wanna make her proud to have us as her mates?" Orion asked as he slyly put the jetpack on D16's back.

"Are you kidding? If I was able to do something like that, afterwards, I'd ask her to marry.....Why'd you bring jetpacks?" The mech turned to his friend and eyed him confused. "It's time to show them we're more than meets the eye." D16 immediately knew what Orion meant. "Oh no..." As the race kicked off, Snowflare was one of the very first to notice two familiar mechs amongst the transformers. "Orion?! D?!"