A/N: Last time, the Runners encountered a case of a mystery UFO over LA that attacked them when they tried to investigate? Where will their investigation lead. Find out on Part 2, now!
Frost the Halls: Part 2
Later on, the gang had decided to visit Southdale to visit Itzal's family. Itzal had changed back into his regular form of Tony Clark and was wearing the new uniform Clover had bought for him (a purple shirt with a black vest, black pants and purple shoes), and Zeus had brought them all there via his portal abilities. Upon arriving at the Clark's residence, Tony introduced them all to his family, covering that they were all a bunch of pen pals of his that had decided to come and visit. The Clarks all believed it and soon got acquainted with Tony's friends (except Jordan, whom Lee, Megan, and Marc recognized from their first encounter).
"So you guys are into fashion?," Megan asked Jordan and Calla.
"Well Calla is more than me," Jordan answered. "I'm into video games, cartoons, anime, manga, and comics."
"You're into video games?," Lee asked.
"Yep," Bren said. "Though her obsession about them can be a real annoyance."
Jordan, of course, slapped Bren upside the head for that comment. Meanwhile, Marc was chatting it up with Andre and Kani.
"So you're both two of the smartest kids in your school?," he asked them. "And Andre, you're an inventor and a hacker?"
"Yep, one of the best of each," Andre replied.
"Well I'm an inventor too. Let me show you what I've been working on."
Marc rushed up to his room, as Kani turned to Andre, who was smirking and pointing up.
"Andre what are-," she said as she looked up and saw…
"Mistletoe," Andre said. "And you know what that means."
"Aw, no! You already had one kiss from me earlier, Andre Renald!"
"But we're under the mistletoe," he said as he sprayed his mouth with breath spray. "And I'm ready for seconds."
Andre then puckered his lips and then leaned in towards Kani, who backed away as far as she could, trying to avoid him. Just before his lips could make contact wit hers, she ducked out the way causing him to kiss…
WHAM!
Next thing Andre knew, he was sent flying out into the Clark's backyard, courtesy of Marc's invention, a baseball pitching arm machine, which he had kissed.
"Oops," Marc said. Outside, Andre sat up dazed.
"What a woman!," he said. Then he realized the weather had turned cold, and he was sitting in…
"Snow?," he said as he notice the snow falling all around him. "Hey guys check it out! It's snowing!"
The Runners all heard him and went out to the backyard to find that it was indeed snowing, and it was piling up and fast. The rest of Tony's family noticed this from their window as well.
"Correct me if I'm wrong Tony, but it's never snowed here before right?," Jordan asked.
"No, not that I recall," Tony replied. Just then they all heard cheering and laughing. The gang headed out from the backyard to the front yard, to see the entire neighborhood, especially the kids, in winter clothes, and already making the most of the snowy weather: sledding, snowboarding, snowman-building, snowball-fighting, etc.
"Wow, looks like everyone's getting in the holiday spirit with this snow," Layla said.
"And designer scarves aren't just for fashion anymore," Calls said as she saw several girls wearing designer scarves. "They're actually being used to keep warm."
Suddenly the wind and snow begin to pick up and the snowfall quickly becomes a blizzard, surprising the Runners, and scaring the children of the neighborhood.
"What's going on?," Jordan said in shock.
"Okay this just when from unnatural to unnerving," Kani said.
"We'd better get back to L.A.," Zeus said. He then opened up a portal and they all jumped inside and back to Los Angeles.
Upon arriving back at their school, the Runners (with Tony back in Runner form) discovered the Los Angeles was buried in just a giant blizzard just as Southdale was. Students ran to get inside, including Lena.
"This weather is trashing my high-end designer winter clothes," she shrieked. Then she saw the gang and smirked. "At least I have the cheesy scarf you gave me to keep me warm, Cal-Cal."
As she walked away, Calla enraged, picked up a large snowball to throw at her head as she snarled, "CHEESY?! That was an original Limon-Opera!"
"Not now Cal, we have bigger problems to worry about," Jordan reminded her as she stopped her.
"I wonder why that weather satellite didn't pick this blizzard up," Bren wondered.
"I think weird satellite plus weird weather equals major conspiracy here," Zeus assumed as he took a sample of the snow in a vial. "Better get this to Tina for analysis."
"Let's call her and send it," Jordan said. But upon trying to contact her, all Jordan could get was static. "Man, this weather's wrecking the transmission. We'll have to go to CodeX ourselves."
With that, the Runners left the school and made their way to the CodeX building. They were halfway there when suddenly the winds turned stronger, and buffeted the Runners, and in all the confusion, Zeus's RunCom was blown off his wrist by the wind, and into the snow, causing him to change back in to Oak, which he and the other Runners noticed at once.
"Oh-no, my RunCom! I've lost it!," he screamed.
"Oh, Sonny!," a familiar voice said. Everyone turned to see Dana, with mistletoe in hand, over Oak's head. "How about another kiss?"
"Now's not a good time, Dana," Oak said as Jordan quickly tried to find his RunCom in the snow.
"Anytime's a good time for a Christmas kiss," Dana said as she puckered up and moved in close again. Oak, frantic to avoid the kiss, looked to find something or someone for her to kiss. He quickly looked at Bren, but the Fire Runner, apparently knowing what he was thinking pulled out a sign that said, "Don't Even Think About It, Genius!"
Upset, he pulled out a Pokeball, and let out a Pidgey, which he then held in front of him, and she kissed it's beak none the wiser. At the same moment, Jordan finally found Oak's RunCom, and slipped it back on his wrist, causing him to turn into Zeus again. He then quickly recalled Pidgey back into his ball and they all ran off, just as Dana opened her eyes.
"A little beaky than the last one, but I still love it," she said. She then noticed that Oak and the others were gone. "Huh?"
Back at CodeX, the Runners were informing Tina about the satellite attack and the snow in Southdale. Kani and Andre were currently analyzing the snow samples they took to see what they could find.
"So we think the same crazy satellite that attacked us, could have something to do with the crazy weather here and in Southdale," Jordan said.
"It's snow-storming in Southdale?," Tina asked.
"Just as bad as here," Itzal said.
"Hmm, whoever's behind this must have stumbled upon a rouge portal."
"Well who'd want to snow-in SoCal and Soutdale?," Calla asked.
"Who and why?," Bren added in.
"Hey get this guys," Kani said. The analysis says that this snow sample is made from a special designer water that was man made into snow."
"We got the same reading on the ice shard you sent me," Tina said.
"But who would…," Bren began to ask. Just then everyone heard a rumbling sound. "Jordan, is that your stomach?"
"Not me," she answered. Just then, the rumbling got louder and louder. They all looked up to see snow leaking from the roof.
"The snow's causing the roof to cave in!," Jordan shouted.
"Whoa, watch out!," Tina said as she got up from her desk and she and the Runners ran to the back of the office, just as the roof caved in, leaving a gaping hole in it.
"Whoa, that was close," Zeus sighed with relief.
"Okay, this winter is really getting on my nerves," Jordan snapped.
"We should go to Elemental Gardens," Tina suggested. "It very well may be the only other place still above snow level by now."
"Well we need a snow-worthy ride," Kani said.
"Right ahead of you," Jerry said as he appeared and pressed a button on a remote. Two doors opened in the back to reveal a blue van with caterpillar-like wheels.
"The -Blizzard-Mobile-," Tina said. "That'll do."
Just then the roof started to cave in even more.
"Everybody in, quick!" Jerry said. He, Tina, and the Runners got inside the vehicle started it up, zoomed out the window, down onto the snow-covered road and sped away to Elemental Gardens.
Later on, at Elemental Gardens, the residents had taken shelter from the growing storm in their apartments. Many of the Fils-Ame Moffitt students were there as well, having had to evacuate the school, due to the mass snowfall. Many of the residents agreed to temporary house them until further notice. Zeus (now in his real form) had agreed to it as well, allowing several residents and some students, including Lena, to stay in his place (despite some snow leaking in), with Jerry, Tina, and the other Runners. Lena, however, was already making herself unwelcome by eating all of Zeus/Oak's food.
"Okay, I don't mind taking shelter, but that's just taking advantage," Jordan snipped.
"Hey, loser, you're out of potato chips and apple juice," she said. The others, who were still peeved from the coal incident from before, were now incensed.
"Where's that box of coal?!," Calla snapped.
"Now kids, we have more pressing matters at hand," Jerry reminded them.
"I'm sure these pressing matters can wait for us to deck Lena's halls," Jordan quipped.
"Jerry's right, we need to get to the bottom of this," Tina said.
Just then, Dana popped in, with the mistletoe still in hand, and gleemed at Oak.
"Hello, Sonny," she said slyly.
"Not again," Oak said. "Look Dana, I've given you two kisses already. That's enough."
"For me it's never enough, so get ready," Dana said, as she once again moved in, lips puckered. Oak ducked out of the way, causing him to kiss…Jerry. Dana opened her eyes and discovered who she was kissing, and both looked disgusted, as did the others.
"OH MY!," Jerry said as he pulled away and started spitting in disgust, while Dana wiped her mouth in disgust as well.
"Excuse me," she said as she walked away, still wiping her mouth. Oak smirked.
"So, did you enjoy your kiss, Romeo?," Oak asked tauntingly.
"Oh, please," Jerry snapped, annoyed.
Later on, in Zeus's room, which had some snow leaking in as well, the Runners (including Zeus back in Runner form) surrounded Tina and Jerry.
"I have a special gadget that can detect what kind of water this snow is made of," Jerry said as he took out that said gadget. Jordan recognized in instantly.
"You used that same gadget for the same purpose, when the same incident that's happening here happened in Beverly Hills," she said, puzzling the others. "Totally Spies, Season 5, X-mas ep. And as I recall it melted the sample…and it's container."
"Well, don't worry, I think I got all the bugs out of it," Jerry said as he aimed the gadget at the sample. Jordan however, stopped him before he could fire.
"Uh, I think we need to try some other method, Jer."
"Allow me," Calla said as she took a chunk of the snow in Zeus's bedroom, and tasted it for a while before spitting it out.
"Eww, Calla, did you have to spit it out?," Kani asked in disgust.
"This snow was made from H2-Whoa!, which was harvested 10 days ago from the river of a small town in Portugal," she said, stunning the others.
"Just like Clover, you know your designer water."
"Well, if all your parents ever bought was only the finest designer water, you'd get to be an expert."
"So we know the 'what', now to find out the 'who'," Bren said. Zeus took out his RunCom and started surfing the web on his Web App. "According to these reports, someone stole several tons of H2-Whoa! last week."
"And apparently it leads to, Justin Hines, a meteorologist who got laid off from his job at a news station, then took a Mall Santa job, but was fired recently for speaking ill about Christmas in front of a bunch of kids," Andre said, looking at the RunCom.
"Well, either he's got a lot of thirsty elves or he's the culprit behind all this," Layla said. Suddenly they heard a commotion in the living room, and re-entered it to find, a man on Zeus's flat screen TV, wearing a Santa costume, and smiling evilly.
"That's the satellite freak," Jordan said, realizing who he was. "Justin Hines."
"Don't bother trying to fix your TV, because I'm in full control," Hines said. "Thanks to me jamming the signals, only my message will come through, and a good thing, since all you brats, idiot teens, and money-grubbing parents seem to only care about shopping for Christmas anymore!"
"You're point?," Calla and Lena snapped in unison.
"No one cares about Santa, or even knows the true meaning of the holidays anymore. So using my meteorologist background, I've made a device capable of dispensing an endless amount of snow using liquid H2-Whoa!, on all of you spoiled brats, materialistic teens, and weak-willed, gullible parents of Los Angeles!"
"I've been looking for H2-Whoa!, in all the stores all week," Lena growled. "No wonder they were all out!"
"So with an endless snowstorm buffeting the City of Angels, you'll never be able to leave you're homes to shop, because you'll all be snowed in–forever! Happy Holidays, spiritless fools!"
Hines then cut the transmission, leaving everybody distressed. At the same time, outside, the storm began to increase and the snow pile up at the windows. The windows continued to creak, and looked like they were about to shatter any second.
"Okay, Jerry, Ms. Reyheart, you guys try to keep the snow out, while we track down that heartless Grinch, Hines," Jordan said as she and the rest of the gang left to find Hines.
"Got it," Ms. Reyheart said.
"Okay, everyone find whatever you can and help barricade the windows, chop-chop," Jerry said.
A/N: That is one frosty-hearted Grinch! Even worse then Lena! How can the Runners wreck his plans to freeze LA? And will Lena ever get what she most rightfully deserves for Christmas? Find out next time on the grand finale of our holiday special!