"Oh, Mickey, look." Minnie smiled, bringing something out.
"Aw, the Nutcracker," Mickey smiled back. "Why, even Donald's gonna love that."
"Now here's a Christmas story with a new twist," Minnie beamed. "And it was made all the sweeter because of my Mickey."
"Aunt Minnie!" Twin voices interrupted which made the mouse woman look over to see her nieces. "We wanna be in the story with Morty and Ferdie!"
"Looks like we have two more characters for this story." Mo noted.
"Well... All right, girls," Minnie smiled to her nieces. "Your time to shine."
"All right!" Millie and Melody beamed, high-fiving each other. "Girl Power!"
Quack Pack Huey, Louie, and Dewey just looked at their modern-day counterparts and shrugged.
"Quack Pack, huh?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll have to cover that too in the future," Cherry replied. "I guess we would be high school aged in that timeline?"
"Well, we're college-aged by this point, so why not?" Lionel shrugged.
"Put it on the list..." Cherry sighed.
Mo soon wrote down Quack Pack on a long list which reached and spread out to the floor about fandoms that PerkyGoth14 had written for.
"I think the joke is obvious enough..." Lionel shrugged. "Back to our cartoon commentary!"
Eventually, a Nutcracker cartoon started with Minnie's nieces being in the story.
"I'm Millie." The mouse girl in the purple dress smiled.
"And I'm Melody!" The mouse girl in the green dress added.
"And we're aware of that!" Lionel interjected.
"It is December 24th, Christmas Eve." A voice began to narrate.
"Is that John Cleese?" Cherry asked, almost fangirling.
"Yeah, I think so." Lionel nodded.
"Awesome!" Cherry beamed.
"Young Millie and Melody waited all day for this moment." The narrator continued.
"Oh... It's so beautiful." Melody smiled to her sister as they looked through the keyholes together.
"No kidding!" Millie replied.
"Christmas is here!" Ludwig beamed as he opened the doors.
"This runt again?" Cherry muttered.
"Everything shone and glittered in the loveliest manner," The narrator said as the girls rushed inside the living room. "Who, oh, who could describe them all?"
"I can," Ludwig smirked as he took out some toys. "Now, this here, is a nice little dolly. And here is a kooky cuckoo clock, and look, it's a choo-choo train!"
"Excuse me, I'm trying to narrate." The narrator scolded.
"You said you wanted someone to describe all this stuff here!" Ludwig glared at the narrator.
"That was a rhetorical question," The narrator replied. "Pretend like I'm not here."
"How do you expect me to ignore a big, booming voice that's blabbery-blabbering all the time?!" Ludwig glared.
"He's got a point. It's like trying to ignore an earthquake..." Lionel replied.
"At least John Cleese's voice is pleasant to listen to..." Cherry added. "...For me anyway."
"It's alright, but it's tough to ignore." Lionel responded.
Ludwig muttered to himself as he soon came to the mouse twins.
"This year, Godpapa Drosselmeyer had made special gifts for young Millie and Melody." The narrator informed as the duck approached the mice.
"All right, little ones," Ludwig smirked. "Now, these took me all-"
"It had taken him all year to build." The narrator interrupted.
"Way to interrupt..." Lionel smirked.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Atticus smirked back to that.
"Right... All year..." Ludwig glared before continuing what he was saying. "It's two beautiful-"
"Two beautiful Nutcracker dolls." The narrator informed.
"Knock-Knock, who's there? Interrupting narrator! Interrupting narrator who-WORDS!" Lionel joked.
"Wow." Cherry smirked, that joke was so cheesy, but it still managed to make her laugh.
"Thanks, you're a terrific audience." Lionel bowed.
"You're no narrator!" Ludwig glared. "You're just a great big surprise spoiler!"
"Ignore me and give them the dolls!" The narrator replied firmly.
"Fine, fine, alright," Ludwig replied before looking to Minnie's nieces. "Here are the no-longer-a-surprise Nutcracker dolls. Take them already." he then handed them two mouse Nutcracker dolls which resembled Mickey's nephews.
"Oh... They're so handsome." Millie and Melody smiled.
Lionel shrugged. "Weird thing to say about a toy, but whatever."
"Oh, thank you," Ludwig smiled to the girls. "I have been taking care of myself. I've been doing some jogging, and weight-lifting-Oh! You're talking about the dolls. Yeah, they're cute too."
"Watch this, Millie." Melody told her sister as she wound up the back of her Nutcracker doll to make it move.
The doll then proceeded to start moving. It took off its hat and bowed to the girl and she gave a bow in response, removing her hair ribbon. Millie smiled and soon did the same thing with her own Nutcracker doll as they shared a dance with instrumental music playing.
"Alright, not bad." Lionel commented.
"I feel like I've had enough Nutcracker adventures for a while." Cherry commented.
Millie and Melody smiled as they had fun with Morty and Ferdie while Ludwig seemed to be annoyed somewhat. And they continued watching. Mo bobbed her head along to the music as she seemed to dance her own version of ballet despite being a tomboy. Lionel got bored after a while, so he mentally tuned out.
"Oh, I just love it!" Millie beamed.
"Me too!" Melody added as they hugged their Nutcracker dolls. "Oh, thank you, Godpapa Drosselmeyer!"
"Wait a minute! They're not supposed to dance!" Ludwig glared as he grabbed a hold of the dolls. "Must have some loose cogwheels in there somewhere..." he then took off one of the dolls' heads.
"You broke him!" Melody gasped and then glared with her hands on her hips.
"Right. And just for that, I'm kicking you out of the story." The narrator replied.
"Uh-oh!" Lionel smirked.
Ludwig was then kicked out into the snow which made the others laugh at his misfortune. Millie and Melody smiled as they hugged their dolls happily.
"Well, stinks to be Ludwig right now.." Lionel smirked.
"Eeyup." Atticus replied in agreement.
"Yup. So I guess that's it?" asked Lionel
"From him anyway." Cherry replied.
The story soon shrunk Millie and Melody in size and they were now the same size as their dolls and Donald had appeared in the cartoon as 'The Evil Mouse King'.
"Waitasecond... Wouldn't he technically be the Evil Duck King?" Lionel asked.
"Isn't there a King Duck in a cartoon you watch sometimes?" Atticus asked Cherry.
"King Chicken." Cherry corrected.
"Oh, yeah! He was the villain in Duckman, voiced by Tim Curry!" Lionel replied. "That show was hilarious!"
"My mistake." Atticus replied.
"If that's the case, then I got a feeling you might like your present..." Lionel smirked.
Cherry raised her eyebrows to that, feeling quite curious.
"You'll see." Lionel replied cheerfully.
"Mm... 'Kay." Cherry replied.
Goofy also appeared to be in the cartoon as the Sugarplum Fairy.
"Goofy as a fairy?" Cherry muttered.
"Why not? It's ridiculous and unexpected." Mo replied.
"It's Pinkie Pie, don't question-" Atticus was about to phrase.
Cherry suddenly had a light-saber at him which made his eyes widen. "I WILL QUESTION WHAT I DAMN WELL PLEASE!"
"Well, can't argue with that sound logic!" Lionel smirked. "Grop, I love when she gets mad like that..."
Eventually, the cartoon ended happily with Millie and Melody with Morty and Ferdie while Donald had lost in the end, despite the narrator promising him that he would win in the end.
"That was cute." Mo commented.
"This is turning out to be a wonderful Christmas." The Beast smiled to Belle.
"Sure, but can it beat your 'Enchanted Christmas'?" Cherry replied.
"Probably not, but it was alright." Lionel shrugged.
"We finished our house." The Three Little Pigs smiled as they made an igloo.
"I knew Mickey wouldn't let us down!" Ariel giggled as she sat with Eric.
Even Jafar was laughing happily. "It's good to see that a Merry Christmas is being had by all."
"See? Not even bad guys can resist the Christmas spirit!" Patch commented.
"So, Donald, ya feeling jolly yet?" Goofy asked the duck as he seemed to be smiling.
"I say..." Donald smiled before glaring. "Humbug!"
Everyone seemed to glare at him for being such a Grinch, except for maybe Grumpy the Dwarf.
"I did everything I could think of," Mickey frowned as he walked off. "I guess Donald's just never gonna have the Christmas spirit."
"You did your best, Mickey," Lionel shrugged. "Some people just can't be helped."
"Yeah, I guess so..." Mickey sighed as he began to walk outside in the snow.
Lionel sighed, sitting down. "Well, we did all we could."
"I give up too." Atticus sighed.
"Oh, Atty, don't think like that." Cherry told her oldest friend.
"What's the point?" Patch sighed. "Donald's such a grouch, it's hopeless. And Mickey is hopeful for EVERYONE!"
"Guys..." Cherry said. "Don't be depressed."
"That's easy for you to say, Cherry," Atticus replied. "You like being depressed."
"Yeah... Or at least moody." Patch added. "If Mr. Hopeful himself calls it quits, then it's over."
"We gotta do something," Lionel sighed. "Problem is, I dunno what."
"Oh, I wish something that seemed insignificant at one point would come back into the climax to suddenly become the answer to all of our problems." Cherry muttered.
"I think someone might need some guidance." A cricket soon appeared on the bridge of her nose.
"BUG! KILL IT!" Cherry yelped.
"Stop!" Lionel yelled, freezing her hand. "That's not just ANY bug, it's Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's conscience and guide!"
"Oh, in that case." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"I figured you folks could use some help." Jiminy smiled.
"You figured, right, Jiminy!" Lionel replied. "We're at our lowest point. Donald has zero holiday spirit, and Mickey's given up."
"Now, children, the Christmas spirit doesn't come from a party; it comes from sharing the holiday with family and friends," Jiminy advised. "And it seems to me that Donald has the best friend anyone could want in all of you."
"Wow, that's pretty sweet and mushy." Cherry replied.
"Yeah, but it sure fits the season." Lionel and Patch nodded.
"All I wish is that everybody has a Merry Christmas," Atticus smiled. "Even a scrooge like Donald Duck."
"Have you all ever wished upon a star?" Jiminy smiled back. "Your dreams just might come true."
"Yes..." Atticus replied before he began to sing. "A dream is a wish... Your heart makes... When you're fast asleep~..."
"In dreams, you will lose your heartaches..." Cherry soon joined him from the song from their very first ever adventure together which made history on the Internet, and the rest was history. "Whatever you wish for, you keep, Have faith in your dreams and, someday~
"Your rainbow will come smiling through~," Cherry and Atticus sang together as best friends. "No matter how your heart is grieving, If you keep on believing, The dream that you wish will come true~"
"Hey, izzis a duet, or can anybody join in?" Lionel asked.
"Shh~" Cherry shut him out just this once.
"Sorry." Lionel backed up.
Cherry and Atticus soon shared a friendly smile with each other since they had been friends for so long.
"Alright, I can stay on the side for once." Lionel shrugged.
Soon, the song ended before Cherry and Atticus shared a hug.
"Atticus, I love you, you're my brother." Cherry said.
"And you're my sister, Cherry." Atticus smiled tearfully.
"And you two, are the best pals a guy could ask fer!" Lionel beamed, hugging the both of them.
"You're great too, Lionel." Atticus smiled.
"And I think now you've earned your gift." Cherry added.
Lionel beamed. "Well, I guess it's alright." he shrugged casually, trying to play it cool.
Atticus then got out of the way with Patch and Mo. Cherry walked up to Lionel, making him back up against a wall and she put her hands over him, against the wall to make sure that he wouldn't go anywhere.
"Alright then..." Lionel replied, smiling. "Ready when you are!"
"Look up." Cherry said.
Lionel looked up to see something hanging from the ceiling. "Is that mistletoe?"
"Mm-hmm~" Cherry replied before pulling him into a sudden kiss.
Lionel's entire body went bright-red starting from his face, and left him with a goofy smile on his face. Cherry then stepped back, putting her hands behind her back. Lionel let out a dopey giggle, and stumbled about the area, intoxicated with delight.
"That was very nice of you, Cherry." Atticus smiled.
"I know." Cherry rolled her eyes to him.
"Th... Thaaaaanks..." Lionel beamed. "Best... Gift... Ever..." he smiled, before returning to normal.
"I try." Cherry replied modestly.
Mickey and Patch soon both wished that everybody would have the Christmas spirit, wishing upon the star.
"Y'know, I think it's working!" Lionel beamed.
"It's just the magic of Christmas." Mo replied.
"Gosh..." Mickey smiled as he caught the star.
"Let's go see Donald." Patch suggested.
"Good idea!" Lionel replied.
They soon went to go and see Donald.