Prunella threw down the phone and came over to see the kids.

"Oh, poor Prunella, all that hard work for nothing?" Eloise mused.

"You would think they would know not to send folding chairs to a wedding!" Prunella snapped. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an hour to find replacements!"

"What?!" The kids exclaimed from shock.

"That means they're actually going through with it!" Eloise yelled out that the wedding was still on. "After we-"

Prunella glanced at the kids, now having a sneaking suspicion. "After what...? What have you four been up to?"

"Run." Felicity whispered to her friends, dashing off with them to avoid the icy woman.

"Me and Eloise will go warn Rachel, you two go and inform Mom, Aunt Cherry, and Uncle Forte." Akito said while running.


Estelle and Felicity then went up to their floor. Eloise was running with Akito to find Bill however.

"Bill!" Eloise and Akito called out as they went into the kitchen.

The chefs were making a wedding cake.

"He left on his vacation." the top chef told them as he heard them come in for the man.

Eloise's mouth gaped open and she ran with Akito to now find Rachel. They had no time to lose, they had to tell her all about Brooks.

"Rachel, it's us, Eloise and Akito!" Eloise slammed on the doors. "There's something you don't know!"

Brooks opened the doors and looked at them, seeming evil at the moment. "What sort of things? Let's take a little walk, shall we?"

"Over my dead body." Akito said while glaring at Brooks and protecting Eloise.

Your funeral, kid." Brooks picked them both up and started to carry them away quickly so no one would see him.

"Put us down, you evil-hearted, selfish, devil of a man!" Akito exclaimed from rage.

Brooks refused to and took them to a part that seemed to be off-limits to anyone and he put the kids in a closet.

"Rachel will never marry you now!" Eloise snarled.

"Who's gonna stop her?" Brooks taunted as he shut the doors and locked the kids inside.

"Let us out of here!" Akito called out.

Eloise slammed on the doors, then sighed. "This is the worst Christmas Eve ever... Rachel's gonna marry Brooks and everyone's going to be miserable!"


Cherry, Forte, Simon, and Mo weren't in the room when Estelle and Felicity came.

"Maman? Papa? Frère?" Felicity called to her family. "Où sont vous?"

"Where are they?" Estelle asked.

Felicity saw a note left behind written from her mother. "They are at the wedding!"

"Oh, no! We've got to go and tell them." Estelle said.

"Come on then." Felicity put the note down and ran with Estelle to get to where the wedding was being held.

Prunella was greeting people as they came in.


"There's gotta be a way out of here..." Eloise took off her scarf and hat as she sat next to Akito. "What do you wanna do until we get out of here?"

"I guess we could just talk," Akito said, before he remembered something. "Wait, do you still have the walkie-talkie?"

Eloise checked her pockets quickly. "Got it!" She beamed once she took one out. "I don't know where the other one is... I hope someone helpful gets this..."

"Let's hope that someone finds the other one." Akito said.

"Nanny? Giselle? Anyone?" Eloise remembered she had put her spy kit back in the wrapped present before she left so Nanny wouldn't be suspicious.

"Hello?" Giselle's voice was heard.

"Giselle!" Eloise exclaimed. "Giselle, come in, do you read me?"

"It's me, Eloise, where are you? Nanny's gotten worried!" Giselle called back.

"Me and Eloise are locked in a locker in the downstairs and I mean downstairs, downstairs." Akito said.

"It's horrible!" Eloise added.

Giselle and Nanny then quickly got on their way, but it might take a little while.

"So, what do you wanna talk about?" Eloise asked after she felt better to know that help was on the way.

"Well, um, *gulps* Eloise, I've been wanting to tell you this ever since we first met." Akito said.

"What is it, Akito?" Eloise looked back at him.

"I really like you, Eloise, and I mean like you, like you." Akito said.

Eloise's eyes widened. "Oh, really?" She blushed in return, then bit her lip. "I-I actually kind of felt the same way... I didn't say anything, because I thought you'd think it was yucky... You're not just saying that and are afraid of cooties, right?"

"Of course not." Akito said.

Eloise rubbed her bare arm as she scooted closer with Akito. Akito then held her close to him. Eloise smiled, looking up to him. Before the kids could do anything to express their childhood friend romance, two voices were heard.

"Eloise, Akito!" Nanny and Giselle called.

"In here!" Eloise called, banging on the closet they were trapped in.

"We're in the closet!" Akito called.

Nanny could see them, but wasn't sure how to get them out.

"Let me handle this." Giselle told the elderly woman as she attempted to get the lock, but it needed a key, and she had none.

Nanny grabbed a heavy metal implement. "Stand back, I'm come, come, coming in!" she called. She slammed the metal against the door handles, crushing them and disabling the lock.

They then got out of the closet. Eloise and Akito took Nanny and Giselle's hands to rush up the ladder and stop the wedding. Felicity and Estelle were in the vents system.

"Come on, we gotta 'smash' the wedding!" Felicity called.

"I think you mean 'crash the wedding'." Estelle said.

"Whatever!" Felicity shrugged. "Come on, we got to go!"

Nanny was unsure about going too, but she did and they were all crawling around the vents.


As they all looked out, the priest had Brooks and Rachel take hands as they got to the final part before the 'I do's'. They had to hurry. Rachel looked very hesitant to answer when she was asked to promise to love and care for Brooks until death they would part.

"No!" Eloise couldn't help but yell out, but it wasn't too loud.

Brooks thought Rachel had said that, but she then had the courage to refuse her marriage vows.

'Yes, she made the right choice.' Akito thought.

Bill had just come in then, much to everyone's surprise. Had he not left for Vermont like he said he would? Rachel looked very happy to see Bill while Brooks looked a little disappointed. She even happily went to him.

"Hm, juicy..." Cherry muttered with a satisfied smirk at this wedding's turn of events.

"Wow, I didn't see that coming." Mo muttered.

Eloise, Nanny, Giselle, and the others giggled from their hiding spot. Prunella had heard them and looked directly up toward them. Bill and Rachel were sharing a romantic kiss that the bride was only to share with her groom. This was a very romantic scene.


After the wedding seemed to be called off, everyone returned to their respective rooms. Mo smiled as she shared Christmas Eve with her family, then the telephone rang.

"Uncle Atticus?" Felicity answered the phone. "Oh... Bonjour, Monsieur Peabody... I am Felicity... Huh? Okay, I will tell everyone." she hung up the phone.

"What's wrong, Flick?" Cherry asked as she had just put Simon down for the night.

"He wants to speak with moi, Estelle, Akito, and Eloise right away." Felicity explained the call.

"Okay." Akito said.


The kids saw Eloise and Giselle with Nanny as they came into the elevator. Mo took the kids while Cherry and Forte would stay and keep an eye on Simon until they would come back. Eloise was a little nervous.

Max looked over at the kids and came closer towards Eloise. "By the way, they fit perfectly." He showed the present Eloise gave him over his gloved hands with a friendly smile, but hid them and continued to be quiet after the elevator stopped.

"I'll be right next to you." Akiro said as he held Eloise's hand.

Eloise blushed slightly and smiled to Akito. The kids got off the elevator with Nanny, Giselle, and Mo behind them. Mr. Peabody and Prunella were standing by Mr. Salamone's desk, ready to take the kids head on about the wedding their meddling with Rachel and Bill lately.

"You guys go ahead, we'll be right here." Giselle told the kids and stood back with Mo and Nanny.

The kids nod. The kids walked together to meet the two adults.

"Merry Christmas, Mr. Peabody..." Eloise said in a soft voice.

Mr. Peabody gave a nod. "Children, I've been told today was your faults. Is that true?"

"Go on, admit it, you little wedding wreckers." Prunella demanded, sounding colder than gloomy old Cherry.

Mo clutched her fists, trying not to fight Prunella. Prunella kept quiet when she was asked to.

"Well?" Mr. Peabody was still waiting for an answer.

"We just wanted her to have a true love." Estelle spoke up.

"It would never ever be Brooks!" Akito added in.

"It just could not be." Felicity finished.

"So, you all decided to take manners into your own hands, is that right?" Mr. Peabody continued.

"Well... We may have slightly arranged for them to sort of run into each other..." Eloise admitted quietly. "But we had to, Mr. Peabody, if you just saw them together, I mean really saw them, you'd know that. And that's where her heart's always been. It's always been Bill, Mr. Peabody. They belong together."

Mr. Peabody blinked. "So, it's true then? You four are all responsible for this."

"Yes." Akito said.

Eloise, Estelle, and Felicity only hung their heads. Prunella smirked as they were sad.

"Thank you," Mr. Peabody replied. "That's all I wanted to know."

Mo, Giselle, and Nanny then went to take the kids back upstairs.

Mrs. Thornton came down then with Mona. "What is the meaning of this? I demand to know why I've been summoned down here on this ghastly hour!"

Akito had a feeling something great was going to happen. Mr. Peabody showed that Mrs. Thornton had a guest. It was the Prince of Bulgaria. Mrs. Thornton's son Edgar was married to his sister and gave some of the fortune Edgar had made due to being loved by the prince's people as a token of gratitude. The kids all smiled and looked at Nanny, Giselle, and Mo, feeling like this was going to be a Merry Christmas for Mrs. Thornton after all. The prince saw the kids looking at him and he looked at them back, seeming familiar.

"Bill?" the kids whispered.

The prince only winked at them.

"Your Highness, I'm told you're quite talented at piano..." Mr. Peabody said to him.

The prince and Mr. Peabody then left and Prunella was left in shock and despair. Mr. Peabody thanked the four children before leaving.

'You're welcome.' Akito thought.

"Thank you!?" Prunella yelled out. "Do you mean to say you're going to let some demonic child and others determine who's fit to marry your daughter!?"

"If she says one more word..." Nanny whispered, bearing her fist.

"Right behind ya." Mo agreed.

"A waiter!?" Prunella continued. "Instead of a fine, outstanding, citizen like Mr. Oliver!?"

But then, a man with Brooks, came in. Brooks was in handcuffs and was being taken by the mysterious man with the newspaper a couple of times before.

"Brooks?" Rachel was concerned.

"Special Agent Kringle," the man showed his badge. "FBI. I've been watching Brooks here for the past week, and a fingerprint analysis just confirmed he's our boy. His real name's Jimmy Stutts, wanted in three states for forgery, fraud and expulsion."

The kids then grinned as things were going their way again.

"You were saying?" Mr. Peabody glanced to Prunella.