I TOLD YOU I'D HAVE IT UP IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! I DID ITTTTTT! Hope you enjoy :)


Have you ever had one of those days where you end up in a cross town battle over a Christmas tree?

Well that was the kind of day that Six was having.


Six awoke that morning confident. He was no fool, and had known from the begging that he was going to be celebrating Christmas with Rex, and Holiday. It wasn't surprising that they would force him to participate. Not that he would have bothered objecting in the first place.

So he had made sure that he was ready. He had gotten presents that he was (more or less) confident that everyone would like. They where wrapped and all ready. And as an extra precaution they where all in a fire proof safe. He wasn't going to take any chances.

Now that Six had nothing to worry about, he could sit back and calmly watch everyone else panic. It was quite enjoyable really as long as he didn't get dragged into it.

Yes Six sat in the cafeteria with his coffee listening to the Providence drones talk about how they haven't prepared at all and how they will have to go do their shopping all tonight. Six had never really understood how people could leave everything to the last minute. How hard was it really?

But perhaps Six's highly adapt multitasking skills helped. In fact he had found his gift for Rex when he had literally been thrown through a window, and right at it. But some people where not as blessed, and really could only do one thing at a time.

Enter Holiday.

And Noah. The doctor was, much to everyones horror, was heading straight to the kitchen. The blond teen was desperately trying to get in between the two, each time he tried to talk her down she just sidestepped him. She was getting way to close to her target for comfort.

Six sprang into action causing the lab technicians at the nearest table jump. During the month or so when Six was still... metallic, he had been easy to spot. There was something terribly unnerving about suddenly having a massive green blur move across your vision.

Dr. Holiday raised her eyebrows at the two standing between her and the kitchen. She sighed, and stopped walking.

"Oh, come on I need to bake some Christmas cookies! What's the worst that can happen? I-"

"Burn the base down?" Holiday glared the blond teen who took half a step backward so that he could use Six as a human shield.

"It's not Christmas without Christmas cooki-" And suddenly Rex came crashing through the celling, tackling Holiday in the process.

"Please don't bake anything!" Six offered the doctor a hand and helped her up before looking at the newly formed hole, at least they where only on the second floor and it was not the roof that was damaged. Noah looked pissed.

"You send me to stop her, so you can make a dramatic entrance?" Rex grinned at his friend, clearly taking this as a sign that his entrance had done the trick. Dr. Holiday frowned and stared at the kitchen doors that only lay a few feet away, which Six had continued to block the pathway to.

It was about at this point when all the other Providence agents left the cafeteria. They had long sense learned that it was best to stay out of these situations. Everything goes well as long as you stay well away from those four. Well five when Bobo bothers showing up.

"If I can't make the cookies then who will?" The two teens stepped forward.

"Well-"

"No."

"But-"

"No."

"Oh come on Six, we can't be worse than her!"

"We can't afford to loose another base."

"I'd like to see you do better!" There was a pause. Six then turned and headed into the kitchen. The other 3 stared for a moment before following the agent. Inside they found Six putting on an apron (picking the standard white instead of the pink) and getting out the necessary ingredients.

Six turned, looking back at them, and raised an eyebrow. Slowly the 3 of them turned to leave, seeing that the agent was in fact going to make the cookies. He paused and stared at the door for a good minute before outing away the ingredients that he had taken out.

He smirked to himself as he headed to the fridge. Why? Because Six had prepared for this. In the fridge he got out a tube of plain cookie dough. Yes, he was no fool, knowing Holiday there had been no doubt in his mind that she would want to bake, and White had made it pretty clear that under no circumstances where they to loose another base.

So he got the cookie dough out and cut it into pieces (that where only roughly the same size, nothing perfect or they would get suspicious) and put them on cooking sheet, before throwing it in the oven.

And crisis number one was averted.


Dr. Holiday was impressed to say the least. She wasn't sure if, or why Six had been so willing to make the cookies but sure enough, when she came back an hour later there they where.

Maybe Six liked Christmas.

Or at least it was clear that he wasn't a Scrooge.

And she was fully prepared to take advantage of the fact.

You see, as much as Holiday hated to admit it, she hadn't prepared much for Christmas, and while she would love to do it now, the doctor had work to do. How depressing, having to work on Christmas Eve.

But hopefully with Six's help everything would get done.


Six was prepared but this... This was a little ridiculous.

Holiday had approached him shortly after his 'home made' cookies came out of the oven. She had said something about having to work, and making sure that Rex has a good Christmas, and...

And somehow he ended up in charge of wrapping a plethora of presents. No big deal really, most of them where nice and rectangular shaped, which made his life much easier,

But...

But how exactly was he supposed to wrap that?

Really he was an agent not a miracle worker. And this... This was impossible. The best solution he could think of was to maybe put it in a box.

But honesty Providence doesn't have a load of appropriately sized boxes just laying around. So... A bow maybe? But Six never really thought it necessary to learn how to make a pretty bow. It seemed kind of... Pointless.

It had even gotten to the point when he had even asked White what he thought.

And the Knight had just laughed.

So Six was sitting, wondering what exactly he was supposed to do with this.


Oh.

Oh Dammit.

Bobo stared in horror at the empty space in the corner of the room.

What had happened last night?

Bobo refused to admit that he had a problem. Really he honestly didn't believe that he did have one. But occasionally. ONLY OCCASIONALLY. Bobo woke up regretting what ever had happened the night before.

And this was one of those moments.

The corner of the room was empty. It hadn't been empty the night before...

The doctor was going to kill him. And if she didn't the green bean and the kid would. Maybe even White, depending on what else he had 'lost'.

After about thirty solid minutes of staring at the empty corner, the best idea that the poor chimpanzee could make was to run.

Well not before grabbing some cash for... cards...


Night was falling. And nothing had really gone wrong yet.

And despite having planned, Six was nervous. Something was bound to go wrong, surely something would. But Rex went off to bed and Six went to go get a cookie, and nothing.

But then the nothing was over.

Holiday came running into the cafeteria. Panicked. But surely it was nothing to worry about, he had prepared for everything.

"The Christmas Tree! It's gone!"

Well almost everything.

Six raised an eyebrow at the panicked doctor. She took a deep breath and continued. "I went to put the presents under the tree and it's completely gone!"

"Gone."

"Yes Six, gone." Six closed his eyes. He had prepared for everything within reason. But they had already bought a tree, so instead of buying a back up he had just fireproofed the tree instead. He clenched his teeth.

"Did it walk away."

"I don't know Six, I'm looking into it." And then Holiday gave him a look. A pleading look, that was making the agent quite uncomfortable. "Do you think... That you... Could go buy a new tree?" Six opened his mouth to protest, but didn't, Holiday grinned. "Thank you Six" She gave him a quick hug before rushing off.

Six sighed and looked at his watch, it was 10:30, everything was going to close soon, though everything would be open slightly later than usual for all those guys who forgot to shop until then.

The agent headed to get a jet but stopped. But the time he could get one ready the stores would be closed. So the next best thing would be to go and take a car.

So he entered the garage and looked around for a suitable car. But it turns out that most people drove their cars home at night. Leaving two unusable cars (there was no way that a tree would fit in ether of them) and one car off in the far corner.

The car that Six had drove into Providence all those years ago. As he approached the green pickup and wondered how the car had even made it as far as it did. The thing was old to begin with, at least as old as he was, and was pretty much 90% rust.

Really Six hadn't remembered how bad it was. Duck tape was holding the poor thing together. He pried the door open, and got in. Six had left the keys in there because no one in their right mind would ever steal it.

Eventually he got the car to start and left, looking for a parking lot with trees in it. He found many empty ones before finally there was a lot with a single tree in the middle. Six stopped the car and quickly made his way to the tree.

He was not alone.

At the same moment another man grabbed for the tree. Well the man wasn't alone he and his other 'homies' where standing behind him, the lot owner was closing in.

"Ah the last tree. That'll be $200." The man who appeared to be the leader of the group or gang that was standing there was quickly trying to gather the money for the tree.

But Six came prepared! He quickly pulled out the 200 dollars and forked it over to the man before grabbing the tree and moving quickly (as quickly as anyone can while holding a tree that is) to the car. The gang quickly followed.

"Hey man I was gunna to buy that!" Six pulled the door open (it making an always reassuring creak) and got in the car before turning back to the group.

"And I did." Six drove off as fast as his car would allow. It, in general is not the wisest of idea to piss off gang members but as long as he got to the base then it wouldn't matter.

But that's when Six remembered that a Christmas tree needs lights and ordainments. Knowing that it was likely that no where else was open Six headed off to the Target. He rushed into the nearly empty store and to the conveniently placed light stand, grabbing four or so boxes quickly went to pay.

Sadly it was not quick enough. He exited the Target just in time to see the bunch from the lot driving off with the tree in their car. Six clinched his fist and ran to his car throwing the lights in the back, and drove after them.

The poor old pickup truck was not nearly as fast as their car though. However this worked to his advantage, for by the time that Six caught up they had just stopped driving. The agent exited the car and headed to theirs pulling out his twin katanas as he walked.

It was only natural that the other guys had guns to match.

Anyhow a few ninja moves later and Six was putting the tree back in his pickup, and driving off.

The car slowly rattled down the street, and he prayed that the old thing was going to make it back in one piece. Just as the good agent was thinking this there was an impact.

And suddenly the world did a summersault.

Or perhaps it was just the car. The gang members had rammed the car, and after rolling twice the green rusted car remained upside down. It was a good thing that Six had been wearing his seatbelt.

And he just sat there as they took the tree. He didn't move, didn't even blink. Just remained hanging upside down.

There was no way a tree was worth this much trouble.

So slowly Six got out of the car, getting only a few feet from it before it began to flame. He sighed as the car burned before he turned and began heading to back to the base.

He would pick up a tree on the way home.


Rex woke up Christmas morning excited. There was nothing bad about this holiday in his opinion. He had no work to do, got to spend time with Dr. Holiday (and to a lesser extent Six and Bobo) and he got free presents.

So naturally Rex rushed to get Holiday and the two of them headed to the room in which they where to celebrate.

Inside was Six asleep in the chair, a santa hat resting on his head. There where lots of presents under the tree. The tree itself looked different some how more...

Palm-y.

They exchanged glances looking at the large palm tree propped up in the corner. Festive lights had been skillfully strew on it (well skillful seeing as it was a palm tree).

But really Rex didn't pay much attention to the tree because there was one absolutely massive present under the tree. The thing was huge, Rex and Bobo could have easily fit inside it.

The teenager looked at Holiday pleadingly. She nodded and he instantly ripped the present open. The box was filled with packaging peanuts, so many that it was impossible to see what the present was. Flipping the box upside down the present within came out.

With a thud a basketball came rolling out and across the floor.

Holiday laughed, and Rex stared looking disappointed.

Six slept for about five more minutes before the two insisted that he woke up to join in with the festivities.

He didn't have the heart to tell Holiday that the paint for his car (which she had noticed a week ago) was going to be of no use to him anymore.


I got it done. It might have seemed a little rushed... That's because it was. I hope you enjoyed anyhow. I also hope you have/had a Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) and just as a question, WHAT WAS THE COOLEST THING YOU GOT?

I have to wait for my parents to wake up :( haha