A/N: Alright so it took me a bit longer to write this. I'm sorry for that, but I got sick too. Also IT'S CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! I got a new microphone and a crap ton of other things. I got a load of pens and pencils as well since I loose them very often.

Reviews:

Guest/Sean: I'm sorry that it took so long :(. As for the inspiration... I watched it and it was nice, although I had something different on mind as well. BUT I took some inspiration. Although this guy, who made this animation, is from Poland like me and I already like him :D

MafiStory: Y'know, that's actually a good idea. I can implement the story to the normal 'nonfiller' chapters (but the fun and shitty jokes WILL stay) and put a crap ton of cringe and fun into the 'filler' chapters. Thx for the advise.

That being said,

Enjoy!

Atollon, Chopper Base, Ezra's POV

It was getting colder here on Atollon. We were expecting snow soon (A/N: They have a water on the planet so there should be snow during their equivalent of winter). What was interesting that all of the merc teams started to be more active. I could see them whispering to eachother and walking with some strange baskets. It was defianetely something big.

I was standing at the base fence, when the clouds above us started to drop something white. It looked a bit like...

"Snow?" I exclaimed as the snowflakes were melting in my hands. Clouds were covering the sky as the white dots were falling down. "Pretty early this year."

But while I was admiring the view, I heard whispers from behind. It was Dimitri, Tavish, Pyro and Spy surrounded by crates.

"Oh, do I really need to participate again?" Spy moaned silently.

"Don't be 'fred, boyo. It's like always." Tavish let out a hilarious combination of whisper and chuckle. "All of us do it. Why you don't want to?"

"Because it's childish. You imbeciles focus on childish things." Spy continued.

"Hur! Mmph mmph hur mmph wur tur hur furr." Pyro let out some mumbles that I obviously couldn't understand.

"Tiny baby Pyro is right. Spy needs to have a lettle bit of joy in life." Dimitri shaked his head.

"Whatcha guys doing?" I finally joined them and Spy immediately pulled out a revolver and pointed it at my face. "HEY HEY HEY! It's just me! Geez, calm down!"

Tavish grabbed assassin by his suit and started to slap him in the face, which the victim didn't appreciate most likely. Then he turned towards me.

"Ah, it'z just our tiny tradicion from our world."

"A stupid tradicion." Spy moaned again.

"Yo guys! Is Fancypants participating?" Duncan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and then looked at me. "Sup' Bridger?"

"Nothin' just talking with them." I anwsered.

"I am NOT participating." Spy interrupted. "You can continue this stupid tradition, but I don't want to have anything to do with it."

"Your loss. Try to break him, guys." Duncan replied and then turned towards me with a thoughtful expression on his face. "Hey, how about adding him in?"

"Me?" I was dumbfounded. "But I don't even know what this is all about."

"Don't worry, I'll explain it to you. Any objections? No? Fine." without even wating for someone to say something, he grabbed me and pulled along.

"So what is it all about?" I finally asked after liberating myself from his grip.

"Basically we are forgetting 'bout all of the last arguments, pranks, bad things etc. and picking a random name from the basket that we prepared." he started to explain. "You must make a gift for a person that you've got without excuses. I hired Bombicon to keep everyone from exchanging names. Took a couple of Sabine's bombs though."

"Ok..." I nodded and realized that it was pretty simple. "So where are we heading?"

"Towards the basket." Duncan replied and soon we reached the rec room of the RED team's quarters. I spotted Jenny and Sabine next to the table. "'Sup Jenny? Why are you here with Sabine?"

"Oh, she just turned out to join, y'know." she replied while Sabine looked at me and was... blushing?

'That's just strange.' I thought.

"Well that's perfect!" Dun interrupted my thoughts. "I just pulled Bridger in. Although I don't know about Fancypants. Boys try to pull him in, but it's hard as always."

He wrote something on the paper he pulled out seemingly out of nowhere and threw it into the basket. Jenny did the same with her own piece.

"C'mon. Have a try." Duncan elbowed me in the ribs and pointed at the basket. "We'll see how lucky you are, Bridger."

That sounded a bit scary, but I obeyed and put a hand into the basket. I let the Force choose the paper through my hand and I pulled out a piece of paper.

'Sabine?' I read in my mind as I unrolled the paper. 'Force? Why did you do this? What am I going to give her?'

"Now your turn, Sabine." Jenny elbowed the mandalorian as well.

She rolled her eyes and put her hand into the basket. After a while she pulled out a card and I saw a small change of expression on her face. It was short, but not impossible to notice.

"Remember, DO NOT tell anyone who you have." Duncan warned us. "Someone might want to trade such information and use it against ya. It's all about secrets."

Both Sabine and I nodded. It souned fair. I wouldn't want someone to know about the person that I got. That could be really embarrasing.

I went out of the quarters thinking what could I give to Sabine. First thing that came to my mind was defianetely something to do with art.

'Hey, how about something original?' a suicidal thought came to my head. 'Something like... a new weapon?'

That was something. She was using only her pistols and paint bombs. A bit of change wouldn't be bad for her. At least from my point of view. Angry mandalorian is the last thing I wanted to see in my entire life. Well maybe except a thousand evil clones of Maul, Vader or Emperor. That would be scary.

First thing that came to my mind was an assault rifle. Too bad I haven't taken one from the mandalorians on Concord Dawn. But after a while I realized that Sabine was more to a close-ranged combat.

'Maybe a taser or something like that?' I thought. 'Can be pretty neat. But that means I need to get some help from Dell or other Engies.'

With that thought I headed towards the workshop where most Engies were usually staying. Now it seemed empty, but I heard some noises from inside. Someone must've been there.

"Hello?" I stepped in and saw Dell working on something. "Oh hey!"

"Gah! Don't scare me like that, boy." he quickly turned around. "What do you want? Probably somethin' with gifts."

"Uhh yeah." I felt a bit awkward. "Could you help me make an electric taser?"

"Alright, no worries. I am an expert in helping people to make gifts. Mah dispenser and teleporters were really appreciated back then so... I guess it stayed."

"How did you know that I want to ask you for help with gifts?" I asked him.

"Duncan usually goes to me for help, though this time he only wanted a strong airbag. Strange, but it's normal for me that others go to me for help." he chuckled quickly and grabbed his wrench. "Alright, let's do it. First you need to show me HOW you want it to look."

'And there comes the hard part.' I thought and with a quick sigh we started working.

(Meanwhile) Sabine's POV

I can't belive it. It was like an ultimate accident. Why do we always be connected somehow? I got Ezra and had no idea what to make for him.

'BY THE FORCE! WHY?' I was so scared.

Million thoughts were going through my head like: 'how is this possible?' or 'what am I going to give him?' etc.

I went to my room and started to walk around trying to figure out the gift. But then I realized that the way I'm acting is at least strange.

'Ok Sabine, calm down.' I took a few deep breaths. 'What does he like?'

A few first thoughts were art, blasters, Force-ish stuff and other things. But those were too obvious for me. As an artist, I thought about being original and set it as my priority.

Then my head started to be filled with loth-cats. A lot of them. There was no logical explanation to this and I was becoming worried. After all no one gets a sudden loth-cat affection without a reason.

'Hey, that might be my inspiration.' it hit me. 'It might be a bit crazy, but it's original. And it came unexpectedly like my inspirations used to.'

I started to brainstorm hardly. Even if the loth-cat affection was strong, I couldn't think of something that might fit as a gift. A real loth-cat was defianetely out and I can't make plushies. Although maybe an artificial one...

"YES! THIS IS IT!" I screamed out loud and after a second realized that. "Oh, that... wasn't intentional."

An artificial loth-cat was a good idea, but making it work was a totally different thing. And harder. I defianetely needed some help from someone else as I didn't know how to create artificial intelligence with ability to visualize itself.

I left my room to find someone who could help me. Of course my primary target was the workshop, but when I got there I heard a familiar voice speaking. It was Ezra.

'Aww crap.' I gasped. 'I can't go there now.'

Waiting time was boring so I started to play with my paint bombs on the crates nearby. Suddenly a green blow flashed me and a giant book appeared in front of me.

"Hey wassup, Sabine." Bombinomicon welcomed me. "You're not looking good today. Something wrong?"

"Umm, no. It's just that I joined the gift giving thing and now I don't know what gift to give." I sighed.

"And who are you giving present to?" the book asked me, and before I could deny telling, he added. "Don't worry. They hired me to not trade secrets, but I can help you as well."

"Ok... fine." I replied trusting Bombinomicon. "I got Ezra and I'm trying to make an artificial loth-cat companion to remind him of home. Although Dell is busy and I can't ask him for help now."

"Hmm. An artificial one?" it asked.

"Yes, so Ezra can have a companion." I nodded.

"How about a ghostly one?" Bombinomicon's eyes suddenly flickered. "I am specialist in making ghostly companions. It was my idea to make ghostly cosmetics in our dimension, you know? But Saxton Hale stole it from me. Not a nice thing to do."

"Y-You could do this for me?" I didn't know what to say.

"Not for free of course." it made an expression that was similar to grin. "Some of your paint bombs. I need to make a few jokes on Merasmus."

"And why aren't you teamming up with Ezra, Dun and Jenny already?" I said sarcastically.

"Hey, Merasmus doesn't pay me. I need to have some fun in my life too." Bombinomicon anwsered seemingly offended. "Besides, you'll see it when we're gonna give the presents. Now get the bombs."

"How much?" I asked while leaving.

"I think 6 should do, don't ya think?" it said. "Take the puke-green ones. They'll do great."

I smirked and left back to my room. It was strange that Bombinomicon wanted to help me for such a small prize. But then I realized that it was basically imprisoned by Merasmus and can't get free. I would like to prank Merasmus if I was on it's place as well.

After a while I found what I wanted: 6 disgusting and sticky puke-green paint bombs. I planned to use them on Spy, but Bombinomicon deserved them.

"Here, take those. They are extra sticky." I handed the bombs to the magic book and they vanished in a cloud of smoke. "Now... could you help me?"

"Ahh yes. You wanted a loth-cat?" Bombinomicon asked and I nodded. Then it closed it's eyes and a green mist appeared. I started to feel uneasy and the mist was... tickling me? After a moment I saw a small gemstone levitating in front of me. "There. Perfect!"

"What's that?" I wasn't sure what to think about it.

"Squeeze it and see." it made a grin-ish expression. I obeyed and the gemstone shined for a moment. After a few seconds, a green, ghostly loth-cat was running around me. "Like it?"

"I-It's perfect!" I was at lost of words and then hugged the book. "Thanks, I needed just that!"

"Hey! Hey! You'll damage my cover!" it started to struggle in my hands so I stopped. "Alright, I wish you luck on the party. Merry Christmas!" And then it vanished.

I looked at the loth-cat and it was so cute. I wished it was mine now, but... Ezra would like it more.

'Alright, now I need to pack it in something.' I thought and went to my room. 'I just hope Ezra will like it.'

Ezra's POV

I finished the taser with Dell and surprisingly he didn't want anything for it. He said 'The Christmas time is when you enjoy your life and be nice to people. At least for me. Dunno if the others think that way too'. It was still nice of him.

'Now I just need to pack it into something.' I thought. 'Maybe Sabine... might give me a box or paper?'

It was an uncomfortable situation. I already asked Dell for help and now I needed to ask her. It was also gift for HER after all.

I headed towards Sabine's room and knocked on the door. A few cracking noises came from inside and mandalorian revealed herself in the doorway.

"Who is-oh, it's you Ezra." she seemed surprised and uneasy about my presence. "Uhh need something?"

"Actually yeah. Can I take some blue paper from you?" I asked her. "Y'know... for a gift packing."

"Yeah s-sure!" she replied and started to search her cabinets, though it seemed very chaotic. After a moment mandalorian pulled out a roll of blue paper. "Here. You can also take some sprays if you want."

"Ok, thanks." I nodded and noticed that Sabine was holding something shiny in her hand. It was radiating with power, but I decided not to ask. "Alright, so see you on the party!"

"Bye!" she waved me.

Then I headed towards my room to attempt packing this taser properly. It was hard since my art skills weren't as advanced as Sabine's, so after I finished the job, I was covered in paint.

"There you go!" I looked at the effects of my work with pride. But then I realized that something was missing. I added 'from Ezra' on the paper. "Now it's good."

My clock was showing that there was only 5 minutes till the party. I quickly got up, grabbed the packed taser and rushed towards the quarters of REDs. It seemed that I wasn't late as only a few people could be seen. Surprisingly I saw Hera, Zeb and Kanan as well. Chopper was probably wandering around somewhere too.

I quickly ran in and put the present under a tree where the other gifts were. It just seemed like right spot.

"Bridger!" I heard a familiar voice. Duncan was standing behind me. "Come here!"

"What?" I walked towards him slowly expecting some sort of prank.

"How do ya like the party so far?" he asked. "This year I was doin' decorations and Dimitri took care of the food."

"Well, you did a good job, I guess." I was still feeling uneasy. "But I don't see the food."

"Small and sweet stuff is over there. Tavish is obviously drinking himself to death again." Duncan pointed at the small table. Their Demoman was indeed drinking himself to death. "The rest of the food will be served later."

"Mhm." I nodded, but there was something wrong. "Where is Sabine anyway? You invited her, right?"

"I don't know. Oh wait! There she is!" he pushed me forward and mandalorian was walking towards me too. "Come on! Go!"

'Yeah and die from embarrassment.' I thought.

"Hi Ezra." she said. "Umm mind if I go place the gift under the tree?"

"Sorry, that ain't gonna happen." Jenny appeared out of nowhere and pressed the button on the remote that she was holding. Immediately we were trapped together in a ray shield.

"Ya see, you were unlucky enough to stand together under mistletoe." Duncan pointed on something above our heads. There was a plant attached to the ceiling. "Now we cannot let you go until you kiss eachother."

"WHAT?" me and Sabine yelped at the same time. "NO WAY!"

"Ehehehe, sorreh boyo. No choice." Tavish chuckled while holding his bottle of Scrumpy.

"KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS!" everyone gathered around us and started to shout.

I really wanted to disappear now. What was surprising that Kanan, Hera and Zeb were looking at us the way 'JUST DO IT!'. Well Kanan couldn't look, but I sensed that he wasn't against the idea.

"Umm, Sabine?" I looked at the mandalorian who was red as well.

"JUST DO IT!" all mercenaries suddenly shouted. "MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!"

Then I realized the truth.

They knew...

They knew it all along...

'Ah I'm gonna die anyway.' I gave up and hugged Sabine. Our lips met and the aplause from the crowd was only a whisper now. Mandalorian looked shocked at the beggining, but then she hugged me too.

"HAHAHA, GOOD BOY!" Dimitri grabbed us both and trapped in a bear hug. "Now the lettle baby rebels can be happy with us!"

"WE SHOULD DRINK FOR THAT!" Mat Mundy brought a few bottles of an unknown drink and, with the help of Solly, started to pour it to the glasses.

"TO BRIDGER AND HIS COMPLETELY BADASS GIRLFIREND: SABINE!" Duncan shouted and everyone cheered with him.

Dimitri held us in the air and brought to the table. We were sitting next to eachother now and after a moment, all Scouts started to bring plates with food. The smell was wonderful

"I knew it all along!" Bombinomicon appeared in front of us out of the green mist. "It was obvious!

"Umm thanks?" I tried not to blush anymore, but I felt that my cheeks were burning now.

"-And zhe patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard all again!" Medic just finished a joke and everyone started laughing. "Heh, that's how I lost my medical licence..."

Now Hera, Kanan and Zeb were white on their faces.

"Ah don't ya worry, he's like that all the time." BLU engineer Ronald put a hand on my master's shoulder and chuckled.

Even Spy was present which surprised me. He was clearly against participating, but then I thought about the horrible things that Duncan, Jenny and Scott probably did to him. I almost felt bad for him.

We were all eating delicious dishes that were brought on the table. I must admit that Dimitri's cooking was wonderful. Drinks were also good, although I was feeling a bit dizzy after a few glasses.

"EVERYONE! STAND UP!" Solly let out an ear-piercing yell. "Now it is time to unpack the gifts! I want each and every one of them unpacked, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!?"

"YES!" all of us screamed.

"Well then, let's begin with our new love birds." he looked at us and then pulled out two gifts from under the tree. "Sabine Wren, this one is yours and that one belongs to you, Ezra Bridger."

I looked at my present covered in colorful paper and glitter. It was small, not bigger than Chopper's visor. I unpacked it and it revealed a green gemstone with... a loth-cat on it? There was also a note saying 'from Sabine'. Tears of joy started to fill my eyes as I squeezed the gemstone. Then it started to shine and a green phantom loth-cat appeared on my legs. It looked at me and made a super cute expression.

I looked at Sabine who was staring at me as well.

"So... do you like it?" she asked.

"I... love it. How about you?" I couldn't look her in the eyes from fear that she won't like it.

"It's... perfect." mandalorian smiled and Duncan along with Jenny (who were sitting at our sides) pushed us towards eachother. I never felt better in my life. I could just spend the rest of the day like that: me and Sabine hugging eachother.

Solly was reading out loud the next names and giving the gifts to certain people. Duncan got a new baseball, which was black and looked awesome. Jenny got a hat which looked kind of ridiculous on her, but I didn't say it out loud. Scott was wearing his new gloves which had numerous symbols on them.

William got blue grenades painted in this strange (christmas theme). Jane got a new black helmet with three silver stars on it. Now she was walking around giving orders.

RED Pyro got a ton of balloons which he was now turning into animals. BLU Pyro on the other hand was setting them on fire with his new lighter.

Tavish got a golden bottle of Scrumpy which he immediately tested. Niall got a golden sword and some of the mercs needed to take it away from him before he could kill someone. Tavi was now admiring her new helmet with horns. It looked cool on her.

Dell got a mini-sentry plushie and put it on the table next to his real mini-sentry. Ronald got a golden wrench that he already tested on RED Spy who didn't appreciate it most likely. Meanwhile Bell got a new and more comfortable Rancho Relaxo with additional storage on beer.

Dimitri got a lunchbox that exploded with sandwiches after he opened it. Duncan was laying on the floor and laughing so he was defianetely the one who made that. Mishka got a big, black bear plushie. He didn't let anyone get close to it and was hugging it all the time.

Medic got a head of the giant spider. It was rattling loudly, but he slapped it making it shut up. His BLU counterpart Erwin got a new load of syringes and insisted to test them immediately. Amanda got a second Übersaw and was now using it to cut food since she was told to test it on living beings later.

Mat got a jar with a... was that a bread monster inside of it? He was now teasing Spy with it who tried to stay as far away from him as possible. Jack got a new electric bow (the ones known from Clone Wars used by Nightsisters if you don't know which) He was kind of disappointed that there is no ammo to it because 'a professional will utilize his skills even with limited resources'. Hannah was now playing with her two knives that were about to replace her normal kukri. She seemed happy about it.

Spy, who was still grumbling about everything, got a big box of cigarettes. It was the only thing that was probably making him happy right now. Felix got a scanner that his RED counterpart was using before. Now he turned into one of these giant spiders and was scaring everyone. Amelie didn't get a big gift, but she was happy. Someone gave her glasses that looked pretty neat on her.

Gray Mann who was participating as well got a small and interactive robot toy. It had it's own AI though and already punched Dimitri in the face. Hera got a new pilot googles with an interactive HUD. Someone said that it can even be linked to the Ghost. Kanan got a mask of a loth-cat. Since he was blind, he couldn't see it, but we assured him that he looks amazing. Zeb got a load of glass jars. He looked at Matthew who just shrugged and went back to drinking. Chopper probably got a most terrifying gift of all. He got an attachable paint cannon. He obviously needed to test it on me, but for some reason I didn't mind that much.

"And now, ladies and gentelmen, it's time for me!" Solly grinned evily. He unwrapped the paper of the present and opened the box. It revealed an old-fashioned bucket. Solly seemed to be stunned for a moment and then whispered. "It's... perfect! This is how the president must feel all the time!" and after that he placed the bucket on his head and started laughing.

The time was passing and I started to feel sleepy. Suddenly I felt something on my shoulder. I looked and saw Sabine sleeping and resting her head on it.

'This day just keeps getting better and better.' I let go to my inner excitement. 'But... I'm tired... I'll just...'

Then everything went black.

No-one's POV

"They are asleep." Hera pointed at Sabine and Ezra who were resting their heads on eachother.

"AWW! SO FRICKIN' CUTE!" Jenny let out something that was supposed to be a yelp and whisper at the same time. "Can I take a photo?"

"No. We give the tiny baby rebels time alone." Dimitri blocked her way. "We'll put them on the couch here."

Hera, with help of Zeb and Kanan, managed to settle both teens on the couch. Duncan ran away and soon came back with a blanket.

"Ah piss. Now we can't party!" Mat started to complain.

"Stop moaning like a girl, bushman!" Solly ordered. "Besides, I think you're just jealous of them. You'll never get a girl anyway."

"OI! Piss off, buckethead!" he shouted back, but then Dimitri stood in front of him. His shadow was covering the RED Sniper completely. "Uhh sorry, mate."

"I... will crush you if you will wake them up." he threatened. "Be nice. We can still party outside. Now go!"

Hera stayed with Ezra and Sabine for a while. She was a mother-like figure for them and needed to make sure that all of the pillows are fluffy enough. Then she kissed both of then in the forheads and left the room closing the door.

(Few days later) Kallus' POV

I was stationed on Lothal for some time. During that time I was about to see the celebration of the New Year. There were going to be fireworks as always, but I had a feeling that this year will be different.

I took a little break from the work and just walked on the balcony of my room when a series of loud bangs could be heard. Then I noticed many colorful clouds and lights appearing in many parts of the Lothal's capital city. The explosions were coming from Imperial patrols or outposts.

'I guess the rebels are having fun now.' I thought. 'Let them have happy new year.'

And after that I went back to writting my reports.

A/N: Now we know to not mess with uncle Heavy/Dimitri or you will die a horrible and painful death. From now I start the sabezra plot . I am sorry again that it took so long. I'll try to redeem myself. Let me know what you think about this. I WISH YOU ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017! Carry on!

Bonker out!