It's the holiday season, and Ash is looking forward to a great Christmas with the Grays, a non-spy related Christmas. But when Ash wants the prisoners of the G.R.A.Y prison hold to have a good Christmas too, she comes up with another crazy plan, in which Nate will be dragged into. In a side story, the group has to work on a float for the Christmas Parade and Aiden is decorating the 'greatest' Christmas Tree.

CHAPTER 36: SPECIAL-Christmas Breakout Pt2

"Welcome back Ash," Mom said from the top of the stairs.

Nate and I looked up. "Mom you're home?"

"Well duh. My meeting ended half an hour ago," Mom laughed, catching Nate and I by surprise. "I think your group was the last to leave."

"I blame those girls who fought over position of Mrs. Claus," I said, taking off my jacket.

Nate smirked. "Can you blame them?"

"Getting cocky," I said in a singing voice.

Mom narrowed her eyes as she leaned on the stair banister. "Mrs. Clause?"

I laughed. "You wouldn't believe it. Since Nate is the only male in the whole group, he was automatically givin position of being Santa Clause for the float."

"And who's Mrs. Clause?" I raised my hand unenthusiastically the same time ate pointed at me. "Mm, surprise surprise," she said sarcastically.

I glared at her. "Hey."

"Hey Nate!" said a greeting voice from the top of the stairs. I saw a girl sticking her head out. I recognized her as his's cousin, Vivian.

Nate's eyes widened. "Viv?"

My eyes widened as I looked at Nate, then at the woman's head. "Viv? As in Vivian Gray?"

She gave me a look. "Little Ash?"

I smiled. "That's me."

She raised her eyebrows. "Sure aren't little anymore! Look at you you're all tall and you've got all your girl body parts-"

"Ok ok don't need to hear that part," Nate interrupted, making me laugh. "The last thing I want to think about right now are things only girls have."

Viv scoffed. "Boy will you be surprised."

Nate made a face. "What do you mean?"

She stepped out, revealing, well... she looked pregnant.

"Whoa," Nate and I said at the same time.

Vivian smiled. "Yup, I'm pregnant with a baby girl. Due this month. I decided to come by for Christmas with the men of the Gray Family, seeing my man is off with some other woman."

"I'm so sorry," I said. I didnt know why I said it. It just felt like I was supposed to.

"Nah, I could tell he was cheating the minute I found that bra in the car."

"Again, I'm a guy. I don't want to hear these girl things," Nate said, shaking his head and keeping his eyes to the ground awkwardly. It was kinda funny actually.

Vivian laughed. "Wow, I never thought I'd see a guy say be quiet to the word bra. As expected of my little cousin. There should be more decent guys like you."

"Yeah, decent is definitely the choice word for Nate," I said with sarcasm.

Mom shook her head laughing. "I'll be out guys, do some grocery shopping for tonight's dinner. Can you two take care of Vivian for me?"

"Sure nor prob," I said as Mom walked out of the house with her car keys. I went to helped Vivian down the stairs as Nate cleared the couch of our jackets and school bags. "No offence but, why you here in my house?"

She laughed. "I expected someone to ask that eventually. I did come to Wyckoff to visit my family. Didn't mean I was gonna stay with them."

Nate helped her sit down. "You're staying with Ash?"

Vivian nodded. "Yeah. I can't trust you guys with a pregnant woman."

"True that," I said, making Nate glare.

"Anyway, auntie said it was ok," Vivian said, auntie meaning my Mom. As a kid, Vivian called my mom auntie. She was a pretty straight forward girl. And still is.

"So, how's life of being spies?" she asked.

"Weird," Nate replied, sitting down on the couch too. "At least when Ash joined it started being weird."

"Who said weird's bad?" I said clueless sounding.

Vivian looked at me. "You're a spy now? Last time I checked you were just the cat-eared cover up at school for these guys."

I grinned, tipping my hat. "Well I'm a spy now. And I love every part of it. Well, except all the insane parts."

Vivian laughed. "I won't ask. So, what are you two doing for Christmas? Any schemes or plans? Shane nd Jason doing any college preparation work?"

"Nah, we're participating in this Christmas parade thing," Nate told.

"And we're on this mission that we have to keep an eye on this guy who got out of the G.R.A.Y cellars. He's way too nice though."

"Nice villans? That's new."

I smiled. "Nate why isn't Viv a spy again?"

He rolled his eyes. "Whatever. I've gotta get to work on my homework. I'll be up in your room. You coming?"

"Nah, I'll stay here with Viv."

"Alright," he said, slinging his bag over his shoulder then grabbing my bag.

"Y-You don't have to bring my bag!" I called as he went up my stairs.

"Too late," Nate said, disappearing upstairs.

Vivian smiled, turning back to me. "I see I'm not the only one having man troubles."

I looked at her. "What do you mean?"

"Ash, you're 15 now right?"

I nodded slowly. "Yeah..."

"Then I think it's safe to say... Nate wants you so bad."

"Hey Nate wait up! Wanna do some math homework together?!" I called, going up the stairs in a hurried pace. Vivian chuckled to herself.

--

During the course of the week, Nate and I were doing good in our group with the float. And with William and Nate being the only guys, they were the mechanics, much to every girl's amusement here. Yeah, very amusing seeing my best friend and adult supervisor working under a giant contraption with their feet sticking out.

"Hi Ash," Nate said, coming over to me at the bleachers.

I looked up, seeing him in a white shirt with the sleeves riped off, showing his muscles. And there were some black oil spots on him. "Hello.... I'm guessing you had a great time under the float," I said, throwing him a small towel.

Nate laughed, wiping his face with the towel. "We're trying to get it running. Not the easiest job."

"Yeah, but getting all those girls' attention showing off your forearms seems like an easy job." I motioned my finger so he'd turn around. We looked and saw a group of girls watching us from a distance. Creepy much?

"Ok...?" Nate said with a slight scared expression. That only made me laugh. "Anyway, what are you doing over here?"

I looked at the stuff I had. "Making myself useful, making our costumes as Santa and Mrs. Clause."

"Oh yeah," Nate said, remembering that. ".... Wait you can make clothes?"

I smiled and shrugged my shoulders. "I guess it's another lost hobby of mine. Anyway, better get another shirt on. We've gotta get home now," I said, looking at my watch and seeing it was time to go. I just noticed everyone had already left except for us. We packed up our stuff and William came over, like he always would once everyone left.

"Hello Nate, Ash."

"Hi William," I said.

"Say," Nate said, pulling a clean shirt over his dirty one. "You never told us about how you got involved with G.R.A.Y."

William smiled. "Can't get by you, can I Nate. I was trying to avoid that subject."

"Why?" I asked, putting on my jacket.

"See, I am a criminal, but I escaped for a reason."

"That reason being?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

William looked around, making sure it was just the three of us. "I'll tell you, but you've got to promise not to tell your father."

Nate narrowed his eyes. "That depends-"

"We won't," I said with a grin, elbowing Nate. "Tell me tell me tell me!"

William smiled. "As you know, tomorrow is going to be Christmas Eve. And with just about every single G.R.A.Y spy on vacation, me and some of the others decided we'd break out and head somewhere, you know, for our Christmas vacation."

"What?" Nate asked in disbelief.

"So devious, so deceiving, so sneaky, I like it!" I said excitingly.

William laughed at my eagerness. "Remind me again why you're not a bad guy."

Nate shook his head from all this nonsense. "William we can't let you do that."

"Oh come on Nate!" I pleaded as shook his shoulder gently, unknowingly making him blush again. "It's just Christmas Eve. Once their night's over they'll head back to the prison before any other G.R.A.Y spy can catch them! It is, afterall, the holidays."

"Yeah but," Nate said before sighing and giving in. "Ok, I agree that even the people at the G.R.A.Y prison should have some Christmas Vacation, but they won't make it out of there. The whole place is guarded."

I smirked. "But they have us now."

"Us?" Nate repeated unsure.

My mouth curled into a devious smirk. "Of course, Nate. Unless, you want to sit this out and, let me run away with a bunch of criminals who might want my head just for the sake of doing the right thing even though it's against the rules. Yup, I'll be just fine alone."

He exhaled, closing his eyes. "I'm gonna be so dead for this."

"Yay thank you!" I shouted, hugging nate and surprising him. It took a lot to persuade Nate, a spy that always obeyed the rules, to agree to break out some criminals from a prison for Christmas.

William laughed. "You're good kids."

"But," Nate said, pulling apart from my hug. "The two of us can't be the only ones in this. We need an adult."

"For what? Adult supervision?" I asked with a look. "Nate you're crazy."

"Says the girl who wants to go to a prison for Christmas," he said back. "And no, just someone that can handle these guys in case things get out of hand."

--

"When I said adult I meant someone... different," Nate gritted through his teeth as we stood outside a building in the cold.

"Oh come on, she's the only adult that would actually agree to keep this secret," I said to Nate, defending Vivian who was with us.

William chuckled. "And to be honest, she can definitely keep us under control. No way they'd fight a pregnant woman."

Vivian grinned. "Well, I can finally do something exciting after all these months. So, where is this prison anyhow?"

"Right here," William and Nate said, looking at the wall.

I blinked. "... That's a brick wall."

Nate knocked on it and suddenly a huge door opened up in the wall, surprising both me and Vivian. "Whoa."

"Yup," William nodded. "Come on, follow me."

Well, it's Christmas Eve at 6:00PM, and I'm spending my day breaking into and out of a secret government jail. Can't get any more normal than this. After entering the inside part of the building with the brick door falling behind us, darkness closed in around us. I clinged to Nate's arm by instinct for some reason. But when the lights went on, we saw probably the biggest prison hold you'd ever see. But don't look at me because this is the only prison I've ever seen.

"Wow," Vivian said, her eyes wandering around. "Hard to believe all this can be hidden from the public."

"So, how do we get your friends out of here?" I asked William.

"The controls," Nate said, going over to this computer on the wall. It scanned Nick's fingerprint and this keyboard came out. "William type in their cell number and they're out."

"Got it," William said.

I blinked, watching him walk to the keyboard. "That's it? No air-vent crawling? No iron bar melting? No fighting?"

Nate laughed. "Well forgive me for not wanting us to get caught. Besides, it's easier this way."

"Yeah, take the fun out of it," I mumbled while rolling my eyes.

He smiled at my stubbornness until we heard footsteps from the cellars. Nate's and my eyes' slowly went in that direction, suddenly as frozen as the icicles outside. There standing, we saw Tia, the teen pop star who tried to hypnotize guys, Alex, the 12-year old sicko with a doll obsession, Chrono, the time-traveling freak, Demitri, the dimension-traveling freak, Denniell, the cat-like chef, Madame Holtz, the over-feminist who was my first villain, Natsuke, the ninja who kidnapped Nate, and Dean Worths who tried to take advantage of his school.... Why does it have to be all my villains?

"Hey, it's that girl spy," Holtz said with crossed arms.

"And Gray too," Chrono added with a glare in his eye.

"Aw, hey Nate," Tia said, walking over to him with a flirteous wink. "Come to visit me?"

"No, and not in a million years," Nate said, pushing her away from him before turning his head towards me. "This is why I didn't want to come."

"So William, you kidnapped these brats?" Natsuke asked, saying the words brats in a sour way.

Demitri walked towards us. "Yeah, I could use a new couple punching bags."

Nate and I backed up until Vivian came in through between us with the same scary face. "Don't you dare lay a finger on these two otherwise I'll run you over like a hamster on a monster truck wheel."

As much as I wished that threat made sense, it sounded intimidating enough, enough to make Demitri stop in his tracks with Vivian's finger pointing right between his eyes. He had that surprised look on his face, along with the rest of the prisoners.

"W-Who's this?" Denniel asked with his nervous French accent.

I smirked. "Meet Nate's cousin, Vivian. She's got a baby."

"Clearly," Alex said, blinking.

William chuckled. "I brought these guys along because they wanted to come. They're the help."

"William," Dean Worths started. "When you said help, I thought you meant.... different people."

"Hey, you guys should be lucky you have us," I said stepping up. "I actually have a sense of fairness, enough to actually want everyone to have a good Christmas. Everyone including you guys. And I had to do a lot of convincing to get Nate to agree with me," I said with a laugh. "So you can either spend your Christmas Eve pounding on the two of us, or you can have the best Christmas of your life."

"You do know that some of them would actually pick the first choice right?" Nate whispered as I hit his arm to make him shut up.

Tia crossed her arms, glaring at me. "And what do you propose the best Christmas for us is?"

I smirked, putting my hands together. "Nate and I have a pretty good idea."

"We do?" Nate asked giving me a suspicious look

--

"Oh gosh," Nate said, all of us in my house, pretty much trashing the place. "I can not believe you actually let all of these guys throw a party, at your own house.

"Nate Nate Nate, it's all about the gift of giving!" I said with an arm around his shoulder. "It's not like they're taking over the world. I mean look, they're talking, dancing, watching TV, costing me a huge electric bill, but who cares?"

"Awesome party," Alex said, walking up behind me. "Thanks for doing this for us."

"No prob," I said, almost forgetting what this kid tried to do to me and his dolls.

"Hey, there's a mistle toe," Alex said with a sly grin, pointing up. Me, him, and Nate looked upwards, seeing a mistle toe.

I blinked then looked back down at Alex. "Not even in your dreams," I said, pushing him off somewhere.

"How'd that get there?" Nate asked with a small laugh, still looking at the mistle toe.

"Don't know, don't want to know," I said, laughing a bit too. "Wanna go over to your place? For some rest or something?"

"Aren't you afraid your house will explode or turn into some big robot?"

I smiled and pushing him out the door, grabbing out coats off from the coat rack. After walking down the block through the night, we saw the top of the Grays' Christmas Tree in the backyard of the fire house. Nate and I went through the gate and into the yard, seeing Jason and Aiden still working on the tree. Shane was sitting on a chair, asleep.

"If this is what it looks like now, I can only imagine what it looks like with the lights all lit up," Nate said, comparing it to the last time we saw the tree.

"Tell me about it," Ember said, walking into the backyard with a blanket. She put it around Shane's shoulders as he snored. "Shane's tired himself out after falling off the ladder a couple times."

I laughed. "Aw, if this isn't Christmas Spirit I don't know what is."

"Yeah. Jason spent some of today with Mysti doing Christmas shopping," Ember explained. "Shane and I stayed here to help Aiden finish the tree, if it's even possible. What have you two been doing?"

"Um..." I said.

"Y-You can say we're currently in the middle of something. Just came by, for a break," Nate covered, unsure if the excuse worked on Ember. But she yawned, so she probably didn't really care at the moment.

"AHHHHHHHH!" shouted a high pitched scream that made a flock of birds fly off from somwhere. Mine's, Nate's, and Ember's heads shot up in all directions.

"W-What was that?" Ember asked with a suspicious.

"That didn't come from your house did it?" Nate whispered.

My cellphone rang, and I picked it up from my pocket, putting it up to my ear. "Hello?" I asked, seeing my cold visible breath.

"Ash?" William's voice asked worryingly. "Where are you?"

"Um, Nate's place. Why?"

"Ahhh!" yelled a woman's voice.

"Ok what was that?" I asked

William said something but was cut off by Tia. "The pregnant woman's going into labor."

My eyes widened as I dropped my phone in the snow, me still frozen in place. "Ash? Ash what happened?" Nate asked, shaking my shoulder.

"Nate, you know any doctors?"

"Uh... Not at the moment?"

"Close enough let's go!" I said, grabbing Nate's hand and dashing off with my other hand holding my cat ear hat on my head.

Ember sighed. "Better be a mistle toe soon for those two."

We ran back to my house. My mom's car was still gone, so that was good. After jumping in through the door, we saw Chrono and Demitri helping Vivian to the couch, who was barely on her feet and was breathing like a goat.

"Oh my gosh what happened?" I asked, rushing over to her.

"We don't know. Her water broke upstairs," William said, trying to calm her down. "What do we do?"

Nate looked at him. "You mean you don't know?"

"No." William answered.

"But you're evil geniuses! Aren't you supposed to know these things?!" Nate panicked.

"We are trained to fight people, not deliver them," Natsuke said.

"Ash you're a girl! Do something!" Alex shouted.

Madame Holtz looked at the little kid. "And what about me and Tia?"

"Like you two can deliver a baby," Alex scoffed, giving Madame Holtz and Tia veins in their foreheads.

I laughed nervously. "Alex thank you for your... flattering compliment but uh, I ain't trained for this either if you know what I mean."

"Ahhh!" Vivian screamed, squeezing William's hand. "In pain here!"

"Viv can't you hold in or something?" Nate asked, making me give him a look. I suppose he was trying to believe we really aren't in this situation. "M-Maybe they're just early contractions or whatever big words that I can't comprehend at the moment."

"No way Nate. I'm having, a baby, now," Vivan said breathing.

"Can't we call a doctor or something?" I asked desperately.

"Ash it's Chirstmas Eve, and we've got about a dozen criminals in your living room! I don't think any doctor would want to deliver a baby here anytime soon!" Nick told me, not helping me one bit. "Ash you have to deliver the baby."

"Who has to what the where now?" I asked.

"Ash come on! You're the only sane person here!"

"What about you?!"

"Do I look sane at the moment?!" He asked grabbing my shoulders.

I sighed. I guess it's time for Nate to panic again. "Alright uh, get towels, water, chairs, pillows, anything useful." Chrono, Demitri, and Worths left to get them. "Natsuke, Denniel, you three will clean the baby. Holtz, Tia, you guys-"

"We're not gonna help with a baby," Tia scoffed. "Ew much?"

I blinked. "... Ok. Nate and Iwill deliver the baby. William, Alex, you two coach Vivian."

"How do we do that?" Alex asked confused.

"Do what William's doing now," I said, seeing Vivian squeezing the life out of William's hands, William on his knees already.

"Ash you know what you're doing right?" Nate asked as he got us plastic gloves.

"Not in the slightest," I said. "But we've gotta try. That's what you said."

"Ahhh!" Vivian screamed again, getting another contraction. "Get it out of me!"

I stood in front of Vivian kneeling down beside the coffee table. "Ok Nate, I'll lift her dress, put her legs up, and then I'll get the baby's head, if that's right... is that right?"

"I don't know!" Nate panicked.

"Then get our science textbook in my room!"

"I doubt our textbook shows how to deliver the baby Ash!"

"Ahhh!" Vivian shouted, pushing.

"Whoa," Nate and I said, being the 15 year olds we were.