KHD2 37
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The Present Thief
Dr Finklestein was in his laboratory and on the table was a mechanical machine made up of several parts and the mad scientist pulled a lever and electricity arched through his creation but it remained motionless. "There is nothing wrong with my design, it's flawless. There must be something wrong with the parts those imbeciles brought me." He said. "I need to find better assistants," he then wheeled away from the table towards the heard nearby when he began to hear noises and he turned around and something hit him making him black out.
"We're back," Daisuke said as she, Sora, Veemon, Donald and Goofy looked around to find themselves near the Holiday doors in their Halloween Town outfits.
"Perfect timing my friends," Jack who was now wearing a Santa Claus outfit said as he picked up presents. "Lend me a hand, won't you?" he asked walking towards them. "These presents must belong to Sandy Claws. So I thought I'd better return them,"
"You just happened to find them?" Sora asked crossing his arms.
"Of course, Sora. I'm finished with Christmas fantasies. You know that." Jack answered.
"But you thought you'd hang onto the suit?" Daisuke asked him.
"What this? It's just a costume," Jack answered. "And Sally worked so very hard in making it! Come on. We've got work to do," he told the team walking towards the Christmas Town door. Soon Jack and the team who were now all in their Christmas Town outfits walked into Santa's Workshop and placed the presents down on the table.
"Wherever did you find these?" he asked them.
"In Halloween Town, you'll be needing them for Christmas, right Sandy?" Jack asked him.
"Yes. But these were only some of the presents that were stolen," Santa answered.
"Stolen!?" Daisuke and Sora shouted before glaring at Jack as did the others.
"Oh Sandy, you don't think it was me do you?" he asked.
"Still wearing the outfit I see," Santa answered.
"I thought I'd wear it for the occasion," Jack replied. "But if you don't believe me, then we'll just have to find out who really did it,"
"Very well, I'll leave it to you," Santa said.
"Right. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Daisuke Veemon. We're off," Jack told the others who all slumped when they heard a racket coming from the factory.
"I have a bad feeling like this. Sora, you and your friends go investigate," Santa said.
"Right," Sora replied and he and his friends ran into the factory.
"As if it isn't bad enough to be behind schedule. But now there's more trouble," one elf groaned.
"The noises are coming from the second floor," another elf said as the team headed up to the second floor.
"No!" they heard an all too familiar voice shout.
"That was Shock," Daisuke said as they walked through the door to see Lock, Shock and Barrel.
"This looks good," Barrel said holding up a pink teddy bear.
"No!" Shock shouted and Barrel threw the teddy bear away.
"What about this one?" Lock asked.
"No!" Shock answered.
"No way!" Barrel said.
"I wasn't asking for your opinion," Lock replied to his brother.
"Hey!" Veemon shouted making the three kids look at the group.
"So you THREE took them!" Sora accused them.
"Took what?" Shock asked.
"You stole the presents, didn't you!" Jack answered.
"It wasn't us," Lock replied.
"But…" Barrel said.
"It really sounds like fun," Shock said.
"Run for it!" the siblings shouted running off.
"Get back here you little brats!" Daisuke shouted running after the three siblings trying to catch them, but Lock pushed her and she tripped over Barrel and Shock who both laughed as Daisuke grumbled. "A little help you guys would be appreciated!" she shouted at the others who nodded and ran after the trio of siblings.
"Heads up!" Goofy shouted as he grabbed a large box and tossed it at Veemon who caught it and he slammed it down on Lock trapping him.
"Hey!" the boy shouted from inside the box.
"Got ya," Veemon said as Sora trapped Barrel inside ironically a barrel and Donald and Daisuke trapped Shock inside another box.
"Not so tough now are ya?" she asked Shock with a victorious grin.
"Nice work Dai," Sora complimented and Daisuke grinned as she grabbed Shock out of the box while Sora did the same with Lock and Barrel.
"Now start talking you three," Donald quacked.
"Where'd you put the presents?" Sora asked them.
"We told you! We don't have them!" Shock answered.
"Then why are you in here?" Veemon asked,
"We're looking for parts for the experiment," Lock explained.
"What experiment?" Daisuke asked.
"Dr. Finkelstein is making us a friend!" Shock answered.
"One we get to boss around!" Lock added.
"It's true the doctor's been hard at work making SOMETHING lately…" Jack said.
"Besides Christmas presents are boring. Not scary or gross…so what good are they?" Lock asked.
"Yeah," Barrel said nodding his head in agreement.
"There's nothing fun here. Let's go back to Halloween Town!" and with that Lock Shock and Barrel ran off back to Halloween Town and the team headed back to Santa.
"So, were those pranksters responsible for taking the gifts?" he asked them.
"It doesn't look like it," Jack said.
"Than that means…" Santa said.
"Sally!" Sora and Daisuke exclaimed as Sally ran into the room.
"Is something wrong?" Goofy asked her.
"The Heartless are back in the town square," Sally answered. "I thought you should know,"
"That's our cue," Sora said.
"Back to Halloween Town," Donald quacked.
"Wait. What about the gift-napper?" Jack asked making everyone look at him.
"Actually. I saw some of the Heartless playing with some presents when I saw them…" Sally answered.
"We've got our culprits!" Jack exclaimed.
"No time to waste," Veemon said and the team ran off towards Halloween Town again.
"Heartless playing with presents, this I have to see," Sora said.
"I hear that," Daisuke replied as they made it to the portal to Halloween Town and they all jumped in and re-emerged in the Hinterlands outside of Halloween Town.
"I wonder what this experiment the Doc is working on, he didn't do us any favours last time. I doubt anything good will come out of this, either," Donald quacked.
"I think you're right," Daisuke replied as they headed for the Town Square of Halloween Town. And when they arrived they found the mayor shouting at the Heartless with his megaphone.
"Leave! You can't be here. Leave Halloween Town, by order of the Mayor!" he shouted at the Heartless but they did not listen and continued to play with the presents. "Somebody help. I'm only an elected official I can't do this on my own!"
"Sally was right!" Jack exclaimed. "We've got to get the presents,"
"Right," Sora said as he and Daisuke summoned their Keyblades while Donald and Goofy summoned their weapons and they charged at the Heartless and Veemon rammed his head into one Heartless and he caught the present that it dropped before he kicked another one away and also catching that present as well.
"Take this you thieving freaks!" Daisuke shouted hitting one Heartless with her Keyblade and she caught the present it was playing with and she hit several more in the process and Sora did the same as did Jack, Goofy and Donald and soon the Heartless were defeated.
"What a shame. This looked like a nice present," Jack said picking up an opened box.
"Uh…Jack?" Sora asked as Dr Finkelstein burst out of his lab.
"Oh, help! Someone help me! My latest experiment is gone-it's been stolen!" the doctor shouted and later the doctor was back in his lab talking to the team while he held his head. "I was sitting her brainstorming when all of a sudden I was attacked and knocked out. When I awoke my experiment was gone!" he explained.
"Don't worry Doctor. We know who took it," Jack said.
"What!? Who!?" Dr Finkelstein asked.
"The Heartless," Sora answered.
"What, those wretched things. Preposterous! This was nothing like a Heartless," the doctor replied.
"Not a Heartless huh?" Sora asked.
"Who could it be then?" Donald asked.
"I got an idea. The thief likes Christmas presents. So…we put some presents down in a trap and then when he shows up we catch him in the act red-handed," Daisuke answered and the others nodded at the plan.
"And this miscreant is the same one who stole my experiment?" Dr Finkelstein asked.
"Positive," Daisuke answered.
"How will we know for sure?" Veemon asked his partner.
"That's easy. We scare the confession right out of him," she answered with a grin.
"Gawrsh…" Goofy said.
"Let's give it a try guys," Sora said and the others nodded.
"Let's get to Sandy's house, post-haste, we need to make some presents," Jack said and the others nodded and ran back to Christmas Town.
"So have you found the culprit yet?" Santa Claus asked as they walked into his house.
"Almost Mister Claws," Jack answered.
"We're working on drawing the thief out with Christmas presents as the bait," Sora explained.
"Would you mind if we used your factory?" Jack asked.
"You using my factory. Goodness…I don't like the sound of that," Santa mumbled before he sighed. "Just this once, I suppose. It's for a good cause…" he told the group who all smiled. "Alright. Use the second floor and put some heart into it," he told them and all of them ran off into the factory.
"You're here to help with the presents. Fine you can use the machine," one elf said pointing to a nearby machine which looked like a machine gun with a line of toys on the belt running into it.
"Shotgun!" Daisuke shouted as she jumped over to the machine and she smiled and began to fire presents into dozens of boxes and after a few minutes over one hundred presents were made.
"Now let's gets these set up in the trap," Sora said.
"Not quite," Daisuke said.
"There's more?" Goofy asked.
"Leave that to me," she asked as she walked off and the others headed back to Santa.
"Did you finish making the presents?" he asked them.
"Yup, just waiting for Daisuke," Sora answered.
"So where do we put them?" Veemon asked.
"Oh I know the spot. Let's go," Santa said walking off and the others followed him and Daisuke followed after them.
"Did you finish what you needed to do?" Goofy asked and Daisuke nodded and they all followed Santa off.
"This plaza should work perfectly for your plan," Santa said. "Now Daisuke, what is your plan?" he asked her.
"Oh don't worry I think you will be pretty proud of what I've come up with. And I was wondering that once we've captured the thief would you let me deliver…." Daisuke was cut off by Sora's hand over her mouth.
"And on that we'll be going," he said as he and the others pushed Daisuke off and she pouted.
"Guys!" she whined. "I wanted to help Santa deliver the presents,"
"We can do that later," Sora told her and soon the group were now hiding in a large box with wrapping paper and a bow.
"Stop kicking," Donald quacked.
"It's not me," Goofy said.
"Or me," Veemon said.
"Patience friends," Jack said.
"Shut it!" Daisuke shouted.
"Quiet," Sora whispered.
"I said stop kicking me!" Donald quacked.
"Was that you?" Goofy asked.
"Why do we need to be the bait?" Sora asked.
"Good plan huh?" Daisuke asked back before they all heard a short farting noise. "Okay, who farted?" she asked.
"Uh….whoops," Veemon answered bashfully.
"Oh Veemon!" everyone shouted in disgust as they burst out of the present for fresh air and they saw a large mechanical robot standing there grabbing the presents.
"Dr Finkelstein's experiment did it!" Jack shouted.
"Let's get him!" Daisuke shouted summoning her Keyblade as the experiment fired a laser at her and the others but they all jumped out of the way and Veemon rammed his head into the experiment but he bounced off of it and he groaned.
"Okay that hurt," he groaned as the experiment swung its claws at the others and Daisuke ducked under its claws and she jumped and swung her Keyblade at it but it caught her Keyblade and threw her away and she landed in the snow head first and she struggled to get free and in doing so her dress slightly fell down making Sora go flying back with a large nosebleed once he looked over at his girlfriend in worry.
"Oh for the love of!" Veemon shouted as he grabbed his partner and pulled her out of the snow.
"Let's do this Veemon," Daisuke said as she jumped up and she glowed red as did Veemon and they merged to form Daisuke's courage mode and she charged at the experiment and began to attack it and threw fireballs at it blowing pieces off it and soon it collapsed and most of it remained while some of it vanished away in a swirl of darkness.
"We did it! The mystery is solved!" Jack exclaimed as Santa arrived on his sleigh.
"Did you catch the thief?" he asked walking over.
"Naturally," Daisuke answered.
"I just can't figure why the Doctor's experiment would go around stealing presents," Sora said.
"Experiment?" Santa asked.
"Dr Finkelstein's," Jack answered. "A moving puppet,"
"The Doctor's made a moving puppet. I see…he is always tinkering with things," Santa mumbled walking over to what was left of the experiment. "Now listen, Jack. I'd like to thank you, and while delivering presents is something only I can do. I can give you an idea of what it's like," he told Jack.
"Sandy Claws!" he said happily and he jumped onto the sleigh while Daisuke pouted.
"No fair," she mumbled kicking some snow.
"You too Daisuke," Santa said chuckling and Daisuke looked at him shocked before she cheered and ran to the sleigh and sat beside Jack. "Yes, all that poor puppet wanted was a heart," Santa said before nodding to his reindeer and they ran off and flew into the sky with Daisuke and Jack.
"Ho Ho Ho!" both shouted happily while the others smiled.
"Interesting! So the puppet wasn't stolen after all," Dr Finkelstein said. "It ran away on its own," he added once Daisuke and the others had returned to Halloween Town. "In other words my experiment was a success,"
"Santa thought that it ran away because it was trying to find a heart," Sora told him.
"That's quite possible. Unlike my Sally, it wasn't equipped with a heart." He replied heading back to his lab.
"But if it wanted a heart, why was it going around stealing all those presents?" Sora asked.
"Maybe because…presents are a way to give your heart to someone special," Sally answered walking over.
"Hmm…when you put it that way, I feel sort of bad for it," Sora said as they heard jingle bells and saw Jack jump down to them and looked up to see Santa flying through the sky.
"Happy Halloween!" he shouted.
"Merry Christmas!" Daisuke shouted back as snow began to fall.
"What a wonderful present," Sally said.
"I don't understand there's no box, no ribbon tied in a bow," Jack said.
"Jack, it's not about the box or the ribbons. It's about what's inside the box," Sora told him.
"No Sora. What really counts-what's really special—is the act of giving the gifts. To wish deep in your heart to make someone else happy," Sally replied.
"Right….of course! Thank you Sally you're absolutely right," Jack said. "Oh, what's this I feel so very happy?" he asked clutching his chest.
"That must be Sally's gift to you Jack," Goofy answered.
"Really? This wonderful feeling?" he asked as he took Sally's hands in his own. "Oh Sally, you've given me the nicest present in the world. But I don't have anything to give you in return. What would you like? Just name it. Absolutely anything," he told her.
"The nicest present I could ever ask for Jack. Is just to be with you," Sally replied and the others covered their eyes.
"You don't even have to ask for that," Jack said as he picked Sally up bridal style and he walked off with her.
"You know I never gave her a present after all," Sora said.
"Who?" Veemon asked.
"I bet Kairi would like anything you gave her Sora," Daisuke told him making him smile and nod.
"Yeah you're right. But that's what made it hard to decide," he said.
"It's not the gift, it's what's in your heart," Donald quacked.
"My heart…" Sora repeated.
"You bet. Daisuke is like Sally," Veemon said.
"How?" Sora asked as Daisuke then kissed him on the lips.
"As long as I can be with you Sora, what else do I need?" she asked him and Sora smiled at her fondly as both began to dance like Sally and Jack were in the snow and both smiled at one another happily.
The end of the chapter
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