Yay! This Christmas fic idea came from the One Piece section, where Christmas fics are in such a great freaking multitude…you have to check it out! Again, I don't own anyone but the elves!
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Dashing through the Snow
Chapter Two: Only Dreaming
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I'm Jet Link, damn it! I shouldn't be doing this! Jet thought furiously as he got ready to leave for this stupid mission. David and Noel, he swore, shared a mind and Noel was ordering David to do her bidding while she was ill.
I've fought giant robots before! I've taken on the Greek Gods! Joe and I even survived falling through the atmosphere! He pacified himself with this knowledge, the knowledge he could use against these stupid elves.
"Jet, what are you doing in there?" Gloria asked. "If you're sick too, I can use magic with humans! Elves are forbidden to perform it on one another!"
Jet flushed the toilet, washed his hands, and left the tiny bathroom. Gloria was outside, doing something on a small computer. She looked up when he stepped out.
"Good, you're finally done." Gloria said, handing him the computer. "You'll need this for your mission. It'll give us communication with you at all times. Ready?"
Jet sighed. "I guess. Is Noel okay?"
"No, not really. Things like that don't change in the span of forty-five minutes." Gloria replied, shoulders sagging. "By the way, you seemed pretty flipped out about this Black Ghost thing. Have you dealt with them before?"
Jet thought for a second before telling her. "Yeah…I have. But it was a while ago."
"I see now." Gloria said. She began to walk back to Noel's room. "You should come. David has one last thing for you before you're off."
For once, Jet wasn't hauled behind an elf to get to his next destination. They seemed to have realized that he was able to walk on his own and laid off. Gloria opened the door to Noel's bedroom and beckoned Jet inside. David was still in there, and he waved as the two entered.
"I have something else for you. I know it seems like a little much…" David rifled through the bag sitting next to him. He pulled out a set of boots. Pressing a button, Jet felt the horrible sensation of getting something he already had.
"I should have told you earlier," Jet said. "I'm a cyborg. Black Ghost…well, let's say I'm not on the best of terms with them."
At the percise moment he said the last word, the rockets flew from his feet. David's face lit up like he was getting an unexpected gift, but Gloria blinked nonchalantly.
"…oh." Gloria whispered. David twitched.
"Damn right, you should have said something! They know you! We have to get you into something totally different, starting with your hair." David said, tugging on Jet's fiery locks. Jet was shell-shocked. His hair!
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"You get one of the top snowmobiles, so calm down." Gloria hissed into the microphone. "Also remember that David can backfire that thing on you at any time, so don't get pissy halfway there. And have fun, most of all! DON'T SCREAM AND YELL!"
Jet had given up altogether this time. Well, you would have to, if an elf an inch shorter than you tied your hair into a braid and covered it with a Santa hat, saying that it really suited you. He knew the alternative, and at this point, would almost take it. Grinding his teeth, Jet swung a leg onto the snowmobile and perched the goggles on the hat. If he could accelerate at mach five without goggles, he could sure as hell take on a few snowflakes.
"I'd really put those on," Gloria advised. "It hurts otherwise."
Jet ignored her. He slid his badge into the appropriate slot, twisted it, and was off in seconds. Also within that time span, he stopped and fixed the goggles over his eyes. He grumbled a little as he heard Gloria giggling in the small computer screen. He hit the button and was off once more toward Black Ghost.
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Jet was flying along on the snowmobile. Out of nowhere, a huge black thing with white slits for eyes jumped. Jet stopped, jumped off the bike, and fired decorations from it. The black thing froze for a second, looked at its body, then picked up a tree and tried to murder Jet with it. Jet jumped back onto his bike and sped back to the workshop. There she was, in her uniform, except the black thing Jet had earlier run into tore off half of it.
"Oh Jet," She cried, running up to him. "It was terrible. It…it…"
"Don't worry," Jet said, firmly kissing her. "I'm here now."
"Oh, Jet…"
Noel awoke screaming. The first thing she could see through her hazy vision was something silver. She blinked a few times to clear the haze, then realized she was looking into David's nervous silver eyes and that there was something cold on her forehead.
"Noel! Are you all right?" David asked. His voice was filled concern. Noel shook her head and pulled the cold thing away from her own warmth.
"It's freezing in here, David." Noel said, pulling the sheets and comforter closer to her body.
"That would be because you have a high fever. Try and go back to sleep, Noel. If you can't, I'll find you something edible or have Gloria do it." David replied, trying to soothe Noel back into slumber. Noel's ruby eyes remained open and panicked.
"Don't let Jet come back. He kissed me." Noel said right before she fell back asleep. David couldn't help but smile a little at that last remark. He dunked the white cloth back into the basin of water, wrung it out, and placed it back on Noel's burning forehead. She whimpered slightly, but was silent after David's touch left.
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"You're almost there, Jet." Gloria said half an hour later. "You should park the bike somewhere where no one but you can access it. I'll guide you through the rest."
Jet slowed and gradually stopped. Following what Gloria had said, he maneuvered the bike behind a cluster of trees. She continued to say something to him from the computer, but he didn't listen. Only did he listen when she began to talk of the picture Noel had in storage.
"Okay, okay. I understand." Jet muttered.
"No, you don't. I said to look at the top of this tree." Gloria stated pointedly. Jet looked up and attempted to run back to the bike screaming.
"GET 'CHER ASS BACK HERE!" An all too familiar voice screamed, followed by random explosions. Jet turned around to see if it were true. Sadly, it was.
"That's Mika…" Gloria said happily.
"Yes, I know who she is," Jet hissed through clenched teeth. That damn authoress, as always, was showing up to make things only more chaotic. But hey, she hadn't escaped being decorated by the elves, too! She had been given a green short-sleeved blouse with a red t-shirt underneath that said "CHECK ONE: NAUGHTY OR NICE", another one of those weird red skirts with its white furry trim, but she had knee-high red-and-white-striped socks and green Converse. Her hair had been let down from its braids, but was covered by a Santa hat. There was a bracelet of silver bells on one wrist, and one of gold bells one the other. Jet felt like just taking Noel's threat to get away from her.
"Hey, Jet! Aren't you SHOCKED to see me here?" Mika asked, smiling insanely. Jet looked to the computer and saw Gloria beaming at him.
"You'll be fine," Gloria assured him. "Now, the base is only ten minutes away. Jet; try not to kill the authoress. We've trained her to bite on command, though."
Mika took Jet by the wrist and began dragging him along. Just as Gloria said, they reached the base in about ten minutes. Mika and Gloria gasped in unison.
"IT'S TERRIBLE!" Gloria screamed. Mika took one of the bells of her wrist as Jet prepared the missile launcher slung across his back. Mika took precision aim and fired the bell.
"JINGLE BOMB AWAY!" Mika cried delightedly as Jet launched one of the Christmas-chocked missiles. In milliseconds, the base was almost as festive as Noel's place of occupation.
"Nice aim," Mika complimented. "But just remember who's writing this."
"Not you." Jet remarked, grabbing her and flying to the base's entrance. Mika's fist collided with his head not much longer after he said this.
"I'm beta-reading it for Sadie, though!" Mika exclaimed. Jet grumbled something as he landed in the deep snow and took a look at the décor. The two decoration bombs seemed to have produced something totally unpredictable. There were gold-and-green candy canes, as well as red bells. Mika burst into laughter at the sight of it. Jet simply hit the door with a gingerbread bullet and kicked the door in. He ran in ahead of Mika, but the teen authoress brought his back to safety as a guard came in to attack. She tossed one of those "jingle bombs" at them, and instead of bullets out of the guns flew teddy bears. She motioned to Jet to get running or he'd be next to be jinglefied. He instantly sprinted away and was shortly joined by Mika.
"Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie UNTILIBLOWYOUUP! Above the deep and dreamless sleep the GIANTEXPLOSIVEBALLSOFHALOGEN go by! Yet in the PITCHBLACK streets shining, the DEATHLYLIGHTTHATWENTBANG light! The hopes and fears of ALLTHESEGODDAMNYEARSOFWAITINGFORSUCCESS go silently tonight!" An unmistakable voice floated down the hall. Mika's face turned from something of self-control to one of absolute restrain in one second flat. Her face turned pink, then red, then…
"Oh…oh…OH MY GOD!" Mika exploded, and fell on the floor laughing. Tears rolled down her cheeks. Jet couldn't help but laugh too. Scarl, of all people…! But then, he realized that those words weren't just Sadie's twisted sense of humor at work…
((Sadie: (turns, laughs) YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!))
…It was what he was planning to do.
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Gloria put the fat stack of songbooks on the table next to the spare uniforms. She smiled at them for all being done at long last and dusted her hands off. Closing the door behind her, she turned out the lights and left the side building. The walk back to the dorms was short, but snow was falling and made it ten times colder. She hurried so she wouldn't have to put up with it any longer than needed. Once inside, Gloria was nearly mowed down by David.
"What's gotten into you?" Gloria asked. David swiveled around and grabbed her by the shoulders.
"Have you seen Noel?" David demanded.
"No, I haven't! Last time I did, she was sound asleep and couldn't move!" Gloria nervously squealed. David sighed and removed his hands from her shoulders. Turning away, he pushed the door open slightly. Gloria's eyes widened.
"You mean…how…when?" She managed to get out. David let his shoulders sag and closed the glass door.
"I don't know when she left, but she's gone now. I've already gone through the entire building and haven't turned up any trace of her. For all…" David said. "Come with me, Gloria! We have work to do!"
Without a word of protest, Gloria ran after David into the snow.
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With the entire base decorated, Mika and Jet held their weapons at one another. Jet shot first, and as soon as the sparkles began to clear, Mika shot Jet. If either of them had thought that what they looked like before was bad, this made the other uniforms look like they covered everything. Jet was the first to burst into laughter at the sight of Mika.
"Not one word or your balls will be roasting over an open fire," Mika grumbled through clenched teeth. She tried frantically to cover the red leather tube top with white fur lining that showed every curve of her body, and at the same time, attempted to pull down the teensy leather skirt with the same furry stuff. Black leather boots stretched up to her thighs. In short, she was a walking and cursing wet dream. Or, shall I say, every boy's wet nightmare. ((Sadie: (begins running)))
But as the silver smog around Jet cleared, it was Mika's turn to laugh. He wore Santa hot pants, a t-shirt like Mika's was except this one said "I've been naughty, bite me" in golden letters. Erm…I won't get too into detail…
"If I were scared for life by one of us, I'd believe in Christmas!" Mika said, striking a pose and succeeding in giving all the males in the base a very good panty shot. Jet, however, no longer cared.
"You go that way, I'll go the way we came." Jet ordered. Mika tossed him a wink and ran around the corner. In seconds, Jet could hear rather loud screaming sounds and was quite sure that Mika was simply jinglefying them. He smiled at the fact that someone else finally got to feel her wrath. As soon as he saw a guard, he fired the bullet at him. Within a minute, the entire hall and all its occupants (minus Jet) had been turned to gingerbread. As each one of the guards caught sight of Jet, they replied to him…
"I'LL BELIEVE! I SWEAR! JUST LEAVE!"
"There are children here…uh…down that hall! Yeah!"
"Oh, really! Why the hell would I want to bite you when I can bite the loser next to me?"
"OH MY GOD! I'LL QUIT SOMKING! OH GOD, JUST RUN AWAY!"
Jet wondered what Mika had done with those bells of hers. He trudged back; satisfied with the results this thing had yielded. Over halfway, he ran head-first into Mika. She was smiling like she'd won the lottery.
"What did you do now?" Jet asked, shaking his head. But then he saw what was behind Mika and eventually fell to the floor in pain because of it.
It was Scarl, all right, but somehow his traditional stuff didn't really "go" to Christmassy cheer. So Mika had set a whole three jingle bombs on him. And now he really screamed "White Ghost of Black Ghost Present".
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"Can't this thing go any faster?" Gloria demanded, leaning into a tight curve. She had to admit that for a new guy, Jet was pretty damn good at this.
"No, it can't. The base is only a few minutes away, and since the entire place is decked out, we can just park anywhere." David said, beginning to slow down. Gloria followed his lead and eased up on her gas pedal. When she saw the base enter her vision, she realized exactly what they'd done by calling Mika back. She burst out laughing at the scene as they stopped.
"…I think Mika used one too many jingle bombs." David said, sighing deeply. He jumped off his bike and jumped down the short distance to the entrance. It wasn't hard to find the kicked-in gingerbread mess.
"OH MY GOD! THERE'S MORE OF THEM!" David heard a voice scream. He looked to see a whole group of guards cowering together in a corner.
"Have you seen another person that looks like us?" Gloria asked sweetly, offering them candy canes.
"Yeah! She was REALLY scary! She had this huge candy cane…and…" One of them replied. He stopped short because the two elves had run off in the direction he'd pointed.
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Scarl shook his head as he watched the once tough Jet Link be reduced to fits of laughter. He did know that it was not without reason. The combined explosion of three jingle bombs was indeed a force to be reckoned with. They had turned his black cloak to white with an embroidered snowflake pattern, and the ribs on the front of his uniform had become green and looked like one of those guards from The Nutcracker. His pants were red britches, and his boots had become black. However, the absolute best part was a tie for two things. There was a crown of holly on his head with snowflakes in it, and attached to it was a thick white beard. In one hand he clenched a red sack of something, and in the other was a black staff shaped like an old-style lamppost. Oh yes, if only the rest of the organization could see him now.
"Oh…ohhhh…hehehehehehehehehahahahaha!" Mika exploded as she rolled over once more to gaze at him. "Now…now…Scarl…about that song you were singing…"
At that precise moment, Noel jumped out of the rafters and kicked Scarl over. Jet stopped laughing as he watched her land on both feet, though panting, perfectly. Her candy cane was strapped smartly across her back, and she was back in uniform.
"What were they thinking, letting you go out." Noel said, helping Jet up. She then held out a hand to Mika. "And what on Earth are you wearing? Are you streaking or something? WE'RE THE SPIRIT TEAM, NOT THE STRIP CLUB!"
Mika giggled again. "We did this to each other, and to him! Doesn't he look adorable?"
"NOEL!" David and Gloria shrieked together. David gripped his captain's shoulders just in time for her to faint again.
"So…that's Scarl? What did you do to him?"
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Once again, thanks for the reviews! Hope you enjoyed this chapter's interestingness…
Chapter Three: White Ghost of Black Ghost Present
With Noel now ducktaped to the bed, Jet explains to Gloria and David what Scarl's real plot is. Mika joins him as they go off to confront Scarl about his greatest fear…Christmas! XD