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Chapter 2: Merry Christmas
The group along with Charmcaster are traveling together. Ben wanted to try out her new frog alien but for some reason it not there so Charmcaster inform her that the reason it not there because the Omnitrix respond it to magic so it not there anymore, much to Ben disappointment.
The Rust Bucket is driving on the road in Death Vally, California and passed the sign that said "NEXT STOP 100 MILES" and heard Gwen voice. "We are in the middle of the middle of nowhere."
Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster is sitting in the back of the Rust Bucket with the air conditioner on. However, it wasn't enough to cool them down.
"Ben, don't you know any spells that can help cool us down?" Gwen asked, hoping there a spell that can help cool down the heat.
"Afraid not, if I do I would of done it already." Ben answered with her coat unbutton revealing her purple turtleneck shirt.
"Man, how hot can it get?" Charmcaster asked, causing Gwen to looked at the weather thermometer on the wall next to her which said 108 degree.
"Grandpa, can't you crank up the A/C?" Ben asked, seeing if there any other way to cool down.
"I'm afraid it's at maximum right now." Max answered, wiping the sweat off of his forehead with the fan on moving left and right as he look at the rear view mirror. "We'll stop at the next gas station."
"We'll be grilled cheese by then!" Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster all groaned outward.
"That it, time to go small to get cool." Ben said as she slammed the Omnitrix core down, initiating her transformation.
Transformation scene
The Omnitrix sank into Ben's wrist as her hand and feet grew grey-blue and slimy as they secreted mucus from her pores and only had four fingers and three toes. The green Omnitrix symbol grew on her back as the blue spread to the rest of her skin as her eyes turn green and grew huge and buggy, taking up the entire upper half of her face as the pupils turned sideway and rectangular and her mouth was filled shard teeth. Her hair and nose vanished as two thin tendrils appear on her head and each cheeks as purple stripe appear her between eyes as she shrunk to three inches tall. Her attire shifted to magenta jumpsuit with purple belt, ankles, wrists, and collar. She struck the pose as the transformation finished.
Grey Matter then hopped upward to the walls then off the walls to the ceiling before landing in the air conditioner and began her work with Gwen and Charmcaster watching.
"Okay," Grey Matter said. "Recalibrate the Freon evaporation cycle, expand the expansion values and realign these condenser cord."
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Gwen asked.
"One more second and it's ice-cube city." Grey Matter exclaimed...just before a plume of smoke burst out of the air conditioner.
Max pulled the R.V. over and the group immediately ran out onto the dusty ground in the coughing fit. Max finished coughing and smirk at Grey Matter, who is on top of Gwen head.
"Guess that didn't go as plan, huh?" Grey Matter asked, nervously.
Charmcaster saw something in front of them, "Hey, what's that over there?" He said, pointing at it.
They looked at where Charmcaster is pointing at and saw a cottage.
"What's that doing in the middle of the desert?" Grey Matter asked after seeing the cottage.
Gwen pulled her grandfather arm, "Grandpa, can we check it out? Please?"Gwen asked, shaking his arm at the end.
"Sure, don't sweat it." Max joked, causing Gwen, Grey Matter, and Charmcaster to glare at him at that awful joke while he laugh.
"Uh, sorry, just couldn't help myself." Max apologized.
The gang then walked to the cottage with Ben back to normal and had her coat buttons up as they looked up at the figurines by the doors.
"Giant toy soldiers?" Gwen asked. "In Death Valley?"
"That weird. Toy aren't suppose be in the desert." Charmcaster said.
"Hmm..." Max wondered, rubbing his chin. "Must be one of those holiday theme parks year. They probably packed up and left and forgot this thing.
After he said that, the four then felt a gush of cold air escape from the concave doors as Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster all beamed up at that.
"Did you feel you feel that cold air?" Ben asked as they looked each other before headed towards the doors. Ben got there first and open the door as Gwen and Charmcaster went inside and Ben followed them from behind as Max followed them.
After Max went inside the door the closed itself from behind leaving the room pitch black before the light appear. Max gasped and head towards the light.
As soon as he walked into the light, he felt his shoes sink into...snow? He looked down for a bit and then looked up and immediately noticed that it was snowing and right before their eyes was a complete winter wonderland as they all gasped.
"How is this possible?" Charmcaster asked. "It's a complete desert wasteland outside and in here, it's a winter wonderland."
"What is all of this?" Max asked
Little did they know that a giant nutcracker was behind and it gazed down upon them.
In another area, a figure was looking through the nutcracker by the way of the crystal ball. He seem to be rather in Max as he looked down upon him.
"Could it be?" He asked. "Has he finally arrived?"
Gwen felt the snow fall into her hand and beamed up.
"Snow?" Gwen asked with Charmcaster looked in amazement before they felt something hit their heads as they looked Ben smirking while tossed the snowball in her hand in the air.
"Which means one thing." Ben said. "Snowball."
She then dodged the snowballs tossed by Gwen and Charmcaster. Ben grabbed another snowball from the ground as Gwen and Charmcaster run away and laughed as Ben go after and tossed the snowball.
"Snow angel!" Gwen said as they all stopped and made snow angel. Charmcaster never had this much fun in his whole life due to his uncle Hex prevent him from having fun with other children.
"Haha, now this is what I like to called chilling out." Ben said.
"I wonder where they keep the snow-making machine?" Max asked as he felt a snowball hit him too as his grandkids and Charmcaster giggled at that. "I am warning you...you're messing with an old pro."
Soon enough, everyone was having fun with the snowball fight from them.
That was when the gang started walking through the village as they took in the sights.
"Got to admit." Gwen said. "They're using some fancy special effects to keep us from seeing the village from outside."
"The whole town must be air-conditioned." Ben said.
Soon enough, they were stopped in their tracks as they saw a bunch of small creatures with pointy ears and green beady eyes wearing green and red festive clothing running across them.
"Are those..." Gwen began.
"Elves?" Charmcaster finished.
"Yeah, I think so." Ben said.
"Hehe, I wonder where they keep their reindeer around here?" Gwen asked as they stopped and Ben looked over.
"Uh...right here." she said as they looked over to see the elves loading up presents onto a sleigh held by a reindeer as they widened their eyes and another area where some elves are decorating a giant Christmas tree as they all they widened their eyes.
In another part, an elf rode a sled down a snow-covered hill and a door open by them and some giant toy soldiers walked out and formed a single-file line before blowing into their trumpets as the gang all looked in wonder.
"You know, being here makes me realize." Max said, putting his arms around his grandkids. "That the three of us have never spend a Christmas altogether. Or at least before Charmcaster's join in due to the body swapping spell.
"Huh, you're right." Ben said.
"Our families do get pretty busy that time of year. I mean, with the all holiday parties, having to shop till you drop, vacations you know." Gwen said.
"Yeah, well maybe that'll change one of these years so we can all spend a nice relaxing holiday together." Max said.
"Uh, yeah." Ben said with a smile. "Well, I'm going to go hit the bobsled rink."
"Ice-skating for me." Gwen said with a smile as she and Ben walked off, leaving Max and Charmcaster.
"*Chuckle* Well, so much for that ever happening." Max said as he looked at Charmcaster next to him who seem to be looking down. "What the matter, Charmcaster?"
"Well, it just that I never had this must fun after we arrived here or spend time on a holiday. All because my uncle never play or spend time with me on a holiday back then when I was just a little girl. Alway keep telling me to get back to study magic and telling me that fun and holiday is for the weak, turning me into a life of crime." Charmcaster said, clenching his fists hard.
"I see. So deep down back then before you swap body with Ben, you was just a lonely teenager who don't know how to have fun or spend time with the family on a holiday." Max said as he realized that Charmcaster doesn't have a good life before turning into a life of crime.
"Yeah." Charmcaster said, nodding his head.
"Well, then you might get that chance." Max said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Charmcaster asked, completely confuse at what he meant.
"Well, you had fun with Ben and Gwen playing in the snow and you will spend time on the holiday with the Tennyson family." Max explained as Charmcaster began to think for a minute before smiling knowing what he said is true that he had fun with Ben and Gwen and he'll be able to spend time on a holiday.
"Yeah, you're right." Charmcaster said with a smile as he looked at Max. "Thank, Max."
"Just called me Grandpa or Grandpa Max while in public." Max said, happy to give him what he wanted the most deep inside. Charmcaster nodding at that words.
"Well, I'm going to check out the shops." Charmcaster said as he headed towards the shops as Max watched with a smile.
As promising, the kids were having fun in the winter wonderland, bobsledding, or checking out the shops with the smile as they all looked like they were having a good time.
Meanwhile, Max entered a shop that read Toys and Cocoa on a sign. He rubbed the cold air off of the window and looked at his grandkids having fun with a smile. He took a mug and got himself some hot chocolate from the brew by him.
Unfortunately, he didn't notice that one of the dolls looked towards him and saw Max examine one of the Santa Claus suit on display.
The man behind the crystal ball notice this too as he examine Max.
"The lap is not quite right and it appears he has decided to shave. But it looks like it will be a perfectly perfect fit."
Max then left the shop and heard a voices, "You must come with us."
Max looked around to find out where the voices was coming from. Then he looked down and saw four elves surrounding him and quickly figure out that the voices came from them.
"Oh, I'm-I'm sorry, I didn't see anybody around." Max said. "Who can I pay for the cocoa?"
The elves then walked Max away from the shop with the beaming smiles on their faces.
However, another elf, who was dressed differently than the other, looked on in sadness from the alleyway.
Max was eventually led into an area with a large chair in a front and a large stairway and he looked up to see another elf, who looked like he was the ringleader.
He had a white bread, grey eyes and wears a red and white hat, and green and red clothes. And of course, he had the pointy ears of an elf, but strangely he didn't have the beady eyes that the others had and he was taller than them.
"I'm Mr. Jingles." he said. "I want welcome you to Holiday Village. I'm so happy we finally have a chance to meet."
"Now nice place you have here." Max said, admiring the room.
"Thank you so much. I've been so worried that it wouldn't meet with your approval." Mr. Jiggle said.
"My approval?"
"Why of course, Mr. Claus. Is it okay if I call you Santa?"
Max then chuckled at that and said, "I think you have me confused with someone else. Say, you wouldn't know anyone around here who can fix an air-conditioning unit? We really need to get back on the road."
"Oh my gosh, oh heavens, no!" Mr. Jingles said. "You can't go anywhere, you belong here. I created Holiday Village just for you."
He then rang the bell on his shoes and two elves ran around Max with red cloths in their hands, wrapping around him. Once he was completely wrapped, a flash of light shined out and when it faded, Max was dressed up in a pretty accurate Santa Claus outfit, complete with red coat, shoes, gloves, long white beard, hat, you name it.
"There, that better." Mr. Jingles said as he pressed the button on his control mechanism.
The chair then went behind Max and pushed him into it as it went to the front of the door. He tried to pull out, but a magical force seemed to be restraining him.
Meanwhile, Ben, Gwen, and Charmcaster were eating a giant gingerbread man as Gwen took a bite and said, "We really need to find Grandpa."
"Why?" Ben said as she took a bite. "He used not being with us on Christmas."
"I bet he was having fun." Charmcaster said as he took a bite.
Contrary on their belief, Max was struggling in his as Mr. Jingles said was controlling him with a joystick.
"I'm so sorry about joystick controller." He said. "But I though you might had other chores to attend to and I need to make sure you fulfill your responsibility to me first. Now, may I present your workshop, Santa."
"I am not Santa!" Max said, protected.
The doors, which were revealed to be just opening to the workshop, opened up to reveal a balcony viewing the workshop, where the elves were working on toys just like the toys in the real North Pole.
"Attention, my elves." Mr. Jingles announced. "I have the most wonderful surprise."
He then used his joystick to control Max to wave to the elves down below, causing them to cheer outwards at who they believe was Santa Claus.
"As soon as my toys are perfect, you'll have gift galore to deliver. Until then just sit and relax." Mr. Jingles said.
Max struggled and protested against the controls, but the magic was just too strong for him to get out.
"Oh, and I almost forget. Thank you so much for bringing those loving children with you. I can always use more elves." Mr. Jingles said as Max glared at him.
Meanwhile, the kids were at the tree, shaking the presents at the base to see what was inside. Suddenly, they heard a stomping sound walking towards them and looked to see the nutcracker soldiers advancing on them.
"I don't think they want to sing Christmas carols." Ben said as she readied for battle.
Before she could do anything, the rebel elf from earlier threw ornaments at them, distracting them.
"It's Jingles' guards! You must skedaddle!" he said, throwing the ornaments at the nutcrackers.
"Ske...what-le?" Ben said, rubbing the back of her head in confusing as they saw guards' shadows loom over them.
"He must means run!" Gwen said as the three all ran away from the nutcracker, just before the lead one brought its sword down.
As they ran, the top of the nutcracker hat opened and out popped a miniature nutcracker with a cannon that fired candy canes after them but missed as the they ran and ducked behind a sleigh.
"No way. Ninja nutcracker? Well it time those wooden nutcracker became firewood." Ben said as she activated her Omnitrix. "Going Heatblast!"
She then slammed the core down and transformed into...XLR8.
"Aww man!" XLR8 shouted, slamming her head as nutcracker came to them from behind and push the sleigh away.
XLR8 grabbed Gwen and Charmcaster, slung them over her shoulder and ran away as she dodged all the nutcrackers in the street while also swinging around the candy canes as XLR8 caught one in her mouth.
"Mmm, peppermint!" she said.
She then dodged before she eventually make her way to the ice-skating rink, where she immediately lost her friction and started slipping on ice.
"Whoa! I've never accelerated on ice before!" XLR8 said.
"Really? Gee, you could've fooled me." Gwen said as they saw the nutcrackers make their way on the ice as well. XLR8 dodged and use her tail to trip a nutcracker as another one fell right on it as XRL8 crashed through the railing into the pile of snow and groaned out in pain by candy canes shot from behind before Gwen and Charmcaster dusted themselves off and saw the remaining nutcracker before them.
Gwen and Charmcaster dodged the candy canes and ran but was blocked by a nutcracker who brought its sword down on them which they dodged as Gwen saw another nutcracker came up to her and swing its sword horizontally which Gwen jump to dodged and kicked the nutcracker to ground as Gwen looked and saw the third came to her from behind as Gwen send a flying kick to the ground next to Charmcaster but got her foot stuck in it's hat as she and Charmcaster got surrounded by nutcrackers but XLR8 rescue them and take them to the top of the hill.
Gwen and Charmcaster saw nutcrackers as they took a couple step back. Gwen and Charmcaster looked at XLR8 and saw that she carried a big pile of snowballs as Gwen said, "Earth to XLR8, we don't have time for a snowball fight!"
"I was thinking more like a snowball spatterfest." XLR8 replied as she spin around fast sending all the snowballs at the nutcrackers down the hill as they turn into a giant snowball hitting nutcrackers in the way and down to the ice-skating rink.
As the Omnitrix time out, Ben is still spinning so fast as she drill into the snow covering her legs as she got dizzy.
"I never thought I say this to you but good thinking." Gwen said as Ben grabbed her head to stopped herself from getting more dizzy.
"That was really spiffing!" Rebel Elf said as he ran by them.
Ben got off the snow and asked, "Spiffy? Skedaddle? Dude, don't you know English?"
"Dude?" Rebel Elf asked, confused.
"Do you work here?" Gwen asked.
"Yes, and if you don't leave now, you will fall under the curse of the village and become one of us as well." Rebel Elf said.
"Me, an elf? Yeah right." Ben said, crossing her arm. As her ears suddenly grew out into point and her eyes grew beady and she grew rosy cheeks which got Gwen and Charmcaster by surprise.
"Uh, Ben? You might want check out your ears." Gwen said, pointing her own ears.
Ben touch her now pointed ears and started freaking out before turning back to Charmcaster and Gwen.
"Well it looks like I'm not the only one." Ben said.
Gwen and Charmcaster then felt their ears as well to see that the same thing had happened to them.
"Uh, I so can't go elf! Pointed ears will never be in fashion!" Gwen said.
"Seriously, we're about to become an elf and all you worry about is fashion? Geez, you really are such a princess." Charmcaster said, causing Gwen to growl at him.
"Now it not the time to argue. We need to get Grandpa and go." Ben said, breaking them up.
"That might not be possible, Mr. Jingles has him. He believe your grandpa is Santa Claus." Rebel Elf said.
They looked at each other in shock at what the rebel elf said.
Max was still struggling in the magic grip as Mr. Jingles jumped onto the arm of the seat.
"I know why you look so unhappy. You have nothing to laugh about." Mr. Jingles said as he pulled a feather out from his left sleeve. "Here. Let me change that."
He began rubbed Max's nose with the feather, tickling him.
"Stop, no! *chuckle* No, not that! No!" Max eventually devolved into a fit of laughter before he inadvertently said, "Ho, ho, ho!"
That involuntary remarked cause the elves below to cheer and few even teared up a little.
Back in the town, night suddenly from what was clear blue skies a few seconds ago.
"Whoa, what just happened?!" Ben asked.
"We're running out of time. If you don't leave soon, you'll be stuck here forever." Rebel Elf said.
"Not without Grandpa." Gwen said.
That was when the four felt a chill in the air behind them as they saw a top hat blow from who knows where. From where the hat landed, a few huge snowmen formed from the snow beneath them.
"Skedaddle!" Everyone but Rebel Elf said as they ran off avoiding the snowballs. They headed towards the same building that Max had entered earlier. Gwen grabbed the Christmas wreath hanging on the door and throw at lead one which landed on it neck as Ben and Charmcaster give Gwen a looks that said 'Really?' causing Gwen shrugging her shoulder. Ben unzipped her bag and grabbed three Exploding Eggs and throw its at the snowmen blowing them to pieces.
The rebel elf opened the door and said, "Quick! In here!"
They then ran inside the building and noticed the several pictures on the walls of past events of Holiday Village. They stopped by a picture of Mr. Jingles.
"Who's that?" Ben asked.
"Mr. Jingles." Rebel Elf answered.
Gwen then walked up to another of Mr. Jingles with a young kid, she immediately came to obvious conclusion.
"And that you. When was that taken?" Gwen asked.
"Why, just a few days ago." Rebel Elf answered as Gwen looked back at the picture.
"In what year?" Gwen asked.
"1932, of course." Rebel Elf answered, shocking them before they heard a pounding at the door by them and they looked to see some big snowballs burst through.
"I thought I blown them to pieces!" Ben said.
"Well, it look like they regenerate!" Gwen said as the rebel elf pulled down one of the lamp fixtures and an opening appeared in the floor.
"Follow me!" he said as he jumped down the opening.
Then, one by one, they all jumped the opening and fell down a huge tunnel that was filled with gifts before they all landed safely in a huge pile of presents on the ground below.
They all looked around to see the workings of the workshop as well as reindeer being led to the gates.
"How do we get our Grandpa back?" Gwen asked.
"First, you'd have to destroy the Jingleator, Mr. Jingles machine." Rebel Elf said. "It's what make everything here magical. But the entrance to it workshop is guarded. You won't be able to get in."
"Oh yeah?" Gwen asked as she and Charmcaster looked Ben who looked back at them
Later, Gwen and Charmcaster had changed into similar attire to the rest of the elves in the area, they rode on Ben, who transformed into Wildmutt, who had put on an antlers as a (rather pathetic) disguise.
"Remember, you're a reindeer." Gwen said.
Once they had reached the gate, the nutcracker standing guard put his sword in front of them to block.
"Uh, she from Europe!" Gwen remarked.
The soldier raised its eyebrow and lifted up his sword to let them through.
They walked through to see a train in front of them.
"The factory is several levels below." Rebel Elf explained.
As Wildmutt walked towards the train, she were stopped by one of the reindeer, who snorted at her with its red nose glowing.
They gasped and looked behind them to see the guards running towards them.
Wildmutt roared and ran away and got on the train full of gifts as it left the station, but not before one of the guards hitched a ride on the back.
"Uh oh." Charmcaster said as they ducked before it fired its candy cane at them. The group sans Wildmutt tossed the few gifts at the guard, causing him to fall off the back of the train onto the train track.
Soon after, a mine cart came up on the left side carrying two more soldiers. Wildmutt, with Gwen, Charmcaster, and the elf on her back, jumped forwards to dodge the attack from the first nutcracker. The second nutcracker jumped onto the train blocking the way and about to attack but Wildmutt jumped again to the back of the train dodging the attack from behind from the first nutcracker which accidentally cut down the second nutcracker. Wildmutt and the group looked back and saw the nutcracker jumped towards them but got attack by Wildmutt and fall into the abyss below.
Unfortunately, the caboose of the train was revealed to be a jack-in-the-box that immediately popped open, sending the team falling down towards the bottom of the workshop, where they landed safely in a mountain of presents before the Omnitrix timed out, Ben came out and spit out the toy that was in her mouth after the fall.
"Well, well," Mr. Jingles said as he walked by them as two giant polar bear doll guards walked to his sides. "It appears our new elves couldn't wait to get started. And Elsgood, you know how I frown upon my elves thinking for themselves."
Elsgood frowned at that.
Mr. Jingles pulled a microphone out of his sleeve and turned it on. "You all know our motto in Holiday Village."
"A happy elf is a busy elf!" the elves all chorused.
The team then all got out of the pile of gifts before Ben looked upwards to see Max in his chair dressed as Santa Claus.
"Grandpa!" Ben exclaimed.
Gwen and Charmcaster then looked to see Mr. Jingles using his joystick control on him.
"He must be controlling him," Gwen realized, looked back to see her grandpa is at waving them by force of Mr. Jingles joystick control.
Ben angrily look back at Mr. Jingles and demanded, "I want my grandpa back!"
"I wish I could oblige." Mr. Jingles said. "But it wouldn't be polite to return a gift as special as Mr. Claus. Now, put them on the assembly line."
The polar bear dogs walked forward towards the team as Ben moved back with Gwen, Charmcaster, and Elsgood hiding behind her legs as the polar bear dolls grab them.
When the clock struck 11:30, the factory was still working and the team was still putting the toys together before a doll rolled by Ben on the assembly line and she twisted its head.
"I'm Spit-Up Sally. Watch me spit up. Spit up. Spit up."
The doll's head spun around, it's mouth opened and it vomited green gunk on Ben, causing Charmcaster and Gwen, who were standing next to him to recoil in disgust as Mr. Jingles walked by and took the doll from Ben.
"How will Santa ever be able to deliver this if it's not perfect!? My toys must be perfect! Everything must be perfect on Christmas!" Mr. Jingles said as he shove the doll back to Ben and walked away with polar bear doll guards following him. "Perfect, perfect, perfect!"
Elsgood then came out from under the assembly line and gestured them to the giant machine in the center of the room. "That's the Jingleator. Time is running out!"
They then saw the giant polar bear dolls walking by them before they got back to the toys while Elsgood under the assembly line for a few seconds as they walked away.
"What we need is a distraction," Ben said as she then looked towards the reindeer behind them and then grinned in mischief before her hands started to glow.
The Spit-Up Sally doll was tossed by the reindeer. One of them sniffed to investigate it and it spat up in its face, startling it and sending the rest of the reindeer into a frenzy.
As the guards went by to settle them down, Ben activated their Omnitrix with a smile.
"All I want for Christmas are four big arms!" Ben shouted before she slammed down the cores, transforming into... Grey Matter.
"Aw man! Well, I guess you don't get what you want." Grey Matter said before running towards the Jingleator.
On the balcony above, Mr. Jingles looked through the telescope next to max to see the ruckus the reindeer were causing, before looking to see the elves had stopped working and saw the present got knocked itself off the assembly line. His eyes widen in shocked until he zoomed in to see Grey Matter running towards the Jingleator.
"*Gasp* Stop her!" he shouted.
The polar bear dolls then stopped with the reindeer and ran towards Ben.
Ben jump over the bag and continue running towards the Jingleator while being chase by the guards. Gwen and Charmcaster ran towards the guards seeing that Ben being chase as Gwen saw the bag next to her on belt as she grabbed it and throw it right in front of the guards as it release a lot of small balls which the guards step on and begin to lose balance.
"Ben, look out!" Gwen yelled in concern as the dolls to crash into the conveyor belt behind her and she jumped forward dodged the hand of polar bear doll and continuing to head towards the Jingleator as the toy plane appear and flew to stop her, Ben jumped into Jingleator to dodge the toy plane which got crashed, sending her sprawling downwards on the belt like a slide.
She then crashed into a present that was sliding down the belt and saw the present next to her got kicked by the boot on a hook and she shrink her pupils in fear as she is next and got kicked away caused her to crash land on a platform.
Grey Matter rubbed her bottom when she stood up and looked to see a bunch of floating presents leading to what appeared to be a golden star. Grey Matter hopped on the moving presents as she charged towards the star like a game of Frogger. She then gasped as some presents crashed onto the platforms she was on before they quickly moved between to present walls closing on on one another before they somehow made it through in time and landed at the foot of the giant star.
Grey Matter then looked to the green orbs surrounding the star.
"The amplification of currents suggests a vision of unstable and undeterminable isotopes. Shutting down power source now!" Grey Matter said as she pressed her finger to the orb and the Jingleator started rumbling and flashing out light as Grey Matter gasped and braced herself as she were bathed in the light.
Outside; Gwen, Charmcaster, and Elsgood were surrounded by the toys and gasped as they closed in on them.
Suddenly, the polar bear doll's eyes blacked out and they fell over, their power source depleted, followed by the rest of the toys surrounding them.
They gasped as the Jingleator gave off several multi-colored explosions and was completely obliterated outwards as they all gasped as they looked in the pile of rubble.
Grey Matter came out, completely unharmed.
"Oh yeah!" Grey Matter cheered. "The bigger they are, the harder they fall!"
"No!" Mr. Jingles protested before going to his joystick again. "I need to assure the elves Santa's still okay. Wave to them!"
Max, completely free of the joystick's controls, stood up and smirked.
"Way to get it done, Ben."
"Uh oh, it's not working!" Mr. Jingles said before Max grabbed his collar.
"Come here!"
"If we destroyed the machine, then why are we still elves?" Gwen asked as the Omnitrix timed out sending Elsgood to the floor due to how big and heavy Ben is in her human form. "Why is there still a curse?"
"Because now nobody will ever be able to experience the joy of Christmas!" Mr. Jingles said as Max dropped him by them. "You will all make me new toys! More perfect toys! Without my perfect toys, what will Santa do?"
"Christmas isn't about giving the perfect toy," Max said. "It's about the spirit in which we give. Isn't that right kids?"
"Yeah. But I bet giving me a Sumo Slammer Extreme Slamdown would make you feel really good, huh, Santa?" Ben asked before Gwen jabbed her with the elbow. "Kidding! Just kidding!"
"What my cousin means is being together is what Christmas is all about. Mr. Jingles, look at these kids you've kept away from their families all these Christmases. They need to go home." Gwen said.
Mr. Jingles looked down in sadness knowing what she said is true. He had kept these kids away from their families for so long because he let his love for Christmas get the better of him and because of that they need to go home to their families.
"Well," Mr. Jingles began. "Even if I wanted to give away these toys, my reindeer can't fly anymore since the Jingleator is destroyed."
"Who needs Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer when you have Stink the Gassy Alien." Ben said with the smile.
Mr. Jingles and Gwen looked at each other with their eyes wide as they didn't like the sound of that.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Charmcaster said with a sigh.
Later, Stinkfly were hooked up with reins to the sleigh, which had Max and Gwen inside. (Charmcaster elected to stay behind as the sleigh could only hold Santa and one elf)
Mr. Jingles instructed Gwen on how to use the sleigh. "You adjust this dial and go wherever you want on Earth."
"So that's how he delivers it all in one night!" Gwen realized.
"Come on! Come on! We've got to go!" Stinkfly said to them with a smile before they turned to him as she flew off into the night sky, sleigh in tow.
Naturally, they flew all around the world, delivering gifts to and fro wherever they went with a smile.
"Christmas in summer? Cool!" a kid exclaimed, tearing open her gift.
Once they arrived back in Holiday Village to a waiting Charmcaster, the clock struck 12 and Ben transformed back.
"Midnight." Gwen said.
"I wonder if the curse is lifted?" Charmcaster asked.
After he said that, the night sky turned back to blue, the once deserted streets were now full of smiling happy families and the streets looked more old and worn down and the whole thing looked more like a tourist attraction than a city.
They looked to see Max back in his old clothes along with everyone else trasnformed back to humans.
"Grandpa, you're back to being Grandpa!" Gwen said.
"And we're back to being normal." Ben said as she run toward to a now statutory nutcracker, which she knocked on with no response as she follow Max, Gwen, Charmcaster.
Ben then looked over to see...
"Snow machines. Guess Holiday Village is normal too." Ben said.
"Holiday Village is far from normal, young lady." said a familiar voice.
They all looked over to see an old man who bore a striking resemblance to Mr. Jingles walk by with three kids. "It happens to be quite special. Did you know I've been coming here every year since 1932?"
"Grandpa Elsgood, can we go to the cocoa fountain?" the boy holding his hand asked as they all raised their eyebrows.
"Heh, skedaddle. I'll be right there, kids." he said.
"Yay!" the kids all cheered as they ran off, leaving behind a stunned teenager and two kids by him.
"Elsgood?" Charmcaster asked.
"Skedaddle?" Gwen asked.
The old man then shot them a wink before walking off.
"So... if we broke the curse, that means that Elsgood was never trapped here in the first place." Ben realized.
"But what about Mr. Jingles?" Gwen asked.
"This might be your answer," Max said as he looked over to a plaque. "'Holiday Village, founded by Thomas Jingles, 1928. It's not what we give, it's the spirit in which it is given.'"
"Now why does that sound familiar?" Gwen asked with a smile as they look at the statue of human Mr. Jingles and Elsgood.
Back on the road, Ben and the kids were still sweltering from the heat outside as Gwen looked over to Charmcaster with a smile. "So, how was your first Christmas?"
Ben and Gwen has been told by their grandpa about the conversation between him and Charmcaster after Ben and Gwen ran off to have fun. Needless to say, they're not very happy of what Charmcaster go through.
"More fun than I expected. Can't wait to celebrate it with you for real in 5 months," Charmcaster smiled as Ben jabbed him and they laughed.
"Grandpa, about us never celebrating Christmas together?" Ben asked.
"Yes, Ben?" Max asked.
"It's cool we're doing it now." Ben said with a smile.
"Ben's right." Gwen said as she fanned herself. "But 'cool' might be the wrong word."
The Rust Bucket's occupants all laughed at that.
"Oh what fun it is to ride in an unairconditioned sleigh."