December 25, meanwhile...

Tobias swooped into the living room. There was two boys, sitting around the tree, ripping open their packages. A mother and father were sitting on the couch, smiling.

(Damn!) Tobias swore. (Some family got up early. What do I do?)

(Why not just drop the package on the opposite side of the tree?) Jake said. (Then they'll think they just missed them.)

Tobias gave a sigh of relief. (Yeah. That'll work.)

He swooped around the tree and dropped the package. He was about to flap out again, when a terrible thing happened.

A boy laughed.

(Ahh!) Tobias flared just before emerging from behind the tree. (They're moving! What are they doing moving?!?)

(I don't know!) Jake said frantically. (Ellimist must have unfroze time!)

(They're coming around the tree!) Tobias yelled.

(Come on.) Rachel called silently to her mom and her sisters. (Come on.)

(I'm circling the tree!) Tobias said. (But I can't go all the way around or the parents will see me!)

The boys crawled closer. One boy looked up at Tobias and his eyes widened.

He just sat there, staring at Tobias. Tobias stared back, unmoving. Slowly, Tobias realized that the boy hadn't moved for a full minute.

(Yes!) Tobias yelled. (Time is frozen, and I am hauling butt outta here!)

He flapped up the chimney and landed in the sleigh.

(That was close.) Cassie said. Everyone ignored her; they still weren't speaking to her.

(Switch up.) Jake said. Everyone who was a reindeer demorphed, to reset the two-hour limit, in case it still applied while time was frozen. They all quickly remorphed, except Jake. (Marco, you take a shift as a reindeer. I'll load the sleigh. Tobias, we can't have time unfreezing all the time. Go check up on the Ellimist.)

Tobias obediently flapped off into the night.

Jake climbed into the sleigh just as the roof blew up. A/N: Bet that woke you up

"What the hell!" Jake cursed, grabbing on tightly onto the reins. "ON DOONER! ON!"

The sleigh stopped falling just before it landed on the family. Unfortunately, the roof debris didn't.

"Ahhh." Rachel said sadly, looking down at the family buried under rubble. The father's head poked above it, frozen into a laughing expression. "That's horrible!"

"Oh my god!" Cassie screamed. "Look up!"

They all snapped their heads up. Two bug fighters hovered above them sinisterly, dracon cannons smoking.

"Where'd they come from?" Cassie cried. "Why aren't they frozen?"

Everyone glared at her.

"On Cassie, On Rachel, On Marco!" Jake yelled. He grabbed the reins and yanked them to the left. The sleigh barely avoided the next dracon fire.

"Ax, demorph!" Jake snapped out orders. "You're just slowing us down. Get to harrier. Everyone else, do exactly as I say."

(AH!) Ax yelled, as his neck grew more slender. The collar loosened, and he dangled precariously from the rope.

"Damn!" Jake cursed again. "Hang on, Ax. Every one else, haul butt!"

The sleigh rocketed through the air, narrowly missing dracon beams. They were headed back the way they came.

(I am slipping!) Ax cried, making choking noises as the collar slipped higher and higher. Jake dove forward and grabbed Ax's back leg.

"Morph!" Jake grunted, holding on to both the sleigh and Ax as tightly as he could. "Hurry!"

"Ahh!" Rachel cried. A large burn had appeared on her front leg.

"$&#$&#$!" Jake bellowed, as the sleigh flipped upside down. One of the fighters had shot a stabilizer.

Jake grabbed onto Marco's leg. Marco snorted hard.

SWISH! A bug fighter flew next to the sleigh. Jake could make out the sneering face of a human controller.

"Oomph!" Jake groaned, and swung the shifting Ax on top of the sleigh. Marco kicked his leg and flipped Jake up.

"Hang Right! Turn into the alley way." Jake bellowed. They swooped down and shot through an alleyway. Sideways. The bug fighter twisted sharply, but too slowly. It slammed into the sides of the alley, tearing into the buildings, ripping the skin of it's armor. It exploded.

The sleigh went flying forwards, propelled by the explosion

"THIS!" Marco yelled as he slammed into a row trashcans. "IS INSANE!"

(We've lost the bug fighters.) Ax said, now fully harrier.

They all slammed into the ground in a pile of burnt reindeer, singed feathers, Jake, and sleigh parts.

"Everyone ok?" Jake asked.

"We'll be fine." Marco grunted, focusing on his human body. Pretty soon there were four humans and an Andalite standing around a sleigh wreck.

"We'll never rebuild this thing." Cassie moaned.

(I believe that there are all the parts that I require right here.) Ax said, motioning to the scattered bug fighter parts. (It will take me quite a while, though.)

Jake sat down on an over turned trashcan and sighed. "Do it."