"Don't be a worrywart, Sockhead," Eddy told Double D on the way. "Justin is with us. We're going to be fine."
"I hope you're right." Double D told him.
"So, Justin, is lava-bending the same as fire-bending?" Eddy asked Justin on the way to Twister's house.
"Eh, it's more like earth-bending from what Pele told me and Justine." Justin shrugged.
"I didn't even know that there was such a thing as lave-bending until Mother told me about it," Double D said. "There's even sand-bending."
"Sand-bending?" Eddy asked. "No way!"
"Yes, there seems to be bending for just about any Element conceivable." Double D nodded.
"No way, Sockhead." Eddy said.
"It's true, my mother even has a book for it if you want to borrow it." Double D replied.
"Other elements though?" Justin asked.
"Oh, yes, very many of them," Double D nodded. "Ice, Poison, Music, Plant, Emotions, Energy, Psychic, Space, Shadows, Time, Light, Lightning, Fear, even Darkness!"
"And we know a few people who can do that kinda stuff." Eddy said.
"Yes, like Trent for example: he can control sound waves from his guitar." Double D replied.
"Hmm..." Eddy hummed in thought.
"It's a very good book, you should read it, after all, you are the descendant of Prince Zuko from the Fire Nation." Double D suggested.
"I don't know, I mean, I guess I could give it a try." Eddy shrugged.
Double D nodded in encouragement as they went off together.
At the Pickles' house...
"Mother!" Charlotte smiled to her mother.
"Hello, dear." Eloise smiled back to her daughter.
"It's good to see you again," Charlotte beamed before calling out. "Angelica, your grandmother is here!"
Angelica and Junior soon came into the room.
"Hi, Grandma!" Angelica beamed before hugging her grandmother. "Grandma, I want you to meet someone special, my one true love and heart's delight."
Eloise took a long look at Junior before scratching her chin. "Well, this is a surprise to me, but if you're happy, I suppose I can be happy too for your decision."
"Huh?" Angelica asked. "Grandma, what're you talking about?"
"Well, this is your true love, then I guess that means you're gay." Eloise shrugged as she thought Junior was a girl.
"What?!" Angelica and Junior's eyes widened.
"Oh, uh, Mother, that's Angelica's boyfriend, Dwayne Junior." Charlotte explained.
"Oh... OH!" Eloise said before her eyes widened. "Oh, I'm sorry, dear... Oh, when I was a little girl, I had short blonde hair just like that, I always told Vincent to never trim my hair too much, I always hated getting my hair cut from him, of course, he was from Italy, so English wasn't his best language."
"It's okay, Mother, why don't you sit down and I'll make you some hot chocolate?" Charlotte soothed.
"Oh, I do love me some hot chocolate," Eloise smiled. "Is there a holiday party, Angelica?"
"Uh-huh," Angelica smiled back to her grandmother. "It's hosted by Courtney!"
"And she's going to go to it along with Junior." Charlotte added.
"It's going to be great." Angelica beamed.
"Oh, that's very lovely," Eloise smiled. "Oh, did I ever tell you all about the Christmas at the Plaza Hotel when we helped Mrs. Thornton from moving out of the hotel because this nasty man was about to marry Mr. Peabody's daughter, Rachel?"
"No, I don't think I heard about that story, Grandma." Angelica replied.
"Oh, boy... Here we go again..." Charlotte giggled as she heard this story many times as a child.
"Ah, it was a lovely Christmas," Eloise smiled in nostalgia before she began her childhood story. "'Once there was this little child, You know her I believe, Here's who she is'-"
"Me, Eloise, and it's Christmas Eve!" Charlotte and Eloise said together before laughing.
Angelica smiled as she sat next to her boyfriend, listening to her grandma's story. Eloise smiled as she told Angelica and Junior about her Christmas story of how she spread holiday cheer to the Plaza Hotel and giving presents to all of the employees and not just her nanny.
Meanwhile...
"Oh, I don't think this is such a good idea, Eddy." Double D winced.
"I told you to relax, Sockhead, Justin is going with us so we're going to be fine." Eddy said.
Justin soon knocked on the front door. A woman with curly brown hair soon opened the door to see guests.
"Ah, hello, Mrs. Rodriguez," Justin greeted. "Um, is your younger son home?"
"Oh, yes, he is, he's upstairs with his little girlfriend, plus his cousins are here too." Sandy replied.
"Cousins?" Eddy asked.
"Why, yes, all three of them are here from Cartoon Network City," Sandy nodded. "José, Alejandro, and Maya."
"Oh..." Double D began.
"No." Ed added.
"Come right inside, I've got some baking to do." Sandy said before she went into the kitchen.
"It just got from bad to worse with the Burromuerto siblings here." Eddy told the others.
Justin came inside of the house while Twister and Spinelli sat together and Spinelli glared at Alejandro, José, and Maya.
"Ah, hola, senors, it's a surprise to see you guys here." Alejandro greeted.
"Mike invited us to spend Nickmas with her." Justin said.
"Hey, guys," Twister sighed. "These are my cousins... As if Lars wasn't bad enough."
"Can it, Maurice, be nice to your cousins like Tia Sandy said." Maya smirked as she annoyed her younger cousin and also bullied him.
"How about you shut it or else I'll use you as a piñata, Senorita?" Spinelli threatened.
"Um, I hate to interrupt..." Eddy smiled nervously.
Spinelli and Twister turned to see him.
"Uh, hey, Spinelli, can I talk with ya?" Eddy asked.
"Sure, Skipper, but one of you is staying with Twister so that he doesn't get hurt." Spinelli replied.
"Ed, stay here and protect Twister." Eddy commanded.
"Okie dokie, Eddy!" Ed saluted and came to keep an eye on Twister, glaring at him with one eye open.
Twister blinked as he looked up at Ed strangely while Eddy and Spinelli left the room.
"Now what are we supposed to do?" Double D asked as he was alone with Justin.
"Oh, who wants cookies?" Sandy called out.
"Cookies!" Ed beamed as he then ran into the kitchen.
"Watch over Twister." Justin shrugged as Ed was now gone.
"Hi there, Justin," Maya smirked. "It's so nice to see you over the holidays. You know, I read that you Hawaiians say Mele Kalikimaka."
"What are you saying 'You Hawaiians'?!" Justin glared in offense.
"Justin, please, not now." Double D said.
"It means Merry Christmas, sheesh, there's even a song about it!" Maya rolled her eyes at Justin's overreaction.
"So, what did you wanna talk about?" Spinelli rolled her eyes to Eddy.
"It's about your cousin," Eddy told Spinelli. "I wanna get her a Christmas present. Do you know what she likes?" He then asked.
"Well, she likes to work-out with her weights, though that's getting very old, and that she likes to read comic books." Spinelli replied.
"Hmm... Which comics?" Eddy asked.
"Well, she's been very interested in Spore ever since Buttercup introduced her to the series," Spinelli replied. "After that, she's said it's her all-time favorite comic series, kinda like Mike with Action Guy."
"Spore, huh?" Eddy asked as he took notes on that.
"Yeah, that's her favorite, next to Batman of course." Spinelli chuckled.
"Right, right..." Eddy nodded. "So, should I get her Spore comic books?"
"Oh, yeah, there's a limited edition of Spore with the creator's autograph on it at the comic book store." Spinelli said.
"Really?!" Eddy grinned. "Aw, thanks, Spinelli, this'll be Jo's best Christmas ever thanks to me!"
"Don't mention it. Ever. TO ANYONE." Spinelli replied.
"Yes, sir-I mean, ma'am." Eddy said.
Spinelli folded her arms before tapping her foot. "Is that all?" she then asked. "I hate to leave Twister alone with those jerks he's forced to call his cousins."
"Well, um, yes, ma'am." Eddy told her.
"Good, then get out of my way." Spinelli replied.
Eddy soon did without making a sound.
Justin was glaring at the Burromuerto siblings as Double D and Twister were looking nervous.
"So, this is Justin Reid, huh?" José asked. "He isn't as tough as you say he is, he's just another pretty face."
"José, stop being que malo." Twister glared to his cousin.
"Aw, shut up, Maurice." José scoffed as he shoved over his cousin by Spinelli's feet as she walked into the room.
"Oh, hi, Spinelli," Twister smiled. "Back so soon?"
"Did they hurt you?" Spinelli glared as she helped Twister up.
"Uh, no problem," Twister told her. "I just fell over."
Spinelli sneered to her boyfriend's bullying cousins.
"Um, Spinelli, I saw everything!" Double D panicked. "José is the one who pushed him!"
"Tattletale." José scoffed.
"It's true, I saw him." Double D continued.
"Me too." Justin added.
"You're all tattletales!" José glared. "Snitches get stitches!"
Spinelli cracked her knuckles and growled as her eyes turned red and fangs popped out.
"Should I help?" Twister asked.
"Twister, why don't you go check on your mom while I talk with your cousins?" Spinelli suggested.
"Okey-Dokey, Spinelli!" Twister replied innocently.
"And we'll just leave," Eddy added. "Thanks for the help, Spinelli."
"Whatever, just get out of here before you get scarred." Spinelli warned.
"Come on, guys, time to go." Eddy said nervously to Ed and Double D.
"Thank you very much for helping us, Spinelli." Justin added.
"Whatever, now if you'll excuse me, I got work to do." Spinelli replied.
Justin nodded and left the Rodriguez house with the Eds and they soon heard screams from the inside while Sandy was cooking for Courtney's party.
"So, now what?" Double D asked.
"Next stop: The Comic Book Store." Eddy proclaimed.
"Ooh, I hope Evil Tim is out when he faces against X.A.N.A!" Ed beamed.
"That's Code Lyoko, Ed." Double D pointed out.
"Aw..." Ed pouted as they went into the Nicktoons Comic Book store.
Maxwell was there himself as he was looking for a book to give to Cindy and took out one book which puzzled him. "The Elfa Strike Squad?" he asked himself. "A superhero team of elves employed by Santa Claus and called into action whenever Christmas is threatened, featuring Wintergreen, Nutcracker, Snow Angel, and Coniferous?"
"That's a classic." The store clerk chuckled with a snorting laugh.
Maxwell shrugged and continued to look for a comic book for Cindy.
"I still don't get why people read these comics," Justin commented. "It's just superheros running around in tights, saving the day."
"Hey, guys." Maxwell waved.
"Hey, Max." Justin and the Eds greeted.
"I'm just looking for the perfect comic book for Cindy." Maxwell told them.
"Still, I don't get why people get excited over comic books," Justin said. "It's just people running around in capes and stopping bad guys."
"Uh, Justin, you wear a cape and you stop bad guys when you and Justine become The Volcano Twins." Double D pointed out.
"You say that like it matters," Justin told Double D. 'I don't see why people get so excited over superheroes like a bunch of comic book geeks who live with their mothers and collect toys and talk about old TV shows with science fiction."
"WE CAN HEAR YOU!" Sheldon Cooper, Howard Wolowitz, Raj Kootherpali, and Leonard Hofstader glared in defense as they went back to what they were doing since this was a small cameo.
"Like, this dude's parents are dead, and he wants revenge so he dresses up like a bat and runs around in Gotham City fighting bad guys who are a clown, a woman who controls plants, and a guy who can make his muscles bigger." Justin said as he took out a comic book of Batman and then began to read the comic.
"You gonna buy something or insult my merchandise?" The clerk asked. "I get more slime from the annual Kids Choice Awards in March."
"We're looking for a comic book of the masked hero called Spore, if you will, sir?" Double D requested.
"Yeah, we do, we even have one final copy of the limited edition book with the original creator's autograph." The clerk nodded.
"Oh, how very promising!" Double D smiled.
"I need it, man, how much do ya want for it?" Eddy asked the clerk.
"Hundred bucks." The clerk replied.
"What a rip-off!" Eddy glared.
"Sorry, inflation." The clerk replied with a shrug.
"'Then the Batman stopped The Riddler', good job, my man." Justin commented as he continued to read.
"Justin, do you-" Eddy was about to ask.
Justin simply handed him his credit card.
"Wow, thanks, man!" Eddy's eyes widened as he handed the credit card to the clerk.
The clerk took the credit card and typed into the cash register. "Would you like that gift wrapped, sir?" he then asked.
"Yes, please, it's for a very good friend of mine." Eddy said.
"Of course, sir," The clerk replied as he gift wrapped the special comic book and put it in a bag for Eddy. "Happy Holidays!"
"Thanks, my good man, now, let's get going, boys," Eddy told the others until he then noticed that Justin was still reading the comic. "Uh, Justin?"
"Golden Lasso of Truth, huh?" Justin muttered. "I wonder how that works?"
"Um, hello?" Eddy called. "Earth to Justin, are you home?"
"Come on, Eddy, let's just go," Double D told Eddy. "He'll catch up later."
"Cookies and Cream!" Ed smiled.
"I take back whatever I said about comics, they've got great fighting skills, and-" Justin beamed before he suddenly had an idea.
"Are you gonna buy that Justice League comic, sir?" The clerk asked Justin.
"Yes, in fact, every issue," Justin replied. "I'm very curious about how they fight."
"What are you gonna do, become a superhero?" The clerk asked.
"You could say that." Justin replied innocently.
"You know, it's funny, you remind me of those superheros they have down at Cartoon Network City," The clerk said. "What were their names again? Oh, yeah! The Volcano Twins."
"Uh, come on, guys, time to go back to the hotel." Justin said to the Eds rather quickly.
"Um, okay," Eddy shrugged. "See ya back at the hotel, Max."
"See ya, guys." Maxwell waved.
They soon split up from the Nicktoons Comic Book Shop.
"Uh, why don't you guys go back to the hotel?" Justin asked the Eds. "I'll be right back."
"Where are you going?" Eddy asked.
"Going to get Justine something for Christmas; I'll be right back." Justin said as he went off.
"See ya later then, Justin." Double D waved as he left with Ed and Eddy.
"Silent Night!" Ed laughed as he walked with the other Eds.
"Shut up, Ed." Eddy muttered.
"I can't believe I'm stuck wearing this dumb outfit..." Squidward muttered as he was in a Winter Warlock costume against his will.
"That's a nice look on you." Justin smirked.
"Shut it, Pretty Boy." Squidward muttered.
The Eds passed by Squidward and Eddy laughed at him on the way.
"Somebody just hang me now." Squidward groaned.
"Jo is gonna be very happy with what I got for her." Eddy said as they walked along.
"We'll see, Eddy, we'll see." Double D commented as they walked along.