GW: Here's another chapter where Allen tries to figure out Christmas.

Allen: We can do this, you guys.

Naruto, Bug, and Chowder: What do you mean 'we?'

Figuring Out Christmas

Later that night Allen was in his bed, reading Christmas storybook to storybook. His friends watched him on a couch, with Bug groaning, "Allen, it's 3 in the morning. Can we sleep now?"

"I have to figure out his Christmas thing," Allen told his friends. "Can you do it when it's tomorrow?" Naruto mumbled as he laid down on the couch.

The exorcist pondered to himself as his gazed shifted around the room, which was covered to the brim with tinsel, Christmas lights, and other festive things that he had brought back from Christmas Town. Even Timcanpy was happily sleeping in a bed with a candy cane in his mouth and Chowder was stuffing his face with Christmas pies. "There has got to be a logical way to explain this Christmas thing…" Allen muttered to his friends as they nodded. Then he pulled out a book called 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Scientific Method' and began to read it.

The next day, at Eggman's castle, the mad scientist had a large icepack on top of his head and was moaning. Lenalee and her friends were sitting in a room with a large iron door. "You've tricked me for the last time, you wretched brats!" Eggman snarled, slamming the iron door shut; locking the group inside. "We want our lawyers!" Georgie shouted, which made Eggman's headache worse. Then, the doorbell rang.

"Oh, my head…" Eggman groaned, pressing the icepack harder on his head. "The door is open!"

The front door opened to reveal Allen, Naruto, Chowder, and Bug, with Allen holding a large bag. "Hello, Eggman," Allen greeted. "Eggs? Where are the eggs!?" Chowder drooled.

"Ah, Allen Walker and his friends," Eggman smirked excitedly. Lenalee, Misaki, Cream, and Georgie literally brightened up when they heard Allen and co. were here. "Quickly, someone scream and maybe they'll hear us," Komui joked as he was about to yell, but Cheese stopped him.

Allen asked politely, "I need to borrow some equipment."

"Really?" Eggman asked, raising his left eyebrow. "Why? Is it Chowder-related?" The mustached-man glared at the purple chef, who gnawed on his hand a bit.

"Not this time; I'm just conducting a series of experiments," Allen explained. "Good thing it isn't Chowder-related," Naruto muttered to Bug, who nodded seriously.

"Cool! But science is difficult," Eggman nodded. "Curiosity killed the cat, you know."

"I know," Allen deadpanned.

"Come on into the lab and we'll get you all fixed up," Eggman said, waving the boys to follow him.

Lenalee, who with her friends were listening to the conversation through the door, said, "Hmm…experiments?"

"Sounds interesting," Komui chuckled evilly as Misaki sweat-dropped and said, "Komui, you really need to calm down."

"Chao, chao," Cheese agreed.

Allen and the gang later returned to his home, setting his bag of equipment on a table, and pulled the items out.

Allen took a pair of tweezers from Chowder as the small boy tried to eat it, and used them to pull out a single berry from a holly plant, placed it on a glass slide, and set the glass under a microscope. Allen looked through the top and began turning the knob to examine the berry closer, but it resulted in was a mashed berry and a broken glass.

Naruto picked up a candy cane from Timcanpy's food bowl with a pair of tongs. He placed the candy cane into electrified water, and when he pulled it out the ninja frowned as all it did was remove the red stripes and made the candy as flimsy as a noodle. "Ugh. I wish I had some ramen noodles right now," he groaned.

Bug then attempted to make a paper snowflake. Using a picture as a reference, the knight snipped a few ends of a fold sheet of paper and smirked as he unfolded it. It was in the shape of a spider. Bug looked completely bamboozled by this as he stuttered, "B-but I followed the pattern!" He punched into the table angrily.

Allen later used a scalpel to tear open the torso of a teddy bear, and examined the fluff stuffing through a magnifying glass.

Later, he took a glass ornament from his Christmas tree. The exorcist already had a cylinder – full of boiling water – over an open flame of a Bunsen burner. Allen crushed the ornament and let the dust fall into water as Naruto, Bug, and Chowder watched. Amazingly, the water started to glow green. "What an interesting reaction…" Allen mumbled, stroking his chin, before grabbing his head with his two hands, "but what does it mean?!"

"I think it means it's ready to eat," Chowder shrugged.

Back at Lenalee's bolted-in room, she was preparing a sort of potion thing. She finished it and placed the bottle carefully into a wooden basket. "We have to be careful, Miss Lenalee," Cream warned as she opened the room's window. A sewing line was connected from the room to the ground below, and Lenalee used that line to slide the basket carefully to the ground, so as to not break the glass bottle.

"Ready?" she asked her friends. The line couldn't hold the people, so Lenalee was going to jump. She stared at Allen's house, which gave her courage to stand over the edge. "Lenalee, what are you-?" Misaki was cut off as there robotic girl jumped out the window. This action made Komui's eyes roll back into his head and the man promptly fainted as the girls and Chao gasped.

Haruhi's band was down at the bottom as the three teenagers winced when the robot had hit the ground. "Oh, that's gonna be sore in the morning," Haruhi grimaced.

Cream sighed as she pulled out her broom and hopped on with Cheese on her shoulder. "Miss Lenalee is so impulsive. We could've just flown down on my broom. Come on," the rabbit witch urged her friends. With Georgie helping a recovering Komui onto the cleaning product, the group flew down to where Lenalee was. She was alright, but her left arm and right leg came right off. Luckily, she had a screwdriver and a few bolts that she used to repair and reattach her limbs. After reattaching her limbs, Lenalee and her friends started walking towards Allen's house as the threesome band started playing their instruments again at a quiet tone.

Meanwhile, Eggman had opened the girl's large iron door and held up a lantern. "Okay, you all can come out now if you promise to behave," Eggman said kindly. "Hey, Lenalee? Komui? Misaki, Cream, Georgie? Cheese?" Eggman realized that they had deserted the room. "Oooooooh!" Eggman trembled in anger as he threw the lantern to the ground, breaking it. "Gone again!!"

Allen was at a blackboard with an intricate, but very illogical, equation for the meaning of Christmas. "Allen, this is stupid; may we please go to bed?" Bug whined as Naruto, Chowder, and Timcanpy groaned. Allen ignore Bug's complaint as he stroked his chin thoughtfully when the group suddenly heard a sound at the window. "Burglars!" Chowder screamed as they went to the window, with Allen opening it, and they looked down to see Lenalee and her group, holding a rope that was used as a pulley to bring the basket up to the tower.

"Hi, Cream!" Chowder waved happily. Unlike other girls, especially Panini, Cream didn't force herself on Chowder, making him like her more. Allen, Naruto, and Bug waved at the others as Allen took the basket. Allen pulled out the cork of the bottle and watched in awe as a smoke butterfly emerged from the bottle. "Hey, thanks, you guy-Hey, where'd they go?" Naruto asked. For when they looked out the window, the group was gone. Allen shrugged as he closed the window again.

Lenalee and her friends had snuck behind a gate and sighed happily.

"They…actually said 'hi' to us," Georgie blushed as Komui groaned, "I will experiment on that hybrid girl someday for this! I swear it!"

Her heart a-flutter for a certain exorcist, Lenalee picked a flower off a bush and began plucking its petals off in a dreamy way, when suddenly the flowers had turned into a beautiful Christmas tree. "Wow," the group said in awe.

But, their amazement didn't last as the mini-tree caught fire, leaving nothing but a burned and shriveled up stick.

"This is a sign of bad juju," Komui muttered as the girls looked surprised. "I just know it."

Komui: Oh, wolfie…(holds a carving knife) I said I'd make you pay for making me the only guy in a group of girls! Let me dissect you!

GW: Eat my dust, freak! (runs away) Glowworm is running away!

Bug: Okay…read, review, and suggest 'til next time. And stay tuned for GW's new stories appearing soon.