Chapter 30: Have an Alien-filled Christmas!

This reminds me of why I don't even THINK of Christmas until after thanksgiving. We had been driving through the desert, and the air conditioner was turned all the way up, but we were all still sweaty!

Kyle: "Max, is this seriously the coldest this thing can go?"

Max: "Yes."

Kyle: "But I'm still hot!!!"

Gwen: "I can tell…"

Kyle: "Yeah…"

Ben: "Can you try to amp up the air conditioner with Upgrade?"

Kyle: "Yeah. No problem-o." I glowed green, but when it was done, I turned into Grey Matter.

Grey Matter: "What the crap?"

Ben; "Shouldn't the Master Control have been fully reactivated?"

Grey Matter: "Maybe the fact that Alien X is damaged beyond external repairs is throwing it off."

Gwen: "Translation?"

Grey Matter: "Exactly. I don't want to risk another accidental form, so, I'll just do what I can." I jumped up to the air conditioner, and started fiddling around with the wiring until the air conditioner blew up, and smoke filled the entire RV, so Max pulled over, and we walked out coughing because of smoke.

Gwen: "Good going, Grey Matter, you're as much of a doofus as Ben."

Ben:"I resent that!"

Grey Matter: "I do, too!"

Max: "I'll have to fix it as soon as all the smoke vents out."

Grey Matter: "Sorry." I reverted to normal.

Gwen: "Oh well…"

Ben: "Look!" He pointed towards a Christmas-y looking door.

Gwen: "Why is it all jingled up?" We looked at her.

Gwen: "I can't make a joke every once in a while?"

Kyle: "No, but that was just lame."

Ben: "No kidding."

Kyle: "And… I suggest we leave it alone."

Max: "Well, it wouldn't hurt to at least take a look."

Ben: "I'm with Grandpa."

Kyle: "You guys go if you want. I'll stay with the RV."

Max: "I'm not leaving you here unsupervised, especially with that watch only semi-working properly now."

Kyle: "Alright, but I still think this is a bad idea…" We opened the door, and walked through, then fell into a snowbank.

Kyle: "What the…" I looked ahead, and saw ELVES!

Kyle: "Elves, Christmas decorations… Snow… Oh no…"

Gwen: "It's a Christmas paradise!!!"

Ben: "Alright!"

Max: "Worth checking out."

Kyle: "AHHHHHH!!!!! Get me out of here!!!!" I was trying to climb my way back up the snowbank, but to no avail.

Max: "What's wrong Kyle?"

Kyle: "Christmas… before December… Major unnatural things, man!!!! I'm losing it!!!" Ben slapped me.

Kyle: "Thanks." As soon as I got sight of the Christmas village again, though, I screamed again, and Gwen smacked me, harder.

Kyle: "Ow…"

Gwen: "You're just deliberately trying to keep us from going in there, aren't you?"

Kyle: "Bah… No. I'm not. I just have my instincts telling me that something is horribly wrong here."

Gwen: "As if. Race ya!" Both her and Ben took off, and ran after them, trying to convince them we should head back.

Max: "I guess I'll just check this place out myself for a little while…" A snowball hit his face.

Ben: "Kyle, seriously?"

Kyle: "Well, snow isn't technically Christmas-y, so why not?" Gwen hit me from out of nowhere.

Gwen: "Want a bigger one?"

Kyle: "I have the perfect form for a snowball fight!" I glowed, then was Humongousaur.

Humongousaur: "Just what I wanted." I rolled up a Humongo-snowball, and hurled it at Gwen. She ducked behind a tree immediately after it hit.

Gwen: "What kind of throw was that?"

Humongousaur: Well, we ARE having fun, right?"

Ben: "Yeah…"

Humongousaur: "So why not?!" I made another one, and one hit my face from Max.

Max: "I still know how to do it, too, kids."

Humongousaur: "Okay. Ben's on my team." We threw very large snowballs at each other until we were completely drenched with snow on both sides, and I had to melt it off us as Heatblast.

Heatblast: "Guess we're having too much fun, eh?"

Max: "Let's take a look around town." We started walking around after I changed back.

Kyle: "This place isn't that bad… plus, I'm not cold. This could be our HQ."

Ben: "But, the Rust Bucket…"

Max: "It'll be fine. I still have the keys."

Ben: "Nice."

Meanwhile… An elf was watching us from a crystal ball.

Elf: "Is that him?" He looked at Max a little longer.

Elf: "It is! Kris Kringle himself has returned! Oh jolly day!" He was thinking for a second after, then said, "I'll have my other elves get him when he's separated from those three kids. This place's magic spell will deal with them eventually."

Max: "How about you three go out and check more of this place out? I'll check this ornament store."

Kyle: "Got it."

Gwen: "See ya, Grandpa." The three of us continued on, then out of nowhere, Max got gassed, and he fell down, sleeping.

Elf: "Perfect! Now, all elves near the red fat guy, bring him to me!" The elves near him got him, picked him up, and ran the opposite way we were going.

Back with the three of us, though…

Gwen: "The presents even have toys in them!"

Ben: "That is so cool! Let me open some!"

Kyle: "Oh boy..."

Gwen: "What?"

Kyle: "So you aren't even the least bit worried about Max being alone in this place?"

Ben: "It's a Christmas Paradise. What could go wrong here?"

Kyle: "But the fact it's open in like, July is what's freaking me out."

Gwen: "Yeah, that is a bit suspicious…"

Kyle: "Thank you!"

Ben: "But this place is fun!"

Gwen: "Uh huh…"

Kyle: "Um… And the fact we haven't heard from Max in at least half an hour…"

Gwen: "Yeah…"

Ben: "The fact he doesn't have a cell phone, and can't run too fast…"

Gwen: "Granted he is 60…"

Kyle: "You know what, forget it. I'll go get him myself… Whoa!" Some giant toy soldiers were coming at us from behind buildings.

Ben: "What the…"

Gwen: "Relax. They're just a part of the park…" She then noticed one was pointing his sword forward and at us while the others charged.

Gwen: "That is bad!"

Kyle: "No duh!" I glowed green, and was Cannonbolt.

Cannonbolt: "Again, just what I wanted." I rolled out at them, knocking them over while Gwen and Ben ran through the path I made for them, and even more went our direction. Their hats opened up, and started firing candy canes at us.

Cannonbolt: "Now that is just wrong!" I unrolled, went near Ben and Gwen, and rolled up around them, then continued rolling away from them, but as soon as we got to some ice, I lost control, and slipped, falling onto the ground, throwing Ben and Gwen out a bit.

Ben: "I hate when you do that Kyle…"

Cannonbolt: "What do you want me to do? Let them get you?"

Gwen: "They're still coming!" We saw them, and I grabbed them, then jumped out of the icy area to the snowbank, and saw them charging at us from the top of the hill.

Cannonbolt: "Time for some firepower, and by firepower, I mean…" I glowed, then…

Lodestar: "Heatblast! Whoa wait, Lodestar!? Hey! No fair!" Candy canes went shooting up at us.

Ben: "Just attack them with something!"

Lodestar: "Right. Here goes something…" I shot magnetic rays at them, then noticed they stopped.

Lodestar: "They stopped moving! Sweet!"

Gwen: "Can you tear them apart?"

Lodestar: "Yes I can!" I threw my hands out to both sides of my body, then all of the soldiers got torn to shreds instantly. I then let the pieces drop to the ground.

Lodestar: "I guess you're not bad after all."

Gwen: "Now might be a god time to find Grandpa."

Lodestar: "My plans exactly." I reverted to normal, then saw more soldiers coming out at us.

Kyle: "Again! That's it!" I glowed, then became Swampfire.

Swampfire: "I wanted Way Big! What's up with you?"

Gwen: "HII-YAH!" She kicked through one's head, then I shot fireballs at another one. Ben just hopped on my back.

Ben: "Ew! You wreak!"

Swampfire: "What'd you expect?" I shot more fireballs, then charged through the crowd with Gwen.

Gwen: "There's too many of these guys!"

Swampfire: "Then I've got the perfect idea! I just need this watch to work with me…" I glowed, and Ben fell to the ground.

Echo Echo: "Alright!"

Gwen: "Scream at them!"

Echo Echo: "Preciesly my plan!" I multiplied into 60 of me, then screamed at the soldiers, making them short circuit, and fall to the ground limp.

Ben: "It'll take forever to get this swamp gunk of my shirt!" I went back to one of me.

Echo Echo: "Not my problem." I went Grey Matter.

Grey Matter: "We gotta hide me for now. They could me homing in onto the Omnitrix signature to get rid of me."

Elf: "No they're not. They're just capturing anyone that's not an elf." I went Big Chill.

Big Chill: "Who's there?"

Elf: "Me. I'm Elsgood."

Ben: "No! Evil elf!"

Elsgood; "I'm not evil. In fact, I wanted to bring this place to its knees. The head elf thinks your grandfather is Santa Claus, and we could work together to get him back, and get this place back to normal."

Big Chill: "And what makes us so sure that we can trust you?"

Elsgood: "I was a kid trapped here once. The owner made himself this place so kids could really enjoy Christmas here, but it seems he got too absorbed, and made it just plain wrong."

Big Chill: "If you know where Max is, that's all we need to work together on." I reverted to normal.

Kyle: "Okay. So we're agreed on one thing. We need to take this place down, get Max back, and get out of here."

Elsgood: "You may want to look at your face." He pulled out a mirror, and I looked at it.

Kyle: "Ahh!!!! I grew elf ears! No!!!"

Ben: "Hahahahahahahaha!"

Gwen: "Wait…" She looked at herself, then brought it in front of Ben.

Ben: "So not funny!"

Gwen: "That's an understatement. So, now what?"

Elsgood: "We'll have to work together."

Kyle: "You get us to where Max is, and that's where we split up." We followed him around, taking special care to watch out for the soldiers, and when we got inside the "Shipment" building, we noticed that reindeer were walking in, and the soldiers were examining them.

Elsgood: "That's our way in."

Kyle: "And I have NO reindeer alien to use. Or do I?" I glowed green, as was Goop.

Goop: "Yes!" I then shape-shifted myself into a reindeer form.

Gwen: "No way. I am NOT getting on your back."

Ben: "And I have swamp gunk on my shirt, still!"

Goop: "It's either this, or get attacked by the soldiers."

Gwen: "Goop."

Ben: "Goop times two."

Elsgood: "Let's go, then." They hopped on my back, and I was walking through, and we were stopped by a guard.

Gwen: "He's from Europe." The guard raised its eyebrow, then let us through.

Goop: "Can I go Humongousaur and tear the place apart now?"

Ben: "Not until we know where Grandpa is."

Gwen: "He's up there!" I looked up, and saw that he was in a Santa suit up there with some short old elf guy.

Goop: "Gwen, ready?"

Gwen: "Yep." I glowed green, then was 40 feet tall.

Humongousaur: "HUMONGOUSAUR!!!! RAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!" I charged through, then jumped, grabbing onto the balcony Max was on.

Max: "Kyle! Wait a sec!"

Humongousaur: "We're getting you out of here, Max!"

Old Elf: "No! You will not steal Santa Claus!" Some polar bears grabbed my feet, and pulled me down along with Max.

Humongousaur: "That's it!" I swung my arm through them, knocking them to both sides of the room. More came out, and dogpiled on top of me, while others grabbed Max. I threw them off, and went Goop again, then wrapped around the bears taking Max, and pried him out of their grip, then went Stinkfly, and shot down goop to bind them down. Soldiers were charging at me again, and I went Starfire, then shot my starbolts through them, and then went Big Chill, phasing through more of them, and went Shellhead to roll through the frozen ones. Even more came through to try and stop me, and I went Swampfire, then shot my flamethrower through them, and punched more coming for Max.

Swampfire; "You won't be getting Max anytime soon! Or ever for that matter!"

Max: "Kyle, stop for a second."

Swampfire: "What do you mean? This lunatic of an old man kidnapped you, thinking you're Santa Claus, and he's forcing you to go Ho Ho Ho to these elves here, who are really kidnapped kids. Why shouldn't I stop!?"

Max: "That machine there is what's controlling everything." He pointed to something shaped like a furnace.

Swampfire: "Oh… I get it now. Going Upgrade!" I glowed green, but ended up as Grey Matter.

Grey Matter: "Never what I want! Never!" I ran past the elves running in a panic, past gwen fighting some soldiers, with Ben throwing toys at them, and when I got to the machine, I hopped inside, jumping past the circuitry, and when I got to the center, I immediately pulled out the wires working it, and the machine exploded. I went Humongousaur after it exploded to land safely, also causing the soldiers and polar bears to stop moving.

Old Elf: "No! My machine! Now no one will have a perfect Christmas!"

Max: "They can. It doesn't need magic, or the perfect gift, or anything. All it needs is a bunch of people that love each other gathering together for one thing. Exchanging gifts and appreciation for each other."

Humongousaur: "And for it to actually be on December 25th!!!"

Old Elf: "Could you at least deliver the gifts I made already?" I went Stinkfly.

Stinkfly: "Where? In one day?"

Old Elf: "Yes."

Gwen: "Um… We'll manage."

Ben: "With Stinkfly? This is SO not going to work?"

Stinkfly: "All I need is just some Christmas magic!"

Old Elf: "You can use mine." He threw some on me, and I was immediately fast enough to fly across the world, which I did, also noticing how happy the kids were about getting their gifts on the way. We noticed the whole town was normal by the time we got back.

Max read the statue of a guy when we got next to it.

Max: "This is everything I said, exactly."

Stinkfly: "Sweet!" I changed back to normal.

Kyle: "Now can we cut the Christmas crap and keep going on with our trip? It's till summer, darn it!"

Gwen: "Exactly my plan."

The End, for now, of course…