"How…in the world…did you put Zemerik up to this?" Stanford asked, looking over at Selia.

"Blackmail. Quite easy when you know what to aim for," Selia answered watching Zemerik, in his actual Sark form, wearing a nutcracker outfit. She grinned and gave him a thumbs-up. "At least we all agreed to not do any dancing…" she muttered, Zemerik glaring at them.

"I will get you back for this, Sentient," he muttered under his breath, can't believe he agreed to this stupid human play.

Apparently, Selia decided that since it was close to the holidays that they should do a Christmas play and take a break from the one that Selia 'wrote'. Of course, he only took this part because Sage was playing the main female role. Luckily, this particular play was only about 25, 30 minutes tops, if the audience called for more. Zemerik was hoping that wasn't the case because that meant that Vert, the 'human' version of the Nutcracker in the play, would get to dance with Sage and receive a kiss at the end of the dance. Another reason why it was so short was because they took out the dancing AND the kids even said they would lose interest if it was too long or something.

Zemerik took a glance on stage, seeing Sage playing the role of the human child perfectly in front of the live audience. She was playing with the toy nutcracker when Spinner, filling the role of the brother, playfully took it from her.

"He can lead my toy army!" Spinner proclaimed, Sage trying to get it back from him. They 'fought' for a bit and both of them gasped dramatically when they broke the toy.

"You…you big ape!" Sage yelled, glaring at Spinner, who shrank in fear. Zemerik almost smirked at that, watching Sage shake a fist at Spinner, who ran behind the furniture on stage, then offstage when the blue sentient started walking towards the smaller Cortez brother. "Don't worry, little Nutcracker, I'll let you sleep here and you'll be better soon," she said, looking at the toy lovingly and placed him in a small bed.

The clock strike 12 o'clock and then the mouse king, or Sherman, was about to get onstage when he was shoved aside by:

"HUMAN!" Kalus roared, getting on the stage, everyone gasping. He pointed at Sage, who quickly grabbed the toy and threw it to safety. Zemerik knew she wasn't supposed to do that, but that basically said 'DO SOMETHING ZEMMY!' "Where is the-OOF!" Kalus growled, but was then tackled by Zemerik off the stage.

"Go get him!" Sage said throwing her slipper at Kalus and giggling as it bounced off Kalus's head.

Kalus and Zemerik wrestled off and on stage, some people calling for Kalus to win and most calling for Zemerik to win. Zemerik finally kicked him off the stage, AJ and Sherman grabbing Kalus and quickly getting him out of the diner and back to the Vandal homeworld.

"My hero!" Sage grinned, giving Zemerik a hug and a light kiss on the cheek. Before Zemerik could react, the trapdoor opened underneath him, causing him to fall with a yell and not taking Sage with him. Sage looked down the hole worried about what had just happened.

"Damn…you…humans…" Zemerik winced, as Stanford and Selia gave each other a high-five on activating the trapdoor perfectly.