ED 10

by TheKingHHH100

Eddy finds the Omnitrix... WE ARE ALL DOOMED! Or are we?

10. Christmas Ed-special

Merry Christmas everyone! TheKingHHH100 here, wishing you a happy holiday! Now, remember last year when I posted my DBZ Christmas fanfic and said I wanted to make a Christmas special for Ed 10, but it was impossible to finish on time? Well, this year it almost ended up being impossible to finish on time as well… key word being almost, of course! I originally envisioned this taking place after the end of Season 1, which was supposed to be wrapped up before the end of the year… sorry, my bad! Chapters have just gotten too long to write and I couldn't finish it in time, but I didn't want to wait another year for this, so be warned that a few minor spoilers for Season 1 may be ahead, though I didn't include more than a few references to the events of past chapters, in order for this to feel more 'in cannon' with the series, plus the end of the previous chapter will be ignored for this one and continued in the next.

Anyways, I hope you still enjoy this chapter and have a wonderful Christmas. On to the story!

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Christmas Ed-special:

It is just another hot day in the middle of the summer for the citizens of Peach Creek. A heat wave has swept the city as usual during this time of the year, and it's the perfect time to spend some money on ice creams, as we see an old man getting money from an ATM located just outside an ice cream shop, wanting to buy an ice cream for his grandson, a small child standing next to him hungrily.

Just then, a dirty red pickup truck pulls up to the same spot, and a big burly man walks out of it and up to the ATM. The guy is wearing a dirty white shirt and an olive jacket with a green trucker on top of his head. He glances at the old man who's taking up too much time at the machine, while the man's grandson looks suspiciously at him. Finally, the guy has enough and tells the old man, "Outta the way, Grandpa! I got a major withdrawal to make!" as he shoves the poor man out of his way and makes him fall on his ass at the sidewalk.

The man's grandson is intimidated by this large man assaulting his grandpa for seemingly no reason and quickly tries to run away and call for help like he'd been taught to in situations like this, however he collides against a buck-toothed man wearing a farmer overall, who looks menacingly at him. It seems this guy is working with the big guy as partners in crime, and crime is what they're about to commit as the large man stabs a chained metal hook into the ATM, attached to the pickup truck.

"Hit it!" the burly man called over to his partner, who after scaring the kid away got back on the pickup truck and gets ready to put on the gas, tear the machine apart and collect all dollars that flew from it. Easy money, however something seems to go wrong, as the truck is not moving despite him speeding up. That was pretty weird, but something weirder happen next: the wheel melts out of his hands and the entire dashboard forms into some very strange and seemingly technorganic looking creature!

"Your cash request has been denied!" the creature, or rather as it's known, Upgrade said in a robotic voice. Then the pickup truck, which has suddenly changed its outside colors from red to black with yellow circuitry-stripes all over it, starts rocking back and forth, the screams of the buck-toothed man heard from the inside, before one of the doors open and the man comes flying out of it, as if he was kicked by some unseen force.

Upgrade then demerges from the pickup and returns to his regular shape. The burly man is surprised by this, but not quite as much since he recognized it as one of those alien heroes that seem to be popping out of nowhere. He grabs the hook from the ATM and swings it in the air before throwing it at the alien for daring mess his big score, however Upgrade just let the chain wrap around his arm and pulled the man in before launching him into a pole, leaving both robbers unconscious and ready to be taken by the police.

"Are you guys okay?" Upgrade asked the old man, who had gotten back on his feet, and his grandson, who was looking at him in awe. The old man gave a nod in approval, while the kid muttered, "Are you one of those monsters from the news?"

"Monster? Imma superhero!" Upgrade declared while posing 'heroically', to the amusement of both grandpa and grandson.

Later on at Double D's house:

We see the Eds are on Double D's living room, unsure of what to do since there aren't any bad guys to fight as of late, while they won't go outside due to the excessive heat and the sun beating down.

"Man, it would been nice if I got free ice cream for stopping those thugs" Eddy complained as he sat on a sofa, wiping his forehead of sweat.

"I thought you had learnt your lesson about not seeking rewards for doing your hero duty when we fought against Dr. Animo, Eddy" Double D reminded as he fanned himself with a small hand fan.

"Yeah, I did. But still, it would been so cool, I mean were in the middle of summer for Christ's sake!" Eddy replied.

"Too… much… heat!" Ed exclaimed as he sank under the cushions of the sofa.

"Double D, can't you invent an ice-cube machine or something?" Eddy suggested, having had enough of this heat. Double D thought about something for a minute, then remembered. "I think I still have the remains of that Freeze ray I attempted during one of our antique scams from last summer. If I recall correctly, it should be somewhere in the basement…"

"Good, 'cause I'm frying and I didn't even turn into Heatblast! Let's see!" Eddy said as he rushed to the basement and started checking on the Cabinet of Failed Inventions. "Nope. Not this. Ugh, this thing was useless… and this got us into so much trouble!" he recalled as he began throwing stuff around, including things like the golf course robot that never seen the light of day in scams (thanks, Ed!), the newspaper launcher, the small clown car from their rent a clown scam, and even the empty, torn at the bottom bucket of gold paint for their jewelry scam.

"Eddy! Be more careful please!" Double D demanded as he followed behind Eddy and ducked to avoid a flying Thingamajig of all things, Ed however wasn't so lucky as he got hit in the head by a familiar looking object covered in bubble wrap. This being Ed of course, he wasn't even fazed, but then noticed it laying on the floor.

"Gravy?" he muttered and wonder where he'd seen it before, but then some familiar words echoed in his dimwitted head. "For decades, we parade the cake every Christmas… (*a rewind sound played in his mind*) we parade the cake every Christmas… (*the rewind plays again*) Every Christmas!"

One word continued playing in Ed's mind over and over… "CHRISTMAS GUYS!" he yelled excitedly and picked up the ancestral fruitcake from the ground. "I want a new game console, a werewolf mask, a puppy with a heart of gold as a friend for Nestor Jr, oh, a new fancy birdcage for him, the newest issue of Ratman, the Sewers Knight, socks without sandals, a mannequin, and uh..."

"Seems like Ed is reliving the past at seeing that ancient fruitcake, don't you think so Eddy?" Double D asked.

"Yeah, and he hasn't learnt jack from it! Wake up Lumpy, it's summer!" Eddy exclaimed. "Besides, Christmas still sucks!" he added.

"Oh, come on, Eddy. I thought you had gotten over your hatred of the holidays last year" Double D recalled. "Don't you remember how good you felt when you replaced that light on that tree?" he questioned.

"Oh yeah, and then we got smooched by those Kankers in Rolf's shed all night" Eddy responded.

"Well, yes, but we only ended in that recurrent predicament because you stole everyone's Christmas gifts!" Double D argued.

"Whatever…" Eddy rolled his eyes. As the two went back and forth over the events of last Christmas, they didn't notice Ed entering into a drawer, then coming out somehow dressed in his 'Elf' costume, which consists of a green sweater and a large purple sock with white stripes and a Christmas ornament at the front over his head to act as a hat, however he's added a new element: fake, elf-like ears!

"And before that we got to see SANTA!" Ed 'the elf' joyfully exclaimed as he enveloped both his friends into a bear hug.

"ED!" Eddy angrily yelled as he struggled to break free.

"Can't… breathe…" Double D squealed as Ed squeezed them.

"Don't make me go Four Arms on you, Lumpstein!" Eddy threatened as Ed finally relented and let them go, Double D falling to the floor while gasping for air. Eddy meanwhile took a moment to recover before noticing his friend's change in clothes. "Why are you dress like that anyways? I know you survived being hit by a fireball and stuff, but it's melting outside!" he questioned.

"But Eddy, I am Ed the Elf! I help Santa bring in jolliness at his workshop!" Ed happily declared.

"Right, Ed the elf? That's stupid!" Eddy declared.

"Says you!" Ed shot back.

"Oh please, Ed! If you like Santa so much, why don't you go to the North Pole and marry him?" Eddy mocked, however Ed's eyes beamed with glee upon hearing this.

"YAY! I WANNA GO MEET SANTA!" Ed shouted with excitement, having misheard what Eddy told him.

"What?" Eddy replied in confusion.

"Meet Santa? Geez Ed, I don't know…" Double D said as he finally recovered from Ed's hug and got back on his feet. He took a pause and looked at his elf-dressed friend before saying, "It's not easy to say, but Santa may not even be there actually…"

"What? But where else would he be at this time of the year?" Ed asked in confusion.

"Ed… what makes you even think Santa may… exist?" Double D asked.

"Silly Double D, we saw Santa last year!" Ed responded.

"Well, I'm actually thinking that may not be the case at all, my friend. You see, it could have easily just been a collective hallucination induced by a massive suggestion product of the holiday's spirit" Double D stated. Truth be told, he had learned the 'truth' about Santa Claus years ago, after all he was wise beyond his years, he just didn't have the heart to tell his childlike spirited friend until now. Though he had to admit that the events from the past Christmas were more than curious bearing that in mind, and he had spent quite some time trying to come with a plausible explanation. Then again, since learning about the existence of aliens and outer space technology, logic hasn't been a common denominator in his life…

"Cookies and milk!" Ed uttered, his brain having a massive shut down upon hearing so many long words in one sentence.

"What you talkin' about, Sockhead? That giant sack falling over me felt pretty real!" Eddy intervened. He also had treated what they'd seen with incredulousness, however he was more open to believe what he'd seen.

"That may also have a logical explanation, Eddy. Perhaps a Christmas decoration fell off?" the smartest Ed theorized.

"Yeah? With a bag full of presents that had a tag for every kid present there?" Eddy asked.

"It could have been set by one of their parents" Double D retorted, his scientific mind not accepting the possibility of the legendary character known as Santa Claus actually existing.

"Oh, give me a break, Sockhead! You meant to tell me that after seeing all the weird things we have, you don't actually believe Santa's real?" Eddy questioned.

"I'm not assuming anything, Eddy. It's just that the probabilities of a man traveling throughout the ENTIRE world in just one night and entering on EVERY house to leave presents WITHOUT being detected by anyone are HIGHLY scientific unlikely" Double D explained.

"That's because Santa's magic!" Ed said.

"Magic isn't real, Ed. Just science" Double D responded.

"We LITERALLY fought a crazy-ass douche dressed like a magician that nearly destroyed the Cul-da-sac with some weird runes!" Eddy exclaimed with exasperation at his friend's stubbornness. And he was supposed to be the smart one…

"That wasn't magic, that was just some sort of strange energy that hasn't been fully documented yet" Double D stated.

"Oh, come on!" Eddy facepalmed hard at this.

"Santa's real, Double D! And I'm going to prove it!" Ed announced.

Double D looked at him dubiously. "And please do enlighten me, Ed. How exactly do you plan to demonstrate that?"

"By going to the North Pole and bringing Santa here!" the elf-dressed boy exclaimed before he rushed back upstairs and departed from the house.

Both his friends remained in silent for a moment after seeing him leave. "Did he just go out running while dressed in a sweater in the middle of a heat wave?" Double D asked in disbelief.

"He's Ed. Like I said, the guy's survived a literal fireball to the back. One would think he's not even human" Eddy shrugged.

Double D pondered about this for a second, before asking, "Shouldn't we stop him and dissuade him from going into this wild goose chase?"

"Meh, he'll be back for lunch. Let's watch some TV instead" Eddy decided as he walked upstairs as well.

Meanwhile:

Ed was running through the streets like a madman and still dressed in his elf costume, intended to prove the existence of Santa to Double D and any other doubters as well, however the heat was starting to get to him and he started to slow down while sweating profusely as a result.

"Must… find… Santa… prove... Double D… wrong…" he repeated to himself, unable to bare the heat around him. It was so hot out here, maybe he should make a stop and rest… 'What makes you even think Santa may… exist?' Double D's voice echoed in Ed's head once again, this time they lighted a fire under him, as oppose to the heat he was feeling on the outside.

"Must. Reach. SANTA!" Ed exclaimed with a new found vigor as he started running fast, running in fact pretty fast, faster than he's ever done before. He ran so quick that, in a matter of seconds, he wasn't around the Cul-da-sac or anywhere near it, as he ran through the middle of a city he wasn't sure if he's ever been before, managing to dodge incoming cars and pedestrians alike. However, this rush of adrenaline seemed to come to an end sooner rather than later, as exhaustion started to take over and Ed slowed down once again, feeling even more tired and burned out. As he was about to give again, Ed started seeing something in the distance, something quite cold and white… was that a snow? A snowman? And were those Christmas decorations around that house? But Eddy told him that today wasn't Christmas, so that could only mean…

"S-Santa…" Ed weakly muttered as he started crawling towards that particular house that seemed so cold, yet so fully of the typical jolliness found in Christmas. That had to be it. He was so, so close to reach it. So close to prove that Santa was indeed real, only a few more steps and… he collapsed due to the heat and exhaustion.

"Youngster? Are you alright, youngster?" a vague, deep yet distant voice called. Ed slowly opened his eyes as he started coming back to his senses, he felt that all the heat around him suddenly disappeared, replaced by a cool, calm winter cold. He could see a shadowy figure looking down at him, though his vision was still blurry. As he recovered, he realized that this figure had in fact white hair, and seemed like a rather old man with a white beard. That could only mean…

"…S-Santa?" Ed groggily asked while still on the floor. Then realization hit him and he jolted back up. "SANTA! IT IS I, ED, THE ELF!" he exclaimed wide awake, seeing this old man, who to Ed's surprise started laughing in a ostensively familiar manner. "Ohohoho!" That was it! Only Santa would laugh like that!

"Oh, young elf, I'm afraid your mistaken. I am not Mr. Claus, but Mr. Jingles instead" the old man informed, much to Ed's disappointment.

"You're not Santa?" Ed pouted upon hearing this, his excitement dying down in an instant.

"Oh, no, no, no" Mr. Jingles said in a sing song tone. "But I do welcome you to my Holiday Village, where it's Christmas all year!" the old man announced as he gestured around his house, which they got in while Ed was unconscious. It seemed like a regular, yet nice house, full of Christmas ornaments and winter decorations. It also was heavily cooled, Ed figured this guy must have a really good AC, though he didn't saw it anywhere around. He looked out the front window, where he saw all previous Christmas ornaments he spotted away, including a bunch of snow around the house that somehow didn't melt despite the intense heat outside. Ed didn't know how that was possible, if Double D was here he would probably have some scientific mumbo-jumbo explanation about it, but he didn't want to hear any of it after he was told that Santa's existence wasn't 'scientifically probable'.

"So, this isn't the North Pole?" Ed asked as he looked around.

"The North Pole? Far from it, my child" Mr. Jingles revealed, once again to Ed's consternation. Dang it, he thought he was so close… "I found you passed out from the heat in my front garden. May I ask what is an elf like you doing so far away in a hot place like this?" he inquired.

"I was going to the North Pole to try and find Santa's workshop" Ed explained, still sounding disappointed from having come so far, yet not reaching his destination yet.

Mr. Jingles was, however, quite surprised at hearing this. "The North Pole? You say you're looking for Santa's workshop?"

"Yes, my friend said he doesn't believe in Santa, but I know he's real! I saw him with my own two eyes! I'm trying to find him so I can prove it" Ed told him. "You believe me, right?" he asked as Mr. Jingles looked quite perplexed at him.

"Oh, of course I do! I've seen Santa many times before" the old man revealed.

"Wait, you have?!" Ed asked incredulously.

"Yes, he's the most wonderful chap to have around!" Mr. Jingles declared.

"Chap?" Ed repeated, not understanding the meaning of that word.

"Indeed, my child" Jingles responded, before Ed grabbed him by his shoulders and shook him around frantically while repeating, "You have to take me to him! Please, oh please, oh please!"

"Hold on, little elf! I'm getting all dizzy!" Jingles pleaded for Ed to release him, which the elf-dressed boy obeyed. "So, are we going to see Santa?" Ed asked once again, still unsure if this old man actually knew Santa.

"Just wait a minute, young elf. I'm going to make a call so they can take you home" Mr. Jingles assured as he went to pick an old red telephone with a Santa Claus decoration holding the speaker. However, Ed just understood that this old man wasn't taking him to see Santa, but rather just calling his parents to pick him up, and probably didn't even believe him anyways.

"Home? NOT HOME FOR ED! I WANNA SEE SANTA!" he shouted as he bursted quite literally through the door and went back to running, heading for the North Pole on his own once more.

"Young elf! Wait!" Mr. Jingles tried to call him back to no avail. He sighed upon seeing the damage to his front door, then he dialed up a number on his phone and called over to someone. "Hello? Boss? It's Jingles. I, uh, found some mislaid elf around… Yes, he seems to be confused and heavily disoriented… Yes, I will bring him in, but could you, uh, send some help? …Yes, thank you very much" he finished talking with the other person on the phone before hanging over.

Meanwhile, Ed continues to run through a city he wasn't even sure if he's been in before, the heat coming back and getting more intense the more he got away from Jingles' house. "I-I'm still c-coming… S-Santa…" Ed weakly said as he fell down overwhelmed by fatigue and having not fully recovered. "G-G-Gravy…" he muttered as his vision started to fade again, by now he was so weak he could barely crawl and he tried to keep doing so, but his arms were too numb to move. The last thing Ed saw before losing consciousness were small blurry figures descending upon him from the sky above, riding what appeared to be some sort of horned creatures, just as his eyes closed.

Sometime later:

Ed's eyes slowly started to open up once more, this time he could see more than one blurry figure looking down at him. "He's waking up…" Ed heard one of them say. Rather than looking old, this figures looked small and childlike, with pointy ears and hats. Wait. Pointy ears? Hats? Like elves? That could only mean…

"ELVES!" Ed exclaimed wide awake, startling the elves as he jolted back up.

"He's awake!" one of the elves exclaimed.

"OH MY GOD! YOU'RE REAL ELVES!" Ed shouted as he grabbed one of the elves nearby and began stretching him out to check him, much to that particular elf's chagrin.

"Hey let go, ya big lump!" the elf desperately said.

"But if you guys are here, that can only mean I'm in-" as Ed was saying that, he was suddenly cut off by a cold breeze coming from seemingly nowhere that created a small snowstorm from which a hunched figure came out. He was taller than the elves, yet smaller than Ed, and looked like an old man with a white beard, pointy ears like the elves, grey eyes and wore a red and white robe with a green collar and a pointy hat on top of his head, bigger than all the elves'.

"That's right, young elf! I welcome you to the North Pole!" the older elf exclaimed. Just on cue as he said that, snowflakes started falling from the sky. Ed dropped the elf he was holding on his hands, who fell to the ground with a thud, as realization hit him.

"THE NORTH POLE!" he happily shouted as he looked everywhere, marveled with the snow and elves, lights and ornaments that were around. Then, he realized this place could only be…

"Yes, just like I promised, I brought you back to-" the older elf tried to explain, however he was interrupted this time.

"SANTA'S WORKSHOP!" Ed immediately deduced and began running around frantically, completely ignoring the elves and older elf calls. He gaped at the assembly lines of elves making all sorts of toys and other stuff on the conveyor belts, each conveyor belt being assigned to a different country. Using the naughty and nice lists posted on a wall, they determine whether they'll make presents or use lumps of coal before starting the process. Ed joyfully rode down one of the conveyor belts, with elves yelling at him to "GET OFF!" but Ed ignored them and the conveyor belt lead him into a large, silo-shaped machine (which were at the end of each conveyor belt) that divides the presents by town, the divided presents are shot out of the machine and into large bins assigned to the different towns.

"PRESENTS!" Ed exclaimed and began to swim in the presents before jumping out and heading to a door labeled 'Reindeer'. He opened it and found a stable full of Santa's reindeer chewing cud inside. "REINDEER! This is so COOL!" he merrily shouted, scaring all reindeers as he rushed over to them. Outside the stable, a lot of commotion and reindeer neighs could be heard, before another cold stream of air entered the place, then Ed came out while being pushed by the older elf who had magically teleported in front of him.

"I'm sorry, young elf, but the reindeer don't like being disturbed. Especially Blitzen…" the elf explained as he took a pause and grimaced. "Trust me, you don't want to get on her bad side…"

Ed then turned around and looked at the older elf, he seemed quite familiar to him for some reason. "Do I know you?" he asked.

"Ah, so you haven't realized, uh?" the older elf wondered with a kind laugh, before shooting some sort of weird ice-looking energy from his hands all over himself, snow covering him completely before fading away to reveal the same old man that Ed found before. He even had the same clothes, a red and white Christmas sweater and pulled up green pants with a belt. "It's me! Mr. Jingles!" he revealed.

"Jinglebell?" Ed asked, having completely forgotten about the old man he just met.

"You see, I used to be the Elf-in-Chief of Santa's workshop, however after many centuries of work I decided to finally retire and moved to a small suburban town to live amongst mortals, disguising myself as one of them so as not to reveal our existence" Mr. Jingles explained as he used his snow magic to turn back into his elf form. "But of course I could never let the true Christmas spirit behind, so that's why I decided to make my own little Holiday Village at home, just like you saw it."

"Butter toast" Ed simply replied, not understanding a word he just said. Mr. Jingles looked at him in wonder. "Um, I see the extreme heat has affected your head more than I thought, young elf" he told Ed.

"You think I'm an elf?" he questioned, to which the old elf smiled.

"Of course you're an elf! See, you have pointy ears, an unusual yet accurate uniform and a large hat, just like all of us!"

Ed thought about the elder's words for a second, then came to a conclusion. "Oh my Gosh! You're right, I am an elf!"

"Ahem, yes, I'm glad you remembered it…" Jingles replied in disbelief at this 'elf's stupidity. "I found you passed out from all the heat just barely outside my village. Elves aren't quite accustomed to increased temperatures like that, which explains your momentary… dizziness" he guessed. "You told me you wanted to get to the North Pole and were looking for Santa's workshop, so I knew you wanted to come home and brought you back here" the Elf-in-Chief explained. "I have to say, I never seen such a large elf before, but I'm glad I found you, your muscles will come handy while making new toys and carrying heavy stuff around here" he gestured around the workshop.

"Wait, you want me to help you make toys for Santa to deliver?" Ed wondered.

"That's what elves do!" Mr. Jingles laughed again, though in a kind manner and not mocking Ed, who stared in awe for a moment before bursting out in joy once again.

"YAY! I'M ED THE ELF! ED THE ELF! FALALALA LALALA!" he happily sung while running frantically through the workshop once more.

"Ugh, they don't make elves quite like before…" Jingles muttered as he had to go after Ed again.

Meanwhile at Double D's house:

Here we see Eddy and Double D sat at the latter's sofa watching a movie on TV, with the former not impressed with what they were seeing.

"Y'know, after having seen and BEEN actual aliens, gotta say those costumes look pretty cheap and fake" Eddy complained at the weird looking aliens from the movie they were watching. They were medium height, had a skull for a face and a giant exposed brain that looked like broccoli, and wore green spacesuits. Heck, he doubted any of his aliens could look like them.

"It's just a movie, Eddy. The people who made it probably have no knowledge of how aliens look in real life" Double D explained, though he looked mildly interested at the movie aliens and briefly wondered how such a species would look like actually.

"Too bad Lumpy ain't here, he would love this Sci-Fi flick" Eddy commented.

"Sure thing, but I'm getting a bit worried about him. Should we go looking for Ed?" Double D wondered.

"Nah, I told you he's fine. He probably got tired from running like a madman and went back home" Eddy responded relaxed. Double D was going to say something about caring for the safety of their friend, but he was interrupted as the doorbell suddenly rang. "Hey, don't look at me. It's not my house" Eddy shrugged as he comfortably laid in the sofa, while Double D looked at him unimpressed before going to answer the door himself, surprised at who was at the other end.

"Hiya Double D!" Sarah saluted upon him opening.

"H-Hello S-Sarah…" Double D nervously said after seeing her. "H-How m-m-may I b-be of h-help…" he stuttered, while Eddy rolled his eyes at seeing them interact.

"Lovebirds…" he muttered as he got off the sofa and walked over to the door. "What'cha want brat? We're not doing anything alien related today, other than watching a B-rated movie, so you're wasting your time if you come to-"

"Cut it, flathead! I'm not here because of that. It's dinner time and Mom told me to bring my equally flat-headed brother home, so where's he?" Sarah interrupted.

Eddy and Double D looked at each other uncertainly. "You say he's not home yet?"

"I wouldn't be here otherwise, ya idiot! Where else would he be other than with you two?" Sarah questioned.

"Umm… Sarah, I think Ed may have gone missing" Double D hesitantly informed.

"What?!" Sarah angrily exclaimed.

"Ehem, eh, you see… we were looking for a past invention of mine when we came across an ancient fruitcake my family traditionally parades every Christmas, that lead to Ed dressing back to his elf persona and into a debate about the possible existence of San-" Double D tried to explain, but was cut off by Sarah grabbing him from the collar of his T-shirt and held face to face with her.

"Double D. Where. Is. My. Brother?!" she demanded.

"W-We d-don't know!" Double D fearfully exclaimed.

"Last time we saw him, he told us he was goin' to the North Pole to find Santa" Eddy revealed.

"What? Why would he do that?" Sarah asked.

"Double D told him that Santa didn't exist, even though we all saw 'im last year" Eddy simply said. Sarah angrily glared at Double D, despite her crush on him.

"Oh, em, I-I didn't told him that Santa didn't exist, I just told him that it was scientifically unlike-" Double D tried to defend, but Sarah cut him off again.

"I WANT MY BROTHER BACK RIGHT NOW!" Sarah yelled furiously, to Double D's panic as she prepared to beat them down. "W-Wait, Sarah! I-uh, I got the communicator I recently invented, remember? I can call him right now!" he pleaded desperately.

"Do it, now!" she relented and let him go, Double D falling off before recomposing and taking out a small circular device that looks just like the hourglass symbol from Eddy's watch, the official communicator he had created to contact any of the team members, as they all had one of their own.

"Double D to Ed, Double D to Ed, you hear me? Over" he spoke into the device, however a few minutes passed and they got no response.

"So, where's Ed?!" Sarah asked impatiently, growing more tired and angrier by the second.

"Ah, Double D to Ed, Double D to Ed! Where are you?" Double D called into the communicator, but once again got no response from Ed.

"Please Monobrow, say something! Sarah's here, and she's gonna kill us!" Eddy joined in calling, but to no avail.

Just as Sarah was about to pound them, Double D recalled something else. "I-I also installed a tracking function which allow us to see Ed's location in real time!" he quickly said, trying to avoid Sarah's wrath.

"What are you waiting for?!" she yelled, to which Double D yelped in fear before pressing a button under the communicator, then it displayed a holographic map of the planet, which showed a small red point flickering on the Artic side.

"Oh please, how far could ol' lump head get?" Eddy asked.

"According to the coordinates at display, Ed's current location is…" Double D paused for a moment as his eyes widened with surprise. "…the North Pole?!" he exclaimed in disbelief.

"What?!" both Eddy and Sarah asked, one with surprise and the other with anger. "How can he get there so quick?!" he questioned.

"AND WHY DIDN'T YOU IDIOTS STOP HIM?!" she scolded furiously.

"How were we supposed to know he would ACTUALLY get to the North Pole?! Guy's been only gone for one hour, for Pete's sake!" Eddy retorted, though his bravado was gone the moment Sarah lifted up both him and Double D by their collars.

"Listen up, YOU'RE GOING TO GET ED BACK OR ELSE I'LL POUND BOTH OF YOU INTO DOG MEAT, CAPICHE?!" she threatened.

"I-I a-assure you, S-Sarah… we'll go to the North Pole and retrieve Ed safe and sound!" Double D promised scared. "…though I'm not sure if the RV's flying capabilities are sufficient enough to get us to the North Pole…" he muttered, but immediately regretted it upon seeing Sarah's deadly glare.

"I can go Upgrade and power up the RV to get there!" Eddy quickly added, not wanting to be turn into the world's most handsome piece of dog meat. Sarah stared at them both as they gave terrified smiles of assurance, before dropping them off to the ground.

"Fine, but you better hurry up and get ready, I'm coming as well!" she said and walked over to the garage where the modified Retro Van was.

"Geez… so much for a quiet day…" Eddy muttered as he got back up.

Meanwhile back at Santa's workshop:

We see a bunch of elves are pouring water, flour, candies and sugar on a huge funnel that mixtures all of them to make cookie dough, when suddenly Ed bursts in running while still singing. "ED THE ELF! ED THE ELF! ED THE-AHHHH!" he screams as he falls into the funnel, which is connected to another silo-shaped machine that drops Ed onto a conveyor belt that has cookie houses on it, the machine drops Ed into the conveyor belt contorted and trapped inside a cookie house, but the big oaf just breaks through it and devours the remains of the house as he shouts, "COOKIES!"

"Calm down, young elf!" Mr. Jingles tells as he finally managed to catch up to him, with Ed busy eating the cookie houses to go to another place. "E-Elves… are not… allowed… to eat cookies…" he panted heavily from all the running.

"But they're delicious!" Ed exclaimed with a mouth full of cookies.

"Listen, don't you remember what your work unit is?" Jingles questioned.

"Gravy?" Ed asked, not knowing what a work unit is.

The Elf-in-Chief just stared at him in disbelief. "The heat has really mess your head, hasn't it? Ugh, I'll just put you in the ensemble section with the newbies" he sighed before leading Ed to his assigned unit.

"Can I see Santa?" Ed asked.

"No, I'm afraid Santa is currently taking a nap as today isn't a working day for him" Jingles explained. "Err, granted only one day a year it is, but still you don't want to awake him and get on his bad side…" he shuddered.

"Need some milk!" Ed said as he ate some more remains of another cookie house while on the way.

"Stop eating the cookies!" Jingles demanded.

Back with the other Eds and Sarah:

We see the Upgraded RV (that is the Retro Van combined with Upgrade) flying over the Arctic tundra in search towards Ed's location. The RV in this form is colored black with yellow circuitry-stripes all over it and a big yellow circle at its front and an hourglass symbol underneath. It also has a pair of rocket thrusters at the back and ailerons at the sides. After a while, the RV landed behind a snowy mountain and close to the coordinates of Ed's supposed location.

Just as Upgrade demerged from it, the hourglass symbol on his chest started beeping and a red light flashed, returning him back to his human form. "Brrrr… S-so c-cold…" Eddy whimpered as he now felt the cold degrees of the Artic on him.

"Do not despair, Eddy. I anticipated our needs for protection against these extremely low temperatures, so I packed some thermal clothing for us" Double D said as he stepped out from the Retro Van and handed Eddy his thermal clothes, him and Sarah having already change inside the RV. Eddy quickly put the clothes on, which were just like his winter ones, a dark yellow jacket with a purple horizontal stripe and a pair of red gloves. Double D meanwhile was wearing his burgundy parka with white and green gloves and a scarf the same colors, earmuffs and a thermal ski hat similar to his regular one but with a purple stripe collar. Last, Sarah was wearing a purple winter coat with pink sleeves and a pink stripe in the middle, with a winter hat of the same design on top her head, light green gloves and a scarf of the same color.

"Quit foolin' around! How are we supposed to find Ed among all this snow?" Sarah demanded. Double D took his communicator from his pocket and displayed the holo-map with Ed's location. "According to this map, Ed should be just around this snow mountain" he revealed.

"G-G-Good, l-let's f-find him before we f-freeze…" Eddy shivered as he used his arms to try and keep himself warm, and so they walked around the snowy mountain, following the coordinates until they could spot something in the distance, a large doorway-like structure.

"What is that?" Sarah questioned.

"Could it be?" Double D wondered.

"No way…" Eddy said as they approached the structure, a Christmas themed doorway with statues standing on either side of the gate.

"Toy soldiers?" Sarah asked upon seeing the statues.

"What's this doing in the middle of the artic?" Double D asked.

"You don't think…" Eddy uttered as he started to realize what this place probably is. "Please Eddy, that sounds too far-fetched to be possible. I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation" Double D argued.

"Oh really? And what is it, Einstein?" Eddy asked. Double D thought for a moment, since he also wasn't sure of the explanation. "…Perhaps this is some kind of Eskimo village?" he finally came up with.

Both Eddy and Sarah looked less than impressed with that explanation. "Really? An Eskimo village?" he questioned.

"Doesn't matter what it is, Ed could be here" she said before quickly running off into the doorway, both Eddy and Double D following shortly behind her, as they stepped into a pitch black void before getting blinded by the white light on the other side. Then they stumbled out onto the snowy ground, where they were met with the sight of a snow-filled landscape alongside a brightly-lit town.

"What is all of this?" Double D wondered.

"I'm sure it's just the brightest Eskimo village you'll ever see…" Eddy quipped. Suddenly, a line of people run past the trio, causing them to stop in their tracks and look at the group, none of the holiday clothed figures taller than even Sarah.

"Are those…?" Double D asked in disbelief.

"…Elves? Yeah, I think so" Eddy quickly answered.

"What's next, reindeer?" Sarah sarcastically commented.

"Uh, actually…" Eddy pointed over at more elves that were packing gifts onto the sled of a reindeer, forming a chain of them passing boxes to one another before sliding them downhill on a sled, as another elf positioned a star on top of the massive Christmas tree behind them. The three of them stood in awe of the sight.

"Huh, whatever. Let's ask one of them if they've seen Ed around somewhere" Sarah said as they went to approach the elves.

"Please, allow me to speak with them. I'm sure I can be… a little more diplomatic" Double D told them before stepping forward. "Greetings fellows, my name is Eddward, with two 'Ds', and these two are my friends Eddy and Sarah" he presented himself while pointing at his two companions, who looked less than thrilled. "One of our friends just happened to get lost and we tracked his signal all the way here. Could you please tell us if you have seen him? He's quite tall and of questionable hygiene" he explained to the elves, though none of them actually responded, just staring at them in both worry and confusion.

"Hello? Do you even speak English?!" Sarah angrily questioned, her patience starting to wear thin at getting no response. This seemed to fully scare the elves, who ran away from her while screaming. "Hey! Where you think you're going, runts?" she called and was about to chase after them, but then someone else called to them.

"Hey, you! Freeze!" they heard someone shout at them, then turned around to see a pair of elves running at them. These elves were particularly larger and bulkier then the other elves, yet still weren't taller than Sarah. They ran up to them and came to a halt, panting as they did. "Ju-Just what do you think you're doing here, kids?" one of them asked as he took a breath.

"Finally, some elves that actually speak. Listen, we're looking for our friend-" Eddy tried to explain to them, but was interrupted. "Look kids, you can't be here, the boss was very specific about not allowing any mortals in, especially children" the other elf clarified.

"Boss? You mean Santa?" Sarah asked with a raised eyebrow.

"No, no. Santa is our top boss, he means our lower boss, Mr. Jingle-" one of the elves spoke before his partner cut him off. "Why don't you tell them your shoe size?!" he scolded.

The kids looked in amusement at their arguing. "Seems like they are some sort of security guards" Double D muttered to Sarah.

"Well, they don't seem very good at their jobs…" she responded.

"You do know that we hear you, right?" one of the elves angrily questioned. "You seem like a bunch of nice kids who don't wanna get coal for Christmas, right? So, why don't you leave now and forget all you seen" his partner told them.

"I'm not leaving without my brother" Sarah said, cross-armed. The two elves looked at each other and shrugged, before pulling out some sort of candy cane swords. "Your choice, kids" one of them said as they pointed their swords at them.

"G-G-Gentlemen, please… this is all a misunderstanding!" Double D pleaded as he backed off.

"Oh, candy swords? So scary! Well it's time to turn those into firewood!" Eddy mocked as he dialed his watch, setting it on Heatblast's shadow. "Goin' Heatblast!" he exclaimed as he slammed the watch and began to transform, a green light covering him and when it faded, he did felt bigger and rockier, but without the heat.

"Aw, man!" Diamondhead exclaimed as he realized the watch had transformed him into the wrong alien. "Well, I guess if at first you don't succeed..."

The two elf guards however were more than surprised at the boy in front of them suddenly turning into a big crystal monster. "Woah! What kind of sorcery is this?!" one of them exclaimed in disbelief. The other took out a communicator of his own and started talking to it. "Code Red! Code Red! This is an emergency! We're dealing with supernatural forces, send reinforcements!" he called, before the two elves jumped at Diamondhead with their candy swords. This being Diamondhead however, he easily managed to protect himself by turning his two arms into crystal blades, then swiftly disarmed the guards by knocking their swords off their hands.

"Eddy, wait! If they are who we think, then they're probably just complying with their duty! Do not use lethal force on them!" Double D told him.

"Not like I need much force to stop these guys anyways…" Diamondhead commented as he casually lifted up the elf guards to restrain them, with the duo comically and ineffectually struggling to break free of his grasp.

Suddenly, a dozen of elf guards came rushing at him, all sporting candy swords of their own. Despite having the size and strength advantage, the numbers were a bit much for Diamondhead, as he could barely fend off the elves, firing some small crystal shards at some to either knock their swords off or pin them against a wall by their clothes, careful as not to actually hurt any elf. But then all the elves dogpiled onto him and he retaliated by growing more crystals around his body, then firing more shards all over, leaving the elves all pinned to different walls but with none of them hurt.

"Is that non-lethal enough for you?" the diamond-made alien cockily asked Double D, but the smartest Ed looked quite astonished and pointed at him. "Look out!" he warned and Diamondhead turned in time to see more elves with what seemed to be a handmade catapult, before they fired some sort of giant present box out of it, though he managed to shoot a crystal shard that made it explode midair upon contact.

"Ha! That's the best you got?" he mocked, but his eyes widened upon seeing the elves bringing in more catapults, then firing multiple present boxes at him. Diamondhead put his hands into a diamond-shield to protect himself, but the present boxes exploding against it sent him flying against a nearby snowman, destroying it and only leaving its hat pierced on top of Diamondhead's pointy head as he was covered in snow. "Man, I hate Christmas…" he angrily muttered while ripping the hat off his head and cleaning the snow off him, however that was just the worst thing you could possibly say around here…

"DID YOU HEAR THAT? HE SAYS HE HATES CHRISTMAS! WE GOT A GRINCH OVER HERE, SEND IN OUR SPECIAL FORCES!" one of the elf guards furiously yelled at his communicator, before a cold breeze started from seemingly nowhere as the wind picked up and a hat came through the air before landing on a patch of snow. Then, a monster made of ice grew from under the hat, followed by two others!

"Woah! Hey Sockhead, can I use lethal force on those?" Diamondhead questioned as he fired some crystal shards at the hat monster, pinning them all over it and even ripping its hat off, much to the monster's anger. The diamond-made alien then tried to stab the monster in the gut with one of his hands turned blades, however his blade went right through it without even seemingly faze it. "Uh oh!" he exclaimed as the monster made its hand grow into a huge snowball that it used to punch Diamondhead, sending the alien flying backwards.

As he recovered, the other two snow monsters pelted him with snowballs, to his annoyance as he fired some more shards to counter, then rushed back with his blades, using them to cut off the monsters' arms and slice them to pieces before spinning around to behead the third monster with one of his blades as it tried to sneak behind him.

"Hah! That's what I call breaking the ice!" Diamondhead joked upon defeating all three monsters, however the snow around him started shaking as the monsters grew back into shape, one of them even putting back on its hat with a crystal shard stuck through it! Diamondhead's eyes widened in shock as the three monsters punched him into a snow pile, then pelted him with more snowballs until they left him buried under the snow. He managed to break out of it by growing more crystals, then saw Double D and Sarah being chased by the elves and so he picked them over and grew a giant bridge of crystals to flee, unable to hurt those monsters at all.

"Huh, I never ice skated before" Diamondhead commented as he extended the crystal bridge with his feet the more he run, while the snow monsters began firing snowballs at them. "We don't have time for this, we got to find Ed!" Sarah said as they fled, but just then the hourglass symbol on Diamondhead's chest started beeping.

"Oh no, this is gonna su-!" he exclaimed as red light flashed and transformed him back to normal midsentence and mid-escape as well, causing the crystal bridge to stop growing and for them to fall into a snow pile that crumbled and left them buried underneath. Luckily, neither the elves nor the snow monsters saw where they landed and so they went past them without noticing.

Back with Ed:

We now see Ed, still dressed as an elf, working in a conveyor belt assembling toys with a few other elves. Mr. Jingles comes over to supervise them. "Magnificent work, Elsgood!" he praised a young white-haired elf while seeing the toy he'd assembled. Elsgood just smiled happily as Jingles then walked past him and went to see the elf next in line. "Ah, well done, Cuddles!"he told the other elf, who also just smiled in return.

Jingles then walked over to Ed and saw he'd made a weird looking toy, it somewhat resembled an insect or alien being of a green color, had some kind of metallic pincers around its big yellow mouth and a string on its back. "And what do we have here, young elf?" he inquired upon seeing the toy Ed made.

"This is the Razor Mumbler!" Ed explained, while Jingles stared in disbelief. "It certainly looks… interesting, but doesn't seem very appealing to children, does it?" the elder elf questioned.

"Oh, but that's not all! Look, it has a flamethrower function!" Ed revealed as he pulled from the cord on the toy's back, a flame coming out of its mouth and being shot at Elsgood and Cuddles, scorching the two elves and turning the toys they made into ashes to Jingles' horror and Ed's amusement.

"Nice toy…" Elsgood muttered while Cuddles coughed some smoke before fainting.

"Are you out of your mind?! Your toy's too dangerous! We can't give children weapons like this!" Jingles exclaimed indignantly.

"Why not?" Ed asked densely and Jingles clenched his teeth in anger, before calming down. "Ugh, maybe assembling toys is a bit much for you, I'll just put you in a different unit, okay?" he told Ed as he took the toy from him and lead him somewhere else.

"Can I see Santa now?" Ed merely asked.

"NO!" Jingles angrily responded before continuing to push Ed away from the assembly line.

Back with the other Eds and Sarah:

We see many elves and elf guards still searching for the intruders. Suddenly, a hand comes from under the snow and grabbed a small elf without the others noticing, then dragged him onto a small snow hill before he could scream. The hand actually belonged to Sarah, who quickly put her other hand on the elf's mouth so he wouldn't call for help while pinning him against the snow.

"Listen up, shorty. You're going to tell us where my brother is, now, or else I'll turn you into an ornament for Mom's garden, got it?" she threatened as the elf squirmed in fear.

"Gee, Double D, I don't see you complaining about HER using lethal force…" Eddy muttered.

"Well, Eddy, while I do not approve of Sarah's aggressive methods, these elf people seem quite reluctant to listen or tell us the information we need about Ed's whereabouts. Perhaps a little intimidation will convince this elf to speak" he responded.

"You just say that coz you like her…" Eddy taunted, with Double D blushing in response.

"Hmph! P-Please don't hurt me, I'm just an innocent working elf!" the elf pleaded after Sarah took her hand off his mouth. "Then talk! Where's Ed?!" she demanded.

"I-I d-don't know who you're talking about!" the elf fearfully said.

"He's tall, has yellow skin and a Monobrow" Eddy described for him.

"T-That sounds like the new elf that came today!" the elf realized.

"What elf?! Where's he?!" Sarah questioned.

"I don't know!" the elf answered, but Sarah didn't like his response at all.

"You better tell us what you know!" she exclaimed while shaking the terrified elf around.

"Okay! Okay! He's probably at the main factory, Mr. Jingles assigns new elves tasks there!" the elf relented.

"How do we get there?" Sarah inquired.

"T-There's a direct track at the end of the reindeer inspection line, but the guards won't let you pass!" the elf told them.

"Oh, yeah?" Sarah replied, an idea forming in her mind as she stared at Eddy, who gave her a look of confusion in response.

"Uh… why are you looking at me like that?" he asked.

Later on:

We see a line of reindeer carrying presents through a door guarded by two elf guards. The line moves along while inspected by the guards, leading to another place of the workshop while behind them, Sarah and Double D are dressed up like elves (with some clothes they… 'got' from the elf they caught and another one) and riding on the back of a particular looking reindeer, which actually is Eddy transformed into Wildmutt with some antlers stuck to his head.

"Remember, you're a reindeer" Sarah instructed the reindeer-disguised alien, which let an annoying grunt in response. Why did he have to dress up like a reindeer and carry these two on his back? Stupid Sarah and her plan…

"Careful Eddy, here come the guards" Double D instructed as the two elves went to check on them, looking suspicious about the 'reindeer's weird appearance, to which Sarah quickly came up with a cover. "…uh, he's from Europe!"

"Oui oui" Double D repeated while trying to make a French accent to back her story. The two elf guards looked at each other unsurely for a minute before shrugging. "Go in" one of them instructed as they pass through, the three successfully reaching the train-track on the other side. But just when it looks like they'll be able to get to the main factory, a reindeer with a red ruby embedded on its nose walked up to them and huffed, before its 'nose' glowed.

"Shoo shoo!" Double D tried to scare the reindeer away, to no avail.

"Go away, Rudolph!" Sarah yelled at it, as the two elf guards came to check in on the reindeers upon hearing commotion and realized about the ruse.

"Hey, you two! Get over here!" one of the elves shouted.

"Yeah, we don't have any headquarters in Europe!" the other one exclaimed as they rushed at them.

"Mush!" Sarah said as Wildmutt reared up and barreled away, jumping onto the train as it departs. One of the elf guards managed to also leap onto the back before it started off and carried them away, entering a tunnel. As they reached the other side, Sarah, Double D and Wildmutt popped out of a carriage filled with presents before ducking back under as the elf guard threw small candy cane projectiles at them in ninja-fashion. They retaliated by throwing presents at him, knocking him off the train as he fell onto a snow pile.

As they did that, two more elves were chasing after them on a parallel track. The two jumped onto the train, blocking Wildmutt and the two kids on his back from escaping. The dog-like alien leapt over the one to the back of the train, causing the elf behind him to accidentally knock his partner off the train, before being also knocked away by Wildmutt. The two elves also fell on the snow, while the platform Wildmutt was standing on sprang them off, revealing itself as a giant 'Jack in the Box' that tried to catch them. They managed to avoid it, but were sent flying through a roof and into a pile of boxed presents. Upon landing, a beep sound was heard as a red light flashed from under the boxes, before Eddy, back in his human form, Double D and Sarah peeked their heads out of the pile. As they resurface and look around, they saw a huge room filled with multicolor presents and stuffed animals.

"Mm, this must be the main factory" Double D deduced.

"That's correct, and you must be the three meddling kids who intruded into the workshop" a voice suddenly responded. The three looked over surprised and saw Mr. Jingles magically appearing in front of them with his breeze teleportation.

"Damn right, old man! And we're here to put an end to-" Eddy stood up and tried to sound heroic, before realizing that this guy wasn't planning anything and they'd just intruded into the workshop looking for their friend. "-uhhh… he's not doing something evil, right Sockhead?"

"Only if you consider making toys and presents for all the good children around the world as 'evil'" Jingles clarified.

Eddy pondered on this for a minute. "Well, I NEVER get any presents other than clothes or coal for Christmas!" he complained. Jingles made a list magically appear on his hands and quickly checked it. "You are Eddy Skipper McGee, right?" he asked.

"Hahaha! Skipper!" Sarah cut in laughing, remembering Eddy's embarrassing middle name.

"Shut up, Sarah!" Eddy angrily told her.

"It says here that you spend a good portion of your time trying to scam your fellow kids out of their hard earned money, that sounds naughty to me…" Jingles informed.

"Well sir, you better double check that, coz since the start of summer I've got this cool watch that makes me go alien and I been nothing but a hero, helping people through and through!" Eddy declared. Jingles did in fact double check his list, and was surprised to see the kid was actually right.

"Umm… this list probably needs an update. But then again, you did just intrude into Santa's workshop and caused major security damages, not to mention attacked lots of innocent elves. Doesn't sound very heroic, does it?" Jingles retorted.

"Oh, cut me some slack! We only came because our friend got lost and somehow ended up here!" Eddy exclaimed. Jingles was surprised at hearing this. "Your friend you say? Impossible! No kid has found this place in centuries!" the Elf-in-Chief responded.

"Ahem" Sarah cleared her throat.

"…other than you, that is" Jingles corrected. "How did you even got here?!" he questioned.

"Uh… let's just say we are quite resourceful, if I may say so myself" Double D answered. "But sir, we don't mean to intrude in this… workshop, we really are just looking for our lost friend. We tracked his signal all the way here" he showed Jingles his communicator with the holo-map displaying Ed's signal, much to the elf's amusement.

"Tracked you say? And how's this friend of yours anyways? I haven't seen any kid around here, other than you!" the older elf exclaimed.

"He's quite tall, yellowish skin, poor personal hygiene…" Double D started describing Ed and Eddy continued.

"Monobrow with some zits…"

"…and he's an idiot!" Sarah finished.

Jingles looked unimpressed at them and pointed in the right direction. "He's right over there…" they looked over and saw Ed, who'd been assigned cleaning duties, mopping the floor. "Oh, hey guys! Hi Sarah!" he happily saluted upon seeing them.

"ED!" all three exclaimed as Sarah rushed over to her brother. "You idiot! You got us all worried!" she told him.

"Really? You were worried about me?" Ed asked with surprise, as his sister never shown any interest for his safety before.

Sarah realized what she just said and was taken aback. "Uh, er, what I try to say is-"

"Oh, she really was! She made us come all the way here just to find you!" Eddy quickly got in, wanting to get back at Sarah for poking fun at his middle name.

"SHUT UP, WATCH FACE!" she shouted at him, while he just stuck out his tongue at her.

"Wait, I don't understand, young elf. Do you know these kids?" Jingles asked in confusion.

"Of course! They're my best friends and baby sister!" Ed revealed as he hugged them, much to their discomfort. Jingles was more than shock by this. "What?! How is that even possible?! You're an elf and they're just mortal kids!"

"Elf? He's not an elf! It's a costume, you moron!" Sarah revealed as she took off his brother's fake elf ears, revealing his regular human ears underneath.

"T-T-Their fake?! You meant to tell me all this time you were just a human?!" the elder elf questioned.

"Got that right, boss! Can I see Santa now?" Ed obliviously asked.

"ARGH! YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE SANTA! YOU LYING MORTAL, YOU, YOU… NAUGHTY!" Jingles started yelling, his voice getting more deep and terrifying the angrier he got.

"Naughty?" Ed repeated, not understanding the shift in tone.

"Oh dear, this is all just a m-misunderstanding…" Double D trembled and walked backwards scaredly after seeing Jingles' demeanor change.

"Gee, whatever happened to goodwill and peace on Earth?" Eddy questioned.

"YOU LIED TO ME! YOU'LL GET MORE THAN COAL FOR CHRISTMAS!" Jingles shouted as he took a small controller from under his sleeve and pressed a red button, before a huge machine located at the center of the room sent some sort of pulse around, then some giant nutcracker-like toy soldiers that were at the entrance and around the walls of the room started to magically come to life, making a bee line for the kids. "GUARDS! GET RID OF THEM!" the angry elf ordered.

"Guys, I'm starting to think we won't get to see Santa…" Ed commented as the guards approached, brandishing swords.

"You haven't been back for five minutes and I already wanna strangle you…" Sarah said in a mixture of anger and fear.

"Uh... I don't think they wanna sing Christmas carols, right?" Eddy asked worriedly.

"T-They don't look content, Eddy!" Double D replied alarmed as they were circled around by the toy soldiers, but just as they were about to attack them, Ed got in the way. "Stay away from my friends, you nutty crackers, for I am ED THE ELF!" he exclaimed before tackling one of the soldiers.

"ED!" Double D called in concern as he saw his friend roll over the ground along with the giant soldier, with some other soldiers going after him.

"Can't you go help him?!" Sarah demanded as she looked at Eddy, who was desperately flicking the buttons of his watch. "What you think I'm tryin', brat? This thing won't work!" he responded.

"Um, I don't want to be of annoyance but…" Double D pointed at some toy soldiers marching towards them. "RUN AWAY!" Eddy shouted as they fled before one of the soldiers could slice them with its sword. But it didn't end there, as from the tops of the nutcrackers' hats, miniature versions of themselves start firing guns of candy canes at them, thankfully they manage to avoid the projectiles though Double D got tripped by one. "Ouch!" the sock-headed boy yelped as he fell to the floor, but before he could get back on his feet, one of the toy soldiers got over him and swung its sword at him.

"DOUBLE D!" Sarah shrieked at seeing this, while the smartest Ed closed his eyes and braced himself for the strike. However, that strike never came as Sarah instinctively leapt at the toy soldier and got on its back, grabbing the sword blade and using her incredible strength to restrain its attack. Double D opened his eyes moments later to see why he hadn't been hit yet, looking amazed at Sarah's display of strength as she punched the struggling nutcracker on its face, then ripped part of its mechanic back and took a huge yellow battery that was attached. This made toy soldier instantly shut down and fall face first to the ground.

"Cheap batteries!" Sarah exclaimed as she lifted the giant battery and threw it at another incoming soldier, knocking it down as well. Then, she turned back at Double D with concern. "You okay?" she asked and extended her hand to help him up, but he just stared at her wide eyed.

"Sarah… you saved me!" he gasped.

"Don't mention it, after what happened with Ed I'm not letting anyone hurt my friends again" Sarah said while blushing slightly as Double D took her hand, then she pulled him back up and their faces got extremely close. "Th-Thank y-y-you…" he stuttered as now the two were flushing while looking directly at each other, their faces getting closer and closer… but before they could do anything else, Double D saw something from the corner of his eye. "GET DOWN!" he screamed as he pulled Sarah to the floor while ducking under a blast of candy canes shot by the hat of another toy soldier.

Sarah looked back and realized he just saved her as well. "Okay, we're even. Now, move!" she exclaimed before pulling him by the wrist, the two running away while being chased by the toy soldier.

Meanwhile, two other soldiers were chasing after Eddy, who managed to lose them by jumping into a pile of presents. The nutcrackers went past him without noticing and were searching for the intruding kid, while Eddy desperately tried to make his watch work again. "Why won't you-" he was interrupted by the watch suddenly beeping and returning to its green color, meaning it had recharged and was ready for use again. Eddy grinned at this as he dialed the core and selected an alien. "All I want for Christmas are four big arms!" he exclaimed as he slammed down the dial and a green flash enveloped him, however rather than feeling all big and bulky, he noticed that all the present boxes seemed a lot bigger, and that he was in fact standing over one of them!

"Aw, man! Are you serious?!" Grey Matter protested as he realized the watch had transformed him into the wrong alien… again! But his transformation alerted the nutcracker soldiers about his hiding place, with one of them swinging its sword and smashing the presents into pieces as Grey Matter barely managed to avoid it and cling into the sword for dear life. "AAAAH!" the small alien shouted as the giant soldier swung its sword in the air, trying to shake him off it and sending Grey Matter flying into the other soldier's face. The frog-like alien then crawled all over the giant nutcracker as he also tried to get him, positioning in its face just as the first nutcracker turned over and taunting it, then leaping just in time, causing the soldier to smash its ally's face and destroy it.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" Grey Matter exclaimed as he stood on top of the nutcracker's hat, however the hat's top opened as a miniature nutcracker came out and fired candy canes at him. "Augh!" he cried as one of the sweets hit him and sent him into a conveyor belt. "Hey, it's peppermint flavored!" Grey Matter realized upon recovering and tasting the candy cane on his hands, however the miniature nutcracker shot more canes at him, causing the small alien to drop his candy and run all over the conveyor belt to dodge the deadly sweets. The toy soldier than struck with its sword, sending the alien flying once more before a hand managed to catch him.

"I got you, Eddy!" Double D said as he managed to snatch the small alien from the air.

"Double D, according to my calculations, that machine in the middle of the room serves as a power source for these robots, if I get inside I may be able to deactivate it and shut them down!" Grey Matter explained in a scientific tone. Double D merely looked at him. "…did you understood what I said?" the smart alien asked.

"Why, yes, but… hearing you speaking so eloquently is still unusual for me" the genius boy responded. Then, one of the toy soldiers shot more canes at them, making them run out of the way and towards the machine. Sarah noticed this and quickly grabbed a bag of marbles from the conveyor belt, tossing them at the giant soldier chasing after them and making it trip over to the floor.

"Not the Jingle-ator! Stop them!" Mr. Jingles ordered as he pressed his controller again, then some small blue toy planes came flying over and chasing after the two geniuses, shooting more candy canes at them and hitting Double D in the back, sending him falling again and causing Grey Matter to be thrown upwards, where he managed to hold onto one of the toy planes. The plane tried to spin around to make him fall, but the small alien was firmly held to its back. However, another toy plane came from behind and stroke that plane, but Grey Matter managed to leapt in time and grab onto the firing plane, only for a third plane to shoot at it and destroy one of its wings, sending the toy plane with the screaming alien toppling down.

Thankfully, he managed to leapt into the conveyor belt part that was connected to the Jingle-ator and went inside the inner working of the machine, sliding down a multi-colored tunnel until getting launched into a boxed present, before a Rube Goldberg-like machine with a boot on the end kicked him into the air again, then landing on a suspended platform opposite a glowing star on top of a pile of organic-looking machinery. Between him and the star were a series of platforms, moving, crushing, and flying around. Grey Matter was able to navigate through them, avoiding getting crushed in a videogame-like sequence (complete with 8-bit music in the background!) and came across a glowing button at the base of the star.

"Uh, the amplification of currents suggests a fission of unstable and un-determinable isotopes. Shutting down power source now!" the smart alien said to no one, before pressing the button and shutting down the machine. Everything around him then started shaking, as the star began to glow brighter and brighter, with Grey Matter closing his eyes due to the blinding glow and screaming at the unexpected reaction.

Meanwhile, outside the machine Ed, Sarah and Double D were surrounded by the remaining toy soldiers, with the two sibling having been able to take one soldier down with simultaneous punches, but the last three combined were a bit much for them to handle. Just as the nutcrackers lifted up their swords and the miniature nutcrackers came off their hats to shoot at them, they started to power down in their place and fell over along with the toy planes and a series of other toys, deactivated.

"Eddy did it!" Double D cheered as their attention was drawn to the Jingle-ator, which began glowing increasingly before exploding in a series of multi-colored explosions.

"THE JINGLE-ATOR! NOOOOOO!" Jingles shouted desperately as the machine detonated in a final, huge explosion that blew the roof off the factory, leaving everything in crumbles. Grey Matter emerged from the rubbles of the machine, posing victoriously. "Oh yeah! And thus Christmas was saved by Eddy!" he declared triumphantly.

"No! You ruined Christmas possibly forever, you little naughty!" a charred Jingles said as he recovered from the explosion, knelt next to the remains of his precious machine. Ed, Double D and Sarah also came out charred from underneath the deactivated nutcrackers, having used them to shield from the explosion, while some equally charred elves unearthed themselves from the rubble. More elves had rushed in to see what happened upon hearing the explosion.

"What's going on here? Can't a guy take a small nap for just a minute?" a disgruntled yet joyful voice suddenly exclaimed, as a man noticeably taller than all the elves came walking amongst them, while the elves slowly moved to the left and right sides respectively so that the man could walk in. Like Jingles, he had white hair and a beard, wore red and white clothes with a hat on top of his head, and was quite fat…

Everyone instantly recognized who he was upon seeing him. "SANTA!" they all exclaimed, including Grey Matter and Mr. Jingles, and ESPECIALLY Ed, who immediately rushed over to the guy and squeezed him in a hug.

"SANTA! I KNEW YOU WERE REAL! OH SANTA, I BEEN A GOOD BOY! I WANT A LITTLE CHRISTMAS HAT FOR NESTOR JR, A NUCLEAR-POWERED BACKSCRATCHER, A WATCH LIKE EDDY'S, TICKETS FOR THE NEW ARACHNID MAN MOVIE AND-!" Ed rambled as he hugged Santa a bit too tightly for the old man's comfort.

"Can't… breathe, Edwin!" Santa managed to say while his skin turned a bluish color. Ed caught the message this time and let go of Santa, who returned to his natural color while gasping for air. "Sorry Santa…" the strongest Ed apologized.

"Yeah, he does do that a lot" Grey Matter informed.

"I-I can't believe this… you are real?!" Double D asked in disbelief.

"Hohoho! Of course I'm real, Eddward! Didn't you see me last Christmas?" Santa asked with his traditional laugh, to which Double D looked a bit embarrassed at being so stubborn and reluctant to admit it.

"Even I wasn't sure if that was just a one-time gag" Grey Matter admitted.

"I can't believe it! It really is him!" Sarah exclaimed with awe.

"Oh, Santa, I'm so glad you're here!" Mr. Jingles said as he rushed over to Santa's side. "Look what these naughty children did! They destroyed the Jingle-ator! What are we going to do? How are we supposed to give toys to the children of the world now?" the Elf-in-Chief asked desperately.

Santa looked at Jingles and then over to the kids. "Is this true, children?" he asked them, to which they all looked down or away, a bit embarrassed of what they did.

"Don't listen to him, Santa! He's evil!" Ed pleaded.

"Evil? I am just a senior elf who was enjoying retirement until you came into my house and tricked me into thinking you were an elf to bring you here!" Jingles responded indignantly.

"Yeah? That's why you tried to kill us with those crazy nutcrackers?!" Sarah questioned.

"Kill you? I was just dealing with a bunch of scammy intruders!" Jingles shot back.

"Ohohoho! Hold on!" Santa put a quick stop to the argument, then turned to look at Jingles. "Thomas. Did you use our security weaponry against these poor kids?" he asked while arm crossed.

"Yes, he did, Santa! He also sent elves and snow monsters after us!" Grey Matter tattled as Double D picked him up and the small alien climbed over to his shoulder. Jingles gritted his teeth at them, while Sarah and the frog-like alien both blew a raspberry at him.

"B-Bu-But S-Santa! The tall one lied to me and told me he was an elf, and the little one caused mayor damages to the workshop, not to mention that he destroyed the Jingle-ator! And, and…" 'Thomas' tried to argue.

"Oh, Thomas, look at you. You've forgotten about the true meaning of Christmas" Santa said with disappointment. "It isn't about giving the perfect toy, it's about the spirit in which we give. Isn't that right kids?" he asked them.

"Heck yeah!" Sarah responded.

"Gravy!" Ed exclaimed.

"Absolutely" Double D replied as he looked at the small alien on his shoulder. "See Eddy? That is what I been trying to explain you" he informed.

"Ugh, fine, I get it. Christmas isn't about what you find under a tree, it's about what you find in your heart…" the smart alien admitted. "…but, that being said, I'm sure giving me a stack full of Jawbreakers would make you feel real good, huh Santa?" he tried to convince, but just as if on cue to interrupt, or perhaps due to Santa's influence, the hourglass symbol on his back started beeping and a red light flashed, turning him back to normal and into his regular size, which was too big for poor Double D to carry on his back, comically causing them to fall into the ground and on top of each other.

Jingles was quite amused by this, but the real importance of the lesson wasn't lost on him. "…I understand. I'm sorry, Mr. Claus. And I'm also sorry with you, children. I didn't behave like a good elf, maybe I shouldn't have returned from retirement…" he lamented, but was stopped by Santa putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't be so harsh on yourself, Thomas. After all, Christmas is about giving and forgiving as well" Santa reassured. "And you've been one of my most loyal elves, that machine you built really helped with things around here, but maybe it being destroyed was for the better. Elves were starting to get too complacent, now we'll have to go back to traditional handwork like in the good ol' times, remember?" he told him.

"But without the Jingle-ator's magic powering your sleigh, you won't be able to travel through Earth in just one night!" Jingles revealed concerned. This also surprised all the kids, who gasped in response.

"Say it ain't so, Santa!" Ed exclaimed worriedly.

Santa looked serious for a moment and sighed. "I'm afraid it is, Edwin. But do not worry, we'll find a way to resolve this, I assure you. Who knows? Maybe we'll just split Christmas Eve into a two-night event…" he guessed.

Eddy looked at his still recharging watch and got an idea. "Say, Santa… I'm very sorry for destroying your machine, so how about I repay you by helping you out next Christmas?" he suggested while flashing out the watch to highlight his idea.

"Hohoho! Eddy McGee, you came a long way since the last time we saw" Santa complimented.

"Thanks sir, I'm trying to do better" Eddy responded and shook Santa's hand. Double D then cleared his voice and stepped forward. "Ahem, excuse me, Mr. Claus…"

"Yes, Eddward?" Santa asked.

"I-I want to apologize for… putting your existence in doubt" the smart boy sheepishly said.

"Don't worry, Eddward. I know that not everyone believes in me, all kids certainly do, but most of them grow out of that phase as they get older" he explained.

"But Santa, everyone knows about you but not everyone believes in you! Even when I try to tell them, like Mom or Dad! How can they not believe in a wonderful man like you?" Ed asked.

"That's completely natural, Edwin. And I actually prefer it that way, making and delivering presents to ALL the world's kids can't be done in one night, so I just let the parents handle the rest. If everyone still believed and knew about me, that would be too much responsibility on my end, if you know what I mean. So I say that it's best to just let people believe what they wanna believe" Santa stated.

"That makes sense" Sarah reasoned and Double D nodded in agreement.

"I guess you're right" Ed said.

"Ohoho! But I have to say, I'm amazed at your commitment in believing in me, even before you saw me last Christmas!" Santa told Ed, then paused for a second to think about something. "Say Edwin, I'm thinking I may need some help with your friend's plan for next Christmas…"

At the next Christmas:

We see a flash of green light before it fades to reveal Stinkfly, with a harness attached to him that's connected to a red sleigh with bags full of presents. Santa is sat at the front of the sleigh holding the reins while next to him, Ed, Sarah and Double D (all in their elf clothes) also sat on the sleigh and helped some other elves load it up with presents. Mr. Jingles is standing next to the sleigh, giving them some instructions, all the while a Christmas song ('We Wish You a Merry Christmas') plays in the background.

"…and you just adjust this dial to go wherever you want on Earth" he finished explaining.

"So that's how he delivers it all in one night!" Double D said fascinated.

"I can't believe it! We're Santa's elves for Christmas! This is a dream come true!" Ed exclaimed joyfully, while Sarah pat him on the back. "You said it, brother!" she replied with a smile.

"Come on, we gotta go! All aboard Stinky the Gassey Alien!" Stinkfly called as he excitedly set off, bringing the sleigh flying behind him, as Mr. Jingles smiled at the sight of them setting off. The group flew out of Santa's workshop and into the night sky, beginning the voyage of delivering presents all over the world. Children from across countries like India, Russia, South Africa, Argentina and Japan woke up to find their presents as they flew past, with a little girl opening her Shoji-like paper door and seeing a present marked with her name, 'Sunmin'.

"Cool! Thank you Santa!" Sunmin exclaimed excitedly as she opened the present and found it was exactly what she'd asked for.

Santa's trademark laugh resonated from the skies above, "Hohoho! Merry-" he began to say his iconic catchphrase, but was cut off by Ed shouting "-ALIEN CHRISTMAS!" Santa looked at him for a moment, then shrugged and went back to laughing. "And a Happy New Year!" he declared as Stinkfly flew into a photo finale of them flying together in the sleigh.

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Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! I want to thank you guys for all the support this story gets, and I promise to finish Season 1 next year. Here's my finally Christmas gift for you, some trivia facts about this special.

Trivia

1) The plot of this chapter is inspired by the original Ben 10 Season 3 episode, "Merry Christmas", but takes a major deviation from the plot of that episode, as I wanted to give a spin of my own for this season special. I also added some elements and even dialogues from the Christmas special of Easymac10's fic, "Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Teen Series", which as you know by now is one of my favorite EENE fics and I've taken many elements for this fic. Another reason for me wanting to change the overall plot of this chapter is that I felt like I already used the whole "the Eds go to a theme park that's casually located near their city" in the Megawhatt chapter.

2) The opening portion of this chapter is also actually taken from the original Ben 10 episode, "Permanent Retirement", a Season 1 episode I didn't adapt yet due to wanting to do it at a latter season for plot reasons. The grandfather and his grandson are inspired from Max and Ben Tennyson.

3) All the stuff Eddy throws away are elements from past scams of actual episodes: the golf course robot is from the episode "Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Ed", the newspaper launcher is from "Read All About Ed", the small clown car is from "Ed or Tails" and the empty, torn at the bottom bucket of gold paint is from "High Heeled Ed". Moreover, the ancient fruit cake is from the episode "Fa-La-La-La-Ed", the first Christmas episode for EENE and where Ed dresses up like an elf for the first time. There's also some call backs to the Christmas special, "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle".

4) "Ratman, the Sewers Knight" is obviously a spoof of Batman, while the later mentioned "Arachnid Man" is a spoof on Spider-Man, my two favorite superheroes! Soul came up with the former while I just thought of the latter.

5) Mr. Jingles is the villain from the aforementioned Ben 10 episode, however I decided to change his background story (which wasn't even stated that clear) and made him an elf that has actually work for Santa for centuries, rather than a man seemingly under a course that turned him into an elf or something (I repeat, the episode vaguely states that without providing any origin to it!). Also, Thomas is his actual name as shown in that episode, and his human disguise is based on Elsgood's appearance at the end of it.

6) The scene with Ed falling into a huge funnel full of cookie dough and all that is taken from "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Christmas special (second references to that series, yay!), in which Billy is trying to be an elf and falls into what I assumed was the same thing.

7) The Retro Van is the same one from the EENE series (it appeared first in the episode, "Dawn of the Eds" but has appeared in many episodes throughout the series), and this one is the major spoiler for the Season 1 final, though not so much if you read my other EENE/B10 crossover, "OmnitrixEd". Basically, Double D has modified it and turned into something akin to this series version of the Rust Bucket. Eddy merging with it as Upgrade to give it more power is a reference to my previous fic.

8) Elsgood is the elf from the actual Ben 10 episode that helps him and Gwen, Cuddles is just some random name I came up with for an elf and found fitting.

9) The "Razor Mumbler" (Soul came up with the name!) toy Ed makes is based on a toy he had in the EENE episode, "Ready, Set... Ed!", but it shooting flames is taken from another of his toys, Baron O' Beefdip, which actually was shown to be able to do so in the episode "Little Ed Blue".

10) Eddy's full name here is revealed to be "Eddy Skipper McGee", Skipper is actually his cannon middle name (confirmed in the *ahem* CONTROVERSIAL episode "Your Ed Here") while McGee is a popular fanon surname for him (I think it's due to Ed calling him that in one episode, but I don't remember which). If you been paying attention, Ed's full name was revealed in Chapter 7 to be "Ed Horace Lancer", Horace is also his actual cannon middle name (confirmed in the also-not-that-like episode "Smile for the Ed") while Lancer is just a popular fanon surname I found for him. Also, this means Sarah's surname is also Lancer by default, with Double D's surname still to be revealed.