Chapter Ten: Rescue and reunited, part two
Somewhere in Minot, North Dakota
Henry: *to Carmen who is handcuffed to the chair* Carmen, it's been a long time, you should have been with me as my wife but never care we would have saved an American business together from foreign investors and industrialists like Malcolm Avalon for example.
Carmen: I never like you and I never do.
Henry: *as one of Henry's men gave Henry the file* Until Chief Weller hides a secret that no one should find out ever until now.
Meanwhile outside of the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota
*Jade and Team Sonic are shocked and unamused*
Amy: Great, not a single Christmas shopper inside.
Jade: Maybe someone was warned not put Christmas decorations there by Henry Glock.
Sonic: That's wrong, but why is it close all of the sudden.
Agent Kris: *voice only* Perhaps, I can answer your question, Sonic.
*Jade and Team Sonic turn around and saw a man who looks like Chase Devineaux but in a red suit*
Tails: Who are you?
Agent Kris: Call me, Agent Kris.
Jade: Are you from ACME?
Agent Kris: Not exactly, Jade, perhaps the answer is these. *As he gives Jade something familiar to her*
Jade: My nanotech glasses, thank you, Agent Kris. *As she removes her glasses and puts on her nanotech glasses and saw Team ACME [Chase, Ivy, Zack, Lee, Cole, Jason, Tyson, Jessie, Spencer Ross and Brenda N. Butters] and Team WOOHP [Samantha/Sam, Clover and Alex] each got tied up with restraining rope and end up at the back of the building until some men enters and each one grab one to another* Ho-Ho-Oh no! Sonic, everyone my friends from ACME and WOOHP are in danger.
Agent Kris: Then you all must save them while I'll go bringing back a surprise for the one who ruined ACME and WOOHP.
Jade: Thanks Agent Kris, but...Huh?!?! *As she sees something familiar to her* My bracelet. *As she picks up her bracelet and figures it could come in handy*
Meanwhile Inside the Mall of America in the place called 'Fun Park' (fictional name for their indoor amusement park)
*As each men places each member of Team ACME and Team WOOHP into a swing pendulum called the 'Screaming Zone' [which has a sign that said 'Out of Order'*
Gary: *as he came* I hope you feel comfortable, but this is going to be your last ride, I'll make sure you won't participate in crime-fighting without the permission of the government.
Jade: *voice only* That's where you're wrong, Colt.
Gary: Who in the-*gasped and saw Jade in her advanced instant battle suit [remember The Plumber and the Hedgehog what it looks like] * I should have known I thought you'll be staying in Ann Arbor, but I've figured no town will accept you say have fun for your friends. *As he starts the swing pendulum by activating the machine, and each member of Team ACME and Team WOOHP screamed*
*Jade goes after Gary, but the men go after her until Team Sonic aided Jade while handling the men and Sonic grabs Jade to stop Gary and they did*
Gary: What do you want to do? Stop me or save your friends. *Team ACME and Team WOOHP still screaming at the swing pendulum* You have room for one.
Amy: *Holding her Piko hammer* I've got this, Jade! *And she smashed the machine that led to the swinging pendulum and the swinging pendulum stops moving*
Zack: *feeling nauseated* Oh man, I'm going to hurdler.
Spencer: *feeling dizzy* Not here, Zack!
Jade: *to Gary after she handcuffed him and move away* Merry Christmas, Gary Colt!
Gary: What do you-huh?!?! *All the sudden lumps of coal came out from above and he screamed as he got cover in lumps of coal*
Outside of Mall of America
Clover: *as ACME Medical Center medical members came and check on Team ACME and Team WOOHP* Thank goodness, I thought we all end up dizzy.
Samantha (Sam): Well, Clover, thanks to Jade and Team Sonic we're back.
Alex: Yeah, thanks Jade, Sonic!
Sonic: No sweat, girls!
Chase: *to Jade* I don't know how but-
Jade: It's a very long story!
Spencer: Same with the rest of the us.
Brenda: Unfortunately, my parents lost their bed and breakfast business to Henry Glock.
Jade: *Angry and her face started to get fiery red* That really burned the curry out of me.
Moe: *to Lars* There she is! *As he and Lars came to Jade*
Lars: Oh, ACME, Miss Jade, thank goodness you're okay but our boss isn't.
Chase: What?!?! Don't tell me Henry Glock just...
Moe/Lars: Got Carmen and held her hostage in Minot, North Dakota.
Sonic: Now what?
Jade: Sonic, it's time to teach Glock a history lesson about Christmas in America.
Minot, North Dakota
Henry's Hideout
Henry: *to Carmen* Well, Carmen, it seems the government will make sure they'll ban Christmas for good. *Knock on the door to a henchman* See who's there?
Henchman: *gasped after looking through the peephole* Sir, it's ACME!
Henry: What?!?! I thought Colt took care of those independent crime-fighters once and for all.
*The C-5 appears and so did Team ACME, Team Sonic and Team WOOHP*
Jade: Ho-ho-ho, Merry Christmas, Glock!
Henry: Bah, Humbug, it's already over Christmas is banned forever just like my ancestors did.
Samantha: As in the Puritans.
Henry: That's right, it's a pagan holiday.
Jade: You're wrong again, Glock, have your parents ever take you to church on Sundays or would have read the good book to talk about a special person who was born in the City of Bethlehem?
Henry: Good book more like a fairy tale to me.
Clover: Well, you're wrong again.
Sonic: Indeed, Glock, however we're going teach you a lesson about the history of Christmas in America.
Chase: *as he lockpick the handcuffs from Carmen* After the pilgrims arrive in 1620 everything's normal.
Zack: Until 1659 after what happened in the English civil war; Massachusetts was the first state to be banned Christmas.
Ivy: Under a Puritan leader named Oliver Cromwell who passed a law at parliament in England that made Christmas unlawful.
Tails: Even the mince pies.
Amy: Tails!
Tails: *to Amy* It's true.
Henry: Indeed, my ancestors did follow the rules, if others don't follow either pay the fine or be whipped. *Until the henchman got knock down by Arthur Chance and Stewart Sterling handcuffed the henchman*
Arthur: Until the ban was lifted in 1681 when Cromwell lose his power.
Stewart: And started having Christmas again in 1686 having the first Christmas service at town hall in Boston.
Henry: Still Christmas should never have been a holiday in America.
Jessie: Well, that's true and false in 1836 Alabama is the first state to make Christmas a legal holiday.
Jason: It didn't become a federal holiday until 1870.
Tyson: You know something, Glock, you should have read A Christmas Carol or How the Grinch stole Christmas.
Cole: Or even seen the movie 'It's a Wonderful Life' [I don't own the books or the movie whatsoever]
Lee: *as he handcuffed Henry Glock* And that's why, Henry Glock, you're under arrest for embezzlement and ruined Christmas. *As the policemen came and take Henry Glock and his henchmen away*
Agent Kris: *as Team ACME, Carmen, Team Sonic and Team WOOHP came out* Good work, everyone!
Jade: I'm glad you got the law enforcement in time.
Agent Kris: Not exactly, Jade, everyone knew what happened and they were upset losing businesses and homes too. Oh, by the way, everyone is going home for the holidays.
Lee: Well not everybody is going to see their own families.
Agent Kris: Like you, Lee Jordan, you have some family issues of your own.
Lee: *as his face downcast with a sweat* That's true, Agent Kris.
Agent Kris: And when you all get back home there's surprises for you from the ones you met.
Clover: Oh wow! Thanks, Agent Kris, how about a kiss underneath the mistletoe?
Agent Kris: Sorry, Miss Clover, I already have someone back home, anyway, Merry Christmas!
Jade: *as Agent Kris leaves* Merry Christmas, Agent Kris!
Chase: I wonder who is Agent Kris, Jade?
Jade: I think I know who Agent Kris is already...and just in time to save my favorite holiday.
Carmen: I agreed, Jade!
(End of Chapter Ten)