Animation Acres

(Original theme by Michael Picher) (https://michaelpicher.bandcamp.com/)

Snow was still covering Animation Acres in a large blanket of white, and it was happening around the best time of the year, Christmas break. Once Christmas break started on December 20th, students wouldn't have to return to school until January 3rd of next year. But in Sterling Holloway School, not everything was so jolly.

CRASH!!!

Tweety flew out of the kitchen and into the hallway, panting. Suddenly, the kitchen doors burst open, revealing a steaming Sylvester.

"BIIIIIIRRRRD!!!!"

"Yipe!" Tweety quickly flew into a locker to hide from Sylvester. But the hungry cat was not far behind. He opened the locker, but to his surprise, it was empty. Only for the next locker's door on the right to slam him in the face by Tweety. Sylvester chased Tweety into another locker, as he pulled it open, only to get slammed by another locker door, again. Tweety flew into another locker, followed by Sylvester, but the cat paused. He gave a smirk, knowing what Tweety was going to do. He jumped over the locker on the right and began to open it, when suddenly the previous locker door slammed into him, by Tweety once again.

Tweety flew on the dazed cat. "Nice twy keeping on your big toes, Putty Tat!"

Sylvester looked back up and growled. Tweety tried to fly away, but Sylvester managed to catch him in his paw.

"I gotcha now, my little Christmas turkey!" Sylvester slobbered with victory.

"I'd be careful for the bell, Putty!" Tweety pointed at Sylvester.

"What bell?" Sylvester asked.

RIIIING!!!!

Tweety pulled himself from Sylvester's grasp, grinning. "I'd wun if I were you."

BAM!

The doors burst open revealing all the kids happily running out of their classrooms.

"Oh, sugar-honey-ice-tea!" Sylvester whimpered. Before he knew it, he was being trampled by all the kids that didn't notice him.

The kids all ran out the doors of Sterling Holloway School into the winter wonderland outside. Some ran for home, some wanted to jump in the snow first.

"School's out!" Timmy cheered.

"Hooray!!!!" Pinkie Pie yelled happily, jumping in the snow and rolling around. "I've been waiting 351 days for this wonderful, wonderful time of year! I'm always prepared for celebrating!"

"So am I!" Spot rolled around in the snow. "You know me, Timmy and Spike are heading down to the mountains with our family to celebrate Christmas!"

"How is it in the mountains?" SpongeBob asked. "Isn't it colder than it is now?"

"Not so much," Spike spoke.

"Yeah," Timmy said. "Sometimes we might see a deer or fox walk around our home, though."

"Are you sure you didn't see any reindeer?" Cartman grunted.

Pinkie gasped. "Eric! You never told me you saw one of Santa's reindeer!"

"Santa's rei-!" Cartman paused. "Wait...you saw Santa's reindeer?"

"Of course, silly!" Pinkie said. "Who wouldn't know Santa?"

"Wait, Santa Claus is real?" Spike asked.

"Well, if a magic genie can exist, so can Santa Claus!" Pinkie nodded, as Spike smiled sheepishly. "Although Santa didn't plan on using reindeer at first. He planned on using all sorts of animals!"

We cut to many years ago in the North Pole where Santa has lions in front of his sleigh.

"He first thought of lions,"

Santa was waiting for the animals to move, but they were too lazy to do anything. He then pulled out a steak. "Here!" He waved it around. "Chase the steak! Go get it!" He threw it in the air, but it landed next to a sleeping lion as it simply picked it up and began to eat it. Santa groaned and slapped his forehead.

"Elephants,"

We then cut to Santa with elephants in front of his sleigh now. "Alright! Up, up, up and away!" Santa spoke. The elephants than ran towards the cliff to fly away and rise in the air, but their strength made Santa fall off the now dangling sleigh.

"Kangaroos,"

Santa was now feeling sick as he nervously spoke in his sleigh, now with kangaroos in the front. "Up...up...up and away!" Santa spoke. The Kangaroos than began hopping towards the cliff, as their bouncing started to make Santa nauseous.

"And even kitty cats!"

Santa got in his sleigh that now had cats leading it. "Now...you have to be good right?" The cats all turned around with big eyes, as if they didn't want to go. Santa smiled warmly at the cats, but suddenly snapped out of it. He began slapping himself. "What am I doing?! What am I doing?!"

"But ultimately, Santa chose reindeer." Pinkie said.

"Well, me and Eric are heading up to stay with my family for Christmas!" SpongeBob said, hugging his step-brother. "It's gonna be so much fun!"

"Show me mercy," Cartman muttered.

"What are you doing for Christmas, Pinkie?" SpongeBob turned to his pink friend.

"Well, I do all sorts of things!" Pinkie said. "Christmas isn't about one thing you do, it's about all the stuff you do!" Something brightened in her head. "In fact...Lights!"

A spotlight then shined on Pinkie as she pulled out a large candy cane, as Tweety ran out of the school from Sylvester, beginning another chase.

(Music, Lyrics, and Chorus by Michael Picher (https://michaelpicher.bandcamp.com), Pinkie Pie voiced by IMShadow007 and Sylvester voiced by Me)

The next day, Timmy, Spot and Spike were with their families in a van heading down to the train station. Everybody was relaxed in their seats, but Spot was feeling anxious about something.

"Spot, what is it?" Timmy asked.

"It's the window!" Spot said to Timmy. "Can you pull it down? I need to stick my head out of it!"

"You sure?" Timmy asked Spot. "It's pretty cold."

"I'll be fine, trust me!" Spot eagerly spoke.

"Well, okay." Timmy rolled down the window as Spot poked his head out. "Yeah-Ah-Ah-Ah!!!" Spot felt himself get pelted by huge flurries of snow flying fast in the wind. Spot pulled his snow-covered head back in. "Okay, put it back up," Spot muttered.

But in the back of the van, Sylvester was eyeing Tweety swinging in his birdcage. Tweety stopped swinging and noticed Sylvester licking his chops. "I don't wike the way he's wooking at me,"

From behind the window, Sylvester noticed Tweety hopping from his perch and beckon something. Jiminy then hopped up to his birdcage. Tweety began whispering something to Jiminy, much to Sylvester's curiosity. Jiminy turned to Sylvester, before starting to snicker. Jiminy began to whisper something to Tweety, as Sylvester looked confused on what they were saying. Jiminy and Tweety now both turned to Sylvester before laughing.

Sylvester grew angry and annoyed by their gossip as he got his claws. "Alright, smart-heads! How funny do you think this is?" Sylvester was about to put his claws through the glass, but noticed Twilight in a front view, giving a skeptical look.

Sylvester immediately pulled down his claws, sheepishly. But he shot a glare at Tweety and Jiminy who were now both swinging on Tweety's perch and tauntingly waving at Sylvester.

(Picture by CalamityKangaroo)

Back in Animation Acres, when taking the short route in the Brisby Forest, Pinkie finally discovered the frozen pond. She giggled happily as she walked over to the edge of the pond and saw a bit of her reflection in the misty ice. She wiped a bit of the mist off, revealing a clearer reflection and smiled.

"Perfect for a little holiday skate!" Pinkie grinned. But then, for a split second, Pinkie thought she saw something peculiar swim right under her. Pinkie ruffled her mane in confusion. It didn't look the same like any other fish. But, she shrugged it off, thinking it wasn't really a big deal. She then happily jumped on the ice and was ready for skating. She was about to do a twirl, but then, she caught notice of the fish-like creature again. It caused her to slip and fall right on her tail. She got up and looked down at the ice.

"What is that?" Pinkie asked herself in confusion.

Then the fish-creature popped up again, making Pinkie jump back and fall on the spot she fell before, causing the ice to break and for Pinkie to fall in. Pinkie had her eyes covered, but soon opening them, realizing that she was a genie, and she could breath underwater with no problem.

"Don't try this at home, kids!" Pinkie turned to the readers.

But then she saw in the distance, the fish like creature. She then noticed it getting closer to her...and closer...and faster...and faster and closer!

Pinkie yelped as she tried to swim up back to the surface and jumped back on the ice. She then heard something rise from the water. She quickly turned around and saw what appeared to be...red hair...?

Two human hands rose from the water to pull the hair like a curtain, revealing a beautiful woman's face with blue eyes, and her long red hair. She seemed to look surprised.

Pinkie's eyes widened as she saw the green fish tail rise behind the figure. It was a mermaid!

"...Ariel?" Pinkie Pie asked, a grin started to form.

"Pinkie?" The mermaid asked with a smile.

Pinkie couldn't hold in her excitement anymore as she jumped in the air. "GERONIMUUUUUG!!!" Pinkie Pie landed in the water on Ariel as she hugged her mermaid friend, laughing happily. Ariel giggled as she shared Pinkie's embrace. She was more then happy to get one of Pinkie's special 'Geronimugs'.

Once Pinkie and Ariel returned back to the surface laughing, Pinkie happily turned to Ariel. "What are you doing here? I haven't seen you since that underwater party we had!"

Ariel giggled as Pinkie climbed back up on the ice. "It has been a while," She then looked at her arm that had a heart tattoo that said 'SpongeBob'. "Though I always wonder where this tattoo came from...Who IS SpongeBob?"

Pinkie chuckled nervously. "Honestly, too young for you."

Ariel could only raise an eyebrow. But she turned back to Pinkie, smiling. "So, how have you been?"

"Well, I'm only getting myself ready for the holidays!" Pinkie jumped in the air.

"The holidays?" Ariel asked.

"Yeah!" Pinkie nodded. "There's a whole bunch of stuff me and Genie do. Like sometimes we hang out with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future! Look!" Pinkie pulled out a picture of her and Genie hanging out with a small alive candelabra in a white cloak, a grey sloth bear in a green robe, and a mandrill in a black cloak and hood.

"They're busy this year," Pinkie said. "I wonder who they're visiting."

"What else do you do?" Ariel asked.

Pinkie thought for a second. "Well, there was last year where we took our friends to celebrate in our original home,"

Pinkie and Genie were in the desert with Timmy, Cartman, SpongeBob and Spike. They both grinned and turned to their friends. "Here we are guys!" The gang looked up and their eyes all widened in fear. What stood before them was a cave the shape of a giant tiger's head from the sand and glowing eyes.

"WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER?" The cave spoke in a horrifying voice.

Pinkie and Genie were unfazed by the cave and turned to the gang. "So, what do you think?" Pinkie asked. But everyone was gone. "Uh, guys?"

But they noticed Timmy, Cartman, SpongeBob and Spike all running for their lives screaming from the cave.

Pinkie grinned sheepishly. "It didn't go too well." But Pinkie turned back to Ariel. "But what do you do for the holidays?"

Ariel pulled some hair from her eyes. "Well, honestly, I don't do much around the holidays."

Pinkie gasped as her jaw dropped. "What?...But, why?"

"Well, where I'm from, we don't really know much about these holidays." Ariel shrugged. "But something I personally do around this time is watch the fireworks, up in the sky."

"Oh yeah, those!" Pinkie spoke as she and Ariel looked up in the starry sky. "You're lucky! They're really pretty!" But Pinkie looked down. "But is that all you do?"

"From what I know." Ariel spoke.

"But there's gotta be something more you can do!" Pinkie spoke. "It's Christmas!"

"Well, I'd like to give whatever you do a shot." Ariel smiled at Pinkie.

"Really?" Pinkie grinned happily. "That would be amazing!" But she paused. But how?, she thought.

Timmy, Spot and Spike's families finally arrived at the train station. It looked pretty busy with all sorts of people running around and waiting for their trains, but luckily, there was a bench for them to sit at and wait for their train.

"Alright guys, you know the drill!" Kara said. "This is gonna be a while until our train gets here, so you all got stuff to keep you busy?"

"Yep!" Timmy, Spot and Spike said as they all looked at Timmy's game buddy.

"Yep!" Barbara and Twilight said, looking at Twilight's journal of the queen.

"What about you, Donna?" Kara looked over to Donna but she wasn't there. "Donna?" Kara spotted Donna over looking up in the sky.

Donna took a deep breath, and sighed in content. Kara walked over to Donna in confusion. "You okay?"

"I'm only soaking in the rays of the sun, it's what I used to do when I was a child," Donna spoke. "Feeling the warmth and power of the golden circle, touching down-" Donna paused as the sun went behind some clouds.

"And now it's gone," Donna spoke, disappointed as Kara put an arm on her shoulder.

While the group was waiting for their train, Sylvester slowly snuck up to Tweety's cage. He noticed Twilight and everyone else wasn't paying attention. He grinned and quietly opened the cage. He quickly snatched Tweety and hid him behind his back.

"HELP!" Tweety flew in the air, getting the attention of the group. Sylvester then began to chase Tweety through the train station.

"Sylvester! Tweety!" Twilight ran after them. "Both of you stop!"

Sylvester continued chasing Tweety, until he noticed the bird holding his feathers up, signaling Sylvester to stop.

"I hate to pause this moment, Putty...but..." Tweety then whispered in Sylvester's ear. "...Are you fowwowing me?...Huh..."

"Well, I-" Sylvester was about to say.

"Come on..." Tweety continued to whisper. "...Come on, Putty Tat...tell me...you can do it...come on, come on, WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, BUSTER!!!!"

Tweety then pulled one of Sylvester's whiskers and continued to fly away, causing Sylvester to chase him again. "Come back here, you!"

Spot quickly ran towards them and quickly caught Tweety from Sylvester's view. He then ran back up to Twilight, showing Tweety unharmed in his paws.

"Oh, thank goodness." Twilight sighed in relief.

"Is he okay?" Spike asked as he and Timmy walked up to Twilight.

"Tweety's fine, Spike." Twilight smiled as Tweety flew in her mane.

Sylvester tried to sneak away from the group, but quickly found his tail to be floating in mid-air by a purple aurora. He then found himself face-to-face with an angry Twilight.

"Sylvester!" Twilight scolded an embarrassed Sylvester. "You know better than to cause a scene like that in public!" She set her cat on the ground. "Sometimes I fear what'll happen with you on the train."

Spot looked down for a second and thought of something. "I know! I'll watch over them!"

The group looked at Spot in surprise.

"Really?" Barbara asked.

"But you're in your human disguise, now." Timmy said. "You sure you don't wanna sit with us this time?"

"Well, just because I've been dressing up like a boy recently, doesn't mean I lost respect for fellow animals," Spot spoke as Tweety flew on his head.

Twilight smiled at that sight and scratched Spot's ear, making him roll on the ground. "Thanks, Spot."

Sylvester watched this in annoyance and jealousy.

Everybody was now on the train as the voice spoke on the intercom. "All aboard!"

The train now finally began to move as Timmy and Spike looked out the window and saw a forest in the distance.

Timmy turned behind his seat to his cousin who was sitting with Twilight. "Hey, Babs," Timmy spoke. "How long do you think it might take us this year?"

There was no response.

"Barbara?" Timmy spoke again.

"I wouldn't say anything around this time," Spike assured his friend.

"Why not?" Timmy asked.

"Mom says this is book talk." Spike answered.

Back with Barbara and Twilight, they were reading the queen's journal.

"So the queen had to up against the Chaos god?" Barbara asked.

"That's right!" Twilight nodded.

"But even if she was powerful, this guy had to be ten times more!" Barbara said.

"Don't worry," Twilight spoke. "We knew the Chaos god was defeated." She then sighed. "Unfortunately there was a sad sacrifice."

Barbara's eyes widened. "...Oh..."

"Yeah, she missed out on a really nice dinner," Twilight spoke looking in the journal.

Barbara realized what Twilight was talking about. "Oh yeah! Yeah! The dinner!"

But what no one on the train realized was that a certain parrot was sneaking around it.

In the back of the train, all the pets were asleep. Spot was sleeping in between Tweety and Sylvester's cage and crate, so nothing would happen. But unknown to Spot and Tweety, Sylvester opened one eye, and made sure Spot was asleep. He quietly placed a pair of earmuffs on his head, so he wouldn't wake up. He snapped his paws around Spot, but he couldn't hear anything.

He quietly snuck towards Tweety's cage which had a curtain placed on it. He was about to pull the curtain until Tweety popped out with with his own metal toy gun.

"Stand back, putty tat!" Tweety spoke. "I'm armed and woaded!"

Sylvester was surprised, but began to snicker. He knew that gun couldn't do any harm. "Oh, yeah? What are you gonna do with that?"

"I'm gonna give it to ya!" Tweety aimed his gun.

"Okay, bird-brain!" Sylvester stood back with his arms behind his back. "Go ahead! I dare ya to! Give it to me!"

"You asked for it!" Tweety aimed his gun at Sylvester, but to the cat's surprise, he threw the gun on Sylvester's foot, causing the cat to yell in pain.

Before Tweety could fly back in his cage, Sylvester grabbed the bird again.

"Don't think you're getting away so easily, short-stuff!" Sylvester spat.

"Hey! Wake up Spot!" Tweety tried calling to Spot. "The putty tat's got me! Get the putty tat! Help!"

"Go ahead, bird!" Sylvester gloated. "Keep yelling for help, the dog can't hear ya with those ear muffs!"

"What ear muffs, putty?" Tweety asked. "I don't see any!"

"What ea-?!" Sylvester grumbled and removed the ear muffs off Spot's head and showed them to Tweety. "These ear muffs!"

"Are you sure these are really ear muffs?" Tweety examined them.

Sylvester grew impatient. "OF COURSE THEY'RE EAR MUFFS, HOW ELSE CAN THAT DOG NOT HEAR YOU?!!!!"

"RUFF!!!"

Sylvester jumped in the air at the sound of a loud bark, with his claws stuck on the ceiling. He looked down at saw a now awake Spot, with Tweety perched on his head.

"Are you ever gonna learn, Sylvester?" Spot snapped.

"Hey, I can't help it!" Sylvester spoke, trying to lie. "I-it's my cat instincts!"

Spot wiped some of Sylvester's spit off him. "Can't you put those instincts where your mouth is?"

"Can't you mind your own business?" Sylvester shot back.

Spot turned around, annoyed. "It doesn't matter, soon we'll be off this train and not have to look each other! Christmas vacation or not!"

"Fine by me!" Sylvester also turned around, angry.

Tweety looked at both Spot and Sylvester, and spoke to himself. "In the middle of an argument, what can ya do?"

"You, two?" Kara said to Barbara and Twilight. "We gotta get moving!"

"In a minute!" Twilight spoke eagerly looking at the journal. "We're getting to the good part! The queen felt bad about the prank on her sister and wanted to make up."

"I hope things go okay!" Barbara added.

"We'd wait, if we weren't the last ones in the train." Kara raised an eyebrow and folded her arms.

Barbara and Twilight both looked up noticed the train was empty. They both looked back at Kara, giggling sheepishly. "Sorry."

Meanwhile, Spot, Tweety and Sylvester were all waiting in their cages for their owners.

"How wong do you think it will take, Spot?" Tweety asked.

"Hopefully not long." Spot said. "We should actually be getting out right now. We stopped, after all."

"All aboard!" The intercom spoke. All the pets' eyes widened.

"Uh...what?" Sylvester asked.

They began to feel the train move, much to their alarm.

"This doesn't feel right," Spot said, starting to get nervous.

The pets all unlocked their cages and jumped up to the window. They saw that they were passing a new river.

"Guys..." Spot said. "I think we're in a bit of trouble..."

Meanwhile, Pinkie was walking through the town, thinking to herself about Ariel.

"She doesn't celebrate Christmas?" Pinkie spoke. "Not even any other holiday?...That just doesn't feel right!"

Suddenly, Pinkie felt her tail ring. She then put it to her ear. "Hello?"

"Hi, Pinkie!" said SpongeBob's voice.

Pinkie grinned. "Oh, hi, SpongeBob! How's it going?"

"Honestly, pretty strange." SpongeBob answered.

"Why strange?" Pinkie asked.

SpongeBob was on his bed, talking on the phone. "For some reason, Eric is in his room, trying to scare me with ghosts!"

Inside Cartman's own room, he was walking around it, fearfully. "Okay," Cartman said. "Wherever you are! Get out where I can see you and...and leave me alone!"

"Oh, but monsieur," said a voice. "We have so much in your past to look into!"

"Who is that?!" Cartman picked up a candelabra in his room to see where the voice was from. He suddenly felt a tap on his head and looked at the candelabra, which now had a face!

"'Ello." He spoke, grinning.

"AAAAAAAAUGH!!!!" Cartman screamed.

SpongeBob knocked on his wall. "Very funny, Eric! I fell for it once, I ain't falling for it again!" SpongeBob called. He then turned back to his phone. "How about you, Pinkie? How's your Christmas?"

"I don't know," Pinkie sighed. "There's this old friend I met up with, and she doesn't celebrate it the way we do!"

"Really?" SpongeBob asked.

"Yeah!" Pinkie said. "I feel like she's really missing out."

"Well, I'm sure there's nothing wrong with taking around to see what Christmas is like." SpongeBob suggested.

"But SpongeBob, my friend is-" Suddenly, something flashed in Pinkie's mind. "Wait...Oh my gosh! Why didn't I ever think of it before?! Gotta go, Spongey!" Pinkie let her tail go as she began hopping through town, laughing to herself. She then stopped by an antique store and put her face on the glass. "I'm gonna show her EVERYTHING!!!"

Back on the train, Spot was pacing while Tweety and Sylvester were watching.

"What are we gonna do? We've been weft behind, Spot!" Tweety spoke.

Spot stopped pacing. "Alright everyone, don't panic. Maybe there's a phone we could use!"

"A phone?" Sylvester raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah!" Spot asked. "Out there in the conductor's room! I'm sure we can get it!"

"Oh sure!" Sylvester said in a sarcastic tone. "Three animals like us are just gonna waltz over there and get a phone! That sounds normal!"

"Will you relax?" Spot snapped.

"No! Because it's YOUR fault we're in this mess!" Sylvester glared at Spot.

"My fault? I didn't even do anything!" Spot spoke, angrily.

Sylvester was about to speak, until he realized he was right. "Uh...well...you did something, that's all I'm saying," Sylvester muttered and turned around.

Spot didn't want to stand around and argue with Sylvester all day, so he got his mind back in focus and looked down to Tweety.

"Tweety, we're gonna need your help now." Spot held Tweety in his palm.

"Ooh, goodie!" Tweety said, eagerly. "What do I do? What do I do?"

"We're gonna need you to check if there's a phone around here, and if there is, come and get us!" Spot told Tweety.

"Will do!" Tweety nodded and crawled under the door, leaving Spot and Sylvester alone.

"And how will we get this phone?" Sylvester asked with his arms folded.

"...I haven't crossed that bridge yet." Spot spoke.

"Uh-huh, sure." Sylvester rolled his eyes.

Tweety flew through the train to find a phone, passing by all sorts of people on the way, even a nearby parrot and-wait! The canary stopped where he was.

"I tawt I taw a tawkie bird!" Tweety looked down and saw Iago sneaking around. "I did! I did! I taw the very BAD tawkie bird!" Tweety said, recognizing Iago. He flew up to where the bags were and hid, to see what Iago was doing.

Iago looked around, making sure he wasn't being followed. He then walked up to an old man with a long white beard. "Hey, Jafar!" He whispered. "Jafar!"

The old man looked down and saw Iago. "There you are! Did you find it!"

Iago pulled out a shiny, red rock. "Safe and unharmed."

"Oh, what a relief." Jafar took the rock and looked at it, evilly. "I don't know what I'd do if I lost it. Probably attack the nearest living creature next to me, but whatever."

Iago's eyes widened as he stepped back a bit from Jafar.

"Now, we've got to be careful with this until we get back," Jafar spoke. "We could end up accidentally hypnotizing ourselves. But with a few modifications with this, we could control anyone with it."

Tweety's eyes widened when he heard that.

"Yeah!" Iago said. "And we can make those brats, not accidentally, walk off a cliff."

"It's not we'll be to blame for it!" Jafar spoke as he and Iago began laughing to themselves.

Tweety gasped. Those two were out to get his owner's friends, again! With no hesitation, he immediately flew inside Jafar's disguised cloak.

"Oh! Oh my! What is that?" Jafar began fidgeting, followed by mad giggling.

Iago meanwhile had stopped laughing and was looking at Jafar in confusion. "Okay...we can stop laughing now..."

Without either villain seeing, Tweety flew out of Jafar's cloak while quickly sneaking the red rock before flying away.

"What...what was that?!" Jafar spoke, getting up. He then realized something. "Wait a minute, where's the rock? Iago, where's the rock?!"

"We lost it again?!" Iago squawked in anger. Suddenly, something caught his attention. Below him and Jafar's seat, were yellow feathers. Iago flew down and picked up one feather. "Hmmm..." He took notice of more yellow feathers as it lead to the back room. Iago narrowed his eyes, having a feeling someone was out for him and Jafar.

Meanwhile at the train station, Timmy and Spike's family found out that their pets have been left behind. So, Barbara, Donna, Kara and Twilight were huddled together thinking of a plan.

"How are we gonna get our pets back?" Barbara whispered.

"Come on, guys!" Kara whispered. "While nobody's looking, I can fly towards the train and find them!"

"Kara, you know you can't just take off in front of everybody!" Donna spoke. "We'll be exposed!"

"...There's gotta be a phone booth around here somewhere!" Kara looked down.

"We've searched everywhere for one!" Twilight spoke. "There's gotta be someway to reach them."

While the four were talking, Timmy and Jiminy were watching them. They then both turned to Spike who was sitting on the bench. The two walked up to Spike.

"Hey, Spike." Jiminy hopped up to him. "Don't worry, we're gonna find them!"

"Yeah," Timmy said to his friend. "Spot's been in stuff like this all the time, they'll be fine!"

"Oh, I know they'll be fine," Spike looked up. "Mom told me Tweety and Sylvester once got lost in Africa."

"Africa?" Timmy asked.

Jiminy held his hand up. "Don't ask, it's a long story."

"But it's Christmas," Spike looked down. "I just felt that just only now, those two would stop fighting just once."

"Ah, don't worry about it." Timmy said. "I'm sure things will work out between them!...Once, I hope..." Timmy muttered the last part.

"And hey," Jiminy spoke up. "It could be worse, we ourselves could be stuck in a room with Eric..." Jiminy then began to think. "Hmm...I wonder how he's doing with the holidays."

Cartman was hiding under his bed in fear. "I don't care what you are or what you want! Get outta here!!!"

"Hey, there's nothing to fear, little britches!" said a voice. "We've just got a little something to see, you and I!"

"No! I'm not going this time! Now go away!" Cartman turned away. Then, for a couple seconds, he realized something. It was silent. Cartman started to crawl out from under the bed. "Did it work?...Is he gone?"

Suddenly, a gigantic bear paw picked up Cartman. "Ha-ha!" The voice laughed, merrily. "Didn't think you saw the last of me, did ya?"

"No!!!" Cartman squirmed, trying to escape, but no luck.

Tweety managed to get back in the pets' room as fast as he could, panting heavily. Spot and Sylvester quickly ran up to him.

"Did you find anything, Tweety?" Spot asked.

Tweety looked up panting, holding the red rock. "It's that evil magic man and his mean tawkie-bird! They're here! They're here!"

"Wait, Jafar and Iago are here?" Spot asked in worry.

"Yeah!" Tweety pointed to the red rock. "They're gonna cause all sorts of twouble with this wed wock!"

"Well, we've got to keep this from them!" Spot spoke, picking up the rock and examining it. He suddenly noticed Sylvester hiding and shivering in fear. "What are you so worked up about?"

"Don't you think I don't know who they are?!" Sylvester spoke in fear. "That maniac also has that giant bird! I ain't going near him!"

Tweety flew down to Sylvester. "Putty, we gotta! They'll hurt Twiwight and Spike!"

Sylvester looked down, thinking of his owners and groaned. "If Santa chose cats to fly his sleigh, I wouldn't be given so much trouble," He muttered.

Spot was looking up to the door and noticed Iago and a disguised Jafar walking towards the pet room. "Uh-oh!" Spot yelped. "We better hide! We've got company!"

Tweety and Sylvester's eyes widened as they hid with Spot behind cages. The two villains then opened the door and walked in. "Are you sure whoever took the rock is in here?" Jafar spoke.

"Whoever this yellow-feathered smart guy is, he's bound to be in here." Iago looked down on the ground.

Sylvester took notice of Iago walking around and a grin began to stretch across his face. He wasn't huge and scary like he was before! He was small and...kind of...tasty looking. He began licking his chops as Jafar and Iago then went into the storage room.

Spot and Tweety watched them leave as they looked at each other. "Okay, guys." Spot spoke. "Here's what we're going to do. We're first-Sylvester?"

Spot and Tweety took notice of Sylvester no longer there.

"Sylvester?" Spot asked.

"Putty, where'd you go?" Tweety quietly called out.

Jafar and Iago went into the room filled with suitcases as they both looked at each other.

"Alright, we'll split up." Jafar spoke. "I'll go in the next room, while you search in here."

"Hear ya, loud and clear!" Iago nodded. As Jafar exited to the next room, Iago began looking through some suitcases.

"Come out, come out! You little yellow thief!" Iago flew around, examining every suitcase.

Iago suddenly bumped into something, he yelped as he saw he was face to face with Sylvester who had a large hungry grin.

Iago flew back nervously as Sylvester began slowly walking up to him on all fours. "Hey! Hey! Nice kitty!" Iago laughed nervously. "No need to act all pouncey!"

Sylvester then leaped in the air for Iago as he quickly flew out of the way. "AAAAH!!! JAFAR, WE GOT TROUBLE IN HERE!!!" Iago flew up, trying to escape Sylvester's attempts to grab him.

"Gotcha!" Sylvester said, almost reaching him.

Iago began to pull on the knob of the next room as Sylvester began to close on him again, ready for another attack. "Whoa!"

Sylvester jumped in the air for Iago as the parrot opened the door. "JAFAAAAR!!!!"

Iago and Sylvester then found themselves colliding into Jafar as they all fell over. "What is going on here?!" Jafar demanded, getting up.

"That stupid cat was trying to make a meal out of me!" Iago pointed at Sylvester. The cat was now regretting what he did as Jafar looked down at him with cold, menacing eyes. Sylvester smiled nervously and shrugged, but Jafar wasn't falling for anything.

"Well, we can't have that...can we?" Jafar then raised his hands as they began glowing red, as Sylvester backed up against the door in fear.

Spot and Tweety had entered the previous suitcase room, looking for Sylvester.

"Sylvester?" Spot called. "Where is he?"

Tweety then took notice of red flashes under the next door. "Ooh! Looks like a wazer wight show is happening!"

Spot walked up to the door in confusion. "Huh?"

Suddenly the top of the door burst open as Sylvester went flying out, covered in sparks and smoke. He hit the wall and fell back down with a thud.

"Sylvester!" Spot and Tweety ran up to the cat, trying to help him up.

"How can my nine lives take so much abuse?" Sylvester spoke with stars around him.

The rest of the door fell down, revealing Jafar, looking more terrifying than ever. Sylvester let out a girly scream and quickly hid behind Spot. It didn't Jafar long to notice Spot and Tweety.

"Jafar!" Spot jumped back.

"Well, well." Jafar spoke, grinning evilly. "This is an unexpected surprise. Who would've guessed I'd come across you thieves?"

Spot and Sylvester turned around and noticed Iago floating with Tweety holding the red rock, trapped in his talons.

"Hey, put him down!" Spot snapped as Iago flew back to Jafar, dropping the canary and rock in his hand.

"Oh, you can keep the blasted canary," Jafar tossed Tweety back to Spot. "However, I have many plans for this." Jafar looked at the red rock and looked back at the animals.

"What are you-?" Spot was about to say. But all of a sudden, Jafar held the rock in front of the animals' eyes, and all of a sudden, spirals formed in their eyes as they gazed at the rock, now under control of it.

Iago waved his wing around the animals, but nothing could break them out of their trance. "It worked, Jafar!"

"Yes," Jafar grinned as he pulled out a bag. "Look at you, more helpless than before!" With that, he scooped up all three of them inside the bag and Iago tied it shut.

Jafar gleefully pranced to a nearby window. "Now, I'm afraid we'll have to dispose of you," And he threw the bag out of the train as it landed in the trees down below. The villains laughed evilly at their misfortune as they disappeared out of sight on the train.

Back in the Brisby Forest, Pinkie was back at the frozen river, this time making a few holes in it with the end of a baseball bat. Once she was done, she then began to call out. "Ariel! Calling Ariel!" Pinkie walked around, putting her head in the water, but all of a sudden, she felt a light splash from behind her feet. "Woo-hoo-hoo!"

She turned around and saw a giggling Ariel waving. Pinkie grinned at the sight of her mermaid friend. "Hi, Ariel!"

"Hi, Pinkie!" Ariel spoke. "Good to see you back here! So, did you have something in mind for the holidays?"

"Oh, you bet I do!" Pinkie then jumped in the water as Ariel followed under. She then followed Pinkie to the rocky wall.

"Alright," Pinkie said. "Now cover your eyes, and I'll tell you when to open them!" Ariel covered her eyes as Pinkie swam up to the surface.

A few moments later, Ariel heard Pinkie's voice. "Okay, you can open them!" Ariel removed her hands from her eyes, and did she get a surprise! She saw she was inside a giant, glass fishbowl of water. Pinkie then pressed her face up to the glass. "Hi, there! What do you think?"

"Oh!" Ariel spoke, not sure what to say. "It's...very nice...but what is this for?"

"I'm gonna show you how we celebrate Christmas around town!" Pinkie then looked down at the bowl on a wooden board with wheels and a rope. "Come on!" Pinkie then pulled the rope as the glass bowl rolled up with her and back to Animation Acres.

The animals have began to regain their senses after getting stuck in a tree. For a couple seconds, they began moving around trying to get out of the tree. The bag carrying them fell out of the tree and onto the ground, causing the animals to be freed from the bag.

"Where-what-how-where-when-what-who-who...what?" Sylvester stuttered, finally out of the trance.

"What was that?" Tweety asked, getting his own senses back.

Spot however, already gaining his senses back faster, was too busy noticing the train leaving out of sight. "No..." He then turned to Sylvester, angrily. "This is all your fault!"

"Me?" Sylvester snapped. "I was only trying to help in my own way!"

"All you cared about was feeding yourself!" Spot shot back. "I was only trying to save our owners!"

"Well, I'm sorry I wanted to be in the spotlight of, dare I say, 'love' for once!" Sylvester growled.

Spot paused. "Wait...what are you talking about?"

"Things have been going all peachy keen for you the last couple months!" Sylvester got in Spot's face. "You think canary chasing is all I do? I've been trying my best to keep my family safe for years! And do I get the same amount of attention as you?"

Spot was silent.

"No!" Sylvester continued as he sat down, bitterly. "Looks like anything I try to do, whether it looks bad, turns out that way every single time, huh?"

Spot actually began to pity Sylvester, now that he knew what he was feeling. "Sylvester," Spot walked up to the cat, hoping to fix things up. "I know what happened up there was...not so great. But, I know you didn't mean to...get us lo-"

"I get it," Sylvester got up and walked to a tree. "I screwed up, got our gooses cooked, and now they're gonna freeze in the middle of these nowhere woods."

Spot walked up and put his paw on Sylvester's back. "But we gotta try and get back," Spot said. "And this time we gotta do it together. I mean, it is Christmas."

Spot looked back to Spot, but then both noticed Tweety was on the ground shivering.

"Tweety?" Spot jumped to the ground. "Tweety, what's wrong?"

"I-i-i-it's getting colder out here," Tweety shivered.

Then, to Spot's surprise, Sylvester used his tail to pick up the freezing bird and put him on his back. "What are you-?"

"Cat fur is very warm...and uh, the bird's gonna need it until we get back." Sylvester said. "Well, we better catch that train, let's go." Sylvester then headed off into the direction of where the train went, as Spot stood there and smiled.

"At this point, he's doing better than Cartman," Spot said to himself as he began to follow Sylvester. "I wonder how he's doing right now,"

Cartman was slowly walking through the dark hallways, constantly turning around every couple of seconds, as if he was expecting someone to jump out and scare him. He slowly made it to the bathroom door. After turning around and back again, he opened the door, and peeked his head through. He then turned on a light. There was no one in there.

Cartman then sighed, as he turned on the sink and splashed some water on his face. He then used part of a black cloak to dry himself off. Wait...black cloak. He looked up and saw a crouched figure in a black cloak holding a stick. The figure turned and pulled off it's hood revealing a wacky-faced mandrill.

"Well, hello there!" The mandrill began to cackle widly.

"Nnnnope!!!" Cartman ran out of the bathroom and slammed the door shut. He began running through the hallway fast as he could, until he found a door and opened it.

THWACK!

"Ow!" Cartman yelped as the mandrill whacked him with his stick. He ran to another door and opened.

THWACK!

"Ow!!" Cartman yelped again as the mandrill whacked him yet again with his stick.

He began trying every other door but he kept getting the same result. Until finally, he was left dazed.

Suddenly, he felt himself picked up in the air. "Hey, what are you doing?!" He was then pulled out through an open window. "AAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOYYYY!!!!"

Meanwhile, Pinkie was still showing Ariel the sights around town. Ariel also had a nice snow suit on to keep her warm as they both have been stuffing their faces with candy, while touching candy canes with each other. "Okay, Ariel!" Pinkie said. "This is the last big thing we have in town!"

Pinkie then turned Ariel's attention to a huge tree filled with all sorts of decorations on it. "Whoa," Ariel spoke in awe. "What kind of Christmas tree is this?"

"Well, it's simple. " Pinkie started as she dreamily gazed at the tree. "We all have our own trees, but if we don't have any room for our decorations, we put the rest here, making sure all of our ornaments...everything we have ready...still has their place."

"Aww, that's sweet." Ariel spoke. She then put her hands together. "Well, I had a wonderful time tonight, but I think we should be heading back now,"

Pinkie's eyes widened. "Back?...To the water, why?"

"Well, you showed me how you celebrate the holidays, and it's fun!" Ariel spoke. "But I feel it's time for me to head back now."

"But-but wait!" Pinkie quickly said. "There's still some more stuff we gotta do!" Pinkie was about to pull the rope, but noticed the board was stuck on the ground. "Hold on!" Pinkie tried to pull it from it's stuck place, but no luck.

"Pinkie," Ariel tried to say.

"No, it's alright! I'll show you more stuff in no time!" Pinkie then pulled a little too hard as the rope was ripped from the wooden board, as it began rolling away towards the Brisby Forest.

"Oh no!" Pinkie put her hooves to her cheeks.

"Piiiinkiiiiiie!!!!" Ariel called out as she rolled into the forest.

Pinkie then had a determined look in her eyes as she pulled out two large cookies and put them on her bottom hooves. She then jumped in the snow and began sledding in the direction of Ariel. But once in the Brisby Forest, she noticed there was no sign of Ariel when sledding by. Another idea went in Pinkie's head as she pulled out a candy cane and used it to hook on a nearby tree branch. She then began hopping across the trees, hoping to find Ariel, but suddenly heard a loud shattering sound.

Pinkie's eyes widened in fear, thinking what that meant. She jumped back on the ground, and began running through the Brisby Forest.

"Ariel!" Pinkie called out. "Ariel, where are you?" She then saw something that made her gasp in horror. Next to the river, was shattered glass remains of the bowl. "Oh no..." Pinkie gasped. "Ariel! What did I do?"

"Pinkie,"

"Not now, Ariel, I'm worried!" Pinkie spoke, not turning around. But suddenly, realization hit her like a ton of fruitcakes. She turned around and noticed Ariel, smiling nervously.

"I jumped in a bit before things got smashed," Ariel chuckled.

"Ariel!" Pinkie and Ariel shared a hug with each other. "I'm so, so sorry, Ariel! I had no chance of Pluto and back this would happen!"

"Oh, it's the thought that counts." Ariel smiled.

Pinkie felt good when hearing that. Ariel was always so forgiving, but she still felt bad of what she did.

"I'm sorry, Ariel," Pinkie spoke as he lowered her head. "You probably don't want to celebrate Christmas with me anymore." Pinkie turned around and was about to walk away.

"Pinkie, wait!" Ariel swam up to the shore. "I forgive you. And that doesn't mean I don't want to celebrate Christmas with you anymore."

"But how are we gonna do that?" Pinkie asked. "You can't be on land."

Ariel smiled. "Pinkie, step in the water."

Pinkie shrugged and hopped in the water. Ariel giggled as she put her hand on Pinkie's shoulder. "You know, I may not celebrate Christmas the way you do, but we can both celebrate it how I would, if you like."

Pinkie's grin grew very, very wide. "I'd love to!!! GERONIMUUUUUUG!!!" Pinkie rose in the air and back in the water, giving Ariel another 'geronimug'. Ariel smiled and returned the embrace.

They both then noticed colorful flashes above the surface. Ariel turned to Pinkie, grinning. "I think it's time."

As Ariel swam up to the surface, Pinkie looked confused. "Time? What do you mean?" As Pinkie joined Ariel on the surface, she looked up and her eyes widened. "Whoa,"

In the sky, fireworks were happening, and for a time like Christmas, they looked especially beautiful.

"Do you like my tradition, Pinkie?" Ariel asked with her arm around her friend.

Pinkie looked back up to Ariel and nuzzled against her. "I think it's wonderful," Pinkie said softly.

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Back with the pets, Tweety and Sylvester were waiting in a certain spot above watching the railroad tracks. Then, Spot arrived to them.

"Do you see it coming?" asked Sylvester.

"Yep! It's heading out here on the right! We better hurry!" Spot said. The animals all positioned themselves to make a jump as they saw the train approaching, this time in the opposite direction.

"Okay...and...JUMP!!!"

The three pets all made a tremendous leap as they all made it onto the train, unharmed. "Ha-ha! We made it!" Spot laughed, happily.

"Alright," Sylvester said. "But we've gotta find those villains if we're going to save our families!"

"Don't worry," Spot spoke. "I have a plan!"

Meanwhile, Jafar, once again disguised as an old man was with Iago laughing at the fact thinking the pets were gone. "Well, there go our worries about them!" Jafar cackled.

"Yeah, they're not gonna be happy when they realize where they are, or IF they realize where they are!" Iago joined in.

"Hello!"

Jafar and Iago stopped their laughing and both turned to a see a little girl scout. Little did either of them know this was Spot in disguise. "Who want COOKIES?" Spot spoke in a high lisp. Iago hid behind Jafar's cloak as Jafar himself stared at Spot.

"Uh...no, thank you," Jafar spoke, uncomfortably.

"Are you sure?" Spot jumped up to Jafar. "I have so many exciting new flavas!!!" While Spot was talking, A now warmed up Tweety along with Sylvester were trying to sneak down and get the rock back.

Spot meanwhile kept talking while Jafar along with Iago were trying to keep themselves sane. "I got chocolate chip, and peppermint, and candy cane, and sugar and chocolate chip!"

"You said chocolate chip twice," Jafar grumbled.

"That's because I love it!" Spot spoke as Tweety and Sylvester were now getting closer in getting the rock back. "I really, really, really, REALLY, really, really-"

"Will you LEAVE ME ALONE?!!!" Jafar yelled.

Spot was silent until he noticed Tweety and Sylvester obtaining the rock, before he spoke in his regular voice. "Okay, sure, don't need to get huffy."

Spot quickly ran off as Tweety and Sylvester quickly followed him with out being noticed by Jafar.

"Ugh...kids..." Jafar growled as he all of a sudden realized something was missing. "The rock! It's gone!" He frantically searched his cloak. "No! No, not again!!!"

"Jafar, look!" Iago pulled out a new yellow feather.

Jafar's eyes widened before clenching his teeth in fury. "They can't be..."

Spot, Tweety and Sylvester managed to get inside the suitcase room once again to hide in Jafar. But suddenly the train went through a tunnel, and everything went dark.

"Gah! Where do we hide?!" Sylvester yelped.

"Quick! In here!" Tweety's voice called out. "In this big pouch I found!"

Spot and Sylvester saw where Tweety's eyes were and quickly jumped inside the pouch with him.

"Do you think we gave him the slip?" Tweety whispered.

"I hope so," Spot spoke. "We didn't see him come in here."

"Oh, I wouldn't be sure about that," A voice chuckled.

The pets' eyes all widened as the train exited the tunnel. They all looked up and saw they were in the pouch of not a huge bag, but instead a red furred kangaroo with a familiar mustache and beard.

The pets all yelped in fear at the sight of the transformed Jafar and jumped out of the pouch.

"I-it's you!" Spot pointed.

"Yes, it's me!" Jafar walked towards them. "I've been practicing more and more," Jafar then transformed into an eagle. "How do you think I've been escaping all this time?" Jafar then flew for the rock but Spot quickly threw it to Sylvester.

"Come back here! Come back here!!!" Jafar flew in to attack Sylvester.

"Bird!" Sylvester quickly threw the rock to Tweety.

Tweety tried to catch it, but the rock went flying out the window.

"NO!!!!" Jafar yelled as he flew to the edge. He saw it was too late as the rock smashed into pieces on the tracks.

Jafar turned to the pets in fury. "You ruined my plans!"

The pets began walking back from the villain. "Okay, that was an accident," Sylvester laughed nervously.

"I'll teach you to get in the way of me all this time!" Jafar then transformed into a red crocodile, cackling evilly. He reached in to snap his jaws in front of the pets, but they quickly got out of his way.

"Now, don't run away! You'll make our cat and mouse game go longer!" Jafar then transformed into a cougar as he jumped on the suitcases trying to snatch at them.

As Jafar tore open some suitcases looking for the pets, Sylvester quickly grabbed an open suitcase and slammed it shut on Jafar's tail.

"ROWWWR!!!!" Jafar roared in pain as the pets tried to scurry away.

"THAT'S IT!!! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU PESTS FOR THE LAST TIME!!!" Jafar began to glow as if to transform again as the pets got ready for the worst. But suddenly, Jafar turned into a turtle. The pets were equally surprised. "Um...this isn't right," Jafar spoke.

But suddenly, Spot picked up Jafar, smirking. "Hey!!! Put me down this instant!!!" Tweety and Sylvester also gathered around Spot to look at Jafar with smirks.

"Let me try something," Sylvester took Jafar and looked up at Iago, who was floating above them. "What are you doing?" He slowly began to fly away, but then Sylvester threw Jafar right in Iago's direction.

The train had come to a stop, and everyone began to get off, including a strange fellow dressed in a trench coat. Little did anyone know that it was the pets in disguise. With Spot standing on Sylvester and Tweety hiding inside their hat.

"Anyone suspicious?" Sylvester asked.

"Nope!" Spot whispered holding up a present. "We just gotta keep an eye on this for now,"

Inside the present were Jafar and Iago, both trapped in the turtle shell. "Don't think of trying to bite any of my feathers, slowpoke!" Iago squawked from inside.

Jafar growled. "Ooooh, get your tail feathers OUT of my eyes!!!...please..."

Suddenly, Spot and Sylvester bumped into someone. "Um, hello? Hello, yes, yes?" Spot tried to disguise his voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry." said a familiar female voice. The two saw it was Twilight with Timmy. "Guess I didn't see you, there."

Timmy looked up at the figure and his eyes widened. "Wait...Spot, is that you?"

"Timmy?" The trench coat fell revealing Spot, Tweety and Sylvester.

"Boys!" Barbara spoke, happily as she and the others ran up to them.

The pets all grinned as Spot jumped into Timmy and Barbara's arms, and Tweety and Sylvester jumped in Twilight's arms.

"Are you okay, Spot?" Timmy asked.

"How did you even get here?" Barbara ruffled Spot's fur.

Spot laughed, nervously. "We had a couple run-ins," Spot held up the present with Jafar and Iago to Kara.

Kara listened to the villains arguing and nodded to Spot. "I see."

While in Twilight's arms, Sylvester looked over to a smiling Spike, and then with his tail, put Tweety in the dragon's claws.

"Tweety!" Spike said happily as the canary flew up and nuzzled Spike's cheek, making him giggle. Spike smiled at Sylvester and petted him. "Good boy," Sylvester smiled, feeling some appreciation.

Suddenly, Timmy's phone rang. "Hello?"

"Hi, Timmy!" SpongeBob's voice said.

"Oh, hi, SpongeBob!" Timmy responded. "What's up?"

"Oh, things are going great!" SpongeBob said on the phone. "And even better, Eric is getting in the spirit too!" He noticed Cartman running around the house, helping put decorations around the house and for some reason hang up garlic.

"Uh, Eric?" SpongeBob asked. "What's the garlic for?"

"ILOVEGARLIC!" Cartman quickly said. "GARLIC'SMYFAVORITEFOOD!"

As Cartman ran to get more decorations and garlic, SpongeBob just looked confused. "Okay..."

THE END