It was a week before Christmas and everyone was very excited, but no one was more excited other than Felicity and her cousins, and of course, their Pokemon.

"Wahoo!" The kids smiled.

"I still can't believe they let Pokemon in the hotel." Mo commented as she was booking a reservation with Atticus to spend Christmas at the Plaza Hotel again since the kids were so close with Eloise.

"I think Eloise's mother has something to do with that." Atticus smirked.

"Must be that." Mo said.

Soon enough, a reservation was made and everyone was on their way to the hotel. There was a pigeon on a hotel window sill who had came to visit Eloise like she did every morning, even if she wasn't exactly the girl's pet like Weenie or Skipperdee.

"Hi." Ditto smiled.

Eloise smiled back as she briefly took Ditto off her head and the Do Not Disturb sign off around her neck to change out of her pajamas and into her regular clothes, though this time with a scarf, hat, and earmuffs after checking the calendar as it was December 18th. Skipperdee hid in his shell while Weenie carried the scarf in his mouth for Eloise.

"Oh, Eloise, someone has something for you." Ditto smiled.

"Coming!" Eloise smiled as she pulled up her socks and strapped on her suspenders.

"Your scarf, mi'lady." Weenie muffled as he came with the scarf.

"Oh, how polite." Ditto giggled.

Eloise put on the hat and earmuffs after wrapping the scarf around her neck and came into Nanny's room as the older woman slept peacefully. "Nanny! Nanny! Wake up, wake up, wake up!" she plopped down on her caretaker's bed with an excited smile.

"Huh? Who? What?" Nanny muttered as she sat up in her bed and rubbed her eyes wearily.

"Hi." Ditto smiled.

"Nanny, don't you know what day it is?" Eloise beamed. "It's Friday! It's exactly six days, eleven hours, twelve minutes, and 37 seconds until Christmas Eve!"

Nanny soon groaned and plopped back down into her bed to get back to sleep.

"Really?" Ditto asked.

"Uh-huh, it is, we must, must, must tell the others!" Eloise smiled up to her Pokemon, she was then on her way out the door.

"Wahoo!" Ditto smiled.

Eloise then looked out the window to the pigeon who was there and gave her some leftover oatmeal from breakfast. "Here you go, Emily."

The pigeon cooed a 'thank you' and began to peck at the oatmeal. Ditto was happy to eat with them. Eloise held Skipperdee in her hand and Weenie rushed out the door with them while in a jingling stocking.

"Come on! Come on, Weenie!" Eloise laughed as she raced down the hallway which made some guests leave their rooms as they heard her. "Hurry up, you slow doggy!" She soon saw her cousins. "Wow, you guys are fast." she smiled as Rose and Esperanza came by with a laundry basket that secretly had Margarita and Minccino.

"Yeah." Ditto said.

Estelle hugged Eloise while Teddy tried to hug Ditto.

"Oh, wow, the hotel is so busy around Christmas..." Felicity said before looking to the Spanish maids. "Bonjour, Rose, Bonjour Esperanza."

"Hola, dears." Rose greeted.'

"Buenos dias." Esperanza added.

"How do I hug a Ditto?" Teddy wondered.

Ditto latched onto his head to hug him.

"Oh, that works." Teddy giggled.

Margarita and Minccino snuck out of the basket to join Eloise and her cousins in the Christmas plan they had.

"This is going to be fun." Minccino smiled.

Rose and Esperanza had to wonder what the rush was.

"Good mawning, Margarita~" Eloise curtsied to her best girl friend in the hotel.

"Morning, Eloise!" Margarita replied as she did the same as Minccino bowed.

"How are you?" Minccino smiled.

"Oh, it is quite, quite, quite a lovely morning~" Ditto replied as he picked up Nanny's speech patterns like Eloise had.

At the bottom of the stairs, they ran into the other twins: Bruce and Bobby. They appeared to be wearing capes and one of them had a magic wand.

"What's with the capes and wand?" Vincent asked.

"Gonna practice our magic act." Bruce replied on the way down the stairs.

"Maybe you guys could make your own Pokemon appear." Eloise teased since they didn't have their own Pokemon and Bobby often tried to take one of theirs.

"Yeah." Akito smirked.

"I'll send you through a trap door!" Bobby huffed.

"Morning, guys!" Bruce smiled as he liked to see them, especially Eloise.

"Hey, Bruce." Estelle greeted.

Yuko soon appeared with Esperon to join them.

"Hi, Yuko and Esperon!" Margarita greeted.

"Stop the elevator!" Weenie barked as a man was leaving the elevator and the door was about to shut.

"Please!" Larvitar begged.

Ditto reached into the elevator which made the door open.

"Morning, Max!" Eloise beamed. "Lobby, please~"

Max then hit the bottom floor button, sending them all down.

"Hey, wanna see a magic trick?" Bobby smirked as he took out a ball from his pocket, he then showed it before closing his fist, waving his other hand over it and made the ball disappear, he then waved his hand again and made the ball reappear, he then closed his hand and made the ball disappear without waving his other hand.

"Pretty neat, huh?" Bruce asked.

As usual, Max said nothing until they were down on the first floor.

"Wow." Akito said.

The elevator soon dinged and the door opened to let the kids and their Pokemon out.

"WILL YOU JUST LET MY HUSBAND HELP YOU?!" Mo asked Mr. Salamone as he and the other men in the lobby were trying to keep up the Christmas tree.

"Pardon me, , but this is strictly hotel business..." Mr. Salamone told her. "Besides, we have an important guest coming over besides Mr. Peabody's returning daughter with big news for him."

"But Mr. Salamone-!" Mo groaned.

"We don't care if the Queen of England is coming, let Atticus help before you endanger your employees!" Cherry told the hotel manager.

"Oh... Very well... Detective Fudo, if you would?" Mr. Salamone groaned.

"With pleasure." Atticus said as he helped with the tree.

Mr. Salamone smiled to this and looked to the other employees. "As you are well aware, in exactly six days, ten hours, and 27 minutes, Monsieur DuCat from Le Guide will be arriving to inspect the Plaza." he then reminded them.

"We know." Mo said.

"B-B-But, Mr. Salamone!" Chet spoke up nervously. "That's Christmas Eve!"

"Thank you for reminding me of the date, Chet," Mr. Salamone replied carelessly. "I hope you're also aware that for the past 51 years, the Plaza has remained New York's preemie hotel, and it is my intention that we retain its five star rating for another 51 years to come..." he then went to say hello to Mrs. Thornton and while he did, an old familiar face came through the lobby and she appeared different somehow.

"Hey, there's Mr. Peabody's daughter." Cherry told her husband and foster cousin.

"Rachel." Estelle smiled.

The kids rushed over and hugged her, but Eloise seemed to mysteriously disappear.

"Hi, gang." Rachel giggled as she hugged the kids back before putting her hand onto her stomach.

"Ooh, are you expecting a baby?" Estelle smiled at Rachel.

"You've figured it out..." Rachel giggled.

Teddy pressed a paw against Rachel's tummy and gasped as he felt something strange from the inside of Rachel's stomach.

"Ooh, the baby must be kicking~" Rachel smiled to that as she held her belly.

"That must be it." Mo said.

Rachel looked to see Atticus and the other hotel men trying to keep the tree standing straight, but Atticus had no trouble at all. Another young boy was rushing to meet with the other kids as they had plans.

'What plans do they have?' Mo thought to herself.

"Wait up, Tyler!" A Buizel followed after the running boy.

The kids soon came together with their Pokemon.

"Kids..." Rachel chuckled as she shrugged this off and went to get checked in since Miss Thompson covered the front desk for Mr. Salamone.

"Sorry we're late." Tyler told his friends.

"You're right on time, Tyler and Buizel," Eloise smiled. "Operation: Special Delivery is about to begin. Akito, Estelle, Vincent, Felicity, I already gave you some details when you called last night when you said you were coming over."

"We remember." Akito said.

The Pokemon nodded in agreement to show that they also remembered. They all then synchronized their watches and dashed off to their positions. Margarito, Minccio, Yuko, Esperon, Tyler, and Buizel looked from one hall and soon came to the working men.

"Mr. Salamone?" Yuko asked.

"Not now, Yuko." Mr. Salamone told her.

"But Bruce and Bobby want to show you their new trick." Margarita said.

"If you could make yourselves disappear, that would be helpful," Mr. Salamone grumbled before forcing a smile. "What're you children up to?"

"Oh, nothing." Vincent said.

It took more than two men to carry a present as they grunted as the present they carried was rather heavy and more than they anticipated.

"And where are Eloise and Ditto?" Mr. Salamone asked suspiciously.

The kids and Pokemon shrugged like they didn't know.

"She must be here somewhere." Atticus said.

"Mr. Salamone!" Miss Thompson called out as she needed his help now.

"Coming, Miss Thompson!" Mr. Salamone called back as he went to go see her.

Atticus glanced at the kids suspiciously and walked off as they were going somewhere which accidentally made the tree fall on top of the employees. "Oops, sorry, guys." The grown detective man winced.

Cherry snickered which made Forte smile since she was in a better mood. The kids were being spied on by a certain other kid and his Snubbull: Edwin, Mr. Salamone's spoiled nephew. They soon began to follow the other kids and their Pokemon. The kids and Pokemon snuck all around as they were on their way to a certain room that was locked from the inside. They waited for it to get unlocked.

Eloise was taken to the gift room as she was revealed to be in the present with Ditto, Weenie, and her cousins with their Pokemon. "Works every time." She told them about sneaking into the present.

"Looks like it." Akito said.

Vincent came to the door with Vulpix and jiggled the doorknob, he then saw it was locked and unlocked it and opened the door for the others.

"Hold it right there!" Edwin glared as he soon arrived with Snubbull. "I know what you're doing!"

"And we're telling." Snubbull added.

"You guys are right, we're sneaking inside to see if there are any presents..." Eloise sighed as she acted through what she learned from Bill and her mother. "You both could tell, but then you'd never know if there was something in here for you~"

"For us?" Edwin and Snubbull asked, stepping forward curiously.

"Mm-hmm." Ditto smirked.

"There was a pretty big number of boxes inside," Estelle added as she stood next to Teddy. "I think I saw a Captain Courageous Interstellar Rocket."

"Oh, indeed." Eloise smiled.

"COME ON!" Edwin called out and rushed into the gift room with Snubbull, deciding not to tattle on them.

They soon went inside the room. Vincent shut the door behind them so no one would see them. They could all see many presents wrapped up and it looked like Kid Heaven.

"Eloise?" Nanny's voice asked behind the door.

"Hide." Vincent whispered.

They all went to hide and turned out the lights so nothing looked changed. Rose soon opened the door and Nanny clicked on the light as she came into the room. Skipperdee was on top of a box while one of the magician twins grabbed his cape to hide.

"Now, children!" Nanny firmly put her hands on her hips. "Can we please put a stop to these shenanigans? The Package Room is not a playground! Eloise, children, please!"

All of the kids and their Pokemon were soon shown with Eloise's pets.

"Oh, Nanny, what a pleasant surprise," Eloise smiled innocently. "What're you doing here?"

"I should ask you the same," Nanny replied firmly as she carried the turtle in her hands. "Now, come along, everyone! Come, come, come along!"

"Yes, Nanny." The Fudo siblings frowned.

Nanny and Rose soon left the room and they ran into the hotel manager.

"Stop right there!" Mr. Salamone firmly folded his arms. "Where do you children think you're-Edwin?"

"Snubbull and I tried to warn them, Uncle Alphonse," Edwin spoke up. "The Package Room is not a playground!"

"Liar." Akito said.

The other kids and their Pokemon glared at Edwin for selling them out like this.

"Yes, yes, of course, Edwin," Mr. Salamone told his nephew before checking his watch. "Now, do me a favor and wait to be hurrying to the show."

Edwin and Snubbull smiled before coming forward.

"What show?" Vincent asked.

"Uncle Alphonse got me front-row seats for the Captain Courageous Holiday Extravaganza," Edwin smirked at the others. "In Radio City Music Hall!"

"With a laser light show?" Tyler asked.

"Oh, absolutely!" Edwin smirked as he folded his arms. "They don't call it Holiday Extravaganza for nuthin'! It's gonna be amazing."

"Whoa." Akito said.

"It's just a little holiday treat." Mr. Salamone told Nanny.

"Oh, it's not little," Edwin replied as he stood with Snubbull. "It's big! They got giant rocket ships that take you to the outer regions of the outer galaxy! Hand-to-hand combat with deadly aliens!"

'That's not fair.' Estelle thought to herself.

"Edwin..." Mr. Salamone tried to calm his nephew down.

"And all the popcorn and cotton candy you can eat!" Edwin continued to rub it in.

"Okay, Edwin..." Mr. Salamone put his arm around his nephew.

"Too bad you don't have tickets!" Edwin smirked before laughing. "You're gonna miss everything!"

'What a brat.' Mo thought to herself.

Bruce shook his fist and was about to beat up Edwin, but Bobby held his twin brother back and shook his head as it wasn't worth their time.

"Now, you need to run along and get ready." Mr. Salamone rushed his nephew as his parents wouldn't be happy with him if anything went wrong.

"Don't worry," Edwin smirked to the others with his Snubbull. "I'll tell you all about it when I get back!"

"We both will." Snubbull also smirked.

Edwin and Snubbull laughed as they were going off to wait for the boy's parents so they could go to the show. The adults soon went to help out Mr. Salamone in any way necessary as this was a very busy time of year for them to impress an incoming critic. Edwin and Snubbull snickered before they went out the door as Charlie got it for them.

"What now?" Felicity said.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Tyler spoke up.

"I say we boil his underpants into hot chocolate." Bobby glared.

"Tyler, Bobby, where's your holiday spirit?" Bruce frowned.

"Bruce is right." Akito said.

"Okay, we'll throw in a couple of marshmallows." Bobby smirked.

"We could just get tickets." Yuko suggested while Esperon nodded in agreement.

"There aren't any more tickets." Teddy said.

"The show's been sold out for ages." Tyler sulked.

"Ugh... Let's face it," Bruce sighed. "We're not going anywhere!"

"We don't need tickets to see some dumb show with Edwin." Eloise spoke up as Ditto slithered onto her head.

"What are you thinking?" Estelle asked.

"You wanna sneak in." Tyler suggested with a smirk.

"No, Tyler," Eloise replied before turning back to them. "I've got something bigger in mind. Much, much, much bigger."

"Ooh." Felicity smiled.

Rachel soon came to a certain office and knocked at the door.

"I'm very busy!" Mr. Peabody called back.

"Okay, I guess I'll just go back to my apartment~" Rachel teased.

"Rachel!" Mr. Peabody smiled.

"Hi, Daddy." Rachel smiled back.

"You could have told me you were coming early." Mr. Peabody smiled.

"I wanted to surprise you." Rachel smiled back before hugging him.

Mr. Peabody hugged his daughter back.

"And how's the little one?" he then asked as he rubbed his daughter's belly. "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"We wanted it to be a surprise." Rachel smiled, referring to herself and Bill of course.

"Well, can you at least tell when he/she is due?" Mr. Peabody asked.

"Sometime in the Spring," Rachel smiled. "We decided though if it's a boy, we'll name him Victor, just like his grandfather."

"Oh, Rachel..." Mr. Peabody smiled back since that was his name, he then sighed before having proud tears in his eyes. "Your mother would be proud."

"I know she would." Rachel smiled.

Mr. Peabody smiled back to his daughter. "Now, I'm sorry for snapping at you, but we're very busy this Christmas," he told her. "A man named Monsieur DuCat is coming to rate the hotel on Christmas Eve."

"But most of the employees here have families and friends to spend the holidays with." Rachel frowned.

"I know..." Mr. Peabody replied with a sigh. "It was Mr. Salamone's idea... Honest..."

"I better have a word with him..." Rachel narrowed her eyes.