And so, that night, Martin, Junior, Raul, Dib, and Gaz snuck out and headed to Sara's house, where Tommy and Charlie were already.
"I'm sorry I accused you," said Sara.
"I didn't do anything," replied Tommy. "But tonight, that's about to change. Are you in?"
Sara gave a small smile with a thumb's up.
"That's a definite yes, Primos." Raul remarked.
"Glad we're all on the same page," Gaz said to Tommy and Charlie. "Is that everybody?"
"Not quite... There's still one more..." Dib reminded his sister.
They then came to Walter's house and tossed out some snowballs at his bedroom window as it was late, so he would likely be asleep.
Eventually, Walter got up, went to the window, and opened it...and put his glasses on. "It wasn't my fault," he protested in the face of their glares. "Pankley tricked me! I shoulda known if he was involved there'd be trouble...I just wanted Frosty back."
"That's what we all want, Walter," replied Gaz.
"What time is it anyway?" asked Walter.
Charlie grinned. "Time to go get our snowman!" he replied.
At that, the kids all gathered around so that they could get Frosty back to regain sincere happiness in their little lives as children as it seemed like it was too late for the adults.
"We're breaking Frosty out and we're gonna need back-up." Tommy told the others.
"We're in!" The triplet boys proclaimed as they each took a trashcan lid to help out.
"Thanks... Uh... Um... You guys." Dib said as they never learned their names.
Later, at the school, Principal/Mayor Pankley was bragging to one of the security guards. "Before the clipboard? Forget about it! I needed to work 10 hours," he remarked. "But now? I get by on next to nothing."
While he continued yammering, Tommy took an icicle and threw it into the woods, where it smashed on a tree trunk.
Hearing the noise, the guard and Pankley went to investigate. "Who's there?" asked the principal.
The flashlight shined throughout the nearly frozen forest as there didn't seem to be anybody there. However, they soon spotted a familiar-looking form between the trees.
"He's back!" Pankley gasped as he thought he saw Frosty the Snowman.
Charlie chuckled to himself from behind the fake snowman.
"GET HIM!" Pankley commanded before he ran off with the security guard, away from the school.
"To the doors!" Jenny signaled the others.
Quickly, the group raced inside; afterwards, they tiptoed through the school hallways until they spotted Frosty's hat on top of a podium, surrounded by red velvet ropes, and covered by glass.
"Looks like we might need to cut through the glass somehow..." pondered Martin.
"Too bad we don't have claws like Catwoman." Jenny remarked from that.
Meanwhile, Billy and Mandy were forced to keep watch on Pankley as he crept up towards the Frosty decoy before he tackled it and fell into the snow pile.
"Pinhead," Mandy scoffed as Billy laughed like a hyena. "Worse than Goodvibes."
"We've been duped!" Pankley cried out with a glare.
"Uh-oh..." Billy and Mandy soon said.
"What if we lift up the glass? I think I might have a way." Tommy suggested.
"Worth a shot," Dib replied. "Then Martin can snag the hat while someone holds up the glass!"
"You wanna try your idea?" Gaz asked Tommy.
"Yeah, I saw it in a movie once." Tommy replied.
"Eh," Gaz shrugged from that. "Might as well go for it."
Tommy spit in his hands then as he grabbed the glass and tried to lift it up. He strained a bit before he was finally able to succeed.
"Hey, it actually worked." Martin said, amazed a bit as he swiped the hat away.
Tommy then dropped the glass which summoned the security alarm once Frosty's hat was suddenly taken.
"Shoot!" Martin spat. "Let's just take the hat and run!"
And so the kids made a run for it.
Outside, Pankley heard the alarm blaring. "Quick! Shut off the alarm before the whole town is awake!" he told the guard, who saluted and ran off.
At that, they dashed off as Tommy took a look at the hat with amazement as he saw a special patch sewn in. "Wooow... 'Property of Theodore Tinkerton'. This is for you, Dad!"
"Shut off the alarm before the whole town is awake!" Pankley told his security guard.
The security guard ran off right away at that as Martin got to the window with the hat and opened it to see Sara on the other side, waiting for them. Sara smiled as she took the hat from Martin, though some sparks seemed to fly when their hands touched. Martin nodded to her, and Sara took the hat and skated off across the ice.
"There she is, stop her!" Pankley ordered as Sara looked behind herself, only to break her skates, and land on the ice.
"Ow! My leg!" she exclaimed, rubbing her sore appendage.
"Hold it right there, young lady." smirked Pankley as he approached Sara.
"Help!" Sara cried out of fright.
"Beta Team, go! Go!" Martin called out.
The triplet boys soon slid over with their trashcan lids like sleds across the ice. Pankley yelled out once he saw them before he ran off from them, though slipped a bit due to being on the ice.
"Watch out for Sara, guys!" Martin reminded.
The triplet boys soon slid over as they caught Sara with Frosty's hat as Pankley slipped and slid right into a snowbank.
"Oh, yeah, and watch out for that snowbank." Martin smirked at Pankley's misfortune.
"Heads up, Pankley!" Walter remarked as he tossed a snowball over Pankley's head & into an icicle-covered branch. The icicles were jostled down from the tree and surrounded the principal like bars on a cage.
"Pleasure doing business with you," Walter spat.
But Pankley just laughed mockingly as he kicked down two of the icicles. By that time, the blaring alarm had woken up the rest of the townspeople.
"Busted~" Martin and Jenny smirked in unison from that.
"Back to bed, folks," Pankley smiled nervously as he rushed over to get the townspeople back to bed before they could see anything. "Nothing to see here. In fact, it's all a dream."
"Sara's not in her room!" Mrs. Simple cried out.
"Walter too!" Mrs. Wader added.
"Both my boys are out there!" Mrs. Tinkerton whimpered.
"Yeah... Our kids and their friends are missing too." Mike added as she stood with Og.
"I demand that my baby boy be brought back to me at once!" Lu glared as Manny tried to hold her back.
"I assure you ladies, we have everything under control," said Pankley, trying to save face. "Now go back to bed."
But Mike, Lu, Og, and the other concerned parents just shoved past the principal, and Mrs. Simple even growled at him.
As the man looked on, Mr. Tinkerton put a hand on his shoulder. "Can I do anything to help?" he asked warmly.
"Yeah, in fact, you can," said Pankley as he pushed past Theo. "STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" he shouted, running off and leaving Mr. Tinkerton by himself.
Meanwhile, back in the woods, the kids were putting the finishing touches on Frosty's body, and as the piece de resistance, Raul tied on a small blue bow-tie as Martin placed the old silk hat back on the snowman's head.
In a flash of wintery magic, Frosty the Snowman was back among the living once more. "Happy Birthday!" he exclaimed, and the children cheered for him.
"Happy Birthday, Frosty." Gaz replied, though with a bit of an indifferent tone.
The kids happily joined hands as they danced in a circle around the living snowman. The parents gathered around with flashlights before they heard something in the forest.
"They're in the woods!" Mrs. Tinkerton told the other parents.
And so the parents ventured into the forest, seeing their offspring playing with a magical, living, breathing, snowman.
Principal Pankley got in front of the sight to block it. "I know what it looks like. I know what it looks like, people!" he exclaimed.
"It looks like a snowman," said Mrs. Simple.
"A magical snowman!" added Mrs. Wader.
Principal Pankley blinked a bit. "Well...it looks like that," he stated. "But, Pankley says close your eyes! Close your eyes!" he exclaimed, covering his eyes with his hands. He then jumped in front of the crowd. "Pankley says don't look at the snowman, or whatever it is or isn't! It's not there!"
Mr. Tinkerton walked forward, along with Mike, Lu, Manny, and Og. "Boys?" he asked, and Tommy and Martin came over.
"Dad, Mr. and Mrs. Mazinsky, and Mr. and Mrs. Rivera?" Tommy said. "We'd like to re-introduce you to an old friend of yours: Frosty the Snowman!"
A wide, teary-eyed smile broke out on Theo's face. "...Is that...really you?" he asked.
"No way!" Mike gasped.
Lu seemed to faint from that while Og cracked a small smile.
"Lu!" Manny gasped as he tried to wake up his wife.
"Man, you all got old, huh?" Frosty asked his old friends who were all grown up.
"I thought I made you up." Theo said to Frosty.
"He's real, Dad." Tommy smiled.
"He was real all along." Martin added.
"Here, Dad, I can't wear this anymore," Tommy sighed as he gave his medal back to his father. "I broke all the rules. I didn't listen."
"But you did listen," Frosty told him. "You listened to your heart."
Theo nodded in agreement. "You did it just right, son," he told him before seeing what was on top of Frosty's head. "Hey, my father's hat!" By this point, he was on the verge of crying tears of frozen joy. "...WHAT TOOK YA SO LONG?!" he exclaimed.
"I had a little detour along th' way..." Frosty stated, glaring at Principal Pankley, and this time, the other adults of Evergreen joined in.
"Pankley, I believe you have something that doesn't belong to you anymore." stated Theo.
"The hat? Fine, you can take it, I'm not a hat guy," shrugged Pankley, but he was blocked before he could walk away.
"No... The clipboard." Theo said firmly.
Pankley pouted a bit from that.
"Come on... Come on... Hand it over..." Theo told him as he held out his hand for his prized possession.
Pankley held out the clipboard, but he kept his grip on it as Theo tried to get it back before they both tugged at it.
"Seriously?" Mike rolled her eyes. "It's just a clipboard."
Pankley growled as he was forced to give the clipboard back. "You are setting an example right now, sir," he warned Theo a bit. "If you accept this nonsense as real, then children everywhere will-"
A snowball was then thrown to keep him quiet.
"Oookay, that stings." Pankley then groaned.
"Nice shot." Irwin said to Walter.
"Walter, how could you?" asked his mother. "I taught you better than THAT!"
"So did I!" Frosty agreed before he beaned Mrs. Wader with a snowball. "You're supposed to throw overhand!"
"You think that's funny, do you?" she asked as she took another snowball and threw it. "You want a piece of me?"
The snowball went through Frosty, leaving a small round hole, much to the people's shock.
"Oh, you don't wanna start a snowball fight with a snowman, lady." replied Frosty as he made a very large snowball, tiptoed like Fred Flintstone, and then he let it fly, bowling the adults over and sending the children into a fit of laughter.
"Hardy-har-har." snorted Mrs. Simple as she took some snow, crammed it in Walter's hoodie, and then pulled it over his head.
Sara was surprised at the fact her mom was actually having fun for once. "...Mother..." she exclaimed. "Your hair is down!"
Mrs. Simple looked up at her unexpected new 'do. "Oh... I guess it is." she said with a smile.
"And I hafta say it looks better that way!" Sara replied.
"Really? Well, then, perhaps it's time for a change, Sara." Mrs. Simple smiled as she shared a hug with her daughter.
"Say, Mrs. Simple, have you heard of the forecast for tomorrow?" Walter smirked before jumping on a snowy tree branch as he hung on it to make the snow fall onto the adult woman. "Blizzard!"
"I'm coming to the rescue, Mother!" Sara giggled from that. "Back-up! I need back-up!"
The others smiled to each other as they were able to help out this town just fine, though, except for maybe Billy and Mandy's "help" as they barely did a thing.
"Get him, boys!" The triplets' father proclaimed to his sons who sled over towards Walter.
Soon, all of the children and adults got into a snowball fight with each other.
"Ah, this sure brings back some memories." Mike said to Lu, Og, and Manny a bit happily.
"Oh, no denying that," Manny replied. "Some things never change, I guess."
Martin smiled as he gazed out at the playful scene that was happening. "This puts me in the mood for a song," he said.
"Then what're you waiting for?" asked Jenny. "Hit it!"
Martin nodded, and began. "Sometimes when the words just fail you; you're scared, but you know they're wrong,I found that I get much further, when I turn my thoughts to song! You know why you love this season, the joy that the snow can bring, So, why should you stop to reason? just open your heart and sing... Let there be snow! Let there be snow! Need I remind you, the autumn's behind you? Let the wind blow!~"
"This is a time of year to make, figure eight's across the lake~" sang Sara as she and her mother continued in the snowball fight. "Such a magical sight, when the world's dressed all in white! Oh-oh-oh, let there be snow!~"
"The days may grow short and grayer, the cold may nip at your nose~" sang Junior. "But once there's a six-inch layer, of soft flakes beneath your toes~"
"You can't help but want to taste it, or jump in a snowy pile~" added Gaz. "Why not build a fort or igloo, or find a window to print your smile?~"
"You smile?" Mandy asked.
"A lot more than you, sister," Gaz replied. "Now don't ruin the mood!"
"Oh, let there be snow, Let there be snow~," Everybody sang together a bit happily. "Go down the schools, And let's act like fools, There's parties to throw~"
"Why should we sit around and wait for summer days to celebrate?~" Dib and Gaz sang together.
"Such a magical sight~" Raul sang with his cousins.
"When the world dressed in white~" Junior also sang.
"Oh, let there be snow~" The kids all sang together happily.
"Ah, that reminds me of the time I met that little girl who wanted to be a magician when she grew up," Frosty smiled. "What a sweet kid, that Holly, though probably not as sweet as Karen."
"I guess you've been all over," said Martin.
"I also have vague memories of a wife and two kids, but the details on that are sketchy at best," Frosty replied, as Tommy looked at the comic book, whose pages had changed.
"'The boy had boys of his own now, and he knew that if he continued to deny magic its place in the world, his son's life would be a place without magic'," he read as Frosty, Mike, Lu, Manny and Og were having a blast. "'And that wasn't what the boy wanted. Not anymore'."
"Pretty good ending." Jenny remarked.
"I'll say." Tommy smiled.
Everybody had fun together, even though it was a school night, though Pankley took the time to escape... Only to walk across literal thin ice which broke under his feet, making him fall into the frigid cold water as he had lost the battle against Frosty the Snowman, like many fun hating adults before him.
Safe to say, it looked like the town of Evergreen was going to change for the better from that point on. And who would have expected that the whole town owed it all to a group of young kids for showing them what it was like to have some fun.
"I really appreciate you helping us out." Sara smiled to Martin.
"Oh, uh, no biggie," Martin smiled back. "It's what a hero would do. Heroes like us."
"Well, even heroes get rewards." Sara replied as she leaned in and kissed Martin on the cheek.
Martin blinked as he smiled bashfully from the kiss and chuckled a bit, almost like Goofy. Tommy pouted a little because he had a bit of a crush on Sara, though it seemed like she liked someone else.
"It'll be alright, son," Theo told him. "You'll find your dream girl sometime soon."
"...I guess you're right," Tommy replied. "I have plenty of time to think about that stuff. Right now, I'll focus on having fun."
"That's the spirit!" Theo smiled. "Let's all have some real fun! Starting now!"
Everybody cheered from that as things were going to be very different in their town from now on, thanks to the help of Frosty. Eventually, the kids had to leave to return to Greendale, and Martin and Sara promised to keep in touch with one another.
"You okay, kiddo?" Mike asked her son.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, Mom," Martin replied. "I'm glad we came though."
"Talk about a change of pace," remarked Mike. "When we first came here, you couldn't wait to leave."
"Well, I guess I changed my mind after I saw we were needed." Martin replied.
"Well, I'm a bit glad to hear that, son," Mike smiled. "I'm glad you got to have a good time too."
"Yeah, same here." Martin smiled back.
"Interesting complex," Og remarked with a bit of intelligent babble which everybody seemed to tune out a bit. "I might have to bring this up at my next Philosophical Meeting."
"Yeah, you do that," Lu replied with a yawn as she snuggled next to Manny on the drive back.
As Martin, Raul, Jenny and their friends looked out the window, they saw Frosty himself, heading off into the wide, cold world. "Next stop, Beansboro!" he exclaimed.
"Thumpety-thump-thump, thumpety-thump-thump, lookit that Frosty go!~" remarked Irwin.
"Thumpety-thump-thump, thumpety-thump-thump, over the hills of snow!~" added Raul.
Mike, Lu, Og, and Manny all laughed a bit from that. They soon rode back home as carefully as they could with still some snow on the ground.
"Wait until the others hear about this adventure," said Jenny. "It'll definitely be one for the archives."
"Oh, for sure," Martin replied. "I wonder if they'd believe it."
"I'd say for sure with all that we've faced and I don't just mean in Endsville." Junior remarked.
"That's true." Gaz agreed.
Billy and Mandy didn't say much of anything; Billy had dozed off in his seat, and Mandy simply glowered to herself, all the way home. But hey, what else is new? They soon passed by a sign that told them they were now leaving the town.
"Well, that was nice," Zofia said on a stage set like this was a movie set. "They got to have a little day in the limelight."
"Yeah, great for them!" LJ agreed as he joined her on stage. "Maybe they'll get another...minus Billy and Mandy, AKA Dead Weight."
"I could do worse than you could possibly imagine." Mandy glared from that.
"Ya know, Mandy, I used to like you before you basically became Adolf Hitler as a little girl," Zofia rolled her eyes. "You were a bit more... Relatable... Then you changed. I sense a dark future for you in any other adventures that you just happen to be apart of."
"Long story short, for once you'll get exactly what's coming to you," added LJ. "And I for one can't wait for that day."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Mandy rolled her eyes. "I bet your mommy will stop me."
"Don't. Poke. The Mama Bear," Cherry warned. "You're lucky you got to be apart of this at all."
"Still feel like talkin' shit, Mandy?" LJ asked. "No? Then get out."
"Whatever... I don't need this..." Mandy rolled her eyes as she walked off. "Come on, Billy. Time to go see Grim."
Billy walked off after her with a stupid look on his face.
"You gonna get her soon, Mom?" LJ asked.
"Pretty soon," Cherry replied. "It's still in development."
"Well, they say good things come to those who wait," replied LJ with a smile. "And I'll gladly wait as long as it takes for that to happen."
"You'll get there soon," Cherry said. "It was also nice of you to let your friends have their own story."
"You did that for Uncle Atticus sometimes and some others." Zofia replied.
"Oh, yeah, I know." Cherry replied as she gave her kids their Christmas presents.
"Thank you!" Zofia said as she opened up her present to see that it was a special-looking storybook. "Making Fiends, huh? Well, this sure sounds interesting."
"I can see why." LJ replied, taking a glance.
"I hope you like yours too." Cherry said.
"Is it a book too?" LJ guessed.
"...Maybe." Cherry replied.
LJ opened his present to see it was a book about Duck Dodgers. "Aw, Mom..." he smiled. "Thanks again."
"You're both welcome," Cherry said before looking to the fourth wall. "Happy (Insert Holiday choice here) to you!"
"Happy Holidays!" LJ and Zofia added as the story came to a close.
The End
