A blue flash was seen under a table, and two children poked their heads out.

"Gee, who'da thunk Dad had a soft spot for puppies?" asked Lionel Jr.

"I'd believe it..." Zofia said to her brother. "Even if Mom's more of a cat person, even she seems to like the puppy."

Lionel Jr. shrugged. "Stranger things have happened. I just wonder when we'll get our own mission..."

"Ooh... Can we?~" Zofia's eyes sparkled. "I love an adventure! It's ipsum excitando~" she then added in Latin.

"I think that means very exciting, but I'm only guessing from context," Lionel Jr replied. "But what would our first mission be?"

"I dunno..." Zofia said with a shrug. "I wanna meet a ghost!"

Lionel Jr yelped. "A ghost? What for?"

"I dunno, I just thought it sounded cool..." Zofia shrugged. "Like when Mom told us about that time that Scooby-Doo had to catch 13 ghosts for some dude named Vincent van Ghoul."

"But they only caught twelve of them!" Lionel Jr gulped.

"Aw, you're no fun, LJ." Zofia pouted to her brother.

"There's fun, and then there's staying ALIVE!" Lionel Jr replied. "And I intend to do as much of that as possible!"

Zofia just rolled her eyes slightly. "Mom's so lucky to have an adventurous life."

"Y-Yeah, I guess..." LJ replied. "It'd be cool if we don't almost get killed!"

"Fine... What would you like to do?" Zofia rolled her eyes.

"I dunno... I mean, I'm fine with adventures, as long as we don't get killed!" LJ replied.

"Ugh..." Zofia face-palmed her brother.

Mickey's Christmas Carol soon ended.


"I gotta admit, that end song always makes me feel something." Cherry commented, trying not to get emotional.

"Yeah. Makes me feel all warm inside." Lionel replied.

"I mean, it's not that I don't like danger," LJ replied. "I just wanna have as many adventures as possible! And if I die, I can't do that!"

Patch soon came towards the kids as they talked.

"Are you sure you're my brother?" Zofia asked him out of disbelief.

"I got the DNA test to prove it," LJ replied. "Sure, adventures are great, but dying isn't! It's not so much the adventures I fear as it is the dying!"

Zofia just face-palmed. Patch soon came to see them.

"Then why don't you have an adventure with one of the classics and yet forgotten, such as Time Squad?" Zofia teased her brother.

"I never watched that show!" LJ replied. "If anything, we'll probably end up sneaking along on the Pinocchio adventure." he then added.

"Fine." Zofia rolled her eyes to her brother.

"Look, we'll do an adventure you want afterwards. I promise," LJ replied. "Even if I was born second."

"I go first because I'm a lady~" Zofia retorted.

"Yeah, and cuz you're two years older than me..." LJ added, rolling his eyes.

"That means I'm better." Zofia smirked, pulling down her eyelid to him.

"Who are you two?" Patch soon asked which made them looked over at him.

"Ugh... Just cuz you're older doesn't make you better," LJ retorted. "Ever hear of upgrading?"

"Um, hello?" Patch called to them.

"I'm as awesome as Vanellope von Schweetz!" Zofia smirked to her brother.

"And every bit as irritating," LJ retorted. "At least she learned humility."

"Guys?!" Patch called.

"I know all about humility!" Zofia replied. "Also, I'm smart too. I speak two languages!"

"Yeah, whatever," LJ replied. "It's just that... Everyone looks at you as the bravest one, and I'm sick of being looked at as a coward, just because I don't wanna die!"

"HEY!" Patch called out to them.

The two siblings looked at him.

"Who are you and what is going on here?" Patch demanded.

"See those two people at the table?" asked LJ, pointing to Lionel and Cherry. "They're our mom and dad, and we're from the future...16 years later, exactly," He then turned back to Zofia. "Now, as I was saying... Everyone looks at you as the bravest one, and I'm sick of being looked at as a coward, just because I don't wanna die."

"Well, it's not my fault you're such a coward," Zofia told her brother. "Excuse me for trying to help you grow a spine."

"Lionel and Cherry? Got married? Oh, wow..." Patch commented to himself.

"It's not that I don't appreciate it," LJ retorted. "It's just that I just don't want to die so early in my life! Is that SO wrong? Is it SO wrong to want to live my life?!" He sighed. "But apparently, it's bad to want to live as long as possible. I should just throw myself headlong into dangerous situations I could get killed in, cuz apparently that's what being brave is all about!"

"Oh, LJ..." Zofia sighed. "I knew we should've just stayed home and watch the movie version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

"Look, it's not that I don't like adventures, I do!" LJ replied to his sister. "It's just that I don't wanna be looked down on for being concerned for our safety!"

"Stop whining!" Zofia complained. "Ugh! Fine! We won't go on an adventure if it'll make you stop worrying yourself sick!"

"I didn't say that! We'll go on an adventure..." LJ replied. "But I'm gonna make sure we don't die!"

"Oh, good grief." Zofia muttered in a Lucy van Pelt fashion.

The nephews soon came on stage as their uncle sat happily in the chair. "Merry Christmas, Uncle Donald."

"Oh, boys." Donald smiled to them.

"Yeah, whatever, mutter all you want," LJ retorted smugly. "But when we survive an adventure, un-murdered, you're gonna thank me!"

Lionel poked his head under the table. "Um... Future son, are you sure this is because you're afraid of dying, and not because you really want to protect your sister?" he asked.

"W-What...?" LJ asked bashfully. "Oh, uh, I... Erm... Well... We're family after all."

Lionel smirked knowingly. "Go ahead..."

LJ sighed. "Oh, fine...I know she's really brave, and I'm NOT, and I hate being reminded of it. And I appreciate what she's doing, trying to help me be braver, but honestly-the one thing I fear more than dying on an adventure... Is the thought that she might die on an adventure, because she'll be too busy trying to bail my pathetic cowardly ass out of trouble."

"I see..." Lionel replied to his son.

"That's why I'm so damned cautious, sis. Because I don't want either of us to bite the big one," LJ replied. "I can handle an adventure... I just can't handle losing you. As much of a know-it-all you can be, I don't want to lose you."

"Listen, Bro, it's nice of you to care about both of us like that, but if you're gonna let a little thing like fear stop you from having a good time, then you might as well stay there on the ground, because people are gonna be walking over you for the rest of your life." Zofia advised.

Lionel glanced at his son. "Well then...?"

LJ thought for a while, and then answered. "Well... Screw that. Sure, I'm scared beyond belief... But I won't let it stop me from protecting those I care about...or having some fun. Sis... You're right. I should try to be braver, and sorry for being such a damper on yer fun. Guess I should leave," He got up, brushed himself off, and started towards the doors. "Besides, you don't need a wuss like me cramping your style."

"LJ... Stop it..." Zofia pouted to her cowardly brother.

"She's right," Lionel replied. "For someone who says they're a coward, you gotta be pretty damn gutsy to risk your life protecting their sister."

LJ turned and sighed.

"LJ, I'm sorry I was kind of a brat, but you know you can't let nothing happen to you, because then life will just pass you by." Zofia advised her brother.

LJ sighed. "Dammit... You're right."

"Of course I'm right," Zofia smirked. "I'm a young woman."

LJ rolled his eyes. "Yeah, whatever." he smirked.

"Now hug and make up." Lionel told his kids.

Zofia and LJ then shared a sibling hug with each other.

"There... Better?" Lionel asked.

LJ sighed. "Yeah, pretty much."

"Good..." Zofia replied.

"I think right now might be a good time for a bath." Cherry smirked as she appeared.

"Mom!" Zofia and LJ gasped as their mother seemed to come from nowhere.

"Whaddyou mean, bath?!" LJ yelped in surprise. "We bathed before we got here!"

"Hm~..." Cherry hummed with a small smirk as she put her arms around her children.

"Aw, jeez, Mom..." LJ sighed.

"Come along now..." Cherry replied. "So... Let's move, move, move!"

"No use arguing with her." Zofia sighed with her brother.

"London from bottom to top is zup, The keeper in the shop is zup, And even Mrs. Mop is zup, Oh, what a lovely morning~" Cherry muttered singing to herself from a childhood favorite movie which she sang every morning to help her children wake up and get ready for the day.

"I have NO IDEA what that is!" LJ yelped. "We already bathed before we came back in time!"

"Well, we better get going anyway so you kids don't ruin the fabric of time." Cherry quietly told them to keep them under control.

"Ah, Mom..." LJ grumbled.

"Now!" Cherry replied.

"Yes, Mother, of course, you know best." Zofia replied innocently.

"Ooookaaaaaayyyy..." LJ groused.

They soon poofed away as this story seemed to be ending.


"That was really weird..." Patch muttered to himself. "I think I'm going loony tunes!"

"Eh, they'll be back," Lionel replied. "And yeah, that was real."

"That was just weird..." Patch said. "Then again, the holidays are a strange time of the year for anybody."

"True that." Lionel nodded.

"But I'm glad I get to spend it with you guys," Patch smiled. "My family."

"Hey, no disagreements there." Lionel smirked as they all hugged him.

"Aww... Cherry's hugging." Mo smiled.

"...I'm cold." Cherry replied.

"Suuure you are," Atticus smirked. "We've been inside this whole time."

Cherry just narrowed her eyes before rolling her eyes, not saying anything else.

"Happy Holidays, everybody!" Patch beamed.

Atticus smiled and hugged Patch.

"Happy Holidays!" All of the Disney characters added in joyously.

"And everyone out there, brace yourselves on Black Friday!" Lionel added. "It's gonna be BRUTAL!"

Everyone soon joined together as this seemed like a heartwarming ending just in time for the holidays.

The End