The Tri-Leaders decided to have Christmas at Ann's moon base.

"It will be fun!" claimed Roses, as she packed her things. Next to her stood Holli and Tails.


"But- what if Rosey and Tyrael get us in trouble…again?" asked Holli as she shoved a pleather miniskirt in her bag.

"I've been to that base before- there are lots of bright red buttons-- do you trust Rosey around them?" Tails asked.

"Well, that is why I bought this." Roses held up a red and green leash labeled "Rudolph."

Suddenly, Ann came bursting into the room with the telephone in her hand.

"Roses! Santa just called, he said the elves claim they saw you in the factory, and now things are missing--" Ann paused, staring at the leash, "including Rudolph's leash."

"I don't know what he is talking about, tell Santa I have been a very good girl this year."

"Santa says he's been watching you…and that was a lie." Ann turned to Holli and Tails, "And he wants you two to apologize to Tyrael for tieing him up, before he brings you any toys."

"What? But Tyrael enjoyed being tied up." Tails stated, putting the rope and duct tape in her suitcase.

"I did not." Called a voice from the hallway. All of a sudden a crashing noise was heard, and the girls rushed into the hallway.

"Lier." said Holli when the girls found Tyrael sprawled on the floor, surrounded by Christmas bulbs.

Tyrael sat himself up and stared coldly at Holli and Tails.

"I dare you to do it again." he said; Tails and Holli grinned. Soon, Tyrael realized his mistake as he found himself tied up with the string of Christmas lights.

Moments later, Roseidous came bouncing into the room, literally. You see, he had found Ann's stash of Christmas gifts, which included a pogo stick for Stan, and he was testing it out.

"Whooo!!!" He yelled as he bounced past the Tri-Leaders---
crashing into a wall.

"All right- enough of this, are we all ready to go?" Ann asked.

"Our suitcases are in the bedroom, but Tails and Holli just disappeared into the closet with Tyrael." Roses told her.

"Uh oh…did they happen to have red lipstick and green eyeshadow with them?"

"I didn't see."

"Not the red lipstick and green eyeshadow!" gasped Rosey, as he regained consciousness.

Suddenly, the closet door opened and out appeared Tails, Holli, and something….

"Merry Christmas!" Holli and Tails shouted, dumping the thing on the floor. It was Tyrael…only clad in glowing Christmas lights, hooker red lipstick, and green eyeshadow.

Ann and Roses sighed.

***



Twenty minutes later, everyone was seated in Ann's spaceship.

"I wanna steer! I wanna steer!" Roseidous shouted.

"No. You do not have a driver's license. You may not steer my ship." Ann told him, as she started the engines.

"What about me?" Holli asked.

"No."

Holli sat back in her seat and pouted until Tails leaned across the aisle and whispered something in her ear. Then she grinned evilly. Roses glanced at them, but did not say anything. She went to sit in the co-pilot's seat. Roseidous got out his comic books and started to read them, and Tyrael went to sleep.

Halfway into the flight to the moonbase, Roseidous got up to use the bathroom. Tails and Holli unfastened their seatbelts, floated over to his chair, and grabbed his comic books. Tails flipped through one of them and smiled triumphantly.

"See?" she whispered, showing it to Holli. "I told you he had those belly-button exposing magazines hidden in the comic books. He just didn't want Roses or Ann to see them and take them away."

"What should we do with them now?" Holli asked.

"Let's hide them in Tyrael's luggage."

"Okay."

So they floated over to the sleeping Tyrael, hid the magazines in his bookbag, put more lipstick on him, and handcuffed him to his chair. They got back in their seats just as Roses turned around to check on them. They smiled innocently at her.

"Where is Rosey?" she asked. They shrugged. "Okay, what did you do to him?"

"Nothing."

"Then where is he?"

"Right here." he said, returning to his seat.

Roseidous picked up his comic books. He flipped through them once, and not seeing what he was looking for, he flipped through them again.

"Lose something?" Holli asked him.

"Um..." He looked up and saw Roses still watching. "No...I was just...um...looking for the page I was on, I forgot to mark it."

Roses looked at them all suspiciously before turning back around to the controls.

Soon, they arrived at the moonbase.



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