Chapter 11: Christmas traditions

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The Bad Guys gathered on the roof of their secret lair later that night. "Nice going, Fin Bro!" Shark said, lifting Piranha into the air to celebrate.

"But I wasn't quite as ready to celebrate--yet" wolf says.

"Why not wolf" princess asked.

"What if...it wasn't enough"

"What if it wasn't enough?" he said, unable to keep himself from worrying "If folks don't stay home to celebrate tomorrow, we won't be able to clean the city out."

"Wolfie," Snake said soothingly. "It's late. We did the best we could. If not this year, there's always next."

"But as always Wolf wasn't willing to give up" snake said.

There was always more that could be done.

"No," he said. "We-we just need something big to push holiday spirit in the city over the edge."

Shark smiled sweetly. "You can stop dropping hints now, Wolf, he said, nodding "T'll do it. I'll perform my one-shark Christmas villains showcase. I don't know where I'm going to find twenty tons of fake snow on such short notice, but I'm a professional, so I'll find a way."

"One shark Christmas villain show case? What's that?" Princess had to asked.

"You don't wanna know" wolf says.

Wolf snapped his fingers. "Shark, that's it! If we made it snowy, the holiday spirit would be undeniable. There'd be no stopping us, then!"
"Finally,"

Webs whooped. She'd been waiting for someone to make this exact suggestion. It was her big moment. "A chance to hack the atmosphere! I actually have an app for that. We're good with a little collateral flooding, right?" She began to type away, preparing for the very hack job she'd been waiting to do.

"Or-" Wolf said, holding out a hand to stop Webs before she went too far with what was surely a disaster waiting to happen. "We just steal the snow machine at the ski resort."

"I didn't know the city had a ski resort?" Princess says.

"It does around Christmas" piranha says.

"And webs, an app that can hack into the atmosphere, doesn't seem a bit...dangerous or villainy"

"We're bad guys princess, it's what we do"

"Don't you mean used to do" snake reminded webs, "we had a daughter Noel he used his trail to brush princess head and ears, "we can't risk that"

"Ok a reminder, this was before we had princess and besides at I'm not the only who's been doing the stupid Christmas villain showcase to princess every year for Christmas" he looks at shark who was looking nervous.

"What?" Wolf says as he and snake turn to shark.

"Oh, so that's the Christmas villain show case"

"Shark?" Snake scold him.

"I-geez, well it's a Christmas tradition but at least I'm not the one teaching princess how to hack" shark turns to webs.

"What?"

"Oh yeah well at I don't steal for princess huh snake"

"Tell that to piranha who's always singing Christmas villain songs to her"

"Hey"

Soon everyone started bickering at the same time, wolf could see it was scaring princess.

"Ok everyone stop, you're scaring princess" wolf stands up.

Everyone turns to princess to see her look frightened.

"Sorry princess" shark said as he sits down.

"Sorry kid" webs said next.

"Sorry senora" piranha frowns.

Then snake pulls princess closer towards him, "ok since princess can't be trusted with any of you I'm keeping her close to me"

"Princess" wolf grabs her, "if you had a favorite holiday shaved Uc flavor what would it be?" He asked.

"Princess" wolf grabs her, "if you had a favorite holiday shaved Uc flavor what would it be?" He asked

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Princess thought for a minute and said: "Christmas cookies"

"Of course it would anyway as I was saying"

Piranha shook his head. "Even with your driving, we'll never get there and back in time."

Snake, who'd been gazing out over the holiday scene below, suddenly had a different idea.

"What about that?" he said, nodding down at the shaved ice stand on the corner below.

Wolf grinned as he realized what his pal was suggesting.

"We use the shaved ice machine to make snow!"

"Not as exciting as altering Earth's weather through atmospheric geoengineering," Webs said sadly. "But I think I could make it work."

"You used the shave ice machine to make it snow" princess asked

"I didn't think it was possible but yes"

"And did it work?"

"Well you might say that" wolf looked nervous about something.

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