Part One

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All Howard Langston wanted was to get a Turbo Man action figure with movable arms and legs, a boomerang shooter, a rock'n 'roller jetpack, and a realistic voice activator that said five different phrases, including "It's Turbo Time!"

It wasn't for him, of course. It was for his son, Jamie.

Howard had already broken one too many promises with him. This Turbo Man toy, his Christmas gift to him, was the only way to make up for it. Unfortunately for Howard, every single store from Minnesota to Kingdom Come was sold out of the Turbo Man action figure. All that was left was Turbo Man's sidekick Booster (but nobody cared about him).

            Hope seemed to have been lost until Howard met a young woman named Kimbyr who had been Christmas shopping with her 10-year-old daughter, Shyla

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Hope seemed to have been lost until Howard met a young woman named Kimbyr who had been Christmas shopping with her 10-year-old daughter, Shyla. She caught wind of Howard's major dilemma and told him that she knew exactly where to find the toy he was looking for. Howard was so desperate that he didn't even catch the name of the place where Kimbyr told him to find it; he only accepted her invitation to take him there.

The next thing Howard knew, he was the passenger of a bizarre alien spaceship of some kind that belonged to Kimbyr and her daughter. He had seen it outside the outlet mall but didn't give it much of a thought, figuring it only to have been a piece of art deco.

Another child was already there when he boarded: a blond boy who was the same age as Shyla and went by the name of Kevin McCallister. According to Kimbyr, she found Kevin lost and alone in New York City one day and offered to bring him back to his family in her odd alien spaceship, which she called her "TARDIS" (whatever that meant). However, that was three months ago. Kevin seemed to have enjoyed traveling with Kimbyr so much that he's postponed his return home.

 Kevin seemed to have enjoyed traveling with Kimbyr so much that he's postponed his return home

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Howard obviously didn't intend on staying that long. All he wanted was to get to the place where Kimbyr claimed the Turbo Man action figure could be found. When he asked Kimbyr – as a reminder – where they were headed, he nearly blew a gasket after she replied, "The North Pole."

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Howard bellowed with his distinctive Austrian accent. "How did I let myself get suckered into this craziness?!"

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