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"Ho, ho, ho! Santa's here." Davenport greets as he enters the house with bags in his hands.

"I'm not sitting on your lap," Leo tells him. "Just hand out the gifts."

Davenport laughs as he rummages through the bag. "Presenting this holiday season's hottest new action figures: Adam, Bree, Chase, and Harley!" He pulls out four small action figures of the bionic teens. It looked almost exactly like them, wearing their mission suits.

"Wow!" Bree and Harley exclaim as they grab theirs.

"Cool!" Chase says as he takes his.

"Toys!" Adam exclaims as he quickly reaches over to grab his. 

"They're so cute!" Tasha gushes.

"Yeah. Now that the world knows and loves you guys, a toy company was eager to pull one of these in every kids' stocking for a small licensing fee." Davenport explains with a grin as he points to himself.

Leo clears his throat. "Didn't they forget about a certain someone?" Davenport gives him a look. "I'm just saying, this face would look dashing in molded plastic. It appeals to children of all ages."

Davenport places his hand on Leo's shoulder. "Leo, we agreed to keep your bionics' a secret. Besides, this is about Adam, Bree, Chase, and Harley." He pulls out another action figure. "And me!" Leo gives him a look as Davenport plays with his action figure, making it do ninja moves and flips. "What? It comes free with the set."

"Right, because no one would actually pay for you," Bree says.

"Look, Chase." Adam grabs his brother's action figure. "Yours is life-sized."

Chase gives him a look before picking up Adam's. "Oh, and look. Adam's head is hollow, just like the real thing."

"It's not hollow." Adam frowns. "It's filled with potential." He yanks his action figure out of Chase's hand.

"Wait, potential?" Bree questions. "More like air."

As the three siblings began to bicker with each other, Harley stands up and helps Leo with the Christmas tree. As Tasha scolds the three about how they needed to think about others, Leo whispers to Harley. "Hey, is everything okay?"

As she places a decoration, she turns to Leo. "Yeah, I'm perfectly fine." She sighs when he gives her a look. "I'm fine, Leo. I promise. Actually, ever since I've given the necklace back to Chase, I've felt good."

Leo nods. "Well if you ever need to talk to someone or hit someone, please make sure you hit my right arm, not the left." Harley chuckles as she nods before the two continue to decorate the tree. 

"Since that little self-involved side trip is over." Davenport's voice was heard, causing Harley to turn around. "Check this out!" Tasha's jaw drops offensively as her husband shoves her out of the way. "Your action figures are now second place on the holiday gift bestseller list."

"Second place?" Chase repeats. "What's first?"

Davenport looks at his phone. "A toy called the Nerble."

"The Nerble?" Harley questions as she steps closer. "The furry orange ball? Who would pay for that stupid thing?"

"Nerble, Nerble, Nerble..." They hear Adam repeat as he bounces the Nerble. He looks up at them staring at him. "What? It has fur and rubber. What else do you need in life?"

"Ooh, Donald!" Tasha spoke. "I bet the kids at the charity drive would love some of your old toys."

Davenport slightly laughs. "Tasha, they're not toys. They are scientific inventions --" He stops talking when Tasha runs out of the room, him chasing after her. "Don't touch my toys!" 

"The only reason the Nerble is outselling us is that our action figures don't have any cool features," Chase explains to them.

"But a furry, rubber ball with one eye does?" Bree asks, turning towards Adam.

"See?" She gets it." Adam says. 

"You know what would make your toys number one? Drop a little dab of Dooley in that fun pack." Leo suggests before doing a weird dance. 

"Or," Chase starts. "We can make better prototypes and get the toy company to sell them. Then, we'll be number one instead of the stupid Nurble."

Bree scoffs. "You guys are ridiculous."

"Yeah." Harley agrees. "Who cares if a little toy is beating us?"

"Well, I care," Chase says. "We're heroes. We should be number one. I don't see any furry, rubber balls saving the world."

"No, but they do bring the world joy," Adam says.

"How?" Chase questions.

Adam throws his Nerble at Chase. It hits him in the gut hard, Chase letting out a groan and hunching over in pain while holding his stomach. Leo laughs as Harley and Bree tried their best not to laugh as Chase fell to the ground.

"See? Joy." Adam shrugs before fist-bumping Harley and Bree.

***

Adam, Bree, and Harley enter the lab to see Chase looking at the four action figures.

"Look, guys, I just finished improving our action figures with some cool new features." He informs them. "Check out Adam's."

"Activating heat vision." Adam's action figure says.

Chase smiles as Adam spoke. "Okay, now show me the cool thing you added."

"And Bree's."

"Activating super-speed. Whoosh whoosh, whoosh whoosh." Bree's action figure says.

"And finally Harley's."

"Activating lightning fingers." Harley's action figure says.

"Yeahhhh, no." Harley crosses her arms.

"Well, check this out." Chase starts. He grabs his action figure.

"Calculating GPS coordinates." Chase's action figure says.

"Oh, Chase, how can I put this in a way that won't hurt your feelings?" Adam questions. "You're the worst person that's ever been born, and this is the biggest waste of time and money I have ever seen."

"These are no better than the originals," Bree tells her brother, and Harley nods in agreement. 

"Hello?" Chase questions. "Did you not hear the 'whoosh-whoosh, whoosh-whoosh'?"

"Look, if you're gonna soup these things up, at least add some real super-speed to mine," Bree suggests. "Oh, and super agility. Oh, and hair extensions!" The three give her a look. "Well, I'm just trying to keep it real."

"What I think Bree is trying to say is, our fans are awesome, so they deserve action figures that are awesome," Adam explains.

"But they're toys," Chase says. "It's not like I can put actual bionic abilities in them."

"Sure you can." Adam shrugs. "We have a lab, you have no life -- get to work." He pats Chase's shoulder before following Bree out, Harley behind him.

***

"The Nerble stared down on us from its perch on the number one spot," Chase says as there were three action figures of the four bionic teens. "But we would not back down. No, we wouldn't -- because we're strong!"

"And boring," Adam interjects. "Get on with it."

"All right, now watch what happens when I press this button." Chase presses a button on the back of the Adam action figure and lasers shoot out of its eyes, causing an explosion nearby to happen.

"Oh, cool!" Adam exclaims. "I wish I could do that."

"And check this out." Chase presses a button on the back of the Bree action figure and it instantly runs off by using super-speed.

"Woah, look at that little momma go!" Bree happily exclaims. "You are going down, Nerble!" She looks over at Harley who gave her a look. "Uh, not that I care, because I don't."

"Now, onto Harley's..." Chase presses the same button the other action figures had and the action figure of Harley had electricity shoot out of its fingers.

"Wow, it's almost like I could do that." Harley sarcastically gasps. "Oh wait, I can."

Chase gives her a look. "Watch this." Finally, he presses the button on the back of the Chase action figure and it shot into the air, flying around the four bionic teens. "So realistic, right?"

"You can't fly." Adam simply says.

"Toy me can fly! End of discussion." Chase says.

"Look out!" Bree yells, and the four bionics duck down as the Chase action figure flies past their head.

"Chase, kids can't play with these toys," Harley tells him once they stood back up. "They're too dangerous."

"Oh, come on, they're not that dangerous --" He was cut off as Adam accidentally activated the Adam action figure's heat vision where lasers shot out of its eyes and aim at the tips of Chase's hair. As he pats away the smoke, he sighs. "Okay, I see your point," Harley smirks. "Just put them in here. I'll get rid of them." He picks up a box and sets it on the desk.

"Aww. But I like him." Adam pouts as he brings the Adam action figure to his chest and pats the back, activating the lasers and hitting his chest. "Ow!" He looks at the action figure. "Traitor!" Another explosion went off as Adam threw the action figure. "Yeah, you should probably get rid of those."

***

As Adam, Bree, and Harley were talking over by the chairs in the lab, Chase walks over to them when he entered. "Hey, guys, I finally figured out how we can top the Nerble. Instead of giving our real bionic abilities, we can just get --" He stops when he grabs the now empty box the action figures were in. "Hey, what happened to the action figures?"

"Well, I don't know about mine, but yours is probably somewhere doing homework," Adam tells his brother.

"I don't get it. There were right here." Chase says confused.

Bree's cell phone beeps. "Uh, guys? You might want to see what Tasha just posted." She shows them the screen which reveals her holding the bionic action figures with a caption reading, "At the toy drive. Giving is so much fun."

"Oh, no! Tasha took our action figures to the toy drive!" Chase exclaims. "Those things are deadly weapons!" 

"Don't just stand there, Chase, fly us to the school!" Adam yells, receiving a look from the three. "Oh, wait..."

Harley groans. "Come on." She grabs ahold of the three siblings and geo-leaps them to the school.

***

"Tasha!" Chase yells at the woman when they found her in the hallway.

She turns to them with a smile. "Hey, guys, what a wonderful surprise." She gushes. "Did you come to help me with the toy drive?"

"Of course not," Bree replies. "Uh, where are the action figures?"

"I just handed them out to the kids." She tells them, then receives a shocked look from the four bionic teens.

"What?" Bree questions. "Why would you do that?"

"I assumed you left them in that old box to donate," Tasha answers. "The kids just love them. Mostly because they ran out of Nerbles."

The four ran to the entrance of the cafeteria doors. 

We have to get them back!" Chase tells them.

"Well, at least they haven't found the button yet," Harley says.

"What button?" Tasha asks. As soon as she asked, a little boy who had an Adam action figure pressed the button and lasers shot out of its eyes.

"That button." Bree nervously replies.

As Tasha gives them a look, Harley spoke. "Hey, this wouldn't happen if you went down to the lab and grabbed the action figures. I say we ban you from the lab." 

"This is a disaster!" Chase shouts before entering the cafeteria.

"Yeah. I'm gonna go home to play with my Nerble." Adam says and was about to walk away when Bree and Harley grab his arm to pull him into the cafeteria. 

***

Within a few minutes, chaos happened all around as the action figures were either flying, super-speeding, shooting lasers, or shooting electricity.

"I knew this day would come," Adam says as the five hides behind Santa's sleigh. "First the toys attack the humans, then they recruit the refrigerators and microwaves to seal our doom. We need to stop this!"

"Okay, obviously the Adam and Harley figures are the most dangerous, so we have to get those out of the kids' hands first," Chase explains.

"Wait," Tasha spoke. "What's wrong with the Bree doll?" They turn their heads to see one of the Bree action figures standing while shaking furiously. 

"Oh, no, I made them too perfectly," Chase says. 

"What does that mean?" Tasha questions.

"She's glitching just like we do," Chase explains. "The bionics are burning out the motor." Suddenly, the Bree action figure explodes, causing the kids to scream. "Okay, change of plans. Go for the Bree ones."

Bree uses her super-speed to change the Bree action figures while Harley does the same.

A Chase action figure that was flying in the air started to charge toward Chase. He panics as he backs away and tries to use his molecular kinesis, but once that didn't work, he slams himself to the ground as the Chase action figure explodes as it hits the wall.

"Okay, go after the Chase ones first," Chase says once he gets up.

Harley, who stops using her super-speed to grab the Bree and Harley action figures, turns to Chase. "Seriously, make up your mind!" Then, she now uses her geo-leap when she spots a Harley action figure across the room.

"You know what." Chase starts. "Just get them all." He grabs ahold of a Chase action figure that flew right at him and starts punching it but falls to the ground before slamming the action figure.

"Merry Christmas!" Tasha exclaims to the children as she directs them out of the cafeteria.

Harley and the two other Davenport teens walk up to Chase with all bionic action figures.

"I think we got them all," Adam says.

"I only count eleven," Chase says. "We're missing one."

"I'll check the hallway." When Adam went into the hallway, he found one of his action figures on the bench.

"Adam, be careful," Chase warns. "He's unstable."

"So am I." As the action figure shoots lasers out of its eyes, Adam quickly rolls on the ground before using his heat vision to shoot the action figure with his lasers.

"Nice shot!" Harley exclaims to the oldest Davenport.

"You nailed it!" Bree adds.

Adam frowns as he grabs the action figure's body with one hand and its head in the other. "Why is it you always hurt the ones you love?"

"I'm gonna need you guys to clean this up," Tasha tells the four as a burnt Christmas tree in the background falls to the ground.

"Tasha, it's Christmas." Adam starts. "Stop thinking about what you need and start thinking about others."

***

"Great. You ruined the toy drive." Tasha complains.

"It's not totally ruined," Adam says. "The kids can still have fun with these melted action figures." As he places the melted action figure, he frowns. "Yeah, it's just sad."

"We're sorry, Tasha." Chase apologizes.

"Yeah, we never meant for those action figures to leave the lab," Bree says.

"What I think she's trying to say is, this is all your fault," Adam tells the woman.

"I just feel bad for the kids." Tasha frowns. "They have no gifts. And they were so excited when I told them they were going to play with your action figures."

"I just wish there was some way that we could make it up to them," Harley says.

"Maybe there is," Chase spoke.

Later, a few children were with Adam as they directed his head to use his heat vision to shoot lasers at the throwing frisbees, Bree was using her super-speed to give kids piggyback rides, Harley was using her lightning fingers to shoot empty cups across the room, while Chase, he was having kids flap his arms, hoping he would fly.

"For the last time, I can't fly!" Chase exclaims at the kids who didn't stop flapping his arms.

"Eat your heart out, Nerble." Tasha smiles as she sat in Santa's sleigh with a Santa hat on her head.

***

Christmas night, all the family was gathered around the couch in the living room as Tasha spoke to her mom. "I, for one, am relieved you know about Leo's bionic arm. Now I can stop lying to you." When Rose gave her a look, she stutters. "About the fact that I've been lying to you."

Davenport gives Rose a gift.

"Oh, what's this?" Rose questions as she looks inside the bag.

"Hmm, knowing him, it's either cheaper or re-gifted." Adam pipes up. 

"It's just a little something. Merry Christmas, Rose." Davenport smiles as she pulls out an action figure that looked like her. 

"A Grandma Rose action figure!" Tasha exclaims. "Donald, that is so sweet of you."

"It's so stiff and lifelike," Chase says but stops when Rose gives him a look. "Because of its warmth and charm." Harley rolls her eyes with a smile.

"Hey, why is she wearing a mission suit?" Bree questions.

"Oh, I just had a new head molded," Davenport explains. "I used the body of a Bree prototype that was lying around."

"And it's re-gifted," Adam says before taking a sip of his eggnog.

"Wait, a Bree prototype?" Harley asks.

"Hey, what does this button do?" Rose asks, pushing the button.

"Oh no! Everybody get down!" Chase yells as he grabs the Grandma Rose action figure and throws it toward the kitchen. Harley and Bree hid each other as the others hit the ground. Once the action figure hits the ground in the kitchen, it explodes.

"You're right, he is a bad father," Leo tells his grandma.

***

Later that night, as everybody else was upstairs, Harley went downstairs to find Chase in the lab.

"Hey." 

He looks up and softly smiles. "You're talking to me now?"

Harley shrugs. "Well I mean it's Christmas. Might as well." She chuckles. "Actually, I have a gift for you." She reveals a small box that was hiding behind her back. 

"You got me something?" He asks shocked.

"Yeah." Harley nods. "We may have not been talking to each other for a while, but we always got each other presents." At his shocked face, her eyes widen. "But it's okay if you didn't! I just thought it would be nice to get you something."

Chase shakes his head. "No, it's not that. It's just... I thought I ruined our... whatever we have by showing an interest in Sabrina. I was just upset. I believed that you moved on when you wanted your space, so I tried to move on as well. Then, we got into our fight and you returned the necklace and it sucked. I need you in my life, Harley. You mean everything to me." He lightly smiles. "Which is why I got you this." 

Before he could walk away, Harley grabs his arm to pull him back. "Can I give you your gift first? I've been waiting to see your reaction." 

Chase chuckles as he accepts the gift from her hands. He pulls the top part off and quietly gasps. "You got me an EPhone 7?"

Harley smiles. "I thought it wasn't fair that Caitlin broke your phone that one day and you weren't able to get a new one, so I bought you one. And you better love it because I spent half my paychecks on that."

He sets the phone down on the desk and looks back at the girl. "I do love it. Thank you." He goes over behind the cyber desk and picks up a bag. "Now this took months to make. Here." He hands her the bag. "Be careful. It's fragile."

The Johnson girl nods before digging her hand through the bag and she felt something like glass. She carefully picks it up and pulls it out. The moment she saw it, she gasped and tears filled her eyes. "Chase... you didn't." It was a snow globe. The one she had in memory of her biological father before he died, to be exact. "B-But it was broken. Shattered. How did you --"

"I had Douglas help me repair it. He told me about how much it meant to you and how devasted you were when one day you and Marcus were playing and accidentally broke it. So, I wanted to do something for you." As he saw the tears fall down her cheeks, he became worried. "Oh, um, should I have not done that? Do you not like it? Is it --"

"No." She cuts him off as she looks up from the snow globe to meet his eyes. "It's perfect. Thank you." She sets down the snow globe on the desk and steps closer to Chase until she could wrap her arms around his neck. He immediately reacts and

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