The snow slowly fell from the sky, covering all Townsville in its white coat. The temperature dropping so low that you would need extra blankets to sleep.

But anyway, this year is very special for our dear triplets.

It will be..their very first Christmas !!

The concept of the joyish holiday was foreign to the trio, but Kristina was there to guide them as always.

In fact, Brick, Boomer, and Butch took pleasure in celebrating this holiday they just heard of..

From the crazy snowball fights..

To decorate the Christmas tree..

The triplets were excited to celebrate Christmas. In fact, the whole town was ready to party.. which is why the mayor organised a huge party for Christmas Eve.

The Rowdyruff Boys were the main guests as they were the one who changed the most through the year.
The trio were more than extatic, plus with their new-found popularity and role through the town, they were the guests that everyone wanted to see..

" Perfect !!" The mother smiled as she took a step back, admiring her work as she warmly smiled at her triplets.

" Aww ! You three are perfect !" Kristina giggled, then turned away as she walked back in her laboratory in the basement.
The scientist had just created clothes way much more resistant to the superpowers of her three boys (she was starting to be tired of their shredded clothes everytime they fight or play) and also to resist the freezing climate outside..the style was to die for.

" Oh, I'm such a genius. I need pictures!!" The redhead smiled as she adjusted her glasses back.
" Oh.. I must have left my phone in the lab. Don't stain your new clothes, it took me a while to make them and you need them for Christmas Eve !!" She warned, then disappeared once down.

The three brothers were left in the living room, looking back through the mirror their mother left for them.

" Aww, man !! Look at that. We look awesome !!" Brick commented as he brushed his hair away from his big eyes, looking in the mirror with a grin.

" Yeah ! Mommy really outdone herself !! We look amazing for the party !" Boomer nodded and smiled widely as he checked himself out through the mirror.

" Yeah, but we don't wanna stain them, so let's be very careful.." Butch reminded as he dusted his new outfit off.

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" Boys, have you seen my blue scarf ?" The redhead woman asked out loud as she was ready to leave the house.
Both Brick and Butch glanced at one another, then turned to their younger brother, who was basically cuddled up in the scarf.

Realising he was caught red-handed, Boomer sheepishly smiled and flew to his mother.

" Can I keep it, Mommy ?" Boomer gave his big puppy eyes, making the woman giggled. " It's so warm and cosy.. It smells like you.." Boomer trailed off, looking down the blue scarf around his neck that looked more like a poncho as he was so small.

Kristina couldn't resist such cuteness..the heart of a mother couldn't deny her child from being happy..

" Y'know what ? Okay, fine, you can keep it.." Kristina chuckled and kissed the small blond boy on the nose (well, where his nose should be anyway..).

Boomer smiled and tightly hugged his mother, who gladly hugged back. Brick and Butch peeked from their place on the couch and frowned at their mother.

" Hey, where's our hug !?"
" Yeah !! We want a hug too !!"

Kristina just giggled at how easily the trio could get jealous of each other just for her affection.

" C'mere, my cute little babies.." Both redhead and raven smiled and quickly flew to tackle their mother to the ground.
Kristina erupted in giggles as the trio were basically nudging each other to see who had more space to hug her.

" Hey.. No fighting, you cuties..." She squeezed the triplets in her arms, making them stop fighting and gently squeeze back.

" This year, you three were the nicest boys I have ever seen. You changed for the better.." The redhead smiled as she cuddled her boys in her arms. The trio smiled too as she listened to her.

" You went from the most feared villains of Townsville to the best little boys any mother would be lucky to have."

"You can be proud of yourselves because changing is never easy. Yet, here you are ! You have a new life now, a home, great friends, are loved by all citizens of Townsville, and the most important, a new family." Kristina smiled even more warmly as she kissed Brick, Boomer, and Butch on the cheek.

" You can be proud of yourselves for the path that you choose to take. Change may not be easy, but it was the best thing to do for us all." The mother smiled once more than let down her triplets.

" So, you deserve those gifts.." She gestured to the presents already under their Christmas tree near the chimney. " And they are waiting just for you to open them on Christmas.."

The rowdyruff boys looked up at their mother, then turned back to their tree with smiles. The flickering light of garlands and the warm light of the fireplace lit the room, showing the beautifully wrapped presents under the tree.

" Mommy, are we going to like our gifts ?" Boomer's blue eyes twinkled in the light of the fireplace as he squeezed his stuffed goat.

" Of course, sweetheart. You three will love them.."

The sun rose again, making the snowflakes shine in its light as another day started.

Today was on the 23rd, the eve of Christmas Eve, yet a small redhead girl was already too impatient to wait the big day to open her presents.
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[The Morbucks Mansion]

(Thank frostjaw for the idea )

Princess was quick to get out of her massive bed, running through the endless hallways of the mansion to the luxurious living room. Like every year, she knew that a whole mountain of gifts was waiting for her.

The little girl ran until she saw what she wanted to see, her smile getting bigger as she saw that her Daddy spoiled her as per usual.

Getting one of the presents on the bottom, the massive pile fell on her, but she couldn't care less. Tearing the wrapping paper off, she opened the box to just frown.

Hard and black coal were all she found.

Throwing it off, she opened another and found coal again.

Another opened, and she found coal again.

Another open present, coal, was gladly there

Then- coal.

But-  c o a l,  d u d e.

There's just coal in those, quit insisting.

Anyway, so..

Princess just stared, devastated as tears welled up in her eyes. All she wanted for Christmas was- COAL.

" DAAAAAAADDDDDDDYYYYYYY !!!!"

Her angry yet heartbroken screams just filled the mansion.

Boomer woke up to the sound of..silence ?

The small blond yawned and floated out of his bed while dragging Goatzilla with him. He was confused by the heavy silence.

Usually, his mother was already awake and making breakfast while muttering math equations. But nothing..

The blond got goosebumps by the uneasy silence and went to his mother's room to see if she was awake.
Opening the door, Boomer saw his mom laying in her bed, eyes closed in what seemed deep slumber. He stared at her, noticing that she wasn't making any sound or moving at all, not even the sound of her breathing was heard.

Imagining the worst-case scenario, the blond went to her bed and gently shook her shoulders to wake her up.

" Mommy ?.. Mommy, wake up.." Boomer whispered as he shook her shoulder. He could feel that her body was warm under his hand.

She wasn't dead, just..frozen.

Boomer frowned when he got no answers, then felt the urge to look at the clock.

5:24 A.m.

It's early, too early..

Boomer was confused. He usually woke by the time breakfast is almost ready around 7 A.m. But time seemed to not move at all..

The blond furrowed his brown into a thinking expression. He knew something wasn't right.
He needed his brothers. Maybe they had an answer to this frozen time.

" BRICK !! BUTCH !! WAKE UP, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MOMMY !!" Boomer yelled as he started flying in high speed around the house while screaming his lungs.

It took a few seconds for the redhead and the raven to get startled awake.

Brick was the first to walk out of his room, his face wrinkled into a dozzy grimace with hair messy.
" What are you screaming about so early ?" He grumbled out and caught the blond by his arm as he floated off the ground.

Boomer sniffed, tears already rolling down his round face as he frowned. " It's Mommy, she's not moving !! She looks frozen, and the c-clock is not moving at all !!"

Butch then made his appearance by floating out of his room, too, rubbing the sleep of his eyes. " What do you mean Mama's frozen ?" Butch raised a brow at his younger brother as he seemed more awake.

" She's not moving, not breathing, not making a sound !! It's like she's frozen into a statue !!" Boomer explained, trying to wipe away the tears off. Both Brick and Butch just stared at him, then at each other worried.

" Let's check on her." Brick nodded and flew to his mother's room, followed by Butch who was patting Boomer's back to help him calm down.

Entering the room, he saw what Boomer saw, their mother just laying there.
Nothing was moving, not her, and certainly not things around her. It was as if.. time was frozen in the room.

The triplets looked at their mother,then at the clock above her bed. It wasn't moving, no annoying clicks, no ticking, just staying in one place.

" Momma ?" Brick crawled on the bed and poked her face. Her skin was warm and soft as always, but there wasn't any sign of breathing or movement.

" Am I the only one who feels like we just stopped ?" Butch asked, feeling uncomfortable too of seeing his mom just laying there.

Brick frowned, then shook his head. " No, I feel it too.."

Boomer nodded too, now calm as he realised it wasn't just him. " I don't like that feeling.."

Brick stands there, thinking as he sees the clock not even twitching.

" I think there's something wrong with the time itself.." Butch added as he looked at the clock in the hallway, seeing it frozen too.

Boomer frowned as he looked down the stairs. He went down and then looked around, seeing how things were just there like a picture. Getting his eyes over the Christmas tree, he gasped.

" OUR PRESENTS ARE MISSING !!!" Butch and Brick quickly flew after him to the living room, and, surely enough, the presents weren't there and the Christmas tree was on the ground as if it was thrown to the side and fell.

" Okay, this can't be some crazy coincidence. We need to check something.."

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Our triplets were still in their pjs as they were now flying around Townsville, searching for anything that could show what was going.
All they found was pure silence, everything, and everyone seemed frozen like a picture as the clocks weren't moving anymore. Things that were meant to move even in this early hours were just there in one place.

" Townsville is frozen in time.." Boomer muttered, squeezing his stuffed goat for comfort.

" Look, there's a lot of doors open !!" Brick pointed out as they flew over the neighbourhood. Doors were left open, windows chattered, cookies were eaten..

But the worst: Presents, gifts were stolen from every houses leaving only a mess behind.

It was a pure disaster over the frozen houses of Townsville..

" Isn't Santa supposed to be good and give presents instead of taking them ??" Butch asked as they were checking another open house, just to see the same results.

Brick didn't turn to him as they left the house. " The fat old man is not the one responsible for this.." Brick dismissed as they flew over the city, then stopped to sit on the very top of a skyscraper.

" It has to be some kinda villain, maybe.. Someone who stopped time just so they could steal all the presents without being stopped..but who ?" Butch asked, scratching his chin with a pensive frown.

" Mojo Jojo ?" Boomer suggested with a thinking expression.
" Nah. That old monkey loves Christmas.." Butch replied.

" Him ?"
" He would've killed us and the sissies by now.." Brick stated, making the two nod.

" The Gangreen gang ?"
" Too stupid."

" Fuzzy Lumpkins ?"
" Again, too stupid.."

" The Amoeba Boys ?"
" Are they even considered villains ??"

The trio started getting irritated as they couldn't figure it out which villain who be obsessed enough with presents to do that.

" Oh, c'mon !! Who would crazy enough to freeze time itself just so they could take something they want out of their pure selfishness without caring of the consequences ?!" Boomer complained in a whine as he laid back on the ground.

Then, the answer hit them like bricks. (Heh, puns..)

" PRINCESS MORBUCKS !!!" They yelled out at the same time as they realised who is responsible for this.

Without thinking thrice, the trio flew off the skyscraper, leaving only their iconic tricolour trail behind them.

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" Princess Morbucks !! You better unfreeze time immediately !!" Brick yelled as they broke down the wall in fighting stances.

They gasped as they saw the mountain of presents before them, each of them with different names from all those who were to receive them in the morning.

Princess Morbucks was sitting on them as if it was her throne, shaking a blue present in her hands as she didn't cared about the huge laser behind her which emitted strong waves that was stopping time in the world.

Morbucks turned to them and glared, holding the present tightly. " No ! I want all the presents and the presents are mine !! I stole them fair and square !!" She blows raspberries and goes to open the present in her hand.

" We don't care about what you want, crybaby !" Butch yelled out as he zapped her hand, making her whine.

" All of this aren't yours, and you don't have the right to freeze time just to steal them !!" Boomer frowned and crossed his arms.

" No, they're mine !!" Morbucks whined then growled as she pointed the laser towards them.
" My presents were only filled with coal, so if I can't have presents, then you can't have any either !!" The laser charged then started firing.

" Scatter !!" Brick yelled, and the trio went in separate ways to not get touched.

Brick, Boomer, and Butch were quick to fight back. Dodging and fighting back to not get touched by the laser.

" We need to give those presents back !!" Boomer yelled out, shrieking in surprise as he slammed in a wall after dodging the laser beam.

" I'm okay !!" The blonde shouted after getting his face out of the wall.

Butch yelped as he dodged the beam, then he raised his fist and waved it toward Princess. A green whip emerged from the side wall and wrapped around the laser, forcing it to shoot elsewhere as he forced it in one place.

" Brick, you have a plan ??" Butch asked out as he grunted when Princess tried to tug the laser out of the whip, but Butch kept it firmly as he could.

Brick tried to think, pushing his messy hair out of his face as he wheezed for breath on the ground.

" We first need to set time to its normal state ! Butch, try to keep it still !!" Brick groaned, then flied up again and tried to fly up to Princess. But Morbucks had a step ahead and clicked on a button.

The next thing he knew, Brick was tied down with an electromagnetic rope. The redhead yelled out, mostly in surprise, as he started squirming around.

Trying to use his super strength, the rope only tightened.

" Brick !" Boomer and Butch gasped, the blond quickly flying to his brother's aid as he tried his laser vision on the metallic rope. Unsuccessful, he then tried to electrocute it just for it to backfire as he was shocked.

" I'm okay.." Boomer coughed out, groaning.

Brick grunted, squirming and trying to free himself. Butch was now struggling to keep the laser still, starting to sweat. Boomer was a bit light-headed from the shock but was mostly fine as he was catching back his breath.

" We can't be defeated by some wannabe princess !! We just can't ! What would happen then !?" Brick started