Chapter 2

Battle of the Toys

Lacus was taking a couple steps back as she watched the rats slowly advance towards her. Lacus was very worried about those big fat ugly rats armed with kitchen utensils. Lacus turned around and she ran for the Christmas tree hoping to take refuge behind the Christmas presents, but while she was trying to find a present to hide behind she came across a Nutcracker sitting next to a present. When Lacus walked up to the Nutcracker she recognized it.

"Kira!" she muttered as the Nutcracker came to life and Kira was standing up holding a sword in his hand.

"Huh!" Kira said with a confused expression.

Suddenly more toys surrounding them started coming to life. One toy in particular caught Lacus's attention next. It looked like some kind of a large G.I. Joe Navy Seal commando armed with two combat knives, an Assault rifle, three grenades, and a handgun. "Yzak!" Lacus exclaimed with a surprised expression as the action figure came to life and started flexing its muscles. Apparently Yzak was trying to show off. Heck Yzak even had combat paint on his face.

The next toy to come to life was a very strange one. The Toy was a very cute little home made doll that looked a lot like Nicol. Next to him was Dearka who was a Ninja action figure with black clothes, small Ninja accessories, two Katana swords and karate chop action. The next toy was a pretty fairy with a sparking dress. The identity of that toy surprised Lacus because it was someone she would least expect.

"Ms. Cagalli?" Lacus said with a surprised expression.

"What are you looking at?" Cagalli asked as she shot Kira and Lacus a threatening glare.

The next toy to awaken was Athrun and no one would have guessed what kind of toy he became. "Athrun you are a Jedi?" Lacus said as Athrun was a Star Wars Action figure, but Lacus was wrong…Athrun wasn't a Jedi. He was a Sith lord action figure with dark robes and a red light saber, but aside from that he was still the same Athrun. Soon Miriallia joined the group as a Witch with black dress and a pointy hat holding a bloom stick in her hands. On her shoulder sat a small cat which looked a lot like Tolle.

Miriallia looked at Cagalli and thought "that is just unfair."

Sai and Kuzzey were small army men figures armed with the usual rifle. Lacus was surprised to see all of her friends were action figures. Now that everyone was gathered. Kira turned to Lacus and said "Uh excuse me, but what is going on?"

"Well I wish we had time to explain, but I am afraid there is army of rats heading this way!" Lacus warned as she pointed to the rats.

The rats were currently building catapults out of sticks while at the same time they were gathering large jawbreakers to use as ammunition. Meanwhile on top of a chair the Rat King Raww raised his sword up and shouted "Bring me the head of the Coordina--uh—I mean the head of the Nutcracker!"

The rats started making squeaking sounds as a small group of them started rushing towards the Christmas tree with their weapons raised. Kira and all of the toys saw the rats charging towards them.

"Everyone grab a weapon and charge!" Kira said as he led the toys into battle to fight the rats. Yzak dove into the nearest group of rats and started putting some into choke holds with his arm while he started kicking some rats back with his feet.

Dearka was going Jackie Chan on his foes as he started beating any rat that tried to attack him with some fancy fighting moves. He even sent some rats flying into the air. Cagalli on the other hand was having trouble with the rats as they started laughing and pointing fingers at her calling her names. After about having enough of those rats she walked away for a few moments. Suddenly a large apple came out of nowhere flying through the air. The Apple hit the rats crushing one of them in the process.

Cagalli returned a moment later carrying a large candy cane in her hands holding it up like a large sledgehammer. "How do you like them apples? Here try the candy canes next!" Cagalli shouted as she started chasing the rats the apple she threw missed while holding up the new weapon she had ready to start beating some rats with it. Miriallia was using her broom to keep some of the rats back as she was swinging it wildly in front of her.

Sai and Kuzzey unfortunately were running away from some of the rats as the two were being chased by three rats holding forks. Nicol on the other hand had the rats on the run despite his fragile little body. How is this possible you ask? Well it turns out that Nicol found a remote control monster truck that he was using to terrorize some of the rats with. Nicol was sitting under the tree watching as he used the truck to chase the group of rats he was harassing all over the place. He accidentally ran over a few them in the process.

Last and certainty not least Athrun kept doing a Dearth Vader impersonation to scary most of the rats away, but any rats that dared to challenge him meet with an unfortunate accident. Two Rats were currently running towards Athrun as the Sith Lord looked at them with a cold glaze and said "Retreat now and I won't use my powers on you!" The rats simply laughed at his threat.

While Athrun was closing his eyes trying to use some dark side power he didn't notice that the monster truck Nicol was control ran over the two rats as it passed by Athrun. By the time Athrun opened his eyes he was suspired to see his foes were laying on the ground in a lot of pain.

"Wow…I guess I really do have dark side powers." Athrun thought as he started starching his head.

The battle was going well for the toys, but Kira was fighting his way across the field towards the Rat King himself. After slicing up six Rats to reach the King Raww jumped down from his place on the chair to face the Nutcracker.

"Die wooden toy!" Raww roared as he charged the Nutcracker and the two began clashing against one another with their swords. Kira and Raww fought one another each them exchanged one blow after another. Sparks were seen every time their swords collided with others. Lacus was sitting under the safety of the tree watching the battle between the Rat King and Kira.

The battle was even so far, but that was when Rat King started fight dirty. "Hey look behind you its Princess Fllay!" The Rat King said with an evil smile. Kira turned his head to look, but that was when the Rat King struck by kicking Kira between the legs and punching him in the face. As Kira fell to the ground he too retaliated with a dirty trick of his own. He took his sword and he chopped off the tip of the rat king's tail. Raww screamed as he looked down at the Nutcracker and said "You dirty little trickster!"

"Gee look who's talking!" Kira mocked as he got up and he continued fighting the rat king.

Meanwhile a very familiar looking rat was running up to Dearka and Yzak holding two Jawbreakers in his hands. It was Azrael, and the rat hit both toys in the head with the Jawbreakers. Azrael hit them so hard that both candy pieces to break over their heads. Instead of getting knocked out the two toys turned around with very angry expressions as they looked down at Azrael.

"Mommy." Azrael squeaked as Yzak punched the rat in the face so hard that some of his teeth flew out of his mouth.

Then Dearka finished the job by kicking Azrael so hard that the rat was sent flying across the room and was sent tumbling down the stairs into the basement, and for a rat that was a long way down.

While Kira was still fighting Raww the masked king of the rats shouted "Shani, Crot, Orga get over here now!" But no one came. "Where the hell are those three?" Raww thought as he and Kira fought. Speaking of which Shani, Crot, and Orga were in the kitchen to satisfy their endless addiction to sugar. Currently the three rats were having a cookie eating contest.

"3…2…1…GO!" the three shouted as each rat ate its own container of cookies trying to see how could finish them first.

After the three ate their share of cookies Shani won the contest. All three rats climbed out of the containers and started burping. Crot and Shani's burps were light, but Orga's burp was so loud that it caused a glass jar near by to burst into pieces.

"Nice one"! Crot complimented.

"Thanks!" Orga replied.

"What next!" Shani asked his friends.

"Candy!" Crot shouted happily.

"Yeah!" the other two rats shouted with glee.

Back at the battle some of the toys were getting pushed back by the rats as they were starting to fight back. However Dearka and Yzak were still holding out as Dearka was creating a pile of knocked out rats that were beaten senseless while Yzak was using two small rats like a pair of Nunchucks beating back the other rats.

Kira was starting to have trouble with Raww as the masked rat's attacks were becoming fiercer by the second. Lacus saw what the battle wasn't going so well. She knew if they only had some extra help they could win the battle. That was when Lacus got an idea. Lacus suddenly ran off behind some presents and disappeared.

Moments later Kira and Raww were fighting on top a table and the Rat King had knocked Kira's sword out of his hand and forced Kira over the side. Now the nutcracker was holding onto the edge of the table for the shake of his life. Raww stood in front of the Nutcracker looking down on him with an evil smile.

"This is where it ends Nutcracker." Raww said as he raised his sword ready to finish the job.

That was when Lacus reappeared, but only this time she wasn't alone. "Charge!" Lacus shouted as every Haro she had started bouncing out towards the rats. The cavalierly had arrived or rather a small army of Haros were coming to take care of the rats. The Haro now outnumbered the rats and since they were so large the rats dropped their weapons and started running away like scared like children.

"Come back here you cowards!" Raww shouted as his men were running away from the Haros that were either crushing or rolling over his fellow rat soldiers. "Fine run away, but I am going to finish the Nutcracker first." Raww snapped as he turned his attention back on Kira who was about to lose his grip and fall, but Raww was going to use his sword and stab the Nutcracker in the head to kill him.

"Hey…you will leave Kira alone!" Lacus shouted as she gestured for a few of her Haros to start throwing the Jawbreakers the rats were going to use for the catapults. Their target was the rat king. The Haros were very accurate as each Jawbreaker hit its mark. After a couple blows to the head the rat king fell over the edge of the table and he landed on the ground.

Moments later two rats with a stretcher wearing white hats with a red cross on them came and they carried the rat king away. One of the Jawbreakers that a Haro threw went over the table and it was flying in the air until it hit Azrael right in the face as it was falling back to the ground. The rat fell backwards and fell down the stairs again.

The battle was won so Lacus had one of her Haros grab Kira and bring him safety to the ground. Lacus smiled as she ran up to her Nutcracker and hugged him. At that very moment she could hear the Nutcracker calling her name.

"Lacus….Hey Lacus….Lacus wake up." Kira said as Lacus suddenly opened her eyes and she found herself with her arms around Kira's waist. Lacus awoke to find out that it was Christmas morning. Lacus soon learned that she had fallen asleep in the chair she was sitting in last night while listening to the Father Mariko's story about the Nutcracker. When Kira sat down Lacus unknowingly wrapped her arms around him.

"Oh my goodness I can't believe I fell asleep like. I am sorry Kira." Lacus spoiled with an innocent smile.

"It ok Lacus. You were sleeping so peacefully that we didn't want to bother you." Kira said with a smile.

At that moment Athrun and Father Mariko emerged from the kitchen with confused expressions on their faces. Kira and Lacus looked at them until Lacus asked "What is wrong you two?"

"Well you are going to find this hard to believe, but all of our sugar is gone." Athrun answered.

"Not only that. The cookies and the candies we had for the Christmas party are gone as well." Father Mariko said with a sad expression.

"What on earth happened?" Kira asked with a confused expression.

Lacus started to smile as she hugged Kira and whispered quietly saying "Oh don't worry about it…my Nutcracker." Kira was confused as he couldn't figure out why Lacus was hugging him, but he didn't really mind.

At that moment the door opened and Cagalli walked in, but when the door opened it hit a small table with a bowl full of Jawbreakers. One of the Jawbreakers rolled out of the basket and fell on the ground until it hit a rat by the name of Azrael that had just finally recovered and climbed out of the basement and was standing the top of the stairs.

When the Jawbreaker hit Azrael fell back and tumbling down the stairs again after shouting "shit!" Meanwhile outside somewhere in the jungle. Three rats were carrying large boxes of candies on their backs while laughing. It was the most wonderful, but certainty the strangest Christmas Lacus had ever had. However the real question in her mind was.

"Was it all just a dream?"

THE END

A/N: well I did plan on making a short story, but I didn't expect it was going to be this short. Oh well its done. I am not too sure about the humor I did was good, but I'll let you be the judge of that. I am a bit concerned about the toy forms I picked for the characters, but I think the story turned out all alright. Well thank you for reading and may you have a wonderful Christmas and happy holidays.