A Suburban Holiday Miracle Part 5

Todd Manatee was at the bottom of the canal not floating.

Mrs. Manatee, Vanity Manatee, and Hannity Manatee were at Mrs. Hoggingham's house.

Sanatee Claus had remembered his mission to save the Manatee family and had resumed his rescue mission to the pastel town on the edge of the swamp.

At Mrs. Hoggingham's house, Mrs. Hoggingham was being overwhelmingly kind. "Here, try this lotion. I think you'll love it. It's great for manatee skin."

Mrs. Manatee tried the lotion and thought it smelled a lot like barbecue sauce. Vanity and Hannity were already covered in it. Mrs. Hoggingham was heating the giant stove in the middle of her kitchen.

As soon as the oven had reached 350 degrees, she handed each member of the manatee family a thermometer and asked them to casually hold it in their mouths, and if it wasn't too much of a problem, could they check to see if the back burner of the stove was working correctly? So the manatee family with oven thermometers in their mouths and covered in barbecue sauce began to open the oven while Mrs. Hoggingham prepared to shove them inside and close the door!

At that moment Sanatee Claus had looked down and noticed Todd Manatee at the bottom of the canal. He swooped down with his magic jet ski and called out to Todd, "Your family is in trouble! Come with me to save them!" Todd Manatee climbed on the back of the magic flying jet ski and Sanatee Claus and Todd Manatee began the race to Polar Bear Falls!

As soon as she put her head into the oven Mrs. Manatee felt a sharp shove. Mrs. Hoggingham was forcing her into the oven. However Hannity and Vanity were fighting to keep Mrs. Hoggingham from carrying out this barbaric act. "WE'RE ENDANGERED SPECIES! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY LAWS YOU ARE BREAKING?"

Mrs. Hoggingham didn't care. She often walked outside of crosswalks, loitered occasionally at the Seven-Eleven, and had even once used an un-licensed picture in a power point! She didn't care about laws, endangered species or the environment at all! "Fish and Wildlife Department can't save you now!" she hollered.

"You may be right! But we can save all of them!" Sanatee Claus and Mr. Manatee burst into the kitchen. They would have been there earlier but they got stuck in the visitor line at the gate, while Todd Manatee checked his pockets for his ID. He couldn't find it, but then he reminded Sanatee Claus they were on a magic flying jet ski and Sanatee, just said "Oh, yeah. Forgot." and they flew over the gate while a security guard chased them for about seven feet before becoming exhausted and giving up.

Mr. Manatee grabbed Mrs. Hoggingham and wrestled her out of the kitchen. Hannity and Vanity ran to help get Mrs. Manatee out of the oven while Sanatee Claus loaded Mrs. Hoggingham onto the back of his magic flying jet ski.

He flew high over the pastel colored town on the edge of the swamp. Past the gas station selling vapes to middle schoolers. Past a crowd of bicyclists that had taken over an entire road. Past the local school where children were being chased by adults in golf carts. Higher and higher he carried her and finally when he was over the new statue that had just been erected in the town "The Monument to Victims of Botched Plastic Surgeries", Sanatee Claus dropped Mrs. Hoggingham. She cried out as she fell "I'm going to report this to your manager!" and then was silenced as she was impaled on the outstretched hand of the statue which just happened to be holding a scalpel. Mrs. Hoggingham was no more.

Todd Manatee, Hannity Manatee, Vanity Manatee and Mrs. Manatee all hugged each other, very awkwardly due to their tiny little manatee arms. Mrs. Manatee was a little singed, Hannity and Vanity were shaken and Todd was just happy everyone was safe. He knew that no matter what his situation was, or where life would take him, as long as the Manatee family was together they could find happiness. (although they were all still very hungry)

Sanatee Manatee returned to his home in Port St. Lucie, the northern wasteland of Manatee land. He decided to treat himself to a pedicure and was turned away when the shop workers pointed out he only had a large paddle tail. So he went home to his otter helpers and finished getting ready for Manatee Christmas. He would always be watching for manatees in trouble and he would bring joy to brackish water creatures everywhere!