An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Zombies Run!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Runner Five, Sam Yao, Janine De Luca, Tom De Luca, Maxine Myers, Sara Smith, Evan Deaubl, Jody Marsh, Simon Lauchlan, Ed Harrison, Molly Harrison, Maggie Doane, Chris McShell, Archie Jensen, Paula Cohen
Additional Tags: Zombies Run! Secret Santa, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Magic, Holidays, North Pole, Gender-Neutral Pronouns, POV Second Person, Meant to be a one shot, abel - Freeform, New Canton, Ornaments, Elves, Christmas AU, North Pole AU, Elves AU, Abel Flyers AU, Alternate Universe, No Beta We Die Like Runners, Not Britpicked
Series: Part 3 of Scavenger's Secret Santa Selection
Summary:
It's Christmas Eve, and it's time for the North Pole's Flyer Units to take to the sky, helping to ensure that every child on the Big Guy's Nice List gets the gifts they deserve. These field agent elves train for this every year, and no flyer is as excited and ready to go as Abel Unit's Flyer Five.
All they have to due this Eve is get in, get out, and avoid getting caught up in another "Incident" (or else Flyer Eight will have their head).
They're determined to make sure things go smoothly, but when they get switched to fly the Errant Route (kids to nice to be naughty but just a bit too naughty to be purely nice) last minute and they're given new Ministry-approved flight gear to beta test, they knew it was only a matter of time 'til things went wrong.
They can only hope that Eight doesn't hold it against them. Clearly the universe was conspiring.
Join Five in this re-imagined Christmas tale, facing some familiar dangers and meeting even more familiar faces in new circumstances.
Third year, third entry for the Abel Secret Santa exchange. I went beyond overboard this year with this one. I guess I had so much fun imagining myself flying. I hope @moopledoodles or @mooplethemarsh likes their Secret Santa gift.
No one in Abel wanted to beta this monster of a story, and my eyes would probably bleed if I tried. I worked on this for almost 23 hours straight and don’t even want to see it for a week. So, this is an unrevised, dirty first draft. I hope Sam doesn’t have me on the roster for tomorrow because I’m beat and seeing double.
Maybe someday I might ask for this back, so I can polish it up a bit, but for now, it is out of my hands.
I would like to thank @runnerzero, @notforconsumption, @goblinsharkz, and @puptart for putting all of this together and posting it on the Noticeboard again.
Happy Christmas! Happy Holidays! Enjoy!