Gift of the Minion

Ryan gasped as the tree bent and a face appeared among the branches and bark. "Do you plan to murder us in our sleep?"

Ryan's mouth flopped up and down like a kid playing with automatic windows. Finally, he found his voice. "N-no. I didn't know you were alive."

With everything from zombified Black Friday shoppers to talking Christmas trees, the holidays can be rough. Picking out that perfect gift for that special someone is a challenge. What do you get the villain who wants everything?

Stickyfingers, Glue's right-hand henchperson, goes Christmas shopping only to find the store overrun with Black Friday shoppers. Normally, bustling crowds aren't a problem for a super-villain, especially one with a history of pickpocketing. In fact, the shoppers might help "donate" to the cause. However, these aren't your normal out of control holiday shoppers-they've been zombified. What was an arduous, yet normal, task becomes a fight for survival.

The most wonderful time of the year just got a little more dangerous.