Second novel in the Super Santa Holiday Series
// by Mookie Spitz & Rusty Yunusoff

The Fall of Santa Claus

Santa Claus hits the skies this holiday season, eager to deliver millions of presents to Nice children throughout the country, and maybe even a few Naughty ones. For centuries the complex operation has succeeded like clockwork, thanks to his loyal Elf and the entire North Pole operation. What could go wrong?He's seen by a child, for starters! If that wouldn't be bad enough, the child who sees him couldn't care less, and just wants his superhero video game Xmas present. The boy's attitude hits Santa Claus like a ton of bricks: today's kids don't care about him anymore, and are instead obsessed by superheroes!Santa then falls into a slump, giving up on Christmas. The North Pole shuts down, and his chief operations Elf is about to freak out, until he realizes that if Santa can't beat the superheroes, he might as well join them -- and convinces old, boring Saint Nicholas to become a new and exciting SUPER SANTA!

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Santa Claus is Seen Delivering Presents

One of the most important rules of Christmas Eve is that Santa Claus must remain invisible throughout his deliveries. Quite the feat, considering Saint Nick visits millions of homes and delivers millions of presents! How does he keep track? How can he possibly visit so many places so quickly? Not even his loyal Elf will tell!During this fateful holiday, though, Santa Claus wakes up twelve-year-old Tommy Blinken, who sneaks downstairs to see what all the commotion is about. Little does Tommy know that he's the first child to ever see Santa Claus in action. Santa is shocked to be discovered, then distraught that the boy just doesn't care!

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Santa Claus Is Out & Superheroes Are In

Tommy thinks Santa Claus is uncool: an old, fat boomer who is in the way of the present he's brought the boy -- a superhero video game. Begging the question of Tommy being more Naughty than Nice, he's rude to Saint Nick, demands his present, and when Santa is distracted, grabs it from him and tries to run upstairs!Santa isn't having it, catches Tommy, and makes him sit down and explain what's going on. Turns out the truth is worse than Saint Nick ever imagined: kids today don't care about a once-a-year has-been, and instead idolize superheroes who appear on TV, in movies, and in social media 24-7-365. Santa Claus is washed up!

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The World Has Given Up on Santa Claus

Still unsure what to make of Tommy's criticisms, and love of superheroes, Santa hits the skies again, and continues his deliveries. But when he walks by a mirror in another suburban American home, he sees his reflection and shudders! The superheroes are lithe, strong, and cool -- he really is fat and old.How could he have been this stupid and blind! For years he hasn't paid any attention, not realizing that the kids had drifted away. The celebrity status he took for granted was vanishing season to season, and now his demise seems long overdue and inevitable. The kids don't love Saint Nicholas anymore. Santa sucks!

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Santa Claus Gives Up on Christmas!

Christmas Eve goes downhill from there, as Santa's usual "Ho, Ho, Ho!" cheer and boundless enthusiasm dissolves into a miasma of self-doubt, rejection, and despondency. How could he have missed this? Centuries of unquestioned celebrity and attention, all washed away by video game avatars and computer-enhanced actors?His nine flying reindeer know something is up when Santa listlessly steers them all over the cold, dark skies... And they are sure of it when to their shock Saint Nicholas starts tossing bags of presents over the side of the magic sleigh, gifts raining down onto random houses and lawns for Nice kids and Naughty ones.

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Saint Nicholas Falls Off the Sleigh

Crash landing the sleigh in an alley, Saint Nicholas stumbles into a convenience store and stumbles out chugging spiked eggnogg. Depressed Santa then tranforms into Drunk Santa before the astonished eyes of a Salvation Army Santa, who never in a million years would have guessed that this bum is @TheRealSantaClaus.Making an embarassing spectacle of himself, Drunk Santa soon draws the attention of local law enforcement. The police officers also assume that Saint Nicholas is one of many intoxicated holiday revelers, and immediately arrest him for vagrancy, public intoxication, and impersonating Santa Claus.

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Santa Claus Spends Xmas in Jail

The irony is lost on Santa Claus that he's dumped into a drunk tank full of drunks dressed like Santa Claus. Well, it's Christmas Eve, after all, and maybe a bit of good news is he blends in well enough... But millions of presents still need to be delivered! And Santa's loyal Elf will stop at nothing to ensure that happens.Bailing Santa out and detoxing him, Elf does his best to cheer his boss up back at the North Pole, but to no avail. Kris Kringle has shockingly thrown in the towel on Santa Claus, and nothing seems to work to get him out of his locked bedroom, back on his magic sleigh, and finishing his already late Xmas Eve deliveries...

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Elf to The Rescue! If He Can't Beat 'Em...

The broken North Pole clock isn't ticking, but the rest of the world is already starting to wonder WTF happened to Santa Claus. Where are the millions of deliveries, which are already late with only a few hours left until dawn of Christmas Day? Near desperation, Elf tries everything to get Santa out of his bedroom.Inspired by the Arctic's Chief Toy Designer, Charlie, an amazing idea occurs to Elf: if today's kids love their superheroes and video games, and consider Santa Claus old, fat, and boring, then how about making Saint Nicholas and his Christmas Eve deliveries cool again by turning him into SUPER SANTA?!

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