ONE YEAR LATER: NOVEMBER 30th.

The Smiths began to live for a bit in Los Santos, taking Floyd's old apartment which was still left abandoned after the incident.. Sally and Dash ended up returning too, but sadly the Griffins decided not to stay and returned to Road Island.
As the holidays approach, Steve becomes a brat and Stan takes him to see his grandfather to be scared straight. Jack is actually still alive, but I’m still keeping that earlier joke, as I like it. Grandpa Jack tells Steve the story of Krampus, who punishes the naughty children at Christmas and Steve refuses to buy into it. Jack also tells how he captured Krampus and keeps it in a copper pot in the basement, which nobody believes.

Steve starts opening his gifts early and Stan tries to hide them in the basement. There, he is called to by the trapped Krampus (who's real after all) and he talks Stan into being let out to punish Steve, but instead he immediately kidnaps Steve and to get revenge on Jack.

Stan tells his father what he did, but Jack simply says "that sucks".

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In the Krampus' Castle in Bavaria, Steve is placed in a jail. Krampus breaks into a dramatic song and slaps Steve throughout it, for being naughty this year.

However, Steve is eventually convinced by Krampus's talking furniture that Krampus is a good person and Steve befriends him.

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Stan calls up Roger and Trevor to help him, and the three go to Santa for help. Where they are captured by the elves. Trevor is strangled by one, but only says "harder" in the classic Steve Ogg delivery, simply creeping the elf out enough to stop.

Stan explains about Krampus, and Santa agrees to help, but only to kill Krampus. And promises Stan a truce.

The four fight their way to Steve, killing all the talking furniture, not realizing they are innocent creatures just defending themselves (though Santa probably did, and killed them anyway).

Steve reveals Krampus was good and redeemed him. But Santa coldly murders Krampus anyway, which even manages to shock Trevor. He also reveals he lied about giving a truce, saying "now maybe even idiots like you would know I'm the bad guy!"

He then tries to kill them, but Jack Smith makes a surprise return and sacrifices himself to save them. After Santa and his elves retreat, the blood of Krampus transforms Jack into the new Krampus.

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DECEMBER 24th - CHRISTMAS EVE:

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Being Christmas, everyone finally found peace. Sally decided it was pointless to still be mad at Franklin over something that didn’t even happen anymore, and continued being with him (and they later married). Amanda finally started being nicer to Carly, and Dash was still drinking less at least.

However, being both a Grand Theft Auto and a Seth Macfarlane universe, the peace and quiet doesn't last. And though the Smith's new apartment is decked out for the holiday, the family members have been replaced with dummies and the actual family is in a bunker, preparing to go into stasis chambers to hide from Santa. As Jeff goes into stasis first, the family finds that Steve has placed his dummy in his chamber and vanished outside.

They discover through Klaus's inspection of Steve's browser history that he has taken off to ride a Christmas train. They rush out to stop him, but not before Roger purposely activates Jeff's pod to send him flying away.

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Turns out Carly also went with Steve, mainly to keep him safe. In result Michael teams up with the Smiths, though not Seras, he didn't tell her because he felt he could handle this alone.

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Arriving too late to stop the ride, they are dismayed when it returns empty and the parents have seemingly forgotten about their children due to mysterious candy canes that turned out to be drugged.

As they fear they won't discover what happened to the children, Puddin, an elf that was banned from the North Pole, informs them that they have all been kidnapped by Santa. He tries to take them along in a second train, but it smashes into a mountain, killing Puddin.

Michael indifferently said, "yeah, he didn't have any Christmas magic."

With one option left to find some Christmas magic to open the passageway, they travel to Baltimore where Jack Smith has given up on being Krampus and has become a bus driver, although he grudgingly agrees to help them.

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Meanwhile, Steve thinks working in the mines is just a holiday simulation of digging coal until he observes a boy collapse and is dumped into a crevasse. He also finds Santa himself, causing him to hide behind Carly.

Santa at first believes the two were here to stop his plot, but they didn't even know he had one.
When he comes to understand that it was simply a coincidence, he orders his henchman to cut their throats with an ice skate “but make it christmassy, the boy wants a christmas”.

Before this can happen, the armed Elf is shot dead. Blood sprays onto the wall next him before he falls.

"Ha! Magic doesn't stop bullets bitch!" Michael cried, holding a M4 Carbine. Stan runs out and unties them, Santa is about to order them all killed, but the jewels he was searching for have finally been found. Having bigger priorities, he lets them all go, his only request being they listen to his evil plan. They politely refuse but this seems to be all it took for him to order them to be recaptured.

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Regardless of the heroes not caring about what his plan is, he goes on a monologue about it anyway, to harness the powers of a slain Sumerian giant in order to become all-powerful by placing the stones back into the eyes of its stone remains.

He succeeds in doing this, but his plan backfires when the giant is reawakened causes havoc against the north pole, and absorbs Santa into its mouth.

Everyone climbs onto one of the trains to escape, but Steve's flat refusal to have any Christmas spirit only powers the train in reverse, toward the giant. His strong negative feelings soon propel the train at enough speed to sever the head from the giant, saving everyone. As the family celebrates, Steve still has his spirit destroyed so everyone gives him hope for the future, minus Michael and Roger who honestly didn't give a crap, and even bond over this.

Regardless, with this settled, everyone sets off with the surviving children as Jack/Krampus decides to stay behind and take over Santa's castle.

Santa reveals to have survived, leaving a cliffhanger. Only for it to be comedically subverted as he is immediately killed anyway, by falling debris.

Several weeks later the Smiths finally decided to go back home to Langley, offering to take Pink back with them, but she said she had her fill and would rather be home with Carly and the others. Pinkie hugs the Smiths before they leave, promising she’ll write to them.


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