Christmas Truce Submarine Ornament

A small Christmas ornament in the shape of a submarine made out of old shell casings. While a small, artifact this ornament is incredibly powerfull and creates an interesting Christmas case for Pete and Myka. It is one of the few artifacts whose effect isn't negated by Neutralizer when active. It is also very loyle to whoever it choses has a master unlike many artifacts wich can backfire on the user.

Creation

This artifact can trace its origin back to the 1914 Christmas truce, when German and British soldiers unofficially called a truce to celebrate Christmas together by trading what little they had and could make at the time. The peaceful and miraculous time of two sworn enemies coming together to celebrate imbued the little ornament with the harmonious and hopeful energy of the time turning it in to an artifact.

Secret Santa

After the war the artifact went dormant and passed several hands before it was eventual bought by a business man named Larry Newley for his daughter Kallie to ad to her collection of Christmas ornaments. While happy with the gift Kallie was still sad because her father had become obsessed with work and longer visited her or his wife who he was divorced from because of his preference to focus on his work.

While Kallie was home helping decorate the house she wished that her father could be like he used to be when she was little and her family was whole. The innocent wish of the child awoke the artifact which decided to grant her wish and bring her family back together. Using a picture of Kallie and her father that she had hung on it from the last time her family celebrated Christmas together the artifact created a "Santa Larry" has a manifestation of the ideal father that Kalie wished for.

The duplicate went around doing good and charitable deeds to correct the wrongs Larry had committed due to his love of money. It would decorate Kallie's Christmas tree for her when Larry broke his promise to decorate with her and allowed a shop owner to keep his business when Larry wanted to buy the man out. The duplicate also tried to scare Larry in to changing his ways since the man continued to ignore his family the closer Christmas came and the artifact had developed an attachment to Kallie and badly wanted to grant her wish.

The Santa Larry eventually caught the attention of the Warehouse and Pete and Myka were sent to investigate. Since it was a child who had made a wish the artifact had become increasingly frustrated that Larry had not changed his ways and the duplicate began to try and steal Larry's life-force so that it could become the "Dad Kallie deserves". While the agents where successful in driving the Santa Larry off the first few times it managed to grab Larry the third time since the artifact was getting stronger the closer it came to Christmas. The duplicate told the agents it had given Larry enough chances to change his ways and it had lost patience. When midnight came it would drain all or Larry's life force and replace him.

After finding the Artifact in the house on the tree, the agents learned of Kalie's wish to make her family whole again. They also determined where the Santa Larry had gone, to the the first mall Larry had opened before he started to focus on money. Arriving at the mall the agents found the duplicate in the middle of berating a confused Larry as it drained his life-force. Larry was still insistent that he had been working to give Kallie a better life. The agents tried to neutralize the artifact but it was now at the height of its strength and was determined to grant Kallie's wish so that the Neutalizer had no effect.

Both Myka (who had grown up with a distant father) and Santa Larry told him that this was not what Kallie wanted. Larry said that Kallie didn't understand because she was a child, but Myka said that didn't matter because Kallie only understood her father was not there and that was why she made the wish. The duplicate angrily told Larry that everyone, espesially Kallie, would be better of with him instead of Larry. It was then that Kallie revealed herself , having secretly watched the entire thing.

The girl tearfully ran up to her father and duplicate, getting through the defenses that it had put up to stop the agents due to the artifact's fondness for her. Kallie told the Santa Larry to leave her father alone, which confused it and it tried to explain that her father would never change. Kallie said she didn't care anymore and would rather have a dad who hardly visited than no Dad at all. She told the duplicate to stop and leaver her father alone since it was her fault. Larry, seeing his daughter's sadness, told her it was not her fault and and it was his. He started to understand the wrong he had done to his daughter as the duplicate watched and started to glow in a silvery light. Larry told his daughter that he realized he had to be their for her and stop missing out on her life and he should be the father she remembered. At Myka's insisting Kallie then ran to give her father he hug and which was then joined by Mrs. Newman. Observing this, Santa Larry vanished now that its task was done and Kallie had been given the family she wanted.

How It Works

Since it came from a time of harmony and peace in war the artifact has a strong desire to make things in the world better even its in just a small place. The artifact is activated when someone makes a wish in its facinity and the wish must be one that is for good and to make the world better. The closer it gets to Christmas the more powerful the artifact becomes.

The full scale of the artifact's power is not clear but it is immensely powerful despite its small size. It has been shown to create spectral duplicates of people that can interact with the world around them. These duplicates possess the ability to travel as a ball of light, animate objects, and drain the life-force of their physical counterparts (human contact will reverse this effect).

The artifact has an apparent fondness for children most likely due to the purity and innocence that all children possess. When Kallie a child who was sad that her parents divorced and that she hardly ever saw her father anymore,wished she could have her family back again, the artifact was awoken by the wish. Using its power it created a duplicate of her father who would try to get her father to change his ways and even try to replace him. The artifact, despite being aggressive to adults, will not harm children. This is evident when Kallie passes through the toy soldiers manifested to fight Myka and Pete.

The artifact is unique in that it will continue to work even when dowsed in Neutralizer. Myka and Pete believed it was because Kallie (a child) made a wish on the artifact which was determined to grant her wish.