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The snow fell silently. Trees and houses glowed brightly. People smiled and shopped, buzzing around stores as Christmas neared. The essence of the winter holiday season was in full bloom, except for one thing. There seems to be an extreme shortage of cookie dough!

It started out small. One or two stores were mysteriously missing all of their cookie dough. They of course reported the theft to the police and ordered more. It never showed up! Both stores received phone calls from Cookie Dough Dist. Ltd. reporting their drivers were ambushed and robbed on the way to their destinations. And that's not all! Their distribution center was emptied over night too. At this point the incident has been broadcasted by every news network around the world. Let it be known that Cookie Dough Dist. Ltd. is responsible for 90% of the world’s cookie dough products. The other 10% is homemade. Problem with the homemade variety is that people refuse to make their own in fear of being robbed by the culprits and people seeking cookie dough alike!

Why is cookie dough holding up the holiday spirit you ask? It's only cookie dough you say? Well researchers say that Christmas cookies provide 45.6932% of holiday spirit. The other percentiles include the giving/receiving of gifts, spending time with relatives, and the magic that is Santa Clause. And speaking of Santa, without cookies at every house he will not have the energy to make his rounds. Why not have Santa drink energy drinks? The North Pole conducted a study that proves Energy Drinks are 83.76% probable to cause a decrease in gift giving performance. We can't have Santa under-stuffing stockings can we? So as I've explained, cookie dough is vital to the Christmas Holiday in many ways. The culprits must be put to justice and pay for their crimes.

Finally there was progress made while Old Mr. Watkins was hanging up icicle light's around his roof. Mr. Watkins told reporters he saw a tall green slender being, "It wasn't human I tell ya!", sneaking across the street at Nan's Bakery. The bakery was robbed just two weeks ago. Police suspect the man might have been hallucinating, "I'm not Hallucinating I tell ya!", and that he must have mistaken someone walking by. After long, people knew Old Mr. Watkins wasn't crazy. Sightings of these tall green slender beings began to pop up all over the world. Finally someone who owned a bakery in Berlin, Germany rigged jingle-bells all over the property and caught one of these beings and is being held by the United Nations for questioning.

It turns out that the slender being is an Alien from some planet never heard of before. Credibility of the United Nations instantly declined and public opinion has spread claiming this story to be a hoax and want to know what the Governments of the world did to their cookie dough. It wasn't until spaceships landed on Earth only a week from Christmas that people started trusting their Governments again, somewhat. The Alien spacecraft was reported hovering above the mountains in Pennsylvania and the National Guard was deployed and the U.S Air Force provided air cover. The troops approached the spaceship carefully once it landed and weren’t at all expecting what happened next.

The spaceship door opened and out came tumbling aliens wearing Santa hats and mistletoe around their necks. They also appeared to be laughing in whatever language they spoke in. That's right. It seems these aliens were partying in their spaceship and hadn't realized they landed on Earth. At the sight of the Armed Forces they went down on their knees and started to plead for their lives. One alien got to his feet slowly and stepped forward. He agreed to tell all why they had stolen the worlds cookie dough.

As it turns out, the Alien race had a form of cookie themselves. But the only Alien that knew how to make it tragically passed away recently causing widespread distress on their home planet. They immediately set out to find an appropriate substitute. They watched us making our cookies and even snuck a few off of plates set out to cool. Upon finding that they were almost identical to their own cookies, they made haste in apprehending our world’s cookie dough. This Alien who claims to be the Leader of Aliens offered his apologies to the world which was aired internationally on every channel. But the world still was upset. Christmas just would not be the same without their Christmas cookies. Who knows how Santa will get by. Santa was asked how he will perform. His only reply was the following: "Even if it takes weeks, I'll make sure every deserving boy and girl get's their gifts. I just ask you kind folks to be patient."

The imprisoned Alien was let go and allowed to go back to the spaceship to join his family of Aliens. The people of the world cried in outrage. The United Nations claims that they have no way to charge the Aliens officially without proper knowledge of the Alien race or at least without holding a proper meeting with representatives present from both human and Alien races. And no such meeting would be able to take place until after the New Year. And so Christmas Eve fell upon the world with many a heavy heart due to the lack of Christmas cookies.

At exactly 10pm snow began to fall. It fell hard. And then it began to snow something else. Something that gave the air a home baked sweet and sugary smell. It was actually snowing cookies! Overhead Alien spacecraft were dropping shiploads of cookies! Some wrapped in packages, some not wrapped at all! Some were sugar cookies and others were peanut butter. There were cinnamon cookies and others were peppermint! Everyone awakened to go outside in the snow and began to eat cookies. Later Santa told The North Pole Bugle that an Alien spacecraft drove by while he was delivering gifts and gave him a giant sack of cookies.
The sudden generosity of the Aliens made the headlines and, although the cookie dough was stolen from the world initially, Earth issued a full pardon to the Aliens and invited them to stay on Earth for the New Year!