It's Almost Hearth's Warming Opal, It's Practically Here!
It was Hearth's Warming Eve; Sweetie Belle had just been tucked into bed and Opal was sleeping peacefully on the end of Rarity's bed. Rarity was in her boutique plotting a devilish scheme.
She had planned to sneak around town, dressed in the finest reverse-heist equipment of course, and deliver Hearth's Warming cheer to every pony in town. It was the perfect plan! Rarity finished wrapping the last of the presents and dawned her fabulous sneaking gear. She threw all of the beautifully wrapped trinkets into a large sack that was made of velvet and accented with rhinestones. Her first stop was Sugarcube Corner.
Rarity gently opened the front door to the confectionery shop with a gloved hoof so as to not leave any trace. She trotted carefully up the stairs to the living space of Pinkie Pie and the Cake family.
Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was fast asleep emitting a comical snore. She suddenly jolted upwards; her eyes twitiched, her front hooves began to tremor, her muzzle was itchy, "Something's off..."
As Rarity was placing new baking supplies and toys down she heard a creaking noise; a door was opening nearby. "Mr. Grinch?" Pinkie whispered from her doorway. Rarity's mind raced with thought of what to do next, suddenly she thought, "The window!"
Sure enough, Rarity jumped out of the second story window, thankfully landing on a canopy.
Rarity galloped around the market area leaving gifts; some imported manecare products for the spa ponies, some nice perfumes for the mares who worked at the flower shop, an annotating kit for the owner of the bookstore, a large bottle of ink for Davenport at Quills and Sofas. She had hit every shop in town in about an hour. Thankfully, unlike Sugarcube Corner, the store's owners were not present during Rarity's gift giving escapades so this devious act went unimpeded.
Then it was time for Rarity to tackle Ponyville's surrounding residential area. First she went to the home of Berry Punch, knowing of course that Berry Punch would be out cold from a night of festivities. As Rarity had expected, Berry was fast asleep on the couch. Rarity carefully set a neatly wrapped bottle of wine from Prance under Berry's Hearth's Warming tree.
As Rarity was about to leave the way she came, she knocked against a chair in the dark. She froze as the sound of the wood scraping against the floor made Berry Punch stir, "I-I'm tryin' t' sleep..." Berry Punch turned to her other side and went back to her peaceful resting. Rarity breathed a sigh of relief and quietly left without anymore issues.
Next on her arbitrary mental list was Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon. Rarity had gotten Lyra a brand new lyre; for Bon Bon, a large gift basket of all her favorite treats. Rarity first tried the front door, most ponies never locked their doors since break-ins were incredibly rare in town, but the door for some reason was locked. Next, she tried the windows; also locked. The only other place Rarity could think of was the chimney. It was worth a shot at least.
Rarity climbed up the house by some miracle of Celestia and was finally before the chimney. All she could think of was all the soot and grime that would coat her nice outfit. She closed her eyes and climbed in muttering, "Ew, gross, ew gross!" the entire time.
She was finally in the fireplace. Now the only thing on her mind was the process of having to wash her new sneaking costume. Still, she persisted and placed the lyre and gift basket under the tree. Now there was just the problem of going back up the chimney. Rarity decided she would just take her chances and risk being caught going out the window.
Rarity was now outside and immediately saw the house of Ponyville's favorite mailpony, Derpy. For some reason, Derpy had locked her doors and windows for once and Derpy didn't have a chimney. Rarity looked around for any entrance, she then spotted that weird box The Doctor had left next to Derpy's house.
Rarity noticed the strange blue box was parked right under Derpy's bedroom window; Rarity had a stroke of genius. She jumped atop the box and knocked on the window which woke Derpy.
Derpy trotted over to the window and opened it, "Oh hey Rarity!" Derpy rubbed her lazy eye with one of her forehooves, "What are you doing up this late?"
"You're dreaming, Darling. Let me in, won't you?"
"Okay!" Derpy opened the window more and trotted back to bed.
Rarity pulled herself inside and trotted down the stairs to Derpy's living room. She pulled out some board games for Sparkler and Dinky, a bag of some strange congealed jelly candies for Doctor Whooves, and a few boxes of muffin mix for Derpy. "Perfect," Rarity commented as she neatly placed the gifts under the small Hearth's Warming tree.
Rarity left out the front door and went to the next house on her mental list: Octavia and Vinyl's house.
She entered through the front door and walked into the two's living room. Octavia and Vinyl were cuddled up on the couch asleep with two cups of tea nearby and a record player emitting Hearth's Warming music. "I bucking knew they were more than roommates..." Rarity said under her breath as she left a new amp and a stack of classical music records under the tree.
It was around one in the morning at this point and Rarity had gotten about half the town thus far. The next few houses were uneventful, a lot of ponies were out of town for the holidays. The job went a lot quicker at those unoccupied residences since Rarity didn't have to be as quiet. That was until she went to the mansion of Filthy Rich.
She was going to use the front door, but then realized he had alarms on his doors. Then she checked for any windows that may be open; there were no windows on the first floor, but the high-up second floor had a balcony. "Things around here can never be easy, can they?" she thought as she climbed a set of supports.
She stepped onto the balcony and looked into the mansion. The balcony connected to Filthy Rich's room. Rarity quietly trotted inside and crept through the room towards the door.
When she got out of the bedroom, Rarity began to search for the Hearth's Warming tree; then she heard a noise from around a corner. She pressed herself against a wall as two security ponies trotted through the halls, "I thought I heard a noise? Weird," said one. "You gotta lay off the coffee there, friend!" the other commented.
They trotted away and Rarity scrambled for a plan. She saw the stairs and made a break for them. As she was galloping down the stairs there was a noise behind her, "Now I'm sure I heard something!"
Rarity rushed down the stairs faster and quickly found the living room where the tree was located. She then ducked behind a large box in the corner of the room.
The guards looked at each other and nodded as they split up. Rarity then quickly threw the gifts for the Rich family under their tree and made broke into a mad gallop towards the door. She then quickly realized there was guards stationed at the door; she galloped back upstairs instead.
When she got up there, Rarity thought about going to Filthy Rich's balcony again, then she realized he would probably be awake at that point. Her next thought was to go to the room adjacent his; Diamond Tiara's room.
Rarity busted through the door and Diamond Tiara woke up in a daze, "W-what are y-" Diamond Tiara was then shushed by Rarity's forehoof. "Tell no pony." Rarity said sharply before bursting through the window and plummeting five meters down. Her horn lit up and enveloped the bag of gifts, she levitated the bag with herself on top of it using it as a floating device. She landed carefully on the snow and galloped away.
Rarity then headed for Sweet Apple Acres. She got there at two and left the Apple family's gifts at the doorstep for the sake of time. Then she was off to Fluttershy's cottage.
Rarity trailed the edge of the Everfree Forest soon reaching Fluttershy's small wooden cottage. Rarity looked through the window and noticed Fluttershy wasn't home; most likely in Cloudsdale with her family or Rainbow Dash. She opened the window and levitated Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo's presents onto Fluttershy's small coffee table.
Rarity looked into her bag, all that was left was Sweetie Belle and Opal's gifts.
Rarity unlocked the door to Carousel Boutique and trotted up the stairs to her home. She placed the few remaining gifts under her tree and headed off to her room. She took off her now dirty and slightly torn outfit and placed it into a basket; time for bed.
The next morning, everypony in town woke up in the best of spirits. In Sugarcube Corner, the Cakes and Pinkie Pie excitedly opened their gifts and enjoyed a wonderful Hearh's Warming breakfast. At Lyra and Bon Bon's home, the two looked at each other with puzzled expressions, "Did you get me this?" Bon Bon asked. "No, but did you get me this new lyre?" Lyra answered. Bon Bon shook her head. The two smiled and embraced. At the home of Derpy Hooves, Derpy looked at her children enjoying their gifts and then looked over at her friend Doctor Whooves, "You know Doc, I had the strangest dream last night! Rarity was there for some reason!" The Doctor was paying little attention as he munched away at his candies.
In Carousel Boutique, Sweetie Belle jumped excitedly on Rarity's large bed, "Rarity wake up, wake up! It's Hearth's Warming!" Rarity woke up reluctantly, "I'm awake, darling. I'm awake."