A young filly is working far from home for the first time in the city of Manehattan. She's eager to go home for Hearth's Warming to see her family... but when her career is on the line, she may have to make a tough choice.

Gadget is a child prodigy, an inventor, an earth pony, and the youngest employee to ever work at Vanderbull Industries. With boundless energy and a quartet of mechanical arms to assist her in the delicate work normally reserved for unicorns, she intends to prove herself to her mentor: minotaur industrialist Cornelius Vanderbull. However, doing so might mean spending Hearth's Warming alone, away from her family for the first time in her young life.

The stupidly-named holiday side story to The Iron Horse: Everything's Better With Robots!

Robot pony Turing Test learns about Hearth's Warming and decides to get a gift for Twilight and Spike to show her gratitude for all they've done for her, but she wants to do something special. No gift cards, socks, or box of sugar plums will do for this robot! To find the ultimate gift for her first Hearth's Warming, she'll go to the ends of Equestria!

This story is a sequel to The Iron Horse: Everything's Better With Robots!

Hearth's Warming with the family is traditional! A family made up of robots? That's less traditional. Turing Test, the robot who learned all about friendship from Twilight Sparkle, decides to unite her robotic siblings and their creator for a holiday gathering in Mustangia in this collection of silly and occasionally heartwarming vignettes.

What do you get for the mare who has everything? What do you get for the mare who has everything, and has been out of your life for over one-thousand years? What do you get for such a mare, your sister, when on top of all that, you've all the social grace and cultural awareness as a cuttlefish?

Luna figures it might pay to just ask Sunset for advice this year.

This was written for jqnexx as a part of Jinglemas 2020! For more information about Jinglemas, checkout our group!

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A wrathful demon unexpectedly attends the royal Hearth's Warming Eve party. The culprit behind this happening? Discord. But when things get out of hoof, he may be on the receiving end of his 'prank'.

Newlyweds Lyra and Bon Bon want to spend a quiet Hearth's Warming together, but when a holiday-themed monster known as the Krampus shows up and ponies start vanishing, Bon Bon's old monster-hunting agency calls on the pair to stop the creature before it's too late. Can the pair of secret agents take down the Krampus before it's too late, or will their first Hearth's Warming as a married couple end in disaster?

Post Season 9; based on the mythical Krampus of European legend.
Cover image by Colby "Greenfinger" Green.

(Written for the Balloon Pony Holiday Contest)

At long last, after many centuries of neglect, ponies are celebrating the tradition of Krampus Night again.

It's a night when the Krampus, friend to all children, brings treats and toys for all the sweet boys and girls of Equestria.

And the naughty ones? Well, the toys have to come from somewhere...

The foals of Ponyville have always enjoyed Hearth's Warming eve, everyone is so cheerful and they get great gifts from their parents. But this years something else has come to pay them all a visit, and it is not happy with how they have been acting. Is hides in the dark and wait from them.

this is a Krampus story, for those who don't know who that is, he punished wicked children.
There is a lot of foalabuse in this story so if you don't want to read that, please don't read this story.

cover art from guterrez on deviantart

Unable to take the cruel and wrongful accusations of her being the secret-posting blogger, Anon-a-Miss, by her former friends and the rest of the students of Canterlot High; Sunset Shimmer runs away vowing never to return. When the true identity of Anon-a-Miss is finally revealed, it is too late. The guilty and remorseful students of Canterlot High set out to find Sunset. Little do they know that their holiday season is about to get even worse. Their mistreatment of Sunset has attracted the legendary punisher of the naughty, the Krampus. Krampus and his helpers begin hunting the students one by one with the intent of giving them a Christmas in Hell. Can Sunset Shimmer find in her heart to forgive all who've wronged her and save them from a fate that is probably more than they truly deserve?

This year, Trixie's Hearth's Warming will involve a freak snowstorm, two Conponies, and high speed sleigh chases, all while being pursued by the Krampus.