Jack floated down to the ground and let out a relieved sigh, his muscles relaxed and his powerful aurora disappeared along with the electricity. Celestia was the first to run up beside him, “Oh hey, Celestia… oh man guess Magical Mare’s wish came true” Jack chuckled. “What?” Celestia asked curiously, “Oh well I met the Magical Mare and she said I had one wish so I wished you back to life… kinda seems like something out of Dragon Ball Z” Jack laughed. “Dragon what?” Celestia asked and Jack just shook his hand “Trust me, you wouldn’t get it even if I told you” Jack informed her.
“Jack… your power level was… beyond anything known to Equestria” Celestia began and Jack shrugged, “I can feel the energy seeping off your body now… what happened in the factory?” Celestia asked and Jack shrugged. “Okay well for starters the Magical Mar is… was an alicorn but she died, but before she did she stabbed me in the heart with her horn” Jack replied and Celestia sighed. “Okay… I know that you told me to stay behind but” Jack began but Celestia cut him off “Jack… do you realize what the Magical Mare has done?” Celestia asked in a serious tone.
Jack gave her a curious look, “Brought you back to life?” Jack asked. “No” Celestia told him and Jack guessed again “She… died?” Jack asked, a little uncertain of his comment. “Uhm no, well yes but… she gave you her powers to save Hearth’s warming” Celestia informed Jack as the others ran up to Celestia and Jack. “Jack… it is important to know that now you must be the Magical Mare” Celestia told him and Jack sighed. “Yeah well… I… dammit… WAIT” Jack gasped and Celestia gave him a frightened look.
“Hearth’s warming is tomorrow and I just kind of… blew up the factory” Jack said in a depressed tone. “We can help you with that… there may not be many presents this year but there will be enough for all the ponies on the good list” said a small pony elf. “Okay… so where are the reindeer?” Jack asked and the elf led the group to the stables where the reindeer had been kept, or rather it was Pegasus ponies with antlers.
The bodies of the reindeer were strewn across the blood-soaked floor and they had lifeless expressions on their faces. “Well… this sucks” Jack replied, “Jack I have an idea” Luna replied and Jack chuckled “well that’s a first” he teased and Luna gave him a friendly punch to the arm. “You have the power of flight, am I correct?” Luna asked and Jack sighed “Yes… oh no I am not… don’t even give me those eyes” Jack said but Luna began to give him the puppy dog eyes. “Okay fine… just don’t do that… you know that you can get what you want because I’m a softy and it’s not fair” Jack muttered as he walked over to the sleigh.
Luna grabbed a fake Santa beard and stuffed her red Santa suit with cotton to make her look plump like Santa. “Hey how’d you know what Santa looks like?” Jack asked and Luna pulled out a small photo, “Where’d you get that?” Jack asked and Luna shrugged. “Found it in the glove box of your truck” Luna replied and Jack sighed, remembering that he had a record with a picture of Santa on his sleigh. Jack strapped himself up to the sleigh but Luna shook her hoof. “Ah-ah-ah, you’re not getting off that easy” Luna teased and she pulled out a red button nose. “Oh you did not… no I’m not wearing that” Jack replied as he crossed his arms and turned his head away.
“Pleeeease?” Luna begged, “No… I’m not wearing that ridiculous thing just because Santa had a reindeer with a red nose” Jack told her. But she persisted and kept poking the red nose towards his face. She stepped in front of him and gave a pouty face, “You better not shout, you better not pout, you better not… yeah you get the point” Jack replied as he continued to refuse the nose.
Her eyes grew wide as saucers and tears began to formulate in her eyes. Jack grumbled and grabbed the nose and stuck it on his face. Rainbow Dash laughed hysterically along with Pinkie, but the others simply stifled their laughs. “I despise you” Jack muttered, “Oh no, you love me” Luna said as she hoped in the sleigh. “At least I only have to deal with this for 25 more years… then I can just get old and retire” Jack muttered. “Uhm… Jack I have some bad news for you” Celestia said and Jack rolled his eyes, “Great let me guess I can’t retire until I die” Jack scoffed and Celestia looked to him with a small grin.
“Fine 30 years, then I’ll die and not have to humiliate myself anymore” Jack muttered. Celestia sighed “Jack, when the Magical Mare transferred her powers to you she also gave you the prolonged life of an alicorn” Celestia said with a small giggle and tapped his nose “but don’t worry, the nose looks good on you” Celestia giggled. “Great dressed like a clown for the next thousand years” Jack muttered.
“Well you best hurry if you want to give presents to every-pony on the list” Celestia said and pulled out a ridiculously huge list. Jack sighed and clenched his fists, he powered up slightly, just enough so that he could fly and pull the carriage.
“Well giddy-up Rudolf” Luna teased and Jack pulled away, the sleigh wasn’t heavy for Jack but the sheer embarrassment of wearing the nose made him sigh to himself. “Alright first stop… Crystal Empire” Luna told Jack and he pulled the sleigh as fast as he could towards the Crystal Empire, which actually was an incredible speed of over 300mph.
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The streets of the Crystal Empire were empty, “Okay, where’s this house?” Jack asked and Luna shrugged, “It doesn’t say… it just says Hanky Jones” Luna replied and Jack grabbed for the list but Luna tugged it back while she continued to look at it. “Hey let me see the list” Jack told her but she didn’t listen, “Hey, let me see that damn list” Jack said again but she shook her head “Only Santa is allowed to look upon the list of naughty and nice” Luna snickered.
Jack sat down on his ass and groaned, “Fine then, be like that. I just won’t get you a Christmas present” Jack said, Luna gasped and leaned over the sleigh. “You’re getting me a Christmas present… Ooo can I guess… is it a” she began but Jack shook his hand. “Nope I’m not getting you it anymore… to bad cause it was super awesome” Jack taunted. “Hey that’s not fair… come on please” Luna began but Jack covered his eyes so she couldn’t give him the puppy dog eyes.
“Ha… my new shield is impervious to your stare” Jack laughed playfully but Luna lept on top of him and pried his hands away from his face. “Haha, but I counter your shield with my bypass spell” she laughed and Jack wrapped his leg around her hindleg and rolled their bodies over so he was on top of her. “Haha I counter you spell with… run away” Jack laughed and got up and began to run around the sleigh as Luna chased him.
Quickly losing track of the task at hand the duo played together like 2 children in the snow, quickly forgetting about the presents and making snow angels and even a snow-pony. Jack chuckled to himself but then glanced past the sleigh and remembered the presents. Quickly looking to his watch and realizing it was 10:30pm and they hadn’t even delivered the first present. “Oh shit” Jack muttered and Luna looked to him with a happy grin but then she too remembered that they were supposed to be delivering presents.
Luna pulled up the list, “Okay… Hanky Jones” Luna replied and Jack grabbed the list and looked at it. “Oh shit” he muttered as he looked at the size of the list. “We’ll never have this done by morning… figures the Magical Mare couldn’t have given me a map or something” Jack chuckled. “What are you going to do?” Luna asked and Jack looked to her. “Me… hey don’t forget that you’re the one who wants to be Santa so you make up the plan” Jack laughed as he thought of a possible solution.
“I could keep the moon up longer but no later than 10am” Luna offered but Jack shook his head. “That still doesn’t solve our problem… we don’t know where the hell any of these ponies are” Jack replied then groaned to himself. “Alright that’s it every-pony is on the good list this year” Jack replied and he went to the first house on the street. “Luna… a little help” Jack said and she teleported him inside. Jack started placing the presents under the tree when Luna teleported in with him and pointed to the glass of milk and cookies. “Oh shit… I am not eating the cookies and milk in every house” Jack said but Luna zipped over, pulled down the fake Santa beard and quickly gobbled back the cookies and slurped the milk back and whipped away milk above her lip.
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For the remainder of the night and into the morning Jack and Luna delivered gifts to every-pony in Equestria, stopping at every house, every hut and even stopping to give gifts to the homeless. Each house they went into Luna would share the cookies with Jack, for some reason flying and being in his powered up stated burned more energy so he needed a constant supply of food.
As they finished the night in Manehatten Jack pointed to the huge penitentiary. “Jack… you can’t be serious, we both know that those ponies aren’t good” Luna gasped and Jack shrugged. “Why not” Jack said and pulled the sleigh over top of the penitentiary. With a grin he looked to Luna and she sighed as she teleported them inside the prison. Jack and Luna snuck around the prison and delivered presents to every prison cell. The inmates all had a plates with cookies and milk set out in front of their cells.
Jack went for one of the cookies but Luna snatched it before he could get it and ate it. “Hey I was going to eat that” Jack whispered, Luna shrugged “Well… you can have the milk” she offered and levitated the milk towards him. “I wanted the cookies, it was my turn” Jack complained jokingly. “Fine if you don’t want the milk…” Luna trailed off and drank the milk back. “HEY, that’s not fair” Jack replied and Luna giggled.
“Oh you think that’s funny…” Jack grabbed a cup of milk from another jail cell and drank it back. “Hey that was mine” Luna laughed and Jack gave her a mischievous smile and they both began to run around, tossing presents into the jail cells and grabbing the cookies from each other, not really ever eating them just fighting playfully with each other and making a large mess. They threw a present into the final cell and there was one glass of milk left along with some cookies.
Luna looked to Jack who sighed and Luna squealed with delight as she devoured the cookies and drank back the milk. The prison inmate awoke to the noise they had created on their ‘adventure’ and looked at the present on the floor. “Magical Mare?” the inmate asked tiredly and Jack looked over to the inmate. “Nah… I’m Santa and” Jack began but Luna put her hoof in his mouth. “No I’m Santa and this is Rudolf my lead reindeer” Luna said and the inmate nodded and opened his present. It was a pair of beautiful sparkly pajamas. The inmate’s face was expressionless and he looked up to Luna and Jack.
“Uhm… hope you like it” Luna said uneasily but the inmate burst into tears. “I love it… oh thank you sooo much” the inmate cried as he held the pajamas tightly to his body. “Well our job is” Jack began but suddenly a lone light pierced on their bodies. “HEY DON’T MOVE” screamed a prison officer. Jack nudged Luna and she teleported them away to the sleigh.
The prison alarm blared and prison guards swarmed outside and clustered trying to find the invaders. “Luna hold on tight” Jack told her as he zoomed them away.