Sea Swirl, working through a semester on Earth, has no plans for Christmas. A chance encounter with Tempest Shadow might change that.

Written for Admiral Biscuit for Jinglemas 2024 ( group | folder ).

I was given the following prompt, and I hope I did a good job with it. Merry Christmas!

"I'm easy to please, what I like in a story is background characters that never got enough screentime. Heck, surprise me with a toy-only pony, or some other character who's so obscure I've got to check the wiki.

G4 or G5 or Equestria Girls are all cool with me. Likewise, HiE or PoE is good . . . in fact, if it's a PoE and the pony (or other Equestrian) is working a job on Earth, that's super awesome!"

I also modeled some events in the story on the CrowdStrike IT outages. It's not really critical to understand that, but I figured I'd clear it up here just in case.