Driving home Christmas Eve night after spending the day with his family, Anthony noticed smoke coming from the woods. Pulling over he grabbed his tire iron from the trunk and went to investigate. Ducking under branches and moving through the snow he came across a sled and what appeared to be Santa.
"Are you alright?" Anthony asked.
"Oh, hello Anthony." Santa said with a smile.
"So you’re the real deal aren't you?" Anthony asked dropping the tire iron.
"Of course, could you lend me a hand?" Santa said turning back to the sled.
Moving closer he saw the sled had some kind of jet coming from underneath and it was puffing out smoke. Crawling under the sled with Santa he helped him remove the panel to expose the engine. There were melted wires and loose plugs all over the place and he had no clue what any of them did.
"I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing." Anthony said.
"Ho ho ho, don't worry. Just believe in yourself and you'll be fine." Santa said with a laugh.
"This is a Christmas thing isn't it?" Anthony said flatly.
Smiling Santa got to work and he started checking the plugs and stripping wires. Using his pocket knife he removed the damaged parts and rewound the wires and removed the plugs and cleaned them before locking them back in. After several minutes he stopped and looked around the panel.
"I believe that should do it." Anthony said.
"I believe so as well." Santa said with a smile.
The two locked the panel back in place and crawled out from under and Santa leaned into the sleigh and turned on the ignition. The engine hummed to life and Santa clapped his hands together in excitement and let out a laugh.
"Maybe I should try getting into engineering again." Anthony said smiling broadly.
"Thanks for all the help; I couldn't have done it without you. As a thank you, I'll give you your deepest wish." Santa said.
"Never ending bread sticks?" Anthony said feeling his stomach rumble.
"Even better." Santa said grabbing the gift bag from the sleigh.
Reaching deep into the bag Santa dug around for a moment before smiling and pulling out a purple pony. Santa handed the startled pony to Tony and he held her in his arms and the two looked each other in the eyes.
"Twilight Sparkle?" Anthony asked.
"How do you know my name?" Twilight asked.
"You can't be serious; you can't just take her away from Equestria." Anthony said to Santa.
"She's what you wanted." Santa said.
"Yea, but she doesn't deserve to be brought here against her will." Anthony said.
"So you want to send her back?" Santa asked.
"Of course." Anthony said.
"You were always a good one." Santa said.
"Could you do me a favor Twilight?" Anthony asked.
"What's that?" Twilight asked.
"Could you turn your head to the side for a moment?" Anthony asked.
"Like this?" Twilight asked looking away from him.
He then gave her a kiss on the cheek causing them both to blush as she remade eye contact.
"How would you like to go back with her?" Santa asked.
"You can do that?" Anthony asked.
"Of course." Santa asked.
"What about my family?" Anthony asked.
"Don't worry they'll be fine without you." Santa said.
"Okay, I'll go." Anthony said smiling and looking back to Twilight.
Reaching into his pocket Santa pulled out some dust and threw it over the two of them. Closing his eyes he could feel himself getting light headed and losing his grip on her. As he passed out he could hear wind whistling past his ears.
