It is a cold and snowy Christmas Eve, and the Mane 6 are preparing the town for a glorious Christmas Day while everypony else is asleep. Of course, Rarity is in a lavish coat and scarf.

"Ohh, how much longer do we have to stay out here? A pony like me needs to get her beauty sleep, you know."

"We're here until the job is done, Rarity," Twilight replied. "Now, let's get down to jobs. Applejack and Pinkie Pie, you go find a tree."

"We'll find the best darned tree in all of Equestria," said Applejack.

"Ooh! Can we get a candy tree?" Pinkie asked.

"Naw, Pinkie. You'll have plenty o' that in your stocking."

"Rarity and I will be in charge of décor and lights," Twilight continued.

"And I have the perfect design! 10,000 lights, each a different color, 100 feet of garland. No! 1,000 feet of garland! And maybe there, a gigantic, robotic-"

"Here are the decorations, Rarity." Twilight dropped an old plastic box full of them.

"Well…I suppose I can do with that." There was a long pause.

"Aren't you gonna dig in?" Twilight asked.

"Well, not right away. There could be spiders in there," Rarity replied.

"Okay…and Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash will be in charge of distributing presents to boys and girls in Ponyville."

"Doesn't Santa do that?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh, come on, Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash replied. "Everypony knows Santa's not real."

"He's NOT?" Fluttershy and Pinkie exclaimed.

"No, just a story our parents used to get us to be good and go to bed on time. Right, Applejack?"

Applejack looked very nervous and had very shifty eyes.

"Come on, Applejack. You know you can't tell a lie."

"Um…well, it's…kinda…um…just don't tell Apple Bloom, okay? She's really wantin' her cutie mark fer Christmas."

"Alright, everypony. Let's get a move on. We've got seven hours until daylight."

Everypony did as they were told and headed off in different directions, except for Twilight and Rarity.

"Rarity, why are you worried about spiders when you can just use magic?"

"Even the thought of spiders scares me."

Twilight groaned and lifted up the lights.

"Twilight, what in Equestria are you doing?! Everypony knows you don't put the lights up first."

"It really doesn't matter-"

"Here, let me do this."

Rarity started decking the City Hall, and Twilight knew she was in for a long night.