"And this should go over here, and this goes all around the fountain over here."

Rarity was busy decorating Town Square so much that Twilight was just sitting on the curb, bored and freezing.

"Um…do I ever get a turn?"

"Yes, in a minute. I've just got to-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH HHHHHH!"

Rainbow Dash fell on a string of lights, causing them to snap free and the cord wrapping around the wreath in front of city hall, pulling it down and dragging the garland with it, finally falling down in front of the light-up reindeer.

Rarity fell to her knees and curled up in a fetal position while Fluttershy flew down to the rainbow pony's side.

"Oh, my, Rainbow Dash. That was quite a hit you took."

"Ah, I'm fine."

She weakly managed to stand on all fours.

"Do you need any help getting home?"

"No, I'm fine." She silently cursed under her breath as she limped away.

"What happened up there?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight, you won't believe this! Santa is real!"

Twilight sighed. "I know."

"Really?"

"Yes. In fact, he is one of the oldest legends in "Legends of Equestria." I just didn't want to act like a foal in front of everypony else."

"Oh, Twilight, you're much too smart to be a foal. I'm sure, if you believed that Santa was real, the others would, too."

"Fluttershy, you always know how to make somepony feel better."

"We're back!"

Applejack and Pinkie came, hauling the little Christmas tree behind them.

"Applejack!" Rarity exclaimed, horrified. "What kind of horrible monstrosity is that?!"

"What, this? It's a tree." Applejack nudged the tree and pine needles fall off.

"No, no, no, this won't do! Maybe something a bit taller. Maybe 50 feet taller."

"This is fine, Rarity. All we need to do is give 'im some love. Maybe decorate 'im a bit."

"Yeah!" Pinkie said. "There'll be lots of sparkly things and ornaments and candy canes and a star on top! You guys in?!"

"Sure, Pinkie. This little guy looks like he needs some love," said Fluttershy.

"I haven't done anything all night. I'm in." Twilight said.

"Well…" Rarity pondered. "I suppose it's worth a shot." The five ponies put their hooves in the middle.

"Wait just a apple-buckin' minute," halted Applejack. "Where's Rainbow Dash?"

"Come on! One, two, three!"

Rainbow Dash flapped her wings multiple times and managed to get five feet off the ground before making a thud in the fresh snow, still recovering from the effects of Rudolph's laser nose. She shook the white powder off and prepared for another try.

"Hey, Rainbow." Applejack trotted up to her. "We were just plannin' tah decorate the new tree. You wanna come?"

"I dunno, I'm kinda tired."

"Aw, what's wrong? Big, tough Rainbow Dash too tired for a little decoratin'?"

"Oh, did I say tired? I meant stoked! Yeah, totally!"

Rainbow weakly limped to her side.

"Hey, what's wrong? You're limpin' more than a bullfrog at a rodeo."

"Ah, it's nothing. Just a laser."

"Lasers…? Maybe a bump on the noggin would explain more."

"Yeah, maybe so. It was, like, this big, red sleigh, and it had nine pegasus ponies, or whatever they were, pulling it."

"Huh. I think ah heard that story before."

"And one had this big, red nose and shot this huge stun laser. I dropped, like, 10,000 feet down to the Town Square. Fluttershy saw it, too."

"Are ya' sure who you're talkin' about ain't…Santa?"

"What? No, that's impossible."

"Ah dunno. Stranger things've happened."

"So…you're basically saying that Santa is real?"

"Could be. Who's to say that he ain't?"

There was a long, awkward pause as the two looked up at the night sky.

"Ya' sure can see the North Star clear tonight."

"Yeah."

"Ah used to look up at that star when ah was a filly and wonder where it would take ya' if you followed it far enough."

"Probably to Manehattan. Besides, how's that star gonna tell you what's east or west?"

"Hmm, good point…Well, c'mon. The others are waitin'."