It was midnight, and Gatomon slept a... sleep of... sleeping... She was asleep. However, this midnight was unusual, for it was the night before Christmas Eve.

Not the night before Christmas you understand, because that is Christmas Eve. It was December twenty-third, basically.

On this night, Gatomon was to receive an unusual visitor.

"HO HO HO!"

"GHA!"

"Good evening, Gatomon!"

"Who the hell are you?!"

Gatomon saw the jolly fat man standing before her. She looked at the catnip. She looked at the fat man. She looked at the catnip. She looked at the...

"GET ON WITH IT!"

Oh, right.

"I am Santa Claus!"

"...Claws? Good plan!"

She attacked. She passed right through him.

"...And I am intangible at the moment."

"Yeah, I got that." Gatomon grumbled from inside the trash can she landed in.

"I am here to tell you that this year, Gatomon, you have been naughty."

"Good, less catnip then, that's seeming a good idea all things considered." She noted.

"...But for each time you abused your powers of hypnosis..."

"Yeah, I knew it, it was going to be something to do with that. Honestly, tell a human you can do that and they try to challenge you into proving they're immune..."

"...And interrupted people while they spoke..." Santa sighed

"Pfft, you're a catnip hallucination, doesn't bother me."

"...You have done some good with your power. For instance, though you have used it for petty self gain."

"Hey, getting Tai to buy me all this catnip wasn't... Oh, yeah. Right. The road to hell is paved with catnip."

She blinked.

"BRB, going to hell..."

She bolted for the door.

"Oh no you don't." Santa grabbed her tail.

"Hey, I thought you were intangible!"

"Only when it suits me."

"Hax." The cat-digimon grumbled.

"But I am here to tell you that if you can perform a single good deed, you will restore your balance of naughty and nice! For instance, one of my reindeer..."

"Oh, I've totally got this, wait here, Santa."

"...Um..."

"Gatomon? Is something..."

"Cat's Eye Hypnotism! Okay, here's the score... Open a digi-port... Yeah see you there..."

Santa sighed. Moments later, Gatomon returned leading a reindeer.

"Okay, Kari's gonna take over!"

"...How on earth did you do that?"

"...Okay, I'll be honest I just had her open a port to go to Finland and we caught this deer. I didn't turn her into a reindeer. But I decided to name it Kari 'cos it's got brown hair like her and I'm kinda fuzzy feeling with all the catnip I took."

"Well, it was novel thinking, but you committed hypnotism for no good reason, theft, illegally passed border controls, and on top of that this IS one of my reindeer already."

"...Where the hell am I, boss?!" The deer said, startled.

Gatomon blinked.

"Holy crap, a talking reindeer. I gotta lay off the catnip. Which is what the road to hell is paved with..."

"You've done that bit." Santa cut in.

"...So, I guess I'm on the naughty list." Gatomon said.

"Oh, yes. Very much yes."

"Crap."