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[[When is a Gundam no longer a Gundam?

When it's a Christmas Tree!

For a week the Gundam Spiegel has been in the hangar, but today, without warning, it's not a Gundam-sized Christmas tree... mostly red and yellow lights, but, HEY NEO-GERMANY after all!

And the star of the tree? When is a star not a star?

When it's (say it with me now, all together) Schwarz Bruder!

And here he comes leaping down from atop the tree! Carrying a sack of gifts. Is this why we haven't seen him since he mysteriously arrived last week?

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[Suddenly, a very confused Lan.]

N... ninja? A Christmas ninja? What is going on?

Fret not, this isn't a traditional custom. Simply my own way of doing things.

Oh... well. Madoka said nothing about Christmas having shadowy assassins, so it could not have been traditional.

What are you going to do, then?

Why, deliver Christmas Cheer to those in need.

[[And here is a letter for Lan, in a spiffy red ribbon.]]

What is this? Is it for me? Thank you.

[Lan opens the letter.]

[[The letter is pretty old, but it's got pretty decent pencil drawings of the 3 Vox machines and random flowers all around. There's also a thank you letter for preventing their city from being destroyed. Fanart, even if it's not the best, or most accurate. You draw what you can!]]

Ah!

[Reading the letter, Lan almost locks up.]

I... only did what a member of Jersey Club would do.

[Trying not to sniff or cry. What, is that all it takes to make the wan tear up?]

[[Logical. One doesn't expect letters from the children like to those of Santa. Nor does anyone expect Ninja Santa either...]]

You did what any good person would do in your position.

You too? We've been having a lot of Santas this year.

There are a lot of people still left in this year, and who is in more need of the Holiday Cheer than those protecting this world!

Fair enough. What kind of gifts are you giving out to cheer people up, then?

Those that pilots on this ship would not expect!

[[Not an item, but a letter in a spiffy red ribbon.]]

You're right. I didn't expect this.

[Werter reads the letter.]

[[It's not a very complex letter. So un-complex that it's done in crayon.]]

"ThAnK YoU foR saving my dADDy"

[[As well it is a crayon drawing of some family, mom dad and little boy, and a crude drawing of what is possibly Prometheus, given it's done in silver/grey crayon.]]

...

I really didn't expect this. This is the best gift I received this year. Thanks for delivering it.

But of course. The pilots here could always know that they really are doing some good in the world.

I always knew that. But this shows it on a more... personal level.

Indeed it does. Even those we've lost or have parted have letters here. [[He's got a rather large bag. Now how does he reach in and just GET the one for Werter?]]

Surely there are some desperately in need of reviving their fighting spirit as well. As such, I've many letters to deliver! Ho ho! Toh!

[[And he's off!]]

[Kamille blinks. Twice.]

German Christmas Ninjas. [He waits for... something, before sighing.] Damnit, this place has ruined me for normal people.

I present you this, who, amongst anyone, is normal?

!

[Laura adopts a defensive posture, that quickly becomes a confused posture.]

...If you're a ninja, wouldn't leaving the presents in people's stockings have been more in theme?

But would that not already be expected of a ninja? If that's what you expect, then it is a ninja's task to strike when unexpected.

That... makes more sense than I expected it too.

Are the presents going to be unexpected lumps of coal, then? Not that half the ship shouldn't expect those...

Much as some people have earned a mine's worth of a coal, I've brought things from those you wouldn't be expecting to get gifts from.

[[For you, too, a ribbon-wrapped letter.]]

From other people? Not from you?

[That piques Laura's curiosity, all right. She unwraps the letter.]

I think I've not been around enough to be able to provide for everyone. So I've let the world do so for me!

[[The picture might be a year old, but it's a crude interpretation of The Great Pretender done in crayons.]]

"You hElped save my fAMiLy. ThAnK YOu"

[Laura was ready to say something, but when she sees what the present actually is her voice catches in her throat. She's silent for a moment.]

...Thank you.

Wh- where did this come from?

A child in eastern Ameria. What few are there, they are greatful.

Wow! Ninja christmas?! That has to be the coolest idea ever!

There are many who agree, young cherub.

What's with the weird red hat, though? I thought ninjas didn't wear hats.

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But would it not be like a ninja to not appear AS a ninja?

However, this is the traditional attire of Santa Claus! The holiday patron of good tides and gift giving.

N-no way...it really is you, isn't it, Sempai...

[A fellow practitioner of German Ninjutsu is leaping into the air to greet you, Schwartz!]

Ho ho! Toh! [[Another leap into the air again, intent on meeting your advance.]]

Toryah!

[The two cross kicks in midair. Any casual observer would swear that the air around them cut to sheer darkness for a second, illuminated by a white flash from each kick. Yuu lands, grinning...and falls to one knee.]

As expected from the man chosen to represent the colony of Neo-Germany...Schwartz Bruder!

And you too have done well to represent the sciences of electromagnetism.

But one must not let simple praise go to their head.

"Stravag! Christmas Assassins!"

Matthew jumps to the wrong conclusion and charges towards the German Ninja at full speed, yanking his whip off his belts and locking onto Schwartz's heat signature!

"Take this!" He cracks the whip at you, trying to seize a limb!

[[Alas, he intercepts the whip with his bag of 'gifts', which EXPLODES into hundreds of letters.

The ninja has vanished, however left fluttering last, through the air, is a ribboned letter addressed to 'Matthew Helmar']]

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