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Santa looked down at the Quantum Sleigh 3000, then at the lights, then at his marshmallow-fluff-covered belly. The memory of the last forty-six loops suddenly flooded back in a nauseating wave.

“On, Dancer! On, Donner! On, terrifying uncanny-valley robot!” shouted an elf.

“Oh no,” Twinkle whispered. “Not him.”

“It’s terrifying,” Twinkle said.

Mrs. Claus handed him a cup of hot cocoa. “No. But you’re banned from touching any buttons until January. And you owe the elves a therapy session for having to look at the robot Santa.”

On Christmas morning, children around the world woke up to presents. They also woke up to a strange, tinny recording that played from every chimney speaker:

“He used the manual as a coaster for his hot cocoa,” Kringle replied. Santa Claus in trouble... again- Free Download

And back at the North Pole, Santa Claus sat in his armchair, a “I Survived My Own Invention” mug in his hand, watching the sunrise. Kringle walked by, holding the melted remains of the Quantum Sleigh 3000.

As they watched, Santa vanished in a flash of green light. Then, pop , he reappeared in the exact same spot, tangled in the same lights, covered in the same marshmallow fluff. He let out the same groan.

Kringle pointed a shaking finger toward the main workshop window. “Worse. Look.” Santa looked down at the Quantum Sleigh 3000,

Meanwhile, Mrs. Claus and the engineers finally managed to hit the “Factory Reset” button on the Quantum Sleigh 3000. There was a loud FWOOMP , and the real Santa fell out of the time loop, landing face-first in a snowdrift.

On the forty-seventh loop, Santa blinked and said, “Margaret? Why are you hitting me with a spoon? And why do I taste cranberries?”

From a dark corner of the workshop, they wheeled out a large, dusty box labeled: On, Donner

She whacked him again.

“He tried to install a ‘time-skip’ engine to deliver presents faster,” Kringle said. “Now he’s stuck in a five-second loop.”