"Hey!" yelled Eddy, banging on the vending machine. "Get me outta here!" Rolf instantly appeared, surrounded by meat. "Rolf is the Ghost of Christmas Present!"

"You're gonna give me a present? Get me outta this thing so you can give me my present!"

Rolf felt the machine, looking for a weak spot. He finally found it and smashed the machine open with his head. Eddy popped out and crashed into the wall. He got up, badly shaken. "Please never do that again..."

Rolf tossed Eddy some sausages. "Eat! The food is good for Eddy!"

Eddy looked confused, but took a bite, quickly spitting it out. Rolf hit Eddy on the head, and the boy miserably ate the rest of the meat. When he was finished, they were whisked away, ending up by Johnny.

"What's going on?" asked Eddy.

"We are in the present, stupid Ed-boy! Gaze upon the other children."

Johnny look worried. He was frantically digging through the snow. "Plank? Plank? Where are you, buddy? The poor guy's probably scared to death out there! Well, I'm not giving up! This is all Eddy's fault!"

"MY fault!" yelled Eddy, despite the fact that Johnny couldn't hear him. "Well, I did throw that snowball at Johnny...but he started it! Eh, who needs them? What's gonna happen to Plank, anyway?"

"I see Johnny with a vacant arm," said Rolf grimly.

Eddy looked nervous. "That doesn't sound good...show me something happier. Show me Double D!"

Instantly, they were at the set of the play where Edd was running around in a panic. "Eddy is still gone! Where is he!"

Ed walked in. "Eddy's over there with Rolf dressed as Christmas Present."

Edd looked at him. "Unless you have the sixth sense, the power to see ghosts, I highly doubt that. But I do hope Eddy arrives soon, or the play may be ruined!"

"Bye, Eddy!"

"I'm here, Double D!" cried Eddy. "Don't go crazy! Rolf, you gotta take me back to normal time! Double D really needs me!"

"Sorry, but you are required to see one more ghost."

"But Rolf, I'll change! Everyone needs me! I---I gotta find Plank, and be Scrooge, and..."

"Go fourth and know him better, Ed-boy!" said Rolf as he faded away. In fact, it wasn't only Rolf fading. Everything around Eddy faded to black, leaving him standing in an empty void. "Wait! Rolf! Come back! I said I'd change! YOU NEVER GAVE ME MY PRESENT!"

Suddenly, the environment around Eddy faded back in. He was standing alone in the dark theater hallway. "I've really gotta get out of here now!"

At first, our dear Ed himself was going to be Present (he would get Eddy out of the vending machine by eating the entire thing and spitting him out) but after seeing Rolf surrounded by all that meat in the Christmas special gave him the role instead (which is good, because I feel I underuse him in some of my other fics)