Santa Claus

## Overview

Santa Claus is a man whose body is almost completely taken over by ginormous flesh growths covered in huge cancerous tumors which constantly form. He is about 60 feet long and weighs as much as an aircraft carrier. It is unknown if he can see or hear but has some sense of his surroundings. These tumors eventually burst, releasing elves connected to a hivemind. Santa Claus himself is not a part of the elf's hivemind. The elves have the craftmanship of the average Amish man. Santa Claus is able to walk around using six large legs which emerge in a circular formation beneath his body. They do not seem to obey the laws of physics, allowing him to scale walls vertically and fly at 600 mph. During flight the legs gallop like reindeer.

While Santa Claus is possibly immortal, there was a point at which he came into existence, and his first sighting was on Christmas morning in 1952. Santa Claus was flying through the air while dropping a steady stream of elves and 30-foot eggs on any houses overpassed which exploded upon impact leaving ruins covered in a sickly slimy yolk. The army brought Santa to the ground by firing anti-air cannons filled with horse tranquilizer all at once when he passed over a military base. They moved him into a top-secret government facility, where he is contained, monitored, and researched in a nearly impenetrable cell.

A vast array of weaponry was tested on Santa Claus. Some notable findings which display his durability was his complete immunity to anti-tank rounds and ability to withstand nuclear blasts. The elves were also given various materials to see what they would create, but this led to The Escape of 1963 and the following initiation of The Elf Practice operation. This operation saw the extraction of the elves from Santa's chamber, where they were implanted with micro-chips granting control over the hivemind. The government now uses Santa's infinite supply of elves for free labor in the construction of new facilities, and some testing has begun on elves being used in wartime efforts as an alternative to soldiers.

## Escapes

There were two instances in which Santa Claus breached containment.

### The Escape of 1963

In the early days of Santa's containment, a multitude of testing was held, including the study of the elf's construction abilities. Many materials were implanted in Santa's chamber for the elves to utilize, and they were expected to create toys or small primitive buildings. Instead, they somehow managed to transform wood and clay into a functional keycard which they used to release Santa from the facility. Now flying across the globe at insane speeds and releasing elves, the government steadily tracked Santa Claus in hopes one of many contingency plans would work. A large cannon eventually penetrated Santa with an iron beam, and a giant magnet pulled him back to the ground where he was transferred back to his chamber.

### The Escape of 2011

Nearly 50 years since Santa's last escape, a previously unknown phenomenon occurred leading to a destructive escape. It had been observed that each Christmas morning, the usually immobile Santa would attempt to fly out of his chamber, repeatedly bashing against the walls until the day ended. On Christmas morning of 2011, this pattern began as usual, but at around 2:20 AM, the blunt force from the banging actually managed to kill Santa Claus. This immediately led to the nearest person, a security guard outside of Santa's pen, to instantaneously transform into a new Santa Cluas in a flash of light. Now having escaped his confines on Christmas day, Santa began his flight across the world, spewing out elves and laying eggs on unsuspecting houses below. Armstrong managed to push Santa Claus back into his pen by flying against him, but their speeds nearly matched, causing the journey to take upwards of two weeks. All the while Santa continued producing elves which socked and slugged Armstrong to no avail.