Snowball War
It came without warning one late winter night, and despite the efforts of the pegasi no one could have stopped the blizzard that covered all of equestria in mere hours. Though when morning came, for six special ponies, only one thought came to mind.
So it was that when these six ponies, and one baby dragon, met up that they quickly decided teams. "Well to be fair, I think me and Rarity should probably be on different teams. Our ability to use magic puts us at a bit of an advantage." Twilight reasoned as she glanced around her group of friends.
"Heh, as if, do you even realize who you're talking to?" Rainbow Dash replied arrogantly as a smirk spread across her muzzle.
"Do you honestly mean ta say that both of y'all think you're better than an earth pony?" Applejack asked just as arrogantly.
"Well I don't know what any of you are talking about, a dragon like me would be untouchable!" Spike boasted.
"Oh Spike, you might want to sit this one out, I have a feeling things will get a little rough, and you are just a baby dragon after all." Twilight replied affectionately.
"But I wanna play." Spike shot back dismally.
"Maybe after a little while when we're not as serious how about that?" Twilight asked.
"Oh alright, fine, I'll just go back to the library then." Spike replied in defeat as he trudge back home.
"Now then, where were we?" Twilight asked before getting hit with a snowball.
"We were just about to the part where I kick your butt!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she tossed another snowball that Twilight stopped with her magic.
"Oh it is on!" Rarity exclaimed excitedly before watching as Twilight sent the snowball flying, but at the last second, Rainbow Dash dodged the snowball allowing it to hit Applejack.
"So it's a sneak attack huh? Well alright!" Applejack shouted as she whipped her tail into the snow sending a lot of snowballs at Twilight that she accidently deflected into Fluttershy. "heh, how do you like them apples!?" She called back.
Meanwhile, upon observing the natural disaster that had swept across the land, Princess Celestia and her sister Princess Luna were traveling from town to town to ensure the citizens were alright. When the two sisters arrived in Ponyville, they soon found Twilight as she was horsing around with her friends. Being the newest of the alicorn princesses, they decide to confer with her on whether or not the ponies of Ponyville were alright, but when Luna approached the young princess, she was struck by a snowball that Twilight had sent flying. "You dare to assault me?" Luna shouted in a booming voice.
The six ponies came to a sudden stop as they exchanged nervous glances. "Luna, these girls didn't attack you, they're having a snowball fight." Celestia stated calmly as she stepped to her sister's side.
"That's right Princess Luna." Twilight replied cheerfully.
Luna didn't seem convinced. "This snowball fight, it would be something of a war, no?" She asked as she made a mound of snow levitate in the air before forming into a massive snowball.
Twilight looked unsure. "Uh... Yes?" She asked nervously before Luna sent the snowball flying.
"Then I shall engage you Princess Twilight, and you will taste the crushing bitterness of defeat!" Luna exclaimed before sending more snowballs flying.
Twilight was about to get struck again when Celestia intervened. "Luna, if you mean to stand against Twilight, then I will stand with her." She replied with a calm smile.
"Well that's not very fair, if it's all of us against her, things will be like, way lopsided!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
"Well you're more than welcome to help her." Twilight replied thoughtfully.
"Well if she's siding with Luna, then so am I!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed confidently.
"Hmm, it seems the numbers still don't add up quite right." Fluttershy pointed out, and Rarity let out a strained sigh.
"Then as per the original teams should I be with them as well?" Rarity asked as she walked over to stand with Luna.
"Well it would ballance things out." Twilight replied.
"If this is all about ballance then you won't mind staying grounded." Rainbow Dash declared.
Twilight smirked. "I could, but wouldn't you like a better challenge?" She asked arrogantly, and Rainbow Dash's eyes shot wide open.
"Okay, you got me there." Rainbow Dash conceded.
"Enough, have at thee foul beasts!" Luna exclaimed as she began to fire snowballs as fast as she could make them.
"Don't worry girls, I'll handle this." Celestia replied as she used magic to part the wave of snowballs speeding their way, and she countered by sending them back at Luna.
"Oh no you don't!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she sped through the air while knocking snowballs out of the sky, but even she wasn't fast enough to get all of them, and Rarity couldn't avoid getting hit. "Huh? R-Rarity? No, Rarity's down!" She exclaimed as she rushed to Rarity's side. "Hey, speak to me Rarity, tell me you're going to be alright." She begged as tears flooded her eyes.
"My only regret... Is that this most certainly does not look fabulous." Rarity replied in a strained tone of voice before going limp.
"Nooooo!" Rainbow Dash cried out. "Pinkie... Get her back behind the front lines, she will make it through, but until then, it's on me that she got hit, and I will not let her sacrifice be in vain!" She exclaimed.
"Um, it wasn't really a sacrifice, more like she was just a simple casualty." Pinkie Pie replied cheerfully as she dragged Rarity back several feet.
"Not really the point." Rainbow Dash retorted.
"Nay Pinkie, Rainbow Dash is correct, we must not let her loss be for nothing, advance and take no quarter!" Luna exclaimed fiercely.
"Uh, what the heck're they doin?" Applejack asked as she looked to Twilight.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this." Twilight replied.
"Indeed, I think we should fall back and regroup for now." Celestia replied as she continued to pour her magic into deflecting the snowballs.
"But why, they lost Rarity, we can beat them at this rate." Fluttershy reasoned, but before anyone could respond, a lucky snowball from Rainbow Dash slipped past Celestian taking the poor pegasus out of the air.
"Fluttershy!" Applejack exclaimed.
"Oh my wing, it hurts." Fluttershy whimpered as she winced in pain.
"Don't worry sugarcube, we'll get you to safety and patch you up in a jiffy." Applejack replied remorsefully as she took a few more snowballs as she shielded the downed pegasus.
"Celestia, let me help!" Twilight exclaimed as she dropped the snowballs before galloping to the princess's side.
"No Twilight, help your friends, and let me handle this, just get them to safety before it's too late!" Celestia exclaimed as she began to struggle under the onslaught brought on by her sister and Rainbow Dash.
"But Celestia..." Twilight mumbled.
"Just go!" Celestia chided as she slid backward in the snow.
"No, on three we retreat!" Twilight shouted, and reluctantly Celestia gave a nod. "Right, one, two, three!" She exclaimed, and the two alicorns dove out of the way before racing after Applejack and Fluttershy as the group made for Sweet Apple Acres.
"Are they followin us?" Applejack asked worriedly.
"No, I think they're going to regroup themselves, but I worry, Luna is very powerful, and Rainbow Dash will be an excellent officer in the battles to come, if we are to survive, we must strengthen our forces." Celestia explained heavily before hearing heavy hoofsteps heading their way.
"E-yup." Big Mac replied sternly as he was joined by Granny Smith and Applebloom.
"Say no more, we'll get ya the recruits you need!" Applebloom exclaimed. "And maybe then I can get a military cutie mark." She thought excitedly. "Just leave it to me!" She finished before leaving the barn.
"Will she be alright?" Twilight asked worriedly.
"Don't you worry about her, she is as tough as I was when I was a filly, she'll be fine, in the meantime, we need to fix that there wing on the pegasus." Granny Smith explained as she took a closer look.
Meanwhile at the town hall, Luna was rallying her own recruits. "The intelligence reports put the enemy forces stationed at a farm known as Sweet Apple Acres, General Dash, the plan if you will." She spoke out over her forces.
"Gladly..." Rainbow Dash paused as she looked to a map of Ponyville. "Now then, it is believed that the enemy forces are situated at the farm as per Commander Luna's opening statements, however, if you direct your attention here to the Ponyville library, we must take the library, it is of the utmost importance if we plan on taking the farm. However again, earth ponies and pegasi will head to the farm to distract the primary forces set in place, and unicorns will take the library. Keep in mind though, we don't need the building for any strategical purposes, all we want is what's inside... A baby dragon!" She called out over the crowd. "We get the dragon, and the enemy will be powerless against us." She concluded and the allied forces roared forth a great many cheers.
As Rainbow was taking in the cheers of the crowd she still picked up on Scootaloo as she walked up. "Um, Rainbow Dash, is there anything you need me to do?" She asked nervously.
"Nah don't sweat it kid, we got this covered." Rainbow Dash replied, but seeing the deflated expression on the young pegasus's face she decided to reconsider. "Well, maybe there is something only you could do, but it'll be very dangerous." She continued.
"You can count on me Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo exclaimed eagerly before the older pegasus whispered in her ear. "Is that all?" She asked.
"Is that all!? It's only the most dangerous mission you can do and that I would do if I wasn't already busy with another job... It would make you twenty percent cooler in ten seconds flat." Rainbow Dash added on as she cocked an eyebrow.
The filly's eyes widened even further. "Then you can count on me!" Scootaloo exclaimed before running off to grab her scooter.
"Heh-heh, fillies, they're so predictable." Pinkie Pie stated from beside Rainbow Dash.
"Lieutenant Pie, if you have time for jokes then I'm assuming the pranks have been set?" Rainbow Dash asked sternly.
"Yes indeedy." Pinkie Pie replied.
"Good, just in case they launch a counter attack we need something to even the battlefield." Rainbow Dash replied. "Commander Luna, everything's set, and ready to go at your word." She added on proudly.
Luna was looking out at the sky. "Soon, it is almost dusk, and thus we attack under cover of night!" Luna exclaimed. "Tonight, we show our enemies we are not a force to take lightly, and that we will overcome anything they put in our path to bar us from victory!" She cried out to her soldiers.
The sun was rapidly setting and a heavy sense of anticipation hung over the quiet streets of Ponyville. "And you're sure nopony suspects anythin?" Applebloom asked skeptically.
"Are you kidding? She believed every bit that I was eating out of her hoof. Rainbow Dash suspects nothing!" Scootaloo exclaimed.
"Shh, not so loud, if we're caught, we'll be in a lot of trouble." Sweetie Belle replied quietly. "Now what's the next stage of the master plan?" She asked quickly.
"For now we do as we've been ordered, and wait for the two armies to thin out their numbers, and then..." Scootaloo paused as she glanced down an alleyway filled with their classmates, all of whom had serious expressions stamped on their faces. "Then we strike." She finished as a grin spread across her face.
Over at the library, Spike was blowing off steam to Owlicious. "It's like they think I'm just a kid." He grumbled as he read through another of his comic books.
"Who?" Owlicious asked.
"Twilight and the others." Spike replied.
"Who?" Owlicious came back.
Spike gave Owlicious an exasperated look. "Never mind." He grumbled, and a few moments later he heard the door downstairs getting busted in. "Huh, that doesn't sound like Twilight." He uttered nervously as he crept cautiously closer and closer to the stairs leading to the ground floor.
As spike looked out into the entryway of the library he was shocked by the sight of a dozen unicorns. "Spread out, search the library, the dragon will most surely be here somewhere." Trixie commanded her fellow unicorns.
Spike quickly hid under one of the beds up stares as he began to write a letter to the princess. "Dear Princess Celestia, unicorns have broken into the library, I think they're here to dragon-nap me, if Tiwlight's still with you please send her to help!" He wrote frantically before sending the message just as he was pulled out from under the bed.
"Captain Trixie, we've found the dragon as requested." One of the unicorns reported obediently.
"Good, but I've been thinking, there's no reason why we should bring the dragon back to Princess Luna, after all, whoever controls the dragon has the advantage, right?" Trixie asked as she examined Spike more closely, but before anything more was said, she felt her body forced to the ground. "Wha-What are you doing!?" She asked frantically before being covered in a pile of snow.
"With respect where it's due Captain, our loyalties are with Commander Luna, you ought to be ashamed." Another unicorn replied. "Leave her to her fate, we return at once." He finished before the small squad left the library.
Things at Sweet Apple Acres were hectic as ponies were dropping left and right. Inside the barn Celestia raced to devise a solution with Twilight's help. "Our allies are just falling too quick to fight them back effectively. We may have no other choice but to give up on the farm." Celestia explained sorrowfully.
"We're going to surrender?" Twilight asked dismally.
Celestia gave the young princess a comforting smile. "I said we'd give up on the farm, but this battle is far from over." She replied just before a weathered looking pegasus entered the barn.
"My liege, we have received a response... The Wonderbolts are en route and will arrive within the hour." The pegasus stated before collapsing on the floor.
"Hmm, rest easy young one, you did well." Celestia replied compassionately. "Twilight, I want you to..." The princess paused when a letter appeared out of thin air. "Hmm... This is most unsettling." She uttered as she read Spike's letter.
"What is it, has something happened to Spike?" Twilight asked worriedly.
Celestia's expression darkened. "I'm afraid... I'm afraid he's been captured by the rebels." She replied as a sympathetic tear rolled down her cheek.
"No... No no no no no no no." Twilight began to hyper-ventilate. "Well we have to go save him, we have to-" She was interrupted when they heard a sonic boom just outside the barn that rattled the building.
"It's, ugh, it's Dashie." Fluttershy uttered weakly as she tried to stand up. "That was clearly a sonic rainboom." She continued as she struggled to stay standing.
"And I reckon that in addition to that letter, things are about to get a lot worse." Applejack added on as she walked over to the window.
"Fine, if she thinks she can kidnap my dragon, and take over your lands, then she has just messed with the wrong ponies, come on Applejack, it's time for a little pay-back." Twilight replied firmly before opening the door.
"What will you do Twilight?" Celestia asked.
"One, I'll buy the Wonderbolts some time, and two, I'm going to get my dragon back." Twilight replied fiercely as she led Applejack out of the barn.
"Come on everyone, we have them on the ropes, just a little more now!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed triumphantly before realizing several snowballs were speeding toward her. "Heh, yeah right, Rarity, we need defense!" She called down to the ground where Rarity was standing by heavily guarded and accompanied by Spike.
"Spike do be a dear and help are friends, if you would, I'd be extremely grateful." Rarity stated as she winced in pain from the damage she received earlier.
Spike was conflicted, but ultimately gave in to Rarity's request and melted the snowballs before they could reach Rainbow Dash. "S-sorry Twilight, but my hands are tied." He lamented as he hung his head low.
"Ooh, that was very brave of you Spike, it must be hard to fight against the one who takes care of you." Rarity stated sympathetically.
"Who cares, as long as he can keep us from getting hit, he won't have to hide out in that dusty old library." Rainbow Dash replied as she sent several more snowballs flying.
"Spike!" Twilight's voice cut through the chaos, and everything around them came to an eerie calm. "Spike, I was wrong to make you wait in the library, but you see what this has escalated into, I just don't want you to get hurt, you know I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to you... But... Something still happened, and I wasn't there to stop it, but you can't help out the enemy, please Spike, this isn't you. You belong on our side, you belong with me, so please come back to us." She pleaded desperately.
"Yeah right, even if he wanted to go back to you, he's our prisoner." Rainbow Dash pointed out.
"Well we'll certainly have to do something about that, Applejack, now!" Twilight called out.
While Twilight had snagged everyone's attention, Applejack had snuck around behind the enemy forces, and waited for Twilight's signal. "Yee-haw, take this!" She exclaimed before bucking tree after tree covering the scrambling ponies in snow.
When the snow had settled the majority of the enemy forces had been captured. "Now Rainbow Dash, tell us, where is Princess Luna." Twilight ordered.
"I'm not telling you nothing!" Rainbow Dash shouted back.
"Really, then would you tell the Wonderbolts?" Twilight asked as she motioned toward distant skies just as the great pegasi came into view.
Rainbow Dash was beginning to sweat bullets. "N-no, not even them... My loyalty can be broken." She replied as she avoided looking at the Wonderbolts just as they touched down.
"Word on the wind is that Princess Celestia is in trouble, what do you need?" Spitfire asked before focusing her attention on Rainbow Dash.
"We need information from this pegasus but she isn't answering our questions." Twilight replied.
"Oh, her, yeah I remember she was always stubborn as a mule. Sorry princess, but I doubt even we would get her to talk." Spitfire replied sorrowfully.
Before another word was said, shock filled the crowd when Spitfire was struck by a snowball. "Nopony move!" It was Lightning Dust, and she was already in the process of freeing the rebel ponies.
"Unh, Lightning Dust, w-why?" Spitfire asked weakly.
"Sorry ma'am, but Rainbow Dash came to us before that dizty pegasus did." Lightning Dust replied. "Furthermore, you will find that most of our forces in the Wonderbolts have sided with her." She added on.
"But, you would betray Princess Celestia?" Spitfire asked.
"Princess Luna is just as important, and her forces came by first. No hard feelings I hope." Lightning Dust replied.
"Whew, I thought for sure you were going to go back on your word for a second there... Thanks." Rainbow Dash replied. "Now then, it's time to end this!" She exclaimed, and once more chaos overtook the battlefield.
"I don't get it though, where's Luna, and why isn't Celestia helping?" Spike asked as he rode on Twilight's back as she made for the library.
"I don't know Spike, but I need to figure out a good strategy, and I need some peace and quiet to concentrate." Twilight replied.
"Twilight, I don't think the answer to the problem will be in any one of your books." Spike replied when Twilight started looking through the library.
"Maybe not, but there might be a better spell I could use to help everypony out." Twilight replied.
"You mean, like this?" Twilight turned around and found Luna standing across the room with a thick spell book hovering beside her. "When my faithful soldiers devised a plan to kidnap your dragon they mentioned that this place was a library, and knowing you live in such a building, I figured there would be spell books you would eventually turn to for greater power... It's too late Twilight, now surrender." She demanded as she moved the book behind her.
"Never!" Twilight shouted back. "Celestia trusts me to help see her through to victory, and that's what I will do! I've defeated you once, and I can do it again!" She exclaimed passionately.
Luna laughed. "Foolish Twilight, you can't possibly think you can defeat me by yourself! Give up I've won!" She shouted.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Celestia's voice filled the room before appearing beside Twilight.
"Celestia, she has my spell book..." Twilight trailed off when she took in the confident expression on Celestia's face.
"Twilight, we can defeat her together, just have faith." Celestia replied, and at the same time, the three alicorns began to cast a powerful spell.
Things at the farm were still hectic as the war intensified, but neither side seemed ready to back down. That changed soon however, when a mighty explosion erupted in the middle of Ponyville. "Whoa..." Rainbow Dash uttered before trying to fly off when thousands of snowballs started flying their way.
In the aftermath, many ponies laid motionless on the ground, others were moaning in agony, while few began to help their closest allies to safety. No pony was quite sure just what had happened, but it was certainly devastating. While many were working as hard and as fast as they could, Princess Celestia appeared before them. "Come my friends, we must fall back to Canterlot, I'm afraid we have lost the battle for Ponyville." She explained with a heavy heart, and a limp Twilight on her back. "Luna has demonstrated the extent of her power, and we will need even more help to confront her now." She finished solemnly.
Applejack was one of the few left standing to step forward. "Well who can we possibly get to help out now?" She asked nervously.
Far far away, protected from the great blizzard that had affected all the land, Princess Cadence was reading a hastily written message from Princess Celestia. "What does it say?" Shining Armor asked worriedly upon noticing the serious expression on his wife's face.
Cadence gave her husband a nervous look. "Celestia needs assistance... Prepare for war." She finished firmly.
part 1-end so this is my first my little pony fic, and I did what I could to keep it as close to the show as possible, but sorry if I failed to keep characters in character, anyway, I'm going to start part three after a while, or tomorrow, so, just bear with me.
Disclaimer, I do not own my little pony, and credit of this specific story goes to multiple sources, if you helped brainstorm leave a comment where i posted the link, and I'll mention you in the disclaimer in the next part.