Some Kind of Snowball Skirmish [Dead]

[waxworks]

(( Hey everyone! This is a huge snowball fight in town square, with no set posting order and no requirement of skill level, so feel free to jump right in. There IS one rule however: While you can fling snowballs at anypony you like, it'll be up to them to decide if they've been hit or not. Similarly it'll be up to you to decide if YOUR character gets hit. Of course half the fun of these things is getting a snowball to the face, so don't be too stingy about getting whapped with a ball of fluffy snow. Otherwise, have fun! ))

It was a beautiful Winter morning in Ponyville, the sort of morning when the weatherponies had just laid down a temptingly pristine layer of white snow over everything. Rooftops, awnings, fountains, and of course every last square meter of ground was completely blanketed. As Dusty Pan surveyed the crisp snowfall, he felt honored that his early-morning work schedule let him be among the first ponies to leave his tracks in said snow. Of course they weren't just his tracks, but also the tracks of his trusty junk wagon, which was currently full of snow. He figured he'd dump out the snow somewhere else before collecting the trash.

"Ho! Morning Dusty!"

He cheerfully turned to the voice to suddenly be blinded by white snow with an accompanying piff. Chuckling, he shook his head and let the snow drift away. "Attacking an unarmed pony, what sort of stallion are you?"

Another snowball hit Dusty in the chest with a piff.

"The sort who strikes first and second," cried Mandolin Gray. The wood-patterned pony was wrapped in an overly long scarf and a pair of earmuffs, and already had another snowball balanced on the end of his snout, ready to send it flying. "Get ready t'stand and deliver!"

This was met with several dozen snowballs swathed in light-purple magic all pelting Gray at the same time, knocking him into a mogul. Mannequin Grace grinned giddily as her brother's legs flailed in the snow, another collection of snowballs already being formed by her magic. Aside from her normal top hat and cape, she was also clad in legwarmers as well, and her wooden accomplice Stump was wearing a seemingly unnecessary scarf.

"Ah, rescued, by a veritable saving Grace," cried Dusty cheerfully, as another snowball hit him from the other direction. This time it was a pegasus, or rather a pegabat, in a scarf and what looked like mittens covering her leathery wings.

"Hee, gotchya biggun," yelled Powderkeg.

"Now this simply isn't fair," sniffed Dusty sadly, "you know I'd never strike a mare, even with a snowball."

"Well heck Manny, whadya say, just this once?"

Mannequin Grace nodded as Powderkeg continued. "Alright then Dusty, we give you permission to hit us with sno-"

As she was about to finish this statement a rather large snowball bowled her over into a squeaking, snow covered pile of pony.

"Much appreciated," yelled Dusty, as he took refuge behind his cart and began lobbing oversized snowballs back at the wild peppering assailing him.

[Tartan Lassie]

((This sounds like fun! Hope this was the kind of response you were looking for! :3 ))

    A vaguely pony-shaped bundle was pushing it's way through the snow covered streets. Honey Dust was wrapped in a scarf, earmuffs, cloak and four leg-warmers. She was still freezing. It's not that Honey didn't like the snow. She found it very pretty and had certainly enjoyed playing in it when she was a filly. It's just that if she was to function at all in this weather, she had to wrap up very warmly. She wouldn't normally come out this early but she was rather bored lately, what with all her bees being asleep this time of year. 

    She didn't really have a destination in mind, she was just out for a walk in the crystal-like snow. She was only vaguely aware that she was following somepony's hoofprints in the snow. Her eyes were on the ground and she seemed to be enjoying putting her hooves in the prints left by whoever she was following. Whoever this is, they take some big steps, she thought, smiling. She was so focused on stepping far enough to fit in the prints that she didn't notice she'd arrived in the middle of a snowball warfare until she walked right into somepony's rump. Looking up at the huge blue stallion she had walked into, she smiled apologetically. "Sorry about that. Wasn't looking where I wa-" A stray snowball slapped Honey full in the face. Rearing up a little, gazing over the cart, she saw an earmuffed pony and pegabat launching more snowballs and immediately ducked back down. She grinned up at the stallion. "Need a hoof?" She asked, grinning craftily. She started rolling some snowballs in her covered hooves. "Ready? Go!" She cried and began launching them over the cart towards the other two. 

However, one of her snowballs didn't reach the intended target....

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   Flyte stalked through the town. How exactly, she thought irritably, are we supposed to train in this weather? We can't even warm up when the temperature is in minuses! She had been sent away when Ring Leader had suggested a day off from training to play in the snow. Whilst Flyte hadn't been keen, there appeared to be nothing she could do about it, since everypony else had jumped at the chance.

    Not really bothered by the cold, Flyte only had a scarf on and was planning to sit in a cafe all day until evening when she could return for dinner. Walking through the Town Square, she spotted a group of ponies snowball fighting. Yeah, actually throwing snowballs at each other. Fully-grown ponies! She rolled her eyes and turned towards a cafe. "Oh, what a bunch of overgrown-" SPLAT!

    Flyte froze in her tracks. A ball of wet, cold, frozen water had just hit the back of her shoulder. She turned around slowly, her eyes blazing to see a skewbald pegasus mare with her hooves of her mouth, staring back at her. "Alright, that's it!" Cried Flyte. Moving faster than Honey would have thought possible, she launched a hoofful of snow right back. "Take that!" She yelled and saw the pegasus grin and duck back down. Flyte hurried to make more snowballs before the mare threw hers.

[waxworks]

"Eek, sneak attack! Spies! Vandals!"

The massive blue pegasus had cried out in a surprisingly high-pitched voice at having his rump bumped. He turned around quickly, saw the little skewbald pegasus mare behind him, and immediately tried to recompose himself. "Ah! Ah.. ah, er, my apologies miss, I wasn't expecting-"

This was right about when the snowball caked Honey in the face. Seeing her join on the offensive, Dusty grinned, "very good, very good!"

Mandolin Gray ducked to the ground just in time for an errant snowball to zip over his head and hit his sister full in the face, sending her hat tumbling to the ground. She huffed and popped it back on as Flyte joined in on the fight, sending another magically assisted group of snowballs hurtling at the cart and the two hiding behind it.

"Methinks we're outnumbered," said Dusty, hurling another large snowball blindly over the wagon. "There's just two of us and more than that of them!"

"Three," said a squeaky little voice. Dusty glanced down to see a small pair of glass eyes staring blankly at him, as Stump's small wooden claws formed a little snowball and tossed it around the side of the cart.

[Tartan Lassie]

((Sorry for not replying for a while, I was giving others a chance to join in. ^^ ))

    Pleased by his approval, Honey continued scooping up balls of snow and tossing them. She was moving so frantically that the clumps had stopped being any kind of circular shape. They were just hooffuls of wet snow. The oncoming attack was stronger and faster and Honey had duck down all the time to keep from being hit. She was laughing loudly and freely at Flyte joining in. She had never seen the pony before and Honey guessed from her clothes that she was with the circus that had just come to town. The purple pony had looked truly terrifying when she had turned and Honey had been sure she would need to fly away, and quickly. But, as it turned out, the pony was a good egg and was laughing and chucking snow right back.

    Across the street, Flyte had leapt over beside Mannequin Grace. Grinning, she scooped up more snow, sending towards the offending pegasus. "Hey, sorry about your hat." She said apologetically to purple unicorn. "I usually have better aim than that."

    The big blue pegasus hiding behind the cart with Honey pointed out that they were out-numbered. A little puppet belonging to the purple stallion on the other side of the square seemed to be on their side. Honey smiled widely at it. So cute, she thought. However as she peeked over, she could see two stallions and two mares quickly forming and launching and throwing snowballs. "Still," Honey said, dropping back down. "There's at least four of them over there." She was panting and her breath was forming little clouds of water vapour. "And they've got a unicorn!" She added, laughing. She held a hoof out to her teammate. "I'm Honey Dust, by the way. You can call me Dusty." She knew how awkward it was for some ponies to use her first name in casual conversation.

    "What we need" Honey said thoughtfully "...is more recruits." She glanced down the roads leading into the square, hoping another pony would appear to help them out.

[Loops]

As if to answer the female pony's wishes, a teenage stallion was walking down the path towards the fight. He'd heard the commotion and wanted in on the action.

He swiftly, but carefully, trying not to slip up and make a fool of himself, ran along the path straight to the town square. When he arrived he could see two ponies pinned down, and out numbered, pressed against a cart. They did not have the advantage; luckily for them Loops likes a little challenge. He was exceptionally good at being an underdog, or underpony if you will.

Loops could see the other four in the open, running about the square, all throwing snowballs, and the newcomer could certainly see how fun this was going to be. In his dazed state Loops felt a ball of cold wet material hit him in neck. He turned quickly, moving in circles trying to identify the assailant. Narrowing his eyes he decided to pin it on the larger group, he assumed that the smaller group would pick fights when they are outnumbered already.

He ran over the smaller group. He could see there was a mare there, but his need for pay back pushed the thoughts of fear away. He came to a sliding halt, leaving nice lines in the snow as he stopped in front of the two ponies and puppet.

"Loops reporting for duty!" He declared triumphantly, as if he had just saved their day. He'd read enough and written enough that he knew enough about hero's; he was determined to be the hero of this tale.  

[HelloImACrazyPony]

Dizzy Pixel was simply trotting through Town Square, humming to herself. She could hear her own hooves in the newly fallen snow on the ground, and she closed her eyes, having an absence of saddle bags on her back, but a scarf and a hat in its place. She walked along, until she heard a splat and stopped in her tracks. She opened her eyes and grinned maniacally. She could feel her inner foal coming out as she looked back and forth from one side of the snowball fight to the other. Her dark green aura covered a bit of snow and formed it into a snowball. She hurdled the snowball at a dark blue pony, and laughed loudly, quickly galloping behind the cart with three other ponies and another little creature she didn't take enough time to pay attention to what it was. "Hope you don't mind me joining. I can make more ammo." The green unicorn smiled widely, as her magic went away to making more and more snowballs.

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A light blue stallion was walking through town square, a bright red scarf wrapped around his neck. (Apparently I have a thing with scarves.) He was walking with a beat in his step, and he had a calm expression on his face. That was, until he saw a snowball whiz past. He stopped, and looked around, completely unsure what to do. His bright red eyes scanned the perimeter, and all he could think of, was what his sister would do. Jump right in and fight with both, switching back and forth. He watched the snowballs fly back and forth, seeing a familiar green unicorn on one side. He brushed his dark indigo hair out of his face and simply watched, amused.

[waxworks]

"AH! Salvation," cried Dusty happily, as a snowball splatted against the side of his face and hat. "Welcome to the resistance, Loops, and you as well miss!" The large blue pegasus smiled brightly to Lupus and Pixel, his Prench accent making the name 'Loops' sound significantly more round than normal.

"Incoming!" The little wooden puppet flailed its claws and pointed as a storm of snowballs started to rain over the cart, peppering the area.

"Aerial assault," bellowed Dusty, shielding Honey from a snowy face with one of his wings. He peered around the cart to see the others, as well as two ponies he didn't recognize, a mare and a stallion.

"I SEE THE BIGGUN!" Cried Powderkeg eagerly, scooping up a snowball as Dusty's large blue head appeared around the cart. In response, a large, basketball-sized snowball hurtled towards her. The pegabat squeaked in surprise and attempted to leap into the air, only to suddenly remember her wings were warmly bound up in her home-made knit wing-cozies. She hit the ground with a satisfying splat, and another collection of snowballs sailed towards the cart.

"Hee hee, I think that evens the odds a bit," cheered Dusty.

[Loops]

The sudden siege on the cart made Loops bounce into action, quickly picking up the pre made snowballs by the pale green pony with his magic and hurling them at the crowd at the other end.
"Eat snow!" He yelled, slightly out of character. He felt different, he felt excited by all the noise and happiness. For the first time he felt calm with strange girls being about. He chuckled a little, believing he had conquered his fear once and for all.
His throws weren't very accurate but he could throw faster than any pony he'd ever seen, although having said that he hadn't seen many ponies in his small amount of travelling. He wasn't the fastest pony at throwing, but he was still pretty darn fast.
Having thrown at least ten of the snowballs, Loops doubled back on himself and tried to run around the edge of the battlefield and flank the enemy. Stopping abruptly, Loops slid in the snow and dropped to the ground. Snow flew up in the air and covered his body. Spitting the snow out of his mouth he stayed low, rolling snow into balls ready for a sneaky barrage of white. He gave a slightly wicked grin and his eyes flashed with mischief.

[Tartan Lassie]

    "Alright!" Honey reared up on her hind legs as Lupus joined them. "Welcome to a war, son. I hope you can handle it!" She giggled as a snowball hit the back of her head, knocking her down from her hind legs. Crouched on the ground, Honey was defended from latest rain of snowballs because the little puppet had given due warning. But it was really thanks to Dusty. She glanced up to see his large blue wing shielding her. "Ooh, how gallant!" Honey called up to him.

    After they were safe for a moment, Honey noticed the appearance of Dizzy and waved to her. "Yes! Now we have a unicorn too!" She agreed with Dusty. Things were definitely evened out now. She saw Loops disappear round the side of the cart and was about to accuse him of desertion before realising his plan. Sneaky... The pegasus mare grabbed a hoofful and launched it towards the pegabat mare.

    Flyte watched two new arrivals join the battle and stamped her hoof. "Aw, ponyfeathers!" She said, before another snowball, fired by the enemy's unicorn hit her in the face. She leapt behind Mannequin Grace and began to hurriedly form more balls of snow. "Get them!" She cried

[HelloImACrazyPony]

Dizzy smirked, satisfied with her hit on the blue mare. She looked around, and saw that Loops had gone on a sneak mission. Her magic still making snowballs, she laughed as the other ponies had no clue of the pony under the snow. She looked around for any obstacles she could hide behind, when she spotted the light blue pony. Oh, he'll regret being a bystander... The mare smirked, and she looked at the pile of snowballs she had made, content. She stood up from her crouching position and ran towards the light blue pony, and rolled behind him. "You regret coming yet, Jasmine?" She said, throwing a snowball from behind her new, closer pony shield. She chucked snowballs at the other ponies as fast as she could, not giving up.

The light blue stallion flinched as some snowballs came towards him, and he attempted to duck them, but still got one on the face. "Oh, it's on." He muttered. The earth pony suddenly ducked and let one fly over his head, and he rolled over, quickly got up and went behind the unicorn, pushing her a bit, then backing up.

It happened so fast, Dizzy didn't know what hit her. Until a snowball hit her. She quickly dashed back to the cart, and continued making snowballs, an even eviler smile on her face.

[Loops]

Loops could see the large hostile group turn their attention to the ponies towards the cart. He saw this as his chance. He leapt up from his snow blanket that was covering his body and launched a flurry of icy balls towards the distracted body of ponies.
As he threw the snowballs at the enemy he dashed towards his group, hoping to lend a hand to his comrades. However things did not go as planned. Tripping on a rock, concealed by the powdery snow, he tumbled to the floor. Hitting the fluffy texture of the snow laden ground he felt the taste of snow and soil fill his mouth.
Loops was an easy target. He was out in the open and incapacitated on the floor. It was before he could even stagger to his feet that a group of three snowballs were launched at him. The first missed, sailing over his head and landing somewhere off in the distance. The second collided with his face as he raised himself off of the floor. He was dazed by this, the cold feeling of ice on his face made him shudder. In his daze he had no time to dodge the last of the three snowballs and it hit him square in the chest, knocking him over. There was quite some force in that. Loops looked at the enemy and could see the gleeful expression on the wooden looking pony.
Out of the corner of his eye Loops could see one of his teammates have a ball of snow thrown at her. He laughed to himself at her expression, coming to the realisation that this was getting interesting.
Loops looked to his allies and hoped he would receive some covering fire as he made his way to cover, noticing that he was in danger of receiving the full extent of their wrath for his subterfuge stunt earlier.

[darktobias13]

Down the road walked a gray unicorn wearing a pair of goggles, and seeming deep in thought. He didn't realize that there was a snow war going on, until he was literally standing in the deep of it. His attention was caught when a snowball flew into the side of his face, and he turned a bit angry, when another three caught him in the face, knocking him back. He popped his head back up, and spotted all of the different ponies caught in a snowball fight the likes of which seemed to be escalating into a massive war. He grinned, and decided to join the madness. He decided to join the team with Powderkeg and Mandolin, and disappeared beneath the snow, burrowing a fast as he could.

A few seconds later, his head popped up by Powderkeg's team, only to have a hoof full of snowballs immediately peg him in the face. He shook the snow out of his eyes, and grinned. Rising out of the snow, he saluted, and started laughing. "So much chaos, so much fun. Artillery Gearshift standing by, lads and lasses. And i know how to do one thing with snow balls, and one thing only." His horn glowed, as from nearby trees and rooftops, snow gathered into spheres by his magic. "And that." He jumped up on top of the small wall they had, and roared out. "MAKE IT RAIN SNOW!" From every tree and roof, the snowballs flew up in arcs and started to fly towards the other team.

[waxworks]

Mandolin Gray laughed loudly as several of Loops' initial wild shots rained down around him. "OY! You couldn't hit the broad sowahghgahggohagoh." The wood pattern pony coughed and spat as one of the snowballs neatly landed in his mouth.

Grace blinked and turned her head as she realized she was suddenly being used as a ponyshield. She turned to look at Flyte just in time to get a snowball in the ear, leaving the two sibling ponies both hopping around and shaking their heads. Meanwhile Powderkeg's large ears fluttered at the sound of a pony sneaking and plopping through the snow. With a fanged grin she nosed two snowballs together, tossed them against her clad wings, and hurled them Loop-wards.

"I do believe our little spy is in danger," said Dusty, commenting to Honey and Pixel. He rolled together another massive snowball and lobbed it like a catapult towards the other group. Looking upwards and suddenly seeing a massive downpour of snowballs he cried out, and gave a mighty flap with his wings. The resulting gust of wind sent them whizzing off in random directions, piffling down on both sides of the battle.

[HelloImACrazyPony]

Dizzy was, of course, present, when Loops was, unfortunately tripped by a rock. She took immediate action, even though there was a huge 'snowball storm' coming forth. And then the light green unicorn galloped over to the downed stallion, forming a- Ahg! Im doing it again!! Dizzy thought to herself, as she formed a few snowballs while covering the stallion. She made a sort of 'snow-shield', which was basically snow in the form of a shield. She couldn't help but hum as everything happened, a little action-sounding tune. Her snow-shield held up a little bit, but not for long. She then proceeded to make a snowfort. She was able to make it quickly, her artistic skills coming in. She looked at her fort, content. She then looked back at Loops, nodded, and teleported back to behind the cart. That was when a great idea came into her mind. She first begun making more snowballs as she planned it out.

The light blue pony was not forgotten, though. She had plans for him, later. Right now, that certain stallion was placed in another spot, still watching the snow-down. Okay, he couldn't laugh at his own joke. It was pretty petty. Well, in his mind anyway. He occasionally had to duck from a stray snowball, but he was content in watching from where he was.

((OOC: Do you get it? SNOW-down? Instead of show-down. Oh, I am so not good at jokes.))

[Loops]

((OOC: I laughed at it.))
Loops waved at the other unicorn, shouting his thanks towards her for the daring rescue. He was now almost impervious to harm, snowballs would just bounce of his little barrier. He smiled, trying to think of a way of using the snow wall that the unicorn had made, making a note to find out her name later.
Seeing no point in moving from cover, Loops started to make some snowballs. He was unsure on what do next, if he was going to be honest. Making his small pile of ammunition he looked with a slightly lost expression to his superiors, awaiting orders.
While he did this he couldn't help notice a new pony had joined the war. A googled stallion had come to the aid of the enemy. Loops started to feel that their chances of winning were starting to become slim.
Maybe we needed to rethink our strategy?