Some Kind of Snowball Skirmish [Dead]

[~Silly CC~]

((Ooh looks like fun! Mind if I join in? NINJA ATTACK))

It was a blustery day in the Ponyville town square, and Bubbles didn't like it. Her neon purple scarf was wrapped tightly around her neck and face several times, and she had mittens covering every one of her hooves. A long, hot pink stocking cap covered her blocky mane, and her glasses were quite foggy. She coughed, the warm breath reflecting from the scarf back to her dripping muzzle, before a chorus of laughter burst out from a few streets away. Some type of big excitement had brought many ponies together, and Bubbles wanted to check it out. Once she saw what was happening, and how much fun it seemed to be, she let out one of her own laughs, which was muffled by her cozy scarf.

She used her magic to form a beautiful snowball, and then aimed it at a golden unicorn stallion. Bombs away! she called through her muffling scarf, letting it fly. By her observations, it seemed to be mares against colts. She could do this. Scanning the area for a fellow mare, she spotted one with a splotchy coat and a big red bow. Definitely a girl, she decided, and ran over as quickly as she could. She was panting from the icy wind going down her throat, but finally caught enough warm breath being filtered through the wool material to have her voice again. Is this fight still looking for new recruits? she said with her scarf muffling her voice. Let alone the wind, she hoped she could be heard over all the factors.

She decided it was time that the others got a taste of what had just come, so she concentrated harder than ever and formed a huge snowball, roughly the size of Celestia, and lobbed it towards the other side of the town square. Get some! she shouted gleefully, watching the giant snowball hurl towards a few unsuspecting ponies.

[Loops]

Lupus was stunned. A snowball hit him from out of nowhere; straight in the head. He rubbed his head, trying to rid his short blue hair from all the snow that had gathered there during the all out war. He looked for the assassin who had tried to get the best of him. He wasn't to happy about it.

He spun, still cowering behind his little barrier made by the other unicorn, aiding the same side as he. He noticed yet another pony had joined the battle of the Ponyville town square. It was becoming interesting, he made a mental note to write all of this wacky event down; it would make a great tale to tell.

The Great Snow-war of Ponyville.

He imagined telling a tale of the underdog resistance, and the maleficent army they were fighting against. Of course that wasn't the exactly truth, but he had to make the story interesting, didn't he?

He finally located the sneaky attacker, seeing her run across the battlefield, Lupus was ready to launch a snowball at the supposed attacker when he realised she was running to the first pony he'd seen in the field; the one he presumed was running this side of the war. He didn't like the idea of working with somepony who decided to launch a ball of ice at his face without thinking, he easily forgave her. After all it was a war; the sides are a little blurry at first.

"Just adds to the drama." He whispered to himself. He rose slightly from his blockade and made a dash for the cart as well. Regrouping seemed like a good idea to Lupus, and it meant they could issue orders. When orders aren't clear it can only lead to one thing: Losing. 

Lupus didn't want to lose.

Reaching the cart, where the others all were he stopped, kicking up a small pile of snow at the base of each leg; a blanket of snow layered over his hooves. He smiled at the new unicorn, still in his rather overexcited and eccentric mood, and saluted his superior; waiting for some fresh orders.  

[Tartan Lassie]

    Honey had been watching Lupus' sneaky attack and it had mostly worked, but since then, quite a few other ponies had joined the fray. She wasn't entirely sure how many ponies were on each team, but there seemed to be a regrouping going on their side. Honey turned to see who was all gathered. There was their fearless leader, the huge blue pegasus, pale yellow unicorn stallion, a purple maned mare and (their most recent arrival) a unicorn mare with an off-white coat. And, of course, the little puppet Stump. Honey reared up laughing loudly and looking at Dusty Pan.

    "Yahoo! I reckon we've got a bit more of an advantage now, eh?" She cried. Honey was greatly enjoying this pretend warfare. It would appear that everypony had automatically accepted Dusty as the leader, since he was much bigger and had been there first. Plus, it was his cart they were hiding behind. Honey was vaguely jealous of this, but she was having too much fun to care. She spread her wings and launched into the air. "You give the orders, mate! I'll launch an aerial attack!" And she shot off over the square.

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Flyte squinted as a shape shot over their heads. Perhaps the other side was losing soldiers and they were retreating? She shook her head and returned to scooping up balls of snow. While it appeared that her side had the advantage in numbers, they didn't have any kind of defense. She had to move around a lot to keep from being hit, but it appeared that they had at least sent them skittering back for cover, for now.

WHOOMPH!!

A huge amount of snow fell from the heavens without warning, covering everypony near Flyte and turning Flyte into a pony shaped snowmare. Honey Dust had flown up into a tree above her enemies and shook it vigorously sending a huge snowdrift tumbling down. By the time Flyte had dug herself out, the skewbald mare was already shooting back towards the cart. "C-coward!" yelled Flyte, launching a torrent of angry snowballs after her, trying to keep from laughing.

[~Silly CC~]

Bubbles burst into a huge fit of laughter as her large creation hit a purple earth pony. Direct hit! She said through fits of giggles. Pumping her fist in the air and jumping in a circle, she then formed a new battalion of snowballs with ice flecks throughout them. She even melted the centers so they'd dribble down scarves, hats, and other clothes and into the fur. She'd be chilling the spines of all the enemy ponies. Pull up your scarves and mittens, everypony! We've got a special load coming up!

She had a malicious, though enjoyable, look on her face, as this was very enjoyable. This was getting fun fast, and she felt like is was going to go on for a while. Who cared? Not her! She didn't have any customers in this weather, so it wasn't like she was missing on profits. This was more fun than sitting inside with cocoa, though she might try and invite everypony in this to go to a café afterwards to warm up and chat. Yeah, that sounded like fun. Bubbles made a note to remember that for afterwards.

[waxworks]

Dusty pursed his lips in amusement. He imagined that part of him being suddenly dubbed the leader of this side was due to him being big and strong, and imagined the rest of it was that he made a terrific wall the others would hide behind while he got pelted with snowballs. He let loose with a wide smile, and then stood tall to rally the troops, "we take them by surprise! While she's flying around, everypony, up over the cart! Scoop the snow out of it and let them have it!"

On the other side of the field, Powderkeg had managed to help Grace and Gray get back on their hooves, and was trying to figure out some kind of strategy. Mannequin Grace had had quite enough of simply getting hit over and over, and had decided upon a new strategy. She waved a hoof at Flyte and Gray as she began rolling up a large snowball, followed by another one, and another one, putting together a classic snowpony. All it needed was a broom for a tail and some coal to really complete the look. Focusing her puppetry on it, it started to move, cried out, "happy birthday!" and then awkwardly 'galloped' towards the cart and sprang at it with a splat. Grace frowned, as she'd been hoping for something more dramatic. She shrugged, and sent another magical volley of snowballs over the cart eagerly.

[HelloImACrazyPony]

Dizzy continued poking her head around the cart, sending snowballs towards the other party. As a new 'recruit' had come over, Dizzy's smile grew even wider. They had cover and, if she counted right, either the same amount or more 'players'. That what she would call them now. Players. Dizzy had also been very happy with the pegasus' action. She had also come to consider the big blue stallion as a, what's a cool word, commander. She would use that for now. She heard his idea, and did as he said. She pelted more and more snowballs at the other party, attempting to duck every now and then.

A certain blue stallion was starting to get bored. Sure, it was fun watching, but it got boring after a while. He wasn't sure if he should join or go home. Go home. He thought. He started to get up and walk away, but a green unicorn soon threw a snowball at him. He stopped in his tracks and looked over. The green unicorn was still pelting ponies with her magic, but she looked over at the stallion and gestured towards the fight. The stallion shook his head and turned back around.

The green unicorn got down and quickly dashed over to the stallion and, completely on accident, tumbled onto him. The stallion was the first one to get up, and look at the unicorn.

"What do you want?" He asked nonchalantly.

"Come on, you know you wanna join. We need another stallion." She gestured over again, mentally counting the actual number. "Don't be such a loner." She added.

""You know what, fine. But don't expect me to stay for too long."

"YAY! Come on!" She said, grabbing his hoof and dragging him behind the cart. "Got us another one!"

[Loops]

Lupus beamed at the new recruit, welcoming the new stallion with an extended hoof. Lupus looked directly at the stallion, staring into his eyes.

"Are you ready for the snowball fight of your life?" He suddenly asked, he was still excited by all of the snow flying about the town square. A wild look crossed the yellow unicorns face, he was ready to get back into the thick of things; get his hooves stuck back into the fight. He wanted to be back in the war for the town square.

Lupus moved away from the new stallion and the unicorn that had saved him from before, moving away from them to run back towards the enemy. He was going to rush them; after all snowballs didn't hurt to much, and Loops didn't mind getting hit by a few. He wasn't that fast, so dodging the icy balls of whiteness wasn't exactly an easy feat for the author pony.

He ran from the safety of the cart to the battlegrounds of the Ponyville's town square, relishing the adrenaline rush that came with the thrill of being pelted with snow. Lupus was showing a side of himself that he never thought even existed: a confident pony.

He looked over his shoulder; checking to see if the new stallion, and the light green unicorn, were following him into the thick of the fray.

[HelloImACrazyPony]

"Alright, Darky, you gotta use your speed advantage, got it?"
"Okay then. You are really serious about this aren't you?"
"Well, duh."
Dark looked over to the yellow unicorn, and shook his extended hoof. "Yeah, sure." Dark was really uneasy about this. He had already seen a side of Dizzy he didn't know existed. He didn't know what was gonna come out of this snowball fight. And he wasn't sure he wanted to know.
Dizzy followed the yellow stallion, leaving the light blue one to stand there, doing almost nothing. She ran oddly, moving side to side while running, and it proved useful, as she wasn't hit with quite as many snowballs. She had a devious smile plastered on her face, as she followed the stallion.

[~Silly CC~]

Bubbles had gotten confused by the birthday-wishing snow pony, and that was a bad thing. Soon her eyes had been replaced by snowballs, along with a few in her mouth, and she was spitting madly. As she blinked the snow from her eyes, she began to laugh, which sent a few more snow bombs into her mouth. Soon she was on the ground giggling, hardly being able to dodge the projectiles now easily being aimed at her. Finally she regained some of her sanity (the little of which she had) and brought up another huge snowball, aiming for who seemed to be the owner of the snow pony from earlier. Here's a birthday present! she called her comebacks as bad as day-old hay fries.

The snowball was speeding for the pony, and would soon hit with a satisfying SPLAT, but meanwhile, the potion brewer was focusing on nabbing ponies with icy little projectiles. She sent them out, ten at a time, towards unsuspecting ponies on both sides, and then thought of an idea. She pranced into the middle of the field and shouted with all her might, I'M GOING ROGUE!!!!!!

She laughed maniacally, sending out whooshing storms of tiny snowballs, and then leapt into a snow-pelted cart. Luckily she was alone, and soon felt like she was having the best time EVER. She glanced around, looking for somepony to nab, when another snow pile hit her head. She glanced up, ready to attack, when she noticed it was a tree. Nice one, she chided to herself, giggling a little bit.

[waxworks]

Mannequin Grace stared for a moment. A lot of things were going through her mind, and a moment later a massive snowball joined them as she went rolling backwards inside of it.

"Oy! Nopony wallops my sister," cried Mandolin Gray, sending a twin barrage at both Beaker and Lupus. He'd been rolling up a small pile during all of the chaos so he could just rapid-fire throw. In addition to this there was suddenly an air presence as Powderkeg risked the cold and flung off her wingmittens. The pegabat popped into the air and began an aerial volley on the others while Gray assailed the ground wildly. Of course after a moment of this she began shivering terribly and wobbling in the sky.

"Shoot, why's snow gotta be so durn cold?!"

Seeing Bubbly get nailed by a nearby tree, Dusty began smiling brightly, an idea nudging up against him. He cautiously trotted around a semi-comatose Stump (who got up and began throwing again a moment later when Grace extricated herself from the giant snowball), zipped around Dizzy and Dark, and then made a wild run for the other edge of the square.

"Oy, Dusty's running," yelled Gray, heaving hooffuls of snow at the big blue target. Powderkeg would've joined in but she was now shivering so badly that she was scanning the ground from mid-air desperately trying to find where she'd flung off her wing-mittens.

Dusty cheered, ran past Bubbly Beak, spun in the snow, and slammed one of his big blue hooves into a particularly snow-laden tree. The result was magnificent, immediate, and very much like spreading fondant on a cake. It was entirely worth being a giant target as he tried to gallop back to the relative shelter of the cart.

[seredocyoungheart]

Okay so I turn this way and I should be heading for the square if i'm judging it right. Seredoc thought as he was flying high enough over the town to avoid the houses yet low enough to where he couldn't quite see where he was going. Seredoc saw Ponyville from above from Cloudsdale and wanted to see if he could memorize the layout of the town by flying over it just enough so he wouldn't see ahead as much.

As he neared the town square he heard laughter coming from below and looked down wondering what everyone was laughing about. Upon further inspection he noticed that a bunch of ponies were throwing snow at each other and laughing. Well that certainly looks like fun. wonder if I can join in but how? They seem to be almost even on teams though I can't tell all that well with every-pony moving about so quickly to avoid the snowballs. That and it would seem I've finally reached the town square. With that thought a stray snowball had flown up and hit him in the face causing him to cough as some of the snow went up his nose as he un-willingly angled himself toward a rooftop. As he realized this it was too late and he crashed into it sliding off and onto the ground with a bunch of snow quickly following burying him in a pile of snow.

Quickly regaining his composure Seredoc popped out of the snow and shook the remaining bits of it off. ]One way to make an entrance I suppose. Looking around quickly he noted that the square was big enough to notice and that it shouldn't have taken him that long to find. He looked back in time to dodge another stray snowball and took the time to just go with the flow and begin to make and then throw his own snowballs into the fray seeing who he would hit and not hit. With a grin he spoke, "Mind if I join the fray?"