//------------------------------// // Christmas in Pearl Harbour // Story: Ponies in war // by General Sparky //------------------------------// 24 December 1941, Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Sparky Just one day after the second battle of Pearl Harbour comes Hearth's Warming Eve, what a strange coincidence, I thought. The morning started out Perfectly, Pinkie woke Twilight and me up just when we just entered our Baracks from Night Watch. We had been awake for three days straight now. I will get Pinkie for that later. For now, it's Hearth's Warming Eve. Twilight and I agreed to let US 'prisoners' and our troops to take 10 days off duty. Luckily for us, the Japanese troops are on guard and that they do not celebrate this holiday. Background Info on treatment of captured US troops: Most of the troops spent time with their US counterparts. Both sides were unarmed for the holiday as the defeat at the second battle of Peral Harbour and that they seemed to get along well. Originally, the planwas for US troops to be treated as prisoners but with some intervention, the Japanese agreed to let US troops off. But the US troops must be unarmed. Sadly, we must disarm all captured US troops thanks to that agreement. So long as US troops are not in Japanese hands, they will be treated fairly. The captured US troops appears to be in good shape after two weeks under captivity. Our troops even secretly date some of these US soldiers. No disciplinary actions were taken as Twilight and I do not want to. Our ponies have their own lives so let them be. As the saying goes, "In the Army, you can do whatever you want, just don't get caught." Since Equestrian and US troops are getting along so well together, Twilight and I agreed to let them go for their Hearth's Warming break. Pearl Harbour, 7a.m "Wake up, wake up, it's Hearth's Warming Eve!" Pinkie said in a high pitched voice as she is entering the Barracks. "So soon?" I said, just coming back from night watch. "Yes, sleepy head." Pinkie said, hopping on her position. "W..ha...t?" Twilight said, just getting up from bed. "Come on you two, It's Hearth's Warming Eve! You two should come out and see my 'Hearth's warming Eve party'." "Look, unless you drag us out, we going back to sleep." I said, in a tried tone. "Fine." Pinkie said, as she came closer to mine bed. Pinkie then literally drag us out of bed and made our body touch the cool snow. "I regret what I said earlier." I said, still getting up. "I hate you Pinkie, now I can't go back to sleep." Twilight said, rubbing her eyes. "Come on, you two should thank me for waking you guys up!" Pinkie said. "I will get you back later for this Pinkie." Twilight and I said at the same time. "Woah, and I thought I Derpy was weird, do you guys have telepathy or something?" Pinkie questioned. "No!" Twilight and I answered. "You two have some kind of Telepathy alright." Pinkie said, swaying her hoof at Twilight and me. "What?" Twilight and I repiled, there was a pause before we started ponting our hoof at each other, "Stop saying what I am saying!" "I am going to walk away now." Pinkie said, before hopping away from our sight. Twilight and I blushed at each other. We later went back to the barracks to put on our Uniform. After that, we quietly made our way to Independence to commence the firing of the 25 inch guns on port. This is done so as to remember our ponies and US troops alike who died during the second battle of Pearl Harbour. ESS Independence, 8a.m The flight deck was covered in snow, denying any aircraft from flying. Someponies have also started to play in the snow covered flight deck for some reason. We didn't scold them for it of course. I mean, ponies need to have their fun, right? When we entered the command post, we were quite suprised that there was nopony there. Twilight and I looked at each other and blushed again. Suddenly, the door closed and the room went dark. I yelled "Who did this?" There was no reply. "Come out, come out wherever you are." Twilight said. There was no movement and all was quiet. "You know we could fly out, right?" I said, to nopony is particular. Twilight and I started to spread our wings, preparing to fly out of the room. We accidently made our hidden guns in our wings appear in doing so. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" said in a high pitched voice by somepony. "Who is there? We got guns and we are not afaird to use it." I yelled out frantically. Suddenly the door opened and there a grey pegusus with a blode mane entered the room. "Oh, it's just you, Derpy." "Oops, sorry for that." Derpy said. "Never mind, so why are you here, Derpy?" "....." "No, not that..""Yes, that one, I am here to tell you guys that the firing has been delayed. The guns are covered in snow and the troops are trying to clear it. Estimated delayed time: 1hour." "Great, thanks Derpy, you may go now." I said in a clam voice. "As Derpy was wlking out of the room, she suddenly turned around and asked, "Almost forgot, where did you guys get your guns installed?" "What guns?" Twilight asked. "The guns on your wings, silly." We turned and look at our wings and saw there was indeed two guns on our wings. "Derpy, you must not to tell anyone what you have seen. Do you understand?" "Yes, Sir!" With that, Derpy saluted and went out of the room. After the firing of the 25 inch guns, the rest of the day went smoothly. Twilight and I met up with her friends at the dock a while later. "So, how have you been?" Applejack asked. "I am fine, just suffering from the lack of sleep, but other than that I am fine." Twilight repiled. "Wait, what? How could you of all ponies suffer a lack of sleep?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking at Twilight and I. "Come on, it's just one day of lack of sleep, how can that be bad?" Pinkie asked in a cheery manner. "It is three full days of lack of sleep and not to mention, fighthing a battle out at sea during one of those days." I repiled, saying it in a cranky tone. "Never mind that, you two will get enough sleep for Hearth's Warming Day." Pinkie said. "Come on, now let's make pony angles in the snow." Pinkie said, trying to change the subject. "Fine, I can at least deal with that." Twilight and I repiled at the same time. "Just stop doing that, please? It is making me freak out." Applejack said. "Doing what?" Twilight and I replied. "That, stop doing that." "Sure thing, Applejack." Twilight and I repiled. Everypony but the two of us started to back away. There was an awkward silence. "Come on, let's go to play in the snow." Twilight said frantically. "We would, and Twilight, never do that again." "Understood." "Good, so who is up for a little snow fun?" Perpective: Narrator Everypony and US troops started to have a bit fun in the snow. They made pranks, played snowball fights and so paintball fights. Sparky and Twilight scolded the pony for the paintball fight, because it cause a lot of panic on the Japanese side. At least, everypony and US troops had fun celebrating Christmas Eve/Hearth's Warming Eve. 25 December 1941, Pearl Harbour, Perpective: Twilight The day I would have been grateful for if it wasn't for Pinkie waking us up again so early. Honestly, I would rather want to go back to sleep and be in the dream world than come out of it. Sparky also got waken up because of this. Pinkie Pie, you are really going to get it, I thought. Sparky started to walk towards me and said, "Come on, Twily, get up, we have a long day in front of us." "Yeah." I started to climd out of bed, look towards SParky and asked, "I've been thinking, Sparky, do you really think that we have a telepathy with each other?" "I hope not." Sparky said with a depressing voice. "What do you mean by 'I hope not'?" "I mean, I been thinking about the same thing yesterday and I just hope that what Pinkie say is not true." We both looked at each other, neither of us saying a word. We started to put on our Uniform and started to walk out of the Barracks. We saw Derpy along our way and she started saying, "Hi, Twilight and Sparky, so here is you presents." Derpy handed us two present boxes and walked away. We started walking, taking the box to the command deck of ESS Independence. When we walked into the Command deck, we were welcomed by Pinkie Pie and confetti from her Party cannon. "Welcome to your Hearth's Warming Party, Twilight and Sparky!" Pinkie said, in a high pitched voice. "Thanks, Pinkie." I said sacastically. "Why, do you not like it?" "No, it's just that you shouldn't bring your Party cannon here." "Why?" There was a sudden drop in Pinkie's voice. "Why? Why not?" Sparky said. There was a silence and then Pinkie started laughing. Good old Pinkie, I thought. "So, Pinkie, where are the gals?" I asked. "They are back there." Pinkie said, pointing at the back of the room. "Thanks!" I said, as I begin running towards them. As I approached them, They started to come towards me and started to give a group hug. Sparky came later. We exchanged our presents with each other. Sparky gave each of the gals a ship in a bottle, each ship in the bottle is different from each other. I gave the gals a small wooden badge that I made in my free time. Spike gave me a nice Christmas card, Applejack gave me two apple ciders, Fluttershy gave me a toy Battleship that she made, Rainbow Dash gave me a book on Tanks, Rarity gave me a new military uniform, Pinkie pie gave me a toy tank that she made as a Hearth's Warming Day Presents. Applejack gave Sparky one apple cider, Fluttershy gave him a toy carrier that she made, Rainbow Dash gave him a book on Battleships, Rarity gave him a new Military clothing as well, Spike gave him a toy gun and Pinkie Pie gave him toy aircraft she made as Hearth's Warming presents. After the exchanging of Presents, we went outside and played some games outside. It was fun to say the least. We snowfight each other, snowfight with US troops and build snow pony on the flight deck. It was a memorable event. After all the fun, the gals, Sparky and I went back to the Command Deck to get our presents and to put them back in the Barracks. After that, we went back out for more fun, shot fire works from the flight Deck, play capture the star with Ponies vs US troops and even put a christmas tree on the flight deck. It was so much fun that we didn't take notice the time. It was noight time when we finished all the festivities. Sparky and I said our goodbyes to the gals and went back to the Barracks. "Sparky, you know, you haven't gave me a present yet, right?" I questioned. "I will, you will see." As we entered the baracks, there was a box on my bed and a box on his bed. "Did you...?" I and Sparky asked at the same time. We gave each other a nod and started to open the boxes. When I open my box, there was cloak with a sun and stars as the chest plate and the entire cloak was a mixture of yellow sun and the night sky colour. When I put it on, it turns invisible, when I remove it, it return to its original colour. This cloak also manages to cover my wings when spread and folded. When Sparky opened his box, there was a cloak with the moon and stars as the chest plate and the entire cloak was the same colour as mine. It also had the same capability as mine. Sparky and I turned to look at each other and walked towards each other and gave each other a hug. "Thank you." We said together. "Happy Hearth's Warming, Twily." Sparky said. "Happy Hearth's Warming, Sparky." I said, tightening the hug. We release each other from the Hug and sat down, facing each other. "So..., now that nopony is here..." I said, with a sly smile growing on my face and my front hooves bumping each other. "No, Twily, I won't allow that." Sparky said, with a firm voice. "Why?" I asked, with a frown growing on my face. "Just no. And that we haven't even opened Derpy's present yet." Sparky said, with a smile. "Oh, but could we do it after that?" "Sure, why not." Sparky and I started to open the box Derpy gave us. When Sparky and I finished opening both our boxes, we were shocked at what it is. "It couldn't be.." We said, looking at our present. Our present? A picture of us overlooking the ruins at the Battle of Moscow. Trailer for Next Chapter: "Modern War never stops, holidays are only for Peace time, not War time."- General Sparky (Main character not Author)