Sudden Snow

by Fandom Trash Snivy

Sudden Snow

Twilight Sparkle yawned as she woke up in her bed in her brand new castle. It didn't quite feel like her old home, the Golden Oaks Library, but she was getting used to it. Spike also woke up from the sound of Twilight's yawn.

"Good morning, Twilight!"

"Good morning, Spike," Twilight replied to Spike. Spike was her number one dragon assistant and one of her very first friends. Spike has always, always been there for Twilight Sparkle, especially in times of doubt.

Suddenly, Spike looked worried.

"T-twilight..." he stammered in fear.

"What is it, Spike?" Twilight Sparkle added. "Did you have a bad dream? Do you have a stomach ache?" Now that Twilight was an alicorn princess, the Princess Of Friendship, complete with her very own castle and kingdom of her own, Twilight needed to help whomever she could.

"There's snow outside, Twilight..."

"What a silly dragon you are, Spike! It is November! Of course it couldn't-"

Twilight Sparkle walked over to a window and glanced outside.

"-snow."

All of Ponyville was covered with a thick blanket of snow. Twilight could see the Cutie Mark Crusaders making a snowpony outside.

Twilight gasped. "This isn't natural, especially for November! What are we going to do?"

"I don't know! I was the one who told you in the first place!" Spike replied.

"Well, I'm coming outside to see what in Celestia's name is going on here," Twilight Sparkle replied. "Are you coming with me?"

"Of course I am!" Spike happily answered.

Spike and Twilight Sparkle started down the stairs and exited the castle.

Immediately after exiting the castle, a giant pile of snow fell on Twilight Sparkle and Spike.

"Oof!"

Twilight Sparkle's head popped out of the snow pile. Her wings popped out afterwards, and she flew out of the pile. She levitated Spike out of the pile.

"Sorry guys," a blushing Rainbow Dash apologized from above them. "I was trying to get this snow off of this tree. I didn't mean for it to get all over you guys."

"It's okay," Twilight Sparkle replied. "We are out here to investigate why it snowed today."

"It is in the middle of November!" Spike exclaimed. "Something is totally wrong here!"

"I agree," Rainbow responded. "Catch ya later!" Rainbow Dash sped off into the sky.

Twilight Sparkle and Spike started through a heavy path of snow.

"Gosh, Twi," Spike commented. "How thick is this snow?"

"It has to be at least five inches," Twilight Sparkle replied.

Twilight Sparkle and Spike suddenly stopped in their tracks. A large figure loomed over them. The figure was Discord, a draconequis who was recently reformed and apologized for his wrongdoings in the past. What answers could he have to this mysterious occurrence?

"Gosh, Twi," he spoke, "look at all of this snow! Looks like Hearth's Warming Eve is going to be here early this year."

"Why would it be here early?!" Spike asked. "Hearth's Warming Eve traditionally begins on-"

"Spike," Discord explained, "I was just joking. I think I may have an explanation for what is going on today. Come closer."

Twilight Sparkle and Spike inched a little bit closer to Discord.

Discord's neck grew shorter. "Closer."

They came a little bit more closer to him. Discord's neck grew a little more shorter. "Closer."

Twilight Sparkle and Spike came a little bit more closer to Discord. Discord's neck grew even smaller and his voice grew high-pitched and shrill: "Closer."

They came a bit more closer when Discord's normal voice spoke: "Stop."

Discord's neck grew long again and he was very dizzy. He shook his head and he brought it down really close to Twilight's face.

"Um, what are you going to tell us?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"I think," Discord whispered to her, "that the pegasi messed up in the Cloudsdale Weather Factory."

"How could the pegasi mess up in the Cloudsdale Weather Factory?!" Twilight shouted. "They are a very highly-trained and elite team of pegasi. How could they mess up?"

"Perhaps the boss's calendar was wrong," Discord suggested.

"Impossible," responded Spike.

"Is that the best explanation you can come up with?!" Twilight responded to Discord. "That's ludicrous!"

"I don't know what that word means, but I agree with Twilight!" Spike agreed.

"Oh really?" Discord responded. "I actually kind of think that theory of mine isn't holding up too well, now that you mention it. I now think that Princess Celestia is the one who is responsible for this snow."

Twilight Sparkle growls angrily.

"First the pegasi from the Cloudsdale Weather Factory, and now you're saying that Princess Celestia is responsible?! That's even more ludicrous than your last theory!"

"What she said!" Spike responded.

"Well, she raises the sun," Discord stated. "She could have some knowledge in weather."

"Then she wouldn't be just raising the sun!" Twilight responded. "She would also be in charge of the weather, meaning that the Cloudsdale Weather Factory wouldn't even exist!"

"Um, maybe she just likes winter?" Discord peeps.

"I know what you're hiding, Discord!" Twilight Sparkle exclaims. "You used your chaotic powers to conjure up snow! You are responsible for this!"

There was a long period of silence.

"Yes...it was me," Discord sheepishly admits.

"I knew that all along!" comments Spike.

Suddenly Twilight Sparkle smiles.

"Oh no," Discord peeps.

Twilight leaned over and whispered into Discord's ear.

"Oh no..." he peeps even more quietly.

"You'll have to shovel all of this snow!" she whispers.

"Noooooooooooooooooo!" Discord yells.

Twilight Sparkle levitates Discord a shovel. "Better start now," she says with a smile.

Discord holds the shovel in his arms and starts shoveling snow.

"This is why I hate Winter Wrap Up..."

Comments

[Michael Hudson]

Sir, how dare you suggest November is incorrect for snow! I live in Alaska and, *Jumbled looks outside* WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SNOW!? I have not read your fic, I merely felt I had to comment.

[SuperPinkBrony12]

5282385 An interesting thing is, although the calender says Winter lasts from December 21 (Winter Solsitice) to March 21 (Spring Equinox), there's no official start or end date for the seasons. The harvesting season that marks the end of fall, actually comes early in November (which is when Thanksgiving was originally celebrated by the Pilgrims and their descendants). So technically, you could argue that Winter has already arrived, and the snow isn't too early (the temperature is another story).

[Fandom Trash Snivy]

5282385 Sorry. I live in Ohio, and it snowed today. Major apology for making you mad.

[Michael Hudson]

5282420 It was just a small joke that I felt the need to make. My anger is not real, and honestly you made me remember the odd weather I've been having. We have had one snow so far and it is gone at this point. Very strange.

[Garbo]

Alternative title: pretty much every november in New England.

[RandomHamster33]

You don't get now in November?

Curses, North Dakota!!!!!!!

Except ha, we in ND are immune to cold. We've learned from the Canadians.

[crystal_chaos]

Lol snowing in oklahoma were I am right now.

[Cerulean Voice]

5282385
mfw it never snows where I live. Like, ever.
5282405

the calender says Winter lasts from December 21 (Winter Solsitice) to March 21 (Spring Equinox), there's no official start or end date for the seasons.

That's interesting. We just say each season begins on the first of every third month. Summer is 01/12 - 28(29)/02, Autumn is 01/03 - 31/05, Winter is 01/06 - 31/08, and Spring is 01/09 - 30/11. Then again, Australians are notoriously lazy with almost everything and love to simplify stuff.

[The Guardian and Friends]

5282633

mfw it never snows where I live. Like, ever

Florida, I presume?

[Ernest Wood]

Ha! Finally a story I can relate to, we really do have some crazy weather these years huh? Anyways the story is pretty damn good, its fluent, the characters feel like the characters from the show, and it's all around a pretty good read. Though there are some places your choice of wording is a little odd and I did notice one grammatical error but other than that the story is pretty good. Anyways have a good day and happy writing or reading!

Sincerely: Ernest

[Cerulean Voice]

5282711

We just say each season begins on the first of every third month.

Then again, Australians are notoriously lazy with almost everything and love to simplify stuff.

[The Guardian and Friends]

5282719

Fuck.

Well, Fl and Australia do have Melbourne.

[SerenaTheMoonPony]

I live in the maritimes in Canada and we have snow right now...It'll probably still be here in May...
I hate the winter time...too cold for me thank-you...

[Palm Palette]

The snow's unusual enough that it's been noted by a popular weather blog.

To summarize, about 50% of the contiguous US (lower 48 states, sorry Alaska) is covered in snow. The average for this time of year is 4-20%. Here's the map:

wunderground.com/hurricane/2014/snow-nov17b-us.jpg

[Pony Authors]

HA I FEEL YA! GO AWAY, SNOW! IT'S NOVEMBER! Stupid Ohio weather.
-ThePortalPonies

[FaelaArts]

5282735 And yet global warming doesn't exist.

[MilesW1998]

Oh my God is that snow, we're all gonna die!

[xStellar_Bubbles]

This truly is a very interesting story idea, and I enjoyed it quite much! However, you don't have to give exposition that people already may have known, such as Spike being Twilight's assistant and Discord being reformed. Speaking of Discord, when I read his dialogue in the story, he seemed... odd. I feel like he's less chaotic than he usually is right here. But, I did enjoy your story anyways. Also, you have snow wherever you live?? There's barely anything in New York! One other thing I have to mention:
i58.tinypic.com/24nlb7q.png
Congradulations.

[nukestar]

Snowing in November that's nothing. When you get snow in September or ice storms in May you can complain. I look out my window right now and everything is covered in snow.

[Paaaad]

We had snow on Halloween where I was a couple of years ago... I think it was 2011. Just be glad it's not 198 years ago. Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death

[Tadpole]

5282633 It also never snows here. Except that, instead of being happy, I'm sad because I'll never see snow first-person...

[rem-dog]

Be sure to dress warm tomorrow, it's supposed to be colder than today!

[Minalkra]

I came in expecting Discord to take Twilight to school about chaos theory in relation to weather effects and how minute changes can cause far-reaching and strange effects in widely dispersed areas. Maybe something about how pony interference with weather causes these sorts of things and that Twilight was more isolated in Canterlot than she previously thought. Maybe even with Rainbow Dash acting as straight-man to Twilight's panic (since RD IS in charge of weather, she ought to be either more or less concerned than Twilight depending on how the idea is presented).

Instead, I got this.

It's not BAD. It's just a bit bland and some of the 'scenes' seem extraneous to the story and a bit on the thin side (Twilight and RD is very much like this - again RD's the weather pony, if not the weather manager-depending on head canon, and so should be a bit more concerned than she is). It's aight. I think I came in with more expectation than was warranted,

*sniff*

Also, it's freakin' cold and that jet stream needs to go back north soon because I'm in the SOUTH and it's supposed to be HOT here. Not below freezing with an ice warning. Stupid cold, I moved here to get away from this crap ...

[Kleora]

5282512
One of us, one of us.

[cosmosain]

5282420
If it did snow where I live it would be very weird

[Grabnock]

5284611 We're lucky if it snows once every five years...
Or unlucky, since no one knows how to drive in snow. Our accident ratio literally goes up 500%. It's ridiculous.

[cosmosain]

5291851
bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/metadata/maps/lores/sn7178.png
That dot is me
If it does snow here I would party like its ... A pinkie pie party

[Chaos-Sonata]

I live in Southern California, no snow here. Except once around 20 years ago I think, I wasn't alive.

[FelineFluff]

This was an awesome Fic!

[Fandom Trash Snivy]

5675198
Thanks!