It is Hearth’s Warming Eve in the town of Ponyville. Everypony had decorated their homes and bought presents for each other. The Pie Family and Grand Pear joined the Apple Family at Sweet Apple Acres, and the Sparkle Family joined Twilight and Spike at the Castle of Friendship. Family and friends got together to have a joyful time.
However, what the ponies didn’t know was that Discord had an idea to spice up the holidays. In the outskirts of Ponyville, the draconequus popped out of thin air. He snapped a finger and summoned four certain creatures.
“Go forth, my chaotic friends! Give them a Hearth’s Warming experience they’ll never forget!” Discord commanded with great enthusiasm.
The Lord of Chaos teleported back to his home, and the four creatures marched onward into the town.
Near the Cutie Mark Crusaders’ clubhouse, the CMCs and several other foals, including Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Rumble, Pipsqueak, and Featherweight, were building snowponies.
Suddenly, Silver Spoon spotted something of interest.
“Um, everypony. There’s something you have to see.” Silver Spoon said as she pointed her hoof to what she was seeing.
The other foals turned their heads to where Silver Spoon was pointing at and their eyes widened. They saw a towering snowpony standing in the middle of town. Besides the huge size, another odd thing was that the snowpony continued increasing in size.
“Is it me, or is that snowpony keeps getting bigger?” Diamond Tiara asked.
“Come on! Let’s get a closer look!” Apple Bloom urged.
The foals wasted no time galloping towards the snowpony. It attracted the attention of many other ponies as there was a huge crowd gathered around it. The rest of the Apple Family, the whole Pie Family, Grand Pear, Sugar Belle, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash were there among the crowd. After going through the crowd, the foals were surprised by what they saw next.
They saw two goats continuously spitting out snowballs at the snowpony. One has grey fur, the other has white fur, and they both wear Hearth’s Warming hats. Each time the goats launched a snowball, the snowpony grew.
“What’s going on here?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Beats me. These fellas just came out of nowhere and made this giant snowpony.” Applejack answered.
The perplexed ponies just stood by and watch as the two goats made the snowpony larger and larger. Featherweight took some pictures with his camera. The goats stopped once the snowpony was nearly two hundred feet tall.
“For a moment, I thought they were going to make it as big as Twilight’s castle.” Rainbow commented.
Both goats then turned their attention towards the crowd of ponies as they marveled at the gigantic snowpony. Without warning, the white goat shot a snowball at Diamond Tiara. Once it hit its target, the filly’s head was covered in a spherical mass of snow, prompting her to let out a muffled scream.
The goats proceeded with a snowball barrage, striking more ponies in the crowd, including Sweetie Belle, Pipsqueak, Igneous Rock Pie, Marble, Maud, Big Mac, Fluttershy, and Grand Pear. One of the snowballs went for Granny Smith, but Applejack took the hit.
“SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!!” Scootaloo bellowed right before she was struck by one of the goats’ snowballs.
Snowballs were then thrown all around. The goats were not affected by snowballs thrown by ponies, but those that were hit by the goat’s snowballs found themselves with their heads engulfed in snow. Pinkie unleashed a fierce storm of snowballs in all directions, and the two goats slipped away in the confusion.
Meanwhile, the black goat was up to its own mischief. On its back, it was equipped with some kind of contraption shaped like a cannon. Wherever it went, the goat used its device to attach wires of festive lights on just about anything.
At Cranky Doodle Donkey’s house, the goat knocked on the front door.
“Coming!” Cranky shouted as he headed for the door.
When he opened the door and looked outside, he saw that his house was completely surrounded by multitudes of Hearth’s Warming lights.
“Hey, those lights are not supposed to be there!”
He approached the lights with the intention to remove them, but once he touched one of the wires, he was stunned by an electric shock.
Throughout Ponyville, ponies that stumbled upon these wires of festive lights had the unpleasant experience of an electric jolt. When Derpy returned to her house after running some errands, she discovered wires of Hearth’s Warming lights covering the front door. Confused, she touched the wires and received an electric shock as well.
Inside Trixie’s wagon, Trixie and Starlight were enjoying a cup of hot cocoa.
“Hot chocolate is so delicious when you’re having it with a friend.” Trixie said.
“I couldn’t agree more.” Starlight replied. “Oh, I almost forgot! I got Hearth’s Warming cookies in my office! Be right back!”
Starlight then teleported to her office. When she arrived, she discovered wires of festive lights all around in her office.
“What?! Who put all these lights in my office?!”
“Baaaaaaaaaah!” The black goat took her by surprise.
Startled, Starlight accidentally stepped on one of the wires. She received an electric shock and was rendered unconscious.
Back at the wagon, Trixie was waiting patiently for her friend.
“She sure is taking her sweet time.”
There was then a knock on the door.
“Starlight?”
Trixie opened the door and once she looked outside, she discovered her wagon surrounded by snowponies, each bigger than the wagon itself.
“Uh Starlight, did you make all of this?”
The grey goat ambushed her with a snowball attack. Trixie fell victim to the sneak attack and her head was covered in a mass of snow. She flew into a panic and while she was galloping around frantically, the goat went on to fill up her wagon with snow.
The white goat casually strolled around Ponyville and repeatedly spit snowballs in random directions, either creating snowponies or covering ponies’ heads in snow. It later arrived at Town Hall, where Mayor Mare was hosting a holiday party. A group of musicians, including Octavia, were playing Hearth’s Warming music. To liven up the party, the goat assailed every pony in Town Hall with a flurry of snowballs.
Inside the Castle of Friendship, Twilight and her family were enjoying some delicious pudding. Twilight was also showering her niece with affection.
“Twilight!” Spike called out excitedly.
“What is it, Spike?” Twilight asked.
“You have to come outside! There’s a humongous snowpony! You’re not going to believe how big it is!”
Intrigued, Twilight and her family decided to check it out. After stepping outside the castle, they saw the forementioned snowpony. The Sparkle Family were amazed that it was big enough to be seen from the castle.
“I didn’t think a snowpony could get this big!” Twilight was astounded.
“Baaaaaaaaah!”
The Sparkle Family were then greeted by the brown goat. On its back, it was carrying a sleigh (which is small enough to fit) with sacks. The family immediately became curious about this unusual visitor.
“So, is it here to deliver presents?” Spike wondered.
Unexpectedly, a piece of festive wrapping paper flew out of the sleigh and towards Flurry Heart. In the next moment, the paper wrapped around the baby alicorn and turned her into a Hearth’s Warming present. This made the family totally flabbergasted. While they were still frozen in shock, the goat launched magical wrapping paper at Twilight, her parents, Cadance, and Shining Armor. Spike tried to fly away, but he was also caught. With the entire Sparkle Family nicely wrapped into presents, the goat went on its merry way.
Without a specific destination in mind, the brown goat went around aimlessly. Any ponies that crossed its path were wrapped into presents, including the Cake Family, Mudbriar (who was on his way to see Maud) and Vinyl Scratch (who was preoccupied listening to music from her headphones).
The goat stopped by at Sandbar’s house and knocked on the front door. Sandbar’s father answered and as soon as he laid eyes on the goat, he was turned into a present. The goat entered the house and proceeded to turn Sandbar, his mother, and his little sister into presents as well.
The goat went to another random house and repeated the same process. It knocked on the door and when somepony answered, the goat turned everypony in the house into presents.
Eventually, it came across Carousel Boutique. This time, the goat just walked in through the entrance.
“Is that you, Sweetie Belle?” Rarity went down the stairs only to be met by wrapping paper.
Rarity yelped as she was turned into a present. The goat also noticed Opalescence and launched wrapping paper at her too. The cat screamed as she was wrapped into a present.
“Rarity, I’m back!” Sweetie Belle returned to the boutique.
Subsequently, the filly became another victim of the goat’s shenanigans.
After the encounter with the white goat and grey goat, the Apple and Pie families, as well as Grand Pear, were heading back to Sweet Apple Acres.
“Those goats sure were something.” Applejack remarked.
“I know! I never had a snowball fight so exhilarating!” Pinkie bounced up and down.
They reached their destination, but they discovered that the apple orchard was filled with out-of-place Hearth’s Warming lights and most of the trees were wrapped into presents.
“WHAT IN TARNATION HAPPENED TO THE ORCHARD?!!!” Applejack exclaimed.
While sitting nice and cozy in his home, Discord watched every little thing the goats did while feasting on cookies with a glass of milk. After a few hours, all those turned into presents changed back to normal and all the lights placed by the black goat mysteriously vanished. The ponies were confused at first but they soon returned to enjoying the holidays.
“Hold on! Hold on!” Discord interrupted. “There’s one more thing I need to see!”
Later in the evening at Canterlot palace, Celestia and Luna gazed at the starry night sky together.
“Baaaaaaaah...!”
The sisters turned their heads around and saw all four goats standing behind them. The two alicorns were then taken by surprise as the white goat and grey goat spit snowballs at them. The brown goat swiftly followed up by wrapping the sisters into presents. For the finishing touch, the black goat placed Hearth’s Warming lights around them.
“Happy Hearth’s Warming, my little ponies.” Discord said with a wide smile.