//------------------------------// // Bonus Chapter: Snowball War! // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Gremlins // by Sketch App //------------------------------// (This chapter takes place during the beginning of Chapter 5, and before the events of Gizmo getting wet.) Inside the barn, Twilight, Sunset, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack just finished testing their musical equipment as everyone else was outside having a snowball fight. Even Gizmo joined them testing their instruments by blowing his toy trumpet. "Well, how about we play abit while we wait for Rarity to show up?" Sunset suggested which her friends quickly agreed to. So the five Rainbooms. Started playing some music as Gizmo joined them, blowing his toy trumpet as April listens with Spike on her lap. Zephyr was looking at Fluttershy with puppy eyes and quivered his lips. Fluttershy sighed and rolled her eyes. "Just until Rarity shows up." She sighed. "Thanks sis~!" Zephyr cheered as the others rolled their eyes too. Now Zephyr was joining them making music with his wooden flute. Outside, everyone was having a blast with their snowball fight, with each on their own teams. Those teams being Karai and Shinigami, Leo and Donnie, Casey and Rainbow Dash, Raph and Mona Lisa, and Mikey with Applebloom and Scootaloo. They all had their own forts built and were throwing snowballs left and right. Everyone was enjoying themselves as they threw/got hit with snowballs. Even Mona Lisa was having fun. She was laughing with Raph as she ducked and threw snowballs at the other teams, feeling the joy of being part of a game. "Didn't I tell you this would be fun, Mona?" Raph asked as he threw a snowball at Mikey's direction. "Indeed, Raphael!" Mona cheered as she threw a snowball at Rainbow Dash's direction. "I never would've figured throwing balls of snow at each other would be such a joyous activity!" Suddenly a snowball was thrown at their fort and exploded on impact, causing the two to duck. Casey being the one who threw it, continued throwing snowballs at their direction with Rainbow Dash joining him. "It might be fun, but we're still gonna come out victorious in the end, Raph." Casey called out as he and Rainbow Dash continued throwing snowballs at their direction. "Now take it easy, Casey." Leo called out. "Yeah we're just here to have fun." Donnie added. Both Casey and Rainbow Dash both snickered as Rainbow Dash tauntingly calls out to them. "Pfft, you're just saying that because you two know you don't stand a chance against us~!" Rainbow Dash said as she quickly threw a snowball, hitting Donnie's shoulder. "Ah! Hey, take it easy!" Donnie shouted only to be struck again on his other shoulder. "What's that, Don? Couldn't hear you over the sound of Snowballs hitting you~." Casey taunts him. "Oh that's it, you're asking for it now, Jones!" Donnie grits his teeth as he throws a snowball at their direction. "Donnie, calm down, don't let them-" he was interrupted when he got struck in the face with a snowball. "Ah! Mikey!" Mikey dances in a taunting manner as she held up two snowballs in his hands. "Always watch your back when facing against, The Snowball Fight-inator~! The true champion of this fight~!" Mikey's gloating was cut short when he got struck in the face, knocking him down. "Sorry, Michelangelo, but that title will belong to me and Karai when we take you all down." Shinigami giggles as she and Karai threw snowballs in everyone's direction, one hitting Leo in the chest. After being struck again, Leo's face shifted to a serious, determined expression as he clenched his fists. "Donnie, stock up on snowballs. From now on, this isn't a snowball fight. It's a snowball war." Donnie quickly started making new snowballs as everyone was now getting abit more aggressive with their throws. Applebloom and Scootaloo noticed everyone was being a little aggressive with their throws and started to worry abit. Applebloom tapped Mikey's shoulder to get his attention. "Uh, Mikey? We're all still just having fun, right?" Asked the little farm girl. But instead of answering, mikey shoved a bunch of snowballs into her arms before pulling in a pile for himself. "Quick, Applebloom and Scootaloo, cover my flanks while I attack Leo's team!" The turtle orders as he starts throwing snowballs at Leo and Donnie. Applebloom and Scootaloo look at each other with worry as they both gulp. Scootaloo grabs a snowball and she and Applebloom poke out from the fort and were getting ready to throw their snowballs, but were immediately met with a barrage of snowballs hitting their fort making them scream and duck back down. "Uh, Scootaloo? Do you think everyone is starting to take this a little seriously?" Applebloom asked her friend. Before Scootaloo could answer, they could hear Casey shouting a battle cry as he and Rainbow Dash threw a barrage of snowballs in their direction before taking new cover. "I think they're definitely taking this too seriously!" Scootaloo said in a panic. Suddenly part of their snow fort got destroyed. When they look to see what caused it, they find Mona Lisa on a snow hill with snowballs in her hands as Raph starts shouting. "We've been taking it easy on you guys! But now prepare to face what we're fully capable of!" "Racka-Racka!" Mona Lisa shouts before very aggressively throwing a snowball at Mikey's team's direction, destroying another part of their fort. "Im getting dejavu over this!" Applebloom recalled. "What the heck are we gonna do?!" Asked Scootaloo. "We're gonna get destroyed out here!" Applebloom thinks before getting an idea. "I got it. We'll carefully sneak over to the barn, and take cover in their." Scootaloo peeks out to look at the barn. She sees the barn in the distance, but also sees the mayhem of the snowball war as snowballs were being thrown and the others acting like they're on a battlefield. "Uh, yeah, I don't think we'll make two feet over this mess..." Scootaloo said doubtfully. "We got our ninja training, Scoots. We just go out undetected and should make it to the barn without a hinch." Scootaloo thinks before sighing. "Okay... let's do it." The two nod at each other before getting on their bellies and started crawling out of their fort. So far they weren't detected yet, but that didn't stop snowballs landing in their direction. The two crawled faster as more and more snowballs started hitting near them. But the two stopped crawling when they see four pairs of boots infront of them. They slowly look up to see Karai and Shinigami standing over them. "So, you girls think you can ambush us, huh?" Karai said with her eyebrow raised. "Tsk tsk tsk, not the smartest thing to do." Shinigami shook her head. The girls began shaking and sweating as Scootaloo spoke up. "Uh, a-any chance we can call a timeout?" She nervously asked. The two kunoichis responded by holding up two snowballs in each hand. "I thought so..." Scootaloo sighed. Seconds later the two young girls run out on the field screaming as Karai and Shinigami were throwing snowballs in their direction. Not only were they avoiding their snowballs, but they were now avoiding everyone else's snowballs as they were now on the open field of the battle. Mikey notices them out on the field and calls out to them. "Hey Applebloom, Scootaloo, what're you girls doing out there?! You're suppose to be here helping me rebuild my-!" Mikey was interrupted when he was hit with a barrage of snowballs and fell to the ground. Applebloom sees the barn in the distance and puts her hand on Scootaloo's shoulder. "Scootaloo, we gotta make a break for it!" "At this point, we might aswell!" Scootaloo responded as she ducked to avoid getting hit with snowballs. "On the count of three!" Applebloom prepared to run as Scootaloo did the same. ".... Three!" The two girls started making a run for it to the barn letting out screams as they do. Suddenly time seems to slow down, the two young girls breathing heavily as they run, nearly avoiding the snowballs being thrown in their direction. As they run, a snowball hits Scootaloo in the shoulder, causing her to grunt and stumble her footing. The same happened to Applebloom when two snowballs hit her back. They're running speed starts to slow down as they are being hit with more snowballs, but they continue to push through. Inside the barn, Twilight, Sunset, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack were done playing a song and were now just hanging out, drinking Apple Cider with April and Zephyr as Gizmo was munching on a apple with Spike. They were even on a video call with Zach and Caitlyn as they were introduced to Gizmo through the call. "Aww, he's so cute." Caitlyn cooed, watching Gizmo sitting on the floor eating an apple. "Where can we get one of those?" Zach asked, shoving his face close to the camera. "Sorry, Zach." April began. "But Gizmo is the only Mogwai to exist." "Whoa, seriously?" Caitlyn said in shock. "If that's the case, how long has this little guy been around?" Zach pondered. April and the others think before she answers. "We're not quite sure. But he must've been around for quite sometime." Suddenly their call got interrupted, making everyone jump in shock as the barn door burst open and Applebloom and Scootaloo rush in. Snowballs were being thrown in, freaking everyone out as Gizmo screams and rushes towards a haystack and hides in it. "Yeah I'm with you, little dude!" Zephyr screams as he jumps into the haystack with Gizmo. Applebloom and Scootaloo quickly shut the barn door and leans against it as they hyperventilate. "Girls, what in tarnation is going on?" Applejack asked as she looks at the girls covered in snowballs. "It's gotten crazy out there!" Applebloom told her sister in a panic. "Everyone is taking the game way too seriously again! They're throwing snowballs like they're in a war!" Scootaloo added. "I'm pretty sure one of those snowballs had Casey's hockey pucks in it!" Applebloom recalled. Upon hearing this Applejack, Twilight and Sunset all face palmed. "Oh no, not again..." Sunset groaned. "Hang on, I'll try to deal with it." Sunset began walking towards the barn door only for Applebloom and Scootaloo to stand infront of her. "No! Don't do it!" Applebloom shook her head. "If you go out there, you'll be pummeled!" Scootaloo warns her. "Oh don't worry, I've dealt with this before, I think i can handle a few snowballs." Sunset brushed them off as she walked towards the doorway. Sunset opens the barn door and shouts out to everyone. "Guys, you're going overboard with this game again! Can you guys please tone it down a little?" Sunset was then met with a barrage of snowballs hitting her repeatedly. As soon as they stop, Sunset shuts the doors. She turns around to face everyone in the barn as she's now covered in snowballs. "Yeah I don't think they'll be stopping anytime soon." Sunset deadpaned. "Zach, Caitlyn, mind if we call you back?" April said with a groan. "Yeah, we see you guys have a situation to deal with." Caitlyn said before the call ends. Back outside the snowball war was still going on. Casey and Rainbow Dash was targeting Mikey's snow fort, that was getting smaller and smaller by the second from their snowballs hitting it. "Just give it up, Mikey!" Casey shouts. "Yeah! You're the only one left on your team! You have no chance of winning this war!" Rainbow Dash claimed as she threw a snowball in his direction. Mikey held his head up as he raised his fist in the air. "Never! The only thing worse than losing a battle, is backing down in a battle! So- oof!" Mikey was suddenly hit in the face by a snowball, interrupting his big speech. Casey and Rainbow laugh at the ordeal, only for them to be hit in the faces with snowballs. Mona Lisa called out to them as she had snowballs in her hands. "Dishonor! Attacking the enemy when they've stopped engaging in battle?! Forshame!" Casey and Rainbow Dash got up, chuckling softly. "Oh Mona..." Rainbow Dash grinned. "There is no honor in war." Casey finished. Casey grabbed some snowballs, got his skates out and started skating over to Raph and Mona's fort, throwing snowballs in their direction. Mona and Raph tried reacting by throwing snowballs back, but were met with more snowballs thrown by Rainbow Dash. Casey quickly skated away from the two lovers fort and started skating over to Karai and Shinigami's fort, throwing snowballs at them, forcing them to duck. "Hey Jones! Skating around is cheating!" Karai called out. "Street rules, baby!" Casey said smugly as he threw more snowballs at their fort before skating away. Karai clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. "So, that's how he wants to play, huh? Well two can play at that game!" Karai's eyes shifted into serpent ones as she morphed her arms into snakes. She then begins whipping her fort with them, causing chunks of snow to fly everywhere. Casey maneuvers himself dodging the piles of snow. "Whoa! Pretty resourceful, Karai!" Casey complimented the kunoichi who's still whipping snow everywhere as Shini is rebuilding the fort. Leo and Donnie kept hidden in their fort, throwing snowballs occasionally. "This is getting intense." Leo said gritting his teeth. "Casey is skating around hitting everyone's forts, Rainbow Dash is using her speed powers to rapidly throw snowballs, Mikey is just throwing cheap shots whenever he can, Karai is using her snake powers to her advantage and Mona is a snowball throwing tank." To prove that last point, a snowball, thrown by Mona, hits a part of their fort, breaking pieces of it off. "Ugh, we're powerless against them!" Leo said, patting up the fort. Donnie had his finger on his chin thinking. "Hmm... mabye not." "What do you mean?" Leo asked looking at Donnie. "Leo, I have a prototype snowball launcher in the Shell Raiser. If I can get to it, we can easily win this snowball war." Leo was taken aback by this news. He looked out from their fort to see the distance of the Shell Raiser. "It's not gonna be easy to get to. You sure you can get to it?" "It's worth a shot." Donnie said confidently. Leo nods and makes some snowballs. "Alright, I'll give you as much cover as I can." After counting to three, Donnie jumps out from their fort and dashes towards the Shell Raiser, Leo quickly throwing snowballs to cover him. Donnie does some flip maneuvers to dodge the snowballs being thrown at him. He then heard familiar skating sounds, turning around to see Casey with his hockey mask on and snowballs in hands. "There's no escape from me, Donnie!" Casey laughs as he throws snowballs at Donnie. Donnie pants as he started running faster and faster, dodging the snowballs being thrown at him. Once he gets to the Shell Raiser, he yanks the door open and jumps inside, immediately shutting the door. Casey laughs as he stops skating. "Resorting to hiding now, eh D? Can't say I'm surprised." After he taunted Donnie he skated back to the battlefield. But as soon as he skated back, he was immediately knocked off his feet by a snowball hitting his head. "Ha! Nice shot, Mona!" Raph praised his girlfriend before ducking his head from an oncoming snowball. "If your girlfriend wasn't here you'd be toast, Raph!" Rainbow Dash called out as she threw a snowball in his direction. As Leo did his best to stay down and avoid getting hit with snowballs, the door from the Shell Raiser swings open as Donnie bolts out of there while holding something in his arms. Once he arrived at his and Leo's fort, Donnie took a moment to catch his breath. "Alright, Leo, I got it. Behold, the prototype snowball launcher!" Donnie announced proudly as he held up his gadget. Leo on the other hand, didn't look at all impressed as he stared at it blankly. "Uh, Donnie? That's just a leaf blower." Leo pointed out. "It's not just a leaf blower, Leo. I modified it so it'll be able to store in snow, and the blow force of it has been amped up to-" Donnie explanation was interrupted when snow hits their fort. "Less explaining, more firing, Donnie!" Leo shouts as he covered his head. Without time to waist, Donnie presses the side of the leaf blower and it pops open a capartment for the snow. "Load her up, Leo." Donnie grinned as Leo scoops up some snow and puts them in the capartment. Once it's loaded, Donnie closes the capartment back in the leaf blower and turns it on with a grin on his face. "Show time." He said as he turned a nob on the leaf blower with a snowball label on it. Donnie confidently climbed on top of their fort, pointing the snowball launcher out in Raph and Mona's direction and pressed a button on the handle. It rapidly fires snowballs out of the snowball launcher like a mini gun as Donnie let's out a battle cry. "Mona, take cover!" Raph screamed as he and Mona quickly take cover in their fort as snowballs rapidly lands in their direction. Donnie then quickly points and fires the snowball launcher in Karai and Shinigami's direction, forcing them to quickly take cover aswell. "Whoa! How long has Donnie been working on that?!" Karai pondered. Donnie hears Casey skating over to him, so he quickly points his snowball launcher in the direction Casey's skating in and fires rapid snowballs. "Whoa!" Casey yells in surprise as he skids on the ground and quickly starts to skate away as snowballs are rapidly being fired in his direction. "Hahaha! Who's running now, Jones?! Or in your case, skating!" Donnie laughs as he continued firing in his direction. But Donnie's sense of glory was interrupted when a snowball hits him in the back of the head, making him fall face first on the ground. Mikey laughs and dances in his fort. "Ah yeah~! The Snowball Fight-inator strikes again, boy~!" As Mikey Dances, Donnie lift his face of the ground, spitting snow from his mouth and has a determined face on. "So that's how he wants it to go down." He said as he opened the latch from the snowball launcher and scooped more snow in it. "Uh, Donnie?" Leo called out as Donnie got on top of their fort. Donnie turns a nob on the snowball launcher, setting it to a number, that was on 3, now to 6 as he aims and rapidly fires snowballs at Mikey's direction, letting out a scream. Mikey was still laughing until he saw a barrage of snowballs heading towards him. A barrage of snow rains down on Mikey, nearly covering his entire area until it stops. Mikey was nowhere to be seen until he pops up from his fort, his head covered in snow, almost making it look like an afro. "Ha, you missed me!" Mikey taunted. Until another barrage of snowballs are shot in his direction. This time all the snowballs entering Mikey's mouth as Donnie keeps firing many snowballs at him. Mikey gags as many snowballs enter his mouth, seeming to never end as Mikey's eyes began to water. Soon the firing finally stopped as Mikey painfully gulps down the snowballs in his mouth, shivering and letting out a sigh of relief. "Phew..." But Mikey's relief soon disappeared when he heard the sound of the snowball launcher loaded and was once again getting a mouthful of snowballs as they're fired into his mouth. His mouth is filled more and more with snowballs until his mouth can no longer fit any more. Mikey now had a pile of snow clogged into his mouth as he groaned and gagged. "Ha! How do you like them snowballs, Mikey?!" Donnie shouts at his younger brother. Mikey continued to groan and gag until he fell backwards on the ground, completely out of the game. As Donnie celebrated, Casey was skating towards him as he threw a snowball at his shoulder. "Yo D! I'm not through with you! We got a score to settle!" The vigilante called out as he skated. "Bring it, Jones!" Donnie shouts back as he turned the nob on his snowball launcher, setting it on the label that says blow, and another nob, setting the number to 8. Casey and Donnie stared down at each other as Casey threw snowballs at his direction. Once Casey was close enough, Donnie pressed the trigger, as now the snowball launcher blows out a wind of snow. The force of it was so great, once it hits Casey, he was thrown off his feet and into the air. Casey screamed as he was being blown across the field until he hits a tree. Now Casey's upper body was sticking of the tree, as he was now out. "Haha! I'm unstoppable!!!!" Donnie cried out, seeming to go crazy. "Don't count on it, Donnie! You still got five other people left!" Karai calls out as she, Shinigami, Raph, Mona and Rainbow Dash started throwing snowballs in his and Leo's direction. Donnie flicked the switch back at the snowball label as he starts firing a barrage of snowballs at everyone, laughing maniacally, starting to scare Leo now. Seeing through the cracks of the door, April shook her head in dismay. "Okay now he's definitely lost it." April opens the door of the barn and starts shouting at Donnie. "Hey! Donnie! Either stop it right now or-!" She was interrupted when a barrage of snowballs hits her face. Once the barrage stops, April shuts the doors. She turns to her friends in the barn, her face completely covered in snow. She spits her mouth, revealing it. "He is so gonna get it." She said with a very angry and menacing tone. "Alright, this snowball fight has gone on long enough!" Applejack said crossing her arms. "It's time to put an end to this!" "How?" Sunset asked. "We can't ask them to stop, we'll be met with a barrage of snowballs the moment we step out." Applejack thinks for a moment, then gets an idea. "I think I know a way to stop it. But it's gonna be messy." "What're you thinking, Applejack?" Fluttershy asked her friend. "Twilight." Applejack faced her science friend. "I need you to use your powers to make the biggest snowball you can make." "Wait, what?" Twilight asked in surprise. "And Pinkie Pie." Applejack turned to Pinkie Pie. "Once Twilight makes the snowball, add your explosive magic on to it." Pinkie Pie let out an exaggerated gasp. "Whaaaaaat?!" "Applejack, what're you thinking?" Sunset asked in disbelief. "Theres no other way to end this snowball war. So a giant snowball is the only way to stop it." Applejack explained. "Applejack, you sure about this?" April asked. ..... as she faces a wall. Fluttershy quickly helps corrects her friend's direction. "As sure as I'll ever be, April. Now, Twilight, Pinkie, we gotta be fast. Once the doors open, we rush out and run behind the barn." The two nodded as they stood by the door. Applejack begins counting down. "One.... two... Three!" She shouts as they swing the doors open. Things were definitely crazy on the field. Karai was using her snake arms to whip out snow at Donnie and Leo's direction as Shini was throwing snowballs at Rainbow Dash, who was using her speed to throw a barrage of snowballs at their direction. Raph and Mona were holding their ground as they took turns throwing snowballs at their different opponents as Donnie was still using his snowball launcher to fire at all of the other teams. Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Twilight were behind the barn as Applejack sets up a ladder. "Alright Twilight, start collecting some snow." Applejack told her friend as Twilight started using her telekinetic powers to levitate and roll together snow. "And once Pinkie Pie adds her explosive magic on it, levitate the giant snowball to me." Applejack explained as she begin climbing the ladder to her barn's roof. Karai and Shinigami kept throwing snowballs in many directions. Shinigami saw Donnie turned his snowball launcher in their direction and fires a barrage of snowballs at Karai, who was keeping her focus on Rainbow Dash. Shini's eyes widen and quickly jumps towards Karai. "Senpai!" Shinigami shouts as she pushes Karai out of the way, taking the many blows and falling on her side as her hat falls off her head and lands on the ground. "Shini!" Karai called out and crawled to her friend. Karai turned Shini's body over and saw her body and face was covered in snow to Karai's horror. "Shinigami!" She shouts again as her witch friend groaned. "Karai... I..." Crack! "Ow!" Shinigami flinches, holding her. "Are you okay?" Karai asked. "Yeah, I fell on my weapon." Shinigami answered as she held up her hypno ball. Both covered their heads as snowballs were being fired in their direction by Donnie. "Stay down, Shini, I got this!" Karai said as Shinigami nods. Everyone, who was still in the game, was throwing snowballs as if their life depended on it as Donnie reloaded and fires his snowball launcher. But soon, their throws stop when they noticed a large shadow covering half of the field. Once they turned to the direction of the source, they saw Applejack on the roof of the barn, holding a giant snowball, which left them speechless. Applejack then calls out to everyone. "Listen up, y'all! This snowball fight has gone on long enough! So I'm putting an end to it, once and for all!" Without giving everyone a chance to process what's happening, Applejack let's out a huff, and throws the giant snowball. The big ball is flung in the air as everyone watches with wide eyes. They can't help but watch the snowball come down right towards them. Once it hits the ground, it creates a big explosion thanks to Pinkie Pie's explosive magic. A mist of snow covered the area until the wind blows it away. Soon reveals the entire area covered in snow as everyone was on the ground covered in snow themselves. Applejack tilts her head down and let's out a sigh of relief, tilting her hat. Soon enough, Rarity finally showed up with Sweetie Belle next to her, who's looking pretty annoyed with her big sister. "I'm here!" Rarity announced. "Hope you haven't been waiting too lo-, oh my goodness!" Rarity screamed once she sees that the whole area was covered in snow.