When the Bomb Drops

by digitalmk06

Chapter 3: Getting Ready for the War

The next morning, as the preparation of war continues, Rainbow Dash uses Rarity's best cushions for the shelter, but Rarity noticed it.

"Don't you dare use my best cushions from the front room, Rainbow! I'll get some old ones from upstairs. I'll put them in plastic bags. I don't want fingermarks getting all over them." said Rarity

"I shouldn't worry too much, Rarity. They're bound to get dusty with all the fallout coming down." said Twilight Sparkle

Meanwhile:

"Hmm. It says here we've got to lay in food supplies for 14 days. Hmm, I'd better put a note out for 28 pints of cider, then." said Rainbow Dash. then, she walks off to get her bags and ready to fly off to the shops.

"I'll just pop out and get 14 hayburger, 100 cupcakes, 1 billion breads, 50 ciders and a protractor, Twilight. Oh and girls, Anything else you want?" asked Rainbow Dash

"I'll need more plastic bags, sugarcube!" said Applejack

"Right, seeya". said Rainbow as she storm out of the castle.

She then arrived at Ponyville supermarket, everypony were panic-buying and looting for water, food, and other essentials.

Rainbow was curious, "What's going on!? What is happening!?" as she said to her friend Derpy

"The Russians are going to launch their nuclear weapons! That's why we are panic buying!" said Derpy.

"Oh sweet Celestia! This situation is getting worse than ever!" said Rainbow.

"Yeah" said Derpy.

"Well Derpy, it's nice knowing you, I will see you on the other side". said Rainbow crying.

"See you on the other side as well Rainbow". said Derpy as Rainbow gets all of her belonging as planned. This was the last time Rainbow talked to Derpy.

As Rainbow checked on the bread aisle, all the bread are sold out.

"Darn it" said Rainbow. as she brings her 14 hayburger, 100 cupcakes, 50 ciders and a protractor" to Twilight Castle.

As Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy watched UniKitty! on TV, Rainbow Dash arrived at the castle and closed the door of the enterance.

"There's no bread, girls! They all sold out. There seems to be some sort of panic-buying. said Rainbow Dash

"It can't be helped, Rainbow. After all, there is a war on." said Applejack

"Or nearly, anyway." said Twilight Sparkle

"I hope you haven't left that bag dripping in the hall, Rainbow!" shouted Rarity

"Oh, no, Rarity". Laughed Rainbow.

"Mr Willis has sold out of protractors. I expect everyone wants 60 degrees. He was terrifically kind, Mr Willis. He cut me out a bit of card with 60 degrees on it. Look. said Rainbow as she shows it to her Rarity."

"Oh! Nice, darling." Rarity smiled.

"Here's the emergency supplies, girls. Two packets of ginger creams, half a jam sponge, a tin of pineapple chunks and a tin of Christmas pud." said Rainbow

"It'll all be over by Christmas. Remember we used to say that, Twilight?" asked Pinkie Pie

"Well, yes, however nowadays it'll all be over by tomorrow dinner time" said Twilight.

Later on that day, Rainbow is ready to paint the windows white

"Oh for Celestia sake, You're not decorating now, Rainbow!" shouted Applejack

"We've got to paint the windows white, AJ." said Rainbow

"Whatever for?" asked Applejack

"It's for the radiation, I think." said Rainbow

"Like they do in greenhouses, to keep out the sun. It's the correct thing." explained Rainbow

"It won't be that hot, surely!" explained Applejack

"Well, I don't know. They say the one at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was equal to one thousand suns. So it is quite hot. And besides, the powers that be are making much better ones now. Science has leaped forward with giant strides."

Then, Rainbow accidentally put paints on the curtains.

"Oops!" Rainbow spotted

This leds Applejack becoming cross with her
"Mind you don't get paint on those curtains, sugarcube, You should have taken them down first. You never think."

Rainbow can't helped but laughed. but Applejack is not amused on Rainbow's behaviour

"I know that smile of yours, Rainbow." said Applejack seriously

and Rainbow then crack on and continued to paint the windows.

Meanwhile:

"Keep doors closed to prevent the spread of fire, it says." said Twilight

"But you, Rainbow, taken off half the doors, Twilight". said Rarity

"Yes, Rarity." said Twilight has she raised her eyebrows.

"Won't that make the fire worse, then?" asked Rarity

"Well, I...Perhaps the blast will blow the fire out." said Rainbow Dash curiously

At last, the shelter is finished.

"Well... Hm! The inner core or refuge looks quite cosy, doesn't it, Rainbow?" asked Twilight

"It sure is". replied Rainbow

"Oh I hope those doors aren't marking the wallpaper, Twilight." said Futtershy

"Come in and try it out, everypony. Please." said Rainbow Dash

Everypony went into the shelter just to test it out, but when Rarity gets in it, she accidentally bumps into a door

"Whoa! Careful! Careful!" said Rainbow

"You'll have it over!" Shouted Twilight

"Budge up, can't you, girls?" said Rarity

The girls budge up to make room for Rarity.

"Couldn't you have made it a bit... wider?" asked Applejack

"It's... It's constructed in compliance with the governmental specifications, AJ." explained Rainbow

"Well, they might have made it wide enough for two people." said Twilight

Suppose you were friends? asked Pinkie

"We are friends, since like 12 years." said Applejack

"Yes, well there you are, then." Fluttershy agreed

"Oh! What about if you had children? Where would they go?" asked Pinkie

"Oh, well, you'd just hold them in your arms. They'd soon fall asleep." said Twilight

"Suppose they were 17 or 18?" asked Applejack

"Big boys with bristly chins and big boots on. Skinheads." said Rainbow

"Well, in that case, you'd...just add a few more doors." said Fluttershy

"There's... no wall space for more doors. Oh. No." said Rarity.

The girls then got out of the shelter,

"Well, at least Scootaloo was never a skinhead, anyway." said Rainbow

"What on earth are you putting the food in there for?" asked Rarity

"Well, that's where it's got to be." Rainbow Dash

"But why can't it stay in the larder and fridge?" asked Rarity

"Because we must not emerge for the 14 days of the national emergency." said Rainbow

"You're not saying we've got to stay in that thing for two weeks, are you?" asked Rarity

"Yes, Rarity. Ours not to reason why. Now we must do the correct thing." said Twilight

"Well, what about the cooking, then? How do I get to the cooker?" asked Rarity

"We'll just have to use the little picnic stove, Rarity." said Rainbow

"What about the toilet?" Rarity was concern

"Well...Well, we'll have to have a potty, or something." said Rainbow while trying not to laughed that hard

"I can tell you now, Rainbow Danger Professionalism Dash, that I am going to go upstairs in the proper manner." said Rarity as she storms off

"But you mustn't emerge, Rarity. Not for the 14 days of the national emergency." said Rainbow

"All right, then, how are you going to empty the chamber pot?" asked Rarity

"Well, we just have to empty it down the toilet, I suppose." said Rainbow

"You just said we couldn't go to the toilet." said Rarity

"Oh. Yes. Well... Yeah, well, Now, we'd better not cross our bridges till we come to them, eh? Look on the bright side, Rarity?" said Rainbow

"Pftt! Whatever!" said Rarity as she walks off back to the living room.

"Do you think she's jealous, Twilight?" asked Rainbow

"Yep" said Twilight

"I heard that!" shouted Rarity, and Twilight and Rainbow laughed.

Meanwhile, the U.S bomber are approaching it's peak and with only 2 days to go, the world will end with massive disaster

"Six, five, zero, zero, six, ten..." It says here, "Two pints of water per person per day." said Rainbow

"I wonder if we've got enough bottles." thought Twilight

"We'll have a look under the stairs, Twilight." said Applejack

"Okay." said Rainbow

"Ok sure." said Twilight.

After finding like 500 hundreds of bottle (neither are plastic nor glass), the plan is set.

"I've measured the water into the bottles, you two. We've labelled them so we don't get in a muddle."

"Oh, good. That's nice, Rarity. Well done" said Twilight

"You're very efficient in a national emergency, Rarity." said Rainbow Dash

"Oh get on with you!" laughed Rarity.

5 Hours Later:

"It says here, "D: Miscellaneous: Salt, tomato ketchup and sauces, pepper, matches, toilet paper, disinfectant, vitamin tablets, tin opener, knives, forks, spoons." Funny. No plates!" said Twilight has she read the miscellaneous

"What's all that, sugarcube?" asked Applejack

"I don't know. It's called "miscellaneous." said Rainbow

"Pass it in, please if you don't mind". said Twilight to Rainbow.

"Okay, sure" Rainbow accepted to give Twilight the leaflet.

Not long later, Twilight got into all messed up with the two leaflet about windows

"Funny!" gasped Twilight

"What, Twilight?" asked Rainbow

"In the governmental leaflet, it says,"Remove thin materials from windows." And in the County Council leaflet, it says, "Hang white sheets in the windows." Twilight then hoofpalm. which was confusing for her.

"I wonder which is correct, darling?" asked Rarity

"Oh Look! It says peanut butter." said Applejack

"But, we haven't got any. Oh, no." said Fluttershy calmly.

"Never mind, Fluttershy. I don't like it, nor do you." said Rarity

"No, but it's on the official list. Oh, dear." explained Fluttershy

"Now, don't worry, girls. I expect we'll survive without it." said Twilight just as she gets the sleeping bags ready

"It'll probably go runny in the heat, anyway. You get terrific heat with these bombs, you know". explained Twilight

"Mind you, diet is very important." said Rainbow Dash

"You are what you... eat. And the survival of the fittest, an' that. Whoa!" said Twilight as she putted the sleeping bags in the shelter.

"That's why so many people... are jogging and eating lots of All-Bran, I expect. Only the fittest will survive the outcome of the nuclear holocaust." said Rainbow

"They eat lots of beans, too. They give you wind, beans do." said Pinkie Pie

"You certainly shouldn't eat beans, Pinkie". said Rarity

"Let's not get personal, Rarity, We're trying to have a scientific discussion. said Rainbow

"Yeah." said Twilight.

Later that day, Rarity is vaccuming the floor

"If there really is going to be a war, who do you think will win?" asked Rarity

"Well, the Americans have tactile nuclear superiority, due to their IBMs and their polar submarines. But in the event of a pre-emptive strike, innumerate Russian hordes will sweep across the plains of Central Europe. Then the US Technical Air Force will come roaring in with their Superhawks, B-17 s and B-19s, bristling with guns! Terrifically armed!" explained Rainbow

"OK, you fillys! Let's go!" Shouted Rainbow Dash

"They'd razor the Russky defences to the ground. Then the marines would parachute in and round up the population. After that, the big generals would go over, like Ike and Monty for example. Then the Russians would capitulate, and there would be a condition of surrender. Then they'd instil free and fair elections. One man, one vote. And women too, nowadays, of course. And thus, the Communist threat to the Free World would be neutrified, and democratic principles would be instilled throughout Russia, whether they liked it or not. That's the world scenario as I see it, at this moment in time." explained Rainbow Dash

"Monty? Huh?. Wasn't he in the war?" asked Applejack.

"Well, of course he was. He practically won it. You remember, Applejack. Big beret with badges on it. Tanks. The Desert Rats. El Alamo." said Rainbow

"But look sugarcube, that was ages ago". explained Applejack

"Yes, well, I expect he's getting on a bit." said Fluttershy

"Probably been promoted." said Rainbow

"More likely dead." said Applejack

"Monty dead? Never!" Rainbow Dash was shocked

"Well I'll bet he is. It's about 77 years since the war. And he had a moustache then!" said Rarity

"Who's in charge now, then?" asked Fluttershy

"Oh, one of those commuters, I expect." said Applejack

"It says here, "Place your National Savings Certificates, medical cards and birth certificates in a box." said Rainbow

"Here's a nice box, Dash. I'll give it a good clean-out." said Twilight

"Oh, thanks. "We'd... better keep it in a safe place." said Rainbow as Twilight walks off

"I wonder what would be a safe place." Rainbow thought curiously

Meanwhile on the ocean the British submarine was spotted, the British Troops are getting ready to used the Trident missiles against Russia with only 1 day to go till impact.