Equestris Bellum Nix

This is starting to get old.. Visiting and traveling Equestria for the tenth time already. Even though cities grow, forest's got chopped down, and every once and a while and Alicorn princess will have to slug it out with a giant Centaur, I'll still know and remember the beauty and terrain of my home. However ever since "that day" it's been a lot harder to call this place home once again but I'm getting off topic. So as me and my phoenix friend Foxtrot exit the boat from the docks of Baltimare, we were introduced to cold winds of the winter Equestrian weather yet greeted by the music of street performers. We were annoyed  because we were supposed to be on the boat to Manehattan. It was probably because of me not bothering to try reading the difference between Baltimare and Manehattan... Or perhaps was it fate?

So I thought to myself, "Might as well see the town center to read any news that's happened, probably nothing big happened." I couldn't have been more wrong.  As soon as I reached the forum all I could smell was hot cocoa, coffee beans, and pastries from the local cafes, not to mention the laughter of colts and fillies playing next to the fountain , there was also a bunch worrying or intrigued faces looking at Foxtrot perched on my shoulder. but nowadays I just ignore them. Anyway I analyze the news papers and eavesdrop on a few heralds.

"Lets see...Elements of harmony? Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar. Ooh Tirek defeated by Princess of Friendship, it's about time someone put the bastard in his place. Oh dag, the crystal empire is reborn!? That is actually pretty neat."

And last but not least. "Oh, the Alicorn princesses have announced a colossal snowball fight that will span all of Equestria"  " It also says that residents and visitors can sign up and participate." So Foxtrot and I both agreed to participate and then see the Crystal Empire. As we reach a sign-up kiosk we both realize that this was FAR more complex than your average snowball fight.

The first big thing to know about is that you don't even throw snowballs at the enemy, you shoot them. Let me explain: Basically, somepony had a brilliant idea to make these sort of pellet guns but instead of pellets the guns shoot tiny snowballs. The pony also added in a dash of realism to, because since the guns are pressurized so the small pellets of snow could actually go anywhere, so when you get "shot" it hurts.. A lot. You should know that there are four types of pellet guns (The factions invent more along the way): The Bolt-Action Pellet Rifle, The semi-automatic pellet rifle, The sub-machine pellet gun, and of course the trustworthy handgun.

The factions are pretty simple: the kingdom of Friendship controls the southern territories and cities like Baltimare, Apple Loosa and Las Pegasus with Pony Ville being the capitol. Princesses Celestia and Luna represent one faction, they control Central parts of Equestria like Fillydelphia Clouds Dale and Canterlot, obviously Canterlot being their capitol. Crystal Empire controls the north Like the Crystal City and Manehattan. You should know what that faction's capitol is. One more thing the factions both the crystal empire and the kingdom of friendship are allied and fight against Celestia and Luna's Factions (Since theirs is able to  handle two fronts).

What are the conditions of being eliminated you say? Well you are considered eliminated when a snow pellet hits you in any of the vitals you are considered eliminated. You are also eliminated if you are covered in snow or when somepony smudges a bunch of snow on your face.

Now back to the story... Again. As soon as me and few other hundred stallions and mares were told the same things I told you, we were put into training on how to use and maintain the pellet guns. The fact that this was way more complex and larger than the snowball fights I was hesitating. But thanks to my knowledge of well, everything including ballistics, I slowly became more confident in my training.  It took a while but pretty soon I became a natural with all four types of pellet guns.  In fact I even introduced a little trick were I made a snow ball, put a spell on it, then threw in the middle of a clearing and of after a few seconds It exploded. It was so ingenious that news spread like wild-fire about the new "snow grenade". The hardest part of the training was really getting to walk on two hooves instead of four because we had two of our hooves to use the guns correctly. So as soon we finished our training we were giving our roles and ranks. Since I was one of the top ten I was given the rank sergeant, that seemed alright until my role was the I would hate to be the most: The sharpshooter. The reason why was because I just simply wanted to be in the thick of the action, I got to admit I'm kind of an adrenaline junky   But hey, beggars cant be choosers.

Now the pieces were set, every faction was armed and ready to go. Then as soon as Celestia covered Equestria in snow (except for the farming communities.) Everyone was given our orders.  I was pulled into my room from CO to give me my personal orders since I was basically an assassin. "Alright Darius. I should tell that you are considered one of our best shots." My CO said, I nodded with agreement. "That's why I'm ordered to order you to take out one of Celestia"s Generals. Here is a picture of her, lucky for you she has a unique color for her coat so she should easy to spot."

Yes sir." I answered "Do we know her location as well?" I asked.

"I was told this morning that there was Intel on her location in Ponyville, I'm sorry but your gonna your gonna have to leg it from here to Ponyville. I know it may seem long but Baltimare and Ponyville aren't that far from each other."

"Yes sir, understood" I respectfully answered and I was dismissed. The long walk was pretty relaxing with the light snow raining from the skies and the sound of the running water and tress wiggling back and forth. Eventually I got bored and started small talk with Foxtrot.

"Can you believe it Foxtrot", I said, "Our first orders!"

**SQUAWK!*

"Oh dang it! I forgot to put the spell on you again, why didn't you tell me?" I quickly  cast the spell on Foxtrot when no one was looking.

"I WAS trying to tell you earlier but you were so focused  on your training and excitement for when this game starts." Foxtrot said, "And weren't you mad earlier about you being a sniper and all?", he asked with a tad bit of concern.

I chuckled and said, "Well yea at first, but it's pretty obvious that the master sergeant thinks I have potential with assigning me to assassinate a general and all."

"Well you cant argue with that." Foxtrot answered.

We were silent for a couple hours on our way to ponyville until a huge wing of pegasi flew over us broke the silence.   "Peculiar.", Foxtrot said with intrigue.

"Very", I said soon after.  They seemed to be going to the same direction we were going. Forty-five minutes and a rest stop later we've nearly reached our destination only to hear yelling and explosions.

"That doesn't sound good." I said. As soon as we trudged up a little snow covered hill we saw ponyville under siege by one of the armies of Celestia and Luna.

"What, already!?", groaned Foxtrot. I looked farther in the distance and saw the mountain Canterlot was perched on.

"That makes a lot of sense.", I said, interrupting Foxtrot and his ranting on how upset he was.

"What makes sense?" He said, almost out of breath.

"Think about it", I explained, "This is the capitol of one of the royal armies enemies. A small, unfortified town. It would only make sense to get Princess Twilight out of the game first because she seems to be an easy target."

"I guess your right. Again" Foxtrot said. "So I guess you want to get a birds-eye view of the situation huh?" Foxtrot asked.

"Of course" I answered.

"Alright, fine", he shrugged, "I'll be back". Then Foxtrot flapped away from my shoulder. A few minutes passed were he came back with some news. "Okay, it looks like amount of troops attacking aren't that massive with about 5,000 as my guess."

"Okay, who's leading the attack?"

"A mare actually." Foxtrot said.

"Really? What color is her coat?"

"A light brown."

"Her mane?"

"Black I think."

"What was her cutie mark?"

"I didn't get a good luck, but I did see her play the cello, She's Magnificent."

" Alright lovebird", I said with a sneer, "What if I told that that's our target" I asked with anticipation.

"Well then I would regrettably say that it looks like were gonna have to go in that mess  huh?" Foxtrot answered.

"That is correct Mr. Obvious." I said with excitement. Foxtrot and I readied my sadly bags, and grabbed my bolt-action and headed into the thick of the action.