I've done a little twist on how I write these shorts in paticular, so don't freak out... [quote]For All Things By Splash: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/205391162/0/0 Jacob's Stories Overview: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/198924974/0/0 [/quote] [b]It's that time of the year. The time of year when everyone is happy, and jolly. Where Sparrow Racing returns, and snow falls. And when people go all out for snowball fights. Okay, it's no secret that everyone goes crazy when the first blizzard of the season dumps lots of snow in the Cosmodrone, or in the City. We've seen it multiple times. Siege of the Cold. The Tundra Assaults. The Arctic Smackdowns. The Frosted Fights. The Snowfort War. Yet, we've come to add another epic long-lasting snowball fight to the list. The Subzero Subduction. This is gonna be a long one, so grab your coats, scarfs, and fur lined armor. Because we're facing a cold front. This all started with an argument. So Vince, Caleb, and I were all exploring the old Antarctic in search of the fabled missile silos from Traveler knows how long ago. It was freezing cold, and everybody was slowly turning into icicles. So Vince asked:[/b] "So you remember that little snowball fight we had on Felwinter Peak?" "Yeah," Caleb replied. "So.... Who won?" "I think I won," Jacob said. "Nu-uh," Caleb argued, "I won. I built the best igloo." "Really, it melted pretty quickly," Vince said. "That's because you freakin' 'naded it. Grenades weren't allowed!" [b]From there, there was so much arguing I forgot who said what....[/b] "We didn't even make any rules!" "No I won. You two just chucked snowballs at each other while I bombarded you with artillery fire." "Yeah, packing snow around Arc-based projectiles and during them out of your rocket launchers. Real cool, you douchebag." "You can't say anything! [i]You[/i] were launching solar grenades at the our forts!" "Caleb. Shut up. [i]You[/i] smashed my fort with your Fist of Havoc." "That's only because [i]you[/i] used your Arc Blade to turn my stash of snowballs into powder." "Vince turned my stash into a puddle of water." "I did not!" "Yes you did! You also melted my sniper rifle, you pyro!" "You turned Shelia into a puddle of weird liquid!" [b]All of us had something to say. Until, Vince and I went back and forth. Completely unaware of what Caleb was doing... [/b] Caleb begins to melt some of the snow, making it just the right amount of sticky to make it able to back into bricks. He starts to stack bricks. He is humming, and softly muttering, "Building a wall. My friends are fighting, so I'm building a wa-all. Something about snow so I'm building a wa-all. Gonna have a rematch, so I'm building a wa-all. Just gonna make sure my friends fall, so I'm building a wa-all." [b]Caleb wasn't the only thing we should've been worrying about...[/b] Sonic flies over to Ionic, who is just floating up and down and giggling. "What are you doing?" the Ghost asked. "Broadcasting this to all comms, and sending the live feed to multiple channels. This is gonna be the greatest Warlock-Hunter smackdown in history." "Really, Ionic, do you have to be that b***h?" "Yep." By now, Caleb's wall is 4 feet tall and 8 feet long. He is happy, so he melts a little more snow, and makes a pile of snowballs. He throws them at Vince and Jacob yelling, "Rematch, ya nubs." "This is gonna be even better than I expected!" Ionic exclaimed. "Traveler help us," Sonic muttered. Jacob and Vince start to go in opposite directions. They stay within snowball range, but as far away from each other and Caleb as possible. Caleb makes is snow wall taller, and extends it in other directions. [b]Caleb had an unfair advantage. He already had part of his fort built, and a stash of snowballs. Vince had a little bit of advantage because he'd stooped up to Caleb's level and switched to Sunsinger to melt the snow a little. I had to try to build a wall out of powdery snow...[/b] Jacob was crouching behind a two foot wall of powdery snow that was to blowing away. Vince had a three and a half foot wall that was made with sticky snow that was perfect for fort-building. The fort was riddled with bulletholes, though. Caleb was in a cube of snow with a peephole and two holes with the barrels of his machine guns sticking out. Out of nowhere this Hunter wearing all Bog Wild gear and Arctic Proxy shows up and starts throwing incendiaries at random snow dunes. The dunes are sticky, and she makes them into bricks and lugs them to Jacob's horrible excuse for cover, and starts to build an igloo. Then, Jade shows up behind Caleb's cube and sees Vince launching snowballs at Jacob and the other Hunter. "NOBODY'S ALLOWED TO KICK MY BROTHER'S A** BUT ME!!!" she bellows. She takes the snowballs from Caleb, and windmills 100 mph fastballs at him. One of them hits mysterious Hunter's leg, and she falls to the ground. "Playing dirty, aren't you," she mutters. She jumps up into the air, and tethers Jade with a good anchor. "Hey! No fair!" Jade yelled, "No tethers." [b]You think a sensible Hunter like Mia wouldn't join a snowball fight, but she did. And she used first super. Didn't surprise me who followed...[/b] "Oh it's on, motha**ka!" Jade bellowed. Jade takes off her helmet, fist on fire, about to storm over to Mia when she got hit the face with a snowball. A Warlock had joined Vince at his fort. She throws another snowball at Jade and yells, "NOBODY ELSE SETS MY SISTER ON FIRE BUT ME!" Then Sarah sticks a fusion grenade to a snowball, and throws it at Caleb. Before it even goes over the walls of the cube, a Ward of Dawn is deployed and the fusion grenade bounces into the snow and explodes in front of it. Another Titan had joined Caleb. "TWINKIE MASTER RACE!!!" Bryce screamed at the top of his lungs. Then, an Alantic Puffin shows up and starts pecking Bryce's foot. [i]MY NAME IS BUBBLES THE PUFFIN!!! YOU KILLED MY FATHER!!! PREPARE TO DIE!!![/i] the overweight puffin cawed. Bryce squashed it flat. Another Hunter shows up and falls to his knees and screams, "NOOOO-- where's his wallet at?" [b]Your first impression of Ryan will always be he's either strange or sarcastic.[/b] Jacob shot glare at the Hunter, "Ryan, you show up to a snowball fight and the first thing you ask is where a dead puffin's wallet is. What the heck is wrong with you?" "I couldn't go for an epic entrance, so I had to make a strange one." "C'mon, Dr. Strange," Mia mocked, "This fort ain't gonna build and defend itself!" Vince and Sarah launched a barrage of snowballs at Mia. "What?" she asked. "[i]Ain't[/i] isn't a word!" They yelled. [b]To be continued...[/b]