---- ---- ---- The War to End All Wars Partially inspired by Anonistrator's When Nonny Comes Marchin' Home. "Battery! Distance five hundred, angle forty-five, high-disperser A! Fire!" >"Aye!" >With a slight pull on the rope, complicated machinery of the battle stations starts to work, finally sending a dozen of high-dispersing airburst shells across the sky and to the enemy fort. >"Cor-nel, we have a hit! One, three, eight, ten hits!" your adjutant proudly reports. "Good work! Pre-e-pare!" >Personnel of the battle stations is in a hurry, reloading the magnificent pieces of technology. >Truly a great sight. >"Cor-nel!" "Eh" >"LIE DOWN!" >The next second, enemy high-disperser explodes ten foot above your fort. >Your adjutant has been hit by one of the fragment, so you rush toward her... >...and wipe a bit of snow off her muzzle. >Yeah, you weren't expecting this when a brightly-coloured letter ended up in your face via Derpy. >Letter was calling "anypony who wants to" to war, so you thought your experience in sheriff's office back in old U. S. of A. would help. >It didn't, though. >Wars here were only waged in winter and consisted of snowball fights that lasted until one of the sides retreated home; then the winner claimed a bunch of land at the border. >And "the General Staff" almost had you arrested for alleged war crimes when you at first supposed you could use Pinkie's party cannon as a weapon. ---- ---- ---- Still unnamed >On days like these you really think you'll die of laughter some day. >Like, really. >When the applehorse offered you to be a bartender in their new "adult" (oh, man, her intonation at the time was priceless) bar, you reluctantly agreed. >You had some experience as a bartender back on Earth, but in the land of child-like ponies it was going to be something unusual. >And God is it unusual. >First of all, their "adult" cider doesn't have more alcohol percentage than some root beer; how do they even manage to get it out of the drink? >And ponies visiting your fine establishment definitely were watching too much Noir movies... >...but they were somehow getting drunk while drinking alcohol-less cider and sugar. >But running this place is definitely worth it! >After all, you get to set prices (with Apple family supplying you, well, apples and some other ingredients) and you get to watch the stuff happening here every day - win-win. >Shadowed door swings open, and a confused young stallion walks in, looking around and finally positioning himself on a stool before you. "Good evening, sir, and welcome to the Bad Apple Saloon." >AJ chose this name by herself, thinking it'd sound edgy or something. >It does, though...to the ponies. >Pony before you looks around some more time, visibly kinda scared. >"Y-yes, g-good evening..." "What can I make you, sir?" >"Sorry...I don't know..." >You slip him a cocktail list. You always keep some of those around. >"Yeah, make me a...Sunset over Canterlot, please." >Ah, the good old classic. >Sunset over Canterlot is one of the cocktails they've made up before your arrival, with you borrowing the recipe from Manehattan via Rarity. >Half a glass of cider and cold thickened cherry juice on top. >Somehow it dissolves in cider only partially, creating a range of orange-y colors. >Better not to wait with this one, though - as soon as juice warms up, it instantly mixes with cider. "Your Sunset, sir." >"T-thank you." >He takes the glass in his hooves and starts examining it, then inhales loudly and tries to drink all in one sip. >After finishing it, he gently sets the glass back and gets a little bit more...confident? Yes, something like that. "Would you like something else?"