Optimism Reignited

Optisim Reignited is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, Vinyl "DJ Pon-3" Scratch tells everypony in all of Equestria some good news while Su Ji-Hoon and his friends prepare for the Second Belkan War.

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JUNE 4, 2024. South of Equestria. All the news is good. The Grand Alliance is friends with the Beleninsk Pact and the New Central Powers, the Soviets are rolling the Belkans out of their territory, many worlds are ours again, and the Front de Libération du Québec is out of the war. Now it's our turn. We're back in Equestria again, just in time to take a shot at Fortress Oseana. Strangereal, here we come.

"Good morning, Equestria!" cried out Vinyl Scratch in style of Adrian Cronauer from Good Morning Vietnam. "My name is Vinyl Scratch, your host, DJ and reporter of the Equestrian News Network, and I'm here with my friend Octavia Melody for a national bulletin for Equestria. We will now talk about the Inkwell Isle Conference."

"This evening, Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Nazi and Confederate officials issued a statement from Moscow, Berlin, Pyeongyang, Antikburg and Richmond responding to the defection of both the Beleninsk Pact and the New Central Powers to the Grand Alliance and from the Coalition of the Red Star by saying quote: 'Beleninsk Pact and New Central Powers dissidents require a demonstration of consequences for committing acts of aggression against the alliance,'" stated Vinyl.

"While you ponder what these ominous words may mean, consider this: Documents found in the Canterlot Castle and the Silber House confirm the existence of a secret laboratory beneath the Avalon Dam in Belka, a country in the other world of Strangereal from Ace Combat where Belka's V3 tactical nuclear warheads are being developed. Also discovered was a detailed plan for testing the completed superweapon on Tokyo, London, Paris, New York City, and some other Grand Alliance, Beleninsk Pact and New Central Powers major cities. Though the Belkan Chancellor denied the existence of the bomb, this reporter urges all Grand Alliance, Beleninsk Pact and New Central Powers civilians in target areas to evacuate immediately,'" said Octavia Melody.