"Down with the meat-loving tyrants!" The cry went up from the packed campus stadium, like a call to arms. "Liberation for the poor animals!"
Fizzy and Wind Whistler walked into the arena where the protesters were gathered, amazed at the chaos and disarray all around them. Wild, loud, and angry humans were all around them, holding picket signs and screaming at the top of their lungs. The two mares turned human had seen a lot of battles and villain attacks in their lifetime, but this disorganized mass of chaos was still utterly baffling to them.
"Gee Windy, these people seem really mad about something!" Fizzy yelled desperately, trying to be heard over the angry crowd. "What's got them so unhappy, is some evil wizard trying to take over the college?"
"No, Fizzy... this appears to be a gathering of human youths, expressing their displeasure over the issue of meat consumption by the masses." Wind Whistler replied, looking around through the frenzied crowd for their missing friend. "I suspect they hope to enact some kind of social change in their society,
"Are you sure we're gonna find Gusty in all this mess?" Fizzy asked uncertainly. "I mean, she's not against eating meat, we do it all the time!"
"Gusty looks for any type of conflict to join in, even if she's not a part of it." The genius declared, turning her attention to the podium the protestors had set up in the middle of the stadium. "And knowing her, we'll find her right in the center of the attention!"
Sure enough, up there on the podium, there was the angry form of Gusty, stirring the already-angry crowd into a frenzy with her always furious words.
"So 'the man' wants to slaughter innocent animals, and make us eat their meat, huh?" Gusty bellowed through the microphone. "
"Yeeeahhhh!" The crowd roared in agreement, starting to chant. "No meat! No meat! No meat!"
"Gusty, there you are!" Fizzy declared, running up to the platform. "We've been looking everywhere for you
"Girls, you gotta get up here and help us!" The former unicorn declared. "We're standing up against some dude called 'the man', who is murdering innocent animals to turn into food!"
"Gusty, those animals you're protesting against are just normal non-intelligent ones, like the kind in Dream Valley we raise to eat!" Wind Whistler explained loudly, trying to be heard over all the noise. "And 'the man' are just the people who prepare it!"
"Oh yeah? Then why are these university students getting so bent out of shape about it?" Gusty asked, leaping off the platform. "You don';t think they'd get mad over nothing, do you?"
"Gusty, these are angry university protestors, they get infuriated every time they think something offends them." She pointed a finger at the crowd. "Just give a listen to what they are actually saying."
"Putting ketchup and mustard into two separate containers in the lunchroom is offensive!" One voice over the crowd called out. "They should both be allowed to be put in the same container together, even if they taste terrible that way!"
"Cats should be free to self-identify as dogs!" Another one yelled. "It's oppression!"
"Good grief! Those arguments are stupid!" Gusty declared, going over to stand by her friends. "I can't believe I listened to these bozos!"
"Hey, who're you calling stupid?" One of the protesters yelled angrily. "You're a sellout to the man!"
"Get the traitor and her friends!" Another yelled, as the crowd closed in. "We'll show em' we do to supporters of the man!"
"Girls, the natives are getting restless!" Wind Whistler yelled in a panic. "Everybody run for it!"
"Wait, you guys! I got something new for you to be angry at!" Fizzy spoke up, suddenly getting a bright idea. "I find all of you protestors offensive!"
"Wait, she... finds us offensive?" One of the protestors stuttered in disbelief. "That's... never happened before!"
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Another one declared energetically. "Let's go and organize a protest against ourselves!"
The entire mob trooped happily out of the arena, leaving the three bewildered girls standing by themselves.
"Wow, and I thought I was dumb..." Fizzy rolled her eyes in disgust. "... I can't believe that actually worked!"
"That is what you get with a bunch of spoiled rich brats whose parents paid their way through college." Wind Whistler sighed. "They believe whatever their ex-hippie professors tell them to believe, and don't have a brain between them selves."
"Windy...I'm not so excited about the human world anymore." Gusty groaned, rubbing her temples at everything that had just happened. "Let's go back to Pony Land, where everything makes sense."
"Yeah, now I get why Megan doesn't like living here," Fizzy agreed, looking around at the mess the protestors had left in the now-empty arena. "The humans back home are really nice and all, but the humans in this world are even crazier than Surprise. I wanna go home now, too."
"Girls, as always, I am unable to argue with the sound principles of reason and logic." Wind Whistler replied with a dry laugh. "Let us return to the portal, as resume the forms in which we are more familiar and comfortable in."
And with that, the three pony girls decided to head for home.