The Conversion Bureau: New Tactics Part III
Chapter 1: The New Conversion Bureau
They were taking ponies down the hill in groups of fives. That was the order given by a small group of humans inside the Bureau. They had tried to take as many security measures as they could to protect not only themselves but those awaiting conversion as well.
Sharpshooters covered the roof of the Bureau, ready to take out any that did not want to abide by the set of rules given. Armed men had also taken up positions in the buildings surrounding the enormous line of ponies. The amount of guards intimidated Matthew Earls, but he wasn't about to turn back now, he had come too far. At first he had thought the measures to be a little extreme, but then he considered what what these humans had been through and understood the need for caution.
The single file line behind him stretched for over a mile. And that was three days ago when he was at the beginning of it, by now it was sure to have increased in size. It had been three incredibly long and boring days of standing around unmoving. A few times he had attempted to strike up a conversation with those nearest to him, but he had no luck. He assumed it was because they just wanted to get through the line and get on with their lives.
But now Matt was at the front. His heart rate was immense, he stiffened as one of the two burly looking guards in front of him received a call on his radio. He nodded to the other who apparently understood the order then turned to us.
"Alright! lemme get five!" He shouted to the ponies in front of him as he put another hand on his weapon "Form Three lines! Three in back, two in the middle and one in front!"
Matt and four others quickly formed the desired positions, with him taking the first slot. Moments later four more guys walked up the hill and surrounded them and began to take them across the field.
The straight path to the Bureau was marked by cones and Matt did the best he could to keep a slow by steady pace across it. He winced a few times when then red flash of a sniper's laser moved across his eyes.
When they opened the doors to the Bureau, he could hardly contain his excitement. He was so done with being an Earth pony. He had been this way for three years now after a mob of ponies broke into his house and converted what was left of his family.
Before his conversion, they had tried convincing him that being a pony would be a better life and after a while Matt actually started to believe it. However it was after his conversion that he realized the reality was a completely different story.
After being converted they had completely abandoned him. He was granted one airship ride to Equestria only to find out that things were much worse for him there. Equestrian Cities were horribly segregated. Newfoals like him had little to no rights and the so called "real ponies" weren't too accepting of them.
He had no money and couldn't find a job so he, consequently, was forced to leave the country. From that point until two weeks ago he had lived in a specialized NewFoal settlement. The hardships he faced there made him long for his old life even more.
"Name please." An attractive looking women asked him. She was seated behind a large, semi circular front desk and was staring into a computer
"You need my name?" He asked confused.
"Yeah." She replied quickly as she looked up to him."We need to make sure you were actually a human and not just some Equestrian pony."
"Oh that makes sense" He said after thinking about it. "Its Matthew Earls."
She typed his response in quickly. "Matthew Earls born on the 19th of November in 2006?
"Correct."
"Where were you born, Matthew?" She asked.
He didn't have to think back. He had thought they might try to test him. "Allentown, Pennsylvania."
"Follow this man." She said after checking his answer.
Matt followed the man upstairs and walked past rows and rows of what had previously been cells. Even though they had their bars removed to him they still screamed of confinement.
Finally he was ushered into a room that already had three ponies waiting. They were sitting on the edges of beds and Matt took the extra one meant for him. A few seconds later a man in a white lab coat rushed in out of breath.
"Alright we have a lot more ponies to get to so I'll keep this brief." He reached outside where someone handed him a tray with four syringes neatly placed on it. "This serum will turn you back into humans. It will take about five minutes and it WILL be painful-Sorry. When your conversion is over you will be tired, you will feel weak and you will be naked. Various clothing will be brought up before your conversion is finished. Unfortunately they will most likely not fit, but you can get some new ones later. We clear?"
"Clear." They said back. He nodded and took the syringes off the tray and started the injections. Almost as soon as Matt's skin was pierced he could feel the changes starting to happen.
The man started for the door before he turned back around. "Oh and please wear the clothes, okay? I'm sick of seeing dicks swinging around downstairs."
No one could answer, the changes were occurring too quickly. "Oh uh." He stammered at the scene. "Good luck." He said as left the room.
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Shining Armor entered his passcode and opened the regal door expecting to see a room full of ponies. Instead he found that all twelve seats in the room were empty. Shining exhaled. He liked getting here early.
His seat was on the domestic side of the roundtable along with five other ponies. The other seats were for the ponies who headed the foreign affairs. Todays meeting was called by their end.
How much did Shining Armor care about Equestria's foreign dealings? Not much. He had been offered numerous high level positions in the New World, but declined to all of them. The topic of Conversion never interested him and he desired no part to play in the Conversion Bureaus. He cared more about Equestria and protecting her and citizens. He never wanted any negative contact with the humans, but unfortunately it was about to be forced upon him.
20 minutes later...
Ten of the seats had now been filled and the meeting had started. The two empty seats were on the foreign side and belonged to Princess Luna and the late Princess Celestia. Her death affected Shining Armor greatly, he had served the princess for many years and had grown very close to her. Her death had served as a wake up call to the world about just how capable a small group of humans in Georgia were. Luna had hardly been seen after what had happened, but he could't think about that right now, a pegasus was giving a presentation up front.
He was telling the situation of what was going on outside the barrier. Things weren't looking good, but Shining had heard them before.
"Ponies are leaving Newfoal colonies by the hundreds, all of them heading to the Atlanta Bureau. They are desperate to become humans again. In 26 days their numbers have risen from less than a hundred to well over 6,000." He paused for effect then pressed a button. A screen lowered from the ceiling and a projector filled it with a picture. "The image you're looking at are heat signatures from over the Atlanta area from one of our reconnaissance airships. This shows that around 93% of the humans are staying within two miles of the Bureau. We believe this is the start of them building an army. "
There was scrambled chatter all around the table. He pony smiled slightly before continuing. "Ladies and Gentlemen ,we must ready all of our conversion weapons against this threat." Some ponies agreed with him including the leader of the Equestrian Army, Storm Hammer.
Ponies like him disgusted Shining Armor. Mostly because he was unfit to lead anyone. He hated that everypony danced around the fact that his forces had suffered a devastating loss under his command. He hadn't even bothered to join the force of the ground. He insisted that he remain in Equestria and oversee the operation from there. Coward. Another thing was that he always argued that his forces were superior to Shining's Royal Guards. If Hammer agreed to something, then Shinning knew he had to speak up.
"Um no, excuse me I disagree." All eyes turned to Shinning Armor. He still commanded respect because, unlike some others, he earned his position based on merit. "I'm sorry no one wants to say this, but the truth that we all must accept is that our time of converting humans to ponies, against their will I might add, is over. You've had, what, like eleven good years of it, but it is finished. If these images are correct and humans are converting themselves back by the hundreds per day then I think its time we rethink our tactics solely to protect our homeland. " He ended his statement with a firm hoof to the table.
The room was silent for what seemed like a long time before a voice he was glad to hear spoke up.
"I agree with my husband." Princess Cadence's voice was good to hear. Normally at these meeting she simply sat quietly and observed. But not today. "When Princess Celestia and Princess Luna left me in charge of Equestria I made a promise to protect her. There is a great threat posed by these humans and I don't want to risk anymore ponies getting hurt in an attempt to try and convert them again."
"Thank you." Shining Armor smiled and nodded at his wife. He was glad she was with him on this. "In addition the best response to stopping the human numbers from rising is to cut off and further discourage any ponies from leaving the Newfoal settlements. I say it's time we contacted our asset in the north."
The room erupted in arguments back and forth about Shinning Armor's suggestion. "They shouldn't even still be alive!" The Mayor of Ponyville shouted. He was surprised she disagreed with with seeing as she was on his end of the table. "Why should we call on them?"
"And what about the settlements in the Americas? Did you forget about them?" Storm Hammer asked.
"Going back into the Americas right now is too dangerous. Right now we need to stop the rest of the world from converging on the bureau. We can cut it off it Europe with the asset." Shinning explained.
"Whats the point?" Storm Hammer asked apathetically. "That option was created by Princess Celestia and it died with her."
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna made that together. As long as she remains alive then he is still under our control. " Shining Armor raised his voice. "We need action now and he's already capable and in place. What more do you want?"
There was muffled chatter all around the table. After a moment Shining out his hoof up. All five others on his side put thiers up in agreement. Storm Hammer sneered as three on his side raised their hooves. Shining smiled. Luna and Celestia's absence made the table tilt in thier favor.
Princess Cadence rose from the table. "Well then please contact our asset and tell him to assist us." With that she walked around the table and left the room.
After she exited more ponies starting leaving. Storm Hammer gave him another dirty look as he left.
Shining Armor was the last pony out and there was someone waiting for him on the other side of the door.
The pony stepped in front of him with a worried look on his face. Shining recognized him. He was an important engineer on the foreign side. Thinking back he remembered he had looked like that throughout the meet.
"Shining Armor, I must speak with you." He said urgently. "It's about the barrier."
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Matt's eyes shot open. He was laying on his back in the middle of the floor. There were other three naked sleeping humans in the room with him and for a moment he was reminded of a party he went to many years before. He stood up and, like the guy said, there was a good sized pile of clothes next to him. He was able find some clothes that fit him pretty well and dressed himself.
For a while he sat on his bed staring at the open door to the cell. Now that he was human he felt he should be doing something to help. He was in pretty good physical condition and unlike what the man had said, he wasn't tired at all.
He also wanted to get his mind off of things. Every time he alone he thought back to the Newfoal settlement. He wasn't sure about other settlements, but his was a nightmare. The only way he could stop himself from thinking about it was moving around and doing something.
After a few minutes he saw a figure walk quickly past the door. He wasn't aware the person saw him until they appeared in the doorway again.
"Hey, you're up already?" The man asked quickly. He was an average height white guy with a slightly muscular build. "Usually you guys need a few hours after your conversion. You know,t to get used to your human body again. I heard it takes alot out of you."
Matt looked himself over. "Well I feel fine."
He smiled. "Thats good. I guess you should probably follow me then." He motioned out the door with hand.
He hurried down from the conversion rooms and passed dozens of humans who had either just gone through conversion or were currently undergoing it. The process was so disgusting to watch that he had to look away and was quick to match the mans pace. Matt didn't know who he was, but he seemed cool enough and he knew it wouldn't hurt to have a friend.
"I think they already started." He said back to Matt as they ran back down the metal staircase. "I really want to get there."
They sped across the main floor heading towards a door on the other side. "Wait, whats about to start?" Matt asked.
The man pushed open the door and went down the stairs. "That." He pointed.
There were two people, a man and a woman, standing atop a raised platform. They were in the middle of one huge open room. Surrounding them was a small group of maybe 30 people.
"-need air power to take back our land!" The man on the platform had already started. "There is a reserve base not 20 miles from here thats been overrun with ponies. I say we take it back!"
He sure is getting the crowd riled up, Matt thought. Nearly whole group were pumping their fists in the air.
"We're not taking our whole force so we need volunteers for a more stealthier mission than when we liberated the Capital building. Who's with us?!" He shouted. Immediately about 15 people raised their hands.
"I'm coming too!" Matt's new friend shouted loudly. He pushed through the crowd right up to the stage. The man nodded and leaned down to slap his back. He turned around looking for Matt and motioned for him to join.
"You coming? I sure we could use you." He said when Matt reached him.
Matt tilted uneasily. Fighting was something he used to be able to do quite well, but he wasn't sure how much skill he had retained after his time as a pony. "I..I..I don't know. I mean I just got converted and-"
"Come on, It'll be easy." His new friend pushed. He wanted to be useful, be loyal, but he didn't want to throw himself so early into a situation that he wasn't prepared for. He had a choice to make.
"Fine." He sighed finally. His thinking was that at least his new task would keep his mind off of his old home in the settlement.
"Good to hear it!" He said happily. "By the way, I don't think I ever introduced myself." I took his extended hand which he shook firmly. "Jacob. Jacob Sanders."
Ok I'll admit I'm interested to see how this goes. My main gripe with the prequel is moot here since Xenolestia is dead already. Plus I haven't seen an ATCB story where Xenolestia is already dead and the remnants of mankind are pushing back. What I really hope is that Luna isn't some fucking karma houdini who'll kill and convert humans and yet gets off scot-free because she's Woona and it was all mean Xenolestia's fault. She needs to pay her dues as well.
2712546 It's not a prequal, it is a threequal. Xenolestia got killed in the second story.
2711942 You have no fucking clue what your talking about. Obviously you havent read the first or second parts of the story. Because if you did you would know that this is Pro-Human, it's Genre is ACB. Or Anti-Conversion Bureau. Although recently people have started calling it Alternative Conversion Bureau following the main ACB groups renaming after the failed attempt to take it down by one of the founders.
But the details arn't important, what is important is that you are just hating on it even though you have no idea what it is about. You just saw something that said Conversion Bureau in it's title and you thought "Hey! This must be just like other stories with those words in their title!"
2712961 I know. I was talking about the second one. Bad choice of words on my part.
2712546 or bill will be an ass kicking for yrs to come, wean anyone feel like it they go to her home and knock on the door, luna will come out today and say " ok what lind of beating you have pleaned for me " and she can't do noting about it for the next 5k yrs and lets give her some balls so we can kick her there.
2713006 Sounds like a ballsy plan.
i mean i wound think fluttershy fight with the humans in her own way, i mean she the only one that can see what the ponie did was woger in so many ways
2713040 hey getting you ass wimp for the next 5k yrs is good in my book, like wean see go and get food someone thorw an apple at her and who ever did it can walk away and feeling god becasue the law say he can.
and wean someone pissed about not getting laid, gusse what he go get a baseball bat and hit luna in the balls so hard that she can't walk right for the next week
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Dude, EVERYONE here hates the conversion bureau. I hate the conversion-bureau with a passion; all of Chatoyance’s fics infuriate me. Hell, her attitude toward people who criticizes her fics infuriates me. every time I hear a “human’s are evil because they have wars and shit” speech, I have an urge to hit a small child. The conversion bureau is infuriating because the stories portray genocidal ponies to be the heroes and humans to be racist because they don’t want to change into ponies.
This story doesn’t do that.
This story portrays the ponies as xenophobic, bigoted ass-holes, intentionally so. The humans are portrayed as victims, who are trying to fight for their right to be human. Celestia was portrayed as a tyrant who abused her power to force change, and believed that her status as a deity made her automatically in the right. She was beaten to an inch of her life and was burned alive by the humans.
The humans are now using an antidote to turn the new foals back into ponies. And the ponies now realize that converting them is now pointless since the humans have an antidote that will change them right back into humans if they tried.
Most of the people who disliked this fic are probably Chatoyance’s drones
You’ve basically judged a book by its cover here. What if this fic was a satire of the conversion bureau?
This is the same thing a someone who doesn’t like Obama-care finding an article titled: Obama-care, is it right for America?” and going:
“ERMEHGERD! OBAMA-CARE?!!! I HATE OBAMA-CARE! THIS ARTICLE IS STUPID!!! RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH!
When the article is actually talking about how Obama-care could never work.
2713599 Not quite the same thing as the Obama-Care scenario, but I understand what you are saying. I will leave here and switch my downvote to a upvote. You are truly a good person for pointing this out.
Thank you.
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.................................................woah , you have got to be the the most level headed person I have had the pleasure of meeting on the internet, good show sir!
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2713649 Underneath this seemingly unbridled rage, I actually am not that much of a horrible person. I just jump to conclusions sometimes.
It's people like you who educate people on the internet, therefore I applaud you as well. Without a .gif, though, sorry. :)
2713649 That was entertaining AND I got a free upvote from it. I guess I win.
2713465 lol what did he say to me that was so retarded he had to remove it?
2713708 something like "obviously you do if you responded."
2713708 I didn't remove it because it was "retarded", but because it was no longer relevant and therefore served no more purpose.
it took me all day to read all 3 of these stories... I LOVE THEM
Dis gon b gud!
choose your path, walk it well
save us from this living hell
in this broken cage; we will not be confined
and when the world starts to burn
at the point of no return
you can hold on
you can bitch on
you can tear out the affliction
but before the world burns black
stand up and take it back
Lulz
I can't read it just yet, so enjoy this free Like and Fav
2715766 Thank You
2713599 Hi, I'm one of the BAAAAAD GUUUUUUYS.
Anyway, I'm not here to fight, grief, or troll I just want to offer some insight. You said this:
Which I understand to mean that you were wondering why people would vote this down. Maaaybe one of those negative votes were... non-alternate conversion bureau readers with a knee-jerk reaction. However, as a group, they just avoid the fics they don't like. It's a matter of their collective temperament. If you show them this fic, they'll scan the description and maybe the first few pages, and then move on to something else without comment. They've seen hundreds of fics like this, and understand that they're not the intended audience.
No, the down-votes are because people just find the content unsettling, weird, stupid, or it's very very distant from what they want to read. Remember, this is Friendship is Magic Fiction dot net. People come here for fanfic of the show, and The Conversion Bureau was already two steps removed from that. This is three steps removed. On top of that, it's surrounded by an aura of vitriol, anger, and hate. Imagine that your fifteen year old sister just got finished marathoning the entire series over two weeks and decides to go check out the fanfics, and then this particular fic somehow is the first thing she sees. That little down thumb becomes reaaaaally attractive all of a sudden. Fact is, most people are here for comedic, slice of life, and/or adventure fics, according to the EQD polls. That makes sense, because those three together are pretty much the show.
TL;DR: ACB fics get a lot of their downvotes for pretty much the same reasons that TCB fics get downvotes: the general MLP fanfic community doesn't like the themes or content.
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This makes sense...
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good theory.
just read it, i must say I am very much intrigued and cannot wait for more chapters to come in the future
Where are the humans forces that has interests in Equestria?
Yay, answers my questions from the second one! That the ponies continued treating converts like dirt is just... KILL THEM ALL ALREADY!!! Nuke Equestria!
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its just a theory a vewership theory!
thanks for memeing! :P