Twilight kept galloping as Spike, because he wasn’t told not to, and probably because he didn’t have anything better to do, continued to bang the coconuts together as she continued through the meadows with a castle in long sight Twilight looked around. In front of her was an old mare with a matted grey mane pulling a cart. Twilight took this opportunity to gather information. “Excuse me, Old mare”.
“Man” Replied the...well now supposed Stallion
“Oh” Twilight said regretfully “I’m very sorry sir. can you tell me which knight lives in that castle over there?”
“I just entered Stallion hood” He replied, now twilight was close enough to see that the stallion had a green coat and what she thought was grey was really just a dirty light blue mane.
“Excuse me?” She said to the stallion
“You called me old, I just entered stallion hood last week” The stallion replied.
“Oh well I don’t think just stallion would work” Twilight said a bit somberly
“How about Jacknife?” The stallion replied to her
“I would have if I had known Jacknife was your name” Twilight replied back.
“Well thank you for asking, oh wait that’s right you didn’t” Jacknife said in a hint of anger behind his voice.
“Well I did Apologize about calling you an old mare” Twilight again said with more sorrow behind her voice.
“What I really object to was the fact you automatically refered to me in a way that you assumed that you were superior to me.” Jacknife said, now it was evident that there was anger as he came to a stop and looked at the pile of mud in front of them both.
“Well I am a scholar and the Voice of Princess Celestia” Twilight said, not meaning to put smug behind her words but she was very proud of her title as such.
“Really and how did you get that title huh. By exploiting us workers for everything we have? And by hanging on to outdated practices of government which continously self-perputates our-”
The stallion however was cut off by what Twilight was sure of now was a mare, mainly because of the sound of her voice as the amber coated and chocolate maned pony called out to Jacknife.
“Hey Jacknife there’s a great patch of manure right here we can use for the gardens!” Then the mare looked up at Twilight “Oh, hello madam, how do you do”
“Hello good lady” Twilight said satisfied that someone around here had much more decent manners. “My name is Twilight Sparkle and I am the voice of Celestia, Princess of the Equestrians. Can you tell me whose castle that is over there?”
The mare looked up at twilight in confusion “Princess of the who?”
Twilight, a bit bewildered by this answered who “Equestrians”
The poor mare went on “And who are the Equestrians”
Twilight was almost baffled by this but continued “We all are, She is your Princess and ruler”
The mare simply shrugged and went to collect the...dung, it was then twilight realized why her mane was so....brown... “Didn’t know we had a princess, I thought we were an autonomous Collective,”
“Your Foalish” Jacknife was quick to respond “We live in a dictatorship” He had put much emphasis on the word dictator ship “a self Perputating autocracy in which the working class”
Instantly the mare had cut off the stallion as they were picking up manure for their gardens “Oh here we go again with the classes deal, I swear you couldn’t live if you didn’t bring that up in a conversation every half-day.”
“But that’s what it’s all about, if ponies were to-” Jacknife had said but was cutoff instantly by Twilight
“I’m so sorry to interupt but I’m on a mission, can you tell me who lives in that castle”
“No one does” The mare replied
“...Then where does the lord of this land live?”
“We don’t have one” Jacknife said insistently
Bewiledered, a land without a lord? Preposterous “You don’t have a lord?” Twilight than asked.
“Of course not” Jacknife quickly Responded “Like we said we’re an anarcho-syndiclist commune that takes turns every week acting as an exectuive officer-”
“That’s all neat and dandy and all but-” Twilight didn’t get to finish her sentence
“However all the decisions of that officer are to be ratified at a biweekly meeting.” Jacknife continued
“Wait...But then how-” Twilight tried to ask but again was cut off which had frustrated her
Jacknife had continued not letting Twilight get off a single sentence “By a simple majority in the case of internal affaris”
“Could you hold on-” Twilight had tried to say frustrated she couldn’t get in the conversation but again was cut off
“By a two-thirds Majority in the case off-” Jacknife didn’t let up but then
“SHUT UP, By the voice of Celestia I command you to SHUT UP” Twilight just couldn’t take it anymore and had yelled at Jacknife.
The mare, suprisingly was the first of the two to speak up “Command she says, who are you to command us?”
“By Celestia’s Voice” Twilight had said still frustrated but reassuring.
“Well I didn’t vote for you” The mare said with a quick comeback
Twilight tilted her head at this “You don’t vote for her voice”
“Well how did you get this Power you think you have” The mare spoke to her quizically and yet cockily like she didn’t expect Twilight to have a convincing answer.
Twilight smiled “I was choosen by Princess Celestia after showing great promise at the Canterlot school of magic, it was there that I was chosen by her to be her personal pupil and she bestowed upon me powers that are but a step below the princess herself.”
“Oh what do you know she’s in power because she’s a good student” Jacknife replied in a snippy tone “Well by her logic my brother Jackhammer should be King of all the lands, aint none better than him in studies. Supreme executive power must be derived from the masses not some fiticious pony that puts the sun up or down on her whim”
“How dare you” Twilight eyes narrowed as she gave Jacknife a dirty look.
“What you can’t expect to have, Supreme executive power, just because this so called princess said you could, I mean that’s ludacris” Jacknife said towards her.
“I SAID SHUT UP” Twilight said again raising her voice in extreme frustration at Jacknife.
“If I went around saying I was the Emperor of this land just because some mythical being said it was ok for me to do so I’d be locked away in a gurney”. As Jacknife said these words Twilight had had enough of this insults that Jacknife was sprouting and she galloped up at him and grabbed him with her hooves.
“SHUT UP SHUT UP I SAID SHUT UP” Twilight Shouted at him.
“Oh look at the violence this system Inherent” Jacknife said as Twilight held him which broke her anger and gave her a sense of annoyance more than anger. “HELP HELP I’M BEING REPRESSED” As he said that a group of ponies came around them, not out of a sense of aiding their fellow pony but more of out of seeing the spectacle that was going on.
“UGH” Twilight said “Everypony in countryside is so Ignorant”. She said returning towards the path she was on.
“Did you see that, Huh, Did you all see that? She was repressing me” Jacknife pleaded but the ponies just looked at him with the same annoyance expression that Twilight had given him.