//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: A Little Chat // Story: The Conversion Bureau: New Tactics // by no sh*t sherlock //------------------------------// Chapter 3: A Little Chat Before I detonated my last bomb, I had encounter with- There was male pony outside my cell. "Are you Jacob Sanders?" "Goddamn it, I'm never finishing this fucking this thing." I mumbled. "Is your name Jacob Sanders?" the pony repeated more forcefully. "Yeah thats me." The pony then used his magic to unlock the cell door and held it open. He appeared to be waiting for me to move. I looked back and and forth between the door and the pony, wondering what was going on. "What is this?" I asked skeptically. The pony looked down to his side and the smaller purple pony came into view. "There is somepony who would very much like to speak to you." Her cheerful voice had finally left her, but her serious tone surprised me. "I think I'll stay here and finish this." I said, pointing to my paper "Umm I don't think she'll take no for an answer." "Who wants to see me that bad?" "Princess Celestia." "Ohhh shit." I could tell my face had gotten whiter. "Now don't be scared, she just wants to talk. Its just a little chat." She tried to reassure me. "Im not scared!" I tried to argue, putting on a fake confident voice. "Ok sure." the pony said quickly. "Now follow me." There was another male waiting outside the cell for me and he and the other followed silently behind, while the purple pony talked some more in front of me. "We've spoken before, but I haven't introduced myself. I'm Twilight Sparkle, personal student of Princess Celestia and I was the Overseer of all the Bureaus in North America.. "Mm hmm." I said trying to look bored, but something she said made think back. "Twilight... Sparkle? I rubbed my head trying to remember what it was about her. Finally I got it. "Twilight Sparkle! Now I remember you! You're the one who developed the ponification serum and the paralysis darts." "That was a long time ago, but yes, that was me. Making them required fusing both magic and science, which was quite a challenge." "God damn." I said as I looked down from the walkway to see a line of humans. Their hands were bound and guard ponies with dart guns stood watch on either side. Other ponies were also down there, though I could tell whether they were new converts or old family and friends. "What is it?" she asked. "They're going to get converted aren't they?" "Yes the Conversion Room is down that way." "Who are the other ponies?" "Don't know. It could be family or the converts. The ones who look angry or sad are most likely the converts. "This isn't right." I said shaking my head. Twilight stopped in her tracks and turned around. "how is this wrong?" "Well first it-" "Actually save it." She interrupted. "We're here." We stood outside of a single metal door. Two regal pegasi stood in front. My breathing and heart rate got faster I nervousness found its way to me. "Not scared huh?" Twilight noticed. The door slowly opened and I had to cover my eyes from the harsh white light coming from it. The lights in the prison were kept dimmed. Slowly I could see a chair pulled out from shiny metal table and standing on the other side was Princess Celestia. One of the ponies behind me shoved me inside. Celestia watched me without blinking as I slowly moved away from the door and sat down. She stared at me for a few more seconds as I tried not to meet her eyes. She then looked past me to the door, nodded and the door shut. "So you're Jacob Sanders, the one who has caused so much grief for me over such a long span of time." Celestia finally said. I didn't respond. I had noticed lots of small black streaks on her white coat. I guessed that they were bullet marks. "Yes they're from firearms." She had noticed. "Sometimes your kind tries to harm me, unsuccessful attempts really as I am an immortal goddess. Those who try to fail and are quickly found and escorted to the Bureaus " she said proudly. "Escorted, is that what you call it?" I said looking up. "If your kind was willing to peacefully go to the Bureau's we wouldn't have to use other methods." "And what about the ones who aren't willing?" "You already know what we have to do to them." "Yeah, paralyze them and change their species against their will." I began to get angry. "We both know why I had to use new tactics." "No we fucking don't." "You're violent. You've already demonstrated it using profanity when I have been nothing but calm with you. Humanities corruption and pollution had almost consumed this world. You're air was so filled with pollutants, I could hardly breath as soon as I left Equestria's borders. I knew that I couldn't let humans destroy this beautiful world. You were in such a horrible condition as it was, war, poverty, hunger, disease. I couldn't bear to watch as you all deteriorated slowly, so I had Conversion Bureaus opened so that humans who were sick of their own condition could lead new, happier lives as ponies. I was going to leave conversion totally to choice and I never wanted to see any humans hurt, but it seems as though humans only want to hurt each other. Daniel Breman was a horrible person and as much as it pains me to say, he did deserve his death. Wouldn't you agree?" "What are you saying?" "I know about you and I know about what happened to your family. Now how could you continually bomb a base of my ponies after what he did to you? It had to be for more than just helping out that small resistance group." "I bombed that base for revenge." "Why against us? What have we done to you?" "What happened to my family only happened because of those damn Bureaus!" "Now I see, you've managed to blame me for your family. Listen to me Jacob, your family would still be dead with or with the me." She said it with a hint of sadness. "Ok I'm done with this." I said. "You registered your family for conversion to save them. It just you picked a bad day." "I said I'm done." "I trying to feel sorry for you, but after what you've done, I hold you in the same regard as I did Breman. "You think I give a shit about how much you like me?" Now I already said I'm done with this" I got up from my seat and went towards the door. She used her horn to open it and nodded again to the ponies outside. "We're done here. Take him back to his holding cell." We assembled into the same position as before, with Twilight in the lead and the two guards trailing behind. "Oh I almost forgot, I'll be sure to be present at your conversion. I'll even hold it on a special date." Celestia shouted at me from the room. I sat back down on my mattress and just looked down. Celestia was going to hold my on conversion on a special day that only she could pick. I now had an unknown amount of time to finish writing my story. I grabbed my paper and started a new sheet. "Oh yeah. I was about to tell about my encounter with the human." End Chapter 3 Short