Celestia has been arranging this special dinner with the being from outer space. The plan is very basic, he is going to be questioned subtly by the rest of Twilight's friends.
Sending orders to the staff of the castle has been exhausting, and also, thanks to this small inconvenience, she has been obliged to cancel several meetings with diplomats and nobles from all around the nation. What they know, well, he is an omnivore, meaning that he can eat meat and plants. Not many species in Equus are omnivore, and the documented ones are usually in the desolated parts of the world.
"Yes my little pony, that would be perfect," Celestia says with a fake smile, finalizing to organize the last decorations. She has ordered the chef a very varied menu, three types of salads with different types of fruits and vegetables from Equestria, a whole selection of the finest cider in the nation, and the best booze they could possibly offer which includes a special wine made from the crystal blackberries, exclusively found in the southern mountains of the Crystal Empire.
The nuisance is at least in their side........ or at least it is what her sister has declared. This problem just keeps escalating. Coverups with the parliament are becoming dirtier, and when Celestia does things like that, she always ends up hating it later.
In the end, her last declaration is always 'I did it for the greater good,' something true without a doubt, it is just a disgrace that it needs to be that way.
"Princess," the lavender alicorn snaps her off her thoughts. Twilight is dressed in a blue dress with stars on it, similar to the one she wore for the gala, "Luna went to talk with him right?"
Celestia remains silent for some seconds, sighing afterwards with a tired face, "that's correct Twilight," she looks back at the table, "but much is to be done."
"And you are telling me......" Rarity mumbles under her breath as she walks into the room with the rest of the mane 6 behind her. Each one has a dress for the special occasion, I mean, when do you have the opportunity to seat and have dinner with a being from outer space...... it sounds comical at first glance if you think about it. The room has been decorated in different ways, as stars are printed on the walls and the finest banners have been placed on the ceiling. One of the things that Celestia doesn't like about this specific location is the windows and the six doors, this is basically the perfect place where he could escape, easier for him, and worst for them...
At least he doesn't have his iron weapon Celestia says quietly to herself.
"Dude! that doesn't even make sense!" Rainbow Dash exclaims, looking at the glare coming from Applejack. The two have been discussing what they are going to say when they meet the alien. Rainbow is going to ask direct questions, but Applejack wants to be a bit more conservative. Well, that escalated into a fight about science fiction aliens and other irrelevant things that don't have a connection to this whole alien problem.
"It sure does, why wouldn't be that way, it's you just bein' stubborn!" Applejack responds harshly.
"I'm being stubborn! look who is talking," Rainbow counters.
"All right!" Rarity exclaims desperate, "stop fighting now, please."
"What she began," Rainbow says as she points her hoof at Applejack."
"That I began'" Applejack snaps angrily, "let me show ya' who's goin' to begin this time."
"Yeah that alien!!!!!" Pinkie Pie interrupts them both, startling them at the same time as she quickly enters the place and inspects the table, "ohhh I hope that he will love the cupcakes!!!!!!"
"Pinkie ummm I don't"
"Ohhh don't be dummy," Pinkie says as she gets close to Twilight, almost teleporting if I may add, "who wouldn't love cupcakes, I believe that a being from space!!!! will obviously love them!!!"
"What Twilight may be trying to say my little pony," Celestia begins with a smile, looking amused at the antics of the pink earth pony, "is that it would be good if we are cautious with certain things."
Rainbow Dash snorts as she gets close to the table as well, watching it with attention, "aaaand what would happen if the alien decides to attack us and," her eyes widen as her limbs shake slightly, "eats our brains......"
"I don' think that creature would do that," Fluttershy begins, getting close to her friend. On her dress, she is carrying her saddlebags where she has a piece of medical equipment and a notebook with a pencil, "they all seem very nice."
"I don't know," Rainbow taps her chin with her hoof, "what if that thing is a mind-control device that the aliens use to enslave other species."
"That is a form of art," Twilight begins, looking at Rainbow Dash, "you can't say to me that it wasn't beautiful."
"Ehhhh," Rainbow cringes internally, but still responds with a slight nod, "interesting would be a better word."
Twilight giver her an uninterested face as she turns to look back at the table. Fluttershy tilts her head, walking to her friend's side, "why are you so worried about him, he is probably just a scared poor creature."
"Poor creature!" Rainbow Dash exclaims, startling Fluttershy, "he injured Incitatus!"
"You don't know his reasons," Fluttershy counters softly. At that, Celestia sighs and walks towards them with a small frown while she looks at Rainbow Dash.
"Neither you!" Rainbow responds, not paying attention of whom is currently next to her.
"Actually we know them," Celestia begins with a frown, startling the two mares, "it was in an act of self-defence, even though we are not justifying him, what would have you done in his place?"
"Excuse me princess," Rainbow asks nervously, raising an eyebrow.
"What would have you done in his place?"
She hesitates, as her ears press against her head, "I-I would have probably try to," she looks at the mischievous eyes of Celestia, "escape them?"
"Exactly," Celestia continues casually, "the commander acted in accordance with his situation, just like a pony or any other creature in Equus could have done as well."
Rainbow deflates a bit, "I suppose so."
"After all Rainbow," she continues with a small smile on her muzzle, "you can solve your doubts when you talk to him, and the same will be with us."
"Oh this so exciting," Rarity says with a smile, "I will ask the dear everything about the fashions of his planet."
"About the food of his planet of course!" Pinkie says with a smile on her face.
"I would like to know about his biology and the ones of his planet," Fluttershy says softly.
Celestia giggles, "let's remember to not drown him with questions."
Peter glances at his surroundings, following Luna closely. Silence has reigned for a couple of minutes, as his heart is simply palpating at thousand per hour. He decided to be professional, as every time that this is becoming more and more real, his attitude changes to the one with his companions.
They reach to a giant door. Luna opens it using her magic, which reveals a giant room, the one of a king. A king-sized bed with green silk bed sheets, the chandelier is made of crystals, the yellow walls are decorated with paintings depicting different ponies. In the back of the room, there is a small door which leads to a balcony. The ceiling is very similar to the one of the Winter Palace in Russia, as baroque paintings and gold cover the beauty of the art and the depictions of it. He is simply captivated by it at first glance, it is worthy of a Kaiser. That's when his memories ring on, "I have been here right?"
Luna smiles, nodding calmly, "that's right commander, you were transferred to this room the night that we found you."
"Huh," Peter says, walking around the room with admiration. He notices another door on the other side of it, making him tilt his head, "what's that."
"The bathroom," Luna responds curiously, "do thee species have one of those."
He turns to look at Luna with a bored face, "yes, that's the basis of our necessities, tho I like to call it the throne room."
Luna giggles, "that's inconvenient and disgusting at the same time commander."
"Hey you are learning," he responds with a smile. An awkward moment of silence elapses before Peter gets close to the bed, "aaaand why have you brought me here?"
She raises an eyebrow, "this is your room commander," she walks close to him, "though if you want you can go back to you cell."
"No thank you," he raises a hand, "this is much better."
"Indeed," Luna responds with a smile, "well then commander, I recommend you to clean yourself for dinner, you don't want to enter looking like that."
He snickers, "yeah, thank God," Peter tilts his head as he opens the door of the bathroom. He is startled when some candles were lit, that instead of irradiating heat, they irradiated a weird coldness, just like the ones of a public restroom.
"What the hell," he steps back and glances at Luna over her shoulder, "what class of thing is this."
"Magic commander," Luna responds amused, "nothing from another world."
Peter narrows his eyes as he smiles, "yeah, of course, I forgot," he taps his chin, "I believe that our concepts of another world are very different."
"Correct commander," Luna says as she walks towards the doors of the room, "I shall leave you alone, but," he rolls his eyes at that word, "I suppose that you are still a little colt that needs to be supervised."
"So you don't trust me," Peter responds dramatically, putting a hand on his chest.
"Exactly," Luna responds smugly, making him blink several times in confusion, "where did you get that idea?"
"Well," he begins, raising his arms, "this cosy room can be one of them."
She shakes her head with a smile as she exits the room, "you aren't going to try anything funny right?"
Peter chuckles, "the same I ask you princess, the same thing," he finishes while crossing his arms.
Luna raises an eyebrow but shakes her head afterwards. Her smile disappears as she adopts a more formal way of speaking, "commander, somepony will come here and announce when the dinner is going to be ready."
He shrugs, "take your time, I'm not that important after all."
She smiles again, closing the door with her magic. Peter waits for some seconds as he hears the sound of the hooves walking on the marble. He claps his hands when the sound faints, a smile spreading on his face as he glances to his surroundings, "I'm still not convinced this is real," he walks forwards to the bed, "but I suppose I can settle for now."
He begins to take off his dirty suit. The scratches damaged several parts of it, but it can still protect someone from the dangers of outer space for at least a short time. He takes off the arm assembly and the primary life support and then continues taking off the lower torso assembly. He is left in his pants and shirt. His whole body is full of bruises and cuts, something that he doesn't even care at this point, it is more probable that he will eventually die from an infection, well, if those diseases exist in that planet, how does he even know that. He stretches, after three days of being in that thing, it is just a relief to be free to move his body. He glances to one of the tables and sighs, seeing the broken glass of his helmet, and the deplorable state of it, he chuckles, "now that was a knockout," he taps his chin, "how the hell the glass didn't hurt me?"
He simply shrugs that thought off. Most of the blood on his hand has dried, leaving this horrible sensation on them. His nose scrunches as he walks to the bathroom. Opening the door again, the candles lit, something that Peter receives this time with a smile. He walks forwards and glances at the magical candles, they have the same power of a lightbulb back on Earth, it is just impressive what this thing that they call magic can do. In his mind, it is not magic, but maybe some kind of energy deriving from the magnetic fields of the planet, it must be the most logical of them all.
The shower is pretty basic, and also confusing if I may add. It seems like it isn't connected to anything. It is also a very small shower, Peter surpasses the showerhead. He opens the valve, letting the cold but refreshing water to fall on his body. He hesitated at first but acceded as he felt how the combination of sweat, blood, and dirt finally fell off his body. It also hurt a lot, as the scratches were painful thanks to the deplorable state of his body. He exists the shower and takes a towel that was left for him to use. He quickly dries himself and begins to put his clothes again. He breathes deeply, now that is feeling comfortable. Glancing at his surroundings, he takes from one of the pockets of his suit the pack of cigarettes and the lighter, taking one and lighting it on. The pain suddenly dissipated, must be for the feeling of finally being comfortable and free. He jumps over the bed and hugs the bedsheets, a grin on his face as he seats on it, "this is the best thing I have ever been on in my whole life."
He takes one cigarette and lights it on, smoking as tiredness finally overcomes his body and senses. He stretches again, as something catches his attention. In one of the tables, there is a giant book with the title of, 'Equus: the complete encyclopedia of the world.'
A small smile appears on his face, as he opens the first page of the book. This must be their way to present themselves, he quietly thinks as he sees the prologue, well, if you can call it like that. It is a map, a map of that world. Next to it there are some words written on.
The United Kingdom Of Equestria sends a warm welcome to our friend from outer space.
Signed by the Royal Princesses
He chuckles as he shakes his head, "yeah sure, warm welcome."
Peter's interest perks up as he reads each city and country name in that world.
"Griffon Empire...... hmph," he mumbles, seeing the names of the cities of that country. They all have similar names to the ones back in the German Empire. He tilts his head, reading the capital of that nation, "Griffonstone, weird..... why do these creatures like putting the names of their species as cities or towns."
It is a recurring theme, he begins to look east, one of them immediately catching his attention, "Equestria," Peter looks at the window, the sun is finally setting, as the skies are turning dark. He frowns and turns his view back at the book, looking at each one of the cities, many of them causing him curiosity.
"Manehattan?" he raises an eyebrow, "what the hell is this......." his eyes tick around the map, "Fillydelphia? what the hell is this, a ripoff of America?"
He keeps reading each city and town of that nation, two of them causing him curiosity, "Ponyville...... Canterlot."
He taps his chin, smoking again, "Canterlot..... Camelot...... hmmmm interesting, I wonder why did they put it like that."
That's when he notices the drawing of a castle next to the name of that city. His eyes widen as he begins to chuckle, "yeah right" he looks around, "this must be Canterlot, the capital of this Kingdom of Equestria," Peter looks forward into the map, noticing several strange names like Stalliongrad, and the Crystal City. One of them catches his attention again, some lands being called the Challenging Lands. Next to that, there is a giant ocean were the words Unexplored World are written on.
He passes the page, smoking again, "this gotta be interesting."
The first thing that appears is Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. He reads each paragraph with attention. Apparently, they are the rulers of that country, and it says that they have lived more than 1000, that must be lonely life, Peter thinks as his expression softens. It also says that they actually control the sun and the moon of that planet. Peter chuckles, they must call one of their moons the sun because it haves the qualities to be one, but it orbits that planet and is smaller, so that makes it one of its two moons. Celestia controls the sun, and Luna the moon, easy huh. Yeah you must know that at least. He smokes again as he reads the story of Nightmare Moon, which retells Luna becoming an actual evil person for greed, and it says that her sister sent her for a thousand years to the moon. Only recently, this Twilight and her friends defeated this evil entity and liberated the real Luna.
He shakes his head as he scratches his beard, "if I am ever going to complain about a lifetime prison sentence, just need to look at this, my goodness......."
An image depicting this event is also shown. The colours on it are simply beautiful, as it was not. A printed book but made out of a different material, he could even swear that it was talking to him. Peter sighs, finishing to read the last paragraphs that describe the princesses. Apparently, in these lands, there was also a King and a Queen, but due to reasons of respect and memory Celestia and Luna decided to remain with their princess title, and it eventually became the most important title in Equestria. King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia, they were the rulers of something called the unicorn tribe.
"Excuse me," a voice cuts Peter off his thoughts, not belonging to any of the princesses, but someone else. He raises an eyebrow, closing the book and leaving it on the bed. He stretches as he stands up, and gets close to the door cautiously.
"Yes," Peter says with hesitation, his fists clenching as a void is beginning to be felt in his chest.
"I-I was sent by the princess to guide you to the dining room," the feminine voice continues, he could even swear that the pony, he supposed, gulped, "b-by.... Princess Luna."
"Ummm," Peter begins with hesitation, slowly taking the handle and opening the door. His eyes widen as he backs off a bit. Peter gulps, this is another class of Equine. She is wearing silver armour, as her eyes look like the ones of a reptile, from her mouth canines are also present, just like the ones of a vampire. Her fur is light blue, but the principal thing that makes Peter gag are her wings, they are the ones of a bat, she looks like a bat, a bat-horse?
They both stare at each other without saying a word. Peter glances forwards and notices a whole battalion waiting for him. He deflates, and looks back at the nervous pony. She clears her throat before talking again, "Commander Bis-m-marck I believe?"
He hesitates again, scratching his head, "ummm yeah," he straightens himself and takes a deep breath, "that's me....." Peter motions for her to say her name.
She was snapped from her thoughts, arming herself with a little bit of more courage, "my name is Sargeant Ebony Aurora."
"Right Sargeant Aurora," he looks again at the other guards, "you seems to have come here prepared huh."
"It is just for a little bit of more security," she responds nervously, giving Peter small smile, "and please call me Sargeant Ebony."
"Alright, Sargeant Ebony, " he takes another deep breath, taking his cigarette and throwing it on the floor, turning it off by using his heel, "let's get going."
She smiles brightly at him, but still nervous, "okay.... so follow me."
Ebony points forwards, glancing at the guards, the battalion begins to move with him behind. They pass through several corners, all in complete silence, well, excluding the sound of armour and hooves walking across the marble floor. Peter is nervous, something appearing on his throat that wants to make him vomit, feeling dizzy and nervous at the same time.
They finally arrive at their destination. Two wooden doors framed with gold are in the front of them. The guards back off, giving some steps as the doors begin to open thanks to a signal coming from Ebony. She then walks next to the human, the two looking nervous and scared. When they are completely open, they walk forwards. Peters halts completely, his eyes widen as he gulps nervously.
Princess Celestia and Luna exchange glances as they nod nervously. All the eyes looking at the human. The first thing he notices is the presence of the other five ponies in that room. They have already taken a seat, but they are watching the human with nervousness as well. The awkward silence elapses but is interrupted by Ebony who clears her throat and gives a slight bow, "Your Majesties, I am going to leave you alone now."
"Thank you, Sargeant, you can now return to your post," Luna responds with a smile. She simply nods again, walking through the doors, which automatically close.
Silence reigns again, not before it is interrupted by Celestia who clears her throat, "commander, you can take a seat."
He hesitates, slowly making his way towards the table. He looks at the biggest chair of all, and sighs, taking a seat with hesitation. The food is already served. Peter notices the delicacies on the table, making his stomach to grumble.
"Well then commander," Celestia speaks again with a smile on her muzzle, "T-there are some I would like to present you," she glances at the rest of the mane 6.
Silence reigns again, when suddenly, Pinkie Pie appears next to him, immediately startling the human, "what the hell..."
Twilight shakes her head as she glances at Celestia, her eyes wide, not believing what is happening. The pink pony has a wide smile on her muzzle, "hello!!!!" she begins moving her hoof in circles, "my name's Pinkie Pie, ohhh it makes me so happy to meet new ponies!!!!!"
Peter jerks back with a confused face, she ignores this nevertheless.
"Uhhh Pinkie, I believe that-" Applejack is interrupted by her friend.
"When you visit Ponyville, I'll throw a party for you!!!!" out of nowhere, a tray appears on her hoofs with three vanilla cupcakes on it, "I made these especially for you!!"
Peter jerks back. Neither Celestia or Luna can believe what is happening now, as the latter cringing internally. Luna hoofpalms herself, shaking her head, trying to refuse what she is seeing is real, I knew this was a bad idea.
"Pinkie Pony I believe so, I don't really wan-" Peter is interrupted by Pinkie.
"Pinkie Pie you silly," she responds, as she rolls her eyes.
Twilight almost faints at those words, how could this possibly be worse.
"Pinkie Pie...." Peter continues, breathing heavily as his fist clench, "I don't know if I want ummm the cupcakes."
Pinkie's smile disappears a bit, as she takes one as begins to put it close to his mouth, "eat it."
"Pinkie please, this is not a good idea," Twilight says nervously, tapping a hoof on the table.
"I-I," Peter begins to frown....... until she puts those classic caricature eyes. He cringes internally, trying to back off..... but it would be too much of being a douche if he refuses to eat them. He takes the cupcake with hesitation, looking at it and then at Pinkie, who's smile has widened.
He clears his throat, "t-thank you Miss Pie"
"Oh please don't call me like that," she responds, looking at the human with a happy face.
"Right Pinkie Pie," he sighs, and takes a bite from the cupcake. Celestia closes her eyes, waiting for a rant to come from the commander, but instead.
"Mhhmmm," his eyes widen, a smile appearing on his face, "wow this is really good."
"He likes it!!!" Pinkie jumps in happiness. The flavour is simply so delicious, this could be the best cupcake he has ever eaten in his entire life.
"Wow," he quickly takes another cupcake and begins to eat it. After all, he hasn't eaten something in four days, his hunger is noticeable. He suddenly halts himself, and looks at his side, finding, absolutely no one there. His view changes to look for the Pink pony, who suddenly, is in front of him, sitting on her original place, "what the....."
"Don't mind Pinkie dear," Rarity begins with a smile. Peter quickly looks at the white pony with a curious face, "my name is Rarity, Commander Bismarck I heard."
"Ummm yeah, that's correct," he begins with hesitation, clearing his throat and talking in a formal tone, "it is a pleasure to meet you Miss Rarity," he bows slightly. This is the first pony that talks in such a formal and respectful tone you could say.
"Oh a gentlecolt I see," she continues, "but please, just call me Rarity."
Applejack decides to present herself this time, "howdy there, my name is Applejack," she begins, tilting her hat, "it is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance."
Peter begins to become more comfortable, they all seem friendly. He gives a slight bow, "it is a pleasure to meet you as well ma'am"
"No need to be so formal," Applejack says with a nervous smile, "please just call me Applejack."
These ponies seem to not like being called formally , Peter thinks as he scratches his beard.
"Excuse me," a soft and musical voice begins talking, Peter turns to look at the yellow pony with a curious face, "my name is Fluttershy, Mister Bismarck."
Oh buck it, Luna thinks as she puts a hoof over her head, trying to cover what she is watching, waiting for a rant to come from Peter as well.
"Well hello there," he says while smiling, his fingers interlaced, "it is a pleasure to meet you Miss Fluttershy, if that is how would you wish to be called."
She smiles back, "with Fluttershy is alright," she frowns slightly when she sees some injuries on his fingers, but decides to talk about it when the dinner is over.
Applejack kicks her blue friends, which huffs in response as she deflates a bit, "aaaand," Peter turns to looks at the raspy voice, looking at Rainbow Dash with a raised eyebrow but still with the same smile. She has still reasons to not trust him, but thinking about it...... it would be pretty cool to have a friend that is a real alien, "I am Rainbow Dash, the best flyer in the whole Equus."
Peter chuckles, "really Rainbow Dash," he begins, obviously submitting the formal part because of her way of talking..... just naaaa, she won't like being called that way, "I want to see that," he leans a bit on the chair, "I guess that you are a pegasus right?"
"That's right," she puffs her chest victoriously, a smile on her muzzle, "the best and greatest of all!"
"Interesting, would love to see that," he says returning to his previous position.
"Oh sure, I wo-" she is interrupted by Celestia.
"Well then commander," she begins, shifting uncomfortably on her seat, "what do you think."
"Think," he begins happily, taking the last cupcake and eating it, "now this is a pretty warm welcome, looks like some people really know how to receive others," he turns and glares at Luna, who responds with the same coin, but neither one of them says something.
"All right," Celestia interrupts their exchange, "now that we are all friends, why don't we begin with our food."
"Yeah.... pretty good idea," Peter says with a smile, turning to look at his plate. A salad with several fruits and vegetables. They all begin to eat silently, not before Rarity interrupts this silence with her questions.
"So tell me dear," she says with a small disgusted face, "do all humans use those horrible clothes."
Celestia almost spits her drink, the questions were supposed to be asked ina subtle way, something that's not happening.
He begins to laugh as he shakes his head, "nope," he sets the fork apart, "this is only used for space missions, back on Earth, there are millions of types of different fashions."
"Really," she says dreamily, "that must be incredible! my, it would just be a dream come true if I could see them all."
"Yeah," he taps his chin, "there is a city called Paris, also nicknamed the city of love by the way," Twilight's ears perk up, the sole mention that they also have an emotion like that means that there must be also romantic relationships like the ones of Equus, but they could be very different, "where the best designers of the world are, where they also design the clothes of the royalty of the monarchies across the world."
"A whole city," she looks with interest, "they also give it to monarchies, that is incredible! where is this place located."
He chuckles, "it is in a country called France."
Celestia raises an eyebrow, she decides to ask her question, "tell me commander," she begins, gaining the attention of the human, "I heard what Twilight told us about how the monarchy works in your nation, but I would like to know more about the history about it."
He tilts his head, "huh, why do you want to know about that?"
"Just for..... curiosity, and of course for understanding your nation in a better way if we one day establish diplomatic relations with them," a sound startles everyone, and that is the one of Twilight taking a notebook and a pencil. Peter chuckles as he turns to look back at Celestia, who also has a smile on her face.
"Ummmm," he taps his chin, "well, a long time ago there was this Kingdom called Prussia, who fought a guy that wanted to dominate the world called Napoleon Bonaparte, who lead this nation called the French Empire."
"Finally something in common," Luna says, her eyes sparkling in emotion with a lot of interest in this subject. History is one of the things that Luna is more attracted to, and learning about the one of another world, now that's a one-time opportunity.
"French Empire?" Celestia raises an eyebrow, "and this nation is still an empire in your planet."
Peter shakes his head, "nope, that nation fell, they are today called the French Republic."
"Come on continue with the story!" Twilights exclaims desperate, her eyes wide and her body shaking.
"Right," he taps his chin, "after a series of wars called the Napoleonic Wars, we defeated his empire and a process of unification between the German states began."
"So you were separated like in tribes?" Celestia asks, tilting her head as she takes a sip from her drink.
"Yeah," Peter responds with acknowledgement, "you can call like that, but just a little bit more complex than that context," Twilight motions for him to continue, "okay so in Prussia, a guy named Otto Von Bismarck lead this hard process, which was briefly halted for another war called the Prussian-Austrian war, where we fought another empire called the Austrian Empire."
"You fight a lot of wars," Fluttershy begins with a worried tone of voice, "why don't you try to do it peacefully."
Peter laughs at those words, shaking his head as he scratches his head, "no one wanted that, only some nations would like to unite using other methods."
"And you won that war?" Applejack asks.
"Yep," he nods, "Prussia won the war, and after another war against the French, we finally united, and became the nation that today we call the German Empire."
"And when did these events happened?" Twilight asks with a raised eyebrow.
He taps his chin, "like 150 years ago."
Celestia's eyes widen, but she calmly asks another question, "so your nation is young then."
He shrugs, "relatively as a united German nation, then practically we are younger than another nation called America."
"And how much time that nation has existed?"
"200 years," he simply responds, at the looks they were giving him he continued, "my world constantly changes, a nation can't live more than 1000 years, it is virtually impossible," he tilts his head, "though, the two oldest and most powerful in my opinion could be the United Kingdom and the French."
"Hmmmm," Twilights taps her chin, "the French seem a little bit problematic, they are like the challengings?"
"The challenge what?"
"A species of Equus," Celestia responds with a small frown, "they are shapeshifters, they can covert in whatever they wish to be."
"Huh," he takes a sip of his drink, "interesting...... but no, the French aren't like that, and a yes to the problems, after all they were the ones that began the two world wars."
"World wars!" Rainbow finally talks, the mention of those words perks her interest, "how could there be a world war."
"You mean a continental war?" Luna asks with a raised eyebrow.
"No a world war," he raises his hands, "a war that was fought in every single continent of the world."
Celestia's mouth falls wide open, the only time that a war of that scale happened in Equus was more than 1000 years ago. She clears her throat, "and when did those two events happened?"
"During the 20th century, and if you have the same system of years, then in 1914 initiated the First World War, and in 1939 the Second World War," he finishes, taking a bite of his salad.
Everyone is simply shocked, in such a short period two world wars happened, but why. Fluttershy clears her throat and decides to ask this, "but, why? why so many wars in such a short time?"
He shifts uncomfortably, "the first one began because my nation wasn't very popular between the other European powers, which in that time were the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the Austrians, the French, and my nation," he lowers his head, "the second one began because a group of very evil people wanted to enslave humanity, all lead by one man."
"And who was this," Luna speaks softly, "who could possibly plan that?"
In the minds of their sisters, that makes them remember of Discord and his reign of chaos.
He remains silent for some seconds, before sighing, "Sébastien Faure," he scratches his chin, "he enslaved the French people by creating something called the Commune of France, where he took the liberties of many people and made massive genocides."
"Genocides....." Celestia begins worried, "that means, that he killed syst-"
"Exactly, he did that," he says in a very low voice, "with an ally named the Union of Britain which was lead by Oswald Mosley, created concentration camps for anyone who didn't like syndicalism and anarchism."
"How could they be so evil!" Fluttershy sobs, "I refuse to believe it."
He shakes his head, "it was the darkest period of humanity in my opinion, and not even we believed that those things happened the first time we saw them," he raises his head and looks at Fluttershy with a small smile, "but we defeated them, and today France and the United Kingdom are free nations," he stretches, "that's why wars are sometimes good, when tyrants think they can dominate others, is when soldiers must fight for liberty."
"How could humans possibly think about that," Luna speaks softly, her features have been softened, "why, I just don't understand? never in history.... something like that has happened."
"Hate princess," he looks at his food and sighs, "hate is what caused them to commits those horrible acts against humanity."
Twilight has also stopped writing, lowering her head as she bits her lip, trying to think what to say. The mood was just destroyed, the fact that these aliens committed something so horrible and dark, who could think doing that. That's when she remembers something, the tablet, "Peter can I ask you a question?"
"Yeah sure," he smiles.
She clears her throat, "I wanted to know more about this," using her magic, the tablet appears, "I believe that we saw a piece of your world here."
He smiles and takes it from her aura. The tablet is in a perfect state. It was built for supporting the toughest conditions that a planet could offer, though, it is obviously not indestructible. On the back, the logo of the League of Nations is printed.
He begins to tap the tablet, the mares looking him with curiosity. He chuckles, "I know what will lift this mood," he presses again the table, "music."
"Music?" Twilight's ears perk up. Suddenly, some violins begin to play. They are silent, it is truly beautiful, the sound is so classic, so serene.
"It is like a small orchestra, in a box, just like that fil is a small theatre in a box," Twilight says with a smile.
A feminine voice is heard, peaceful and full of serenity.
"So this is love....."
"So that is your music?" Luna asks raising an eyebrow, "does it have more?"
He grins, tapping the tablet again. The music changes to a more rhythmic tone.
