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// Decision 
// Story: Summoning Equestria: Arrival 
// by NicieLunar 
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"Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are."

– Marianne Williamson 
 





=///Whitehouse, Washington D.C. 1200 hours\\\=

President Adam Wright was sitting at his desk in his oval room drinking a cup of coffee, he was not alone in the room, In front of him there were several secretaries and advisors from various state departments ranging from economics, education, military, and even homeland security.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit awkward, not only because of the fact that all these people were squeezed into one small room but also because President Adam's face looked like a disappointed old man from Ohio

But that's not the topic they're going to cover today, the reason they are all gathered here is to discuss what policies the United States will pursue in determining the future not only of the American people but the whole world.

The arrival of extraterrestrial life to Earth catches everyone off guard, no one expected that suddenly an alien continent would appear in the middle of the Pacific and throw the fragile global stability out the window.

Despite Princess Twilight's efforts in explaining to the world that Equestria and the Crystal Empire came in peace and had no ill intentions for the Earth yet, it doesn't mean that the world will immediately believe it and the world will return to normal and the old quote status will be reestablished like nothing ever happened.

The truth of the matter is that the emergence of Equestria and its sister nations completely and permanently changed the balance of power in the world.

Since the collapse of the Russian Federation due to the failure of their special military operation in Ukraine, their successor state, the Russian Confederation, almost totally demilitarized their military to reduce military spending to ease the economic effects of their recession, and also part of their informal agreement with western countries in freeing Russia from all the economic sanctions and embargoes they have suffered since the start of military operations.

Because of this, only two Superpower countries remain in the world, namely the USA and the People's Republic of China, Other countries such as the Republic of India, Nigeria, and Indonesia are only categorized as regional powers because of their limited influence in global geo-politics.

Equestria comes right in the middle of the time and location where a new cold war is about to begin.

Other factions such as the EU are also only middle powers at best due to the decline in the number of Europe's young population due to low fertility which slowly reduces their economic and military potential, and their dependence on American and NATO protection making things much worse.

Despite the constant immigration of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East and Germany's campaign to federalize Europe, this was not enough to prevent the decline of European influence in world politics which began at the end of the Second World War.

The President of the United States stands from his chair and looks out a window on the Whitehouse, when the aliens had left Washington D.C, it was argued what defensive system should be set up around the Equestrian continent which they named Ekuseru, some people wanted dozens and dozens of Frigates, Cruisers, Destroyers, and Aircraft carriers just ready to obliterate the ponies the second they start to show signs of aggressiveness, with every other type of weapon prepared to go (Including nuclear weapons). 

Even the President must admit that this would be a phenomenal amount of firepower, but while this would have provided the best possible defense the cost to American taxpayers would be beyond belief.

The Navy lost 2/5 of their ships stationed in the Pacific (Most of these ships were mothball fleets stationed in Hawaii and Guam). it would take several years for the US to recover from this loss, and even if they succeeded in producing all those ships in a world record, it had a simple problem - who would man these beasts of war? Most young recruits prefer to join the Army and Air Force, and the prevailing Internet stereotype of always depicting the US Navy as gay doesn't help the situation.



People who have long retired or left service have been called back up just to man what they currently can be activated from Navy reserve fleets. Military docks across America went into overdrive in repairing and modernizing these ships so they could be seaworthy again. In essence, most of its processes are automated with the help of the first-generation construction Drones made by Boston Dynamics, meaning it only needed people to man its weapon systems that have been added hastily into its design, In some secret reports only seen by a handful of people, the ships end up looking like a real-world Frankenstein, the Public does not need to know this yet.

There is also another project which was proposed by the US space force that intends to develop a new ICBM to replace the old nuclear-armed Minuteman III to counter the threat from Luna WMDs (the Lunar Moonstrike spells), something Adam plans to give the authorization tomorrow morning.

With a sigh, Adam retakes his seat and pours himself yet another coffee, "So," He starts off after taking a sip, "We have talked about the alien front, how is the home front? I saw some disturbing footage on the news channels." Unfortunately, the President has noticed that a lot of terminologies he uses these days are military terms, 'such as home front'.

A man who is attending the call via Zoom shakes his head.

"People have started to act more and more irrationally as time goes on. We have people raiding stores, stockpiling random foods and goods, others are taking all their money from the banks, and then we have those who think protesting is the best way forward. My favorite act of lunacy at the moment is a conspiracy that the Furry convention centers are inviting the aliens there, resulting in numerous centers and several Furries being set on fire."



"Why do I have so many idiots in my country?" Asks the President with some disbelief, the question does not require a response because it is clear to everyone not only in America but throughout the world, the problem of mental illness is starting to show its effects globally, many people guess that this is because the average person (Especially those living in western countries) lives a very comfortable life which makes them fell into depression, thus making them start pulling problems out of their ass.

"And what are they stockpiling now?" the President asked

"Grains, Mineral water, Tomato soup, A5 Steak, 5.56×45mm ammunition, Cheese, and...Toilet Paper?!" The man replies, ignoring the sarcastic comment from other people in the room.

"The biggest concern is Grains." Since 2027, the effects of climate change will begin to show their worst effects on the North American continent in the form of mass droughts and heat waves. With the Colorado River Aqueduct drying up, the United States suffered its biggest massive crop failure in a century, this left the United States with no choice but to start importing wheat and rice from Asia and vegetables and fruits from South America. 
This is of course only a temporary solution, America plans to slowly improve their irrigation system and combat the climate crisis, for example by developing massive containerized seawater reverse osmosis system in Arizona and California.

But the 'Whiteouts' incident turned this plan into an absolute Economic/National disaster, not only erasing Hawaii and the countries of Oceania from the map but also eliminating dozens of cargo ships containing hundreds of tons of staple foods that were sailing to America to provide food for their population.

Someone else in the room speaks up with a satirical tone, saying, "Well, I understand the soup and the bread, but the toilet paper?."

The President ignores the joke to ask, "Is there any need to worry yet?"

"We have made farms that harvest grain supplies a top priority, we have people from all states working the fields and factories, and we also increased the number of food imports from Brazil and Nigeria. If this keeps up for more than a few weeks, then we don't need to start worrying about it."

"Most people are obtuse." The President responds with a flare of hand gestures, "What other way can we do to mitigate this?"

"Further rationing, instead of 5000 average calories make it 3000. That way, South America will come into summer when we need the next bout of supplies."

"But we will be screwed if things go south, Do what we need to." Despite all the modern technology available to Humanity, Asia is still by far the biggest producer of staple food, and modern civilization needs a stable supply of food to stay afloat. "After grains, what are the latest and loudest demands?"

"At the moment? They want to know if we are going to build defenses on the West Coast, and they want us to start on it already."

The President gestures to Patriot Air Defense Installation 071 Northeast of Los Angeles on his tablet with a free hand while saying, "With what resources? Never in American history has so much of our economy been spent on military assets, right now, 63.2% is going straight to the navy."

"A lot of people want more"

President looked flabbergasted. "You can't be serious!!?."

"I wish I were, sir, but Admiral Cole said that we need to double their budget to replace all the ships they lost at Hawaii and Guam."

"Then we have to cut other projects." President deadpans, "And what will they want us to cut? Welfare? Not happening, infrastructure? That will last till little Jimmy down the road has a power cut due to old infrastructure needing to be replaced and he can't charge his house, Healthcare? I will break his arms and cut his leg into two like the Gaza strip back in 23' so he can enjoy the twenty thousand dollar medical bill. There is little we can cut unless we outright declare a total war economy - which we are essentially already at. Next time those armchair admirals ask us to spend more, ask him or her what he or she wants us to cut!" Adam said while trying not to offend those who identify as genderfluid persons with 'They/Them' pronouns. 



Literally 1984.

A person who has so far been quiet asserted, "Declaring a Total War economy may not be a bad idea." There is no surprise that this person has military links. "It would let us do what we want more so than what we can at the moment. I would love to spend some more on the navy."

Someone disagrees as they immediately speak out, "We declare that and people will become more militant than they already are, and I already know people are digging bunkers in their back yard." Concrete and steel sales have gone through the roof, as have diggers.

"I agree." The President blurts out, "The word 'War and Total' is not what is needed at this moment in time. As far as I want to be concerned, Equestria tried their best to show that they came in peace."

"We could make a word up." The person suggests, "Instead of 'Total War' why not, "Preservation Economy', or 'State of Emergency' Economy."

"People will know." The President shakes his head. "I wonder how stressed Equestrian's economy is at the moment."

"From the limited information we have, Equestria and Crystal Empire's economy since the 'whiteouts' has turned into a train wreck, most of their annual national income comes from importing natural resources and goods to other countries, with the loss of their trade partner, the economies of both countries fell like a rock, no wonder why they gave an unfair trade proposal, they were really desperate."

Despite this position, many economists predict that Equestria will recover in just a few decades, based on the results of their field analysis, Equestria's technological level is estimated to still be at the same level as technology from the beginning of the twentieth century, to be precise in 1908.

Even though Equestria's technology is still far behind that of the most backward countries on earth, this doesn't mean they are hopeless, the Ekuseru Continent is still home to massive amounts of natural resources, for example, Aluminum, Copper, Phosphorus, Bauxite, Manganese, Sapphire, Agate and many more. 

And who can forget their most unique advantage, namely magic, the whole world will be willing to queue in droves to gain access to this new energy source and with the profits from its exports, Equestria will be able to immediately modernize and catch up with the modern world very quickly. 

It was Adam's priority to make the US a country at the forefront of exploiting this opportunity and slowly influence the government of Equestria by investing in the modernization of its infrastructure Equestria so that it can become part of the American sphere of influence so they can gain access to Equestria's most advanced magic which unfortunately they can't import because of the policies made by BlueBitch (American nickname for Luna) which limits what types of magic can be exported outside of Equestria.

Many people compare the position of Equestria and the Crystal Empire with the PRC in the early 90s when China finally started to open its economy to the international market, this allowed China to enjoy one of the fastest economic developments in the world.

Some of the most optimistic predictions say that Equestria and Crystal Empire will be able to catapult themselves to the title of Superpower and regional power by the end of this century, sounds outlandish at first but, with their advantage of two thousand years of experience in the newly discovered fifth forces of the universe, namely thaumic law, this is not so unrealistic and still in the realm of possibility.

Just as the President is about to speak again the military advisor speaks up, "We have just had word back from the 5th Fleet, they have declared a medical emergency on board."

The President sits a little taller in his chair at this news, "Go on."

"The report explains that the Equestria government was unable to pacify all their foreign citizens who were trapped in Equestria because of the 'Whiteouts', this ended with a lot of violence and crimes committed by foreign Nationals, one of which was the dragons from the 'United Clans of Dragonia ', they attacked one of Equestria's military airships which were carrying out a patrol mission near the 'Manehattan' metropolitan area which ended in the loss of hundreds of lives, the crew of the Airship sent a signal for help via radio, and because many of our military personnel and civilian scientists and are still in the city the navy decided to respond by sending several strike squadrons to help them neutralize the dragons."

President Adam and everyone in the room could only sit dumbfounded at what they had just heard, American military launching a military mission in another country without permission could end in an international incident, they could theoretically easily throw Admiral Jordy under the bus and say he went 'rouge', but that will not solve the main problem and will still end in possible damage to diplomatic relations between the US and Equestria, they couldn't let that happen, especially during the first month since these Aliens came to earth.

"What happened? Did they succeed in neutralizing the 'dragons'?"

"Yes, but they suffered several casualties in the operation, at least five of our personnel were killed and we lost one naval helicopter, meanwhile, Equestria reportedly suffered more than three hundred deaths and eight hundred injuries and lost one military Airship, this exceeded the capacity of Equestrian's local hospital, the Admiral of the 5th Fleet requested us to send medical aid by air to help the injured ponies."

While people in the room were busy whispering and discussing the logistics of such operation and whether they should or not, a stroke of genius suddenly flashes through Adam's mind, a scenario in which the American military heroically saves the day and helps injured ponies, could be a political win for them in their relationship with Equestria and win the hearts and minds of Equestrian's citizens in future operations in influencing Equestrian's politics and bringing them under the American sphere of influence.

"Send it then, we need whatever we can do to appease our new peaceful neighbors and show out the best of humanity, this could benefit us in the long run." Adam said happily as the room suddenly fell silent.

After several seconds of silence, the military advisor began to speak again.

"Speaking of our 'new peaceful neighbors', we also got a report from our team science that Equestria is actually lying about their WMDs."

The room fell silent again, but this time it was accompanied by a feeling of dread that slowly enveloped everyone in the room, including Adam.

The only thing Adam could say was one word.

"W-...what?!" Adam asked in confusion and horror.

"The ponies lied to us about the existence and capabilities of their 'Weapon of mass destruction', Princess Luna's 'MoonStrike' spell is not their only WMD's, our researchers and military personnel sent on their expedition fleet discovered that Equestria has access to some kind of ancient magical artifact called the 'Elements of Harmony'."

The air of confusion and fear in the room was suddenly replaced with the feeling of simply laughing out loud when everyone in the room heard how ridiculous the name Equestrian's second WMDs was, even Adam, someone who has years of experience in keeping a neutral and stoic face isn't immune with this levels of Cringe, he did his best to hold back his laughter to the point where his cheeks were red while resisting the pressure to throw the biggest laugh of his life, other people in the room were no different, their mouths all looked ready to explode like the average ISIS suicide bomber.

But even so, their struggle was in vain when Secretary of Homeland Security  Matthew Sayersz couldn't hold it in any longer and then let out a big loud laugh which was followed by everyone in the room including Adam.

PPPPFFFFFTTTTTT!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAW *Cough* *Cough* oOooO mY gAwD...KWKWKWKKWKWKWKWKWKKWKW.....

"I can't believe it, the first one was 'Magic of Friendship' and now it's 'Elements of Harmony'...!"

"Harm'ony mah ass."

"You know, these ponies are absolute Bozos..."

"What kind of shitty timeline am I living now?!"

"A-...alright everyone, I guess we should focus back on topic, *Cough* can you explain to us about the capability of these 'Elements of Harmony'? Is it capable of posing a threat to us?" Adam said while still giggling.

The military advisor began to re-read his bible-size report paper regarding the information found by the expedition team.

"The 'Elements of Harmony' are magical artifacts created by Equestria's first Empress almost two millennia ago, from information obtained, this artifact consists of six rainbow crystal stones bearing vertices such as 'Honesty', 'Kindness', 'Loyalty', 'Generosity', 'Laughter', and 'Magic' where the six of them will choose the chosen ones and then manifest to become one in an unbroken relationship, namely the 'Magic of Friendship' if you actually believe that malarkey...Ahem, and launches a high-intensity rainbow-colored laser capable of destroying all evil and unnatural forces in the world and upholding what is the unyielding bulwark of all that is right and pure in the universe, It is reported that this Element was used and succeeded in saving Equestria several times, such as the imprisonment of Nightmare moon to the moon for a thousand years, petrified the God of Chaos, and defeating Lord Tirek who has stolen all of Equestria's Magic in single battle ...And, well, that's 'Elements Of Harmony' in a nutshell... I realize just how ludicrous it all sounds now that I have said it aloud."

"Ha!" Secretary of Defense Johnny Wilson raucously laughed, throwing his head back. "Six Crystals?, The chosen ones? Rainbow lasers? Madness more than anything, I'm looking forward to freeing those shackled by the lies of that damned self-proclaimed god and bringing freedom to these Pastel colored Aliens!"

"Your enthusiasm is noted, even though this new information does sound like something out of a 12-year-old fantasy story, we can't underestimate our enemies anymore, I don't want America to suffer another 'forever war' again." Adam said

Just like that, any humor present was sucked out of the room, everyone in the room knows what President said about 'forever war', basically a failure in spreading democracy and freedom in the Middle East and Central Asia, more than 6 trillion dollars was flushed down to the toilet just because they underestimated their enemy and didn't understand their culture properly. Especially the whispers of the failed operation from the now-wasted state of Syria, all the way to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

"This does sound a bit outlandish, but if these 'Elements Of Harmony' were real, we might be able to use this in the project that scientists at NASA proposed yesterday."

Everyone knows what he means, since it became known that Equestrian's Alicorn was the perpetrator behind the change in the position of the solar system, many people at NASA and the scientific community proposed 'Project Lucifer' to take over control of the solar system and return it back to normal.

But the problem is that no one understands how, From the research they managed to carry out, they discovered that since the arrival of the Equestrian Continent on Earth, many telecommunication sensors from around the world detected a new type of radiation that was exposed by the Ekuseru Continent, they unsurprisingly named the new radiation as 'thaumic radiation', they also revealed that this strange new radiation is slowly changing the physical laws of the universe and will slowly turn all star systems in the galaxy into the geocentric system.

This radiation moves at 99% the speed of light, many scientists predict this radiation will reach the nearest star system in less than five years.

They have to stop this at all costs, because otherwise...

"If we manage to get our hands on these 'Elements Of Harmony', we might be able to create our own version of 'stellar magic' and perhaps repair the solar system and prevent those self-proclaimed Alicorn gods from controlling the entire universe?" The military advisor said with an optimistic face. 

Adam and then slowly nodded, If they succeed in overpowering these Alicorns, Not only will they succeed in overthrowing the Alicorn's tyrannical government but they will also cause Equestria's religion and beliefs to collapse, this would give humanity the opportunity to enlighten the ignorant masses in Equestria and introduce them to the belief in one true god.

There are other possibilities such as changing the orbit of an asteroid to low Earth orbit and making space mining economical, colonizing planets in other solar systems, and even making changes to the orbit of the solar system to avoid Supernovas and local Gamma-ray bursts that could threaten life on Earth, its potential essentially has no end.

Humanity will not miss the opportunity to finally become the master of their own destiny.

"Yes." Adam said with confidence on his face.

That way, the decision was set.

Humanity will show the ponies that they are not a species that will easily kneel to the new order that Equestria brings from...whatever hell hole they come from, shows that they are just guests here and they have to respect not just them but the law of nature set by the creator of this universe.

This is the first time humanity has ever encountered life from outside the save heaven they call Earth.

They are going to fight them with all their strength and intelligence, and they won't rest until they have taken back control of their home and Solar system.

Humanity is about to face the most important battle in their history, where the result of 300,000 years of human revolution will be tested, one that will lead to their ultimate victory or their extinction.

May god bless them, and may god bless The United States of America.










'Give birth and multiply', 
God said to mankind

And Mankind released the steel bird into the sky

Freedom then becomes a crimson bow and arrow

And when the invader has broken the Man's sword



He will reach the top of the skyscraper

And look down on the Tower of Babel with laughter

Hate and Paranoia are a double-edged sword

History WILL repeats itself



Repeating many...many times.






=///Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. 200 hours\\\=

As the conference in D.C. was ongoing General Howard Alexander was looking into his binoculars looking for his next prey scoping the deep wilderness for the catch when his Left Lieutenant arrived with the additional essentials.

"Sir I got the-"

"SHUSH! Don't you see I'm hunting!" The general silence, looking back into his binoculars.

"Sorry sir," apologized the second in command, as he crouched to the General's level.

"So... How was your day?" He asked.

"Good, could've been better, so... Have you heard? Apparently, the asses in DC are supposed to reverse engineer some of the pastel freaks and their main weapon."

"Magic sir?" Exclaimed the officer, as he shrugged and grabbed his hunting rifle. "I have no understanding of things like that, it's like ma' always says, "if them median pigs says it's don'ts believes its", or at least that's what she said with her language broken, but I still understood her."

"Well your mom was wise, but on this occasion, it's more different than you think," the general stated, listening to the tunes of 'Give Birth and Multiply,' confusing the officer beside him.

"Sir, don't you want to catch the prey in silence?" Asked the Officer.

"Why would I want to do that when I could just let my prey know I'm here."

"Because... It's more stealthy?" The Lietenaunt replied, as Howard looked at him in annoyance, and put down his binoculars.

"There's more to it than being stealthy, sure you can be efficient and silently kill, but... That just means you won't be known for something that you did, such as let's say, for example, Princess Luna."

"You mean the BlueBitch? What about her?"

"...Well then, let's say I silently killed the..."Blue Bitch" and did it efficiently and... "Stealthy" as you say, the public nor the governments won't know, and the war would break out and I would be scot-free."

"As in the purpose of it yes sir!"

"Well, that's where you're wrong."

The general then stood, pulling out his revolver and noticing a false alarm with the bush shuffling, only for a squirrel to come out just to get its nuts in for winter season, Howard then turned back towards his subordinate and continued.

"You see, I would like to kill her stealthy, but it would frustrate me the most because no one knows who did it, and the personal motive that you could've shared behind it, take Al-Capone, he did it for the smiles and camera's before being caught for petty tax fraud, but in that sort of way, serial killers prefer dead silence, but me... I am not a silent one."

It was then that two deer came out into the open, one Doe, and a fawn.

The General pointed his revolver at both of them.

"Observe..."

2 gunshots rang out and pelted both of them, thenafter he shot more rounds into both of them, with the fawn receiving 4 out of the 6 rounds from the Revolver, after Howard fired the last bullet he looked at the horrified officer and he shook himself.

"Well... No doubt the game warden will be pissed over that, of course, given enough money it should be resolved thanks to my partners, now! Go ahead and clean this up, but hopefully, we got our understanding in."

"Sir... You just-"

"And what? The fucking army does this every time, why the hell is this no different, let the Game warrants know! See if I care, but one way or another, those fucking pastel ponies took my opportunity for a real war! And by God, I will make sure that they suffer for this. By going through one! If they want a war they will get one, watch and see Lieutenant! Watch and see!"

The General then left, leaving the Lieutenant to clean up the mess, of course, one hour later when the Lieutenant was heading to his car he was arrested by the game wardens for "killing a Fawn" despite claims the Warden's were paid off by men in suits. And the Lieutenant returned to base grounds.

Back in the base, Howard looked at the news of the current progress of D.C. and while the protests were starting to die down it had been massively reported that looting was ongoing in the city.

Seeing an opportunity... Howard picked up his private secured phone.

"Mr. Howard, how may I help you?" Said an unknown creepified voice.

"Tomorrow at 3:00 hours, I have a new job for you, it involves more chaos for the President and benefits for you," the General requested.

"...I'm listening..."