Why do we fight?
It's over.
The fighting, the struggling, the bloodshed. It was all finished.
I was balancing over a pool of purple conversion liquid, my legs and my arms on the outside keeping me from touching it. I was struggling with all my power to stay supported and I feel a heavy gravitational weight attempt to force me into the puddle.With difficulty I force my head to the left to see a lavender unicorn's horn glow with a weird distortion.
Gravity was now heavy in this one particular spot for the air was visibly moving to the ground. Ponies all gathered around us, Pegasi, Unicorn and earth ponies of all ages gathered with Potions ready to throw it at their former human.
"W- wait!" I cry. "Don't I get any last words? I am the last human after all, don't I deserve that at least?"
Twilight looked at her friends who were in the gathering of ponies, they shrug in confusion.
"Mr. human" Twilight started. "I don't understand you at all. We're not killing you, these next words to leave your mouth are not going to be your last but instead the first of many as a brand new pony! Don't you want that? Don't you want to be free of your cursed body, and to be released of your burden as a human. Humans are bad. but you, as a spirit, as an entity are not.
If we thought that humans couldn't be purified then we WOULD have just killed you all off, but we want to spare you of that fate. Every living thing deserves a second chance, since its not your fault you were born a human its not your fault that you are dirty, primitive, barbaric, Bloodthirsty and trigger happy. Becoming a pony will purge all those aspects of you and bring out your true meaning. I've seen murderers become happy chefs who make delicious food. and prostitutes become working mares. You can be better than you are now!"
"But I won't be who I am now, not even close. A new pony yes, maybe a little too new.
Twilight, haven't you noticed how all these ponies around you except your friends look a little... brainwashed?"
Twilight and I examine the audience's big grins and wide eyes."I haven't heard any of these ponies say anything other than "Join us" or "You'll be happier" all the time.
To settle my theory I sacrifice one of my supporting arms and direct it some a mare in the audience, she drags herself forward. "Young mare, about the weather Say something," I command.
I notice she was struggling to produce words in her mouth, probably due to fear or incapability. "Y-y-you'll be better off this way" She finally produces.
"See, she couldn't even tell me the weather. Say something else. " I command again.
"Something else." She recites.
I look over to twilight whose mouth is now agape in shock. Twilight turns to the mare and attempts to get a clear answer for her.
"Ms. Bloss Flower, how is the weather?"
I notice something tick in her as she twitched when the answer was sent to her.
"Oh its marvellous, don't you agree? The flowers growing and the sun is shining. Good for my flowers"
Twilight was now shocked and from the looks of it, scared.The weather was not alright outside. thunder boomed behind the trees and rain created mud in the deserted corn field we were now occupying.
"Its seems they're only brainwashed when communicating with humans, can that really be hypnotism?" I ask myself quietly."Dammit" I look below me to see that the potion was not going to be washed away by the rain.
"Ok, maybe that is kind of weird. Perhaps Princess Celestia has a solution for that. Is that your only reason to resist us? A couple mind-scrambled ponies? I just don't understand why you fight. I just don't understand why you fight.” Did she honestly just ask that? This has gone a breaking point and she doesn't even know the half of it.
"Why do we fight? WHY DO WE FUCKING FIGHT? DID YOU JUST ASK ME THAT?" Despite my current crab walk position I still demonstrated a threat. Twilight was taken back by my anger and tried to use it against me.
"See, this is what I'm talking about!" she counters "This anger, this profanity will all be gone. Just give up"
"Twilight, don't give me that. you cannot tell me that Ponies are incapable of profanity, that they're incapable of feeling negative emotions. are you honestly telling me this?" I ask, feeling a little more calm now.
"Well, no. Ponies swear and get angry and fight as well." Twilight admits.
"So ponies fight and swear and from what I've heard they have had wars too and yet you come to our race forcing conversion and telling us its because we fight and swear and have wars?" I say, trying to prove my point.
"Well... Um, its not that simple" Twilight stumbles on her works, probably realizing what I'm getting at.
Now its time to settle my case. "You ponies have attacked our race, stuffing purple bottles down out throats claiming its for purification, but purification into what? You can't purify something when you are just as contaminated You can't purge us of our profanity when you swear yourself and you can't stop our fighting if you are just as violent. Our wars are all for purposes some a little more stupid than others. Some, the ones that matter, the ones that have forged our country are the ones that people look up to.”
“I don't know what lies your princess has been telling you. Humans don't enjoy fighting and controversy, we don't fight because we're happy or because we're stubborn. we fight to protect and preserve. All of the wars we have had before you arrived, hundreds of years of bloodshed. those were not because we enjoy killing our fellow human its because we have to kill our fellow human for the safety of others and for the tranquility and harmony of this world." I take a dramatic gasp for air “But that was then and this is now.”
"Now, we try to avoid warfare as much as possible. we try to stay at peace." I know this is a flat out lie. but its all I can do right now. Twilight looked confused and I could tell she is working her brain a mile a minute."What's wrong Twilight? Didn't read in on this? Am I showing you a totally new side of humanity you ignorantly dismissed?" I respond cockily.
"N-no. I have read about your wars but I never learned why? why it was that your race fought." Twilight dismissed her spell. allowing me to get up."You're not going anywhere, I just figured that position may be a little awkward for a biped" Twilight clarifies. I obey and wait for another questions. after a minute or two when it became clear there was not going to be another question any time soon I took the chance to demonstrate another verbal attack.
"I am not trying to justify all humans violent behavior. In most situations killing could be avoided but sometimes there's no other option other than death. when you're being shot at it would be kind of hard to give them a flower and ask for peace."Twilight was looking down in a mud puddle in front of her but I could still see a smirk develop on her face.The brainwashed ponies still stood in a circle around us, rain water dripping on their wide eye expressions and drizzling into their creepy grinned mouths.
After some silence a blue mare with a rainbow mane approaches. "Ok, Ok I understand the fighting and why its is happening but here's a question: Why does it start? Being a pony you would know how to stop a fight, much less a war before it even occurs."
"This must be the cocky pony rainbow dash, I'm going to need a new approach at this...." I think to myself. "Well if you were human you would know that too. we don't fight with just any human. I have heard about you ponies having a little skirmish with another race of ponies, what were they? changelings? Lets not forget you ponies fought the griffons about 400 years ago. unlike Twilight, I did my studying."
"Alright smart guy." Dash said now snout to nose with me. "If you know that much then you should know why we had to fight."
"I do." I said bluntly
"You ponies fought the changelings and the griffons because they threatened the peace and tranquility of you and. Everything was fine before they showed up, am I right? "Dash stammered to make a comeback, she knew what I was getting at."We are not very different, you a I-" I say
"But why do you resist us, Is being a pony so bad" A white unicorn with a purple mane asks, stepping forward.
I sigh and look up at the cloud ridden sky "Its not about being a pony, don't get me wrong, being a pony would be fun. I always wanted to be a unicorn. but its more complicated. Right now I'm speaking for all of humanity. Humans have a habit of not liking people or in this case, ponies telling them what to do or forcing them to do something or become something against their will."I look down from the sky and back at the unicorn."Everything was fine when you were here and not forcing ponification. humans and ponies could have co-existed and everything would be fine but then you started ‘helping’ us”
"But we are helping you!" Twilight snaps.
"Its not much help if its being refused. and its no longer help if its being forced." I counter."We are not all children we are capable of making our own choices, if we don't choose to be ponies then we shouldn't be forced too. Who knows ? if none of this happened I probably would have went into a bureau of my own will and got converted and then we wouldn't be having this conversation but now, now you ponies have created a war.... something you have been trying to prevent."
"But that doesn't make it right to resort to violence. Think of how many lives both pony and human were lost! and that's no fun at all." a pink pony said now joining in the conversation.
“You may be right, violence is usually not the answer to everything. but what choice do we have? you threatened our way of life, our culture, even our entire existence! For all we know fifty years from now humans existence will start to fade from the world. first history books, then inventions, city names are already being changed due to the barrier and in a hundred or so years humans are going to be nothing more than a myth, a fairy tale. There was never a bipedal race that ruled the world before it was and always has been ponies.Sometimes I wonder if you ponies were even planning on ‘helping’ or "expanding" your population.” There was silence. I knew I got the ponies wrapped around my fingers now to settle this. "Let me ask YOU something now." I start, not expecting a reply I continued. "How would you feel if this was the other way around. Human came to Equestria building buildings the would convert ponies to humans?"
Twilight was about to answer when I cut her off
"Then in four years, Just four.twenty percent of your race was now walking on twos and wearing clothes and eating meat. Jobs will start collapsing when bosses and superiors will stop hiring ponies. Who wants a pony when you can have a fellow human? How would you feel when you precious princess and ruler becomes a human, how will you cope with that. not only that but this race of humans who just appeared no more than seven years ago now begin to use force. turning ponies into humans against their will because they think they are better than you. You can't fight because your military is too small now. and the population scale is unbalanced in your favor and not theirs? when you are the last pony in a new human world, Twilight Sparkle what would you do?”
Twilight looked up at me, she was now crying, her lower lip trembling. "I- i'm sorry" Twilight stammered
"Sorry? Sorry doesn't save the human race." I said. With that I got up and walked away, parting the ponies who were once surrounding me, they didn't speak, or look or even try to stop me as my Silhouette faded into the rain's mist.