After the ceremony and our meeting with Discord, us Ponyville folk got to planning.Well, actually we didn't plan anything yet. What actually happened was we had decided that, since we were going to rebel against the most powerful ponies in Equestria, we should at least know who were fighting with and why we were fighting for them. We met at my house everyday, and during our time together, we firstly got to know each other better by saying how the princesses and the society they made has negatively influenced them. I went first by saying that Twilight was pretty much the pony I looked at as my mom. It was because of her magic that I had been hatched, and she treated me like a little filly treats her dolls; with love and kindness, but as soon as I grew out of my newhatch phase, she went straight to teaching me how to write and how to use my breath to send letters to Princess Celestia and how to clean and how to cook and other stuff so that when I got older, I would be able to do this stuff without her help, and most importantly, without being told. She was priming me to become the dragon who basically did everything so she could have more time for herself; so she could study. It feels she was planning from the beginning to make me her assistant, but the servitude that came with it was developed as a side product.
After I had gone, Derpy went next and she told us everything about how she used to be a very intelligent mare; how she had a rare occurance with poison joke to where there was no chance of her removing its effects,even with Zecora's cure. In Derpy's case, it was her eyes(as she used to be a prestiege eye doctor from Canterlot) and her intellect's downward fall that were affected by the poison joke. It wasn't that she was dumb. She just had a lowered intellegence limit. Basically, she could only know and remember a limited amount of information.After she realized the cures around her couldnt help, she asked the princesses if they could fix her ailment. They didn't. She talked about how she lost her job, her reputation, her friends, and eventually, her home. She couldn't pay for her home in Canterlot, so she moved back home to Cloudsdale, where she had her own home that was free to her. She took up a lot of odd jobs here and there, trying to find a steady job, when she found a posting for mailmare. She had decided anything was better than nothing, so she took the job and has been mailmare ever since. Ponies still treat her wrong by making fun of her eyes and her clumbsiness, but she always "remembers the good life she had to distract her from the bad life she has".
The Doctor went after her and his story was fascinating. Apperently, he used to be a Time Lord. Well, he still is, but in a different sense. He described his old look as what most would call human and he even went on to say he had adventures with humans. Lyra, eagerly trying to prove humans existed, inquired about almost anything you could think of in terms of knowing what humans were. We all spent a whole day listening to the Doctor's stories about humans and how there are other species that have human features, but aren't human. He told us about his companions from the past. He talked about a girl named Rose Tyler, and how she was his favorite companion until he met Derpy. He described how, even though she was a simple human, she had been the person to save her life multiple times, both physically and emotionally. He told us about how his time machine which he called a TARDIS had gone screwy and landed him in Equestria, as well as turned him into a pony. That's when he met Derpy. The two walked together, talked a bit, he took her on some adventures, and that became that. He told us that he did miss his old life a little, but that he was willing to participate now. He had used his TARDIS to see the past of Equestria and he saw what it used to be like before the princesses, and he was willing to make it the haven of good intention it originally was.
Lyra was to go next, but she told us that her story wasn't that important. After a bit of encouragement she told us her story. Apperently, she was addicted to the thought of humans since she was a filly. She had found some books in a library that talked about the "human race" and how they originated in Equestria, but were magically moved to some planet called Earth because they were a hinderance to Princess Celestia. She put it that Celestia moved them because they weren't ponies and that she did it out of pure selfishness rather than out of protection for the ponies she ruled over. Lyra said she felt sorry for them because they weren't where they belonged. The Doctor was actually astonished with this information, as he had seen humans in the past. As he put it, the far past. The humans had some theory about evolution, apperently, and it said that they derived from monkeys. Lyra said she had talked to Twilight before she became a princess about humans, and Twilight didn't know much about them, but she gave Lyra books to read about humans and that's where she had learned her information.
The stories shocked me. The Princesses had done so much harm to those around us. They had made life comfotable for them to the point of moving a whole race of creatures to a planet they had no knowledge of. The Princesses had corrupted the morals they try to portray in the actions they have taken in the past. I knew I had a nagging feeling of doubt in the Princesses leadership,and I used to ignore it, but now I see why I should have given into it: The system was broke. The sad thing was that now Twilight had to be grouped there. Sure she had worked him into servitude, but they still had a few good times.
It was then that Discord came in and asked if he needed our assistance with anything. I just thought to ask how Canterlot was going.
"The Princesses have no idea about our revolution, though as of now there is no true revolution. This has me antsy and begs the question, "When are we going to revolt?" We have been waiting for a good week or so to hear from you, Spike. It all comes down to your decision."
All down to me? The pressure was building in my head. I started to freak out knowing one wrong move could screw us all, but I let my head clear, and I went to work.
"Discord, I need you to gather everypony in the central square where I can announce our plans. Lyra, I need you to gather all the information you have on the Princesses' decision to move humans elsewhere and bring it when I go to speak. Derpy and the Doctor, I want you to wait for me here. We gonna start this thing, and we gonna start it right."