*A desolate road*
Again, I was on my way to Canterlot through towns and villages that were blackened ruins totally silent, desolate, deserted. Our empire had passed away. Taken swiftly and without error by these creatures who were composed entirely of brains. Unhampered by the complex systems which make up ponies. They made and used different bodies according their needs. They never tired, never slept, and never suffered having long since eliminated from their planet the bacteria which caused all fevers and other morbidities.
"HALT," I heard a mare shout "Who goes there?"
"Er - A friend," I said into the mist.
"Be on your way," She said appearing from the mist. It was Rainbow Dash "This is my territory."
She carried a rifle and had noticeable scars on her face that made me slightly intimidated.
"Your territory?" I asked, "What do you mean?"
"Wait a minute it's you, the pegasus from ponyville!" she realised.
"Good heavens Rainbow," I said with fake surprise, "I thought you surely burned!"
"I thought you surely drowned!" Rainbow countered.
"Touché," I said not having a comeback, "Have you seen any Martians?"
"Everywhere," She replied "we're done for all right."
"We can't just give up." I sighed.
"Course we can't. It's now that we've got to start fighting. But not against them 'cos we can't win." She said as if we was a football team at half time "Now we've got to fight for survival and I reckon we can make it. I've got a plan..."
"We're gonna’ build a whole new World for ourselves. Look they clap eyes at us and were dead right?. So we gotta’ make a new life where they'll never find us." She explained "You know where? Underground. You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything and start over again from scratch. And what's so bad about living underground eh? .It's not been so great living up here."
She grinned.
"If you want my opinion," She said as she started to sing.
"Take a look around you at the World we've come to know. Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show? But maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow. In a brave new world. With just a hand full of mares. We'll start - we'll start all over again! - all over again! - all over again! - all over again!"
She then went back to coach mode.
"We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks right under their noses, right under their hooves. Everything we need - bank's, prisons and schools... We'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff and ponies like you will teach the kids" She said "Not poems and rubbish- science. So we can get everything working. We'll build villages and towns and.... and.....We play each other at cricket!"
I wasn't really amused at the teaching part. Science reminded me of twilight.
"Listen maybe one day we'll capture a fighting machine eh? Learn how to make 'em ourselves and then wallop! Our turn to do some wiping out!" She said starting to sound insane "Whoosh with our Heat Ray! - Whoosh! And them running and dying, beaten at their own game! Ponies on top again!"
"Now our domination of the Earth is fading fast and out of the confusion the chance has come at last. To build a better future from the actions of the past. In a brave new World. With just a handful of mares. We'll start all over again!"
"Look! - we are born in freedom, but we soon become slaves. In cages of conventions from cradle to the grave. The weak fall by the wayside but strong will be saved! In a brave new World. With just a handful of mares. We'll start all over again!"
"I'm not trying to tell you what to be, Oh no! oh no! not me... But if ponykind is to survive. The ponies left alive. They're gonna’ have to build this World anew. And it's going to have to start with me and you!"
"YES!!"
"I'm not trying to tell you what to be. Oh no! oh no! not me... But if ponykind is to survive. The ponies left alive. They're gonna’ have to build this World anew. Yes and we, will have to be, the chosen few!"
"Take a look around you, at the World you've loved so well and bid the ageing empire of Equestria a last farewell. It may not sound like Heaven... but at least it isn't Hell... It's a brave new World. With just a handful of mares. We'll start! - we'll start all over again! All over again! - all over again! - all over again!"
"I'VE GOT A PLAN!!" She said on the verge of crazy "Can't you just see it? Civilization starting all over again - a second chance. We'll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast. Go there for our holidays! Nothing can stop ponies like us. I've made a start already. Come on down here and look."
In the cellar was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long. That had taken her a week to dig. I could have dug that much in a day, and I suddenly had my first inkling of the gulf between her dreams and powers.
"It's doing the workin' and the thinkin' that wears a mare out. I'm ready for a bit of rest." She said whilst sitting on a chair, "How about a drink eh? Nothing but Champagne now I'm the boss."
We drank and then she insisted upon playing cards. With our species on the edge of extermination and with no prospect but a horrible death. We actually played games.
Later she talked more of his plan. But I saw flames flashing in the deep blue night. Red weed glowing, tripod figures moving distantly and I put down my Champagne glass. I felt a traitor to my kind. I knew I must leave this strange dreamer.
"Take a look around you at the World we've come to know. Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show? Maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow....."