//------------------------------// // A Very Touchy Subject // Story: The Unlikley Sanctuary // by Tie RoamingHooves //------------------------------// Sorry. I couldn't Wait to get this chapter out but expect another by saturday at the latest! Spelling Errors? hit me up in the comments. "Halt in the name of Celestia!" The Royal Guard had swarmed the clearing. Celestia must have been notified of our arrival and thought of us as dangerous to send this many. This will be difficult now that we have killed something. There had to be at least 100 of them. I look to them and say the only thing I can think to say right now. "Hello, we mean you no harm." It was blunt and to the point. "So I take it that you can understand me then?" asked Shining Armor. If it weren't for MLP I wouldn't know him from the rest. "Yes." I reply. "Are you in charge?" "Yes I am. I am the leader of me and my men." "May I ask how many of you there are." "Well... three. Tyler and I, and then Jake who I left in the care of Fluttershy because after we crash landed, he was injured and that manticore over there attacked us and I had to get him out of here so he didn't get hurt worse than he already is." I say flatly. "You did that?" he asked sounding surprised. "Yes... unfortunatley. I don't like having to kill things but it attacked us so we defended ourselves". I had to give him the idea that we don't do this for sport. We don't but we do kill people. "I see." he said staring at the remains of the strange manticore with the obvious look of disgust written so clearly upon his face. just then Fluttershy rushed into the clearing with the rest of the main six trailing close behind. "Hey Fluttershy!" I said waving to the suprise of the Royal Guard and the rest of the main six. "I told you he was friendly." Fluttershy said back to the group. "Yo Tyler, get over here I got someone for you to meet!". Fluttershy was Tyler's favorite pony. He looked over and nearly died from excitment. He regained his composure and walked over. "Tyler, this is Fluttershy." I say teasing him only to recive a punch to the arm. "Hi Tyler." she said shying back. He just jizzed his pants. I decided to quickly end the introduction before Tyler said something stupid in his euphoria. "So Fluttershy, did you get Jake to the hospital?" "Yes I did. He is still unconsious but he's fine." "Good to hear". The moment was shattered when Celestia teleported into the clearing. She was, what only could be described as beutiful. Her mane blew gentley as if there was a light wind even though there was an absence of any wind at all. She stood nearly as tall as I did and was far more intimidating than anything I've ever encountered in my life. Everypony kneeled down before her. Tyler and I reluctently did so as well kneeling with the butt of our rifles on the ground and the barrel in or hand with our head down, much like a knight would before a king. "You may rise, my little ponies." she said in a soft but commanding voice. We continued to kneel. Celestia chuckled a bit and said, "You two may rise as well." We did so and looked at the alicorn standing before us. "Shining Armor, Report." she said turning around to consult with him for a breif momnet. Celestia returned and looked at us. "My name is Celestia, ruler of this land. I see you mean us no harm but I have questions for you." "Ma'am I have no problem answering them but if its about our world it would be best done in private." She nodded and motioned for me to follow. "Tyler be nice." I say in sing-song then continue to follow the white alicorn. Her horn glowed a moment and she turned to face me. "I have sound-proofed this area." I nearly made a fan-girl squeel. I was staring at the royal poker face. I was scared shitless but it was amazing to see it first hand WOOT! "Ok then. What do you want to know." "What are you, and where are you from?" Easy question. "We are Humans from the planet Earth." "Why are you here?" I knew that was coming. "Honestly, I don't know how we got here but were not here to hurt anyone if thats what your getting at." "I see. Thats good news considering the fact of how easily you handled the manticore." "Ma'am, that was self defense just so you don't get the idea that we go around killing everything in sight. We are soldiers but we're not brainless." I say trying to lead into the war on Earth quickly. "You said you're soldiers." she said sounding suprised but maintaining the poker face. "Not exactly Ma'am. We're a resistance cell. Back on Earth, World War 3 is still raging on. Our home country was invaded by a country called Russia. My country the United States of America and Russia were the two super-powers on the planet so the fighting is brutal. Our cities laid in waste, no more seas of amber grian waving in the wind of the countryside. Its all been replaced with a thousand mile stretch of land contested by the two forces that fight in what me and my men used to call home." "World War 3?". Celestia didn't sound like she belived me on the WORLD WAR part. "Yes, our entire planet is at war." "What of the people?" "Well in America, the Russians shoot them for sport." "Shoot...?" "Shooting is the word the means we've fired our weapon." "Tell me, what do these weapons of yours do?" I hold out my SCAR rifle in front of me. "This is a gun, more specificly an assault rifle. Humans built these to fight one another on my planet. They are designed to fire hot peices of lead called bullets into a target. If the target is living it is made so the bullets enter the body and tear arteries and blood vessles to make the target bleed out and die. It sound barbaric when I say it like this but its generaly how guns work." I look up to see I have broken the royal poker face. Wait... what? She looked digusted and appaled at the weapon. Fan fiction had it wrong. The royal poker face can be broken easier than I thought. "That is completly terrible. Why would your people used this on one another?!" "Politics and to get the upper hand on one another. I never liked this fact about my people". I was trying to dig myself out of the hole I've just created with the princess. "Always so violent. it was generaly those in power who told their poeple to go to war and many did it blindly." "So I take it you are different from your people." "Princess, don't get me wrong, many others besides me hate the fact we are violent." Celestia copped an eyebrow. "I never mentioned anything about me being a princess. I simply stated I was the ruler of this land. How could you possibly know that I was a princess without me telling you?" she said staring me down intently. "About that... um... we.. well, I specificly have a bit of foreknowledge of this world and its inhabitants." The royal poker face was sent flying out the window. " How could you possibly know anything about this world or us if we know nothing of you?" she said with a look of shock. "Well this is going to be an awkward conversation that you may need to sit down to hear. This is an especialy awkward position for me being that I feel like I know some of the Inhabitants of this world as if they were my friends but they know nothing of me." "I see. But you must tell me every aspect of your foreknowledge. I haven't had any reason to mistrust you, except for the fact that you killed that manticore, but I don't need more." "Honestly, it would be better if I showed you. Is there a spell where you can see into the thoughts of others?" "So you have magic where you come from, and yes there is." "No we don't have magic on Earth. That was a thing of myth. But please hurry with the spell the faster we get this done the better." "Ok I see. I can only see what you show me." "I know". And with that her horn glowed and I showed her every thing there is about MLP: FIM and the fan base of it as well. Unfortunatly my thoughts strayed into some clopfiction. But I don't think Celestia minded that much. "Hmm... so I see what you were saying. You indeed know the elements of harmony as well as you say you do." "Not only that but you should be honored to have devoted fans of this magnitude. I would like to say our world was a lot like yours before the war. We aren't always violent." "I'll take your word for it but still... I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fact that you know us more than we know you. And before you ask there is not any way to send you home. Your fan fiction as you call it is right." My heart jumped. I get to stay! WOOT! "Well that can be fixed. I want to get to know the main six but I'm not sure how they would react to this kind of news but they do need to know." "Yes I agree. They will come around eventually. Maybe sooner than you think." she said smiling pointing a hoof at the main six Tyler having a conversation. I will do the memory spell with Twilight to get her up to speed with the situation but there is a pressing matter I need to get back to." "That works, and thanks for being understanding about this." "Think nothing of it. You never introduced yourself though. May I ask your name?" "Of course your highness..." "Just Celestia is fine." "...Celestia, my name is Tyrin Roberson" I say as she takes down the sound proof barrier and walks over to the main six.