Hmm, when the truth comes out that Discord has been sending sapient humans to their world and making them mute.....I think Twilight is going to evolve.

Well I'm confused

what a twist

i think its cause you really love this world you are writing and want to see it to the end

I was just thinking about the girl from the pit too... Epic mental trauma inbound.

good job Consuela, now you deserve it, here ... have some lemon pledge.

mighty fine job :3

holy shit she was intelligent

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN

WHAT THE FUCK!? The girl with the nails that made that sound as if she was apologizing was sentient?!
This is NOT something he should keep to himself!

Somehow I had already expected that female human to be sapient. Probably because of all the hints you left at earlier chapters. I wonder though, what is the cause of this phenomenon, the sapient humans in Equestria? It doesn't seem like Discord would do these kind of things so it really makes me wonder. Maybe it's a Zebra Shaman doing wrong enchantments, maybe some descendent of Starswirl trying out new extra-dimensional spells or something.

Don't mind my rambling, just throwing out some theories which are probably completely wrong but fun to think of.

I can barely wait for the next chapter. Loving your writing style and language use. Keep 'em coming :3 If you don't mind, that is.

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~Porqupine

Indeed, MuzaMuza's idea makes some sense. If Discord or some dark force has been sending ordinary humans here for centuries, then the environment around them would have forced them to change both culturally and biologically. They would no longer be able to speak, would have to contend with RADICALLY different animals, and would be away from any real "safe" places to rebuild civilization. Now SOME of them might hold on, of course. And some genuinely sentient humans might be lingering around, but they'd be in the minority the same way humans were to Neanderthals for so long. So that idea makes sense.

Yes!!! Bring back Red Please! Remember that it's really hard to choke someone to death lifeless eyes are no guaranty that you killed someone. Okay might be grabbing for straws here, but it would be cool to have another sentient human in the fic and maybe be a rival to Twilight.

huh, i thought everyone already new she was sentient.

keep up the good work

Theory: Redhead is also from our earth.

3364357 Yes...yes...I clean real good...

I KNEW IT I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!! I FUCKING KNEW SHE WAS SENTINT!!!!

first off, stockhome syndrome, second off: a lot of humans are smart I bet, but the main protagonists arrival triggered something and its only now coming to surface

It was a place that held such cruelty towards humans.

I have to disagree. It's like we treat our animals, the only difference is that the humans are the animals there and except for the illegal fight he's been in, I don't see any cruelty

*reads last line*

oooooh, shit is about to go down!

Can't wait for the next chapter.

I am REALLY looking foward to how Celestia will react when she finds out she gave a SENTIENT being as a present to her favorite student, heh must be the mother of all akward situations.

"Yeah....ummm, look......sorry for giftwrapping and sending you to my student like some birthday cake......"

Should I stay, or should I go?

If you go there will be trouble.
But if you stay, it will be double.

I guess you really want to know.
Should you stay or should you go.

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Shoo. Shoo. Go home now. To your home.... uhh... Tu Casa. Shoo... This my home. My casa. Shoo! It's clean!

Well it's all adding up now.
Time to guess what happened.

A long time ago, I'm guessing during the pony wars(feud), unicorns pulled Humans into the world as slaves to try and replace the Earth Ponies. During this time the Humans were being trained to be mindless slaves. Then after a time the princesses showed up and saw that the ponies were using slaves and they learned where they came from. they wanted the humans returned but sadly the humans where needed, their society ran on them now. Celestia hated this but realized that it must be for the good of her ponies.

During the years though there have been groups of ponies that still use the spell to drag a human through and that girl was one of them or at least a couple generations down the line of one.
And that's my head canon until the story proves otherwise.

Yup we all knew the girl was sapient, probably. But the real question is; is she a native or another human from Earth?

3364978 I would leave in a heartbeat. I wouldn't even spend my life in canon Equestria, let alone Equestria where I'm considered an animal.

3364892 You mean "sapient" not "sentient"

Um, wow dude... Max is a mental power house. To get PTSD then have it cured by ten minutes of talking to an adorable pegasus while only having for less than a day, bravo my good man bravo!

Also, I bet Discord is pretty frustrated by this point. I mean he goes through the trouble of bringing Max to Equestria to help the native humans, only to have him do about four times as much harm as he has good. Tough luck old bean...

Oh and look there are more earth humans in Equestria than just Max and Max has already managed to murder one! I think Max's method of helping humans is probably a bit flawed if they all end up dead... or maybe he is just going to put them all out of their misery?... Completely accidentally obviously.

Wow, it's been a long time since I have put that much sarcasm into a comment! I actually kind of feel bad about it now... Oh well!
The concerns are valid and I'm faving and liking this story anyway because I'm still banking on Max growing a few new brain cells in the next few chapters.

Damn, that punch in the chest you feel when everything adds up.

Ooh cliff hangers! You sneaky devil you! This is getting really interesting now.

Also, bonus points for RD tsundere-ness

3365579 Cured of his PTSD from talking with Fluttershy? Oh...hell no. He still has issues, they just won't be as bad as before. He's still fucked up in the head...

>Should I stay, or should I go?

Will tomorrow ever come? Will I make it through the night?
Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?
Am I hurting, am I sad? Should I stay, or should I go?
I've forgotten how to tell. Did I ever even know?
Can I take another step? I've done everything I can.
All the people that I see, I will never understand.
If I find a way to change, if I step into the light.
Then I'll never be the same, and it all will fade to white.

>I was nothing more to most of these ponies then a mindless animal
*than

>And you came down to confront them?
That space should not be underlined

To all of those who said that they were surprised that the redhead could've been from our Earth, .
It was pretty obvious she was. Near the end of the fight with her, I was going: NOOOO!!! STOP!! SHE'S JUST LIKE YOU!!!

3364255 Again.

Speaking of lemon Pledge
~alternate title - the reason for those 502 errors~
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3367305>>3366389 Creepily enough...I was actually listen to that song as I wrote the chapter...

3364697 Congratulations, another puppy has unleashed a biohazard into its owner's face

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3367325 Lel

PTSD.Thats all I can say

I forgot what happened to her, was she killed or knocked unconsious?

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Killed; choked to death. Having to do something like that in order to survive is going to leave scars where no one else can see them.The fact that she was able to cry hints at a truth about Equestrian humanity at odds with everything the ponies have learned.

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Ah, well that clears that up.
Real shame, that one dying.

knew it
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For some reason, every time I read that scene with the redhead, I think of Commander Shepard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria

Just found this when looking through Wikipedia and it reminded me of your humans.

3381521 I'm sorry if this makes me sound like a bad person...but the minute I saw that I burst out laughing. I had the brief image of a 7 foot person with progeria running at me with a machete...

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I don't think it makes you a bad person, but I would have that looked at. So was I close or what?

3381553 Just about. Maybe a slightly smaller head, with a more 'mature' look.

damn this story is brutal.
but it have those "megusta" moments, like dat AJ action at the barn or dat Mrs. Cake dripping all over him.
but yeah. stupid, cattle-like humans being treated as animals are ok, sapient are not.

Why not be like all of us humans and start a killing spree and kill all dem ponies

what is discord doing?