Back to Equestria brothers.

by ThatRarityIsaSpy

Maybe someday.

“And then Aramus swung his hammer, once, twice and thrice. With that, Ulkair was defeated and we had saved our home.... again.” Thaddeus said in front of the group of foals who were giving him a fair share of oohs and ahhs.

“He’s telling stories again. He loves that.” Tarkus said shaking his head.

“I think he gets along with them too well.” Cyrus replied watching the crowd of foals ask Thaddeus for another story.

“Funny. You’re the reason they’re still alive.” Tarkus said. “Maybe we should join him?”

“Count me out.” Cyrus said. “I got more scouts to train.” The captain of the tenth turned around and left as Tarkus chuckled to himself. He went over to see what the fuss was about.

“And then Angelos, who at the time was still a captain, jumped up and smashed the mighty daemon prince. Winning the battle once and for all.” Thaddeus finished waving at Tarkus who joined him.

“Enjoying the morning?” Tarkus voxed.

“Yeah. Fine.” Thaddeus blurted out randomly. “I haven’t seen Fluttershy.”
“She’s been hospitalized. Six days in the middle of nowhere isn’t very good for her health.”

“No, I suppose not. I am actually interested in what she saw.”

“Hospitals that way.” Tarkus said pointing in the direction of ponyville general.
“Wait! Aren’t you going to tell us more stories?” Some filly asked.

“Later. Later.” Thaddeus said. “I got work to do.”

“Oh.... hello.” Nurse Redheart said as the 9 foot giant somehow squeezed through the front doors.

“Good morning... or is it already the afternoon? I am not very familiar with this planet.” Thaddeus said. “I do believe you have a patient named Fluttershy. May I see her?”

Under normal circumstances, Nurse Redheart probably wouldn’t any random pony... or thing... go see her patients, but judging from the nature of most humans and the stories she’s heard, perhaps it was best that he was allowed to go see the yellow pegasus. He didn’t SEEM to have violent intentions.

“Right this way sir.” Redheart said pointing down the hallway. “Room 42.”

Thaddeus nodded and went down the hallway, being careful not to bump into anyone or anything. The medical knowledge of this planet was rather..... quaint. Effective, as it seems that patients do stay alive.... but the methods are still.. old fashioned and could use some updating. But of course, he couldn’t spill his guts unless he wanted the inquisition to be jumping on him.

“Who goes there? Don’t hurt me! I didn’t do....”

“Fluttershy... it’s me. Thaddeus.” The space marine said. “I was checking to see if you were okay.”

“I am fine. Thanks.” Fluttershy said calming down.

“I was wondering... when you went into that mirror, what did you see exactly?”
“Well.... just grass. Nothing more.”

“That’s it? Really?”

“Well.............”

“Well, I honestly didn’t have high expectations for this.” Angelos said viewing at the grassland ahead of him. Just grass, more grass, dirt and rocks.

“Can we go back now?” Fluttershy asked making way for the mirror. To her dismay, she couldn’t go through it.

“I believe Cyrus mentioned we are going to have to spend at least 156 hours in here before we get out.”

“So... we’re going to be trapped here for almost a week?”

“Pretty much.” Angelos said. He was rather surprised at her sounding concerned on this. He had always known the yellow pegasus to be somewhat anti-social, being very shy, which was rather odd as he would expect her to be better off without others around. Sitting down, he gave Fluttershy the pretense he was meditating, when in reality he was carefully observing every little move of the yellow pegasus.

1 hour:

Subject digging at the ground with her leg. From the nature of her race, this can be interpreted as normal judging the nature of the average Equestrian.

4 hours:

Subject is sitting down and staring at the sky. Can be interpreted as boredom. Not much here anyways.

12 hours: Subject has fallen asleep

24 hours: Subject is now weeping. Talking to me. Wondering if apparently my silence has anything to do with however I feel to her. I say nothing as of now and only continue.

36 hours: Subject is curled up, lonely and scared. Not much to fear here where the sun always shines. But it’s something in her eyes..... it strikes deeply at my soul. Perhaps what I am doing here is rather...... damaging to her psyche.

48 hours: Subject is looking rather gaunt and unhealthy. I am surprised she didn’t eat the grass. Merely sucked on them to get moisture out of them. Apparently grass is inedible, but hay is still good for consumption. Odd.

72 hours: I give up. I think it’s time I stop this torture. It’s having serious effects on her sanity. A gesture of goodwill should be in order.

“You knew he was observing you?” Thaddeus asked.

“He mentioned afterwards.” Fluttershy said. “At least he wasn’t mean to me.”
“Well, he might of ate you if he was hungry.” Thaddeus said grinning. “It’s a joke. Calm down.” Thaddeus quickly added as Fluttershy looked like she was about to faint.

“So, when do you get out?”

“In a day.” The pegasus said. “Why?”

“Nothing. Good to see you’re okay. That’s all.” The space marine turned around and left.

“This night is even more beautiful than any other.” Celestia said to Luna as they looked at the night on the second day of Equestria being in Aurelia.

“I like it myself. So many new stars, and sights to see. One day, I dream of touching them. Every last one of them.”

“Perhaps one day we can. I would like to see the planets that these humans live on. Or maybe even their ways of life and why they are so.... grim...”

“They said that those of not their race had betrayed them in their moments of weakness. How sad.... friends who aren’t really friends afterall.”

“Do you think they will learn what friendship truly is about?”

“Perhaps. Only time will tell. They seem pretty reasonable.” (Only planet that Space Marines will later find themselves ever being reasonable on, will be Equestria in the future.)

“Let’s not forget the massacre they caused first time they were here.” Luna remarked dryly. “1000 ponies slain that day.”

“It was our fault.... we attacked them first. It’s rather surprising how they never retaliated with force.”

“Equestria, where you come, lay down your arms and stop fighting for once. You thinking what I am thinking?” Luna asked hopefully.

“Maybe... humans can ALL learn what friendship truly is. Equestria, where people come to leave behind their lives of suffering. We could benefit billions of beings.”

“Sounds plausible. I hope humans are just as willing as we are. Maybe one day, when we could banish chaos, everyone can perhaps, sit down and talk about things around a table instead using force.”
“I just hope this can become true.” Celestia said. “We can make every single soul out there, feel loved. Just a single act of kindness goes a long way. I hope one day, we live in a universe, where problems are solved around the table of words instead of an exchange of force.”

Comments

[The Red Angel]

I hope one day, we live in a universe, where problems are solved around the table of words instead of an exchange of force.”

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Sorry to say this Celestia, but hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

[ThatRarityIsaSpy]

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SOMEONE SAID IT!

[The Red Angel]

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Indeed I did. Can I get a cup of joe now?

[Bronzer]

Subject is now weeping. Talking to me. Wondering if apparently my silence has anything to do with however I feel to her. I say nothing as of now and only continue.

I love how well the underscores what the Space Marines feel about the ponies. While they are being "nice", they don't see the ponies as people at all.

Maybe... humans can ALL learn what friendship truly is. Equestria, where people come to leave behind their lives of suffering. We could benefit billions of beings.

That's actually nice of them. The princesses seem to have accepted that their galaxy sucks in horrifying ways. So, they decided to make their world into basically a giant R&R reserve where people (especially soldiers, I guess) can come and recover. Maybe learn that not everything wants to kill them or eat their souls. Just that knowledge may be very valuable to morale in the darkest times.

They said that those of not their race had betrayed them in their moments of weakness.

Yep, that part of fluff a lot of people forget, for some reason. The Age of Strife was a lot like if all the aliens in Star Wars decided to do to humanity what the Dark Eldar do to...well, everyone. For literally no reason other than because they could and it made them feel big inside. Hate the alien, indeed. Then every, single xenos species humanity came across afterward basically attempted to do the same thing to the Imperium. There actually are some exceptions that were made protectorates, but that is only like I think three dozen compared to tens of thousands of species. The Imperium does usually give new xenos a chance to either become a protectorates or simply stay out of the Imperium's way. Unfortunately (for them), they usually choose the Tau's route of "lets idiotically attack the most powerful thing in the galaxy, that can't possibly go wrong.". Then they learn the meaning of "Exterminatus Extremis".

I would imagine the ponies would be more than a little horrified by the Tau. I can see it now, "mind-raping implants and drugs is not friendship!". I wonder, though, how the ponies will react to learning that the main reason the Imperium is so shitty is because they (well, the leaders and Inquisition at least) know that Chaos also feeds on positive human emotions. At least the darker emotions help with survival, so the Imperium focuses on those while minimizing the better emotions, effectively cutting the emotional range Chaos can feed on in half and thus severely limiting the warp's power. It is shitty all around, but the Imperium knows it is necessary.