'Good evening mares and gentlecolts. Welcome to another edition of Coast to Coast broadcast live from the Ponyville Town Hall. This is your host Vox Populi. In the next couple of hours my esteemed guests and I will discuss the finer points of topics not really discussed in the open.
As always the phone lines are always open and listeners are welcome to call in.'
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I would encourage you to leave comments in the form of questions to ask the guests. I will answer them the the chapter following the article. Help me a little by leaving it in an easy to read format, like:
Name: (Mr. Miss. Mrs.) (anonymous would work too if you really want to get into the mood)
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Hi there, Long time listener, first time caller.
I just wanted to chime in and say that I know exactly what he means by clones. I travel a bit and I am absolutely positive I have seen the same Earth pony in different cities. I even saw a pegasus version of her during a water collecting project for cloudsdale. She had cotton candy hair in three colors and a cutie mark of three wrapped candies. What is interesting is each one I've seen had a different voice.
I posit a less nefarious explanation for this cloning than breeding for servitude. It's possible that Celestia (who has been around for who knows how long exactly) has seen a problem with reproductive rates in ponydom. If you just look at the ratio of colts to fillies you can see that things are hardly equal. It could be that this is an attempt to boost our population. What do you think?
"Hi there, Vox. I would rather not give my name but I am a Royal guard. I like to listen your show form time to time when i'm alone to help pass my shifts at night. I cant rightly recall being abducted or anything but my father was a guard like me once and he did have a story to tell once. It was just after a hurricane down by fillydelphia and he was sent with his platoon for emergency relief and to find survivors. He would never tell me the whole story but that he saw a squad of batponies, like Luna's personal guard, covered in injuries and another squad of batponies putting tarps over some bodies. He always said 'I don't know what they were but they weren't ponies and unless a skinny and baby version of a minotaur can kick the flank of a squad of batponies, then it wasn't a species Ive ever seen before'
Shit, I gotta go Vox my shift is up, I hope I can call you back later cause I have another story but I cant share it right now.
HI Vox. its your royal guard, anonymous again. Sorry I didn't call you again last night, I was just so tired."
"Anyway I'm at home right now and just listening to your show before the next episode of Mare do well and I thought I might just give you a call with that other story I got. You will have to forgive me if I don't give out any names. This story comes to me from my old Sergeant when we were retaliating to the Changeling incursion. It was near then end when Pegasus ponies created a storm in the skies over Chrysali's main hive to keep the changelings from flying and dive bombing us. He told me that he kept seeing what looked like hooded figures watching us. He never alerted us because he thought he was going insane from the stress and because they looked so weird. But he never really got a good look at them because they were always at a distance."
"Now don't misunderstand they never really did much besides watch according to him, if anything they helped us once when we were searching for bugholes into the main hive one of them pointed the way and when Sarge went back to find it, it was gone."
"Oh before I forget he did notice one other thing, once during a lightning storm a bolt of lightning iiluminated one of them just enough for Sarge to see their heads kind of looked like those of the plague doctors from way back when. Other than that he never really paid them much attention. Rules of Engagement were to fight changelings not hooded beings who didn't do anything to us. So....say Vox....you think maybe some of the aliens are here to help us or hurt us?"