Two. Eighteen: The Equestrian Schism
Two. Eighteen
The Equestrian Schism
“This is it, huh? This is where I am to finally do battle with you face to face? One on one? Tell me, Princess; do you think you are winning, or us? My Div are a million strong, and they will rain fire upon your villages. Even your Canterlot was built by my dragons. But you and your sister are strong leaders, as well as warriors. And your Equestrians are innately powerful, but are afraid of power and violence. Your race is a contradiction to itself, a paradox truly worthy of destroying the universe.”
“Enough, De’mah ‘Tokam. I no longer have the energy or desire to fight you. This war has gone on far too long, and your dragons are murdering us by the thousands. I surrender... Take me away.”
“Hmm... Seems you are wiser than I thought. Do follow me.”
*BANG*
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Princess Celestia’s eyes quickly fluttered open, awoken from her slumber. She looked around in her dark room, the moonlight softly streaming in through the glass doors to her balcony. The moon itself visible through the door, meaning it would be time for morning soon. She decided to stay awake for the time, since her clock said that it would be morning within an hour.
Lying in her bed Celestia stared at the ceiling, mulling over her dream. The dreams about De’mah had long since stopped but the arrival of N’por brought them back in full. His ship was stronger, bigger, and more powerful than De’mah’s. De’mah’s ship didn’t have shields, for one.
This is a very dire predicament we are all in. N’por is violently destroying our world, and the humans are certainly not doing it any favors. On the other hoof... They ARE fighting N’por, and doing a fair job of doing so with the help of the Griffins. The Minotaurs and Spiders are sitting idle. The Changelings are hiding, and the Dragons are torn over who to fight for. The Crystal Ponies are backing us, obviously, but even we are doing nothing. But the humans and Griffins are standing up against N’por’s onslaught... But what they did to us was extreme Celestia thought, unable to shake her thoughts.
As the moon began to come to a stop on the horizon and the sun rose to a stop on the other side, creating the purple sky twilight and signalling the changing of the bodies, Celestia began to walk to the door leading to the hall when something struck her.
What was that Saddle Arabian proverb? ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’?
It was time to talk to the humans.
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The three Princesses of Equestria stood behind the curtains of the address stage in Canterlot, a massive crowd of ponies outside. Celestia was delivering a statement to the kingdom that was deemed of utmost importance to her people, and thousands upon thousands had come to listen. Those who couldn’t had to rely on their radios.
Many would be angry that they tuned in by the end of the day.
“What is this about, sister?” Princess Luna asked, sitting idly next to Celestia, who had not informed Luna or Twilight of this public conference. They were as in the dark as the rest of Equestria.
“You’ll see. They’ll all see... It’s time” Celestia stated, stepping through the curtain. The fanfare was sounded, but the crowd did not cheer. They were nervous, uncertain, and expectant of her to say what they wanted to hear. That they would be backing the Dragons, siding with N’por, and taking revenge against the humans.
“We will not be siding with the Dragon Empire, or N’por ‘Tumai” Celestia started, the crowd immediately launching into murmurs, a select few loudly yelling. The Princess of the day stopped for a moment to steel herself, and find the words she needed.
Looking up she stared stoically over the crowd and to the horizon of Equestria, and said “we will instead be supplying and supporting the United Nations Space Command and humanity in their war against N’por ‘Tumai.”
The crowd before the stage erupted into anger and outrage, screaming and yelling at the Princesses. The ponies listening in on the radio had two things to be pissed about, however; Celestia’s decision, and their hurt ears.
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Twilight Sparkle had tossed and turned and fluffed her pillow, even read some sleeping 101 books, but was not able to sleep at all this night. So she did what she always did when she couldn’t sleep.
Read.
Even that wasn’t really helping her, as she could not get her mind off Celestia’s decisions. She had not screamed in anger like the crowd did, for she found she could not make a sound at all. She was floored, absolutely floored, at the Princess’s announcements.
The media reaction had been equally vocal, with dozens of radio stations, newspapers, and gossip mags broadcasting their disapproval. Twilight herself had expressed immense concerns, but did so privately. It wouldn’t do Equestria any good to see two of the Princesses publicly at conflict.
Twilight had tried to see Celestia’s reasoning, her logic. She even had the fellow Princess explain very carefully the motivations behind her decision and let Twilight compute these reasonings in a computer. Logically, it was 100% sound; Equestria could not sit idle with two alien empires at war on her soil and in her skies. N’por had already expressed desire to destroy Equestria, and would eventually do so regardless of humanity’s status. The dragons were split, many breaking off to join humanity after they bested them in fair combat. But many other dragons stuck with the Equestrians, claiming it was not fair combat that humanity bested them in, but cowardly tactics.
Twilight was no expert on dragon belief or psychology, and she didn’t know what to think. The logical side of her was saying that the dragons who didn’t join humanity were simply stubborn and too set in their original ways, that an opponent must defeat a dragon from the ground for it to be fair combat. She also found this hypocritical and asinine, as all dragons who could fly did so to gain an edge in a fight.
On the other hoof, she couldn’t excuse the dragons who left for humanity. She thought them cowards and traitors, and wanted to see them tried as such. Again, the logical side of her found fault with this, knowing that indeed dragon code says that any who best them in war be joined, and that the Dragon Empire was not under jurisdiction of Equestria, and that should they leave to serve another army it would not be considered treason under Equestrian law. She was conflicted and confused, like almost all of Equestria, and--
Fire. There was fire. Twilight smelled smoke.
In a panic, she looked up and her head darted back and forth, looking for the blaze. Glow in her window showed her the fire was outside, and she opened it to see the streets of Canterlot lit up in flames, but scattered about. And only a few houses were burning. It seemed the fires were concentrated in the streets and--
--were moving.
Racing downstairs and out her door Princess Twilight saw it all; crowds of ponies carrying torches and tossing rocks. Canterlot Police was doing their best to hold them off, but were being overrun. A few were carrying signs, which said it all; they were angry at Princess Celestia for ‘defecting’ to humanity, and were rioting.
A few of the crowds were already starting to make their way down the road to the palace to confront the Princesses. She could try to calm them down but she knew it would be futile in the end.
Equestria was about to be embroiled in the first civil war it had seen in over a millenium.
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Really? Really! you had to be foolish and have Equestria join with humanity? What Bullshit. the humans attacked Equestria with Nukes Nukes! and Celestia decides to join them after all of that Garbage?
If you wanted the Equestrians joining the humans have then join in the beginning. at least then it would keep it in the right psyche. The humans started the fighting and Celestia should realize that with her Isolationist views. I mean look at the history? maybe in the past the Elites were a danger to Equestria, but at the modern time the regular Equestrians don't know that history and hate the humans with a passion. Celestia could just as easily have Equestria retreat into Isolation while building up it's tech and weapons so it can fend off the enemy's when the time comes for it to actually defend itself. but no you make Celestia a real coward here.
Also wasn't ponyville Nuked along with Manhattan? so how can there be any portion of it that is still standing other than the apple farm.
Ponyville isn't really that large, a Nuclear device should easily wipe it off the face of the map.
3781039 The Sangheili were a danger then and they're a danger now. Humanity's an equal danger, but they had to pick a side eventually. Also, the Equestrians are SEVERELY behind on the technological scale. NOTHING they COULD ever make would match up with humanity, let alone the Covenant. Doesn't matter which way you slice it; one of those two alien races was going to FUCK Equestria sideways, and one would help them. Celestia picked the side she thought was best based on past experience with the Sangheili.
However, I thank you IMMENSELY for pointing out that Ponyville thing. That's a SEVERE error and it's corrected it now.
3781083 okay tiss good on that part.
Totally agree with Xaldon on this one. There is no reason for Celestia to even consider joining with humanity. While even I know the concept of my enemies enemy is my friend, the humans just waged a brutal one sided war on the equestrians. Unless you find a way to make it more believable, this action totally breaks the flow of the story in my opinion.
Can't wait for more though...
3781106 All will be explained in due time, worry not. I am aware of the weight behind this story-telling decision, but I think by the end it will all pan out. Plus, Celestia just announced her desire to support humanity; we still have yet to see Captain Kuyaki's response to this.
3781039 look at our wars British vs the Americans the Americans against so many others we have bathed in the blood of one another and yet we have allies with those that once sought to slaughter us. look at japan america nuked them.
3781124 yes but each time we obliterated them they were the instigators of our wrath. and those we do fight for the hell of it end of like the cherokee, in small pockets in the middle of nowhere with guns trained on them to keep the redskins in their reservations. We could care less about those we dominate, its those we can still use that we keep around. Equestria berily escaped ending up like the cherokee with the help of the covenant. and now Celestia is going against the pseudo saviors.
also unlike america, Equestria ia not a powerhouse nation to rival the unsc they are just a world based civilization that could easily be destroyed by the humans or the covenant if they felt like it.
Are you sure Princess Celestia made the right choice of have to join the with humanity?
I mean UNSC did win the war by nuking each city
well I'm completely baffled now but I have faith in you and you almighty vision of the future (of the story) that in the end this will make sense, I can already see you hinting that right at the start with the flashback snippet
This is awesome, I was hoping this would happen. A lot of people don't seem to understand why Celestia would join up with the humans. Yes while we nuked them, they started it the humans just wanted to help with military expansion. Also the covenant are a much bigger threat, at least the humans are willing to team up with them, and it appears that Celestia has some experience with the covenant so she must know how bad they really are.
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the convent enslave or exterminate entire races. if humanity loses celestia knows that no longer have a future
3785215 Exactly.
3781157 So they have done the maths the unsc are more "human" in nature I am assuming which is why she is choosing them for they did start negotiations until they went south. The covenant well Celestia could probably see fanatics written all over them
good part, and I already know the ponyville thing was fixed so no complaints against that. Celestia made the right descision. live with their live and culture instead of having their way of live thrown away and into the covenant.
idea, make them fear you