Horse Politics
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February 10, 2250.
Russian scientists have found a planet in the Milky Way, very similar to Earth, and it has been named Loshad' Zemli. China, The Republic of America and Russia, sent rovers and humans to explore the planet. The planet is found to be fully inhabited with intelligent creatures as ourselves; being sapient beings, yet also resembling the forms of the mythical creatures, known as 'griffons'.
In court, is has been decided to use the new sapient species, as an excuse for war. This would create a global war economy, and allow for more control over the economy.Obeying orders, a group of Russian and American soldiers opened fire amongst the griffons. As a result, 30 griffons were severely injured, and 16 KIA. The soldiers were captured and then imprisoned. A rescue team was sent to claim them. We have told the media that they have attacked first.
Because of the attack, political tensions have increased. The griffons were much more powerful than any of us had thought them to be. Ships have been known to fall from the skies whenever they near griffon territory.
A silent war has now been declared against the griffons of Loshad' Zemli. A war economy is now in motion.
April 11, 2250
The silent war lasted two months, before the griffons decided to take a more diplomatic approach. As a result, they and their equine allies have sent a chosen delegate, who attempted to create a peace treaty.
Today, the treaty was signed, and the alien world has been renamed 'Equus'. It is now illegal for anyone to visit either world. If the law is not observed, it will be considered treason.
January 2, 2253
Earth has already been experiencing a deteriorating economy for centuries, however, it has finally collapsed. Fighting the griffons has created a temporary wartime economy. However, since the treaty has been signed, the wartime economy now ceases to exist.
Because of the effects of the wartime economy, poverty and unemployment rates have increased significantly. Global Martial Law been put into action, to try to contain the riots, gangs and otherwise hostile personnel. It has not worked. Now, there are several 'red-zones' throughout Earth. No military or police personnel is permitted to enter such zones.
A meeting was held with the leaders of Equus, to discuss the financial weight of Earth. Equus admits that it's relationship with Earth is uncertain. Therefore, Equus proclaimed that it would like to look into Earth's societies, before any further communication.
In order to accomplish this goal, the leaders have declared an annual event, which would allow Equus to view humanity within its own borders. The event was named, 'The Raffle'. Every year, one participant within the 'Raffle', would be chosen to be sent to Equus. A different country within Earth would be selected, per Raffle. This would allow Equus's leaders to view humanity, and learn more about our cultures.
If successful, the Raffles would finally result in a stable relationship between Earth and Equus. Then, Equus would proceed to help stabilize our economy by opening a trade market, and provide us with the extra fire power necessary to restore order to Earth.
Only time can tell what will happen.
"Dude! She's a horse! Why would you like her like that?!"
"Duh... she's an 'alien' horse! Wouldn't you want to be with an alien?"
"Yeah Jack... wouldn't you want to be with a big, mean, alien like me?"
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!
"Ughhhh..." I moaned, trying to block out the sound with my pillow, the weird dream still engraved within my brain.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!
However, the most annoying sound in the world just amplified, slowly becoming louder and louder...
"ALRIGHT! I'M UP!" I shouted, slamming the snooze button five times, nearly breaking the poor machine.
However, instead of doing anything, I just sat there, trying to adjust to the horrible beaming light. Slowly, my eyes opened, adjusting to what seemed like the sun trying to kill me with the amount of brightness that flooded the room.
I yawned before getting up, throwing on my suit and techni-bracelet, doing what one would generally do in the bathroom, and then finally making my way towards the kitchen.
As I approached the kitchen, a robotic voice suddenly shouted at me from nowhere, nearly giving me a heart-attack, "Hello, Mr. Harrison! Would you like to hear the News this morning?"
I rubbed my forehead, before snapping my stare over to where the sound came from. When I did, I found the T.V from across my apartment, literally looking back at me. It had it's own digital face, with lifeless eyes, and a weird metallic voice. The thing was creepy! I always hated AIs.
"I thought I turned you off!"
"You have sir. However, your roommate has turned me back on. Would you like me to turn off?"
I stood there for a minute. On one hand, I wanted to turn the thing off. On the other hand, I actually did want to watch the News, but was too lazy to reach the remote. After some important consideration, I decided upon the latter.
"Alright, here's the deal: You get to stay on my T.V, however, you have to turn the News on for me in return. Then, I'm going to shut you off again."
It was then, that I heard the News suddenly blink on. I sighed in relief, and continued my walk to the kitchen as the News played, "The Equestrians are now are holding a raffle to increase capital within our world. One lucky winner, will get the chan-"
However, I didn't have time to listen to it for long. I began ignoring the T.V, and started pouring cereal instead. Once the oats were nearly filled to the brim, I shuffled my way towards my old, rugged couch, trying my hardest to keep the cereal from spilling over. When I was finally there, I allowed myself to plop down onto the sofa and sighed in satisfaction.
In the side of my eye, I spotted my roommate sitting next to me, on the couch.
I yawned, before grasping my spoon and greeting him, "Morning dude."
...
Confused, I glanced over to find him drooling, asleep from playing video-games all night. Weird thing was, he still was holding the controller.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
A smaller alarm began beeping from my watch, signaling that I had to leave, "Later dude.". With that, I quickly got up, and accidentally spilled cereal all over my suit.
Not having enough time to change, I groaned and poured the rest of it into the sink, before finally heading out of the door.
6:15 A.M
"Man! I overheard you talking about DJing the other day. You were a DJ? Why didn't you just keep that job? The office-life sucks."
Believe it or not, I was talking to my boss. You see, his father died a few years ago, leaving his son the entire business. So, he never took anything seriously, which can be both good and bad."
"I would be a DJ again, but the government doesn't consider it to be a 'real job' anymore" I said while giving him a droopy smile, still tired.
My boss then gave me that stare...
"Jack... You are the hardest working person here. I mean, look at you, you work so hard that you forgot that you have a massive milk stain on your suit, and you don't even care!"
WHAT!?
I flung my head down, and spotted the milk I spilled from earlier. I jumped, before immediately unbuttoning it, and throwing it onto the floor.
Luckily, I still had an under-shirt on, but that didn't stop the little part of me that just died, for realizing that I just walked around the entire city, with a ginormous, white puddle, attached to my chest.
My boss turned his face over to me and gave me that, 'I told you so' smirk, making me sigh. Sadly, he wasn't done speaking. He put on his God-Father voice and shook his finger at me, "You... you're good. You're good." Soon, his voice faded back to normal, "But, look, you need a vacation... go to Florida or some place, I don't really care. You're starting to make me depressed."
Knowing that it would be an un-paid vacation, my eyes bolted open, "It's OK man, I'm-"
He interrupted me, "First of all, don't talk to me like that, I'm your boss. Second of all, I'm not asking. I'll see you in a month."
7:00 A.M
"Life sucks, so what...
Will it ever change??"~ ssshrh
"Baby, I'm sorry, please don't go"~ sssshr
"I. Am. Black and blue; beating myself up because of you!"~click
That was it, I just turned the radio off because literally every song was depressing.
It didn't matter anyway, since I already arrived at my place. I noticed that some plants were knocked over near my apartment's door, but, I payed no mind, it was probably the wind.
Luckily, I only had two keys. One was for my car, and the other was for the door, so, it took me two seconds to find the right one. When I did, I pushed it into the key-hole and it immediately pushed the door open. I didn't even unlock it yet!
Putting two and two together, I realized someone probably robbed the place, so I cautiously entered to see the damage. As I did, I found the place to still be clean, well, at least what me and my roommate considered to be 'clean'. I happily sighed in relief and assumed that Ryan just forgot to lock the door. Yawning for the final time, I lazily plopped down onto my couch, threw off my shoes, and flung my keys onto the coffee table.
Smiling, I began to drift off into another dreamless sleep...
"Crash!"
A moment passed until I jumped. I cursed at my bad-reflexes before scanning my surroundings, looking for something to defend myself with. Eventually, my eyes landed upon a pillow. I quickly tore it from it's original place, and held it up as a shield. Extremely scared, I tried speaking in a really deep, and intimidating voice, "Yo! Who in muh house?!"
... No Answer.
My breathing quickened as I stalked around the corner with the pillow, trying to find what was now making metallic clinging noises. In the corner of my eye, I found what looked to be a pink horse-leg, laying on the floor. Now confused, I swiveled around the corner to find an enormous, pink, plastic horse on the floor and my roommate rummaging through the cabinets.
"Ryan, what are you doing?" I asked, annoyed.
My friend looked up to me and gave me a determined grin, "Jack, do you know what day it is?"
I didn't answer him. Instead, I just stared at him, with a blank expression on my face.
He rolled his eyes, "Seriously? Jack, today is the official Raffle day! I bought two tickets, so that means you're going."
"Seriously? Let me see that."
Ryan's smirk grew tenfold, as he handed over one of the tickets.
The ticket was made of paper... but it was still a shiny chrome. There was also some Equestrian Unicorn printed into one corner, and the official Equestrian flag on the other. In the middle, was some ridiculous number, loaded with random letters and numbers. Obviously, it would be impossible to win, but the ticket was still cool, and the Raffle would be even cooler.
"That's amazing. We get to see actual, living ponies too, right?" I asked, as curiosity started to take over.
"Not only that... Jack, we get to see Princess Celestia"
When he said that, realization took over, and the dream I had from last night, began to replay in my mind. I didn't actually want to win. I just wanted to go, to see the winner, and the aliens. What if I won though? I would have to spend an entire year in some alien planet.
I fumbled with the ticket for a while, "Ryan, I don't think I should enter the Raffle. I would rather stay on Earth."
Suddenly, a loud and blatant laugh was made by my roommate, "Seriously? You're not going to win, trust me. There's literally like a billion people who entered the Raffle. There's no way you'll win."
"Yeah... true. I'm going for the horses, right?"
"For the horses." He smirked.
5:00 P.M
"So, what even is the raffle prize? You get to make out with the princess?"
Ryan started to laugh, maniacally, obviously bored to tears. We were both waiting in line, along with the fake horse that Ryan continued to drag along. Millions of other people were surrounding us, all waiting to get their seats for the global event. Men and women were camping on the outside of the line, while the police drones struggled to keep the massive groups of people under control.
However, I luckily had a DJ app on my bracelet to keep me entertained. I smirked before popping up the familiar blue hologram on my arm, and started mixing two completely different songs together.
My friend watched me mess around on the hologram, before joking, "No... but I bet you'd want to."
Rolling my eyes, I punched him in the shoulder, "That's gross. What are you even going to do with that plastic horse?"
His smirk grew like a madman, scaring me slightly. He continued, "You'll see... it's gonna be awesome."
...
We stood in line some more, waiting, until I felt something cold, metallic and powerful grab my should my shoulder, nearly breaking it. I cried out before turning to see what was attacking me.
When I did, I found a security drone, with glowing, lifeless red eyes and a machine gun strapped to it's side.
Nobody liked them, but they were supposedly made to end 'Police Brutality'.
It suddenly began clicking, before speaking to me in the creepy robotic voice that I hated so much, "Under the orders of Name Disclosed, you are to be escorted to Location Disclosed."
I just stared at the drone dumbly, before responding, "What are y- Oohmph!"
A jab suddenly impaled my side, forcing me to crouch in pain. The same police drone began chirping again, "Resistance acknowledged; Inserting sleeping serum." On cue, I felt a light sting in my neck, which instantly made me drowsy.
I could hear the shouts of other people, and the sound of metal against bone, before I finally passed out.
Slowly, I woke up. I automatically felt the feeling as if time was missing. I realized that I've been knocked out by the robot.
My head immediately started swelling with pain and annoyance, but was interrupted by a strange incense. Actually, it smelled like tea leaves and smoke.
I weakly lifted my head to find a white horse looking at me, dipping her head with guilt, "I didn't know your government would do that to you, I'm terribly sorry."
My eyes suddenly snapped wide-open.
She's a horse! She's one of those Equestrian aliens!
Not able to do anything, I just stared at her, frozen in shock.
The pony frowned, then started tapping me with her hoof, "Human. Human, did they break you?"
Alright... come on Jack. You have to look good for humanity!
I shot up from the cushion I was on, and shouted, "You're the legendary horse! You- you're Princess Celestia!"
She looked confused, "Yes, I am indeed. Why are you shocked? Oh... may I see your ticket?"
Why does she want to see my ticket? I didn't win. I probably just have a faulty ticket or something. I thought to myself, before casually handing it over. When I did, the ticket was immediately engulfed in a golden aura, prompting me to jump from surprise. Afterwards, I gawked at the ticket, and watched it float over to the princess's face so she could read it better.
Haha! Ok, so she can levitate things with her mind too! Perfectly normal! Haha, aliens are amazing!
I just smiled at her like an idiot. Internally, I was having a mental-breakdown. I couldn't let her know that though.
A moment passed, before I started to gradually calm down. In the meantime, I discreetly drifted my eyes over her wings, then to her horn and then to her hooves before finally redirecting my eyes back to her eyes.
After a moment, she was done examining the ticket, and turned her gaze back to me.
I coughed, "My friend bought it for me. I just really wanted to see a real pony, and... wow Ryan is going to be jealous."
She giggled, before levitating the ticket down to talk to me, "Indeed, I also felt the same when I met my first human. How do you feel, knowing that you are the winner of the Raffle?"
"I didn't win, I'm just a normal guy." I said, almost a bit too forcefully. I was getting scared, and the princess's reaction did not help.
"You have the winning ticket though."
My entire heart stopped at that moment.
In fact, I felt like the tent's walls were closing on me. My vision was also starting to get cloudy, and my breathing began to be incredibly difficult to control.
I needed to leave.
I ignored the princess's worried look, and abruptly stood up before speaking, "Oh! Actually, I love Earth! I didn't even want to win... I just wanted to see the ponies from the distance with my friend Ryan! I never won anything before, so I didn't think I would win this!"
I nervously began walking away from the confused princess, all while having a wide and nervous grin plastered onto my face, "It was nice meeting you! But, I think I'm just going to go home now, goodbye."
"STOP!" Out of nowhere, a booming, masculine voice bellowed across the room.
Both me and the princess flung our heads to see whatever made the noise.
Just outside the tent's opening, was another unicorn. He was gray, wore a golden monocle on his left eye and was half the size of Celestia, "No! If you reject the offer, there is an enormous chance of war! That would be breaking our treaty!"
I didn't listen to a thing he said. Instead, I was trying to think of a way to escape, "...Yeah, right."
With a determined look, he began pushing me forward, "Good! Then let's go shall we? Princess, stop sitting there! You are part of the treaty as well!"
In front of me, was a tent opening, followed by a bright light being emitted from it. Time seemed to slow down at that moment, a mixture of Earth music and some of those weird Equestrian instruments were playing loudly, making me sink into my own shoes. As the unicorn let me go, he opened the tent slit and what I saw, was utterly astonishing. Millions, upon millions of people were in rows, both cheering and booing, while I stood at the end of what seemed like a football stadium.
In the center of the field, was a ginormous, ethereal hologram of some guy. Upon further inspection, I noticed that the hologram looked both terrified, and beat-up. I squinted at at the giant blue human, until I realized that it was me. He was wearing the same shirt I was, same messy hair, and the same distraught look on his face
I wanted to turn into a puddle right there, and drip into the ground... or maybe moon everyone with said hologram, but there's no way I would do that! Not in real-life!
A minute passed, before I felt something lightly push me forward. My head swiveled towards the direction of the push, but I didn't see anyone.
That didn't stop the push from growing in strength though. Instead, the push became harder, and harder until I finally decided to start walking along with it, and onto the tiny podium in front of me.
When I got there, the entire crowd went silent, conjuring up billions of chills down my back.
I cleared my throat, "Hello..."
With that, the sound of my voice flooded the entire stadium. That one, simple, pathetic word, echoed everywhere.
I was instantly greeted by a few, faint, sarcastic-laughs and coughs. I couldn't stop though, I had to keep talking, "... alright, this is scary, I'm sweating like crazy over here!"
Surprisingly, I was greeted by half the crowd lightly laughing, giving me some encouragement, "Haha, so, it's amazing to see so many people here. Princess Celestia, is a really good per- pony, and a wonderful leader and here she stands now!"
More people cheered as Celestia smiled calmly. I turned my head back to it's original position, but looked above the crowd, rather than at them. It's what I did when I had my first DJ gig, and it still helped now, "I also wanted to say, that I'm sorry not all of you could win, because you are all incredible people. But, please remember, life is an obstacle course, there will always be bad... and good. The more obstacles you go over, the stronger you become, then, you will be able to be happy. Running off to another world won't make you happy, since there will be obstacles there too."
The people stayed silent as I continued, "Those, were some of the words my father told me. He told me that I had my eyes closed. He told me, I saw something I didn't like, so, I shut it out... along with the light."
Knowing I was gaining people's attention, I tried copying Celestia's smile, "So, my father then told me, that in order to see the light again, I needed to open my eyes... and I did and found good within the world. This, is because day ALWAYS comes after night, but there will always be day and there will always be night, whether you like it or not."
As I finished, the entire crowd cheered and I was shaking from the amount of excitement I felt, "And here, is another great being, who cares so much about bringing the day to others, please welcome, Princess Celestia!"
Instantly, as I soon as I announced her name, another hologram appeared next to mine, prompting the shouts of joy from millions of people. The new hologram resembled Princess Celestia, exactly.
For a minute, the princess was just standing there, gawking at me. I flashed her a small smile, and gestured her to the crowd, which effectively snapped her out of her daze. Afterwards, she walked over to my side, and cleared her throat to speak.
"That... was a very admirable message. Thank you, Jack. Your father was a very wise man. As for the humans of Earth, I am proud to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this first Raffle. I hope that in time, we can learn much about each other"
"Now, without further adieu, let the gala begin!" She finished, inciting the crowd to cheer once again.
On her cue, the music began playing again, and people began rushing towards the ground, to dance and have fun.
I was about to leave right there, until I felt myself nearly trip over something furry. Looking down, I found the same monocle-pony, staring at me in confusion.
Scared of the answer, I asked anyway, "Uh... sir, what is going to happen next?"
His face immediately burst into an excited smile, "My friend... you, are going to Equestria!"
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Moar plez?
This has a lot of potential! I also think the backstory is amazing beyond belief! I can't wait for future updates.
I would like MOAR.
More
Bwah X3
You have my attention. Following, for now.
eh ill be fav'ing
This fic holds so much promise, follow it i shall!
So, an au were none of the other sapient races exist, just the ponies?
I'm glad you all like the story, next chapter is coming soon.
7051435
Nope, Celestia is just the chosen delegate of Equestria, that's why Luna isn't there.
This is where you entirely lost me. That's not irony.
It also looks like just another self-insert, so...
This is garbage.While not awesome, it has certainly improved. I could actually read it all the way through this time.It's only 2050 and somehow we've devoloped sufficient FTL? And in that short amount of time the United States changed their name? What, did Trump win or something?Despite the fact that the alarm clock had a snooze button, video games still used controllers, and other antique tech being used, I appaud the shift forward two centuries.I guess the sudden inexplicable use of weapons against the Griffons is believable, we have a history of conquest. However, a reason would not have been out of place.Much better.The sudden end to the war makes no damn sense.Now it does.Summary execution for travel between worlds? On either side?! No. That's ridiculous.How, in Faust's name, would allowing a single human passage for ten years to Equestria alleviate a crippling global depression?Still not sold on the raffle accomplishing this, but isn't as glaring an issue.This is as far as I got before I considered making a "stories that need more hate" shelf. How is this featured?Never did make that shelf. My previous vitriol towards this story was compounded as it was because it was featured. If I had stumbled upon it elsewhere I would've given it a dislike and been on my way.
Overall this story has seen a marketable improvement and I'll go ahead and give it a like. Peace.
[EDITED: March 23rd, 2016CE 22:38 UTC]
7053626
I didn't know this was featured.
Anyway, hi. As much as I appreciate your 'constructive criticism', I would like to let you know, that this story is still a work in progress.
I have received help and advice from many people, whom of which, tell me many ways in which I can improve the story, and become a better author in general. This is just a story where people can relax, be in Jack's shoes, and simply have fun. That's actually the main reason why I wrote this story.
In actuality, I am even considering your thoughts, and can gladly apply it to my story.
Thank you, and good day.
Here is some of the problems I see. The war had no reason, just an event. No lives were lost, but it is treason for trespassing. Jack was attacked by the SS in public and there was no instant riot. Celestia accepted a kidnapped person as the delegate. Celestia is complicit in hustling the entire earth. Jack had the opportunity to cry out for help from being kidnapped and didn't take it. If manhandling is illegal and rude, adding TK would make it worse.
Oh god first person present tense, and so it begins.
x Classified Document A776 x
(If you've never looked at classified documents don't try adding something like A776, it seriously broke immersion for me. Just change it to classified(change classified to red for a even more realistic approach.), and block the thing out like other people do with letters, and I'm sure people will get the hint without hamfisting like this.)
"Man! I saw that video you sent me... why didn't you just stay a DJ more... this job is boring."
Get rid of more....Also ellipses, you use way to many of them.
5:00 P.M or something... you don't care what time it is.
Narrator breaks fourth wall in an attempt at comedy, narrator fails.
I thought to myself, before casually handing her over the ticket.
Might want to get rid of her or reword it, unless you want others to have the visual I did of him dropping the ticket on the floor only to pick up the princess and move her over it. I did laugh at that.
"No! If you reject the offer, there is an enormous chance of war. That would be breaking our treaty, and the humans are a very meticulous species!"
Ummm honestly I can already see humans doing this on purpose to incite a war...but really if we were in the recession you claim we would have waged war anyway to jumpstart a wartime economy.
Overall dude not bad for your first fanfiction on this site, I know my criticism might seem harsh but it's leagues better then some of the stuff I first wrote on here.
7056538
Nope, I'm just fixing them. I'll post them again soon.
There were just a few plot holes that were pointed out.
Interesting. At this point that all I can really say, I hope you publish your next chapters soon so I may construct a better opinion in the future
More. I demand more.
My own take is a nitpick that may sound silly but the stories setting is reminded me of the old 1930s Flash Gordon shorts. They where set in the
"Future" but people drove around in the earth scenes in Model Ts.
Your version of two hundred years in the future feel more like 2010, heck it might as well been 1990s with only "modern" tech mentioned are large display screens at a stadium and a sound mix app on a phone.
For an interesting view of a future earth read the semi-optimalverse story "down and out in the magic kingdom" here on fimfic.
That's a great way to begin a story. You have my attention. Patiently waiting for more
THIS STORY IS AWSOME
7076045
Thank you.
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damn that was fast, according to the date humanity didn't even waste a single day trying to make war against the first alien civilization. I guess Germany and japan on ww2 because humanity seems awfully too militaristic here.
You are freakin lucky they didn't have a thunder god hiding under their country ready to blow up planet earth in first signs of hostility, since you decided to attack them on the first day with little knowledge.
i read some more the story and realized it just wasn't for me.
7076111 Interesting Idea, well written back story, and very good delivery. Can't wait for the rest :)
Just putting this out there, I just started this fic using the Ultra Dark theme, and got really confused until I figured out there was spoiler text representing blacked out parts. Not a jab or anything, just a little confusing, as there was no way to tell it was there in Ultra Dark.