Chapter 24
Yawning I relaxed in the warm water, idly watching the sun's reflections moving on the wall from where the sun hit the water.
“So what do you miss about Earth the most?” Sunset suddenly as she put the bucket down, water dripping from her mane.
“Hmm?” I asked, turning to look at her.
Her horn lit up and she twisted her mane to get the worst of the water out of it before ducking beneath the water again, “What do you miss most about earth? When I was there, there were things I really, really missed about Equestria. Things I didn't expect, like being able to eat daisies.” she said as she returned to the surface.
This had been one of the things that took some getting used to. Ponies did communal bathing. Oh, most homes had private baths as well, but there were several public ones around the city and the castle had it's own.
Took some getting used to, but it made sense. Not like either of us were any more or less naked now than as were sitting on a couch or practicing dueling. Besides, especially earth ponies had difficulty reaching some spots on their backs on their own.
Tilting my head in thought I frowned slightly before I shrugged, “Other than obvious things like family and friends, I have to say the Internet.”
Sunset nodded, “Oh yeah. Yeah I kinda miss that too, it was so convenient. You could look up anything anytime you wanted. I could even do it on my phone. Way easier than going to a library.”
“Mmm. And boobs. I miss boobs.”
That earned me a surprised look, “...Why? They just got in the way.”
I grinned, “I didn't have them, I just liked looking at them.”
Sunset shrugged, “Well, you were human so I guess you would. I just had them get in the way and pull at my center of balance. Then there was all those clothes at all times and humans were so shy about everything.“
“Different cultures and different worlds.”
“Mmm.”
Ducking beneath the water I scrambled my mane with my magic field before returning to the surface, brushing my mane from my eyes before relaxing again.”
Sunset smirked, “Of course, I likely missed having a nice stallion to look at as much as you miss human women.”
“Well, that's just natura...” I started to say before I noticed her look and rolled my eyes, sending a wave to splash her, “Very funny.”
She smiled, letting the wave splash against her neck, “What? You may be the consort of Princess Luna, but I can still look. Don't need to like you for that.” she answered before she grinned, “Why, does it make you uncomfortable?”
Ignoring her, I reached out with my magic and floated over a discarded newspaper. She just had to make this weird didn't she?
“Blank Page: Author, Future Consort or something darker?” the headline said and I stared at it for a long moment before I eyed through the article.
Appeared out of nowhere, no records, no-one knowing him before then. No school records found. Violent fighter. Disturbing elements in writing. When the Princesses went missing, he took control of the Guard illegally. Working with changelings.
I blinked at the article before I looked who wrote it. Hot Scoop.
Didn't ring a bell.
“Hmm? Something wrong?” Sunset asked and she moved up next to me and leaned it to read it with me before she cringed, “Ouch.”
To say the least.
“Well... I guess I really should have expected to end up in the spotlight sooner or later if I stayed with Luna.” I finally said, handing the newspaper over to her so she could read it for herself, “Honestly, I'm a bit surprised it's not happened before now.”
Sure, there has been a couple of fluff pieces, but nothing like this.
Sunset eyed through the article and raised a eyebrow before she looked at me, “Well... they are not wrong. I can't tell anything in here that's a fabrication. A bit twisted at places but technically accurate.”
I scowled at her, “Not helping.”
“Wasn't trying to. If I was trying to help I would say that you should go and discuss what to do about it with Princess Celestia. She always was good at handling the press.” Sunset said with a shrug before she pulled away, bringing the paper with her, flicking through it.
I watched her for a second before I nodded, “...Thanks.”
“Hmh.”
What would the fallout be of this? It all depended on how it was handled. I trusted the ponies that knew the truth to keep quiet about it but I wouldn't put it past Chrysalis to leak something. But would she actually do that? Not sure she would.
Actually letting it be known I was not really a pony originally would hurt her as well as it would backlash onto her. The fact that I was not only would Luna trust my safety to a changeling but I was also a pony that got a long with said changeling was a major PR point in her favor.
Perhaps we should play up the amnesia angle. Damn it, I really should talk to Celestia.
“This was a recurring nightmare I had you know,” Sunset said quietly after a long moment of silence as she folded up the paper, “That I would wake up one morning and find the headline 'Alien hiding as girl' in the paper and black cars outside my apartment.”
I just nodded. I can't say I had not worried about something similar at times even if I knew the Princesses had my back in this. Ponies were not as dissection happy as humans even if Celestia and Luna had not already known. As proven by the fact that they didn't when I first arrived and they realized what happened.
If the humans on Earth had figured out who Sunset really was...
It would not have been pretty.
Shaking my head I started heading to the small stairs to climb out of the shallow but wide pool, “I'm going to see if Celestia has time to discuss this.”
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Looks like Hot Scoop was the annoying reporter that snuck in the castle right?
Easy method to get out of this is hold a press conference and tell them its all just twisted truths and come forward with the truth. Not like it was ever hidden about his origins. Just never felt the need to disclose them publicly.
Editor on strike today? There were a lot of bugs, probably some missing chunks of text. I suggest reading the chapter aloud, you should catch most of the mistakes that way.
7344227 i usually ask for a beta reader over at sb and sv. None stepped up for the last two days, but they are not slow in correcting after thee fact. Expect most stuff to be fixed wben i vet home and can update in eleven or so hours. I'll hold the fimfiction post until then in the future.
Oh no! Just when things are jellin with Sunny the press actually uncovers something useful!
Hope this isn't the string the unraveles everything!
7344289 I was going to say basically the same thing as Whitespace did. Glad to know it will be fixed. Honestly that's one of my biggest pet peeves for fanfiction. Bad grammar. It's bad when someone who basically failed grammar can point out mistakes.
Anyway great chapter and the press finally gets involved hu well I a wait more of this lovely story.
Later-BFBL
In this part, Page forgot to turn his swag off, but Sunset used taunt and resisted! It wasn't very effective!
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Correct, Hot Scoop was the reporter in chapter 20.
Dun dun duuuuh
Nice bit of back and forth between a former human turned pony and a pony turned human turned pony
Well as least one thing in the paper is a lie, since that necklace he has gives him the ability in absence of Princess Luna. Sue for slander!
Why does everyone think the first thing humanity will do to a ET is strap it to a table and slice into it to find out what color its squeedily spooch is?
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It would probably be more like how HiE's go down at first, especially if they can communicate. They'd get guards and accommodations. They'd basically be a instant celebrity and not able to just go where they please, but they'd probably be treated diplomatically.
7344598 Not really. He can't control the entire guard with the necklace. They mentioned that his unofficial status as consort was the only reason the guard commanders even listened to him.
7344963 Because they have a low opinion of governments/scientists/humanity in general, and don't understand why it's scientifically and politically nonsensical. Most people who think so aren't diplomats or biologists. Hopefully.
Don't believe her lies. Tsundere Sunset is tsundere.
7344963 Personally, I blame an education system that teaches people to go through the motions of lab procedure, and report writing. to meet their minimum science credit requirements, without instilling an understanding of research ethics and the scientific method.
At the risk of resorting to the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy, real scientists would know we'd learn far more working with live, cooperative aliens.
Any one else getting AD's for a jewish dating site?
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Eh, it's more that the movie ET and independence day took the idea of alien disections from the Roswell myths and had live aliens
Irl if we didn't accidentally kill an alien we would very likely try to get to know it, though taking non invasive examinations of its biology would be almost certainly required for longer term habitation because it could at least give us some idea about how to take care of said alien if it were incapable of doing so itself
So in a sense, yes we would probably want to eventually strap it to a table but to get an x-ray or MRI not to cut it open
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7347754 What's interesting is that it's Equestria that actually does have a secret organization that captures strange and unusual creatures (like Bugbears) and indefinitely detains them in horrible conditions (Tartarus). Equestria has something a lot closer to the Men in Black than Earth ever would.
People wouldn't actually do that either, unless they were abysmally stupid. There is infinitely more you could find out from a living, cooperative alien than poking around in its internal organs would ever tell you. Having an alien and then killing it just to dissect it would be counterproductive to the point of retardation. This is one of those things that only fiction believes people are actually stupid enough for.
Personally? I think it says more about the writer than about actual human beings.
7357692 Old comment, but just pointing it out that People ARE that Stupid.
The torches and pitchforks joke wouldn't have existed today if it weren't for mindless torches and pitchforks mobs that roam around all over the world even to today. Just with more guns, knives, rocks, and sticks with flashlights.
And they blame everything but themselves for all the troubles they faced. Ex: God, Magic, demon, Devil, fate, etc.
change that to this:
'relaxing again.'
I had a whole long rant prepared about how stupid the dissect-the-alien thing is, but I see everyone else already beat me to it. But it annoys me enough that I'm going to chime in anyway, because it is really stupid.
Yes, it is possible that humanity could respond that way, depending on the circumstances. But this assumption that there's only one possible way it could play out? That's just cynicism for its own sake.
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You are right, humanity could respond to aliens by attacking and dissecting, but probably only if first contact is on our terms. If we met a peaceful alien species it is probable that it would go over well, but it might go over as well as Europeans with Native Americans.
But if something like XCOM happened, and the aliens started attacking and abducting randomly, then yeah, we would break out the rotary saws.
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Consider the entirety of the Cold War and tell me that humans aren't inherently xenophobic beings. There would at least be pissed-off splinter groups demanding blood even if all of humanity's major governments chose peace, as there is with every decision a government has tried to make.
Consider how people have reacted extremely to relatively inconsequential things in the past and tell me that something as world-changing as alien life on our planet wouldn't elicit a catastrophic reaction, even in a best-case scenario.
Actually twilight put him in charge just before she went to Ponyville.
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I was about to say that. Even though Page wasn't an official consort, Twilight explicitly put him in power.
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They dont know that.
Remember, nobody spoke to the press. If you dont get your story out, people will make up your story for you.
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Would still be a slanderous AND libelous statement for the reporter to make. To make the accusations that Page “illegally” took control of the government smears not only him, but ALL of the officials who carried out any of his orders! The guards would know that they’re NOT supposed to follow any illegal orders!
A tersely delivered “no comment”, no matter how it’s worded, DOESN’T give the press freedom to slander or liable!
Damn nice chapter.
Were did the idea
'gut the alien like a fish come anyway' ?!
Talking is way more effective and civilisation friendly than cutting it out of the skull
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Depends on your definition of "civilization".
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90's movies I would guess.
Also it is what humans do when they find a new especies.
I wonder if earth habe a MIB somewhere...
My Man!
*Insert The Rock eyebrow raise here*
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