"I Was Left With No Choice"
Celestia walked away from the dungeons sighing heavily at the fact that she had been left with no choice. She had to silence Red Flames, his arrogant tongue was getting the better of him and she had enough of it.
"Red Flames had it coming to him," Celestia sighed as she collapsed onto her bed. "I don't like to use the silencing spell, but what was I supposed to do? Let him bad mouth innocent ponies that suffered under Blackheart's reign of terror? No, that's something I won't tolerate, not as long as the guilty are on trial."
Just then, the sounds of knocking were heard and Celestia called for the source to come in. It was Luna as she approached her sister's bed.
"Any more news on the bombing?" Celestia asked her sister. "Is anypony else alive?"
"We are not sure at this time, sister," answered Luna, sighing heavily. "There is no question in either of our minds that those loyal to Blackheart are expressing their displeasure through violence. Have you said your peace to Red Flames?"
"I have and he continued to mock this whole trial," said Celestia. "And in doing so, I was left with no other choice. I had to silence him…permanently."
Luna's eyes widened in disbelief. In her mind, she thought her sister had done the unthinkable.
"It's not what it looks like, sister," she interjected, stopping Luna from thinking any darker thoughts. "What I did was remove his ability to speak and nothing more. And I can assure you that I will do the same to anypony else who dares to mock us and this whole trial as a whole."
"That is a relief," gasped Luna, brushing some sweat off of her face with her left front hoof. "For a moment, I thought you had carried out the execution before the sentence."
"Do you think I would end this trial like that?" remarked Celestia, looking over towards her sister. "Not quite. Blackheart and his associates need to face the consequences for their actions. What's more is that everything, everything that they had ever done must be revealed to all."
Nodding in agreement, Luna sighed and was just about ready to leave when another knock was heard at the door. The sounds made both sisters realize that something was urgent. Luna raced to the door and opened it, showing one of her guardsponies on the other side.
"What did you find?" she demanded as the guard bowed to her.
"A spy of Blackheart's," answered the guard. "He was spotted trying to flee on the midnight express. We've brought him down for interrogation. Do you wish to question him?"
"Yes," said Luna, icily as she made her way out of her sister's bedroom. "Bring me to him."
…
Following her night guard, Luna was led down to the interrogation chambers of Canterlot Castle. Upon arrival, Luna saw several of her guards looking at a pony who was tied down onto a rack with his front and back legs stretched out. The pony was in pain, but Luna didn't seem to care.
"Do you know why you are here?" she asked, looking up at the captured spy. "Well, do you?"
"I...I am here…" gasped the spy, the pain of being on the rack getting to him. "…be…because I aided…in bombing…a building in Canterlot…tonight."
"And is partly responsible for several deaths," Luna said, angrily, storming over to the prisoner. "And unless you start talking about the whereabouts of your comrades, these ponies are going to put you through such measures that you may not even come out alive!"
"I don't…care…if you kill…me," sneered the spy. "…Blackheart…will be…freed…and both you…and…your sister…will…be displayed…."
But, before the spy could finish his threats of death, Luna smacked the spy across his face.
"SILENCE!" she bellowed. "Your threats will get you nowhere and your friends can't help you now! You have a choice: talk and give us the whereabouts of your friends or die!"
The spy said nothing and Luna motioned for several of her guards to take the spy off the rack. They brought him over to a board and placed a black mask over the spy's face. Then, another guard took a jug of water and held it over the spy's head as they held him down on the board. With a motion of "yes," the guard poured water onto the spy's covered face. The spy screamed as the water poured through the mask.
"Your friends," said Luna, circling around the spy like a hawk. "Where are they going to? Tell me and I will have my guards stop this act upon you! Where are your friends going to? Whom are they targeting next? WHOM ARE THEY TARGETING NEXT?!"
The gargling that the spy was making didn't seem to faze Luna at all. In fact, it made her even more determined.
"You lie to me and I hurt you," she growled as she forcefully removed the mask and the spy coughed up water out of his mouth. "This is what defeat looks like, my friend. You know its all over and no matter what you try is going to get your beloved leader free."
Exhausted from her attempts to get the spy to talk, Luna stepped back and the spy winced slightly before he gave Luna his undivided attention.
"They are going," he gasped, moaning and groaning in pain. "To the Crystal Empire. They are to capture Prince Shining Armor and Princess Flurry Heart and use them as leverage to free our leaders that you hold captive."
Realizing what was happening, Luna left the dungeons and climbed to the top of Canterlot castle. Flicking her horn, she sent out a warning to the Crystal Empire about what Blackheart's followers were going to do next.
…
At the Crystal Empire, Blackheart's followers got off the train and were just about to exit the station when they were ambushed by several of the Crystal Empire's guards.
"STOP! DON'T MOVE!" they ordered and before the followers could defend themselves, the Crystal guards overpowered them and they were soon captured, their plot to free their leader foiled.
A little while later, the flickering of lights from the Crystal Empire showed Luna that the perpetrators had been captured.
"Excellent," said Luna to herself. "Equestria can sleep a little safer tonight now that Blackheart's followers have been captured before carrying out anything else. I must inform my sister of this at once!"
…
So, Luna informed her sister of what had happened as the sun rose the next morning and the next day of the trial had begun…
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The spy can be lucky that Luna didn't turned into Nightmare Moon again. Good Job Luna, on capturing the others!
Wow this update took a while. Hopefully it won't take as long as next time.
Also, water boarding? That sounds more like Nightmare Moon than Luna. But then again, Nightmare Moon probably would have just invaded his mind to find out what she wanted
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Lol you beat me to the Nightmare Moon line/joke by a couple of minutes
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I think Nightmare Moon had either kiled him outright or used something worse than waterbording or whote torture in general, like cutting a leg off or something
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She wouldn't kill him outright. How else would she get the information she needed? No, she would have killed him afterwards
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The waterboarding was a reference to the movie "Zero Dark Thirty."
I would have fleshed out the capture a little bit, maybe let us see from the POV of one of the terrorists or one of the guards, get some action going, instead of just a quick two-sentence blurb.
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That'll do
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Nice idea.
Keep going!
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But remember,in the show, we learned that Day Breaker (Celestias nightmare form) is more powerful than Nightmare Moon. So Blackheart better hope that Day Breaker doesn't show up, cause I'm sure she'd make him wish for death
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Agreed. Or worse, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon combined
8338631
Really? Ok then. But it is a real form of torture. That's why I didn't get the reference even though I saw the movie
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If that happens I'm not even sure that death could save him, but then again, it's no less than he deserves
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Indeed.
Blackheart has no chance, there may even be treason charges and charges against a foreign nation added to his sentence
Waterboarding eh? Kinda acceptable when used on actual terrorist IMO.
Here's hoping they stamp out Blackheart's twisted ideology out early enough. And I remember that even hi's lawyer know's he cant get out of this.
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Not really. I mean the Crystal Empire is technically part of Equestria
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Apart from being chosen to host the equestrian games,mi never saw evidence to say that it became part of equestria
An empire is not a city and they still have their own traditions so I still see it as separate from equestria
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when Twilight was crowned as a Princess,she was crowned as the 4th Princess o Equestria. Which means Cadance is also a Princess of Equestria
Meaning the Crystal Empire is part of Equestria
When Flurry Heart was born, Celestia and Luna said she was first ever born alicorn in Equestrias history
So yes, the Crystal Empire is part of Equestria
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Also this: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_Empire
And this:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2230398/
They both say that the Crystal Empire is part of Northern Equestria
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Shining and cadence are still technically citizens of equestria and it's possible to be a citizen and royalty of two countries
Plus I still personally believe the empire was not annexed into equestria as nothing official confirms it
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Also it's jsut said its in the artic north of equestria which may not be technically part of it
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It might not legally be part of Equestria, if could be a protectorate of Equestria, basically protectorates get to call them selves an independent country despite effectively being part of a larger one.
... Three words to say in regards to this bit right here.
GOOD FUCKING LUCK.
Finally, a new chapter to this story! This was a tense chapter, especially since the Guards had to torture the spy to get out answers. But instead of waterboarding, why not just have Princess Luna twist the spy's arm painfully in getting him to talk? That's what Batman does sometimes whenever he's interrogating a lowlife thug.
Update?
The thing that gets me is the blind stupidity of Blackheart and company. Luna alone is a force to be reckoned with if she toss the rules out the window. She can easily bring the Tantabus back and use it as a bloodhound from hell to hunt his followers down and literally scare them to death with nightmares. The only way to avoid it would be not sleeping and that only makes the nightmares worse when they finally do sleep. Even short dreamless naps are only a temporary stop gaps and after a week or so they would start hallucinating I.e. dreaming while fully awake meaning the Tantabus would no longer need them to sleep to hunt and kill it's prey.
Right now she is being nice, but if she is pushed into a corner she doesn't even need to go full on Nightmare to rip them a new one since everyone has to sleep sooner or later. This doesn't even touch on what the others could really do. Celestia really could call down a scorched earth policy on any city, town, or village that sided with him. Cadence could turn entire populations into suicidal thralls willing to suffer and die by the millions for their beloved princess. Discord is just one attack on Fluttershy away from going full on Cthulu/Joker hybred on everyone. And finally you have Twilight. Do you really think the element of magic wouldn't have figured out Starlight Glimmer's alterations to Starswirl's time spell, Tirek's magic drain, Chrysalis's shape shifting, or how the mirror pool made several dozen Pinkie Pie clones. She is just several friends and family members being brutally murdered away from making Equestria's worst enemies look like rank amateurs compared to what she could really do if she ever went all out with an absolute zero tolerance policy for anyone that just looked at her funny. She would make Fallout: Equestria look like a vacation to Disney Land by the time she got done. To sum it all up these aren't people you antagonise, they're the people you hide under the bed from and pray are never given a reason to go nuclear.
UPDATE PLEASE
Hello?
OY! update.
At the Tokyo Trials, Japanese officers who were convicted of using waterboarding were sentenced to death and hanged for this barbarity. I miss the days when there was a clear dividing line between the good guys and Axis war criminals.
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I think that's the beauty of it. Everyone see right through the facade these, I'm hesitant to call cam the Nazis, but that's what they are, ponies use.
Problem for these idiots is that they can't see they can never win.
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Is this going to be one of your stories you plan on continuing or is it going to be one you choose to cancel?
That is the question
Any news?
I hope you continue this soon, I so want to see if they gonna be thrown in Tartarus or the dungeons the death sentence
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Any update on this story?