Chapter VIII: The Code Is More Like Guidelines, Really
Okay, no one panic, I'm alive, I'm alive! Here's something for all of you, fresh off the grill!
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“Man, it's been a day...” Kyle let off, sitting down on the bench. He was at the mall, two bags overstuffed with groceries either side of him as he slipped his shoe off, setting it on the opposite knee as he started to massage it through the sock.
It had been a long day; while he'd gotten out of work at two thirty he had to go to the shop to drop the van off to get it tuned up, go pick up the stain to finish the shelves he and Aunt Polly started three months ago, before she became too ill to continue.
It was a shame he didn't finish it until now, but between grieving and helping Twilight he had a full plate to start with.. His Aunt had played video games since she first played Super Mario Brothers Three and Legend of Zelda when she went over to a friend's place. Since then she'd accumulated a collection of consoles, and a library of games for each. She had kept her old NES games in a cupboard for years, until one of her guests had a overestimated his agility during a dinner Polly hosted.
Thankfully his foot didn't break...
The cupboard was destroyed, but rather then get a new one they hit on the idea to build shelves themselves. Oak boards, stain, router, everything. It was just another bonding project for them. It was a shame she'd never see them put up.
They were built, the router being used to put nice edges onto the wood. All that needed to happen was staining the pieces and instillation.
After buying the stain and few other odd supplies he'd stopped off at the mall, grabbing groceries and Super Mario 3D Land.
Aunt Polly always loved Mario games the most.
Even the crappy ones.
Just as he set his foot back into his sneaker a foot pressed itself onto the back of the bench, making his head turn.
The first thing he noticed was the three inch red heels.
The second thing he noticed was the long, silky smooth leg.
The third thing he noticed was the micro mini skirt, black with red trimmings.
The fourth thing he noticed was the pink thong from how spread the legs were, and how short the skirt was.
The fifth thing he noticed was they all belonged to Linda. “Hey there, Handsome. Miss me?”
“Like the flu.” Kyle replied, leaning back into the seat, crossing his arms.
“Ouch.” Linda let off, wincing. “Come on, baby...” She said, setting her foot down before moving to sit down next to him, resting her arm on the back of the bench, facing him. “Are you going to blame me for having needs that had to be filled?”
Kyle bit hit tongue, before speaking what she was filled with. “Linda, you cheated on me. Playing innocent isn't going to win you brownie points.”
“Oh, come on...” She let off, pouting as she crossed her arms, still keeping her torso facing him. “You think that new girlfriend you found is going to be as awesome as I am.”
“One, Twila isn't my girlfriend. Two, she's pretty awesome in her own right.” Kyle spat back at her.
Left unsaid was the fact she was a unicorn who traveled across dimensions, but she wouldn't believe it if he said it.
“And yet you buy her shoes...”
“I bought you shoes.”
“And they still fit.” She replied, grinning as she reached over, setting a hand on his shoulder that was swatted aside. “Oh come on, don't tell me that old woman is warning you about 'girls like me', hmm?”
“Aunt Polly died.”
Out of the corner of his eye he saw her whole demeanor change. Her eyes widened in shock, her smirk vanishing a moment later as she brought a hand to her mouth. “Oh god... I didn't... Oh, I'm sorry...”
“About the only thing you've been sorry for.” Kyle let off, picking up his bags as he stood up.
“Kyle...” Linda let off, extending a hand before pulling it back as he turned a glare on her.
“You never apologized.” He hissed out, trying not to cause a scene as people passed them by in the mall. “Ever. You blamed me for not fucking you, you blamed Uric for being too charming, you blamed my Aunt for not liking you, mainly because you cheated and not once did you say sorry. For anything.” He snorted, adjusting his bags. “I don't know if I could have taken you back, but if you can't even admit blame, why should I bother?” He said before turning and walking towards the exit.
Linda for her part gave him a sad, hurt look before huffing. “That's because I don't have anything to be sorry for!” She spat out to herself before letting off a sigh. “...right?”
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“I'm home!” Kyle let off as he entered the house, kicking his shoes off before setting the can of stain by the door. Sighing he shut the door, walking to the kitchen, past Twilight with an X-Box controller in her hand, setting his bags down.
He was still irritated with Linda, but decided it wasn't worth getting too upset over.
Or rather that she wasn't worth it.
“Hi.” Twilight replied, sticking her tongue out, bangs coming out of the TV as she focused on what she was doing. As he set the food away, leaving the box of Panko bread crumbs on the counter he looked to see what she was playing.
He could make out two wooden ships firing cannons at each other. “Pirates?”
“Sid Meier's, yes.” She replied. Once the food was set away one of the ships slammed into the other.
The scene changed to the strapping young captain fighting the opposing captain, the only delay being Twilight choosing the longsword. He always used the rapier. Kyle moved into the living room, standing next to her as she played.
“I'm surprised at how accurate it is to actual piracy.” She added as she forced the other pirate back on the screen with a stab. “I mean I know there are liberties taken, and unlike Equestrian pirates they have cannons, but still.”
“Wait, you have pirates in happy-go-lucky-sugar-land?” Kyle asked, confused as Twilight rolled her eyes.
After the other captain lost, and was knocked overboard by a load swinging into him, she set the controller down. “We do. Bad ones, mostly. They tend to embrace the romanticism of piracy, and think that it's fairly easy, get them stallions... They wind up being so sloppy that the Royal Guard tracks them down within a week. The only exception within the last two hundred years was the Diamond Crest Pirates who operated for over a full year before being caught. By my brother, actually. The were led by a Diamond Dog who did know what he was doing. But eventually Shiny sent one of his stallions undercover and got his first mate, a unicorn mare, I think, to brag in bed.”
“Huh.” Kyle let off, moving to sit next to her. “So ponies on the high seas, huh?”
“Ah, no.” Twilight replied, shaking her head. “Airships, mostly. Like the Final Fantasy ones. They're still expensive, but Blue Yonder Industries has been making them more affordable as of late. Actually, some of the first airships wound up being used for piracy. Interesting story really.”
“You know, I should have asked about your world a bit more.” Kyle said, crossing his legs. “So, let's start here.”
“Wow... Most of my friends wouldn't ask...” She said, tapping her chin as she leaned back into the seat. “But... Okay... Well, you remember what I told you about Princess Luna turning into Nightmare Moon and being banished for one thousand years?” She saw Kyle nod so she carried on. “Well, afterward Princess Celestia took a leave of absence. She... She had to come to terms with banishing her own sister so she left Canterlot in what's known as the 'Dusk Century.' It wasn't a full century, mind you, just eighty five years. After she left she placed Princess Silver in charge, who in turn used a disguise spell to pretend to be Princess Celestia, fearing that without her on the throne Equestria would come under attack. Which it did, leading into the Fallen Crown War, when we were attacked by an alliance of the Minotaurs and Griffins. Then again, the Griffin Empire doesn’t have the heart to attack when Princess Celestia is on the throne. When she went missing four hundred years ago they attacked again, and pretty well ran when she came back. Mind, they were kept out of Equestria for the most of that war, with the bulk being fought in the Fillypine Islands so they wouldn't have enough of a claw hold to attack--”
“Twilight, we're getting off track.” Kyle said, holding a hand up to stop her. “Pirates?”
“Oh, right, sorry.” Twilight let off, blushing a bit before speaking again. “Anyway, Princess Celestia was attempting to bring the station of stallions up to equality with mares before she left. It was a hard struggle; due to the gender imbalance and higher numbers mares had a tendency to look down on stallions, not unlike women in your history. Things to be desired, protected, not as smart, and so on. Princess Silver was expected to carry on Princess Celestia's work, but failed. She was more focused on maintaining her illusion and keeping the major players of the day happy and keeping the three tribes together. This led to a period where mares mistreated stallions and more or less got away with it.
“One stallion was named Lifting Sparrow. He was a pegasus who was... Umm, it's regrettable to say but...”
“I'm sure whatever happened to him humans have done to humans.” Kyle said, nodding at her and gesturing for her to continue.
“...He was treated as breeding stock for a herd of mares. However he had gotten in contact with other upset and downtrodden stallions and they decided to band together. They hatched a very daring plan. At the time, Airships were still new and the Guard was outfitting them with ballista and other weapons. One of the first had just been finished and Sparrow and his followers decided to steal it. They used one of their numbers to distract the ship's guard with flirting before they were knocked out from the back. Taking the helm, the now Captain Sparrow took his crew and named the ship 'Pearl Breaker'.
“They raided villages and towns, stealing food and valuables before using fences in the cities to acquire bits. They made their base in an island on a large lake, which had hills all around it, meaning their camp wasn't visible from the shore. They called it Bucks Port. They spent over twenty years going across Equestria, raiding and pillaging. They used young stallions to find out what the armies movements were going to be, as well as find good places to strike. They're best known for the... Well, the Rape of Hooferville...
“It was a response to what happened to a young colt named Loose Spirits. Poor colt.. Sold by his own family as a sex slave, abused and forced to clean, not able to play, not able to learn, just forced to work or breed day to night. One night he ran away into the woods, but he was caught two days later. Beaten black and blue. Both front legs broken... Nurses patched him up and he told the Guard what happened, but nothing was done to the family. Not even a stern word. All the townsfolk just... acted like it never happened.
“Then Captain Sparrow learned of it and came and attacked. He captured the colt's family, and all of the mares that didn't escape. He had the mares lined up, tied down and told his stallions to use them. He even coaxed most of the stallions in town to take part, raping every mare left in the town, sparing only the fillies. And he waited until heat season to start up... It's estimated that forty five percent of Hooferville today has lineage to the crew of the Pearl Breaker. Loose Spirit joined the crew, as did other stallions from the town.
“After that Princess Silver devoted a lot of time to bringing him down, but wasn't able to. Eventually a band of pegasus mares formed a watch group called the Sky Burst Squadron to fight back. They eventually located Bucks Port and led the guard there. Sparrow and most of the pirates fled on the Pearl Breaker, but it was damaged in combat before being forced to the ground and boarded. Most of the crew was caught, but some like Loose Spirit escaped. As for their leader, well it was they day they almost caught Captain Sparrow. After the Bucks Port Raid he just... vanished. No one knows what happened. Some say he died of wounds accumulated from fleeing the battle. Others say he took his booty and quietly formed his own herd in the outskirts of the Kingdom. Others say he was caught, but the guards covered up imprisoning or killing him to avoid making him a martyr.”
“Wow, that is quite a bit of history.” Kyle said finally. “Need a drink?”
“Yeah, please.” She said as Kyle stood, walking to the fridge. “The after effects were wide reaching though. Princess Silver realized she needed to prevent another Sparrow, so she carried on Princess Celestia's work. While the public did resist, she laid out the foundations for gender equality.” Kyle sat back down next to her, passing her a can of Pepsi in his hand. She popped it open before taking a long sip. “It still wouldn't be until after Princess Celestia came back that fully equality would come about, but that's another tale for another time...”
“Well, maybe we can do another history lesson later.” He said, standing up and going back to the door, picking up the can of stain. “I'll be in the basement, finishing something up. Call if you need me.”
“Okay!”
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Italics are borked
Your whole story is like this. Fix it.
Most of the story was italicized. You MIGHT want to fix that.
The italics derped at this point
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKK!!! ZOMBIE!!!!!!!
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I'm Jewish, actually, but I loved how the author included all the history. It made me proud.
I see what you did there.
Oh, this again. That's nice. Let's see what you've got this time.
3981340 3981343 3981359 3981360 Fixed. Always that ONE little thing.
3981368 No, I'm not a zombie, put the shotguns away!
3981393 **Whistles innocently**
3981403 We need an holiday chapter and how it originated in Equestria.
KYLE! WHY ARE ALL HUMAN MALES NAMED KYLE!?
Other than that, this looks interesting.
Oh no, Twilight, don't get suckered in to mainstream religion! It's the bane of humanity!
Neato. ^_^ Aerial pirates are best pirates.
And yeah, I hope you have your delete finger strong for the next chapter... and I strongly advise you to use it. No good to you or anyone can come of a religion fight in your story's comments so it'll be best to strangle the misshapen baby in the crib.
3981403
. . . All this talk of pirates and airships makes me want to play Skies of Arcadia: Legends again. And watch Pirates of the Caribbean.
Also. Noticed this.
I wasn't aware TV Tropes had a roving circus act.
Just reminding you: Author's notes should be in the author's notes box.
I hope you to into more than just Christianity
.....are..... are you God?
holy SHIT,do NOT bring religion into this!
its insanity! NYEEEARRGRGAHH
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tis a cool name
3981377 jewhoof
Interesting... very interesting Equestrian history you have there. I certainly would like to hear/see more.
Religion: nothing but shit and fairytales
Wuh?
Who said anything about shotguns?
Religion.
Well, this won't end well.
Really hoping that Kyle gives a good explaination, not pushing Christanity to the fore front or glorifying it, telling Twilight that you can choose to believe whatever you want to believe and that no one is forcing you. Or, that you don't even have to have a religion.
Sorry if I'm botching my words, but this is a really sore subject for me.
3981542 I'm hoping he doesn't glorify it or make it sound like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, all that jazz.
You better make sure it's impenetrable, cause you're gonna get torched by the atheist crowd if you make Twilight a Christian, or you're gonna get flamethrowered by the Christians if Twilight totally disses Christianity. I hope you can find some middle ground there...
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Shit and fairytales that have given mankind its moral values and reasons to uphold those values. Just sayin'...
3981696 me to
3981702 give her a logical analysis it's the natural course of action for one learning about a subject
3981702 you don't need religion to know not to be evil
3981377
Join Up!
Jewish brony group
3981741
I'm the founder
3981557
Hell yeah!
Also, look up Jewish Bronies in the search for groups thing. You'll find a group I founded.
3981763 I actually just came back from a birthright trip to Israel
3981769
Ni
Yay, you're back! As for the religion thing, try to have Twilight look at things as logically as possible. That's the best I can say.
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I do agree with that. Religion is essentially man's embodiment of morals, reasons why we should do/not do things. You can tell whether something is good or not by your own ideals, but religion is a shared set of morals that everyone can base off of.
I'm just trying to defend the religion-isn't-just-shit-and-fairytales viewpoint.
I will say you do not specifically need religion for determining evil from good. It is your own personal choice.
And I agree, give her a logical analysis, let Twilight sort it out for herself.
3981702 Most stories with morals were first written by Aesop (Aesop's Tales, or Aesopia), such as The Tortoise and the Hare. While "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" was most likely added by someone else later, we get most of our morals from non-religious things.
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I feel so stupid right now......
might i interest you in the Zuko suit; so good the fire will bend around you
Strange... this chapter did not count towards my unread chapter number... I only found it in my feed...
Jack: 1. a device for lifting heavy objects, esp. one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.
Jack = Lifting
Lifting Sparrow = Jack Sparrow
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IT'S A MIRACLE!
Hope Kyle is neutral/Agnostic upon religion. Not gonna say anything mean.
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Aseop: 600 BC
Moses: Averaged around 1500 BC
(Just sayin')
Moses sure didn't write cute little stories about animals and their interactions, but he laid down the law (literally!) for the Jewish people, a law that became the basic foundation of almost every modern country's law and judicial system.
Sure, morals have been outlined in non-religious text, but a lot of them relate back to base values concreted in pre-existing religion(s).
Sky piracy is probably a bit harder than sea borne piracy (at least for ship raiding, raiding of towns seems easier) as their's no isolated bodies of water because you have the entire skies to maneuver a ship and no specific shipping routes that have to be used save for expedience.
As to flame proofing for the topic of religion *tosses image over* catch!
img.wikinut.com/img/2l.fmbr_76rq6ime/jpeg/724x5000/Golden-Rules.jpeg
Doesn't solve everything mind you but it should take some pressure off right?
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From what I can tell, sentience is the ability to simply be aware. Sapience, however, is the ability to think, deduce, and intuitively manipulate one's life and surroundings. As was said, this would qualify humans as sapient, while most to all of the animals within the animal kingdom are sentient with some slowly yet surely crossing the line between the two.
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Sentient means that you only go of instinct, and cannot achieve higher thought. For example a sentient being can answer simple questions, but cannot not answer complex ones, and also cannot form questions. Sapient means to be wise, and able to achieve higher thought processes. Sapient beings can form questions, over come instinct, and feel a wider range of emotions. Humans are sapient, thus earning the title Homo Sapiens(wise man), while animals are sentient.
3981761 Looking up the definitions, 'sapient' is actually a bad replacement. 'Sentient' is closer to what people mean by it even if, taken literally, it also includes animals. And computers. And traffic cameras.