The leaders of Equs… the real world leaders, all sat around a large round table. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, they had all been teleported by Discord, where they would discuss their course of action.
"Celestia, why have you called us here?" Asked Ember.
"You only ever summon us when there's something extremely urgent," King Talon of the Griffons added.
"Let alone make Discord teleport us here," High Priestess Ada of the zebras said.
"I'm sure I speak for everycreature here when I say the only reason we aren't in an outrage right now is because you had a good reas-… well, I think you probably had a good reason to teleport us all away from the kingdoms we have to rule," the minotaur king, steel horn, assumed.
"Speaking of which, why is Discord present for the summit?" Cadence asked.
"Well, to answer all your questions," - Celestia grew a worried look and hesitated, before continuing - "They have returned."
"What? Who has returned? Is it Tirek? Sombra once again? Chrysalis? Or… God forbid..." - thorax whispered softly - "...Grogar?"
"No, this is something far, far worse. I don't know if the changelings passed down the knowledge, but the rest of you should know about them," Luna said worriedly.
"Well, who has returned?" Price Rutherford of the yaks asked impatiently.
"The first humans," Celestia finally said after an intense build up. The whole room then immediately fell silent, with almost all of the Equs's leaders going wide eyed.
"But how is that even possible?" King Steel Horn asked.
"We… killed… every last one of them when we blew them up. There's no way they could have survived that," King Talon stated.
"I'm sorry, but you're all worried about a bunch of humans?" Queen Novo asked, confused.
"I don't get it either," Thorax added.
"They aren't just any humans," Luna said, "These are dangerous. Their power is nothing like you've ever seen!"
"But who are they? Can somecreature start making sense around here?" Queen Novo asked.
"They go by many names," High Priestess Ada said, "The first humans, the originals, the primordial men, the boom-boom boys, the masked men, among many others. But we know very little about them." She was cut off by King Talon as he took centre stage.
"What we do know is that a very, very, very, very long time ago, the world was populated only by humans. They had advanced to great heights, using technology to propel their species so far that it was rumored they had even gone to mars and back. They were the most powerful civilisation to have ever lived, and they had weapons so terrible that they put even the Elements of Harmony to shame," King Talon continued.
"The humans were the most powerful civilization to have ever existed?" Thorax asked.
"Indeed," Luna confirmed.
Thorax took notice that most of the other leaders had a serious look on their face. No doubt that whatever they were saying was the truth, since it would have simply been embarrassing for one of the leaders to speak of the humans with such amazement, and no doubt hurt their image. Thorax had to know more.
"So, if they were some big bad super civilisation… what happened to them?" Thorax asked.
"It was a meteor that wiped them out… or, more accurately, what the meteor was emitting. It emitted chaos magic, and while it is the most powerful form of magic, it proved to be harmful to humans. That magic is what wiped them out," Ember said.
"So, if a large meteor crashed into Equs and apparently wiped them out, how did they return?" Queen Novo asked.
"As we've already discussed, the first humans had a society very much like ours, only with the addition of extremely advanced technology," Celestia said, "Therefore, they also had large megacorporations, just like us. One of those corporations was known as the Vega Corporation. They were a huge conglomerate company that spanned the globe and provided their customers with things ranging from food and drinks, all the way up to providing First Human militaries with weapons. Therefore, they were the only other first humans with the capability and resources to construct this 'doomsday bunker'." Celestia was cut off as another continued narrating.
"Now, you may be asking what exactly this doomsday bunker is," King Talon said, "They essentially constructed a massive underground basement with reinforced walls. That itself is already amazing, considering they constructed it several kilometers underground. But not only that, but through their technology, they found a way to keep themselves frozen for one million years, before they reemerged. Yes, that’s how much power they possess."
"Wait… if they're just returning now, how do you already know so much about them?" Thorax asked.
"I'm glad you asked," King Steel Horn answered, "Remember the Great Equs War, when we defeated the humans and subjugated them for the atrocities they committed?"
"Of course, we all learn it in school," Thorax replied.
"What you know isn't the whole truth," King Steel Horn said, "It's true that they started conquering lands and killing everyone, but it wasn't just out of the need and want to take over other kingdoms, it was because of the Vega Corporation. You see, before they began their conquest, the First Humans granted us many gifts. They granted us the knowledge to create radios and speakers, trains, fridges to keep our food fresh which nearly eradicated starvation, a lot of pieces of medical technology and granting us medical knowledge which saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and many more wondrous inventions that you couldn't imagine living without. They even granted us a way to generate electricity without using magic, though that particular piece of technology had been long lost to time. However, their generosity quickly came to an end once they realised what they themselves could do with magic.” Celestia then picked up where the minotaur king left off.
“You see, magic is part of everything and every creature… except for the First Humans. They themselves found a way to take away the magic of others and give it to themselves and found out how to replicate exactly what Tirek does, only on a larger scale. You see, what magic that Tirek steals is only a mere fraction of what magic we actually have in us. The magic he steals is what gives us our power, but the magic the humans wanted to steal is what gave us our life. The magic we actually use is half of the magic we actually have, with the other half functioning as a sort of ‘life force’. Without the other half, if even a fraction of it was stolen, we would die. As creatures of magic, we cannot survive without it,” Celestia then took her breath and thought about what to say next, “The magic that we actually need to have coursing through us in order to live is what we call ‘passive magic’, and the magic that we use is what we call ‘active magic’. And what the humans did is oh so much worse than what Tirek did. Tirek intended to steal our active magic for power, but the First Humans intended to steal our very life force.”
“But… why would they do that? You mean all the people they killed… they stole their passive magic? Their life force?” Thorax asked.
“Indeed. The First Humans found a way to utilise our passive magic… for immortality. They created a machine that would remove our passive magic, killing us, while transferring it to them and elongating their lives,” Luna said, “They made a machine that would take away our life and give it to them. That’s how evil they are. The First Humans are a threat the likes of which we’ve never seen. We’ve faced nothing like them.”
“But you said you already defeated them, no?” Queen Novo asked, “So these should just be survivors, just remnants. Even with their weaponry, I’m sure we have larger numbers than them, correct? In fact, if they were really only the remaining survivors of a long dead civilisation, how many were there that they were able to cause you so much trouble? A hundred thousand? Five hundred thousand? A million?”
“Three thousand,” Celestia replied.
“T- three thousand? And they were able to cause so much trouble that every nation on Equs had to band together to defeat them?” Novo asked in disbelief.
“The problem wasn’t their numbers. The problem was that these First Humans… the members of the Vega Corporation, were able to unite the entirety of the human race, and assumed command of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. As we all know, a human with a weapon could easily beat any pony, griffon, or yack in melee combat without breaking a sweat. The only way we were able to defeat them was with the help of the minotaurs, dragons, and unicorns, and that had already effectively cut our military in half. The First Humans were able to defeat us only with the help of the native humans, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t dangerous as well,” Celestia replied., “As I’m sure you’ve heard, when the first humans attacked, they used these weapons called ‘guns’. These guns are essentially invisible spells that almost always instantly kill you by shooting tiny miniature cannonballs at their targets. On top of that, these weapons are able to fire several hundred of these mini cannonballs a minute.” Luna began to take over next.
“As a result of this, nocreature was able to even get close to them. Normally that wouldn’t be an issue for we could just use our magic, however, as my sister said earlier, the First Humans don’t have any magic,” Luna said, “You see, when magic affects somecreature, it reacts with the magic inside that person. Since the First Humans had no magic for ours to react with, they were completely impervious to it. Therefore, nocreature was able to get close enough to attack them physically and we could not attack them from range. The only option we were left with was to use ranged physical weapons, so we developed the bow. Of course, bows were nothing compared to the First Humans' guns, having a much slower rate of fire and a much shorter range, but we were able to take down a couple of them."
"So how were you able to defeat them the first time?" Thorax asked.
"We received help from Discord. At the time, we were unaware of the existence of the changelings. So Discord himself infiltrated the 'doomsday bunker' of the First Humans by shapeshifting into a high ranking First Human. He then discovered the First Humans' most devastating weapon, the thermonuclear warhead, or as we call it, the World Ender. Thank goodness they only had one of these, or they could very well have the power to end the world," King Talon explained.
"What the World Ender is," Luna picked up where he left off, "Is some sort of superweapon capable of generating an explosion big enough to destroy entire cities, maybe even entire kingdoms. Discord however, used it to his advantage. Once he infiltrated the First Humans' bunker, he figured out how to donate the weapon. So, he detonated it inside the human military's main, and only, base of operations, which they called Area 69. It was just our luck that a lot of the human soldiers were actually present within Area 69 at the time, so we were able to eliminate over a third of the human army, along with the First Humans themselves. The other two thirds of the army immediately fell into disarray, with a lot of their top generals being killed in the blast. And without the First Humans to guide them, their armies made stupid decisions and we were able to pick them off by using concentrated assaults. In fact, the badlands were as a result of the explosion of the World Ender."
Thorax and Queen Novo's eyes grew wide upon discovering this. "But like Queen Novo said, these are just their remnants, right?" Thorax asked worriedly, “They shouldn’t be as hard to deal with right?”
"Yes, it is a good thing that that is probably the case. This time it’ll be much easier to put them down. They don’t have the World Ender, they don’t have an army, and they don’t have an impenetrable fortress in the ground,” King Steel Horn said.
“That may be the case, but in order for them to remain less of a threat, we need to strike now. If we don’t eliminate the First Humans soon, they’ll spread. They’ll spread the idea of human superiority to the slaves, their power will give the humans a newfound confidence to rise up against us, and they will rebel. Usually, rebellions aren’t that hard to put down, seeing as a band of slaves just get together and charge at every single pony in sight without any strategy or clear goal in mind,” King Talon said, “However, the First Humans are much, much smarter than them, and if the First Humans utilise their war strategies, combined with the numbers and complete savagery of the human slaves, they will be unstoppable.”
“They won’t even need to get an army to follow them this time. All they have to do is free a few slaves and word will spread, causing rebellions to spring up all over Equestria. We will not be able to deal with them if they are able to convert the slaves to their cause,” Ember said.
“We must act now, before they are able to spread their influence throughout the slave population. What’s worse is that if they attack all at once, we won’t be able to defend against them. They will tear us apart from the inside,” King Talon said.
“But how do we even ‘strike now’? We don’t even know where they are,” High Priestess Ada asked.
“Well, we’ll just have to find them, won’t we? I’m sure if we launch a nationwide manhunt, we will be able to track them down,” Celestia said.
“Yes, but how long will that take? By the time we find them, they could very well already have an army by their side. And I’m sure I don’t have to remind you what it was like to fight against an organised human army, seeing as you yourself fought in the war,” Prince Rutherford said.
“We already know that wherever they are, they were able to launch an attack on Ponyville, so they should be nearby. We could send scouting parties in all directions and just hope that one of these parties finds them,” Luna said.
“So, you’re playing this by chance?” Prince Rutherford asked.
“We have no choice. It is our only option now,” Luna replied.
“Fine, I can see how that may be the case. But, I’m sure you’re not going to strike while they have the element bearers, are you?” Steel Horn asked, “Unless, of course, you are willing to strike while the bearers are in their custody?”
Celestia sighed. She knew that this was going to come up, and that it would be too much of a risk to attack the First Humans with Twilight and her friends in their custody, they had probably captured them to use them as leverage. No doubt that they would threaten to kill them if anycreature tried taking any action against them. But, fortunately for her, the First Humans no longer had their bunker, which was devoid of magic, to protect them. If they were hiding somewhere, no doubt wherever they were hiding would have ambient magic already present in the area. This gave Celestia an idea.
“We will be carrying out a rescue operation before the First Humans would be able to harm them, or worse. We weren’t able to teleport into their ‘doomsday bunker’ beforehand, because everything, including the air within the bunker, lacked any magic. We weren’t able to teleport because there would be nothing for our teleportation spells to react with. However, they no longer have a ‘doomsday bunker’, and theuer bunker was the only place in the world without a shred of ambient magic, which means that wherever they are, we would be able to teleport there. My plan is simple; we teleport in, get the bearers, then teleport out. After that, we attack them with an army large enough to completely overwhelm them,” Celestia suggested.
Discord then began speaking for the first time, and everyone turned their attention to him. “And with my help, we’ll be able to deal with them with no issues whatsoever. It’ll be a walk in the park. The most challenging part of this operation is finding them, not fighting them,” he said. He then got a more serious, menacing look. “The First Humans are going to pay for taking Fluttershy.”
“I guess that could work,” Rutherford agreed.
“I support your decision,” High Priestess Ada confirmed.
“Yeah, that’s definitely our best course of action if we wanna get the bearers out without them being harmed. They’ll never see it coming,” Ember said.
In the end, the decision was made to send a scouting party that would fan out from Ponyville and cover an area that would hopefully be large enough to locate the First Humans’ hideout. Of course, they weren’t expecting four hundred thousand humans, a heavily armed modern military, and tens of thousands of ‘World Enders’ to be at the humans’ disposal.
"Lieutenant Sharp!" A voice called out.
The Lieutenant turned around to find one of his indirect superiors approaching him. "Special Agent Sweetie Drops!" He said, saluting her.
"Good day, Lieutenant," she replied, "I'm sure you're wondering why I'm here. Well, I've been sent to check on you and make sure you know exactly what your mission entails. So, describe your mission and objective."
"It's a scouting mission. We are to fly straight ahead" - he pointed in the general direction ahead of him - "And see if we find a human rebellion base. If we do find a rebel base, we are not to engage them or let them know of our presence. Once we hit our mark, a hundred miles ahead of Tartarus, we'll begin turning back."
"And if you do encounter the human rebellion, remember to be stealthy. Don't stick around longer than you need to. Remember, these humans are extremely dangerous, and as with other humans, they have no qualms against killing innocent ponies," Agent Sweetie Drops replied, "And most of all, be careful out there, lieutenant. You may depart in ten minutes." The lieutenant gave one last salute, and Agent Sweetie Drops left to go and brief another scouting party.
Celestia and Luna are going to EAT EVERY SINGLE WORD!!!
yooo first
and good chapter
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also if eris adapts then she can counter discord and that will make the conflict longer as well as make the ponys ask why the humans have someone like discord
Damn... it's all Vega Corporation's fault, greedy bastards wanting immortality via killing everyone.
Now maybe that's just the new world leaders probably biased and/or incomplete version of the story.
We can't assume everything they said to be truth.
Then again, all that is irrelevant in the real problem. It does not justify enslaving an entire race, as if there weren't inocent and good humans that didn't approve of Vega Corporation actions and just wanted to live in peace in the new world.
The leaders said those humans gifted a lot of stuff to the other species in the world after all.
nice
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nope not first
hmmm it seams your right
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That awkward moment when you didn't reload the page :3
The Vega Corporation, then another bunker was created, privately, so they were the ones to start this, oh well.
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Maybe next time put a time limit, like "pool expires on dd.mm.21 and hh:mm"
and you gonna pay for Being a Traitor
Oh well, they think humans have nothing, are the same or worst than Vega Corporation that in the end was just a corporation.
They don't know that Vega Corporation had a simple base while Utopia is a bunker of multiple nations.
Not only that it seems that Vega Corporation didn't had any advanced equipment,like guns,planes,satellites,etc
They don't know that Discord is human do they?
Well, I hope he dies anyway.
A simple sniper shot from kilometers away and he is dead
Sins of few doesn't give right to enslave the rest of an entire species. And trying to go in "guns blazing", as its said, will not paint the Equestrians and their allies in any positive light. As if there is much of that when looking at them from human eyes.
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Yea, imma do that next time
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Dont forget to add the timezone as well to avoid confusion.
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Discord himself doesn't know he's human. It'll be explained much later, but it doesn't matter if I spoil it now since it won't affect your viewing of the story, and possibly even make things easier to understand.
So, if you want spoilers: Basically all memory of Discord's (aka Richard Stetson or some other generic name that I have yet to figure out) old life was removed so they could control him better. They would have been able to brainwash him into becoming a fiercely loyal, reality warping soldier, which would have been easier if it was pretty much a clean slate. It's basically like a winter soldier situation.
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Yep, the Vega Corporation was nothing compared to the Utopians. Not even child's play.
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Oh yeah, that too. Thanks for the reminder.
I think Celestia, with all of her talk about how humans were vastly superior in technology, could have assumed that they built a second bunker. In her perspective is it really that far fetched to assume that?
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She could have assumed that, but she also could have not. Basically what I'm saying is there's no reason for her to have assumed the First Humans built more than one bunker.
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Why would humans, afraid of extinction, build only one bunker? Yes, you said most of their resources went to Utopia. However, a private company managed to build their own. Celestia knows that Vega built it. Did she not assume that with the resourcefulness of humans that they would also build a few more if not as many as possible to escape the extinction level radiation?
Okay, so Atticus's daughter is turning into a draconequus when she's exposed to chaos magic. Does that mean that any human exposed to chaos magic either dies or turns to a draconequus? Maybe the latter is a much rarer case since the only known draconequus is Discord and the soon-to-be draconequus who is Atticus's daughter. So, that means Discord was a human too right? (well the Princesses thought that he 'disguised' as a human)That means he's a traitor isn't he?
Anyway, nations of Equus won't stand a chance against Utopia should they butt heads. They even struggle against the Vega Corporation who's only 3000 strong with idk number of native humans. Even then, they won because Discord detonated the thermonuke. Now, Utopia is billions of times stronger than Vega Corporation, it's basically funded by countries in the 21st Century instead of a mere corporation, their military would be more professional and more equipped with the abundance of special forces and equipment from each country(well, mostly the US but it's the strongest country in the world anyway).
Did the Great Equus War happened like 100 years after the ponies gained sapience? Since Thorax and Novo have no idea about them. So, it must be really ancient.
When Sweetie Drops just happend upon a giant hole where Tartarus used to be….. hoo boy.
I'm feeling a strong need to just abandon Earth and terraform Mars right now
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Yeah but...
Why erase all memories?
Especially all of them, that's just a stupid and unnecessary choice.
If something like that would be done for real they would just keep the basic memories of what he was, that he volunteered for the experiment,to what country he is loyal to, that he should be loyal to humanity,etc.
Even then if they would decide to brainwash him, they would rather do it first then upgrade him, because then you don't end up with a superweapon not loyal to you and who doesn't know who to trust running around.
Also, it doesn't seem that they thought that draconequus would be able to manipulate reality
Discord being an ex human is confirmed with eris turning into one, and with that we could assume he betrayed the vega corporation. But i believe no sane human would doom their whole species for a bunch of aliens enslaving humans, especially if discord had any family in the bunkers, only way he would betray humanity is if he being controlled somehow. Eris has to be seen by discord for a chance at bringing over to humanity's side.
Wait so wouldn't the magic stealing also steal magic from native humans that had the same magic like ponies?
Also isn't there something weird?
Wouldnt active magic also worked in extending the lives too?
Why creating so many problems when you can steal active magic again and again.
Also wow I was close and right many times XD
Like with teleportation and magic in the air.
Especially relating to passive and active magic, thought only in Discord's case.
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Wait what?
Isn't extending their life just healing your cells?
Cells degrade over time with each cell division -living, pass of time, healing wounds,etc .
So what they need is more telomerase
What is telomerase? watch this, start at 7:30
What?
There is no way for this to happen
Not only he would have to somehow have a badge, ID, know all procedures, and know all access codes that change every few hours.
He would also need to disguise as a high ranking human that had access to a sequence panel of a nuke.
That high-ranking human wouldn't be somewhere far away but in the base and people would notice two of them walking around, especially if one of them doesn't know where to go and looking for something.
He would also need a key to arm the nuke.
Not only that he would need another person to arm the nuke at the same time.
Then the alarms would go off signaling the arming of the nuke or something like that,etc.
And that is after learning about all that and what to do after, while being suspicious as fuck.
If a megacorpation can do that they are screwed
Is some nationalist about how humans are better then pony and how they need to be exterminated like the holocaust electric Boogaloo
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Honestly this is why I hate the final season. Discord literally caused EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM in that season and he got off completely scott-free. Weras the three that were victims in his schemes got the maximum sentence possible because they were goaded on by him
Clip from CNN: Canterlot News Network
"Welcome to CNN, Canterlot News Network, I am your host for tonight, Starry Breeze. We start our story today with an attack on Ponyville! Yes, the friendship center of the world has been attacked, by humans no less! Eyewitness reports say that the humans came in strange carriages with blades on the side's of them. Once they landed in front of the Palace of Friendship, human soldiers, clad in strange, seemingly unprotective armor, piled out of the largest carriage pointing strange batons at innocent ponies. Then a human diplomat who identified himself as 'Bob' stepped out of the carriage last. He said they came from a fictional nation, called the 'United States of Utopia'.
The Royal Guard, who had quickly arrived on the scene, attempted to subdue the 'Diplomat', by using a spell, but shockingly the blasts did nothing to the human! The Sergeant who was present, ordered more blasts but only the same effects happened. Even when the highly trained Sergeant fired the blasts himself were the effects the same! Princess Twilight asked what they wanted and they responded that they wanted to take Princess Twilight and the Elements of Harmony away! The Royal Guard after hearing what the humans wanted, launched an assault at the humans, to save the Elements and the Princess from the humans clutches, now dear listeners is where I must ask to cover the ears of any foals you may have near you, as this is the most, upsetting, shocking and violent part of this event.
The Humans in retaliation, raised their batons, and fired off some sort of spell from them. The battle lasted a grand total of two seconds with all the guard there destroyed. The Elements fled, but they were tailed by a pack of flying beasts that emerged from the flying carriage and chased them, firing some sort of red gas into the building they were hiding in. The Elements were forced out and subdued by the soldiers, who foalnapped them and brought them back to the flying carriages. They soon took off the way they came and left Ponyville in chaos. This is all the information we have at the time. This is a grave day for all of Equestria as our greatest heroes are gone, and many lives were lost. We'll be taking a break now, this is Starry Breeze and you're listening to CNN, Canterlot News Network."
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Hopefully they side with the humans
This very much reminds me of the 1970’s Planet of the Apes stuff; including mini series.
I really hope that Twilight call Celestia and Luna hypocrites. They preach about peace harmony and the power of friendship but enslave an entire race because they fear them for the sins of the father. No wonder they rebal we never show them Harmony only sorrow and chains. Why would humans want that they only want one thing we all have the desire to be free to live in Harmony. You could have raise first humans to live by our side in harmony instead you choose to live with our feet over them. What the defiance between what they did to what You did?
That's no excuse. You should have written both and which ever wins is what you release or set a deadline for the poll and have that set your final decision for the chapter to write.
Right, wrong, and wrong in that order kingy. I daresay it'll be tougher this time, especially since they have the moral high ground here (and your most powerful artifacts always side with the moral high ground).
I can easily see a pair of Pegasi dropping out of the sky after a pair of armed gunships decided to hail them for escort either away or somewhere else to land for questioning.
Except, instead of questioning Pegasi the humans will get Pegasus pancakes.
Pls commit genocide against every single one of them
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I ... feel a little silly for forgetting to write about this yesterday (i had the same idea). Well, instead, I'll just agree with you now.
If they're going to attack Utopia ... well
Insert "Hell march" from Red alert
This is going to be fast...and maybe fun
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Hopefully discord realizes that if he detonates one nuke in Utopia like the first time around it will start a chain reaction with the remaining warheads potentially destroying the entire planet. If the slavers realize it's a mutually assured destruction scenario, Utopia will secure power and dismantle the genocidal regimes. One can hope at least
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Plus, Utopia is a labyrinth in comparison to the much smaller bunker they destroyed previously.
Wait, if they knew about this, then why not kill them?
Yikes.
So that how they didn’t die to the chaos magic?
Wait, why is ember worried? Aren’t bullets unable to penetrate dragon scales?
Unless they help train eris, then it’s GG.
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Yeah, sorry for the wait. Was gonna reply to comments today.
1. Why take the magic from humans when you can get their help to take everyone else's? And also active and passive magic are like the same thing but different (like how AA and AAA batteries are different sizes but still have the same change [1.5 V])
2. Yeah, your theory was correct.
3. I mean... scientifically yes, but it's not possible yet. And since it's the mlp universe, you can just assume magic. Do you really think that Alicorns have unlimited telomerase? And also, would you have known that if film theory didn't post the killing minions video XD?
4. He did disguise as some high ranking human. Well, any first human is high ranking, seeing as there are only three thousand of them and they ruled over all the other humans. But yeah, he took the form of some military leader or something, it just wasn't mention and left to the reader's assumptions.
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nice