Interlude 2: A house divided
"Let this very special emergency meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders commence!" Applebloom shouted, pounding her hoof on the table before her. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle both tapped their hooves on the table as well. The blinds of the clubhouse were opened wide, letting the sun shine in. It was a warm day, and quite pleasant in their little tree house. Snacks that Applebloom had brought were on the table for later. “Sweetie Belle, you wanted us all tah come here. What’s up?”
"We are going to cover the debate tonight!” Sweetie Belle shouted. “It’ll be exciting, especially since we can get press seats... the best seats in the house! Cheerilee asked if we could write about the debate for our column, since we were talking about the elections and all in class. She thought it would be good if we saw democracy first hand.” The cream colored filly was bursting with excitement, much to the amusement of her two friends.
"I think the other newspapers might be covering it, though. It seems like pretty big news," Scootaloo said, standing up. "Why does Cheerilee want us to cover it?"
"She wants us to see it, first hand, and write something the whole class can read in class. And we can also write it for the stallions who can't go, instead of just the voters." Sweetie Belle shrugged.
“I think it’s great,” Applebloom said. “I mean, we covered the stuff happening in Cloudsdale, but by the time anypony read our article it was old news."
"But we got an exclusive interview with Rainbow Dash! That made ours more awesome!" Scootaloo objected.
"Still, it would be nice tah get noticed, once and for all,” Applebloom said. “Cheerilee trusted us with this, an’ ah got a good feeling ‘bout it. I say we cover the story, but we do it real special like."
"We should take the story and write it like an action movie!" Scootaloo yelled suddenly. "Just imagine our headline: How Rainbow Dash Deals with the Dangerous Debate! We'd be a hit!"
The other two crusaders looked at her as if lobsters were crawling out of her ears. Sweetie Belle cleared her throat after an uncomfortable silence.
"Or... we could maybe just write it like a serious news article."
Applebloom quickly nodded. "Ah think that might be the right call. This is pretty serious stuff. Mah brother and sister ‘ave been talkin’ bout it, on and off. They don’t talk about it when ah’m in the room though, so it’s gotta be juicy."
Scootaloo slunk into her desk and mumbled something to herself, though the other two crusaders didn't quite catch it.
Ideas were exchanged between the three friends, as cookies were munched and juice was drank.
“I just… I got ah good feeling about this,” Applebloom kept saying, almost at routine intervals.
“It’s a good idea,” Scootaloo said, “but we have to make it interesting to our readers. I don’t even think most mares read about the election. How are we going to get a bunch of fillies and colts to bother? And stallions who have no stake in it?”
Sweetie Belle opened her mouth to say something, but closed it quickly. She opened her mouth again, and said, “Well, maybe we'll come up with an idea before tonight. We all need to go get permission to go anyway. I kinda haven't asked my parents yet." A cute blush formed on the cream colored filly.
”I’m sure they won’t say no though! Or, I’ll just ask Rarity. As long as I’m out of the house, she’s happy. Probably has some extra important order to finish up and can’t spend the night with me anyway.”
"Ahnd Ah'm sure Applejack won't mind. She usually lets me go to these things, especially if Ahm with you two. She knows we can get ourselves in trouble, but she also knows that we can get out of it jus' fine too. Ah'll be there."
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"No way, no how, am I lettin' you go to that debate!” Applejack said. With a grunt of exertion, she kicked her powerful hoof back and slammed it into a tree. Much to her frustration, most of the delicious fruit remained on the branches. “First Big Mac, and now you? How hard is it to just stay on the farm and mind your own business for once?"
"But sis!” Applebloom shouted. “Ah need ta' go! It's for the student paper! Besides, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo will be there too! Ah can't let them down."
Applejack turned to her sister. "Ah'm sorry, 'Bloom, but I need yah help tonight. We got a lot of apples to buck and prepare for the market, ahnd Ah need all hooves on deck. "
"But... but... but..." Applebloom replied stupidly.
"No. We have work ta do tonight. Real work. We can't waste our time listenin to some fancy yarns ‘bout stuff that don’t need changin’. Now go get Big Mac an' tell him it’s time ta start workin."
"Sis, I ain't seen Big Mac ahll day. Do ya have any idea where he might be?"
Applejack eyes’ opened wide for just a moment. Her concentration lost, she hit the side of the tree instead of dead center, and ended up scraping her hoof over the bark. Although she turned to the tree, ready to curse, she remembered Applebloom, and bit her tongue.
"Ah saw him early this mornin', an he told me..." A sudden look of horror crossed her face. "Bloom, go inside. I got an errand to run." Before the filly could question her sister further, Applejack took off, heading towards town. When he said he was goin' ta the debate, ah didn't think he meant it! How foalish of me. Big Mac's an Apple, an' Apples never lie.
Applebloom watched her sister run off. When certain she was out of sight, the filly also took off toward the town, careful to take the long road.
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New Chapter! YES!!!!!
3529476 true but remeber some time new things can do more harm than good sometime, we have to look at bote side at things before making things move on.
I mean now we just find out we can make life out of metal and that of a like that right there i have good resno to fear it i look at the befit and the down side and if you ask me there more down side than good
3523232 remind me of what use to be the great soviet union becasue stailn fucked them over and killed is best frd to become head in power
New chapter!
Small chapter
3547008 A bit too small, too.
3546973
How does that have anything to do with Skydrake's argument?
It's nice to see you again, but it would be nicer if you had longer chapters out and updated more frequently .
Hmm... looks like this might actually have some substance to it unlike most fics. Excited to give it a read.
3547114 What I got from that was Celestia is a totalitarian like Stalin and if she just wanted to remove or change a law then she could just brush aside local laws to suit her needs.
3547114 I was talking about how ponies way of thinking that using old is a good thing but it can back stab you in the end, or you can try something new but your not willing to try becasue you in the end will get back stab.
See AJ is afed of new ideas and of like thinking it will be the end but look at the USA when it was starting out, it was a new idea on how there government work and a new system that help way more than our kings and of like.
Than you look at Russian that want to have a commie country, it work but than the guy who made it got back stab in the end and he take over sure he did great in the begging but than he start to killing people that didn't believe in his way of a so call perfect world.
See this idea of making everyone having equal rights is a good thing and it have more pros than cons in the end. But AJ don't see it don't way.
She want everthing to be the some and never fix it, this only going to end badly in the end if this keeps up, if you remeber there are some parts in our world that woman are not aollow to walk freely around town with out a man on there side or elsa they go to jail
3547203
...What?
3547239 ok let me re do that.
AJ way of think is like how people in iraq and other 3rd world contrys are, they think they don't need to fix but in turn there worng and it's hurting there contry and stuff like that.
But i can undersand why it's part of there cutler and stuff like that.
AJ is just doing that she afed of it becasue if we have read in the fic she aferd of loseing land and more about her life but really it was not really the case.
Just like how we just did with the navde armica when we was fighting tham and take there land for ourself.
They didn't want to lose there way of life but sadly in the end they have to.
If you ask me something you have to give up something for a batter tommor but sometime it's ok to see new ideas in a bad way, like i say about the USSR people have open arms with the idea but in the end it fucked them over and thx to a carzy ass laeder have killed if i remeber 20 mill people for it
3547126 College. What can I say?
3547361 Quit college and devote all your time to writing fim fics?
3547377 I'm sure that would pay the bills and totally be legal, riiiiiiiiiiiiight?
There's an odd link inserted at the end of this chapter, before the author's note, I don't think it's supposed to be there.
3547383 Dangit, you caught my product placement.
Fixed.
3547415 Carmel is a choice I made on purpose.
I will explain it in a later chapter.
3547381 If you play your cards right, then yes. All you need is one lucky lotto ticket and you're set.
3523232
This. A million times this. I've said basically exactly this every time that law has come up in the story.
3547188
It's not so much "Celestia is an absolute monarch" as "Ponyville is violating a number of fundamental civil rights of half of its inhabitants." Yet apparently Celestia is totally okay with allowing local government to run roughshod over the rights of Equestrian citizens that she is honorbound to protect and watch over. I'd like to think that not swooping in the moment she heard of said law, to slap everyone on the town council over the back of the head with a rolled up newspaper, and telling them how disappointed she is in them would be considered to be horribly out of character on her part by just about anyone.
Silly aj why will you saying no stop ab?
You want me to comment on how bad this fic is? Fine
This one is completely totally unoriginal, with no interesting characters whatsoever and 0 redeeming value. I totally felt like I lost every single second of the time I spent reading. I will fav and like just to unfav and dislike, that is how much I hate it.
Also, this comment is to be taken dead serious and literal word by word. It is in absolutely no way shape or form sarcasm. Like, not at all. 0. Nu-huh. Not sarcasm.
And I most definetly didnt enjoy this story and would recommend it to everyone. Nope, that's not me
... against itself will not stand. - Matthew 12:25
I'm sorry, I had to say it.
3547555 I see what you did there.
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3547562 Amen! :P
3547492
Agreed, wholeheartedly.
3547203
Ok, I get what you're saying now, but for both our sakes and everyone else's, use a spellchecker.
3548198 I am using one right now, but in English class i get noting but a D- and a C- at best.
Anyway you know what am saying now right.
AJ is thinking like thos 3rd world contrary now and not seeing the befit this can bring to all. But it's ok to fear new ideas because if we don't than we all be in toble like the USSR did and the Nazi did.
You have to look really hard and see bote short therm and long them to run things as perfect we can make it
“I just… I got ah good feeling about this,”
please don't say that Applebloom.
You keep saying that over and over again
STOP TEMPTING FATE!
3547546 No it's not a Democracy. We are not a Democracy, our founders made sure of that.
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Yes we are, that is all.
3548601 I agree.
Finally got around to reading this... It's better than I expected - great work.
I'm starting to think that the CMC might be sympathetic to the Stallion rights cause. I can definitely see Apple Bloom opposing Applejack, mostly because AJ treats her little sister like she is a newborn foal, rather than the teenager that she is (Old enough to buck apples, old enough to think for yourself). Sweetie Belle would probably oppose Rarity because Rarity seems to prefer that Sweetie stay out of the house. I don;t know what the Author has done with Scootaloo's homelife. Is she Slenderponys daughter? Is she Rainbow Dashes half-sister that neither of them know that they are each others sister? Is she a homeless filly who sleeps in the CMC clubhouse and survives on apples she steals from Sweet Apple Acres?
Too bad they are too young to vote.
3547346
well yes and no, they are VERY relaxed with being nude however, to the point of that austria is having problems with nude germans walking across the border.
Tradition... let me tell you about tradition.
Infibulation: the entire clitoris is removed, as well as the inner and outer labia (minora and majora), scraping of the sides of the vulva and then joining them together and sewing them up with thread or catgut, or sometimes closing them with thorns. A small opening is left in order that urine and menstrual blood may pass through. A woman who has been infibulated must be cut open to allow sexual intercourse and childbirth, and then is re-sewn to ensure faithfulness to her husband.
This is a tradional custom preformed by some African tribes on women between eight and fourteen years old.
That is tradition; doing something because your parents did it wether or not it is the right thing to do.
3551873
That is a good way to describe tradition. Now, about what the traditions of those tribes:
...WHAT THE FUCK?!
3552274
Tradition.All it is is something to be changed with moderate to extreme resistance from traditionalists to something more productive or supplanted altogether with extreme resistance from traditionalists to something entirely different that might not even be remotely related,unless it is a tradition like creativity and hard work.
3547562
an equally important and more on topic reference was abraham lincon's speech.
If an entire gender is against your traditions, there might just be a little bit of a flaw to be found with them.
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3558507 Politics,they work (No, they don"t)
3547692
That picture destroyed anything intellectual I was about to say...
3562145 Glad to be of service
3549946 Why thank you!
3574648
LOL, of all the comments to reply to, you chose mine. Nice.
Anyways, it was no problem; I enjoy all sorts of whimsical nonsense; keep up the good work and what not.
3547546
And the fact that most people can't be fucked to understand a lot of the minor things in government, which would lead to bad decisions. In theory, having people whose entire job is working in the government means they should understand the consequences of their actions better and make better decisions than the public in general would.
That's not always how it plays out of course, but it's still better than the "everyone votes on everything" method.
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I'm not the only one that found her explanation really flimsy, then? "Even though we've been a monarchy for over a millennium, the democracy of this backwater little town is too important for me to enforce basic rights! They'll have to vote for those, with those votes they don't have because they lack any rights!"
new chapter when?
3783122 When my teachers stop being such DI-lightful persons.
You made 2 background ponies into amazing civil rights fighters.
Still, why does Caramel go through this much pain for going along with the police? Shouldn't he use something like unlawful arrests against the guards? It's so trippy how one-sided the form of government is in this story. There has to be some irrevocable life laws, Caramel has been to jail several times already, can't he sue or call for removal of the judge?