Resistance: Two Minds, One Man

After the group hug Capelli got up and went to walk outside, just maybe there was a chance that he could defeat the monster within him and even if he didn't. Well at least he will die peacefully. He walked outside and saw the three fillies from before sitting there beaming.

"Can I help you?" He asked. The three fillies jumped on him and hugged him which caught Capelli off guard. Why the fuck was everything hugging him?

"How did you know it was me?" Capelli asked. He had walked in looking like a human but now he was a pony.

"Well who else would it have been besides, I already knew what you looked like as a pony." Applebloom said. "Ah was wonderin, would you be our friend too? Applebloom asked. Capelli assumed the three had been looking through the window or had been listening in on what transpired in Twilight's home.

"Yeah sure whatever." Capelli said. The three fillies lit up with happiness as they hopped around Capelli.

"YAY A NEW CRUSADER!" The unicorn said prancing.

"But he already has his cutie mark!" The pegasus said defeated. Capelli sensed the sadness in her voice and looked at the three fillies' flanks. Not trying to look like a pedophile or anything but he noticed they lacked these 'cutie marks'. He figured these three must be down about not having theirs.

"JOSEPH!" A voice called out. Capelli turned and saw Rarity trotting towards him.

"I see you have met my sister Sweetie Belle." Rarity said as she patted the unicorn on the head.

"Sister?" Capelli said. Now that he looked, he could definitely see the resemblence between the two.

"So if Orange is Applebloom's older sister and White is Sweetie Belle's older sister than I'm guessing Rainbow is your older sister?" Capelli said to the orange pegasus.

"I wish." The pegasus said. "She is the most awesome pony in Equestria!"

"Rainbow Dash is her role model." Rarity said. "Little dear absolutely adores her." Capelli nodded. Both Rainbow and this filly both had tomboyish attitudes and voices.

"I don't think I caught your name." Capelli said.

"I'm Scootaloo!" She said as she jumped in the air with her tiny wings fluttering to keep her aloft. It looked to Capelli like she hadn't learned how to fly yet.

"Girls I would like to talk with Joseph in private please." Rarity said.

"Uh again? What are you two gonna do? Kiss?" Sweetie Belle moaned. Both Rarity and Capelli blushed upon hearing this. Well Capelli, not so much.

"Run along now girls." Rarity said as the three fillies took off. "Absolutely darling at the age aren't they?"

"Yeah." Capelli said.

"Listen Joseph, I wanted to make up for treating you so awful." Rarity said. "Would you like to go to lunch with me? My treat."

"I don't know if I can eat your food. What the hell do you guys eat anyway, hay?" Capelli said sarcastically.

"Yes we do." Rarity said.

"Well fuck me." Capelli thought. "Well I can't eat hay."

"Why not? Are you allergic?" Rarity asked.

"I look like a pony but I'm still human." Capelli said. "If I tried eating hay I'd either shit or puke my fuckin brains out."

"Alright then, how about.....grass?" She asked.

"Hay is dried grass so what to you think?" Capelli asked. Rarity sighed, even though they were on a better note now he still was rather rude but she would not let that ruin this.

"Umm apples?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah I can eat apples." Capelli said.

"Splendid!" Rarity said. "Shall we?"

"Sure." Capelli said as he followed Rarity to the cafe.

"Hey White?" He asked.

"Yes dear?" Rarity replied a little annoyed with her nickname.

"Earlier some greenish-blue pony was hunting me down claiming I was a human-" Capelli began to say.

"Lyra." Rarity muttered.

"What?" Capelli asked.

"Oh I'm dreadfully sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt!" Rarity said. "Lyra has an unhealthy obsession with humans."

"Wait I thought there weren't any humans here!" Capelli said.

"There aren't." Rarity said. "Some monkey's in the Everfree Forest were sighted walking on two legs and ponies began making up myths about them. One of the myths was humans."

"It's funny cause unicorns and pegasus are myths were I come from." Capelli said.

"Really now?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah, seriously I'm still having a hard time accepting the fact that I'm even talking to a unicorn right now." Capelli said as the two arrived at the cafe.

"Outside or inside madamoiselle?" A waiter with a french accent asked.

"Joseph?" Rarity asked.

"EIther one is fine." Capelli said.

"Outside will do darling." Rarity said.

"Oui, follow me." The waiter said as he brought them to a table. It sat two and it had a simple rose in the middle. The waiter put to menu's on the table. Capelli saw Rarity use her hooves to bring it to her face. He was very confused as to how the hell something without fingers can pick stuff up like that. He picked up his menu and scanned it. Hay fries, daffodill sandwich, daisy salad. He couldn't eat any of that shit.

"Where's all the meat?" Capelli asked.

"Pardon? Rarity asked.

"Meat. You know, cow, chicken, pig." Capelli said.

"Um we don't eat meat dear." Rarity said slowly. She was a little nauseous at the thought of Capelli eating a living creature but than she remembered that griffons and dragons were carnivores as well.

"But I saw a bunch of chickens and cows on Orange's farm! What use could they have other than being butchered and eaten?" Capelli asked.

"B-b-butchered?" Rarity said. "We don't eat them, we breed them for the wild."

"There is no longer any doubt in my mind, I am in hell." Capelli said. He rarely got a good steak or ham due to food shortages on earth and even here his wish could not be satisfied.

"Thank heavens Fluttershy didn't hear that!" Rarity said. "Speaking of which, the dear seems to have taken a liking to you."

"What do you mean?" Capelli asked raising an eyebrow.

"May I take your orders?" A waitress asked.

"Um yes I will have a daisy salad." Rarity said.

"I'll just have some apples." Capelli said.

"Do want those with hay or grass?" The waitress asked.

"Neither, just apples." Capelli said.

"Okay." The waitress said confused at Capelli's request as she wrote it down on a piece of paper. "One daisy salad and apples."

"I'm sorry Joseph, I didn't know that you couldn't eat so many of our foods." Rarity said.

"It's fine, thanks to the bastard chimera, fresh apples are hard to come by back on Earth." Capelli said. "Now what was that you said about Fluttershy?"

"Her name speaks her personality Joseph, she is very shy. Especially around newcomers but she didn't seem to have a problem with you." Rarity said.

"Surprising considering I almost strangled her to death." Capelli said. "Which reminds me! Why the hell does she have a full grown grizzly bear in her backyard?"

"She loves animals, it's her special talent." Rarity said.

"What is yours?" Capelli asked.

"Dress making." Rarity said.

"Well that was a no brainer, you work at a dress shop." Capelli said.

"What is you special talent?" She asked.

"Killing chimera." Capelli said.

"Oh now that can't be the only thing you are good at!" Rarity said.

"It is, I dropped of school and joined the Marines when I was seventeen. I never played sports and I failed math, reading, science, english, AND religion! Fuckin religion class! Do you know how hard that is to fail?"

"I suppose I wouldn't." Rarity said as their food was brought to table. Rarity used her magic to levitate her fork and take gentle lady like nibbles at her salad. Capelli started muching down the bushel of apples he was given. He looked up and saw her using magic.

"H-do-that?" He mumbled due to his mouth being full causing chunks of chewed apples to leak out of his mouth making Rarity gag.

"Please Joseph! Do not talk with your mouth full!" Rarity cried.

"Sorry." He said as he swallowed down the mush he was eating. "I said how do you that?"

"Do what?" Rarity asked.

"Magic." He said.

"I really don't know, sorry dear. Twilight would know more about it than I do." Rarity said. Capelli just munched down his apples. After the two finished. the waitress brought the check to the table. Rarity levitated out her wallet and pulled out twenty five bits. Capelli looked at the bill and saw the total was only twelve bits.

"You may keep the rest dear." Rarity said to the waitress.

"Thank you ma'am, you are incredibly generous!" The waitress said eagerly as she collected prize.

"Why did you leave her so much?" Capelli asked.

"Well I wouldn't be a very good element of generosity if I didn't." Rarity said. Capelli made a mental note to ask about that element shit later.

"If there was one thing that douchebag I called a father taught me, it was to always look out for number one." Capelli said.

"What do you mean?" Rarity asked.

"When I had extra supplies or ammo, I didn't give to some asshole. I kept it for myself." Capelli said.

"But Joseph, the whole joy of having something is being able to share it with the world." Rarity said. "Say you are very wealthy and you have mass amount of bits-" Rarity said.

"Bits?" Capelli asked.

"That is our currency here." Rarity said. Capelli smacked his face, he had just seen what bits were not even a minute ago when Rarity paid the bill. "Anyways, say you have large amounts of bits and you only spent it on yourself. Sure for a while it might be nice to have everything you ever wanted but life would still be empty and it would get boring after a while."

"Really now?" Capelli asked.

"When you give away what you have to share it with the world with no strings attached, it is much more fulfilling." Rarity said. "Most of the rich upper class ponies don't bother with giving away their wealth and are rather cold and isolated. One pony, Fancypants, is very wealthy but he gives away fifty percent of his earnings to different organizations across Equestria and he most certainly is a delightful and happy stallion."

"Well I really feel like an asshole now, I never shared what I had." Capelli said as the two exited the cafe.

"That's not entirely true Joseph." Rarity said. "Twilight said it best, you always judge yourself based on the bad things you have done instead of the good ones."

"My good deeds are far and few in between." Capelli replied. "I'm sure as hell ain't generous.

"Really?" Rarity said. "I saw a man willing to give up his very life to protect those who couldn't protect themselves. Ponies can give all the money they have Joseph but that can be replaced. A life can not be replaced." Capelli reflected on what she had just said. He did freely sign up for the Marine Corps but that was mainly because he couldn't get a job anywhere else. He also was willing to put the chimeran virus in him and become a sentinel but that was to avoid a court martial.

"I only joined the Marines because I couldn't do anything else." Capelli said. "And I only became a sentinel to avoid getting a court martial. Neither one of those was because my number one intent was to protect people."

"But-" Rarity tried to say.

"Thanks for the lunch White but let's face it. I'm a selfish bastard." Capelli said as he headed the other way.

"Oh Joseph." Rarity said sadly as she looked at the ground. Capelli walked away very frustrated, and coming from a guy who had been shot at on a daily basis for the last decade that was saying something. Had he ever been generous even ONCE while he was on Earth? Had he ever given away what he had to others?

"Man I suck." Capelli said as he trotted through town. "Guess its not too late to start." He looked for ponies that he could give something to but he didn't really have anything to give. Except his guns of course but he figured that giving some pony a machine that could kill wouldn't go through well with Celestia. He had no money he could give away and since these ponies didn't really wear clothes he couldn't give those away.

"Dammit! There has to be something I can-" He said as he felt something bump into him. He turned around a saw a mare with a cerise coat and a white and pale rose mane on the ground.

"I'm sorry I wasn't looking!" The mare said as she went to pick up the things she dropped. Capelli noticed she had wood, nails, paint, and a wide variety of tools. He picked up a wrench and gave it back to her.

"Thank you. I don't think I have seen you around before." She said eyeing him.

"I'm new here, names Joe." Capelli said.

"Cheerilee." The mare said.

"Why do you have all those tools?" Capelli asked.

"Oh there is a large hole in the schoolhouse ceiling and I'm going to try and fix it." She said.

"Isn't there some carpenter or repairma- I mean, repairpony you could go to?" Capelli asked.

"Well I was going to ask Big Macintosh. He's usually the one who fixes stuff around Ponyville but he is no condition to be doing it." She said. Capelli gulped and felt a surge of guilt course through him.

"Why don't you just wait for him to get better?" He asked.

"The weather team scheduled a rain storm for tomorrow and they can't delay it any longer without all the crops dying." Cheerilee said.

"Well good luck then." Capelli said walking away before he realized what had happened.

Joe you dumbass! This is why everyone hates you! "Miss Cheerilee?" Capelli asked coming back.

"Yes?" She asked.

"Uh I could fix the roof." Capelli said.

"You would!? Oh that would be so helpful! You do know carpentry right?" Cheerilee asked.

"Uh yeah sure!" Capelli lied.

"Oh thank you so much!" Cheerilee said. "Now I won't have to cancel class again!"

"What the fuck did I just get myself into? He thought as he followed the mare to the schoolhouse. When he arrived at the schoolhouse, Cheerilee told him what he had to do.

"Alright the hole is one left side of the roof. A few pieces of wood and nails should keep it closed." Cheerilee said. Capelli looked up and saw a hole the size of a baseball on the roof.

"Oh this won't be so bad." Capelli said relieved it was just a small hole.

"Um Joe, thats not the hole." Cheerilee said pointing to a gaping hole the size of a car on the roof.

"Shit." Capelli said as his jaw dropped.

"But well you are at it could you fix that small hole too?" Cheerilee asked. "One more thing Joe, I will be having students in here while you are fixing the hole."

"Isn't a little late to start school?" Capelli asked.

"It's only noon." Cheerilee said. "Besides, I have had to cancel class for the last four days, we have a lot to catch up on."

"Man these kids are gonna hate me now." Capelli said as he climbed up the ladder. He wondered how the hell ponies walked ladders or even used tools without fingers. He hoisted the wood, bucket of nails, paint, and the tools all on the roof.

"Alright." Capelli said trying to figure out what to do first. He leaned over to grab a hammer but lost his balance and fell into the hole. He landed flat on his face on the hard ground.

"Son of a bitch." He whimpered as he lied on the ground not moving.

"JOE!" Cheerilee said trotting over. "Are you okay? Should I call a doctor?"

"No, I'm fine." Capelli said getting up, numerous cracks were heard going down his vertebrae as he straightened his back. He walked back outside and saw angry looking fillies and colts heading towards the schoolhouse.

"JOE!" A familiar southern voice called out. He turned and saw Applebloom running over to him.

"Hey there." Capelli said. "What're you doin?"

"Goin to school." Applebloom pouted. "How bout you?

"I'm fixin the roof." Capelli said. "Where are white and orange?"

"Ya mean Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle?" Applebloom asked.

"HIYA JOE!" Capelli heard as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo walked over to him.

"Hey kids." Capelli said as the bell rang. "You better get to class."

"OHHH!" They moaned as the walked inside the schoolhouse. Capelli could sympathize with them, he hated going to school. The only reason he enjoyed going was to get away from his father. Capelli climbed back up the ladder and began laying wood across the hole. He saw Scootaloo wave to him from her seat.

"Scootaloo! Stop pestering Joe and pay attention!" Cheerilee snapped.

"Sorry." Scootaloo said. Capelli got back to work and after laying the wood across the roof. He pulled out some sharp nails and a hammer.

"Now can anypony tell me what year Fillydelphia was founded in?" Cheerilee asked.

"MOTHERFUCKER! SON OF A FUCKIN BITCH! DAMMIT SHIT!" Capelli screamed. All the foals began to laugh as Capelli unleashed curses they had never even heard before. Cheerilee was speechless.

"SHIIIIIT!" Capelli screamed as he fell through the hole again and landed right on his ass.

"Joe! What is the meaning of-" Cheerilee began to say.

"Do you got any tweezers or pliers?" Capelli asked gritting his teeth.

"No why on earth would you need-AHHH!" Cheerilee yelped as Capelli brought his hand up to show a nail had gone clean through it. To the ponies, it looked as if a nail had gone through his hoof due to the illusion spell.

"Nevermind I got it." Capelli said as he yanked the nail out. The wound already began healing and closing and in a matter of seconds he was healed.

"Um Joe may I speak to you?" Cheerilee asked. She brought Capelli to the other room and began scolding him. "Listen Joe, there are young fillies and colts in there and such curse words are not welcome! So please watch your language!"

"Sorry it won't happen again." Capelli said as he climbed back up the ladder.

"What a loser!" He heard a pink filly wearing a tiara say to the pony next to her. Capelli wanted to fire the hammer down and hit her in the head but he had a job to do. He spread out the wood and this time he carefully nailed the nails into the wood with the hammer. After covering the hole with wood which took about two hours due to numerous mishaps with the hammer during which Capelli managed not to swear. Were in not for his healing abilities he would have ten broken fingers right now.

"Finally!" Capelli said as he hammered the last nail in place. He then took the bucket of red paint and began to pry the lid off with a screwdriver. He applied so much force that when it opened, he sent red paint flying all over himself.

"Fuck!" He whispered.

"JOE!" He heard Cheerilee scream.

"Sorry!" Capelli said. How the fuck did she hear that? Capelli muttered silent swears as he pulled out the paintbrush and started painting the area where he had laid the wood. After forty minutes, he finished.

"Yes!" He said as he climbed back down the ladder. Class had just gotten out and all the foals where heading home.

"My my Joe! It looks terrific!" Cheerilee said happily as she pulled out a large bag of bits. "Here is your payment, two hundred bits!"

"Two hundred? Fuck yeah!" He said as he grabbed the bag when a voice echoed in the back of his head.

'The whole joy of having something is to share it with the world"

"I can't accept this." Capelli said giving the bag back to her.

"But you earned it!" Cheerilee said.

"And I'm giving it back to you." Capelli said. Cheerilee was confused.

"But-"

"Give it to somepony else who needs it more." Capelli said. "The whole joy of having something is being able to share it with the world. I'm sharing the money I made."

"I see Joe, you are as wise as you are generous." Cheerilee said. "I'll send this to the fund for Foal's Memorial Hospital."

"I'm not wise at all. I just learned from a certain prissy white pony." Capelli said. Cheerilee smiled at him.

"Been talking with Rarity I see." Cheerilee said. "I can't thank you enough for this Joe."

"Send that shit to Foal's Monument or whatever the fuck that place was called, that's reward enough." Capelli said as he turned to walk away. Unbeknownst to him, a white unicorn lie watching in the bushes.

"I knew you could do it Joseph." Rarity said as she smiled at Capelli's newly learned virtue.

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Inside a dense forest. Two invisible monsters came across the edge of the treeline and looked out upon the small city below. The two beings focused their eyesight on what they saw to be four legged creatures running to and fro. They appeared to be the dominant species on this planet. The two beings internally smiled, these quadrapeds were even less advanced than the humans were! This planet was going to be no trouble at all to conquer.