Tribal disputes

by Cadances Paladin

The Truthful minds.

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The group was successful in their journey to the Truthful minds' village, but appeared right in the middle of it.

"Halt there intruders!" A pony said, revealing herself out of a giant crowd around the six ponies and one dragon. "Come with me, or be killed!" The mare said.

"Hold, what is the matter Snake Tongue?" The chief of the village asked his daughter.

"Father, these ponies broke into the village,, and their here to steal the goddess of honesty and use this dragon of theirs," Snake tongue said, pointing a hoof at spike "to burn down our village!"

"Please, I assure you chief, that we are not here for those reasons, other than to get the bearer of the element of honesty." V-Two began, pushing his small shades up. "What if Equestria was to be attacked by Discord again, or somepony like Nightmare Moon? All the bearers are needed, Applejack needs to come with us!"

"She needs to stay with us!" Snake tongue argued.

"Now hand on y'all!" Applejack said, as she walked into the crowd. "These are my friends, and I want to go with them!" Applejack walked to each of her friends and helped them up. "Well, Ah don' know this feller right here though." Applejack said, looking at V-Two.

"My name's-" V-Two began, before remembering that he was about to reveal his real name. "My name's V-Two." He then lied. "They wouldn't remember me, not for who I was, but for the legend." He thought to himself. "Let's go, we've a long journey ahead of us to get you seven back home."

Snake tongue had heard this, and grew angrier at the current actions, then disappeared to her group's hideout....


"I'm sorry to report, that the bearer of honesty has been taken away from our grasp." Snake tongue said.

"Well then... this is upsetting, even for Voo Don" Voo Don said, rubbing her head.

"Hmm, I say we take 'em by force!" Brute force said, slamming his hoof on the stone table before the group.

"No!" Serus began "With brute force comes physical damage, and we need the bearers well and live to take Equestria for ourselves! That was our plan in the first place anyways!"

"Hush now my friends." Burnt wood began "I didn't decide to protect the bearer of loyalty when she was at my village for nothing! Even if we did betray our villages, we can still take over Equestria, even without the bearers at the villages!"

The group stood silent, until somepony spoke up. "I've got a plan." Burnt wood began. "We'll take them by force, but without hurting them, and we'll keep them here, until time ends." Burnt wood said, getting five burlap sacks. "Let's go."  The group of traitors then left their cave


"Ok, so now can you tell us how you knew where we were?" Rainbow asked, giving V-Two a stern look.

"No, not until I report to mother that I finally found you five." V-Two said, looking at Twilight, hinting he wanted his transportation dust back.

"No V-Two, not until you tell them how you found them!" Twilight said. "Remember, you agreed that you'd listen to me."

"Fine, here's how...." V-Two began, before being tackled by a crazy mare.

"Hi there, Voo Don is now going to eat your brain!" Voo Don said, the grabbing V-Two's head.

V-Two pushed the mare off of him, then noticed the other ponies coming at him.

Brute force went after Pinkie and Applejack, throwing them into one of the sacks. Voo Don kept going back to  V-Two, trying to keep the promise she made herself on eating V-Two's brain. Burnt wood had been staying back a bit, watching everything happening, laughing like a crazy pony. Spike noticed the crazy stallion, and decided to take matters into his own claws. Meanwhile, Voo Don and V-Two began to fight in the air.

Spike ran towards the laughing stallion, then jumped onto him and bit his neck, not letting go. "UGHH.... Snake tongue, Serus, get this dragon off of me!" Burnt wood shouted, as his colleagues came to pry the dragon off, then threw him into a sack. Burnt wood readied his wings, and shouted to the fighting ponies on the ground, and pony above him "Voo Don, Snake, Brute force, Serus, let's go!" The four ponies did as they were told and left, even without the ponies they were there for. "Oh, and Ms. Sparkle...." Burnt wood said, getting Twilight's attention "Unless you want to your dragon alive again, you better give up your friends, and give THEM to US!" Burnt wood said, then began to laugh even more, then flew off.

V-Two landed next to Twilight, and couldn't hold his anger any more. "I told you..." V-Two began "HE SHOULD NOT HAVE COME! LOOK AT WHAT YOUR STUPID BROTHER DID, HE GOT HIMSELF CAPTURED, LIKE THE IDIOT HE TRULY IS!" V-Two shouted.

"Hey, it's not his fault that those ponies were bigger than him!" Pinkie began. Come on, put a smile on your face, we'll get him back!"

"Oh, put a smile on so you can then what?" V-Two began, asking a rhetorical question "So that you can become my friend? Well to be honest Ms. Pie, I'd rather not be friends with you, in fact, I don't wanna even be anywhere near you for that matter!"

"AWH!" Pinkie pie scoffed. "How dare you!"

"Hey, stop being jerks to my friends!" Rainbow Dash began. "Not even Gilda was this much of a jerk!"

"Ah yes Gilda." V-Two began, now looking at Rainbow Dash. "The first friend you ever made, the one with the anger issues, the one who couldn't take a simple prank. Last time I checked, you were being loyal to HER and not your other friends! You ditched your friends whenever Gilda did, you were being disloyal!"

"Oh well. But Rainbow, you're very wrong here. V-Two is worse Gilda, but he's far worse." Rarity began. "He's worse than Blueblood!"

At this statement, V-Two finally snapped, and had completely gotten enraged. "Oh, so i's worse than my spoiled cousin, who was always pampered when he was a foal, and was never taught how to deal with things head on, or how to be a gentlecolt? Is that what your saying, that I'm worse than somepony who didn't get to learn anything as a child?" V-Two asked.  "You know, I chose to help Ms. Sparkle find you, not because I had to help her, but because I knew it was the right thing to do." V-Two said, now spotting his bag the Twilight took from him, lying on the ground.

V-Two ran to his bag, picked it up and flew high into the sky, higher than any pony could ever reach. "Now, I bid you all adieu, bearers and Ms. Sparkle!" V-Two shouted, dropping his bag as he got some of the transportation dust ready. V-Two blew the dust onto himself, and was teleported to his room, his desired location in Canterlot Castle. When V-Two's bag landed on the ground, Twilight began to write a letter, hoping her idea would be successful.


V-Two had finally appeared in his room, and he was happy. Meanwhile, Celestia was awaiting her son's return.

"Where is he?" Celestia asked herself, then noticed that a yellow ball of light was forming before her throne. However, it wasn't V-Two that came, it was a letter.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

YOUR SON IS A JERK TO ME AN MY FRIENDS, AND HAS NO NEED FOR IT!

Your student,

Twilight Sparkle."

Celestia read this aloud to herself, then went o V-Two's room to find out what he did. "V-Two, why have you been a jerk to my student and her friends?" Celestia asked, as she walked into V-Two's room. V-Two looked up from the book he was reading on Equestria's history.

"I don't wanna talk about it mother." V-Two said, as he went to his bed, then buried his face into his pillow.

"V-Two, I want to know why you were being a jerk. Please tell me." Celestia said, stroking V-Two's mane with her front right hoof, after she went to his side to comfort her son, who was now sad instead of angry.

V-Two said something that was very muffled in his pillow. "I'm sorry my son, but I need you to say that once more." Celestia said. V-Two lifted his face, but his answer was still muffled. "Once more please." Celestia said.

V-Two lifted his face completely from his pillow and said "THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND MOTHER!" with tears running down from his eyes. Celestia was startled by her son's sudden change of emotion, and his screaming.

"They don't understand what it's like, to have died, then be brought back to life, to have knowledge of everything happening, everything that has, or will happen! I can't do any of the things I liked doing anymore mother! I can't swim, I can't even sleep on a cloud! I can't even drink water, or be in water any more! Please mother, tell me why this blessing is also my curse?" V-Two said. "I thank, and praise  you for giving me a second chance at life, but no pony remembers me for who I once was! Everypony remembers me as 'V-Two' now, no pony remembers my first name!"

"I'm sorry my son." Celestia said with a tear forming in her eyes, as she began to hug her son. "I just didn't want to lose another family member, you were and always will be very dear to me. No matter what, I love you son, never forget that!" Celestia said to V-Two, who now was hugging his mother back.


"Do you think she got the letter?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I'm not sure, but look at this." Twilight said, now realizing something nearby. "Look at this, there's a trail of feathers leading south from here... where ever those ponies went with Spike, they just gave us the way. Let's go girls, it's time to rescue some family." Twilight said, as she began to follow the trail of feathers to the cave in the south, with her friends following her.

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