Tribal disputes

by Cadances Paladin

The traitors.

Previous Chapter

Twilight and her friends had traversed the plains of Equestria, following the trail of feathers left by some of the pegasi that attacked them earlier that day. They finally made it to the entrance to the cave that they were led to.

"OK girls, let's go get Spike back!" Twilight said, getting ready for another fight.

As the six mares went into the cave, they saw a green light grow bigger and bigger, and ran to it, believing it to have been Spike. As the light subdued itself, the mares found out where the light was actually coming from.

"V-....V-Two!" Twilight said, throwing herself towards the stallion and gave him a hug, glad that he had come back.

"Yes." V-Two said, returning the hug "I'm back to say I'm sorry, Ms. Sparkle. I'm sorry for being such a jerk to you and your friends. But more importantly, I'm here to save Spike, and get you mares home." V-Two then broke the hug. "But, there's something else, Ms. Sparkle."

"What is it V-Two? Please, tell me." Twilight said, looking into V-Two's small grey shades.

"I'm going to tell you a story, more importantly, my story." V-Two said.

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It was just about during the time Discord was ruling Equestria, with his chaotic mind, using it like his playground of chaos. I was just a foal, from what mother told me. After mother and Aunt Luna defeated the Draconequus, this had happened....

"Princess Celestia, this was at your door, and there's a letter for your eyes only!" A guard said, bringing a basket to the princess' throne.

Princess Celestia picked up the letter with her magic.

"This Pegasus colt, he will do you great services, trust me.

~nopony."

Princess Celestia was confused at this, but she took the colt in anyways, and named him Hist. As time went by, the Pegasus  colt grew older, and he became a better flier and historian as well. One night, though you'd never think this to happen, Princess Luna became tired.... tired of the fact that she couldn't get ponies to enjoy her night. Now, by this time, the colt grew up to be a stallion. Now, Hist had knowledge of all of recorded history, but he wanted more. He begged his mother to give him the knowledge by using a spell. She could no longer deny her son's pleas, as he did know every bit of recorded Equestrian history. But the spell had backfired, immensely. Hist now had knowledge of everything in the past, the future, and present.

Now, Princess Luna never knew about this, but even if she did, she wouldn't care. Luna had decided she had enough of the dejection she was given, she decided that if ponies wouldn't love her, then they will fear her instead. Luna rose the moon, and caused a solar eclipse, and she began to change into Nightmare moon.

The two princesses began to fight, and their fight led all the way to the ancient ruins in the Everfree forest. Hist, against his mother's orders, went to help his mother, by telling her what would happen. But when he arrived at the ruins, it was already to late, his mother banished her sister. Hist had went to comfort his mother, but he wasn't paying attention to where he was flying, and he crashed into a wall, causing it to break and fall.

The wall he hit was above his mother, and he did the only thing he could do. Hist flew down and pushed his mother out of the way, and tried to escape the wall as well. Luckily, he saved his mother, but the wall crashed onto him before he could escape the wall's grasp. The wall crushed Hist's body up to his front shoulder blades. His mother wen tot rescue him, but she could barely do anything. She began to panic, and used her magic to teleport herself and her son to the castle.

Hours went by before anything was heard about Hist, according to mother. When the doctor came out, he said "It's done ma'am, you may now see your son.", after this, the engineer came out of the room. Princess Celestia went into the room.

"Princess Celestia, your son couldn't be saved, except his brain, that was saved. So, we made a robotic replica of him. I call him V-Two." The engineer said to the princess.

"Name verification initializing..... New name 'V-Two' accepted." The robotic replica said.

"My son, I'm so sorry." Celestia said, hugging her son, as tears drained from her eyes, like rivers forming waterfalls at the end of a cliff.

"Mother.... I still know everything, I mean EVERYTHING! Why is that?" V-Two asked, confused about his current situation.

"My magic effected your brain my son, and your brain is inside this robot body of yours. I'm so sorry I caused this to happen!" Celestia said.

For the next couple of decades, V-Two stayed away from public eyes, and stayed locked up in his room, no matter how much his mother wanted him to attend any public events she'd be going to. V-Two knew that he could no longer have any friends, so he thought that he might as well spend his time alone. During his self induced isolation, he learned how to speak like a normal pony would.

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"And now, here we are today." V-Two said. "Come on, let's go, we've gotta dragon to steal back."

"Wait... So you're actually a robot, is that why you said to teleport us to the Truthful minds village when it was about to rain?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, now please, let's go." V-Two said, with the group following his departure.

They traveled farther and farther into the cave, and finally found the hideout that held the five traitors. As they walked closer to the five, V-Two noticed a deck of wood. "Stop," V-Two began to whisper to the six mares. "I'll handle negotiations right now, please step off the deck." V-Two then stepped closer onto the deck.

Burnt wood began to laugh, as he learned yesterday about the teleportation V-Two had Twilight and Rarity do to get them to the Truthful minds before it rained. "Oh, you pitiful FOOL!" Burnt wood said, pulling a lever which activated the deck, which was actually a trap door to a pool of water.

V-Two fell into the water, and had begun to fidget and began to start shot circuiting. "Guh-Guh-Guh-Go g-g-g-g-g-get the d--d-d-d-dd--dragon! I'll be--eeeee-e-e-e fine!" V-Two said, as the mares jumped over him, with Twilight trying to pull him out of the water.

The six mares went to get the small purple baby dragon that was their friend. Voo Don began to laugh insanely, Serus got, well, serious and mad, Brute force readied a fighting stance, Snake tongue had stood perfectly still, and Burnt wood issued the attack. They all fought with many blows hitting one another.  Brute force had thrown Rainbow Dash above spike, which cause some dust to fall off of the walls and drop in front of Spike. Spike couldn't resist the coming urge. "Twilight, everypony, get down!" Spike said.

Twilight turned and saw what Spike was about to do, as well as her friends, and they all ducked onto the ground. Spike had sneezed, and it was a big sneeze, causing giant green flames to cover the traitorous ponies. Though they weren't completely dead, they were each close to death.

V-Two noticed this, and forced himself out of the water, and proceeded to cut the heads off of each of the traitors with a sharpened rock he picked up after he left the water.

"V-Two, why did you kill them?" Twilight asked, confused as to what would make V-Two kill five ponies.

"I was told... th--th-th-that death was imminent...." V-Two said, dripping water. "Ms. Sp-Sp-Sparkle, I won't make the journey back.... here, take this bag." V-Two said, as he tossed a bag of green dust over to Twilight. "I was able to throw it to dry land before I hit the water.... The dust transports you anywhere.... use it to go home.... I'm gonna need my other transportation dust now please." V-Two said, pointing at his bag of yellow dust that Twilight still had.

Twilight gave V-Two the dust, and used the dust he gave her to take herself and her friends home(to V-Two's knowledge). V-Two decided it was best to head home himself. V-Two used his transportation dust to head to the throne room in Canterlot Castle.

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When V-Two arrived to tell his mother the good news, he couldn't believe what he saw. Twilight and her friends used the dust to come here instead. "Ms. Sparkle? I'm surprised to see you here." V-Two said.

"As am I, my son." Celestia said "Twilight and her friends were telling me about everything that happened in the traitors' cave. Are you alright now?" Celestia asked her son, as V-two walked over to his mother.

"Yes mother, I'm alright. I just had a bath is all." V-Two said, laughing at his little joke he made.

"But wait!" Twilight said "There's one thing I don't understand. Why is V-Two a robot, couldn't you have used a resurrection spell?" Twilight asked her teacher, curious as to what made Celestia make her son robotic.

"Well my student, I have no knowledge of one that exists." Celestia said "But, if you found one, and learned how to use it, then that assignment will be an automatic A for you." Celestia said, giving her student a task, that even she knew was impossible to do.

Twilight, excited about learning some more, had immediately left the room, as well as her friends, to head home to Ponyville to do her research. After everypony left, and when the main doors were closed, V-Two asked his mother "Mother, is their really a resurrection spell?"

Celestia blushed, and laughed saying "Not really, I made that up to keep my student on her studies. You never knew this, but she can distracted from her everyday studies on a daily basis. But now, a new threat is coming, one that even I know will probably destroy Canterlot." Celestia said.

V-Two, curious as to who the new threat was said "Queen Chrysalis?"

Celestia stood still for a minute, not saying a word, then said. "Yes, my son."