Equestriaside
Chapter 4: Questions
Previous ChapterNext ChapterCanterlot Hospital, Equestria, Equis, 9:24 AM
As Jed backed away to the exit door, leaving the hostage's comrades in disbelief, his hostage spoke up. "Please, d-don't hurt me or my friends m-mister, we just seek peace, and h-h-harmony." it said. "Wait a second. You creatures can talk?!" Jed said, his brain now in a mix of confusion and hurt. "No matter, once I'm out of here, I gonna leave this crazy race of technicolor equines, join up with the rest of PHX, and get off this god-forsaken planet."
As Jed headed out of the building, he was temporarily blinded by the sight of light that came with coming out of an underground hospital and from being unconscious for who knows how long. And as he regained sight, he realized that he was surrounded by armored equines with basic metal spears. "Oh come on, you really think you can stop me when I have one of your fellow equines at gun point. Plus, you just have spears! Your race is a laughingstock at weapons!" said Jed, with a cocky attitude.
"You dare hold a princess of Equestria!" said one in a very deep voice. "If you let her go, we may let you live." As he said this, Jed held the gun closer to her head. "Well you should realize that I am from the New Conglomerate, and you know what? We don't take any prisoners, and we don't take any shit!" said Jed, and when he pulled the trigger, expecting to hear a loud bang, all he got was just a click. "What the hell did you do to my Commissioner?!" he said.
"You had your chance, 'New Conglomerate' guy, now you shall perish." said the apparent leader. As he said this the group of 10 equines around him charged at Jed. Seeing this as a chance to go down fighting, Jed pulled out his Magcutter and went to work at the equines. The leader was the first and easiest one to go down. For all it took was a slice to the neck. The next one took him by surprise by jumping on his back and putting a spear point to his neck. But as he was about to strike, Jed was able to shove his Magcutter into his hoof, and slicing it up to his eye socket. With the second one done, he then moved on and finished off the third one with a simple stab to the nervous system. And after seeing this gruesome sight, the rest turn and run away.
"Well, that's what they get when they mess with the NC." said Jed, invigorated with the taste of combat. But as he was about to walk away, a bright light erupted overhead and a white pony that was bigger than the rest came down upon him. "Who do you think you are, trying to hold Princess Twilight captive, and killing three of my personal bodyguards!" she said, "What authority do you have to this much panic, even after we treated you with hospitality!".
"Look lady, I don't have time for this, I'm just going to leave right now, join up with my group, and leave this place, okay? I don't have time to be lectured by a wanna-be Drill Sergeant." said Jed as he walked to the outskirts of the forest. But as he was about to head into the forest, the tall equine landed in front of him." I'm sorry, but I can not allow you to be free where you can hurt my friends and subjects." She said, and as she said this , her horn glowed a strange gold color and when it touched Jed, everything went into a bright flash."Princess Celestia!" yelled Twilight as she ran towards her mentor, "Is.. is he dead?"
"No Twilight, merely unconscious, he will be like this for a few hours, enough for the guards to take him down to the dungeon so that we may interrogate him on his species and, hopefully find out why he is different from the ones you encountered." said Princess Celestia, relieved that her student is okay.
Canterlot Dungeons, Equestria, Equis, 11:17 AM
As Jed woke up, he felt a sharp throbbing in his head. "Aww man, my head." he said tiredly. And as he got a better look at his surroundings, he realized that he was not in his NC standard-issue tent. But in a primitive jail cell! "Oh come on! Just for once I wish that it was a dream! I've been fighting TR and VS for over 200 years, and yet I get captured by equines!" he said. "Silence alien! You will not speak unless you are spoken to! Besides, I'm reading the new edition of the "Canterlot Post"." said a gruff looking pony that had the look of an NC Drill Sergeant.
"Who do you think you are, bossing a Corporal from Phoenix Battalion!" bellowed Jed with authority. "Well you are now a prisoner of our glorious leader Princess Celestia." said the pony. "Well, if I'm prisoner of this 'Princess Celestia', then I'll just have to go and bust myself out." said Jed.
"Well there will be no need for that will there?" said a white equine as she decended down a set of stairs next to Jed's cell," I just merely want some answers as to why you attacked my prized pupil."
"Well, let me see, I was in a room full of speaking equines, most of them had the color of Vanu, I had my apparently empty wepon next to me, and I did not want to be taken prisoner again."said Jed. "I see, and what exactly are these , um, Vanu?" asked Celestia, unaware of what answer might come out. "Veeeeeeeeery long story, but in short, a bunch of scientists that love this alien tech on our planet, use laser pointers, and wear spandex."
"Okay, forget I asked that, um, how about, why you killed three of my royal guards, tried to kill Twilight Sparkle, and did all that when we basically brought you back from the dead?" asked Celestia. "Well, okay, um, you see, when I first saw the purple, I thought I was going to be taken prisoner again, and I really didn't want to kill her, she was just insurance incase I met any trouble from your guards, I was just gonna be on my merry way and join up with my squad and find a way off this planet." answered Jed.
"This 'squad' of yours, it must be very important." said Celestia. "Teamwork is an important part of an army, we act as brothers towards each other, as we all fight for the same cause." said Jed in a tender voice. "That cause being?" asked Celestia. "To fight for freedom , our motto is 'Fight For Your Future', we fight against oppression and tyranny, and we never stop fighting." answered Jed as if were giving a speech to a batch of new recruits.
"Your cause, it seems just, but what about the people you harm in the way?" asked Celestia to counteract this speech. "Well, you see, um, we kinda don't, considering how most of the people we meet try to kill us." said Jed. "Lets move on from what we believe, I want to know more about your world."
"Well, where do I start, we live in Equestria, one of the many countries on this world, my sister and I raise and lower the sun and the moon, and we are completely peaceful." said Celestia. "Wait WHAT!? You have multiple countries on this planet that are not at war, your completely peaceful, and this is what REALLY confuses me, you say that you and your sister raise the SUN and the MOON. It defies all logic and astronomical physics!" said Jed astonishingly.
"It's actually very simple, my sister Luna and I just use our magic and have the sun and moon orbit around us." explained Celestia. "Are you serious?! It's the planet that orbits around the Sun, but the moon bit is all fine." said Jed. "I see, so your people don't raise the sun and moon where you come from, which is where exactly? Because you don't seem like the humans Twilight spoke about." asked Celestia.
"My people and the TR hail from a far off planet named Auraxis, because of political issues, our planet has been engaged in a 3-way war with each other for centuries." said Jed, "And yes, we are not originally from Earth, our ancestors came here on colony ship and colonized Auraxis as a new home."
"So, where Twilight went, you call Earth, but why do you look so different?" asked Celestia. "Well, Auraxians are more evolved than regular humans on Earth, we have tiny robots, um, just so you know, considering you equines still use spears, robots are complex machines, that are inside of us that repair our bodies when they have extensive damage done to them, also we have invented lasers, like laser pointers, but 20x as deadly." answered Jed.
"Back to the fact that you almost killed Princess Twilight and brutally murdered three of my royal guards. So as far as I can make out, you thought that we were this 'Vanu', saw your weapon, and made one of the most important ponies in Equestria a hostage, killed three ponies, and got captured anyway, when you thought you were going to be captured anyway, and all because you were scared."
"Yes, right. Wait, okay I was NOT scared okay, I just thought I'd have to go back to those VS POW camps." said Jed. "And what's so bad about them?" asked Celestia. "They strap you to a metal table and play techno rock in your ears until a prisoner exchange is made. I still have nightmares." said Jed, "So now you know that I'm just not some mindless murderer alien, you mind letting me out so I can make amends and join up with my group and leave this planet?"
"Sure, just let me get the keys," said Celestia, "Brian ,may I have the jail cell keys please?" The equine looks up from his newspaper and looks at the princess, "Of course your majesty, here you go." he says as he hands Celestia. And as Jed got out of his cell he took a big breath, " Sure is nice to be free again, so I guess I have to go give an apology to the equine I almost killed?" asked Jed. "You are correct, I think it is time you met Princess Twilight and the Elements of Harmony, the ponies that saved you." said Celestia.
"I guess we are not going to get off so well, considering I tried to kill one of them." Jed said before leaving the dungeon, and Brian to his newspaper.
Author's Note
Well, it might be a bit late for an Easter present, so I'll just make it an early 100-viewer present. :)
PLEASE! I NEED CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM! I NEED TO FEED MY OCD!!!!
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