home at last, reunion with twilight, possible intel as to where princess celestia may be, and the formation of the e.c.i.a part-3

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The party went on into the night, I told every pony that there would be a day off of work the next day seeing as the parade was only a couple of days away. If any pony wanted to do any pt, or any kind of training tomorrow they were more than welcome to by all means, but it wouldn’t be mandatory to do so. At that every pony hoof stomped in delight, and the music went up an octave or 2, and the place got louder. As morning came some ponies were asleep on the dance floor, dj pon-3 was asleep on her turntable, Octavia had gone home with one of the members of my unit, which one I couldn’t tell you, but I knew that there were a few ponies that enjoyed classical music in my group and assumed it was one of them.

Me and Twi were 2 of the ponies asleep on the dance floor, and we didn’t care. The place hadn’t been destroyed and the owners had shut the place down for the day to allow us all to crash there for the day knowing that we would have all ended up all over Equestria as drunk as some of us were. They simply told me to lock the doors, and shut the drapes to the place after we got done with it. I nodded to them, and they took the day off from work leaving all of us to ourselves. Kill Shot and the mayor were still talking on the patio when morning came, they hadn’t gotten too drunk, and the mayor’s family was with them. Somehow I managed to avoid waking up Twi as I made my way to where they were, and joined them.

"SOME PARTY HUH KILLSHOT? PINKIE THROWS SOME OF THE CRAZIEST PARTYS EVER, AND THEY NEVER FAIL TO AMAZE ME." Kill Shot looked around at the place, and every pony sleeping where they happened to pass out, and gave a chuckle. "IV GOT TO HAND IT TO HER, SHE SURE IS A GREAT MORAL BOOST, AND SHE SURE KNOWS JUST WHAT EVERYPONY LIKES IN TERMS OF MUSIC, I MEAN TO HAVE LYRA, OCTAVIA, AND DJ PON-3 ALL IN ONE PLACE, THAT’S IMPRESSIVE EVEN TO ME. YOU KNOW WHAT, WE HAVE PLENTY OF ROOM AT OUR BASE IN NEIGHVADA FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYPONY HERE, AND THEY WOULD BE BETTER PROTECTED FROM THE INEVITABLE OUTCOME THAT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF ALL OF THIS. YOU KNOW IT AS DOES ANY PONY WITH US." I looked at him for a minute knowing that was what I was thinking as well, and not knowing how to go about talking about it to the town. He did have a valid point, I mean yes for now Ponyville was safe, but if the n.l.r really wanted to they could very easily over run the town in an instant and with really no fight at all. The 6 ponies of harmony had bounties on their heads in the first war, and now that Luna was in charge of almost all of Equestria, and had her secret police in almost every town, and city except for Manetana, and our base she could just barge in, and take over the place anytime she wanted to. I simply answered him truthfully,” I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN KILLSHOT, BUT THAT WOULD BE A HUGE ORDER SWALLOW, I MEAN THINK ABOUT APPLEJACK, THE MONUMENTS TO THE FALLEN FROM THE FIRST WAR, AND ALL THE PONIES WHO ONLY KNOW PONYVILLE AS HOME, IT WOULD BE A HARD TIME TRYING TO PERSWADE MOST IF NOT ALL THE TOWN THAT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA. I MEAN YES THE MAYOR HAS THE POWER IN THE TOWN, BUT SHE CAN ORDER IT TO BE DONE, AND STILL PONIES WOULD STAY BEHIND DESPITE IT BEING FOR THEIR BEST INTERESTS. FOR NOW LET’S JUST DO WHAT WE CAN WHILE WE ARE HERE IN TOWN, AND TAKE EACH DAY AS IT COMES OK."

Kill Shot agreed with me as did the mayor, and we left it at that. I knew already that we weren’t going to be in Ponyville much longer anyway, and that I wanted to go to the remains of Manehatten, along with now Saltlick city. The thought of going to what remained of Manehatten made my stomach lurch, but I knew that if we were going to learn anything about what all of this was about Manehatten would be our answer to it all.

Kill Shot could see what I was thinking about, and said he would follow me into the depths of hell and back, if it meant finding out just what all of this was about. I thanked him, and lit up a cigarette "so 2 more days huh, I hope our plan works, I haven’t lost any pony yet in all of this, and I don’t plan on starting. If anything goes wrong I want every pony to know that my last order to them all is to disband, hide, and make sure the n.c.e lives, and gains strength. There would be no point in trying to fight them; it would get all of them killed. The final fight would be waged in the castle if it came down to it. I told Kill Shot also that if it had to come down to it he would order the castle to be brought down on Luna, and the n.l.r would be crushed once and for all. He looked at me, and agreed to all of this, and went to talk to the mayor some more.

The day went slow; we all slept and got all the rest we would need for the day before the general was to be killed. I went for a walk around Ponyville alone, when out of nowhere Grey Hoof appeared out of the Sugar cube corner. "SOME PARTY LASTNIGHT MAJOR, I HAD A BLAST. I WAS GOING TO TALK TO YOU DURING IT, BUT I SAW YOU WITH YOUR WIFE, AND JUST LEFT YOU ALONE. SO I SEE YOU HAVE A COMPLETE PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE GENERAL HUH? GOOD JOB, I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU, AND YES I REMEMBER OUR ARRANGEMENT, YOUR BAND OF PONIES WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH ANYTHING YOU WILL NEED FOR ANYTHING, AND THE DRINKS AS WELL AS FOOD WILL BE ON THE HOUSE FOR THEM ALL. I SEE YOU HAVE SOME NEW RECRUITS AS WELL, NICE YOUR REPUTATION IS WIDELY KNOWEN THROUGOUT EQUESTRIA, AND I HAVE GOTTEN REQUESTS FROM SEVERAL GROUPS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD HELP THEM OUT WITH THINGS. ONE IN PARTICULAR CAUGHT MY EYE, AND I THOUGHT ID LET YOU KNOW ABOUT IT,” he gave me a note that read like this.

(ATTENTION FILLIES OF EQUESTRIA, THIS IS A WIDE MESSAGE THAT NEEDS TO BE GOTTEN TO EVERY FILLY IN THE LAND. BLOODFLANK AND HIS RAIDERS HAVE MADE IT THEIR GOAL NOW TO STOP RAIDEING TOWNS FOR FILLIES, AND HAVE NOW STARTED A FILLY TRADE BUISNESS, I ALONG WITH A FEW ESCAPED FILLIES HAVE STARTED A CAMPAIGN TO END THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL, IF ANY FILLY REVEAVES THIS MESSAGE PLEASE JOIN THE REVOLT ON THIS NEW ORGANIZATION OF PONY TRADEING, SIMPLY SIGNED THE LEADER OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED M.A.I.T.P, OR MARES AGAINST THE ILLEGAL TRADE OF PONIES.)

I looked at the note, and knew just who in my group would be perfect for this new mission. I invited Grey Hoof to come with me back to where every pony was still asleep, but he said he had to get to Canterlot, and he would see me there in a couple of days in Canterlot.