The Conversion Bureau: Sidelines

by Victor Frost
A young professor starts a search for answers but gets an adventure he can never tell a soul about.

The pony race and humans have lived together in harmony for centuries. A peaceful race, the ponies never really felt the need for war or violence to solve world problems. Things always seemed a lot friendlier with the ponies involved. Only recently have ponies been integrating into the modern human society. Ponies have lived in isolated, calm lands for many generations, but with over-population becoming a risk for the equine communities, moving from Canterlot to Newark was a common occurrence in these times.

Through warfare and species-exclusive diseases, humans have begun a steady decline in population and general health. The ways humans have destroyed the world around them, through pollution, greed and unhealthy living conditions, have led the humans to realize the error of their ways, but it had been too late. Ponies, being a hardy, largely pacifistic folk, had slowly become the majority in world population (but only just so). It was becoming clear the time of the human was coming to a close. Soon, scientists of both human and pony worked together to create a formula to, in a sense, "ponify" a human, and hopefully keep society from collapsing. Their long term plan was to start a thriving, pony-centric world for generations to come.
In this interim period, humans were plagued with mass confusion and doubt as to what to do. Most humans understood the decline in the population, and would much prefer to be a pony. With a down-to-earth, carefree lifestyle, the possibility of flying or using magic to their advantage, and current human health problems a thing of the past, what could possibly go wrong? Some, however, are less trusting

Michael Frost is 28 year-old ex-physics instructor, inventor, and among the few humans who don't want to be ponified. But when his best friend tells him he's taking the plunge into ponydom, Michael decides it's time to dig deeper.

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44817 words: Estimated about 4 hours to read

22 Chapters:

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  3. Chapter 2 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
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  22. Epilogue 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
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