The Debate

Twilight Sparkle was sitting in her room sipping tea and reading a book inside her castle when somepony franticly knocked on her door. Twilight saw that Celestia was outside so she opened the door and Celestia let herself in.

"Celestia? Aren't you supposed to be meeting with the Cadence today so you all can agree on what policies could help our two kigdoms better? Why are you here?" Twilight asked as she closed the door. Celestia was pacing back and forth while she panicked as Twilight watched her with a concerned expression.

"Celestia it would be great to let me know about what your freaking out about. Has there been a diplomatic issue that needs solving? I'm real good at those. Or has there been a monster that has been unleashed in Equestria where we will need the elements to defeat it." Twilight asked.

Celestia knew that Twilight was not going to like the answer she was going to give her but she knew that she needed somebody to join this debate and the only pony she knew who had more knowledge than her was Twilight Sparkle. She spoke to Twilight.

"Well...not exactly....Twilight...have you ever heard about Professor Berry Bubble? He's an advocate for child facilitator therapy which has been proven as quackery in Equestria. There's going to be a huge debate about whether the therapy is effective coming up and I want you to debate him. I know that your autistic yourself so you can use that to make him feel bad for putting children through this torture." Celestia said. Twilight groaned.

"Oh not that quack. No absolutely not, I wont be able to stand being in the same room with him. I'm not going to go anywhere near him. First of all the therapy should be banned for its ineffectiveness. Second it's abusive against autistic Equestrian citizens because it forbids stemming! If I had been forbidden to stem as a kid that that would have traumatized me. I can't do it Celestia. Being autistic myself it scares me that there are people who exist that are like this. Twilight said as she turned around to sit down in her chair but the princess.

"Twilight please you have to help me with this! I can't debate him because I'm the princess and it would be against protocol to debate one of my subjects, now there's a lot of people that agree with you that it's a quack practice but your the only one who has the most knowledge about it! Please Twilight I can't stand this quack. Besides if I try to ban that therapy then its proponents will attack me and oust me. I can ban it once it becomes unpopular among its own supporters. You might be the one to persuade those people to give up defending it. You can also make him look like a huge jerk because it will look bad for him as an autistic abuser debating an autistic woman! Princess Celestia said.

Twilight sighed as she listened to Celestia. She admitted that Celestia had a good point and Twilight was against the therapy so this might be a good chance to stand up for her belief. Twilight looked at Celestia as she knew that she was the only one that Celestia trusted with this.

"Alright I'll do it...ill need to write down my arguments for the debate though which will take some time to do. I'll need bar charts made up so I can cite those to look at to help back up my claim and I'll need other papers as well that will back up my claim. How much time do I have to prepare?" Twilight said. Celestia responded to her.

"You have at least two weeks to prepare your argument for the debate. You'll probably meet the professor before then. Just to remind you the professor is really smart but also ignorant. I'm counting on you Twilight!" Celestia said. Celestia left and Twilight closed her door and slammed her hoof on the table in frustration.

She couldn't believe this! She didn't have time to debate some moron who thinks that he's smarter than everyone else. She hated that Equestria's citizens were buying his made junk. She couldn't understand why Celestia just couldn't reform the therapy community in Equestria as that would solve this whole issue.

"Twilight are you okay? I heard a slam sound? You look very upset. Should I help you or anything or...." Starlight Glimmer asked. Twilight shook her head at her as she could not believe she had to debate an idiot about something that was so dumb.

"I have to debate Professor Berry Bubble in two weeks over his so called therapy that he and a bunch of other parents like to parade around." Twilight complained, Starlight knew exactly who she was talking about.

"Oh yeah him....Twilight you will wipe the floor clean with him. He won't have any courage to come back after you use facts! Your the most smartest woman that I know. He will be begging to run away half way through the argument. You being high fuctioning will work to your advantage." Starlight teased. Twilight shook her head.

"I don't know Starlight more and more people have come to his defense in recent years...I might be laughed off stage...." Twilight said with a self defeating attitude but Starlight shook her head as she looked Twilight in the eyes.

"Twilight listen to me. You are the smartest individual I know. Me and your friends are going to be there to support you. I'll even help you prepare that argument. Professor Berry Bubble won't stand a chance. He already has opponents all throughout Equestria. You can do this Twilight." Starlight said.

Twilight smiled as she did feel a bit more encouraged by what her friend said so she thanked Starlight and then she got to work on her argument for the debate. When her other friends came to her castle Starlight and Twilight told them about the debate and it was going to begin.

Twilight's friends all remarked that they would be there to support Twilight as well and that they would be there to see the debate. Twilight was so nervous about the possibility of losing the debate but she knew that she had to win the debate as she needed to make sure that other people would be convinced by her not to buy into the quacks so called science.

With the debate only two weeks away she better start getting prepared as she needed all of the talking points that she needed to win for autistic children that were just like her.