Throwing off the Chains

Chapter 1

A thousand years

I suppose before I begin I should tell you how this all got started. One thousand years ago before Princess Luna ever became Nightmare Moon my kind arrived on Equis. My kind is of course Mankind or humans. We did nothing wrong, never ever intentionally hurt a pony. Yet we became the way we did because we might bring harm to the ponies. This started because of a war between two rival factions. The Iron-mongers and the Hunters. They started a war that brought all the human factions to one side or the other. Those stupid fillies that thought that it would be fun to watch the stupid humans fight. Remember when I said intentionally hurt a pony? Well the stupid pegasus flew right in front of a spear that had been thrown. She lived through it unfortunately because after the battle ended. Guess who showed up? No Celestia did not show up but her sister Luna. God I hate her for what she did. She saw the blood spilt but she also saw the raw strength and our hands. Humanity did not know this but there was only one place in the whole of Equistria that had enough ponies. Thats right motherfuckin' Ponyville.

Anyway Luna cast an incredibly complicated spell that I'm told drained her for three days. This cursed spell reduced humans to mere animals. We only had basic instincts and couldn't think with higher cognitive abilities. She teleported all 500 survivors of the battle to the Canterlot caverns. We then set to mine the crystal. We mined the crystal and still do at least for the moment. After a while a new mine opened and some of us were sent to work in it. By then all of Equistria knew what had happened but now it was common place. In fact a few unicorns wanted to buy us to be their servants. SERVANTS!!! This is the only time any human has felt any gratitude towards the Royal Pony Sisters was when they refused to sell us. Remember the mine that opened? Well that mine opened in Ponyville. Now we humans had heard about what had happened to Princess Luna and the moon coming back yadda yadda yadda. ANYWAYs we were still stupid and had no higher thought. Some of us were used by Twilight to help her move stuff and the other elements also used us. Apparently Celestia had given the okay. We were more often than not treated cruelly by the citizens and sometimes the Elements except for Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash was the worst, she would make us run as far as we could. If we collapsed we got beaten.

Fast-forward to yesterday. I was wor- Sorry, forgot to introduce myself. I am Will, I am 14. Continuing, yesterday I was working in the mine. I was about to chip out a ruby when... a bubble of white light flew down the tunnels. When it left I remembered what I was. For the first time I had access to higher thought. Back at the general living quarters everyone was in shock. For they had remembered too. I was always brash so I yelled.

"Let us teach the tyrants about death. Let us let them know that we remembered!" To my surprise I saw lots of heads nodding and few smiles here and there.

"Sir, I can get news to the other mines by tomorrow morning!"

"How? Tell me how you can."

"I can run faster than Rainbow Dash can!" he said triumphantly.

"Excellent, tell them this. Next morning everyone must leave the mines. They MUST go to the main square. If anypony attacks them they may knock the out. Don't kill or maim, also once there at the stroke of 9 they must yell... "We remember, We WILL take our revenge. Then they must run to the Everfree and group at the castle of the royal pony sister." I said.

"Sir, Yes sir." He yelled running off. Happy and content with my plan I joined the others in the sleeping quarters. I slowly drifted off to sleep.

I was woken quite horribly by the feeling of being hit in the face by a white hoof.

"Up, human up you are to help me today." said a slightly accented voice. Finding my voice I completely shocked her by saying.

"No."

"Whaaa. What do you mean no? I guess I'll whip you then." Looking up I saw the messenger last night holding a brick. I nodded and he brought it down swiftly. Knocking Rarity clean out.

"Where'd you get the brick?" I asked quizzically

"Found it." he said.

"Good enough for me." I said standing up and gazing out among the assembled humans. I simply nodded and they followed me up the tunnels. One earth pony tried to stop us but was put down by the blunt end of a pick axe. We eventually made it out to the sunlight. Where a couple of guards tried to stop us. They weren't expecting a flanking maneuver. I can say that much. We walked in to the square and lined up. We waited and waited. Twilight Sparkle ran out to witness us. The clock struck nine.

"WE REMEMBER, WE WILL TAKE OUR REVENGE!!!  We then broke and ran for the Everfree.

------------------------------------------------------------------------Twilight's Perspective----------------------------------------------------------------------

I stood there shocked at what had taken place. The slaves had remembered? But what had they remembered? I ran to the mines and to their sleeping quarter. There I found Rarity slumped over with a sizable lump on her head. I gently woke her.

"WHERE IS HE!" she yelled.

"Who Rarity?"

"The human."

"In case you haven't noticed they're all gone." I said dryly. Rarity slumped over not willing to believe it. I ran home to find Spike. I needed to write a letter to the Princess!

"SPIIIIIIIKE" I yelled.

"Ow. Yes Twilight." he said coming down the stairs.

"Take a letter please." I said waiting for him to pull out the letter and quill.

"Dear Princess,

All the slaves in town have left. But before they left they said that the remembered and that they would have their revenge. What did they remember and why are they so angry.

Your Student,

Twilight Sparkle"

"Got it Twilight!" said Spike.

"Send it please." Ten seconds later a reply came through.

My Dearest Student,

You must come to Canterlot immediately. Bring the Elements with you. They did the same thing outside the palace this morning.

Yours,

Celestia.