Chapters Chapter 1: Growing Tensions
Unbeknownst to most of ponykind, a treaty between pegusi, earth ponies, and unicorns was signed over 500 years ago, declaring that any violent actions performed by an entire race of ponies directed towards another specific race of ponies would be considered hateful, and that the entire race would be wiped from the face of Equestria by the armies of peace. However, the armies of peace were long disbanded, and since then tensions between the groups were high. The peace throughout all of Equestria was hanging by a thread, and only a mere snip was needed to throw everything into total chaos...
"9-1-1 what's your emergency?
"Hi, uh, this is an anonymous call, there's loud noises coming from inside my friend, Rarity's house. I'm too scared to go in to check it out, but I want to make sure she's ok. I always worry about everypony. I need someone to come down here and check out the scene, if that's, uh, ok with you too..."
"Sure ma'am, please stay on the line while we send the pony police to check it out."
"Thank you very much!"
"It's my job, and I'm happy to help"
5 minutes went by on the phone with that 911 operator, but it felt like an eternity for the young Fluttershy. However she was right to make the call, and they should have sent more police cars.
Inside of the now wrecked household and dress shop, were Rarity and Rainbow Dash lying on the floor next to the finest new dress Rarity had just hand-made, each severely maimed. It appeared that Rarity and Rainbow Dash had stab marks from the same weapon, so the police assumed that whoever did this was armed and at large. However, as Dash and Rarity slipped into unconsciousness, they were taken by the pony police to the Canterlot Hospital, and hadn't woken up for many days...
"Rainbow Dash: accused of aggravated assault, larson, and theft. What's the story behind all of this?" asked the honorable judge Lardicious.
"Well first of all judge Lar-... can I just call you Lardo?" asked the inmate Rainbow Dash.
"Only my mother can call me that! I have to live in her basement by her rules, sadly..." retorted "Lardo".
"Ok *cough Lardo cough*, well it all started at Rarity's house... it was originally a great and sunny day, until I walked in the door to Rarity's house. She was in such a horrible mood for some reason, that it instantly made me feel sympathetic for some reason..."
"That's because I had the flu you dunderhead!" retorted Rarity with a sniffle.
"Whatever," continued Dash, "so, she was in such a horrible mood, that I started to feel bad. I thought surprising her with my visit might bring here day up, being the wonderfully nice and pleasant pony I am, but it didn't. I walked up behind her and yelled 'Surprise!' and instead of being pleased, she turned around and hooved me in the face, hard! So I retaliated and tackled her to the ground next to her new dress. Then, she used her magic and flung sharp gems at my head which are still lodged in there (I need surgery to fix that). In order to defend myself, I broke a nearby glass bottle and lunged at the crazed mare, and stabbed here in the left upper forehoof. Abruptly, she made a move and pinned me to the ground, broke my right wing, and used my bottle to stab me right in the stomach. After that the police showed up and I woke up in jail some time later feeling better."
"Is this true Rarity?" asked the judge.
"Some of it, but not all of it!" she replied.
"Go on," approved the judge
"Well, the details what happened during the fight are entirely true," she started, "but the reason is not! She did walk in, but she was carrying something that looked like a knife. She then walked up behind me and said so softly 'Surprise...' almost as if that arrogant pegasus buffoon was about to assassinate me, so I turned around to see what she wanted. I stuck out my hoof for a handshake and had accidentally nudged her in the face with it, and it all went downhill from there..."
"That's entirely untrue you greedy unicorn ignoramus!" Dash promptly stated.
"Your story was too you lying, pathetic pegasus dunce!" said Rarity with a sort of pride.
"Ladies please! Dignity and respect will be shown in my courtroom! Jury, please tell me you have reached a verdict..." begged the judge.
The jury, which no one has cared to look at until now, is coincidentally made up of half pegasi and half unicorns.
"No we have not judge," answered the pegasus foreman, "but I think the case is leaning in the direction of Rainbow Dash."
"Really now? Because I think this is going to Rarity," replies a unicorn in the jury.
Soon, the entire courtroom virtually divided into unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. The unicorns and pegasi were the two groups who were doing all the fighting, while the earth ponies stood off to the side in horror at the vocabulary each side traded off. Soon, the two sides had collided verbally long enough, and they began a massive brawl! Out of a courtroom of 300, 200 of the ponies currently in attendance were in the dustcloud if flying hooves and missed bucks. It was a sad day in pony history, and just when it seemed like it couldn't get much worse, it felt to them all as if the binding thread from the treaty had finally been cut, and a wave a retaliation was soon to follow...
Author's Note
This is the first pony related story I ever wrote, so don't be afraid to tell me what I'm doing right/wrong. Also, I plan to get around 50 chapters to this story, then maybe even a second book entirely. It's going to be full of small side stories and I want to have a lot of fun doing this. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: War is Brewing
"Extra extra! Read all about it! Ponies filled with racial pride brawl it out in a courtroom!" was the cry heard by every resident of Ponyville, beckoned by the paper colt. As everyone digested the words of the day's paper, most would say that they too were feeling the racial pride. This goes especially for all of the paper's earth pony readers.
"Two innocent casualties..." "by-standers harmed..." "two earth pony victims..." were some of the excerpts Applejack was reading in the paper when something in her mind "clicked". That day, something ignited deep inside her, that slow churned and grew into a fiery blaze that would lead to her unending hatred for pegasi and unicorns...
The feeling on each of the other sides was mutual, as both pegasi and unicorns have a hatred for the other, and towards the earth ponies for putting more blame on the feuding groups. They believed the two "innocent" earth ponies were actually trying to participate in the brawl and that they were hurt because of their own wrongdoing. It was a sad fate for the last thread of peace remaining, it had no chance against the scissors that all ponykind had wielded.
As the hatred between the groups festered and boiled, a sort of hierarchy appeared within each of the groups. It seemed that Twilight sparkle and Rarity lead the unicorns, Rainbow Dash lead the pegasi, and Pinkie Pie and Applejack lead the earth ponies. But wait, what about...
"I don't want to fight Dash! I don't hate anypony!" pleaded an innocent Fluttershy.
"Either you join our cause or you are an enemy Fluttershy!" said Rainbow Dash with a nasty attitude.
"But I was reading a book one day about a treaty signed over 500 years ago! They said something about a Peacekeeper army! Why can't we both recruit for the cause of peace rather than rally for death?" returned Fluttershy.
"Because the Peacekeeper army was disbanded centuries ago! They couldn't help anypony then, and they sure won't help anypony now! Look around you! You're in pegasi headquarters deep under Ponyville! You are truly willing to abandon the work I have done for us?" boomed Dash with an devilish sort of tone.
"But Dash, I-" she was stopped.
"Then you are weak and useless to the cause!" beckoned a furious Rainbow Dash, as she picked up Fluttershy out of shear rage, tossed her in the basement of pegasi headquarters, and lock the door.
With the only remaining mediator from the pegasi's side locked away, there was nothing left to keep the army at bay...
Meanwhile at Sweet Apple Acres, Pinkie and Applejack were going on a simple stroll...
"Man I hate me some of them pegasi and unicorns! Who do they think they are hurtin' our fellow earth ponies like that?" started Applejack.
"I already told you, they think they're the best at everything, bicycling, flying, magic-ing..." replied Pinkie quite unintelligently.
"Pinkie, that's completely irrelevant to the situation... They hurt earth ponies! At the fight in the court room!" explained Applejack.
"Ooooh I get it! They think they're best at boxing too!" returned Pinkie, still quite clueless.
"Hopeless... nevertheless we need battle tactics in case they decide to attack!" Applejack exclaimed.
"Oh, battle tactics? I have a very detailed plans for war right here," Pinkie said as she supplied Applejack with the plans.
"Pinkie these are brilliant! Where did you get these?"
"I was drawing them up while you were busy yapping about how some unicorns and pegasi hurt earth ponies or something."
"There might be hope for you after all! Now that we have plans, we'll be prepared for anything..."
At the same time everything else was happening, the unicorns, too, were plotting their plans for domination over the other races.
"So here's what I have so far Twilight..."
"Oh good Rarity, you made it!"
"Indeed darling, but inside your rather dirty treehouse...?"
"Disregard that, we have plans to plan? Is that correct terminology? Let me check my dictionary-"
"Those no time for that deary! We have a battle to plan!"
"Oh right, right. Please go on with what you have!"
"Well, the only thing we really have that's special and outstanding is you. You're the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria, and you are our secret weapon. Now, I have a few new spells that you need to learn, they still need to be tested, but-"
"Rarity, what is this?"
"Oh darling, that's the most experimental and least tried spell we have written for you, but it could be the most powerful!"
"I'm aware of that, but what does it DO?"
"You caught me. It uses your magic on a strange green rock we found. Lyra calls it Uranium, but I prefer the name Twilightium."
"What has this rock done so far that makes it so outstanding?"
"Well twilight, it... uh... well... um... yea..."
"You mean it's just a green rock?"
"A glowing green rock!"
"Right... you have officially wasted my time. I don't appreciate that at all Rarity."
"I'm sorry Ms. Twilight! I'll throw this spell in the rubbish outside! No one ever has to see it again."
"Good. Please do it now."
"Right away darling!"
"Now, back to the plans..."
Neither of them had any idea what they had just done. They threw away the most powerful spell ever written. Good thing Applejack always goes through her enemy's trash...
As the blood of Equestria ran cold with the flood of ancestral and racial pride, war was on the brink. Most were surprised that it hadn't happened yet, but their suspicions were about to be satisfied. As Rainbow Dash signed the declaration of war on the earth ponies and unicorns, you could almost feel the heart of a Equestria stop, turn black, and shrivel into nothingness. Upon hearing the news of war, both Applejack with Pinkie Pie and Rarity with Twilight Sparkled declared war. Ponyville was about to become the epicenter of a massive bloodbath; any innocent life still in the town better lock their doors, shut their windows, and pray to Celestia that nopony finds them...
As the massive armies of all sides grew stronger with reinforcements from Fillydelphia and Coltsburg, the numbers breezed past 100,000 strong. All sides skipped basic training and went straight into the massive formations that would destroy the world. The ponies marched onwards until they diverged in the center of Ponyville, each side believing the massive size of their army would intimidate and scare off the others. However that tactic was quite ineffective.
"Load the artillery!" rallied Applejack.
"Under-belly bombs ready pegasi!" beckoned Rainbow Dash.
All Rarity had to say for the unicorns was, "All horns up!"
"That's what she said!" giggled a random soldier, and after a jolly group laugh for a few seconds, they got back to business.
After the ready orders, all grew silent as they waited for someone to make the first move. But some earth pony had forgotten to tie his shoe, and as he bent down to tie it, he nudged a pegasus in the rump and he flew off. Soon, the others took to the sky and began the bombings down on their enemies!
"A scene from hell.." said an unnamed soldier, as they were blown to bits by the advanced bombing technology.
The earth ponies and unicorns didn't hesitate, since the unicorns were getting dominated by artillery shells as they shot off slightly weak electro-magic pulses. If the spell makes contact with it's target, a small shock wave travels through the contact point and up through the ponies body to their heart. Once there, the electricity cause an arrhythmia as the victim collapses dead of cardiac arrest.
The fighting lasted like this for a whole five minutes, before Applejack gave the order to coat the artillery shells in deadly anthrax bacteria. The idea was barbaric in itself, but the fact that it was actually effective was terroristic. As she watched her enemies drop one by one, she couldn't help but smile at the pony she had become.
The sad truth of the matter was that most of the unicorns were still learning to use their magic. Then a small fraction of that part knew the basic combat spells, so most threw rocks. Too bad they weren't glowing green, the could've had a weapon beyond imagination.
The pegasi were at a tactical advantage, as the only troops still on the ground were technology geeks from Ponasia, who had no other skills whatsoever, with the exception of walking, breathing,eating, going to the bathroom, and writing books on how not to impress women. Anyways, all of the others took to the sky in no sort of formation. The earth ponies' artillery shells couldn't hope to hit the evasive pegasi. Meanwhile the unicorns' tactic of using their magic to take them down was quite effective, especially when they were crashing down towards the earth pony army. As soon as the descending dead carcass made contact with anypony, the under-belly bombs detonated and had a blast radius of around 15 feet.
Fluttershy couldn't help but take notice of the quaking ground from her place in her underground imprisonment.
"Oh dear, oh dear..." repeated Fluttershy, over and over, "If only they would've held off for just a few more hours, I could've busted out of this living hell..."
Fluttershy was right in her judgement of the prison. Conditions there didn't exactly meet the living standard of anypony, even Bobo the gay hobo. She was fed on food scraps that remained from Rainbow Dash's nightly feasts. These mostly included saturated mashed potatoes, moldy cheese, apple cores and peach pits.
"They have no idea who in Equestria they are dealing with," muttered Fluttershy to herself.
As Fluttershy plotted her escape, up above ground, the war raged onwards. It truly was a three way deadlock. Nopony was winning, but everypony was losing. The day was about to come to an end, and nopony wanted to fight in the dark. At least the generals had the decency to agree on a night time armistice, so that everypony could sleep in their military grade tent.
It was a very busy day in the makeshift hospitals on each side. The busiest probably being the unicorns, due to those artillery shells that sprayed shrapnel in every direction. There were over 6,000 deaths total that day, and over 15,000 injuries. Later into the night, a few more would die because of the bullet injury they received, and a severe lacking of the miracle medicine, Ponycillin. Ponycillin was a shot that basically relieved a soldier of their pain so they were able to get back in action the next day.
The generals plotted away in elaborate extra large tents, gradually planning the slow and painful deaths of their so-called enemies.
The unicorns attempted to learn new spells in an abnormally shaped, very large learning tent. Tonight's learning tent activity was a fireball spell, which is self-explanatory.
The earth ponies were sent to manufacturing tents, which were box like in structure, and huge in size. In said tent, they developed new weapons and different kinds of ammunition to use on the field of battle. Today they managed to develop a slightly more explosive artillery shell, as well as hand-held explosive launchers of projectiles, or HELP for short.
Some unicorns retreated to their massive underground base. Today, they learned how to successfully abduct somepony, and then how to torture them for information following abduction.
The sad truth of the matter is that there was not a winner. There were 3 losers battling it out to see who simply didn't lose the most. No winner goes without losing, and without making sacrifice. So far, it seems to many that there have been too many sacrifices made already, but the megalomaniacal dictators who call themselves "Generals" are willing to push the limits of their power, and are willing to do anything to come out as the best loser.
Author's Note
Let me know what you think of the story so far! And for the next two chapters, I have one about capture and torture, and then one about Fluttershy after that.
