- >A man of obvious importance exits from behind the decorative columns of the courthouse.
- >This ambassador is flanked by two armed escorts.
- >They walk down the courthouse steps to a waiting convoy and enter the second humvee.
- >Elsewhere, the clop of galloping hooves fill the alleys and rooftops of the market street.
- >The ambassador's convoy moves through the city.
- >Several soldiers walk in front of and beside the humvees.
- >The vehicles are on lead humvee, the ambassador's humvee, and a tank behind it.
- >Turning a corner onto the market street, one soldier notes how suspiciously quiet it is.
- >Just then, a twin pair of fireballs rocket past the foot soldiers.
- >The ones in front duck and fall onto their backs to avoid being hit.
- >One fireball explodes on the hood of the first humvee.
- >The second flies past and hits a wall behind the tank.
- >The soldiers immediately respond by shooting back at their assailants.
- >Pegasi attack from the sky with spiked horseshoes.
- >Earth ponies charge in with Centurion armor and spears.
- >Unicorns launch bolts of fire and lightning from the alleys and rooftops.
- >The soldiers defend themselves as best they can and take out several enemies, but they've been caught in the open from all sides.
- >Defensive magic is used to prevent the tank from acting.
- >It is eventually totally immobilized.
- >The men don't last much longer, and soon, only one remains.
- >A unicorn telekinetically rips the ambassador from his vehicle and throws him to the ground on his stomach.
- >A waiting Earth pony rears up and brings his heavy horseshoes down hard.
- >Not too far away, three men at a checkpoint fight desperately for their lives against a rush of assaulting equines.
- >They call out to each other, fighting side-by-side to the bitter end.
- >Their rounds ricochet off the Earth ponies' heavy armor and the unicorns' magic shields.
- >Pegasi can blind side them at and moment.
- >On more than a few occasions they got a little too up close and personal with their foes.
- >The men ducked shots of fire and lighting and hurled spears.
- >After an untracked amount of time, the attack had ceased.
- >The remaining equines had retreated.
- >A dozen or so pony corpses lied scattered up and down the road leading to the checkpoint.
- >The three friends rejoiced in their own survival.
- >One dropped to his knees in prayer.
- >He placed his hand over his left breast pocket.
- >In his pocket, over his heart, he kept a hand-written copy of Psalm23 and Psalm 91.
- >The other two reveled in general silence, but kept watch just in case another attack were to arise.
- >On the other side of the city, a small patrol of ponies walked the streets.
- >Earth, unicorn, and pegasus alike.
- >The glass to the local shops were smashed, having been looted some time ago.
- >Market stalls lining the streets were destroyed.
- >Piles of rubble from broken buildings and collapsed walls blocked some of the roads and alleys.
- >Small fires burned away.
- >Propaganda posters showing the sister princesses rotating around the sun and moon in a yin-yang fashion were plastered around the city.
- >A call to arms was also headed on the posters.
- >The patrol passes by a line of equine bodies lining the road against a stone wall.
- >Some don't even acknowledge them.
- >Others pass a single quick glance.
- >One unicorn, however, stopped and stared.
- >The dead ponies were forced against the wall where they had been executed.
- >The lone unicorn was passed by others behind him who never stopped to console their comrade.
- >The unicorn knew these ponies.
- >To his knowledge, they weren't even combatants.
- >Sometimes he forgets which side was the one who actually started all of this fighting.
- >Why they started fighting is an even bigger mystery.
- >The unicorn places a hoof on the body of a female unicorn and bows his head in mourning.
- >At that instant, a round snaps off the wall before him, hitting dead center of the yin-yang of a bloodied propaganda poster.
- >The unicorn, with all the speed of his reflexes, spins around and lets off a bolt of lightning.
- >The electricity arcs through the air and miraculously makes contact with his attacker.
- >The sniper shouts in agony and falls from his perch.
- >The unicorn clears his conscience and runs to catch up with the rest of his patrol.
- >Fighting rages all over the city.
- >Day in and day out.
- >Like the unicorn's thoughts, most of the combatants on both sides wonder what they're actually fighting for.
- >Both leaders claim genocide and other atrocities.
- >Said atrocities being commited by both sides.
- >It's these very leaders that are the only ones who want to fight.
- >Ironically, they do none of the fighting at all.
- >Being of different species and of different worlds altogether, there was no sense of humanity or morality shown to either side.
- >Perhaps our two worlds were never meant to meet.
- >For now, we will continue to fight until either side is defeated.
- >Else we eliminate ourselves trying.
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