FliegerFaustToP47
I want to die...
1 day before the uprising and escalation
Bashful’s POV
I walked through Ponyville’s dirt roads, my best friend/sister who wasn’t technically a sister, Azure Interdictor, following right behind me. We carried a couple of saddlebags on our sides, filled with the shopping we did today, dressed in a white hoodie and black socks for me and a black jacket with white socks for Azure. I looked behind myself to take a glance at the light blue plane pony, making sure she didn’t get lost. It was just like any other day in this town, or at least, more like any other ‘calm’ day, considering there wasn’t any monster of the week ready to smash buildings… I remember that I thought it would be a calm week this time, as it was already Friday, and nothing had happened yet so far… I was so dreadfully wrong, that I feel I was too innocent…
While we kept our relatively quick pace through the streets, crowded by various kinds of ponies either talking to each other, buying and selling things, or playing out there in the open (Mostly the fillies, but there were a few stallions playing buckball), I could notice in the corner of my eyesight two ponies insulting and lashing, one of them a unicorn and the other one an earth pony. I looked at them for a few instants; they were currently arguing about something in particular, and it seemed to be a delicate subject since their physical gestures indicated anger. I didn’t quite catch what was the conversation topic that they were heated about, but I approached them slowly, inferring that they were about to start a physical confrontation.
Expectedly, one of them, the unicorn seemed to have taken an insult personally and gave the other one an -honestly amazing- uppercut, the hoof connecting and making the poor pegasus fall briefly on his flanks before proceeding to take advantage of his lowered position and charge wildly, attempting to slam the unicorn with his entire body. Azure and I rushed to the scene alongside some other ponies in the crowd, and we thankfully managed to pull them from each other, not wanting anyone to get severely hurt. In a few seconds of struggling, the Royal Guard came and put these police hoofcuffs on their arms, taking them away for disorderly conduct and assault, according to the speech one of the armored ponies did, most likely repeated countless times. Before they actually took them away flying though, I heard the unicorn yell “YOU SON OF A FILLY! LONG LIVE LUNA!”… Most of the crowd looked at others confusedly, not knowing what they meant, and just assuming it was a stupid fight of who’s the best princess… Little did I know that would be a vague foreshadowing of the events that occurred afterward…
Without much thought of what just happened, the crowd dispersed as if told to do so by a higher authority, and they went back to mind their own business, maybe some of them having a new conversation topic in the neat form of ‘You saw these two guys?’. Azure and I just went back to our planned path. Her eyes registered a confused expression, and I just shrugged toward her “I don’t know… either… people are just too aggressive these days I guess…”. We reached home, put our respective saddlebags in the kitchen, and we went to take a nap, snuggling each other, blissfully unaware of the events that were going to unfold in front of our very eyes, and that we’d sadly end up being a participant of…