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|Date of Scene=2014/07/15
|Location=Books and Branches Library, Ponyville
|Synopsis=Raditz gives a brief history lesson to Staren and Twilight.
They probably won't like what they learn.
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|Cast of Characters=486, Twilight Sparkle, 42
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=	 For the first time in probably a while, Raditz drops down from the sky in his non-pony form into Ponyville, within walking distance of the library, and for once he's not alone. Flying at his side is a woman in an oriental casual attire, with red fiery hair was Merra. That would be Raditz's wife, and in her arms shee's carrying a bundle. 

"You didn't have to come along, you know." Raditz mutters, an eyebrow twitching. Merra cheerfuly replies, "Oh, Raditz, how could I miss this? I've always loved horses as a child, and you did promise..." Raditz just grrs a little.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=The white unicorn stallion is already on his way to the library when Raditz and Merra come in for a landing. How can he not see that? He starts to approach, but at the comment about having always loved horses, he hesitates, unsure if he risks being on the recieving end of a fawning. After thinking for a bit, he determines that if that /does/ happen, switching forms first will only defer it onto Twilight. So, over to them ge trots. "Hey, Raditz. Who's your friend?"
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose=Guests! Late at night! This is becoming a regular thing for Twilight. Which doesn't actually inconvenience her too much. She often stays up pretty late anyway. She is busy in the kitchen, using her magic to prepare a multitude of snacks and drinks for her incoming guests. Knowing she has possibly two saiyans on the way, she makes a veritable mountain of cucumber and carrot sandwiches, along with a couple of gallons of mixed fruit juices.
 
Then, then gets them all set up in the living room on the coffee table in front of her comfy couch. After that, she clops cheerfully to her front door and opens it, checking to see if Staren and Raditz are nearby. And they are! So, Twilight trots out to meet them. "Hello Raditz! Hello Staren! Hello...ah, forgive me, I don't think we've met." That last part is directed to Merra of course. Then, Twilight's eyes widen. "Is...is that a human foal? Er..ah, baby?" she asks with barely contained excitement. It's so cute, after all, with those tiny fingers and giant eyes and other things that make babies cute.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=Raditz blinks a little as he hears the voice, before recognizing the pony formed Staren, "Hey Staren... I'll do introductions in a bit, let's just get inside..." He doesn't want to draw too much attention, and though his presence is already kind of welcome in Ponyville, the additional human might bring curiousity that Raditz isn't ready for.
 
Of course, going inside is interrupted by Twilight coming on out, "Oh... I guess I'm doing introductions right now then..." Merra shoots Raditz a mischievous smile, and says, "It's fine, I'll introduce myself, Raditz..." She steps forward and hefts up the bundle, which does in fact contain a auburn haired child, "I'm Merra, wife to 'The King of All Saiyans'." Raditz grumbles at the way Merra intones that, before the woman continues, "And this is Gine, and she's technically only half human." She olds the baby to show but not be too shakey. Little Gine just sort of stares at the colorful ponies, before giggling.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Only after walking up does Staren get a clear look at the baby. He looks slightly surprised. Simply, he does not /encounter/ babies. So he's not sure how he should act around them. He spends a long moment staring off into space, analyzing the value of babies in general, before some other part of him says hey, dude, you don't need to think about all that right now: This is an ally's wife and kid. Don't be concerned with your interactions with the baby -- be concerned with your interaction with the parents. So he unfreezes and trots the rest of the way up to them. "I didn't know you had a kid. Congratulations! And a wife. Double congratulations! To both of you! I'm Staren, of the Free City of Lazlo. Nice to meet you." He raises a hoof as if for a handshake.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose=Twilight giggles when the baby does, then smiles brightly. "Please, come inside!" Twilight says, then turns toward the library and starts walking. "Oh! I'm Twilight Sparkle, by the way. It's so nice to meet you, Merra!" she says, then giggles again and looks toward Gine. "And you too, widdle Gine." she says in baby talk before she opens the door and heads on inside.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=Raditz just kind of sigh with his forehead planted to the palm of his hand, "Thanks, Staren... Yeah, let's just... Go in..." He grumbles and turns to just walk through, before knocking his head right into the top of the doorframe, "Augh! Gee, I forgot that your house is much shorter than it looks." Rubbing his head before stooping on inside.
 
Merra in the meantime shakes Staren's hoof and nods to Twilight, smiling, "Nice to meet both of you, and thank you, Staren." She follows Raditz inside, laughing softly when she watches him smack his head into the doorway, and carefully walks in without hitting her head herself.
 
Once inside, Raditz sighs and drops onto the couch, not even waiting to be offered as he grabs a handful of sandwhiches and stuffs them into his mouth. Merra sits beside him and sets little Gine down in her lap, the child's tail flicking about as she just looks around the whole new world of things, as she says, "So, Raditz said he's here to give a history lessen about Saiyans, mm? Good for him." Raditz just grumbles in the meantime.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Staren smiles to Merra, then walks in after them. He closes the door if Twilight doesn't get it first. "Yeah. So, you just came to see the ponies?"
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose=Twilight takes a seat on a nearby bean-bag and smiles. "I am looking forward to the history lesson. There was some information in the Union databanks, but I doubt it was comprehensive, and even if it was it didn't extend past the saiyan's induction into the Planetary Trade Organization." she says. She looks to Merra. "You are welcome to the sandwiches and fruit juice, and I may have some milk around if Gine is hungry." Twilight says cheerfully.
 
As Gine's tail flicks about, there is a flapping of wings, then... 'who?' A large owl lands on the arm of the couch, his eyes kind and his posture polished. "Oh! Owlowiscious. So nice of you to join us!" Twilight says. 'who?' the owl says again before looking curiously at the baby saiyan/human.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=Gine goes wide eyed as she sees the owl, just staring. The world is just bright and amazing and oooo. Oooo said the owl, and Gine just reaches for the owl, all too giddy and happy at life.
 
In the meantime, Merra giggles and gently holds her child still, as she replies to Twilight, "Thank you, but I did come prepared." She pats a bag that she had set down earlier. To Staren she laughs and sighs, "Well, I had to see for myself this world of talking ponies. It's so friendly here."
 
If nobody is paying attention, that mountain of sandwhiches drops by about a third on account of Raditz's appetite, his mouth still stuffed with them, before he gulps it down, and sits back. "Well, Saiyan history is kind of a... uh... History thing..." He scratches the back of his head, "A lot of what I know about our homeworld I learned from my mother, at least so far as I remember. Saiyan families weren't exactly... Close."
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Staren looks at Owlowliscious with a hint of a smile, but somehow it doesn't feel like the time to indulge in the usual joke. He wonders if the owl is smart enough to understand and care about the joke, anyway. Staren stops briefly to give Gine a curious look as he passes the couple. "Another half-breed, huh..." he flicks his ears and tail in thought, then moves on. He telekinetically pours a few cups of punch, offering two to Raditz and Merra and setting a third on the floor near one of the beanbags. He lays down on it, rather than sitting up, and smiles to Merra. "It /is/ quite friendly. That's what led us to this discussion, actually..." And then he TKs his cup to himself to sip while he listens to Raditz.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose="Oh. I'm sorry to hear that." Twilight says when Raditz says his family wasn't close. She doesn't seem to mind that the pile of sandwiches is disappearing. That is what she made it for, after all. Then, Merra speaks up, making Twilight smile. "We are trying to keep it friendly here despite all the influences from outside of Equestria. And, hopefully, to help other worlds gain our level of peace." she says to Merra.
 
Owlowiscious tilts his head when Gine reaches toward him, then flaps his wings and lands on Merra's shoulder. He looks at Merra, then down at Gine. "Who?" If Owlowiscious is smart enough to understand the game, he is apparently also smart enough to not give away that he knows.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=The pile of sandwhiches just sort of gradually becomes less and less, as Raditz shakes his head, "Eh, don't worry about it. It's just kind of what happened. My parents seemed closer to each other than most Saiyans and their mates, which was apparently kind of rare." He scratches his head a touch. "Regardless of that, Saiyans have always been fighters for the most part. Granted, some took on more support roles like my Mother. She helped keep the Saiyans fed, which as you know is pretty awesome."
 
"Hooooo..." Is the response from Gine to Owlowiscious. She doesn't understand words, so that really doesn't count as first word as much as a sound immitation, as she follows it up by babbling!"
 
Raditz watches briefly, before clearing his throat, "Anyway... Yeah, we fought. Even before the Planet Trade Organization, Saiyans back then just fought each other, and whoever happened to show up. But Mostly each other. The only reason the Saiyans worked for the PTO is because it gave us a chance to fight other someone else." He pauses before grinning slightly, "It was fun." Before his smile fades away again.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Staren sets down his cup, swallows, listens. Takes a deep breath. "Why did you fight? Was it to gain something? To protect something? Or are you... do you truly value fighting itself?" He wonders.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose="Or," Twilight says, "...was combat ingrained in you? Is it simply a compulsion that just seems natural for your species?" She wants to know why they fight, just like Staren does.
 
Owlowiscious smiles when Gine hoos back. How does a bird smile, you ask? Well, he smiles with his eyes, mostly. Even if his beak doesn't form a smile, his smile is obvious in his eyes. "Hooo?" the owl says back, then spreads a wing out before looking at Gine again.
 
Staren flashes a brief look of 'So we were thinking the same thing' to Twilight. The word he had been about to say before he stopped himself was 'programmed'. He looks back to Raditz.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose="Hoooo!" A few more giggles from Gine, before Merra takes this moment to pull the child into her lap, and tells Owlowiscious, "Gine, that's who." After which, she glances over at Raditz, watching his expressions.
 
Raditz listens to the questions from Twilight and Staren, and doesn't even change his expression, simply responding, "I didn't stutter, guys. We fought because it was fun. We went to other planets to fight people, because it was fun. We let them have an advantage in the fight, for fun. We destroyed -worlds-. And we had fun doing it."
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Staren hmms. "Interesting." He tries to remember the explanation he gave Cameron earlier, of the nature of 'fun'. "I see. Fun is... fairly complex, but I suppose you're not really interested in breaking down why it was fun. Perhaps it doesn't really matter."
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose=Twilight's ears lie back when Raditz clarifies what he meant. "So...you did it...simply because it was fun..." she says, almost disbelieving the statement. "There was no reason...beyond fun..." Twilight seems deflated by this revelation. She sinks down into her bean bag and sighs. "If there are races that would destroy worlds...simply because it is fun..."
 
Owlowiscious looks over at Twilight, then flies over to land in front of her. "Hooo.." he says sympathetically, then noses at Twilight, who reaches up to rub at Owlowiscious's head with her hoof.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=Raditz himself goes quiet for a few moments, before saying in a solemn, "Staren, it took me a very, -very- long time to be 'saved', that was an almost fifty, or sixty year process, and about twenty of those years were spent dead, in hell, for trying to kill my brother and wipe out Earth, and I only even succeeded in the first part. I should not be alive right now. I still enjoy fighting, but at least now I've given myself a purpose."
 
Raditz sits back and sighs, "If anyone was the nice Saiyan, it would be my brother, Kakarot... Goku. I'm just doing what I can to make up for the things I've done... I don't even know who I was trying to kid with that news announcement. Nobody's going to turn against the PTO. It's just a giant bluff that everyone is probably calling."
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Twilight looks over as Staren speaks up. She smiles lightly at Staren's determination, then nods. Then, Raditz speaks up again and Twilight sighs softly. "But...it is possible. To change even a saiyan. The problem is...can we change an entire world? We can reach individuals, I have no doubt, but I was hoping for a way to make large amounts of people see that fighting to kill is not a good solution." she says. She is quiet a few moments before she speaks again. "I think your announcement was a good thing, Raditz. But, you have to stick to it. We have to keep them from doing whatever they want with other people's worlds. Like Yunomi's."
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Twilight Sparkle
|Pose=Staren takes another deep breath. "Fifty or sixty years, huh? I guess we'll have to learn how to play the long game if we're gonna be immortal." He stands up and stretches. "Hey. Don't sound so hopeless. Maybe it'll take another fifty or sixty years. Maybe it'll take a hundred or more. But... a way can be found, right?" He stares into space for a moment, having finally found what Raditz was talking about. He whistles. "Wow, the Union's officially been called in? Then we can do this. The might of a superfaction... well... I'm not saying it's a magical cure-all, but it's an army of doctors way bigger than any PTO!" Staren blinks. "Mixed my metaphors there. At any rate... even if the Confederacy backs the PTO and drags things out... the Saiyans being on /this/ side will give them a chance to be more than a villain's pets. They'll be heroes. That's what you set out to accomplish, right?" He raises a hoof in a mirror of a palm-up hand gesture.
 
And then he hangs his head slightly. "Yunomi..." He collapses back onto the bean bag, eyes closed. Then sighs.

Staren all cheerful, and then the wind goes completely out of his sails at the mention of Yunomi. It's rather dramatic.

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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Raditz
|Pose=Raditz grumbles and shakes his head, "Frieza was pretty thorough when he destroyed our homeworld. One shot, and every saiyan on Planet Vegeta was gone, and only a handful of survivors happened to be off planet at the time. You're not gonna find more from my universe, and the variant worlds are gonna be hit and miss. For all we know, nobody was even listening to my message."
 
He grumbles, "I'm not gonna bother telling you the rest of our history in detail. Planet Vegeta wasn't even really our true homeworld. We just moved in a few hundred years before, and after a while we decided to take over. The natives, the Tuffles... Well, you can guess what happened to them... As you can tell, Friendship isn't magic over where I'm from."
 
Raditz goes quiet and stands up, "We should go. Sorry that the history lecture wasn't what you expected to hear. Thanks for the food." With that, he nods to Merra, "Come on..." With that, he walks out without really waiting on his wife, perhaps more upset than he's letting on.
 
Merra nod to Raditz and stands up, "Thank you for having us, Twilight Sparkle. It was really nice to meet you both." Gine just sort of yawns sleepily in Merra's arms, as the woman says, "Raditz really is a better man than he thinks... Take care." With that, she turns and follows Raditz out.
 
The platter of sandwiches, in the mean time, is empty.
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{{Single Pose
|Poser=Staren
|Pose=Staren's not sure how to reply, and then they're leaving. He looks up long enough to say, "Nice to meet you too..." to Merra. He downs the rest of his punch, then brings the cups to the kitchen. "I... suddenly feel very tired. I think I'll... turn in for the night. Goodnight, Twilight." He heads up to the spare bed.
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