Glory to Our Avalon: Part IV

Glory to Our Avalon: Part IV is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, we conclude the origins trilogy and continue the story arc with the start of a miniseries of post-foundation backstories for those who built Avalon, starting with Nguyễn Ðình Tuấn.

Transcript
MAY 26th, 2042 -- FORT WESTFIELD (FORMERLY WESTFIELD WORLD TRADE CENTER), TITANIC CITY, AVALON

"Good evening," said a Filipina newscaster in a studio with a windowed skyline view of Titanic City who wears a modern-styled skirted business suit behind her. "Titanic City Police Department are reporting a mass arrest on the members of a Global Liberation Union terrorist group focused mainly on anti-Rubyism, anti-ponyism and anti-Avalonism, Vlahović's Devils, formerly the Anti-Pony Army, led by Vic Mignogna and commanded by Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi and Jad Saxton, have been arrested in a hideout underneath the ruined Chrysler Building."

"In a surprising twist, we did release a CCTV footage on the recorded incident, and military aide to former US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, and now the first and current military aide to High Captain Edward J. Smith of the Republic of Avalon, Major Archibald W. Butt, has heroically caught Mignogna at the scene of the crime."

The footage is shown, and it has military aide to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Archibald Butt (whose life is saved from being frozen to death and/or being drowned by frigid Atlantic waters), accompanied by a group of former RMS Titanic officers, UN peacekeepers, Equestrian royal guards together, including a few of the Coalition of the Red Phoenix troops, arresting Vic Mignogna.

"What's going on, Major Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt?" questioned Vic Mignogna. "I thought you died when the Titanic sank, just as your body didn't recover from the North Atlantic Ocean, just 130 years ago."

"Not anymore. I'm alive and I'm saved by a bunch of human preservers like the Coalition of the Red Phoenix guys now. And I'm right here," said Major Butt. "Mr. Victor Joseph Mignogna, you're under arrest."

"What?"

"You are guilty of conspiracy and genocide against ponies, and an attempt to destroy us all Avalonians. If you dare to send us back in time to drown us again, then I'm afraid humanity's doomed."

"Goddamn it. I didn't know that."

"Get dressed. You have to come with us."

"Dare me I say, asshole."

"Well, nobody calls me an 'asshole,' jerk. That's just too embarrassing and/or inappropriate. Everybody, search the room."

The troops agree, giving Butt time to drag Mignogna to justice while his troops search the room. Now this is the first time I see him alive once more (and not when I was reading in one of my history books back home). Also the first time E.J. Smith is fascinated with his new uniform. It's almost the same as it was -- a navy blue military dress uniform. The only difference is that his peaked cap has now changed from a US eagle seal into a Soviet-styled coat of arms of Avalon.

"Let go of me, you dweeb! You have nothing to say to me!" screamed Mignogna before he gets beaten up by a unicorn mare in a golden royal guard armor with an electric baton on his head. "I'm avenging Higgs Monaghan! His death will not be in vain!"

These words forced her to silence him. Can you imagine that? Plus, they also had Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi and Jad Saxton arrested. The female voice spoke again as the scene cuts to a Lenco BearCat with the flag of Avalon in it, and even we get to see John Jacob Astor IV, Thomas Andrews, Molly Brown, Countess Noël Leslie, the Mane Six, the Mane Five, Spike the Dragon, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie Lulamoon, Sunset Shimmer, the Equestria Girls, Task Force Vendetta, Task Force Agila, Derek "Frost" Westbrook, all the Coalition of the Red Phoenix officials (like Zhan Zhao for example), Sam Porter Bridges, Preston Garvey, Colonel Miller, Artyom, his wife Anna, BJ Blazkowicz, Grace Walker, Super Spesh, Park Syngman (serving as the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Avalon), the Sole Survivor, Dogmeat, Cogsworth, Team RWBY, Team JNPR, the Preschool Girls, the Inkwell Isle Girls, Babs Seed, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nathan Bradford, William Murdoch, J. Bruce Ismay, Benjamin Guggenheim, Poe Dameron, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Team Magic School Bus, Armando Hendrix and Gordon Freeman standing near the vehicle, waiting to see Monica, Jamie, Jad and Vic going to jail.

Outside, the front doors of the ruined Chrysler Building are now barred with a yellow tape that says "POLICE LINE - DO NOT CROSS." Other police vehicles are also around, just as that Lenco BearCat thing isn't the only one there.

"To make matters worse, Mignogna also throws insults at Avalonians, ponies and those who appreciate Ruby Rose, on whom they are disrespectfully called 'Rubyists,' when we interview him while he's being arrested." The picture enlarges itself into the screen and it plays to show his interview.

"Crime doesn't pay, huh? Well, I can tell you Ruby Rose fans from experience that being an anime dubbing star really doesn't pay! I'm still living in a cool-looking room with some anime and sci-fi merchandise... but that's gonna change soon! You Avalonist, brony and Rubyist pigs will soon be taken where no one will ever rescue them all. You may have me now, but there hasn't been a prison that can hold me."

"Well, this is a very sad turn of events for one of the old world's foremost anime English dubbers who was turned into a maniacal serial killer--"

High Captain Smith turned off the TV before the newscaster's name is revealed by herself, and then said, "See? His crazy ideas are worse than I thought."

"Well," said Nguyễn Ðình Tuấn. "How did you know, my High Captain? He'll be fine when he reeducate him."

"I felt stressful about the shocking news story today," I said. "What will we do?"

"Hmph. I say we all tell a story," Nguyễn Ðình Tuấn spoke quietly. "A story about the day Avalon gets modernized by the other country. The first ever to officially recognizes its existence: Vietnam. The day of how Avalon will have a technological revolution as fast as lightning. It was last month too. On May 26th 2042."

MAY 26th, 2042 -- FIRST-CLASS SMOKING ROOM, RMS TITANIC

Murdoch, Lightoller and Wilde came inside the smoking room as they begin a discussion with the Vietnamese ambassador Nguyễn Ðình Tuấn and two of the PAVN officers. There, Murdoch practices his Vietnamese.

MAY 26th, 2042 -- CASTLE OF THE TWO SISTERS, EQUESTRIA

E.J. told me the next part: about how he visited the Castle of the Two Sisters about the prophecy of the RMS Titanic 's forthcoming salvation from her collision with an iceberg by time travellers in their effort to save humanity from extinction due to a nuclear war, just as what the Ancientmen told, and with the narration provided by Twilight Sparkle.

"Thousands of centuries ago," said Twilight Sparkle to High Captain E.J. Smith.