After Summer got Belle home she asked if it was alright she head out for a moment. Since Belle would be doing her homework anyway she thought it was alright of her sister to go get whatever she needed done. She nodded and flew off to inform Twilight of the problem they faced. Summer obviously didn't want to worry her Marefriend but this WAS something to worry about. She knocked on the castle doors frantically, only for Spike to open the door long enough for Summer to give him a quick hello and dash off to find Twilight, of course in the castle Library once again.
"Twi! We have a problem!" Summer squeaked as she found Twilight among the books, startling her from her reading.
"What's wrong Summer?" She asked as she levitated a book away from her so she could look at the frazzled Pegasus.
After explaining everything that had happened, including what Diamond Tiara had told the CMC and Belle. Twilight held her marefriend after she had finished and softly stroked her mane, simply wanting to calm her down. She wasn't sure what they'd do, but she knew that Filthy would go straight to the mayor to see exactly how he would be doing this.
"Don't worry...I'll go see the Mayor tomorrow, I may have more authority than her but I don't want to use my title as princess as a way to just immediately get what I want. I think what we have to do is go about this professionally." Twilight explained while she still stroked Summer's mane to keep her calm.
And true to her word the next morning Twilight walked to the mayors office to speak with her. She entered the room and winced seeing Filthy Rich there as well. Mayor Mare simply smiled as she looked at Twilight and she said, "Ah Princess Twilight it's good to see you."
"For one of us." Filthy Rich grumbled.
Twilight walked up to the desk and sighed, "Mayor, I know why Filthy Rich is here and well...I'm here for the opposite reason. You see Filthy Rich may be an important pony around here but that shouldn't mean he decides how everypony else lives their lives. What he's after is only to make sure that his own feelings towards us homosexuals is spread and forced upon everypony in town. I can understand that he feels that we are choosing to live this way but we aren't.
"what's more, he's upsetting ponies with forcing his way of thinking on everypony. So rather than simply listen to one side of the story don't you think that the more responsible and diplomatic approach would be to have this issue made public and have a vote rather than simply ignoring a better way to handle this."
Mayor Mare blinked and she said, "well if that's how you would like to go about things then I suppose that we can arrange this. we will have a pony that you choose and a pony that Filthy Rich chooses speak on the behalf of both sides. After each side has stated their opinions we will have the town decide whether or not Gay marriage will be legalized here in Ponyville."
Filthy Rich glared at Twilight and he snorted, "I suppose this is fair, but I can assure you that I will win this fight."
Twilight gulped as he left the room and Twilight bowed in respect before leaving town hall and heading off to Sugarcube Corner to inform her friends and Summer about the whole situation. She smiled as she listened to Summer's singing, glad that she'd be taking a break soon and ordered their favorite smoothie. Soon her friends arrived as well ordering tea, milkshakes and the like.
After Summer finished her song she smiled as she took a break and walked over to the table and sat near Twilight, "so...? How did it go Twi?"
The alicorn sighed as she looked at her marefriend and said, "You might want to order a drink, I have a lot of explaining to do."
Twilight explained the situation, everypony else listening intently, every now and then there would be slight gasps or whimpers from them, fear for their friends filling them. Finally Twilight finished explaining everything and even ordered another smoothie as the seven mares had to think of something they could do to pull all of this off.
"I'm not so sure what we can do, after all we are close friends and all, they'd think it was unfair to use somepony like us to give the speech."Applejack said with a sigh as she sipped at her apple smoothie.
Rarity nodded as she levitated her drink, "I'm afraid Applejack has a point, darling. We simply cannot go up there ourselves, or they wouldn't find our argument fair."
"oh my...well...what about somepony else? Somepony wh-who we can trust but...um...who won't be an unfair bias..." Fluttershy pipped up softly as usual.
Twilight groaned as she shook her head and Summer patted her back softly to try and comfort her, "well there must be somepony we can ask...but...who?"
Suddenly a small 'ahem' called all seven mares to attention and they turned their heads silently to see little SilverSpoon standing there with her head low, "I could...well...that is to say...I could, like...help."
All the mares were stunned, this was the same filly who had made fun of Scootaloo for her small wings, and the same filly who bullied all of the CMC and less privileged ponies, simply because she could. Why would she be helping to build the chances of gay marriage being Legalized?
"Silver Spoon? Why you?" Rainbow Dash found herself asking as the filly walked closer.
Silver Spoon looked at them and checked to make sure that Diamond Tiara wasn't anywhere around before she sighed, "I-I'm...in the closet you see...I-I didn't want anypony to know with me being a food Critic in training...I-I thought it would hurt my work and my popularity, but then I saw that you and Miss Springs were the same as me. I began to think...if a Princess and a Pop Star can be together, even if they are both mares, then who was to say I couldn't be gay and still be a food critic?
"I know that I've done a lot of mean and horrible things in the past but that was because...well...it made Diamond Tiara happy...and I-I always felt I...well...I loved her, despite how mean she is, even though she couldn't love me back. I've been her friend for so long just to stay close to her...but now she's trying to make it impossible for two ponies to be in love and be happy, and it shouldn't matter what their sexuality is right?
"I can understand that you may not want it to be me who speaks to help you, but I-I promise that I'm not doing this as a cruel joke, I really do want to help you...So...can I?"
The seven mares were shocked and touched by Silver Spoon's bravery, but her story would explain a lot about why she was near Diamond Tiara and why she hadn't really said anything about Summer being gay while Diamond Tiara did. After a long pause and some thinking all Seven mares looked at each other and gave a knowing nod.
Twilight looked at her and she said, "Thank you, Silver..."
The young filly beamed and nodded with a determined smile on her face as she rushed off to go and write her speech. The Mares looked at each other and nodded, there was no way that Filthy Rich was going to win this, not as long as they had such a passionate little filly on their side.
Days of preparation and news filled Ponyville, supporters from both sides clashed until the day was finally upon them and Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara waited for their names to be called, neither aware of the other even being there.
"On Filthy Rich's side he had chosen his daughter Diamond Tiara to speak for his side of the argument." Mayor Mare announced as Diamond Tiara took the stage and made her way to the podium.
The pink filly grinned as Filthy's supporters cheered for her. With this encouragement she nodded and cleared her throat, "Ponyvillians! I'm going to tell you why Gay marriage should be illegal, the way that I was taught was that Two ponies of the same gender shouldn't choose to love each other! A mare and a mare can't love each other because it's morally wrong, and that goes for a Stallion with a stallion! Gays shouldn't be allowed to be together. I think that it would be a great thing for us to all choose to be straight!
"After all, what kind of pony would actually WANT to see two stallions kiss?! I know I don't! Besides, isn't it, like, forcing us to accept their life choice if we allow them to get married?"
The more Diamond Tiara spoke, the more that Silver Spoon felt her heart breaking. She couldn't believe she had been so blind to this pony, she had to be the worst pony in all of Equestria. Still she shook her head and stood proud, Waiting for her to finish.
"And now, on Summer Springs and Twilight Sparkles side, Silver Spoon will give her reasoning, from her own personal opinions and thoughts on why we should legalize gay marriages." Mayor Mare announced, earning a shocked gasp from Diamond Tiara and even a lot of the crowd, not expecting the speaker to be Silver Spoon. She approached the second podium with her head held high and proud.
"S-Silve...?! What is going on here?! I thought you were my best friend!" Diamond Tiara yelled as she saw the gray filly.
"I'm sorry Diamond Tiara, but I can't be your friend anymore, nore can I support your cause because...because...it would be hypocritical of me to do so!" Silver Spoon said for all to hear, earning a loud gasp from the crowd and for her own parents to faint.
"That's right everypony. I am...I am homosexual! And you know what? I was afraid to admit it because of situations like this, I thought that by hiding it I would become more popular and be famous for being a food critic. But after seeing Princess Twilight and Summer, I realized that it doesn't matter. Nothing really matters. Everypony and every creature should be allowed to be happy!
"It shouldn't matter if you're a unicorn, a Pegasus, an earth pony, an Alicorn, a cow a sheep, a goat or even a mule! Whether you're straight or gay or bi or even asexual. Everypony deserves to find that special somepony in their lives. And whats more, no pony can actually CHOOSE to be gay or straight. We simply are or we aren't, it's not a matter of choice. But even if I did have a choice...I think I would still choose to be gay.
"Because no matter what, everypony deserves love. And whoever can't see that is pretty unlucky if you ask me. I mean I look at Princess Twilight and Summer and I can't really see gender or Sexuality, I see two ponies who love each other very much, and that itself is enough to convince me that Gays and Straights should be allowed to get married."
As she finished her speech the crowd was silent, even Diamond Tiara was speechless, until finally, slowly, ponies in the crowd began to cheer and applaud the little filly, her parents running to hug their daughter with tears of pride in their eyes. Everypony went to go fill out a ballot and place it in the box.
"the votes will be counted and tallied and we will announce the outcome in two hours, please everypony, wait here and mingle while we get this sorted." Mayor Mare called out as she had somepony carry the box with her to go and get everything counted and tallied up.
Summer and Twilight smiled at Silver Spoon and hugged each other happily, now all they could do was hope and wait for the results to be announced. The two mares and many other couples waited in worry and excitement, hoping for the best outcome.
Oooooooooooooo! Another cliffhanger! Sorry I'm getting WAY too into the Cliffhanger effect I guess, oh well. I was trying to figure out how this should go down and theeeeeeeeen I thought of my Crack Ship. Sue me ok? Anyway I wanted to bring in Silver Spoon because I actually really like this character, she has SO much that the writers could do with her and I figured, hey what if this sort of thing happened between her and Diamond? oh well lets see what happens next in chapter 13. I'm thinking that this may actually be wrapped up sooner than I expected, I'm actually impressed with that too. ^^
