The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone

The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic. It is a different take on The Conversion Bureau; while not strictly necessary, reading or at least having knowledge of TCB is strongly advised.

The Equestrian landmass appeared suddenly in the South Atlantic. While humanity extended welcome to the ponies, there were those who had doubts. These doubts proved founded once the ponies' imperialism came to light, leading humanity to gear up for war. At the same time, there are also those ponies who disagree with the Princesses' actions.

Presented through newscasts, postings and other formats in addition to standard prose.

Tropes used in The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone include:

• Aliens Are Bastards: Subverted. While ponies like Twilight Sparkle definitely qualify, there's also ones like Ice Breaker and Lyra, who do not agree with what Celestia is doing.
• Ass in Ambassador: Twilight Sparkle ends up offending the entire human race and sparking a war between Earth and Equestria.
• Deconstruction: Of the Conversion Bureau. Humanity reacts appropriately to the ponies' misanthropism, the effects of the expanding Equestrian bubble are further examined, and we have human-sympathizing ponies.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Andrew/Iceman, after Eddy's ponification.
• Emergency Transformation: Eddy chooses to be ponified because he has terminal lung cancer.
• Expy: Several elements of the story are borrowed from World War Two.
  • The Equestrians For Humans are based on the White Rose. Hopefully they won't share the same fate.
    • The story itself seems to be heavily inspired by World War Z.
• Fantastic Racism: Twilight Sparkle is very biased against humans.
  • This creates numerous problems for Evening Star, who has to hide from the humans even as she tries to aid them.
• Fictional Document
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: What Twilight Sparkle expresses in her interview with a reporter.

"We've seen what your greed and corruption have done to your world. How could we possibly let you into Equestria?"

• Hypocrite: The ponies that follow Celestia. They accuse humanity of being greedy and selfish... and proceed to take humanity's lands away from them, cover the Earth in an expanding barrier that kills everyone, and deny entry into Equestria from unconverted humans. The ponies of Equestrians For Humans are all too happy to point it out to them.
• Inferred Holocaust: This story examines the effects of the expanding Equestrian bubble, such as human displacement, something many other TCB works ignore.
• Moral Myopia: Bon-Bon brings up how they don't owe humans anything, saying that they're "weird". Zecora reminds her that the ponies once said the same of herself too.
  • One poster made by Equestrians For Humans asks why ponies can't be friends with humans, if they already are with gryphons and dragons.
• Next Sunday A.D.: Takes place in 2017/2018, with no significant differences from the present.
• Not Himself: Played painfully straight with Eddy, now Thunderhead.

"He's a pleasant smiling zombie with wings."

• Physical God: Celestia and Luna.
  • Jerkass God: Although we haven't heard Luna's stance on the subject, Celestia has said that she stands by Twilight Sparkle's words.
• Reality Ensues: This fic in a nutshell, as applied to the Conversion Bureau subgenre.
• Rousing Speech: What U.S. diplomat Ellen Rowe gives after the United Nations General Assembly declares war on Equestria.
  • Several readers gave their own speeches in the comments section.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers: The attitude of the pony apologists is that "our rulers are goddesses, they can do what they want."
• Shout-Out
  • One of the bloggers is named "StillTheBest1973."
  • The slogan of the Equestrians For Humans is |"Friendship is universal."
  • Lyra says Celestia could tell ponies two plus two equals five and they'd believe it.
• Stylistic Suck: Some of the blog comments are poorly written.