Betrayal of a rock

BANG!!!

BANG!!!

BANG!!!

Rarity sat on a chair shivering, her coat drenched in chocolate milk and her hair in complete ruins. When she suddenly landed on Pinkie Pie in her teleportation, the pink pony had been working on a little project sitting under Dash's house. Pinkie had somehow made a cotton candy cloud, resembling that of Discord’s, and was about to pull a prank on Rainbow Dash. Rarity had somehow 'activated the prank' as Pinkie said, and the cloud had started chasing after her, chocolate milk spraying like a storm. The cloud had disappeared as Rarity fell off a cliff, as she had not paid attention to where she was running, and the only thing that saved her from a certain death was a random pink portal opening.

Then suddenly she was sitting in the Cake’s living room in a chair, a towel wrapped around her. Pinkie had apologized for almost three minutes straight before disappearing into the kitchen to bake an "I'm so sorry that I got milk all over you" cake. Of course Rarity was slightly disturbed and curious as to why baking a cake would need such loud banging.

"RARITY!!!!!"

"WHAT!!! What happened Pinkie!" Rarity almost jumped out of her skin when Pinkie entered. In her hooves was the Biggest cake EVER. It was so big that Rarity was surprised Pinkie could carry it above her head with two hoof let alone one like she was doing.

"So Rarity, do you like it!?!? I was going to put ice cream in it, but I know how you don’t like messes and oh my goodness that would be such a huge mess, especially if we didn’t eat it fast enough, so I didn’t put ice-cream in it, and so I was like why don’t I make the cake bigger since we don’t have to eat it super fast, that way there’s more, but then I was like oh my goody goodness since we have so much cake lets have A PARTY!!!!!"

At that moment Rarity’s head was spinning from how fast Pinkie was talking. Pinkie jumped into the sky, somehow hanging there in the air before dropping back down to the floor on all four hooves.

"I'll just go get the decorations, and send out my emergency party invitations for last minute par-" Rarity stuck her hoof in Pinkies mouth, flinching slightly at the uncleanness.

"Um, Pinkie dear?" Rarity quickly removed her hoof and wiped it on her chocolate milk soaked towel.

"Yes Rarity?"

"Can we...not have the party?" The unearthly loud gasp that came from Pinkie made Rarity stick her hoof back in the pink mares mouth before a fountain of words could drowned out her own.

"Darling, when I knocked into you in town I was actually coming from Rainbow’s house, and was on my way to talk to you. I have an urgent and kind of serious matter. So, I’m going to take my hoof from your mouth now. Please let me talk?" As Rarity had been talking, Pinkie had had on a blank stare, and now she nodded her head vigorously. For the second time in the last two minutes, Rarity removed her hoof from the mouth. She quickly noted that she would have to disinfect it later.

"Okay Pinkie. I...I need your help."

"Oh! Are you starting Rainbow’s workout that she wanted you to do?!?! It’s about time! Now you can go in the same gala dress as last year without it ripping!!!"

"Are you implying that I am...Fat?" Rarities eye twitched as she tried not to slap Pinkie’s grin onto the floor.

"Pinkie, i wasn’t talking about Rainbow’s workout. I am having trouble with Tom."

"Why? Did he tell you your fat?"

"PINKIE!!!" Rarity jumped at the pink mare with the ferocity of a tiger. Pinkie squealed in delight.

"Yay! Tag your it!" She suddenly disappeared and Rarity hit the ground, no Pinkie under her. Once Rarity found Pinkie in the kitchen they proceeded to play tag, Rarity eventually giving up her anger as they both burst into giggles.

"You know," Started Pinkie after the two had collapsed on the floor in exhaustion, "If you think about it, Tom doesn’t wear cloths. He doesn’t even have fur. How do you know which way his head is?" Rarity's face turned so red it could have put a Tomato out of business. Pinkie burst out laughing, tears once again streaming down her face in joy.

"So Rarity, what did you come here for in the first place?" Pinkies large curious eyes met Rarity’s after she had calmed down.

"Well Pinkie..." Rarity proceeded to tell Pinkie the story about Tom’s secretive attitude. All the while Pinkie scratched her chin.

"That is interesting. Maybe Dashie’s right and he's a changeling. Now THAT would be weird." Rarity and Pinkie got up and began to walk towards the front door as they talked, both silently agreeing that it was time for Rarity to depart.

"Well Rarity, the best advice I can give you is to ask him outright, but do it while he's happy. If he isn’t truthful with you then he isn’t worth your love. Then we can have a PARTY!!!! That would make him happy so you can ask him!!! That is, if a rock can smile. You know, I’ve worked on a rock farm almost my whole life and I’ve never seen a rock smile?!?!? Of course I’ve never known where their face was…"

Rarity shook her head in wonder at how long Pinkie could continually talk without taking a breath. But it would have to wait for another time because now she was hungry, and not for sugary sweets that Pinkie sold. After saying her farewells, Rarity began to make her way to Sweet Apple Acres.

"CUTIEMARK CRUSADERS APPLEBUCKERS!!!!" Rarity flinched slightly at the cheer as she made her way down the path through the apple trees. The beautiful sunny day was interrupted by protests of three little fillies and a cow mare. Rarity soon came upon the clearing in front of the barn. There Applejack was being jumped on by three little fillies towards the apple orchards.

"I told you galls I ain’t gonna teach ya ta buck them apples! You could hurt yerselves." Applejack turned to face down at the ground.

"That or yer gunna hurt me." Rarity could barely hear her mutter.

"Please sis! I promise if ya teach us real quick we won’t bother ya anymore!" Three squeaky Pleaser’s were cut short seconds after it started.

"Now girls! That is no way to treat Applejack!"

"RARITY!!" Rarity was tackled by a bundle of white fur also known as Sweetie Bell. The filly blushed and jumped away again, not wanting to get scolded from getting her sisters coat dirty. To her surprise no such thing happened.

"Thanks so much Rarity. I don’t know what I’d do if they hadn’t stopped-"

"Girls." Rarity cut into Applejack’s blabbering.

"Yes Rarity?" All three girls looked up to Rarity, curious as Rarity put on a seemingly evil grin.

"I know how to make Applejack help you." After playing with Pinkie, Rarity had been put in the playful spirit, and now she had ideas for another one of her friends. When Applejack saw Rarity walking towards her with that look on her face, the cowgirl coward and tried to get onto her hooves before Rarity got to her.

"No Rarity!! You better not do tha-HA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!" Rarity giggled as Applejack squirmed around in a fit of laughter at the tickling. Soon the fillies had joined in and every pony was having a good time.

"Pass the fritters please!" Sweetie Bell shouted to Rarity, who was in fact sitting right next to her. She pushed the tray of fritters down the table to her little sister as she took a bite of her own, apple juice running down her face.

"So Rarity," Applejack swallowed her fifth fritter and wiped her face off before addressing the mare again.

"What brings ya to the acres besides to tickle me ta death?" Rarity blushed momentarily as the three fillies next to her giggled.

"I was just coming to pick up some apples. My kitchen has mysteriously began to run out of food ever since mom and dad went on vacation." it was Sweetiebells turn to blush as Rarity eyed her. AJ grinned, disappearing into the kitchen and reappearing with a basket of apples.

"Oh, thank you darling. How much do you want for them?" Rarity held out her bit bag just for it to be pushed away by an orange hoof.

"On the house Rares. Think of it as a present to get your mind offa yer colt- er, rockfriend troubles."

"You know about that?" Rarity's grin deflated into a frown at the mention of it.

"Not much goes on around here without Rainbow Dash blabbering bout' it. Element of loyalty my plot." Rarity grimaced at the language and the fillies giggle.

"Girls, yall go outside an play while me an Rarity talk, okay?" Her words where met with a rush of little hooves leaving the room.

"CUTIEMARK CRUSADER DANCERS!!!!!" Rarity waited until her ears stopped ringing to uncover them.

"So AJ, what do you think I should do? Pinkie thinks I should confront him at a party while he's happy, Rainbow just thinks he's a changeling. What if it turns out he has a girlfriend? What if he's....married? I mean, he wouldn’t hurt me like that would he?" Rarities ears fell back and she fought off tears.

"It’s just, he's the best rockfriend I’ve ever had, so hard and well mannered, I don’t want him to go!!!" Rarity burst into tears. Applejack awkwardly patted her on the back; much like Fluttershy had been doing earlier that day.

"Sugar cube, first of all he’s the only rockfriend you’ve ever had, and all I can say is that Pinkies right. If he ain’t truthful to you then he don’t deserve you. And hard as it is to believe since he's a rock, he has feelings to. Maybe he's scared of the same things right now. You just gotta ask and get it over with, like a band aid. If it comes to the worst you know you got us girls to fall back on." Rarity grabbed AJ into a huge bear hug.

"Thank you for your support Applejack! I think I may go by and ask Twilight though. Besides I want to get the idea that Tom is a changeling out of Rainbows head. I'll get Twi to cast that changeling spell on him."

Rarity said her goodbye to Applejack and reminded Sweetie to be home before dinner before walking out. Her path took her down Mane Street and through the market. She stopped by the boutique quickly to freshen up, grabbing her overdue library books in her magic grasp. It was when she stepped out of the boutique that chaos erupted in her mind. There across the street was Tom, sitting in a chair at the cafe. She just couldn’t face him now, not before she saw Twilight!

Rarity ducked her head and rushed through the crowded street, quickly slipping into an abandoned alleyway when the crowd thinned out to much. She let out a breath that she found she had been holding. The breath caught in her throat again as a voice spoke behind her, making her drop her books.

"Well well, if it isn’t the fair Rarity." The voice sent shivers down Rarity's spine, and it was made even more terrifying in the dark alleyway with no pony to save her from a possible mugger. Rarity spun around to face the culprit. The shadowed figure loomed above her, a grin plastered onto their face. Rarity closed her eyes in fear, praying that she would be safe.