Broken Hearts and Diamonds

One by one, the other bearers of the Elements of Harmony were awoken by Twilight and Luna, but all of them had no clue where Rarity was, nor had any of them seen Flitter. Cloudchaser and the guards all split up to search every inch of Ponyville, but after hours of searching everypony gathered at Twilight's library only to report that they had no results or even a hint of a lead.

Twilight had hoped to find someway- anyway, to avoid tainting Rarity's name and reputation, but with all her other friends curious to what was going on she had no choice but to break the news that Rarity was wanted by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and was to be banished until a new bearer for the Element of Generosity could be found.

As expected, the reaction the other four ponies had was explosive.

"WHAT IN TARNATION DO YA MEAN RARITY IS GOIN' TA BE BANISHED?" Applejack yelled out.

"Yeah, what gives, Twilight? You're just going to do nothing while Rarity gets hunted down and her life is ruined?" Rainbow Dash spat out.

Even Fluttershy found the courage to muster every ounce of anger she had and shouted an array of words that made even Princess Luna blush.

"Girls, girls! I know you're angry, but there's no other choice." Twilight pleaded. "Trust me, I don't want this to happen to Rarity, either. She's my friend, and if there was anything I could do to stop this I would."

"Then do something! You're a princess now, can't you, I dunno, declare that you gave her a royal pardon or something?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No, she cannot." Luna intervened. "This is a decision that Celestia and I reached. Twilight has already expressed her displeasure of our choice but I'm afraid she has no say in the matter."

Twilight gulped as her friends all adopted aggressive stances. She was scared that they would actually try to attack Princess Luna, especially Applejack and Rainbow Dash as they tensed their muscles. The four guards noticed this too and raised their weapons, ready to defend their princess to the death.

"Girls, please don't. I'm sure we can work something out and save Rarity." Twilight pleaded, but her words backfired on one pony in the room.

"Save Rarity? SAVE RARITY? What about my sister, HUH?" Cloudchaser yelled, completely losing her patience. "Do you even CARE that Rarity may have fillynapped my sister and may have killed her by now? You know as well as I do that Rarity was the one responsible for drugging her AND Spike! But no, you don't give a single fucking shit that my Sister was almost raped or that your supposed best friend almost died! No, all you care about it saving THAT BITCH!"

Twilight was taken aback by Cloudchaser's ferocity. "Cloudchaser, no, I would never... Of course I'm upset that she would do that to them..." she stammered, unsure of how to express her feelings.

"SHUT UP, JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!" Cloudchaser cut her off. "I don't want to hear any more of your excuses or lies! It's obvious you won't do anything. You haven't even told Spike the truth yet! I'm not waiting any more. I'm going to look for them myself!"

Twilight reached out to try to calm Cloudchaser but the angry pegasus slapped her hard across the face, causing everypony to gasp and even shocking even Princess Luna. "Don't you dare touch me, you whorse!" Cloudchaser yelled, pushing her way past the four guards. As she threw the door open she turned to Twilight and Luna. "Princess, I'm sorry, but you better hope that I don't find Rarity first, because if I find them before you do I'm going to kill her. That's a promise."

Cloudchaser slammed the door shut, knocking a few books off of the shelves around the library. Fluttershy slowly moved forward to make sure Twilight wasn't hurt, but the purple alicorn brushed her away, insisting she was fine.

"Is... is that true? Did Rarity fillynap Flitter?"

Twilight slowly turned around, her fear proving to have become real as Spike stood at the bottom of the stairs. There was no way he could have missed Cloudchaser's yelling, and Twilight had no choice but to nod yes.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" the young dragon asked.

"Spike, I... I didn't want to upset you with this." she said.

"Flitter's my marefriend, and Rarity is one of my best friends. How could you not feel that I should know about this?" he said dejectedly. He didn't wait for Twilight to answer and headed back upstairs to be alone.

"Spike..." Twilight said but the dragon ignored her. She turned to her friends who looked back at her with less than pleased faces.

"So what's it going to be, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked her. "Are you going to betray one of your best friends?"

"Rainbow Dash, you know I... I have to do..." Twilight stammered, emotionally torn by everything going on.

"Ya gotta at least try to talk to Rarity." Applejack said. "Ya can't just banish her without tryin' to help her first."

"I know. I, just... you don't understand..." Twilight said.

"We all made a Pinkie promise to never betray each other, and now you want to break it." Pinkie said darkly.

"No! I would never betray..." Twilight said. "Fluttershy, please, help me."

Fluttershy just looked down at the ground, then headed for the door.

"Fluttershy, where are you going?" Twilight asked.

Fluttershy's response seemed to be more of an aloud thought than an answer directed at Twilight. "I'm going to look for Rarity and help my friend." she said before leaving.

Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash nodded to each other and followed Fluttershy. "Girls..." Twilight said helplessly.

Only Rainbow Dash stopped and turned to Twilight. "You know, just because our Elements of Harmony are broken doesn't mean that our friendship is. If you don't want to try to help Rarity, well, it's a good thing you're not the Element of Loyalty." she shot before flying off to catch up to the others.

Twilight sat down on the floor, emotionally defeated. Everyone was mad at her; Cloudchaser, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and even Spike. Luna motioned for the guards to leave them, and they quickly saluted before heading out to scour the town once again for the fugitive. Twilight looked up at Luna with watery eyes. "I... I don't know what to do, Princess Luna. I can't do this, I can't... I don't know what I should do."

Luna sympathetically rubbed Twilight's back between her wings. "It's never easy to hurt someone you care about, especially when you're so close to that pony." she said.

Twilight knew her next question would hit a sore spot for Luna but she had to ask it. "When Princess Celestia banished you all those years ago... do you still hate her for doing it?"

Luna felt a strong mix of emotions run through her mind as she recalled the living nightmare of spending 1,000 years of solitude trapped in the moon. "Yes. Every single moment I spent imprisoned there I thought of how I could seek revenge, how I could hurt and torture my sister. And when I managed to finally escape, well, you know what happened."

Twilight let out a choked sob, but Luna wasn't done. "Yes, I hated her then, but now... now, when I look back on everything that has happened, I'm glad that she did what she had to do. I didn't see it before, but she was right. I let my jealousy overwhelm me and it took a thousand years to see that I was wrong. So... I guess you can say that I'm okay with what she did."

Twilight nodded, allowing Luna to continue consoling her as she thought over what she had to do.

By mid afternoon all of Ponyville knew that the royal guard was on the lookout for Rarity, though the reasons why were more rumors than actual facts. Princess Celestia sent forty more guards to assist with the search, but all of the efforts to find the unicorn were wasted. Rarity wasn't in Ponyville, and neither was Flitter.

Flitter had awoken just as the two stallions who had used her mouth trotted off. Rarity wasted no time and pulled Flitter to her feet and led her out of town. Flitter was absolutely terrified as they left Ponyville and headed farther and farther away from her home and safety, and soon the small town was completely lost from sight.

"W-where are you ta-taking me?" Flitter asked, but Rarity didn't reply. She was too busy searching the ground for something, and after minutes and minutes of searching she let out an 'aha!' as she spotted what she was looking for.

"Come along, pet, I have business to take care of." Rarity said, tugging on the leash. Flitter paused, looking at where Rarity was headed; a dark hole in the ground. Rarity tugged on the leash again, glaring at Flitter with an annoyed expression. With no other choice Flitter followed Rarity down the hole, slipping occasionally due to the steep decline and the lack of light.

"Where are we? What's going on?" Flitter asked again.

Rarity sighed with annoyance again. "I need to conduct a small business transaction. Nothing you need to concern yourself with." she said. Despite her reassurance, Flitter still felt a wrench in her gut by her words.

"Rarity, please let me go home. I swear I won't tell anypony about this. Just let me go." Flitter begged. Rarity yanked especially hard on the leash, causing Flitter to stumble and fall to the ground. She looked up at Rarity who held up the camera she still had.

"Fine, you can go home. I'm sure you remember your own way back. Do you want to distribute the photos of you yourself when you get back or should I? I'm sure everypony would just love to see you sucking off two complete strangers, especially your sister and Spike."

Flitter shut up quickly, afraid that Rarity would carry out her threat. She got back to her hooves and allowed Rarity to keep on pulling her down the dark tunnel. As they walked deeper into the earth a wet musky smell began to grow stronger and stronger. Rarity wrinkled her nose. "Hmph, those ruffians still haven't learned to properly bathe." she muttered in dissatisfaction.

Flitter coughed from the overpowering smell, wishing she could run back out to the fresh air far above her. The two mares finally came to a massive door guarded by two Diamond Dogs wearing metal armor, both canines eyeing the approaching ponies with suspicion.

"Halt! What are you ponies doing here?" one of the guards bellowed. Flitter glanced at the long lances the guards had and froze in fright but Rarity didn't seem bothered by the weapons at all.

"I wish to speak with whoever is in charge here." Rarity said. "I have a business proposition that I'm sure your leader will surely accept."

The guards looked at each other and shrugged, confident that two ponies would surely be no problem for them to overpower should it be a trick. They opened the moldy wooden doors and let Rarity and Flitter pass through, where two more guards beckoned the ponies to follow them.

As the small group made their way deeper down the winding tunnels Flitter could feel the countless Diamond Dogs eyeing her exposed body. She wished she could just shed the provocative outfit and walk around naked instead as then her pussy wouldn't be on display thanks to the crotchless panties. As they finally approached the leader's cavern Rarity handed over Flitter's leash to one of the guards. "Wait here, I'll be right back." she said.

Flitter looked up at the dog holding her leash and shrank back as the dog lustfully looked at her. She tried to follow Rarity but the dog's iron grip didn't allow her to. Rarity ignored Flitter's pleas and entered the cavern, letting the door slam shut behind her.

The noise caught three Diamond Dog's attention, and as they looked over at the pony standing in front of them they groaned in annoyance.

"What are you doing back here? We told you we don't want you!" Rover declared, covering his ears before Rarity started her high-pitched whining. His companions Spot and Rover did the same, but Rarity calmly walked up and spoke in a normal tone.

"Oh stop it, you don't even know why I'm here yet." she said, slightly insulted.

"Then what do you want? We gave you your gems, now get out!" Rover said.

"Well, I used all the gems you gave me, and now I need more." Rarity said. "But I'm willing to buy them from you this time."

"Buy them? These gems are our currency. What could you use to buy them?" Fido said, gesturing to the piles of gems and diamonds all around them.

Rarity nodded towards the door she just came through. "What if I told you I brought you a young pony to keep as your new pet, and in return you allow me to gather gems whenever I need them from here."

"What we need pony for? Can she find gems like you?" Spot asked. Rarity shook her head no. "Then what good is that pony to us?"

"Well, I'm sure that it must get lonely down here in the dark dirt sometimes, and she could help keep you three company at night." Rarity said with a wink.

It took the three dogs a few moments to catch on to what Rarity was implying. "Is this a trick? Is she ugly?" Spot asked cautiously.

"I assure you she's very pretty." Rarity said. "And, as a bonus, she's also a virgin."

Rover let his primal instincts get the better of him. "Deal! I get her first!" he declared before his companions could claim her for themselves.

Rarity smiled wickedly. She had come up with the plan on a complete whim while the two stallions were using Flitter, but now she was ecstatic that it was working better than she had hoped. Not only did she rid herself of Flitter for good, but she now had unlimited access to more gems than she could ever need. Plus, if anypony ever figured out that Flitter was here, the Diamond Dogs would be blamed.

Rarity walked up to Rover and shook his paw, declaring the deal official. Rover smiled as he thought of the idea of breaking in some gorgeous, innocent mare. "Okay, you can come dig for diamonds anytime you wish, pony." he said. "Now, where is this other pony?"

"Right outside the door. Your guards are holding her." Rarity said. Rover let out a sharp bark and the doors opened. The guard holding Flitter's leash pulled the confused and scared pegasus inside, and Rover's smile grew twice as big as he saw that Rarity was right; his new pet was indeed an extremely pretty pony.

He ran over to her and started touching her body all over, causing Flitter to cry out in fear as his paws gasped her flank. "R-Rarity, make him stop! What is he doing?"

Rarity didn't respond to her, and instead turned to leave. "Thank you for the generous deal, sir. Enjoy your new pet."

"P-pet?" Flitter asked weakly, but Rarity was done talking. The unicorn walked out of the cave and the door slammed shut, leaving Flitter alone with three Diamond Dogs who were eyeing her lustfully.

Rover walked up to her on his hind legs, showing off his erect knotted member. "Time to make the little pony mine." he said.