The Shirt of Sibling's Past
There was a strong bond between every girl in the group of friends known as the Elements of Harmony. But of course because each girl is different from one another, they all have different levels of friendships with each other.
For example, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are childhood friends who haven’t been apart since kindergarden. Dash has only known Pinkie for the few years Twilight has been in town, and hasn’t formed a friendship like that with her. They aren’t exactly perfect matches either. Dash was constantly getting annoyed with the party planner.
Another friendship that is comparable to that, is the one between Rarity and Fluttershy. Rarity hasn’t known Fluttershy for long, but their constant trips to the spa has made them all the more closer.
And just like Dash’s annoyance for Pinkie, Rarity had her own annoyance for someone in the group- and the feeling was mutual.
Rarity and Applejack have butted heads since the day they became friends. Bickering like an old couple, or acting like kids, sisters who would swat and smack at each other.
Their group ignored it at first, and after a while, their constant fighting had become a common attribute to the mane six’s hang out time.
But lately, things have been incredibly heated between the seamstress and the farm girl. The other girls didn’t know if it was their dramatically contrasted upbringings, their different views on the world, or the way they just simply did things.
All they knew is that this had to stop.
“I can’t take it anymore!” Dash yelled, covering her ears. “They have been arguing for the past fifteen minutes and if one of them doesn’t shut up I’m gonna gonna duck tape their mouths shut!” She groaned after her outburst was ignored by the blonde and the fashionista.
“I have to admit, I agree with Dash. They have really started to get on my nerves.” Twilight agreed, agitated, she sighed as the pencil in her right hand snapped in half. She was trying to write a letter to Princess Celestia, but with Rarity and Applejack in her ear, it was making it very hard for her to concentrate.
Pinkie threw her head back, imitating Dash’s frustrated sounds. “Yeah! They haven’t stopped since they got here! It’s like they can’t agree on anything!"
Fluttershy nodded. “I don't think they even remember what they were fighting about.”
“Yer so prissy and frue fruey that ya never pay attention to the big picture!” Applejack shouted at the shorter woman in front of her, causing the other girls to turn their attention back to them.
“Well you are so brutish and manly that I don’t even think that the day you were born they knew you were a girl! How ever are you going to marry with such an attitude?!” Rarity yelled up at her.
“The same way you will: Lie.” Applejack sneered.
Rarity snorted. “The element of Honesty, admitting she’d lie?! Talk about not staying true to her element!”
Applejack laughed. “Look who’s talkin’! Ya can’t go one day without all yer precious diamonds and jewlery! Ah bet if we gave all yer shiny things to a group of hungry orphans you’d have a worse meltdown then Pinkie did when she found out that tomatoes are fruit!”
“They are?!” Pinkie shouted, her voice raising an octave. “You told me they werent!”
Applejack backtracked a bit. “Well sugarcube-”
“See? You actually lie. How are you the Element of Honesty, and you lie?” Rarity snickered haughtily.
“The same way you’re the Element of Generosity and you don't give a shit about anyone ‘cept yerself!” Applejack shouted, shoving her.
Because of their differences in weight and stature, the shove made Rarity stumble a bit, and Applejack chuckled before she felt the smaller woman’s hands on her chest. The push caught her off guard, and before she knew it, the both of them were on the floor rolling around, grunting and throwing punches.
“Jesus, it’s like watching my brothers all over again.” Dash mumbled, rolling her eyes.
“I feel like I’m babysitting rather than just sitting here.” Pinkie agreed, putting her elbow up on the couch arm before placing her chin in the palm of her hand. She sighed, blowing a strand of hair out her face.
Twilight hadn’t said anything for the past few minutes, and everyone was wondering why she was so quiet. When they looked at her, they saw the clear giveaway of annoyance on her face.
“Enough!” She screamed, getting up and stomping over to the two she pulled them both apart at the collar and glared at them.
“I am sick and tired of watching you two fight! Do you know how unbearably annoying it is to listen to you bicker and pick at each other like a bunch of sixth graders?! I feel like I’m a grade school teacher breaking up a school yard fight! Cut it out!” She shrieked.
“She started it.” Applejack grumbled, rubbing the side of her mouth.
“It is not I, it was you.” Rarity harrumphed, folding her arms.
Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie could see the vein in Twilight’s forehead twitching, but chose to say nothing. They knew better than to interfere when she was agitated like this.
She said nothing, just turned on her heel and bounded up the stairs to her room before the door slammed shut.
There wasn’t a single noise made in the room as the five girls heard shuffling and grunts coming from upstairs, wondering what the librarian could possibly be doing.
What seemed like an eternity later, Twilight came down the stairs with an incredibly large t-shirt. It was so big in fact, that it looked like it could fit at least two people. She walked straight up to the fashionista and the farm girl.
“Applejack, Rarity, stand up, please.” She commanded.
The feuding girls gave each other confused looks, but stood nonetheless.
She handed them the shirt. “You two are going to wear this,” She explained as they stared at the garment. “Until you can be in the same room without arguing at all.”
“Do we take turns or somethin’?” Applejack asked, still wondering why the shirt was so big.
Twilight shook her head. “Nope. You both have to wear it at the same time.”
“WHAT?!” They both yelled, then growled at each other in unison.
“Yep. You see, this is Shining Armor and I’s old ‘get along’ shirt. Our loving relationship didn’t get the way it is by magic.” Twilight told them. “He used to pick on me a lot, since I was the new baby and all. I didn’t understand it at first, but then that gave way to me actually getting tired of it so I started doing mischievous things to him.”
The girls gave her incredulous looks but she ignored them.
“And he would do them back. It had gotten so bad, that my mother took one of my dad’s old shirts and wrote on it with big black Sharpie marker ‘This is our get along shirt’. And we had to wear that every time we every fought or did something to each other.”
It was clear the others didn’t see where she was going with this, so she sighed before saying,
“To put it simply, you guys aren’t getting out of that shirt until you set aside your differences.”
Rainbow Dash bursted out laughing. “Them? Stuck together, in a shirt?” She gasped. “Pinkie! Grab your camera, this is gonna be good!”
Pinkie pulled a camcorder out of seemingly nowhere and grinned.
Fluttershy looked a little worried, unlike her friends next to her. “Um, Twilight, are you sure this is a good idea?”
Twilight nodded. “Oh yes. I think this is a wonderful idea.” She smiled directly at the two of them.
Applejack and Rarity both sighed as they shimmied into the shirt.
“See? Now isn’t that nice?” Twilight asked.
“I don’t have any personal space!” Rarity whined, wiggling around, trying to get comfortable.
Applejack snorted. “Well maybe if ya stopped thrashin’ around, we could get this shirt straightened out and have more space!”
The two of them in the gigantic garment was a sight to behold. The difference in height was even more apparent, seeing how Rarity could barely move her head above the collar. To the onlookers, it did seem a bit hilarious.
“More space? Ha! It wouldn’t be enough. You’re not even wearing a shirt under this shirt!” Rarity responded, pointing to Applejack’s rumpled flannel on the floor.
“Well, somebody’s bein’ a real hothead, and keepin’ it pretty warm in here!” Applejack muttered, frowning.
“Shut up! Why do you have to be so tall anyway?!” Rarity demanded, craning her neck to look up at her so called friend.
“Are you seriously asking me why Ah’m tall?” Applejack gave her a genuinely confused look. That really wasn’t something she could control. She guessed it was true about what they said about shorter people, they had a lot of mean in them to make up for the height.
“No, I’m asking you why you’re so stupid!” Coming from someone as esteemed as Rarity, that sounded extremely childish.
“Ah’m gonna bop you a good one if ya don’t stop talking nonsense.” Applejack threatened as she lifted her left hand above Rarity’s head.
“You hit me in my head I will jab you in the stomach.” Rarity responded, raising her right.
“All we did was make it easier for them to hurt each other.” Fluttershy said, shaking her head.
“Quite the contrary.” Twilight told her, watching the other girls squirm and fidget inside the oversized shirt. “The shirt limits their movements, thus, making it impossible for them to physically hurt each other.”
“Nice work Einstein. They can’t hit each other but they can still have a screaming match.” Dash said, covering her ears once again.
Twilight held up a finger. “Au contraire, Rainbow Dash. The more they fidget, and move, the less energy they’ll both have to even throw insults.”
“Wow Twilight.” Pinkie gasped. “You really know your stuff!” Pinkie praised.
Twilight giggled. “Nope. It just took me and Shiny long enough to figure it out.” She smirked as she saw both girls become red with exhaustion.
“Ah don’t even remember what we were fighting about.” Applejack huffed.
“Nor do I, darling.” Rarity breathed, equally as tired.
“Hey, you called me darlin’. That’s the first time in ages Ah heard ya say that.” Applejack smiled.
“Yes, well, maybe I missed it.” Rarity responded, turning her head to the side to hide the blush creeping on her face.
“Yer blushing.” Applejack taunted. Rarity didn’t even have to turn her head to see the smirk on Applejack’s face. She could hear it.
“I am not.” Rarity mumbled defiantly.
Pinkie giggled.
“What’s so funny?” Fluttershy asked.
“I think that’s what’s making them so angry around each other.” Pinkie told her, giggling even more.
Fluttershy looked confused. “What do you mean?”
“They like each other.” Pinkie said grinning. “Like, like like.”
Fluttershy blushed. “O-Oh my. Are you sure?”
“Positive! They only act like that cause they’re both too awkward to say anything so they just go at each other’s neck just to have something to say!” Pinkie explained.
Fluttershy blinked. “That was actually real inquisitive of you Pinkie. I had no idea you were so observant.”
Pinkie gave her a confused look. “Observant about what?”
“Nevermind.” The meek girl responded, turning her attention back to Rarity and Applejack. She should have known better than to think Pinkie remembers about half the things she says.
“So, did you guys learn your lesson?” Twilight asked as she saw that both girls weren’t red in the face anymore.
“Yep, we’re good.” Applejack nodded. Her green eyes shifted down to Rarity, who looked up at her with her blue ones.
“Yes, I feel like we have sorted all of this, whatever it exactly was out.” She agreed, trying her hardest not to make eye contact with Applejack.
Twilight helped them out the shirt and threw it on the couch and smiled. “Good. Now that that is over, I have a friendship report to write to the princess. Maybe you two could help.”
Author's Note
okay so i have no idea what this was. I saw the cover art on tumblr and thought it was a cute idea. Sorry if this seems a little rushed i wanted to finish this so i could continue with the new chapter of Teacher's Pet and start on my CMC hallowee story. (That will be up thursday or wensday) anyway, hope you guys enjoyed this, im going to go watch some tv. later!
