Betrayal and Abandonment

Rarity was in shock when she realized that she had lost the fashion competition and had made her friends toil and slave away at making her lineup without one ounce of gratuity. Earlier in the morning, she had went up to the hotel room where all of them were at and did not find them there. “Oh what have I done?” Rarity sighs sadly, seeing nopony in the room. “I pushed my friends for my happiness and I did not repay them with anything…” Her ears flopped down and looked at the time and saw the time. “Oh my! The train leaves in fifteen minutes! I have to get there!” She quickly exited the room and galloped swiftly down the hallway towards the front desk to ask the clerk where the train station was while panting, nearly out of breath.

"May I help you?" The pony behind the counter asks barely looking up from the magazine she was reading.

Rarity pants heavily and tries to catch enough breath to speak. “W-Where i-is the train station f-from here? I-I need to catch up with my friends, darling.”

"It's about a twenty minutes from here" the pony says softly looking up from her magazine.

“Twenty minutes!?” she says in shock, looking at the clock. “But the train leaves in fifteen! I’ll never make it there in time! Is there a quicker way to get there?”

"The fastest way is to get a cab." She says before Rarity takes off running.

’Okay Rarity, getting a cab shouldn’t be too hard to get. After all it IS Manehatten!’ She thinks to herself as she approaches an open cab but is quickly taken when she was close to it. “I say! I believe that was MY cab!” she blurts out at the pony who just took it.

"Too bad lady, I'm in a hurry!" The pony says rolling his eyes at her as the cab rushes away.

“Why I never!” she pouts and stands at the corner, trying to wave down another cab for her to get.

Before even a half minute goes by before the cab pony she and her friends helped earlier came up. "Hop in ma'am." He says with a smile.

“Oh thank you darling! Thank you!” she thanks him warmly before hastily climbing into his cab. “To the train station and step on it! I don’t have much time!”

"On it." He says before he starts rushing as fast as he can for the train station.

Please be there, please be there, please be there… she hesitantly thinks to herself as the pony rushes as fast as he can towards the train station, hoping she could catch up to her friends on time.

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“Twilight? When is the train comin’ precisely?” Applejack asks the purple Alicorn with a cocked eyebrow.

"Should be here within a few minutes." Twilight says looking at the train tracks feeling used and disappointed.

“It’s a shame we couldn’t’ve gone to that show we planned to see.” Dash says in a disappointed tone of voice as she licks her lips, bringing her pack next to the others’.

"Yeah it is unfortunate." Pinkie Pie says her mane 'deflated' and her expression sad unlike her usual self.

“W-Well, um, a-at least w-well be back in quiet Ponyville where it’s peaceful and not as scary as here.” Fluttershy quietly says to the others, though saddened, was somewhat happy to be going back to Ponyville.

"Yeah it'll be good to be home again." Twilight said shuffling her wings in sadness before the train came rolling down the tracks to the platform.

“Well, here’s our train home…” Applejack, says with a heavy heart, lifting her things onto her back and waits for the train to unload its passengers before the other ponies could board the train.

“Wait! What about Rarity?” Fluttershy asks, wondering about leaving her “friend” behind.

"Forget her! After what she did to us I don't care!" Rainbow Dash proclaims angrily folding her forelegs to her chest and looks at the train wishing they were home.

“O-Oh um… okay…” the yellow Pegasus responds in a defeated voice, looking at Twilight’s saddened face while faintly hearing the conductor’s voice in the background.

"All aboard!" The conductor calls out as others start boarding the train slowly.

“Twi? You coming?” Fluttershy asks Twilight, seeing her eyes glazed in a look of sadness, hatred, and betrayal.

"Y-Yeah. Coming," she says turning back to the train and then slowly walks on the train sitting beside her friends.

Fluttershy steps from the platform onto the train car and sits next to Twilight. “Twi? Are you still upset about Rarity using us?"

"I just can't believe that she used us like that!" Twilight proclaimed before Fluttershy placed a hoof on her shoulder.

“I know. I wanted to say something too, but she gave me a look and… I-I couldn’t argue with that.” Fluttershy admits, looking at Twi’s eyes and briefly out to the platform. “A-Are we just going to leave Rarity here or something?”

"She knows her way back home, so I'm not worried at all." Rainbow Dash says still angry at Rarity.

“Twi? Anything to say?” Fluttershy asks as she faintly hears the conductor give a final call for boarding.

"Let's go. There's no need to stay here any longer," Twilight says staying in her seat but still looking out the window.

Feeling there was nothing else she could say or do, Fluttershy, sits in her seat as she hears the train whistle blowing distantly and feels a slight push as the train begins to leave the station.

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“Oh no! The train!” Rarity quickly says to herself as she throws the driver a gem and rushes as fast as she can to get to the platform.

As Rarity runs up the stairs the train slowly starts pulling out of the station and the ponies inside the other cars talk amongst themselves happily unaware of what Twilight and her friends went through.

Rarity runs alongside the cars hoping to spot her friends but is suddenly stopped by a security pony to avoid her going over the platform.

“Easy there ma’am. You almost had a nasty spill.” He says, brushing her off.

"But my friends are on that train!" She yells to be heard over the train as he holds her back.

“Sorry ma’am, but that train was packed full, sold out.” He says as the last car leaves the platform.

"But my friends—“ She starts only for him to interrupt her.

“Sorry there ma’am, but that train’s long gone. Next train won’t be for some time. I’m sorry.” He apologizes to her and lets go of her as he trots away, leaving Rarity to look at the train disappearing into the distance.

Rarity’s eyes water before she walks slowly out of the train station as tears slowly start sliding down her cheeks.

Her sapphire eyes spill over with tears as she makes her way out of the station, knowing she let down her friends and did not think of them and only thought of herself, the opposite of being the Element of Generosity.

"Ma'am can I help you with something?" A pony asks her as they bump into each other.

“U-Uh no, sorry. I… I just lost some friends because I let them down.” She says downheartedly with tears spilling from her eyes, ruining her mascara.

"Hey come on it can't have been that bad." The pony says lifting her head with a hoof so they were looking eye to eye.

“D-Darling, if you were in my hooves, you wouldn’t be smiling…” Rarity says, feeling the rain begin, letting her mane get ruined.

"Come on let's go back to my place," she says before using her magic to reach for her umbrella in her saddle bags holding it over their heads as they start their walk amongst other Manehattean ponies.

Rarity nods and follows her under her umbrella and thinks about who this mysterious pony was and where she could live…

Author's Note

And so the story begins... This is the first multi-chapter story I have uploaded here, collaborated with PrinceNightfire93. I have a few more in the works so this is just the beginning... Enjoy!

EDIT: November 13, 2015- underwent some editing, planning to edit and upload the rest of the story in the future.