The Earth's Uprising.

by Cobalt Shine

Rating: teen
Tags: Applejack, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Fancypants, Octavia, Big Macintosh, Random, Adventure, Pinkie Pie
Length: 3697

Earth ponies have been criticized long enough time for a change.

Earth ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns are the three pony races of Equestria
The Pegasi have the special ability to walk on clouds and fly at extreme speeds.
The Unicorns have uncanny magical abilities which are hard to match.
The Earth ponies have only farming abilities and strength.

Earth ponies have no advantage in an unfair life. It's not fair for them. Without any magical properties or wings, they must do everything the slow and painful way. As time has passed on, Pegasi and Unicorns have become more aware of this and have began to tease and insult the poor Earth ponies. With a little push an uprising could begin...

Published 2012-05-14 16:14:06 UTC
Last updated 2012-10-28 01:30:20 UTC

Chapter One: Pushing it to far.(Edited)

It was a calm day, a light breeze was blowing through; a fine day, It was a warm breeze the sort that tingles against your skin and makes you feel warm at heart, The Cakes were baking and the smell drifted through the air a smooth aroma of cinamon and sugar. The sun is heading over to the east about two hours past midday, It was an uplifting sight for anypony to see

Pinkie was walking around on a kindly stroll browsing the stalls of the market  lifting up each individual item she found examining it, even if it looked perfect.  She then trotted over to Applejack's stall for apples.

Heya Applejack!" Pinkie-pie exclaimed.

"Howdy Pinkie, what brings you here ?" Applejack Asked.

"Just thought I would come say hi!" She replied happily.

"Well fancy that, an earth pony thinking!" Scoffed an unfamiliar unicorn in the distance.

"And what's that s'posed to mean par'ner?" Asked an Insulted Applejack.

"Oh how typical, The cowgirl doesn't know what we mean; big surprise 'Par'ner'.”

"Hey that's not very nice! You should watch what you say!" Blurted Pinkie.

"Oh here we go..." Continued the unicorn.

"Now listen 'ere. Jus' who do y' think y' are?" Inquired Applejack.

"Oh sorry, I forgot you were a lowly earth pony, I'm Fancypants" He replied.

"Hey Fancypants what's going on?" Asked the Pegasus who had just landed there next to him.

" Earth pony riff raff" He replied with a scoff

"Why are you even talking to them?" The Pegasus asked, curious about the situation.

"The pink one had claimed to have thought..." He said with a smirk on his face.

"Wait, what? Are you serious?" The Pegasus burst into fake laughter.

"Now wait just a second mister! You're not being nice! You're being mean! You're being double mean!" Exclaimed Pinkie pie, rather infuriated at the ponies in front of her.

"Now you listen ere! I may not be the smartest pony out there-" Said Applejack, before getting cut off mid sentence.

"Well of course you're not smart, you're an Earth pony! The underdogs of the Equestria! We can move the sun and stars! And what can you do, grow apples? I'm pretty sure I can do that too." The large Unicorn scoffed.

"As I was saying, I may not be the smartest pony out here but I can tell when your just being plain mean." Said Applejack calmly.

"What? I'm not being mean." He scoffed again "I'm just stating the obvious" He continued

"Racist prick." Applejack muttered under her breath.

"I'm sorry but I didn't quite catch that." Said Fancypants with a nasty smile on his face.

"I think she's trying to insult us Fancy." Added the Pegasus

"I'm not sure, but there is a chance I didn't quite catch what she said.” The Unicorn turned to Applejack. “ Would you mind repeating yourself?"

Just then, something moved from behind the counter. A large red mass seemed to be rather angry; Big Macintosh was not amused. He walked over to Applejack and stood there, towering over Fancypants. Fancypants looked up at the large Stallion. Big Macintosh was quite intimidating.

"You want to know what mah sister said?" Big Macintosh growled

"Y-Yes please do tell." Fancy said slightly stuttering, trying to keep up his appearance of importance.

"She said that YOU'RE A RACIST PRICK!" Screamed Big Mac, startling Fancypants.

"NOW I WANT YOU TO REPEAT EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID TO MAH SISTER TO ME!" Big Mac continued to scream at the Unicorn.

"Oi! back off!" The Pegasus interrupted. Big Mac glared at the Pegasus and he instantly became quiet.

"Well?" Said Big Mac.

"I-I....ugh.....um said there ummmm-" Fancypants was Quivering.

"Spit it out!" Said Big Mac.

"I-I-I.........." He continued, his pride shattered.

"Wait I'll do it for you, you arrogant piece of s-" Big Mac cut himself off and bit his lip. He wasn't going to lower himself to this Unicorn's standards again.

"You thought you could be racist to mah little sister, and nopony would come out and protect her from two cowards such as yourselves! Leave before ah' snap that 'horn' coming out of your head with mah hind legs!" Big Mac lowered his head, meeting Fancypants at eye level. Fancypants took his warning and ran. Upon seeing the Unicorn depart, the Pegasus did not need to wait around for Big Mac's fury and bolted before anything more could be said.

Applejack stood there, shocked and unsure of how to respond to what Big Macintosh had just said. She looked past the apple stand where Big Mac had been napping and saw Pinkie, her hair completely deflated and she was crying. Once again to her surprise, Big Mac was the first one to speak with whole sentences, not just the trademark 'Eeyup'.

"Pinkie-Pie. It's okay. He's a horrible pony who shouldn't say those things to us. I'm pretty sure after the show I just put on he won't be saying those things for a while." Said Big Mac, trying to reassure her.

"B-but that's not the first time Somepony has said mean things to me..." Tears began to form in her eyes.

"Now listen Pinkie. Some ponies these days are just plain horrible. They show no feeling towards us and it ain't right.” He chuckled to himself.  “This is probably the first time you've ever really seen me get angry isn't it? Well that's 'cause I had the same issue when I was just a colt, and ah know it's horrible! If any Unicorn or Pegasus gives you any trouble, let me know okay?" He finished.

"O-okay" Said Pinkie with a small smile on her face.

"Pinkie ah wish I could explain more but it jus' aint right! Ponies shouldn't be like this to one another, what would princess Celestia think of all this?" Applejack joined in.

"I don't know, she's everything, so she cant really be spoken to like that anyway. But I guess she wouldn't like it at all." Said Pinkie. Applejack was trying her hardest trying not to cry. It would only make matters worse, but tears started welling up in her eyes at the thought of other ponies joining in with Fancypants, shouting and insulting them because they were Earth ponies.

"Applejack, It's okay I know how you feel." Said Big Mac.

"I jus'...” She paused. “I can't understand why somepony would be like that, it's absolutely horrible.” She looked up at Big Mac with a confused expression on her face.

"Ah think it would just be best if we forgot about it an' finished selling our apples." Suggested Big Mac.

End Chapter One

P.S. This is only the beginning there is more to the story. AND MCYAV IS AWESOME! (Thank you for editing this :twilightsmile:)

Chapter Two: Pressure Building

{Six hours had passed since the Incident with Big Macintosh and Fancypants}

The night was slowly setting in, the crisp clean air slowly breezing through Ponyville. It was cold, but also clean and fresh. Octavia was setting up for her night performance in an outdoor restaurant just by the beach; the whole place was candle lit, the dim lighting that was good for a romantic meal, or just a beautiful night out. All the ponies were sitting in cabanas, enjoying their fresh gourmet meals.

Octavia took in the beautiful night and walked over to the stage, glancing over her large audience; The setting was just how she liked it, a small and elegant scene. She then adjusted her bow tie and pulled out a stool from underneath the stage, made of lovely mahogany, the same as her cello. It was matching and Octavia felt warm at heart. Still there was something wrong she could not quite put her finger on. She then pulled out a large instrument case, undid the clips and pulled the large mahogany cello out; She then went to grab her bow when a magical blue aura surrounded it. She reached for out to reach it, but it was moved just out of the way. Octavia was not pleased. She tried again, but it still kept moving. After a few attempts, the bow was hovering a few feet above her. Instinctively, she tried to jump, hoping to reach the bow, but the magical force lifted it higher. The crowd of ponies’ began to laugh. A demeaning laugher, mocking her incapability to reach her one prise possession. Giving up on her futile attempts, she glanced over to the crowd of ponies. That was when she realised. Upon seeing the crowd, a large number of unicorns and pegasi could be seen. But no earth ponies. With recent events around Equestria suggesting that racism was widespread, Octavia suddenly felt herself shiver in fear.

“Oh Octavia. What a waste of a talented pony such as yourself” Said an unidentified unicorn from the crowd. The silhouette began approaching the stage, passing through dim lights as it made its way forward.

“I don’t understand. What do you mean waste?” Said Octavia, obviously shocked at the comment. As she spoke, the unicorn emerged from the crowd; her mane and tail coloured blue and white, while her coat remained light blue coat adorned with an hour glass cutie mark.

“Your an earth pony, the weakest and most useless ponies in all of Equestria.” Said Colgate, still holding Octavia’s bow in the air. At least she knew who's aura it was.

“Oof that is the most horrible thing I’ve ever heard anypony say!” Octavia spat out in disgust.

“Let me prove it to you. Get your bow back Octavia. Go on. Get It!” She said with a vicious smirk on her face.

“I-I-I can’t get it...” The Grey musician replied stuttering

“Get it! Go on!” said Colgate, her rant continuing.

“N-no I can’t!“ Octavia said sadly, the tears welling up in her eyes.

“My point exactly. You are an inferior race. All of you are just slaves to the unicorn and pegasi. For we, are the superior!” Colgate testified.

“You horrible self centred monster! We are all equal! How dare you utter these horrible things it’s-it’s racist!” Said Octavia still shocked from the comments she had received.

“I’m not being racist, I’m just stating the obvious. The only thing you Earth ponies can do Is grow food. I bet if we Unicorn and Pegasi did this, we could farm to just as easily and more than likely better.” Stated the blue unicorn.

“How can you say something like this it’s absolutely horrible!” Octavia said trying to hold back the tears.

“Why don’t you just take your horrible Earth pony music and beat it, slag, your just dirtying the place up with your presence here.” Colgate finished her attack with a look of disappointment and shame on her face. The tears Octavia had tried to hold back broke free, running down her face, turning the her perfect night into a nightmares paradise.

“Yeah get out of here, you earth pony filth!” Called one Unicorn

“Yeah you suck, get out!” Another Unicorn joined in. Octavia felt herself break. Her confidence gone, and her feelings destroyed. She ran for exit, dropping her cello along the way. With a mighty crack, splintering into hundreds of pieces as it fell. Taking no time to check, Octavia threw herself through the doors and out, into Ponyville.

In the early hours of the morning, Applejack spotted a grey mare, curled up on a bench. She wasn't used to any other ponies being up at this hour.

“Is that you Octavia?” said Applejack. Octavia ceased crying.

“Yes. Yes it is. I’m sorry you have to see me like this.” She said, trying to retain any pride she once had.

“Aw don’t worry bout’ it, what’s wrong?” The orange pony asked, her eyes full of compassion.

“The unicorns and pegasi......were...w......ww...” said Octavia unable to finish her sentence before bursting into tears again. Applejack grabbed Octavia and held her close.

“It's okay sugarcube. Sometimes ponies are just damn mean. Don't let 'em get to ya.”

Octavia tried to fight back her tears, but didn't say anything.

“I think Big Mac might want to say a few words to those ponies you met, come on, I'll take ya back to the farm.” Said Applejack with a reassuring smile.

Once again a major credit to the great and powerful Mcyav for editing my story at his own will

Chapter Three: The last straw

Nine months had passed since the incident with Octavia and Colgate.  Racism had become a common thing and the earth ponies had become the lower class; frowned upon by the Unicorns and pegasi.

Big Mac stood outside with Octavia, looking far into the crimson red sunset that was falling over the green meadow of the Canterlot royal palace, leaving the blue walls of the castle a ginger orange.  The beautiful sunset seemed out of place with recent events.  Nowhere in Equestria had escaped the new found hatred, yet sometimes, something simple and beautiful would make its way through.

The long silence between the two seemed to last for an eternity before Big Mac broke it..

"Eeyup" He said looking over into the graceful sunset.

Octavia looked at him.  She knew that he was just trying to break the silence so that they could finally talk.  Looking at him with droopy eyes and a forced smile, she waited for him to notice.  Instead, Big Mac looked down at the filthy ground of the barn; it hadn't been cleaned in over 6 months.

"You know if Appleja-"Said Big Macintosh before being cut off by the grey mare

"Yes, I know...” She paused for a moment.

“Why has all of this happened?  What did we do to deserve this?  This horrible world, the way it is, ...I wish.....I wish things were the way they used to be.  Like in the stories, the way they used to tell us when we were younger, with the 3 kingdoms.  The three races, pulling together and making harmony, uniting together and building a nation! But no longer.  We've become savages, placing titles before ponies.  There will always be a higher class, respected across the land.  And there will always be a lower class, one that is frowned upon, spat on and kicked into the gutters. We're nothing but rats scurrying in search of our next meal..." Octavia began to cry.

Each tear trickling down her face, leaving damp streaks in their wake.

Big Mac just looked down and didn't say anything, he just nodded his head sadly agreeing with her.

"How many have been taken?  How many of our friends and our family have we lost to them? How could we let this

happen...?”  Forcing back her tears, Octavia continued.

“They have torn apart families and taken our friends and for what!  For their own gain?  Our own have turned into monsters.  Ponies we trusted and cared for.  We lost Applejack and Pinkie Pie, stolen from us!  Forced into slavery by the unicorns and pegasi. We escaped.....but at what cost...?"  Octavia fell over and burst into tears, sobbing deeply as she cried.

Big Mac tried to put his hoof over and stroke her but it was smacked away.

He then looked back towards Ponyville.  It was exactly the same as it was nine months ago, yet so much had changed.  Down there they were selling earth ponies off by the bit, keeping them caged in tiny little 3 by 3 boxes, held by magical locks.

"C'mon Octavia, we best be getting inside.  They cant get us in the barn, its surrounded by Everfree tree's, It was... Applejack's idea... she planted them in hopes we wouldn't be found." Big Mac shed a tear thinking of Applejack.

Night took over the land quickly. In what seemed like an instant, the dusk blue night sky lit up. The bright the full white moon sent light all over the land, illuminating the world, allowing ponies to stroll under the night sky.

Down in Ponyville there was a meeting for the  unicorn and pegasi.  They held the meeting in Twilight's Library and put up a forcefield so no outsider could hear or see what they were screaming.

Fancy pants stood over the Unicorn and pegasi on a large wooden block. He looked down and frowned at the fellow unicorns his eyes narrowed and looked around the room, he stopped on one pony in particular. He stared at the unicorn and began to talk

"Who are you? You were never invited to this meeting; Nor have I ever seen you before. Identify yourself or I will be forced to remove you." He said strongly not moving a single muscle in his face. He was not happy; He couldn't risk a single earth pony being in there for it could ruin his plans.

"I am just a spectator just observing how one of these meetings go, Is that fine by you?" A drop of sweat dropped down from the white ponies head as she said this, her yellow mane fell down to her  hooves and dragged along the floor, she swayed it side to side trying to get the one bead of sweat hoping no one was notice that she was stressed.

"Liar, you must be invited to one of these meetings. You can't just waltz in here, every unicorn and pegasus knows that! I can't continue this meeting knowing that you could be an earth pony."  said Fancy pants he moved to his side and grinned. Then a faint blue Aura appeared around Fancy pants horn

"This is the last chance you are going to get, Identify yourself. Or else."Fancy Pants grimaced.

"I already told you! I'm just here to spectat-" Said the anonymous pony before her hair was covered in a blue aura. The Aura pulled backwards and ripped out hair, fake hair.

"This isn't real hair it's a disguise, what about that horn?" Fancy pants' horn lit up one more time trying to pull at her horn. Nothing happened.

"WHAT ARE YOU TRING TO DO?!, RIP MY HORN OF!" Yelled out the anonymous pony in a scratchy voice.

"Vinyl scratch?" Said a pegasus from the crowd.

"No it cant be she's blonde!" Said another.

She started hyperventilating, realizing that she had been discovered,beads of sweat started forming on her forehead, dripping down her face and on to her mane, the fake colours started to fall out revealing a blue colour mane underneath.

"TRAITOR! INFERIOR SPY! GET HER!" Screeched Fancy pants

Vinyl wasn't slow to begin running, she ran up the stairs at full pace with an army of pegasi and Unicorns chasing her. She smashed through Twilights bedroom door and kept running, heading towards the gigantic window looming over Twilights bed and jumped through it, knocking the telescope and cutting open her leg. She hit the ground with a snap, 2 of her ribs had fractured from the gigantic fall. Ignoring the pain she ran towards the Everfree forest at full pace.

Fancy Pants stopped following her, he stopped in Twilights room and spoke,

"No one follow her just watch to see where she goes."

Fancy Pants slowly trotted up the stairs leading to Twilights bed, avoiding the shattered glass of the newly broken window. He could feel the cool night air pass through his mane, it was refreshing and not something he wasn't used to. He looked to his side to see blood on the telescope. Curious, he looked into it and watched vinyl run into the forest.

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Vinyl arrived at sweet apple acres which was now covered in dense forest, the pain of her ribs and leg were now beginning to sink in and hurt. She began to cry in pain while screaming out for Big Mac and Octavia, the tears rolled down her face and onto the ground and began to mix with the blood which was coming from her leg. She could no longer move.

Finally the trees began to move and open a pathway to the barn and  Big Mac came galloping out to see Vinyl, battered and bruised; without talking he dragged her back to the barn, with the trees closing around him after. He got Vinyl inside and immediately attended to her wounds, she had a very deep cut in her leg and Big Mac began to wonder how she ran from Ponyville to Sweet apple acres, she explained the whole story to him leaving him baffled and sorry for her at smell was

"Well any ways you best be heading off to bed now we all need the rest" Said big macintosh putting on a genuine smile. Vinyl simply did what she was told and limped off to her newly made bed.

In the early hours of the morning, the morning dew was on the grass, leaving a smell of fresh air to float on through the barn. Octavia awoke from her sleep dazed, she needed to use the toilet;she groggily fell out of the bed and stared making her way outside. She walked out the front door and went by the tree. The day started rapidly getting brighter, and the fresh dew smell started to disappear and the smell of smoke began to take its place. Immediately she thought big Mac had started cooking already, she turned around and started making her way back to the barn, the blank dull expression on her face changed to a shock and horror. Her eyes sunk back and heart dropped. She tried to yell but was unable too instead a murmured squeal escaped her lungs, she then realized the trouble big Mac and Vinyl were in, and she screamed.

"FIRE, GET OUT THE BARN NOW!!,BIG Mac!!,VINYL GET OUT THE BARN!" She yelled as loudly as possible, she looked at the horrific sight of the barn burning down, to the corner of her eye she saw two Pegasi flying away at full speed, making their escape.

Big Mac and Vinyl burst out the door, Big Mac's coat was singled and he has partly black, all three of them just stared at the flaming building in horror.

"This is the last straw, I'm going to get those unicorns and pegasi if it's the last thing I do." Said Big Mac

That Vinyl is a spy :3, also thankyou Mcyav for editing again; About the long chapter update, sorry I had exams:fluttercry: