Revolution

Scootaloo got out of her bed, tossing her blanket onto the ground; as she always did. This morning, instead of staying in her bed for another 10 minutes; she ran downstairs to where her mother was busy making breakfast. “Hey, you’re up early… That's, odd.” Her mother told her.

“Ya, I just had a wonderful night full of rest.” Scootaloo replied. Her mother smiled, then returned to making pancakes for breakfast. Scootaloo sat down at the diner table, and waited for her breakfast. Her mother finished making the pancakes and passed a stack to her.

Scootaloo quickly gobbled them up. While she was eating she recited what Luna had told her to pass on to Twilight. Before Scootaloo knew it she finished all of her pancakes, and was nearly licking the plate. “I have to go dear, be good, do your chores and then go play with your friends, okay?” Her mother said to her.

Scootaloo nodded. When her mother left their house and went to work Scootaloo put on her helmet and grabbed her scooter. She exited the house and locked the door behind her, then got onto the scooter and darted away towards Twilight's library. She zipped past ponies and carts. She noticed that Apple Jack wasn’t at her stall yet, which was weird as she was one of the first ponies to get to work.

The library was getting closer and closer, no matter how much Scootaloo hated reading she knew she had to go there. She parked her scooter beside the door, and placed her helmet onto the handle. She walked over to the door and gave it a good couple of knocks.

A sleepy Twilight opened the door. Twilight noticed Scootaloo and smiled. “Come in come in, what brings you here Scootaloo?”

“It's actually something important.”

“Oh, well then say it, if it's important it must be heard as quickly as possible.”

Scootaloo nodded before taking a deep breath. “Tonight Luna appeared in my dreams and asked me to give you a message. Celestia has locked her up in the dungeons. Her shackles are preventing her from using her magic. She said that Celestia was beginning to seem a bit, crazy. And that she has something terrible planned.” Twilight seemed to be soaking up what she had just heard. “That's all I came here for. I'm gonna go now, k?” Twilight nodded.

Why… What is going on in Equestria?

…

Rainbow Dash was getting tired, without eating a breakfast she noticed that she couldn’t fly as fast as before. And that she was sometimes beginning to fall asleep. Nevertheless she was still determined to make it to Ponyville, after all there was maybe an hour of flying left. She was also nervous that the guards she saw yesterday would find her; that thought made her increase her speed.

It was now about 9 o’clock by Rainbows prediction. She thought of what her friends were doing right now to try and change the topic her mind was thinking of. No matter how hard she tried to think of something else, the scene from the village kept coming back to her. Soldiers killing already half dead starved ponies. It made her eyes water and also made her shudder.

Finally… She thought as she was beginning to see the see the outskirts of town. She flew past Sweet Apple Acres; which seemed eerily empty, but she had no time to worry about that. She began to fly even faster, pushing herself hard to get to the library. She landed in front of the wooden door that led into the library. She knocked it a bunch of times.

Twilight opened the door, she had a look of despair on her face. “Your back, I hope you have some good news for me…”

Rainbow Dash shaked her head. “I'm afraid it's worse than the pony in Canterlot told us. I flew to a village, and it was horrific. Almost everypony was too starved to move, only one pony was trying to grow food for the others. The houses were all wrecked, but all that paled in comparison to what happened in the following day.” Rainbow Dash took a deep breath and sighed deeply. “Soldiers came in the morning, and… They, massacred all of them. They noticed me and tried to hit me with shots of magic, but I quickly flew away.” Rainbow Dash sat down on the floor and put her head in her hooves.

“I see… You must be tired and hungry.” Twilight left the room for a minute. She came back with a bowl filled with apples. She passed it to Rainbow Dash, who began crunching them immediately. “Spike, paper and a quill. Take this down. Dear Princess Cadence. I Princess Twilight am filled with sadness at the news my friends have recently gave me. Im sure you have no idea what is going on in Equestria, and to be honest neither do I. But my friend Rainbow Dash has come back from a village in southern Equestria. I shall spare you the details. All you need to know is that Celestia has gone quite mad. Her soldiers burn villages and take all of the crops back to her. She has even locked her sister in the dungeons of Canterlot. I don’t know what to do. I need your help.”

Spike finished writing it down and sent it away to the Crystal Empire using his dragon breath. Everypony in the library remained quiet, deep in thought.

“I think i'm gonna go home and sleep, I’ll come see you latter.” Rainbow Dash said. She exited Twilight's library and flew away home. Twilight sighed as she watched her friend fly away slowly.