The War

It was near Midday  in the small town of Nickertie. The afternoon sun was blazing down hard on the Pie's family rock farm. The four Pie sisters were hard at work on their daily tasks on the farm. Having to move large boulders from the east side to the west side of their father's property before the evening Rainstorm struck.

A tall grey earth mare toiled  over the rocky terrain that she called home. She huffed as she shifted a rock into place, dunking her head into a bucket of fresh water. She turned to her Pastel coated sister with her normal emotionless face. " Pinke, why don't you take a break?  You don't want to overheat yourself again.."  she said as she gave her sister the bucket.

Pinkie pie huffed and sighed in relief and gave her sister a tired smile as she too dunked her head in the pale then back up again.

"Thank ya Maud!" she chirped. " this really cooled me off."

Maud blinked at her sister " good now let's get back to work. Father is counting on us."

Pinkie nodded confidently as she once again lowered her head to continue pushing the rock, as she was doing before she got interrupted.

"UGH! how much longer do we need to keep working?"

Maud looked at her sister once more. "we should be nearly done. we have been working since six."

she then hitched herself to a cart as two other sisters loaded it up with more rocks.

Pinkie let out an annoyed huff as she headed back to get another rock to push. Moments later a small raindrop hit her nose.

She looked up at the once clear sky, that was now becoming more cloudy by the minute.

"Maud? should we stop now? it's starting to rain."

Maud shook her head. "No we need to finish up." The four sisters finished their work just before a downpour took place.

After the girls finished working, they headed inside the house for dinner

Pinkie smiled, feeling very satisfied with their work today."All done mother!"

Cloudy Quartz smiled warmly as she took dinner off the stove top "Good girls now go eat."

She served her daughters oatmeal... again. As soon as their father took a seat at the table, the pink mare dived her head in the bowl and finished in an instant.

"Thank you for the food mother"

Limestone (the second youngest) and Marble (the youngest) slightly giggled at their hyperactive sister and began eating her oatmeal silently.

Dinner at the Pie's Family Rock farm was normally quieter than most families. It was around the time of day when everypony is

worn out from working in the fields, and are just sitting down for the first or second time all day. So there really wasn't much to talk about.

However the family still had a strong relationship with one another. It remained a mystery for the rest of the townsponies of how could such a mostly quiet family have such a strong bond? over what! Rocks? As long as they were together, as a family, they were more than happy.

Pinkie pie went right to her vanity and brushed her long hot pink mane.

"WOOW! what a day!!!"

Marble headed to her bed and lied there looking up and sighs,  closing her eyes to sleep.

Maud and Limestone followed a similar routine

Limestone scoffed "Tell me about it! it felt awesome!" Just as the girls got in their beds, there was a knock at the door.

Pinkie's head perked off her pillow and tilted her head. "That's kind of funny.. why are there ponies at our house so late..." Marble ducked under her covers shyly. Limestone rolled her eyes and got out of bed and headed towards the door. The oldest Pie sister looked at the tomcolt. "where are you going?" Limestone twitched her long flat tail. "Well I am not going to be able to sleep knowing there is somepony at our house so late at night. Heck it could be the police! I dunno about you but I am gonna peak."

Marble peaked out from under her bedsheets. "W-Wait Limestone it could be a robber...be careful!" Limestone kept walking.

pinkie spoke up and got out of bed as she followed her younger sisters. "Limey don't be silly. What kind of robber would knock?"

Maud watched her three sisters sneak down the hall. He blinked and sighed and followed them.

They got downstairs and saw their mother speaking to two solar guards talking to their parents. Pinkie perked her ears trying to pick up what they were saying. But alas she couldn't hear a darn thing.

by reading their parents expression it was nothing good. Cloudy looked like she was going to cry and their Igneous  looked like he'd seen a ghost. moments after the guards left, Cloudy sighed as she saw her three fillies spying on them from the stairway.

"Girls... we need to talk...."

The older mare and stallion stood in the middle of the foyer with a more depressed look than usual.

the girls knew that they never acted like this unless there was a reason. Which was never usually a good reason

the older mare  sighed as she shifted her glasses back onto her muzzle.

"We were informed that the Crystal Empire has been enslaved by King Sombra who has managed to capture the princess Luna, Celestia and Cadance. Princess Luna managed to escape but her magic is powerless, she has asked Prince Shining Armor to gather an army of the strongest pony from each family to go and fight. Your dad offered but was too old and out of shape to battle. So they have asked for Maud to fight in his place."

the mare sniffled and tried to hold back tears. Igneous Rock spoke up shyly "W-we really tried to Reason with them but they demanded it at once and there was really nothing we could do."

Maud's eyes opened slightly larger than they normally are for a moment then went back to her normal board face.

she blinked " okay... i'll do i-"

"-WHAT!!!" Maud was interrupted by her sister.

Pinkie stamped her hoof on the wood ground assertively  "No! if Maud goes we all go!! No Pie member left behind right?"

the two other mares looked at their older sister and cheered "RIGHT!"

their mother sighed.

"your right Pinkamina. But promise me to be careful and write us"

Pinkie nodded "Of course mother!  we all have each others backs no matter what."

Marble peeked through her long grey mane that draped in her face

and smiled shyly "T-that's right mother...ummm....mmmm hmmm." she mumbled.

"Okay. You need to get ready you leave at Dusk."

Everypony rushed upstairs and got their things together.

Pinkie pie puts on a black suit with a high tech belt of rocks twirling out of closet and in front of bed

as her sisters just grabbed their scarfs. Everypony was in no rush... but at the same time where in fear of what was yet to come.

Night came too quickly and ur parents kissed and held their daughters goodbye

wishing them the best of luck in the war.

The pink mare started to slightly cry as she threw her forelegs

around her parents necks." We'll be back mother and father...w-we promise"

she said with her voice breaking

Limestone looked at her parents confidently

"We promise we won't let you down!"

Igneous Smiled and nuzzled her "we know you will. just be sure to write to us,

keep each other safe and be strong."

"Don't worry we will!" Pinke kissed their cheeks and solutes them running of with group

They followed and boarded the train and headed towards the Niagara Falls!