Rise of the Earth Pony Rebellion

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Rise of the Earth Pony Rebellion - Chapter 1

It was a beautiful day in the land of Equestria, the sun was shining brightly in the deep
blue sky. Pegasi of every color and gender were soaring through the sky with not a care in
the world. On the ground, in the small village of Ponyville, there were many ponies out in
town shopping for food in the town market, some of the fillies were playing tag in the park,
everypony was having a good time.

In the center of the town was a large tree house which was home to a vast amount of books
and knowledge. A pony named Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn with a palish purple coat, a
sapphire blue mane with streaks of violet and pink, and moderately violet eyes. She is the
librarian of the town who is, naturally, very knowledgable in many subjects.

"Ughhhh..." grunted Twilight, "What time is it...?" She looked outside to see the afternoon
sun shining it's scorching heat on the denizens of Ponyville. "Oh no!" She gasped after
realizing what time it was. "I can't believe I slept in so late! I knew I shouldn't have
stayed up so late reading my books..." She muttered. "SPIKE!" Twilight screamed referring to
her little dragon assistant.

"AHH!" Spike yelled as he jumped out of his bed and crashed to the floor. "Ughhh...yes, mam?"
he asked. "We overslept, Spike! We're going to be late for the picnic! And we still don't
have the sweets that we were going to bring!!!" Twilight yelled as she paniced. She had a
shocked expression on her face with a hint of insanity.

"Calm down, Twilight" Spike comforted, "We still have time to go get everything before the
picnic starts." He got up from the floor and dusted himself off. "Let's see...where's the clock?"
He asked as he searched the room for the clock. Twilight got up out of her bed and walked
over to her dresser and, using the magic from her horn, levitated the comb that was on top of
and used it to comb her mane.

'Spike's right,' thought Twilight as she was still combing her hair, 'I just need to relax...
If we hurry up and get ready, we'll be there in no time!' After combing her mane, she looked
around a noticed Spike was no longer in the room. "SPIKE! Did you find the clock?" She called out.
"Right here, Twilight!" Spike answered bringing the clock up with him.

"You know, you could have just told me what time it was..." Twilight stated, "You didn't
have to bring the clock up here."

"Oh, yeah, I guess you're right." Spike said. Twilight giggled and levitated the clock out
of his Spike's arms and looked to see what time it was. "Let's see, it's one-fifteen...and
the picnic doesn't start till two o'clock." She said. "Whew..." Spike siged in relief. He
"Looks like you've got plenty of time to pick up some sweets at Sugar Cube Corner before
going over to the park."

"You're right, Spike" Tiwlight agreed, "I guess I pacniced over nothing..." The expression
on her face was now filled with sadness. She turned to look at Spike. "I'm sorry, Spike. I
didn't mean to pacnic over nothing and wake you up." she apologized. "It's no biggie, Twilight"
Spike responded, "I needed to get up anyway." Twilight smiled and hugged Spike who did the
same in return.

"Alright, well what are we waiting for?" Twilight said as she struck a truimpht pose, "We've
got a picnic to go to!" She picked up Spike using her magic and gentle placed him on her
back and then began to gallop to Sugar Cube Corner where the sweets awaited her.

Twilight galloped towards Sugar Cube corner ready to buy whatever treats she wanted for the
picnic. On her way there, she noticed a large crowd of ponies huddled around a stage. Twilight
suddenly stopped and wondered, "What's going on over here?"

"Hmmmmm..." Spike wondered. He decided to stand on top of Twilight's back to try and get a
better view. He kept moving his head side to side as he attempted to see what was going on.
Twilight giggled and rolled her eyes. "Let's just ask one of the ponies, Spike." She said.

"Ah, why didn't I think of that?" Spike responded. The two walked up to Big Macintosh who was
apart of the crowd. "Umm, Big Macintosh?" Twilight asked. He turned over and looked at TWilight
without changing the dull expression on his face. "Do you by chance know why there's a crowd here?"

Big Macintosh looked away for a moment and then looked back at Twilight. "Nnnope." He answered
shaking his head. "Oh, well... Thanks anyway, Big Mac." Twilight said. Big Macintosh nodded
his head and turned back to the crowd. "Maybe we should...you know, walk to the front of the
crowd, Twilight." Spike suggested. "Sounds like a plan." Twilight agreed.

The two friends pushed there way to the front of the crowd. "Excuse me, pardon me, sorry, sir."
Twilight apologized. She finally got all the way to the front and noticed that her friends
Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack were there as well.

"Girls!" Twilight gasped, "What are you three doing here?" Applejack looked as if she was
going to answer first, but Pinkie Pie cut her off, "We were just trying to get to the park
for the picnic, but we couldn't because this crowd was blocking our way so we decided to stay
and see what was going on." She said in one breath. "I hope there's fireworks. I really love
fireworks, don't you? Huhhuhhuh, don't ya, don't ya?" Pinkie Pie randomly asked.

"Pinkie Pie," Rainbow Dash began, "You are so random."

Applejack looked at Pinkie with an indifferent sort of look and then began to give her opinion on the subject,
"Seems ta me like somepony's tryin' to set somethin' up." Applejack said. "We don't know if
somepony's trying to make a speech or putting on a show or anything!" Rainbow Dash added, "We
just stayed out of curiosity." Rainbow Dash then glanced at Pinkie Pie. "Or, rather, PINKIE PIE
is making us stay out of HER curiousity." She said.

"Do you think it's the 'Great and Powerful' Trixie again?" Spike asked. "Not sure, Spike,"
Applejack answered, "but Pinkie Pie here won't let us go till it starts, like Rainbow here said."
She looked over at Pinkie with an irritated expression on her face. Pinkie Pie noticed this and responded, "
What? I wanna see the fireworks!"

"You don't even know if there's going to be fireworks or not, Pinkie." Twilight said.

"Maybe not, but you'll never know till you find out." Pinkie said with a bright smile glued
to her face. "Soooo, Ah guess we're stuck here till it ends." Applejack said. "Make your self
all comfortable, Twi."

"I still need to pick up some treats over at Sugar Cube Corner, though" Twilight replied. "Don't
worry about, Twilight," Rainbow Dash replied, "I can go pick some up for you after this."

"But-" Twilight stuttered. "Hey, you know me, I'm super fast and super awesome." Rainbow Dash
replied jumping into air to display her 'aswesomeness.' "I'll be done in ten seconds flat, promise."

"Well, okay..." Twilight said, "I just hope this show or whatever it is starts so we can get
to the picnic in time." After her statement, the curtains on the stage flew to the sides
revealing a stallion. He had a brown coat, and blood red mane, emerald colored eyes, and,
strangely enough, sapphire colored hoofs. His cutie mark looked like some sort of meteor
or comet crashing down on Celestia knows what. It had a color scheme similar to fire. The
expression on the stallion's face was extremely seirous, the only emotion he seemed to
express was extreme anger and frustration.

"Greetings and salutations, my little ponies!" He bellowed, making sure everypony could hear him.
Everyone in the front of the crowd stumbled backwards a bit, "I am Shadow Flare..."

TO BE CONTINUED