My Little Pony: The Human Nine's Adventures In Equestria

Ren's POV

Arriving at the train station, I saw some other ponies waiting to board on the still train. I looked around for the girls, but a voice beat me to it. "Hey, Ren!" I turned my head to see a lavender hoof waving in the air.

"Hi Twilight, Hi girls.." I greeted.

"Are you and the others ready to visit Manehattan for the first time?" Twilight asked us happily.

"Yeah." Ren said. "It'll be cool to see another part of Equestria."

"And it'll give a chance for a certain bookworm to finally come out..." Jack said, looking at Sarah, who was currently reading a book.. again. "Ahem..."

"Huh? Oh! Sorry.." Sarah said before she put the book away in her saddlebag.

"Honestly, Sarah darling, if you're going to Fashion Week in Manehattan with us, then you have to at least put down the books and enjoy it. Manehattan is simply divine." Rarity said.

"There you are, Rarity!" Spike announced and we turned and we saw him bringing in a cart completely full of her bags. "That's the last of your bags."

"Actually, Spike, I've got one last pile of bags, over there." She continued, leaving me to notice Twilight roll her eyes at Rarity's usual request. Spike turned to her direction and jumped in shock at the huge pile of bags towards him. "Won't you be a dear?" She worked her charm.

"Sure... I'll be a dear..." Spike returned, clearly affected by her attraction.

"Here Spike, I'll help you.." Mason said grabbing some of the bags and Spike whispered to him, "I missed you" to him and I chuckled. Yeah, Spike did miss Mason helping out with carrying Rarity's' ridiculous amount of bags.

He began releasing strains of his effort as he worked on moving her bags.

"An entire week in the fabulous city of Manehattan with every one of my best friends!" Rarity exclaimed out loud, giggling jubilantly.

"Of course we'd all come along to support you during Fashion Week, Rarity!" Twilight smiled joyfully.

"Yeah." Rainbow Dash added.

"Eh.." Rantaro shrugged while Nicole just looked at her tablet.

"Not that you'll need it. We're sure you'll win." Fluttershy delightfully presented herself, along with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.

Rarity immediately squealed after viewing every one of us. "I can't begin to tell you how excited I am that you'll all be there with me! However..." She used her magic to bring her primary luggage closer and open it. "Perhaps I can show you..." She turned and faced all of us bringing out a visible ticket and later revealed seven other ones that were actually in a stack.

"What's that?" Twilight asked as I held the same question in mind.

"Ooh, ooh, ooh, I know!" Pinkie Pie waved her hoof rapidly in the air. "A paper fan!"

"No, it's—"

"A magic trick!" Pinkie prevented Rarity from finishing her sentence. "You know, where I pick a card and remember what it is and then you put it back in the deck so you can't look at it and—"

"These are tickets to the hottest musical on Bridleway!" Rarity returned the favor by walking closer towards us to allow us to see the tickets clearly.

"You couldn't mean Hinny of the Hills..." Twilight mentioned after forming a hopeful grin. "…because that show's been sold out for months! Or could you?!" She exclaimed with a wild smirk.

"I could. I do." Rarity reacted keenly in the same manner.

Twilight gasped out loudly. "Oh, Rarity, you didn't have to do that, but... since you did..."

The rest of the girls instantly joined Twilight in her cheerful and loud hopping, expressing each one of their appreciation and excitement on the manner.

Hinny of the Hills... "Uh, What's Hinny of the Hills?" I asked the girls, who gasped in shock, save for Sarah.

"How could you possibly not know about the greatest musical in Equestria?!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"You even like it Skittles?" Jack asked incredulously. "I thought you hated musicals."

"Hinny of the Hills is in exception. It's the greatest musical in all of Equestria!" Rainbow replied. "You guys have to see it."

"Um... no thanks. I'll pass." Sarah replied with a calm look on her face, earning shocked faces from the girls.

"Sarah, how could you want to miss that?" Twilight asked her.

"I've seen it already." Sarah deadpanned.

"WHAT?!" The girls exclaimed.

"How the jumpin junebugs did you see it already?!" Applejack exclaimed.

"During my travels, I've seen it before..." Sarah replied.

"And how'd you like it?" Rainbow questioned her.

Sarah shrugged, "Eh... it was kinda nice but kinda weird..."

"Well once you see it again, you're mind will change, darling. Now let's be off to Manehattan!" Rarity exclaimed happily.

"Yeah!" We all cheered.

Soon throughout the train ride, I began noticing the immediate differences from leaving Ponyville to arriving at Manehattan. Everything began becoming more…urban, if that's the right word to use. In fact, the train even moved on a bridge that led to the city of Manehattan, which was more somewhat of small island. I stared out the window to see a few small boats sailing on the ocean below us. Then, ahead I could see huge buildings that were way completely different from Ponyville!

It almost looked like New York City in our world.

Once we actually stopped at the station to board off, I was allowed to see how enormously high the buildings actually were than how they looked. "Wow... looks like a version of New York City..!" I said in awe.

"Hell yeah.." Jack agreed.

"All the t-tall buildings and busy streets." Jamie added.

"Come along, ponies!" Rarity directed while I remained in awe. "I found us a place to stay only a block from the train station in the very heart of this glorious metropolis!" She held out her hoof enthusiastically out to the busy streets in front of us.

We resumed walking with Rarity in the lead. We continuously looked out to observe everything that was happening around us until Applejack stopped to point a hoof at a certain area. "Hey, look! That's the theater where Hinny of the Hills is playin'!"

The rest of the girls presented their astonishment for the theater that was really packed with ponies waiting in line. "Cool...!"

"Wow, Rarity!" Twilight expressed, noticing the long line we passed by on the sidewalk. "How'd you manage to get us seats for tomorrow night?"

"Oh, I gave some designs to the costume designer, so he pulled a few strings." Rarity calmly explained.

"Cool!" Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie expressed otherwise.

"That is what makes Manehattan so splendid and amazing." Rarity continued on in our walk. "You do something nice for somepony, and then you never know when they'll do something nice for you!"

"So then you can do something nice for us!" Applejack added, referring to the play we were rewarded to see.

"Like get us in to see Hinny of the Hills!" Fluttershy excitedly acknowledged.

"Which is only the best musical in all of Equestria!" Rainbow Dash surprisingly commented.

"It must be good if Rainbow Dash is impressed." Applejack honestly brought up. "Normally she doesn't even like musicals."

"I know." Rainbow admitted. "Ponies just bursting into song in random places at the drop of a hat? Who does that?"

Already knowing we've done that plenty of times, Rarity decided to emphasize that by beginning a song of her very own.

Oh, Manehattan, what you do to me

Such a huge bustling community

And there's always opportunity

To do the friendly thing"

"If some are grouchy, pay no mind

Surprise instead with something kind

Lo and behold, you may just find

A smile is what you bring

Arriving at the hotel, a bellhop had just passed through the doors with a luggage carrier, "Welcome to the Mane Fair Hotel!" He greeted with a greatly positive attitude. "Please allow me to take those bags to your room for you!"

"Only if you'll accept this gratuity first." Rarity responded, holding up a gem with her magic.

"Oh-ho-ho!" He expressed after his eyes were caught onto the gem. "I'll get your change!"

"Do keep it all." Rarity generously encouraged. "I insist!"

After Spike and Mason were finally allowed to rest themselves, our luggage was taken to our room while Rarity decided we should start off our stay with a cruise on a yacht. Rarity continued to express her love of being generous as she looked out among the water. I had to say, the stay here already seemed to be off at a great start.

Generosity, I'm here to show all that I can give

Generosity, I'm here to set the bar

Just sit back and watch how I live!

We stopped by the large green statue of the pony the city was known for. It kinda reminded me of the Statue of Liberty.. almost. There was actually an observation deck on top where a few other ponies were. Rarity was heading towards one of the planted binoculars until she stumbled upon another pony that was planning to use them.

"After you." She delightfully insisted.

"Why, thank you." The stallion happily returned.

Rarity noticed another stallion who was shaking from the cold breeze that blew through the area.

"Please, take mine." Rarity offered the scarf she had been wearing, wrapping it around his neck.

"Wow, okay." The tourist accepted in a surprise.

Some may say, 'Rarity,

'Don't be so big-hearted and bold

Treating strangers like they're friends

This town's too big and cold

"But this is how I play my cards

I'm not about to fold

Where I see a frown, I go to town

Call me the smile patrol

Oh, Manehattan, what you do to us

What if you find a Gloomy Gus?

It's no intimidatin' thing

Just be kind without a fuss!

Generosity, I'm here to show all that I can do!

Generosity, you are the key

Manehattan, I'm here just for you!

Just for you!

We paused by a dress shop as Rarity gazed inside, possibly imagining her own dresses on the dress forms inside. She sighed happily. "To think my dresses could soon be displayed on the most glamorous shopping thoroughfare of the most glamorous city in Equestria! Oh, it would be my dream come true!"

"Is there anything left to do we can help you with?" Twilight gratefully asked beside a beaming Pinkie.

"Hm, nothing I can think of." Rarity thought for a moment before responding. "The dresses are all completely finished, all made from a fabulous new fabric I've been developing for months. Stretchy, but not clingy. Shimmery, but not showy."

"Sounds amazing." Fluttershy expressed for the both of us.

"There's nothing left for me to do but check in at the runway with my dresses by two this afternoon." Rarity confirmed stress-free.

"Oh, that's funny." Pinkie spoke and pointed out towards a huge clock on one of the tallest buildings. "Because that clock over there makes it seem like that's only ten minutes from now!"

Coincidentally at this alarming news, heavy rain clouds formed above us and thunder boomed, leading for rain itself to immediately follow.

"Oh, my ribbons and threads. And the runway ballroom is all the way across town! If I don't get there, I'm disqualified!" She quickly ran out in distress. "Taaaaxiii!"

"Well dang." Jack stated bluntly.

"Oh, no!" Fluttershy worriedly expressed. "We've gotta help her find a cab, now!"

"I'm on it!" Rainbow Dash flew straight towards the first taxi she could find. "Hey, buddy! Is this cab taken?"

"The line ends back there, 'buddy'!" A stallion appeared from inside the cab and rudely answered to Rainbow Dash. He had pointed towards the sidewalk, leading for us to turn to.

"Huh?" Rainbow turned her head as well, noticing a line just as long as the one at the theater. "What? Does everypony in this town want a cab?"

"Everypony that doesn't want to be drenched in the rain." I explained as Rainbow Dash joined us back on the ground.

Rarity walked by, covering her mane with a newspaper. "I'm afraid getting a taxi at this time could prove almost impossible!" She emphasized my point.

"Please won't you let her have this taxi?" Twilight worriedly walked over to the stallion that was preparing for the incoming cab and asked. "She has somewhere very important to be right away!"

"Not likely! She can get in line like the rest of us!" He answered bitterly with no hesitation as he climbed onto the cab, leading the other ponies in line to complain angrily.

"Oh, it's no use!" Twilight sat herself at the corner of the sidewalk. "The cab drivers just drive right past to get to the next pony in line!"

Unexpectedly, a familiar driver stopped right in front of us. "New wheel works like a charm!" It was the pony that Rarity fixed the wheel for. "So now which of you nice folks are hoppin' in?" We all looked at Rarity.

"Fashion runway plaza in seven minutes." Rarity quickly jumped in. "Can you make it?"

"Hang on!" He prepared his hooves in the air for fast transportation.

"Ta-ta!" Rarity expressed before she was rushed out of our location.

"Whew, that was close." Spike had come walking our way, holding another carrot dog in his claw. It seemed the time he was missing was spent on getting another food item. The girls returned general agreement when I continued staring out at the direction Rarity had left. Just as Spike was about to take a bite out of his food, he suddenly paused. "Anypony else got a sneaking suspicion we're forgetting something?"

After a very short moment, the girls' eyes widened greatly as they prepared to exclaim out loud. "The dresses!"

"Dresses?" I quickly questioned.

"Rarity was supposed to take the dresses she had made to her check in! We had left them at the hotel!" Twilight explained dreadfully.

I gasped at this alarming new information. "Come on! We have to hurry and get those dresses to her then!" We all rushed back to the hotel, feeling the matter of minutes slipping off our backs.

Paying no attention to time, we arrived at the hotel, bursting in through the front door. We quickly looked around for the bellhop that was handling our things.

"There!" Twilight pointed out to a specific pony carrying around luggage.

We instantly approached him for me to ask about the dresses we required urgently.

"Excuse me!" I caught his attention. "The dresses. Where exactly did you put them?"

"Right to your right as soon as you go in your room." He clearly answered.

"Thanks!" I returned and galloped towards the stairs, seeing that we had no time to wait for an elevator.

With the girls right behind me, I pushed through and entered into our room. I immediately noticed the dresses hanging on the portable line.

"You think we'll make it in time?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "We've gotta have like less than five minutes now!"

"I got this.." Sarah said taking off her cloak and saddlebag before she lit her horn and turned into a Deadly Nadder dragon before our eyes. "Holy Crap baskets..!" I gasped in awe.

Sarah carefully grabbed the dresses in her claws, "I'll have them with Rarity in two minutes, open the window, Twilight."

Twilight opened the window with her magic and she bolted out at the speed of sound and, as she said, in two minutes, she was back.

"Finished." She smiled and she turned back into her unicorn self.

"Awesome, Sarah!" Rainbow exclaimed. "You flew as fast as me!"

"Hell yeah, Newbie." Jack toothily grinned.

"And now we can go out for some fun in Manehattan!" Rainbow Dash excitedly flew by me, eager to head out.

"Okay..." Sarah stated before she made her way to her cloak, but Twilight took it away, "Hey, my cloak!"

"You don't need your cloak if you're going out with us, Sarah." Twilight stated.

"B-But...!" Sarah stammered.

"Newbie, you don't have to constantly hid yourself under that cloak of yours." Jack stated.

"Yeah, Private Gem, you have to show yourself off to everypony here." Skye stated.

"Nopony will judge you without your cloak." Flutters added with a smile.

Sarah sighed, seeing she wasn't going to win this. "Alright..." Then, to our surprise Discord appeared, "Oh goodie, an outing with my friends, how wonderful." he smiled.

"Discord?!" The girls exclaimed.

"Ugh.... what do you want now..?" Rainbow asked, already annoyed.

"Oh I'm just here to spend sometime with my dear friend, Sarah Gem." Discord said, putting an arm around Sarah Gem.

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Alright Discord, you can stay as long as you don't cause any mischief or chaos while you're here."

Discord then made a holio appear over his head, "Oh I wouldn't dream of it.."

I couldn't help but sigh at his antics along with the others, but we can't say no to a friend. "Alright then, let's go." Twilight said and we headed out together.

Hours passed before we made it back to the hotel room, "Hahaha... well that was hilarious..." I laughed as we came in.

Discord had came inside of a small dress shop with us and Sarah spotted a little dress that she liked. It was similar to her cloak, except it was rainbow coloured with white fluff around the edges. Sarah liked the look of it and she went to pay for it. The clerk said that the dress was 100 bits to buy which was a lie cause the tag on the dress said only 50 bits. But either way Sarah was about to hand him the bits,

"Sarah, don't give him all your money!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, yanking her away from the clerk. "A lie about the price of the dress is not worth it."

"The pink loon is right. He's just trying to take advantage of you!" Jack exclaimed.

"But I want this dress.. I like it." Sarah stated obliviously.

"Hmm... how about you let me take care of it..?" Discord said before he floated over to the clerk.

"Good morning, my good stallion." Discord greeted.

"Yeah, what's it to you?" the stallion questioned rudely.

"Well, my dear friend Sarah Gen wants to buy a little dress for herself but I'm afraid you've given her the wrong price to pay for it." Discord replied.

"I know I did, but to be fair anypony can easily take advantage of somepony like her."

Okay, now that is just mean! Sure Sarah can be a little too nice for her own well being, but taking advantage of that is plain rude.

"Well, how about I give you a price that you can't refuse.." Discord smiled mischievously before he snapped his fingers and turned the pony into a pie! "AAAAH!" the clerk exclaimed in fear. "S-She can have it for free! Just turn me back!" he screamed and Discord smiled and turned the pony back to normal and we all chuckled as we left the store.

"Now that was worth a little chaos." Twilight chuckled. Discord smiled as well, "Oh just doing something special for my dear friend."

Sarah smiled at Discord, "Thank you, Discord..."

"And to make it extra special." Discord then poofed himself on the cloak in the shape of a rainbow pegsaus symbol in the middle, "I'll be right here if you need some help."

Sarah chuckled as she put on her new cloak dress and it looked amazing in it.

"And this afternoon will be jam packed. First there's the salon appointment to get our manes and hair done." Applejack listed, despite that activity being more suited for a mare, and walked towards the bed as well.

"Then our fancy dinner at the Far-Afield Tavern!" Pinkie Pie joined cheerfully.

"And after that..." Fluttershy added.

"Hinny of the Hills!" They all blurted and jumped in the air, landing directly on the bed.

Then, we heard Sarah, "Um... guys..." she pointed and we saw Rarity standing right there, holding her head gloomily low while her mane was slightly frizzled as if she had been stressing out greatly about something. The worst part of it was when I saw tears slipping out from her eyes.

Woah, what happened to her.

"Rarity…! What's wrong? What happened?" I quickly asked.

Rarity appeared as if she wanted to speak, but hardly couldn't. Her muzzle scrunched and her lips shook terribly. Tears immediately quickened their production in her eyes, and then she had to hold up a hoof to her face to try to prevent anything startling from happening.

"What the hell happened to the fashion loon?" Jack asked.

"Something awful to make her cry like this." Jamie said with worry.

"Private Rarity, what's gotten into you?" Skye asked.

"Whoa, Rarity!" Twilight exclaimed, noticing the sight of her. "What's going on?"

Rarity began attempting to respond while breathing rapidly between pauses. "I let one of the other contestants use some of my one-of-a-kind fabric…and then she turned it into a wardrobe just like mine…only now it looks like I'm the one copying her! My generosity has ruined me, I tell you! Ruined!" She bawled loudly once again.

"So.. somepony took advantage of your generosity then?" Sarah asked and Rarity nodded.

"Now, Rarity, whatever went wrong, we're all here to help you get through it, no matter what it takes." Twilight assured comfortingly, receiving general agreement from the others.

"Come on, Rarity, buck up!" Applejack expressed lively. "All we need is some fabric and you'll be back in business!"

"Now, hold on…" I stated as Rarity's despair seemed to lighten up. "Is there any way you can prove that this contestant stole your line?"

Rarity continued to sniffle a bit while wiping her eyes. "No. She already showed her line to Prim Headline. Prim already thinks that she is the one who came up with it first, as she showed her outfits before I could!" She sighed greatly. "No one would believe me, most importantly Prim Headline."

"Shoot…" I looked away sadly. "I'd hate to let this contestant get away with this, but what's more important right now is getting you back on track. We can deal with this contestant later, but it looks like right now we have to get you a new line."

"Where is Rarity going to find the fabric and new ideas for an entire new line in such a short time?" Twilight worriedly asked.

"Don't even look at my cloak and new dress!" Sarah exclaimed holding the cloak and dress close to her.

Um... I don't think Rarity is that desperate.

However, Rarity had quietly pulled away from me and looked around the room. She noticed the curtains on the windows, the rug on the floor, and rubbed the bed sheets on the bed. Soon enough, her face immediately beamed up with hope. She gasped loudly. "This new line is going to be marvelous! Perhaps even better than the last! It's daring, it's bold! Perhaps I still have a chance after all!"

"Just tell us what you need us to do and we'll do it!" Twilight announced proudly and confidently.

Rarity cleared her throat and looked among us, but more at the girls. "Girls, everyone, if I am to redeem myself from this monstrosity of a situation, I'll need all your help. We're going to have to be here for a long while in order to get these dresses out on time."

"Well…" Applejack rubbed her chin as she looked back in thought. "I suppose we can skip our appointment at the salon…"

I swore I heard an 'Oh thank goodness' from Sarah.

"What about fancy dinner at the Far-afield Tavern?!" Pinkie Pie immediately questioned a little fearfully.

Rarity sighed and thought about it for a moment. "If you guys can stay during that time…I'll order you a meal while you work on the dresses."

Twilight looked at the others and shrugged. "I guess that's okay… After all, what we were really excited about was for Hinny of the Hills."

"Perfect!" Rarity expressed happily and then began to point out everpony's jobs.

When Rarity estimated the fabric and the amount she would need, she appointed Me, Fluttershy, Jamie and Twilight to the sewing machines. Jack Rainbow Dash was on the spinning wheel while Nicole, Carrie, Kaede and Pinkie Pie pulled out fabric and Rantaro, Skye and Applejack folded it.

Sarah had asked her what she could do to help but Rarity didn't have anything for her to do.

Kaede's POV

I watched as the group did their repetitive work and they didn't look too happy about it.

She walked around the hotel room that was transformed into a work area. She held her designing red glasses while she picked out a roll of fabric. She eyed over to Fluttershy's area, where Fluttershy herself seemed to be having trouble with the machine or something. Fluttershy noticed this and immediately sent back a nervous grin. Almost coldly, Rarity continued to pass Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. However, she stopped by Pinkie after she noticed her playing with a ball of thread, rather than doing what she was supposed to. Rarity sent her a glaring look, leading Pinkie to quickly return to her assigned job.

When she reached Applejack, I could tell Rantaro, Skye and Applejack were finally relieved to have finished folding the last of her fabric until Rarity placed down the rolls they had been holding. The three only withheld a sigh and expressed her thoughts through silent facial expressions.

"Twilight! Sew these pieces together according to that pattern there!" She pointed her head towards the design blueprints on the table by Twilight.

"You said if we skipped dinner at the Far-Afield Tavern, you'd order a meal for us while we keep working." Twilight brought up, seeing as the time they would have been at the restaurant had already past.

"Don't fret. It'll be here in an hour. That's not going to be a problem, is it?" Rarity irritatingly looked at the rest of the ponies working.

"Well, we're supposed to be watching Hinny of the Hills by then..." Rainbow Dash answered reluctantly with hesitation.

"Oh! I see!" Rarity lowered her head and walked forward, picking up a cloth in her way. "I go out of my way to get you tickets for a show, and this is how you repay me?" She wrapped it around a dress form as a bow. "By abandoning me in my hour of need?" She paused to receive lowered heads from them, seeing it as they didn't want to work anymore. "Oh, oh, oh!" She was deeply offended with a loss of words for a quick moment.

"Fine!" She pounded her hooves on the floor. "Go and see Hinny of the Hills tonight! And then tomorrow morning when you come to see my fashion show without any fashion to show, you can have more entertainment!" She dashed between Pinkie and Rainbow to express her feelings on the matter. "'Oh, why look, there's our friend Rarity going down in flames! Isn't friendship magic?!'"

"Rarity, calm down." Twilight carefully approached Rarity. "What's gotten into you?"

"Yeah, you're acting weird.." I stated.

Then Sarah spoke up, "How about, you just let me and Kaede take care of everything while..." She then used her magic and grabbed everyone except for Rarity and I, in my magic and placed them outside the door, "The rest of you go out and enjoy yourselves."

Huh? What's going on?

"Huh? B-But Sarah, Kaede, we can't leave you two here." Ren spoke out.

"We'll be fine, now go on.." she smiled before she slammed the door in their faces. I went over to her and whispered, "Sarah, what are you..?"

"We're have to show Rarity that she's acting just like some of the ponies here, follow my lead.." Sarah said before she went over to Rarity. Wonder what she's planning on doing?

"Now Rarity, I know you're hurting because of a competitor took advantage of your generosity, but that doesn't mean you should stop being generous." she began and Rarity turned to her.

"How said I'm not being generous?" she asked.

"Rarity, we've helped you make dresses for hours and you kinda skipped out on getting us dinner." I brought up. "You're kinda acting like the pony who tried to take advantage of Sarah's generosity. That's not like you. That's not the Rarity we know."

Rarity looked at me closely before she folded her ears a little, "Even back home when I was being horribly treated by my step-sisters and mother, I was still generous to other people.. even them... even when I knew they were taking advantage of me." Rarity looked at me in surprise.

"I-I didn't know you had to go through that.. darling..." Rarity said, taking off her glasses. "And I didn't know I was being so mean to my friends... after everything they did to me....I was so swept up in the competition that I took advantage of my friends giving nature...."

I felt bad for Rarity as she folded her ears and sang a sad song.

Oh, Manehattan, what have I done?
The thought of Fashion Week was fun
But I went way too far
My friends gave to me in ways so kind
And I gave them nothing but a hard time

And now alone I stand
And now alone I stand

Oh Rarity....

"Darling.... how come... you're still generous.. even after how your family treated you..?" Rarity asked me.

"That's because I didn't let the fact that they were taking advantage of my giving nature to lose my own generous spirit and neither did Sarah. And you shouldn't let that take away your generosity either." I said to her with a big smile.

Not too soon, I started to grow a headache...and then I let out a groan.

"Kaede, darling.. are you alright..?" I heard Rarity ask with concern in her voice.

"Yeah...I don't know why..." I groaned, rubbing my head. What's going on? Why do I hear Newbie’s voice?

I am thou, thou art I... Thou hast acquired a new vow.

It shall become the wings of rebellion that breaketh thy chains of captivity.

With the birth of the First Guardian of Generosity, I have obtained the winds of blessing that shall lead to freedom and new power.

Suddenly, a large light engulfed us...coming out of me...

Later...

"Kaede.....!"

"Oh is she alright..?"

"Kaede, wake up...!"

Huh...? I opened my eyes and I saw Ren and all the others looking at me in concern. "W-What happened...?" I asked groggily.

"Rarity came running after us at our fancy dinner and said that you passed out in the hotel, so rushed back over here as fast as we could. Are you alright..?" Twilight asked me with worry.

I sat up and I rubbed my head. "I.. I think so..."

"Ooooh! Now Kaede has a cutie mark too!" Pinkie cheered.

"WHAT?!" I exclaimed.

"Here darling." Rarity handed me her compact mirror and I saw on my cheeks were my own cutie marks. They looked exactly like Jack, Ren and Jamie's cutie marks; heart shaped shield-like cutie marks but mine had Rarity's cutie mark in the center. The shaped of the shield looks like Cadance’s heart cutie-mark, and the sun marks has Celestia’s sun cutie-mark, and on the back on the shield is Luna’s moon cutie mark due to the full moon centered on it.

"Woah......" Kaede gasped in awe.

"Yeah, now we have four humans with cutie marks! Only five more to go!" Pinkie cheered, bouncing up and down. "And Kaede can do magic now..!"

"W-What about Rarity's competition?" Kaede asked.

"I dropped out, darling." Rarity said. D-Dropped out?! B-But! "I'm just happy you're all still here after how I treated you. Taking advantage of your friendship the way I did. How could you ever see past it?"

"Yeah, you were pretty rotten." Applejack stated.

"Yep." Jack added.

"Wow, Applejack and fatty. I know your thing is honesty, but come on!" Rainbow stated at the two of them. Jack shrugged.

"Last night we may not have seen you at your best, but we know you. And we would never let one thing like that change how we feel about you." Twilight stated to Rarity, who smiled.

"Oh, thank you! You really are the most wonderful friends a pony could have! You know, I already arranged to make it up to you this afternoon! Hope you're all available for an exclusive performance of Hinny of the Hills!" The girls cheered happily before Discord showed up, "Oh joy, Kaede Ross has her cutie marks and has awaken her power too." Discord smiled.

"Yeah Yeah.. wait... how do you know about our powers, I thought Sarah was the only one who knows." Kaede stated to Discord.

"Oh I know many things about you nine humans, just like I know Sarah, here." Discord stated.

"But....Why us...?" That's the questioned I keep wondering, practically all of us. Just more questions with few answers. "And why did I hear Sarah's voice before I blacked out...?"

"Hey... now that she mentions it.. I heard something like Newbie's voice before I got these cutie-patootie marks.." Jack brought up.

"Me too." Ren added.

"Me three." Jamie said.

So... each time they and I got their cutie marks, we heard Sarah's voice... does that mean Sarah's connected to the cutie marks and our magic?

"That shall be revealed in time..." Sarah spoke, gaining the rest of our attention.

"What do you mean...?" Nicole asked, narrowing her eyes at her.

"...Sorry, not yet..." Sarah shook her head, unable to provide any answers to us.

... And she's foreshadowing again, "What the hell?! Just tell us!" Jack demanded.

"Not yet...even though it was given to you by accident...but you all were still chosen to help..." Newbie immediately shut herself up, covering her mouth.

"Wait what?" Jack asked.

"Accident..?" Rainbow asked.

"Nothing!" Sarah exclaimed sheepishly.

"Newbie..." Jack warned. "What did you say?"

"Sarah...This isn't a game for you to be playing." Mason stated sternly. "We're tired of waiting, and we demand some answers..."

Sarah sighed, "Fine, your powers you given to you by accident."

Accident?! What the-? "What accident?" Kaede questioned.

"That is something you must figure out on your own." Sarah told us. "And you already have some clues.."

Sigh.... here she goes again.

"Now now, everypony and human. Let's not pressure Sarah into telling you everything." Discord said. "How about we go out and enjoy ourselves?"

"Umm...Mind if I join you?" a new voice came and we turned and saw a cream colored earth pony mare with a light blue mane and tail with a white stripe in it

"Sure. Coco Pommel." Rarity said and Coco came over to us and she pulled something out of her saddlebag and gave it to Rarity... it was a trophy.

"This is the first place trophy for Fashion Week." Rarity gasped. "With my name on it! But I thought I lost cause I dropped out!"

"You didn't. You won. Suri was hoping that if you didn't claim your prize, the judges would consider it a forfeit and first place would go to her. So she lied to make you and your friends go away, and, well, I lied too. I've worked for Suri for so long, I started to believe that it really is everypony for herself in this town. Until I saw how generous you were with your friends and how generous they were with you. It made me start believing there was something better for me out there. So, I– I quit. I brought you something to say thank you." Coco said and she gave Rarity a roll of string in rainbow colors.

"Hm. I suppose you'll need a job now that you're no longer with Suri." Rarity smiled at Coco, who nodded. "How would you like to work for my friend making all the costumes for his next show?"

Coco smiled and she nodded, "T-Thank you very much." she hugged Rarity and she smiled back.

"Now, how about you join us for our outing in Manehattan?" Rarity smiled and Coco nodded and we all headed out to enjoy ourselves. But I stayed behind for a while and looked at my new cutie marks in the mirror... wonder what powers I'll have now...? "Kaede, darling? Are you coming?" I heard Rarity call.

"Coming..!" I called and I dashed out to door to join our friends.

To Be Continued....

"...I know, but even so, I may know but I may not know..."