Equestria's War

Chapter 2-Rebellion Stirs
The whisper of rebellion had started the day after Twilight Sparkle had been dubbed a Princess of Equestria. Rarity lie quietly in her bed, awoken by the light shining in from a nearby window. The sheets smooth on her snow white coat as she rolled over wondering what to do with her day. Thinking of how she could finish her latest client’s dress before next month. Rarity felt as if the sheets were pulling her into her bed as she tried to work up the courage to get up. The sheets felt so good, hugging her curvy body, hiding her from the outside world and its prying eyes. It took Rarity several minutes to work up the willpower to commit to getting out of bed. She slowly rolled out of bed and onto the floor where she pulled a robe off of her bedside stand and draped it over her shoulders. She plodded sleepily across the room towards the door to the kitchen. In about half an hour she had woken up her sister Sweetie Belle and prepared them a simple, but elegant, breakfast. Rarity sat quietly and read the morning news paper. While she munched through her plate of granola the silence of the morning was interrupted by Sweetie’s rocking back and forth in her chair trying to accomplish who know what.
“Sweetie you’re going to hurt yourself” said Rarity without paying much attention to Sweetie’s fanatics, as they were a usual thing in her house.
“Just a sec, I almost got it!” Sweetie practically screamed “There, look at me Rarity I finally got it”
Thud
“Ohhh Sweetie, are you alright?” Rarity rushed over to the downed filly helping her back onto her hooves.
“Uhhhh… Yea I’m alright”
“You should be more careful Sweetie, you could have seriously injured yourself, and as you may know the closest hospital is an hour away by train.”
“Yea I know, but you never play with me, comon’ lets do something fun the week”
“I’m sorry Sweetie, but you know that I can’t, I have lots of work to catch up on”
Both of the sisters began eating breakfast again. Rarity then interrupted the almost awkward silence that hung over the both of them.
“Although if you want fun I have arranged to drop you off with Applejack this afternoon, I have some…... important errands to run this afternoon and I don’t want to deal with you being under my hooves constantly. Besides I didn’t think you would enjoy what I have to do, so I’ve arranged for you to stay with the Apple family until I finish”
“What do you mean ‘Until you finish’?”
“Well some of these errands may take several days to complete”
Sweetie sighed
“I know you were looking forward to a day with me, but I will try to get done by the end of this week. Then we can have some real fun”
“THIS WEEK?!??!” shouted Sweetie
“Well yes, my presence in Canterlot has been requested by Celestia herself”
Sweetie had no response, knowing that Rarity saw Celestia as an evil tyrant who always wanted to increase her grip on Equestria, and squeeze it for the little riches that it produced to bathe herself in luxury. Shortly after breakfast Sweetie and Rarity cleaned up and got ready to leave for Applejack’s. The two sisters then left the house and trotted in a leisurely manner towards Sweet Apple Acres.
“Can I really leave Sweetie Belle with Applejack for the rest of the week?” wondered Rarity “Yes, yes I can, I just need to tell Sweetie to steer clear of Scootaloo”
Rarity had developed a strong distrust towards Scootaloo ever since she’d heard news of her ‘touching’ other ponies that she knew. What she’d herd is that Scootaloo had one of her classmates over for a party, they both left to use the restroom and they had been found with Scootaloo’s hooves stuck down the other little filly’s dress. Rarity and Sweetie finally arrived on the road leading toward Sweet Apple Acres, and without hesitation they continued down it. As soon as the two had turned onto the path an orange earth pony came trotting down the lane.
“Howdy there Rarity, Sweetie Belle” said the earth pony with a cheerful note in her voice.
“Hiya Applejack” Sweetie said as she jumped up and down around Rarity.
“Thanks again for watching Sweetie Belle for me, Applejack, and sorry for the short notice” Rarity said in a hurried voice.
“No problem, ah always liked watchin’ little fillies. In fact ahm’ watching Scootaloo as well, thought it’d be nice to get the little fillies here together to bond.”
“Ohhhh….ummmmm…. that is very nice of you Applejack, but do you remember last time she was with other little fillies her age? You know how she is, very……… well…’grabby’”
“Yea, I was sorta worried about that as well but ya know what can ya do about it, fillies will be fillies.” replied Applejack. “Ya’ll best be on your way then”
“Thanks again for watching Sweetie”
Rarity then turned down the dirt road and started towards the train station.