My Little Rebellion

by Fragezeichen

Chapter 2: Break the Cutie

Chapter 2: Break the Cutie

"Somepony call my name?" A sudden voice called out, almost drowned away by the rushing sound of the wind as Twilight continued to plummet to her doom. The falling mare blinked as she looked straight up at the blue object dashing towards her with such an incredible pace.

"R-Rainbow?" Twilight replied as the Pegasus snatched her out of the sky. Rainbow's familiar smug grin was plastered on her face, though age was apparent as well. Despite her cool demeanor as usual, her hair's color was fading and the usual sparkle in her eye had disappeared.

"The one and only! Did you miss me?" Rainbow Dash asked as she carried Twilight off into the distance.

"What do you think!?" Twilight shouted, tears filling up her eyes. The heroic Pegasus chuckled again as she landed nearby, panting slightly from the trip.

"Whew, it's been a while since I did something like that, looks like I still got it eh?" The purple mare, without hesitation, quickly raced towards her lost friend, taking her into the tightest hug she could muster, despite the Pegasus' objection. "H-hey! Calm down on the mushy stuff! We still gotta get outta here you know!"

"S-sorry, i-it's just...Rainbow...It's been so long..." Twilight whimpered, looking down and away. Rainbow placed a hoof on her back and smiled.

"Yeah well, it's over now right? C'mon, there's a place we can be safe while the rest help the other ponies escape."

"The rest? What do you mean?" Twilight questioned as she began to follow after Rainbow.

"The freedom fighters of course. I think six years has been long enough to be kept like this don't you? We have a plan to get rid of those guys once and for all." Twilight stopped in her tracks and looked over at the base she just escaped from, the sounds of explosions and gunfire still extremely apparent.

"We're fighting back? But how? We...We're not as strong as...them." The curious mare reminded her friend.

"Well duh, but that's why we got some of them to help us." As Rainbow said this, a figure emerged from the brush, one of the invaders.

"R-Rainbow!" Twilight shouted as she began to back peddle away. Rainbow Dash shook her head and sighed.

"He's on our side Twilight, don't have a cow." The invader, Twilight stared at him nervously. He looked like all the rest. Tall, standing on his hind legs while his front legs hung at his side, strange protrusions stemming off from where his hooves should have been. They had called them 'hands' or something similar. He lacked a coat of any kind, merely pink flesh and a tuft of a pitiful mane on the top of his head. His face was odd as well, as the rest of the invaders' were, it was flatter than a ponies, and his eyes were smaller. On his body he wore clothes, they always wore clothes for some reason, a tattered tan trench coat and a red scarf around his neck.

"Which one is that Dash?" The human asked. "She looks like the host of magic, is that right?" Rainbow turned her head and nodded.

"Yeah Marcus, this is Twilight, one of my best friends." Twilight looked between the two in shock and awe, two supposed enemies conversing in such a way. How could it be possible? "Honestly Twilight, we thought this is where Fluttershy was, my face when I saw you falling down a cliff instead of her!" She laughed as she made a surprised face, almost as if this had all been a joke.

"I...I need to lie down..." The confused purple pony admitted as she trudged forward.

"Oh, well, we'll be home soon! There's a carriage that'll take us there." Rainbow called as she trotted towards her.

<_>

"So, a group of freedom fighters have sprung up hmm? That's not good at all." Amongst the fire spread across the base, a man stood, staring at others. "And you were all unprepared for such an attack?"

"Y-yes sir, it was too coordinated. We lost the Element Host being held here I'm afraid." A soldier replied, his body burned in various places. The older man paced back and forth, staring at the men stationed at this base that now laid in ruin. He rubbed his beard and turned away from them.

"Do you know why we have those hosts locked up? Do you know why they had to be kept apart? Do you know that's the second host we've lost?!" He roared as he turned around, quickly punching one of the standing soldiers in his face, knocking him far back into a burning wreckage. His screams of pain were utterly ignored. "If the hosts are allowed to come back together then there'll be no stopping them, do you want that? Do you want us to be defeated by a bunch of animals?!"

"S-Sir, no sir!" The men cried in reply. The older man's left eye began to twitch as he cleared his throat.

"Well then, get your heads in shape. I want to find out everything about this terrorist group, these traitors working with the little bastards. I want to know exactly where they're going next." He commanded, the soldiers nodding and quickly about-facing, rushing off toward the way the rebels escaped.

<_>

"So, they rescued you that long ago?" Twilight asked from the carriage that was being pulled by a grey stallion. "And it took you that long to organize a plan to save me?"

"Pretty much, we aren't the biggest group, and we lose more everyday but once we rescue Applejack and the others, there'll be no way we can lose!" Rainbow Dash replied as she hovered next to the vehicle.

"But why are some of the humans helping us?" The unicorn asked nervously. "Don't they want us all gone?"

"Only the bad ones. The ones lacking in compassion." The human from before replied, a rifle strapped from his back. "Humans have lost their way. We're becoming the monsters we tried so hard to fight against but failed to beat. So the rest of us want to make things right, we want to live in peace with you Equestrians."

"Peace? That sounds pretty good to me, Mr...?"

"Just call me Red, everyone does anyway." Red replied, tugging on his scarf slightly. Twilight shrugged and nodded as she looked back at Rainbow.

"Do you know where the others are?"

"Well, we know where they are, but we don't know which is which. Like I said before, we thought this was Fluttershy's place." Rainbow replied, landing on the carriage and laying down next to Twilight. "We...well, honestly I wanted to save her first. I can only imagine what sick stuff their doing to her you know?" Twilight nodded. She didn't mind that she wasn't the intended target, she knew Fluttershy would have been the best choice but what had been done was done.

"Well, you can count on my to help in any way I can."

"That's kinda what I was hoping for, you're magic is the most powerful I've ever seen! Well, besides Celestia's..." As she said this, the equines walking with them bowed their heads, muttering something before returning to normal. "We uh, try not to talk about her much though. Anyway, here's the plan; we know where another of our friends is being held, but it's heavily guarded." Twilight nodded.

"Say no more, I know exactly what to do. An Invisibility spell right?" Rainbow blinked and chuckled.

"That'd work if we were trying to sneak in, but what I'm talking about is something a bit more flashy, a big bang!"

"A-an explosion? I don't know, I've never done anything violent with my magic before..." Twilight admitted nervously as she turned her head away.

"Hey, shouldn't be too hard right? Just concentrate and boom!"

"It's not THAT simple Rainbow, but...I guess I could try..."

<_>

The sudden explosion rocked the base as the rebel force burst inside, firing their weapons wildly at all opposing forces.

"ALERT! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" Rang the alarm as the unprepared soldiers attempted to take up arms, but before they could even try to pick up a weapon, the rebels took over the base. Anyone not killed in the crossfire, was captured and stowed away.

"Ha! I knew you had it in you Twi'! That was sweet!" Cried Rainbow as she and Twilight stood before the room where one of their friends was being held. The room was all too familiar to Twilight. It would seem that the bases were built similar to one another for ease of access. It smelled differently and the jailer here was lying face down dead in a pile of shrapnel outside the base, not that it mattered. Rainbow and Twilight walked toward the cage where a quiet sniffling could be heard.

"That...It has to be Fluttershy!" Rainbow declared as she forced open the door. Sure enough, there lay a crying yellow pony, covered in filth and incredibly thin. She wore two casts, one on her right foreleg and one on her hind left leg, and bruises decorated her body to no end, and, as if someone thought this image wouldn't be enough, a decaying corpse of a rabbit hung from the ceiling.

"W-what is this?" Twilight whispered, suddenly looking away from the scene. Rainbow walked inside, more worried about the fallen pony lying on the ground.

"Fluttershy? It's me...Rainbow Dash, we're gonna get you out of here."

"Get out of here?" Fluttershy whimpered back. "There's no getting out of here..." She looked away and softly cried, Rainbow looked back at Twilight who, rather than stay staring at the horror, was reading a document on the table.

"Twi', we gotta get Fluttershy outta here..."

"I know Rainbow but look at this, it's some sort of journal..."

Stubbs' Diary

Day 1: So far this job sucks, ever since I got stuck guarding that horse the others have been coming in here and abusing it to no end. I gotta admit, I feel sorry for it.

Day 14: Learned the thing's name was Fluttershy, poor thing was sitting in the corner whimpering some song about her friends. My heart is breaking in two right now, how can we be so cruel?

Day 20: I found a rabbit outside today and brought it to Fluttershy, it was the first time I had seen her smile, unfortunate that she had a black eye though, she could barely see...

Day 30: Heard news of a resistance movement today, I told the news to Fluttershy. She was too tired to really understand I guess, she had just survived another beating from the others. I hope those rebels come soon...

Day 35: Monsters! Cruel monsters! How could they kill the rabbit?! I'm starting to wonder just who the good guys are around here! I've gotta do something!

I've got a plan, the rebels will be coming here for her, she told me about the Elements of Harmony and how her other friends held them inside. The rebels will be coming for Fluttershy so I gotta make it easy for them. I managed to steal a map and gave it to Fluttershy to hold, it shows the location of the others, hopefully it'll help...oh please God let it help...

Twilight read of over the pages repeatedly and nodded. "Rainbow, the jailer here, he gave Fluttershy a map to the others! With that we find them easily!" She turned around to see that the Pegasus managed to get the other on her back.

"G-great, c'mon we gotta get moving now." She replied, rushing through the door and out of the base.

End Break the Cutie

Comments

[Fragezeichen]

2244 Ha, I wish I knew about Warhammer but nah, they're not orks.

[blayzekohime]

It always makes me teary eyed when Fluttershy gets hurt.
Very well written; I hope to see more :)

[Rudolf]

Sweet.

[Fragezeichen]

3410Thanks! I'm glad you like it!