One of the floating shoe creatures then gagged the two unicorns that were tied up. Rainbow just looked over the scene again and before anypony could say anything Rainbow sprung into action. She slammed into all the creatures and pushed them into a corner of the back room, the shoes screamed in anger as they tired to fight Rainbow off.There little razor teeth showing as they tried to gnaw on her. Fluttershy took the opportunity and flew over, grabbed the two mares, and prevented the creatures from being able to cook up pony soup. They bolted out of the back room and into the front of the store, with Rainbow flying through and slamming the door behind her, so none of the little beasts could follow them. The gang looked at the mares they saved one had an orange mane with a blue coat; the other had a purple curled mane with a white coat.
Applejack waved her hoof to have the others to circle in around her, when they got in their huddled circle, Applejack said in a whisper
“Y’all think that mare with the purple mane is Rarity?”
Pinkamena stretched her neck above the group and looked at the mare, she brought herself back down to everypony's level and said
“Well what about the other mare that’s passed out on my back. I thought she was Rarity.”
“Well now we have to ponies with purple manes and tails so we have to check just to make sure, she ain't Rarity.”
Rainbow mused for a second;
“Well we’ll have to ask her, right after we ungag her that is. And the other one, how do we wake her up - she fainted?”
Fluttershy spoke up;
“Well, why don’t we just pour some water on her head? That might wake her up.”
Just as Fluttershy finished her sentence the Rarity on Pinkamena’s back grunted and opened her eyes saying
“Where am I?”
Pinkamena looked at her and then bucked her off her back and said in a cold tone
“Good you’re up now tell us are you, are you really Rarity. The fashion pony.”
The mare looked at her and looked worried but coughed and said in a shaky voice “Of course I am. I’m, I’m Rarity. Didn’t you see my shop.”
As she finished the other purple haired mare groaned in a angry tone and started to yell under her gag. The group turned to the mares,that were struggling to get the rope off of them and spit the gags out of their mouths. They ungaged the purple mare who was in a huff; she yelled
“You’re Rarity? Har har har don’t make me laugh. You’re fashion line is nowhere close to mine, Emerald Stitching. Besides, I’m Rarity, right Sassy.”
The orange mare nodded her head in agreement; Pinkamena looked at the imposter with a dirty look.While the others just looked at each other with concern. Applejack yelled with concern
“I knew you, couldn’t be Rarity you snake. Why did you’ll lie to us?”
The group's concern turned into anger as, Emerald Stitching just looked at them as they walked towards her with angry eyes and scowls upon their faces. She backed away slowly speaking in a scared voice
“I was...I just thought you wouldn’t buy my clothing if you thought I wasn’t Rarity. She’s a much better designer than me I-I…”
Before any of them could say anything Emerald Stitching bolted out of the door faster than Rainbow Dash and ran down the street. The gang huffed as they walked back to the real Rarity and Sassy. They untied Sassy, an as Pinkamena was about to untie Rarity she shoved the gag back in her mouth. She put her on her back while she was still tied up and then bolted out the door; the others looked stunned but quickly followed her. Sassy’s jaw dropped as she watched them run away from the store.Before she could even yell for any help more living cloths walked out of a closet much to her horror.
It wasn’t until they were somewhere in downtown Canterlot when they ungaged this ‘new’ Rarity, she coughed and yelled
“Are you ponies crazy! Why did you just ponynap me? Are you going to hurt me?”
Fluttershy looked at her and said in a kind, sweet tone of voice
“No, we’re not going to hurt you. Now Pinkamena why did you just regag her and run out of the building?”
“Well she wouldn’t join us just cause we saved her.Sooo I saw an opportunity and went for it. Now we have everypony all together again.” Said Pinkamena in a somewhat happy tone of voice.
Applejack let out a sigh and said
“Ok well I’m glad we found the real Rarity. That other pony was a dirty no good snake So let’s just go to the castle and stop the princesses from fightin and put everythin back to normal. ”
Rarity looked at her, spitting out the gag (since it wasn't properly shoved back into her mouth), her jaw dropped yelling
“Are you mad!? The castle isn’t for us common ponies, and besides, the princess aren’t talking to anypony right now. They're dealing with that trickster Discord.” Rarity said in a horrified tone
Fluttershy looked at her and said
“Are you kidding me, you're happy with the way things are now. With the two princess fighting all around Canterlot and the castle while the land and ponies are suffering. I know you can’t be happy with the way things are now, so we're going there to stop them. An you’re coming along - we need your power. So no complaints Rarity. ”
Rarity just looked at them all and said
“Well I guess I have no choice in the matter do I?”
“No you don’t.”Said Rainbow Dash as a smug grin started going across her muzzle.
They threw Rarity over Fluttershy’s back and started heading for the castle,the castle that was once beautiful and full of color now a danger zone and full of broken pillars and rubble.
On the way to the castle Rarity asked
“So what are you all going to do when we get to the castle? Surely you have some kind of plan to stop all this madness?”
“We...don’t really have a plan in mind.” Pinkie said in a really happy tone, jumping up and down.
Rarity’s eye twitched as she heard this come from the pink pony’s mouth, she yelled
“SO, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET US IN THERE AND THEN WHAT? WE ALL SING KUMBAYA!?”
Rainbow looked at her and said
“Well when you put it like that it's sounds bad.”
“OF COURSE IT IS! I’M GOING TO DIE”
Applejack butted in and said in a calm voice
“Noponies going to die, sides we just have to wake Twilight up before we get in there. Then she’ll make a plan an we’ll be just dandy.”
Rarity looked down at the ground and mumbled to herself
“Oh my sweet Celestia, I’m going to get killed by the gods themselves.” Rarity looked like she was going to throw up as her face turned a dark green shade, Fluttershy then said
“Don’t worry Rarity, Twilight can figure something out I know she can. Besides I know
we can do it because deep down I feel that we've done stuff like this before.”
Rarity just looked up at the pegasus and sighed as she turned her head back to the ground; she just keep looking down the rest of the way to the castle.