Family Business

by Darth Severus


Meet the Family

As the battle raged on the field, Rarity and Rainbow Dash stood side by side, looking over the mayhem. They looked at each other and nodded. Rarity cloaked and Rainbow Dash took out flying over the bridge. The two met up again in the sewers of the BLU base, where Rainbow Dash told Rarity, "They got a sentry up there!" to which Rarity smiled and cloaked, sapping the Sentry and backstabbing the Engie Pie with it. Rainbow Dash made her way into the BLU base and met up with their Big Mac. She flew in circles around him, hitting him with her bat as he fired at her, missing every shot because of her speed. As he ran out of ammo, he saw Rarity holding her revolver at his head. As Rarity dealt with the Heavy Mac, Rainbow Dash made her way down to the Intelligence Room. She grabbed the briefcase and put it on her back saying, "Wave goodbye to your secret crap, dumb ass!"

As she made her way back up and towards the RED Base, the BLU's heard Celestia's voice over the speakers, which said, "Alert, the enemy has taken our intelligence."

The BLU ponies rushed back into the base and ran over to a BLU Fluttersniper, who meekly said, "To the left!" The other ponies followed her directions yelling battle cries and swears. Rainbow Dash, who had been hiding behind the wall next to the door leading to her escape heard a gun drop in front of the door, and she peeked her head out, seeing the BLU Fluttersniper.

The two stared at each other with an awkward silence before Rainbow Dash stuttered, "I-I don't even know-"

Suddenly, the Fluttersniper started giggling and Rainbow Dash held back her own laughter as the Fluttersniper turned into Rarity, who looked slightly insulted saying "Did you forget about moi!?"

Rainbow Dash laughed saying "Ah come on Rare, what the hell was-" before being interrupted by BLU's realizing their deception.

Rarity smiled and said "Shall we darling?"

As the two ran back to the RED Base, Rainbow made her way into their own Intelligence Room, Celestia's voice said "Success, we have captured the enemy's intelligence." She met back up with Rarity and the two hoof bumped.

When the day was over, Rarity was brushing Rainbow Dash's mane, much to the mare's dismay. Rainbow Dash whined saying "Ma, I'm not a filly anymore!"

Rarity rolled her eyes and said, "Could have fooled me." Rainbow Dash's aunt, Sweetie Belle, giggled at her niece, who was much older than her, whining like a little filly. Rarity shot a glare at her sister and said, "Don't think you're missing out on this young lady. You may be an aunt, but you're still a filly, and you're not exempt from proper grooming."

Rainbow Dash chuckled and said, "Looks like I'm not the only one being treated like a filly." As her mother finished her mane, she got up and grabbed a soda out of the fridge as Rarity started working on her little sister. While she was getting her soda she heard screams of pain and her mother swearing in French. She looked over and chuckled at her aunt in her mother's lap.

As Rarity had given up on Sweetie Belle for now, she went into her smoking room and lit a cigarette before putting it in a holder. She opened up a book and started reading. Soon enough, the door knocked and she said uncharacteristically brutish, "Go away" until the door opened, revealing her rainbow maned daughter. She sighed, placing a bookmark in her book and saying, "What is it dear? Unless Derpy is with Sweetie and her friends again, you know not to bother me."

Rainbow said, "Uh... this is a little more important than Derpy trying to train Sweetie into a Soldier ma." She led her mother into her room where the TV was paused. When Rainbow Dash resumed it, it was a new report.

A mare speaking in Saddle Arabian said "And our final report for the night, yet another public execution at the hooves of "The Herd," a vicious Mafia family that has been terrorizing Saddle Arabia for the past six weeks. Mares, if your fillies are watching, shield their eyes, as we have video footage of the brutal execution of innocent civilians." The news mare cut away to video footage of innocent stallions, mares, and even fillies and colts being shot down in cold blood by a group of ponies.

Rarity's cigarette holder fell out of her mouth, gaping in shock. Rainbow Dash gripped her soda can angrily saying "That ain't right, they didn't even do anything wrong! Those fucking bastards! Killing fillies and colts like that!" She had been so mad she didn't even notice that she had crushed the soda in her hooves.

Rarity picked up her cigarette holder with her magic and said, "I don't like you using such language, but I can't disagree. Those poor ponies didn't deserve to die like that.... We can't just stand by like this!"

Rainbow Dash threw her crushed can in the trash and said, "Come on ma, let's get the others, we may be good, but we can't do it on our own." The two trotted to their friends and explained the situation, but to their shock, they all refused.

Twilight told them, "We have more important things to deal with than a mafia."

To which Big Mac replied, "Eeyup."

Spike said muffled through his mask, "Normally I'd agree to help, but Twilight's right, we've already got too much on our plate." Much to Rainbow Dash's surprise, Spike refused to help Rarity.

Applejack said to them, "Ah've gotta admit, it ain't right t' kill fillies and colts for no reason, heck, it ain't right t' kill 'em in general, b' we can't just up an' leave the base unprotected."

The two went back to their room fuming, not understanding why their friends refused to help them. Would they really just sit back and allow more ponies to be brutally murdered? Rainbow Dash didn't even touch the soda she had opened, trying to think of a way to convince their friends to help them. She had an idea and said, "Maybe if we show them the news report?"

Rarity stewed her daughter's suggestion over for a moment, "Even if we did, I still don't think they would change their opinion. As much as I hate to say it, there's nothing we can do..." she said exhaling smoke with an exasperated sigh.

Rainbow Dash took her soda and chugged it down quickly, crushing the can afterwards. "We can't just give up, if they won't help us, we'll just do it ourselves!"

Rarity looked at her daughter as if she had lost her mind, "Are you insane!? We'd never be able to take down an entire mob! And if you try to go do it yourself, I will drag your flank back here and give it some much needed discipline!" she said fuming off, even though she knew her daughter was right.