Resurrection

by Silverstreak

New Ponyville

Sweetie Belle felt crushed under a rock. Her left eyes itched like crazy, nearly driving her insane. Slowly Sweetie lifted herself off the white floor. Light blinded her as she opened her eyes. Ponies had filled the streets, walking to and fro. Sweetie fell back onto the ground, wanting to go back to sleep, though she wasn't sure if that last thing was sleep, but she'd take that over watching these ponies again.
414 tiles. That's how many tiles there were on the wall and floor. Sweetie couldn't get back to sleep, she was tired, but her mind seemed to run a hundred miles an hour. Sweetie couldn't rest. She looked back out the giant window, and decided she'd make her own fun. Sweetie stuck her face to the window panel and started moving side to side, then she started voicing conversations she could see the ponies having.

"I'm wearing a suit and tie. I'm a very important stallion.
Oh, that's really interesting. I'm a classy mare.
Well would you..."

Sweetie got board of this and went back to making faces at the crowd of ponies. Sweetie was sticking her tongue to her nose while squishing the right side of her face into the window panel, when she noticed the mane of a pony she thought she would never have seen again, her sister Rarity. Sweetie looked at her sister wishing so bad that she could teleport out of this room.
A stallion approached Rarity, sitting beside her on a bench. Sweetie couldn't see their lips, but she could read their body language. Rarity seemed to regret the meeting, but something pushed her to it, while the stallion seemed like he had something, something that he wanted. Rarity looked around nervously wanted to hide from something. The stallion moved in closer to Rarity, whispered something in her ear, Rarity agreed wanting the meeting to be over with, he whispered something else, something that made Rarity tense up, Sweetie Belle could see that her sister was thinking about saying no. Rarity nodded yes, her shoulders and head drooping down. The stallion whispered one last thing, then walked back into the mid-day crowd. Rarity stayed sitting on the bench for a few minutes before she left.
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Rarity checked the clock for the tenth time in fifteen minutes. She couldn't focus on anything but the clock, waiting for it to count down to 10:00 p.m. Rarity put the pin down, the string away, the manikin back in the closet, and put the jewels in the chest. A knock came from the front door. Rarity's heart stopped, he was here already! Oh she couldn't do it, couldn't...

"Miss Rarity, please open the door! I need to talk to you about you know what!"

Rarity's heart started pumping again, it wasn't him.

"Oh thank Celestia."

Rarity magically opened the door while closing the curtain to her newest dress. An Imperial captain walked in, his shirt was all wrinkled, and his hat was sideways. Rarity almost wished it was the other stallion.

"Miss Rarity you have to come with me!"

"Why?"

"So you can get your sister back!"

Rarity froze in place, sweat started to roll down her face.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do Miss Rarity," He closed the door, locking it after it shut, "I know that you've been digging up information to find what happened to Sweetie Belle. I know you've made certain deals with the royalty of New Ponyville, and I know the deal you made with the janitor of the R&D Department."

"Janitor!"

"Yes Miss Rarity, a janitor."

"He told me..."

"I...I know what he told you," He went to the window searching everywhere he could look through the window, "We need to talk somewhere safer."

"Well there's no one here."

"No! Not here. Not safe."

Rarity watched him carefully as he walked around the Boutique searching everything he could see. He stopped at a desk, grabbed a pencil and started writing on a paper Rarity had out for a new dress design. He folded the paper and left it on the desk.

"Meet me at the location."

Before Rarity could respond the Imperial captain unlocked the door, walked out, and left Rarity alone.
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Rarity knew something was wrong. The air had a sense of doom in it. The imperial troops walked in groups, each looking like they've just seen a ghost. A tv screen turned on in a window, street lights started to flicker on. Rarity was glad that the power was back on, she wasn't looking forward to walking in the dark, not that she didn't like it, she just didn't like the city in the dark. Rarity halted as a group of little fillies and foals were running down the street, each racing the other back home. Rarity flashed back to the many sisterhooves specials she ran with Sweetie in Ponyville, hearing the laughter of the little colts brought a tear to her eye. Rarity marched her way down the street, staring at the pyramid shaped R&D Department as she approached the building that the imperial captain was waiting for her.
Rarity knocked on the door, almost immediately the door opened, revealing the very distressed Imperial captain from earlier.

"Good, come in."

Rarity walked in and noticed four desk stuck together that held papers, maps, and a bunch of notes.

"What's this?"

The captain closed the door.

"A theory."

"Of what?"

"The humans targets."

Rarity seemed dumbfound.

"A...a human?"

"Yes a human."

The captain moved past Rarity, moving to the opposite side of the group of tables.

"We think that the first attack that couldn't be completely understood was Appleloosa, right."

"Well of course!"

"Well you're wrong. Along with three fourths of Equestria. The first attack was in the Griffon Empire." He pointed with his hoof to the top of the map, and many different newsletters from different griffon cities, "The human started attacking the griffons first."

"Ok wait how do you know it's a 'human'. Also how does knowing were the 'human' attacked first have to do with getting Sweetie Belle out of that building."

"The pattern."

"Pattern?"

"Yes, the pattern! As the human attacks each city," He pointed to several red circles on the north of the map and to the circle that surrounded Appleloosa, "it has a pattern. First it takes out the defense canons on the city walls, and a message went through each city exactly one hour before each attack," Rarity lifted several newsletters from the griffon empire, each stating that the defense canons were offline either hours or minutes before a message ran through all means of communication, "One hour Miss Rarity. One hour."
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Rarity looked over the papers, maps, and newsletters all had the same evidence but something didn't fit.

"But we didn't get the message, nor have we been..."

"Because they didn't let you know."

"What?"

"The Imperial Military. They haven't let it out that the canons are offline, and they caused the blackout until the message came and went."

"But how..."

"I'm a captain Miss Rarity, I know just about everything that happens in this city when I'm stationed here."

"So when the power came back on..."

"The message stopped. Miss Rarity it's coming here."

"Wait how do you know what it is! It could be one of those creatures, or some griffon soldiers!"

"The pattern Miss Rarity. The pattern! Those creatures aren't attacking the cities, due to the fact that whatever it is, it's targeting the R&D Departments of those cities, mainly those that have great success in cracking the human's technology. Now I know of only one species that could possibly be able to located, target, and immobilize a city."

Rarity's heart stopped, the thought sinking in. A human. A human! A human that would attack cities....

"No. No! It's coming here! Oh sweet Celestia we...we.."

"Miss Rarity calm down."

"Calm down! Calm down! A human is on it's way here to destroy that building and my little sister!''

"No, not your sister Miss Rarity. Just the information that we collected about the humans."

"That doesn't help! The Appleloosa R&D Department was destroyed, and most of the griffons R&D Departments. We have to get Sweetie Belle out now!"

Rarity stormed towards the door ready to bust it off it's hinges, when the captain tackled her to the floor.

"Get off me!"

"Miss Rarity please! Listen to me!"

"Why!"

"Because I'm the only one who can get your sister out!"

Rarity stopped struggling against the captain. Tears ran down her face.

"How! You don't let the people know what's happening or offer any..."

"Miss Rarity did it ever occur to you that I may be a captain, but I'm not in charge of everything here."

"Well...I..."

"Exactly. Now if you will listen I do have a plan to get your sister out."

Rarity sat up, wiping the tears from her checks.

"My men know my theory, most agree, but none will turn us in. Not after learning what Blueblood did to them."

"What? What did he do?"

"He declared them dead in the system."

"What?"

"Blueblood declared that Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo died back in Appleloosa when their airship was caught in the fight to defend the city."

"How do you know?"

"They were on my command ship, well Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were, Miss Scootaloo is still somewhere."

"What do you mean they were on your ship?"

"We arrived to answer a distress call from Appleloosa, but we where to late to help. Though we did find a strange signal and ship leaving to the south, then your sister's ship arrived just a few minutes after. We told them to leave, and they were, but their fighter ship had the same signal." The captain lowered his head, breathing deeply to hold back his sadness, "We fired upon their ship, hauling it in. Scootaloo escaped, and we were ordered to bring Sweetie and Apple Bloom to question them. That change after a few hours, Blueblood wanted them in separate cities. I dropped off Sweetie Belle first to this city, then I took Apple Bloom to New Canterlot, then...then this happened."

Rarity's tears started to stream back down again. The captain sat down next to her, putting his hoof over her shoulder.

"How can I trust you? After what Blueblood did to Celestia, and the war he's declared on Luna. How can I trust a pony I don't even know?"

"Now listen to me. Your sister is alive in that building across the street. She's behind all that glass just staring out at the ponies walking down this street day after day after day. When the human attacks my men will close down the street, and allow the human access to the building. After he is done destroying or taking the data you and I will go and get your sister out of that room."

"That doesn't answer my question."

He turned Rarity's face to look him in the eyes, those deep blue eyes.

"In this life I'm Captain Hooves of the Imperial Military. In my past life I was a house doctor known as Doctor Hooves."