Friendship Is Random: My Little Pony One-Shots
Chapter 3: Rarity: Recollection
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Sweetie Belle opened the door to the Carousel Boutique, "Rarity! I'm home!"
The little filly waited for her sister to respond but saw that her fashionista sister was deep into her sewing one of her own designs, as always. Sweetie Belle could tell Rarity was having a bit of trouble though. The Element of Generosity eyes were squinting so hard, they looked like they were fully closed.
Sweetie Belle, not wanted to make her sister lose focus in something she was so deep in, was about to leave up the stairs.
"Ah, Sweetie Belle." Rarity finally responded, not even looking up. "Sorry that I had not responded at first. I was so focused in getting this stitch right, but I got it!" Rarity used her magic to pull up a seat for her sister to sit while she continued to work. "Now, I have to keep on working, but you can tell me about you day while I do so. I will still be listening."
Sweetie Belle didn't even get to the first stair step upon hearing her sister responding. She smiled at the ending of the response. After all, Rarity was trying to get more bonding time with her sister after the Sisterhooves Social, all the while still working on her fashion. Still, Sweetie Belle was proud of her sister for making time for her every so often. She turned around and took up the offered seat and began to talk about her day.
"Well, we had this great idea for our cutie mark crusading, and Fluttershy was going to help us, but she flew away when she found out what we were going to do."
"Mhmm…"
"The circus was in town and they let us borrow some of their supplies! I got a bow and arrow! But since we couldn't find anypony else to be a target, we returned everything and we never found Fluttershy." Sweetie Belle thought for a second. "That's it."
"That's nice…"
The young, little filly looked at her older sister and saw that she was using the sewing machine again. Upon closer inspection, she saw that the current fabric that Rarity was using was about to run out. She decided to warn her.
"Rarity, you're almost out of that silk you're using."
"What?" Rarity stopped her sewing machine and saw it. "Oh, thank you, Sweetie Belle!" She said with a smile. Sweetie Belle returned the smile.
"Not to worry, I'll just go upstairs and check my fabric chest for some more. Be right back, darling!" Rarity trotted up the stairs, leaving Sweetie Belle alone in the room. Sweetie Belle looked at what her sister was making. It seemed to be a suit for a stallion. It was purely black, all the way down to the hooves, but she noticed something on the flank area, like a cutie mark stitched in. Was that… was that a red X with a circle drawn through it?
"GAH HAH HAH!"
Sweetie Belle was broken from her current thought by the scream coming from upstairs. As soon as she turned around, she saw that Rarity was hurriedly coming down the stairs. Before she could ask what's wrong, her sister decided to explain instantly.
"My silk! It's all gone! I've used up all of it! I have to finish this suit by tonight! My client strictly wants a silk only suit! And I'm nearly out of all my other fabrics! All of the things that could happen this is THE! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING!" Had there been a camera focused on her, it would zoom on her face while she said the last four words. Rarity did the drama queen thing and used her magic to pull a couch to fall upon.
All Sweetie Belle did was just watch as this happened. "Um, why not go around the shopping district and get your fabric material there?"
Ponyville's shopping district. When Rarity thought of a shopping district, she thought of a galleria, type of thing. Ponyville did not have a galleria. Instead, it had a bunch of booths and Quill & Sofa Shop. They would not have the material she needed in her hour of need. The Element of Generosity needed some fabric and Ponyville was not the town that provided. All of a sudden, an idea sprang in Rarity's mind.
"IDEA!" Rarity sang, hitting the last note perfectly.
She jumped off the couch, "Ponyville is not place where such valuable fabrics would be sold, but Canterlot is!" She used her magic to get a sun hat and a bag with a great amount of bits. She looked at the clock at saw it was early afternoon, 1pm. Her client would arrive in 8 hours, so that gave her plenty of time to go to Canterlot and shop around for some much needed fabric , come back home, and work on the silk suit, with some time to spare afterwards.
Rarity quick checked herself in the mirror. Beautiful as always.
"I must away!" The fashionista declared, and left the Carousel Boutique and trotted off to the Friendship Express Train Station. Thus, leaving Sweetie Belle alone, said filly then began to ponder about the symbol on the flank of the silk suit.
5:06pm
Rarity opened to the door to her home and felt quite content with herself. She had gotten all the fabric she needed and she had plenty of time to spare. The Element of Generosity levitated the bags full of fabric inside. Taking off her hat, she sat down at the sewing machine, ready to carry on with her earlier work. Using her magic, she levitated all her bags so as to look for the silk she needed.
All the bags floated in the air, but she noticed something. The bag with the silk was not there. That was odd, where was the Pegaso store bag? She knew had gone in and bought things from that store, but where was it? Come to think of it, where were some of the other bags too? Rarity counted the bags, only six out of nine of them were present and accounted for. Where the other two were was now on her mind. She didn't leave them there, did she?
The Element of Generosity was unlinked from this thought when the phone rang.
"Hmm, that's odd." She picked up the phone. "Hello! Carousel Bouti—"
"Rarity!"
"What?! Sweetie Belle?!"
"Yes, it's Sweetie Belle!" the little filly on the verge of a voice break on the other end of the phone line? "Where are you?!"
"Why, I'm at home, where are you?"
"At the Canterlot Galleria, you brought me with you! Remember?! I'm still holding three of your bags!"
And Rarity remembered, she brought Sweetie Belle along after realizing that she would need help with the bags.
"Oh dear…" Rarity said. "I'm on my way, darling, just go to security and I'll pick you up there." She hung up the phone and off she went to Canterlot…
Again...
3 down, 3 to go :)
Twilight or Pinkie next? You decide!
(Rainbow Dash is being saved for last) :D
By the way, there are two easter egg references in this chapter, one of them is a creepypasta and the other is from a Square Enix game for the DS. Whoever can find both first, I'll write a MLP fic of your choosing :D Good luck! :)