Chapter 3: Had My Eyes Open
In a dry dry desert, a white unicorn stood there in the middle of the bland sandy land. She closed her eyes thinking about Spike, Cinnamon Spice, the night she had with Black Ink, she was a huge fan of the solider 'Captain Equestria', she still had all the comics, including remakes, and rereleases. She had dozens of her movies, some in mint condition, she was about to give up hope, until her ears picked up sounds of helicopters, it was like a distant light, if you ran to it, it might speed away from you, and you lose your energy from running and slow down. She heard them louder, until she saw them behind her, she was overjoyed, it was her team.
"HEY, HEY, HEY!", Rarity waved her hoof around in the warm air, they landed near her, " I hope there are Hay Fries on that plane, or at least water," Rarity said out loud, slowly walking toward the helicopters. Sugar Cookie ran up to her, "RARITY," he gave her a big hug. She returned it sobbing. "It's ok, It's ok, I got you, come on lets go," they walked toward the aircraft, and got on board. They carried her towards a hospital bed on the aircraft. They gave her ice cold water, and some hay fries.
"How did you guys know, this is what I wanted/ Your amazing," Rarity said drinking as much water as she could in one gulp. She still felt sad for the fate of 'Big Brain'.
At Equestria Convention Center…
A whole crowd of ponies, were waiting for her to return to lovely Equestria, among the people, waiting there were Cinnamon Spice and Spike. Spike had red eyes from before. The aircraft landed safely on the ground, out came 'Sugar Cookie' who had a hoof over an exhausted Rarity.
"Look who it is, Rarity", Cinnamon greeted and hugged her. She kept going to see a happy dragon looking at her.
"Red eyes, a few tears from your lost boss?"
"Tears of joy, I don't have to go job hunting."
"Yeah well vacation's over, I'll see you later Spike, Im tired," she went into the convention center. She wanted to talk about the incident in Saddle Arabia, since plenty of ponies would question her about her so called trip, also how she literally almost built a missle for the terrorists. Even the loss of an alley.
"Mr. Spike, Agent Shining Armor, Im with S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Shield, you mean Strategic Homeland…"
"It's still a work in process, we need to go over the effects of Ms. Rarity's escape."
"Tell you what, next week I'll schedule you for an appointment at Rarity Industries, how does next Friday sound," asked the dragon.
"Friday is good, Thank you Spike," Shining Armor stood beside him, as they were in the crowd of ponies, rarity wanted to make a speech about the incident in Saddle Arabia. Black Ink was there sitting in the front with all the other reporters.
"I heard you did it with Rarity before she left, you must feel lucky."
"I..guess, but dude, she almost died, that's sorta off-topic."
Rarity just laid down doing a pose on the ground while eating some hay fries.
"Sorry guys, Im gonna rest here, Im also hungry, do you mind just sitting down, don't feel like standing up", the ponies crouched down over the tired Rarity. Black Ink felt guilty for being there, thinking his appearance might affect her. She gave him a small smile, when he replied with," Ms. Rarity, what happened back there?", Rarity started to stand up which the crowd standed as well.
"I learned that other ponies wanted my missle, and go to great lengths, to get it in their hooves, dangerous waters, however I making them shallow, don't take this the wrong way but I saw innocent Equestrian ponies die, from the very weapons I designed. That is why, starting right now—"
"Damn, she's gonna do it", Cinnamon mumbled to himself.
"-Im shutting down 'Rarity Industries'"
Almost all the ponies gasped at the news.
"If you don't like it, I apologize, but I feel like it's the best thing, for this country, now if you excuse me-", she said as she walked off the stage.
"I need to think about some things.", she walked across the room, out the door.
"Everypony, remain calm," Cinnamon got on stage, trying to protect their company's image, "What we should be happy about is that, Rarity's back, and she's better than ever-"