Note: Okay, so I've spent quite a bit of time on the OC guys, so now it's time for the spotlight to fall on some other ponies: Rarity, Discord, and Pinkie Pie! I can feel the excitement radiating off you guys! Am I right? Eh, anyways, I had a question: do I really spell that bad? Last time I checked, things seemed fairly okay... Well, I suppose I will have to keep double-checking stuff!

Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Don Keyxote, the capitol of Bray

Time: A couple of days after the Summit meeting, 11 hours before after the arrival of the Brothers in Arms corps

Rarity was practically drooling as she stared out the window as the Ponyville train passed through the "historical" area of Bray's Capitol: Don Keyxote.

"Oh my, come and look at this, Discord! Isn't that classical era archway just DIVINE?" exclaimed Rarity as she continued to stare out the window.

Discord, who was filing his nails with Pinikie Pie's pet, Gummy, glanced up. "Oh, I'm sure it is simply amazing Rarity," he said sarcastically, "However, I am content where I am at the moment."

Pinkie Pie too looked out the window. "Wow!" she exclaimed, "Look at all those colors! Are they having a party?"

"No, Pinkie Pie," said Rarity, "this is their regular adornment! This place is fabulous!"

Soon, however, the train passed through the area and continued onto the center of the capitol, where it pulled up at a large, grand train station. Rarity, adorned in an elegant, large, flowing dress and stylish sunglasses (despite the fact that the day was rather overcast), stepped out of the passenger car and looked around with a wondering eye. "Look out, Bray, here comes Rarity," she exclaimed dramatically.

Discord flashed into existence next to her, dressed in a suit and tie, complete with a spotless bowler hat. "Oh yes, I am sure it will have all eyes on you, my dear," he said with a crooked smile.

Pinkie simply hopped out of the train and looked around, "Ooooohh… Big. Heya Rarity! Where's our rooms?"

Rarity waved a hoof in a randomly picked direction, "Oh, they're at the Grand Hotel de la Mule over there, adjacent to the station. Come dears! Let us go sightseeing."

For once, Discord spoke a little reason, "Should we not get settled in first, hmmm, Rarity? You will need to be properly dressed, and excellently manicured if you want to be, er, 'presentable' to the Bray capitol senate."

Rarity looked a little flustered as her thoughts were torn between sightseeing and getting ready. Finally she sighed, "You are right, Discord. Let us go to our rooms."

She called over a hotel attendant, and they loaded the luggage onto the trolley. They went over to the hotel as a group, where Rarity checked them in at the front desk.

"Here for a senate speaking, eh, young lady?" said the donkey at the front counter, looking over her monocle.

Rarity gave her a winning smile. "Oh, I most certainly am, thank you."

Rarity, Discord, Pinkie Pie, and the hotel attendant then went to the elevator, and rose to the top floor, where they quickly moved into their two rooms at the end of one of the halls. Rarity tipped the attendant generously, and they all settled in. Discord in one room, and Pinkie Pie and Rarity in the other.

Discord was quite pleased with the arrangements. "Oh my, Rarity," he said with a mischevious smile, "you have Pinkie Pie all to yourself. Won't that be fun?"

Rarity rolled her eyes. "I came prepared Discord. Ear mufflers and the like."

Discord continued to grin. "Since when did earplugs stop the Pinkie?"

Rarity turned around elegantly. "I have no idea what you are talking about, Discord. I am off to get ready. My first senate hearing is tomorrow! Ta-ta!

Discord conjured up a clock and checked it. "You need a whole twenty-four hours to get make-up on?" he said as he looked closely at the clock, despite the fact that all the numbers on its face had been replaced with letters, and the hands were running backwards.

"No, I am talking about getting ready for my beauty sleep! All illustrious mares need them!"

It was Discord's turn to roll his eyes. "Well, I must say you take excellent care of yourself, Rarity. Make sure you don't give yourself too much of a thorough scrubbing though, I hear overuse of soap cases organic molecules to drift apart. You would dissolve into nothing."

Rarity ignored the jab and went into her room and slammed it shut and locked it. Then Discord noticed that Pinkie Pie was standing next to him. "Woopsie-daisy!" said Pinkie, "I forgot to ask Rarity for a room key! This means I can't get in, aw, too bad. Hey Discordy! Could I borrow YOUR room to set up my welcome-to-Bray party for us?"

Discord's mouth dropped open. For the first time in a while, he was speechless.

The very next day, Rarity stepped out of her room to order breakfast. She took a deep breath of the air and sighed, feeling quite refreshed. She took a step forward and almost tripped over Discord. He was in a small tent set up outside of their adjacent hotel rooms.

"Discord!" she said indignantly, "Whatever are you doing here?"

Discord yawned, stretched, and snapped his fingers. The tent and sleeping bag he had flashed out of existence. He looked at Rarity as he said, "Well, after you so rudely closed the door in my face, I found Pinkie Pie had been locked out. She was quite insistent on having a room for a party, so I let her… um… borrow mine. Unfortunately, her party was a little too feministic for my taste, so I opted to sleep out here."

Rairty blushed. "Ooooh, sorry about that, I forgot about her key. Is she in there now?"

Discord nodded. "I do believe so. However, I would appreciate it if you would take your apology a step further by ordering us all breakfast… hmmmm?"

Rarity sighed. "Very well. I will be back in just a moment. Ta-ta!"

Discord had a fixed grin on his face as he waved to her. However, the moment she entered the elevator, he dropped the paw and really grinned.

"I wonder if there is any good shampoo in here," he muttered as he sidled into Rarity's room.

Several minutes later, Rarity had returned with the receipt to the order she had made. "They really just need to get direct telephones here," she muttered, "perhaps a little too 'classical era' this time."

She opened the door to her room and stopped in her tracks. Discord was admiring himself in a mirror.

"Discord!" she exclaimed in a high-pitched voice, "what are you doing with my things?"

"Oh, just seeing what all this jabber was about with these cosmetics," said Discord still staring at himself in the looking-glass, "I say, I do look dashing don't I? I wonder if this could woo Rainbow Dash…"

Rarity stomped a hoof. "Out of my room, Discord, NOW."

Discord winked at her. "In a moment. I need to finish my nails! Where is Gummy?"

Rarity trotted over, picked up Gummy where he sat in a corner, and tossed him to Discord.

"You have Gummy, now please vacate the premises! Breakfast is coming and I don't want to look shabby for it!"

"Shabby? Whatever do you mean, dear Rarity? Hotel-room breakfasts are for those who are shabby-looking! For those who don't want to get out of bed!"

"Stop looking for excuses Discord! I need my curling iron, WHICH YOU ARE USING AS A FOOT WARMER."

"Oh, this thing? My, my, I was wondering what it did. Quite cozy if you ask me. Tell you what, I'll leave if you give me the key to your room so that I can give it to Pinkie Pie. Then I can have my own, spacious room again, and you can go back to getting all cozy with that wonderful pink party pony."

Rarity bit her lip as she thought over the decision. As much as she didn't want to admit it, she didn't want Pinkie in her room. Finally she sighed, "Very well, Discord. Here is what I am willing to do: if Pinkie gets your room, I will let you share my room and my cosmetics. But if you break or dishevel anything…"

Discord winked at her. "Perish the very thought my dear! So, when in this breakfast coming? You have a speech for the whole of Equestria coming up in less than five hours!"

The moment the statement left Discord's mouth, a rap sounded at the door, and a breakfast trolley came in.

"Breakfast for three," said the attendant. Once again Rarity tipped the mule generously, and he left them without a word. Discord floated lazily to his former room and rapped on the door.

"Who's there?" said Pinkie Pie.

"It's Discord, our breakfast is here. You might want to halt your momentary attempts to inadvertently burn this place to the ground and join us."

"Okie Dokie Lokie!"

With that, the three gathered together and ate breakfast.

"Well, I have to say, this is excellent food," said Discord as he popped a strawberry tart into his mouth. "Quite exquisite, the taste… is divine."

Rarity nodded. "Oh yes," she said, "they certainly know their culinary arts."

"No cupcakes though," said Pinkie, though she didn't sound bothered in the least as she ate a biscuit.

Pinkie eventually went to get ready in her room, and Discord threw himself upon on of the two beds in Rarity's room. He conjured up a television, and began to watch a show called "The Daily Chaos Watch" as Rarity took to the bathroom to prepare herself. That process took literally three hours… literally.

Pinkie Pie and Discord were sitting together on the bed eating popcorn watching a ponyfied version of "The Emperor's New Groove " when Rarity stepped into the room.

"Gaze upon me!" she said dramatically, "am I not a sight?"

Discord glanced up. "I could have done that in three minutes," he said casually as he went back to watching the movie.

Rarity rolled her eyes. "Well, luckily you're not the target market," she muttered. "I'm am going now to the front hotel room. A convoy should be coming shortly to pick me up to take me to the senate chamber, if my itinerary is not mistaken. Discord, I understand that you are absolutely 'wowed' for some remote reason by this movie, but I would appreciate it if you took a little time out of your day to watch my back. You're here for a reason… REMEMBER?"

Discord, with his eyes glued to the screen nodded his head, "Oh yes, I most certainly remember. Fret not, Rarity."

Rarity sighed and trotted out of the room. As she left, she said, "Oh, and Pinkie Pie? Be a dear and not destroy anything by accident."

With that, she left the room, took to the elevator, and entered the grand front hall of the Grand Hotel de la Mule. She was met by a donkey that was dressed in black, and had sunglasses on.

"ID," he said. Rarity flourished her Sun and Moon Sister approved VIP badge. The mule looked it over and nodded to his companion.

"This is the VIP, take her to the senate."

The two led her to an elegant limousine, and Rarity was off to the grand building of the capitol in no time. The procession was huge, and Rarity stepped out of the vehicle with a flourish. Elegantly she trotted up the steps to meet prime senator Pontius Donkius. She smiled winningly at him, and he bowed. "Miss Rarity," he said, "you grace us with your presence. The senate is waiting for you."

The two then, accompanied by a troop of special security guards, trotted into the grand senate chamber. In a few minutes the discussions of war began.

"I do hope you are all aware of what is going on outside your borders, correct?" started Rarity immediately.

Pontius cocked his head to one side. "What do you mean?"

"I mean our relations with the Equus-Irrum alliance," explained Rarity.

Pontius nodded. "Oh, we are aware of your situation somewhat. News has come in and out of our land."

"Wonderful. I hope I am not too bold in asking what your stance is on this situation?" said Rarity.

Another donkey, the secondary prime senator, Martique Muleen, then said, "We are somewhat objective as a collective as of now, Miss Rarity."

Pontius nodded, "We are somewhat objective about this whole thing."

Rarity nodded. "I understand that. However, what Princess Celestia is most worried about right now is your reaction if the alliance was to ask you to allow them to send military hardware and soldier through your borders to assault Equestria's northern mountains."

Pontius stroked his chin with a hoof. "That is an intriguing question, Miss Rarity," he said calmly, "the alliance has in no way presented hostilities to ourselves directly."

Rarity's mind sped up a couple of revolutions as she realized what they were saying. She sighed and said, "But do you now realize that you would be extremely vulnerable to attack if you let weapons pass through your realm?"

"I agree," said Martique, "we would be open to attack. And they would already have troops well within our borders."

Pontius shook his head. "Nevertheless, the alliance does not seem interested in Bray. Equestria is their prize, and I fear that any creature opposing them will simply be stepped on."

Martique snorted. "Forgive me, prime senator, but you make our illustrious nation sound like it is something to trifle over. That is not the case."

Pontius blinked. "Perhaps not, but what do you suggest we do?"

Martique looked at his front hoofs for a long moment. After a while, he looked up at the quietly awaiting senate. "We will do nothing, as of yet, I suggest. We should simply wait until the alliance themselves confront us with a question."

Pontius rapped his high desk with a hoof. "I agree. Senate dismissed. Martique, I wish to see you in my office now. Miss Rarity, I appreciate your time."

The senate began to file out. Rarity was completely at a loss for words. Had she really failed so miserably to sway the Bray senate? Eyes downcast, she began to slowly leave the room. She then took a quick detour to make a trip to the ladies' lavatory. However, as she was moving down one of the silent, grand hallways, a hoof grabbed her roughly. She tried to scream, but another hoof clamped over her mouth. Her unseen attacker dragged her away to a small room and threw her in. A little dazed, Rarity got up and wobbled. Before her were Pontius and Martique.

"What is the meaning of this?!" she exclaimed.

"I deeply apologize for the way we got you here," said Pontius, "but we needed to discuss something with you in total privacy."

"That is still no excuse for handling a lady like this," retorted Rarity, "I am from Equestria! Why I'll-"

"We want to help you against the alliance," interrupted Martique. Immediately Rarity stopped ranting and looked at him curiously.

"Eh?" she said, a little unlady-like.

"We knew we needed to act fast against the alliance," said Pontius, "but Bray is mired in its own bureaucratic mud. We knew we couldn't get an immediate, and total, government approval for what we were planning, so we decided the operation would be only known by me, Martique, and you."

Rarity blinked, still a little at a loss. "Oh… okay… Well… What now?"

"This is the plan," explained Martique, "we will allow the alliance to send trains of weapons across our border via our train tracks, and make it seem like we are on their side. However, what they don't know is that we will have mined our own tracks with high-yield explosives. When they are well within our territory, we will destroy the tracks and derail their equipment. They will lose billions of bits worth of equipment, and they will be unable to continue across our territory."

Rarity worked to force her excitement down. "That is an excellent plan, senators. A wonderful plan."

Pontius nodded his head. "I thank you, Miss Rarity. However, there is one thing we ask of you."

Rarity cocked her head to one side. "What is it?"

"Well," said Martique, "we will need you to send a pony from Equestria to set off the device. We will get photo evidence of it, to prove that you had sent a strike team into our land without our detection. We will also claim that we were in a non-agression pact with you, and are in no way offended by your attack. This way we will both have stopped any further attacks from the alliance, and Bray will continue to stay neutral."

Rarity gave them a dazzling smile. "It is wonderful. So, when will this take place?"

Martique smiled back. "As soon as we get word military hardware is being sent across our borders via a train."

Rarity nodded. "I will get word to Princess Celestia via a private courier of the plan, it will work flawlessly. We should have the message to Canterlot within the hour."

Pontius returned the nod. "Let us hope so."

Dimension: My Little Pony

Planet: Equestria Earth

Specific Location: Canterlot Castle

Time: Two days after the Summit meeting

Princess Celestia turned away from watching her personal courier disappear over the horizon. She then looked at her sister Luna. "Our rejection letter has been sent," she said, "we are now at war."

Luna sighed. "This situation is grievous indeed," she replied, "how are our preparations faring?"

Celestia looked off towards the Freezelock pass in the Frozen north as she said, "Flaming Star and Twilight Sparkle are soon to be at the Freezelock pass, setting up tack emplacements. Soon that place will be secure. We've began to also mobilize our foreign-placed troops to congregate on our border of Bray."

Luna nodded. "Very well. When will we hear from Twilight Sparkle's friend, Rarity?"

Celestia turned back to look at her sister as she said, "I do not know. Hopefully soon though, we do not have much time."

Note: So, recently an awesome reader of mine hit me with a hailstorm of delightful little things I like to call reviews. His feedback was very thoughtful, and they gave me insight into a couple choice chapters. Thanks to that, I will be rewriting a few of my older chapters so they are more intriguing and better structured. I will give you guys more info as I finish my work on them. Thanks!