Hey everyone! As you may have noticed from the new progress bar on my user page, I am now 100% finished with Chapter 3 of Glitched! It's a monster, though—over 23k words!—so it'll take me a week or two to finish editing it before I post.

Fortuitously enough, however, I should also finish editing Chapter 2 tonight or tomorrow, following which I'll resubmit it to Equestria Daily for a second go-round. With any luck, the two should finish at the same time, and you all should get a shiny new chapter at the same time as (or a little bit after) you see Glitched on the front page! Huzzah!

In the meantime, enjoy this little teaser from Ch. 3 that I've taken out for your viewing pleasure!

-GV

"Hey, Twilight, what's this?"

Twilight craned her neck across the aisle and squinted at the book held in Pinkie's hoof. "Looks like a cookbook, Pinkie."

"Okie-dokie!"

She rolled her eyes and went back to inspecting the shelf that she'd been looking at. With little else to do in preparation for the wedding, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash had been prime candidates to help her in searching the library. They didn't really know what they were searching for, but she'd given them enough information to let them know what it was when they found it. Assuming Princess Celestia remembered it correctly.

She paused and frowned. What was a cookbook doing in an ancient library, anyway? Her forehead creased as her eyes roved across the shelves on autopilot, but she shrugged. Probably just Pinkie's penchant for finding food.

"Hey, Twi." Dash waved a hoof from across the room, hovering by one of the upper shelves. "Come check this out!"

Twilight brightened and she slid down off of her ladder and onto the floor with a padded thump. She quickly trotted over to where Rainbow had been searching and looked eagerly up toward the books. "What'd you find?"

"You're not gonna believe this," Dash said, beaming. "But take a look at what I found!"

Twilight found herself leaning forward, her grin stretching from ear to ear. Yes...yes...!

"Ta-da!"

She blinked. Like a stream of dripping molasses, her smile slowly melted off of her face. "That's a book," she said slowly, eyeing the object in Dash's hooves. "We're here to look for a scroll."

"Yeah, yeah." Dash waved a hoof and snorted, tossing her multicolor mane out of her eyes with a flick of her hoof. "Anyways, check it out!" Her eyes opened wide and she smiled gleefully, flipping through the pages of the book rapidly. "It's a book all about different flying techniques and stuff! I've got no idea how old it is, but I think I even caught mention of the Sonic Rainboom on one of the pages. How cool is that?" She hugged the book to her chest and closed her eyes happily.

Twilight stared. "...Really?"

"Yup!"

"...And you called me over for this."

Dash considered that for a moment before bobbing her head up and down in a nod. "Yup!"

"...Just keep looking for that scroll." Twilight groaned and turned back to her shelf, just about ready to collapse on the Archives' floor. "I know we've been looking for five hours already, but please just keep looking. We can't stop now."

Dash's smile faded, and she scowled slightly. "Well, fine!" With a grunt and a swish of her tail, she turned up her nose and hovered up to an even higher shelf, making sure not to make eye contact.

Twilight sighed and got back to work.