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// chapter 1 
// Story: Autocrossz 
// by Oali24 
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“What is it Twilight?” Rainbow dash moaned at her after her sleep was interrupted.

“I’ll tell you when we find the rest of the gang” said Twilight, and so they went finding everyone they could, it had turned out that Pinkie Pie had left Ponyville on personal business, but they found the rest of the mane 6 quite easily. Once they were all rounded up, she took them to the castle. The castle was quite quiet with all the students gone and in the early morning, not much would be happening at that time of day. As they reached the castle she explained “Starlight found a book in a hidden part of the library, and get this: it’s from the equuthisthyian period!” The mane 6 looked in shock at her.

“Are ya sure?” Applejack asked almost skeptically.

“definitely! The date goes back to over 3000 moons ago” she answered.

“Well then, wow, I’m speechless at this discovery” Applejack said. The rest of the Mane 6 was also speechless.

“now let’s get to it, then” Twilight said, they then went into the castle and Twilight called spike to get the book, which he did as he flew in with the book in his claws.

“Here you go Twilight” spike said “I’ll now take my lunch break if you don’t mind.”

“Sure, go ahead” the dragon’s master said. Spike then promptly left the room.

“anyway girls, I have been looking at the book and it shows that it was stored long before the tree of harmony was grown, this was part of ancient pony ruins, although not our kind of pony, this was before the Windigos froze the ancient pony homeland, this was a different race of ponies that would eventually assimilate into pony culture, but this was the time when Draqonequui ruled over most of Equus, they were the first beings to learn to write, so these are likely their ruins” Twilight was explaining, she then turned to Fluttershy “To find out more, I need you Fluttershy”

“You want me to get Discord, Twilight?” she asked, Twilight then nodded back at her. Fluttershy proceeded to get Discord’s attention. 

After a minute Discord then appeared out of nowhere, and asked “what is it do you want from me? Fluttershy?” he asked.

“We found a book that’s from the equuthisthyian period, could you help us read it?” Fluttershy requested from Discord.

“wow, you actually found something that old? Well then of course I could help” He said, he then went to the book and began reading it, after a half hour he called the mane 6 back and told them “It’s a book of spells, they all involve interdimensional travel, to activate them you’d need to put them on an object with a strong magical aura, like a unicorn’s horn, a Pegasus’s wings, an earth pony’s hooves, or any object that uses magic to work” he told them. “Farewell for now, I’ll see you later this week Fluttershy,” he then disappeared, going back to his dimension. 

“Well then, let’s make sure we don’t do anything that could activate the spells we need to make sure that we first study them” Twilight proclaimed.

“You’re right darling, we all remember what happened when we brought back Starswirl from limbo” Rarity said in agreement, the rest of the mane 6 also agreed.

Starlight then came and asked everyone what had happened with the book, Twilight explained to her what had happened and she then also agreed with her that they had to study the spells first; These spells could be quite dangerous if they weren’t studied at all, they all had the pony of shadows incident in their head as they looked at the spells, although the text was too old to easily be able to read, there were diagrams, as they looked through other books for translation, they had neglected to move the book away from the map table, they had forgotten that the table had a lot of magic, and the book was on a nearby shelf.

As they looked through, Spike flew in and not seeing the book, bumped into the book, and as the mane 6 and Starlight took notice, they all screamed “no!!!! Spike, look out!” but it was too late for spike to take heed of their warning, and the book fell on the table.

It took a few seconds for much to happen, and right as they had a sigh of relief. The magical aura in the room spiked and the room became quite hot, and when they turned to look at the book; the book became charged with a rainbow of different colours, Starlight had enough sense to grab the book, they would probably need where they were going; then, things went quiet, the mane 6 that were there, Spike and Starlight, looked at each other unsure of what was going to happen; and then, the room exploded in a frenzy of light as they were sucked into a different dimension, Spike and Starlight grabbed on to each other, and so did rarity with Applejack and Rainbow Dash with Fluttershy. They all hung on, unsure of what was to come.

John was a car guy, he loved cars from a young age, all his shirts had something car related on it, his favourite car was his old Volvo 240 turbo, he loved that car, it was a sedan, everyone wanted the wagons and neglected to remember the sedan, he preferred the sedan over the wagon, he thought that the sedan looked nicer. It was a later model from 1989, and he loved it, he liked the ride, noise and relaxed nature it made him feel, on a warm April morning he was getting ready to change some of the old transmission fluid; he kept his cars very well maintained; as he went to the car, he noticed that something had opened the door, and as he went to the car, he noticed that there were hoof steps? They were on the cloth seats and had dirtied parts of the interior, understandably annoyed he called “Who did this prank one me?” into the distance, he then noticed something moving on the other side of the car, whatever it was, it had gone underneath the car, he looked down, not knowing what to expect as his annoyance turned to curiosity and as he looked underneath he saw, a purple pastel equine, as they made eye contact, they simultaneously started screaming, “what the hell?!” he screamed, as the Pastel equine continued screaming.