Twilight Sparkle and Doctor Fate were standing in an empty void.
"I didn't except my dream world to be so.....empty," Twilight commented.
"Is it empty?" Doctor Fate asked, smiling.
Twilight was about to reply, when she noticed a signpost.
She walked up to it, written on the signs were things like: Scientropolis, Librarytopia, Mount Timber Spruce, BBBFF Boulevard and Memory Lane.
"Lead the way," Doctor Fate gestured.
"But, how do we know where to start looking?" Twilight asked.
"There's no knowing where we're going...." Doctor Fate replied, "it's all a leap of faith from here."
"Alright," Twilight nodded, heading in the direction of Librarytopia.
Librarytopia.
Twilight and Doctor Fate walked through the streets of books, all around them fictional characters walked from book to book.
"This place is huge," Twilight said, looking around, "searching this place is going to take fore....."
"Hello, there," a voice greeted from behind, cutting Twilight off, "Are you guys new here?"
Twilight turn to see who was talking and she was almost speechless.
It was the main character from her favourite book series Daring Do.
"Oh. My. Gosh," Twilight gasped, "you're Daring Do."
"Pardon the interruption," Doctor Fate said, before Twilight could get anymore excited, "we were wondering if you point us in the direction of someone who is in charge."
"Oh, you'll want librarian Smarty Pants," Daring Do replied, "she'll give all information you need."
"Could you lead us to her?" Twilight asked, "we're kinda new around here."
"Sure," Daring smiled, "follow me."
Twilight and Doctor Fate followed Daring through the city of books.
As they walked Twilight gazed in awe at the scenery all around them.
Some of the books around them were as big as buildings.
In the sky, phrases from books appeared in the sky, before vanishing and being replaced with new ones.
After a while, they reached a giant bookshelf, before arriving at a giant book, resting on its front cover.
"Right," Daring prompted, as she motioned to Twilight and Doctor Fate to stand on the page number.
"Now what?" Twilight asked.
"To the top floor, please," Daring replied and suddenly the three where whisked up the page numbers, as if they were a lift.
A few seconds later, the lift arrived at the final page.
"Where are we?" Twilight inquired.
Daring pointed up.
Both Twilight and Doctor Fate looked up to see the words 'THE END' and next to it a figure sat.
"Here we are," Daring declared.
"Hello, Daring," a voice greeted, as they entered, "good to see you again."
Twilight could not believe what she was seeing, it was her favourite childhood toy, Miss Smarty Pants.
"Ah," Smarty Pants exclaimed, "you've brought some new friends."
"I understand you are in charge here," Doctor Fate said.
"That's right," Smarty Pants replied, taking out a notebook and quill, "It's my job to keep track of very book and every character in the entirety of Librarytopia."
Twilight was still overcome by the fact that, her childhood toy was right in front of her.
"Anyway," Smarty Pants continued, "Librarytopia has every kind of book you could want."
"Wow," Twilight murmured.
"Pardon me, for asking," Doctor Fate interjected, "but have you seen anything that would classed as out of the ordinary around here?"
"Well," Smarty Pants answered, uncertainly, "there have been some cases of books going haywire."
"Haywire?" Doctor Fate repeated,
"It started small at first," Daring explained, "with the books having nonsense written in them, instead of their original story."
"Then," Smarty Pants continued, "it started getting worse and worse, villains and monsters escaping from their stories."
"Do you know the cause?" Doctor Fate asked.
"Nightmares," Smarty Pants answered, "the nightmares are infecting the books, so we had them quarantined."
"We would like to see these infected books," Doctor Fate said.
"I don't belie....." Smarty Pants began.
"I believe I can stop what is infecting them," Twilight added, before Smarty Pants could continue.
"You two are gonna need a guide," Daring Do stated, "just so you don't get lost."
"That would be much appreciated," Doctor Fate smiled.
"Alright then," Smarty Pants sighed, "just be careful, the last character who came into contact with one of those books, disintegrated into black dust."
"We will," Daring nodded.
Librarytopia, quarantined zone.
Daring Do, Twilight and Doctor Fate arrived at the place where the quarantined books were located, inside of a giant Power Ponies comic.
Twilight shivered a little, the place had an evil vibe to it.
"Well this is it," Daring said.
With that, the three entered the comic book.
The book had the look of a classic prison and each comic panel was a prison cell.
In each of the cells were villains like: Dr. Caballeron, Mane-aic along with other evil doers.
"This is were the infected books are taken," Daring uttered, grimly.
The three had stopped outside of a section of the prison called Nightmare Wing.
A pile of black coloured books occupied the comic panel cell.
"Thank you for leading us here," Doctor Fate replied.
"I'll be waiting outside," Daring nodded, "when you're done come find me."
"Right," Twilight acknowledged.
"Before you go in," Daring added, handing Twilight a pair wired looking gloves.
"Protection from the infected books," she said.
Twilight understood.
With that, she and Doctor Fate entered the cell.
As they neared the pile, Twilight could faintly hear Midnight's voice all around them.
"I never imagined that nightmares could cause something like this," Twilight said.
"Nightmares are like a poison," Doctor Fate replied, "infecting good dreams, taking them over and twisting them into something ugly."
Wearing the gloves Daring gave her, Twilight picked up one of the books and opened it.
The sound of Midnight's voice intensified. Through it all, Twilight looked at the books contents.
The words 'TWILIGHT HELP ME!' were written on ever page.
The words seemed to form into hands, which in turn, tried to grab Twilight.
Twilight instinctively slammed the book shut and tossed it back on to the pile.
This caused some of the books on the top of the pile to fall towards her.
Some of them falling open around Twilight, one of them managed to land outside the cell.
From out of the books surrounding emerged monster from various books.
Monsters like The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, The Headless Horsemen, Dracula , The Balrog of Morgath and The Cyclops.
"So this is the form your nightmare have taken in this realm," Doctor Fate commented, as the monsters advanced on him and Twilight.
Suddenly, there was a scream from outside the cell, it was Daring Do the book that had landed outside the cell had managed to open itself and grab hold of her leg.
Daring managed to kick it away, but it was too late, the dark energy from the infected book had already began spreading over her body.
Twilight and Doctor Fate dashed to the cell door, slamming it shut behind them, trapping them inside.
Twilight looked to where Daring Do's scream had come from, only to find a pith helmet surrounded by black dust.
"No," Twilight said, sinking to her knees, "this is all my fault."
"There is still hope," Doctor Fate replied, placing a hand on Twilight's shoulder, "remember you're in a dream."
"What does that mean?!" Twilight demanded, in a trebling voice, "Daring Do is still dead because of me."
Fate remained silent.
Just then, from behind them, the door of the quarantined cells flew off, releasing the nightmare monsters.
Not just them, but the other book villains were also released from their cells.
The room started to become enveloped in darkness, everything being swallowed up by a black void.
The floor around Twilight and Doctor Fate was also swept away, as the nightmare spreading throughout Librarytopia.
Within seconds, the two of them had no floor to stand on and began falling through the nothingness.
Suddenly, the two were standing again, in the spot where they started, next to the signpost.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked, "what is this?"
"The dream simply spat us back to the point where we entered it," Doctor Fate explained, "think of it as your mind's emergency evacuation procedure."
The two looked up at the signpost, where the sign for Librarytopia was, only to discover, it was crossed out.
"I can't believe it," Twilight whispered, "I destroyed an entire world."
"I don't think this was your doing," Doctor Fate replied,
"How could it not be?" Twilight retorted, "this is my dream, my mind!"
"I sense, that something or someone else is pulling the strings, turning your dreams against you," he continued.
"Alright," Twilight nodded, taking a breath and finding courage, "where to now?"
She looked at Doctor Fate, who smiled at her.