"Check, check, aaaand...check," Twilight spoke as she checked the very last item off of her immensely long checklist. She looked up to get one last long look at the shelves of Ponyville's library. A soft breeze blew in through the window.
Rustle...rustle...
A Tumbleweed appeared out of nowhere and bounced lightly across the library floor, rustling in wind.
The soft clopping of Twilight's hooves could be heard on the hardwood floor. She checked to make sure everything was gone, under every nook and cranny of the library. After she was sure everything was clear, she proudly stood up.
"Well...That's the last of the books sold!" she announced happily.
Indeed, every single book was gone. The shelves lay completely baron except for a few cobwebs that had developed over in the corners. Twilight happily trotted over to the hardwood table and levitated her new grey device up to her eye level. She powered and unlocked the device with ease and beamed a smile towards the screen, eyes becoming starry.
"This is so much easier to use then those darn Apple devices. It's designed for easier use and the instruction manual makes so much more sense!" The young mare winced from the painful memory of having to read the horrid iPod manual that Vinyl Scratch had wrote and had published. Even with Octavia's help, they were the least descriptive and worst instructions ever.
Twilight narrowed her eyes.
"Hmph! Press down firmly with your hooooof," she drawled in a horrendous Octavia impersonation, hoof on her chest and eyes lazy as if she was the prime example of pompousness.
"Yeah, firmly my flank! Next time, they need to include just how much pressure one of those things can take before cracking like Rarity under the stress of finishing a dress for Princess Celestia," Twilight spoke with annoyance in her voice. They very rarely spoke of that incident anymore. Rarity was so stressed out that a cab driver cut her off on the way back to the boutique.
After that, the Element of Generosity took out ten windows, five doors, four apple trees, three taxis, and one fire hydrant. She actually ran all the way to Sweet Apple Acres, broke the trees in half like they were toothpicks, and came all the way back to break the rest of the Ponyville's public property. Luckily, she didn't get arrested.
Twilight smiled sheepishly.
"Thank goodness I'm friends with her," she spoke.
Twilight once again looked to the front screen of her Kindle. It was completely blank besides the few icons up on the top screen of the device, indicating the display.
"The best feature about this, though..." Twilight said as she gently pressed down on the icon to go to the Kindle's settings. "Is that with this new Kindle, I don't need the actual books! I just download all the books from the Canternet!" she announced proudly while lightly lifting her hoof up off the floor in a petite manner. She looked under network settings with a smile.
"Now what should I download fir-"
Twilight's eyes widened in horror as she read the screen. She recognized the bold, black words as the most terrifying thing she ever read in her life.
CanterKindle
Wireless
Networks:
G4 Network:
UNAVAILABLE
Her magic faltered and she dropped the kindle to the ground with a light thud. Twilight felt tears begin to form on the edge of her eyes.
"N-no books?..." Twilight spoke with utter sorrow. She closed her mouth and her bottom lip quivered as she began to cry, tears streaming down her cheeks and wetting her soft, purple fur.
The library door slowly cracked open.
"Twilight? Are you there?" her number one assistant asked from the door. He was afraid to step inside without a helmet.
"Yes..." Twilight spoke weakly through soft sobs.
Spike's eyebrows shot up, and he quickly opened the door. He found his best friend and the mare he considered a loving sister sitting on the ground, softly crying.
"Twilight, what's wro-" Spike didn't finish as he saw the library shelves completely empty and a new Kindle lying on the floor.
"Twilight, don't tell me..." the purple drake spoke.
Twilight rubbed her drippy nose with a hoof, before crying out,
"I forgot to get Wuh-huh-hiiiireless fiiiirst!" she cried like a new-born foal.
Spike ran towards her and wrapped his arms around her in a hug.
"It's gunna be alright, I promise. We can fix this," the dragon spoke as he cradled his sister. Twilight looked down at Spike and wiped the tears out of her eyes.
"I...*sniff*...can't believe I did something...*sniff*...did something like this without thinking it through. I was just so excited that something finally worked for me, you know?!" she yelled out. Spike put his claw to his face and shook his head.
"I understand Twilight. You just got overly excited," Spike removed his claw from his face and began to pat Twilight's back. Twilight was no longer crying and instead she was tapping her hooves on the ground, trying to figure out what to do about the situation she was in.
"Who in Equestria did you give all these books to Twilight?" Spike asked.
"That's the thing," Twilight began to confess. "I didn't give them away. I sold them. How will I get them back so I can read them? I don't know..." Twilight bit her bottom lip. "I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't read books for days while waiting for a Wireless connection to be installed here."
Spike lifted his eyebrow.
"You...can read them?..." Spike couldn't believe how dense a certain lavender unicorn was being today. "Did you forget what we live in?" the purple drake asked.
Twilight's eyes went as wide as saucers and her jaw dropped.
"A...public...li-library..." she spoke at barely a whisper.
"ExaAAAACTLY!" Spike screamed as Twilight levitated him with her magic and bust through the library door, making it fling backwards against the hinges and swing in the wind as she galloped down through Ponyville, barreling through and knocking innocent ponies like they were bowling pins.
High in the sky, a large house made from clouds seemed to be pushed downward a bit from excess weight. Inside the house, a certain rainbow maned pegasus was in her room with nearly six hundred books all scattered in piles on the floor. She lay in her large, comfy bed with her bottom hooves crossed and grabbing several books off of the pile next to her. She brought the front of the book up to her face and began to read it out loud, slowly.
"Experiments...With Crossbreeding Pegasi...and Unicorn...Magic," she finished.
Rainbow Dash gave a deadpanned look, before tossing the book aside with little regard into another pile to the left of her large cloud bed.
"Pfffft. Laaaaame. Man, I figured Twilight would have had some cool books. Where's the Daring Doo books?!" she yelled before jumping into the large stack of books that lay beside her. After digging for a few seconds, her eyes widened and she developed a smile as she saw what she was looking for. Grabbing the book and flying out of the huge, hardback pile, she floated in the air with the book in her hooves, giving the title a read.
"Daring Doo...and the Kingdom of the...Crystal Skull?" she asked no one in particular. The cyan mare gave an excited smile.
"Sounds...AWESOME!"
::Thirty Minutes Later...::
Twilight ran as fast as she could with Spike on her back until she stopped at her destination.
"Rainbow Dash! I need-" Twilight spoke but didn't finish, as something caught her eye. A green object plummeting down towards the ground.
"Is that..." Twilight spoke curiously.
Spike began to tremble.
"NononononoNONONONONO!"
Smack!
"AAARGGGHH! Not again!" screamed Spike as he sat on the floor, holding his hands to his forehead. After being knocked off her back, Twilight quickly bent down to check Spike.
"Spike?! Answer me! Don't you quit on me now, Spike!" screamed the frantic Twilight, who was smacking her hoof n Spike's cheek while watching his eyes goofily rotate in opposite directions. All of a sudden, Twilight heard a scream coming from the sky that sounded very similar to the voice of the Element of Loyalty.
"A REFRIGERATOR?! ARE YOU BUCKING KIDDING ME?!"