"We're going where?!" Spitfire asked.
"The Canterlot library." Twilight responded.
"So, with Soarin', having corrupted Rainbow Dash, you want to go to a library?"
Twilight huffed. "Spitfire, let me explain this to you: Soarin' isn't just a filly-fooling stallion in need of a special somepony, he's evil! Two years ago, I helped to banish Discord, and turn him to stone. However, his spirit has escaped, and has possessed Soarin'! We need to find out how to expel Discord, and the best way to find things out is to do research!"
Spitfire rolled her eyes. "I'll leave that to you. I need lunch!"
"Keep in touch!" Twilight called after her.
Twilight read books like crazy. She took out every book with "magic" in the index. Twilight spent hours looking for anything that would help her defeat Discord again. Twilight stopped reading for a second to think.
When she and her friends had defeated Discord last year, they used the Elements of Harmony, which are locked in a vault that only Celestia knows the password to. Twilight would have used the Elements as her first choice, but Celestia was away on royal business in the Crystal Empire.
Twilight sighed, and picked up the next book in her pile. The title read: The Six Supplemental Elements of Life. Twilight was suddenly interested. "Six supplemental elements? I thought there were only six to begin with." She began to read, and was amazed.
""The six supplemental elements of life are a mixed bag of powers similar to those held by the elements of harmony. The six elements are as follows: Knowledge, Music, Loudness, Cunning, Elegance, and Strength. The elements were last seen in the index of a book.' What? The index of a book?" Curious, Twilight flipped to the back of the book, to the index. When she reached the page with the entry for "the six supplemental elements of life," the page shimmered, and a jar appeared, filled with six different colored pills. Each was marked with a symbol that depicted its element in use. "Yes! Now all I have to do is find six ponies that represent the six elements!" Twilight put the book back, grabbed the pills, and took off to find Spitfire.
Twilight found her sitting at a café table, drinking coffee. For some reason, her dark blue Wonderbolts uniform and her sunglasses made her seem dark and mysterious, but when she got up from the table and flapped her wings, once, then again, Twilight realized how graceful she could be at the same time.
Spitfire yawned, and said, "so, what'd you find?"
Twilight explained everything to her, about the elements, and the supplemental elements, and how six ponies were needed to activate them.
"Well, I can think of a lot of ponies that represent those elements."
"Yeah me too," Twilight responded. "We should make a list...and maybe...start..." Twilight's sentences began to break up as the realization hit her. "Elegance. Hmmm..." Twilight muttered.
"'Scuse me, but what in Equestria are you muttering about?" Spitfire asked.
Twilight suddenly said, "yes, I'm sure of it! You, Spitfire, should be the element of elegance."
Spitfire was speechless.
"You know Soarin' well, and you're an amazing flier," Twilight continued, "and I'll need all the help I can get! You know him better than anypony!"
Spitfire just put her head down on the table, and stayed there for awhile. Twilight sat down too, and Spitfire picked her head up, and said, in a shaky voice, "I guess I have to, right?"
Twilight was stunned by how torn Spitfire was. "You have to remember, Soarin's not our enemy, it's Discord."
Spitfire sniffed, and then slammed her hoof on the table, and said, "I'm in!"
Twilight smiled happily, but Spitfire raised a hoof, "but don't expect too much out of me, I've only had one cup of coffee this morning," Spitfire finished. They both began to laugh, and decided to spend the rest of the morning drinking coffee and talking about life back in Ponyville.