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// Accusations, Quotes, and the Canterlot Archives 
// Story: The 4th Wall 
// by PegasisterFireboom 
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	Twilight Sparkle basked in the warm sun as she lay on a hard bench. The bench was very rough and rugged, but it didn't matter to her. All she came for was the sheer joy of laying in the sun and watching the sun move across the cloudless sky. Suddenly, Twilight's ears perked. A soft scream from across town caught her intrest. At the same time, a very tiny sonic wave brushed atop her coat. Now, she was concerned. Twilight strained her ears to hear what was going on but she got no answers. Twilight shrugged and lay back on the bench and in no time at all, she fell into a nice nap.
Twilight jerked to a start when she heard the panicky galloping of hooves coming her way. She turned just in time to see a silhouette of a mad but scared Rarity. She blazed down the hill to where Twilight sat. She looked quite troubled. Rarity paused to take a very long breath.
"TWILIGHT... YOU... MAGIC... SWEETIE... MISSING... help..." Rarity spoke in jumbled sentences trying to form words about what she just saw. Twilight tried to calm Rarity down. Soon enough, Rarity calmed down enough to tell Twilight her wrong-doing.
"Sweetie Bell used your magic and now she and the other crusaders are GONE! It's all your fault! You know Sweetie can't use magic! Why give her that book? And now she and her friends are GONE." Rarity accused Twilight of making Sweetie Bell go poof. Twilight pondered at this sudden accusation. She giggled slightly at the remark. How funny! At the sight of disgust on Rarity face Twilight stopped. he got off of her comfy bench and stood to face the worried unicorn.
"Ah... Rarity. A wise pony once said 'You can't blame somepony's actions on their teacher.'. I find it quite amusing that you blame me for such a crisis!" Twilight said. Rarity tried to comprehend why Twilight was so calm the incident. Didn't she know that her little sister may be dead?
"What does this have to do with Sweetie and the Crusaders?" Rarity asked, wondering where the unicorn was going with this.
"Nothing!" Twilight laughed. "I just wanted to share with you some of my knowledge that's all!" Rarity's face turned fiery red. Smoke came out of her ears in absolute disgust.
"THE CRUSADERS ARE MISSING AND THEY MAY NEVER RETURN!!!" Rarity screamed at the top of her lungs. "How dare you treat this as such a... a... a REGULAR INCIDENT!"
"Calm down. I know exactly what to do. I'll go to the Canterlot Archives and to the Records wing. There they have all the record of teleportation, levitation, just all magic spells period. I'll be able to find out where they went!" Twilight trotted away from the distressed unicorn. Rarity stared in the direction of the purple pony. Rarity called out after Twilight,
"I'll call the others! Maybe then have some options!" Rarity called. She galloped in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres to tell Applejack.





The Canterlot Archives were silent. Twilight trotted through their long halls trying to find the Records wing. It was next to impossible. Winding hallways and dead ends made it this way. Nearly half and hour later, Twilight found the Records wing. She clapped her hooves in joy. She was soo happy the long search was over. She pushed the door open in sheer excitement. Too bad she didn't know what was waiting for her.
Twilight gasped when she saw a familiar looking alicorn stand in front of her. The princess had a dark blue flowing mane and looked quite concerned. Twilight had no idea why.
"P-Princess Luna! Your highness!" Twilight bowed, scared that the all-powerful being might get angry for her sneaking around. Luna smiled at the nervous mare and chuckled.
"Twilight, calm down. If i would hurt you, I would be quite mean to do so. Considering you helped me to become popular with the younger culture I must be of assistance." Luna talked sweetly. Twilight mentioned her nice voice, but Luna just looked away, thinking that being cute was a sign of weakness. She motioned Twilight to follow her, and Twilight got her first glimpse at the Records wing.
The wing was packed with scrolls, hundreds coming in at the second. Ponies, mostly earth ponies, opened the scrolls and tossed them to another pony, who tossed those into a big vault. There were more then 6000 vaults, all very big and all very packed together on one wall. Twilight blinked as she saw another vault just appear in-between two others. She blinked again and saw another one near it disappear. She guessed that those vaults stood for each pony. As the two mares made their way up the wall, Twilight saw her own vault as they made their way to the S's. Her vault was bulging. She paused Luna and did a short levitation spell on a vase nearby. As she predicted, a pony tossed another scroll into her vault. She didn't get a small glimpse of what it said, but it said something about levitating a vase, thats for sure. 
Finally, after a long time of walking (apparently lots of ponies were named "Tiffany". It explains the sudden burst of jewelry cutie marks) they made it to Sweetie Belle's vault. Luna levitated a key and pushed it into the lock. The vault creaked open and Twilight peeked in. She stifled a laugh at how little scrolls there were. Only about 20 scrolls were in the very large vault. Most of the scrolls were dated yesterday. Twilight scanned them and found the one she was looking for. She read the scroll and gasped. She couldn't believe it! Twilight galloped out of the room, scared for the fillies. The scroll floated down calmly. This is what it said:

Time of Casting: Yesterday
Type of Spell: Teleportation Spell
Destination: The Edge of Equestria