Author Note-To start-off this story, let's see where it's closing-up...
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Chapter 1- At the Gala-actic something-or-the-other
Spike couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was like the Discord incident all over again, except this time, it wasn't the cause of magic. Spike didn't even know the reason for his friends' behaviors! Fluttershy was running around and screaming her lungs out at every animal she saw, and Pinkie was whispering to random objects. Rarity was curled-up in the corner of the ally to his right, rocking back and forth and muttering something incoherently as her eyes twitched, and Rainbow was repeatedly slamming his head into a wall and saying, "Stupid, stupid, failure, stupid..." over and over. Apple Jack was probably still at her farm kicking a dead apple tree for it's non-existent apples...and worst of all, Twilight was nowhere to be found.
In fact, now that Spike thought of it, Twilight's random disappearance a week ago seems to have been the cause of it all. As though someone had planned this...
"But who would want to hurt all of them?...everyone loves these girls!" Spike then remembered the three people who might have something of a grudge against all of them, "I gotta go get the Princess's help on this!" Spike shouted, turning and running inside Twilight's library to send a message to Celestia, "Don't go anywhere, Girls!" he shouted back.
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Okay, okay...now that you see where this is going...we can truly start this story! So Spike, you see, found out about a book that he actually wanted to read and decided to order it to be delivered to Twilight's Library as soon as possible. Upon arriving, he almost tackled the deliverypony for it, then ripped the package open as soon as he closed the door.
Twilight walked into the main room, quietly singing "At the Gala" in remembrance of how much fun that night was, when Spike's shout of joy cut her off right as she was finishing.
"ACTIC EM...uh, emp...something...or the other..." Spike stared at the book title closely, "Whatever, if this book is as awesome as that one person said it was, who cares if I can't read the name of it!"
Twilight rubbed her ears, attempting to get over the headache Spike's scream just gave her, "Uh, Spike, since when did you want to actually read something?" she asked curiously.
"Since yesterday! Some pon...er, I don't really know. Some shady figure in an ally threw this magazine at me and told me about this amazing sounding book full of action and adventure and epic awesome stuff!" Spike explained bouncing up and down giddily, "So I just had to get it and see!"
"You're really going to take advice from some random person you don't even know?" Twilight asked, giving Spike a skeptical stare.
"Well...it's just a book, not like it'll kill me or something."
Twilight shook her head, "You'd be surprised how...ah, damaging books can be..." Twilight shivered, recalling a short book she once found in her Library that she immediately ripped apart, burned, and sent to the bottom of a lake, "How did that even get in there...I really hope Pinkie or Dash never saw it..." she muttered quietly.
"What?" Spike asked, not paying attention as he was too busy opening his book...upside down.
Twilight rolled her eyes and went for the door, "Nevermind, just...enjoy your book."
"Uh-huh..." Spike answered stupidly, entranced by the nonsensical upside down words he was "reading."
Twilight closed the door behind her, "He such an impressionable kid...huh, who's th-"
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Meanwhile, down at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie had just finished a batch of cupcakes she made for Rarity to give to Rainbow Dash for...whatever reason she needed her for.
"Rainbow icing and blue bread!" she laughed, "It looks just like her! Hehe." Pinkie set them down to cool, "Boy, it was sure quite annoying to get the bread blue, but keep it so delicious!" she huffed, turning to turn the oven off, "But it was very much worth...it..." upon turning back to her cupcakes, she found that they were gone! Not even the crumbs were left on the plate!
"Did I accidentally put that invisibility potion into the mix again!?" she wondered aloud, sniffing and biting around and on the plate to see if they were still there, "Nope...guess I'll have to start again..." she muttered sadly, going back to the oven, "...WHOOPIEEE! I get to make them all over again!"
Pinkie quickly went back to work, restarting her baking, "All you have to do is take a cup of flower..."
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"Oh...well...this...this is an interesting order..." Rarity looked over her recent, very odd, order for a dress design. Not only was the request a bit...out there, but it was from a griffon all the way out in Griffstown, "I-I've never made a dress for a griffon before..." she muttered apprehensively, "This isn't going to be easy, especially since I don't have any experience in this type of dress, and it's such an odd request!...they didn't even give me any written design!" she pressed the paper close to her face and put her glasses on, scrutinizing it closely, "It looks like they TRIED to draw what it looks like, but all I see is chicken-scratch!"
Rarity sighed and lowered the request, "Well, looks like I'll be quite busy for some time...better see what I can decipher from this...this...monstrosity."
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"Alright, little ones, please do try not to run like that again...it's really not nice to run from friends and family like that...plus, it's really a sad thing to me..." Fluttershy, gently hovering beside the treebranch which housed a family of young squirrels which she had recently saved from a multitude of dangers after they had randomly ran from her in supposed fear, quietly asked said family to not do it again, "I mean, if that's alright with you and all...I would really appreciate it..."
The squirrels nodded their thanks and okays, then went back to their den, leaving an exhausted and beaten Fluttershy.
"Whew..." she instantly stopped flapping her wings and fell onto her stomach, hooves splayed out as she sighed in exhaustion, "That was really hard to do...for such small critters, they can really give me a lot of hassle..." she smiled softly and closed her eyes, "But it's worth it, for them..." She was actually beginning to even drift into sleep when something bounced onto her muzzle, "Huh? Wa...? Oh, Angel! What is it...?"
The small white rabbit frantically pointed to something behind Fluttershy, and after weakly turning her head to see what was happening, Fluttershy sighed again.
"Oh..." with her head hanging low, she flapped her wings once more and slowly rose from the ground. Her head, tail, and legs all hung limp as she floated over to a group of birds that were frantically zipping around and chirping madly, "For...the animals..."
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"Haha! Ahead of schedule!" Apple Jack grinned with pride at her extensive pile of apples. She had spent most of the day collecting them off of her ripe trees throughout her family farm. She had been so into her work, that she was done way before normal, "This is great! Now 'ah can go hang wit Twi and the others!" she cheered, dancing around a bit, "Now lemme just put 'em all in storage and www-what the hay!" The enormous pile of apples suddenly began to tremble, and, much to AJ's fear, started to topple, "Oh no...oh no no no no no!" she wrapped her arms around it as best she could and held tight, hoping to save it, "NO NO NOOOO!" but, it was to no avail and she soon found herself half buried in apples...while the other half rolled away, down the hill, and gone, "Aaaahh, hay-bales!" she shouted, poking her out of the pile and sending practically the rest of the apples out to follow the first half, "Ugh...guess 'ah'll be workin' overtime, t'night..." she grumbled, staring out over her farm in disdain.
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"Oh horse yeah! This is the LIFE!" Rainbow Dash: Mistress of the skies, and arrogant pony. She could fly circles around practically anyone, even her ego...well, it would take quite a few years, but she would get around it eventually.
"Flip! Twist, roll! Uh...dive! Swoop!" Dash narrated her acrobatic performance with great pleasure. She always enjoyed showing off, even if no one was watching. The best part about Rainbow dash might actually be the fact that, whether someone else is watching or not, she'll always be the same: A showboater...
"Oh yea-whoa! Ah...! Ooooohhh HOOOORSE FEAAATH-UMPH!"
Dash, who and been zipping around with the greatest of ease, was suddenly thrown off balance by a gust of wind, supposedly, and careened into a tree. After regaining herself, she scrambled out of the branches and floated above the tree, grimacing.
"'Crash' wasn't a part of my show..." she muttered, shaking herself, "Geez, that'll hurt tomorrow..." she rolled her neck before puffing out her chest, "Alright, take two!" she prepped herself to zip off again, but just as she started to move, something knocked her off again and she ended up plowing back into the tree and full speed...again.
"FLAMING...FLYING...HORSEFEATHERS!"
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Meanwhile...while all the ponies were dealing with their troublesome problems...one of the two Goddesses of Equestria was staring blankly at the same piece of paper she'd been staring at for the past few weeks...maybe even months? She didn't know, she hadn't been paying attention to how time moved since coming to a recent realization.
"I mean, how can I not notice?" she muttered grudgingly, "Those centuries on the moon really dulled my sense of time..."
Luna, the ex-evil overlord of the night, Nightmare Moon, huffed and crumpled the paper using her magic...for the thousandth time, "And then I...uncrumple it and look it over again..." she angrily muttered, doing just that.
"First I get sent to the moon for a mind-numbingly amount of time, all for wanting everyone to enjoy the night life more!..." this time, the paper was ripped in half as she scowled at it, her horn, and eyes, starting to glow a dark, dark blue.
"Then, the instant I get back, I try it again, so what do I get as a punishment this time? I get to become the ASSISTANT to my sister's pupil!"
Luna closed her eyes and scowled, a dark cloak flying off the shelf of her old room and wrapping itself around her, the hood up, "Fine, I'll go see her little pupil, miss Sparkle...the one that put me in this position...and I'll make sure she regrets being the cause of my punishment!"
Luna then started the trek to Ponyville. She was offered a ride, but didn't want to spend the time with her sister's servants...that was the last thing she wanted to do.
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End notes/-\Oooohhh...looks like little miss Lunacy is a bit sore about everything, eh? Wonder what she has in mind?...wonder what, or IF, she has anything to do with the weird problems occurring in Ponyville? And WHY THE HECK is Spike reading a book!? Madness I say! Welp, hope you stick around to see what's going on here!
~Z