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// Prologue 
// Story: Absolutely Dash-ing 
// by Mlws 
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	Twilight was out for the night at Rarity’s to have fun and relieve the stress of her studying at six o’ clock, in order to give her lots of time to goof off and watch scary movies at her first sleepover at somepony else’s house. Twilight put Spike and Owlowiscious in charge of the house for the night, as Twilight could study the power of “Sleepovers” and lay back and relax a little while with her friend. Spike took this opportunity as a chance to impress Twilight, whom he had secretly had a crush on for years. His passionate, burning love for her fueled his will to assist her. He thought up all of the things he could do for her to make her know she’s special to him, and to welcome her home from her first sleepover out. He had never really been away from her for long amounts of time, so he needed something to keep him busy, and of flatter her as well. He chose to pick flowers and put them in a nice vase, make her a card, and buy her something nice. But first, he decided he would clean the house from head to toe, and make everything utterly spotless. 
After hours of scrubbing, mopping, wiping, dusting, and overall cleaning, he walked over to Twilight’s desk and rested his arm on it. He wiped the sweat from his face and sighed, exhausted. He only now realized what time it was as he looked at the clock. The big arrow pointed to the big six, and the small arrow pointed to the five. He yawned loudly, and started to tip over until finally… he hit the ground. 
Later, he awoke groggy. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, trying to make everything look clear again. He stared straight ahead at something awfully scary. The clock said it was 9:30 a.m.! Twilight would be home at noon and he still had to get the flowers and card! He decided he would run out and buy it as quick as possible. “But who will watch the house while I’m gone?” He thought to himself aloud. “Oh! Owlowiscious is home! He can watch the library for me! And if I lock up, that’ll be no big dea-“ he cut himself off with sadness. His owl friend was sitting upon his post, asleep. Spike had no hope. But he decided he’d go out anyway. If he locked up, he doubted anything would even happen. He walked away from the house and slammed the door shut, and locked it. He heard a smash, but completely disregarded it, which was the most stupid thing he could have ever done.
Inside Twilight’s home, a bottle had crashed. And it wasn’t the bottle that was important. It was its contents that mattered. Inside the bottle, a fuming potion made by Zecora stayed safe. But when the bottle was smashed, the fumes spread, spread to the books. This potion made inanimate characters come alive. Twilight planned to use this for her research, bringing certain smart ponies out of books to talk to her, and quickly shoving them back into the book afterwards using the reversal potion. The potion that had spilled was not supposed to be opened until much later, when the reversal potion had been created. But the reversal potion’s recipe was still unmade. There were many rules for this potion, and one of them was; you must return the character back into the story before they fall in love, otherwise, their placement is permanent. The gasses from the potion hit a bookshelf, particularly, a certain set of books. The Daring Do series. And as soon as you could say “The Quest for the Sapphire Stone”, Daring Do laid hoof in Ponyville, and ran off from Twilight’s house, looking for adventure. 

(Author's Note: For those of you who may be thinking "Well, this is a bit short!", It's a prologue. It's not supposed to be SUPER long. And other chapters will be much longer, for those who know my other story, The Past Life Of Pinkamena Diane Pie (which you can read here, if you wish; http://www.fimfiction.net/story/8150/The-Past-Life-of-Pinkamena-Diane-Pie) which had many short chapters at the beginning. I'm working on chapters this very minute, but I don't see updates being very, uhh... how shall I say.. quick., and I do apologize for that.)