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// Chapter 2, Happy Birthday! 
// Story: Spike and Scootaloo's Small Adventure 
// by TheLoveless 
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Twilight/Rainbow side

“No Spike, don’t do it!” Twilight started to run towards him with a Equestrian Dictionary, getting ready to slap the book in his claws to the floor.  “That book goes in the ‘G’ section, subsection 1.351, after Good Night Moon,” Twilight took a deep breath, exhausted from wanting the perfect library.
Spike slid the book into the shelf, right after the book, Good Night Moon, “Is that better Twilight?”  He looked at the sea of paper on the floor and sighed.  “You need to stop wanting the perfect library.  You’ll work yourself to death before that comes!”
Twilight sighed, and rubbed her eyes, “I know Spike, but it just has to be perfect,” She lifted up the dictionary and pushed it into its respective place, on top of the shelf.  “Okay Spike you ready for bed, its almost ten after mid-night?”  She had trotted off to the stairwell when Spike gave his final answer.
“Twili, I know its probably strange, but could you read me a story?  Its been a while, and I like it when you read.”  Before she even answered him, he was already on the shelves.  Spike knew the answer, a nod for yes and the book of his choice.  He looked for his book, a beaten up book he got from the Crystal Empire not to long ago.  Although not made of crystal, still worth it.
“Be careful Spike.  I don’t want you getting hur-,” just as he was addressing him, the bookshelf started to tip over, and Spike, six or seven shelves high, right in the middle.  As any pony would want to do, she tried to stop the shelf with her body, but remember who she was, and used her magic to stall the shelf.  Spike fell the unnecessary distance of 12 apple(4 apples make an U.S. foot), hitting his head on a stack of books.  From the top of the book filled shelf, fell the Equestrian Dictionary.  None-the-less, it had fallen onto Spike.





Twilight woke up from her unsettling nightmare, banging her head on a piece of her treehouse.  “Thank Celestia it was only a dream.”  Twilight looked over to Spikes bed, no little dragon was there.  “Spike?  where are you?” Twilight called, but no answer.  she left to see if he had made breakfast, or even left for his chores already.
Downstairs in the main library was a horribly gruesome mess of red and purple flowers scattered along the floor spelling “Happy Birthday”, and a letter on the table.  addressed to none other than Twili herself.  She skipped over the letter and went straight for the kitchen.
Spike was also missing, no sign of cooking or anything, and an ink bottle had been missing from the counter.  Something was off, when had she ever made Spike work on her birthday?  Never, she never would make him do anything on a day like this.  “Spike?  If you’re plotting something with Pinkie and the others its not funny!”
An quiet voice came in from outside, “Spike’s not with us.”  The tree house and its surroundings went quiet, “You didn’t hear me… I’m just a bush.”
Twilight just left the kitchen and entered the secondary part of the library, the reference area.  Books hanging off shelves and tilted at inhuman angles; the grossum site would make any organized pony lose their mind, but not one with a missing friend.  “Okay Spike, you can come out now.  Your really starting to worry me.”  Once more no reply.  ‘Where has he gone?  Is he alright?‘ Questions started to flood her mind as she noticed the book from her nightmare.  she eyed the book for a minute or so before moving it to the table for safety reasons.
Minutes later she sat in front of the shelf where Spike might have, no could have died, and started to look at it, hating its towering posture.  “I hate you!”  she threw a small book at it, and regretting what she had done, stroked the book she threw, trying to comfort it.
Moments later a bright rainbow came smashing through her window, collided with the wall, and knocked almost every book of the shelves.  Two shelves had been completely cleared, books on the floor and scorched, a whole shelf worth of books reduced to ashes.  Twilight had a mental breakdown on the spot, “My, my ,my books… gone,” she dragged her hoof through the ashes of what could have been a Daring Doo book, or a encyclopedia.  Needing to get a grip of herself, she turned to help the mare who just unveiled the horrible site.  “Can I help you?”
Rainbow Dash, covered in books and  ashes, crawled her way out of the one billion word long hole, “Yes!  Thank you, Twilight!!!”  Rainbow Dash was sweating, she never sweated from exhaustion.  stress?  anxiety?  “Have you seen Scootaloo?  I woke up next to a lake wet!  All my stuff ruined!!!”  Twilight shook her head,  Rainbow Dash was disturbingly angerful, “First my cloud mansion's floor is destroyed, then all my stuff gets wet, and worst a pony is missing.”  Rainbow Dash got ready to leave, but a lavender pony held her back.
Twilight began, “Thats sad to hear, but have you seen Spike?  I’m worried.”  Twilight let go of Rainbow’s tail, hoping she would stay and help.
Rainbow Dash seemed worried, “No, I went over all of Ponyville.  I didn't see him, and if I did i’d ask him to help.”  She gracefully landed on the table, looking out the window to the clouds outside.  “What happened to him?  did he go somewhere?”  Twilight shook her head once more.  “OH MY GOD!  two children are missing!!!  This is horrible!”   Rainbow Dash started to panic, looking everywhere for Spike inside the library.
“He’s not here Rainbow Dash, I already looked.  He’s gone,”  Twilight started to cry before Rainbow got the chance to slap some sense in to her.  Once to the right, then the left. “Why would you do that,”  before Twilight could finish, her face was already held in between two cyan hoofs.
“NO!  They aren’t gone, or dead or anything!!!  I will bring them back here in one piece!  Alive!”  Twilight began to fight Rainbow Dashes grip, only to get held tighter with every struggle.  “Twilight sparkle, will you help me get Spike and Scootaloo back her?”  She dropped Twilight to the floor, and prepared herself for a long flight, “Whether you're in or not, I'm going to get them, even if it cost me my life!”  she dashed towards the window, getting stopped by a magical force field.  “What gives?!  let me out!!!”
Twilight walked over to Rainbow Dash and hit her with a book, “Friendship for Dummies”,  “As if i’d let you save my friends without me.”  Twilight let the magic shield fall, and picked up her saddle bag.  “So, where to Rainbow?”