"Almost"
"Come on you can do it" Twilight cheered
Sweetie Belle eventually collapsed to the floor in exhaustion after her third time attempting the invisibility spell. For the past hour she had been had been trying make a flower vase vanish, but the spell was a little to hard for the young filly. She has managed to make it translucent her second time, but that was the closest she got.
"This is impossible!" Sweetie belle moaned, gasping from air, exhusted from her efforts
"You are so close." Twilight soothed helping her up, and wrapping a foreleg around the little unicorn. "I know you can do it, but why don't we take a snack break?" She offered with a comforting smile.
Sweetie Bell looked up with a grateful smile. "That sounds really good, thank you. I just want to try one more time." She said determined to get it right
"I really don't think that's a good idea. The more exhausted you are, the harder it is to do the spell. Even if you do manage to do it, then it rarely comes out correct." She explained with slight concern in her voice, knowing exactly what was going through her students mind.
"Ok Twilight." She sighed in defeat
"I'll go get us something to eat. I'll be back in a moment." and with that Twilight left the filly alone and went to the kitchen.
"I know I can do it. So why am I having so much trouble." It was then she noticed she was alone. "It couldn't hurt anypony to just look over the spell" she whispered to herself pulling out the spell book. "Oh I didn't see this part, that might be why it wasn't working."
"Here we are." It was then Twilight saw what Sweetie was reading. "Do I want to know?" She asked a little confused
It was then Spike walked through the door. "Twilight, I'm back. Oh hey Sweetie Belle I didn't know you were comming here today." he greeted the pair of unicorns
"I figured out why the spell wasn't working. I just need to add in this variable." Sweetie said enthusiastically
"What Spell?" Spike asked confused
Twilight looked back at the book. "Sweetie, that isn't......."
"I know what you are going to say." Sweetie interrupted "But I can do this. Just need to.."
"WAIT!" Before Twilight could stop her, a aura engulfed Twilight and spike.
In a instant Sweetie belle was blown into the statue of a horse head sitting in the middle of the library "Owwww." Putting her hoof to her head, she noticed she was bleeding near the top base of her horn. "Note to self, don't try that again. At least my hair can cover it" Feeling dizzy her and her vision swimming she tried to make since of what happened, to no avail.
Sweetie heard the sound of crying before her world went black.
"Sweetie, SWEETIE, SWEETIE BELLE!"
"Uggghhhhh. What happened?" Sweetie groaned trying to get her eyes to focus
"Are you ok?" a voice called out
"Scoots? When did you get here?"
"A few minutes ago. Me and Applebloom were coming to find you when we saw the explosion." Scootaloo explained
"Explosion?" It was then Sweetie bell remembered what happened. "Wait that was supposed to be a disappearing..." she trailed off as she looked around the room, that looked like a sonic rainboom went off in it. "Wait, where's Twilight and Spike? They where in the room when.."
"They are safe. We do have a problem though. Can you stand?"
"I think so. Wait, are they hurt?" Sweetie Belle asked starting to hyperventilate
"No, they aren't hurt. But they are....." Scootaloo tried finding the right words but just couldn't.
"They are what?"
"Sweetie, I think you just need to see for yourself." It was then they went into the kitchen. Sweetie bell stood in shock at what had happened.
"I did that? But how? How do I fix it, what do I..."
"Sweetie, I'm real happy your alright and all, but askin questions ain't ganna help us right now." Applebloom explained trying to control the situation.
"There so little, and cute!" she said a little more in enthusiastically then she should have been.
"How hard did you hit your head?" Scootaloo asked in concern and amusement
"Hard enough." She admitted lifting her hair to reveal the gash.
"SWEETIE! You're bleed....wait how did I not see that?" Scootaloo asked facehoofing herself
"But yeah this is a small problem." The unicorn whispered
"Ya think?" The other two chorused
"Who can we get to help us?" Sweetie asked hoping one of the other crusaders had a idea.
"We can see if Fluttershy can watch over Spike, but nopony can see Twilight." Scootaloo commanded
"I like the idea of Fluttershy watchin over Spike." Applebloom agreed with a hopeful smile.
"Applebloom, can you get him over there without anypony seein him? Me and Sweetie can watch over her."
"No problem. He fits in my saddle bag." She squeed with a smirk
"You can't put him in your saddle bags." Sweetie bell argued
"Why not?" Scootaloo asked confused.
"Because, because, it's wrong?" She offered before sighing "Thank you girls for helping me."
"No problem Sweetie." Applebloom said with a smile.
"Yeah you'd do the same for us" Scootaloo agreed with a smile
Applebloom picked Spike up and set him in one of her saddle bags before buckling it on herself. "Wow he is light." She said giggling "are yall sure you'll be alright?"
"What could go wrong?"
"Scoots?"
"Yeah?"
"That is the worst thing to say in these kinds of situations."
"Just go Applebloom. The sooner we figure out how to reverse this, the better." Scootaloo said pushing Applebloom out the door.
"Alright, alright. I know. I'll be back in a little bit, and when I get back, we'll get ya cleaned up Sweetie." and with that Applebloom ran at full gallop. She knew her crusader friends had no experience with this sort of thing. As a matter of fact, neither did she. This was going to be entertaining.
"Oh my goodness, what happened?" Fluttershy asked in shock seeing Spike.
"Sweetie bell messed up a spell. Can you watch over him, and we can watch over Twilight? Please. We have a plan but we can't watch over both of them. Pretty please" Applebloom begged
"Of course, but I need a few more details." The Pegasus asserted very confused.
"Sweetie bell was having a magic lesson with Twilight, and her spell went wrong. When we got there, we found Spike like this, Twilight in the corner crying, and Sweetie Belle unconscious on the floor next to the horse statue." The farm filly deadpanned
"Is Sweetie Alright? Maybe I should take a look at her. Also can you guess how old Twilight is?" Fluttershy asked in concern
"She's fine, I'm goin to bandage her up when I get back. Celestia knows I have enough experience with that sorta thing. Then if she starts actin funny we will bring her here without delay." Applebloom promised. " also she is younger then me, but not like a foal. Maybe 3 years old. 4 at the most."
"And are you sure you can handle foalsitting?" She was concerned remembering last time they were left in charge of something. "They can be a lot of work, especially unicorns. They have little control over their magic, and Twilight has a lot of magic being a alicorn."
"We can handle it, until Sweetie can find the spell to fix this." Applebloom explained trying to sound confident.
"What is your plan? Is there anything you need from me?" Fluttershy asked already seeing the distruction that was sure to come from this "If you need any help, let one of us know. I'd prefer if Applejack or Pinkie were there to help. They are both good at foalsitting"
"We're still workin out the plans, but we got this. and thank yall for everything. I'll keep that in mind, now I really must get goin , no tellin what is goin on at the library. Last thing, yall have to promise not to tell anypony what happened to Spike and Twilight until we can get this sorted out, or you feel you don't have a choice anymore. Please it's important"
"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." The pegasus recited with the hoof movements. "But I don't like it."
"Thanks!"
Before Fluttershy could say anything else Applebloom was gone. She took Spike who looked like he just hatched from his egg and set down in a small bed to let him sleep. After making sure he was comfy she went over to her desk and pulled out a two pieces of paper.
Applejack
Code 3. Stand by
-Fluttershy
Pinkie Pie,
Code 3. Stand by
-Fluttershy
"Mail!"
Fluttershy jumped a little at the new voice. "Derpy just in time."
"I have a package for you!" She said with a huge smile.
"Thank you so much, this must be the new bird seed I ordered." Fluttershy took the package and set it down by the door before handing her the two letters. "Can you please drop these off. It is really important."
"Of course, I'll take them to them now."
"Thank you." Fluttershy said relieved
It was then they noticed Angel thumping his foot rapidly on the ground holding a box.
"Thank you Angel, I completely forgot." She took the box from Angel and handed it to Derpy. "You asked for these next time I made them." Fluttershy explained
"Muffins!" Derpy exclaimed trying to figure out witch one to eat first.
"I hope you enjoy them, I'll make you more soon."
"Thank you!" Derpy yelled flying away
Fluttershy closed the door with a smile and looked back at the sleeping Spike. "Oh Angel, do you think they can handle foalsitting Twilight?" When the little white bunny shook his head she couldn't help but laugh.
"Waaaa"
"It's ok Spike." she soothed, picking up and rocking the crying dragon, until he was asleep again.
"I know I should go and help them." Angels glare told her all she needed to know. "But come one Angel, I warned Pinkie Pie and Applejack, so they will be on guard. What could possibly go wrong?"