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// 7 and the Alvinailey Fortress 
// Story: The Royal Librarian 
// by Dimensional Librarian 
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	After the momentary exchange that happened in a far corner of the Library, Booksalot managed to have Discord go home, Mia was given some spare books for her library, while Gypsy took Toxic and Flaming out to a cafe in Canterlot so she could catch up with them. Fria flew around the shelves of the Library before spotting the ruby red arua of Booksalot's magic. She smiled and flew down landing next to him while simultaneously changing to her natural form of Zilla the Changeling. "You know you could have been nicer to them."

Booksalot glanced at her out of the corner of his eye but said nothing as he kept working. The two then fell into an awkward silence before Books breaks it first "I'm sorry Zilla I guess I've just gotten a little stressed due to everything that has come to light." Zilla opens her mouth to respond *THUD*. The sound of a large book hitting the floor somewhere nearby in the Library drew the attention of both of them. Booksalot quickly trotted over to the end of the shelf and looked into the small open area that was meant for reading and they saw a large book that seemed like it had newspaper clippings sticking out of its many pages. "What is it?" Zilla asked walking up next to Books.

"It looks like a clippings book." Booksalot then grabs the book with his magic and opens it seeing all sorts of strange news articles with and about creatures strange to his knowledge. He finally stopped at one that had an image of a grand fortress with the title reading "Alvinailey Fortress Finished in time for the Dragon War!!!" Booksalot and Zilla look at each other curiously before going to continue reading the article.

"The Alvinailey Fortress has been completed by our master Alicorn Carpenters, Stonesmiths, and Enchanters. But this amazing feet of science and magic wouldn't be possible with out the help from "The Shimmering Ones" . They are the true masterminds behind the creation of this Fortress which is to stand tall and firm against the incoming Dragon Hordes. The Fortress has been measured to be easily eight miles wide and even a mile and a half high at it's longest and highest points respectively. It is full of catacombs and many halls and rooms to hold a in-numerable number of ponies. With this Fortress finally built we have to hope that its enough to stop the Dragon Hordes once and for all. So with help from "The Pony of Flame", we should be able to easily fend off all and any attacks."

"This is from hundreds of years ago!" Booksalot exclaims in realization as he looks into Zilla's eyes "From before Celestia and Luna's parents being born!!" Booksalot then starts quickly trotting toward the staircase to head up to his apartment with the clippings book in tow. "This has to be one of the greatest mysteries in Equestrian history ever and its not silly Daring Do figuring it out and ruin the perfectly good artifacts. Now about these "Shimmering Ones" and "Pony of Flame", I'm going to have to do some research it'll probably be somewhere in The Library and not the one of the Two Sisters."

Zilla giggled as she changed into Fria Quill and followed Booksalot up the stairs. "Calm down Sweetie, it's just an old newspaper," Fria found Booksalot already at his desk with the clipping book open to the article they had read and with hundreds of papers and notes already on his desk and flying around him in his magic. As she walks over the front doors to The Library of the Two Sisters opened revealing a tan unicorn wearing an trench coat and a large cocky smile. The unicorn started trotting forward towards Booksalot.

Right as Fria opened her mouth to say something Booksalot beat her to it saying "What do you want Mr. Dimtec? I'm kind of busy trying to figure out about this ancient fortress."

Joe Dimtec then chuckled "Why look through old notes and papers that I put in that Library of yours when you can go and figure it out." Everything in Booksalot's magical ruby red aura stop as he raised an eyebrow and looked at Joe quizzically. "That's right Booksalot that fortress isn't in this dimension its in another one. Also you have the Dimensional Library its basically what you normally do here at the Library of the Two Sisters but on the scale of all dimensions and realms."

"Fria, watch the libraries for me will you Honey?" Booksalot says with a smile growing on his muzzle as he neatly put everything away and cut off his magic to follow Joe through a portal that had appeared leading into the Dimtec HQ.





Joe lead Booksalot around the HQ working on leading him to the right Mission Control room so that he could get more information. As the trotted along Booksalot noted that there seemed to be a lot more Equines than the last time he was here. Books shrugged as they stopped in front of a door "Here you go Booksalot," Joe said "Just head right in there and you'll find what you need."

Booksalot opened the door to find the main Mission Control room was a mess. It looked like something out of a space exploration movie where something goes wrong and everypony trying to solve the simple problem of a missing rifle. In the mist of all the chaos of running, flying, and teleporting ponies as well as the flying papers and flash-drives being thrown, Booksalot slowly trotted along. With a sigh he looks around and says "For a group that's suppose to know everything you guys can be so stupid at times." A random pegasus that looks like Derpy stops and chuckles "Hey sometimes we like to get paid for doing diddly squat," before continuing to panic with the rest of the ponies. Booksalot gave another sigh and calmly left the chaotic room and headed for the Dimensional Door that would allow him to go and look for Alvinailey Fortress and apparently a rifle that Dimtec lost. in the right dimension.