//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: It Wasn't Me! // by Gahoobery_Jigglymuff //------------------------------// As the Sun shone down on another almost unrealistically hot Sunday afternoon, Kuiper Glitch was digging the dirt in his back garden to make its relief even in order for a shed to be built there. That's right, a shed. Kui wasn't a big fan of work anyway, but working on the weekend was even worse. He kept dreamily staring at his bedroom window, longing to be back in his room lounging around and probably playing a videogame of some description. But, as usual, this wasn't the time for that. Kui shook his head a few times to clear the thought, put his headphones on and kept reluctantly digging and spreading the dirt around his garden. If only my Dad could do this himself, he thought. His Dad was a generally better labourer than he was, largely due to Kui spending most of his days on his computer instead of outside doing work. He kept thinking about how much easier this would be for his Dad to do, until- *CLINK* He instantly flinched, before scanning the area he was digging to see if anything was there. Nothing appeared to be, so Kuiper Glitch ignored it and tried to dig again. And again. And again. And a surprisingly high amount of times after that before he dropped his shovel, took his headphones off and actually got on his knees to see what this object supposedly was. After not much moving of the dirt, he came across a strange looking crystal. It appeared a bright red colour, and glistened heavily in the Sun's light. Kui thought it looked pretty cool, being shaped like a lightning bolt and all, so he put it in his back pocket and simply continued working in the back garden. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It's gone!" Rainbow Dash cried out as she woke up. She breathed heavily a few times, before sitting herself up properly. She'd had a strange dream, where her element of harmony had gone missing. After a little while of shock, she brushed the thought off and got out of bed. Getting ready for the day wasn't too difficult. It generally involved a teeth-brushing or mane-brushing, but that was about it in the morning. Once she was done, Rainbow Dash decided to head upstairs and relax for a bit. As she reached her room, she suddenly remembered a certain dream she had last night, and so she briskly trotted over to her bedside drawer. Opening it, she relaxed, seeing the golden necklace safely stored away. Picking it up, she breathed a sigh of relief...until she turned it over. Her eyes widened and she nearly dropped the necklace, but quickly kept a hold of it and dashed out of her house, flying straight towards the home of a certain egghead she knows. *Knock Knock* "Twilight! Come on, open up!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she kept knocking on the oak door. With each knock she became more impatient, until the door slowly opened to reveal Princess Twilight Sparkle, clearly having just woken up. "Oh, good morning-" Twilight yawned heavily "-Rainbow Dash. What can I do you for?" "I've got a super serious emergency, Twi! My element of harmony is gone!" "What are you talking about? It's right there," she said, pointing to the necklace. Rainbow Dash sighed and rolled her eyes, before pointing out the missing crystal and bluntly saying, "Look closer." Twilight stared in worry at the necklace, before shouting back into the library, "Spike! Get down here! And bring all three of my 'How To Find Lost Items' handbooks, please!" After Dash was invited inside, the three sat down to discuss possible theories of what to do. Each handbook was surprisingly large, containing a wide range of items and, as you would expect, how to find them. Twilight opened each book to the contents and scanned them thoroughly, before quickly picking up the third volume with her magic and skipping forwards to a specific section. As Spike watched the whole scene, he casually remarked, "Why are there so many ways to find things, Twilight? I mean, surely you could just retrace your steps, or something as clichéd as that, right?" Twilight ignored him. "Uh, Twilight?" Still ignoring him, Twilight was intently scanning each page in section 5.6a of the handbook, 'Magical Gizmos'. She continued doing so in silence, growing more worried with each page turn. Spike walked closely to Twilight and asked, "Hello? Twilight? Are you-" "I've got it!" she yelled out a little too enthusiastically. Rainbow Dash stood up and exclaimed happily. Twilight briefly explained the apparent solution, before setting off out the door. Rainbow Dash quickly followed, understanding nothing from what Twilight said apart from the mention of Canterlot. She quickly followed Twilight to the train station, still unsure of Twilight's whole solution. By the time they arrived, it was around midday. The streets of Canterlot were quite busy, but it wasn't that difficult for a Princess to get where she wanted to be. Rainbow Dash and Twilight, closely followed by Spike, reached Canterlot Castle and cantered inside. Twilight led Rainbow Dash through an almost never-ending maze of corridors and stairwells, until they reached a small room at the very end of one corridor. Dash recognised this corridor, but she didn't want to. As Twilight opened the door, Rainbow's presumptions were correct, as in the corner of the room stood an all-too-familiar mirror. Twilight said nothing, but grabbed Rainbow Dash's element necklace and seemed to perform a spell on it, causing the necklace to point in the direction of the mirror. She sighed. "Looks like you've got a world-hopping challenge ahead of you," Twilight said, almost nervously. "Wait, is the portal even open at this time?" Dash replied. "Actually, yes! But, not for very long. From my guess, I'd say you have about 3 days to find it before it'll close again." "Wait, me? As in, just me?" "Why yes! Considering it is your element, it could be risky sending somepony else in to go and find it." "That...is...awesome! Finally, A solo Rainbow Dash adventure, where I can show just how awesome I can be by myself!" "Calm down, Rainbow. It's a quick task. Get in, find the element, and get out before 3 days are finished. Can you do that?" Rainbow looked at Twilight as if her awesomeness was being questioned. "Fine, fine, go! Good luck with finding your element! Oh, and one more thing: If that world has stayed the same since my last visit, I'd advise you to stay away from Canterlot High School. You don't need to know why, just don't go there, okay?" Rainbow Dash nodded, before smirking and quickly flying into the mirror, eagerly and, admittedly quite cockily starting her own adventure.