Flutter Across Worlds

A typical, peaceful night in Ponyville. Our story begins with the Pegasus of Kindness herself and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Fluttershy has her hooves full today, as she has again taken on the responsibility of foal-sitting the Crusaders. "Come on...come on..." Sweetie Belle chants as she attempts to use magic. Her horn sparks a bit, but it quickly dies out. "Uuuugh!" she groans as she collapses to the floor in frustration.

Apple Bloom pats her on the back, but it hardly helps. "Ah don't worry Sweetie Belle. You'll get it right!"

Meanwhile, Scootaloo is staring out the window out of boredom. "Why can't we just go crusading again?"

Apple Bloom looks up at her like she just said something stupid...wait, she did. "Y'all wanna be chased by a mutant chicken again?" That shut her up.

"Girls, I'm home..!" Comes the soft voice of Fluttershy as she enters the door. When she spots the Crusaders, they are all sitting there with the most bored looks on their faces. "O-Oh...Sorry if I'm bothering you...I..um..I went to the library and borrowed this magic book. I thought maybe it could..um..help you with your magic?"

Sweetie Belle's face lights up at this and she quickly bounces around Fluttershy. "Thank you thank you thank you thank you!"

Fluttershy giggles at her excitement and gives her the book. "Twilight says its for beginners, so you should be able to do at least one of them."

Sweetie Belle thanks her again and gets to reading with her friends on either side of her. Fluttershy smiles and trots into another room. "Oh! How about that one!" Scootaloo says and points a hoof to a spell in the book. A simple teleportation spell.

"That sounds easy!" Sweetie says as she looks over at an apple sitting on a table. She then points her horn at it, closes her eyes, and concentrates as hard as she can. Her horn begins to spark once more as the magic starts building and building up inside Sweetie.

Not noticing what Sweetie is doing, Fluttershy enters the room again and trots in front of her. "Girls, would you like anything to...eat..?" She ends her sentence with widened eyes while the Crusaders all look up to see Fluttershy, and this causes Sweetie to lose concentration and fire off early. Without warning, the spell grows to twice its power.

"Fluttershy watch out!!!" the three fillies yell at her, but its too late.

"Oh my...!" BOOM. The entire room fills with smoke and the sound can be heard throughout Ponyville. Nearly everything gets knocked or flipped over, the Crusaders included. By the time the smoke cleared the only thing left untouched is, surprisingly, the apple. Sweetie Belle sits there staring at the apple in shock. "...I think I missed..."

Ponyville Library

Twilight was sitting by her desk in the library's upper floor as usual, reading through a book and occasionally taking down notes. Also as usual, Spike the Dragon was lazily curled up in his bed and snoring up a storm. Though that still didn't seem to phase the bookworm somehow. Seems she's already lost in her studies. That is until she hears a loud and repetitive banging on the front door. She ignores it at first, but when the sounds persists she looks to Spike...but sighs when she remembers that he's sleeping. "Guess I'll have to get it..."

She puts down the quill she was using and makes her way down the stairs. She yawns a bit, then opens the door to reveal the three fillies. "Girls?? What are you two doing out at this time of night? I thought Fluttershy was taking care of you.."

Sweetie Belle cringes while Scootaloo rolls her eyes at her. "Fluttershy disappeared." she says.

When Twilight just stares at them, Apple Bloom clarifies. "Sweetie Belle was practicin' her magic and tried usin' a teleport spell on an apple but Fluttershy stood in front of 'er. The spell got really really really big 'n powerful 'n stuff and it hit Fluttershy and she disappeared!" She breaths out after saying it all on one breath.

Twilight looks between the three of them before stopping on Sweetie Belle. "Now..hold on a second. There is no need to panic. Fluttershy couldn't have been gotten very far if it was just a simple teleportation spell. Though...I am wondering why it might have grown like that...Come on. Let's go look for her." Sweetie nods sadly and they all go out to search for Fluttershy.

Fluttershy's Place

"Fluuuutershyyyyy!" Apple Bloom calls out to her while peeking inside the chicken coop.

Scootaloo face-hoofs at this. "Apple Bloom. She would have came out already if she was in there." she says as checks a squirrel's home in a tree. The squirrel gets annoyed at her and throws an acorn at her. "Ow!"

Twilight comes back from behind Fluttershy's house and shakes her head. "I couldn't find her back there either..." A little white bunny, clearly Angel, comes out from the Everfree Forest. When they spot him he shakes his head and shrugs, signalling that he couldn't find her either.

Sweetie Belle starts panicking again. "What if I really screwed up!? What if she got sent to someplace bad?? What if she's scared and in danger?! What if she-"

Apple Bloom covers her mouth with a hoof. "Sweetie Belle this is Fluttershy we're talkin' about! If she was in danger she'd be able to handle herself."

Sweetie Belle nods and sniffles. "O-Okay..." she says sadly.

Twilight looks up at the sky. "...Come on girls. Its getting late. You can stay at the library, and we'll keep looking tomorrow when everypony else is awake." The three fillies nod and follow her back to the library.