Chaos in Equestria Book One: It was almost a good idea...

  Flim and Flam were happy as can be. They were only minutes away from Canterlot, and nopony could stop them now. Flim leaned over and took in a deep breath of fresh, city air. Twilight was almost literally dying of exhaustion. She couldn't feel her body at all, but she had to continue or the plane would fall. Trixie hadn't offered any help; she just sat down and occasionally laughed at Twilight's misfortune.

  Flam tapped Flim and said, "Say brother, you think we can check into a nice sweet while we stay?"

  Flim laughed, "I don't see why not, brother."

  *THUD*

  Something bumped the bottom of the plane. Twilight almost broke her concentration. Flim looked over the side of the machine, nothing was there. "I don't see anything br..." he turned to Flam and choked on his words.

  Flam rolled his eyes, "What? Why are you... looking..." A shadow formed above him. "at..."  He turned around. "me..." Gilda was hunkering over him with her right claw held high in the air. "G-Gilda!?"

  She laughed, "You guessed it." She swung her claw. Flam instinctively ducked. The claw passed over his head and collided with the left wing. Wood splintered and fabric ripped; the wing was completely destroyed. The plane began to fly out of control. It flew over Canterlot, then strait down.

  Applejack and Rarity were waiting in line for the Canterlot Events Office. A pony near the back of the line pointed to the earth-bound plane and shouted, “Look! That wooden bird is going to attack!”

  Everypony looked at the nose-diving plane and panicked and screamed. They scattered like bugs.  Applejack and Rarity took cover inside the events office.

   Gilda realized the consequences what she did. She jumped off the plane and flew away with haste. In her heart she felt shame, but she had to leave, she couldn’t bear to watch her disaster unfold. Flim and Flam concentrated their magic to slowing down the plane. Angel’s cage fell into the floorboard. Twilight couldn’t see anything, but she knew they were going straight down. She pulled all of her remaining power and helped Flim and Flam. The plain was slowing down, but it would still kill them if they didn’t slow down more.

  Flim shouted, “Trixie! We need you!” Trixie sat dumbfounded. “TRIXIE!” he repeated.

  Trixie snapped out of her trance and magically pulled at the plane to slow it down. The plane descended slower, and slower. Within a few moments, the world’s slowest plane crash unfolded. The machine hit the ground and rolled on its left side. The machine splintered and slowly imploded. Nothing was left of the original shape of the plane. Over a hundred ponies, including Applejack and Rarity crowded around the scene. They all looked in silence. Trixie, Flim and Flam wobbled out of the wreck in a daze.

  Murmurs were heard from all around the crowd, “Are they okay?” “Is that Flim and Flam?” “I think it is!” “Who’s the other pony?”

  A wooden panel from the wreck budged. After a short pause, it lifted up and slid down the wreckage and out came Twilight with Angel resting on her back.

  Flim and Flam both began to cry at the loss of their beautiful creation. Before any of the crowd could start to question what had happened, the clouds parted; and down came Princess Celestia on her chariot. The chariot landed in front of the wreck and she stepped out. She looked stressed, almost scared.  Simultaneously, every pony in sight bowed to her.

  "Celestia, I can explain!" Twilight pleaded.

  "No time!" She shouted, "Spike sent me a letter. That's not what's important! Don't you see? Never in Equestria have any ponies acted so selfishly, or spread so much panic, or lied to so many ponies at once! Do you know what you've done? You've unleashed Discord! ...Again!"

  "WHAT!?" Twilight exclaimed.

  Rainbow Dash zoomed in from the clouds. "I'm... here..." She panted, "I... I made it... I missed something really important, didn't I?"

To be continued in the next book of this series: Tabula Rasa