Author's Note

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This is my first fanfic and I'm writing this purely for fun and in hopes others will like it too. As you may already know, it's a crossover with NEO Scavenger from Blue Bottle Games. It's not entirely necessary to have played the game first because you will get filled in about the facts later on. I highly recommend playing the game because it's pretty darn fun. There will be spoilers! So please beware. Other than that please enjoy.

Prologue

Celestia

Here I was, in the Veil and awaiting for Twilight to complete Starswirl's unfinished spell. I was confident in Twilight's abilities to rework his forgotten spell and correct his mistake. Twilight, being the studious and diligent mare as she is, will finish her last assignment as my student and ascend to become my equal. Starswirl the Bearded, once a great ally and personal friend, would've reached such a position, but without friendship, it was inevitable that he would never become an Alicorn. Despite the warnings that me and my sister carefully laid out for him, the idea of friendship never sat well for him and continued to confound him to his end.

Twilight has traveled much the same path as Starswirl the Bearded. Both once being my student and even defeating the threats that challenged Equestria. Despite Starswirl's beneficial studies and contributions to magic, Twilight Sparkle mastered the one thing that Starswirl did not. Friendship. It's one of the most powerful forms of magic. Able to convince the cruelest of evil doers to accept harmony into their hearts and escape the binding chains of hatred and malice. Once Twilight completes this spell, she will truly be the most powerful Unicorn in Equestria. Maybe in all of Equis. And I couldn't be prouder.

Of course, there would need to be plans for a crowning ceremony sometime in the future to honor the new Princess. As well as grooming her for her new tittle by giving out helpful hints here and there along the way. It should be nothing Twilight hasn't seen already. Before she left to Ponyville, Twilight would catch me filling out paperwork concerning the country and at times offer her own input on the subject when I asked for it. Other times I would talk to her about meetings with diplomats and officials of foreign countries. This gave her better insight of the world and how politics work. Without a doubt, she will adapt to her position and in a few decades, take a student upon herself to teach and groom for greatness.

I am thinking too far into the future. The present is what matters most after all. At any moment, Twilight shall soon finish the spell and become the next Princess to grace Equestria. Then she will appear in The Veil and her title of Godhood will be donned onto her. At any minute, at any second.

But something was wrong. Minutes have passed the expected time of her arrival to The Veil and beyond. Twilight should have been done with Starswirl's spell and the Elements should have sent her here. Yet she was not here. I try to convince myself to have more faith in my student's abilities. She hasn't let me down once in the past, she won't let me down now. But my worry grew until I was adamant that something went horribly wrong during the spell. I quickly ripped myself from The Veil and teleported above Ponyville. It was a cool night in Equestria with the townsfolk of Ponyville sleeping under Luna's moon and the stars. The atmosphere was far too calm to be right. It took me a few frantic looks to find Twilight's home. I hid my panic stricken face as I barged into her home, not bothering to knock at all.

Twilight's friends were here, forming a half circle around a smoldering black swirl. I mindlessly walk past the gaping ponies and stared at the spiral that was engraved in the wooden floor. That wasn't right. The mark was meant to represent Twilight's cutie mark. Not this generic swirl! I utter her name through a whisper but no pony seemed to have heard it. They were shouting arrays of questions pertaining to the whereabouts of Twilight or why I was here. All their questions came to the same theme. Where is Twilight? I had no answer.

"Silence!", I exercise my Royal Canterlot voice to bring a stop to the barrage of questions, "I do not know where Twilight has gone." They collectively gasp that not even I know where Twilight disappeared to. "That marking was meant to be in the shape of Twilight's cutie mark." I motioned my hoof to the marking.

"No offense Princess, but how would you know that?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

A let out a gentle sigh "After completion of the spell, she would be sent to me to become a Princess." Another gasp filters into the library, "A symbol of her cutie mark should have been left behind to show that she has indeed been sent to me." I say as calmly as I could trying not to reveal the quiver in my voice. "But now I don't know where she could have gone. A spell like this could have teleported her beyond our realm of existence."

"You mean that Twilight was poofed somewhere other than Equestria?" explained Pinkie Pie.

"Possible even beyond Equis. But before we panic, there are still traces of magic within the air. Especially near the mark itself. I-We will work our hardest to bring Twilight back to Equestria." I try my hardest to sound unperturbed about the situation. Finding Twilight will be no easy task to accomplish.

"Princess Celestia, surely there is something we can do? Perhaps our ties with the Elements of Harmony can locate her?" Rarity inquired.

My mind was going a mile a second. There was no written research done for anything like this. A blank field of study that has never been ventured before by mere ponies. The Veil was one place that Alicorns were able to manipulate freely and was considered a plain of existence, a separate reality from Equis. It offered Luna and I a quiet respite from work and gave us time to talk freely as sisters. Cadance was never informed of it mainly because it was agreed that The Veil should be kept secret and used for our own benefit. In time, we would let her know of our sanctuary along with Twilight Sparkle so that they may also use it if need be. If Twilight was not sent to The Veil, it's quite possible that she could be anywhere at any realm possible. Slingshot through time and space and landing in something vastly different.

Since this field of magic was never experimented on, the time it would take to find Twilight on my own would take years. Even with the help of Luna, it would still pose a challenge to find my student. It was time to come clean and share our knowledge with the staff of mages and scientist that work diligently under us for any hope to speed the search for my student. There will be furious ponies that demand a reason why I withheld such information and I will do my best to settle it.

Realizing I have been silent for quite a while now, I quickly muse over Rarity's suggestion. Her idea sounded probable but until more investigation is done, it will only be a suggestion. I needed the best ponies Equestria has to offer to look into this further.

"Using the Elements is a possibility. For now, I will assign a team here and see what they figure out. Return to your homes and arrive back here next week while they set up any equipment in the library. I'm sure they'll need questions from the ponies that witnessed it."

"You can count on us Princess. We'll get Twilight back." Pinkie happily replied as well as the others.

"Your optimism knows no bounds." They truly brought new hope to me. As the five leave Twilight's home, I turn to face the mark. I set my eyes on the charred sign once again. I close my eyes and whisper a silent prayer that Twilight will return home safe and sound. It dawns to me that I was crying when teardrops splattered onto the floor. I couldn't lose face now. It would be too early.

I wipe my eyes and prepare to leave to Canterlot. I needed to contact Twilight's parents and inform them of what has recently transpired today. Not to mention the likely-to-be angry scientists I would have the pleasure to explain the situation to. Even showing them The Veil that was immensely personal to me and Luna. Today is going to be a tough day.