War Zone-Equestria

Almost a good few hours after Twilight had left, Spike's eyes flickered open as he yawned and threw of his blanket. He had slept much better than the last few nights to his surprise. Again he'd dreamt about Rarity, although it didn’t bother him like it had before. He just kept believing he'd see her again soon.

He walked downstairs to finish up cleaning the leftover books he had left behind last night, but to his surprise, they were already shelved, aside a few from the middle of the room on the table.

'Twilight must've finished most of them off,' Spike thought, before actually realising that Twilight wasn't in the same room.

"Twilight?" He called through the library, before running around a bit to find her. He almost considered looking in the basement in case she wanted more privacy, but diverted his attention to the suddenly openning front door, and watched as she walked in, followed by Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash.

“Twilight there you are.” Spike said running to the group. “And Rarity…” Spike could hardly contain his happiness. He leapt up and hugged her as if he hadn’t seen her for over a year.

Rarity was a little taken back at first but realised that she hadn’t spoken to the baby dragon in a long time and could understand why he’d be so excited to see her.

“Where’ve you been?” Spike asked her dropping back to the ground.

Rarity still hadn’t told anypony why she’d been inside for so long. She especially couldn’t tell Spike that he was the reason she’d been trying to avoid them. “Oh I’ve been rather busy with some ensemble orders dear. It is lovely to see you again though Spike.”

Pinkie piped up really quickly and rather loudly, “That party was incredible, I don’t think any of my birthday parties have been that much fun.”

Spike spun around to the others. “Wait, what party? Today was your birthday Pinkie?”

“Yep!” she squeaked still jumping happily on the spot. Spike started to get a little bit upset, ‘Why wasn’t I invited’ he thought to himself. Pinkie was still jumping though before announcing something else to Spike.

”But! Twilight told me that you were sleeping and hadn’t woken up yet. So she organised for me to have a second, slightly smaller party right here! So you wouldn’t feel left out.”

Spike suddenly lit up and smiled looking at Twilight.

“Really?” he asked her.

“Of course Spike, do you really think I would let you miss out on a party?” Twilight rhetorically asked him back.

“Enough Chit Chat! Let’s party some more everypony!” Pinkie Pie declared, kicking her party cannon, which spit out a record player, a bunch of party equipment, and a

large amount of party food. The pin dropped to the record and music started to fill the library. Everypony started dancing together and laughing, all except Twilight, who silently slinked away from the 6 party animals. She had enjoyed herself at Sugarcube corner and felt she needed a slight rest from all the partying.

Besides she really wanted to continue reading the book, she hadn’t read something this fascinating in a long time, but when she found it, the bookmark she had put in earlier had fallen out, and she couldn’t remember the page number she was up to.

“Ugh, great! I’ll have to scan through the whole thing to find my spot again; I think it had something to do with what would happen if two different dimensions would resemble each-other. She flipped a lot of pages, at least 200, it was a surprisingly big book for such a small subject, although the pages were often filled with facts and pictures, rather than the hard pressing information Twilight was most interested in.

She stopped at the last page, realising she must have gone to fast, went to flip back the other way, when she noticed that the seam connecting the final page to the thick cover of the book had been ripped up. Twilight saw what looked like letters under the rip, but couldn’t tell for sure. She was deciding whether or not to peel it off and look or not, worrying if it was considered vandalism if she did. Normally she wouldn’t care, but this book was from Canterlot’s royal library, and she didn’t know if the book was important or not. But then again, normally there’s no writing in-between the last page and the outer cover. Her curiosity got the better of her, and she used her magic to pull the page off until the writing had stopped at the bottom.

She read the writing quietly, “A warning to any who find this spell: If you are reading this then I am long gone. I’ve been trapped in an alternate version of Equestria for quite some time, it was good to get away from the large war in the real Equestria, or I should say, my home Equestria. The Princesses had begun a fight over the rulership of Equestria, and it seemed nopony was safe from Nightmare Moon at the time. I knew that if war was happening here. Then maybe in another Equestria there would be peace. I started working on a spell, a spell I regret creating now. It opened up the space between two dimensions and allowed me to safely traverse it. The Ponies in the other land looked just like the ones from Equestria, and were very welcoming to newcomers. I had proven that there really were alternate dimensions that represented the opposite of another. But my joy was short lived. Many years late, war struck in the alternate land, it seemed to be about the same thing as the last war in my true home Equestria, but the only way that could make sense to me was that the war in my home had ceased. I write this today in hope that in the future people will know of my success, but also will heed my warning, that as long as there is peace in your dimension, there will be war in the other, and it could be far more technologically advanced than what you might think. Please protect this research and the spell below! Don’t let it fall into the hands of those who will use the power it brings for evil. Signed for the last time, Prof. Malcolm Hoof."

Twilight seemed confused. ‘Why would he write that if he was going to return to peace? Unless he knew he might not make it back to this dimension’. She looked below at the spell written out and how to perform it safely. She seemed intrigued but worried at the same time. The spell was extremely advanced. She wasn’t too worried though, she didn’t want to perform it… Or did she? She continued reading the spell and just as she had finished, and put the book down, Applejack walked upstairs to find out what she was doing.

“There you are Twi! Whad’re ye doin up here? The parties a blast below. Twi?”

Twilight snapped up and shut the book, hiding it behind her back as if it belonged to Applejack. She didn’t have a great reason for being nervous, she just didn’t want anypony to know she had been reading and studying magic instead of having fun with her friends. “Oh I was just uhm… well, uh, grabbing something up here.

”Twilight, you’ve been away fer at least 8 minutes, it don’t take that long te grab something unless you put it somewhere real hard te find. So what is it? I could help ye look.”

“Look don’t tell Pinkie, but I was reading up on something Spike found this morning.”

“Sugarcube ahm pretty sure Pinkie won’t mind… ya did go te her main party anyway.”

Twilight accounted for that but continued, “Well, whatever. You’d never believe what I found.”

Applejack’s ears perked up as she listened in to what Twilight had to say.

“I found a spell that can allow inter-dimensional travel!”

“Inter-demewhatnow?” Applejack asked confused.

”Inter-dimensional! Another Equestria, but opposite to this one.”

“Ah still don’t fully understand. What yer tellin me is that you found a spell that lets ye travel te other versions of Equestria?”

“Yeah! Isn’t that amazing!”

“Darn Tootin! Yall should tell the others, or better yet… why don’t ya show us all.”

“I don’t know Applejack, it seems like a really hard spell, not to mention the other Equestria could be dangerous.”

“What and this one isn’t?” Applejack reminded her.

“I’m not sure…”

“Oh come on now Twi, what could go wrong.”