War Zone-Equestria

Spike was running around town trying to find the girls. He’d checked all over Ponyville twice now, and the day was coming to an end. He had other ponies searching but still to no avail. He couldn’t explain it. Twilight never left with out leaving Spike something to tell him where she’d gone. It worried Spike greatly because his fears had become far more than just worry. He was frantic to find them and as usual, thinking about all the negative scenarios that could have taken place in the short time he’d left them. He had no where to turn, and no pony could help him.

He sat down on the bridge covering the small river that ran through Ponyville. It was a significant location to him, because it was the second place Rarity had kissed him. The memory sat in his head as a dream come true, one of the happiest moments in his young life, but the feeling the memory usually gave him seemed to be undermined by the thoughts that he might not ever see Rarity again. He didn’t stray on this thought though as he didn’t want to believe it. He knew in his heart he’d see her again… and the others. So why did he still doubt his thoughts, it made him upset that his emotions and thoughts were conflicting with each other. “Where are you guys?” he muttered watching the water. The tears started to run down his face, but he was still confused as to why. It might have been due to the fact that he was running out of options. Nopony that he’d asked for help had found any of the girls. He started to think about any last ditch things he could do to save the girls.

Suddenly it occurred to him; he could contact Princess Celestia, and send her a message telling her something was wrong. He jumped up and wiped his eyes. “I’ve got it, if I can’t find you girls, then Princess Celestia should be able to!” He jumped onto the road and rushed for the library, being stopped momentarily by ponies that he’d asked for help from before. Colgate, Lyra, Bon Bon, Big Mac, the CMC, the cakes, and many other of the town’s residents that had searched over all over the town, had no positive news to report. Spike was slightly more worried, but he felt that the Princess would be far more likely to find the girls.

He reached the library, and for good measure, had a quick look around to see if Twilight and the girls had come back, but as he suspected, they hadn’t. He went up to Twilight’s bedroom and pulled a piece of parchment out, along with a small tub of ink. He did take care to stay neat, but he didn’t pay much attention to the usual formal greeting he’d normally use when writing to the princess. He read over it quickly to make sure it made sense, ‘Princess Celestia, I’m writing to you because I need your help, Twilight and the others have gone missing, I’ve had ponies searching all over Ponyville, but no one has found them. Please come soon. They could be in urgent trouble.’

It sounded fine to Spike. He ignored the fact that it wasn’t formal, because he couldn’t think of many ways to express how urgently he needed her. Happy with the letter, he breathed a spout of green flames onto it and sent it on its way to the Princess.

Spike paced for what he thought was going to be a long time, but at least 2 minutes after sending the message, he saw an aura of bright lights spark and fizzle outside the library window. Spike recognized the familiar magical energy and ran outside. He brightened up as the Princess stood before him shining with the usual sunny light that always surrounded her. Spike was a little surprised that she had arrived so early to assist him.

“Princess Celestia! Thank goodness you’re here! And so fast too.” Spike said running over to her.

“Hello Spike. I came as fast as I could when I got your message saying that Twilight and her friends were missing. Why would I waste any time when my start student could need my help?” The princess said to Spike. “So what can you tell me right now?”

Spike thought back to the events from that morning, up to the girls’ disappearance. “Well it was Pinkie’s birthday, and Twilight had let her throw a second party in the library, so that I wouldn’t feel bad about missing her party at Sugarcube corner. But Pinkie had to go back to Sugarcube corner to grab some of the party supplies she left there, but I offered to do it for her. I don’t know what happened after that though. I was only gone for about 10 minutes. When I came back, I saw the library was glowing with heaps of purple lights. So I panicked, dropped everything and ran to the door, but when I opened it. All I saw was a round, magical… well… I’m not sure what it was. It was just a purple, magic sphere, which fell to the ground and disappeared almost as soon as I’d seen it. At first I thought maybe the girls had teleported somewhere, But Twilight’s Teleporting spells aren’t usually that powerful.

So I haven’t been able to think of anything else it could have been. Since then I’ve had all of Ponyville searching for them, in case they were still definitely there, but nopony has seen them all day.” Spike said in one long almost slurred out sentence, with only a few breaths, but surprisingly enough, the Princess had anticipated that Spike would be panicked, and might say his sentence at a hard to understand speed, so she made sure to listen very carefully.

”Calm down Spike.” She said patting the small dragon on the head. “I think I’ll be able to detect the most recently cast spell in the room if I focus for a few minutes”.

Spike’s rapid breathing, started to slow down as he lead the princess inside the library. He went over to a chair and sat down fiddling with his fingers waiting to see what the princess was going to tell him. She was moving slowly around the room trying to detect any magical disturbances. She stopped at one particular spot in the middle of the room and focused on it with concern. “Whatever spell it was, it was powerful.”

The Princess focused on her horn and it lit up, with a brilliant shining, white array of lights. She touched her horn to the location of the disturbance, and a large amount of shockwaves spread outwards from the spot she touched with her horn. The magic seemed to fizzle for a moment before the shockwaves took on the form of Twilight’s portal.

Celestia’s face turned to one of grave concern. “That can’t be right… where would Twilight learn such powerful magic?”

”What do you mean? Spike asked her.

”Twilight seems to have conjured a magical gateway to another dimension. A powerful spell I thought I had hidden long ago, deep in the restricted areas of the Royal library. I understand Twilight received a new lot of books to fill in her bookshelves with. Were there any books that stood out amongst the others?” Celestia asked.

”Well, now that you mention it…” Spike got up and ran upstairs; he had a quick look around but found what he was looking for lying on Twilight’s bed. He snatched up the large dark book and took it downstairs to the Princess.

Celestia only had to have one look at the book to know exactly what it was.

“Oh this should have never come here!” Celestia said with grave concern “This should have been locked away from everypony.”

”I don’t understand Princess, what is it?” Spike asked confused.

”I’ll answer your questions soon Spike. We have to go to Canterlot. Now! You were right to send for my help. You were right. Twilight and her friends in grave danger.”

Spike didn’t have to listen to any more than that. He needed an explanation, but he knew he’d get one soon. The princess helped him onto her back, and galloped towards the door. As soon as she was outside she took to the skies, and teleported Spike and herself to Canterlot.