Author's Note

I'm not quite satisfied with this chapter, but here it is.

I've rewritten the darn thing once and edited and re-edited until I'm nearly nuts.

I don't know....maybe its just me and its fine.....

....I hope.

Chaos and Destruction

Twilight Sparkle might have been a princess, but her behaviour certainly wasn't showing it. Three days had gone by since the dastardly demise of her library. She had all of Ponyville cowering in fear of her wrath by now, as she snatched them up one by one and interrogated them. They were not safe anywhere. Not even thier homes provided a safe haven from her crazed determination to exact revenge for the sake of her books.

As for said books, the ones that had succumbed entirely to destruction were laid to rest in a dust bin with loving care and lots of tears on Twilight's part. The scarred survivors had been tenderly replaced on thier appropriate shelves to "mourn the loss of thier dearly departed companions!" as Twilight put it...much to the disgust of Spike. Though he did not dare say a word against it.

As Twilight's obsession with vengeance grew more desperate, and destructive, her friends gathered to discuss an intervention. The CMCs were also present, since they had no desire to be seperated from the protection of thier older siblings.

"We have got to do something about her!" Rarity huffed, tossing her mane and scowling. "She shot a blast of magic through one of my windows and reduced several of my best dresses to piles of ashes!"

"Ya think that's bad??" Applejack snorted. "She got to chasin' somepony through my orchard yesterday an' firin' her crazy magic, an' destroyed a whole two acres of apple trees!"

"Oh dear." Rarity said, blinking in astonishment.

"Well, she blasted into the bakery yesterday right after I was done baking some cupcakes and cookies and her magic was all KABLAM! and the cupcakes went KABOOM! and the twins got woken up and started screaming and I had to go take care of them and when I got back there was a big hole in the wall and it was a mess!!!" Pinkie paused for breath. "Oh, and her magic kablammed one of Mrs. Cake's favourite baking dishes, too."

"Oh dear!" From Rarity.

"Well, um, she chased my animals this morning, with her magic blasting," Fluttershy offered. "And, um, she got Angel Bunny, but he wasn't too badly hurt."

"Oh dear!!" Again, Rarity.

"Rarity, quit sayin' that!" Applejack growled. The fashionista gulped.

"Uh, so sorry." She said.

"Well, try what she did to me!" Rainbow Dash piped up, hoping she sounded mad even though deep down she knew she was getting part of what she deserved...even if Twilight didn't know it herself yet. "She totally obliterated my favourite napping cloud with her crazy nonesense! And left a scorch mark on my flank!"

"Oh, d...." Rarity cut herself off as Applejack glared at her, daring her to finish that phrase just one more time. "I mean...ah...that's dreadful, Rainbow Dash!"

"Well, she blew a hole clean through our clubhouse!" Scootaloo piped up, indignantly.

Dash winced at that, knowing how much that clubhouse meant to her sister and her friends.

'I'm sorry, Scoots. I didn't mean for you girls to get caught up in all this.' She thought. 'Wish I had the guts to confess to Twilight, but geez! She's so mad right now she'd blast me to Tartarus first and ask questions later!'

"Well, somepony better do somethin'!" Applejack said. "Before she destroys all of Ponyville an' Equestria lookin' for whoever done that to her books!"

"Indeed!" Rarity said as the others nodded. "Destruction of her books does not make it right for her to destroy the entire town-GAH!!"

She shrieked as the back wall of the bakery was blasted in, and Twilight appeared, mane frazzled, eyes wild with crazy rage, horn sparking. Before anypony could react, she had somehow snatched the Cake twins out of Pinkie's grasp and stared them down.

"Was it you???" She hissed. The twins cooed at her.

"Twilight, stop!" Pinkie flew to the rescue, snatching her young charges from the revenge crazed mare.

"Twilight, Ah know you're mad, but don't ya think this is goin' too far? They're babies!" Applejack said.

Twilight's crazed, evil cackle sent shivers of terror through all them.

"Mad??" She hissed out. "Oh, Applejack. You haven't even begun to see the full power of my wrath!"

She emphasised this by throwingba table through the bakery window, then she was gone, screaming,"VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE!!!!!"

"Well, that went well." Rarity said drily, as she reached under a nearby table and pulled out a trembling and whimpering Fluttershy.

Applejack groaned as she pried Apple Bloom loose for underneath her belly. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle had somehow shoved themselves into a small cabinet. Rarity used her magic to pull them out.

"She's gonna destroy the whole dang town if we don't do something!" Dash said worriedly.

A blast outside had them going to the shattered window. Another building had been blown to bits by Twilight's magic.

"I am afraid you may be right." Rarity said solemnly. "We may need to call for backup,though. Like maybe Celestia."

"As much as Ah hate what's goin' on," Applejack said, eyes widening, "Ah hate what Celestia might do more. Ah don't know how she would act about this."

"Well, probably much worse than the time Twilight enchanted her doll and fights broke out." Rarity said.

The other grimaced, remembering all too well the furious "TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!" that had probably been heard by all of Ponyville.

"An' Ah thought she was real mad then." Applejack said, shivering slightly.

"Well, um, we have to do something." Fluttershy spoke up, eyes worried. "I mean, she's our friend. We can't let her destroy herself, or Ponyville, this way."

"I say we write Princess Celestia and tell her all about it and ask her to pretty please come help us stop Twilight from destroying anymore of Ponyville because she's mad about her books!" Pinkie burst out, in classic Pinkie style.

The others looked at each other...all but Dash...nodding in agreement.

"Alright then." Rarity said. "Pinkie, do you have...."

"A pen and paper? Yeppers!" Pinkie crowed, giving them to her.

Rarity began to write.

Dear Princess Celestia,
I do hate to bother you, but we are having a bit of a crisis here in Ponyville. You see, somepony destroyed a good many of Twilight's books, and now she has destroyed a good deal of Ponyville and its surrounding countryside searching for the culprit.

We have talked it over, and you seem the most logical choice to stop her from this destructive rampage.

Please help!!!!

Rarity

"There!" Rarity said, rolling it. "I will find Spike and have him dispatch this at once! And hopefully Celestia will hurry right here to help!"

Everypony but Dash cheered. She turned away and looked out at the almost completely destroyed town and sighed quietly.

'Oh, Twi is SO gonna get it!' She thought. 'At least all I did was take out some books. She took out most of the buildings in town!'

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Princess Celestia was busy with a piece of cake when the letter arrived. She scanbed it and groaned loudly.

"Trouble, sister?" Luna asked. Her sister gave her the letter.

Luna started giggling as soon as she read it.

"Not exactly funny, Lulu."

"Oh, but it is, Tia!" Luna smirked. "If I were you, I would go stop that vengeance minded former student of yours before her anger extends beyond Ponyville. I do not believe Equestria could handle a tantrum of such immense proportions." She giggled again.

Celestia rolled her eyes, unfurled her wings, and took off to put an end to the youngest princess's rampage before she destroyed Ponyville completely.

If she hadn't already.

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Meantime, back in Ponyville, Twilight had finally taken a break from her destruction and was going over her library very, very carefully. The course of her very intense scrutiny led her to discover something that hadn't been there the day before her trip to Canterlot...and before this fiasco took place.

One blue feather and a piece of rainbow colored hair.

In one, single instant her eyes narrowed to pinpricks and all of Ponyville heard her next words as the Canterlot Voice carried them over the town.

"I KNOW IT WAS YOU, RAINBOW DASH! AND I AM COMING FOR YOU!!!!"

And clear across town in the nearly obliterated bakery, five pairs of shocked eyes locked on the blue pegasus. Only one thought filled said pegasus's mind and made her tremble in terror.

I'm dead.