Rainbow tossed another book across the room. It smacked into the wall, before falling in a large pile of other books.

They’d all been discarded the same way.

Rainbow glanced up at the clock. It was ten to five. She’d have to start moving soon, if she wanted to make it to her Wonderbolts practice on time.

She still kept committing serious book abuse though.

If Rainbow Dash could locate a book on the events of what was currently happening in Ponyville, it might have some cure about how to thaw the petrified ponies.

Or, stop the gravity shifts.

There’d been a few more gravity attacks, and they seemed to stop naturally, if you could even call them natural in the first place. It was odd that Twilight hadn’t stopped them, even when she could. The whole idea made Rainbow uneasy, and gave her all the more motivation to find and stop the chaos in Ponyville.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t happening immediately.

The clock now read a quarter past five, and Rainbow had no choice but to jump into the air and fly towards the Wonderbolts Academy.

Upon landing however, Rainbow realized something was wrong. The academy wasn’t deserted; it was the exact opposite. Pegasi were rushing around, panicked, whilst Spitfire was trying to calm them down.

“IT’S ALRIGHT!!” she yelled. If there was something other than flying that Spitfire excelled in, it was yelling. “DON’T WORRY!!”

Rainbow got the sense that Spitfire wasn’t doing much to help the situation.

“Uh, Spitfire?” Rainbow probed.

“Oh, hello Rainbow. Training exercise is off. Go home!” Spitfire yelled.

“Why?” asked Rainbow.

“Look for yourself!”

Three more pegasi had been petrified. Two of them seemed to be in the Wonderbolts outfits.

“That brings the total petrification count up to six,” Rainbow said.

“Well, see you later,” Spitfire sighed. “I gotta sort out all this madness.”

Rainbow walked away from Spitfire, and flew back to the library. To her surprise, the CMC (Cutie Mark Crusaders) were standing right outside the door.

“Hey!” said Scootaloo jumping up. “Hey! Rainbow! Hey! Come down here! Rainbow!”

Rainbow landed. “Whaddya need?” she asked.

“We lost a book on our raftin’ trip.” Apple Bloom explained. “We would have just told Twiley, but we can’t find her.”

“Lemme guess,” said Rainbow, “The book you lost had something to do with chaos.”

“More specifically, Discord,” Sweetie Belle elaborated. “Lord of chaos.”

“Wait,” said Rainbow. “Lord of chaos? D’you think Discord might be behind all the strange events happening around Ponyville?”

“Maybe,” said Scootaloo, “if he wasn’t turned to stone!”

“Discord’s been turned to stone?” asked Rainbow.

“Yup,” said Apple Bloom. “We saw his statue on our field trip to the Canterlot Sculpture Garden.”

Gears were starting to turn in Rainbow’s head. “When was your field trip?”

“Yesterday,” said Sweetie Belle.

“Then I think I know who’s behind all this insanity. But there’s only one way to find out.” Rainbow turned to the CMC. “Who wants to go on another field trip?”

Rainbow Dash had never really had much incentive for wanting to visit the Canterlot Sculpture Garden. Everytime Celestia called the Mane Six to Canterlot on a mission, Rarity, Twilight, and Fluttershy always took the time to visit.

Rainbow usually just lounged under the oak tree in the Royal Gardens, and read a Daring Do book.

Therefore, Rainbow had never actually been to the Canterlot Sculpture Garden before. It was surprisingly big, with at least a hundred statues in it.

As Rainbow and the CMC walked down a long path hedged in by tall bushes, Scootaloo stopped.

“Why’d we stop?” Rainbow asked.

Scootaloo flipped the map over. “Just getting my bearings.”

“So we’re lost.”

“Yeah.”

Sweetie Belle snatched the map out of Scootaloo’s hooves. “This way.”

Sweetie Belle led them around the maze that was the sculpture garden for a few minutes before they arrived at an empty pedestal.

Apple Bloom gasped. “Discord’s gone!”

Author's Note

Aaaand no more exists. .

What a cliffhanger.