Throughout the town of Ponyville whispers were heard among the citizens. Words travel around here fast. Ponies whispered of the Purple princess screaming in terror. Applejack, however, didn't listen to the banter of gossip and rumors. She had apples to sell to make ends meet.

Applejack pulled the apple cart to the shopping center in hopes that she'd make a bit or two from a pony buying apples. A few ponies came buy and bought some, but business was slow today, she sighed, wishing she could have made more money for her family.

As the day neared to its end Applejack noticed someone running to her from a distance. A purple dragon with green scales ran his way towards her followed by a four other familiar ponies she called friends. Applejack could hear them from a mile away, clopping down main street, followed by Spike who had was the leader running towards her cart.

He skidded to a stop, only a few inches away from causing an accident. "Uh, Spike? Why are you in such a hurry?" Applejack asked, hoping they would explain.

"Twilight is missing!" The five ponies plus Spike the dragon said in unison.

"Missing?! How is that possible? Shouldn't Twilight be fine on her own?" The orange pony asked.

"I don't know, when I came home after getting groceries, the castle was a mess!" He exclaimed. "I looked everywhere for Twilight, but she was nowhere to be found." His voice sounded so sad.

Applejack felt sorry for the little guy, "Maybe she needed to go somewhere in a hurry."

"But that isn't like Twilight, she would've left a note or something at least. Where could she have gone?"

"I don't know Sugarcube." Applejack said.

"Maybe we should look for evidence," Rarity suggested with her fancy accent. "This is Twilight, our friend. She would never leave us behind so suddenly."

"You're right," Fluttershy said calmly.

"Let's go peek around the castle and see what we can find." Rarity suggested.

"Ooh! Super fun sleuthing time!" Pinkie Pie jumped for joy.

Spike lead the way towards Twilight's castle.

Once they arrived they all knew exactly where to look: the library. That's the place where Twilight would likely be or used to be. (And also Spike mentioned that the library was a wreck.) The group started their search there. Where they were greeted by a disastrous wreck. All the furniture and books were thrown everywhere.

But within all the havoc a big hardbound book lay in the middle of it all. A little alarm went off inside Applejack's head when she just saw it there. It was too out of the ordinary. It didn't look destroyed, it was in perfect condition. "Hold it!" Pinkie already beat her to it by grabbing the book. She struggled to hold it above her shoulders. "This book is suspicious!"

"How do you know?" Applejack asked.

"I sense something strange surrounding this book." Pinkie Pie saw a bookmark sticking out from one of the pages. "Twilight would never stop within the first few chapters of the book! She would at least get through a hundred pages before she stopped!"

"That seems right. Lets see if the book can give us any information," Rarity suggested.

And Pinkie opened up the page to where the bookmark was. They all saw light blue in the chapter. "Hm..." Pinkie mused. "Ooh! I love blue colored writing! Let's see... 'The Only way to move forward is to choose your destiny. Your road follows an Ax wielding warrior, this is your fate alone. Choose wisely.' Sounds so mysterious! What's an ax?" Pinkie asked.

Rarity looked closer at the writing, "It doesn't say that Pinkie Pie. Darling, your delusional, it says something about being the Queen of a Elven society is your fate alone! Ooh, being a Queen sounds wonderful," She said dreamily.

"Um... guys it says something about a dragon pact, but I don't know how that could happen, " Fluttershy said quietly.

"You guys are all wrong! It says something about being an awesome thief! That sounds so cool!" Rainbow interrupted.

Applejack wondered why they were getting different answers within the writing, maybe if she could get a closer look at the book... The orange pony moved closer to the blue writing. "Guys, mine doesn't sound real good." She cleared her throat, "The memories of you will be lost from time itself, you will face the fear that hides the most precious thing close to you: Your friends, this is your fate alone."

"Oh, that does sound bad," Fluttershy admitted.

"Twilight must have read something similar to us, what could her fate have been?" Rarity wondered aloud.

"I don't know, but whatever it is had something to do with this book!"

Rarity moved forward, "And I feel a powerful source of energy coming from it too... It flows through here like a strong wind!"

"Now why didn't you mention this before?" Applejack asked.

"I'm just now feeling the strong current of its power! Something doesn't sit well with me."

Suddenly, they all saw a flash of light go off from the mirror portal, "Did anyone touch that?"

Rainbow Dash gulped worriedly, "No."

Suddenly a gust of wind blew them towards the mirror portal. "I think I know where Twilight disappeared to!" Rainbow Dash yelled, as she tried to fly away from the portal.

"Help me!" Fluttershy screamed as she fell into the portal.

"Fluttershy!" They all yelled in unison.

"I'm going to save you Fluttershy!" Rainbow yelled, dashing into the portal. Spike fell onto the floor as was swooped in as well.

"Spike!" Applejack yelled, gripping onto a table, holding on as hard as she could.

Pinkie willingly jumped into the portal and yelled "whee!" as she disappeared.

Applejack's grip wasn't strong enough, her hooves gave in and she let go and disappeared.