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The Cutie Mark Crusaders Bring About the Apocalypse

by BronyWriter

Chapter 1: Whoa, What is This Book?

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"I told you that Cutie Mark Crusaders firework makers was a bad idea," said Apple Bloom, brushing some ash off of her left foreleg.

"How was I supposed to know that oregano mixed with rosemary wasn't a good substitute for gunpowder?" retorted Scootaloo.

"Wait, did we need gunpowder?" asked Sweetie Belle. "I don't recall reading that in the book on fireworks that we got." Scootaloo shrugged and stood up.

"I don't remember it either, but I'm sure if we could have gotten our hooves on some we would have our cutie marks by now!" said Scootaloo. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom looked at their friend nervously.

"Are you sure we should try anythin' else with explosives?" asked Apple Bloom. "I mean, we nearly destroyed half the town when we tried to be Cutie Mark Crusaders Pony Cannons.

"But explosives are awesome!" said Scootaloo as she excitedly buzzed her wings.

"Maybe," said Sweetie Belle. "But I think we should take a break from that kind of thing for now. Maybe we should try pillow testing or gardening." Scootaloo's ears drooped but she still nodded.

"I guess," she mumbled.

The three sat in silence once more before a contemplative look crossed Apple Blooms face. Her friends looked at her with interest.

"Whatcha thinking Apple Bloom?" asked Scootaloo. Apple Bloom sighed and looked towards her friends.

"Okay, hear me out on this," she began.

"Uh-oh," said Scootaloo quietly. Apple Bloom gave her a small glare but continued on.

"Now I know we haven't had too much success with gettin' our marks, but what if we tried readin'??" said Apple Bloom. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo gave each other curious glances.

"What do you mean?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"What I mean is, we should go to Twilight's library and look through some books about cutie marks!" said Apple Bloom. "I think that a book or two would potentially have some good information about cutie marks."

Scootaloo frowned at Apple Bloom.

"You want to spend the day that we have off of school doing research?" she asked. "Isn't that egghead behavior?"

"Well duh," said Apple Bloom "But isn't a little embarrassment about the fact that we acted like eggheads for one day worth a lifetime of cutie marks?"

Sweetie Belle shrugged.

"I'm up for it I guess," she said. Scootaloo rolled her eyes but she nodded all the same.

"Fine," she said. "But I don't want to be doing it all day!"

"We won't!" said the excited yellow filly as her and Sweetie Belle stood up too.

"Well what are we waiting for?" asked Sweetie Belle. "Lets go to the library!"

* * * *

The three crusaders sped through the town with their wagon and Scootaloo's scooter. Occasionally they would get a wave from a Ponyville resident that passed by, but the journey was overall uneventful.

Scootaloo felt the warm sun beat down on her and the sound of ponies laughing as they relaxed in the park filled her ears. She groaned, desperately wishing that she could join them instead of hanging out with their friends in the library. Still, any time spent crusading was a good time, no matter what they were doing. She knew that they would have fun with this, even if they were just reading.

A few minutes later, the trio reached the Ponyville library and Scootaloo screeched to a halt.

"We're here!" said Apple Bloom. "Let's go read about cutie marks!"

Sweetie Belle walked up to the door and gave it three sharp knocks. The Crusaders listened and heard a voice that was unmistakably that of the town librarian and resident egghead, Twilight Sparkle.

"Spike, will you get the door?" asked Twilight.

"Sure thing Twilight!" said the voice of Twilight's assistant.

The Crusaders heard the pitter-patter of Spike's steps grow louder as he got closer to the door. A few seconds later, the door opened to reveal the dragon.

"Oh," he said in a surprised voice. "it's you three!"

"Which three?" asked Twilight as she walked down the stairs to the door.

"The Cutie Mark Crusaders," replied Spike. Twilight reached the door and gave the fillies a happy smile.

"Hello girls," she said. "Are you out crusading for your cutie marks today?"

"Yep," said Sweetie Belle. "In fact, that's why we're here."

Immediately Twilight and Spike tensed up and shot each other uneasy glances. The fillies didn't seem to notice and they continued on.

"We thought that it would be a good idea to read up on cutie marks to see if we can find anything useful," said Sweetie Belle. Twilight raised an eyebrow.

"That's it? You just want to read quietly in a corner?" she said.

"Yep," said Scootaloo. "we don't want to be a bother."

"You're not going to try to be 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Book Fort Builders'?" asked Spike.

"Nope," said Sweetie Belle. "We're just going to read about cutie marks."

"Okaaayyy," said Twilight. "Come on in and I'll see what I can find on the subject."

"Thanks Twilight!" said Apple Bloom. "You're the best!" Twilight flashed them a smile and she seemed to relax a bit.

The three fillies walked inside the library and followed Twilight into a smaller nook in the library. Twilight squinted as she scanned the rows and rows of immaculate books, looking for one about cutie marks. Her mouth moved silently as she mouthed the titles of the book she was examining, occasionally shaking her head when she came across one she didn't like. The Crusaders knew full well that Twilight was not to be disturbed while she was in this state and thusly, they did their best to stand quietly behind her.

After what seemed to them to be an eternity, Twilight snapped out of her world and nodded.

"Okay," she said as she used her magic to pull a few books off of the shelves. "Start with these and I'll try to find more if you don't see anything you like in them."

The trio grabbed the books out of the air and examined them.

"Cutie Marks and You, The Illustrated History of the Cutie Mark, and Deciphering Cutie Marks," read Apple Bloom.

"Thanks Twilight!" said Sweetie Belle. "I'm sure that these will be a big help!"

"No problem at all," said Twilight. "Just let me know if you need anything. I'm going back upstairs to finish up an essay about Equestrian plant life for the princess."

"Well good luck with that," said Scootaloo. Twilight nodded and walked back up the stairs, followed closely by Spike.

The three crusaders went over to a comfortable spot a few feet away and immediately sat down on the floor, cracked open the books that they had gotten from Twilight, and began reading.

They were quietly reading for all of five minutes before Scootaloo gave a groan of boredom.

"Have you guys found anything yet?" she asked. "This is taking forever!"

"Well no," said Sweetie Belle. "But there has to be something in here!"

"Mine might have somethin'!" said Apple Bloom as she flipped through a few pages. "Based on the table of contents, this one gives advice on how to go about gettin' your cutie mark."

"It does?" said Scootaloo with interest, putting her book down and scooting closer over to Apple Bloom. "Skip to that chapter then!"

Apple Bloom nodded and flipped forward a few dozen pages before she stopped on the one she was looking for.

"Okay," said Apple Bloom. "Here it is."

Since the dawn of pony civilization, ponies across Equestria have often been interested in obtaining their cutie marks. In ancient civilizations it was considered an important rite of passage and ponies could not begin working or going to school until they had found their special talent. Thus, the desire to obtain a cutie mark is inherent in everypony, whether they know it or not.

However, many scholars debate on what is the best way to go about obtaining a cutie mark. Some scholars are of the mind that ponies who are searching for their marks should try as many activities as possible until something clicks and they find a hobby or an activity that they enjoy. Others say that ponies should just live their lives out and not focus on it until they stumble across their special talent. Others still suggest careful meditation and an inner scrutiny of the self to find what their purpose is in life.

"Well we've definitely tried that first one," said Scootaloo. Sweetie Belle nodded.

"Should we try the other two then?"

"No!" said Scootaloo. "I'm not gonna sit down and search my inner being for my special talent, I want to go out there and size as many opportunities as I can!"

"So basically, you want to do just what we've already been doin'," said Apple Bloom.

"Well yeah," she said. "I'm having fun with it, even if we aren't getting our cutie marks."

"Is there more?" asked Sweetie Belle. Apple Bloom nodded and returned to the book.

Whatever the method, one must understand the nature of the cutie mark itself. It is a statement about the very nature of the pony that bears the mark, and it will be a part of anypony who bears one forever. In order to find your cutie mark, one must have patience and an understanding of the self. Doing something that one does not care about is a sure way to delay the acquisition of a cutie mark to the point that one is a 'blank flank' (to use layman's terms) far longer than is normal.

"Is it just me or is this just repeating the nonsense that everypony else has told us over and over again?" asked Scootaloo.

"I guess it is," said Apple Bloom as she scanned the pages a bit more. "But what if that means that they were right all along and that we should be tryin' to do stuff we love as opposed to somethin' we don't really care about?" Scootaloo rolled her eyes and grabbed the book from Apple Bloom.

"I think that this one is a dead-end," she said. "We should look through the other books some more."

"Well wait, we can't just give up on it because the first few sentences of one chapter aren't any help!" said Sweetie Belle. "If we're gonna get our cutie marks, we have to keep with this!"

Scootaloo groaned but she gave the book back to Apple Bloom.

* * * *

One hour later

This simply had to be a record. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were sitting quietly on the floor and had been for the past hour. They quietly flipped through the books that they had been given by Twilight and merely read. Occasionally one would get a look of interest on their face when they thought that they found something interesting, but it would always immediately fall when the sentence turned out to lead to nothing.

"Anythin' good for you?" asked Apple Bloom, who was nearing the middle of her book.

"Nothing good with mine," said Sweetie Belle.

"Me neither," said Scootaloo. "I can't believe that not even books can help us! It's all about boring stuff like discovering who you really are! Who needs that sappy stuff?"

"Well, should we give up then?" asked Apple Bloom.

"I think so," said Scootaloo, closing her book and putting it down. "We still have a great day outside and I want to go try some more stuff before the day is over."

"Alright then," said Apple Bloom as she closed her book as well. "Let's put this stuff back and we'll head out."

"Shouldn't we ask Twilight to put it back? I mean, she knows where it all goes," said Sweetie Belle. Apple Bloom shook her head.

"Naw, I think that I can figure it out myself. Besides, her and Spike went to go run those errands. They ain't gonna be back for another ten minutes at least."

"If you say so," said Scootaloo.

"I do say so," said Apple Bloom confidently. Apple Bloom grabbed the book she had been reading in her teeth and slowly walked up a nearby stepladder.

"Careful now," said Sweetie Belle. "We wouldn't want to make a big mess for Twilight to clean up."

"I'll be careful," said Apple Bloom as she craned her neck forward to put her book in what she presumed was the correct spot. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle looked on nervously as Apple Bloom's balance became steadily more questionable the farther that she leaned forward.

"Are you sure you've got it?" asked Scootaloo. "I mean, you wouldn't want to--"

At that moment, Apple Bloom lost her balance and she began falling off the stepladder. In a desperate attempt to prevent herself from falling, she hooked her leg around one of the railings but that merely meant that she toppled the stepladder as well. With yelps of fear, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo jumped out of the way as fast as they could in the hopes that they wouldn't be crushed by the stepladder. Luckily, their reflexes were fast enough that when the stepladder landed with a loud crash on the floor, neither of them was hurt.

The duo looked over at the crash site, hoping that their friend had suffered no lasting damage.

"Apple Bloom, are you okay!?" said Sweetie Belle. To their relief, Apple Bloom crawled out from under the ladder. She seemed to be shaken up a bit but not hurt.

"I'm okay," she said as she dusted herself off.

"That was quite the wicked crash!" said Scootaloo, buzzing her wings excitedly again. "I wish I had been the one who toppled the ladder!"

"Uh...yeah, sure," said Apple Bloom with a roll of her eyes. She turned around and surveyed the crash site. Her mouth dropped open in horror. "Oh no!"

"What is it?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"Look!" said Apple Bloom, pointing to where the ladder had fallen. The other two Crusaders looked at the crash site and to their horror they saw that the fallen ladder had knocked a large hole in the floor.

"Did you even know that the floor was hollow underneath?" asked Scootaloo. Apple Bloom frowned.

"I don't think that it is," she said. "I think it may just be that one spot."

"Why would just one spot under the floor be hollow?" asked Sweetie Belle. Apple Bloom slowly walked over to the hole in the floor and peered down.

"Guys," she said excitedly. "I think somethin's down there!"

"What!?" said Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo together.

"Yeah, I see the outline of somethin'!"

"Can you reach it?" asked Scootaloo.

"Yeah," said Apple Bloom. "I think the hole in the floor is large enough that I can barely squeeze down there."

Apple Bloom took a deep breath before she pushed the ladder aside and shimmied down the hole.

"Be careful down there!" said Sweetie Belle. Apple Bloom's head popped up.

"Sweetie Belle, the hole isn't deep enough that I'm gonna disappear down here."

"Can you find whatever is down there?" asked Scootaloo. Apple Bloom looked at her hooves and felt around for the mysterious object.

"I got it!" she said after a few seconds.

"Bring it up!" said Scootaloo.

Apple Bloom picked up the object and placed it on the floor before jumping out of the hole. The Crusaders looked at the object nervously.

"It's...a book!" said Sweetie Belle. Scootaloo groaned.

"Not more books!" she said. Apple Boom held up a hoof to shush her and she pushed the book closer to the middle of the room. The Crusaders gathered around and examined the book. It was simply a jet black book, about the size of the usual books in Twilight's library, but on the whole it had no other distinctive features. Despite the fact that it had been sealed away under the floor for Celestia knows how long, it was fully clean of dust. However, the book was clearly very old and it still looked rather fragile.

"It doesn't have a title that I can find," said Apple Bloom. "What do ya suppose that means?"

"Lack of creativity on the part of the author?" guessed Scootaloo.

"Maybe," said Apple Bloom.

The three stared at the book for a few moments before Sweetie Belle asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"So should we open it?" she asked nervously.

"There is only one way to find out," said Scootaloo.

"What's that?" asked Apple Bloom.

"We have to open it."

"We have to find out whether we should or shouldn't open it by openin' it?"

"Yep," said Scootaloo. "Then we'll know for sure whether or not we should have opened it!"

"I guess that makes sense...kind of," said Apple Bloom. She took a deep breath. "I guess I'll open it then."

The Crusaders tensed up as Apple Bloom reached a hoof towards the book and placed it on the edge of the cover.

"Okay, on the count of three I'll open the book. One...two...three!"

Apple Bloom moved her hoof to the left and flung the book open. Instantly the eyes of the Crusaders flashed blood red for a brief moment before they returned back to their normal colors. However, none of them noticed the brief change. Instead, Apple Bloom pulled the book closer to them and began reading it.

"It's...it's a book of spells and rituals!" said Apple Bloom.

"Rituals? What kind of rituals?” asked Sweetie Belle.

Apple Bloom flipped through the pages of the book before she stopped on one. She cocked her head when she read what was on the page.

"What is it?" asked Scootaloo.

"It's...it's a ritual to summon the hordes of darkness to our lands to bring eternal suffering to all of Equestria."

"What!?" said Sweetie Belle in shock.

This ritual is for the purpose of summoning darkness to all of Equestria. When the ritual is complete, the gods of the underworld will arrive and call for their undead armies to conquer the lands. None shall be able to oppose them.

"Whoa!" said Apple Bloom. "Cool!"

For those that complete the ritual, the rewards will be great and they shall be spared the eternal suffering that is to come.

"Rewards will be great...rewards will be great!" said Apple Bloom. Sweetie Belle looked at her confusedly.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Don't you see girls; if we summon the ancient gods of the underworld then we'll get out cutie marks for sure!"

"But what about our friends?" asked Scootaloo.

"They'll be just fine," reassured Apple Bloom. "I've got it all figured out. See, we should do this here ritual and summon the ancient gods of the underworld. Then, they shall reward us with our cutie marks before Twilight and the others, along with the princesses I imagine, use their powers to banish them back to the hellish world from whence they came!"

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle mulled this over for a few moments before both of them broke out in wide smiles.

"That sounds fun!" said Scootaloo.

"Yeah! We're sure to get our cutie marks if we summon evil gods from the underworld!" said Sweetie Belle.

"Then what are we waiting for?" said Apple Bloom as she picked up the book and put it in her saddlebag. "Let's start the ritual!"

* * * *

Five hours later, Apple Bloom sat alone in the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse, reading through the book to get more instructions on what they were supposed to do. She had declared herself the high-priestess for the ceremony and as the high-priestess, she was in charge of making sure that the ritual went according to plan.

She had sent Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle out for the necessary supplies almost four hours ago and they still weren't back! She was beginning to get worried that they had been stopped. Some of the items that she had sent them to retrieve were a little...questionable, considering what they were going to be used for.

Apple Bloom sighed and closed the book. She had read and re-read the ritual a million times since her friends had left and soon she would be able to do it in her sleep! Where were those two!?

Suddenly, she heard two unmistakable voices whispering excitedly between themselves. She breathed a sigh of relief when she identified the voices as belonging to her friends who seemed to be back with the necessary items for the ritual.

A few moments later, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle walked back into the clubhouse with the items for the ritual on their backs.

"Good, you got everythin'," said Apple Bloom.

"Of course!" said Sweetie Belle as she placed a large sack on the ground as well as a pile of candles. "I wouldn't mess this up!"

"Me neither," said Scootaloo who set down some chalk and three jet black robes. "I can't wait for midnight!"

"Same here," said Apple Bloom who was lovingly stroking the book. She looked up at the sky for a brief moment. "It's almost 7:00. It'll be dark soon and we need to get goin' the ritual. Sweetie Belle, do you have the blood sacrifice?"

"Yep," said Sweetie Belle, pointing to the sack. "You would not believe how hard it is to catch a chicken without magic."

Scootaloo looked uneasily at the sack.

"I dunno about that part," said the uneasy Pegasus. "Do we really need a blood sacrifice?"

"Scootaloo, we need to do the ritual exactly as it is in the book," said Apple Bloom chidingly. "If we don't, we might end up summoning a lesser demon that will be easily defeated by Celestia which means no cutie marks!" Scootaloo sighed and nodded grimly.

"Okay, I guess it’s fine if it means we get out cutie marks."

"That's the spirit!" said Apple Bloom. "Now, I'm gonna go prepare the alter. You two need to get goin' on stuff like the symbols on the ground."

"Alright," said Scootaloo. "We'll get on that right away!"

The next few hours passed in silence as the Cutie Mark Crusaders slowly began preparing for the ritual. Sweetie Belle had grabbed the piece of chalk and was drawing the proper symbols on the ground while Scootaloo was sharpening the ceremonial knife that would be used in the blood sacrifice and Apple Bloom was using her building skills to construct the alter.

It was a slow process to be sure. Apple Bloom had to sneak out of the clubhouse every hour or so to steal more wood from the wood pile near the barn and that would always take ten minutes. Scootaloo, it turned out, had never sharpened a ceremonial knife before and she had to try multiple techniques before settling on holding the knife in her teeth while holding the whetstone on the ground with her foreleg. Sweetie Belle had the easiest time of it. Yes the symbols on the ground were without a doubt intricate, but she slowly, but surely, dragged the chalk along the ground to make the proper symbols.

The three continued working into the hours of the night until Apple Bloom looked up from her finished alter.

"Okay," said Apple Bloom. "I reckon that it's nearly midnight and that we need to begin the ritual soon if we are gonna succeed."

"I agree," said Scootaloo who began putting on her ceremonial robe. "The moon is full tonight dear Crusaders. Good fortune shall smile upon us and we shall have success!" Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom looked at Scootaloo confusedly.

"Why are ya talkin' like that?" asked Apple Bloom. Scootaloo shrugged.

"I dunno, it just sounded cool I guess," said Scootaloo. Apple Bloom rolled her eyes and put on her robe.

"Alright then," she said as she looked at the book. "It says here that we need to place the blood sacrifice on the alter and we should kill it when the words of the ancient language have been chanted."

"Words of the ancient language?" said Sweetie Belle. "How will we know what those are?"

"Because they're written right here," said Apple Bloom, pointing at a page in the book.

"Oh," said Sweetie Belle. "That makes sense."

"Good," said Apple Bloom. "Now let's get into position; midnight is upon us."

Apple Bloom opened up the sack and pulled out the chicken. The chicken looked around confusedly before Apple Bloom (with some difficulty) tied it down. Then, she placed the candles on the alter around the chicken and grabbed a match in her mouth which she then used to light the candles.

"Okay," said Apple Bloom as she scanned the book. "I think that I'm supposed to say the words written in red and you two are supposed to read the ones in black."

"How do you know?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"Well I don't really, I'm just guessin'."

"Fair enough," said Scootaloo.

"Okay, here goes nothin'," said Apple Bloom. She cleared her throat. "Iam erant 'iens ut opinor priscosque deos evocare

"Ego coniecto nos id facere potest" said Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo together.

"Sed graviter, qui, mutum est, satis actu legere rituale accersere mortem et interitum?"

"Sed spirituum obscurorum quaedam gubernantia nobis!"

"Mea Culpa"

"Mea Maxima Culpa"

"a alces frenum soror mea semel"

"certe potes non serio"

Apple Bloom hooked her foreleg over the knife and raised it high.

"parvum meum CABALLIO, mea MANNULUS"

"Mirabar quid amicitia posset esse"

With one swift motion, Apple Bloom brought the knife down on the chicken's neck, severing its jugular. The chicken gave a few small squawks before it laid still, blood pouring from the wound on its neck.

"Okay," said Sweetie Belle. "What now?"

"According to the book, to finish the ritual we need to--"

"APPLE BLOOM WHAT IN THE HAY IS GOIN' ON HERE!?"

The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked towards the entrance of their clubhouse to find Applejack looking at the scene with a horrified expression. Apple Bloom gave a frustrated groan.

"Not now sis, we're trying to summon ancient gods of evil to destroy Equestria so we can get our cutie marks!"

Applejack's jaw nearly hit the floor.

"I...wha..."

"Don't worry sis, once we have our cutie marks you can banish them back to the underworld with the Elements of Harmony!"

"We just have to make sure to tell the gods we summon to give us our cutie marks before they raise the army of the undead to pillage the land," said Sweetie Belle.

"Yeah," said Scootaloo with a nod. "I mean, what's the point of having cutie marks if the entire world around you is destroyed, am I right?"

Applejack's mouth and eyes were still wide open from the shock of what she was seeing and hearing. She sat down on her haunches as the cogs in her brain began turning, hoping that she could make sense of all of this. Sweetie Belle frowned and looked at the book.

"Is there anything in here about witnesses harming the ritual in any way?" she asked. Apple Bloom scanned the book too and flipped a few pages to see if she could find that information. She turned back to the page they were on with a shrug.

"I don't see anythin' sayin' we can't have Applejack watch," she said. "She just can't disturb it is all. We’re at a delicate point and one mishap could undo the whole thing!"

Hearing this, Applejack seemed to snap out of her shock and she jumped up and bucked the alter as hard as she could. It shattered into a million pieces causing the candles hit the floor. Applejack stomped on the open flames and quickly put them out so the whole clubhouse wouldn't go up in flames.

"AJ, no!" said Apple Bloom. "You'll anger the evil demons!"

Applejack didn't seem to care in the slightest as she wiped the chalk marks away. She grabbed the dead chicken and threw it out of the clubhouse as hard as she could.

"Uh, does throwing the blood sacrifice out the window count as interrupting the ritual?" asked Scootaloo.

"I think so," said Apple Bloom as she began scanning the pages again.

"APPLE BLOOM, ENOUGH!" said Applejack angrily. The three Crusaders looked up from the book to see an absolutely livid Applejack standing in front of them.

"Uh...sis we were--"

"I don't care what you thought you were doin'," she growled. "I don't know what possessed you to think that you could perform a ritual to awaken evil gods of the underworld, but it is stoppin' right now!"

"But--"

"Where did you get that book anyways?" she asked. "Who gave you a book of phony rituals?"

"Nopony did. We found it underneath the floor in the library! We promise that it's not a fake!" said Sweetie Belle.

"Don't gimmie that!" said Applejack. "Magic like that ain't been seen in Equestria since before Princess Celestia. There is no way that that book is legit!"

"But it is!" said Apple Bloom. Applejack glared at her and before the Crusaders could do anything about it, Applejack whisked the book away and slammed it on the ground.

"Sis, no!" said Apple Bloom but it was too late. Applejack grabbed one of the pages in her mouth and pulled it as hard as she could. To the surprise of everypony in the room, the page did not tear. Applejack looked at it confusedly. The paper was worn down and looked like it would tear if a gust of wind blew through the clubhouse. She grabbed the page again and began tugging but the page did not tear. It didn't even crinkle a little.

Applejack looked at the book a little fearfully.

"That ain't natural," she said with a whisper. "Books ain't supposed to withstand that kind of punishment unless they..." Her eyes widened some more and she turned back to the Crusaders. "You three need to come with me right now," she said.

"Where?" asked Scootaloo.

"To Twilight's house," said Applejack. "I gotta ask her some questions about this here book."

"Can we at least finish the ritual?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"NO!" said Applejack. "I ain't gonna let you summon ancient demons, gods, or undead armies to destroy Equestria!" The Crusaders flattened their ears and Applejack herded them out of the clubhouse. "Now come on, we're gonna go ask Twilight some very important questions!"

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