Twilight slowly looked over her massive books for even a hint before admitting there was nothing. Before she could continue her research, she heard a knocking on her door and looked over in surprise. Spike quickly opened it and let in a group of ponies along with a royal mail carrier. Spike quickly took the letter and began reading out loud for Twilight. "This is an emergency message to Princess Twilight. The Everfree forest is currently invading Ponyville."
Twilight stopped because she had a quick thought about what this could be before shaking her head. She looked over the message to see if there were any words that Spike might have missed, even though that has never happened before. She quickly nodded and moved over to the crown holding her weapon of Harmony. Spike looked worried because this meant there were two problems happing at once out there right now. Twilight quickly spoke up in a reassuring tone of voice. "We have to get to ponyville Spike."
Spike nodded his head slowly and looked at Twilight, who was looking like she was going to be taking off on foot. He wondered what Twilight was currently thinking because this was looking bad. He quickly shouted to get her attention. "Twilight, we will not make it on time if you run there, we have to fly."
Twilight stopped while she grimaced in annoyance because that was a truth she did not want to think about. It was that she did not like flying. It is a sad fact, though, that she was honestly a pretty lousy flyer but not terrible, it is just because she has not had her wing for long enough to learn. She looked at the guards still kneeling and realized that there were two Pegasus still there. She asked them a question because she was extremely nervous about giving orders still. "Can you get a royal Cart ready to fly us to Ponyville? I believe that whatever is happening in Ponyville has a part in detailing the missing princesses?"
The guards thumped their chests and quickly moved off to go set up the cart for Twilight, leaving Spike and her alone in her room. Spike watched them leave and promptly moved to shut the door behind them and looked over at Twilight, who was already looking much more confident. Spike spoke up with worry in his tone of voice. "You think what could be happening in Ponyville right now, really has something to do with the missing Princesses Twilight?"
Twilight quickly nodded her head and looked out the window in thought, because this was something that made much more sense to her than the fact that it was an attack from two separate entities. Spike quickly started moving around the room and packed everything up that would be needed to make this trip just as successful as the first time they left for Ponyville. Twilight was extremely worried about Onyx because she knew from what Celestia had written down that moving the moon was highly grating to her magic. She could not imagine what Onyx was going through having to do both of their jobs. She slowly whispered to herself in worry. "I only hope we are fast enough to help Onyx deal with what he is going through."
---Canterlot Air Park---
Twilight looked over the various parked skiffs being prepared and realized that she was getting an escort of what looked like 4 other skiffs. She quickly moved over to one of the overseers to get them to stop and start working on a single skiff. When she arrived behind one of them, she was quick to start arguing with one of them and informing them that there was no time to wait for the other skiffs to be ready that they needed to head out immediately. The overseer argued that they never sent out a Princess skiff without escorts to protect it, not even her highness Celestia argued over this. Twilight could only grumble and head off to the Skiff that would take her into Ponyville and hopefully save her friends and gather her friends together.
Spike watched as every Skiff was prepared to head out and leave into a place where the Everfree forest was attacking or invading. Spike really does not see a difference, but Twilight had told him the because the plants are not really sentient, they can not really be an attacking force. So, it is just a really invasive plant species invading the land of Ponyville. Spike does not really get it because that means someone released the plants and used them to attack. Twilight could only sigh in annoyance because that was honestly a really great question on Spike's part, does the fact the plants are not sentient troops matter to an invasion force.
While they were debating on it, or at least Twilight was debating, and Spike was listing and prodding her along, so she was not panicking over the fact that this was taking forever. One of the Overseers was quick to come over and informed the two of them that they were ready to launch and get them into the air and on their way to Ponyville. Twilight was quick to run over to the Skiff that was going to be carrying her and Spike. Twilight noticed that Onyx was looking at her from the castle with people running around behind him as they boarded. She smiled and waved, letting him know that she had noticed him. Onyx only calmly nodded back at her.
---Time Skip Air Current On Route To Ponyville---
Twilight looked over the land that they were flying over with sadness because there was nothing she could do to help the various scared Ponies. Spike, though quickly asked a question that was most definitely on his mind for a while now. "So, once we get to Ponyville, what on earth are we going to be doing, Twilight?"
"First identify the species of plant that is acting up and determine if it is naturally a part of the Everfree forest." Twilight answered Spike sounding much more confident now than they were on route to her friends and fellow Elements of Harmony. She looked over the four skiffs following along with her own she quickly turned when she had sensed something. She was surprised to see clouds with what looked like metal-drawn lightning bolts sticking out of them. She promptly called out to the skiffs. "Halt!"
The skiffs pulled to a halt and looked over at the various clouds, and wondered how they were going to get through this. Before they noticed that what looked like Rainbow Dash attacking the clouds. Twilight growled and looked at the skiffs and noticed that there was no way for them to get through. She quickly pulled Spike on her back and called out to them. "Return to Canterlot, and there is no way the skiffs will survive those clouds, not with the way the clouds are sending those lightning bolts."
Twilight started flying through the sky and made her way towards Ponyville. She quickly noticed Rainbow jack flying after her friends on the ground towards her Library. She could only groan because she noticed that Spike and her have a vastly different sorting system that most are used to. Especially to books she had already read and changed where they should go. Spike looked extremely shaky on Twilight's back because this was looking quite bad and slowly wrapped himself tighter. She called out to Spike as she dodged lighting bolts and looked surprised when her weapon blocked one without her input. "These are made of Chaos. There is a chance that Discord might know what is going on."
Spike could only sigh unhappily because that meant the girls would have to be right next to Discord again. Discord greatly annoyed Spike because he could not understand his thought process at all because it was strange, Discord has never created anything like this before in the records that are available to the public. He quickly asked Twilight because it was honestly a little too high and mighty, in his opinion. "Do you really think Discord would really do something like this, Twilight?"
Twilight could only hum because this does not fit his m.o at all. In fact, this makes no sense compared to the usual way he moves, at least according to history. There would be records to match this plant if he had made something like it before they started taking over the Everfree forest. They may not know everything there is to know about the Everfree, but they do have some really good records. She slowly talked about her thought process about how this could be and could not be Discord, leaving Spike, who was listening could only shake his head at the way Twilight was acting. So he quickly asked to clear it up. "So we have to confront him and see if he is really behind this."
Twilight nodded and started heading down towards her Library.
---Twilights Library---
Twilight realized that she was going way too fast and quickly teleported her and Spike back inside, making them land into a pile of books. When she looked around and saw that her Library was totally trashed with the girls looking through her books, she could only sigh. Rarity quickly helped her out of the Pile and explained what was going on with the other girls. While Spike was praising the ground in happiness while also promising to never leave it. Twilight quickly spoke up, interrupting their thought process. "The Princesses are missing, and I believe that whatever is causing these plants is also the cause behind the missing Princesses."
The girls quickly gasped in shock at Twilight's words for both the Princesses to be gone is the insanity of the highest order. Rarity was quick to point out that the Sun and Moon were in their proper position and whatnot. Twilight only sighed and explained that Onyx had taken over the duty of moving the sun and moon and leaving it up to her to find the Princesses along with them the Elements of Harmony. The girls quickly nodded their heads because that sounded precise what Onyx would do. Rarity was quick to ask the question on all the girls of the herd minds. "Is he alright from what I understood from the limited information about Divine Magic? It is extremely hard on the body to do multiple at the same time?"
Twilight looked them over and sighed because she did not want to hide anything from them. So, she quickly explained what was most likely happening with Onyx right now. The girls could only grimace with worry because this was sounding extremely bad. Applejack shook her head from side to side with worry in her tone before asking the question on everyone's mind. "What on earth should we be doing, Twilight?"
Twilight slowly floated the weapons out of the case that Onyx and her had created to protect them while they were away from Ponyville and in a different location. She pulled them out magically and attached them to the chest of the various girls helping her out. She quickly explained that there is one person who might have the answers that they are seeking. "The clouds were blocked from attacking me by the Harmonic Magic I was giving off on their own, that tells me they are made of Chaos stuff, and as much as I do not want to blame Discord, he most likely has the answers to the questions we are seeking girls."
They quickly nodded and started leaving the Library to get to a safe location to summon him with the spell they had been given by the Princess Celestia.
---Astral Realm---
Harmony was already starting to look better now that the Elements were back together. While Discord was looking annoyed about the plants that the lesser self-released on the world. They could only hum in thought because it was honestly looking like this was a plan that they had missed that is only now going off. Harmony decided to speak up first. 'So which one of your agents caused this to happen.'
Discord only sighed in annoyance. 'I have no idea, in all honesty, because I have never seen plants like this before.'
Harmony only nodded their head in agreement and looked over the plants. 'They are quite amazing, in my opinion, if only they were not attacking my tree.'
Discord only laughed at Harmony's annoyance at the situation.