Chapter 5
Gathering Information
The mane 6, Neo and Spike were out in the Crystal Empire trying to gather information about how to protect the Crystal Empire. They walked around and tried to get some information from the crystal ponies, but everypony they asked had no information whatsoever.
One pony even said that she couldn't even remember anything before King Sombra ruled the empire. Twilight believed that King Sombra's curse was why the crystal ponies' coats were not crystallized, all of the crystal ponies looked by regular ponies. Neo could imagine how the ponies would look if they had crystallized coats, they would looks all shiny and sparkly.
Neo and the mane 6 went all around the empire and asked many ponies about how to protect the empire, but they couldn't get any information from them.
They all met up by the castle, they all said they got nothing,.
"These crystal ponies seem to have some kinda collective amnesia or somethin'," said Applejack. "Only thing I was able to get out of 'em was somethin' about a library."
Twilight gasped and said, "A library? Well, why didn't you say so?!"
Then the mane 6 went to the crystal empire library. When they went into the library, Twilight looked around at all the books, she just loved the sight of seeing tons of books around, Twilight loved books so much (as you can imagine).
As she was looking at the books, the librarian came over to them and said, "Ahem. May I help you?"
"Yes, we're looking for a book," said Twilight.
"Well we've got plenty of those," said the librarian. "Are you looking for anything specific?"
Twilight didn't answer, she was too starstruck by all the books around the library.
"We're lookin' for a history book," said Applejack. "Somethin' that might tell us how the Empire might've protected itself from danger back in the day."
"Ah yes History," said the librarian.
The librarian looked around, trying to see where the History section was. The mane 6 just stared at her.
"Where exactly is the History section?" asked Twilight.
"I... I can't seem to remember," said the librarian. "I'm not sure I actually work here."
"Man, these ponies are really screwed up," Neo said to himself.
"We'll just take a look around," said Twilight. "I'm sure we can find it on our own."
The librarian smiled and said, "Let me know if you need anything," and she walked off.
Neo and the ponies began looking around the library for the history books. Neo went down a row of books and looked through them, but all he could find were fictional books.
As Neo was looking through another row of books, he looked over down the hall and saw something. He saw a young female human, she looked to be about 12 years old. She was wearing a white ballerina dress and a crown on her head. He recognized the human, it was Shirley Temple, one of his childhood friends and famous celebrities. He couldn't believe his eyes, he had not seen Shirley Temple in years and he wondered how she could even be here in Equestria.
Then Shirley started dancing where she was and she sang a song ("My Country Tis' of Thee"). Neo watched her dance as she sang, Then Shirley spun around like a ballerina and suddenly disappeared.
Neo went over to where she was and she was gone, he wondered what just happened. Even though Neo had the ability to create illusions with his mind, he was not making this illusion, he assumed he must have been imagining things.
Twilight came over to Neo and said, "Neo, what are you doing?"
Neo looked at Twilight, then he looked back where he saw Shirley Temple but there was no one there.
"Nothing," he replied.
"Did you find the History section yet?"
"No not yet."
"Come with me and help me look over here."
Neo and Twilight looked through many books and couldn't find any history books about the Crystal Empire. The other ponies couldn't find any history books either. Then Twilight finally came across a book about the history of the Crystal Empire.
Twilight looked through the book and found a page that talked about a Crystal Empire event called the Crystal Faire.
After looking through the book, she, Neo and the ponies went back to see Shining Armor and Princess Cadence.
Twilight said to Shining Armor, "A 'Crystal Faire'. According to this book, it was established by their first queen and became their most important tradition. The Faire was held every year to "renew the spirit of love and unity in the empire so they could protect it from harm". My friends and I could put it together. Everything we need to know is in the book!"
"That sounds pretty promising," said Shining Armor.
"We'll get started right away. C'mon, Spike, we've got a Crystal Faire to put together!"
Twilight, Spike and Neo went to see their friends who were sitting at a table in the castle. Neo stood by a window a few feet away from them. Twilight and the mane 6 discussed how they would set up the Crystal Faire and what they would do at the faire.
As they were talking, Neo looked out the window and thought about the illusion he saw of Shirley Temple back at the library. Twilight called over to Neo but he didn't seem to hear her.
She went over to Neo and said, "Neo, is everything alright?"
"Yeah, everything's okay," he replied.
"If something is wrong, you can tell me. I'm you friend."
"It's okay Twilight, I guess I was just daydreaming."
"Oh okay. Come over and sit with us, we need to talk about what we're gonna do for the Crystal Faire.
Neo came over and sat with the ponies at the table, he sat in between Rarity and Fluttershy. They discussed what they would do at the faire for about 20 minutes. While they were discussing it, an idea came to Neo and he got up from the table.
"Neo, where are you going?" asked Twilight.
"I'll be right back," said Neo. "I've gotta make a phone call."
Neo left the table and went to other side of the room.
"I wonder who he's calling now," said Twilight.
"He sure can be secretive about some things," said Rarity,
"He shouldn't be afraid to tell us anything, we're his friends," said Twilight.
"But he shares everything with us," said Pinkie Pie. "He even shares personal things with us sometimes, he knows we're his friends."
"Let's go see who he's calling," said Twilight.
The mane 6 left the table and followed Neo, they tried to be distant so that Neo wouldn't see them. They thought that if Neo saw them, he might think they are spying on him and he might leave the room.
Neo was on his phone and the ponies were listening to him.
Then a voice answered the phone and Neo said, "Hi Malachi."
The ponies recognized that name, that the name of was Neo's brother. Twilight wondered why he was calling him.
Then Neo said on the phone, "Listen I have a job for you. I need you to get a few of my Mortal Kombat warriors and come to the Crystal Empire in Equestria. Don't worry, I'll give you the coordinates, but I really need you guys here. I'll give you instructions when you get here."
Then Neo hung up the phone and said, "We're gonna make this crystal faire the best fucking faire of the year."
Then the mane 6 approached Neo.
"Neo, who did you just call?" asked Twilight.
"I called my brother," said Neo. "He and some human friends of mine from the real world are coming here to help us with the crystal faire."
"You've invited some of your human friends here to help us with the faire?"
"Yes, we're gonna do everything we can to make this crystal faire the best faire in the history of Equestria."
End of chapter 5.