Silver awoke the next morning with a splitting headache. She knew for a fact she hadn't toughed a single drop of alcohol last night, but she still felt like she downed her whole liquor cabinet again. She tried rolling over only to find she was in the grasp of a very content Tiber cuddling her from behind, spooning if that suits your fetish. She sighed and nudged him in the ribs. Tiber twitched and dug his snout into her light red mane, inhaling the smell. This was just getting stranger by the minute. She elbowed him again, but harder this time.

Instead of twitching, he straight up shouting in pain and fell out of bed.

"What!?" Tiber said angrily.

"You wouldn't let me go and I couldn’t wake you, so I had to do something to free myself." Silver Bit's usual charisma didn't last long before pain shot through her head. Something was really wrong. Everything was foggy about the past few months, especially things concerning Tiber.

"Headache?"

"Feels more like a migraine."

"I got just the spell for that." Tiber said as his horn glowed a dark green.

The pain intensified as her questions started to mount in her mind. Then, they passed. All of them. The migraine faded quickly but her eyes still felt like they were trying to come out of her head.

"Better?" Tiber asked with a smile.

"Yeah. Keep that one on standby if I need it again."

"Wasn't planning on doing anything different."

"Okay then…" Silver glanced to the clock on the wall and nearly had an aneurism when she saw the time. "Oh shit! Eight twenty six! We're late! We need to get moving."

"Don't you want to shower first?" Tiber said sneaking up behind her as she rummaged through her drawers for the keys to the shop.

"Tiber, play lovey dovey all you want after we get back. Did you finish ordering that new part?"

"Uh, yeah… It should be here next week."

"Um… What? They told me it would be here next month. They send you a letter?"

"Uh, yeah."

"Well you'll have to show me the copy of the one you sent them. I might want to take notes for the next time I have to shooze somepony like that."

"Uh, Yeah."

"Call a cab. I'll be looking for my keys."

"Uh yeah. I'll do that."

Silver turned around and looked to Tiber with her brow knit. "You forget the number or something?"

"Uh…"

"I'll call you boil a pot of tea while we wait. Unless you forgot how to use the stove overnight?"

"That I can do."

Silver rolled her eyes as she headed to the only phone in the house. Thankfully for Silver, her keys sat next to the phone. She kicked off the receiver and had the operator connect her to the local cab company.

When she arrived at the shop two hours late thanks to Tiber. Silver carried a thermos of tea in her saddle bags to try and help keep the migraines back and to help her wake up. Fixette and Autumn Spark stood waiting at the front door.

"Finally! Could you two keep your 'fun' for the weekend when I have time off?" Autumn said still tapping her hoof on the sidewalk.

How does she know? "Sorry. Tiber forgot to set the alarm last night." Silver said taking her keys out of the saddlebag.

Silver could feel a warm wind flash behind her from Tiber as she unlocked the door. Out of her peripheral, she saw both Fixette and Autumn shake their heads. She shoved the wooden door open and stopped cold at what she saw, the entire place was trashed. Papers littered the floor and drawers sat either open or buried in the wall. Everypony stood in shock. Tiber seemed a lot less surprised to see this but was none the less gob smacked. Silver didn't hesitate to run straight to her office. She skidded through the open door and stared underneath her work bench where her safe sat untouched. She couldn't be sure though, she got down on her knees and spun the dial as fast as she could until he input the combination.

The safe clicked and the door popped out a few inches. She grabbed the edges of the iron door and yanked as hard as she could. Inside, important documents, bits and Nexus' gauntlet sat untouched. The only difference was that the blade was now pulled all the way back. Fixette was a generous. Silver sighed with relief and shut the safe as Autumn Spark ran in through the door.

"Everything's trashed!"

"Yeah. You see anything missing?"

"No. Whoever broke in wasn't lookin' to steal money. The register out front is still full and from the looks of things all tools are accounted for. What about the safe?"

"Full. They must've been looking for the combination."

"Want me to move it?"

"Yeah. Have Tyler put it in the back of the register. He'd be the only that could get it then."

"Speaking of, you notice anything weird about him lately? Like, as early as this morning?"

"He's just stressed. He's been getting a lot of stuff ddone faster than we couldn't do in the same amount of time. Give him a break. GAH!" Silver shouted as another bout of migraines shot over her.

"You alright?"

"I'm fine. I just need some tea. Go send a letter to Nexus. Express."

"Alright. If you say so. I'll have Fixette get the cops down here."

"You do that."

Express to Canterlot Castle must mean teleportation. Nexus showed up before the cops did. It was odd to see that he wasn't wearing his eye patch. He walked around the wreckage and did his best to try and help put the place back together.

"What are you doing you moron!?" Autumn asked shoving Nexus as he pulled a drawer out of the wall.

"My job? The police handed the investigation over to my people." Nexus replied sliding the drawer back into the front desk.

"What?"

Nexus sighed before speaking. "No pony ever knows what I do for a living. I'm a member of the Evening Guard. We've been keeping track of a string of burglaries like these all over Equestria."

"Really?"

"Yeah. We'll need to put some surveillance on this place for the next few days."

"You sure that's what we need around here?" Tiber asked stepping out of the shop.

"I do. My team is setting up right now."

"But why are you putting everything back where it was?" Autumn continued.

"Because we need them to come back. Where's Silver Bit?"

"In the back. Why?"

"I need her go-no-go on this. It's not my call."

Nexus didn't wait for either of them to argue and made his way past them. As he walked, everything on the ground was enveloped in a light blue glow and went back to where it had been sitting the night before. Silver saw that through her window and quickly jumped out of her office about to yell at him.

"What are you-"

"I'm putting everything back where it was. Nothing was stolen right?"

"Um, no. What are-"

"He's Royal Guard." Autumn said getting up behind him.

"Evening Guard. There is a difference."

"Whatever. AH! How'd you remember where everything goes?"

"Photographic memory. Migraines?"

"Yeah."

"How long have those been going on?"

"Since this morning. I've got tea and Tiber's got this spell that really helps."

Nexus looked over his shoulder and moved a screwdriver back to the rack next to the forge. "Does he now?" he said looking back to Silver.

"Yeah." Silver could feel those questions coming back in. The horn, his attitude change; it all came back with another migraine.

"Speaking of-" Tiber's horn glowed and all of the questions faded with the migraine. "Better?"

"Yeah. Thanks."

Nexus knit his brow and looked at her sideways. "Anyways. Hang on to the gauntlet for a while."

"Oh, but we fixed it. It works right Fixette?"

"Yeah it should work now." Fixette replied quietly as always.

"Well, either way I would suggest you hang on to it. It might be what the robber was trying to get to. After all, you had it locked up safe and sound right?"

"Yeah! Of course. Built the safe myself."

"Well keep it there and put the combination somewhere safe.”

“Already done. Back of the register right?”

“Already done.” Fixette assured.

"Well then. Keep on with your regular day. We can't let them know we're watching. My troops will report to me daily and even sooner if they come back."

Nexus turned and started out of the shop and was met by a black unicorn. "You feel what I feel?" He asked.

"Yeah. Keep a very close eye on this place. I think we have a code 8."