After another several days of resting, I was able to use basic telekinesis. To celebrate my recovery, me and Ribbon returned to Ponyville to relax for a while. Ribbon however, seemed to be experiencing a feeling of dread. “Hopefully your mail problem isn’t as bad as you made it out to be…” unfortunately, when the door to her house was opened, I was proven wrong. Spam, spam everywhere. "And I thought paperwork multiplied quickly..."

"There might be some that in here too." oh, joy… Grabbing a letter, I open it to see what kind of spam it is, only for it to be… a foals drawing? that wasnt even the most confusing part, the drawing was of me and Ribbon riding either a very badly drawn dragon, or SCP-682. either way, still pretty badass. I smile at the levels of awesome that would be if it was real, before showing it to Ribbon.

“Well, at least it’s not all hate mail, you’ve got fans.” that doesn't seem to cheer her up.

"Yes. I went from nopony, to Changeling royalty and Equestrian celebrity in just a few days." Oh, OH… she doesn't want so much publicity period.

“Look at it this way Ribbon, you’re on the map now, you should use this to try and get changelings recognized as sapient beings across the globe.” Ribbon sighs.

"Maybe. The only beings that really knew of us were the griffons, and as, Celestia said. They're edgy as is, and Diamond dogs will always ignore the law, they always have."

As we continued talking I grabbed and opened another letter and rea- wow, this is more colorful than Rainbows mane... I toss it over my shoulder muttering 'haters gonna hate.'

"Hey Chi, Ribo- wait, what?" How the? I think we just got ninja'd by a half asleep Scootaloo. She shakes her head, before a stupid grin appears on her face. "CHI!" She then glomps me.

*Bark!* ah, theres Gary. He follows Scootaloo around wherever she goes, which is actually kinda cute. Still, I wish I could have seen everyones faces that time Scoots rode him to the schoolhouse.

"Hey Chi, Ribbon, I've been wondering, do you mind if I introduce you two to my classmates?" She does this complete with puppy eyes.

"Hmmpf, fine. They don't know yet, do they?" How... I just showed you a foals drawing of me and you riding 682/a dragon! How do you not know?!

"Yeah, they know, and want to see anyways." Entertaining children is always fun.

Ribbon blinks. "They want to see me? I'm not doing any tricks."

I can't help but roll my eyes at that. "Ribbon, their children, they find anything out of the ordinary fascinating."

"I don't care, I'm still not doing any tricks." You don't say. After the two of us disguised, we followed after Scootaloo, who lead us on a short walk, until we reached the schoolhouse where every single foal stopped what they were doing.

"Hey, Ms. Cherilee, I brought them!" Wait, isn't she one of the ponies involved in what I like to call the 'CMC shippers' incident?

"I... see what you mean about them not drawing attention..." I can't help but chuckle at Cherilee's look of disbelief.

As we walked into the schoolhouse, the foals following behind Cherilee, before we reached the classroom. "Uh, Ribbon? Which one of us should go first?"

She sighs. "I might as well..." when she transformed, I couldn't help but smile as the foals 'ohhhh'ed and 'ahhhh'ed at her changeling form. Several of them walked up to her and started looking at her from every available angle. Ribbon suddenly flinched, before turning and looking at one of the foals. "Don't do that, their sensitive." The culprit was... a miniature, unicorn version of Derpy. Oh god, she's multiplying, the Derpocalyps has begun...

"Why are you purple? All the Changelings I've seen are black with green eyes, not purple with blue ones." That was the small purple earth pony, who reminded me of Tavish's disguise.

"Well, miss..." she trailed off waiting for a name.

"Ruby Pinch."

"Well Ruby, I honestly have no clue, maybe it was Because I've been feeding exclusively off of Chi since before I became a Queen?"

I shrug. "Seems legit. Anyway, my turn. A bit of warning, this will more then likely creep you out." Allowing my form to shift back, I was greeted to stunned silence... OH, DERP! They didn't know about me being an alicorn. I hear Ribbon sigh in relief, she really doesn't like all the attention.

"Cool!"

"She has fangs!?"

"Another princess?"

"Look at her eyes..."

Seeing the look in on of the foals eyes, I realized she was plann-

"Of course the freak filly would hang out with bug monsters..." I hear Scootaloo muttering how 'I'll get you for that, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon...' "Maybe that why you're a black flank, maybe you and your friends are really changelings!"

"Yeah, gross bug monsters!" Oh god, and she has a cronie, that must be the Silver Spoon Scoots just mentioned... those motherfuckers!

'No! Don't do something stupid!'

-can I at least make fools of them?-

'As long as it isn't physical, yes.'

"This right here ponies, is a prime example of trolls!" Everyone responded with a unanimous 'wat'. "Now the important thing is that trolls want to get a reaction out of you, and once they do, they'll keep coming back for more, like what happens if you feed a seagull. Thus the important thing to remember, is do not feed the trolls, do not argue with trolls, as it means they won, by getting a reaction from you. And under no circumstances, hate them, as it will only make them stronger." Nearly everyone in the class burst out laughing, while Diamond and Silver stood there, with an 'oh crap' look on their faces. "I do believe my work here is done, see ya Scoots." Turning to Ribbon, I sigh. "We've still got all that mail to sort, don't we?" Its times like this I wish I could use Shadow Clones...

"Yeah. We can grab Lyra, get her to help. All she does is sit around ponyville and mooch off Bon Bon." Ribbon chuckles.

"Yeah, well, see ya Cherilee, class!" I was meet with numerous 'bye's. The two of us redisguising, we set off to find Lyra, only for Twilight to find us first.

"THERE you two are, I've been looking all over town for the two of you!" Oh joy, its Nerdzilla!

"What is it this time?" That mare, I swear she will break reality someday... it get real annoying real fast.

"Hey, Twilight." Well, apparently Ribbon doesn't find it as annoying.

"I just got a message from princess Celestia, you two, me, and the rest of the Bearers are wanted in Canterlot, something about it being to sensitive to mention in a letter." Okay, if she can't mention it in a letter more than likely sent via Spike, it MUST be important."

"I'm never going to clean out my house. Maybe I should just throw changelings at it, that worked before." Worth a shot.

"It'll have to wait, the others are waiting for us in town square." We promptly follow Twilight, and get there within three minutes. Of course, before we walk into their line of sight, I remember that they don't know that Night Sight is my disguise, so I revert to normal, not wanting to ruin its integrity any further. As well as getting ready to do something stupid...

"I've got them girls, we can head for the station now!"

"Why in tarnation would we be needed as soon as possible any-"

Everything flashed the color of my magic.

"WAH-HA-HAAA!"

"Weeeeeeee!"

"Oh, bu-"

Before we promptly crash landed on the floor in front of the throne room, covered in ash.

Twilight and Rainbow had landed on top of each other, in the most suggestive of positions, Applejack was sandwiched between Rarity and Fluttershy, and Pinkie... was on my head.

Ribbon was the only one who saw this coming, and had started hovering right before I teleported them.

After Pinkie jumped of my head, I shook the ash out like a wet dog, much to everyone's annoyance.

Twilight huffed in frustration, and after getting off Rainbow, released a spell that got rid of most of the ash.

*Thump* Everyone spun around at that noise, to see Blueblood passed out on the floor.

One of the guards on finally gotten over their shock, and spoke to us. "Chitsuki, Twilight, the princess wanted to speak to you two personally." Nodding, I lead the way into the throne room, to see a worried Celestia, whose face quickly morphed to one of surprise.

"When did you get here?"

...

Did you not hear the commotion outside? "I teleported us, although the landing was rough..." she raised an eyebrow, impressed.

"That's rather impressive. How long have you been practicing long range?" Ummm lemme think here...

"About 2 months, why?" Teleporting is fun once you get the hang of it, not as fun as flying, but you get the idea. Twilight looks at me with a WTF look on her face.

"It's no wonder we were singed and covered in ash!" She give me a glare, but it doesn't faze me.

"I'm guessing this is of utmost importance, if you didn't even mention it in the letter. Pleeeease don't tell me Discord got free." I hate that Q wannabe's guts, he hurt Ribbon! If he does get free, me and him are going to have a little talk...

"No. An enemy far worse than Discord has awoken. Even Discord had morals, he never outright killed and always made a game so you could win, even if he stacked it against you." Celestia grabs a crystal from a podium by the throne. "I'm afraid the Crystal empire has returned, and with it, the most vile and hateful enemy my sister and I have ever faced." Okay, that does sound bad, makes this guy seem like a vicious supervillain.

"Yeah, he's gotta be powerful to prove a threat to you AND Luna... What did this guy do anyway?"

"He single handedly enslaved the entire Empire, and when we defeated him, he cursed the Empire to vanish. For a thousand years I thought it was gone forever. Twilight I want you and your friends to go to the Crystal empire and find a way to protect it from his dark magic."

Twilight nodded. "I'll do what I can, Princess."

"Lemme guess, while Twilight and co. focus on defence, you want me and Ribbon to take this guy out?" Oh yeah, this guy has pissed me off enough to terminate him with extreme prejudice.

"That might not be necessary. The Empire used to be a place of love and peace." Celestia shines a beam of light from her horn, into the crystal, the diffraction revealing a city of white and pink. "For as long as he can not reclaim what was taken from him, the city may force him out. But if you fail," Celestia uses a bit of dark magic to turn the crystal black, causing black and gray crystal growths to emerge in the refraction. "This is what may befall the empire." Yeah, that is a Bad Thing.

"Then what DO you want me and Ribbon to do?"

"The same as my student. I want you to help in finding a way to protect the Empire long term. Now go, princess Cadence and Shining Armor are already there, and good luck my little pony." And that was my cue to leave.

- You get that Ribbon? -

'I got it. But can you see why everypony's been acting the way they have about your dark magic?' damn, she's right.

Walking out, I interrupt Twilight before she can explain.

"Road trip!"