It had been three days since we hid the pod containing Chrysalis in our basement, and nothing of interest had happened since then.

"-and that is why animatronic bears are VERY bad news." We were currently walking around Ponyville, Ribbon in her pegasus form and me disguised as Juri.

"And this is a game?"

"Made by one guy, composed of about 600 images, 60 sounds, and some DAMN good A.I.... did I mention there's a sequel?"

"I don't think I'd ever want to play that, why would anypony want to play that?"

"Because its horror done RIGHT! You can't run, you can't fight back, all you can do is stall them until 6am. You haven't experienced fear until you've played this at midnight, after getting no sleep, on 4/20 mode, the hardest difficulty there is. Knowing how a single wrong move will get the crap scared out of you gets to you..."

"That's horrible. And you played this?"

"Yeah." From nowhere, a golden teddy bear lands on Ribbons snout, its soulless eyes staring into me.

IT'S ME

I start screaming, causing Ribbon to scream as well, sending the golden abomination to the floor. We were not ready for mini-Golden Freddy, and I was having a flashback. Dammit Keith, why did you have to go buy a giant stuffed teddy JUST to leave it behind me after I found that easter egg!?!? I don't wanna get shoved in a suit!

"Chi, it's alright!" Huh? Oh thank god... I'm not going to die. Wait, where'd that thing go anyway? At that moment, I thought I heard Discords laughing.

My chest feels like it will explode, so I hold my hoof up to it. "I think my hearts going to explode if I get frightened like that again."

"Why don't you lay down for a moment?" I dropped to the ground like a sack of bricks, still trying to control my breathing, even as my heart continued to try and forcibly eject itself from my ribcage. "Um, you might want to put your disguise back on too." Note to self: extreme fear breaks my disguises... quickly resuming my changeling disguise, I go limp on the ground, the adrenalin rush having left me.

"Ribbon, out of curiosity, exactly how much information have you skimmed from my memories via our link?" I've been meaning to ask her that, but never did get around to it until now.

She sighs and sets herself down beside me. "Only what you've given me. Our link, unlike the hive, gives both of us equal power, that's why I had to ask to control your body in the Crystal Empire." That is VERY relieving to hear...

But the nuggets of info I've been giving her more than likely left her wanting more. "You want what I know, don't you?"

"Well, sure I do, but you don't have to tell me."

"Ribbon... you deserve to know. Your hive mind will be able to keep the info alive even after I pass away..." I smile sadly at that. "What i propose, is an exchange of information." Ribbon seems shocked by that revelation.

"Wait wait wait, pass away? But you're an alicorn, I thought you were immortal like the princesses?"

"What..." I could feel my eye start to twitch. Celestia and Luna neglected to tell me about something THAT important?! We're going to have to have a chat about what else they neglected to tell me.

"You didn't know? Their both over a thousand years old."

"Can we NOT talk about that? Trying to figure out how it even works is making my brain hurt." No seriously, it was starting to hurt from the crazy. All I could figure out was that this was definatly not salmon.

"Sure."

"So, do we swap info?"

"Sure. Do you want me to go first?"

"Yeah." This is gonna hurt, isnt it? I immediately feel something worming its way into my brain, and am assaulted by information, like how Ribbons an introvert, and afraid of social conflict. Really Ribbon, you're afraid of worms? Waitaminute... you LIKE having control over me when we make out? Me gusta...

I honestly have no idea where to start... maybe I should just let her into my head? Quickly stuffing certain things that were of absolutely no importance, namly certain parts of the internet, into corner and slapping a mental label of 'this WILL scar you mentally' on it, I imaged our link as a door, and opened it...

I feel Ribbon worm her way in, before she abruptly clutches her head in pain. "Too much, it's too much!" The feeling quickly leaves, before Ribbon wavers slightly. "I'm going to try a different way." The feeling that followed was like my brain had been copied and pasted.

"What just happened?"

"I copied your mind, I'm sorting through it carefully now." She suddenly blushes intensely.

"What?"

'I, uh. I may have found your 'preferences'... you like being on top?' oh... OH!

-No, I like YOU on top...- I suddenly get another packet of info... so, she likes it both ways, huh? I snigger a little when her blush intensifies.

"Oh, you naughty mare, and I thought Twilight wanted to be Rainbows pet..."

Ribbon immediately hushed me. "Quite, rumors spread quickly..."

-I'm wondering, the Nightmare was an evil clone of Luna, and it turned me into its perfect host, more than likely rewriting my DNA to resemble hers... this make me Lunas daughter in law?-

'But wouldn't that be more like twin sister, if your DNA was the same as her?

Then, Pinkie happened. "OH MY GOSH! There you two are, I was wondering where you went..." I quickly tuned her out, not really wanting to deal with her insanity today. She suddenly drops two tickets at our hooves. "Here, Twilight got a bunch of invites for a royal dinner, and told me to give you some!" By the time I realized what just happened, Pinkie was gone.

"Well... that happened..."

"You weren't paying attention, were you?"

"Not a damn bit until she gave us the invites."

"Princess Cadence and Shining Armor are in Canterlot, so Princess Celestia invited us and the the others to dinner."

Oh, I just had the most wonderful idea... "Wanna mess with Blueblood while we're there?"

"Oh yeah. He actually thought a 'common mare' like me would bed any stallion." She giggles excitedly. "Of course I said no, and when he told the guards about me, they just walked me around the corner!"

Challenge accepted. "He caught me before I had my coffee..."

"Oh? what did you do to him?"

-I implied I vaporize ponies that annoy me, before implying he pissed me off enough that I was going to eat him... and yes, I slowly walked towards him cackling evilly... He ran faster than Rainbow flies!- yeah, ponies would have flipped if I had said that out loud.

'I'm sure you did those stories of Nightmare moon proud.'

"Heh, just imagine his face when he thinks theres TWO of me..."

"He'll flip and probable cause trouble for Celestia's court." She does a whiny impression of the jerkwad. "'I demand you imprison them immediately, there a danger to us all!'."

"I think Discord would want in on the amount of trolling we're going to do..."

"I don't know how we'd invite him, though."

"Its Discord, he'll more than likely invite himself."

"True, he probably will."

"So how long until it happens?"

Ribbon takes a quick look at the invite. "Three days." She opens it, causing it to spray confetti everywhere.

"Pinkie..." I take a deep breath, and get up off ground, shaking my head "We should probably head home, I need to figure out what to ask Celestia and Luna, now that I suspect they've been holding back information..."

Author's Notes:

Sorry for the short chapter, the next one is going to have feels, plot advancement, and backstory...

Oh, don't forget Blueblood bashing.