After helping Bill I reappeared where I had left up on the moon. I took a moment to reorient my mapping systems for my own Equestria, and made sure to save the data I had from his world into my drives. Bill's journals held a god deal of information on magic and science from his world that I'd be able to use. My brain already functioned like a supercomputer at this point, so all it took for me to get an understanding of magic was just the raw information on magical functions at different levels and some practice. The practice I could do easily with some of the training programs I got from F.A.U.S.T., and here on the moon made a perfect place for me to come later. I'd actually be able to go all out without fear of harming something or someone. I took a few moments to look over the data I'd gained from Bill.

Huh... It actually had the blueprints for the Alicorn Amulet from his world. Using that I quickly took out my Alicorn Amulet and decided that I'd make a vault or something in Kyth and I's basement to store it in. Hopefully I'd be able to disassemble the thing into raw components later and make something without negative effects from it. With luck, the thing could be useful in the long run. I opened my wings and took off, flying back into the atmosphere and  returning to Ponyville. I found Kyth, Spike, and Sombra waiting for me at home, Kyth using the InsMan tome to conjure up a couch. I raised an eyebrow.

"So...What happened to the couch?"

Kyth glanced up at me when he was done with the new couch.

"Met a Displaced that was having a rough time, so I let him crash on the couch and keep sleeping as he went back."

"Huh...Cool, what was he Displaced as?"

"Someone named Pitch Black from that Rise Of The Guardians movie.  So, how was the moon?"

I cracked a smile.

"How'd you know I was on the moon?"

"You have moondust on your legs."

I blushed and morphed a hand into a scrubber to get that off while I talked.

"Well I met a Displaced Bill Cipher!"

Kyth gave me a blank stare. "...Wut."

"Yup. Fought some kinda horrible Bee-Bear fusion monster."

Kyth looked at me with concern.

"Oh jeez...You okay? I know you have that thing with bees..."

I giggled as he walked over. "Y-yeah, I'm good. I kinda figured out that even outside of combat mode my artificial tissue is able to resist being stung by bees or bitten by bugs and all that. It made it easier to fight the thing once I realized that I'm actually able to fight back. Anyway I actually got some awesome data from Bill and his journals. With some practice I might be able to cast some of the magic stuff that he had recorded information of. Anyway, it's time for explanations. C'mon, let's grab Twilight and the others and I'll explain the deal with the upgrade."

It took a while to give them the rundown on everything without telling the native Equestrian's about the Displaced. As far as they knew, F.A.U.S.T. was someone that was passing by and I had planned to meet with on her 'journey' for an upgrade. A load of crap? Yes. Did they know that? No. It worked well enough for them to buy into everything, and hopefully I'd be able to keep up the story until it became necessary to come clean (and subsequently dissolve all of their perceptions about the nature of reality), but hopefully that'd be a far ways off. When I was done I made up an excuse about being tired from the day's activities and ducked out before anyone could ask questions. Later I explained it all truthfully as well a telling him about some of my new abilities. Though we then came to a troubling topic.

"Hey Kyth... Magic Duel happened today, right?"

"Uh...Yeah. Trixie with the Alicorn Amulet and the like. Why?"

"Well... We already saw Dicord get loose. That means 'Keep Calm And Flutter On' happened before Magic Duel. That means something's changed the timeline of events to no longer match the show. Besides that, what happens when we run to the end of what we know about the show? We only made it to seeing 'The Lost Treasure Of Griffinstone' before getting Displaced. Anything could happen after that, and we'll have no way to prepare!"

Kyth walked up and drew me into a hug from behind.

"Hey, c'mon. We can handle anything that gets thrown at us, what's the worst that Equestria could throw at us?"

I tried to calm down but I couldn't shake a feeling of dread... I wasn't worried about what Equestria could throw at us.

I was worried about Messenger's warning.

Two figured stood on the crest of a hill, looking down at the small town off in the distance. One of them appeared to be a young girl with a pair of sharp pigtails. With her stood a tall man, his face obscured with an odd mask and on his right arm a metal plated gauntlet, with wiring and tubes coming out of various points and tearing into his arm. Next to him was an odd automaton, looking like the top part of a being but lacking in legs and floating in the air. Both the girl and the man looked at each other with purple, glowing eyes. The girl spoke.

"Alright, there's the place... Ravn, Deathtrap, you ready?"

Both nodded and the girl smirked.  "Good. Come morning those Hyperion-loving bastards won't know what hit them..." Next Chapter: Chapter Nineteen: Agents Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes