The next morning, Yomega had sent a message to my brain while I was on my way to work. We were meeting up again that afternoon. Sighing at the mental intrusion, I went about my work for the day.
Namely, napping. They wouldn't need me for a few more weeks. I settled onto my cushion, and just had closed my eyes when I heard Rainbow sigh.
"Sorry, Leo, you're up today."
<<Wha?>> I cracked an eye open. <<I thought I wasn't needed?>>
"Got a new memo in the mail." Rainbow waved a scroll at me. "C'mon, I need to bring this up with the rest of the crew." I followed her out to the main crew room. "Alright mares and colts and Thunderlane!"
"Hey!" The named stallion called out over everyone else's chuckles.
"Settle down, got something important for us." Rainbow called out. "Cloudsdale wants us to know that we're next on the water delivery list." She spoke up over the murmurs and groans of the weather crew. "Yeah, I know. I need a volunteer to put up a new schedule, and to send a general memo out to every pegasi to meet up in Golden Oaks. Just as soon as I clear that with the resident scientists.
"The rest of us will be gathering clouds over the reservoir. We'll need all the water we can send them."
A hoof rose from the back. "Will Leo be helping us out with that?" Clear Skies asked.
"Later in the day, after the new schedule has been posted." Rainbow answered. "Don't want to drench ponies without something to cover our flanks with."
"What about getting Lulu?"
"Don't know where she gets her water from." Rainbow admitted. "Don't want to risk it vanishing on us. Any other questions?" No one spoke up. "Alright, everypony knows what their doing. See you in the skies."
I watched everypony file out before turning to Rainbow. <<Wake me when you need me.>>
Later that day, I tromped through the rain towards the Daycare. I paused between Lulu and Villhiem, shaking myself off before darting up the ramp.
"Glad you could make it." Conner said.
"Glad I made it before it started raining." Zann frowned. "I thought it was going to be sunny?!"
Yomega held a paw out. "We'll get into that in a second. I just need to fill everyone in on my current changes."
We all settled in around the eggs, Lulu and Villhiem poking their heads in the door. I hopped over bodies and limbs to curl up around my eggs. I was surprised to see Peewee's nestled between them.
"Okay, first things first." Yomega curled his tail around himself. "I've been reclassified as a Mutis Enigmus Eevee Sapiens Albus. Moon Dancer figured that, since I evolved from a subspecies, that what I evolved into is a subspecies as well. Move-wise, I lost almost all of my moves, keeping Tackle and Refresh of all things. I gained Calm Mind, Hypnosis, Nightmare, Dream Eater, Confusion, and three Psychic moves: Psychic, Psychic Fang, and Psystrike." He raised a paw. "Please wait until I'm done.
"Leo, Conner, I'm going to need you to take care of Peewee for a while. I'm going to go a little ways into Whitetail Woods and try and get a handle on my new mental powers."
"Why Whitetail?" Abes asked. "Couldn't you do that in the library?"
Yomega sighed. "I need some mental quiet. You guys might not be saying anything, but your thoughts are very loud. I find it very distracting, and I need to get a handle of it on my end. You're about to ask if I tried telepathically talking with Twilight, Zann." We all turned to the fire type, who nodded. "I've tried. It's weird, though. They keep fiddling with the radio whenever I try... I don't think they are picking up on my signals. Which is definitely odd, considering that you can all 'hear' me right now."
"Outta my head!" I snapped at him.
"Dude," Vincent tilted his head at me, "what's your problem?"
"I don't like people being able to read minds." I shifted my glare to him. "One's mind, one's thoughts, should be private! What if I was thinking about a really dark scene in a book I was writing or a movie I just watched? How would he know that it was for something fictional, and not real?"
Yomega sighed. "No, I get it. That's why I need to go to Whitetail. I need to just be able to transmit and not receive. Would that be fine with you, Leo?"
"Just sending messages?" I paused, thinking it over. "Yeah, I can get behind that."
Cy held a paw up. "What if we needed to respond mentally? How would you know?"
"I can work on that later." Yomega turned to Vince. "And, because you can't stop thinking about it: my evolution felt awe inspiring. It was as if a wall in my mind fell away, and, for the briefest moment, every future was laid bare in front of me. But the details were lost when the thoughts of every being near me began to bombard me." I could see him start to lose focus, his breathing increasing in speed. "Leo, please fill us in on the next episodes."
I nodded, pulling everyone's attention off of our Alpha. "Right, so, Dragon Migration just passed, and we've got a major change. I'll surprise you with that in a second. Coming up pretty quick is Hurricane Fluttershy, where every pegasus is needed to send water to Cloudsdale so that they can make more clouds. Don't ask me how that works. That's why it's currently raining, so that we have enough water to send to up. After that is, well, this one might not happen.
"The Crusaders join up with the school newspaper to try and earn their cutiemarks, and That Bitch is put in charge because the paper's student run." I shrugged. "Since The Bitch is up in Canterlot and the Crusaders have their cutiemarks already, I think we can safely ignore that one.
"After that is the Mystery on the Friendship Express. The Cakes bake a cake for a competition in Canterlot, but it, along with every other entree, sorry, entry has a large chunk eaten from them. Not spoiling anything in case we get to go, but everyone's entry makes it, and wins."
"How's that possible?" Conner asked.
"You'll have to wait and see." I grinned. "After that is the season two finale." I paused as Villhiem and Lulu checked outside for any eavesdroppers. "So. A Canterlot Wedding." I winced as Lulu squealed. "Shut! Up! Before Fluttershy hears you!"
"I'm sorry, I can't help it!" Lulu gushed. "Who's the lucky pony? Is it Rarity?! Or mph! Mhmmhmhmhm!"
"Thank you, Villhiem." I sighed. "Twilight's brother -yes, she has an older brother- Shining Armor is getting hitched with Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. She's Twilight's former foalsitter, she prefers to be called Cadence, and she's going to be kidnapped by Queen Chrysalis of the changelings." I waited out the uproar that caused. "Ya all done? Good. Chrysalis is using the wedding to try and take over Canterlot, then Equestria, so that her people will have enough food. They eat love, by the way. Twilight figures out that the Cadence everyone meets is a fake, but handles it poorly, allowing Chrysalis to capture her and imprison her in the crystal mines under Canterlot with the real Cadence.
"They break out, stop the wedding, Chrysalis throws a hissyfit, defeats Celestia, Twilight and Co. get captured." I had to speak up over everyone again. "Twilight convinces Cadence to break Shining of Chrysalis' hold over him, she does, they make a magic love nuke, and the Changeling army is expelled, everyone learns a valuable lesson in listening to ponies, the wedding proceeds as normal, Shining and Cadence go off in the wedding carriage. And then they fucked." I finished with a deadpan. "The end. Oh, the Princesses are aware that something would happen, but not what."
Yomega spoke up before anyone else could. "Since she'll just try something else if we interfere now, we must let this one play out. That said, we shouldn't just sit by while the army invades. We should do what we can during the fight. We can go over that plan closer to the wedding."
Eventually, everyone stopped grumbling. Abes finally said something that wasn't pessimistic. "So, where's Spike? I've noticed that he's still missing."
"Oh, right!" I giggled. "Do I have a surprise for you! Spike's staying with Ember, a dragoness we met during the migration. She's teaching him about dragon kind. But here's the surprise: Luke's hooked up with her!" I got a bunch of blank looks. "Y'know, Skywalker, our neighbor?"
And a new uproar began. I waited for it to settle down before I could regale everyone with our adventure. While I did so, I noticed Yomega slip out to begin his solo training.