Fang, Marine and Dusty hung out at Sweet Apple Acres, each having their own share of work in taking care of the trees.
"Sho, doesh thish, thing go on the tree?" Fang asked while holding the object he found in his mouth.
"Fang, that's a watering can," Dusty said, Fang stared at him. "Which is used to water," Fang continued with his confused staring, making Dusty facehoof. "No, it does not go on the tree."
"Then where doesh it go?"
"I don't know, ask Applejack."
"Ask me what?" Applejack asked while Fang pointed to the watering can in his mouth.
"What should I do with it?" Fang asked, making Applejack laugh.
"You don' know much about farmin' or yard work, do you?" Fang shook his head as Applejack put the can on her back. "I guess I should've known, y'all predators must not know the difference between a trowel and a shovel."
"Hey, I so do know!"
"Then what's that?" Applejack pointed to a large shovel that rested on the barn
Fang scratched his head. "A giant spoon?" Fang guessed.
"What about that?" Applejack pointed to a trowel nearby.
"A smaller giant spoon?" Fang guessed again.
Applejack laughed. "Sure it is. Marine, could you help me out here?"
"What? Do you need me to do something with one of those spoons?" Marine asked.
Applejack facehoofed. "On second thought why don't you two just help pull weeds?"
"Sure thing!" The two replied and set off.
"Well, at least I know they're good at somethin' on the farm."
"Five, four, three, two..." Dusty started counting down.
"Uh, Applejack, which ones are weeds?" asked Fang.
Applejack facehoofed as Dusty snickered. "This is gonna be a long day," Applejack muttered.
Twilight and Mixy tried to pass the time on the train by talking.
Mixy advised Twilight about when they finally make it to Mixy's home. "Alright, so do not ask him about Chrysalis or anything about changelings too much, a few questions an hour or so is fine but more than that makes him uncomfortable and feel guilty."
"Got it," Twilight took notes.
"Also, if my dad doesn't feel like talking, my mom most likely will, but if neither of them feel comfortable just leave them alone for a while."
Twilight nodded in understanding.
"And if my dad says he doesn't want to talk about it, never bring it up again unless he's in a really good mood."
"Now what should I ask him?" Twilight asked.
"Other than normal small talk, I think you should just let me do most of the talking until he warms up to you." Twilight nodded.
Pixel Berry guided Moonlight Shadow to Sugar Cube Corner.
"I tried your advise on surprising, I think I may have given somepony a heart attack from that." Moonlight said as they approached the door.
"Trust me, if what Pinkie has in store doesn't make you laugh, nothing will," Pixel advised her friend. "Just don't think too much and let your emotions out."
Moonlight rolled her eyes. "If you insist."
The two entered the building to find nopony there.
"Pinkie Pie! Are you here?" called Pixel.
Pinkie's voice was heard from upstairs. "Pixel? Is Moonlight with you?"
"Yeah."
"Stay right there, I'll be down in a second!"
Within a couple seconds, Pinkie trotted down the stairs. "I'm so glad you two could make it, I've got the perfect plan to make you laugh Moonli-Woaah!" she was interrupted after she slipped on a banana peel that was unnoticed and she was sent sliding across the room. Moonlight wanted to help but Pixel stopped her, leaving Moonlight to just watch as Pinkie continued to slip and slide across the room constantly running into various pots, pans, and food, mostly pies and cakes before she finally stopped, but her dazed and confused condition made her stumble into a lever that caused another set of contraptions to take effect as she was launched into the sink that not only cleaned the pie crust, fruit filling, and frosting off of her, but also leave her soaking wet that made her slide onto a ramp which sent her flying through the air and landing just some distance away from Pixel and Moonlight, and finally to finish it off, a bag of flour was dumped on her head.
Pinkie looked up and smiled to show she was okay.
Pixel looked at Moonlight expectantly. "Well, what do you think?"
Moonlight stood there eyes wide, she had no idea how to respond to the calamities and craziness. However she couldn't react with sympathy knowing that Pinkie was relatively unharmed. She suddenly felt something inside her that started to well up, a slight mixture of several emotions combined with sudden spasms in her diaphragm that seemed to also force a smile on her face.
Right after that, Moonlight's laughter filled the air. Pinkie and Pixel looked at each other at a job well done before joining in the laughter as well.
Once the laughing died down, Pixel turned to her friend. "So, Moonlight, how do you feel?"
"I... I don't know!" Moonlight answered, sounding very excited. "But at the same time I don't care! I feel as though I have exhausted unwanted-" she stopped herself and shook her head to correct herself. "I feel great! And for the first time in my life I'm feeling multiple emotions at once! It's confusing, and I want to question it, but this laughter makes it all indescribable. All I can say is thank you, Pinkie."
"Hey, it's what I do," Pinkie replied with a *squee* and a smile.
"So does this mean you'll show more emotions now?" Pixel asked.
"Sort of, I'll try now, but this will be the most amount of emotions I will demonstrate for who knows how long, the laughter just gave me this burst of energy that makes me just want to smile and keep showing emotions!"
"Of course!" Pinkie replied. "Why do you think I'm always smiling?"
"I always figured that it was part of your personality, but-" Moonlight stopped herself again. "That was rhetorical wasn't it?"
Pinkie nodded. "Yep! You're on your way, Moonlight." Moonlight nodded as the two visitors left with a big smile on their faces, even though Moonlight's wasn't seen.
"Hey, Pixel?" Moonlight asked.
"Yes, Moonlight?" Pixel responded.
"Thank you, you didn't just show me what I was missing by not laughing, but also how much I've lost while alone."
"No problem, Moonlight, that's what friends are for," they smiled at each other. "Now, come on, let's go home, it's almost the afternoon and all that laughter made me exhausted."
Laa-Mohr and Eclipse sat down together in a wide open field, just relaxing. Until Eclipse broke the silence.
"Laa-Mohr?"
"Yeah?" the cursed misfit replied.
"I'm bored."
"Me too."
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know."
"Me neither, there must be something we could do."
"Perhaps we could enhance our abilities," Laa-Mohr suggested.
Eclipse raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"You know, I could practice my swordfighting and you could practice controlling your flames."
"I can already control my flames."
"But you can't control your heat, from what I heard you needed a spell to decrease your heat and you still burn and set fires by touching, have you ever felt cold before?"
"Hm, no I haven't, but how would that help me?"
"I never said that, it was just a question."
"I know, but that does make me wonder how I could feel cold, just to know what it's like."
Laa-Mohr was about to reply when a voice from above emerged. "I think I could help with that," suddenly the two were covered in blue shreds of confetti-like substance.
The cause was none other than Discord. "You know, I have wondered what it would look like if you were affected." he said.
"Affected? Affected by what?" Eclipse demanded, about to flare up from annoyance.
Laa-Mohr took a closer look at the material that surrounds them, then his eyes grew in shock. "Eclipse, this is poison joke!"
"What the heck is poison joke?" Eclipse asked.
"A plant that causes strange effects to ponies from contact, I've only read about it, but never seen it before."
Eclipse looked at his body, nothing seems different. "Then why hasn't anything happened yet?"
"Actually, your mane stopped flaring." Laa-Mohr answered.
Discord sat down on a lawn chair. "Ooh, this is going to be exciting."
At that moment, Eclipse's coat changed from its normal albino white to an icy blue, as well as his mane changing to different colors of blue as well. Finally, Eclipse started shaking and shivering.
"Hey! W-w-w-what-t-t-t hap-p-pened t-t-to m-m-my h-heat-t-t-t?"
Discord flew over Eclipse. "Hm, would you look at that, you're frozen," he said with interest. "I almost thought you would get some kind of rain cloud over your head or something like this." Discord demonstrated it by hovering a cloud over Eclipse that rained. Laa-Mohr was the only one to notice the raindrops freezing upon contact with Eclipse.
Eclipse growled at the draconequus. "I sh-should t-t-torch-ch y-y-you right-t n-now!" Eclipse threatened.
"Go ahead," Discord said as a large target appeared on his torso.
Eclipse focused and aimed, yet nothing happened. Eclipse tried again, still no fire. Eclipse growled and stomped his hoof about to charge straight at Discord until Laa-Mohr stopped him.
"Eclipse, channel your anger, do not let this result in something we would regret, even if it is Discord."
Eclipse deeply breathed and calm down, his breath was seen as he breathed out. "S-s-sorry, L-Laa-M-M-M-Mohr," that was when he noticed the large sheet of ice on the ground. "Hey, w-w-w-where'd-d th-th-this-s c-come f-f-from?"
"It was created when you stomped your hoof, it seems that the poison joke has frozen your fire and given you ice powers instead."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, poison joke's too ridiculous to give perfect powers, it's just more unpredictable and uncontrollable."
"Ah... ah... ACHOO!" the now cryokinetic unicorn sneezed, causing two large icicles to form from his nostrils.
"Such as that," Discord said as he broke off the icicles on Eclipse's nose and used them to knit a multicolored sweater with Discord's face on it. he then put it on Eclipse, who glared at him with hatred.
"Wait a minute, I was in contact with the joke too," Laa-More said as Eclipse struggled to get the sweater off. "Why wasn't I affected?"
"Oh, you were, Laa-Mohr, you'll see." Discord replied. By then Eclipse got the sweater off and it launched right onto Laa-Mohr's face, who after stumbling around for a few seconds slipped on Eclipse's ice patch and tumble around as the sweater unraveled and managed to tie up Laa-Mohr in a cocoon of wool. Discord then made a scissor shape with his eagle talon and used it to cut Laa-Mohr free.
"It redirected my curse to affect me..." Laa-Mohr said awe-struck. "If I knew this earlier things would have been much easier back in Saddle Arabia."
"Not exactly," Discord replied. "It just allowed your curse to affect you, nothing else changed."
Laa-Mohr sighed. "I knew it was too good to be true."
"I th-th-think I l-lost-t-t f-f-feel-l-ling in-n m-my hoov-ves," Eclipse said. "Isn't-t th-there a c-cure f-f-for th-th-this?"
"Fine, I'll be right back." Discord teleported away before coming back several minutes later with Fluttershy.
"Oh my goodness, what happened?" Fluttershy exclaimed.
"These two unfortunate souls somehow found themselves under the effects of poison joke." said Discord, sweeping up the poison joke leaves off the ground.
"Somehow? You dumped them on us for goodness sake!" Laa-Mohr said, trying to approach Fluttershy before tripping several times and bumping straight into her. "Sorry about that."
"It's alright, I understand." Fluttershy said before looking at the other pony, only recognizing the blue, shivering unicorn because of his eclipsed sun cutie mark. "Oh my gosh, Eclipse! Are you alright? You're ice cold!"
"Y-yeah, th-th-this-s p-p-possib-b-ble f-f-frost-t-tbite is p-p-perfect-t-tly n-n-normal!" Eclipse replied sarcastic.
"Oh my, I could hardly recognize you with that blue color. Come on, I'll give you both a bath to cure the poison joke." the three ponies trotted away after Laa-Mohr and Eclipse gave Discord a look that screamed, 'I will get you for this,' after which Discord replied with a grin and a shrug.
Meanwhile, Clockwork, Cyber, and Lyra continued to work on the wings.
"Why do I have to be the one that tests it?" complained Clockwork, who had the wings on his back, almost looking like a pegasus.
Cyber pushed buttons as he explained to Clockwork. "We already discussed this, your weight matches the average weight of ponies, therefore we could get best results."
"Also, we have your memories backed up so it's alright if you get destroyed." Lyra added.
"What!?" Clockwork exclaimed.
"Relax, Clockwork, if this goes well, maybe we could turn you into a pegasus."
"That's easy for you to say, you're not the one who has dangerous wings strapped to his back!"
"We're only testing the hover feature, after that you'll be free of it and we'll work on the control group."
Clockwork sighed. "Fine, but I better get something out of this when we're done."
Lyra took over the controls. "Alright, activating in three... two... one..." the two unicorns flipped a few switches, causing some internal turbines to turn on and gently lift Clockwork off the ground.
"So far so good," Cyber said. "How are you feeling, Clockwork?"
"Nervous." the automaton answered.
"Don't worry, we're just going to lift you up a few more inches then test the directional functions."
"Make it quick, being destroyed is not something I want to experience anytime soon."
"Alright, testing motors now." Cyber replied as he started moving the joystick to turn the device. Immediately the slightest nudge sent Clockwork flying into a tree.
"Clockwork!" Lyra exclaimed as they turned off the wings and went over to Clockwork's aid.
"Are you alright?" Cyber asked.
Clockwork stood up, his eyes spinning in their screens. "Cyber, tell me again why did you program pain into me? Ow..."
Cyber inspected the automaton. "There seems to be only a few dents, nothing I can't fix. Clockwork, run a check for any internal damages while we see what went wrong."
"I'll go get my repairs done now." Clockwork said, taking off the mechanical wings before trotting inside.
Cyber picked up the wings and sighed. "I can build a robot with fully functioning emotions but I can't make a simple pair of wings."
"Don't worry, we'll figure out what's wrong someday, don't stress out about it.
"I'm not stressing out about it, I'm just confused right now, also I'm going to have to deal with Clockwork rambling on about how he could've died and how I should use a dummy or replica next time."
"Well then, we'll deal with it together."
Cyber smiled and nodded as they both trotted inside the house to continue.
As the sun began to set, Laa-Mohr and Eclipse were returning to the misfit home.
"Fluttershy can really draw a good bath, I felt like I was at a spa!" Eclipse said, now free of the poison joke effect and back to his normal, pyrokinetic, albino self.
"Clearly you've never been to a spa," Laa-Mohr replied. "Though Fluttershy did provide what was necessary to cure the poison joke while also providing comfort."
"At least it worked, now I'm beat and want to go home."
"Agreed, plus we haven't eaten dinner yet."
"I don't care, after nearly getting frostbite, I'm still resisting the urge to set myself on fire."
The two enter to find Cyber and Lyra working on a blueprint.
"And here we see the rare techno unicorns in their natural habitat," Laa-Mohr joked, earning the attention of the unicorns in question, Cyber looked very annoyed while Lyra was confused. "If we're lucky, we may get to see them participate in the mating ritual known as 'kissing'."
Eclipse started to snicker as Cyber threw his pen at Laa-Mohr, only to miss and hit Eclipse in the head.
Lyra was confused. "What are they talking about?" she asked.
Cyber rolled up the blueprints as he continued to look unimpressed. "They just think we're going to be coltfriend and marefriend."
"The techno unicorns deny their attraction towards one another," Laa-Mohr continued. "Yet they are inseparable."
Lyra was starting to get irritated as well. "Knock it off, Laa-Mohr!" she shouted, about to hit him, only to fail and falling down the process.
"The techno unicorns also fail to notice that their target has a curse that brings bad luck to anyone near, this has been today's moment of 'watching, waiting for the moment' my name is Laa-Mohr, I'll see you next time," Laa-Mohr and Eclipse chuckled as Cyber rolled his eyes.
Then another voice was heard laughing within the darkness of the other room.
"What was that?" asked Eclipse.
"Is it a ghost?" asked Lyra, worried.
"Oh, calm down, it's only me." added the voice as the source stepped out of the shadows, which surprised everypony.
"Moonlight?" cried out almost everypony in the room. Moonlight nodded.
"Yes, it's me," Moonlight Shadow responded. "Why are you all so surprised?"
"Did you... laugh?" Lyra asked. Moonlight nodded again.
"Yes, that was me."
"Who are you and what have you done to Moonlight Shadow?" Eclipse asked.
"I see, it's just Mixy, isn't it?" Laa-Mohr said.
"Nope, it's really Moonlight." Cyber replied. "Mixy left with Twilight to visit her parents."
"Who?" Laa-Mohr asked.
"Mirror Shard and Dandelion Meadow, Mirror Shard's the changeling," Cyber answered. "Anyway, I'm about to start on dinner while Clockwork is being repaired. Lyra, you wanna join?"
"Sure." Lyra replied as everypony started their own individual activities.
Laa-Mohr trotted up to Moonlight. "So if you're here, where is Pixel?"
"Taking a shower." Moonlight answered.
"I see, so how did you learn to laugh?"
"Pinkie Pie," Moonlight replied, smiling underneath her hood.
"Is that a smile I detect within that shroud?"
Moonlight gasped and pulled her hood further over her face. "H-how did you know?"
"Several years of isolation makes some pony very observant, also the look in your eyes is very clear."
"I didn't know that my eyes could show emotions."
"You'd be surprised what the eyes of a pony can show."
The following silence was interrupted by Dusty's voice. "Aww... you look so cute together."
"D-Dusty!" Moonlight exclaimed. "How long were you standing there?"
"Long enough, Fang and Marine are back too. So what's the big thing that happened?"
"Moonlight laughed," Laa-Mohr answered.
"Yeah, right."
Moonlight spoke up. "Actually, I have."
"You're serious?" Moonlight nodded. "Dang, I wish I was there."
"It was a pleasant experience." Moonlight said.
"Hm, well, I'm going to let you two do whatever you were doing, I'm going to hang with Fang."
Laa-Mohr and Moonlight nodded as Dusty trotted away, then Laa-Mohr turned to Moonlight. "So, does this mean that you'll be expressing yourself more?"
Moonlight took a minute to think before nodding. "Yes, and I think that it may be close to showing who I really am."
Afterward, The Misfits and Lyra chatted, ate, and it wasn't long before they all trotted to bed.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in Equestria, a young mare trotted across the street in the night, everything was normal, until a nearby bush rustled.
"Hm?" The mare looked over at the bush, nothing seemed wrong until she saw it move. That made her look closer.
Within the leaves and darkness, she could barely make out a pair of orange-yellow eyes of somepony.
"H-hello?" she asked, then the eyes looked alarmed before she saw an orange-yellow streak zoom out of the bush, along with a weird, rapid, squishing noise, somewhat like walking on dough.
"Wait, stop!" The mare yelled, trying to follow the pony she saw, but couldn't catch up.
Meanwhile, the pony in question kept running, panicking, into the forest before he stopped after hearing a splash, looking down the pony saw his hoof in a small pool of water, immediately taking it out, but still watched in horror as he watched the water dissolve pieces of his hoof, making it start to fall apart, but only for a few seconds. The pony didn't know how that happens, in fact he didn't know anything, for he was always too busy running to learn. He didn't have a name yet, nor did he have knowledge on how to react to other ponies, so he just ran in fear, he wanted to be like them but he didn't know how or who to learn from.
The pony looked at the pool of water and saw looking back the usual reflection: a pineapple flavored stallion made completely of gelatin.
The next day, Twilight and Mixy approached a lone, two-storied house in the middle of a field that included several crops nearby.
"Well, here we are, home sweet home," Mixy said. "Remember what I told you, just leave the changeling talk to a minimum." Twilight nodded in response as Mixy took a deep breath and knocked. After a few minutes, nothing happened.
"You think they're not home?" Twilight asked.
"Wait for it..." on cue, the door opened to show a golden yellow unicorn mare with a darker yellow mane and a dandelion cutie mark, who gasped out of happiness.
"Mixy!" she exclaimed.
"Hi, Mom!" Mixy replied, hugging her.
"This is unexpected, I didn't know you were coming, and where's Cyber?"
"He's in Ponyville, he's got some things to do, I just came to show Dad the newest member to The Misfits, this is Twilight Sparkle."
"Oh, really? Well, Twilight, I am Dandelion Meadow," Dandelion replied, sounding slightly relieved. "Come on in, make yourself at home." Twilight smiled and was shown into the parlor as Dandelion leaned to Mixy. "So, she knows?" She whispered.
Mixy nodded. "Twilight's really smart and wants to meet a good changeling."
"But you know how your father gets when you talk about his 'origin'."
"Don't worry, Mom, I know what I'm doing. Where is Dad anyway?"
"He's inside, and I hope you're right, for his sake."
Mixy and Dandelion trotted inside where they found Twilight already at the dinner table.
"Now, Dandelion," Twilight said. "I know about your husband's 'trust issues' but I don't think it could hurt anypony if you brought him here."
"Who says I have trust issues?" asked the baby blue stallion that stood at the end of the stairs and approached the mares.
"Hi, Dad!" Mixy said.
"Hello, sweetheart," the stallion who was most likely Mirror Shard said, nuzzling his daughter.
"Hi, Mirror," Dandelion said, kissing her husband.
"That's your dad?" Twilight whispered to Mixy.
"He's wearing his disguise right now." Mixy answered.
"Oh, and uh... Mixy, who's your friend? Some kind of princess?" Mirror Shard looked at Twilight with suspicion.
"No, Mirror Shard, I'm not," Twilight lied to keep Mirror Shard calm. "I'm actually a natural born alicorn, and ever since Mixy told me about your... 'true self' I always wanted to meet you."
Mirror Shard rose an eyebrow in suspicion. "So, you know about me being a..." Twilight nodded.
"Honey, it's ok," Dandelion comforted her husband. "Don't worry so much, if Mixy trusts her, we can trust her too."
Mirror shard looked at his wife for a good thirty seconds before sighing. "You're right, sorry about how I acted, Twilight, it's just that being a changeling leaves you wondering whether or not you can trust anypony, but I guess it's just leaving me paranoid." Mirror Shard smiled.
"Uh, Dad? You're still wearing your disguise." Mixy said.
"Huh? Oh, yes, right." after which, Mirror Shard became coated in the familiar green flame that allowed changelings to change. After a few seconds the fire subsided and Twilight was looking at a changeling, every detail was similar to the other changelings, with only exception being his eyes didn't change into the normal changeling pure blue.
Twilight's mouth was agape as Dandelion trotted up to Mirror Shard. "And that's the changeling I fell in love with." she said.
"Yes, so this is what I look like as a changeling, now if you'll excuse me, it's been a lot in such short time and I need to relieve this stress and to prepare tonight's dinner." Mirror Shard then trotted outside.
"Alright, dear!" called out Dandelion, then once her husband was out of earshot, she turned to the other mares looking determined. "Alright, now spill it," she said.
"Spill what?" Mixy asked, slightly worried.
"You're lying, aren't you?"
Mixy tensed up. "A-About what?"
"About Twilight, she really is a princess, isn't she?"
Mixy and Twilight looked at each other with worry before Twilight nodded admittedly.
"How did you know?" asked Mixy.
"I dated your father for five years, I know a lie when I see one."
"But didn't you fall for those lies?"
Dandelion was about to argue, but stopped. "Alright, fine I heard rumors about her in town, but that's outside the point. Why did you bring her here?"
"I really wanted to meet your husband," Twilight answered. "Being the first reformed changeling, he has knowledge that could benefit Equestria, also Celestia wanted me to."
Dandelion's eyes widened and her mouth was agape as she stood shocked. "What? Celestia knows about him? How?" she asked, worried.
Mixy hesitated. "I... told her?"
"Mixy? How could you do that to your own father? You know how he is with the princess, if he hears about this he'll have a heart attack."
"Yes, I do know, and that is why I told her, I want Dad to live in Equestria peacefully and at least step outside, not be afraid that Celestia is spying on his every move and will assassinate him the moment she gets."
"And I know Celestia, I was her personal student," Twilight added. "She would never take apart another pony's family, whether or not there is a changeling in it."
Dandelion looked like she didn't know whether or not to trust them, then she looked into her daughter's eyes, practically begging for an answer, this made her sigh.
"We'll have to convince your father, it won't be easy, but it's possible, but I would suggest telling him the truth before his trust grows too much to be repaired."
Twilight nodded. "I understand."
Right then Mirror Shard stepped in from outside, carrying a basket of produce in his sky blue magic.
"Alright, now who's up for some dinner?" Mirror Shard asked.
"I'll get it started," Dandelion said as a golden yellow aura levitated the produce onto Dandelion's back. "In the meantime I believe Mixy has something she would like to tell you." After that, she left into the kitchen leaving Mirror Shard alone with Twilight and Mixy.
"Alright, what is it?" Mirror Shard asked.
"Um, Dad... don't freak out but, about Twilight... she's not actually a member of The Misfits, she's an actual princess."
"Yes, I know," Mirror Shard said nonchalantly.
Mixy looked at her father. "Really?"
Mirror Shard nodded. "First bit of facts for you, Twilight: changelings are good with logic. The Misfits are a group that accept ponies that are teased or mocked, if anything an alicorn wouldn't be teased, praised maybe, but not teased. Furthermore, if somepony was a new princess, word would reach around very quickly, even out here."
"Wow, but why did you go along with me?"
"I wasn't sure at first, but if you had to break the family code to tell me that, it became obvious. I'm a changeling, I know lies."
"But you didn't suspect that Twilight was going to tear us apart!"
"Mixy, she's your friend, doesn't have a kingdom and not related to Celestia, I'm not that paranoid."
"Actually..." Twilight was about to say about her brother being married to Cadence before Mixy stopped her.
"Actually what?" Mirror Shard asked.
"Actually... I was wondering what your family code was." Twilight said.
"Well, ever since Dandelion found out I was a changeling we made it an oath that we would never tell a lie in this family." Mirror Shard answered.
"So you aren't suspicious about how your daughter almost lied to you?"
"She was just trying to keep me calm, and I respect that, so I'll let it slide, but please don't do it again."
Mixy shrank in her seat, ashamed. "Sorry, Dad."
"Wow, I never knew that changelings were so intelligent!" Twilight said.
"There's a lot of things you don't know, but please wait until a better time to ask. I don't like being reminded of when I was under Chrysalis' control."
"And Dad?" Mixy hesitated. "I should probably tell you that Celestia knows you're a changeling."
Mirror Shard froze with shock. "Wh-what did you say?" he asked.
"Celestia knows you're a changeling?"
Mirror Shard tried to think about it, trying to find some proof she was lying, but he couldn't and he sighed. "I was afraid of that, Luna managed to enter my dreams and being Celestia's sister, I assume that she would have already told her, but I didn't want to accept it until now. Though I still don't know how she figured it out."
"I'm sorry, Dad, but I just couldn't stand the thought of you being locked up in here forever. Besides, I met Celestia, she really wants to meet you ever since I told her about you," Mixy covered her mouth with a gasp at what she just said as Mirror Shard gave his daughter a look of pure disappointment.
"Mixy! How could you?" Mirror Shard scolded. "Words cannot describe how disappointed I am in you. I trusted you and you let me down! That's it, you can't go back to Cyber."
"But Dad!" Mixy tried to say. Mirror Shard held up his hoof to stop her.
"No, I won't hear it, if I can't trust you to keep a secret from the Princess, I can't trust you to keep a secret from anypony else."
"Dad!"
"Mixy, I told you-"
Twilight couldn't take it anymore. "STOP!" she yelled, gaining the attention of the changeling and his daughter. "Look, Mixy was trying to do the right thing and you keep pushing her out, Mirror Shard. Also Celestia told her to tell you, look!" Twilight took the letter she received yesterday from Celestia out of her bag, Mirror Shard then read over it, keeping a face of disbelief.
"If that doesn't convince you, then how about this?" Mixy took out Cyber's letter and showed it to her dad, who read it as well.
Mirror Shard thought deeply before he sighed and looked down in regret. "I'm sorry, sweetheart, I got a little carried away. Though as much as I want to punish you for telling Celestia, I can't help but feel as though you're probably right. I guess I should just accept change and try something else, I was just scared, that's all."
"So, I can still go with Cyber?"
Mirror Shard smiled. "Yes, you can, now let's go get something to eat."