'He's here.'
Ditzy awoke with a start, and found herself staring at a gray, red-haired pegasus.
"Umm, can I help you?" She asked.
"I'm sorry for watching, but there's something you need to know, Ditzy. I'm Infra Scope, by the way."
"Ohh... Kay, so what is it that you wanted to talk to me about?"
"I'll explain along the way. Right now, we need to get to Tripwire's lab, ASAP."
Ditzy did a double take.
"Tripwire?" She asked, "As in-"
"Yep," Infra said, "Follow me."
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Ditzy followed Infra through the apartment and into the lab. She gaped in awe at the machinery, but stopped in her tracks when she saw the midnight blue alicorn princess standing before her.
"Princess Luna!" She exclaimed, bowing.
"Hello, Ditzy," Luna said as Tripwire walked up next to her.
"Hello, your highness," Ditzy said.
"Uhhh," Axle said, walking up, "I hate to cut the formal business short, but we have more important things to do than grovel." Mirage sighed, approaching the foursome, along with Amplitude and Hazard.
"I hate to say it," she said, "But Axle's right." Ditzy got to her hooves.
"So, why is it that I was brought here?" She asked.
"Hold on," Trip said, his horn lit up and the lights in the lab all dimmed. A triangular sheet of gray light formed in the air spewing from Tripwire's horn. He slowly moved the light across Ditzy, while she stood where she was, her eyes straightening out of fright.
Finally, the light vanished, and the lighting in the lab returned to normal. Ditzy could see little lights blinking in Tripwire's right eye, and she knew that he was concentrating.
"Strange," he said, with a hint of worry in his voice. He turned to Ditzy.
"Do you remember how you got... How you are now?" Trip asked, trying to sound polite.
"Don't worry. I get asked that a lot," Ditzy answered, "My mom would always say that I got hurt, but she never said why or how."
"Okay," Trip said, deep in thought. Axle cringed a bit.
"What's wrong?" Ditzy asked.
"... You guys can explain it," Axle said before taking off.
"Tripwire," Luna said, "Can I pull you aside for a bit?" Trip nodded, and walked off with the lunar princess, but not before sending the necessary information to the other robots.
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"So I assume that you know what CREATion did to us, right?" Hazard asked. Ditzy nodded.
"And I heard about the mare that did it," she added.
"So here's the scoop," Amplitude said, "Basically, Trip had found a way to hack into Foxy's motor circuits and control him. Through a camera, Axle saw that good-for-nothing mare in the crowd." She paused, uncertain about how to continue.
"Axle basically went a bit crazy," Mirage said, "He tried to get Foxy to attack her, but she... used a filly as a shield."
Ditzy's eyes went straight.
"Me?" She asked. The trio nodded. Ditzy's head reeled. Not out of fear, but out of amazement.
"But that's just backstory," Hazard said, "Have you been having strange dreams lately?" Ditzy, a bit startled, nodded.
"Is that why I'm here?" She asked.
"Not exactly," Amplitude said, "A crazy murder happened on the first night that you had that dream." Ditzy gave a puzzled look.
"What exactly does this this have to do with me?" She asked.
"Tripwire sent us the data from the scan," Mirage said, lighting up her horn to form a 3-dimensional view of a blank pony.
"When Foxy had attacked you," Mirage said, a large set of holographic jaws sinking into the pony's forehead, "It left a chip of some sort in your brain." The jaws slid away to reveal a small piece of metal in the pony's head.
"It's quite possible that the chip is picking up some kind of signal," Hazard said, "Causing your dreams."
Ditzy sat on the floor, trying to contemplate what she just learned.
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"Are you sure that she's going to be okay?" Luna asked.
"I believe so," said Trip, "But I want to see if I can examine the chip more. Something tells me that it's not just there to torment her mind."
"But how are we going to find out?" Luna asked.
"I have a couple of ideas," Trip said, "But I would like to have, at the very least, Spark and Infra present. I needn't explain why, do I?" Luna thought for a second, and shook her head.