This story is a sequel to DERPA

Twefy fi' Oson is a changeling. Her girlfriend, Tami Owlson, wants to learn more about changeling holidays. Their roommates, Java Stout and Quantum Shift, are typically ok with any excuse to party. So, together, this lot of engineering students explore the fascinating cultural heritage of the changelings and how it has adapted to their cultural integration with Equestria as a whole.

Some An awful lot of swearing, some implied sexual content, flagrant alcohol use, and puns.

A sequel to DERPA - where in the aforementioned carry out research with chaos derived spatial contraction fields. Not necessary to read before hand, nor necessarily helpful. Well, no, it'd probably be helpful. This is about as meandering as that one was. If you like nerds, if you like changelings, if you want an excuse to party - welcome to the hive. There's always cake.

First demonstration of the reharmonization effect in an chaos-derived spatial contraction field, inside of an atmosphere.
For submission to the Defensive Equipment Research Program Association, aka, DERPA.

These are the documented shenanigans four engineering students got up to that ended up leading to a large number of submissions to DERPA, revealed through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Equestrian Communications Commission were not pleased with the foul language contained within and actively intervened to hinder the release of this information.

"Hero for hire. Reasonable rates. The more impossible the better. Trying to become an alicorn. Please contact Shield Generator, 555 Quint Way, Canterlot."

An electrostatic field generator rated to two gigavolts. One and a half gigajoules of storable potential energy. A genetic condition that will kill him in a year. Gene Shields is going to fight it the only way he could find: become an alicorn. And before that, he'll become the hero Shield Generator. He doesn't know what he needs to do, barring something impressive. But he's going to try!

The hero we need? No. The hero we want? Remains to be seen. The hero we deserve? Wow, that's an interesting question, but probable not. The hero we have? Yes. And he's accepting jobs.