I thought this would be fun to write considering I just saw the Tantabus episode not to long from the writing of this author note. So I thought, what if Golden or Circuit got spotted in the dreams of one of the mane six somehow? Well I am here to do that out of pure boredom.
"Sure glad we could hang out for once Circuit... and not be yelled at for once." Said Golden happily. "Vell, you are quite annoying but not az much today it sheemz." Said Circuit getting into bed. Golden crawled into a sleeping bag while his eyes drooped. "Thanks for letting me stay over Circuit." Said Golden. "I'm sure you are thankful." He said closing his eyes. He used magic to turn of a latern. "I'm sure you are..."
Goldens eyes opened up. He was in ponyville, there was a visable fragrant mist floating in the air. Golden floated up to it to smell it. "Mmm, pie." He said with his mouth open. He floated towards the source of the smell which was coming from sugar cube corner. There was no sky, only black empty space where the sky would be. When he reached the entry to the bakery, the door opened on its own. Inside was Circuit as well as Pinkie pie. "Hey Golden! You want some pie?" She asked him as he floated in. "Yes... I do." He said mesmerized by the smell of the pie, it smelt like chocolate and apples. She wore a crown that had a cake with a single candle in gold as the main piece of the pink crown. She smiled with glee as a pie hovered over to where he sat in a floating chair. Goldens mouth opened wide and with the sound of a vacum, he sucked up the pie. He swallowed with the formation of a pie showing in his neck as it travelled down. "Ooooh, yeah..." He said rubbing his belly.
Circuit sat at a table playing a game of chess, He looked like he was losing but putting his brain to work was something he did regularly and he had a plan the moment he began against his opponent which was Princess Twilight Sparkle. He known her to be a smart pony but never thought to ask her to a game since she was too busy with being a princess. "Looks like I got you right where I want you." She said with a competitive grin. Circuit grinned himself. He took a right hoof and put it on his queen piece which was of Luna. His king piece was himself and his knight was Big Mac, his Horse was Spike on Goldens back and his bishop was Apple Jack. His last pawn piece was of Celestia. Circuit then did something Twilight didn't notice. She had created a box in on her king with her horse and her two remaining knights, Circuit placed his Queen behind her king a space behind. "Checkmate." He said. Twilight looked down at the board in shock. "What!?" "You left yourself open to be attacked from behind." He pointed out. "You are not as observant as you think Princess." He said smiling. He lifted his hoof and Twilight was shifted away as was the chess table.
A strange looking metal skeleton like object appeared before Circuit. He walked up to it and said. "Exo on." The metal thing jumped onto him and a part of it which was next to his head slide out a piece of glass, the glass glowed and readied. 'Now beginning operation Lunar rescue.' There was a tower that at the top was a bubble that surrounded the princess of the night. Discord was in front of it wiping the bubble to make it shine. He looked down to see Circuit. "Oh, I see." He said looking down at Circuit. "You must be here to save the day aren't you? Did you forget I am the good guy here?" Said Discord he said with a straight face. "I'm preventing the return of Nightmare moon by stopping where the source of it could erupt from at any moment." He said putting his lion paw down on the edge of the castle. "She can only become Nightmare moon if she wants to Discord!" Circuit shouted up at him. "And I know she doesn't want to ever again, I know that in my heart." Said Circuit. "Oh please, your pitiful pursuit for her affections is never going to work you know that right?" Said Discord with a heart in his claw. "She'll just shoot you down and you'll return to your little lab and create another doohickey that was fuelled by your emotions." He pointed at the heart with his lion paws like a gun and he made a firing motion, the sound of a gun firing could be heard and the heart span around and fell out of his paw. "I have never done anything like this before Discord, we both know that. You don't even know if that would happen." Said Circuit looking up at him with a frown. "Oh sure, like I haven't known her all her life." He said looking at her. She was crying herself with her hooves covering her eyes. "I am a being that existed far beyond your time and hers." He said flying into the air. "I am all knowing!" A ball of darkness appeared in his claw and he threw it at Circuit who jumped out of the way as it zoomed at him at an alarming speed. "I am omniscient!" He shouted as he threw a ball of pure light at him now Circuit jumped out of the way of. "I am a god!" He finished snapping his eagle claw. A large number of evil monstrosities climbed out of the ground and when hey surfaced. Circuit grinned looking at them. "This shall be simple." He jumped into the air and a spout of fire came out from the back of the skeleton, propelling him forward at the monsters. He flew straight through them ripping out there cores that were yellow ovaler shaped objects.
"I am more then just a being of your realm." Said Discord. "I can exist in all plains of existence." He said laughing. "I just choose yours because it was fun!" "You must stop now Discord, or I will put you down!" Said Circuit seriously. "Don't you know anything about gods? I'm immortal! You can't kill mwa." He said with a eagle claw on his chest. He floated down to look at Circuit. "But since you insist on this whole endeavour I'll humour you." Circuit pressed a button on the suit, different sections of it expanded out spreading plates over Circuits body, his horn was wrapped in a glass like structure. "Make me laugh." He said with a serious tone. "OoOooH, you have a suit of armour! I'm so scared!" Discord said sarcasticlly. "Its more then a suit of armour." Circuit said. He raised his right hoof up and pointed at Discord, where his hoof was there was a black metal disk of some sort. It glowed red and it quickly shot out a large red beam. Discord was shocked but before he could do anything the beam over took him. "Nooooooooo!" He screamed as he was blown away into the night sky at the moon. There was a twinkle where he disappeared. Circuit pressed the button again and the suit retracted the metal plates. The spouts appeared at his hooves and he flew with them up to the top of the tower where Luna was being held. She still held her eyes as she cried. Circuit looked at the bubble around her and searched for any sort of way to free her, he saw below the bubble was some sort of black and purple striped stone that flowed with magic energy. Circuit used his horn to shoot and blew up the stone. The bubble melted away from the top to the bottom. Luna had stopped crying to see Circuit had freed her from Discords clutch. "You are safe my Princess, you are no longer under the grasp of Discord." "Circuit..." She grabbed a hold of him and embraced him happily. "We thank you very much." Circuit smiled happily.
Golden twitched in his sleep, his lips smacked and he rolled over. Circuit had a face of happiness as he hugged his pillow. In the vent of which kept the room stocked with fresh air, a strange blue smoke came out between the grate. It floated down towards Circuit and without him reacting it seeped into his nose until it completely disappeared inside of him. His face changed from a smile to that of of confusion. "Vat?" He said in his sleep.
Circuit looked up at Luna, the moon hung directly over her and it shined brightly. Circuit couldn't see Lunas face through the light. Then it moved a little more and he could see the face he feared the most. "Ha ha ha ha!" She laughed evilly. Nightmare Moon had appeared in place of Luna. "Let go off me fool!" She pushed Circuit away from her. "Now That I am back, its time to make some changes." Her horn glowed and the moon turned red. "Now the blood moon will be forever!" Circuit felt it inside of him, the urge. "No!" He said looking at his hoof. His fur was becoming longer. "No! Not again! Not again!" He said rolling on his back. "Circuit whats happening?" Golden had mysteriously appeared above him as Circuit fell to the ground shaking. "I'm transforming..." He said feeling pain. "Get away!" He shouted at him. "If I am going to be the new ruler of Equestria, I am going to need my minions and you will serve me perfectly as my first." Nightmare said turning around. "You wont... Get away with this!" He said Looking at her now instead of Golden. His teeth were becoming jagged. "I will get Luna back!" She laughed manically. "Luna is dead lover colt! There is only me!" "NOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed as his eyes became slitted.
Circuit awoke suddenly with sweat covering his face. He was breathing heavily. He quickly got out of his bed to run to the window to look at the moon, on his way he accidentally tripped on Golden. Without taking the time to react to the pain from the trip he got back up and dashed to the window. The moon was full, it wasn't red making Circuit sigh in relief. "Good." He said quietly. He walked back over to his bed and lied down in it. He looked at Golden through the moon light. He was sleeping peacefully. "Yes Pinkie. More pie." He said in his sleep. He then giggle. "Much pinkie, more pie." He said in his sleep. Circuit closed his eyes and tried to sleep but the nightmare continued in his head preventing him from sleeping. "Come on, go to a lower stage of awareness you." He said tapping his head. He eventually after an hour of laying in bed fell asleep.
The next morning. Circuit awoke but instead of being well rested, he was tired. He yawned as he got out of bed. He walked down his hallway and towards the bathroom to have his morning pee. "Dang, zat vase von heck of a dream I had last night." He said talking to himself. "Zing iz, I lucid dream though. So how could Nightmare moon even happen? I never vanted that, or turning into za blood volf again." He said shuddering. "Zomething izn't right vith me." He finished and flushed his toilet. "I should go ask for a book on sleep affecting aliments and zee if I have anyzing." There was a knock on the door. "Are you almost done in there?" Said Golden desperately. "Yeah juzt a moment I must wash my hooves." "Duh-I can't hold it in any longer can you wash your hooves somewhere else? Please?" He said with worry in his tone. Circuit sighed. "Fine." He opened the door and Golden rushed in. Circuit closed the door behind him. "Must have ended hiz dream thinking about vater." He said grinning.
Circuit made his way to the friendship castle. He heard talking amongst ponies about a shared dream of some sort, all of a sudden everypony had apparently had shared dreams and Circuit was unaffected for some reason. "Did you see me? I was giant and I meowed like a cat!" Said Dixie Hooves. "I also saw you getting rid by Spike." Said The Doctor fellow. Dixie giggled. "That was so much fun!" She said "I wish I could have had all that money I rod on." Said filth rich sadly. "I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams with all that." He said walking by Circuit. "Gee, did somezing happen last night?" He said to himself. Big mac walked past him with a big grin. He chuckled quietly and said. "E'yup" He watched him walk by. "Vell, it'z not like zis iz shomething new for za town. After all ve probably sheen weirder." He said to himself. He thought about the dream he had last night, He noticed something come off Nightmares mane when she laughed before he woke up but her mane never broke apart so it was slightly odd to see a bit of it float like an orb and then disappear.
He walked into the castle and made his way to the library. He yawned again as he was still tired and may be close to falling asleep. He stepped into the library to be greeted by Twilight. "Hi there, welcome to the library." She said perky and happy. Circuit yawned. "Good morning Princess." He said. "I said before to call me Twilight you know." She pointed out. Circuit opened his eyes wide realizing what he did. "My apologizes, I am fairly tired." He walked towards the medical section and began to search to find any book on sicknesses that effect dreams. Twilight watched him do it almost drone like unlike he normally did, he didn't even put the books back in the particular order she had them in like he always did when browsing the library. He checked two books and often put them back in at the wrong order. He yawned as he kept searching.
"Did you get enough sleep last night?" Asked Twilight as she came towards him. "Sure, sure..." He said. "I just had a nightmare is all." "Really?" She said sounding more unusually concerned about such a thing. "What was it about?" "Oh just Nightmare moon and becoming a Blood volf." "Blood wolves aren't real though." She said looking up which a small smile thinking he was joking. "I am a blood volf." He said quietly. "What? No your not." She said with her eyes closed in ignorance. "Vere I come from zey exist. Za blood moon brings zem out to seek za essence of organic existence amongst za poniez around zem." He said seriously still searching for books. "I fear za blood moon vill come one night and I vill eat you all in order to fuel za power of za moon." He said. "You have a really weird sense of humour you know?" She said slightly creeped out. Circuit grinned trying to play it off as a joke. "Yesh I do." "So what are you looking for?" "Don't you have somepony else you can ask questions? Not zat it'z annoying." He said. "You are the only stallion to come in most mornings when I open up the library." She said with a teethy smile. Circuit looked around seeing the place was completely empty. "Right." He said turning back around looking through, he yawned and his eyes drooped. "You sure you don't need to lie down?" She asked a little more seriously. His eyes opened up and he shook his head. "No." He said more aware. "I just need to find any book on sicknesses zat affect sleep and I'll be gone." She backed up and away from him and said. "O-kay, well when you find your book. Bring it back within a week or you'll pay a fine." "Yes yes,yes ye yes." He said quieter each time he said it waving his hoof at her.
Golden walked out of Circuits house after he had a little breakfest. He looked around seeing everypony talking about something. "-and then Big mac became an Alicore and he shot his cutie mark out of his horn!" Said a yellow mare with a blue mane and tail. "You should have seen me. I got these legs and I jumped at that big cloud of smoke and I smacked it with a hammer!" Said the mare she was talking to. "Hey what are we talking about here?" Asked Golden. The two mares looked at him for a moment before the yellow mare said. "The dream everypony had last night." "Oh, my dream was about being served chocolate apple pie by Pinkie pie." He said happily. "What? You mean you didn't have the dream too?" "What dream? I had my dream and you had your dream, we can't all have the same dream can we?" He asked more rhetorically. The two mares looked at each other confused. "So you didn't see Luna?" "No." "And you didn't see the giant cloud of smoke?" "No." He said again still grinning slightly. "So you really didn't have the same dream?" "Guess he wasn't effected." Said the other mare. "Meh." He said. He began to walk away. "You should go talk to Twilight, you might be in danger." Said the yellow and blue mare. "I doubt it Milkmare, is she at the castle?" "Probably. It's where she puts herself most days."
Circuit walked out of the castle putting his rear on a bench as he flipped through the pages trying to find anything in the medical book he picked out on dream affecting sicknesses. "Typercratical fluxon." He said. "Causes vonez dreamz to be text only. No zats not it." He said looking through more. "Gretcher syndrome." He said reading the words. "Causes za affected to have terrible cramps in zar stomach to... No zats not vat I am looking for." He said quietly. "Hey scientist." He lifted his head out of the book to see the rainbow pony herself. "Vat do you vant Rainbowdash?" "A race." She said spinning around in the air. "I decline, I'm busy." He said. "No your not." He raised the book into the air with magic as to show her the book. "Yeah that's not being busy that's being anti-social. Come on, you afraid I'm going to beat you again?" He sighed "You vin every time you know, besidez za ving shystem prototype izn't build for shpeed it'z built for longevity." "There you go using words I don't understand, speak English would you?" "My vingz arn't racing vings zare moving vings now go away!" He said irritated.
Rainbow Dash shrugged her upper hooves. "Suit yourself." She flew off. Circuit flipped through not finding anything when he reached the back cover. He sighed displeased in his failure to find out what it was to cause the nightmare. "Zare must be something zat caused za Nightmare." He thought back at any point in the last month that could have been either stressful or unnerving but could not think of anything. He thought of somepony he could go to if it was an issue of magic. "Vell, I doubt she'll know but it's worth a shot."
Golden made it over to the castle. When he entered the first thing he heard was. "Hey Golden." He looked down to the ground to see Spike. "Whats up pal?" Said Golden. "Not much just hanging." Spike said. "Wasn't last night fun?" "Are you talking about that dream stuff everypony in towns talking about?" Asked Golden. "Yeah. I sure saved the day when me and Dixie rode into the thing huh?" He said proudly. "Actually I don't know what your talking about." Spike opened his eyes up looking at him curiously. "What?" "I didn't have this dream, I had a dream I was eating pie." "Really?" He said scratching his head. "Well... Thats odd, cause everypony else had the same dream. You should probably talk to Twilight." "That's what I came here to do actually. Is she free right now?" He asked hopefully. "I think so. I'll bring you to her." "Great!" He said gleefully. "Actually..." Golden pushed his head under Spike and he slid down his neck and onto his back. "Point the way my mounted leader!" He said like a story book knight.
Twilight was fixing the books Circuit had pulled out and didn't put back in correctly. As she did so, she tsked. "Gee Circuit sure was tired, how could that even be so if everypony woke up today well rested? Shouldn't he be well rested too?" She said to herself. The door to the library opened. "Hey Twilight!" Called Golden. She turned her head to see Golden. "Hey there! You seem happy. As usual." She said walking over to Golden. Spike hopped off Goldens back laughing. He stopped looking up at Twilight who looked at him a little displeased. She looked back to Golden. "So Golden, I didn't see you last night." She said. Golden seemed a little confused. "Well no I was sleeping." "I mean when we all had the same dream." "Again with that huh?" He said not to her." "What?" She said. "Golden said he didn't have that dream." Said Spike. "What?!" She said both shocked and worried. Golden could tell something was up by her shocked expression.
"Is there something wrong with that?" "Yes there is! Everypony was supposed to have the same dream!" She said holding onto Goldens front legs. He felt a little scared. "So... am I sick?" He asked. "No of coarse not." She said seriously releasing his legs. "It's just, something happened the other day and we had to deal with another monster." "Oh well that isn't new." Said Golden more hopefully. She paused and thought how such a thing did happen often. "Yeah, sure but this monster we fought wasn't one we fought the normal way and by that I mean we didn't fight it awake." She paused. "We fought in in our sleep." "Well that takes the expression to a new meaning didn't it?" Said Spike crossing his arms. "Now is not the time for jokes Spike." Said Twilight seriously. "and by we I mean all of Ponyville did." "Everypony?" Said Golden surprised. "Everypony." Repeated Twilight. "The reason we all did was because the monster invaded everyponies dreams and it could hide in anyponies dreams. So Luna had to cast a spell that forced everypony to share the same dream." "Oh. Well, I didn't have this dream." "Which is what worries me so much, because I know we watched it sink into Luna but we also saw it slid out of the dream a couple times and get pulled back out. I'm worried it may have broke off some of itself and some if it entered reality." "And it could be in my head?" She nodded regretfully.
Golden became panicked. Gaaaah!" He said shaking his head. "Get! Out! Monster!" "Stop Golden your going to hurt yourself doing that!" She said using magic to hold his head in place. When he finally calmed down she spoke again. "And the thing is I can't know for sure if it entered your dreams or not, I just suspect if it did get out. It would just meddle in yours since you don't know what it looks like and you wouldn't be able to recognize it." She let him out of the magic grasp and he looked at her scared. "If it is, it will make you have nightmares over and over to gain strength from your fear and if it grows too strong, it will escape like it almost did last night." She looked down worried. "Or partially did." "So what can I do?" Said Golden. "We..." She started. "Can get Luna to come back."
Twilight looked to Spike who had already gotten a scroll out. "Ready." "Dear Princess Luna, we have a problem. The Tantabus might be back. Get here as soon as you can. Princess Twilight Sparkle." Spike sent the letter.
"Welcome to my hut my technological friend, is there something that ills your larger logical head?" Zecora said referring to his tired looking face. "Yes, I have had a nightmare." "Well that's no concerning, after all not like your yearning." She said mixing in her cauldron. "No, it's just zat I lucid dream which means-." "You can control your flow of dream, yes I am quite aware of those who command their own nocturnal stream." She said. "Well it's just zat because I can control my dreams, I shouldn't have nightmares." He pointed out. Zecora stopped stirring her magical brew to think with a hoof under her chin. "Yes I suppose that is true, but you may have come to the wrong mare too." She continued to stir the green brew "Vy? You know a lot about magic and Twilight's probably too busy to shee me." "I will see what I can do, but first you must tell me what it is in the dream that troubles you?" "Okay vell, you can't tell anypony about some of it." He said seriously. "Some of it I'd rather not be told as a story to anypony else who comes to see you." "Very well Circuit Hooves my less then excitable buddy, nothing of it will also be laughed at like it is funny." She said.
"Vell, first I vas playing a game of chess against Princess Twilight Sparkle." She nodded. "I von, and then I put on an Exo armour..." He looked at her. She seemed slightly confused. "Its short for Exo skelaton." "Ahh. Please go on." And I rescued Princess Luna from Discord who locked her in a magic bubble to prevent her from ever becoming nightmare moon." He paused. "Zen ven I vas..." He stopped concerned about revealing some feeling he had for her. "Hugging her. She transformed into Nightmare moon and I vas becoming a Blood wolf. She said zat Luna vas dead and I vould never see her again. Zat iz ven I woke up."
"Hmm." She said thinking. "Well there is no reason for it unless your dreams were altered anyway." She grabbed a hold of her stirring stick and continued to stir. "Perhaps you should seek Twilight, you know the way." She pointed at the grass curtain indicating for Circuit to leave. "Your kicking me out?" "It's not that it is my pretension. It's just the next part of the potion I am brewing requires a large amount of attention." She said. "Well, thanks for listening... I guess."
Golden laid down in the bed put down for him to sleep in. The room had all the curtains drawn and very little light came in. "You must go to sleep Golden touch, so we can enter your dreams and search for any sign of the Tantabus." Said Luna looking at him seriously. "Yes princess." He said kneeling. He trotted over to the bed and closed his eyes. "Good thing I fall as...leep q..u..i-." He then began to snore, loudly. Twilight closed an eye at the sound. "Gee, he sleeps fast." "And rather loud." People who watch car stuff would get it, I don't watch car stuff I just wanted to make the reference. Said Luna looking at him sleep. "Okay." She flew up into the air and closed her eyes as she focused on Golden. "Good luck Princess Luna." Said Twilight.
Golden opened his eyes in his dream. When he looked around he could see nothing but two things, purple and the word 'Tantabus' over and over again. He grinned at it. "YAAH! Tantabus!" He said gleefully. He ran up to one of the words and said. "Tantabus." The word popped like a bubble. Golden giggled as he ran to the next one. "Tantabus!" He said to the next one. It popped as well. "Fun!" He said as he ran around saying the word and popping the words. Then he got to one and said it. It popped and Luna fell out of it. She stood up after falling to the ground and looked around quickly using a hoof to brush of any dirt that may or may not have been picked up by her coat. She noticed how strange the mind of Golden was. "Why is there only the word 'Tantabus' all over the place?" She questioned looking around more carfully. "Cause the word sounds like fun to say!" Said Golden floating by. "Tantabus! Tantabus! Tantabus Tantabus, Tantabuuuuuuuuuuuuus!" He said sound like a low keyed opera performer. He then fell on his back laughing. "Well, I can see your no different then the pink one are you?" "Eeeh." He said with a hoof up. "Just about. But I'm a dude, that and I can't stand betrayel." He said standing up. The ground shifted below Luna and she was dragged along with it. "I mean, why would anypony not live up to the promises they make? I mean, a promise is more then just something you say right?" Two ponies that Golden was talking to earlier were talking. "You don't just say I will, and never do it right?" He turned around to see the two mares again. "Hello again." He said to them.
Luna spoke to herself. "Hmmm, well he doesn't appear to be infected by it. Perhaps he was lucky and never thought about in the pink ones dreams." "Wooooo!" He said as he quickly glided by Luna at a very fast speed. "I fly like an eagle through my dreams!"She used a spell to check his dream, she did not find anything through the magic sense. She turned to see Golden stretching out and withing a few seconds of his rubber sounding body stretching. He formed the word 'Tantabus' with his body. Luna raised her hoof in the air.
Golden opened his eyes shouting. "Tantabus!" Excited. "Did you find it?" Said Twilight taking out some ear plugs she had on. She took a few moments to end the spell after of which she opened her eyes landing on the ground, with a small relieved smile she said. "Thankfully no, he appears to be dreaming without its presence." "Yeah! I want to go back to that dream!" He said. "So much fun running around saying Tantabus." He said getting out of the bed. Twilight smiled at his childishness. Luna turned around to leave. "I would like to thank you again for your help Princess Twilight Sparkle for helping rid of the Tantabus, after I realized what you said was true and that I have been forgiven by all, it was time to forgive ourself." "We may not talk very often, but were friends Luna. It's what friends do for each other." "Yeah like me and Circuit! He does lots of things for me and I do stuff for him." Said Golden coming up to Luna.
"Circuit? Your friends with him?" Said Twilight. "Yeah, he's my friend. Sure he may groan if you ask him but were friends. He is really nice if you get to know him." Golden said with his eyes closed and a smile. "Anyway, thanks Luna for coming all the from Cantorlot just to see if I had a monster in my head or not." "We actually came without question for the fact that it would be our fault if it infected your mind considering we made the Tantabus to punish ourselves, we would never think it would become strong enough to leave our dreams and enter others." She said with a small smile. "I am glad to see it didn't survive the night." "Why would you punish yourself? Was it because what you did when you were Nightmare moon?" He asked curiously. She lowered her head in shame. "Yes, it is." "Well I think you were forgiven." He said looking to Twilight who smiled with him. "We know we were. Well safe travels Golden." She said walking out of the room. "Good bye Luna!" The two said.
Circuit had finally made his way to the castle, he had the book with him to return it and hope Twilight wasn't busy. It occurred to him that if his logic was that Twilight was probably busy and she was literally asking him what book he was looking for an hour ago. That it didn't make sense for him to come to Zecora and he should have talked to Twilight more about his concerns about his nightmare. Chances are she might be busy now with a friendship problem or a monster and would have to wait most of the day for her to get back to him. As he made his way to the gate, some pony came out of the front door. He had been so close to falling asleep that he bumped into them without noticing them.
"Oof!" He said. He wobbled in place for a second as his eyes spun around for a second. "Vatch vere you are go-." He was starting in a agitated tone but when he looked up to see he bumped into Luna his heart nearly skipped a beat. "L-Luna!" He said surprised. His stomach began to cramp. "Hello. Who might you be?" "I... I... I..." He stuttered. "I am." He smacked his face with his hoof to stop his stuttering. He bowed. "I am Circuit Krag'dagan'dar Hooves my princess." He said still feeling slightly nauseous. She looked a little confused. "Why have you hit yourself?" "Nothing!" He said quickly. "So vy are you here?" He asked her. "I was fixing a problem I have caused." She said looking down with her eyes. "You caused a problem?" "Yes, the town has helped me fix the issue which I am grateful for." She said.
She looked at him curiously. She noticed the bags in his eyes. Circuit could swear he felt his mind exploding trying to think of what to say next. "Is zare somezing on my face?" He asked looking away from her eyes. "Why are you weary?" She asked. "I... didn't shleep well last night." He said nervous he may have to talk about it. "How can that be?" "I had a uhh..." She sighed. "You can say it." "A nightmare." "Wait a second." She said sounding like she had some concern. "How could you have a nightmare if everypony in town was supposed to have the same dream?" "Wait. Did you create some sort of temporary mind bridge vich linked everyponies mindz to create a single dream vich all of Ponyville shared?" He said. "Yes, basically." She said a little surprised at how he figured it out almost instantly. "We created it in order to prevent the Tantabus, a monster we created to punish ourselves for causing the pain we did as Nightmare moon from hiding in any dreams." "Vy vould you do zat? Za moment you returned to yourself everypony in Equestria forgave you for doing vat Nightmare moon did. I know I did." He said nodding his head. He could feel his brain slowly becoming foggy, he was going to lose his ability to speak if he wasn't careful what he said and he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the princess. "I know that... now anyways." She looked at him, she saw his eyes were still looking away from her. "Why does thou not wish to look upon his princess?" She asked. His eyes returned to look at her eyes, there deep blue colour, her magical flowing mane. It made Circuit very nervous, it was beginning to show on his exterior when he began to sweat. Regardless he answered her with near same tone.
"I just feel a bit... off today." "It would make sense if you have a fever, you are sweating profusely." She mentioned. "No I-I don't have a fever." He said. "Then why are you sweating so much?" He looked side to side trying to think of something, anything that could explain it. "Oh you know its... Hot." "Hot?" She said confused raising a hoof slightly. "Yes, vat tempature iz it supposed to be?" He said looking at the sky quickly trying to ease his nerves by not looking at her directly. "Only 7 Celsius, its more mild then hot." She said. "Oh, uhm. Maybe I do have a fever then." He cough quickly into his hoof nervously and said. "Yes, that must be it." quietly.
"Well do stay indoors, being about will make it worse. But you say you weren't effected by the spell?" "No. Why does the monster inhabit dreamz?" "It does, did you see anything in your dreams that were unusual?" "No, other then the fact I had a nightmare and I lucid dream." "You do?" She said surprised. "Yes, I trained myself to lucid dream az to take control and never vorry about losing sleep to such zings az night terrors and night uhm... marez." He said the last part cautiously. "That would explain why thou weren't effected, ponies that can lucid dream cannot be targeted through the spell we used to link everyponies dreams." She then looked at him again and noticed the objects protruding from his back. "What... are those?" She said pointing at the connection ports on his back. "Oh, those are points of linkage to my spine." He stated. "You shee. I am an inventor and concept creator of machines and technology, zat port iz for my ving shystem vich allows me to fly." He stated. "Is that so? Well that makes you an Alicore when you put them on doesn't it?" She asked curiously. "N-no, I cannot match za power or shpeeds an Alicore haz let alone a Pegusi in shpeed. I use it for getting around as well as testing." She nodded. "Well, that must mean you are very intelligent." "Indeed." He nodded. She thought for a moment. "Well why would you not recognize the symptoms of a fever if you are? Are you hiding something?" She said with a frown. "No!" He suddenly shouted. "I mean... no." He said more calmly. She looked at him a little more confused. " Well. If you do not mind, I wish to monitor your dreams to observe any abnormalities to your dream patterns over the next few days." She said. "Okay Princess, I am just a bit concerned since I though I might have something medically wrong considering I have never had such a dream where evil happened." The two looked at each other for a moment in silence. "Well farewell." Said Luna as she walked around Circuit. "Y-yes! Good bye!" He said waving at her. He forced a nervous laugh and then he sighed a little distressed after she teloported. "I am a mess." He said in self pity.
"Yeah you are." Said a familiar voice. He turned around to see Twilight who looked at him leaning her head to the side with a big smile. "Awwwm you have a crush on her don't you?" She said. "N-no I don't." Said Circuit with his eyes wide open looking side-to-side. "Yes you do, she may not recognize it but I can. You really like her don't you?" He sighed and lowered his head in shame. "Yesh... I do." She giggled. "Well, there is a more important matter at hoof then that." Golden walked by Twilight and up to Circuit. "Hey buddy, whats up?" "Do not call me buddy, we are acquaintances." He said. "Are you sure?" He sighed. "I don't know Golden... Just, don't say buddy. I guess vere friends but were not best friends." He said with a hoof on his forehead. The butterflys in his stomach had left and he could think more clearly. "Your my best friend." Said Golden. "Vell your not mine." He said with a quick chuckle. "I will be you just wait and see." Said Golden. "Anyways, if Luna is going to come into your dreams Circuit then it would be a good idea to sleep when the moon starts to come up." "Twilight."
She turned around to Spike who held out a scroll. Instead of having the seal of Celestia it had the seal of Luna. Twilight used magic to grab it and opened the scroll. "Dear... Oh this is for you Circuit." She said handing it to him. He began to read it to himself.
Dear , we ask that you go to sleep around the time 0800 as we will be attempting to enter your dreams at this time. If we are to discover the Tantabus in your dreams we would ask that you assist us in defeating it, I am unsure of if the way we defeated it last time will work as it existed for the pain I felt for being nightmare moon, we must figure out why if it has infected your dreams it exist in yours.
Circuits eyes opened wide as he realized. "Oh no, this is terrible!" He said moving the scroll out of the way. "What?" Said Golden. "I think about her so much!" "That's not terrible." Said Twilight shaking her head side to side a little. "Not just awake in my dreams too! If she sees everyzing I zink about her I might freak her out!" He said anxious. "Well, don't think about her while you sleep?" Suggested Golden. "It's not zat simple duncas." He said in his countries language he began to pace. "Za mind will zink of zings even if you do not wish to zink about. I need some sort of distraction, a vay to keep my mind off ov her vhile I shleep." There was silence as all four of them thought of a way.
"What if you thought of nothing?" "You might be able to do that, but zis brain moves and constantly ticks zinking of machines, plans, blue prints... and Luna." He finished. "No its easy watch." Said Golden. He lost his happy facial expression and it became blank, his eyes did not move and his body didn't as either it was as if he was a coloured statue. Spike and Twilight and Circuit looked at Golden amazed as he stayed that way for ten seconds, then he blinked and breathed in. "See? Not hard at all." He said with a smile. "Wo. That's creepy." Said Spike looking at him with some concern. "Kids think its cool. They think I'm like a toy or something and then I come to life." "Oh, what if you think of your machines?" Suggested Twilight. "It's worth a shot." Said Circuit putting a hoof on his head. "You wont tell her right?" He asked Twilight. "Nope, I promise." She said bringing her hoof across her mouth. "Hey, not like we see her often but I swear not to tell her." Said Spike. He looked to Golden who had not answered yet. "Vell?" He said. Golden nodded. "Good. I assume you vill be returning to your shack Golden?"
"Yeah, well. You know how we had that giant gust of wind the other day? It, blew my shack off the ground and took it with it." "That's terrible!" Said Twilight with a hoof on her mouth. "Yeah, so I need a place to stay for a little while, while I get more bits from Applejack for working on the farm to rebuild." Circuit frowned. "You better not be expecting to stay at my place, I put up with you enough during the day. The last thing I need is for you to live vere I am." "Oh come on Circuit! I'm not that bad am I?" "Yes you are, you eat so much food when you hang out I have to go to the grocery store to keep myshelf sustained." "What can I do? I don't get to eat everyday you know?" "You bother me everyday nonshtop vith questions about vat I am building." Golden seemed a little concerned thinking back. "I didn't think it was wrong to ask questions." "Your rat has no sense of house training and gnaws on all my cords and wires, making them frayed and useless." "He can't help it! He's a rat." Circuit closed his eyes as he said. "Vich iz vy if you had any chance of shtaying vith me, you'd have to keep zat rat in a cage. Vich you don't have do you?" "Hey he's a wanderer, I don't want to keep him boxed up."
The two kept talking with Circuit pointing out the things Golden does that bother him while Golden tried to defend himself. Spike not liking the sound of it covered his ears with his claws and Twilight however decided she had heard enough after twenty seconds of it "Stop!" Shouted Twilight. The two stopped and looked at her. "Golden if you need a place to stay there is a spare room in the castle." He smiled gleefully. "Yaah thank y-." "but before you start to stay here you need to understand a few things." He looked at her as he waited for her to begin. "Firstly, You need to clean up after yourself. Spike cleans up my messes, not yours." He nodded. "Secondly, do not use all the hot water. In and out ten mintues." She said. Circuit began to walk back to his home to get ready for the night he was going to have. But thanks to his encounter with Luna he couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Maybe I can convince her to go on a date with me? No! Focus Circuit, this is something more important right now then such trivial matters then dating and romance. She is investigating our mind to see if a monster as infected it, I need my sleep to keep working and trying to convince her of such matters is foolish and side tracking. Besides, she probably wouldn't even consider me since she's royalty and Celestia would have my head before I could take her some place. Ooh, why do I set my preferences so high? Oh right, because I am of the finest quality of stallions like Big Mac but in terms of the mind, sure I have some brawn but that's not how to win a mare over." Circuit slapped himself. "Focus! Now think about some concepts, like ah uhhhh. A separator! Yes, I will need... Oh wait there's a spell for that. How about a... a freeze ray! No I already have that done. Well, uuuuh. Maybe a Lunar power absorber? Yeah! One of those can harness the power of the night, I just need to figure out how to convert the magic of night into a usable form of energy! Circuit slapped himself again. "No! Nothing Lunar related! Otherwise we will just keep thinking about... her."
Circuit sighed in frustration. "Zis iz going to be much harder zen I first thought."