Circuit stood before his bed, he was nervous. He knew he had to sleep there was no way around it. By the name of my countries prime minister, this will not be easy. His fruit bat sat at the window waiting to be let out. It squeaked at him which he noticed and said. "Oh, Scalanx." He trotted over and opened the window. "Here you go." He said. His bat flew out the window Circuit looked at the moon, it was still full. His bat closed the window behind him. "Good fruit bat." He said as it flew away. He returned to the bed which he lied down in. "Okay, just don't think about her. Think about somepony else instead or za machines." He said trying to reassure himself. He closed his eyes and tried to sleep.
He opened his eyes, all around him he could see Lunas. "No!" He shouted afraid. They all just stood around doing nothing. He raised a hoof and all the Luna's disappeared in clouds of dust. The dust erupted into machines of many kinds. Circuit began to calm down. "Phew!" He said. Then the machines after a few seconds began to shift and reorganize themselves, they all took the shape of Luna. He noticed this after a few seconds and became scared. "No stop it!" He said. He raised his hoof once more and the machines reorganized themselves back into various machines. "Okay, how about a simple tea?" He said. "Yeah... just tea." A tea pot floated out of the brass floor below him, it itself was a brass and poured out into a formation it would take in a tea cup, after it finished pouring a tea cup appeared around the liquid. "Yes, wonderful." He said relieved. He took a hold of it with his hooves and he took a sip. It was just the right temperature. It tasted of blueberries and honey. "Mmmm." He then after looking at his machines decided that he wanted to do something else now. "Lets play a little game." He used his horn which became shrouded in black. The tea pot disappeared and in place became a table with a game of chess. "Yes, the game of kings!" He said with a smile. He sat down at the table and he looked across to see who is opponent was. "Hello Circuit." Luna was here.
He raised his hoof as to try to move her to see if he could but he couldn't, meaning it was the real Luna. "Oh! Hello, you are here now. That's good." "Interesting, you do not speak your native language when you sleep." She said. "No, I am more accustomed to English then Valkan'ourcks." "You also do not have your accent." "In my mind I think it flawlessly, but when I speak I unconsciously say things the way I do. But that's not important." He stood up from the table. "We are here for something else." "Indeed." She said standing up. "We must if it is here, locate the Tantabus and remove it from your dreams." Circuit did his best not to look at her so his mind didn't wander off into thinking about her. Circuit looked in the opposite direction. Luna looked around. "You have dreamed of steam-punk." She said. "Yes, I decided that this is what I wanted my dream scape to look like tonight. Very shiny, very clean, very... Creative." He said looking into a tube.
He didn't see anything down it, it was too dark. He used a light wisp spell to summon a wisp. The wisp after he appeared in a small blue inferno behind him travelled down the pipe and Circuit did not see anything. "Did you just use one of spells from Twinkles the light wizards spell book?" "Yes, why?" "That is a very advanced spell book, it takes years for one to perform all the spells from the book." She mentioned surprised slightly. "Really? I figured it out an a few months. It didn't seem too hard." He said. The wisp came back up and part ways up a Luna who was playing a game of cards with another Luna could be seen in another room. "Aah!" Said Circuit who was shocked by the sight. It quickly removed itself as he thought of just whistles and broilers to be in the room. "What is it?" She came up to the tube and looked in. "Nothing just a bit of steam came up to my face." He said. He stepped back and when he turned around he caught a small glimpse of Luna as he turned around. "I must not allow myself to look at her, otherwise I will begin to see her everywhere in here." He said quietly. "But how will I not think of her when she speaks?" He said he tried to ponder but the pondering led to her mouth appearing in front of him. "Hello Circuit." It said like she did earlier. "Go away." He said to it. It poofed into blue dust.
"It might be hiding in your deeper areas of your dreams, I know the Tantabus as I have slept with it for many nights giving me nightmares drawing from my fears, fears are kept in a more locked away part of your dreams." She said. She walked over to Circuit who was looking away. "So. With your permission, I wish to enter the deeper areas off your mind. Now I know that this is a lot to ask of you to show anypony for that matter your fears and your worries, but this is to prevent you from having nightmares you do not deserve from my own foolish form of self punishment." He sighed. "May we enter where your fears are?" She asked. Circuit did not like the idea of her and him going to his fears, for one he knew he would hate it seeing his fears but he knew one of them was her finding out is affections towards her before he could ask her anything of the sort. But he didn't want her to feel unfulfilled in her quest to remove this monster and he didn't want to have continuous nightmares. "Okay princess, let's go."
He heard her horn begin to use magic. He saw a black beam shoot out from behind him and into the ground in front of him, the ground warped and twisted and the once polished brass began to rust and turn brown and break apart. A door came up from the rust with a dark blue wood of some sort, there was a hammer ornament that acted as a knocker to the door. There was no room behind the door. Circuit did not dare touch the handle, he hated and dreaded rust on metal. He used magic instead but when he grabbed the handle with magic it snapped off. He sighed nervously as he approached the door and put his hoof on the blue door. He knew exactly what the blue colour was supposed to signify. "The blue on the door is the exact same as the blue of my coat." She commented.
When it opened up there was rust... everywhere. There was also many of Circuits failed contraptions and machines. Blue prints fell from the air burning. Griffins flew above their heads shouting down at him saying rude and vulgar insults about being smart. Circuit did his best to ignore them. "We must venture deeper then the front door." She said. Circuit sighed feeling his heart beginning to race from seeing all the rust, it was depressing to see all what was probably a hallway of metal of some sort being rusted and uncared for. "Yes. I-I know." He said walking in. He felt a sharp displeasure as his hoof touched the rusted ground. He walked forward trying to block out the insults flying his way as Griffins taunted him. He didn't know what Luna thought of it and he quite frankly didn't care yet.
"Whats that little pony boy? You want this back?" He looked to his left. He could see Grendak, his Griffin bully. He held a small model catapult over a young Circuits head that belonged to him. "Give it back! Itz nat yers!" He said. At the age Circuit was at the time he was still learning English very slowly. The bully laughed at his inability to make proper English. "You sound like what happens when some griffin puts a pip squeak like you into a boiler and is melting away!" Circuit hated Grendak, all he ever wanted was to make fun of Circuit and steal his papers and concept items thinking they were toys. Circuit looked away not wanting to see anymore but when he looked to his right he saw Luna. It was comforting to see her but at the same time frighting as he still didn't want to accidentally think about her. She was looking at his memory but quickly turned away when he looked in her direction. "You... are not different then most who have had bullies in there lives. We all have." She said. "I know that." He said. "I just, never wish to see that griffin again. He was a jerk." He said looking down. "Many Griffins are rude and obnoxious, it is their way of living." She said. "I am not defending him, but stating what is true-." "Yes yes means that that would have happened either way I get that. Lets keep going." He said looking out worried on what he and she might see next.
"Ha ha ha ha! You think you can stop me foolish boy?" Said a familiar voice Circuit recognized. His horn glowed instinctively preparing to fight. "That voice, is that..." Over Circuits head flew a black blur, the sound of insect wings passed over their heads as well. Circuit turned his head back to see Chrysalis flying at Circuit who stood in front of his parents. He had a face of determination ready with his own horn. He was a younger in this memory but not a full grown stallion, probably eighteen. "You vill not herm my parentz!" his younger self said. Circuit in the current time watched as his younger self was blasted out of the way and his father was impaled by a metal rod she had picked up. His mother screamed in horror. "Noooo!" Said his younger self trying to get up. "HA HA HA HA HA haaaa!" Laughed the Queen of the changelings. She used magic to blast Circuits mother and as quickly as she appeared she burned in green magic and disappeared. Young Circuit ran to his father hysterical. "Pa pa!" He said. His father was breathing heavily as the metal impaired his ability to breath. "S-son..." He said. Circuit in his present self walked over slowly to watch his father die, doing so made Luna looked at him walk. "What are you doing?" She asked. He didn't answer. Young Circuit grabbed his dad by his back holding him up. "G-get your mom... Out of here." He said weakly. "Not Vithout you Papa!" His fathers hoof grasped onto young Circuits arm. "Son... I'm dieing, there is..." He coughed. "Nothing you can do." "Shure zare are. I can heal you!" "You can't..." He coughed again. "Muster enough magic..." "I con Papa I con!" He said with tears coming to his eyes. "Circuit we should keep moving." Said Luna. "I just... need a moment." Said current Circuit sadly. He looked into his fathers dieing eyes as the light faded. Young Circuit attempted to use his magic, which he charged it as fast as he could. He sweated as he tried to build as much magic as possible, but before he could even get half way there. His fathers eyes stopped moving, his final breath came out. He limped back in Circuits arms. "Papa? Papa!" Said Young Circuit panicking. He tried to use the spell as it was ready but he couldn't heal what wasn't alive. Young Circuit shook his father trying anything, but nothing could bring him back. "Dad..." Said current Circuit dropping tears.
"Circuit... I... Understand you are emotionally hurt, but we must keep moving." Said Luna. "Yes... I know." He said wiping tears away from his eyes. He turned around and walked back over to Luna, being next to her gave him some comfort in his pain. "L-luna." He started. "You wont tell anypony about my dreams right?" "Of coarse not." She said. "My duty as of the night and everything in relation to it includes the managing of sleep, what happens in the dreams of others I see I dare not speak of as it would violate my duties." She said. "Okay. Thank you." He said. "Are you okay to continue?" She asked. "Yes... I am. It's almost comforting seeing my past again." He said. "Even if I just saw my dad killed once more at least... I heard his voice again." He said with a small smile.
They moved continuing through the dark side of his dreams until Luna heard a voice that made her stop. "Sister?" Circuit knew what was next. "Circuit Krag'dagan'dar Hooves." Her voice said sternly. A scene of Circuit chained to the ground of a cage could be seen, there were many around him. Some where of those Circuit would call of his aquatints, others were Guards. "At 1745 hours you were captured as a beast known as the blood wolf, you attempted and succeed in the murder of twelve ponies and maiming of seven at various moments between the times of 1645 hours and 1745 hours. One of being a Princess which you have murdered." The Circuit in the cage shook the shackles seeing if they were strong enough to break them which he wasn't. Celestia had tears looking next to her throne which Luna would typically sit during trials. "Because of your careless rampage you have destroyed the lives of many and ruined property of others as you are aware of what you did." "Yes, but I could not-" "I did not permit you to speak!" Said Celestia angered. "As punishment for your crimes against Equestria, you are sentenced immortality and eternity on the moon and never allowed to return." Caged Circuit had blood on his hooves. "If there is something you wish to say in record for the archives as your last words, please speak them now." The Circuit in the cage began to cry, losing any dignity he ever retained. "I am sorry to have stained your city vith za blood of your subjectz, I am also sorry to you families of za Royal Guards I have killed. I never intended to become a blood wolf az za bite I received was not desired many years ago. Now az I am about to be casted to za moon much like your sister has, I can only think of how she must have felt. But in the end, I vill feel za same pain as she haz, and no matter vat you say Celestia. I vill come back, I know magic just az vell as Za princess of friendship. Zare vill be a day I vill come back, and ven I return. I vill fix za problems I have made. Even if I cannot bring her back. I vill bring her soul to us." Celestias horn glowed its brilliant golden glow as it sparked. A small sparkly came from the centre of the moon, a beam of white light shoot down onto Circuit who screamed as his body was ripped away to the moon until he was no longer there. The moon after the beam thinned out to nothingness, showed an image of not a mare but a stallion resembling his appearance.
"Circuit?" Said Luna looking next to her. Circuit had disappeared. "Where have you gone?" She asked looking around. "I'm over here..." He said. He had covered his ears with his hooves. He was hiding behind Celestia's throne in the scene. "You fear... going to the moon?" Y-yes. I feel it is possible being a blood wolf." "Yes I am aware of what I created."
Blood wolves where minions Luna created in preparation to over throw Celestia before she was sent to the moon. They would kill and harvest the magic energy of other ponies and magical creatures to add to her power by directing the magic they stole to the moon. The first two hundred were pure wolves, red with crimson. They'd hunt and break into homes every night the moon was red. Any pony that survived an attack and was bit would become were versions, luckily no pony lived through an attack except Circuit. They existed only to power Luna, When Luna returned and became herself however all the blood wolves that existed had been removed along with her intent to over throw and rule Equestira, but not before the last one that existed before being destroyed by the spell she used to remove them could bite Circuit. Ever since he had done research on what he was and feared the blood moon knowing he would go on a rampage killing all to fuel the moon. They were meant to serve Nightmare moon as Luna knew she would don the armour and have gone through the transformation, but since they only wouldn't attack and listen to Nightmare Moon and not Luna, she could be killed by them.
Luna now knew there was more to worry about after she either found or did not find the Tantabus in his dreams, but she also now had to find a way to free him of the curse. "I know what you fear, many have feared the blood wolves and feared being one. It is one of the first things I removed returning from the moon, I will find a way to free you of your curse." She said putting a hoof on the shoulder of Circuit looking down at him. "But... there isn't any cure, there is not spell, no potion, no ritual, nothing to rid of a me the curse." He said looking down. "I promise you this." She said. "I will not allow a problem I have caused you to be unsolved. You will not fear being a blood wolf because I will find a way." He looked up at her for a moment. "I trust you will Luna." He said smiling lightly. He felt the fear of being a wolf slowly fade away.
The area in front of them disappeared and the one thing Luna dreaded to see showed as the scene turned blue and sparkly, it condensed in the centre where the scene was. It was a small orb of blue smoke. "There it is!" Said Luna with her horn ready. She shoot at the orb but when she hit it it dissipated and a non gender specific chuckle could be heard. "Luna... your too late." Said the voice. Circuit did not like it. "You can talk? I never allowed you to talk." "You think you can destroy what you have easily created? I found my way to your material realm. However because you took most of me, I was weak. Luckily I found him, and building my strength was easy off of something new." The voice laughed. "Luna... where is it?" He said worried. "I do not know, but if it has gained a more sentient mind. Then it might be capable of more then I once intended." "Of coarse I am... why else would I be talking?" It laughed.
"Wow Luna, its been a day or so hasn't it?" Said the voice around them. "You will be leaving Mr. Hooves dreams. With or without your compliance?" She said with her horn ready. "Oh I won't be leaving any time soon, after all I just got here and then fun is only starting! But you weren't invited Luna... Lets do a little pointer towards the door shall we?" A hole opened up in the dream space, Luna flew up into the air using her wings to push herself away from the hole but her wings could no find the strength to stop it and she was getting sucked towards it. "I got you!" Said Circuit. He jumped into the air and flew directly to her grabbing her by the belly and pulling her away from the hole. ""No! She's supposed to leave Circuit, not stay." Said the voice annoyed. He put her down on the ground. His metal wings unfurled from his sides as he landed and he put them back to his sides, he looked around with a face of determination. "She will stay until you are removed from here. I will not let you take her out of my dreams until we are finished." He said. "Fine then, she can be part of our party." Said the voice.
The Tantabus appeared in front of Circuit, it had a mouth that was formed by the unnatural lack of smoke in the shape of a mouth near the bottom of the smoke ball and the unnatural lack of appearance to show eyes. "You may think this is your domain, but you are not a king here. I am, you are just a prince. You may have founded and produced this scape, but I have overthrown you're rule. I am now the king and you are one below." The ball chuckled. Circuit tried to grab it but his hooves went straight through it like it wasn't there. It disappeared. "Come back here you torturous terror." Said Circuit looking around. "Nice title, I like that." It said. "Thankfully for you this will not be my permanent staying place, I plan on leaving. Soon? Probably not, but I will be in the near future. For now I will feed from your fear and your insecurities as well as be pleased from your panic." It laughed. Circuit backed up in fear, he backed right up into Luna. He looked at her. "We must not fear it, for that will fuel it." She said with a small smile, showing her own determination and relief that she found it and had not missed it. He loved to see her smile.
He grinned and looked around. "You know what? Do your worst vile monstrosity. I may not have the reins of my dreams like I used to, but I am still the owner and keeper of my dreams. I may have been dethroned but I am not without my sceptre! I still control myself, I can control what I want and create what I want!" He said confidently. He raised his hoof and out of the ground came a weapon of some sort, it fit around his hoof. He pressed a button on the side and the blue piece charged a small ball of white. "I am not a king... I am a god!" He finished, breathing heavily feeling alive. "No your not. You are but a husk, a husk I can cast aside whenever I want." It said. Out of the ground which came several stallions. As well as one tall being. "These ones you call, Golden Touch. Twilight Sparkle, as well as Discord. Are fresh cobs now boiled and ready to serve. With butter." It said with a cackle. "You will not leave, his mind is locked until day time. You will not be able to leave until the light of day! Which you will be removed before." Said Luna looking around. "Sure." It said.
The ground below them shifted and a cage shot up from the ground around Circuit."Woo!" He said as he fell to the ground from the shaking. The cages top closed like a jar, the cap spun around closing it. Circuit slammed into the cage trying to break through as it was rusted, but instead of breaking it didn't. It instead sparked with blue as he was knocked back. "Circuit!" Said Luna coming up to the cage. "Relax Princess, he is not going to be harmed. After all not like you can be hurt in a dream." It said with a small snicker. "Besides, I want to show you something I found here you might be interested in seeing." The rusted ground below her began to transform into something else, it turned from rusted metal to dirt and grass. The verbal shots of insults that were directed at Circuit changed to the cheery fun noise of a party, She looked around. She could see a float as well as herself upon it. The pony that placed the necklace of flours around her, she looked puzzled upon why it was being placed on her. "Thank you Twilight sparkle, thank you for bringing my sister back." Said Celestia happily. "This is... the day I returned." She said looking around at the memory before her. "Well yeah but this is not your perspective." Said the Tantabus. "This is his." His voice could be heard around them. "Vow, so za princess of za moon. Zat iz vat she looks like." Circuit knew what was going to be said next. "No!" He shouted in the cage. "Don't you dare!" He shouted. On the other side of the cage he could not be heard, as Luna did not turn around to him speaking. He had been muted.
"Woo, who's that?" The field of vision turned to the left, Golden Touch was standing next to him. "Zat iz za Princess of za night. Or Princess Luna." "Well which one is it?" "Either you dunderhead." He said irritated sounding. "Oh, well I'll just say Luly." "No you shall respect za new princess and call her za proper title." He said sounding more irritated. "Why?" "Because such a princess of beauty and power is of equal to Celestia and possibly better, should be called by her proper title, would you call Celestia, Celly?" "Well maybe..." "No you do not! You say Luna! Or Princess of the night!" He shouted. "Hey this isn't a time for argument this is a time of parrrtaaay!" He looked to his right where Pinkie pie had appeared next to him, she jumped into the air glee filled. "Fine zen. I vill participate." He said to her.
"What was that supposed to show me?" Asked Luna. She looked back to where Circuit was caged. He had his ears covered and his eyes shut not wanting to hear what the vision showed. "Circuit?" He couldn't hear her. He opened one eye. He saw her approach the cage. "I am going to attempt to escape from this region and concentrate on where it is." She said. "I am all around, I am in the memories, I am in the emotions, and the visions he has. You cannot concentrate on everything that is all around. Also I am not done yet, watch more."
"I dare not, for his personal memories are not mine to see." She said. She closed her eyes. "Circuit Hooves, you shall not see my sister." It was Celestia. It made her open her eyes. "What?" She said. She could see Celestia looking at her direction. "Why not?" Said Circuits voice all around Luna. Celestia closed her eyes. "Because she does not wish to see anypony." She opened her eyes again looking at her unhappily. "Besides, unless you have any urgent problems with your dreams or you have seen any sort of night creature that does not belong you have no business with my sister." She paused. She made some scrolls appear. She waved them at her. "Also stop sending her letters, I can tell they were yours from previous letters you sent with your name on them regarding temporary land permits." "But I vish to know how she iz doing. She sheemed lonely from previous letters she sent back." He said. "He... was the one sending those letters?" Said Luna surprised.
Not too long after she returned to Cantorlot and in the castle, she began to get letters from a mysterious stallion. Through the letters she talked with him every once in awhile, the first one was asking her how that she felt since she was back from the moon. The next few were more or less just communicating back and forth. She learned a little bit about him like how he was smart by the choice of words, and that he came from another country since his English was not the best and instead of using certain words like bathroom he used toilet room. He had also used text from his language. He would talk about his day and she would talk about hers. She enjoyed the conversations they had together through letters, he got to know her and she got to know him a little that was until Celestia discovered the letters and asked her if she had been getting mail. She fessed to writing back and said how she felt there was nothing wrong with it. Celestia explained how she didn't want to see these letters anymore, Celestia and Luna didn't know how he actually was in person and Celestia would rather not see her sister engaging in such things unknown things to her as modern romance, Celestia felt she was not ready for it yet.
"I care not for your concerns regarding my sister, but if you wish to know she is fine." Said Celestia. Her horn glowed and the vision of Celestia standing at the gate of the castle became distant. "Hey!" Said Circuit. The sound of wind rushing around could be heard indicating he had been tossed away. He was thrown into the streets and landed softly as the final part of his forced leave was him slowly being set on the ground. "Brank'shanshik!" Shouted Circuit. Luna learned that was a swear in his language. "At least give me za dignity to shee myself away!"
Luna turned her head to Look at Circuit in the cage who had turned away covering his ears. He was laying on his stomach as he was covering his ears with his front hooves and his back legs were planted into the ground. "I... never knew that." She said. She shook her head. She regained her face of confidence and said. "No! No more of this." She charged her horn and she shot into the air. When it hit the roof the sound of the voice could be heard having pain. "Ooow! Stop that!" It said. "Not until I have rid of you!" She shouted. The blue smoke began to form out of the ceiling, it amassed near the centre until it became a giant orb. ""A ha! I knew I could draw you out!" She said triumphantly. "Sure you can, but may I remind you I am part of Circuits memories and his emotions now? Drawing me means you draw away his feelings and his memories and since I like to take the good and separate from the bad-." She looked to Circuit. He had become still faced, his face was blank. He stood up. "My father is dead and so is my mother." He said without tone in his voice, he also sounded unamused. "I should probably wake up but I can't. Hey Tantabus could you let me out please?" Asked Circuit. "Sure."
The cage around Circuit dropped down into the ground and the lid popped off when it collided with Circuit. He walked forward. "Hello Luna." She looked at the electrically beam she had on the Tantabus, then to Circuit Hooves who looked at her blankly. She didn't like how he looked at her with such a emotionless stare, like she was just a pony. She didn't sense the determined and yet worried face he had when she entered his dream, she didn't like it. She realized if she got rid of the Tantabus she would also rid Circuit of any feelings and any good memories in his life. She did not want to make another mistake. She had already caused enough trouble in his life and two of them were not even direct, she did not wish to have one that would specificity happen as soon as she did it. "Fine Tantabus, you win this round." She said defeated. She released the blue smoke, it retreated back into the ceiling. She watched as Circuits eyes slowly opened wide and his mouth regained and matched his eyes which looked around surprised. "How did I get out of the cage?" He asked regaining awareness. "The Tantabus let you out." She said looking down at him sadly. "Where is that thing?" "Oh just chillin." It said from somewhere in the space. Circuit noticed her sadness immediately and without even think about what could happen when he looked at her he said. "What is wrong?" She didn't speak for a moment. "I couldn't do it. I could not take it from your mind Circuit, it has bonded with your emotions and your memories. If I destroyed it. I would have destroyed everything you like, you would have been a mindless being." He felt sorry, he knew how much it meant to fix your own mistakes. He put a hoof on her shoulder. "I know there must be a way, much like you know there must be a way to rid me of my curse." He said looking at her, she was looking down. Her eye looked at him after he spoke. "I believe in you, much how I believe in myself."
The ground changed again from bright white stone tile to dirt. She saw the dirt only but she heard her voice. "The Princess of the night has Arrived!" Called her voice ahead. Circuit could watch as his past self looked up. He was still low to the ground bowing. He saw Luna. He heard him spit and the sound of something of fair density hit the ground. After offering her hoof to the mayor Circuit stood up and was sprinting over to her. "I got to talk to her, so she knows I vas za von sending za letters." Until after she stomped her hoof on the ground, which he then stopped. "Er, maybe I should vait until later." He said quietly backing up. She could see the edging around his vision indicating he was wearing a mask. She could see a mare wearing a mouse costume cowering. He after she said she was going elsewhere for now and watched her walk away, walked to a dunk tank and bobbed his head in for an apple. "I sure hope she'll be okay." The vision faded away.
"Stop this now you demon! I will not allow you to continue to plague my mind with fear, and Luna's mind with concern for me! You will either come out here and face me like a real demon or cower behind the folds of fabric that is a mind of-." "Would you stop with your speech like threats? As if wrapping my head around your logic wasn't annoying enough your speeches are stupidly long and boring." Circuit smacked his hoof into the corroded wall. "I will not be insulted in my own mind!" He shouted up the wall. The giggling of the Tantabus could be heard. "Oh and this is a good one."
The vision returned and Circuit watched Luna rise into the air, the wind howling around him. "Since you choose to fear your princess instead of love her, and insult her with this celebration. We declare that Nightmare night be cancelled, Foreveeerrr!" Circuit seemed to grow in tears as the vison was warped slightly. "But... Ziz iz von of za holidays I actually enjoyed." He said. "And, I shtil have not talked vith you." He said. He began to walk away towards the bridge and saw her appear and look back with her own face of sadness and disappointment. Circuit paused and brought a hoof up to his eyes wiping the tears away. "I got it!" He said. He began to gallop to the bridge while she slowly crossed it with her head down until he saw Twilight Sparkle running over to her. Circuit stopped and watched her talk with Twilight. "Dang it, I vanted to tell her she was doing too good of a job scaring everypony. She didn't need to cancel Nightmare night, I guess Twilight vill help her realize it." The heard his past self chuckle. "She's good at it anyways, always lecturing me on how to handle my books." That vision faded.
"You come out here and face me!" Said Circuit Hooves covering his head embarrassed. "Stop doing this now!" "Mmmmm, yes your insecurity is delicious." It said. "Well now we know what it feeds on now, everything negative." Said Luna looking around. "L-luna." Said Circuit. "What is it?" "I-I-I, know what it's trying to do. Don't listen to anymore of my memories." He asked. "No matter how tempting it may be to see other ponies memories, I will not listen to anymore." She said. "Thank you." He said, he stood up from the ground. "Now how are we going to get rid of this thing?" He said looking around the room made of rust. "Because it is grabbing onto your emotions and your memories, we must go either next." "Ooh, before you go you should see this last one." "No!" Said Circuit stepping ahead of Luna. "She shall see no more of my memories. We are coming for you!" Said Circuit angry. "Did you forget I am king here?" several blue tentacles came out of the ground and the ceiling and quickly wrapped themselves around Luna. The surprise of them coming out so quickly caught her off guard and she struggled trying to use magic to untangle herself as she was raised into the air. "Luna!" Said Circuit. He shot magic at the tentacles but a shield bearing the Lunar seal appeared deflecting the spell back at Circuit. He leaped out of the way and looked at the shield. "What is that?" "Lunar shield, pretty cool huh? I found it in your mind. Not a bad Idea by the way a shield that can be enchanted to shine a brilliant light when the moon is out to blind a foe, and can reflect magic projectiles. problem is there is no conflict where this would be effective. You know, except against night creatures like I don't know... A Unicorn blood wolf perhaps?" "YOU PUT LUNA DOWN OR ELSE!" Said Circuit stomping his hooves on the ground. "Uuuuh, nah." It said.
The next scene it wanted to show Luna began. "No, I will not view this!" Said Luna closing her eyes stills struggling to get out of the mass of tentacles. That was until the tentacles flexed and locked her in place, preventing her from moving, she was trapped. "Now open your eyes Princess." Said the Tantabus now appearing in front of her face. She did not comply. "Open your eyes to watch or I will destroy his emotions." It threatened. She sighed and opened her eyes, she looked down at Circuit who looked up at her helplessly wanting dearly to do something to help her. "Good, now enjoy the show princess." The orb floated down to Circuit who looked at it with a fire in his eyes. "Sure we will all enjoy it won't we?" Circuit's nostrils pushed out a breath of steam.
The next memory began. She could see from Circuits point of perspective. She saw herself. She was laughing away on a cloud which she used to scare Rainbow Dash. Foliage was being moved away as he came into the clearing. "Okay you can do zis, you can do zis." He said quietly. He walked towards the cloud she was on. He looked up at the cloud and cleared his throat but when he tried to speak his voice squeaked. "Hey, that's a nice costume." Said Twilight. He looked at her who adorn the Star swirl the bearded costume. "Oh, Good day. I mean, night Twilight." He siad quickly coming out of his high pitch speaking "Who might you be?" Asked Luna looking down at him. He looked up to her. "H-hello." He cleared his throat. "You are princess of night?" He said nervously. "I am Nightmare moooooon!" She laughed. "Ha! Ha! Yes mayor iz very silly about zat izn't she?" He said nervously again. "Vell, nice to meet you in person." "Indeed it is. We would guess that is why thou came out here?" She said. "Vell yes, but more specifically I came to say something to you." "Well go ahead." She said flying down to him with a smile, now enjoying the night. "It was fun writing za letters to you before Celestia got in za vay." He said. "Y-you were the one sending the letters?" She said surprised. "Yes. I missed za back und forth communication ve had, perhaps von day I may show you my real face ven I feel ready and you may know what iz behind za pen and quill of za lover you have." "Wait, I recognize that voice." Said Twilight. "I vill see you around." He said. He backed up into the foliage as the foliage moved from the sides into the view of the memory.
Luna looked at it surprised with her mouth open slightly now remembering that encounter. She looked down at Circuit who had now began to cry. "I hate you!" He shouted referring to the Tantabus. "You are ruining my life! I will seal you in a jar and place you in the deepest pit of Tatarus myself! I will-." "Oh oh, there is one more she needs to see." Said the orb. The orb had grown extremely big. "Here you go, curtsy of your pal Tantabus."
The next vision was a letter. "I know what you were capable of, you could be making lies." She said looking unhappily at the memory. "I can assure you, this is what has been happening. In fact, this one was a few nights ago." "No...' Said Circuit now covering his eyes, his ears were flopped down. "No more..."
He spoke as he wrote the letter."Dear Princess Celestia, princess of za sun. I Know vy you prevent me from receiving mail from her as well as her receiving mail from me. It iz because you do not wish for her to mingle, to see vat iz out zare, to shee her be harmed emotionally. I commemorate your desire to protect her, like any member of a family should. However, you should be made aware of something else you may not know of vich is called over reacting. You may think I am nothing more then just fool, thinking he iz not worthy of such a thing az your sister, but you cannot know if von is vorthy if you do not give zem a chance. You know how brilliant and how much of an intellectual mind zat I posses from za plans and za machines i have shown you to improve za pony condition. I although do not know za shame painz and shame misery she haz felt over the thousand years she haz been on the moon, I wish I could sympathize with her and I have before from zes letterz. In za short time zat I could write to her, I learned many things about her and she has learned things about me. Things that show me that she iz very much just like any mature adult like you and me, I do not know if she has feelings for me and you clearly know that I do for her, za fact zat you continue to meddle in vat iz not yourz to meddle vith iz surprising. I will despite my own reluctance to do so in fear of never having proof of such letters, I vill send you back za letters she sent to me showing just how ready she is to be out in za world doing such things az being loved by somepony else, not zat you should really need to be convinced of such thingz az zare are none of your concernz who she wishez to talk to. I ony hope zat you vill make za right decision, do not make her unhappy.." The black aura of his magic could not be seen in the darkness behind it, it was rolled up and then set alight in red flames. The smoke quickly travelled out the window and into the night. "Whatever your response iz Princess... You better answer vith your heart and not vith your mind."
"NOOOOOO!" Said Circuit Shouting at the tentacles. He charged his horn directly into them, it pierced straight through. "Ow!" Said the orb that followed him. Th tentacles retreated back into the ceiling and the floor. Luna slowly let herself down to the ground. "I think I'll let you two be for a while." Said the orb. It disappeared. Luna looked down at Circuit. Circuit's ears flopped down afraid, he could feel his heart pounding. "I... see why you were nervous this morning." She said having her eyes looking away. Circuits face began to turn red, not from anger but embarrassment. "Fine. Yes, yes! I like you. I just..." His mind raced trying to think of what to say. He could hear gears, moving literally making the phrase your gears are moving. "I just... I got to know you the way I did, and..." He paused trying to think. "I always wanted to just keep writing, because I was unsure if I could face you in... real life. Sure there was nightmare night, but I was in costume as a robot. You could not see my true self." He lowered his head in shame. "In a way. I seen it as being able to communicate with you since I could not find my confidence to truly speak with you." She looked at him with a small amount of lighter blue under her eyes. "I... I... Never felt adequate enough in person, but when you speak to somepony through letters... There is no comprehensions. I had built the courage I had to try to talk to you those times but after nightmare night I... Gave up." "Well... what was, that last letter about?" She asked curiously still looking down at him. "That... was my final stand against Celestia's over protection of you. I as you saw wanted to show her how close we were becoming through the letters and how good of a thing it was... I still don't know her response as of yet. I fear she is working on getting a legal note telling me to stay away."
There was silence as the truth lingered in the room. Circuit had turned around, still scared to hear what she might say. "I know you may not feel the same way as I do, but if you-." "Circuit..." She interrupted him. His eye looked back. "My sister is right... I may not be ready for such things as relationships that... you wish to have with me considering." He saw her hoof be placed on his shoulder. "But that was a year ago, I know how have dinner with others. I know how to just, as the foals say... Hang out." He could hear some cheeriness when she said that. "Regardless of what my sister enacts against you, I wish to know more about you." He turned his head. "I... missed the communication we had." She was smiling down at him. "B-but, Celestia will not let us use the letters." He turned around as he said that. "Then we will not use the letters." "Wait wait. This wasn't supposed to happen!"
The orb reappeared, it was no longer large but it had grown small. Circuit and Luna did not notice its reappearance. "Well, what will we use?" He asked. "We will talk to each other using dreams she has no control over them." "So, you... Like me?" He said shocked. She brought her lips down to his forehead and kissed him on it. His face blushed. "I want what we had going." She said. "No no no no no, you were supposed to reject him. He was supposed to cry and I would leave this place!" It said angry. "Things are different about me then you once thought Tantabus, My heart has changed and evolved since I first created you." She said looking at it. "I figured out what you were trying to do, but the opposite happened. You helped me, in a way that was what your existence was for." "No! I am not a good guy! I am a bad guy! I MADE HIM CRY! I AM EVIL!" It screamed defeated. "No, you were my good intentions creating a lesson for myself, now you were re-purposed to show him he had nothing to fear. Even if that was not your sentient intentions, it was your destined actions."
"No!" It said. It had a face of displeasure and worry as it was sucked by an invisible force towards Circuit. "No! not again! Not like last time!" It said. Circuit closed his eyes and he made a jar appear. "No! NOOOOOOOOOO!"
