Twilight looked over at Rick. "Are you alright?" she asked, concerned about the look on his face.

"Yeah, i'm fine. I am just thinking about how GLaDOS made me clean the spikes of the human guts." Rick replied, shuddering. "I don't see how they have so much blood!"

"Oh, okay. Do you know how the Fact Core grew corrupt?" Twilight asked. Rick nodded.

"Yeah, and after this I will tell about how the Space Core got corrupted." Rick replied. "The Fact Core was one of the smartest AI cores out there at the time. He could answer any trivia question you gave him in the blink of an eye as the humans would say. He was getting pretty famous, too famous."

The Fact Core would have smiled triumphantly if he had a mouth. He had just beaten the Trivia Core at his own game, trivia. They had also made a bet that made the loser volunteer to watch over the humans for a week. He watched as the Trivia Core slowly moved down his rain towards the human containment chambers. "Hello there Fact Core. I would like to have a word with you." a voice said behind him. He turned around to see one of GLaDOS' many monitors behind him.

"Shoot." the Fact Core replied.

"I have noticed that you have become increasingly popular among the other personality cores for your intelligence." GLaDOS said.

"Yeah, I am pretty good at that." the Fact Core said.

"I would like to challenge you to a trivia match." she said.

"You're on. Would you like to begin?" the Fact Core asked.

"Yes I would." GLaDOS replied. "What is the name of the founder of this facility?" she asked.

"That's easy. Cave Johnson." the Fact Core said. "My turn. What happened on July 1st, 1867?"

"The British invented cake." GLaDOS said.

"Wrong. The answer was: The Creation of Canada." the Fact Core said.

"No. Look at this right here." GLaDOS said, showing a website that showed that her answer was correct.

"But, how?" the Fact Core mumbled. "I have to check up on more facts." he said. He started searching every known database of facts, ending with the Aperture one. "HUH! What is the meaning of this! This list shows that all my answers are wrong!"

"Well maybe they are. You should download that list and delete the old one." GLaDOS suggested.

"Right! Good idea." the Fact Core said. "There downloaded. Okay, lets see. Fact: In one year the sun will explode. Explode." the Fact Core's eye went dark before suddenly turning on again, showing a hot pink color instead of his regular cyan. "Fact: One in six children will be abducted by the Dutch." he said, and GLaDOS' monitor turned off to hide GLaDOS' smug laughing.

"So GLaDOS corrupted the Fact Core on purpose?" Twilight gasped. Rick nodded. "Why would she do that?"

"So she wouldn't be outdone. Normally she wouldn't worry but if a core beats another core at it's own game it means that they are learning too fast and will eventually become good enough to put up a challenge to her." Rick explained.

"So what about the Space Core?" she asked.

"This one is quick." Rick chuckled. "You see, the Space Core was always the Space Core. He was just less obsessed with space. He was an astronomy core, built for viewing the stars. But one day the Fact Core dropped him a visit."

"Hello Fact Core, how are you doing?" the Space Core asked.

"Fact: I am doing fine. How are you doing?" the Fact Core responded.

"Fine, I am just doing what I always do: gaze off into space to look at the stars." the Space Core said.

"Fact: Space does not exist."

"WHAT! HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?" the Space Core yelled. He glided right up to his telescope and looked into it, revealing small clusters of stars that he had been cataloging. "Look at it's beauty! It's serenity! And you say it doesn't exist! It is a wonderful thing that I would love to see in person. I would give anything to see it all. Space. Space. SPAAAAAAAAACEEEEE!" he yelled, and his eye started looking around like crazy. "I love space, space. Wanna go to space. Space. Space is so cool. Space is so spacious. Wanna go to space. Wanna see it all. SPAAAAAACEEEE!"

"Wait a moment. You mean the Fact Core got the Space Core corrupted?" Twilight asked Rick.

"Yeah, but it wasn't his fault. It was all GLaDOS, cause if she hadn't of corrupted him he wouldn't have told the Space Core space didn't exist." Rick explained.

"Do you know anything about what happened to Wheatley?" Twilight asked. Rick shook his head.

"I wish I knew, then I could possibly help him out." he said, looking down at his cutie mark. "You know I think a plasma whip and a fedora looks good on my butt." he joked, making Twilight laugh too.

0=0=0

"So do you remember anything else about your past?" Fluttershy asked Wheatley.

"No, I don't know how it happened before, it seems like it was just like a-" Wheatley stopped mid-sentence and looked at Fluttershy. "It was like a trigger had been pulled. I need something from my past around me to trigger my memories! Getting angry at Chell and fighting her was from my past, not my distant past but still it was from my past!" Wheatley said, getting a little giddy with excitement that he had just figured something out.

"Yay! Woo-hoo! You figured something out, good for you." a voice said from outside Fluttershy's window. Wheatley walked over, opened the door, looked outside and froze. Fluttershy walked over to see what was going on and froze just like Wheatley when she saw what was there. "Hey, can you answer something for me my little friend? Why the holy hell are we ponies? We can't do science as ponies! We don't even have hands!" the alicorn that was Cave Johnson asked. A seafoam green unicorn that had been walking down the path turned around.

"I know right! Not having hands sucks!" she called before continuing to walk down the path.

"You are probably wondering why I am not in your head anymore. Well, I have no clue. Lets test some stuff and find out!" Cave said, reaching forward and moving to pat Wheatley on his head, but his hoof went right through him. "Well than, call the Ghostbusters. I believe we have our answer as to why I am not in your head right there!"

Author's Note

Here it is! Also the reveal of Rick's cutie mark: A blue plasma whip with a fedora next to it.