Lyda knew Twilight was known for sticking by her friends when they needed her help, although in the middle her conversation at Sugarcube Corner, she disappeared into thin air. They were talking about the stallion that Lyda had bumped into outside when she just faded out of existence, leaving Pinkie and Lyda in shock.

"Woah," she flatly said. "Does that normally happen to you?"

"Not really. She stays around with her friends and then leaves normally like everypony else!" Pinkie told her. "Besides! We can have a lot more fun with each other now!" Pinkie gasped in excitement, "I could throw a party for this!"

"Pinkie, not everything needs a party."

"But parties make everything much more fun!" She began to bounce up and down so quickly, that her legs went into hyperdrive and sent her flying across the room in every direction possible at the speed of a sonic rainboom.

"Pinkie calm down. It's just more fun and a party."

"Just fun and a party?!" She froze to a halt in mid-air while sideways.

"Yeah… why are y-"

"You should know that a party and fun means everything in the world! Don't be such a party pooper," the pink party pony began to scold her. "I am going to throw a party and you will like it!" She began staring at Lyda with a serious look for a while, and eventually turned aroun. "Now don't crush my party dreams with your 'It's just fun and a party,' type-thing-statements!"

"Okaaay… well, while you do that, I'm going to look for Twilight." She turned around and started her way out the door. The last thing she saw, was Pinkie bouncing around Sugarcube Corner doing several things that were party related.

She went all around Ponyville and even went on a trip to Canterlot just to find Twilight. She went to several other areas as well such as the Everfree Forest and Manehatten. She only felt like something was missing the whole time, and it was the last place she didn't check. She had decided to go to a changeling hive.

She didn't exactly know why, but she always felt like she had some sort of connection with them. Maybe by going to a few, she might find Twilight there, and maybe understand a little more about her "connection" with them. She looked all over Equestria to find some, and none of them showed any sign of the purple mare. Finally, she came upon the last hive in Equestria that she hadn't looked at, and found Twilight talking to a changeling.

She got in a closely as she could to them without being noticed by the two of them so she could listen in on them.

"OK,tell me what color I'm thinking of."

After sighing, he flatly said, "Orange," with absolutely no enthusiasm, and then facehoofed.

"Oh my Celestia! This is fantastic!" She pulled a parchment and quill from nowhere a scribbled something that the changeling looked like he didn't care about it. "Man, there's so many things that book didn't tell me. Wait, you only told me one thing that the book didn't. Oh well. Still interesting to know. I'll keep that in mind the next time Chrysalis decides to invade. Now that I think about it."

"No, I'm not part of Chrysalis' hive." When Lyda heard this, she thought this was the location of Chrysalis' hive. She continued to listen, "I've been living here for as long as I can remember, and I-"

"You lived in Ponyville before. How come you don't remember that?"

He lived in Ponyville? How come she never told me that?! Well, he is a changeling and I was told she and her friends didn't appreciate them a lot, so I guess it makes sense.

"I just don't know. I don't remember anything past ten months ago."

Wasn't that about the same time I showed up in front of Twilight?

"Well, was anything around you that could help jog your memory?" She looked as if she was waiting for him to bring out something that she wasn't familiar with as a pony.

"Well," he began to say, "there was one thing that was shattered in pieces, and I managed to fix it." He pulled out a medallion that was in the shape of a changeling with a chain attatched to the end.

"What is it? It looks interesting." She picked it up in her magic to examine it closer and eventually put it on. A white glow began to float across her body and made her a changeling by looks. Lyda's eyes widened in shock, horror, amusement, or all of the above.

What is that? Did she just become one, or is she just one by looks?

"It's a perception filter," the changeling began to explain. "It makes you look like a changeling to all except the Queen of this hive because she can see through them. I'm not sure about the others."

"This is awesome! I'm officially stalking you!" A wave of shock washed over Lyda, and maybe the changeling.

"She's going to stalk him?" she said quietly, "That's not something you see everyday. Not one pony have I seen stalk a changeling. Today's just weird."

"Oh no," she heard him say.

"Oh no is right." The changeling looked in her direction as if he had heard her and stared there for a while as Twilight continued to mess with the filter. All he did was grin as Lyda sat there in confusion.

"That was weird. Very weird."

Author's Note

Chapter 2 is finally out! It's about bloody time! And now, time for MORE writer's block on Chapter 3. Hopefully it won't be as long as it was with this chapter. For those of you wondering, T and L chapters will come out at the same time until it gets to the point where it's one chapter. That will be some time. Development for this vic will take some time because I have to juggle school, YouTube, and Tumblr at the same time. Not to mention I also read other fics and get my inspiration from some of them, although that's slow. Plus, I'm only 13. Yes. I run a YouTube channel at the age of 13. I've had it since I was 10, but I didn't actually upload until I was 11, but THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT!

Yes. There is a lack of fish in this chapter.

THERE'S the fish!