Bloom shifted awkwardly in front of the class "It's me Applebloom I'm back and ok but well things have changed as you can probably see." Bloom looked at the sea of confused faces when an encouraging "Woo" came from the British corner of the class. Then Sweetie cheered and Scootaloo raised a hoof in support. Somewhere in the middle, a filly asked the critical question.

"What happened?"

Bloom took a breath and began to tell the story again. A couple kids gave her looks of disbelief when she described the Ancient. Others looked scared. When she got to the end everypony seemed stunned till one hoof went high.

"Did you die?"

Bloom opened her mouth to answer, but the full question hit her brain. "No, I'm right here..." She couldn't muster the conviction behind. Miss Cheerilee stepped in trying to save Bloom from any more questions, but Archer couldn't hold back.

"But what was that purple alien?"

Chroma gave Bloom the cliff notes version of Zephyrs codex entry.

"She's a warframe that controls air letting her fly and form tornados and even shield herself from harm. She's styled after an ancient bird." Bloom repeated back out loud.

"Aw so Little Bird has a Momma Bird how cute-" Diamond Tiara's teasing was cut short by a gust of wind sweeping through the class blowing open shutters and throwing paper everywhere. Diamond shut her mouth as she recentered her namesake tiara. Everypony cleaned up there papers and Cheerilee once again tried to start class.

The subject was the solar system, but Bloom really couldn't focus. She had accepted a lot at face value. She may not have reacted well at first but past that she was just along for the ride.

"Your not paying attention. Whats wrong?" Chroma asked

"I thought you could read my mind?" She thought

"I can, but you appreciate when I ask." She nodded and let out a sigh closing her eyes for a moment

"Ya, I do. did I-"

"What do you mean the *pony* Princesse's actually control the sun and moon?" An all to familiar voice cut off her thought. Bloom's head whipped around so fast by all logic and physics her neck should have snapped.

"Ordis!" She growled the Cephalon didn't seem fazed at all merely greeting her as cheerful as ever.

"Hello Operator."

Miss C looked like she needed several long drinks as she tried to remain calm and collected. "Oh is this another of your new friends Bloom?"

"I am Cephalon Ordis faithful liset and helper to Operator Bloom. What a pleasure to be in your *Dojo* Class Miss Cheerilee." He introduced himself happily.

"And It's certainly a pleasure to welcome you Ordis." The teacher's smile was a little forced. "Ordis why are you suddenly in my classroom?" She asked, and Ordis happily floated and rearranged his shapes

"Ordis was trying to learn more about this planet, and its *ponies* but was struggling with some of the basic ideas that work on this planet. So Ordis felt it was best to start on a basic level and then work towards more advanced topics replacing any old information with new."

Cheerilee looked impressed. "Well Ordis I'm glad to have you but to answer your question yes the Princesses raise both the sun and moon with their magic." She held up a hoof to stop the next question she had a feeling would be coming " Any questions on magic will be answered in our next topic or you can ask Twilight she is well versed in the topic. For now, pay attention there is a test at the end of the week." Several Fillies and Colts groaned at this. Ordis nodded his Hologram happily and set to take notes rapidly.

Bloom shook her head refocusing on what she was trying to say. "Did i-"

"You are Applebloom, and I am Chroma together we are ChromaBloom. I don't know everything that happened I lost some of myself saving you. But we're here, and that's what matters. Now pay attention I won't help you on the test if you don't try." Chroma reassured her and Bloom nodded with a smile and refocused on the teacher taking notes.

A couple hours later and Cheerilee dismissed them for recess. The class rapidly emptied as all the colts and fillies raced out to take their break. Ordis flicked out and reappeared next to the teacher giving her a start.

"What the ponies know of the solar system is *Primitive* limited but not wrong per say." This caught Cheerilee's attention. "How the pony names and what many in the Tau system call the planets match up so neatly it's so *Convenient* Improbable."

"Really?" She asked

"Yes, it's fascinating actually."

"where do you come from Ordis?" She asked

"Oh Ordis came from *Missing* hmm it seems Ordis has misplaced those memories," Ordis said casually, and Cheerilee looked concerned. When a colt came running up

"Miss C!"

"yes rumble?"

"their a huge red beetle on the playground." The colt asked concerned, and Cheerilee rolled her eyes.

"I'm sure it's just a normal beetle."

"Are normal beetles big enough to use as a slide?" He asked, and Cheerilee's eye bugged out, and she rushed outside to see the red liset sitting between the playground and a field. Some fillies and colts were climbing on it and sliding down the smooth sides. ChromaBloom walked out and stared flabbergasted.

"Ordis!" She shouted, and the hologram flicked near her. "Why, How did you park the liset here?"

"Ordis is a stealth ship and would normally never be so bold, but this planet is just so safe." He said not seeing the fault. Bloom, however, smacked a hoof onto her face.

"Ponies aren't used to spaceships! I'm not even used to spaceships yet!" she shouted at him He dimmed a little making Bloom feel bad.

"My apologies operator I did not mean to anger you." He let out sadly Bloom rubbed the bridge of her nose.

"I just don't want ponies to panic or someone to get hurt ya know?"

"Ordis understands." he blinked out and the Liset's engines rumbled and the kids all scrambled off. Except one who sat petrified with fear in the middle of the hull. Bloom readied herself to jump up and move the little colt, but Ordis popped up next to him.

"No need to *Scream* be frightened I merely need you to move." He spoke calmly, and the little colt's eyes went wide. But with Ordis's gentle guiding he slid off the hull safely.

"Thank you young one I'll see you in class." Ordis took off quietly. The little colt ran up to Bloom.

"Your shiny friends really cool." Bloom smiled and nodded. She saw Pip trotting up looking at the sky where Ordis had left.

"Todays just full of surprises. Dead friends back from the grave, Alien spaceships, wish every day was like this!" He said with a head toss and a giddy trot in place. He stopped looking at Chroma again. "That looks alive," Bloom smirked, and Chroma waved at him with a chortle. The colt jumped back with a curse. Cheerilee gave him a harsh look, and his ears flattened. "Sorry caught me off guard, That is really wicked. Are you some kind of dragon?" The hood nodded, and Pip went starry-eyed. "Can you breathe fire?"

Cheerilee's ears perked for this answer. Bloom let out a lick of fire, and Pip pranced in a circle overcome with awesomeness.

"That is bloody COOL!" Pip geeked out, but Cheerilee expression was stern.

"You know this add's to the don't burn anything lecture we had after the firefighting cutie mark you tried to earn last summer right." Cheerilee raised an eyebrow, and Bloom looked at the ground nodding. "Good." the teacher walked off, and Bloom went to seek out her friends. Pip walking alongside her the whole way gushing about how cool this all was.

The unicorn and pegasus sat a bench, and as Bloom approached Sweetie waved, and Scootaloo gave her a look. Bloom raised her eyebrow.

"Whats up?"

Sweetie took a look at pip "Aren't you popular today." She had a good-natured smile, and Bloom giggled

"it'll fade." she looked at Scoots "But whats with you and bird frame?" Apparently, this was the trigger because Scoots threw her hooves in the air and groaned.

"She's crazy! I was walking home minding my own business when she comes out of nowhere." She waved her hooves even more to make her point.

"I thought I caught you digging in the trash?" The bird frame's voice suddenly came out of nowhere again! Scootaloo had a look of utter horror as her friends all turned to her.

Author's Note

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It was at that moment he knew