The next evening...
Hitch walked down the hall of his one story house on the west side of Maretime Bay, carrying a plate containing two slices of veggie deluxe pizza, fresh out of the oven, and a cup of soda. He came up to the second door on the left, knocked twice, and received a "Come in!"
He opened the door to the guest bedroom.
"And dinner is serv... Did my temporary roommate turn into a conspiracy theorist?" He asked. There sat Sunny, in the middle of the bedroom floor, a large bulletin board leaning up against her bed, with a dozen sheets of notebook paper pinned to it, and laminated sheets of paper scattered all around her. Each of them looked to be scans of... book pages?
She turned to smirk at him.
"Ha. I'm finally starting to make sense of a bunch of those memory gems we found in the castle. Like the party in the library? That was Twilight's welcome party when she first came to Ponyville. And her very first sleepover. And the one who carved his final message into the wall; his name was Discord! And that mirror in the basement was a portal to another dimension! Hitch, it's amazing, it's like discovering them for the first time all over again," Sunny excitedly told him, pointing to several different pages strewn about the floor.
"Still no idea how long ago this all was?" Hitch asked, setting the plate and cup on the nightstand.
"No, and that answer may not be in here," Sunny said, getting up and carefully stepping through the copies on the floor to sit on the bed and start into her pizza. "You might enjoy reading about Fluttershy, Hitch. She seemed to be a rehabilitative therapist of some kind for small woodland critters. Now where have I heard of a pony like that before?"
"They follow me around everywhere. Hardly speaks to my ability to care for them to a degree like that," Hitch retorted.
"So I hear it's official? Construction and repair work started on the lighthouse today?" Sunny asked.
"Yep. Mayor's office finally finalized the permits and the last of the red tape was finally gotten through. Hope it goes smoothly, and doesn't take too long. And don't get me wrong, I love having you here, but I know you like having your own place."
"I just hope they don't have to change it too much to make it livable again," Sunny said, finishing off her first slice.
"Seeing how it's a local landmark, I do think there are certain things they are required to keep the same. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll look better than it did before this whole mess started."
"Here's hoping," Sunny replied, raising her glass.
Three days later...
Now armed with an arsenal of names and places, Sunny was finally beginning to mentally prepare how she wanted to organize the Guardians of Harmony wing in the Maretime Bay Museum of History. Regardless of the way the display cases would be organized, she knew she'd likely commission large cutouts of these six legendary friends to hang on the walls.
She was also highly considering getting the Journal of Friendship republished and have copies available during the reopening.
"Ah, Miss Starscout, just the pony I wanted to see," Mystic Cinnamon said, strolling into the still-barren hall, hoofsteps echoing off of the walls.
"What can I do for you, Mr. Cinnamon?" She asked, turning her attention away from the far wall.
"Well, I'd like to know how you feel about replicas."
"Replicas?"
"Why, yes. I think a museum shouldn't solely be about preservation, of storing ancient relics and showing ponies what they look like now, but also giving them a look back in time, showing them what items looked like back in the day. What do you think?" Mystic asked.
"Hm," Sunny began, putting a hoof to her chin and taking a look around the wing. Truth be told, not too much had come in just yet, and they were currently just working off the memory gems. "Yeah, replicas are probably the perfect way to fill out this space. Where do you think we should begin?"
"I've been looking at those gems you brought in, and I think having a miniature replica of Princess Twilight's castle would be a great piece. And I'd bet a replica of one of those Wonderbolt uniforms would look pretty flashy, especially if we could get a hold of a mid-flight pegasus mannequin, that we could hang from the ceiling. Although, to be fair, CanterLogic's pegasus test dummies may not be the most accurate thing in town, so we might need to have them update the model. Maybe have the same pegasus fit for a custom uniform and be the template for the new mannequin?"
The proverbial light bulb came on over Sunny's head.
"I think I might have just the pony in mind, Mr. Cinnamon."
I bet I know who it is.
Ooh, it's gonna be Zipp isn't it?
Here comes Zipp.
Zipp's gonna be so excited!
While fashion definitely isn't Zipp's Forte, getting to be fitted for a Wonderbolt uniform would definitely be the thing that would convince her to go along with being the template for a museum mannequin.
One thing Sunny could do is take the gems, place each one in their own display piece complete with a picture showing an enlarged version of the gem's respective image and a descriptive plaque telling the context of the scene In question, where known, or failing that the best guess that modern historians can make, with it clear that it is just a guess. that would go a long way to fill up space, at least on the walls, and with so many of them they can rotate them out on a regular basis to encourage ponies to make return visits, and it would be easy to lend a dozen or two out to other museums in both Bridlewood and Zephyr Heights.
Here's Zippy!
Could also see Zipp commissioning multiple Wonderblots suits because she plans to recreate the team. I actually kind of hope they do that in the show too, have Zipp decide to recreate the Wonderblots now that Pegasi can fly again. Lots a great stuff could be had with Pegasi trying to figure out stunt flying again.
Oh, Zipp's gonna flip.
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The Wonderblots, the ultimate rorschach team!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
if things hadn't gone South the way they did, she'd probably be a Wonderbolt so it is fitting to use Zipp as the model.
oh now they have become what most people feared THEY BECOME LARPers! quickly hide your kids hide your wives hides your plushies! "sqeek nosie"
but in all right she goign to do what we do now is wearing old clothes and re acting things from the past like how people re do things what people used to do in the civil war or how people used to live in the wild west times
Firefly founded the Wonderbolts as a warrior squad to protect Equestria Now Zipp will restart it as a show hope and unity
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Zipp will lose her mind,
Splendid work on the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places here. Definitely liked Hitch and Sunny's dialogue concerning the progress in making sense of the stuff they found in the Castle Ruins and the rebuilding of the lighthouse. Also really appreciated the bit about finding body models for some of the outfits for better accuracy. Indeed, Zipp would probably like the chance to get to rebuild the Wonderbolts for real. Training able-bodied and willing pegasi to aid in Equestria's defense as well as inspire hope.
I still think it's a very interesting Theory that hitch could be a descendent from her
So it looks like Sunny discovered some of the gems and even the note on the wall is Discord it's like she's watching the show and it looks like they tried to do some replica of some of the items that Journal friendship and the Wonderbolts uniform and it looks like she's going to ask Zipp to help out with that I wonder how she's going to react to this guess we'll find out next time
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Can she do the rainboom though
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Yeah. Of course, given who Fluttershy most likely married (you know who I'm talking about), he would probably find it extremely ironic that one of HIS descendants is a law and order type (that is, if he hadn't already faded into oblivion) . Of course, to be fair, Hitch is probably ALSO descended from the Apple Family in some way (from a very different branch of the family).
And Zipp and Pipp are so much like Rainbow and Rarity respectively that it IS rather probable that they (and their mother) are descended from BOTH of them (again, quite obviously from different branches of the family).
Izzy is ALMOST DEFINITELY descended from Pinkie Pie.
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Yeah, sorry. I forgot that he was the only being other than Spike to live for centuries.
I like this fanfiction and how you are building up as Sunny and her friends discovering the past steep by steep and how Sunny is working on showing it for others too.
The FIM was focusing on Twilight Sparkle and the guardians of Harmony plus the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
I can't help but be very curious to see what do you think about how the CMC and certain five unicorns including Lyra fits into the story?
Personally, I believe that Moondancer, Twinklesine, Lemonhearts, Lyra and Minutes used to be Twilight Sparkle's friends and classmates in Princess Celestia's school for special unicorns until they finished the school and they went on their own way and Twilight became Celestia's personal student. I also believe that Moondancer, Lemonhearts, Twinkleshine and Minutes played a bigger role again as friends in Twilight's life after she moved back to live in Canterlot as a princess and her Poniville friends couldn't be always around her.
What do you think of Lyra and Bon Bon's marriage in the background? Is that official?
Absolutely loving this! Keep up the amazing work, but also take your time - the best stories are those that aren't rushed. 😁
Looking forward to the future installments!
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Oh definitely he maybe not as good as Fluttershy but still he dose have something that the animals can sense it and yeah I agree about the others
So she knows about Discord and doesn't think about his death?
I'm pretty sure Twilight wrote about Discord and Alicorns living thousands of years,or that they even don't age at all at some stage in their life.
Like hey, he died an unnatural death.
Especially that she doesn't question where other racers are.
I have 2 thoeries at this pint
1.
Equestria, or whatever part of it is there, is banished/separated from the rest of the world
Think about Crystal Empire but for them time passed normally.
Or it could be that the rest of the world pulled a barrier around Equestria.
Considering Equestria's reputation for creating trouble for the rest of the world I can see it happen.
2.
When it was time for retirement Twilight, alicorns and other long-living friends has gone to mirror world for a vacation to later return after many many years, to check on things and fi necessary to help again.
Let's say that e in the mirror world only passed 5-10 years.
Why didn't Discord go with them?
Maybe he volunteered to take care of Equestria and stay behind and wait for their return.
Maybe when magic was starting to disappear and he was on the time limit.So either:
am just hoping as this story come along or the show klugetown is still there selling things and trading hub or it becomes a perfect ruin and thx to the dry wheater and very little if any rain keep it perfect there for someone to find one day
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It could b the Ponies live in isolation from every creature or the other races assume Ponies are extincted.
Ok my emails are broken why am I not getting notifications D:
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Technically (somewhat movie spoiler) Manehattan is in the g5 era as it was listed on the big departures/arrivals screen in those ruins zipp took sunny and izzy to
That’s exactly how it feels revisiting friendship is magic
They're going to ask somebody to be the model for the mannequin Pegasus and I know which who they're going to ask
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<insert Watchmen reference here>
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I am not flying around here with all of you. All of you are flying around in here with *me*.
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Also:
Dash's "She would have delusions of grandeur, except she can back it up." personality would fit well with that quote...
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*Takes a cupcake.*
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: Manehattan!
Manehattan!
Manehattan!
It's only a model...
So discord was the one who wrote that message huh, I'm surprised I didn't realize that over the DI.
It's pretty obvious it's likely Zipp.