Moving away from the city two ponies were sitting on the beach watching the sunset. One of the ponies was Twilight and the other was an unknown Earth pony. The Earth pony had a white coat and a reddish brown mane. She didn't have a cutie mark.
Twilight looked out to the sea, "You know…the days have changed."
"What do you mean?" the mare asked as she looked at Twilight.
"Well..." Twilight couldn't find words to describe how she felt.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
"I'm fine but…I was thinking." Twilight placed her hoof in the sand and started making circular patterns.
"About what? You can tell me anything, what's on your mind?"
Twilight sighed, "What if Princess Celestia has found a way to send you two back home?" the unidentified mare remained quiet, "We might not see each other again." Twilight sadly finished.
The mare understood Twilight's sadness, but she did what she could to support Twilight. She smiled, "True. But we're still friends regardless right?" unfortunately what she was trying to get at wasn't making Twilight feel better and she knew this, "Who knows? Maybe you can find a way to bring me back someday."
Twilight shook her head, shooting her theory down, "I couldn't do that." the mare tapped the sand in defeat, "Not after all the trouble Princess Celestia could've gone through after finding a way for getting you to get back. You weren't even here for that long."
"So what do you want me to do Twilight?"
Twilight already had her answer, "Stay here in Ponyville. Our friendship would never have to end." the mare just chuckled.
She looked over at Twilight smiling, " The days haven't changed. You seem to have been the one who's changed Twilight."
Twilight knew the chances of her staying were slim, "Maybe..." she sighed.
"I mean…it's not like you to think like this. Even when I do go back, you'll always remember me, right?"
"Of course…" Twilight replied.
She continued on, "As long as you remember my time here you'll be fine. I wasn't even here long enough to make an impact." she smirked, "I'll defiantly never forget."
Twilight didn't know what to say and kept quiet. The thought of her friend leaving plagued her mind.
"Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Spike and you Twilight. I'll never forget you."
The mare slowly began to fade away but soon the beach followed after. Everything faded to black. Twilight awakened in her bed back at the library, "Huh?" she looked around before rising up, realizing she was home, "Oh, my head..."
"Twilight!" Spike quickly ran over to Twilight's beside, "You're ok!" he shouted in relief.
Twilight looked over at Spike, "Of course, why wouldn't I be?" she seemed back to her normal self, as if she hadn't fell out earlier.
"Don't you remember?" Spike asked, "You fell out earlier when we were out shopping."
It just hit Twilight, she turned to the window and saw that the sun was still up, "Right…shopping. Now I remember." she turned her look over to Spike, "What happened to Fluttershy?"
"She woke up and left a little while ago, I walked her home to make sure she was going to be alright. Turns out she was perfectly fine."
Twilight was happy to see how caring the small dragon was for the two, "That was nice of you Spike." she rubbed his head before removing the blanket from over her body, "Thanks so much for handling things. I didn't mean to worry you earlier and I'm sorry if I did so."
Spike shyly flagged his claw, "Aw, it's nothing. As long as you're alright I'm happy."
"You're the best Spike." she happily complimented.
Spike held out his chest, " Well, you know me, I aim to please."
Twilight giggled at Spike's manly gesture, "Also, about those two boys I mentioned…"
"What about them?" Spike asked.
"While I was out I had this dream, and the dream had me thinking if they were real or not. The more I thought the less familiar they became. It wasn't two boys but another Pony. I know we've been friends and even though she had to go away we're still connected by heart."
Spike was relieved to see that Twilight wasn't going crazy...again...he may not have known any boys but he seemed to remember a lost Pony friend, "I told you those other two must've just been a dream or something."
"Of course but I feel terrible…" Twilight lowered her head in sadness.
"How come?" Spike asked.
Twilight raised her head to Spike, "Because…I don't remember her name. The one we had such a special bond with."
"How could you forget, Twilight?"
"I know, I know! Can you remind me?" Twilight asked innocently with her wide puppy dog eyes.
The eyes were irresistible, Spike sighed at Twilight's attempt, "You're not a real friend if you can't remember on your own."
"M-Maybe you're right." Twilight bashfully admitted, pretending she was only kidding, "I guess I can figure it out on my own."
Spike smirked, " Sounds good."
"But, uh, think you can give me a hint?"
Spike lowered one eye at Twilight, "A hint?" he looked directly into her puppy dog eyes and gave in, "Hm…I guess you at least deserve that much. Her name starts with M and ends with i."
"Starts with M and ends with I?" Twilight repeated in mild bewilderment, "Oh, never mind." she stopped herself, remembering she had to at least remember on her own, "I can work with that. Thanks Spike."
Spike smiled, "No problem." he went downstairs while Twilight remained in the room.
"…Starts with M and ends with i?"
Spike left Twilight with her hint, allowing her to guess the name of their friend who left some time ago.
As time went by André and Babe had found themselves staying over Neon's house. Babe was asleep on the couch while Andre was sleeping on the floor in the front room. Neon entered the front room from the kitchen. She was holding two plates of food using her magic. She placed the food on the front room's table.
"Hey, guys. It's time to get up." she said to the sleeping two.
They remained sleep.
She giggled to herself and poked Babe's face, "Good morning."
Babe moved his face to the side and groaned, he wasn't much of a morning person but he opened his eyes after Neon's poke, "It's morning already?" he asked wishing it wasn't.
Neon answered with a simple, "Yup."
"Aw man…did me and Dré fall asleep over here?" he noticed André on the floor still sleep, "We must've lost track of time and fell out."
"It's alright. Since you both don't have any place to be you can just stay over at my house until you do."
Babe was happy to hear Neon's generous offer, "Thanks." he told her with a friendly smile.
"What the-what the heck??"
Neon and Babe look over to André who realized he was sleeping on the floor.
"Why am I on the floor?" he asked the two.
Babe laid back on the rather big couch, "There wasn't enough room on the couch for two." there was more room on the couch despite Babe laying out on it.
"There was!" André exclaimed, "We both fit on it perfectly! How did I end up on the floor?"
Babe rose back up, "I pushed you off." yet again, his bluntness kicks in, "I was uncomfortable."
"You!? I'm the one on the floor!"
The friendly bickering made Neon snicker to herself, "Its ok, Babe didn't mean it." she said to André to help ease the situation, "Right, Babe?"
"If I didn't mean it he would be waking up on the couch."
André dropped his head after hearing Babe's answer, he looked back up at his Pony friend, " …See?"
Neon tried not to laugh, "Uh…I made us all breakfast. It's over by the table."
Babe didn't need much motivation to get up off of the couch and eat. He was the first to the table followed by André and Neon.
"Babe," André spoke out, "I call couch tonight."
Babe looked at André in a sarcastically agreeing fashion, "Sure. You'll just find yourself on the floor again."
Before André could dig into his breakfast he caught onto what Babe said, "Come on! That's just not fair."
"It is for the person who's going to be resting in it." The couch debate most likely wasn't going to be in André's favor.
André started to give, "But I called it." but he didn't give up completely.
"Like I said, for the person who's GOING" Babe placed heavy emphasis on the word, "to be resting in it."
Their friendly bantering intrigued Neon, she loved watching them interact, "Are you guys always like this?" she asked, "You two are a riot."
"Yeah. We're such good friends after all," more sarcasm from Babe? "isn't that right Dré?" he asked.
André turned a cold defeated eye at his friend, "Bite me..." he spitefully responded.
Babe couldn't help but laugh. As they're eating Neon took her attention off of eating and onto a notebook she had.
"What're you doing Neon?" André asked noticing the book.
She looked up at André, "I'm working on a few designs."
André got the image of Rarity upon hearing Neon's response, "Designs for what?" getting deeper into the question for specifics.
"I'm trying to send in my ideas to this really big company. I had a few ideas and I wanted it to get created and published but I haven't had any luck so far."
"Oh yeah?" he said in interest, "Can I see?"
She sent the notebook over to André using her magic. André held the book in his hand, flipping through the pages and admiring all of Neon's sketches and ideas she had drawn and written. Most pages had large red X's going across them despite every picture having great detail on them.
The designs made André's eyes widen, "Wow. I'm speechless Neon. These are all really great ideas."
"You...think so?"
"Of course." he continued flipping through the book, "How long have you been working on these?"
"Well, the ones with the X's on them I've been working on for about three years now but I scrapped them away."
"Scrapped them away?" André looked at Neon as if she was crazy, "Why would you do that?"
She tapped her hooves together, " I had my friends look over them and they said they weren't really good ideas. They said they weren't professional and wouldn't be a success."
"What?" André huffed, "Babe, take a look at this." he held the book over to Babe.
Now Babe started to look over the designs, "PonyStation 1, 2 and 3, PBox360, Sonia the Pegasus, Jet Pony Radio, Jet Pony Radio: Future, PPS aka Pony Portable System, PPS Vita…." Babe stopped in amazement, "Neon, how could you not have sent these in yet?" he looked at her with a seriousness in his eye, "This could be HUGE!"
Her eyes shifted left and right at the two, "Are you guys serious?"
"Yes!" the two said enthusiastically.
André had 100% confidence in Neon's idea's, "Don't you realize you've created the Pony equivalent to PlayStation-" he completely forgot about the rule he and Babe agreed on while in Equestria.
"Dré." Babe stopped him.
André realized he was about to mess up and gave Babe a thankful gesture, "...Never mind." he dismissed himself.
"Neon, you're going to get these ideas submitted." Babe encouraged, "What's the name of the company you want to publish all this stuff at?"
She moved her hoof back and forth in the air in a counting manner, "Well…there's Pony entertainment and Ponysoft but I-I don't know guys…." she was starting to sound nervous, "I don't think they'll like them."
"Why not?" Babe asked, "This could be revolutionary for all of Equestria!" he wasn't going to allow Neon to go on without getting her idea's looked at, he was absolutely adamant about it, "Don't you realize how much all this can be worth?"
"I don't know…my friends said-"
"We're your friends, right?" André asked her before she finished her sentence, "We say you should go for it!"
She didn't say anything, she was still in doubt.
"I'm not taking no for an answer." Babe stated to her, "These are great ideas, just give us the date when you wanna go and we'll be there with you."
Her eyes focused on the two, "I-I'll have to check my calendar."
Babe tapped the table in success, "Okay but once you find out, let us know, ASAP."
She slowly formed a smile and nodded.
"It's a deal then." André made their plans official, "Now, I'm off."
"Off?" Babe questioned.
André stood up and went over to the couch to get his shoes.
"Where are you going?" Neon asked.
"To the train station, I wanted to check out something."
She raised her hoof at him, "Want me to go with you?"
André shook his head, "That's okay. You just keep working on your ideas."
"What if you get lost?" she started sounding as if she was mothering him.
André chuckled at her worrying, "I think I'll be okay and if I get lost I'll just keep looking around until I eventually find my way back. I travel based on memory so I should be fine as long as I go down a path I know I'll remember, which shouldn't be a problem."
"Okay…only if you're sure."
"He'll be fine." Babe said to his worrying friend.
After putting on his shoes he tied the laces tightly. André gave himself a good stretch before leaving out the house. Babe continued looking through Neon's designs.
André walked among the Ponies who were looking at him in wonder, all of them were intrigued by his species. He didn't really notice their stares since finding the train station was his current priority.
"Right. Now to find a way to the tra-" he suddenly stopped as a white coated mare with a reddish brown mane walked by him. He began getting various flashbacks.
Two friends
"Even if our time here was short…I sorta…"
André looked at Babe, "Huh? Sorry, did you say something?"
"…Never mind." deciding not to finish his previous statement Babe just left the library but not before gently elbowing André in the gut.
Babe chuckled as he ran to catch up with Twilight and Spike.
Forgotten
Babe and André scornfully watched Rainbow stretch. The two of them knew she was being cocky and she was just stretching to taunt them via body language, Rainbow Dash their stares and looked at them with a smile, "Yeah. I'm stretching, is that a problem?"
Babe looked down to the ground and shook his head, "There's no need to do that Rainbow, you know you're going to win."
"I don't want any pulled muscles slowing me down. You two wanna back down? Don't worry there's no shame in withdrawing." the uniquely maned colored Pegasus started to laugh.
André and Babe decided not to buy into Rainbow Dash's trash talk. The two tried to stay as focused as possible, "Well, maybe a little shame." Rainbow continued her sentence tauntingly.
"No, we're going to do this." Babe determinedly stated as he finished getting himself ready.
Rainbow finished her goofing off once she saw the determination in Babe's eyes, "You've got guts. I guess that's one thing I'll give you credit for."
Till the end
Applejack slightly raised her hat, "Aw shucks, that's mighty kind of ya."
André looked out to the apple orchid and saw hundreds of apple trees, "Would you like some help around here? I wouldn't mind."
"Thanks for the offer but I'm done with my rounds of bucking for the mornin'."
"Oh..." André slightly slouched over, a bit disappointed he couldn't help out, "Guess I came at the wrong time then."
Applejack placed her hoof on his hand for enlightenment, "No need to worry, you can come by tomorrow and help if you'd like."
André stood up straight once more after realizing there was always tomorrow, "Of course! I'd love that."
Lost
"We don't want to forget André and Babe!" Pinkie sadly stated aloud, unable to control her tone, "They're our friends!"'
Rarity stepped ahead, "We've been through so much, it can't end like this!"
"There's gotta be another way!" Applejack exclaimed.
Princess Celestia shook her regrettably, "I'm sorry but this is the only way. It's the only thing that can restore the balances between our worlds. However, we'll give you a choice." Directly referring to the Humans, "We know how much Twilight and the others mean to you both."
"You can return home or you could stay here in Equestria with them." Luna gave them their choices, "But the choice is up to you."
André remained silent as, well as Babe, but a choice had to be made.
"…We can't."
The six Ponies were hurt by Babe's rather straight forward and bland statement.
I'll never forget
"We're all next." Twilight said trying to stop her crying, "Once we enter this light our memories will fade away…"
Fluttershy kept sniffing, "…If André and Babe believe it's the right way to go then let's believe in them." despite her words she was actually against everything that was happening.
"…Right." Applejack wiped her eyes.
André just looked at the approaching light, it seemed like yesterday he was falling out of the sky and into his dream world, "Well. Guess we're up then, huh?" he asked the group.
Pinkie's eyes were closed hoping she could hide her tears but they were too strong to fight back for her, she only agreed to André's question by nodding slowly.
"Selfish."
Once the flashbacks ended André found himself standing alone in white space. He didn't know what was going on and he couldn't speak. A second ago he was in the city on his way to the train station. He looked around but nothing was there.
"What do we have here?" A familiar angelic voice suddenly spoke, "You're back in Equestria."
André looked around for the source of the voice but all he saw was the dullness of white.
"If you don't do something soon…your friends will completely forget about you. Their memories are already starting to fade away…they need you."