//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 - Memories // Story: Two and a half years... // by Ephraim Blue //------------------------------// Chapter 4 - Memories Home of Twilight Sparkle January 13th 2012 "Twilight, its time to get up! You should hurry or you'll be late for your new school!" Twilight could hear her mom's voice in the kitchen downstairs. She didn't like this at all. She loved her old school, and at the same time, didn't want to remember most of what happened. So, in a way, she was glad to leave it. She didn't like the way that others treated her there, but she loved the way she could learn. At her own pace, steadily, and surprisingly easy. The only thing she could think of was that this new school would be a disaster, even worse than her old school. She thought that the people would treat her like a new kid and make it seem like she wasn't welcome there. "Coming Mom!" she answered in a very sleepy voice. The only reason she was transferring schools was because her dad got a business opportunity that he couldn't refuse. Because of this, she believed her life would be ruined forever. And she would never be so wrong. "Wake up Spike," she called to her dog. "Its almost time to leave." The dog woke up with very tired eyes and smacked his lips. Twilight had found this dog when looking for an animal she could have to take care of. Nobody knew where this dog came from, or what breed he was, he was just alone, and Twilight had decided that he needed a home or he wouldn't survive, so she took the dog in, and later named it Spike. After Twilight had fully gotten dressed, she took Spike out to do his business, and grabbed a quick bite to eat. Once she was done, she let Spike back in and waved goodbye to her parents as she went to catch the bus. After the bus departed with Twilight on it, she started preparing for what was to come. Canterlot High January 13th 2012 When Twilight walked in, it wasn't like anything she expected. Everyone seemed to know her, even before she introduced herself. They all were congratulating her and treating her like a friend. No one told her why. Study hall January 13th 2012 Twilight couldn't take all of the extra attention, she decided to head into the study hall, where she saw 6 friends discussing something that she knew wasn't her business. She found a book that she thought might be interesting, but never got to see if it was, because one of the people in the group of 6 noticed her and nearly shouted, "Twilight! You're back!" She decided to ignore this person and tried to read her book, but after the one person noticed her, they all did. "Ah think that its real great that your back to visit," one of them said. "We can have great times together, just like last time," said one with poofy hair. Twilight could only ask in disbelief saying, "I'm sorry, but you must have me confused with someone else." "No, we don't," said the one with red and yellow hair. "We'd recognize you anywhere, Twilight Sparkle." "First of all," Twilight objected, "I've never met you, and second of all, how do you people know my name?" "Wait a minute," said the one with the cowboy hat. "Ah think we need to have a discussion about this situation." Twilight watched as they all went to the other side of the room and talked about something that she couldn't hear. When they were done, they came back over to talk to her. "We're really sorry," said one who looked as if she should be at a ball. "You just reminded us all about a friend of ours that we last saw going on a vacation." "I understand," Twilight replied. "Well I hope your friend comes back soon. In the meantime I'm going to get something to eat." She then proceeded to leave the study hall, but she heard one of them say something about her looking like their friend, but wasn't. She thought mouthing of it and went strait to the cafeteria. Lunch room January 13th 2012 Twilight was enjoying her lunch in peace, when one of the girls from the group came over and sat next to her. "Do you need something?" Twilight asked her. "Umm... no not really," she replied. "I just wanted to know, I'm hosting a save the animals convention after school today and was wondering if you would like to come." "Well this is unexpected," Twilight said. "I'll have to check with my parents before I come. I'm Twilight Sparkle by the way. What's your name? "Umm..., its Fluttershy," she said in a whisper. "I'm sorry I didn't hear that." "Umm..., Fluttershy," she said even quieter than last time. "One more time Okay?" "Her name is Fluttershy." Twilight jumped when she heard this new voice enter their conversation. The person who joined the conversation was the girl with the cowboy hat from earlier. "The name's Applejack," she told Twilight. "I live on a farm called Sweet Apple acres down south of here. I was wonderin' if you was free next Tuesday to help us sell our famous zap apple jam. Ya all don't have to come if you don't want to, Ah just thought we could get to know each other better after the incident earlier. That was an honest mistake we made, and we all hope that you could forgive us if we started treating you better." Twilight could only stare in disbelief. She was excited that they all would be treating her like they already knew her. "I would be happy to help you sell your zap apple jam. I'm also glad that we will most likely get along with each other in the future." As Twilight got up to start make plans for the future, she ran into a boy with a spiky blue haircut and a shield with a lightning bolt heading through it. "Sorry," she said quickly. The boy looked up just as she was walking away and stared in disbelief. Had she really come back? He started running after her, but lost her in the crowd. He then sighed and thought to himself: No, it couldn't have been her. He shrugged off his thoughts and continued his way down the hall. Canterlot high March 2nd 2012 Two months have gone by. When Twilight had first gone to the school, everyone had treated her like they knew her, but after about a week, no one seemed to even have that thought cross their minds. She also never ran into anyone after that. Applejack and Fluttershy's other friends had invited her to all sorts of different things and she quickly became friend with them too. They all started to hang out more and they all did various activities together as friends it was times like this that Twilight had wished would last forever. Then Discord came to the school. He seemed to have come out of nowhere, no records, no nothing. He just seemed to appear out of thin air. He started wreaking havoc as soon as he came. It started as nothing more than him wandering the halls in a very weird way with his weird fashion sense. Then he asked if he could speak with a person about something privately. Once they were done talking, the person he was talking to didn't act the same as before. They were always asking to be alone, not listening to anyone, and immense anger. Twilight thought nothing of it until her friend Sunset Shimmer was one of the people he asked to talk to. She went with him willingly, not knowing of what consequences would await her. When they were done talking however, Sunset didn't look any different than she was when she started talking to him. She immediately went to her 6 other friends and told them about what happened. Discord was using a special spell of some sort to change people into the opposite they should be. She then advised them to not go anywhere near the strange kid for fear of what he could do to them. They all eventually forgot about what happened and were called into a meeting with him for each and every one of Twilight's friends. Fortunately, none of them ever seemed to be effected by the spell of his. They all felt good about themselves and never bothered Discord, or was bothered by him again. That was true for almost another year. Canterlot High May 31st 2013 About a year passed sense Discord arrived at the school and started wreaking havoc among the students. By then, almost everyone was effected by his spell. The only ones who weren't effected were Twilight, her friends, and a few others. Within the past week, Discord had tried again at trying to hypnotize the 7 friends, only to find his efforts in vain once again. Sunset Shimmer couldn't stand having to live in a school with non-interactive people, so she asked Twilight to talk with her. "Do you remember the day you came to this school?" she asked Twilight. "Yes, but I hardly see how that is important," she replied. "It is important because everyone was treating you like they knew you." "I thought that was ancient history." "It is, but everyone was treating you like that because they did know you." "I don't see where you're going with this. How could they have possibly known me?" Sunset then told her the entire story of how she tried to take over the school. When she was finished, Twilight could only stare in disbelief in how this story ended. "So, there is another version of me through a portal that opens every two and a half years?" she asked. "Yes," was Sunset's reply. "And the portal will open again tomorrow night." Twilight was nearly speechless when she heard this news. She had but one question on her mind. "Why did you tell me this and not the others?" "Because the only one who could begin to talk sense into the other you is someone she completely trusts. And that person is you, Twilight Sparkle." "Why does this need to be done?" "Discord cannot continue to rule the school with an iron fist. You need to go to the other world, find Twilight as quick as possible, and get her here with her crown to stop this catastrophe." "Ok," she said. "When exactly does this portal open?" Study hall June 2nd 2013 "And that was when I went to your world to find you Twilight." Twilight nodded silently as her double finished her story. She then jumped at what she head next. "Well, its nice to see that you are getting acquainted, finally." Twilight turned to see Discord standing over them, listening to their every word. "Hello, Twilight Sparkle, and Twilight Sparkle," he said with a mischievous smile. "My name's Discord, and it is such a nice honor to meet you both officially."