--- AT CANTERLOT CAROUSAL---
"Where is my purple ribbon?" Rarity asked herself, searching around her Carousal Boutique in Canterlot.
"SASSY!" She hollered after her assistant, her voice echoing across the room and through the house.
"Yes Rarity?" Sassy Shores shouted back the sewing room.
"YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO SEEN MY PURPLE RIBBON HAVE YOU!?"
Sassy didn't respond for a moment, but then answered with a loud -
"NO! I DON"T THINK THAT I HAVE MISS!"
Rarity frowned.
"Great!" She groaned. "Just great!" She continued to keep searching around the boutique for the missing ribbon.
"I need that ribbon for my next cat walk competition," She reminded Sassy, who was still in the sewing room. "It brings me good luck for my competitions.
Rarity smiled.
"And it does just look fabulous with my design choice" She complimented herself, afterwards becoming serious again.
"And that is why we have GOT to find it Sassy!"
"I'm on it Rarity!" The fashionista unicorn claimed.
Rarity thought to herself for a moment.
"I could have sworn that I put it over -" She paused as she turned to one of her mannequins, where her purple ribbon was lying next too.
"Of course!" Rarity beamed. She trotted over to the mannequin and grabbed the ribbon. She smiled.
"GOT IT!"
Just then, a big explosion, coming from the everfree forest, grabbed her attention away from the ribbon. She stared off into where she had heard the explosion. She saw a bright green, red and purple rainboom, flying over her and her boutique. She was about to call out for Sassy when suddenly... an image of her and the other five ponies that she had met just a few days ago, (along with the lavender one's dragon). They were all playing together, and having fun with each other.
It was working.
Rarity's memories were returning to her! After just a few seconds... she could remember everything from her real past, and up to today.
She felt her head shift back towards the window that she was just staring at. The sky was grey. And the clouds were glowing with the same color as the explosion had. Lightning shot from the sky, startling Rarity.
"What happened?" She asked herself, without knowing it.
Sassy rushed out from the sewing room when the explosion had passed.
"Lady Rarity!" She looked at Rarity with deep concern. "Is everything alright?"
Rarity's eyes were glued to the window.
"No." She answered.
"What?" Sassy asked in confusion.
"Everything is not alright!" Rarity realized. She knew what she had to do.
"Cancel my cat walk for tonight!" She ordered. But then added a little -
"Please."
Sassy's eyes widened.
She hasn't said a word like that in the last few days!
She smiled.
"Yes ma'am! On it ma'am!" She rushed out of the room, leaving Rarity to gallop out the exit, and head towards the Golden Oaks Library.
She has to be there! Rarity prayed. She just has to!
---MEANWHILE AT FLUTTERSHY"S CABIN---
"NO Angel bunny!" Fluttershy demanded, holding a large bowl of salad in one hoof. "You're going to eat this salad, and you're going to LIKE IT!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, (which wasn't very loud), with anger in her eyes.
Her other animals backed away from her, shaking in fear.
Angel bunny gave her a sad but scared look as she threw the bowl in front of him. It made a rather loud *clank* on the wooden floor.The bowl almost hit the bunny, who it was for. Angel jumped back before the bowl could accidentally on purpose slam into him. While trying to escape the strike of the bowl, he tripped over a crack in the floor and tumbled onto his back. With fear in his eyes, he quickly got back up and quickly started eating the salad.
Fluttershy lightly pet his head.
"Good boy!" She smiled.
A few moments later... there was a big explosion coming the everfree forest, grabbing Fluttershy's attention. She turned to her right and stared out of a near by window. She could see a big green, red and purple rainboom burst into the sky and flew over Fluttershy's house. When it pasted over, the creamy yellow pegasus suddenly felt dizzy and saw an image of...
"Those... weird ponies from... a few days ago?" Then, another image of her and those other ponies was seen in her eyes. She saw what looked like them... as friends. She saw them battling villains, saving equestria, and solving problems together. More images were brought to her mind... but... soon Fluttershy realized that...
They weren't just images...
They were memories. That were being restored to her. All of them. All up to today.
Soon the world stopped spinning around, and Fluttershy had a moment to reflect.
She gasped. Her eyes widened.
"Oh no!" She realized. She burst out the door and headed towards the Golden Oaks Library.
She has to be there. Fluttershy prayed. She just has to be there.
---MEANWHILE AT SWEET APPLE ACRES---
"And then -" Applejack started a new long conversation with Apple Bloom, Granny Smith and Big Macintosh. Apple Bloom was busy bucking apples out of a tree. Big Mac was busy putting in and pulling the apples in a cart, while Granny Smith was rocking back and forth in her chair.
"I said -" Applejack continued. "'I sure would like to be friends with y'all... I got all the time in the whole wide world of Equestria'. But then, one of them said... 'I don't think that's a very good idea'. And then I said... 'Well okay then! I don't need y'all anyways!'' Applejack lied.
"So... that's what happened just a few hours ago... can you believe that?" She asked the old pony in the chair before her. But Granny Smith was already fast asleep, snoring away.
"Ugh!" Applejack groaned. " I SO knew that you were gonna say that!" She lied.
A few moments later, the apples head an explosion coming from the everfree forest. Applejack quickly turned to where the explosion was coming from... and saw... a big green, red and purple rainboom that flew over the barn... blowing Applejack's hat off of her head. When the rainboom passed over... Applejack became dizzy, the world was spinning around, as she saw an image of her and the ponies that she saw from a few "hours" ago. But what she saw, showed her that they were more then just someponies... they were her friends.
A few moments later, Applejack's vision started to focus. And when they were fully focused... the first thing that she saw... was Ponyville.
Applejack grabbed her hat and put it back on.
"I need to go Granny." She told the old pony, (who was still asleep). "My friends need me!"
She started galloping towards the Golden Oaks Library.
She has to be there. Applejack prayed. She just has too!
---MEANWHILE AT SUGAR CUBE CORNER---
Pinkie Pie, (who's mane had appeared to be flattened and her skin was paler than her usual bright and happy pink), was in the middle of carefully setting down some cupcakes in a large pink box, when her toothless pet alligator, Gummy, used the leftover frosting to write the words Hello my friend on the counter. Pinkie gave him a glum look and took the leftover frosting away from him.
"Very funny." She said in a rather... flat monotone voice.
After she set the icing down, she heard a big explosion coming from outside. She quickly rushed over to a nearby window and opened it. She pocked her head out the window and was amazed at what she saw. What she saw... was a green, red and purple rainboom that flew all across equestria... including Sugar Cube Corner. Once the rainboom passed over... her vision became blurry. The wold began spinning around and around and around... the only thing that she could see... was an image of her and the strange ponies that she saw from just a few days ago.
But only...
It had appeared that they were all...
Friends. The past was quickly coming back to Pinkie. Every last detail ever since she was born up until... today.
The images stopped as Pinkie's vision cleared up and the world stopped spinning around. She realized something.
"I remember... I remember! I REMEMBER!" Her poofy, puffy bright pink hair returned to her. Her skin turned into it's nice right pink color again. She was so excited that she couldn't even think of words to say... only... really... REALLY fast...
"*GASP*! I have to go find Twilight!" She turned around and grabbed Gummy. "I have to help her! She needs to know that remember her, I mean... how could anypony forget one of their best-est friends in the whole wide world, I mean, who does that? GHAAAAAAAA!" Pinkie inhaled a breath. Exhausted from her last.
"Bye Gummy! I'll see you later!" She shouted back, as she zoomed out the door of Sugar Cube Corner, and galloped towards the Golden Oaks Library.
I hope shes still there! Pinkie thought, hopefully. I really hope that shes still there!
---MEANWHILE IN CLOUDSDALE---
Rainbow Dash was sitting lazily on her comfy cloud chair, in her house eating a bag chips and drinking a cherry soda, while watching her television. Her house... was a mess.
She took a large gulp of her drink and let out a rather loud-
*BURP!*
But as she took another gulp of her drink... she heard a loud BOOM! that came from under cloudsdale, and ended up flying over it. Rainbow turned to where the explosion was coming from. A large green, red and purple rainboom shoot through cloudsdale and through the sky. Rainbow saw the rainboom and ran out the door to see the rainboom burst right through her, sending her flying back into her house and crashing into a table. The impact of Rainbow's head and the table sent her into a coma. As her eyes began to see darkness, she saw a picture. A picture of her and the other ponies from a few days ago. And then... she blacked out.
Rainbow had a dream. A dream of her having fun with those strange ponies. They were battling villains, saving all of equestria, and solving friendship problems. The last thing that she saw... was the events from after the storm. When Rainbow had lost her memory in the first place.
After the last memory was restored, she felt her consciousness return to her, as she tried to stand up. Her legs felt like noodles. Her vision was blurry and her head was spinning. But as soon as her eyes cleared up, the first thing that came into her mind was-
"TWILIGHT!"
Rainbow dashed out of house and raced towards Ponyville.
She has to be there. Rainbow prayed. She just has to be.
As our heroes raced towards the golden oaks library, Twilight still struggled to release herself from Sombra's grasp...
Until...
THUD!
Sombra finally released the princess of friendship. She landed on the hard ground, her eyes glowed with green and green and purple fog blew out of her pupils. Tears burned down the sides of her face.
"Why?" Twilight quivered. "Why does it hurt?"
"Oh did I forget to tell you?" Sombra asked with a criminal smile. "In order for you to restore your friends memories... you would have to surrender yours... to me!"
Twilight let out an uncontrollable cough.
" You're a monster!" She croaked.
"Thank you *hahaha*... thank you." Sombra took her insult as a compliment.
"MY SLAVE!"
"HAHAHAHAHA!"