Order of Eclipse

by Comrade Bagel Muffin

Solar Squire Button Mash

"And that class is how you use cos and sin to find the tangent of a triangle. And it looks like that is as far as we can go before the lunch break. I don't want to break up history so you all get an extra ten minutes." Cheerilee opened the door for her students. Scootaloo of course was the first out of the room Apple Bloom right behind her. To Cheerilee's shock Twist was the next one out. Sweetie Belle remained at her desk eyes fixed on the brown colt who hadn't moved since he had set down. Soon only five ponies were left Star Gazer who was talking to Screw Ball as she erased the black board, preparing it for the next lecture, and the filly and colt who Cheerilee was walking over to. "Hello Button Mash, Sweetie Belle did you need help with this?" She began.
"Not really," Button Mash answered getting up. "I was just thinking about other things. Lunch breaks are fifty minutes right." Cheerilee nodded. "Okay, that's enough time," he said to himself. Sweetie Belle followed him out of the school house. The outside air was warm the noon sun heating the ground just enough to make it regrettable that it was a school day. "Rainbow Dash and her team out did themselves today, don't you think, Sweetie Belle?" Button asked without turning around.
"We haven't seen each other in five years, and the first thing you say to me is what do I think about the weather?" Sweetie Belle asked. Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and her coltfriend Snails saw her and made their way to the door of the school house from their shady spot.
"It's not like you wrote," Button said looking at the two fillies and colt coming toward him.
"Ah, you disappeared."
"I didn't blame you for not writing, I'm just saying is all," he finished as the other three arrived.
"This colt giving you problems, Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo asked sizing Button up.
"No we were just talking about the weather."
"Sounded a little emotional for the weather," Apple Bloom replied stepping between Button Mash and her hot headed friend.
"Yeah besides I didn't ask you." Scootaloo side stepped Apple Bloom only for Snails to step in front of her.
"Scootaloo, it's fine we were just talking about stuff, trying to catch up."
"You two have a history?"
"Not really." Button answered.
"What?" Sweetie Belle started to tear up. "Two years and you don't even hesitate to say no."
"It's not that, it's just that the past doesn't matter I don't even know you any more." He started walking toward Ponyville. "Besides it's like you said it's been five years and all I can think to say to you is how's the weather. Pretty sad right." He managed to keep his face neutral until he got to the bushes. "It happened didn't it?" Button Mash asked Doctor Whooves and the Phantasm.
"Gee, I don't know what do you think." The phantom glared at the colt. "I wish that your little we don't know each other speech had done something but sadly I'll be spending all night fixing this fiasco."
"Maybe you don't have to," Button looked to the Doctor for any amount of support before continuing. "I mean she still doesn't remember the parts that you don't want her to."
"I'd laugh if I thought you were joking."
"Perhaps," The Doctor began. "We could just let it lay for right now after all Button Mash will be going here everyday, no point in you erasing her memory every night if they'll just come back when she goes to school."
"I would prefer not to have to do any work altogether, however I do have means to insure a more permanent fix for these things."
"You know that Golden Comet has given my wife and I permission to try our hooves at this first if you are going to resort to pulling the memories form her."
"By all means if you want to go first then be my guest." The phantom gestured toward Sweetie Belle who was eating with her friends under the shade of a tree on the other side of the school yard. "But, before that why don't you go and have a good time Button Mash. After all no matter what nopony will remember it after today." And with that the cloaked phantom faded into the ground.
"He's right, you should cherish every moment trust me, on that." Then he vanished into then air.
"Yeah sure, easy for you to say." Button looked over at the tree. "I guess if I ask now they'll say no. Let's do this." Button Mash walked over to the tree, Scootaloo glared at him as he came into the shade of the tree. "Hey uh, do you mind if I have lunch with you?"
"I thought you did have anything to say," Scootaloo said rising to her hooves.
"I'm just not sure what to do."
"I don't mind," Snails said. "You don't mind either do you Sweetie Belle?"
"I wouldn't mind catching up," she answered, to Scootaloo's grumbling.

Screw Ball walked down the streets of Ponyville. She normally didn't like coming to town, but Dinky had invited her to a slumber party and she was told to bring muffins, for the night. Sugar Cube Corner had evolved from a small bakery to a bit of sweets restaurant. They still did special baking and delivery. Now though they also brought in tons of bits by all of the ponies that came to dine in the dinner that Pinkie Pie had added on. It was the choice hangout for school ponies of all ages. Fortunately Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon were both stuck up brats who would never be seen in the Cakes' dinner. And that wasn't just because Pinkie had banned them for being 'Bad Ponies' or at least that's what they said anyways. Wait was that Dinky's dad going into the Cake's? Why did he go through the back door?
"Oh a mystery I love mysteries." Her hat instantly changed into a deerstalker hat with the propeller still on top. As she snuck into the dinner after Time Turner. She slipped into the dinner hiding under a box. Heh heh, nopony ever expects a box. She slipped closer to Time Turner, who after pointing some weird beeping thing at his hooves started climbing on the walls. The box continued following him as he walked casually on the ceiling. She had no problem walking on the ceiling, but this was the first time she ever saw an earth pony doing it.
"I'm sorry," he said to softly for even Screw Ball to hear as he pointed his screw driver down at a table in the corner. Screw Ball watched in silent curiosity as Dinky's dad pointed the weird beeping thing at Sweetie Belle, who was with her friends and the new colt at their usual table in the corner. "But this is the best option." Just as the final beep sounded the pink blur of Pinkie Pie seemingly appeared out of no where and obstructed the view.
"Hi'ya," she said loud enough to be easily heard by every pony in the dinner. "What game are you playing, can I play? Oh, please, I really really reallyyyyy want to play." Time Turner said something under his breath as he vanished with a beep from the beeping thing.
"We're not playing anything Ms.Pinkie Pie." Button answered calmly.
"Oh it's one of those games." Pinkie Pie nodded her head up and down faster than any normal pony ever could. "Okay I'm playing to though this is my dinner after all, and it's not nice for three ponies to be playing without me, right?" Scootaloo just shrugged and said something, whatever it was Pinkie again nodded her head in a blur and walked away smiling. Winking to the invisible Time Turner and the boxed Screw Ball. Who after thirty minutes of watching Time Turner try to beeping thing Sweetie only for Pinkie Pie to intercept it. Screw Ball eventually got board and decided enough was enough. I don't want to be late for the sleep over after all, and this is really boring.

Sweetie had been asleep no more than a few minutes before a cloaked phantom began to pull itself out of the wooden wall of her bed room. "It would seem that the idiot Doctor failed." A white smile spread across the solid black void of the hood. "All for the best I suppose after all why do a shity job over and over, when you can do it right once and done." It drifted over the floor opposite Sweetie Belle and began to sing his spell.

As the phantasm began to sing; Sweetie Belle began to toss and turn in her bed. Shadows swirled and coming to life started to streak toward her. Suddenly golden lightning ripped the through the room. The advancing shadows retreated back into their master's cloak. The golden lightning struck into the floating phantasm felling him to his knees.

Again the shadows began to advance on Sweetie Belle as she tossed and turned in her sleep. They slithered along the floor, walls, and even ceiling. The golden lightning returned chasing the shadows back, as an ethereal thunder echoed in the room. The lightning struck the surfaces around her.

The shadows began to snake ever closer to the sleeping Sweetie Belle striking and pulling back. The lightning striking them and the cloaked phantom. However, for every ten shadows that were repelled one would get through. Then after a few minutes it rose to one for every nine then eight then seven.

The golden lightning began to fade and weaken around Sweetie Belle as the shadows pressed their attack. More and more striking the sleeping filly. Each one stealing a memory and the connection that was made by it.

The golden lightning was gone all that was left was the shadows which coiled around her. Sliding in and out of her head, pulling the memories out one by one, till after only a minute, none remained. The cloaked nightmare smile as the shadows returned to it. He disappeared back into the wooden wall.

Changer flew harder than he had ever flown before his wings buzzing like a swarm of locust. He pushed himself harder and harder, occasionally diving a hundred hoofs to stay awake. He had been pushing himself for three hours, but Ponyville was in sight. As much as The High Paladins needed to know about this he needed food. Ditzy would help Ditzy always helped. He nodded to himself and hurried into Ponyville to famished to realize he was without disguise.