//------------------------------// // Prologue: How It All Started. // Story: Life on Reset // by Clearnote //------------------------------// Hello, my name is Sunset Shimmer, and please don't run away. I'm, not the girl you think I am. I actually used to be a good person, I turned a new leaf after the Fall Formal, when Princess Twilight showed me a better way. I learn what friendship was and I stopped evil from with the help of my six friends. Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle. We were the closest of friends and we did almost everything together including getting our own set of powers. Im not gonna list them all but they were pretty awesome, I got the power to read thoughts and see other people's memories. it was incredible but I did hold myself back, I didn't invade anyone's personal space. Like I said I had turned a new leaf. Anyway, im getting a bit sidetracked aren't I? Sorry. But You're probably wondering if we were so close and I had turned a new leaf, why does everyone only remember me as a bully. Well you see me and my friends had planned to have a day at the beach, but when I got there they didn't remember me. I did all I could to try and make them remember me. But nothing worked so I went to the only person I knew I could count on. I Visited Princess Twilight in Equestria, told her everything that had happened and unfortunately, she didn't have an idea on what had happened, but she Knew someone who would Princess Celestia. my Former Teacher who I betrayed, back when I was bad. So yeah I wasn't exactly thrilled to talk to her but I was desperate to get my friends back, I would try anything. Luckily I had nothing to worry about, she had heard about all the good I had done and was proud actually proud of me. She took me and Princess Twilight into the restricted section of the library to find answers to my problems. There had to be about at least a hundred books, quite a lot of them we're thick books too. We search through each and every one of them much to Princess Twilight's delight. It wasn't until Twilight came across something called The Memory Stone. We found out the Stone could remove memories like the time of me being nice. We soon came to the conclusion the memory stone had made its way into the human world. Now I knew what I was looking for I made my back to the human world as is tried to convince my Friends what had happened and stop whoever was using The Memory stone. I tried to convince my friends once more, I even showed them photo's that I took of us hanging out but they thought it was fake and still didn't believe me. I was soon interrupted by cackling Trixie who threw smoke pellet and ran away saying something about our school yearbook. This threw me off and made me trip over a beach ball and accidentally fall on the Human Twilights drone. I didn't mean to break it and I tried to offer to help fix it but they told me to get lost they only viewed it as the act of a bully. I growled in anger looking off in the direction that Trixie had left, I had a hunch that The Mediocre Magician had memory stone and was doing this all to get into the yearbook. So I set off back to Canterlot High to find Trixie this is where I found out everyone only knew me to be a bully. I accidentally bumped into a student and tried to help him, But unfortunately, he thought I was asking for his money as scuttled back in fear holding out his lunch money. At this point, I lost it. I was angry and yelled at him, I just wanted everyone to see as I used to be. I didn't mean to I just felt so alone. But just as I began to feel low I saw Trixie and was about accuse her of stealing everyone's memories of me. But she didn't know anything about it as she started to brag about be the most great and powerfullest in the year book. This is where I really felt started to feel lost and alone. No friends, no leads and no one to help me. It felt hopeless But much to my surprise Trixie actually believed me and knew how I felt. No one believed she was a good magician and teased her, similar to how no one believed she was a good person. In fact she even offered to help me, even though it came at a price, helping her get into the yearbook as the most Great and Powerfullest. Even though I was reluctant to help I need to get those memories back, so I agreed. She pulled me to my feet and called me her Great and Powerful assistant. I couldn't help but smile at Trixie's antics, even though I was going through some overwhelming stress. We made out to the dining hall as we had lunch while we tried to find out who has a motive to hate me enough to do all of this. I looked around the cafeteria seeing everyone glaring at me. I narrowed it down to everyone. So that's what we did, we went around the school interviewing everyone we could, trying to get some information out of anyone. We sat in a classroom feeling defeated got nothing, no one knew anything it was beginning to seem pointless. It got worse as I looked out the window to see my friends about to take a group picture without me. That sadness soon turned into determination as I took Trixie to the photo room to look at the yearbook to see if there was anyone we had missed out. But as I looked through the book it had seemed we had asked everyone, until Trixie Pointed out someone who didn't have their picture in the book. "Wallflower Blush?" We had no idea who it was. That was until a voice came from the other side of the room. A green-haired girl wearing a sweater sat at the computer. We didn't even know she was in here with us. As Trixie began to talk to wallflower, a message came from Princess Twilight telling me that if I didn't destroy the stone by tonight then the memory loss would be permanent. She also gave me the location of where the stone could be buried, but I had no idea where that was. Coincidently a picture of the location was on the computer that Wallflower happened to be looking at. This had to be more than just happenstance, so I sweet-talked her into getting close enough to grab her hand. Using my powers I was able to see it all. She found the stone in the school's garden and used it to remove everyone's memories. I asked her why but this gave me time as she was distracted I looked into her back while also turning on Twilight's drone to record everything just encase. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Unluckily Wallflower caught me and snatched the bag away from me before I could even get a chance to find the stone. I couldn't stand it anymore I was gonna loose my Friends and it was going to be all her fault. I lost my temper with her, as I shouted and screamed at her. I was about to do something I knew I would regret until Trixie got in the way and held me back. Not wanting to deal with confrontation she pulled out the stone and wiped our memories of this entire moment, making us forget why we came into the photo room in the first place. We were lost and confused, that was until I found a piece of paper in my pocket that told me to turn on Twilights drone so we did and found out everything that had just happened. I tried the door but it was locked and it was three o'clock everyone had left and we were stuck with no way out. I asked Trixie if she could magic us out of there but she couldn't it was a trick she couldn't master. "Well, at least I have one friend by tomorrow morning." I said with a small sad smile. "It will be nice to actually have a friend, no one really likes Trixie very much." Trixie smiled back. "I'm sorry I had no idea. I'm glad to be your friend." I said while pulling Trixie into a hug. We spent the rest of the night watching internet videos on the computer before falling asleep on the ground. I couldn't help but think about how I lost everything and how I would have to start all over again. When morning came around the caretaker let us out. After the night we had Trixie and I left to have a coffee at a near by café. Now you would be right in thinking this is how the story would end. But its actually how it begins.