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// 03 Memory's Past 
// Story: The New Beginning 
// by Dress72 
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	The dust cleared and every pony in Ponyville and many more pegasi were gathered around. They saw me standing upright easily, still a pegasus, and with blood running out of my ears, and were all dumbstruck by my entrance. I quickly saw Rainbow Dash in front of me, and I called out, “You get that Rainbow Dash?”
The only reply I got from her, and most of the ponies nodded in agreement when she spoke, was, “Who… No… What are you?”
I said the only thing I could, “I-I don’t know.” Then I heard the whispers, the criticizing whispers, and I couldn’t take it. I gathered up tension within my hind legs by crouching. Releasing the tension, I jumped, opening my wings when I reached the apex of my jump, and flew away. I didn’t know where I was flying, nor did I care. I just, for some reason, had to escape. My head started to pound once more, and I started to loathe it. *’There were creatures all around me, somehow familiar, yet completely unknown. They were talking. Talking about me and how I just landed in the road. I looked behind me to see these large metal things, and a lot of fabric behind me. I remembered the workings of the fabric. But still I heard the whispers. They were mortifying me. But why? I have never been mortified after a stunt before. I ran.’*
My headache stopped with this last pretense of memory. Where had I seen the shape of those creatures before? What were they? 
It was like a light went off in my head. They were called humans. But I still didn’t know where I had seen them before. To this, I had no answer.
I stopped flying and turned towards where I had just left. I couldn’t see the town, but I did see a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane chasing after me. I didn’t want to be bothered right now so I continued to fly, but made it a contest of endurance as well. I flew at a 45 degree angle to the ground, making my way up while still flying away. I saw a large mountain in front of me and knew I would have to get above it to escape.
*‘The sun was going down, and I was rushing through a forest. I had a single pursuer, trying desperately to catch up, but I wouldn’t have any of it. So I just continued to run. I heard my pursuer behind me call out, but I couldn’t hear what was said. I found a cave and hid, covering the hole to make it difficult to find.’* The pain that the surfacing memory had created, caused me to slow down.
I looked behind me to see Rainbow Dash catching up, making me strive to go faster. I adjusted my angle to one of 60 degrees. I was about a kilometer away from the mountain, 4 kilometers up, and still had half the mountain to climb.
I initiated evasive maneuvers, which included doing a tight loop, and head into nose dive right at my pursuer, who didn’t back off. Right before we collided, I dove under her, did another loop, and landed on her back, pushing off. This caused her to fall, unable to regain altitude when she leveled out, and by the time she was able to regain control, I was already near the top of the mountain, and she was only one fourth of the way up, starting to climb.
I continued to gain altitude right above the mountain till the air got thin again, but still continued. I climbed to about 15 kilometers before the air finally got too thin to support me well, and I dove. My nose started to bleed, and I did a 10 loops to gain speed, each time, letting loose droplets of blood. I dove going much faster than last time. I spun, but didn’t see the tornado that I was hoping to create, I didn’t even think to look behind me. I heard a large bang, and thought nothing of it as I started going much faster. I reached the top of the mountain and started to fly circles around it, as I flew towards the ground.
I reached the bottom of the mountain, stopping my spinning, and flew just above the trees, finally slowing down. I looked behind me to see something incredible. A tempest was surrounding the entirety of the mountain, and as if my some unseen force was held there. Trees were getting pulled up and large rocks were flying around as well. I stayed put as everything around me was pulled in. 
My heart nearly skipped a beat as I saw something blue flash very briefly within the thing I had created. My head started to pound as I raced to the spinning air. *‘I was hidden within the cave. I saw my pursuer stop and look around. It was a female and someone important to me. We heard a snap come from opposite the cave and where she was. A large cat stalked out. The person who was pursuing me, screamed and the cat jumped, biting down of her neck. The scream stopped, and I rushed out of my hiding place, scaring the cat away. I rush towards to injured, and wept, vowing to never react like I had when being criticized.’*
I rushed into the tornado, avoiding the debris that was inside of it. I saw my target, trying desperately to fight the wind and fly correctly. She was covered in blood. I grabbed her and finally felt the force of the wind. I struggled out of the thing I created and as soon as I did, it disappeared, and everything crashed down with a large bang. I looked down at Rainbow Dash, blood and tears dripping down onto her, and found her unconscious. Struggled to stop the tears, only to have more pour out. 
I flew quickly and solemnly back to Ponyville, the wind to my back, speeding us up. When I got there, we must have looked a mess because several ponies rushed to us as I collapsed from exhaustion and blood loss. I hadn’t stopped bleeding on my way back.
The next thing I know, I wake up in a hospital, with Rainbow Dash next to me, asleep on a stool. I breathed easily when I saw her, and realized that I had been panting while asleep. Smiling, I was about to turn on my side to look watch her sleep, but At that moment though, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and 3 other ponies I didn’t recognize walked in, forcing me to shut my eyes, and not move so that they wouldn’t noticed me awake.
“Rainbow Dash,” one of them I didn’t know whispered, “Rainbow Dash, wake up! It’s been three days since you came back unconscious and you haven’t even left his side.”
I guess that Rainbow Dash had woken up since this mysterious pony started talking like she was, and sure enough, I was right. “I can’t help it, he saved me. I wasn’t even hurt coming out of that tornado. I can’t explain it, but when he saved me, just before I went unconscious, I saw him, crying, and covered in blood.”
At this point, I decided to stir, not wanting to drag back that painful memory. “Uuuhhhhgggg,” I moaned, then grabbed at my head like I had just woken up with a terrible headache, “What happened?”
I had one hoof on my head, the other reaching out in front of me, which one pony grabbed to help me up. Finally opening my eyes for the group to see, I saw the three ponies that I didn’t recognize intermingled with the three I did know, and was curious about them. So I asked in a polite, yet questioning tone, “Who are you three?
“My name is Rarity,” the white and purple unicorn said, “It is nice to make your acquaintance.” Female, I categorized.
“The pleasure is all mine,” I replied, “And you may be?” I asked the orange and yellow pony.
“Mah name is Applejack. Ah appreciate you bringing Rainbow Dash back.” Female, I also categorized.
“Nice to meet you Applejack, and don’t worry about it.” I turned to the final pony, who had suddenly disappeared. “Hu, I wonder where the other pony went. I swear that it wasn’t my imagination that there were six here, was it?”
“No, no… I’m here… I’m just… hiding.” The voice whispered, barely audible. I categorized this one as ‘Female’ as well.
“Now why don’t you come on out,” I said soothingly, “I won’t hurt you, I promise.” The pony just stayed put, not saying a word, so I added, “Please come out, I would like to see the pony that this sweet little voice is coming from, and learn her name.” 
I was finally able to prompt this pony out, who turned out to be a yellow and pink pegasus. “My… My name is… is Fluttershy.”
Either this pegasus had a stuttering problem, or was extremely shy. I went with the second one and decided on soothing her. I waved her over as so I could whisper in her ear. She was very hesitant, confirming my guess. When she got near and leaned in I whispered to her, “Don’t tell anypony but,” I looked around the room before continuing. “I was also as shy as you once, and it’s still so.”
“Really?” she loudly whispered. I nodded, then waved her back over, as she had backed away slightly.
“Yah,” I continued, “Want to know how I was able to get past it?” she nodded vigorously, and I looked around again, noting that everypony was looking at us with curious eyes. “I realized that most everypony here doesn’t want to hurt me, and just wants to be friends, and so far, that is true. Not one pony I have met has wanted to harm me in any way.” I was only half lying to her. I wasn’t that shy a pony, but so far, everypony I have met, in example, the six in front of me, has been kind.
Fluttershy had seemed to cheer up dramatically, and when one of her friends asked what we were just talking about, she just tightened her lips, and shook her head, indicating that it was a secret.
I decided to take the initiative again at this point to get conversation rolling again, “So, how long have I been out?” was what I asked, even though I knew the answer.
“Three days,” Rainbow Dash was the one to supply the answer. I just nodded slowly.
Twilight decided that now was a good time to share some information with me.  “You know, White Wind, we are all going to the Grand Galloping Gala. I had sent the Princess a letter with the tickets back, and I mentioned you. She sent us back 7 tickets, one for each of us here, and she is looking forward to meeting you.”
“I was right you know, about her sending extra tickets if you asked, but a meeting with royalty… scary.” I said half-heartedly and slightly sarcastically.
“Princess Celestia is not scary, she is the kind and thoughtful ruler of Equestria.” Twilight offered as a rebuttal.
“Somepony obviously didn’t catch the sarcasm that I put in my words.” To this, most of the ponies in the room snickered. “Anyways, time for me to go do something. Although I need a source of income. What jobs are there to do around here?”
Rainbow Dash was quick to offer a solution to my money problem. “You could join the Weather Patrol.”
“The What Patrol?” I asked quite confused. 
“The Weather Patrol. They make sure that the weather is on schedule and correct,” Twilight was the one to elaborate on this.
“Oh. Sure, I’ll join. It could be a good experience for me.”