//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: The Mystery of Amnesia (part 1) // Story: Macintosh and Dolphin - The Switch // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Macintosh and Dolphin - The Switch Chapter 4: The Mystery of Amnesia (part 1) Hmm hm hm hmm... The sound of humming of a tone came to Applejack's hearing as she came to her brothers room, opening the door she saw the large red work pony smiling and humming away in his sleep holding to the very doll Twilight used the crazy love spell on the Fancy Pants plush before Princess Celestia cancelled out the spell. “Why on tarnation has he still got that thing...” Applejack muttered and heard the singing under his breath making her smile. “We're apples forever, apples together. We're family and so much more. No matter what comes, we will face the weather. We're Apples to the Core.” Wayne doing what he usually do either talk or sung in his sleep every so often... Applejack step up to the bed side with a good grip of the sheets under the sleeping stallion she pulls and raises up on her hind legs causing him to tumble right over and off the otherside of the bed with a massive 'THUD' next thing made her regret doing it. Wayne sat up staring right at her with a flaming temper “What on tarnation y'all do that for!?” the green eyes of the red stallion pony glaring at Applejack. Applejack felt a chill when he glared at her, that look of dead seriousness “Ah sorry Big Mac... ah wanted to see if some part of ya was still there and ah right...” He sit sitting there rather ticked off at this point “So that give ya the right to come into mah room and wake me up so rudely!?” 'Did I seriously say that? That Big Mac's room is mine... guess it is since I am in his body...' Applejack sighed “Eeyup bad set of mistakes but one thing ah noticed with ya...” “And what in blazes is that?” he replied “Y'all are Big Mac but not Big Mac, this whole amnesia thing is a bit weird, one thing is that y'all more talkative” Applejack answered “And ya using words that never heard before ya say” He rolled his eyes as he slowly got up on his hooves “Y'all ever thought about reading about how one pony mind is effected with a big blow to the head... mah head still hurts and being thrust out of bed it not going to help me is it Applejack?” 'I can't believe I am going her a scolding... it almost as if I am him... Wayne you need to calm yourself down before you blow everything into thin air...' Applejack felt a bit shameful for what she did “Y'all right Big Mac, ah'm just taking this whole issue over blown and making a fuse over it, ya my big brother and ah'm sorry...” she took her hat off placing it over her chest with eyes closed. “Can y'all forgive ya're over zealous sister?” “Eeyup” he walked around the bed and gave her a hug after she put her hat back on and she returned it. “Mah memoirs might not be all there but ah can never hold a grudge to ya Applejack” he released her from the hug standing a bit back from her. “Y'all just need a little patients and give me time to recover... it not easy for one to have a big hole in his memories y'all know... if it wasn't' for the orb none of this would of happened...” 'And I be still the same old human being with his head stuck on a laptop playing games, writing stories and drawings with a everyday dull life of work... guess life is pretty normal and that norm I would love right about now... I am getting way too caught up into acting like Big Macintosh...' Applejack adjusted her hat with her hoof “Well ah got a plan or two that might work to shift that blockage” she smirked “After breakfast y'all getting those hooves back to work on the farm, if y'all don't remember everything is ah can show ya and we will do the chores as if none of this happened” 'Bloody great... now I am sure I want out of this body... I never done a single day of farm work ever and sure working at a restaurant doesn't count... but I should of see this coming, this is bloody Applejack I am staring an right now... and toying around with words as a joke is not one of her strong points...' “So y'all up for the challenge big brother?” “Eeyup” he knew by agreeing to her that was it, no way out. No if, buts or can nots. But he knew he had to do this to keep the act up, he just pray that he won't make a big ass of himself when trying to do Big Macintosh's chores whatever that would be, he only could think of the apple bucking but he lifting a hind leg up slightly and putting it down he knew that might a challenge indeed... Applejack watch her brother pick up the sheets with his mouth and with a toss of the head and lowering it, she watched as he made his bed with one swift motion “Aw dang it, ah was hoping ya forgot that trick...” he wasn't even sure what she was talking about and taking the plushy he put it on the pillow with his mouth and turn to her. “Ya got to show me how y'all do that trick Big Mac” “Nnope” he trots by her leaving her annoyed. “Oh come on Big Mac, this is ya sister Applejack! Ah'm want to know how the samhill y'all do it!” Applejack turn and follows him out of his room. “Nnope” “Ah will figure how ya do that Big Mac! Mark mah words” “Nnope” came his reply “Gah! Ya over bearing stallion y'all just teasing me now!” he grinned looking over to her and carried on walking “Eeyup” Applejack realised he wasn't wearing the work collar and got it quickly “Big Mac ya forgot this!” she toss it with her head letting go of it with her mouth. Wayne turn to see it come at him with a quick jump on his rare legs and lowers his head the work collar slides right over his head and into place “Show off!” Applejack spoke out as he landed on his front hooves with that same smirk she remembered all too well. As they all ate at the table Wayne was lost in a sea of thoughts, things he did seem to fit Big Macintosh well but something that was making him feel a little fearful already was that he couldn't say his name out loud, his true name it as if someone had put a padlock and key on his mouth so the word could not be spoken out. He decided to figure that part out later on when his got alone time to really brain storm it without any of the Apple family knowing about it, he eyes trailed quickly to each of them as he ate what Big Mac would usually eat which was a strange feeling of taste and experience chewing up the food that was prepared for each of them. His seem to had a fair number of apples, oats and hay on it, first thing was in his mind when seeing the oats and hay was 'Bloody hell you got to be kidding me, I have to eat this gross stuff...' “Big Macintosh ah heard from Applejack ya was singing our little song in y'all sleep” Granny Smith said with a smile He blinked with confusion “Ah was?” “Eeyup and quite the singing voice too Big Mac” Wayne was getting even lost by the second if he did that in his sleep then he gulped hard knowing something worse could come out of his slight talking in his sleep part when listening to Applejack. “That really cool, shame ah'm wasn't there, it would have been funny seeing my big brother singing in his sleep” “Ah'm here y'all know...” the third person as not here part got a little annoying for him. “Oh sorry Big Mac ah'm didn't mean anything of that...” she felt guilty her eyes showing please forgive. “It ok Applebloom” he gave the filly a hug “So Ah'm was singing? What exactly was ah'm singing in mah sleep” Granny Smith tap her hoof on her snout “Erm... let see, it was... ah'm can't remember but it there on the tip of mah tongue” Applejack decided to answer “It was the time when Pinkie Pie was with us in the wagon y'all was pull and we sung our song 'Apples to the Core', a family fun song that we had changed around since Pinkie was with us, do y'all remember that part?” “Nnope” She sighed “It was worth a try” “Don't worry big brother y'all get ya're memories back” Applebloom gave him her best smile. “Y'all still mah brother and that what counts” “Thank you Applebloom” Wayne replied softly to her. “Ah better get going, don't want to be late for school” Applebloom jump down from the table and trots off. 'If only that was really possible Applebloom... I remember different things but nothing of the day to day life of this stallion... I don't even know what he does in his free time, all I seen is a show of him in it time and again... I am not sure if I am being too talkitive but Applejack seems to think it... gah I want out of this nightmare! I want back to the normal dull life I had!' After breakfast was finished and cleared up, Applejack took him on a tour of the farm, he found it quite amazing for the size of it and how two ponies mostly do the work for it all, he recalled they did not only apples but wheat, corn, grapes and even own a few farm animals too that he had to remember had a social standards too. 'I am getting sick of speaking in his voice... it sounds so alien and I can't do a bloody thing about it, glad my thoughts still my own in wording and such...' The first job of the day came to him and it was Apple Bucking, he seen it number of times on the show and maybe this wasn't going to be so hard after all, but he was dead wrong... after Applejack gave him a quick show how it done it was his turn. “Now Big Mac it y'all turn, it rather simple and should be second nature to ya” He step up to the tree looking up at all the apples, he had no idea how to use the body of Big Mac to buck or how the body even works to do so, seeing it one thing but doing it... Wayne was now really nervous at this point and wonder what will happen if he messes this up... 'Ok Wayne...as the old saying goes... you never know till you tried...' Wayne had just gotten use to the hooves but this was going to be interesting for sure, he did what Applejack at the start but he found the strange workings of the pony body a bit too much and toppled over doing a forward flip landing on his back with a groan... “That was completely failure...” he turned over and got back up tried again and this result ends up with his front lets slipping and his body slamming to the ground with a thud. Applejack raise her front hoof with a expression of 'that got to hurt' “Big Mac ah should of real...” she watched him get back up again and try again and again. She saw determination to get this but she saw him failing each time and thought it was time to step “Big Mac it ok, y'all can sit this out and help me pull the apples back to the... “Y'all think with this all forgotten and ah'm not doing this right y'all say ah step back and do jack!” he replied with a temper that she seen when telling off Applebloom and her friends. “Ah sure y'all ah can do this!” he jump off his back hooves and with a pull back he pushes off with a buck hitting the tree hard causing all the apples to fall down into the baskets... he was breathing heavily from the anger that built up “See... ah might be slow at the mo but ah can do it if given the chance...” Applejack was a bit confused the words he spoke was some she never heard him say ever but she decided not to press on it “Ah was wrong Big Mac, ah'm sorry for stressing ya out, all forgiven?” “Eeyup” 'Ok Wayne chill chill... your temper getting the better of you... this is Big Mac's body not yours... just... need to take time to choose my words right... this talking part needs to ease it down she really expecting something strange out of this and... I am lost in my thoughts ago....' Applejack continued to help with her brother with the apple bucking and other chores to come, she knew it was going to be tough on him but she was going to stick by his side through this day and reteach him the methods of being a good Apple Farmer at Sweet Apples Acres. She had Granny Smith and Applebloom convinced with the amnesia and the fact the doctor she saw last night also stated it was a very strong reason that a blow to the back the head would cause long term memories and short term to be even beyond a full recovery... but she was only glad that somewhere he was there and that what mattered Ponyville Pinkie Pie arrived at the Golden Oak Library wanting to know if she could help Twilight out with what happened during the night the Orb throw him into his own apple cart “I hope Twilight is here” she knock on the door with her hoof. “Coming!” Spike voice could be heard and the sound of the door being unlocked, it opens with the purple dragon looking up at Pinkie “Hey Pinkie Pie what brings you here?” Pinkie Pie gave her biggest smile “Oh this and that, like normal and thinking about doing a get well party for Big Macintosh” Pinkie Pie endless party ideas was no surprise to the dragon. “Yep, she been up all night long researching everything she could on that strange orb she saw Big Mac was holding” Spike let her in and continued to speak and he put his claw out “From the mess you can see she searched almost every book” “I can see...” Pinkie Pie step over some of them with a soft movement of her hooves. She came to see a single book on the table with a picture of the orb on it and a letter from Princess Celestia too. “Twilight?” Twilight turn her head “Hey Pinkie Pie, I hope Big Mac isn't acting very weirdly” Pinkie Pie giggled “Maybe weirdly cause he got no memory of us silly, he did go fly and BAM you know” “Erm ok... as I was... gah Pinkie!” she cleared her throat “I found one picture of that crystal orb from a few nights ago but came empty through my search” she sighed “Then I sent a letter to Princess Celestia about it and a copy of the picture, what I got back was most troubling...” “Oh what troubling? Does the orbey thing cause craziness that the pony go nuts and want to destroy everything? Huh?” Pinkie Pie quessing away. Twilight pulled up the letter with her magic “It seems that the orb Big Macintosh found isn't any normal orb at all, no pony ever got to study one because everytime they randomly appear and held” she then put her front hooves outwards “poof it gone without a trace” she clop her hooves on the wooden floor “the poor pony is throw away and usually resulting in a massive blow to the back of the head but no other injuries from what Princess Celestia told me of the other six cases in the last 700 years” Pinkie Pie gasped “Ooo Big Mac lucky seven? Did he win a prize? Does that mean he going to be ok?” “No nothing of the sort, the last one was 256 years ago a personal friend of Princess Celestia in fact, he went completely crazy, saying weird things, speaking in a tongue no pony ever heard and one translation of it called Princess Celestia a” she coughs “Demon horse” Pinkie Pie was in fits of laughter “Demon horse that so random! I wonder what she say if I told her...” “No Pinkie Pie don't even think about it! And from what I can tell he seem to know whom he is and...” Twilight gets cut off by Spike “Yeah didn't Rainbow Dash convince him to come to Sweet Apple Acres?” Spike added “Oh yes Dashie was telling me all about it how he was scared like a little colt and really not sure of who he was or even as a pony, how crazy that huh?” Twilight looked at the letter from Celestia again “It seems that one of the effects too from the orb... I just wish I could of found it before him, maybe using some protective magic I could of prevented this” “Oh Twilight how was you suppose to know something crazy as this happened 256 years ago and maybe if you go to the scene on the crime you might figure something out” Pinkie Pie grinned Twilight open her wings with a sparkle in her eyes “How could I be so dense! Of course the scene of the crime, with my machine I recently built we could track what happened to the orb if the magical energy isn't gone!” Pinkie Pie was bouncing around “Oh cool can I come and help! Pleeeeeeeasssse!” “Say Yes Twilight I can't stand hearing her saying please any longer!” Spike held his claw hands over his ears Twilight raised her hoof “Ok you can come just don't get in the way” “Okie Dokie Lokie!” Pinkie Pie beamed. Twilight knew she was going to regret this and got her things together putting them into a small wagon and since Pinkie Pie choose to come she decided to pull it with Twilight's machine inside it “Be careful ok?” “Sure thing Twilight”