Star once again found himself in a flashback type state, but this time he was looking at a young white coated unicorn wearing a cloak without a hood. He watched this unicorn fiddle around with a telescope-like device for a few minutes before he realized that it WAS him, just as a young colt.
The young Star continued to fiddle with the telescope-like device for a few more minutes before he announced triumphantly "I did it! I built it! Now you can show me the constellations!"
Out of the shadows behind the young colt came a unicorn with a grey coat and a brown mane "Good job son, now tell me, what do you see?" he said approaching the colt
"I see, Orion's saddle, the big dipper, and the little dipper and draco" the young Star responded to what Star assumed was his father
"Now, look a little south of draco until you see the big dipper" he told the younger Star
"Alright" he responded tilting his telescope up a little farther "I see the big dipper"
"Now look at the middle star in the handle and the stars that lead down from it and it goes in a downward curve then back up and it looks like a large bears head, that is an Ursa Major"
"Woah! This telescope was the best birthday present ever! Thank you dad!" the young Star said confirming that it was in fact his dad
"It wasn't me that thought of it" he answered thoughtfully "it was your mother who thought of it"
"I wish that mommy could have stayed longer" colt Star said in disappointment
"I wish that she could have too, but your mom is a very busy person, at least your cousin and your aunt stayed, come on let's go back downstairs and spend some time with them"
The flashback suddenly ended and Star was brought back to reality and the sun was high in the sky "What was I reading again?" he looked back down to the book where it said "Princess Luna recently returned to Canterlot with her sister and once again started controlling the night sky" "I guess that her looking like there were stars in her mane and the fact that she controls the night sky made me think about looking at the stars with my father" he concluded before hearing something in the distance
"Where are you! I swear when I find you I'm going to hurt you!" he thought he recognized the voice as Rainbow Dash
Upon closer inspection he saw Rainbow Dash flying around quickly searching for something and Pinkie doing the same thing just on the ground "I think I see him!" Rainbow called rushing towards Star
When she got within hearing distance, which only took about one second Star called out "Hey, Rainbow! What are you looking for!" Apparently she didn't hear him because she just seemed to fly at him faster and tackled him "Ouch! What was that for?"
"Pinkie Pie went to talk to Twilight about something and she wasn't there, what did you do to her!" Rainbow yelled at him while still pinning him to the ground
"What do you mean? Twilight went to Canterlot today didn't she?" Star said questioningly
"How do I know I can trust you! Rarity said that she saw you walk into the library last night confirming that you were the last pony to see her!" Rainbow accused
"That was because I wanted to get these books from her" Star said gesturing towards the books nearby "She went to Canterlot to get some books on Starswirl the bearded from the royal library" Star answered calmly
"What did you do last night then? What did you want these books for!" Rainbow repeated when Pinkie finally arrived
"Ya, you big meanie!" Pinkie chimed in
"I didn't do anything to Twilight, She went to Canterlot" Star said keeping his calm demeanor "now would you kindly get off of me?" he asked Rainbow Dash
"Not until you tell me what you did to Twilight!" Rainbow yelled at him again
"I just told you, Twilight went to get books from the royal library" Star repeated
"Prove it!" Rainbow replied in an angry tone
"Alright, Twilight will probably still have the letters that the Princess sent her yesterday about her going to Canterlot. If you will get off me I will lead you to them" Star answered
She complied and they followed Star to the library where he went into the basement, grabbed the letters, and brought them up to Rainbow "Here you go"
Rainbows eyes moved as she read the letters, her expression changing from angry to ashamed "Oh, when she wasn't here I assumed that something bad happened because Spike isn't here either and nopony had seen her all morning. Then when I checked over at Zecoras she said she hadn't seen you all night" Rainbow explained "It didn't help that Pinkie suggested that she might have been kidnapped" she said giving Pinkie a dirty look
"Ya, sorry I was being a big mean dummy head" Pinkie said hopping once again "I know! I will bake you an apology cake!" she bounced out the door humming a tune
"Sorry that I over reacted" Rainbow apologized
"*sigh* it is okay Rainbow, you were just worried for your friend and went straight to the sketchiest most likely pony to do it" Star said in a forgiving tone
They sat in awkward silence for a few more seconds before Rainbow broke the silence "You know what? It isn't okay, I have been nothing but mean and suspicious to you since I have met you and you forgive me just like that? You are supposed to be mad at me! It is what I deserve" Rainbow finished in a sad tone
"Rainbow, it is really okay, there is nothing wrong with being suspicious of a pony who won't show his face and doesn't know who he is and also happens to have traces of Discords magic in his subconscious" he said in a forgiving tone
"That's just it! It doesn't matter who you are! You have been nothing but nice, kind, and forgiving to everypony that you have met so far and I have treated you as if you were some jerk that has been mean to my friends, but that isn't the case and I shouldn't treat you like I have, I won't blame you if you already hate me" Rainbow finished looking at the ground
"Why would I hate you? You were nice to me at the party, you act as if you have never shown me any kindness, but you have by just being nice and talking to me. I have no reason to hate you, you were just being protective of your friends because you saw me as a threat and, until I remember who I am, I might be one" Star finished simply trying to justify Rainbows actions
Rainbow looked back up at Star "Seriously, what is wrong with you?" she said questioningly "Anypony else but you would have been furious and hated me now, but you have been calm and forgave me. What is wrong with you?"
Star thought about the question for a moment "I think that I haven't gotten mad because I don't have any past experiences or knowledge on anything to compare it to, so I can't expect you to act any other way than you do, so instead of getting mad like most ponies would because they would have thought differently, I can only hope to understand the situation and learn from it" Star explained
Rainbow shook her head "You are really strange, you know that?" she said starting to regain her confidence "Hey, how’s about I show you some of the tricks I've been working on as an apology, you won't have to pay to see them" Rainbow said finally recovering from what had just happened
"That sounds like fun" Star responded "but I don't know if I would ever pay to see some tricks" he said mockingly
"Hey! These aren't just any old tricks, they are MY tricks" Rainbow said confidently
"Alright then, show me something that would make me want to pay to see some tricks" Star said walking towards the door
"Fine, follow me, I know where I will show you" Rainbow said walking out the door behind Star.
Star followed Rainbow as she flew out of town into a clear field on the opposite side of town as the Everfree forest, the only thing in view of the field was a floating cloud castle. As Star finally caught up to Rainbow she was laying on the ground faking asleep, she looked up at him acknowledging him "Hey slowpoke what took you so long? I fell asleep waiting"
"I was only slow because I am still reluctant to believe all your praise about your "amazing" tricks. So go on then, let's see them" he said sitting down
"You just wait! You'll be begging me for more after this!" She said shooting into the air in a streak of rainbow
First she did a few flips and loops in the air, then she flew around some clouds sending them spinning and started kicking the clouds on top of each other all the while they were still spinning. She then flew higher and higher into the air until she was just a speck in the sky then twirled around and flew straight to the ground.
As she sped up the speck soon started to grow, eventually he could make out her rainbow mane, as she got closer and closer a circle started to form around her that soon turned into a cone. Just when Star thought that she was going to nosedive straight into the ground the cone suddenly exploded in a wave of rainbow shooting across the sky.
As Rainbow landed she saw that Star was still staring at the explosion "I really wish I could see his expression right now" she thought waiting for Star to snap out of it.
She waited a few more minutes and he still didn't snap out of it "Star? Are you alright?" she walked over to him and poked at his head "Hello? Is anypony there?" she received no response "Um, Star? Are you okay?" her voice started to panic but he still didn't move or respond "I will go get Fluttershy, you wait right here!" she said as she shot into the air
Soon enough she arrived at Fluttershy's cottage where she saw Pinkie Pie talking to Fluttershy "Fluttershy! Hurry come with me! Something is wrong with Star!" she said in a worried tone
Fluttershy immediately flew up to Rainbow Dash "Where is he?" was all she asked
"Follow me" Rainbow said starting to fly away
After a few minutes they all arrived back at the field where a still motionless Star sat "Star? Are you okay?" Fluttershy asked concerned
Pinkie Pie hopped over to him and poked him in the head a few times "Helloooooo? Staaaaarrrrr? Is anybody theeeerrreee?" after not receiving a response she turned to Rainbow Dash "I think you broke him" was all she said before hopping back to the side of Rainbow Dash
"Broke him?" Rainbow repeated
"Yup" Pinkie responded
Fluttershy flew over to Star "Star? Are you okay? Please speak or move or something" Fluttershy said worried before turning to Rainbow "What happened? What did you do to make him act like this?"
"I was showing him some of my tricks and then I did the sonic rainboom and he just…..broke" Rainbow said using Pinkies description of it
Fluttershy turned back to Star "Oh, I do hope that he isn't broken, whatever that means"
On the outside Star seemed broken but on the inside his mind was spinning. He felt like how he did during his usual flashbacks except he couldn't see anything it was as if his mind was broken. He didn't know how long he was like this but eventually he started to hear faint voices which steadily grew louder.
He heard his colt self talking, even though he couldn't see him he could recognize his younger selfs voice. "What is this place?" he asked
"This is my library, it is where I will teach you of the magic arts" another voice that he faintly recognized said
"So that means you are finally going to teach me how to use magic properly?" his younger self asked
"That's right, from now on I am your teacher you will refer to me as master and nothing else" the other voice said sternly
"Yes master" Star responded "When are we going to start?"
"Tomorrow evening" the his master said
"I can't tomorrow, I get to spend the day with my mom tomorrow!" he said happily
"Fine, we will start the day after tomorrow, now come on let's head back to the castle" said the other voice
As they left the library Star started to hazily see things again and soon could see the scene before him, he saw them exit from a familiar looking cave, but this time he saw where the cave was, he still didn't know where it was but it looked like he had been there before, since he had lost his memories. Just as he was about to get a glimpse of his master Star was suddenly pulled back into reality.
The first thing he heard was a quiet voice saying "Oh, I do hope he isn't broken, whatever that means"
"Who's broken?" he asked looking over to see Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash looking at him
"He isn't broken!" Pinkie said in surprise
"What happened?" Rainbow questioned
"I had another flashback" Star said simply
"Another?" Pinkie said quizzically
"When you and Rainbow found me this morning I was waking up from a flashback and when you came to get me the day of the party I was waking up from a flashback too" he said as if it were a normal thing
"And you didn't think it would be important to tell us you started to remember things?" Rainbow added "I don't want to keep acting like you don't know anything"
"I haven't started to remember anything yet, these are just flashbacks" Star explained "and I do to know stuff, I resent that comment"
Just then a yellow maned mare with eyes that didn't seem completely focused flew over to the small group "Are you Midnight Star?" she asked Star
"Yes I am, and who are you?" Star asked her
"I'm Derpy Hooves the mail mare, I have a package for you" she said fishing something out of her bag "Here you go" she threw him a pouch attached with a letter then flew off
"Wonder who this is from" he wondered aloud before opening the letter and reading it
Hey, Midnight Star it's Friday so I decided to send you your first weeks pay. In this pouch there is 400 bits, I know you should only be receiving 120 bits for your work plus 50 bits for the 25% of selling that sofa but you are new in town so think of it as a welcoming gift to get you started
Davenport
"Well that was nice of him, now I can get started on making myself a house" Star said after reading the letter out loud
"What do you mean by that? You could probably buy any house in Ponyville!" Rainbow said remembering that Star was loaded
"I have that platinum for a reason, I'm not going to spend it until I know what I was going to do with it before I lost my memory" Star said "besides, I'm not going to live in Ponyville"
"Why not?" Pinkie Pie asked "Ponyville is wonderful! All the ponies there are nice and the parties are awesome!"
"There are a little bit too many ponies in town for me to be comfortable there, I kind of like the idea of living in solitude" Star mused "I think that I will just make a house by or in the Everfree forest, probably just beside it because I think it would be a pain in the butt to make a house in there" he said confirming his thoughts
"I guess that we will be neighbors then" Fluttershy said finally speaking up
"Yeah, that's right, I forgot you lived outside the forest" Star said in realization
"It's about time that I should head back I need to go take care of Angel and the other animals" Fluttershy said as she flew away
"I need to head back to Sugarcube Corner because I still haven't made my apology cake to Star yet" Pinkie Pie said hopping off
Stars stomach grumbled "I'm going to go down to Sugarcube Corner and get something to eat, I haven't eaten in over a day and I am starving" he said more in realization than as a statement "I will see you later Rainbow" Star said walking off, he turned back and saw Rainbow fly up to the floating cloud castle "So that is her house? That's pretty cool"
He arrived at Sugarcube Corner and walked in to see it was almost empty besides a blue pony with a pink mane. He walked up to the counter and she spoke to him "Hello, I don't think we have met, I'm Mrs. Cake" she said to him while squinting her eyes trying to see his face under his cloak
"Nice to meet you, my name is Midnight Star; I am new in town" he said cheerfully "I was wondering if I could order four cupcakes"
"Alright, that will be six bits please" she said pleasantly while walking into the kitchen to get some cupcakes
Star took out the pouch that Davenport had sent him, took out six bits and placed them on the counter. A few moments later Mrs. Cake reemerged from the kitchen with a plateful of 4 cupcakes and set them down on the counter for Star "Thank you for your business" Mrs. Cake said taking the bits he had set down and put them away
"Thank you for the cupcakes" Star said taking the plate of cupcakes over to a table in the corner of the room and devoured them all as quickly as he had sat down "these cupcakes are REALLY good" he thought wishing he had more
He decided that he wanted to get a few tools and supplies to help him build his home. He walked through Ponyville until he came upon a hardware store. He walked inside the warehouse like building and started to browse through the tools and equipment. Picking out a power drill, some screws, and some lumber, he thought he might need more stuff but he just wanted to start up the base for his home for now.
He took all of this on a cart and brought it up to the counter to pay for it. At the counter he saw a colt wearing a hardhat and an orange vest, after checking what Star had in the cart he said "That will be one hundred and twenty bits please"
Star took out the pouch full of bits, counted out the appropriate amount and hoofed them to the pony wearing the hardhat "Thanks" Star said "I will bring the cart back after I drop everything off, but until then keep my pouch of bits until I get back, so that you know that I will come back" Star said putting the bag on the counter
"Alright" was the other pony's only response
After walking down to the edge of the Everfree forest he dropped off the supplies and brought back the cart true to his word, grabbed the pouch and headed back to where he set down everything. Before he could start working he decided that he should tell Zecora that he was going to be moving in right next door so he headed into the forest.
He soon came upon the small hut and walked in to see Zecora once again working on some type of herb
"Hello Zecora" he said closing the door behind him
"Hello Star how are you? Would you like some of this brew?" she said indicating towards a cauldron full of soup
"No thank you I just ate, I just came by to tell you that I am going to be your new neighbor. I am going to be building myself a house just outside of the forest" he said happily
"We will be neighbors that will be nice, but building it yourself are you sure it will suffice? " she asked
"I don't really know yet, but I hope it will turn out well" he said happily "I haven't seen you in a while has anything interesting happened while I have been gone?"
"Well that is nice to know, but in things interesting I have nothing to show" she said
They chatted for another hour or so before Star decided to leave, he headed out the door to get started on his home before the day ended.
He started by making a base for the house, a large square to outline it. After 4 hours of screwing wood together, trying to get the measurements perfect and a few mishaps when he had screwed his cloak into the wood, he finally had the base for both the floor and the walls.
The sun had set an hour before so he decided it was time to get a good night's rest, he found a comfortable place to lay down and as he was about to fall asleep he heard someone shouting something in the distance. He got up and went to inspect it only to find Twilight wandering around in the dark shouting "Star! Are you there! I have to talk to you about something!"
Walking over to her he said "Right here Twilight, what do you want to talk about?"
"I found something out about Starswirl the bearded!" she said happily
"What did you find out?" Star asked
"Actually I found out two things, first I found out that Starswirl had a hidden library in a cave hidden in a forest" she said excitedly "Secondly, apparently Starswirl had an apprentice"
After hearing that something clicked in Stars head "Um, Twilight? Can we talk about this tomorrow? I really need to think about something" he said in a worried tone
"Sure, but I will be here first thing tomorrow to discuss it with you" said an impatient Twilight
"Goodnight, Twilight" he said walking back to where he had been lying down
"Goodnight Star" she said walking back to Ponyville
Star was left alone to think about this new development when he finally came to terms with it "I may or may not be Starswirl the bearded's apprentice" he thought to himself. Star thought about the subject for a few more minutes before exhaustion overcame him and he fell asleep.