//------------------------------// // Making An Appearance // Story: Forgotten Memories // by ShadowVoltstreaker //------------------------------// “Well it looks like we’ve pretty much got everything about you down Vague.” I smiled. Me and Vague Blaze had been talking for a while about how his personality and preferences are. And I think that we’ve finally gotten everything sorted out. “Yep.” he responded. “Ok now then, just in case you forgot, tell me about yourself.” I challenged him. “We’re doing this because you forgot aren’t we?” he grinned… bastard knows me too well. “Sure are. Now begin.” I materialized a comfy sofa for me to sit in and flopped down professionally while I listened to him. “I’m Vague Blaze a 23 year old colt who enjoys video games, jokes, food, jokes, apple cider, beer, jokes, and the occasional romance.” “Is that really all we got? What the hell have we been doing all this time?” I asked, dumbfounded at how little information we got in, seemingly, hours. Vague just sighed and pointed his hoof in the direction of something. Following it with my eyes I notice a swing set and a tire swing on a tree… “I don’t even remember creating that! But… that does look like fun…” “Resist it Tristan! I believe in you!” Vague shouted at me. “Unable… to resist…” It’s like the swing set was pulling me in… I had no way to stop it! But, thankfully, and sadly, Vague charged over and tackled me. ~Earth~ I woke up with a sharp pain in my side, and a horrible ache in my back. Granted, I was on the floor, so of course I already know what happened. “Screw all of you… wasn’t blasting the air horn in my ear good enough for you?” I mumbled and slowly started to lift myself off the ground. As soon as I was in a standing position I picked up the covers off the floor and chucked them on the bed. After that half-rage I looked at the clock and noticed it was ’12:35’ “Wait… they have to get to work early in the morning… how long have I been on the floor?” I started to think about it for a while but quickly forgot about it. I took another glance at the clock and saw that it was now ’12:40’. “Welp, guess it’s time to start the day.” I stretch and yawn and make my way to the bathroom for a shower. After my shower I had a quick shave and walked out of the bathroom in mah birthday suit. “This really is how a man lives…” I do a quick pose as if I’ve just vanquished a dragon and walk into my room to get dressed. After I’m dressed I run downstairs and go into the kitchen, make myself a bowl of cereal, and begin to vegetate on the couch. ~Equestria~ Soul’s POV “This is the place she told us to meet her right?” I asked Hottrot. “Yep. The big tree in the middle of town, kinda hard to forget.” He confirmed. “Well then come on, we’ll be living here in Ponyville so we have to get to know everypony. May as well start with her.” I put a hoof up to knock on the door but Hottrot stopped me. “What is it?” “I sense something… there’s something behind this door…” “No way! I thought there would be absolutely nothing behind this door!” “Fine, don’t believe me. But I’ll be the one who’s safe behind my shield.” He replied and pulled an umbrella out of nowhere and opened it up. Rolling my eyes I knock on the door causing it to slowly open. Inside was a library, but that’s about all. There wasn’t a pony waiting for us, “Wait, did we get the wrong tree?” “How many gigantic trees with windows do you see in Ponyville?” Hottrot replied, still hiding behind his umbrella. Face hoofing I say, “Dude would you put up the umbrella already?” He peeked from behind the umbrella and said, “Give it a second.” Then hid again. “Give what a second? There’s no reason to have an umbrella out for Celestia’s sake!” I shouted, and almost as if on cue something shot at us from inside, I was hit with it while it just slid off Hottrot’s umbrella. “Told ya.” He mocked me as he threw his umbrella to the side. “what is this stuff?” I lifted my hoof up to my nose and sniffed it, “….Cake?” “did you say cake?” he bounced all around me shouting, “cake cake cake!” after a while he settled down, opened his mouth, and literally all of the cake was vacuumed off of me. “Yum yum vanilla.” He smiled and licked his mouth. Hottrot’s POV After eating that delicious cake I turned around to the inside of the library, “Well Pinkie this is quite the surprise.” I smiled. “Aww poo how’d you know I was here?” she said as she materialized from seemingly nowhere and started giggling. “I could smell you’re mane, smells like cotton candy.” “New shampoo.” She replied casually. “Anyways, I wanted to say…” she took a deep breath and shouted, “SURPRISE!” and as if on cue, so many ponies just came out of nowhere and shouted, “Welcome to Ponyville!” Soul’s POV We met with a lot of the ponies in Ponyville, like Bonbon, Lyra, Cheerilee and a few of her students, most of the apple family, Derpy Hooves, Cloudchaser and Mayor Mare. After talking with them for a while Pinkie pulled us over to another group of ponies. “These are my PFFs!” “PFFs?” I asked. “It means Pony Friends Forever darling.” A beautiful white unicorn replied to me, “By the way, I am Rarity.” “Yes you are…” I accidentally said out loud. “What was that?” she asked, thank Celestia she didn’t hear me. “Nothing.” I replied quickly, the whole time Hottrot was just snickering to himself. “Anyways, what are the rest of your names?” “I’m Rainbow Dash.” the cyan Pegasus replied. “Ah’m Applejack, nice ta meet ya’ll.” the orange earth pony said. “Twilight Sparkle, welcome to Ponyville.” the lavender unicorn responded with a smile. The only one left to answer was a yellow Pegasus who was slowly backing up, “Is it okay if I ask for your name?” I said very quietly, I could tell she was kinda shy. “F-fluttershy…” she responded in the most adorable voice. “Nice to meet you Fluttershy.” I smiled. I looked back at Rarity for a quick second before turning to Hottrot, “Well I’m Soulflight and this is-“ “Hottrot the hot spot, at your service.” He quickly said and kneeled down. “Hot spot? Really dude?” I chuckled a little. “Well I don’t see you coming up with any awesome rhymes.” He countered. “Touché.” “Anyways, because I feel like showing off, this goes out to the mare in pink!” Hottrot shouted and winked at Pinkie Pie, who just giggled. His horn glowed and made two bamboo sticks appear. Standing on his hind legs he held them in his hooves and charged another spell and set both ends of the sticks on fire. “Now comes the fun part.” He threw both bamboo sticks into the air, one was doing a vertical flame wheel, while the other was spinning horizontally. As they started falling he caught the vertical one in his mouth while letting the horizontal one spin on his hoof. “Careful, this is a wooden home with lots of flammable material around.” I cautioned him. He took a second to look around before spitting the bamboo stick into the air and letting one of the flaming ends fall into his mouth. He then somehow blew through the stick and extinguished the other flames. He took both bamboo sticks in his magic and made them disappear, “You’re right, and I should be extremely careful.” “And you say that after you do that trick…” “What you wanted me to just spit it out while it was on fire? You’re a crazy pants!” “I don’t even wear pants!” I shouted. “No wonder you’re crazy…” he mumbled and turned back to the girls, who all had their mouths wide open at what he just did. “So… awesome!” Rainbow Dash shouted/squeaked. “doitagaindoitagain!” Pinkie kept saying over and over. While the rest just erupted into an applause. “thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.” Hottrot joked and bowed. “Longer than that hopefully.” I smiled. ~Earth~ “Almost… got it…” I grunted as I stretched my arm as far as it would go. If I didn’t get it like this, I’d be doomed to watch this deadly abomination. “Must… change… channel!” I gave one last stretch and hit the edge of the remote, pushing it farther away. “Nooo!!!!” I shouted silently to myself. “this remote reminds me of that girlfriend I never had.” I chuckled softly to myself. “Oh god… I’m forever alone… NO! I has my video games, that is all a man needs… that and a sandwich.” I looked next to the remote to see my half-eaten sandwich… “I will never be able to reach that… and the bread is probably crunchy by now…” I decided to just lay down on the couch and fall asleep, “Maybe I’ll have another ‘brilliant’ idea for my OC…” and slowly fell asleep.