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// Sunny 
// Story: Fixing Flashlight 
// by Neroson40 
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	Twilight invited Starlight to visit Ponyville after my revelation. Princess Celestia said it was a good idea for her, so she took us up on the offer. I thought the ride would be very awkward, what with my sister not being able to talk to me calmly, so I decided to take a nap. Bad idea.	A nightmare tormented me during that trip.
I was waking up in a burning house. I remembered that Starlight wasn’t in the house, so I started calling for someone else.
“Sunny!” I yelled. “Sunny! Where are you!?”  I saw a flaming coloration a few feet away that wasn’t moving, fiery or otherwise. I moved the debris away from it, and found a mare’s body, probably around my age. I flew her out of the burning building, but Starlight and my parents were still in the house as far as I knew. I rushed back in to find them, and the doorframe fell on my back. I woke up in a sweat to see that we were at the Ponyville station. Twilight was shaking me trying to get me to wake up.
“What’s wrong Flash?”
“Just… a nightmare,” I said. But I knew it wasn’t a nightmare. It was a memory of the fire that cost me my flight and family. Who was Sunny? Why was she there? Whose house was I in that was burning? Did the fire start there? What were we doing before the fire? So many questions were swimming in my head, but I couldn’t find a way to word many of them. On the way back to the Castle, Starlight stopped at the flower shop with a look on her face that portrayed rekindled fear. Looking at the building I remembered the dream that I had on the way here. This was the house that I was in when the fire happened. I forced my eyes to look away from the building and pulled Starlight away with me.
We reached Twilight’s Castle and saw that her friends were there. They were looking at a book, nothing special about it from where I was standing. When Twilight entered the Foyer she asked what they were looking at.
“Sunset Shimmer sent you a message while you two were out,” Rainbow Dash said. “We wanted to know what she said, and…”
“It’s strange,” Rarity finished. Twilight took a look at the message, for curiosity I had to peek over her shoulder.
Dear Princess Twilight:
I was hoping that I could visit your castle for a day or two. You see, I’ve recently been having daydreams of a fire, and someone being crushed under it. I want to know what they are, and the girls suggested that I come see you. This book is a one way form of communication between Equestria and Canterlot High, so if you think it’d be a good idea, then you should probably come here to get me, as I can wright to you but you can’t write to us. It’s starting to hurt, please help me.
Your friend,
Sunset Shimmer.
The name sounded familiar, I couldn’t place my hoof on why for a while. Then Twilight went to the place called Canterlot High and I just focused on Sunny. I remembered who Sunny was to me, though I had a hard time remembering her face. I also remembered that her parents wiped our memory of themselves and each other to keep us safe from things I couldn’t understand. The thing that broke the memory of Sunny completely out was the mare that returned with Twilight through the mirror. Twilight said that Sunset Shimmer would come back with her, but the mare I saw coming out of the shimmering glass was my cousin, Sunny.
I avoided Sunny for the entire week, making sure that whenever I did go near somepony it wasn’t her. I didn’t say anything about Sunset Shimmer to Twilight when we would talk. I always listened, pretending not to know anything about the flashback she was experiencing. Then twilight pieced together who the colt in the flashbacks was, somehow, before Sunny.
“Flash,” She came to me at that time. “You’re the colt that Sunset Shimmer’s been flashing back to, aren’t you?”
“I have no idea what you mean,” I said in denial.
“Please, Flash,” Twilight said. “Don’t act dumb. I saw the way you looked at her when she came through the mirror. You recognized her!” she had me beat, but I couldn’t look at her long enough to confirm it. “Did you date her before me?” She said. This brought ten levels of shock to my system. My head shot to Twilight to see if she was serious about the question. Based on the uncomfortable look of worry on her face, I’d say she was.
When she asked this, I first thought to laugh, so I did. She looked at me with confusion. “Oh, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder.” Now she was really confused.
“What are you laughing about?” Twilight said a little hurt.
“Let me answer that question with another rhetorical one,” And this was gonna get interesting. “Would you date Shining Armor even if he was still your brother?” Before I could get out any further she shook her head with a look on her face like I was weird. “Of course not, it’s a very similar situation with me and Sunny, we wouldn’t date each other even if we fully remembered each other. We’re family.”
“Oh… well… um… that makes things a little awkward.” Now it was my turn to be confused.
“What do you mean?” she had me lean my ear over so she could whisper what she meant. “SHE WHAT!?” I yelled later to slam my head in the wall.