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// Traced 
// Story: A New Flashlight 
// by Neroson40 
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High School Student Flash Sentry POV
Me!? From another world!? How did that work!? And why was I taking it like I already accepted that it was true!? And other than that… Master Chief? Was he in the freaking military? He wasn’t any older than I was! I heard another voice, if I had memory it would’ve been tickled I’m sure.
“Chief!” it said. It sounded like it was coming through a tunnel, the guy saying it looked like a blue image on a static-y TV. “Finally found you!”
“Shining Armor?” Twilight said as she saw the image. He looked at her, sighed and looked in a downwards arc to Master Chief.
“You got this world’s Twily dragged there too?” he said… though He said it more like a statement than a question. Before Master Chief could get a chance to answer him, Twilight went further.
“Shining, what are you doing here!? You’re supposed to be stationed overseas for another month!”
“Your brother probably still is,” He said. “I’m with him,” he jabbed a thumb at Master Chief.
“Can anyone explain what the hell is going on here!?” I yelled.
“Gladly,” Master Chief said. “But first we need to get out of the Breaklands. Shining, where’s Zore?”
“Rooftop,” He pointed to the school. “He should have a portal ready for you when you get there.” We ran for the staircase that led to the roof, outright avoiding any of the monsters that got in our way. When we got through the portal Twilight collapsed. She wasn’t meant for this kind of activity by the look of things. I was panting, with my hands on my knees and the taste of blood in my lungs and throat, but I’d be fine in time. Master Chief got some water bottles out of a bag, tossed one to me and handed the other to Twilight.
“Now I can put this back where I found it,” he said as he took his jacket off and tied it around his waist. “Before I tell you how I’m here along with Shining and Zore, I need to ask you something Flash.” He looked at me seriously, like the last time he saw me was a life or death situation and he wasn’t sure I got out. “Are you okay?”
“You mean from that whole ordeal?” I said. “I’ll be fine, I’m just shaken a little.”
“Glad we got to him before the Fear did,” Shining said. “But I don’t think he’s gonna want to go back until he deals with it.”
“True, but that’s not what I meant.” Master Chief said. “I meant… a week ago you were attacked by someone holding a staff, all I could make out was she was a girl who had some features similar to Twilight,” How did he know that? “Are you hurt in any way from that attack?”

Master Cheif Flash Sentry POV
I probably should’ve seen his answer coming. I mean it happened to me, so why not him?
“No Chief, I’m not alright,” Flash said. “Sixteen years of life experience, and I don’t remember how I got any of it. I don’t even remember being attacked, just waking up on the sidewalk with a bump on the side of my head.”
“Good thing we came then, huh Chief?” Shining said.
“Wait,” Twilight said. “He doesn’t remember being attacked a week ago, and even if he was, there was no evidence left at the scene or on him that proves he was! So how did you know!?” I decided not to keep anything from them.
“I’m gonna tell you right now that what you’re about to hear may not make sense,” that didn’t seem to dissuade her or Flash in the slightest. “I remember. Everything about my very depressing life in Equestria; that was all I needed.”
“Equestria!?” Twilight said. “You can’t possibly mean that those stories everyone told me about a pony version of me coming here and becoming human are true!”
“Believe it, they’re true,” I said. “But then one day, I was heading back home from a visit with my brother and all of a sudden I remembered everything that happened to him-” pointing to Flash “-here. Growing up learning Guitar, basically becoming who he is today. I owe him for my relationship with my world’s Twilight Sparkle. I’m gonna pay him back.” Suddenly a black hand appeared on Flash’s head.
“Gah, What the Hell!?” Flash yelled.
“Sorry,” Tenebrae said. “I just needed to make sure of something.”
“What… is this thing?” Twilight asked.
“I am Tenebrae, Spirit of the Darkness Element of Chaos.”
“Yeah, I forgot to mention him,” I said. “He gave me amnesia once by taking my memories with the justification of ‘they would be tampered with otherwise.’” That last part was in a very… poor impression of him.
“Ha ha, you’re hilarious,” Tenebrae commented. “By the way, his memories aren’t in there.”
“What?” Flash asked. “What do you mean they aren’t in there?”
“In the case of normal amnesia, where you forget with impact to the head or some disease, you can still find the memories in the mind using any variety of magic, like mine,” Tenebrea explained. “But this form of Amnesia is… similar to the one I gave Chief, only instead of holding onto the memories, the taker hid them somewhere, I’ve already found a trace as to where… and I’ll give you three guesses.”