It was about five minutes to canter over to Twilight’s Treebrary, barely any time had passed other than the fact it had transpired straight into the afternoon while Rainbow Dash, Applejack and I had talked over my arrival here in Ponyville. Along with Equestria itself. Our arrival at the door was posthumously answered by Spike, who was the number-one assistant to Twilight Sparkle and a baby dragon at that.
“Oh, hey...its that not-a-human and the competitive duo. Come in, Twilight’s out for the time and I figure you three here all at once can't mean anything good.” he states, deadpanning just a little as he moves back from the door and into the library proper. RD quickly followed inside, as Applejack just simply glances to me with a slightly worried expression before continuing after Rainbow Dash. I follow afterwards, glancing up to the ceiling and measuring just how BIG the tree is compared to the other houses around Ponyville. Its expansive, you wouldn't have guessed that so much room is inside from the outwards glance of the place, but then all that made me think of is that somehow Twilight may have used magic to expand it just a little.
The opposite was true here, as I find out much later when Twilight and the Princess Celestia return, finding us sitting around and looking nervous and tense. At least, all of us did until Twilight appeared. Moment she was in, I got up to my hooves and headed over with a slight canter, giving a bright smile. However, Twilight’s first notion wasn't greeting us, so much as it was to immediately give a glare to Spike, “Spiiiike, why didn't you try to tell me I had friends waiting for me at the Treebrary?”
“Well...uh....its because I didn't want to bother your alone time with Princess Celestia?” he querulously answers, not even sure if he did something right or wrong here. Twilight just sighs and turns to Princess Celestia.
“Well, thank you for spending time with me out of your busy schedule, Princess. It appears I'm needed by my friends for somethi--”
“It is fine, my student. I can tell you have a lot of catching up and figuring out to do ahead of you. I am only glad that such friendship is on your side, Twilight.” Celestia interrupts, before giving a wry smirk and carefully heading out the door...before jetting off into the sky on her own. Shortly thereafter, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie come up, all looking skywards except for Pinkie.
“Heya, girls! What's up?”
“Have you not seen the sky, Pinkie?” Rarity deadpans, before looking to the rest of the group, “But...seriously, Pinkie...just why did your 'Pinkie Sense' say we had to be at Twilight’s for something?” she asks of the pink earth pony.
“I dunno...sometimes it says stuff to me that even I don't know about.” Pinkie Pie answers, Fluttershy giving a meek smile as she heads in to greet everypony present.
“Hi...I-I hope we are not barging in o-on something important, Twilight...” to wit, even I was mildly impressed with how demure and cautious Fluttershy was being. Twilight, on the other hoof, was unimpressed and moved aside to let them in.
“All right, let's get everypony settled in. I have a long bit of story to retell for Solid Gear, and its of the utmost importance that there is no delay!”
“Twi...what're you--”
“No! DELAY!” Twilight cuts off Applejack's possible query, making the still-lacking-a-hat earth pony suddenly gain a bit of attention. Moment Rarity lays eyes on AJ, she gives a deep gasp and was just about to ask about her current state of dress....when she catches Twilight’s hardened and fury-coated gaze. It was a simple act of repressing her inner fashionista, despite the burning desire to ask to help out Applejack's particular plight.
“Anyways...now that we're all here, I guess we can all start talking to Solid Gear about the stuff we'd sworn to her to keep secret...” Pinkie Pie giving the loudest of loud gasps at the moment.
“We're breaking a Pinkie Pie Promise?! Oh noes, just how bad could this be?!” she wavers, bouncing nervously and trotting in place. I was mildly baffled at this, though after a while of looking at the others I figured it should be time that I speak.
“Pinkie Pie...I'm perfectly fine with all of you breaking your promise to keep my secrets, even if its from me. I don't know what all of you girls got to hear from me, so I kinda want to hear it all again...especially since my memory has been rather fuzzy lately...” I state, Twilight nodding and smiling lightly. Rarity and Fluttershy looked very concerned for my well-being, while Applejack and Rainbow Dash just simply gave a single decisive nod. Pinkie Pie....just simply kept trotting in place, still with that nervous energy and worried expression.
“But...but nopony breaks a Pinkie Pie Promise without it being for a REALLY GOOD, super-duper-awesome, fantabulistic, party-smashing, stupendously outrageous reason!” she cries, looking rather scared at having to break one of her own promises. After a while of deliberation, I slowly walk over and lift up my prosthetic hoof to place it on her shoulder, which almost instantly weighs her down and ceases the incessant trotting she was doing.
“Pinkie Pie...if my mental well-being isn't reason enough to break a promise...then what is?” I ask, as Pinkie Pie slowly realizes that this could very well damage my opinions of them. She then finally sighs and calms down a bit more, her hair deflating just a little bit but not enough to warrant an immediate change in personality.
“Oh, right...I remember that sort of thing. Well, then its okie dokie loki to me!” she sing-songs, giving a bright smile to let everypony in the room know she's okay with it. Twilight sighs and looks around at the library foyer, telekinetically pulling up a bunch of pillows for everypony to sit on.
“Here, we can sit on these while we talk.” she states, placing them down in a circle around the group of friends, even giving me one. I just simply stand by it, not taking a seat like the others, “Not gonna sit down, Solid?”
“No...I figure if it really needs to happen, I shall sit of my own volition.” I tell her, just a little too firmly for Twilight’s taste. She eyes me cautiously before continuing.
“Right...well then, let's recap what everypony knows first. That'll help start the information giving, since it won't be anything new.”
“Well, first there was the fact of that dreadful Draconequus appearing in the middle of Ponyville.”
“Causin' a ruckus(frackus) as usual, adding another pony to tha mix with a large crater in the center of the Marketplace Square.”
“Uhm...and then started all the fighting...all over, I think it was some sort of identity thing? I was too scared to get close, so all I could hear was that it wasn't very nice of the Draconequus to do.”
“Then followed the chasing and the battles afterwards, going at really high speeds and totally resulting in the Draconequus gettin' caught and tossed back into stone!” Rainbow Dash finishes off, as it had changed speakers clockwise excepting Pinkie who chimed in with her favorite rendition of the word 'ruckus'. Being that she was closest to the pink cotton-haired one, RD gave Pinkie Pie a half-hug around the shoulders as Twilight picked it up from there.
“After all was done, and the Elements of Harmony once more used to defeat chaos...you lost your memories, Solid Gear. In fact, it was rather odd as you'd suddenly blacked out after we sealed away Eris into stone once more. Nopony I've asked knows how you could be linked to that Draconequus, especially not with what Rarity's told me.” Rarity cringes lightly at this, mildly upset that it was revealed that she was talking to Twilight about me. I took a glance to Rarity, whom immediately was prompted to speak.
“Its not what it sounds like, Solid...I only ever told her about your dreams and how you couldn't really figure out what that strange creature you see yourself could be. There was nothing to do with how you'd been that thing before arriving and...” she blinks and promptly shoved a hoof into her own mouth, stopping there. Twilight and the others give Rarity a curious look, before all of them nod lightly as to tell her to continue. She sighs, slowly removing the hoof from her mouth, “I'm not...overstepping my bounds here?”
“This is the first I've heard Solid told anyone about who she really was before arriving here. She never told me anything other than that prosthetic she had was her pride and joy in machinery. The best thing she'd ever built and not capable of being duplicated no matter who messed with it.” Twilight says, almost as if reciting a quote.
“Oh...uhm...well then, I guess I shall continue?” Rarity asks, as Rainbow Dash just shrugs. I look around at all the others, finally catching that Fluttershy seemed to be wanting to speak. Everypony else's gaze follows mine...and the mounting silence finally is broken by the shy, passive pegasus.
“All right...since this is really important for Solid, I'll talk about it...” she says, taking a deep breath to prepare herself to launch into a hyper-detailed rant.