You’re joking, right?
“Um, Sunset?” A quiet voice asked.
The redhead looked over from her locker to see a girl standing nearby, nervously rubbing her forearm.
“Hey, Wallflower,” she said, smiling. “What’s up?”
“I just, um,” the girl whispered. She was still a little self conscious about the incident with the memory stone. “About what happened.”
Sunset smiled sympathetically as she shut her locker and started for the photography room. “Forgiven,” she said, reaching out to pat her newest friend on the shoulder. “Trust me, there’s been far worse here, remember?”
The president of the garden club laughed nervously.
“That’s not what I meant,” she said, tucking a green lock of hair behind her ear. “When you lost your memories, you acted...weird.”
This time it was Sunset’s turn to chuckle nervously. “Yeah,” she whispered.
“What was that all about?” Wallflower asked.
Sunset looked at her and sighed. “Guess you have a right to know. Please, sit down.”
After a deep breath, Sunset looked at the girl and ran a hand through her hair before speaking.
“You know how we keep getting these weird events the last few years?”
“Yeah,” Wallflower nodded. “Hard not to notice.”
“Right,” Sunset said with an awkward grin. “The truth is...they’re all sort of my fault, directly or indirectly.”
“What?”
“Well, you see,” the former unicorn said, tapping her Fingers together nervously. “I’m not actually from here. I’m actually from another world, and I’m a...pony.”
The shy girl blinked. “Wait, what?”
Sunset rubbed her forearm, face tinging red. “I’m from the world that the Stone is from, and it’s a world full of talking ponies.” She looked down. “About six years ago I fled that world and came here. The next time I was able, I went back and stole a magic relic and accidentally infused this world with magic from mine. That’s why we changed the way we did when we defeated you.”
“Is that why you seemed so confused?” Wallflower asked.
“Part of it,” Sunset replied. “You didn’t just erase high school, you also grabbed a few weeks prior to me running away.”
The redhead looked at her hands, remembering how shocked and scared she had been in those few moments. “I was suddenly in a place I didn’t know and my body was fundamentally different from what I could remember. I remember how long it took me to figure out fingers the first time, so I’m glad we reversed that.” She frowned. “Though I’m not sure why erasing my memories of the girls made me forget that I had been here a while. Something else to ask the princess, I suppose.”
“Princess Celestia?”
“Hm? No,” the Equestrian smiled, remembering the look on Twilights face when Celestia has shown her the restricted section of the library. “A friend of mine from back home. She’s what’s you call one of the foremost experts on magic. Princess Celestia is the counterpart to our Principal Celestia, and she rules the kingdom I’m from. She was also my mentor.”
Green eyes met teal as the whole sordid affair behind her flight from Equestria was told, including the events at the Friendship Games and Camp Everfree, which Wallflower hadn’t been able to attend because of a family trip the same week.
“And so I suppose that’s another apology I owe you, Flower,” Sunset said with a sad smile. “If I hadn’t brought the crown here, there wouldn’t have been enough ambient energy for the stone to work. Maybe.”
“You’re kidding, right?”
Sunset looked up in confusion. “What?”
Wallflower smiled. “I know you’re not seriously going to apologize for things I did just because you might have had something to do with it.” The nondescript girl pointed a finger at Sunset. “It’s my own fault I made you all forget me, and my fault that I got mad about it. I just took it out on you.”
She shrank down a little. “And I’m sorry about that.”
Sunset smiled. “Don’t worry about it,” she said, brushing her lap before standing. “We’ve all forgiven you and the stone has been destroyed. It can’t replace the memories you erased over the years, but we can form some new ones, yeah?”
The green-haired girl fingered the small chip of stone on a chain hanging from her backpack. “Yeah.”
“Still holding onto that, huh?” Sunset observed.
“For now, yeah,” Wallflower nodded. “Makes me remember that not all things are better if forgotten.”
“Better words haven’t been spoken,” Sunset agreed. “There were times that I wished I could erase what I’ve done. But then I remember, even the bad times have led me to now, and helped me get the friends I have.”
She glanced at the shy girl as they headed for the door. “And then friends you have now.”
“I’ll try to remember,” Wallflower whispered. “No pun intended.” She glanced down momentarily. “Sunset?”
“Hmm?”
“Would you mind horribly if I asked you some more questions about where you’re from?” She blushed. “It sounds like a pretty amazing place.”
“I’d like that, actually,” the redhead agreed. “I’ve been back twice now in happier times and made amends for my actions, even being forgiven by Celestia. That alone takes the sting out of remembering things.” She frowned.
“What?” Wallflower asked.
Sunset shook her head, pulling a heavy looking tome from her messenger bag and a pen. As she started to write in what was apparently a journal, curiosity got the better of her.
“What’s that?”
Sunset looked up as she closed the book, sliding a hand over the cover before slipping it back into her bag.
“It’s how the Princess Twilight and I stay in touch.” She patted her bag as they walked along. “It’s not quite as good as a cell phone, but it works in a pinch.”
“And what secret thing were you saying to her? If you can share, that is.”
“Just a trend I’ve noticed lately. Before she rigged the portal, it was only open for three days every thirty moons. And now it turns out that the memories erased by the Stone could only be restored within three days.” She shrugged. “I’m just wondering if there is some significant symbolism behind the number three. Because it seems everything comes in three lately. Your episode is the fifth event since I stole her crown.”
“Worried if another shoe is going to drop?”
Sunset nodded. “Also asked her why we’re so prone to singing.”
“Ponies sing a lot?”
Sunset laughed. “A lot? Please.” She turned her brilliant grin on her newest friend. “In Canterlot Castle, every Tuesday at three the entire staff would break out in song like clockwork. And don’t get me started on Princess Twilight. She sings arias about panic attacks.”
The two girls giggled as they went to go meet the rest of their friends.
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This was great
Cool. Nice interaction between characters
Did you borrow Sunset's geode, by any chance? Because I was just thinking about this very subject earlier after watching the special for the umpteenth time. And I must say, you did a good job addressing it. Have a like, you earned it.
Well done.
this site finally put the character wallflower name sweet :)
Juniper Montage raises her hand, "Umm..."
Wallflower: "Yeah, it's probably just a lazy way for the writers to increase dramatic tension."
Sunset: "Wait, what?"
Pinkie: "Stop it, that's my job."
A lovely little coda to the special. The magical nature of three is an intriguing coincidence. Very fairy tale-esque in that regard. Also, I like the idea of Wallflower hanging onto a fragment of the Memory Stone as a reminder of her past deeds, not least for the irony.
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Well the "rule of three" is a fairly typical writing principal so I honestly never thought to read much into it.
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So, I was shocked when Wallflower said she was trying to get Sunset's attention halfway through the song. First thought was, 'there's two of them now!' Then you have Trixie fast forwarding past Wallflower's own song and I'm thinking that spontaneous singing must just happen on that side of the mirror as well. Except it was the intro music... making her statement a legitimate 4th wall break.
Very nice one also I was wondering could you do a story with the reunion of sunset and Celestia during and after forgotten friendship please
I’m so glad about what wallflower is doing
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Um...
If you check my first ever story, you’ll see a reunion. But I did get an interesting couple ideas from the special.
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Juniper Montage: why did I bother coming in for a reading?
Sunset: we missed you.
DHX exec: we gotta cut eight minutes. Sorry.
JM: Dammit!
Nice job, Ally.
As the number of people “in the know” grows it will be hard to keep things a secret. Speaking of which, I wonder what kind of crazy shenanigans the girls had to pull to erase the security footage of JM’s rampage in the mall.
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None, probably. I think the guards probably looked at the monitors and said “that’s above our pay grade.”
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Ha! I hadn’t considered that option. The seventy years old part-time mall cop takes a look at the footage and he’s like “Darn kids with their holograms and lasers... they don’t pay me enough for this.”
It's good for what it is, but I for one would love to see more of Sunset and Wallflower. (...SunFlower?)
Wait, question: High school only lasts for 4 years in general, so why would she have erased 2 other years as well??
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Depends where your high school is. The one I went to was 6 years just like the story.
IIRC, Isaac Asimov once wrote an essay discussing why the number 3 is often associated with mystic properties.
Everything comes in 3 huh? So Sunset was the Mirror for 3 days every 30 moons, The Dazzlings were a trio of Sirens, what happened at the Friendship Games and Camp Everfree that involved 3? That Memory Stone is obvious for the 3 day time limit before you lose your memories forever.
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Only in countries with the Sunday-first convention; iirc, the majority of countries - or at least the majority of the world population- considers Monday to be the first day of the week for some bizarre reason (ISO 8601, the standard that governs most dates and times in the world, follows that rule). The US, Canada, and Japan are the most notable exceptions I've found in my incredibly brief research.
In other countries, Wednesday would be the third day. OTOH, MLP is made by a Canadian studio, commissioned by a Japanese corporation, targeted mainly at the US (afaict), so...
Why is Wallflower so popular now?
8744605 So, Sunset and Wallflower’s ship name is... Flowey?
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I thought someone might try to save that pun for later.
As to the singing thing seems to me it might just be an aspect of Equestrian magic. Since Equestrian magic is leaking into Canterlot High then spontaneous musical numbers would become increasingly common.
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That's a WONDERFUL idea~!
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She's the new antagonist. It will pass in a month
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8747659 Thank you.
I haven’t watched all the specials, but I’ve watched enough to connect the dots. That, and Omega Flowey is just plain creepy both in an in-game and meta way. Sunlight = Boktai, Sunflower = Flowey, Sunpie = shojo anime, Sunsarity = Dragonball Z or sincerity. The other ships don’t really have any other significant meaning, but I still don’t care for Sundash.
Wallflower did say she intended to erase all the girls’ memories of high school, so it would be logical that Sunset lost all her memories of CHS. Losing all her memories of the human world, and apparently of going through the portal, is another matter, but maybe the stone’s spell was more powerful when it hit her because it was intended for six people, not one?
The point about threes is interesting, but this special had me more curious about sevens. Obviously we have the Humane Seven, but it's interesting to note that the geodes didn't appear until after the final member (Sci Twi) joined the group. Where did the geodes come from though? My thought is Clover the Clever.
They mentioned Clover the Clever having seven trials he accomplished, one of them pertaining to the memory stone. That got me thinking about how Twilight (Sunset's teacher) has had connections throughout the series to Starswirl (Clover's teacher) and how now that Starswirl's returned suddenly the magic is related to Clover instead. What if Sunset is meant to have parallels with Clover, and each of the incidents of Equestrian magic are meant to parallel Clovers seven trials in some way? What happens when they finish them?
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'Cause she's adorable, that's why!
This is the point when Sunset and Wallflower would spontaneously break into song about the power of music to express joy and heal. Two and a half minutes later, they would be weirded out beyond measure!
Okay this is done well loved it I kinda feel this happens like a few days after forgotten friendship or at least a week after
Cute and simple talk
As good a point this is, I can't help but feel sad because of what I can make a reference to with it. Regardless, great story.
Good...but I felt there's some wasted potential here.
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You're a genius.
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Actually...I still think the portal is starswirls work...however...that's a artificial and stable portal.... Let's assume wild portals appear on rare occasions around high enough magic...like during the Friendship Games whenever the locket opened.And he just got lucky to go through one.
Aria doesn't have panic attacks though.
*off
*the
Loved this! Great job and very cute and funny!
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The Friendship Games featured three events, The Decathalon, the Motocross/Archery Dealie and the Flag Hunting thing.
I'm not 100% sure on Everfree though. Did Filthy only give them three days before they had to pay back the loan? Can't quite recall.
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He said "I'll give you till the end of the month."
It is implied that this happened about a week before the events of the film. So, he basically gave Gloriosa two to three weeks to get the money.
In her flashback, she doesn't have the geodrs until after this conversation but does at the start of the movie.
Your SoL stories are always nice to read, and this was especially enjoyable. Wallflower is a total sweetie pie and deserves more good and positive stories like this. She's too pure and wonderful to be confined to creepy fetishists and unremarkable shipfics. My girl needs HAPPINESS.
>furiously writes more of her own horribly depressing Wally fic
>plugs it beneath a spoiler bar as if that somehow makes doing so less rude and shameless
I think that this is a great story. Well done.
I enjoy it. Nice story.
not IMO there's something worse than memory erasing.
yep, which makes me really hate her for what she did.
I'm not even gonna wonder how wallflower knows that.
imo, your still guilty for what you did Wallflower since I've only seen this happen in 1 other Hasbro tv show where it was worse than what you did.
But for the memory stone, yes it's my least fav artifact alongside the time twirler.
yep, its how it is for many people.
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you get used to it.
lol 😂