A New Start

by Snow dog

The Meeting

“Okay we’re here!” the pink pony exclaimed, getting up on her hind hooves and making confetti rain from the sky as if it was some sort of party, “why are we here again?”

“We’re here to find Twi, sugarcube,” the orange mare said.

The royal guards walked in front of them and saluted, “what would you have us do, the princess has requested us to help you on your mission.”

Oh, right ya’ll had better be checking each house on what they know of Twilight, and about the hooded mare,” the orange pony said, in a southern accent.

“Of course,” one said with a salute and they took off down the street, their golden armour glowing in the sunlight as they left.

“Ok, we just need to find that hooded mare the princess was talking about. Wasn’t her name, something like Sunset Rose,” said the light-blue pegasus with a Rainbow mane.

“You mean that hooded mare?” said the pink pony, pointing her hoof to a pony with a black cloak walking down the street.

The light-blue pegasus looked over, and said, “Oh, that was easy.”

“Hold on darlings, we don’t know if it is the same mare or a different one,” the white unicorn explained to her friends.

“Well, what are we waiting for,” said the pink pony, speeding of in the direction of the hooded mare.

Sunset Rose continued her walk, paying no mind to the ponies who arrived with royal guards as they must be here for important business like a meeting with the mayor of the city. She had no idea that they where here to meet her and to search for their lost friend.

A pink blur appeared before her making her yelp and stumble back, but she kept her balance. As she looked up she saw a pony before her who had light pink fur with a darker pink mane that seemed to be inflated, she had three balloons for a cutie mark.

“Hi!” she spoke in a very high pitched voice, “i’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name, ohh spooky cloak what’s that for? is it Nightmare Night? No it isn’t, silly Pinkie” it surprised Sunset of how fast she was speaking without even taking a breath.

“Calm down, Pinkie Pie,” the orange mare, walking up to them with three other ponies and a baby dragon,”we’re not in Ponyville, she isn’t used to your ways.”

“Come Applejack, we’re just having fun, isn’t that right?” said Pinkie Pie looking down at the frightened mare, “Oh I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine,” said Sunset.

“You sound awful familiar umm, what’s your name?” asked Applejack.

“It’s Sunset, Sunset Rose.” said Sunset, as she looked at the group all having a look of shock and disbelief.

“Okay, have you seem a mare about your height, a unicorn, is your colour,” she said, as she held up Sunset’s hoof,” goes by the name Twilight Sparkle, no? Umm, very nerdy, reads a lot of books, uhh has a star as cutie mark.”

“No, sorry,” said Sunset, as she racked her brain for a mare that came close to that description, and the only pony, who she could think of was herself, 'but we can't be the same mare as i am called Sunset Rose and the mare they were talking about was called Twilight Sparkle' she thought.

The group turned to walk away when Applejack said, “ It’s alright sugarcube, we better be off and search the rest o' the city.”

As they walked off, she could only be confused, not by the group or their questions but by the pony named Pinkie Pie, she was on a next level of weird. But she shrugged it of and continued to the market place to pick up food, she didn’t want to be out for too long.

Meanwhile at Canterlot Castle, a white unicorn stallion with a blue mane and a shield for a cutie mark lay in bed, crying. He wasn’t the only pony in the room as he was being comforted by a pink alicorn.

“It’s all my fault, she was my sister and.. and I let her go,” sobbed the unicorn, into the pillow.

“It is not your fault Shining, you were brainwashed, you couldn’t have controlled what you said,” said the pink alicorn, while running her hoof though the rugged blue mane of Shining Armour, as he hadn’t even taken care of himself since Twilight’s disappearance.

“It is, my words are what caused her to leave. I am a horrible big brother, I didn’t deserve to have somepony like Twilight as a sister,” said Shining Armour into the pillow.

“That is absolutely not true! You love Twiley and you would never say those things on purpose. It wasn’t your fault you were brainwashed” said cadence, still trying to comfort Shining Armour.

“But..but..but I let her go,” sobbed Shinning Armour.

“Hey, we can search all around Equestria, personally, knock on every door, ask every-pony, until we find Twilight,” said Cadence.

“Really? But what about your royal duties?” asked Shining Armour, bringing his head out of the pillow.

“Yes, it’s not like I have anywhere to run and I don’t have many duties to begin with,” said Cadence.

Shining Armour looked at Cadence’s face to see if there was a hint of a joke but he noticed she was completely serious, and said, “ Okay.”

Author's Note:

I got to admit i did procrastinate with this one, mainly because i was stumped on what else to put in it.

Comments

[crossr]

10256229
I thought this was kinda familiar, Thanks for giving the link.

Snow Dog, I’m enjoying your story very much and am looking forward to reading much more. Keep up the good work.

[Snow dog]

10284763
Thank you for your support. People have told me it was similar so I'm staying away from reading it for now even though it is on my read later list

[link4]

the summary could use an edit.

Twilight can't help but think about what her friends i what what her brother said during the event.

from the comment it reads similar to starting over? well, i'll give it a shot anyways. not as if we don't have several other stories with the same idea or anything right?

[Snow dog]

10294005
Right

[link4]

reminds me of one of the crime shows. woman held captive for months, or even a year. going to farmers market, accompanied by her captor. after a few weeks he lets her go alone. only this case, she has memory loss, makes the lies easier to keep

[PonyofEntropy]

Interesting story. Added to my read list.

[Pete100]

Did they not think of looking at her cutie mark?

[rikithemonk]

10271340

She cannot be serious, after everything they don't believe her when all it looked like was that she was harassing a stressed bride, and so she writes a message denouncing them as terrible people and then deserting them all, even Spike? The baby brother she hatched?
She could have talked it out with them or anything else.
She didn't even say that she was a doppelganger, just "she's evil" what would that sound like to everyone and Celestia who is Cadance"s aunt.
I say this with every Canterlot wedding fiction that portrays this I'm not singling you out.

what would that sound like to everyone.

Thats the point of the episode. Even the viewer really doesn't know if its Twilight blowing things out of proportion. The truth only comes out almost at the end.

Personally, I would have left. I would not have "Talked it out" I wouldn't have saved the wedding. I would have pulled an Eric Cartman and said. "Screw you guys, Im going home."

Everyones different. Twilights reactions are just as valid as mine is.

I do agree with you concerning the "Dear John" letter. I think it does read somewhat immature. Like a very young teenager wrote it. There are much better points and arguments that could have been made. So I agree that the letter could have been phrased better. That being said, the letter is legit. Her friends really were horrible, and Celestia was just as clueless and incompetent as she usually is.

So I don't disagree with the concept of the letter or the story in general.

When they hinted that she would scare the children, I was a little disappointed. I was really hoping she had been turned into a Lamia. That would have been beautiful.

"Find her now you selfish schmucks!"

Oh well, Cant have everything.

The Monk
“Her hands were still bound with rope, she debated an escape before all the stupidity gave her an aneurysm.” -Scarheart

[Snow dog]

10379391
You make several good points and I feel I could have made the letter better.

[Kit Wolfkat]

Okay start so far.
I'll keep track of this.

[Snow dog]

10405929
Thanks

[GhostRider1996]

When will the next chapter come? I’m interested to see how this plays out.

[Snow dog]

10550341
I'm in school so I have been distracted by that
Also I just procrastinate alot

[GhostRider1996]

10553426
New chapter in the near future???

[PonyofEntropy]

Hope all is well.

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

10550341 Looks like there won't BE one, as it looks like the author has cancelled it.
Not sure why.

[Snow dog]

11508520
Sorry about that, over past few years I've have had some problems that led me too sort of abandon this story, so I cancelled it as I thought I wouldn't be writing it again. However, recently I have been having new motivation to write it again, so it is possible that it will be actively worked on again.

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

11508711 Not a problem, hun. I think we both know, only too well, how life can toss a monkey wrench (or spanner, if you're British) into things.
And that's quite understandable.
Oooo, that's good to hear! Hope you get even more motivation to continue it.
I eagerly await whatever happens!
Good luck!

[Snow dog]

11509335
Thank you for the words of encouragement.

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

11509345 You're very welcome. Always happy to be of help.

[DH Lightning Bolt]

I wish this story would continue.

[Nitro19]

Would like to see more chapters and if Twilight regains her memories at some point.

[DarkSnowGaming]

Please continue.

[Kurai_Moon2002]

Are you still writing this?