Chapter 1: Ponyville
Crimson Midnight part 1:
The howling wind caused the young male pony to stir in his sleep. His eyes slowly opened to reveal a blur of colours. The young male let out small moans and grunts, as he started to regain consciousness. One by one, the world became more clear. The sound of various animals was the last thing to become clear. The dark grey pony raised his head off the floor to gaze around the area before him. His crimson red messy mane partly covered his face and horn. His cutie mark was of two red stars placed at one hundred and eighty degrees from each other, the back start being a darker tone of red. After starring at the animals who had gathered around him for a bit the pony said "hello." All the animals scurried away the instant he spoke leaving the pony laying there. The pony was shocked him-self by the fast movements of the animals as the quickly departed.When he was over the shock he looked around. In the distance to one side of him were hundreds of apple trees and to the other, the barley visible sight of buildings.
The pony laid where he woke for a little bit wondering exactly how he got to be there. After a short while the sound of hoof beats and cart wheels coming from behind him flooded into his ears. When he turned his head, he saw an orange pony with a blond mane cowboy hat and a cutie mark of three red apples on her flank. He watched her till she was close enough for him to talk to her calmly. "H-hello miss wh-what are you doing." His words sounded slightly slurred as he spoke.
The other pony quickly looked round to see the male pony apparently not noticing he was there before hand, "well sweet apple pie the'r younung, you made me jump higher than a jack-rabbit".
"Sorry about that I didn't mean too, and I'm not that young I think." The male pony’s speech pattern started now more normal now for a pony his apparent age. When he mentioned the part about his age he scratched his head with one of his hooves.
"Well I'm Applejack nice to meet you."
"I'm Crimson Midnight, that's the only thing I can remember the rest is a big blur".
"Well that's a mighty shame, if you want I can show yer round, see if any pony knows you, it ain't no trouble honestly".
"Thank you so much Applejack but I can't let you do that without doing something for you in return" Crimson said standing up from laying down. He shook his head left and right for a bit getting any hair from his mane off of his face. He was roughly a little smaller than Applejack but still an alright size. His eyes fell to the kart as he walked over towards her "where in town are you taking that kart and what's in it? Cause I could pay you back by pulling it for you".
"I'm taking it to the market, many ponies there like apples and no offence Crimson but your a little on the short and thin side to pull this thing".
"I'm not that short or thin, and if that's the only problem then let me pull it with you. It would help lighten your load, and I wouldn't feel right accepting your help otherwise".
Everyone who knew Applejack knew she was stubborn and rarely accepted help form other ponies, but all the same she liked helping other ponies. After a moment of though she moved across so there was room for Crimson to get in, "well alright sugar plum but I best not be hearing any whining from you, that It's too hard in a bit".
"Oh I won't Applejack you have my word on it".
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Applejack wasn't disappointed, Crimson didn't complain once. When they got to Ponyville faster than Applejack had originally thought the bliss on her face spoke volumes of her happiness. "Well wow wee you sure did it sugar plumb good work".
"Thanks Applejack I told you I could do it" Crimson took a moment to look round Ponyville to see if he could recognized anything. His eyes fell to the shops, the ponies, the pavement anything and everything that could jog his memories. "So this is Ponyville, its lovely but it doesn't ring any bells".
"Well that ain't good".
A sudden wind blew Crimson’s and Applejack’s manes back. Looking behind them Crimson saw a blue filly with a rainbow mane and tail with a rainbow lightening bolt cutie mark, she was eating an apple she had obviously taken from the kart without asking. "Hey Applejack who's this pony" her voice was slightly tomboy-ish.
"This here is Crimson Midnight he's new in town, and what in the whole of Equestria do you think your doing taking an apple without asking Rainbow Dash, I need to get money for those”.
"Oh lighten up Applejack its just an apple" Crimsons first impression of Rainbow Dash was that she was a bit cocky. All he could do at this point was stand and watch her finish the apple she had taken.
He watched this argument was beginning to unravel then he heard a sigh behind him. "Rainbow Dash this is why I was sent here your too ....... boy-like". Looking behind him Crimson saw a tall masculine Pegasus pony a slight blue-green colour a sort of mix halfway between the two colours, his mane and tail was rainbow coloured as well but his colours faded into each-other unlike Rainbow Dash's mane, his cutie mark was a rainbow coloured twister that rested happily on his flank.
"Who are you calling boy-like, Typhoon. Ask any pony here I'm plenty girl like" Rainbow Dash said going nose to nose with the large male.
"Fine I will" looking at Crimson the larger male cleared his voice "Crimson was it, nice to meet you I'm Typhoon burst, can you tell me an instance where Rainbow here has been feminine".
"I'm sorry I'm the wrong pony to ask I just got to town and I have no memory so I can't say".
Applejack let out a low giggle prodding Typhoon, “bad luck there partn'r".
"Oh sorry to hear that well if there is anything I can do just let me know". Typhoon said to Crimson apparently trying to ignore Applejack’s comment.
"I will do thanks Typhoon I appreciate it, but I couldn't bother anybody else with this it was wrong of me to involve Applejack in the first place I couldn't possibly involve you too".
Typhoon moved closer to Crimson with a big smile on his face. Crimson couldn’t help but blush slightly as the other pony moved closer to him. "It isn't any trouble and if I find out you didn't come to me I'll just have to teach you a lesson about trusting other ponies got it".
With his ears now fallen back against his head slightly, Crimson replied "O-OK just don't blame me when you get tired of me showing up".
“Oh god could you be any lamer, just hit your head on something to get you memories back” Rainbow Dash interrupted trotting past Crimson Midnight.
All Crimson did was walk back slightly with his ears now completely back against his head, obvious signs of embarrassment washing over his face. After waking up at this strange new place Crimson couldn't handle this, he had no idea what was cool or how to act around other ponies. Typhoon didn't take too kindly to his cousins remark hitting here gently on the head “take that back Rainbow now”.
“Hey its not my fault he needs to be like 20% cooler” Rainbow dash combated back.
It wasn't long before this little argument had exploded into a full blown fight attracting the attention of nearly every pony in the area. Crimson couldn’t stand all those eyes looking in his direction, he then shyly sneaked away from the now growing crowd of ponies. It wasn’t too long before he was far enough away from the other ponies to turn around and sprint towards the rising number of apple trees. It was only after he started to get tired he slowed down again starting to whisper to him-self. “Why did I run away? All they wanted to do was help me, maybe I should go back but what if they noticed I was gone and don't want to talk to me anymore, I don't think I could handle that, what should I do? What should i do?”.
“No clue” a deep voice came from behind Crimson, causing the stallion to jump up into one of the apple trees in shock, hugging the branch for his life. “Wow first time I've ever seen a unicorn fly”.
When Crimson looked down he saw a large built red stallion with a mane Crimson could only describe as orange in colour and a large green apple cutie mark, he had a plain blank look on his face as if nothing was happening and he was bored. Crimson then let out a small huff moving a hoof to point at him, only causing Crimson to fall onto the floor letting out a low growl. “Unicorns don't fly but they do get scared when they are snuck up on by big red ponies”.
Crimson then got off the floor shaking the dust off of him “oh who cares if you scared me its not like anypony cares anyway”.
“Well that don’t sound right how can no pony care about any other pony”.
Crimson then looked at the red pony with a new found smile on his face “your right somepony somewhere has got to know me, thanks ….... um, whats your name?”.
“Big Macintosh but most ponies call me Big Mac”.
“Well Big Mac you really helped out I'll catch with you later right now I need to go find a pony that knows me”.
“Eeyup see ya”.
The brief talk with Big Mac now fueling Crimson. He went off looking for a pony that may possibly know him. He told himself that he wasn’t ready yet to face Rainbow Dash for her comment but he new that if he just talked to a few more ponies he might be confident enough to stand up for himself. When back in the main part of Ponyville, Crimson looked around for a little bit only asked a few odd ponies if they new him, even with his epiphany he wasn’t brave enough to talk to everypony.
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Crimson had no luck in finding a pony who knew him even after the hours upon hours he was in that one location, the lack of progression in his search started to get the better of him and Crimsons confidence had started to disappear like the time he was wasting. “Hey any luck on your search you seemed to just vanish earlier?” Typhoon asked approaching Crimson along with Big Mac.
“Oh hey Typhoon sorry about that Rainbow Dash just got to me that's all”.
“Well don’t let her do it be more independent unless you want to be pushed around your whole life”.
“Ya Ya I know, by the way what are you two doing in town this late?”.
“Oh we heard there was a party for all the new arrivals in Ponyville so we were gonna check it out”.
“Eeyup” Big Mac finally added to the conversation.
“Can I come it might help me get my mind off of the whole memory thing”.
“Sure don't see why not”, Typhoon then started to walk off followed by Big Mac and Crimson. As the three ponies walked Crimson started to notice that he felt safer and more happy around these two ponies though he couldn't say why. It wasn't like they were special they were just like any-other pony, nothing special. After awhile Crimson just decided to give up on figure that out for awhile like with his past, at least for tonight.The three soon came to the town hall and walked in to the blasting sounds of the music the sight of all the other ponies there and the sent of various cakes, apples, sweets and all the other goodies there.
“Wow this place looks awesome” Crimson said then starting to push Big Mac onto the dance floor. At first he struggled because of simply Big Mac’s weight, this pony really was all muscle. But eventually he was able to start to get the pony to move.
“What are you doing”.
“You owe me something for scaring me earlier and I say a dance”. Through all this Typhoon just laughed and walked next to them. When the three were finally on the dance floor they all began clumsily at first, but soon got the rhythm of the music.
Crimson had to admit he wasn't the most graceful dancer but at least he was doing better than Big Mac and Typhoon. He giggle as he looked at in turn both the other males fail in their dancing. The music blasted into Crimsons ears barely leaving any room for any other noise to enter. After a few minutes of poor dancing Crimson felt a tug on his tail, turning around he saw Typhoon gesturing towards the DJ’s stand. Crimson quickly looked at Big Mac to let him know where he was going. Then Crimson quickly ran up to catch up to Typhoon, “OK why are we going to the stand over there”.
“Its the DJ stand and one of my old friends from Cloudsdale is over there, he’s traveled around Equestria allot and he might of seen or heard of you”.
“Wow really that's awesome”, about half-way to the DJ’s stand Crimson was stopped by a pink pony with a darker pink mane and three balloons for her cutie mark. All she was doing was standing in-front of him mouth agape just standing staring at him. Recoiling slightly Crimson looked back at her “um can I help you in anyway hehehe”. This was now getting a little weird and uncomfortable.
“Pinkie Pie leave him alone” a purple pony just audible to Crimson called out shuffling towards them followed by a yellow pony, a white pony, Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
“But this pony is new just like you were twilight but now your not and he is alone with this new pony next to him and I was like oh my god two new ponies, I just couldn't talk so I was standing here gasping like this”, She then began to gasp not making any noise most likely because of the music, it looked like she was just having her mouth agape which explained how she looked earlier, “then you came and I started talking and now where here”.
“Sorry about that Pinkie Pie was just being Pinkie Pie” purple one said with a smile on here face “but where are my manner I’m Twilight Sparkle, as I said shes Pinkie Pie, the white one with the purple mane is Rarity, the yellow one is Fluttershy and then there’s....”.
“Um Twilight me and Dashie ere have already met Crimson, Hun” Applejack interrupted before they were re-introduced.
“What and you didn't tell me” Twilight yelled in shock.
Crimson was about to speak when Applejack spoke again “I just plum forgot sugar cube”.
“Well anyway its good to see you again now ladies lets get back to the party before Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie again” Rainbow Dash said walking by Crimson starting to lead the other ponies away.
The two just stood still watching the other ponies walk back into the crowd of colours which was the other ponies dancing. They both let out a quick giggle before they continued walking to the DJ stand. “OK that was just plain random” Typhoon said once they had arrived at the DJ stand looking around for something, surprisingly the stand was the most quiet area of the party. “Now where is that traveling idiot when you need him”.
“Helping out the DJ you speeding buffoon and who are you calling an idiot” the reply came from a light purple Pegasus pony with a black mane. “Come on up Typhoon and bring your friend I got a few ponies I would like you to meet”.
“OK will be right up” Typhoon answered his friend behind the DJ stand, then looking at Crimson “well that was luckily he’s free to talk”.
“Um Typhoon before we go up there I just want to say thanks for everything you’ve done so far, you really didn't need to help me”.
“For the last time I'm happy to do it its who I am stop saying sorry or thank you its starting to get a little annoying” Typhoon joked genitally jabbing Crimson in his side. “Now come on that one doesn't like to be kept waiting”.
The two stallions soon found there way behind the stand. The area was filled with cables and wires running all along it. There was a large CD collection near a PC, which was hooked up to the various speaker around the hall. The whole area looked as if a bomb had hit and in the middle of all the chaos was three ponies, the pony Crimson had seen earlier but now he could see that he had a smiley face cutie mark. The second pony there was a unicorn pony dark purple in colour with a pure white mane with three yellow flowers as her cutie mark. The last pony was a brown furred earth pony with an electric blue mane and he had a CD cutie mark, his head was slightly feminine in nature but it was still obvious he was a male pony. “Finally I though you was gonna stay out there forever, well introduction are in order, well Sparks is the blue maned one working on the music for this party, the wondrous filly behind me is Lemon Bloom, and for the sake of your friend Typhoon I'm Hapzy, nice to meet you”.
“Well I’ll suppose I don’t need to introduce my-self by the dark guy next to me is Crimson Midnight” Typhoon said quickly rubbing Crimson’s head with his hoof.
“Hi nice to meet you” Crimson said nodding to each of the ponies in turn watching as they all nodded back. “Um... Hapzy, Typhoon said you’ve been around Equestria allot right”.
“Yes I most certainly have, I’ve flown from Canterlot to Galopfrey in three nights and that was only a few days ago during my most recent travels”.
Lemon Bloom walked forward brushing her tail on Hapzy’s face “later you” she said turning to Crimson “he met me and Sparks on one of his visits to Canterlot and we’ve been traveling together since isn’t that right Sparks”.
“Ya ya busy with the next three hits”.
“He really needs to lighten up” Typhoon said waving one of his hooves in the air.
“He’s not usually like that just at big gigs when he’s expected not to mess up” Hapzy intervened.
“Any way Hapzy have you ever heard of a pony called Crimson Midnight before on your travels” Typhoon asked placing a hoof on Crimsons head again heaven only knows why.
Hapzy stopped and thought for a moment flapping his wings slightly so he was hovering above the ground. “Hmm once I think, a pony asked me if I had seen Crimson Midnights birth into this world, very recently actually, but when I said no they left and that's all I know sorry if you want to know more you’ll have to find that pony or maybe even go talk to princess Celestia”.
Crimsons eyes widened as the words escaped from Hapzy’s mouth. A pony was looking for him. Or at least something to do with him, but that didn't matter a lead was a lead. “Can you tell me any thing about the pony”.
“Sorry I can’t they wore a cloak I couldn't see their face”.
Before Crimson could speak a word of disappointment he was jerked away fro the stand by his tail. Looking back he could see Big Mac dragging him to the dance-floor and the other four following. Sparks was at the back of the load of ponies, after setting up the next twenty songs onto a play list, “um Big Mac what are you doing?” Crimson asked with confusion set in his voice.
“I herd enough of your talk to know now is not the time for ya ta werry y’ere self about that you need ta relax and have fun so y’ere gonna dance”.
Crimson couldn't help but laugh, Big Mac was right now was the time to relax, even if he didn't know allot about what was happening he had made at least five friends today that would help him out if needed. So he got up dusted himself off and walked to the dance floor. This was definitely a day he wasn't gonna forget and remember fondly as; him, Big Mac, Typhoon, Hapzy, Sparks, and Lemon Bloom started dancing the night away.
End Of Part 1