Reignite

“I have some good news and bad news for you.” A lone hooded figure spoke; there was a moment of silence before he continued speaking, “Your sister is safe, amnesic but safe. It’s…heart breaking for you I know but I assure you once everything is said and done here she’ll be back to her usual self.” There was another pause of silence and the hooded man had a concerned look on his face, “Look I know this wasn’t something you wanted to do but I explained it already, it’s the only way to save both worlds without any casualties…you know what happened to my own world because of that false moon and I refuse to let that happen again…” Another silence, the hooded man sat down in a nearby chair. “…Not again…I won’t let that happen again…Look I can’t do anything more here other than hunt down those remaining monsters, I can’t stop what has started here…the most I can do is minimize the damage.”

The hooded man’s phone vanished in a dim blue light, the silence echoed throughout the abandoned room as like a ghost the hooded man simply vanished.

The train journey was long and quite frankly quite dull in Serena’s opinion. The steady rocking of the carriage she was in wasn’t doing much to ease her discomfort, she wasn’t sure why but there was something in the air that felt off; like something about the world was changing besides the people. The feeling in the air was something best described as easily missed, from what she gathered whatever it was felt out of place in the world but had a sense of familiarity to her.

Serena snapped out her thoughts as the train came to halt, rising from her seat and made her way out of the train alongside several people and ponies alike. Frankly it amazed her how despite their transformation they all continued like it was like nothing about them had changed, this was deeply worrying sign for here; remembering the panic and confusion everyone who changed went through during the next few weeks.

She felt a droplet of water fall gently upon her person, then another, a few more and before she knew it, it was raining. Calling a taxi to the hospital Serena climbed in and continued on her journey.

Midway through the journey, she passed the time by making idle conversation with the driver when everything around her suddenly froze in place. Serena panicked as she tried to shake the driver.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you Serena.” She looked beside her at the source of the voice, when she realized who it belonged to she screamed. The hooded man winced at the sheer volume of the scream. “Geez, even without your memory you can still reach that level of noise.”

“E-Excuse me?” Serena spoke: the hooded man just chuckled, “H-How…b-but you’re…?”

“Someone from your dreams right?” He finished, “You’re a hard woman to find you know that?” He chuckled again, “If you’re wondering about why everything around you is frozen in place…well I froze time just so we could have a little chat.”

“…?” Serena was speechless, “H-How?”

“…its better you don’t know that detail.” He answered, “I take it you’ve noticed that massive object orbiting the moon.” Serena just nodded, “Well in 30 days from now it will vanish completely, on the plus side it’ll prevent any further damage, the downside however is the transformations won’t stop until every man, woman and child is changed.”

“How bad is it already?” She asked: still trying to get over her initial shock.

“About 10% of the human population and rising.” He answered simply, “This is where everything becomes a problem on my end of things…”

“Why is it a problem?” Serena was curious by what this all meant and what his role in this all was. “And just who pray tell are you?”

“Well if you must know, quite a lot of problems actually princess…” He emphasized that last word as if to convey some hidden meaning to her, “For one I’m under strict orders to make this…situation from getting to the worst case scenario, and two if it does come to that…” He hesitated for a moment, “Remove the problem once and for all…” This fact worried Serena greatly, what did he mean by ‘Removing the problem once and for all’.

“Hold on what do you mean by remove the problem once and for all?” Serena demanded: Sighing the hooded figure took a moment to figure out to answer her question.

“That false moon was a gateway for some extremely nasty monsters, while the moon for the most part is harmless aside from changing the environment and people on whatever unfortunate planet it comes across, it sends down these monsters that will eventually erase the planet from existence.”

“W-What kind of monsters?” Serena asked nervously.

“Ever heard of the Weeping Angels?” Serena just nodded, “Well mix one of those with a Xenomorph and give it the ability to change into any living thing it wants and you’ve got the monsters I’m referring to.” A heavy silence fell between them. “As for what they are exactly I haven’t a clue, I just hunt the damn things. If for whatever reason I am unable to hunt them all down…Every last living thing on this planet dies.” The finality of the statement rang throughout Serena’s ears. “That however isn’t the issue here thankfully, as I can assure you those things will be coming after me once I make my announcement at the end of those 30 days.”

“How many of those things are there?” Serena asked.

“500 Memoria exactly, once they are dealt with everything will begin falling into place for the final stages to prevent the catastrophe from happening in another world.” He explained, “And with that two shall become one.”

“Two…become…one?” She repeated.

“You’ll find out soon enough, the whole world will soon enough…” He said simply, “Now I suggest you wake up now…”

Antonia was currently busy examining Sunshine’s recovery, the young filly had bright smile upon her face doing her best not to giggle as Scott was making funny faces in an effort to make her laugh. While bits and pieces of my memory was a complete mess, I wasn’t sure of what to make of Antonia and Samuel’s son Scott; to be honest I didn’t have anything against the child but something about him made me wary of him deep down.

“How is Sunshine recovering, Antonia?” I asked her.

“Sunshine is recovering nicely; you should be able to take her back home within the next fortnight.” Antonia answered, “I’ve heard that Shane will be taking you to visit your home, in an effort to restore your memories to what they were.”

“To be honest, I don’t like the idea that some of our memories are jumbled up…especially…” I went silent for moment; Antonia took notice of this and immediately asked her son to take Sunshine in the next room to play.

“…Marcia…What’s wrong?” She asked, “Has something happened I should know about?”

“…Well…I-I…” I did my best to swallow those doubts, “I-If my memories aren’t real, what’s going to happen between Shane and me…I-I don’t want my feelings for him to be a lie…” This surprised Antonia slightly, for a moment she said nothing.

“I-I see…This is certainly a development.” Antonia stated, “I knew you were friends but I didn’t realise you were…” I blushed with embarrassment, and my plush ears drooped out of shyness as I let out a sheepish laugh.

“We’ve been together on and off for the past couple of years…but…” I admitted, “Shane has still has his doubts about his own memories, my own and…us. He’s doing his hardest to make me happy.” I laughed bitterly, “He always has, and it’s just how he is.” Antonia remained quiet for a moment to consider what I said.

“Then stay by him memories or not.” Antonia advised simply, “Someone like that only comes by once a life time, whether or not you’re just friends or lovers. You stand with them no matter what; trust me on this Marcia I’m speaking from experience.” Antonia let out a slightly devilish giggle.

“What are you thinking…?” I asked a little frightened,

“Just an idea I think your boyfriend would approve of.” Antonia said with wicked grin. “I do recall Jessica was working on that charity ball, we’ll just have to ask her for something a little extra for you.”

Matt waited impatiently for Shane to show up, pacing back and forth in the lobby. To him it was high time he and Shane had a heart to heart regarding what they are going to do set their memories back to normal. Matt had an idea on how to achieve such a feat, Matt had come to the conclusion that just because their memories had changed then any physical evidence of their original memories would have changed as well and if they haven’t then it might restore their memories to what they were originally. Matt had discussed the idea with Dr Weiss, who thought the theory was sound and was worth a shot.

“Oi! Earth to Matt!” Matt snapped out of his thoughts as Shane announced his arrival, “I thought I lost you there mate.” Matt just shook his head in disbelief.

“Sorry about that, so are you ready to go?” Matt asked, Shane just nodded.

“So what’s all this about then?” Shane asked as they travelled out of the hospital dorms. The streets outside the hospital were busier than usual as people and pony alike wandered through the streets as they went through whatever plans they had for the day. Shane stopped and looked around; the amount of ponies in the streets caught his attention immediately. “Matt…correct me if I’m wrong but has the amount of ponies in the area shot up big time?” Matt took notice of what Shane was saying.

“While I don’t doubt the possibility of their being more ponies in the area than just those in the hospital Shane, but the number shouldn’t be this high.” Matt answered, but before Shane could answer a voice answered for him.

“Your right…” They both turned to see a middle aged man standing behind him, dressed in unusual attire. “I’ve been keeping track of all this since it began a couple of months ago, from what I gathered from the bits and pieces of information I have found around 10% of the world’s population is affected already and it seems to be getting worse by the day.” Matt and Shane remained silent as they took the information in, “But I imagine that isn’t what concerns you, am I right?”

“Yeah…” Shane answered dumbfounded,

“Don’t worry about it I’m sure it’ll sort itself out soon enough.” The man said, “Any how best of luck to you in whatever it is you’re doing.” The man then left, Matt and Shane’s eyes never once leaving him as he walked into the crowd and vanished from sight.

Matt and Shane found their way to Marcia’s home; it was an apartment on a lower set of flats in the street, if Matt remembered correctly she lived by herself.

“So what are we looking for here, Matt?” Shane asked, wondering why Matt brought him here of all places.

“Answers.” Matt answered, “We’re looking for anything different or out of place here basically. Marcia herself isn’t happy with the idea of going through her stuff but I convinced her to humour me.”

“And what are you trying to prove by this besides from pissing her off?” Shane deadpanned.

“Well.” Matt said as he cleared his throat, “Our memories have changed right? So there should be proof of those memories amongst our personal things, but if they haven’t changed then we should be able to restore our original memories.”

“So you’re looking for a contradiction.” Shane asked.

“Basically yeah.” He responded simply.

The both began looking through the house, looking through each room: From the look of most of the rooms nothing was out of the ordinary. Both have been here enough times to notice something out of place in each room.

Their search so far was fruitless, having gone through all but two rooms in the entire house: Marcia’s own bedroom and a small guest room across the hallway. Matt and Shane decided to try the guest room first, what they or rather Matt was expecting was a simple room with a bed, chest of draws and desk which was to Mark’s usual minimalistic tastes. As they entered the room they found it was child’s bedroom, decorated in bright and warm colours with various toys and stuffed animals adorning the shelves on the wall.

“Oh no…” Matt muttered to himself, “…This can’t be possible…” Shane looked at his friend in confusion.

“What’s wrong?” Shane asked worried, “I don’t see anything wrong here.” Matt galloped past Shane straight into Marcia’s room, “MATT!!” Marcia’s room was decorated in various tones of light blue, had a bed big enough for two, a large chest of draws and desk with a PC on it.

“Nononono….” Matt panicked as he began various draws, “This can’t be possible…” He repeated as if it was a mantra.

“MATT!!!” Shane shouted, “Calm down mate, what’s wrong?” Matt took a moment to calm himself down, before answering Shane.

“Something’s changed…” Matt answered; Shane continued to look at his friend, completely puzzled at what he was going on about. “Look let’s just continue looking.” As Matt and Shane continued to search through the draws, eventually coming across a small light blue book and a DVD without any label on it.

“Think these would be any help?” Shane asked Matt. Placing the DVD in the PC in the bedroom, Shane pressed play to find out what was on it. Matt was currently reading through the small journal, but he couldn’t make any sense of it as it was nothing but random dates. If Matt could guess, it seemed like a schedule of sorts.

*POMF*

The sound caught Matt’s attention as he looked in Shane’s direction, only to find Shane slack jawed and his wings fully erect and stiff. Matt looked over his shoulder to find out what had enraptured his friend so badly, curious he clicked rewind on the media player…

On the screen was Marcia dressed in what seemed to be dark blue and black lingerie, from the looks of it the video was made two years ago. On the screen Marcia seemed to be speaking into the camera.

“Hey honey, I thought you would enjoy a private show for when I’m not around. So just enjoy the show babe and maybe you’ll get something sweet later on.”

What continued on the video was Marcia in various…compromising positions, Matt really had no idea she could even bend that way.

Marcia couldn’t say why but she had a sudden urge to kill Matt at the present moment.