Who Your True Friends Are

I'm now standing right in front of town square in Ponyville. I look around to see if any ponies from the show are around. Oddly, not one of them is in sight. I'm thinking that maybe they're out in another town, or something, until I walk into town hall, looking for Mayor Mare, and she's nowhere to be seen. In fact, nopony at all was inside the building. I found it peculiar that, today of all days, when the Summer Sun Celebration was coming soon, that at least Ponyville's mayor would be seen inside. I didn't let this bother me too much, as I had no way of knowing whether this was a dream or not. I decided to keep on looking through town, because I knew that someone like me wouldn't be sent to Equestria without a reason for it.

I was walking along the dirt road, and I saw a gray pegasus stallion flying overhead. One thing about him that really caught my eye was that he was wearing a black vest. Nopony I knew ever wore a black vest, except for Aqua Flare, my friend Anthony's OC. I thought that if I had come here, maybe my other friends from the chat session on Facebook did as well. I yelled out,

"Hey, Aqua Flare, it's me, Source Code!" The stallion turned around, and looked at me. He responded,

"Hey! Uh, I don't think I know you." I was unnerved by the fact that Aqua Flare didn't recognize me, as Anthony and I had shown each other our OCs on multiple occasions. I even created Aqua Flare's cutie mark back in the human world, and I could tell this was the right stallion because his cutie mark was the same golden mask that I sent Anthony.

"Don't you remember me, Aqua Flare? I'm Source Code. We always talk online back in the hu--"

"Nope, don't remember you. When somepony like me, who can be found everywhere, doesn't know somepony, it's probably because we never met." I couldn't help but think to myself that maybe he was telling the truth. If Aqua Flare is here in Equestria, but doesn't remember me, then it's possible the other four are in the same situation. "Also, what do you mean by 'online'?"

"Never mind," I reply. "Just tell me, where is Ponyville's mayor, and for that matter, where are Twilight and the rest of her friends?"

"They should be in town. Have you been there?"

"I just came from there. None of them are there."

"That's strange. Anyway, you still haven't told me how you know me." At this point, I was almost certain that either Anthony's Aqua Flare and this Aqua Flare are different ponies (even with identical appearances), or my friends all came here the same way, and they all got amnesia, but I didn't. I figured there was no use telling him about the human world, so I just made something up to not arise suspicion.

"I just heard from somepony in my hometown of Las Pegasus that you tell quite the funny jokes. Is that true?"

"Funny jokes? I figured you were just a fan of mine. Come to Sugarcube Corner in about half an hour. I'm doing stand-up there." I nodded, and he flew off. Since I had some time to kill, I figured I could keep walking around, and maybe find one of my other friends.