Can you lose someone elses memories?

by Jumpitydude

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy
Length: 1502

Prism Bolt starts playing with a storm cloud. But one wrong move, and his friend, Anthea, loses her memory...?

Prism Bolt is the son of Rainbow Dash. He likes playing with storm clouds.

One day, he was playing with one in the wrong place, and, after hitting it too hard, hit his friend with lightning. Now he has to deal with the consequences of giving someone amnesia.

Unless he keeps it secret.
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Written for Kilala97's contest, which you can learn about here: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/201922/kilala97-fan-works/thread/152824/contest

This story, totally serious, nothing silly at all.

Published 2015-02-04 18:30:03 UTC
Last updated 2015-02-04 18:30:03 UTC

A bolt from the (dark) blue

*Crakk!* "Hehehehe!"

Prism Bolt is the son of Rainbow Dash. And it shows.

*Boom!* "Hahahahaha!"

He has her confidence and flying skill. Though he was afraid of heights (ironically) when he was younger...

*Tshtshtsh* "Hehehahaha!"

... these days he spends most of his time in the sky. Doing things like playing with storm clouds. Like he was when it happened.

He kept tapping the cloud. *Tsh-tsh-tsh-tsh* "Hahahaha!"

"Prism? Is that you?"

"Oh! Hey, Annie!"

On the ground below him was Anthea, a blind unicorn that he had sworn off of pranking. Not just because of her being blind. Not because she is Fluttershy's (adoptive) daughter. Not, er, a little because she's fragile (as far as he's concerned). Mostly because of her protective colt/drake-friend, Turquoise Blitz, whose size was close to Big Mac's.

"What are you doing?"

He tore off a part of the cloud and shook it. *Kkrrrr!* "Just playing around."

"It sounds a bit like a storm."

"I'm playing around with a storm cloud!"

"Isn't that a bit-" Prism kicked the cloud. *BOOM!!* "KYAHH!"

His face turned to panic. "ANNIE!" He flew down and landed beside her. She was still standing, but seemed to have a stunned look on her face. "I'm so sorry!" He started checking her body (as much as a daredevil like him could) as she watched. "I didn't mean to hit you!" He moved his face an inch from her's. "Please don't hate me!"

"...What?"

He hid behind his hooves. "Please don't tell T!"

"... T?"

He slightly lowered his hooves, worried. "Your... Colt-friend?"

They stayed like that for a moment, then she said one thing. One thing, and he knew his life was over.

"Who are you?"

He felt his heart sink. "Y-you have AMNESIA?"

"... Who's that?"

"Oh, nonononono This is NOT happening! NO WAY is this happening!" He grabbed his head and bit his lip, hoping against all hope to avoid whatever pain awaited if T found out. Or, Celestia forbid, if SHE found out.

"What's wrong?" Annie asked, showing more confusion than concern.

"We have to keep this a secret! I need you to-"

"Keep what secret?"

Things got worse, as he realized that Cotton Candy, the eldest daughter of Pinkie Pie, was only a few feet away. With a very innocent smile on her face.

"Ceecee! What are you doing here?"

Annie cocked her head. "Who's that?"

"I was going to find you to ask if you wanted to join us for lunch."

"Who's lunch?"

He shot Annie a worried glance. "You as in..."

Annie looked at her stomach. "I'm hungry."

"Star, Del, T, Claire, and, of course, Annie... Hey! Where are you going?"

Prism turned back to Annie, who, sure enough, was walking away."Hey! Wait!" He bit her tail, causing her to yelp. "Where are you going?"

"I'm hungry. I wanted to get something to eat." She tried to pull away, but Prism held tight.

"No! We can't let anyone know! You have to stay away from- Geh!"

She tried again, yanking at his teeth. "Why?"

"Cause I don't want anyone to know you have amnesia! Candy can keep a secret, but-"

Candy interjected. "Uh, Prism? You might want to turn around."

He pulled Annie back and looked behind him. Things got worse, because right there were Starburst, Twilight Sparkle's daughter, and Golden Delicious, Applejack's son.

Del moved towards Annie, while Star glared at Prism. "What. Happened?"

Prism cringed and stepped away from Annie. Star was the one pony that truly terrified him. At least, pure pony. He was more terrified of half-dragons, half-bats, and half-demons.

"I don't know you. At all." Oh, and the indication that he ruined his friend's life FOREVER!

"I-I was messing around w-with that storm cloud-" He pointed at the cloud he was playing with earlier, his hoof shaking a lot, "-and I accidentally hit Annie w-with a lightning bolt!"

"YOU WHAT?" Star's wings spread to their full length. And if that happens, you can't fight back! When she spreads her wings, something happens to anyone watching that makes them lock up. She emits an aura of pure terror. Unless you're a certain unicorn.

"Star." Or if your back was turned, which Del's was. "It can't be that bad. Your mother probably has a spell to fix this."

Star folded her wings. "Of course."

"Besides, I can't find any burn marks."

"From what?"

THINGS GOT WORSE. Annie's lover had just arrived. Turquoise Blitz. The child of Rarity and Spike. And he. Was. Angry.

"Hi? Do I know you?" Anthea getting the first word in after his arrival didn't help his mood at all.

Nor did Prism's very, very wise way of breaking it to him.

"I accidentally hit Annie with a lightning bolt and gave her amnesia!"

...

"You what?"

HE'S DEAD! Just behind T was her. The devil. The last being he wanted to see at that moment. Crystal Clarity. T's older, and a thousand times more dangerous, sister.

In a moment, she had him by his throat. "You really messed up this time, Prism!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

"Sorry? SORRY? Sorry isn't enough for this Prism! I'll make you-"

"What do you remember?"

They both got distracted by Del suddenly speaking up. Anthea, who had a blank expression the whole time, suddenly put on a wide smile.

"I'm a magical princess from another dimension!"

"From another dimension!"

Everyone was confused as to why Annie and Candy started laughing. When they hoof bumped, it finally clicked.

"That... was all..."

"A prank! I was right here the whole time! The bolt missed her by a mile!"

"I screamed because it was loud. You just sunk your teeth right into me being hit before I tried to sell it!"

They kept laughing, and soon after everyone else was as well.

"Oh, man. That was good."

"She even got the rest of us with that."

T hugged Annie, who promptly nuzzled him. "I'm just happy that you're alright."

"I was ready to kill you, Prism."

"If you didn't, I would have."

They were still giggling from how silly it all turned out to be. And Prism was thankful there wasn't any actual damage.

"Wait!" Suddenly, Anthea seemed panicked. "What was that?"

Silence...

"Ow..."

They looked at the bush that the voice came from. Del approached and pulled some leaves back.

"Pixel?"

He lifted the small unicorn and turned towards his friends.

"Her horn!"

Sure enough, there were burn marks on the little unicorn's horn.

"Nngh... Huh?" Pixel Bit opened her eyes, and looked at them like they were aliens.

"How do you feel?"

"Who... who are you?"

Everyone glared at Prism, who smiled very sheepishly.

In the end, it turned out that Pixel was pulling the same stunt Annie did, but she kept it up the whole day, as opposed to Annie dropping the act after a few minutes. She didn't even drop it when Prism got charred. And it was ultimately her father who tricked her into revealing the act. Sure, she was hurt, but who says you can't have fun when harmed?

Speaking of having fun, Prism learned his lesson about playing with thunder clouds. He still does, but he does when he's above other clouds to avoid hitting anyone by accident again. And he hasn't slowed down on his regular pranks on ponies.

Then again, maybe this all wouldn't have happened if he would just stop discriminating against me! Er, I mean... oops.

Author's Note

Apparently, stories can fail moderation for having too much colored text (the second thing I've failed moderation for that wasn't made clear at any point, but makes sense), which is going to be a problem for a big project I have planned. One of my weaknesses when writing is that, without the script format, I tend to not make it clear who specifically is talking. I thought the "color-coded lines" would work around it, but I apparently can't use that now. And just saying "character says" all the time feels dull and repetitive to me. Whatever. I'll find a way.

As for the story, the challenge was to make a story based on one of Kilala's "Fun Facts." So I chose this one (Under Anthea's);

"One time, Prism was messing around with a thunder cloud and hit it too hard causing lighting to come out as Anthea passed by. She let out a little scream because of the sudden, loud noise invading her sensitive ears. Prism thought she screamed because he struck her with lighting. She took the opportunity to mess with him and pretended to have lost her memory from the shock. Prism freaked out A LOT."

Of course I wouldn't reveal this before the story. That would give away the ending.

And that last line is based on another fact, under Prism's facts;

"Prism and Candy made a promise that they would never ever prank Annie. Annie claims that it's discrimination."

Just wanted to be silly.