I saw a small spec of light in the distance, it was light blue. I couldn't move, and all around me was pitch black, as if everything were simply nonexistent. Suddenly, the light got closer until I saw that it was a double helix shaped silver amulet with a blue crystal sphere inside. the wearer was illuminated by the glow, and nothing else. The stallion appeared to be an alicorn with a grizzled face. His wings were ruffled and many feathers were visibly missing. I noticed a long scar on the right side of his neck. His fur was tan and his mane ant tail bark brown. His eyes were red-ish brown with a burning anger. I felt like he was looking straight at me, starring straight into my soul. I tried to recoil, but still being frozen, all I could do was stand there and look at him as he slowly walked up to me.
"Unlike you, I didn't forget." He said in a deep, rough voice with a slight Southern accent.
Just then, I shot up from the bed, breathing heavily. I could feel my heavy and quick heartbeat without even putting a hoof on my chest. I wiped tears that had fallen from my eyes and began to start controlling my breathing.
Metalwing sat up and put a gentle hoof on my shoulder, "Are you okay, Sprocket?"
I nodded, unable to bring myself to speak yet.
"What happened?" He asked.
I cleared my throat, "I had another nightmare about that stallion, and this time he talked to me..."
"This is bad..." said my husband as he pulled me from the bed and carried me outside, flying me in the direction of Canterlot.
It was still early in the morning, Princess Celestia was still raising the sun. I looked down at the houses we passed over and felt the quick air brushing against my fur. I looked forward and saw Canterlot getting closer and closer by the minute. Metalwing was certainly intent on getting me there as soon as possible. Perhaps it was about my memories, or my dreams. I hoped it was about both, as I was concerned about both. I didn't understand the situation at hand and didn't understand much about the world, likely due to my amnesia, and that frustrated me. Within an hour, Metalwing set me down in the streets of Canterlot, before we had gotten ready. I would've been embarrassed had there been anypony around to see us.
Metalwing used a calm fasad, "follow me."
I stayed with him as we walked down several streets and took many turns. I had trouble remembering any of it because I didn't know much at all about the city, but I took note of some of the heavily damaged buildings. I had heard ponies talking about a large magical mech making its way through the city, and figured it was due to that. We eventually made our way to the castle and found a wizard who had been assigned to help get my memories back. We had done a few exercises and he had tried a memory spell before, but I never got more than a few flashes from our visits. Metalwing told him about my dream and his eyes widened. Moon Beam ran out of the library, declaring he was going to get Princess Luna. I didn't recall ever meeting Luna before, and I was honestly excited to. The only princess I had talked with personally was Twilight Sparkle and that was simply because we lived in the same small town.
Before long, a dark blue, tall alicorn walked into the library, "Somepony requested me?"
"Yes, Princess..." I squeaked out, taking note of the other wizards in the library stopping what they were doing to come and see what the princess was here for.
Luna looked at me surprised, "You. Have you made new progress on your memories?"
"Well I-" Moon Beam cut me off.
The wizard explained, "She had a dream about Killer. He was wearing the amulet, and he spoke to her."
"Spoke to you? What did he say?" She asked me.
I told her, "He said that he didn't forget."
Luna's expression darkened. She was clearly thinking of what was going to happen. I looked at Metalwing who flashed me a worried expression. I didn't know what was wrong, I didn't know who Killer was. I didn't even know that the amulet or my dreams were actually real. Some of the wizards started to chatter to each other quietly. Discussion became debate, and debate became argument. The sound of angered ponies flooded the library and began to overwhelm me.
"Somepony just tell me what's happening!" I shouted as the room fell silent.
Luna and Metalwing exchanged looks. The wizards gazed at me with shocked expressions. A sense of unease lingered in the air. I had finally gotten the point across that I remembered nothing.
Luna sighed, "We cannot talk here. Let us go to my room inside the castle."
Metalwing, Moon Beam, and I followed Luna out of the library, into the main building of the castle and down a corridor. This felt familiar, like I had been here before. I paused and looked around for a moment. I received a sudden flash, one of Metalwing in a set of Canterlot guard armor, the same set that was set up in our house, only less tarnished. In the memory I was flirting with him. It must've been when we had just met. I felt a whole new weight on our relationship.
"Sprocket? Are you alright?" I looked up at Metalwing who had put a hoof on my shoulder and his long, soft wings around me.
I started to tear up as I hugged him tightly, "I love you, Metalwing."
"I-I love you too, Sprocket." He stuttered as he returned the hug.
We were in Luna's room a few minutes later. She closed the window and Moon Beam locked the door, making sure nopony was listening.
Luna looked at me, "You are not safe, Sprocket."
"You weren't born in this universe, but you earned your way here. Unfortunately, you came with an easy to lose magical artifact." Metalwing stated as an image of the amulet flashed through my mind.
Luna spoke up again, "This easy to lose artifact made it into the wrong hooves. I believe the stallion you saw in your dream is the one with current possession of it."
"So the amulet he was wearing was actually mine?" I asked.
The princess nodded, "And I theorize that the amulet is also the key to your memories. Find it, and you'll remember your life again."
With that, Metalwing and I were rushed out of the castle and sent back home. We obviously had work to do, and I had no idea where to start, but with Metalwing by my side, I was sure I wouldn't fail.
Author's Note
Even I noticed I got better at writing
Preparation
I watched as Metalwing packed up many items, like we were going on a trip. I didn't know what to do in order to help, so I ended up just watching him pack. Yeah, there's love right there, your husband starts to pack up and what's your job? You watch him, and stand around, and look pretty, I guess. Metalwing moved back into view wearing his guard armor and holding some light bronze armor. Another flash was triggered, this one caused me to collapse.
I saw several things, including a large Phoenix, a young pony, and Killer. An ethereal figure flashed as well, and it sounded like it said something, though I couldn't tell what. Finally, I saw myself, only on a computer screen, and through the eyes of something fleshy. I wasn't moving in the flash, not even my blowing scarf was moving, I wondered if the fleshy thing drew me on the computer.
I flashed back to the present and saw the armor sitting sideways, along with everything. Wait, no I'm the one who was sideways. I calmly stood up and looked around a bit.
"Another flash?" Asked Metalwing.
I nodded as I put on my bronze armor.
Metalwing looked me over, "You almost look back to normal."
"What are we doing today?" I asked.
He answered, "Today, we're going to do some walking around Ponyville. We'll leave at sunset."
"But where are we leaving to?" I questioned.
He replied, "Wherever your memories take us."
With that, we walked out of the house with the bags still inside. I casually took Metalwing's helmet off and set it down on one of the chairs. I didn't think anypony should mistake him for an acting member of the royal guard. Metalwing smirked a bit at me. I shrugged at him and a bluish green pony with a lyre cutie mark saw us while walking by. She made a confused face at us emoting to each other. I saw her and quietly laughed a bit, causing Metalwing to turn and look to see. The pony decided to keep on walking instead of engaging.
We set off into Sugarcube Corner and walked into the cake shop. An excited pink pony looked at us.
She gasped loudly, "Sprocket! Metalwing! Are you here to buy a cake? Or a pie? Or a cupcake? Or a muffin? Or lots of cupcakes? Or lots of muffins?"
"How about a couple blueberry muffins? Sprocket? Does that sound like a good breakfast?" Asked Metalwing.
I was silently staring curiously at The pony.
Metalwing looked confused, "Having another flash?"
"No, and that's the weird part... I feel like I should know this pony..." I answered.
The pink pony looked extremely disappointed, "You mean... you don't know me? I made your wedding cake..."
"Pinkie, she didn't mean it. She's just had a lot of memory loss and hardly remembers anything from her life lately..." Metalwing comforted Pinkie.
I had a momentary flash, "Pinkie Pie! Your name is Pinkie Pie!"
"Oh my Celestia you do know me!!!" Pinkie made a sound that could only be described as a squee.
I felt her hug me, "Oh, hugging... we're hugging now, okay..."
Metalwing laughed as I awkwardly returned the hug. She went back behind the counter and retrieved two warm blueberry muffins, telling us that these were on the house. We thanked her and made our way out of the shop and started eating our muffins.
"These are awesome!" I exclaimed, causing a few other ponies to glance at me and then back at the shop.
Metalwing nodded, his mouth still full. We walked down the street and into a magic shop with numerous decorative looking items.
the clerk was turned around, "Welcome to Books, Blights, and Broomsticks, home of any magic item you need and a lot more you don't. Care to look at our newest item? It's a replica of the amulet used to-" the clerk turned around and looked at us, "Oh my Celestia... you're the one who the real thing belongs to..."
"That's what I keep hearing." I replied.
He looked confused, "So you are or you're not?"
"After defeating the mech, she lost nearly all of her memories. She gets flashes, but nothing other than that." Metalwing explained.
I looked around, "So where's the replica?"
The clerk gestured at the back wall with several thick gold necklaces looking exactly the same with large blue gems in them, looking similar to the elements of harmony, pre-Tirek.
"Those look nothing like the amulet. I get flashes of the actual thing all the time and they don't look like that." I said.
The clerk looked at me, "Well, it's not like I've seen it before. What does it look like?"
"It's a pendant on a thin silver chain, and its metal part is a silver double helix. The gem is a blue spherical one held by the silver structure." I told him.
His eyes widened, "That came through about a month ago. I sold it to an alicorn, mostly brown, a lot of scars..."
"You're kidding." Metalwing said in disbelief.
The clerk shook his head.
I spoke up again, "I've been getting flashes of that pony. His name is Killer. Apparently he took the amulet a while back. We couldn't get the authorities to find him, guess he's good at hiding."
The clerk looked at us silently as we walked out. He obviously knew nothing about where Killer was or how to stop him, but we did at least know where he got the amulet. For the rest of the day, that's all I could think about, how Killer got his hooves on my amulet. Now, we had to figure out where he was. I had never seen him around Ponyville and in my flashes and nightmares he had been in Canterlot, so I was probably going to tell Metalwing that it was where we were going. As the sun drew closer to setting, we made our way back home to grab our bag, afterward making our way to the train station and setting off for Canterlot. As it got darker, I fell asleep on Metalwing's shoulder, and had my first real night's sleep I could remember.
Author's Note
And now we've got buildup