MLP:FiM In: Dream Theater's Metropolis, Part II: Scenes from a Memory

by AtrocityEquine

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, Sad, Romance
Length: 3002

A Unicorn.Two Pegasuses.A Griffon.All connected into one life.

After being plague by constant horrible nightmares, Twilight Sparkle goes to Princess Luna for help. With the help of a 'Regression Spell", Twilight learns something more about these dreams…

The following story is a 'lyric-by-lyric/concept-by-concept' of the Dream Theater album,"Metropolis,Part II: Scenes from a Memory". This story also contains shipping for fan fictional purposes. If you don't enjoy any of these details, then this isn't the right fan fiction of you.

Note: In this story, Twilight never met Rainbow Dash,Fluttershy,nor Gilda.This is to avoid confusion why the story takes place in the Present Timeline.

An upcoming 'scene' will appear in Act II in Chapter Eight and Nine.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2011-11-30 03:14:07 UTC

Act I - Scene One: Regression

Brony of the Octaves presents:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic IN: Dream Theater's Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory

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Concept/Lyrics belong rightfully to Dream Theater.

This story contains shipping and the use of lyrics of the album the story it's about .If you don't like any of these characteristics, then don't read this story.

All My Little Pony characters belong to Hasbro/Lauren Faust.

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Act I - Scene One:Regression

The ride to Canterlot was quick than she expected. Twilight stepped out of the royal  carriage, her mane and coat fixed up with a more presentable apperance than when she woke up that night. As she trotted into the castle courtyard and into it's interior, she looked up to the grand stairs to see Princess Luna, waiting for her. The unicorn bowed to the Princess of the Night and looked up,smiling.

'Princess Luna, I'm glad to see you,I haven't seen you in a long while", she said.

The dark purple alicorn stepped towards her, her translucent violet mane flowing beside her. "Ah,fere Twilight Sparkle, Why as thou come here in Canterlot on surprise notice?", she asked.

Twilight got up and sighed slowly." Well Princess...I came to talk to you about something." The princess looked at her with a caring look,"Why thou come to me?Thee always goes to my sister to tell your troubles.",said Luna. Twilight continued with her telling her problem to Luna. "You see, Maybe you could help me, knowing something about more spells dealing with dreams and the subconcious.Could we discuss it in a different place?". Princess Luna nodded and they both walked up the stairs and into one of the castle rooms.

It was a standard room. A small couch, an enormous window looking outside to the city of Canterlot, a small desk, and a bookself. Both the princess and unicorn sat down on the couch and looked at each other, Luna seeing the distress in Twilight's eyes.

"Why art thou want to know about dreams and the subconious?", she asked. Twilight looked at her and led out a reprise of worry. "I've been having these dreams..I keep hearing voices of ponies I've never heard from, cries and screams, an image of a house. I want know what they mean.".

"Usually strange dreams that happened frequently art memories surpressed.",she said, showing she was learning more Mordern English.Twilight nodded, "I thought that too. I need to know though...how can I find out.I've tried to find a spell about if they could be surpressed memories but nothing..", she said with a gloomy tone.

Princess Luna looked at her and put her hoof on her muzzle, thinking slowly. And then her eyes enlightened with an thought bursted through her mind.

"I have an idea dear Twilight!",she exclaimed. With her glowing horn, a book came off the bookshelf and levitated it infront of her. She flipped through pages and stopped at one, her eyes fixated on the page and moving back and forth before stopping,putting the book back. She looked at her curious friend and smiled. "I shalt preform a spell that could help thine subconcious see those so called  supressed memories.",she proclaimed, before laying her down on the couch and sitting on a chair."Thou has heard of the "Regression spell"?,she asked.

Twilight's mind began to slowly remember that spell.Regression Spell..It was a type of spell used to hypnotize ponys to help them remember certain memories linked to a past life. But..was it possible her dreams represented a past life of hers?

The unicorn nodded without saying a word. Luna nodded and said,"I will use the regression spell on thou and see if thee had a life yores.It will be tricky, but it will help seek thine's memories. Shall want me to do this?". Twilight looked at her, inquiring what could be done. She didn't do if the regression spell would work, maybe her dreams weren't memories,but..they did seem frequent, and it felt familiar hearing those voices..One sounding like a tomboyish pony, a quiet,timid mare, and a very,violent sounding voice that didn't sound like a pony. After a few minutes, Twilight looked at Luna and nodded her head.

"Okay Princess, Use the spell",she stated in a worried, yet stoic tone.

Princess Luna nodded and positioned herself, closing her eyes and chanting strang words. Her horn radiated and let out a glowing orb, similar to the one Twilight released during the spell she used to give Rarity the translucent butterfly wings. The orb began to float next to her, moving back and forth, back and forth.

"Close thy eyes and relax.Keep breathing in and out. As thou focuses on thy breathing, imagine a light going through thy body. Thou let your felt fall into a relaxed state of Mind, and drift into your subconcious. As I count from ten to one, you will go into that state of conciousness, and see those surpressed memories.", she said.

Twilight began to drift as she counted slowly..

Ten..Nine...Eight..Seven..Six.

She felt her mind drift into that safe place,feeling that illuminating light Luna talked about.

Five..Four..Three..Two..

"If at any time thou hast to come back, all thou must do is open thy eyes.One..".

And she drifted.

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She felt the light surrounding her.

She was free from the fear and pain.

Twilight's subconscious mind spinned through time, rejoining her hidden past once again.

Was it real?Was this really happening?Did Luna really send her mind to remember with the regression spell?

She began to feel it..but she was so amazed by it all, she was lost in the haze of a so called 'dream.'

She drew closer and closer..She could see it. The scene of a small town, slowly arriving,blurry, but she was close to her arrival.

As she got closer,a name came out of her mind.A name that sounded so familar..

Fluttershy.

Act I - Scene Two: I. Overture 1928

Act I - Scene Two: I. Overture 1928

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Her mind began to procress everything. She was in her state of mind where memories of her past were hidden, caused by the Regression Spell Princess Luna used on her.

Twilight looked around the world around her, seeing the old style of homes and how simple the town looked. As her mind became fixated on the town's structure, she noticed a newspaper of Ponyville.What she saw,shocked her entire being.

"THE PONYVILLE NEWS, JUNE 15TH,1928"

1928?Why was she doing here?Could this help her find out more about these memories?Her mind began to slowly began to focus once more...

The voices came to her once more..

"I need one more line..One more and I'll be perfect.."

"One last time...we lay down today.."

"The dance of eternity...is what we call it.."

"I love you..I love you too.."

Twilight closed her eyes tightly, the scene was growing stronger..

Act I - Scene Two: II. Strange Deja Vu

Act I - Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu

Her mind began to race again, half of subconsious going into the scene. It felt so great,going back into that 'pleasant' nightmare. Sparkle couldn't wait to get back into those memories and find out what was the truth!But a part of her mind slowly remembering everything of how it started...

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Twilight tossed and turned back and forth in her bed, the covers slowlt sliding off, hooves kicking in the air. The imagines slowly unfolded through her mind, more voices heard. This time.. a scream..and a full imagine of the so called 'scene'..

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The yellow pegasus holded the body of the blue of her kind. She whimpered,holding her tightly,her screams sent a chill down Twilight's soul. She looked up,sniffing, her green eyes darting at the mysterious figure. Twilight couldn't make it out,it was a huge figure, with what looked like wings behind it.It wasn't a pegasus from it's side...it was something else.

The figure glowered it's yellow eyes,looking down at her."Open your eyes Fff..."

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She couldn't make out the names as the image slowly faded out of her mind. Twilight gasped and got up from her bed,panting at the maelstrom images rushed at her. The unicorn sniffed and curled up in her bed,why was this happening to her? She sniffed, everytime she closed her eyes, it was a rush of a horrible sequence of blazing screams, strange imagry, and ponies she's never seen.

She sighed,wiping her tears,looking down. But yet...she felt like these could be something else..another life? They felt like unfinished,fading chapters. Twilight sighed, shaking her head,speaking her mind.

"Impossible...that..just isn't right...but..could be?"she asked.

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Her mind was in a frenzy of excitement, the scene was closer now,coming into the view of her mind. The imagine of Ponyville of 1928 became focused. The town looked like it did in the past, but with less buildings and more simple. The sunshine beaming on her slender body,Twilight smiled. She had arrived to the memory.

Twilight glaced around the world around her,her mind going through a maelstrom as she looked at the world around her.Her eyes then became fixated on a house...It was the same house from her dreams.

It was a simple house, a house with a Victorian touch, a bay window,it's tree branches spreading wide. It's two floor windows looking down, as if staring at Twilight. It was familiar to her, so it wasn't such a new thing.

The young unicorn trotted up the pathway, leading to the house, but yet she couldn't help to feel a haunting chill in the air.

She opened the door with her horn, the door glowing slightly before opening. As she entered and closed the door, it all felt so familiar.She felt like she have been there before.Not only in her dreams, but before...

She looked up the house stairs leading upstairs,to a room. She wasn't interested in the bottom floor, having bring drawn up to that room,it was one of the moments of her dreams that repeated in an endless lope. Twilight Sparkle walked up the steps of the stairs, seeing the door that lead to that room.

The young pony entered the room, and the only thing there was a single, circular mirror. Twilight approached it, as she got closer, another pony's face appeared, getting clearer as she approached it.

It was a yellow pegasus, her green eyes staring back at Twilight, her pink mane covering her left eye slightly, her ears down, in a sign of sadness.It was the same peagsus from Twilight's dreams.

Twilight stared, looking at the pony. "Who are you?Why are you plaguing my dreams?Why do I see you, another peagsus, and another creature?!",she said, her anger raising, she had been constantly tormented by these dreams, she needed answers.

"WHY AM I HERE?!"

The pegasus whimpered and backed away, looking down,her green eyes at the verge of tears. Twilight calmed herself as she saw this, she could see in her eyes, a story never told...She could see from there..something was tearing at her poor soul.

"I'm sorry....I didn't mean to upset you...Fluttershy...right?",said Twilight quietly, remembering the name that popped in her head during her trance.

The pegasus looked at her slightly,nodding, sniffing along the way. "It's fine...T-tonight..I've been searching for that feeling deep inside of me...that feeling nobody knows...to try to breaking free..".

Twilight's eyes kept staring her."What is this feeling..who are you..please tell me.."

Fluttershy looked at her."Y-yes..I'm Fluttershy...",she said,her quiet voice echoed."I...c-can't help myself..I feel like  I'm g-going out of my head Twilight...M-my heart is being teared into two...".

The unicorn's eyes widen."W-wait!How do you know my name!?",she said, with a studder in her voice.

Fluttershy ignored this,looking down."I'm not the one the sleeper thought she knew..".

Twilight spoke again."Wait!"

Before she could get an answer, everything faded around her. The mirror shattered, Flutteshy was gone.

~*~

Twilight opened her eyes to the real world once again and got up,panting. Princess Luna stared at her, her eyes staring at the poor Unicorn.

"Twilight!Is Thou okay?!"she asked.

Twilight panted, she was back to her feet, 'Metropolis' surrounding her now.As she relaxed, she looked at Luna, breathing heavily.

"It worked Princess...it worked",she said.

Luna looked at her slowly,sitting down with her."What did thy see?",she asked.

Twilight rubbed her eyes, having those images still imprinted in her mind."I saw everything..I saw a 1928 version of Ponyville...and there was a house...there was a young peagsus...",she stopped, sniffing a little.A feeling of sadness filled her body,clutching her heart tightly..

Luna hugged the unicorn slowly,comforting her."Yes..?".Twilight sniffed again,speaking of those memories. "I-it was a yellow pegasus...she had something hidden Princess...she said..."I'm not the one the sleeper thought she knew..".

She was in despair. They weren't surpressed memories...they were memories of another life. Why was this other life haunting her every day?It seemed so much for her. She'd break through the other side, if she could, to find out more of this 'Fluttershy'.

Luna holding the poor Sparkle tightly, rocking her. "It's going to be fine Twilight..we shall continue using the spell till we find the answer to these dreams..",she said.

Twilight didn't know for sure about using the spell again, mainly because something else was occupying her mind. Everything in that regression, everything was awfully familar. The feeling of similarities engulfed her body, making it hard to shake.

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Is it possible?Could I have lived in that other world in the 1920's?

I feel like I have to make a link that destiny wants me to make...

Oh my Celestia...I'm still searching,but for what...

The missing key is what I need to unlock my mind's door...

Celestia...Luna...help me...

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Twilight trotted inside the Library,Spike already cleaning. The purple dragon looked at his friend and smiled,"Twilight,you're back!We're you go?"he asked.Twilight looked at him, smiling weakly. "Hey,and yeah,Sorry I didn't tell you.It was kinda a personal thing I needed to speak to Luna about in Canterlot.",she told.

Spike nodded and understood she didn't want to say what she told Luna. Twilight didn't want to tell Spike what's been happening to her, she felt it could worry him and make him drift from his duties. She yawned and walked up the stairs,telling him, "I'm gonna  go nap Spike..". Spike gave a concern look,"Okay Twi..",he said.

Twilight layed on her bed, curling up. Today she was searching for the answers for her dreams, only to find more questions and now, A feeling that won't go away. As she closed her eyes, her mind drifted..

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I just can't help myself

I'm feeling like I'm going out of my head

Tears my soul into two

I'm not the one I thought I always knew..

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It was all uncanny, a strange deja vu..but Twilight Sparkle didn't mind...she was hoping to find the truth.

Act I - Scene Three: I. Through My Words

Act I - Scene Three: I. Through My Words

What I saw,what I heard..

is etched upon my memory..

and spoken through my words?

Is it possible that what I have with me,is what Fluttershy left behind?

We're sharing one eternity...

I've been living two minds...?

I've been linked by this endless thread..

Is impossible to break..

Introduction

Dream Theater's "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory"

Music and Lyrics by Dream Theater

Characters:

Present Time (2011)

Twilight Sparkle - Nicholas

Princess Luna - The Hypnotherapist

The Mayor - The Old Man

1928

Fluttershy - Victoria (Metropolis/Love)

Rainbow Dash - Julian Baynes (The Sleeper)

Gilda - Edward Baynes (The Miracle)

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Act I

Scene One

Regression

Scene Two

I. Overture 1928

II. Strange Deja Vu

Scene Three

I. Through My Words

II. Fatal Tragedy

Scene Four

Beyond This Life

Scene Five

Through Her Eyes

Act II

Scene Six

Home

Scene Seven

I. The Dance of Eternity

II. One Last Time

Scene Eight

The Spirit Carries On

Scene Nine

Finally Free

Prolouge - Another Dream.

Prolouge  - A Dream

One last time...

Open your eyes,tell me you love me...

Goodbye...

I love you..

How could I do this!?

Let's do this..The dance of eternity..

Open your eyes..

She's taking me to my home..

Finally broke free...

OPEN YOUR EYES!

~*~

Twilight screamed as she fell out of the wooden bed and onto the cold floor. She blinked in a frantic state,looking everywhere in her bedroom in the Ponyville Library. She sighed,Another dream.

The purple unicorn got up to her feet and turned on a lantern.She yawned as she was getting some water for her dry throat,relazing she was probably screaming.Good thing her assistance, the baby dragon Spike was out with the Cutie Mark Crusaders to not hear her night terrors again. She looked outside the window, looking out at the dark covered clouded skies of Ponyville,it being the early morning. She rubbed her violet eyes with her hooves, and looked at herself in a small mirror on her table.Her dark blue,purple, and pink mane was unbrushed and messy, her lavender coat covering her right eye.The strange dreams were really getting to her.

Each night, it would be the same thing. Voices from unknown ponies, cries of terror,perfect to blurry images of those saidponies, and finally an image of what looked like a house.What did these voices say?What was the house?What did the full 'scenes' mean?

Twilight began to ponder, what could she do?She searched and searched, but did not find a spell that would provide her with the full meaning of her dreams. Only bits and pieces of her dreams were defined, nothing was conclusive.

With what little information she had, Twilight came to the conclusion that each dream had a completely different meaning, but she knew there was something bigger to her dreams.

She decided to go tomorrow and talk to Princess Luna back at Canterlot to ask her about these dreams. Maybe she could help her figure out what they could be foretelling.

The pony sighed and curled back into her bed,snuggling in the covers.As she drifted back to sleep,hoping this time her dreams were pleasant or to not even dream at all, a thought echoed in her subconcious.

"They feel like scenes from a memory."