Memory Heights

by Scarlet Scales

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Romance, Princess Luna, Original Character, Comedy, Adventure, Discord, Princess Celestia, Crossover, Main 6, Gore
Length: 4158

Rainbow dash loses her memory after an accident and has to deal with new fears and old memories

Rainbow dash loses her memory in an accident and wakes up with no memory of her past self but brief sounds and sensations, she is thrown into the world with only her old 'friends' and new fears and old responsibilities, she must find out what happened to her and, why there is this mysterious pony following her.

Published 2012-07-13 14:44:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-08-21 06:05:21 UTC

A blank slate

For an eternity there was nothing, pure peace. She lay there and reveled in this sensation, the feeling of starting anew, she couldn't remember anything, not that she wanted to, at least for the moment. She simply lay there waiting and enjoying the serenity. But as all good things this too must come to an end.

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The doctor

"Nothing, lots and lots of nothing." She thought as she lay in a bed while waiting for her senses to return. She could only vaguely feel the bed underneath her, and in the distance she could her hear own rythmic breathing. All she could do was wait. She had no memory and already knew that she hated waiting. Absently she tried to remember anything...
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Nothing, well almost nothing. Because as soon as she stopped trying to remembering anything, she faintly heard a voice say.
"You're a laugh Twilight Sparkle, I cant wait to hang out with you more." the voice was full of mirth and happiness. And as soon as it had appeared it dissapeared.
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Again with the waiting. She began to count her own breathing.
"one, two, three, four."

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"Eight thousand ninehundred and ninety nine, nine thousand, nine thousand and one."

Suddenly she felt acutely aware that there was a needle in her arm and she jerked awake taking control of her senses and bolting into a sitting position, jamming the stationary needle deeper into her foreleg. Her eyes widened with that sharp sensation now deeper into her leg. Her rear leg instinctively kicked upwards.

Unfourtunately on the recieving end of said kick was a white nurse pony. Her chin took the brunt of the hit and she fell to the ground with a thump.

There was another pony in the room, a tall red unicorn, with wings?

"Well not exactly the best possible start." Said the red alicorn.

The sight of a pony with wings and a horn caused a series of flashes, and sensations to run through her brain. After about a minute she found herself on the floor looking up at the red pony.

"Am i supposed to know you?" She said as she looked up but he was already gone.

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Twelve or so minutes later the nurse woke up. The patient tried to apologize but the nurse would have none of it.

"Nonsense, Rainbow Dash it was simply a knee jerk reaction, after all it was a stimulant to try and get you out of your coma."

She now had two new facts about herself, one the fact that her name was rainbow dash, and two that she had been sleeping for the past who knows how many days.

"So how long was i asleep, nurse..." Dash asked the mare.

"Its redheart and you were out cold for about a week, everypony's been so worried about you. Espessialy your 'friend' Applejack."

"Who's Applejack?" The cyan pony asked with a confused look on her face.

"Well she's your best friend don't you remember that?" Nurse redheart exclaimed. "Oh this is not good, not the end of ponyville, but still pretty bad! Okay so, apparently you have amnesia, you have two options, one using unstable technology we would dive into the embedded data inside your deoxyrybonucleic acid therefore either restoring your memory or giving you a missing strand of said acid, or we could have a doctor try to restore your memory. Now the doctor would have to live with you for a certain time, as to get ahold of your bodies habits and essentially reboot your brain to the last memory through familiar actions and reactions." The nurse finished with a smile.

Rainbow dash looked at nurse Redheart with a look of utter bewilderment.

The nurse let out a sigh and said "You can either live out the past twenty years of years of your life, or you can have somepony live with you for the next two or so months."

"Um, lets go with option two please." The prismatic pegasus said with an embarrased smile.

"Okay then we'll have you live with Twilight Sparkle, the towns librarian and expert on magic. We'll have The Doctor visit from time to time." The nurse said with a smile. "Now can i remove that needle?"

Dash winced as she remembered the needle, and nodded. After the nurse had removed the needle the patient asked.

"wait you never said the doctors name, how am i supposed to know who he is?" she asked

"Oh, that, well you see he doesnt exactly have a family name so everyone just calls him the doctor, he may be a bit accentric but he's the expert on memory here. Despite him being an earth pony." she seemed to growl slightly at the end of the sentence. "Well if thats all cleared up, i believe that we can check you out of the hospital, on one condition. You will not attempt to flirt with the doctor. Understood? Good, i'll go get the paperwork." With a smile she walked out of the room leaving dash to her thoughts.

She would be staying with Twilight Sparkle, the pony whose name was mentioned in her flashback before, that and the fact that the doctor had such a strange name, and would probobly bring all manner of strange medical equipment(it goes ding when there's stuff!).

The nurse returned quickly with a few papers on a clipboard, and had Rainbow take a physical test to make sure she was okay, other than the fact that she had no memory.

Thirty minutes later the pegasus was walking out of the hospital, and she saw the blue sky. Her wings instinctually spread and before she realized it she was hovering a few feet off the ground. Soon she was climbing towards one of the clouds and she looked down on an impulse. Her vision swam and she landed as soon as she could, as she was descending she saw a red blur dart from one cloud to another. She felt sick to her stomach, and probobly would have vomited had she not repressed the urge, all willpower being forced on the action of not vomiting her breakfast she was probobly fed through a tube.

After what felt like an eternity she felt a tap on her shoulder, she looked up to see a concerned looking purple unicorn.

"Are you okay? I mean the only time i've ever seen you look so sick was when you caught the feather flu from thunder la..." she trailed off as she saw the cyan pony's expression of confusion.

"And who are you? Some sort of magician?" The prismatic pony asked with trpedation.

"Oh come on dash we've known each other for the past two years, don't criticize my magic." She said with a huff.

"No not that, how do you know my name and Who Are You. Stop rambling for five seconds and get the context right and not the fine details." Dash said.

"What are you..?"

"Look i dont know! I dont know okay! I dont remember anything, i don't know anyone, i couldn't even remember my own name when i woke up this morning, afternoon whatever!" she said on the verge of tears.

"Wow you aren't joking, are you?. Look if your being serious my name is Twilight Sparkle..." she trailed off again as Rainbows eyes opened wide and winced as the pegasus fell over backwards unconcious. The unicorn sighed and picked up dash with her magic and set off for the library.

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(i really hope i did okay seeing as this is my first fic and if it's a bit short blame me for writing on an ipod)

Wut

When they arrived at the library Twilight tucked the unconcious pegasus into bed. Then Twilight pulled a book off of the shelf randomly. She looked at it it was the book with the flight spell from awhile back. She figured if she was going to sleep soon anyways she might as well try it to see what flying was like, Rarity had said that it had been amazing, well she had said that her wings were amazing.

So after flipping to page twenty eight she found the flight spell. She began to concentrate pouring all of her energy into her horn making sure not to mess it up, when suddenly Spike and the cutie mark crusaders barged through the front door. She lost her concentration on what the wings were supposed to be made of while running through her head, but the spell was already half done! And how long were the wings supposed to last? She couldnt remember and she lost control of the spell.

Magenta lightning flashed around the room striking bookshelves and almost hit the cmc. What the lightning did hit however was the sleeping pegasus, she jolted awake and her eyes flashed white. A blue bolt flashed back from the prismatic pony and the two entertwined lengthening, spreading andpulsating as unicorn magic and pegasus magic mixed(pegasus magic being cloud walking and less mass).

Eventually the beam bagan to lessen in power and eventually it dissapated between the two. Both passed out.

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When Dash finally woke up she said "What the heck happened, my head hurts and i just had the wierdest dream."

She reached up to rub the top of her head but was stopped by something about four inches away from her head. It was hard to the touch and a bit 'sensitive' to the touch. She quickly pulled her hoof away from the protrusion. A blush was beginning to form on her face when she saw, the purple pony laying next to her, in bed.

She squealed abit and jumped out of the bed, running itno the next room and barreling into a small purple dragon. The dragon tumbled down the stairs and was about to hit the bottom when a bright magenta glow caught him at the last second. Then pathetically fizzled out. Allowing the dragon to faceplant into the last step and then slide down it.

"You know Dash you really should be more caref..." she didn't finish the sentence for when the cyan pony turned she saw a horn. A Horn on Rainbow's head.

Spike tore his face off of the floor and looked up the stairs to see twilights hair begin to curl and her pupils shrink to pinpricks. "Um D-dash you might wanna back away, like now!"

The prismatic pony was backing up, when she felt herself run into a wall, Twilight turned to look at spike. And then she noticed it and snapped back to reality. Both she and her blue friend had both a horn and a set of wings.

But then the author decided that he didn't want this story to go in that direction and erased twilights horn and dashies wings.

Then a pink mare appeared behind the author and said "try not to go crazy with breaking the fourth wall okay? Thats my job, now finish this chapter!"

"Yes ma'am said the author hurriedly finishing up the chapter and forgetting grammar errors.

Pinkie waved and said goodbye go ahead wave back she can see you.

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And then Rainbow dash woke up.

Slight shipping incoming!

"Why am i laying on the ground" she said as she slowly opened her eyes, blinking them a few times to adjust to the light. She felt rocks poking into her back and her wings, one of which was flopped awkwardly on the ground next to her.

"Well seeing as how you passed out, you would probably be waking on the ground." a voice from behind her stated.

She looked upwards from her point of view to see the red alicorn standing behind her. "Wait, didn't i see you at the hospital?" She said as she got to her hooves.

"Hmm hospital, hospital. Nope havent been there since, well i don't think iv'e been to the ponyville hospital before." He said with a frown on his face. "Did you see me there?"

"Yes right when i woke up, you were standing behind Nurse Redheart, but when i looked at you again you were just gone." The pegasus said with a frown. "And where's Twilight? She was right next to me when i passed out."

"Twilight, would you perhaps mean Twilight Sparkle, the ponyville librarian?" he said his frown changing to a look of confusion. "Look i need to go see Twilight anyways, so why don't you come with me? Miss."

"Dash, Rainbow Dash." she said holding out her hoof to shake with the red pony.

" Ah so you're the famous Rainbow Dash, well it has been a pleasure to meet you, shall we be on our way?" he said after shaking her hoof.

"Wait!" She said as he started walking. "You never told me your name."

"Oh sorry, where are my manners. My name is Scarlet Scales." he said with a slight smile on his face "But you can just call me Scarlet."

"Okay Scarlet, lets go then." She said as she walked past him, then abruptly stopped. "Um i dont know the way to the library, would you mind showing me?" she said while rubbing the back of her head with a hoof.

"Hehe sure thing, just follow me, i just need to pick up a few books from Twilight. Why are you going to see her?" He asked as they began walking towards town.

"Well i kinda recently developed a case of amnesia(shudder) and heard that i was friends with her before i developed said condition." She said as she skirted a rock in the road.

"Hm, i recently had an accident of my own and that's what i'm going to go to the library to research. But i am sorry to hear about your lost memory Dash, don't worry i'm sure that Twilight will be able to help you, I mean she is the most powerful unicorn in ponyville." he said as they drifted into the endless realm of small talk as they walked through town.

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"So Scarlet you still haven't told me why you're an alicorn." She said as they rounded a corner.

"Ah yes my 'wings' that often raises quite a few questions and i will happilly tell the tale. You see it all began when i was" SLAM, he never finished his sentence as he ran muzzle first into the door to what appeared to be a giant tree. He peeled his face off of the door trying to retain a shred of dignity as it opened and slammed into his face again, knocking him out.

"Ohmygoshiamsosorry." The Purple unicorn said as she saw that she had hit someone.

"He'll probably be ok but for now we should get some ice on that bump on his head." she said as she dragged the unconcious alicorn inside, leaving a very confused pegasus standing on the doorstep.

She tenatively knocked on the door, stepping back for good measure. The door slowly opened as a purple unicorn poked her face through and saw dash standing there.

"Well nice to see you using a door for once." She said with a small chuckle.

"Wait what do I usually use?" The cerulean pegasus questioned.

"Oh lets see you almost always come crashing through the window, and one time even through my.. wall, Dash are you okay?" she asked with a concerned expression.

"Yeah, could we talk about this inside?" she asked while looking anywhere but at the unicorns innocent gaze.

"Umm sure, I dont see why not" she said as she opened the door wider so that her friend could walk in.

As dash walked into the library, she caught the smell of knowledge, words, words with the white hot intensity of a thousand su... Yeah i'll just get back to the story.

She walked past the rows of books allowing her hoof to run along them as she observed all of the different titles.

"So what was it that you wanted to talk about?" a voice called from behind her as she was about to pluck a book from it's shelf.

"Well, I kinda woke up in the hospital today." she said with a bit of hesitation in her voice.

"Well that's not entirely unusual for you, what was it this time? Twisted wing or fractured hoof?"

"What? No! I mean i woke up and i couldn't remember. ANYTHING! I couldn't even remember the name of the town i was in until scarlet told me that i was in ponyville!" she said tears forming at the end of her rant.

The unicorn just stood there with her ears splayed back, and then she reached forward to give her friend a comforting hug. Just saying over and over "It'll be alright, it'll be alright." softly into the pegasus' ear until she fell asleep in the arms of the purple unicorn.

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As twilight carefully carried the sleeping pegasus upstairs and tucked her into her bed she heard a noise from below, in her lab.

It was a hushed whisper, but she had long since placed a spell upon the library to allow her to hear almost anything in her lab(for when spike occasionally tried to sneak ice cream down there and chow down)

"Water thirty five liters, carbon twenty kilograms, ammonia, ammonia what was it? Oh yes, four liters, lime one and a half kilos, phosphorous, and salt peter along with other trace elements. Yes yes i know i also need to pay the toll, but what was it again that you gave me? Ah yes the perfect element."

The whispers died down as she descended the stairs, her hooves making hollow, clop clop, sounds on the wood.

"Who're you talking to? And what were you rambling about?" she said as she reached the bottom.

"No, no that wouldn't work, remember it wasn't even of the same species. Okay so what i get that youre saying is that we use it to help her get her memory back? We hardly even know the girl! Plus i'm not even sure the gift of chaos still works after we merged. Okay you want me to test it out? Fine there's your cotton candy cloud, but i still. Alright this will have to wait." the red alicorn turned to see the purple unicorn sitting at the bottom of the stairs. Staring at the pink cloud hovering in her basement.

"Wha?" she finally managed to get out.

"Ah here we go, but i already promised to tell this tale to dash, so could we wait until she wakes up?" he said

"Sure why not, you might have to wait a bit, she kind of cried herself to sleep." she said still staring at the cloud as it emmitted blue lightning.

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WOOT yush yay yesyesyeysyeysyeysyeysyeysyysya
I did it! I rewrote the newest chapter in a way that i actually like it!!! Yay! Hope you enjoy it!

Title

The red pony shook his head, as he turned away from Twilight Sparkle, she gasped as she saw one of his eyes flash a complete white(note this might be a bit confusing but his right eye had a pupil just instead of the regular color surrounding the pupil there was just white, got it? Okay back to the story)

Twilight rubbed her eyes to make sure that she wasnt seeing things and when she opened her eyes the 'effect' was gone his eye resuming its bright pink color. She walked back up the stairs and she began to hear whispers in the basement again. But only snatches of conversation like there was something interfering with her hearing spell. She dispelled her suspicions for the time being, and pulled a book off of the shelf, the book was on astronomy.

"Well maybe instead of researching the work of a 'luna'tic I should try and find out what happened to dash." she sighed as she put the book down. Besides she could always ask the lunatic herself. She walked to her room where dash was sleeping, the murmurings in her basement continued.

"Dash." she whispered trying to gently wake the snoring pegasus. "Dash." she tried again a bit louder. "DASH!" she yelled.

The pegasus let out a yelp and tumbled out of the bed. Her wings splayed out awkwardly as she faced twilight from upside down. She quickly got up and accidentaly bumped her muzzle into twilights chest, she stepped back chuckling.

Twilight blushed a bit at the sudden intrusion. "Really now? Is that any way to treat your gracious host?" she said trying, and failing to supress a giggle with her foreleg.

"So your'e probably wondering why I woke you up?" here come down to the main room and we'll talk." she said as she began to walk out the door.

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"And so that's why i rudely awoke you like that." Twilight said finishing her story.

"Well what are we waiting for lets go hear his crazy story!" Dash exclaimed as she scrambled from her sitting position. But she needn't have gotten up for at that moment the pony in question came trotting up the stairs of the basement.

He walked over to where they were sitting and motioned with a hoof for them to follow him. He led them down into the basement where the cloud still hung, a small puddle of chocolate had formed beneath it. On the ground was a circle, it contained many different shapes and runes which neither of them understood the purpose of.

"And this is how i will answer all of your questions!" he said, as he drew more lines in the arcane drawing with a piece of chalk.

"Well we were wondering why it is that you're an alicorn." Dash asked.

"Ah yes i did promise to tell you that story well I have something better than an oral repetition of a past event that may or may not take a long time to explain. May i have a key?" he asked out of the blue. "Don't worry you'll get it back" he chuckled.

Twilight pulled a key out of one of her drawers in the basement and then gave it to Scarlet. He then lifted his left wing and began to search for something.

"What are you doing?" Twilight asked. Beginning to question the mental faculties of the pony in front of her.

"Oh nothing i just enchanted the little pocket that all pegasi have inside their wings so i could put more stuff thfr" his sentence became muffled as he pulled an impossibly long object out from under his wing.

It was a metallic staff that had three faces on the end, each with a different expression, but that wasn't what caught the other pony's attention. It was the blood-red jewel perched at the tip. It was oval shaped and seemed to glint with an ominous light. He telekinettically removed the gem from its small pedastal, and placed it in the center of the mystic runes.

Then he lit his horn and the small key warped and was enveloped in a bright light before elongating into a large key with a handle that looked like it was made more for minotaur hands than anything else, and the tip was like that of a blade and seemed to cut the very air around it.

He placed this next to the gem, and then he placed the staff on top of the odd key in an X pattern. He then trotted around the circle examining every shape and pattern. All was quiet as he completed his search. He laid down infront of the circle. A milky white substence dripped from his horn.

It seemed to come alive the moment it hit the floor as it inched its way along to the center. Eventually it crawled up to the gem.

The instant it came into contact with the gem all of the light in the room bent. It was sucked up by the gem and even when Twilight tried to light her horn the light was bent towards the gem.

Once all the light in the room was gathered into a sphere that pulsated every colour imaginable. It imploded in on itself, the light suddenly contracting to a single miniscule point.

Dash saw that the objects the alicorn had placed in the center were gone. The light then expanded rapidly outwards in odd directions. The light was so blindning that they closed their eyes.

And when they opened them. Laying there before them in all his chaotic glory was Discord himself.

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Whelp you can expect a revised version of this entire story at some point in the future but not today. Oh well i'm just happy that i finally finished this chapter, sorry if it sounds like i wrote it while trying to stay awake because thats exactly what happedned.