September

Once again travelling Tim starts searching villages he come by, scavenging food, looking for survivors and clues to what might’ve happened. He still fails to find any survivors, but a few notes and audio recordings confirms the suspicions he’s got about how the other ponies have been defeated.

When he finally arrives at his destination after days of walking he looks like himself again, dirt-stained coat and frazzled mane and tail. He can recognize this place, he remembers arriving here when he ran away, at that point he thought it’d be a good place to start a new life. The city sign says ‘Welcome to Ponyville’.
Satisfied by reaching his destination Tim enters the small village to search for food and survivors, even though he already knows that he’s probably not gonna find any of the latter. He looks around for a while and finds a big gingerbread-looking building, as he trots up to the front door he can see a small note on the door saying ‘Sugarcube corner, open every day from 10-22’, curious he enters the building and finds that it’s a bakery.
The moment he enters the building he can smell it. The smell of baked goods is like a slap to the face, even though nothing has been baked for a long time the smell has stuck around. The smell of cakes, cupcakes, cookies, overwhelms him, he takes a big sniff and stars drooling. He walks around looking at the unique architecture before he finds a freezer with a lot of frozen cakes and such. None of the food has decayed due to the freezer being airtight, so he takes out a delicious cake to thaw it in the oven. Meanwhile he moves upstairs to check out the rest of the odd building and finds a big room with a bed to the wall. The room is filled with balloons and streamers in all the colours he could possibly think of. There is a big tub with some nasty water and rotten apples, which he supposed was used for bob-for-apples before everypony disappeared. There is a big chest next to the bed, opening it he can see that it’s full of things used for pranking. There’s a pair of glasses with a fake nose and fake moustache, an inkwell with a label saying ‘invisible ink’, a bottle of sneezing powder and many other prank tools. He closes the chest and inspects some more of the room. Next to the bed is also a small night-stand with a face-down picture frame on it. Curious of who lived here he picks up the frame and as he takes a look at he can see a familiar face, a pink mare with a big puffy candy-floss-like mane and tail. She’s beaming, smiling wider than he’s ever seen anyone smile before, on her back is a small green alligator with no teeth. As he inspects the picture he can feel the memories sneaking up on him once again, memories of his arrival to this village.

-----Flashback-----

The grey pony arrives at Ponyville after days of almost non-stop galloping. He’s tired, it’s easy to see by the bags under his eyes, his un-groomed mane and tail and his frazzled fur coat. He thinks this might be a good place to start a new life with a new home and new friends. As he enters the small village he can see that even though it’s small, it’s still busy.

There are various stands all over the town square, some sell apples, other sell flowers and such. He can see a friendly-looking pink pony walking out of a store with a basket filled with streamers, balloons and other various party items. He walks up to her to ask her for directions, but as soon as he opens his mouth she puts on a surprised face, as if she’s seen a ghost and runs away before he can even say ‘hello’.

“Well that was awfully rude” he says to himself. A few seconds later a white unicorn with a glamorous purple mane and tail walks up to him.

“Oh my goodness, you look like you haven’t slept for weeks darling,” she says with a voice just as glamorous as the rest of her, “we simply must do something about that” she says, pushing him towards a spa saloon before he can protest.

“Quick, we need an all-over treatment,” she says as they enter the saloon, “this is an emergency!” 2 twin ponies, a pink with a light-blue mane and a light-blue with a pink mane, appear instantly and starts pushing him further into the saloon before he can say anything.
They start by dressing him in a white robe, then they take him to the sauna. He’s told to relax and just let the hot steam do it’s job and while he does that the white unicorn enters the sauna, wearing a robe much like his and a towel over her hair.

“Isn’t it just wonderfully relaxing?” she asks him as she sits down next to him, “oh my, I’m sorry, my name is Rarity, I run the carousel boutique here in Ponyville. I haven’t seen you before so I guess you’re new around here, why don’t you tell me something about yourself.”
‘Uh oh, If I tell her about my past I’m probably gonna give her a bad impression.’
“I don’t really know much about myself, I lost my memory a few days ago and now I’m just trying to find somewhere to live.” says the grey pony.

After a long and relaxing spa treatment the 2 ponies exit the saloon completely refreshed and rejuvenated. “By Luna, I feel more relaxed than I have in years. I’m relaxing muscles I didn’t even know he had.” says the grey pony as they exit.

“Yes, Lotus and Aloe are some of the best you can find.” says Rarity while waving at the 2 spa ponies, “now, let me give you a tour of the city and introduce you to my friends.”

The first place they stop at is a big tree in the middle of the town.
“Twilight Sparkle lives here, she’s one of the most talented unicorns in all of Equestria when it comes to magic, then again, magic is her special talent.” says Rarity as she knocks on the door, “Oh and she has a baby dragon called Spike help her with her daily chores.”
The door opens and in the doorway stands a strangely familiar mare. A purple unicorn with a dark purple mane with a pink stripe in the middle of her mane.

“Hello, I’m Twilight Sparkle.” she says to the stunned colt in front of her. “Are... are you okay sir?”

“Yes, you just reminded me of someone I know... I mean, I knew...” the colt’s face turns into a sad frown before he cheers up

“Anyway, I’m glad to meet you Twilight Sparkle.” he says shaking her hoof.

“And your name is...?” asks the purple mare

“I uh... I don’t remember.” he says

“Well, come on inside, both of you”

As the 2 ponies enter the library, the purple pony yells “Spike, drop whatever you’re doing, we have guests.”
A few moments later, a purple dragon with green scales enter the room.

“This is Spike, he’s my number one assistant,” says the purple pony, as she gestures towards the dragon.
“Moving on to more serious business,” she says, her face changing to a more serious expression, “you said you don’t remember your name?”

“Yes, I forgot it when I lost my memory,” lies the grey pony

“Well, let’s see if we can figure out what your name is. Now, the names of most ponies have something to do with their cutie mark, and since your cutie mark is a flask it must have something to do with science.” says the purple pony as she trots back and forth in front of the two other ponies, “We might not be able to find out your exact name, but maybe we can at least come up with a name for you.”
The 3 ponies sit down and start thinking about something to call the nameless grey pony.

After a long time of thinking, coming up with suggestions for names for the nameless pony Twilight finally comes up with a proper name, “How about Brilliant Bubbles?”

“Yeah, I can live with that,” says the grey pony smiling, “but I’m getting hungry, is there somewhere to get some food?”

“Of course, we can head on over to Sweet Apple Acres if you want” says Rarity, “Twilight, care to join us?”

“Nah, I’m busy, we’ve got lots of catalouging to do, Pinkie came by yesterday so now the whole library is a big mess.” replies Twilight.

“Well, I guess it’s just us then, Bubbles, let’s go shall we?” says Rarity as she walks towards the door.

“It’d be my pleasure,” says Brilliant Bubbles as he joins her by the door.

-----Flashback end-----