Do I Know You?

With many twists and turns dashing about in the cold, blue sky, the clouds had been also cleared away in the process of Rainbow Dash performing lots of tricks. On the ground, she could scrutinize two pink and orange earth ponies and one unicorn observing her moves until a violet alicorn trotted towards them with a kind smile.

''Hey, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie!'' she greeted. ''What are you looking at?''

''Rainbow Dash!'' Pinkie Pie answered.

''Isn't she dazzling?'' Rarity asked.

''I would say awesome, after all, that is what she likes to hear from ponies,'' the southern pony extended.

Rarity shrugged. ''Fair enough.''

The four ponies stopped chatting for a while and paid attention to the one thing that was amazing up in the sky. It was no wonder she got accepted into the Wonderbolts, even though it took so long for her to get in as there wasn't an empty spot until Fire Streak retired and she finally became an official Wonderbolt.

Rainbow Dash did lots of flips and turns, then cloud busted through the soft clouds, that was her way of clearing up the sky. Rainbow Dash was so confident to do a sonic rainboom again but she thought that had gotten a bit old now, after all, she had done it ever since she was a filly! She landed on a cloud that was still left in the sky and made that into a starting line.

She grabbed Pinkie Pie and placed her on the cloud, but of course, Twilight had to cast the spell for her to walk on clouds. Pinkie Pie was given a whistle from Rainbow Dash to announce to start, but she replaced the whistle with a bit more extraordinary and her most favourite thing ever!

She got out her party cannon and placed the rainbow pegasus inside her party cannon so when she announces for her to start, she can give Rainbow Dash an epic boost into the sky. Rainbow Dash, herself, thought this was a brilliant idea so she agreed with her party pony friend's plan.

''3...2...1...GO!'' Pinkie Pie announced, shooting Rainbow Dash into the air, causing her to do so many tricks.

Once she did enough of her fabulous flying tricks, Rainbow Dash took a deep breath and flew all the way up to the shining and gleaming Celestial sun. She encouraged herself that she will do it. Nothing can harm her, right? She has defeated villains several times before. But that was different. Now, she is doing something she has never done before or anypony, to be precise. It could be very harmful or hazardous.

Come on, Rainbow Dash. The pegasus tapped herself on the head. Why are you so nervous? You have faced so many challenges before. What is it you got to lose? Her wings, to when she was trying to perform the sonic rainboom again for the second time for the 'best young flyers' competition and nearly snapped her wing as she crashed into Twilight's Golden Oak Library.

She took her final breath for the last time and started off by flying fast. She liked the wind flowing through her rainbow mane. The cool breeze swiftly flying through her face. It was refreshing. If she can do a sonic rainboom, then she can do a double one. She is Rainbow Dash, the most awesome flyer in all of Equestria.

Rainbow Dash was so close to doing a sonic rainboom. She created a bubble in front of her and then launched herself and did a sonic rainboom. Her friends were in amazement and cheered her on for a double one now.

The pegasus circled the sky with a rainbow. When she finished doing her loop, she went into high-speed mode and accelerated further. Her wings were now flying rapidly than they ever were in her whole lifetime.

She pushed herself a little further and...BOOM! BOOM! She did a sonic rainboom twice at the same time. That was impressive until she flew down towards the ground. She couldn't control how much her wings held so much strength and power. She clipped her wing onto something and prepared to doom right into the ground.

Rarity blocked her mouth with her delicate white hoof. Twilight and Pinkie Pie were shocked that she actually managed to do a double rainboom. How was that possible? They thought Rainbow Dash was just making it up and she did just like how Twilight Sparkle had created her own spell.

Applejack ran as fast as she could towards Rainbow Dash's body. Twilight, Pinkie, and Rarity followed along.

The next thing they knew, they were at the Ponyville hospital.

''Is she going to be alright?'' Applejack asked nervously.

''Oh,'' Nurse Redheart replied with hesitation. ''I am not so sure, dear. Although I think we need Doctor Hooves in here, may I ask how this had happened?''

Twilight and Applejack shared a look with each other. They both had a hint of nervousness in their eyes. Twilight broke the contact and stepped in forward. She took a deep breath to speak as she had so much tension on her shoulders.

''Well,'' she said, ''she was just playing around in the sky with flying tricks, and then she wanted to extend her sonic rainboom to a double one. She succeeded, of course, as she is an incredible flyer but she couldn't hold how much power and strength her wings were holding so she fell to the ground immediately and clipped her wing. She then dived in right to the ground.''

''Oh dear,'' Fluttershy whimpered. ''I hope she is still alive.''

''No,'' the doctor uttered while looking at the heartbeat display. ''She is quite alive, just unconscious but she will wake up soon. Although, there is a catch.''

''What is it?'' Rarity questioned.

She winced. ''There might be a possibility that Rainbow Dash might...lose her memory.''

''What?!'' everypony in the room shouted in unison.

A nurse came inside the room with a trolley full of bandages and medicine to put under her wing. She walked across the room to the patient's bed, ignoring the mares’ shocked faces.

''No,'' the cowgirl uttered. ''It can't end like this!''

Pinkie Pie had her eyes filled with water. ''So that means we will never have our little Dashie again?'' She then blasted her eyes into a fountain of tears, almost flooding the whole room.

Maud and Mud Briar from outside had to swim away back to their room with a saddle boat. The reason why they were in the hospital was that Pinkie Pie accidentally stepped on Twiggy and Boulder (I know, right? A little bit dramatic if you ask me).

A few moments have passed and Rainbow Dash still hadn't woken up. All of her friends were getting more and more worried about her. Spike trotted across the room to the patient's bed and tried to reach to see Rainbow Dash's body on the bed but he was too short to reach. He landed his hands across the bed and made his legs swing off the ground. Because of this, Spike accidentally pulled the covers and blanket off the bed. He also had almost lifted the bed but all of a sudden, the pegasus had finally woken up.

''AAAHHH!!'' they both screamed in unison.

Pinkie Pie gasped and zoomed right towards Rainbow Dash and gave her a big hug. Unfortunately, the doctor was right. The rainbow mare slowly slipped away from the hug and pushed the pink pony away. This made Pinkie Pie fall to the ground.

''Who are you?'' she asked. ''Do I know you?''

''Oh no!'' Fluttershy said in a frightened voice. ''The doctor was right. She really did lose her memory!''

Everypony was looking at each other with their eyes widened in horror.

''Dashie!'' Pinkie Pie exclaimed, bouncing back up. ''It's me, your best friend, Pinkie Pie!''

She hugged her again, but Rainbow Dash instantly pushed her away again.

''Best friend? That is funny because I don't remember anything about having a best friend, in fact, I don't remember anything at all!'' She scattered her eyes across the room. ''Hey, wait a minute. Who are you guys and what am I doing here in this...hotel?''

''Hotel?'' Rarity repeated, widening her eyes at the drab curtains. ''This doesn't even look like a hotel!''

Applejack rolled her eyes in annoyance as she walked up towards the pegasus. She placed an assuring hoof on the patient's shoulder.

''Sugarcube,'' she said, ''you may not know us because of that little incident causing your memory to go away but don't worry! We will do all we can to help get your memory back.'' She backed away to stand beside Twilight and whispered, ''and how exactly are we doing this?'' Twilight shrugged.

Pinkie Pie gasped. ''I know!''

At the Ponyville train station, Pinkie Pie and her friends were all waiting for the train to go back to her rock farm. She figured that since her family is smart, she can ask them if they have or know a cure for memory loss.

Five minutes later, the cutie mark crusaders ran towards them and hugged their sisters, except for Scootaloo, who was looking for Rainbow Dash.

''Hey!'' she called. ''Where is Rainbow Dash?''

The five ponies and dragon glanced at each other in unison.

''Well, there isn't going to be a Rainbow Dash anymore,'' said Spike with a frown, folding his hands against his chest.

Twilight waved him with her tail. ''Hush, Spike. Don't say that. We will get her back, besides we had done challenges in the past before.''

''That is exactly what the mare that is now lost said,'' Spike reminded unpleasantly.

''What do you mean?'' Apple Bloom asked.

Applejack wrapped her hoof around her little sister.

''Apple Bloom, sugar, maybe it is not so great if you stand beside us at the moment.''

''No,'' she uttered. ''Tell us what is wrong, Applejack. We are not foals anymore.''

''Yeah!'' Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo exclaimed in unison.

They were about to open their mouths until the train had arrived. They figured for the little fillies to just come along with them on the train so they can explain what happened to them.

''Wow.'' Apple Bloom was appalled. ''She really did a double sonic rainboom?''

''Come to think of it,'' Sweetie Belle added, ''we did see a sonic rainboom outside a window at our cutie mark crusader clubhouse, and it did look double.''

Scootaloo dismayed, ''so because of that incredible, astonishing, unbelievable, stupendous and astounding sonic double rainboom, it managed to clip her wing and fell all the way down to the ground and suddenly just refreshed her memory blank.''

Twilight nodded mid-way until Sweetie Belle pointed out a question. ''So where are we going now?''

Applejack answered for them. ''Back to Pinkie Pie's home, the rock farm.''

''Speaking of Pinkie,'' asked Rarity, ''where is she?''

Pinkie Pie was in the other cart of the train, where suitcases were kept. She wasn't looking very joyful as usual. You may think she is happy all the time because she is energetic but her feelings are as fragile as glass.

The pink pony was crouching down behind a suitcase where nopony could ever find her. Her mane was deflated, her skin was greyish. She was sobbing silently so nopony could hear her. She wanted to be alone.

The way that pegasus spoke to her and pushed her was what bothered her the most. Sure, she lost her memory but it was hard for Pinkie Pie to understand. Those two were inseparable. They were the best of friends. They would laugh with each other, joke around with each other, comfort each other whenever one of them was feeling down. They were the ones that gave light to the group and would always mess around. Sometimes there could be times where things get a bit hectic but they sort it out in the end because that is what close friends do.

Pinkie Pie's ear perked up at the sound of a knock on the door and calling out for her to come out.

''Hello?'' a yellow pegasus interfered. ''Pinkie Pie? Are you in there?''

''Uh,'' she mumbled. ''No! I am definitely not here! I mean, she is not in here. Maybe you should check the other carts and not come back!'' she yelled and sighed later on. ''I can't hide from them forever just because a friend is never going to remember me again.''

Fluttershy opened the door and stepped into the room. She walked in with a lot of suitcases on the floor messily. She dodged them out of the way and walked into the spaces where suitcases weren't laid. She heard whimpering noises coming from behind a suitcase.

She moved the suitcase out of the way and found a pink pony with a deflated, uncurled mane. She only knew it was Pinkie Pie because of the voice, eye, mane, and skin colour that was turning grey due to her sobbing.

''Pinkie Pie!'' she exclaimed. ''What are you doing in here all alone and crying?''

She sat right beside her and placed an assuring hoof on her shoulder.

She sniffed. ''I am just worried about Rainbow Dash! What if my family never finds a cure to her memory loss?''

''I know it's hard, Pinkie,'' she assured her. ''But don't worry, we had faced harder challenges before. I am sure we will be able to find a cure in no time.'' She gently rubbed the pink pony's back for comfort.

The train stopped and the conductor dismissed everypony off the train and welcomed the other ponies abroad.

The five ponies, three fillies, and dragon all trotted towards Pinkie Pie's family's home. They gently knocked on their door. They could hear footsteps descending the stairs. A pony opened the door for them and led them inside so they could explain why they were here.

Everypony sat down on the couch but it was not very comforting. The pillows were made out of rocks, the backside was hard as a rock and the cushions they were sitting on were even made up of rock. The Pie family sure does love rocks a lot. So everypony decided to sit on the floor, on top of cushions Twilight teleported up but Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Apple Bloom didn't mind sitting on the couch (or if you could even call it a couch).

Rarity started to explain the whole story and then Applebloom carried on with the rest, then Sweetie Belle ended up needing a cure to memory loss.

Pinkie Pie's mother looked concernedly at her husband to see if he had any knowledge of this cure but judging by his eyes and fidgeting, he didn't know either.

''So that's it then?'' Applejack declared. ''We are doomed.''

''No,'' Pinkie Pie uttered. ''I will not let that happen!''

''But we traveled all the way here and even your smart parents don't know a cure to it. I guess we have to live with the new Rainbow Dash and make memories with her again, starting from scratch,'' Twilight said as she swayed her head pensively.

''Maybe one of your books can help, Twilight,'' Rarity pointed out.

''No offense, Rarity,'' she responded. ''That is a good idea but I have read every book on the subject in my castle library and I don't remember anything about a cure to memory loss.''

''But it won't hurt if we read through them again,'' she argued.

''Okay, then.'' She stood back up from her cushion that was used as a seat. ''We are going back.''

Everypony stood up from their positions and trotted to walk outside the door, except Pinkie Pie. who was looking miserably at the ground. Applejack stopped in her tracks as she saw this.

''Pinkie Pie?'' she called. ''Are you okay?''

She sighed. ''No, I just can't keep thinking about Rainbow Dash. We have been through so much together and knowing that all of those memories are going to go to waste now hurts me.''

''We will find a cure to this, Pinkie Pie. We just need some faith and hope in ourselves. And besides, I don't think Rainbow Dash wants us to be sad.''

''It is easy for you to say, Applejack,'' she responded. ''You don't know what it is like to have somepony forgetting about you or gone.''

''Trust me, Pinkie Pie,'' she assured her. ''I know exactly what it is like.'' She trotted on over towards the door and open it to go outside. ''Now, come on. We don't want to miss the train.''

Pinkie Pie hopped off the crouch and followed Applejack out the door and head out to the train station.

Applejack started up a positive conversation to light up the mood.

''So do you prefer chocolate milkshake or banana milkshake?''

''Oh well...'' Pinkie Pie responded.