Do I Know You?

It has been over a week ever since the incident that caused Rainbow Dash's memory loss happened. Everypony was in its depressed state. Twilight had never even once left the castle library for some fresh air. She was re-reading every book on the subject again, looking for a cure but unfortunately, she didn't find anything. Rarity hadn't left her bed within days nor ate, either. Applejack was broken inside but never showed it.

Pinkie Pie was sobbing a fountain of tears in her bedroom and didn't get enough sleep. She kept thinking about the memories she had made with Rainbow Dash. They were the best of friends and now all of the memories they had made together are now going to waste. There should be no reason for her to not.

'I didn't take you to a prankster, Pinkie Pie.'

'When Pinkie Pie creates a party, I am there!'

'Pssst! Pinkie Pie, are you asleep yet?'

'No, are you asleep yet?'

'If I was sleeping, how could I have asked you if you were asleep?'

'Oh, you caught me. Looks like I tricked you and didn't get away with it, either. You are good.'

Pinkie Pie was moving around in her bed, trying to go to sleep but memories kept filling up in her head and making her tear up. It had turned from seconds to minutes to hours and Pinkie Pie still hasn't fallen asleep yet. Her mane has not been poofed up yet and it's been deflated the whole day, ever since the incident.

The sun has already risen and the rooster has alarmed everypony in Ponyville to wake up. Pinkie Pie had dark circles under her eyes and looked paler than before. She was tired and yet she still couldn't sleep even if it was the morning now.

Her depression continued within days and then those days turned into weeks. Everypony tried everything they could to cheer her up again but nothing seemed to work. The only thing that will ever work is to have her best friend's memory back.

Everypony was also in their depressed state but Applejack never showed it. Nopony has heard from Fluttershy ever since they came back from visiting the Pie family. It seemed like she was isolating in her cottage just like Pinkie Pie.

Angel and her other animal friends had tried all they can to cheer Fluttershy up again just like how her friends tried to cheer Pinkie Pie up. But they failed on making them happy again.

Fluttershy was on top of her butterfly patterned bed, crouching into a ball and sobbing. A squirrel came up to her and approached her with acorns. This made the shy pony smile for the first time.

She sniffed. ''Thank you but I don't think a couple of little acorns is going to help me with my depression.''

Angel entered the bedroom with a giant bear. The white little bunny hopped on her bed and gave a tiny flower to make her happy. The bear picked up Fluttershy and gave her a tight hug.

''It is very nice of you all to cheer me up but I don't think anything will work, but if I get my best friend back.''

Fluttershy was also close friends with Rainbow Dash as they went to the same flight school together and Rainbow Dash had always had Fluttershy's back since the day they met. If anything happened to Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash would always be there and kick butts. That meant the same with Fluttershy to Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy started to sob into the bear's arms again until a familiar draconequus materialized in front of them.

''What is the matter, my dear Fluttershy?'' he asked kindly.

Fluttershy turned around to meet the draconequus' pleading eyes. She flew into his arms and hugged him around the neck. She buried her face in his fur and started sobbing even more.

''It is Rainbow Dash! She has lost her memory and now we can't have the same Dashie anymore!''

The draconequus widened his eyes. Although he could just click his talons to restore her memory back, he wanted this to be done by her friends and not require his help. Where is the fun in that? And besides, there might be grave consequences if he tried restoring her memories. Who knows what could happen, even if the Lord of Chaos had used his chaos magic for over a thousand years.

Fluttershy lifted her head as a thought struck her. ''Discord, can't you just use your magic to give back her memory? I mean, you did erase all of our memories before when you first made an introduction.''

''I am sorry, my dear Fluttershy, but not even my chaos magic can't do anything about this.''

She looked down at the floor pensively and started sobbing in the draconequus' arms again. Discord gently smoothed out her soft mane and comforted her. He really wanted to help them but it could be a tough risk.

Meanwhile, the cutie mark crusaders were sitting around in their clubhouse with frowns on their faces. They had to cancel their clients' requests for the day because they cannot help ponies find their purpose in life if they are unhappy themselves. Each of the ponies was sitting in different positions and areas.

Scootaloo was sitting in the corner and crying in her hooves. Sweetie Belle was fidgeting and rolling down on the floor. Apple Bloom had her head down on the podium.

Sweetie Belle groaned. ''We have to do something! We can't make everypony think we are just fillies and do nothing to save our friend!''

''I agree,'' said Apple Bloom. ''Although, how can we help?''

Scootaloo stood up from the floor nonchalantly. ''I would do anything to get my sister back!'' She gasped. ''I know! How about we go to Canterlot and talk with Princess Celestia about this? Or even go to every library in Canterlot as they have lots of books about anything you want to read.''

''Hold on a second,'' Apple Bloom paused. ''Who will be taking us there?''

''We will just go alone. I mean, we did go alone to the Crystal Empire and that is so far away.''

''Yeah, well, that was an emergency to get Angel back.''

''Oh, please, Apple Bloom. For Rainbow Dash?''

Apple Bloom sighed. ''Fine, but I don't think Rainbow Dash would want us doing this.''

Scootaloo hopped over to her and hugged her. ''So who got the tickets?''

''How about to Zecora's?'' Sweetie Belle suggested.

''No!'' the pegasus filly exclaimed, ''I don't want to get frustrated by her rhyming.''

''But she could be a good cause,'' said the unicorn filly.

''No,'' she uttered.

''Must...find...a...cure...'' Twilight said in a weak and tired voice.

''Twilight,'' said Spike. ''You have been at this for days. You should get some sleep.''

Twilight's ears perked up at the sound of a knock at the entrance door. Spike had volunteered to go open the door. He ran outside of the library and trotted towards the entrance to open up the door. It was an orange earth pony standing in front of him with a wagon full of food.

''Oh,'' said Applejack. ''Spike, I got some apple treats you asked me to bake for Twilight? Is she still not getting any sleep?''

Spike wiped the sweat away from his forehead. ''Thank you so much, Applejack! You don't know how hard it is to make Twilight go to bed. She hasn't slept in over a week and has been stuck in her library, searching for a cure.''

She sighed. ''That is why I brought Granny Smith's homemade world-famous apple butter. It makes you feel sleepy and energised in the morning when you wake up.''

''Gee,'' Spike uttered. ''Thanks, Applejack!''

Applejack handed over the product to the baby dragon. He waved goodbye as she trotted off with her empty wagon. He closed the door for any intruders and trotted off to the kitchen to place the food on the table. He then trotted off to the library again and called Twilight to the kitchen.

Although, it took so many tries for him to get her to come to the kitchen and actually eat the food Applejack cooked especially for her. It seemed like she lost her appetite.

She had truly lost her sparkle.

Meanwhile, the cutie mark crusaders were hanging posters with a picture of Rainbow Dash and a caption saying 'if you have a cure to memory loss, please find us at the cutie mark crusader clubhouse!' Scootaloo was driving her scooter with a red box that had Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle sitting on top. They drove all over Ponyville to drop off posters. They had just made the posters fly into everyone's faces.

''So where to now?'' asked Scootaloo.

Lyra and Bon Bon stopped their moving scooter cart. ''Excuse me?''

''Hey!'' Scootaloo called. ''What did you do that for?''

''Sorry,'' Bon Bon apologised. ''But what are you doing? What are these posters?''

''Haven't you read the caption?'' Apple Bloom said, raising her eyebrow.

''Of course we did,'' said Lyra. ''We just want to-''

She was suddenly caught off by Derpy flying over to approach them with one of their leaflets.

''What happened to the weather captain?''

A pegasus flew down right beside her.

''How did this memory loss happen?''

Everypony started crowding over around them. Sweetie Belle shouted that made everypony back away a little.

''We asked you all if you have a cure to memory loss, not let us explain what had happened!''

''Well, there are different types of memory losses. You just have to explain.''

Everypony gasped and made a gap for the pony to come forth.

''Come to my science lab and I will show you multiple books about multiple memory losses,'' he said confidently and walked away to go to his laboratory, having the cutie mark crusaders following him with curiosity in their raised eyebrows.

The cutie mark crusaders were in a world of amazement as they entered Doctor Hooves' science lab. There were flameless fireworks in a showcase glass box, the same ones that were used in Cranky and Matilda's wedding. There were lots of books on the shelves but they were covered in dust so you could guess they haven't been used in a very long time.

Doctor Hooves trotted towards the bookshelf and searched for a book of memory loss. As he found it, he picked it up and blew off the dust away to get a closer look at it and search for a page.

''I found it,'' he skimmed through the page and widened his eyes. ''Oh my.''

''What?'' asked Apple Bloom, trying to get a glance at the page. ''What is it?

''I am sorry but it looks like there cannot be a cure to a brain tumour.''

''Brain tumour?'' said Sweetie Belle. ''But she doesn't have that, she has memory loss.''

''I know,'' he responded, ''memory loss is brain tumour.''

''No,'' Apple Bloom uttered. ''This can't be.''

''I'm sorry, my little ponies, but I can't help, maybe go to our zebra friend.''

''Or,'' Sweetie Belle said, ''we can go to Princess Celestia.''

''Great thinking, Sweetie Belle!'' the pegasus filly exclaimed.