Memories Long Forgotten

Sonic looked up as the rainbow passed by overhead then focused on what he was doing again.
He had already been to Pinkie's and gotten his saddlebags and reluctantly taken back the picture
and present from the mantle. He was on his way now out of town but before he left he had one
more thing to do. He knew Pinkie and her friends would need all the help they could get and was
hoping he could give them just the edge they needed.
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Her front hooves hit the ground and soon the rest of her passed through causing her to feel a
weird sensation through her body, startled Dash opened her eyes to see the ground below her
getting bigger by the minute,'he tricked me!' she thought angrily but couldn't dwell on it. Because
she'd missed her vector point she now had to fight to angle herself up, she battled with her body
forcing it to bend up and with an incredible amount of strength let out a bit of her wings, fighting
the whole time so they wouldn't rip open and be torn off. She fought off exhaustion and with all
her might finally was traveling parallel to the ground with only a few feet between her and it. She
took off towards pony ville trailed by a rainbow.
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"She's safe!"Rarity shouted in excitement and relief.
Applejack looked up, tears running down her cheeks, having been unable to watch.
"What do you think happened? I mean one minute she's fine then the next I see determination on
her face and a look that says she wasn't gonna make it"Applejack asked shakily, as she lowered
her binoculars again, having had to see for herself that Dash was safe.
"I don't know, it did seem that way to me also, I don't know why she suddenly decided to give up
but luckily it passed and she's on her way here now!"Rarity replied smiling.

Minutes later Dash flew in circling twice till she was slowed down enough to land, "How is she?
Did it work?" Dash asked as he headed towards where she could see Pinkie and Twilight
standing together.
"We'll get to that in a minute, what happened up there?"Applejack asked in a worried voice.
"Nothing important, Discord tried to trick me, don't worry about it, now how's Pinkie Pie?" *
Looking at each other worriedly Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack decided to let it go.
All four friends turned and looked at Pinkie and Twilight, Pinkie had a blank expression on her
face and her eyes seemed unfocused, while Twilight had her eyes shut and glowing horn pressed
on Pinkie's forehead. As hard as it had been Twilight had ignored everything around her and the
moment she saw the rainbow and sudden dazzling light on a cliff ledge she had cast her spell and
was now delving through her friends mind supervising the magic as it did it's work.

"Are you okay Twi?"Applejack asked in concern.
After the spell had finished Twi had collapsed from exhaustion but now she felt her body recovering.
"Yeah I'm fine" she said slowly getting to her feet.
"Did it work?" Dash asked.
"I don't know, let's find out" Twi said as they all turned to the pink pony standing there unmoving.
"Pinkie?" Rarity called uncertainly as they all leaned forward, suddenly they all jumped back in
surprise as Pinkie's mane exploded into curls.
They all started laughing in relieve as a puzzled pink mare slowly turned her head to look at them.
"What's going on? wow my head hurts! what's going on? how'd I get here?"Pinkie's excited voice
caused each of them to realize just how much they'd missed it.
"Oh Pinkie your okay!"Twilight exclaimed happily as all five ponies rushed forward to put her in the
middle of a group hug.
"Of course I am why wouldn't I be sillies."Although confused Pinkie was fine with going with the flow.
"hey what's this?" the pouch on Pinkie's necklace was glowing blue.
Her friends stepped back and watched in wonder that is until it didn't do anything else.
"What's the deal? why isn't it working?"Dash asked confused.
"She still needs to laugh"Twilight answered.
"Well that shouldn't be hard, how do we do that?"Dash inquired.
"Like this!"Applejack laughed as she formed some spittle on her lips and shoved her muzzle into
Dash's ear giving her a wet willie.
"Hey!"Dash yelled frantically rubbing her ear.
"That's for worrying me earlier"Applejack said smugly.
"You got her good!"Pinkie laughed and was startled as the pouch ripped open.
Like the first time the six had seen it, the pieces circled Pinkie faster and faster till they glowed
bright and melded together into a blue gem in her necklace.
They all cheered and gasped in shock as they were all thrown in different directions.
"So you got Pinkie back good for you!"shouted bursting in and sending the ponies tumbling.
"Did I go somewhere?"Pinkie asked confused.
Pausing at the question and giving Pinkie a funny look he then continued,"It won't do you any
good I'm not gonna let you stop me again"
"I don't think you have a choice in the matter! girls form up"Twilight called to her friends.
They all got into position and started to levitate, but suddenly Applejack went flying, before Discord
could send another of her friends flying, Twi put up a protective shield around them.

'This is bad' Twilight thought to herself worriedly, for the last hour every time the ponies got together
Discord would knock them out of formation, Twi was starting to get tired and didn't know how much
longer she could keep this up. Discord seemed fine, not even a little tired. They needed a
distraction, just one moment to get together but she didn't know what to do.
All of a sudden they all heard a whistling sound and then an explosion behind Discord.
"Can't distract me that easy"Discord sneered ignoring the sounds behind him and whatever all the
ponies were looking at in awe. Pinkie being shoved brought them back to the present.
As they fought more whistling and explosions were heard till suddenly Pinkie stopped and stared,
"Wow I'm in the sky! look at me I'm so big! I wonder if I bent down if I could eat Discord?"
"What?" no longer able to resist after Pinkie's response, Discord turned and stared.
Up in the sky a series of fireworks had gone off and a condensed amount of them had gone off
together so they made a picture of Pinkie's head.
"That's no-, oh crap" Discord muttered as he turned to the see the six floating ponies and Twilight
with glowing eyes at the center just about to fire,"Fine whatever have it your way" He pulled out a
pair of sunglasses and crossed his arms in front of him taking on a pose that seemed to say who
gives a shit and then he was hit and slowly became stone again.

As her friends cheered and congratulated each other Twilight looked and thought she saw a bit of
cyan at the top of one of the hills on the road out of pony ville,"Thank you Sonic, we couldn't of
done it without you" she whispered to herself,"It really was a great proposal idea, I promise you
will see Pinkie again someday, I swear I'll make it happen.
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Dear Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that friendship sometimes means sacrifice. In order to do whats
best and needed for our friends we must sometimes give up that which we want most
in this world. I'll never forget this lesson that I have learned from a brave and caring
cyan unicorn who came into our midst and taught what true caring and selflessness
truly was. Sonic Boom maybe be gone but we will never forget him and all he's done
for us and Equestria.

Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle
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Pinkie woke up feeling excited as usual, looking down at her soaked pillow she suddenly thought of
a cyan coat and felt a warm feeling inside. Shaking her head out how odd it was to think of Rainbow
Dash like that, she stretched and got out of bed to start the new day.

The End

I am not finished but decided to post this instead of keeping people waiting till I finished the last of
it, I will be adding on an epilogue when I finish it and a second author's note with some brief
explanations on why I chose somethings, a request to a fellow author willing to help out and two
deleted scenes from my story. I'll get those up as soon as possible and hope you enjoyed my story.
Please lmk what you thought of it and please all advice on how I could do better next time would
be appreciated, thanks for reading.

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