Memories Long Forgotten

"Sonic! there's a pony at the front who wants to see you"
Sonic's ears perked up and for a moment hope rose up but he quickly quelled
it. It had been so long and he was tired of being disappointed so he played it
save from now on. Back under control he made sure nothing could go wrong
with the equipment while he was gone then headed off to see who was looking
for him.
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She waited at the entrance to the construction site nervously, while waiting her
thoughts were drawn off to what had started her journey her, it had started the
day that Sweetie Belle and her friends had inherited the responsibility of the
elements of harmony. At the celebration party Twilight had come and asked her
to meet her at the library, although not wanting to leave the party, she had
been curious so had followed.
"Pinkie I've been waiting a long time for this, but I warn you it will hurt"Twilight
had said.
"What are you talking about?"
"Just know I'm here for you and I'm only doing it cause I think it's what you want
most" she'd said as her horn had glowed and touched her head, memories had
poured through her mind and images flooded her senses.
She had cried on Twilight's shoulder for over an hour when she suddenly stopped,
"Sonic's out there waiting for me, isn't he?"
Twilight had nodded.
"Do you know where he is?"
"No I don't know, sorry Pinkie, your gonna have to find him yourself"
"How?"
"Think of him."
Memories of their time together rose to the surface and she had felt a pull in her
towards the east.

Her friends had all come to wish their farewell, except Dash, but that was
understandable with how busy her new position on the wonderbolts was keeping
her, rumors were already popping up that she'd be made leader in no time
She'd smiled at all her friends seeing how kind life had been to them and
blessed them. Once again she had shook her head in wonder at the former
cutie crusaders, who would'a thought they'd come this far, she stilled loved how
well their cutie marks matched them and who would'a ever thought one of the
elements would ever be represented by a gryphon, especially one related to
Gilda!

Smiling at her thoughts Pinkie's thoughts turned to her journey here, following
the pull in her head she had passed from town to town, more often than not she
was often stopped by ponies wondering if she was the one that a blue unicorn
stallion had told them about. She learned that Sonic had stayed a few years at
each town, making a living and going out of his way to help others and make them
smile. When asked why he did it, he always replied that it reminded him of a pink
pony he was waiting for. Finding she was the one she found no shortage of help
on her journey as ponies encouraged her and gave their hopes that she would
find him soon.

Finally she was here waiting for him. Her eyes caught sight of the color cyan and
she turned her head to watch as Sonic came around the corner and froze at the
sight of her. Joy spread across his features and with a shout he galloped over to
her, throwing up his front legs he pulled her into his embrace,"I knew you'd come
someday I knew it!"
"I could never stay away forever."she said softly just enjoying the feel of his body
against hers.
They stayed together for awhile then he slowly let her go, "there's something I've
been waiting to do all these years and can't wait another moment" Sonic said
excitedly.
"What?"Pinkie asked.
Sonic closed his eyes in concentration and his horn glowed, till Pinkie let out a
surprised gasp as a portion of the air above him resolved into a rectangular
image of fireworks, she recognized them as the ones that had helped defeat
Discord,"Pinkie Pie, will you be mine forever?"Sonic was kneeling in front of
her holding a bracelet with a small circular blue gem mounted on it.
"Are you asking what I think you are?"she asked eyes widening in wonder.
"Yes, I want to be with you always, I want to start a family with you and grow old
with you."he said solemnly.
"Yes! I will but I have something to ask you,"she answered excitedly and kneeled
herself,"I come far to find you and bring you back, will you come back to pony
ville with me? there's no other place in all Equestria I want to be, except with you
of course"
"Of course I will! besides there's a certain lavender unicorn I owe a thank you to
there."
"We both owe her"
They stared into each others love filled eyes and ignored all else and they both
knew that from now on they'd always have each other and nothing would ever take
that away again.

The End

Here is the end of my first epilogue, this is how imo all mlp stories should end, the
other epilogue is an alternate one and is what I believe is the only way imo for
a tragedy to end. Feel free to keep on reading but don't feel you have to, this
ending does tie up everything I set out to do nicely, the second one is in no way
necessary but if you do read it please lmk which one you liked best.
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Pinkie sat staring down and thinking of how she got here.

The cutie mark crusaders had grown so much over the years, their cutie marks now
fit them perfectly Pinkie thought to herself as she looked over at them enjoying the
party. It was a party celebrating the six new friends who were now led, by Sweetie Belle,
the new elements of harmony. Like others at the part Pinkie kept sneaking glances
at the most surprising of the new six, a gryphon, it had been a surprise to everyone
except for Sweetie and her friends, that anything other than a pony could be an
element.
"Great job on the party Pinkie, Twilight congratulated her as she came to stand beside
her pink friend.
"I know right! everypony's so happy. I mean everpony and everygryphon, oh and
everydragon and everyallig-"
"I get it Pinkie! listen could we go over to my library? I have something I need to show
you"Twilight asked as she broke off Pinkie's ramblings.
"Sure Twilight,"Pinkie said sa she hopped after Twilight out the door.

"Pinkie I'm only doing this because I promised both of you and I truly believe it's what
you want most, Just know I'm here for you, for whatever you need"Twilight told Pinkie
in a gentle tone.
"What are you talking about, sometimes you just don't make sense sil-"Pinkie froze
as Twilight touched her horn to Pinkie's forehead and it glowed briefly. Memories
long forgotten returned to Pinkie's mind, she sat in a stupor as her mind sorted
through and organized all these new memories in her mind. Slowly comprehension
showed on her face and she collapsed onto Twilight's waiting shoulder as the grief
took her.

Awhile later she was sitting on her own and wiping the tears from her face as she once
again accepted the loss of her family, all of a sudden she had another thought,"He still
out there waiting for me isn't he?"she asked Twilight.
"Yes he is."
"Do you know where he went?"
"I'm sorry no I don't, you'll have to find him."
"How?"
"Concentrate on him, like he told you to activate his spell"
"That's right!"Pinkie closed her eyes and concentrated, but no matter how hard she
tried nothing happened,"It doesn't work Twi, what does that mean?Pinkie asked eyes
growing in panic.
"Calm down Pinkie, it's been a really long time, it probably just wore out not meant to
last this long."
"Ok, so now what should I do?"
"I'll guess you'll have to try to follow his path from years ago, I think I saw him go east,
you can start in that direction."
"thanks Twi for everything!"

She'd traveled from town to town asking about a cyan unicorn stallion, it wasn't too
hard to follow him she discovered. Everywhere he'd gone he'd stayed for awhile and
helped everypony he could while he was there, a few ponies she talked to had asked
him why he did it and heard that he did it cause it reminded him of a pink pony he
had been waiting for, these ponies always then asked if she was the one and got
really excited and happy to learn that she was going to him. Her journey finally led her
to a hospital in a town far from pony ville, a nurse let her know he had been brought
in for some internal bleeding or something like that, apparently a chest accident had
not been fully fixed and something had come loose inside him and caused further
damage. On inquiring where he was now she was directed to an address and plot
number.

So now she sat and stared down at a stone,'Here lies Sonic Boom a friend to all
ponies' was written on it. Tears streamed down her face,"I'm sorry, I never meant to
hurt you! I heard from the nurse it was your chest, this is all my fault, if I hadn-"she
couldn't finish she fell forward and shoved her head between her legs and lay there
sobbing, wracked with sorrow and guilt.

"Excuse me miss?"Pinkie slowly looked up and through her tears saw a brown earth
stallion looking down at her with concern on his face,"you wouldn't happen to be Pinkie
Pie? would you?"he asked gently.
"Yes I am, how'd you know?"she managed to get out.
"Well he gave me instructions to give this to you if you ever showed up"the stallion said
reaching back and pulling a letter out of his saddlebags."I don't know what's in it but it's
probably private so I'll just go now and leave this with you"he said giving it to her and
hurrying off. With trembling hooves she opened it,

Dear Pinkie,

First off if you've heard of what caused my passing let me assure you right now it was
not your fault, the town I came to before here I was in a construction accident. You
weren't there and couldn't of had anything to do with it so don't blame yourself. Now
with that out of the way I can get to the important stuff. I'm sorry I wasn't able to wait
for you, if there was ever any promise I never wanted to make it was that one but
unfortunately that decision was taken from me. I hope your life has been great and
I want you to continue to enjoy it, so please don't grief for me, I'll never be able to rest
in peace if i know I was causing you to cry, just remember all our good times and focus
on that and let Twilight know too that it's not her fault you didn't find me in time. I lived
a good life and met someone who even though my time with her was brief, fulfilled it
for me for the rest of my days. I love you Pinkie, I always will, please for me, live on
and enjoy the rest of your life, I'll be waiting for you on the other side to tell me all
about it. Goodbye Pinkie.

Sonic Boom

P.S. there's someone you need to meet please go to the address written below.

Pinkie sat clutching the letter to her chest, tears still streamed down her face, but
the guilt was gone replaced by a sad smile. She stayed there the rest of the afternoon.

It was late but she didn't want to wait, so she lifted her leg and knocked on the door.
"Coming! wait a minute!" a voice called from inside and soon the door opened and a
young yellow mare with a pink mane stuck her head out to see who was there.
"Oh my gosh! are you Sweetie Pie?!?"she exclaimed her eyes taking on a look of
wonder.
"Yes."Pinkie answered hesitantly.
"Oh wow! oh wow! I'm Flutter Bloom, I can't believe your here! Sonic told me all about
you!"Flutter was so excited she was shaking.
"So you've know Sonic Boom?"
"Know him! I've been with him for years!"she continued excitedly not noticing the look
of extreme sadness coming to Pinkie's face as her ears laid back.
"So he found someone else?"Pinkie said in a hoarse whisper.
"Someone else? Oh no! it's not like that,"Shutter exclaimed noticing Pinkie's distress,
"Sonic found me as a filly and took me in, he's like a father to me."she explained
hurriedly.
Some of her dread fading away Pinkie asked in wonder,"Father?"
"Yes, come in let me get you some tea and I'll tell you everything."Flutter said, ushering
Pinkie into her living room, loudly telling her story from the kitchen as she made the tea.
"Years ago something went wrong in the apartment building my family and I lived at and
there was a fire, I don't know how I got out, I think my dad threw me out a window onto a
bush. I just stood off to one side staring as the building my parents were still in was
engulfed in flames. Soon I noticed a cyan unicorn standing beside me, he just stood and
watched with me till he startled me by speaking,"Do you have anywhere to go? Any
family?". I shook my head no. We stared a little longer, then he turned around,"that's
enough of that c'mon your coming with me" and before I could react he levitated me up
and draped me on his back. After the town had faded in the distance he stopped under
a tree and got me down,looking into my eyes he asked me if I remembered what just
happened, I nodded, he asked if I wanted to talk about it, I was going to say no but I
suddenly felt it all catch up with me and telling him everything as I cried and sobbed, as
he held me on his shoulder and just comforted me with comforting noises and gentle
stroking of my mane. From then on I traveled with him, two days after I lost my parents
I asked him why he'd did it? Why he bothered to take and help me,"A long time ago
there was a filly like you that I left when I shouldn't have, I'm not gonna make the same
mistake twice". He raised me making sure I got everything I needed and learned all that
I'd need. Everywhere he went he'd go out of his way to help and put smiles on Pony's
faces and as I helped I discovered I loved to do that to and got my cutie mark."
She stopped talking as she brought in the tea and turned to show Pinkie her flank, A
gift basket holding a heart covered it.
"He was always talking about you. I'd heard so much that I'd been hoping to meet you
too. Then came the accident,"Flutter got quieter and Pinkie had to lean forward to
hear,"The doctors patched him up but apparently they missed something, a month
later he just got sicker and sicker, it was too late to save him, for the second time in
my life I lost a father, it took me awhile to recover but I knew the best way to honor
his memory was to continue on as he wanted me to. So these last few months I've
stayed here helping out getting work her and there, I especially like substituting at
the local school."
Both mares sat quietly, sipping their tea now and then.
"I remember one time Sonic slipped at a party I took him to and fell in the punch"
Pinkie said with some amusement in her voice.
Flutter looked up at her in surprise.
"Another time......." soon they were both sharing stories of there times with Sonic
and tales he'd told them, even if they'd already heard it they would listen intently
as the other mare told it, finding comfort in each others reminiscence.
"Flutter Bloom, come back with me to Pony Ville, my friends will love you and I
happen to know an aging mare who teaches a school who is considering finding
a replacement and settling down with a nice stallion."Pinkie pleaded with Flutter
Bloom.
"All right, I will, I pretty sure that I'll like living in the place that Sonic always told me
was the best town in Equestria.
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As the years went by ponies frequently made there way to pay their respects to
Sonic boom till one day a lavender unicorn finally found the time from her busy
schedule to come herself.
"I'm sorry Sonic, I failed you, I didn't send her to you in time." Twilight said sadly
as she bowed her head over the grave. Suddenly she gasped as there was a
sudden glow before her and she felt energy being pulled from her horn.
"Hi Twilight." Twi stared in shock as Sonic Boom appeared before her, but she
realized in a moment it wasn't really him, it gave off a sense of...emptiness.
"I was hoping you'd find this. I knew a letter wouldn't do, I needed to do something
more for you Twilight so I left you this message" Twi stared in amazement as she
realized that Sonic had managed to cast a dormant spell before he died that was
activated and being sustained by her horn,"I don't want you to blame yourself
Twilight, you've done nothing wrong, I may have already passed away, but that
doesn't mean your promise wasn't fulfilled when you sent her back to me. Know
that everything you've done for us was for the best and that I wouldn't of have
you done it any other way, so if you don't accept that in no way should you feel
guilty, I'll have to come back and haunt you, believe me that can get embarrassing
if you ever find a lover. So for me let it go you've done right by me, now keep an
eye on Pinkie and Flutter for me and make sure you all live out your life's to the
fullest, goodbye Twilight, thank you for everything." Twilight felt tears on her face
as the image faded away,"Your welcome Sonic and thank you for everything"
Twilight choked out and she turned and started her way back to Pony Ville feeling
as if a weight had been taken off her heart.

The End

Here ends the second epilogue please lmk what you thought of them, which do you
prefer? I'd really like the feed back.