It was a usual summers day, the sun was shining, the birds where tweeting and the streets of ponyville were full of life. Everypony had somewhere to be, all except a certain rainbow maned pony, who was relaxing on a cloud, taking her usual nap. Unbeknown to her, her day was about to take a turn for the worst.
A purple pegasus pony, also known as Cloud Kicker, had been charged with clearing all the clouds by her temporary boss, Ditzy Do. Without taking a seconnd looking, Cloud Kicker struck the cloud in which Rainbow was dozing on.
Dash fell through a cloud below her, dazily waking her enough to see herself hurtling towards the ground below. Her eyes widened and she flared her wings, but she only managed to slow herself down by a small amount. Before she could even scream, her face contacted with a rock and she was rendered unconscious.
Above, Cloud kicker heard Dash's scream of terror. She looked down in time to see Dash's face smash into a rock and her body go limp. She gasped and quickly flew down to the comatose pony, as a small trickle of blood began to run into the ground. CK placed a hoof on Dash's neck and checked for a pulse. She sighed in relief when she felt one, though It was weak.
Cloud Kicker gently lifted the unconscious pony onto her back, spread her wings and took off to the hospital, as fast as her wings could carry her.
When she arrived, she burst through the hospital doors, causing the dozing receptionist to fall out of her seat and land on the floor.
"We got a pony down here!" the purple pegasus shouted, running over to the reception desk and looking down at the dazed nurse behind it. "Can you get off your lazy flank and get a doctor!?" she shouted again, making the pure white pony scramble to her hooves.
"What's happened?" the receptionist asked, climbing back into her chair and pulling out a peice of paper.
"She faceplanted into a rock, by accident, and she's kind of...unconcious," Cloud Kicker explained, pointing to the, limp, sky blue mare on her back, whoes head continued to drop small amounts of blood.
"How did she hit a rock so hard it knocked her unconcious 'by accident'?" The nurse enquired, raising her eyebrow at the pony before her.
"Okay i may have knocked her off a cloud when she was sleeping, but it was completely by accident I swear!" The gold maned pony confessed, a sheepish smile on her face. The nurse gave her a bemused look before ringing a small bell, calling a gurney, a group of nurses and a doctor to be called not the room. The nurse placed Rainbow Dash onto the gurney and pushed her back through the doors in which they had come from. The doctor stopped and looked over at Cloud Kicker.
"Hey aren't you due in for a flu jab in a few days?" The doctor asked with a smirk, writing something down onto a clipboard. Clock kicker eyes widened and she began backing out of the hospital doors, a forced smile on her face.
"Y-you must have me confused with s-some other pony, BYE!" CK turned tail and ran out the doors, leaving a small cloud of dust in her wake. The doctor burst out laughing. "Gets them everytime!"
Several hours later....
Rainbow Dash's eyes cracked open slightly, she winced at the harsh light of the room and closed them again. She opened her eyes fully and let them adjust. she looked around the room and saw nothing but white, with the occasional green, around her. It looked as though she was in a room, in a bed, in a building she didn't recognise. She though back to see if she could remember anything on how she had ended up in the boring room.
Nothing, she couldn't remember anything, not even her name. Her eyes widened and she tried to sit up, but stopped when she was hit by a splitting headache and an aching rib. She winced again, cupping her head into her hooves. She tried to remember something, anything! But her mind was blank. She could feel the whispers of some foriegn yet firmiliar voice, soothing and compassionate, but she couldn't put a face nor name to it. She could barely make out the voice itself.
"Ah look you're awake! how're you feeling?" a voice broke the silence, Dash looked up from her hooves and saw a white earth pony mare. She had a pink mane a hat with a small red cross on it, on her flank was also a red cross and she had a silver trolley in front of her, carrying really unappetising tray of food.
"Uh....good? I dunno...." Dash groaned, laying back onto the uncomfortable mattress,mincing as her head connected with the pillow. "Do you know how I ended up here? Or anything about me?" Dash asked with a hopeful look in her eyes.
"I believe you was sleeping on a cloud and somepony knocked you off of it, you suffered a bruised rib and a fracture to your skull, can you tell me your name?" the white mare asked, picking up a chart from the end of the bed.
"I-I dunno, I can't remember..." Dash closed her eyes and sighed 'If she has to ask for my name, she probably doesn't know it, so I guess there's no point asking...'
"*sigh* I was afraid of this, Miss Dash, I believe you may have suffered some minor brain damage due to the fracture. This may have resulted in your current state of Amnesia. Tell me, how much can you remember?" The pink maned pony asked, getting a pen out from the top of the clipboard and putting it n her teeth.
"A-A voice, it sounds caring, but I can't remember who it belongs to or where I've heard it before..." Dash looked up at the pony as she wrote something onto the clipboard.
"Is there anymore dear?" the white mare asked around the pen in her mouth. "Is there anything else you can remember? Age? Family? Friends?"
"No...." Dash whispered softly, looking away as a small tear of sadness fell from her eye.
"I see, well I could tell you your name if you'd like," Dash nodded, looking back at the pony in front of her. "It's Rainbow Dash, your twenty one years old and you've had many hospital visits before...." the mare chuckled a bit before going silent. "OH! I almost forgot! I brought you some food, I know it's pretty disgusting but it's the only thing that they allow you to eat, I figured you'd be hungry when you woke up." as if on cue, Rainbows stomach grumbled.
The white pony placed the tray of food onto the small cabinet next to Rainbows bed, she then turned to leave.
"WAIT! I never got your name..." Rainbow said, looking at the white pony expectantly. The pony smiled, looking back as she exited the door. "My names nurse Redheart." With that the door closed, leaving Dash to her thoughts.
As Rainbow trotted out the doors of the hospital, she felt a cool breeze flow through her mane. She smiled and began trotting off towards the small town of ponyville.
As she walked down the dirt road she began thinking to herself 'I wonder if that doctor was wrong, what if I never get my memory back!? What would happen then!? Who would I be!? Who was I!!? She was snapped out of her mad ramblings when she heard a voice come from behind her. 'that voice sounds familiar but why? Who is it?'
She turned her head to see a bright yellow pegasus, with a pink mane cheerfully trotting towards her with a large grin plastered on her face. The mare had a small white bunny on her back, which was giving her a death glare for some reason.
"Come now Angel we have to go to the market and buy food for the other animals, I promise If you help me there's a special treat in it for you!"
The bunnies ears perked up and it looked at its owner as she said the last sentence, a mischievous smile on its face. The yellow mare finally took notice of the confused looking pegasus in front of her and smiled. "Oh...hello Rainbow Dash, I didn't see you there."
'Who the heck is Rainbow Dash? Is that me?...nah she must have me mistaken for somepony else, my name would be way cooler than that!' Dash thought to herself, before quickly noticing the mare in front of her, staring at her. She said the first thing that came to her mind.
"Why are you talking to that thing on your back?" Rainbow asked, staring at the pegasus as if she was crazy. "You're acting as if it can understand you."
"W-What do you mean Dash? Of course Angel bunny can understand me, you know talking to animals is my special talent." The butter yellow mare responded, looking at Rainbow curiously.
"Your special talent? What the heck does that mean?" Now Dash was confused 'special talent? what the heck is that? Is this sort of strange land ruled by some crazy pony who tells ponies what to do with thier lives and if they dont listen they get sent to the dungeons! Or banashed!!....i'm thinking waaay too into this....where did all that come from anyway? Wait that strange crazy pony is talking'
"...you helped me get mine, don't you remember Rainbow?" The pink maned mare stood there smiling, seemingly lost in her thoughts.
"Uhhh....sure....what was your name again?" Dash asked, not entirely focused on the situation that she found herself in.
"Rainbow, my name is Fluttershy, you've known me most of your life! We went to school together, we were best friends, you made me feel better whenever somepony bullied me! You were the only pony that c-cared!" Fluttershy said, tears beggining to leak from her eyes, the very thought of Rainbow not knowing her scaring her.
"Fluttershy? That..that name sounds familiar...I just," Rainbow fell onto her rump, holding her bandaged head in her forehooves. Small flashes of memories appeared, bringing a whole range emtions with them; happiness, anger, sadness, regret, only for them to dissapear as quickly as they came leaving behind an empty void. "I just c-can't remember...why can't I remember!?" She all but shouted, a trail of tears making their way down her cheeks.
Fluttershy instantly noticed this and quickly wrapped Rainbow into a hug and gently rubbing her back as they both sobbed.
"Sshh...D-Dash it's going to be ok...e-everything's going to be okay...I hope..."
Hehe sorry it took so long to write this I've just been um... Discouraged
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Rainbow slowed to a stop panting, she had been running for the best part of four minutes and she was exhausted. She sat back on her haunches and reached for her bandage with her hoof and inspected it. It was soaked in her sweat and had stuck to her forehead. Dash groaned and started to carefully take it off. After she removed it she tossed it to the side and began inspecting her scar. It was still a little sore but otherwise it was fine. Rainbow stood back up and viewed her surroundings, she was at the edge of the town, there where barely any ponies around and it was quiet. 'uhh... What do I do now? I mean I'm here but why am I here?' Dash thought to herself as she began trotting down the street, towards what looked like a market place.
When she reached what was definetley a market, the atmosphere quickly changed. Ponies walked about everywhere, doing their daily business, buying or selling things from fruit and veg to other, useless, products. It also got a lot noisier. "damn it's loud I can barely here my self think!" Dash grumbled to herself looking around at the different stands. Suddenly the cent of cinnamon caught here nose and she began looking for its source. She quickly found it, it was coming from an apple stall with and orange mare selling, what else, apples. Dash licked her lips and walked over to the stand. She got a look at a batch of, freshly made, apple fritters. Her mouth began to water as she got close to them.
"howdy RD, what bring you here?" The orange mare asked, with a southern accent, giving Rainbow a friendly smile.
"uh.. do you think I could get one of those?" Dash asked pointing to one of the closest fritters.
"sure thing, that'll be three bits!" the mare said, placing one of the fritters into a bag and holding out her empty hood towards Rainbow Dash.
"I kinda don't have any money" Dash said with a nervous grin whilst rubbing the back of her neck.
"no problem! Ya can have this on the house" the mare said, in a happy tone, handing dash the bag. "say RD what's with that gash on ya head? did ya crash again or somethin' ?"
"huh? Oh this" Dash said pointing to her forehead " I don't really know how I got it, the doctor said I smacked my head off a rock, apparently some idiot broke a cloud from underneath me whilst I was sleeping"
"so ya don't rememeber how ya got it? what ya get ya senses knocked outta ya when ya hit that rock?"
"nah, I got amnesia" Dash said nonchalantly acing her hoof.
"amnesia? Dash are ya prancing me again? Where's Pinkie?"
"who's Pinkie?" Dash asked utterly confused.
The orange mare stopped talking and began staring at RainbowMe rubbing her chin with her hoof. After a minute the mare stopped and said " ya ain't lying are ya? Huh so ya seriously can't remember who Pinkie is?" Dash shook her head "well do ya know who I am?"
"I'm gonna guess its... Orange.... Hat? No wait that's a stupid name! Uh... fritter?" Dash replied looking at the bag in her hoof.
"no mah names Applejack"
"Applejack of course! No never heard that name before, you sure you aint fritter?" Dash asked pointing her hoof at Applejack
"no that's mah cousins name, mah name is Apple jack" Applejack said putting enthasis on her name.
"ok Applejack.... Uh bye." Dash Said turning around and walking away. Applejack stood there for minute confused at what just happened and wandering what she should do. she decided to go and see Twilight knowing she probably knew what to do.