A/N: I’m still sorry for making it so sad, and it’s only going to get sadder for a little while until I get to the good parts. This is a major arc, so I’m thinking it’ll be around 10-20 chapters, so it will be very drawn out. I know you want the resolution to come soon, but it can’t yet. Anyways, let’s get started.

Shadow Breeze was flying through the air and he was on the outskirts of Canterlot. He flew into the city and landed, folding his wings to his sides. He began to walk down the very quiet streets of Canterlot. He wasn’t sure on whether it was morning or not, but if it was the sun wasn’t rising. He was on a mission, to find Kyle and hopefully see the problem and get word to Twilight about it.

“Ok, so apparently the last place they seen her was at the Castle I assume, so we’ll try there first” he said to himself as he walked. He bumped into a pony wearing a cloak with the hood covering the head as he walked down the road “Pardon me, I didn’t see you there” Shadow Breeze said apologetically.

The mysterious pony didn’t say a word and just kept walking past Shadow, not acknowledging him or anything. He turned down another road and he was out of Shadow’s line of sight. “Ok, so that pony wasn’t in a good mood.”

Shadow Breeze kept walking and soon he found himself at the entrance to the castle grounds. It was looking in worse condition than it normally looked, the plants starting to grow free without proper care, upon other things. Shadow Breeze walked through the entrance gate and began to walk up the marble white stairs that led to the huge gilded door. When he reached it the door opened before he could touch it, revealing princess Ezra standing before him. Shadow was very intimidated by her, he gulped and began to speak “princess Ezra, my friends and I are worried about a friend of ours. He had spoken to you recently and we were wondering if you have seen him recently. It would be much appreciated for any information you have to give” Shadow said to the dark grey alicorn.

Ezra smiled and let out a small chuckle “my little pony, you need not be afraid of me. I have seen but only two ponies recently a Kyle and Rainbow Dash, they have both left and headed home, at least that’s what they did after they left my company. Here, let’s discuss this further inside” Ezra said to him with a soft smile.

He accepted a little reluctantly, but he walked inside and Ezra used her magic to shut the door behind her. They walked to the throne room and Ezra took her seat on the throne and Shadow Breeze stood in front of her. There was another cloaked pony standing next to the throne, which should be where Celestia is sitting right now, and the hood was also covering their face as well. He was beginning to get weird feelings about all of this, Celestia and Luna were nowhere to be seen and Ezra was sitting on her throne, something very bad to do if you’re not ruler he assumed. The cloaked pony stood as still as a statue and never once moved.

“I see you are interested of my assistant, He doesn’t talk much, but he is still nothing to be afraid of” Ezra said as she looked at Shadow Breeze who was looking at the pony.

“Why is he wearing a cloak?” Shadow Breeze asked, a little curious.

“Just as Celestia and their guards have their uniforms, so do I. Please remove your hood” Ezra said to the cloaked pony.

I obeyed Ezra and lowered down my hood. I was looking forward at the pegasus in front of me and I didn’t recognize him either, but he looked at me as though I reminded him of somepony. I turned my head to Ezra “princess, what’s going on?”

“This pony is looking for a friend that came and talked to me not too long ago, his friends are worried about him and they want to know all of the information that they can on where he is” Ezra said to me with a smile.

Shadow Breeze couldn’t stop looking at the pony in front of him with the cloak. He looked strikingly similar to Kyle, but he was dark grey, his mane was red with little light blue streaks running through it, and his eyes were a cloudy blue instead of bright cyan. As he kept looking he was getting more and more aware of what happened. He needed to get out of here without making it look like he was going to get in trouble. Kyle was under Ezra’s control. “Your majesty, I need to get back to my family now, thank you for the information you gave me, and if you find anything else out, please get ahold of me and tell me if you can.”

“Why certainly, you be safe on your trip home now” Ezra said before Shadow Breeze left the throne room and left the castle.
I turned to Ezra again “What do we do now?” I said to her with interest.

“I need you to go to Ponyville, I want you to see what’s going on there, then I want you to return here with anything you could find out” she said to me with a smile.

“Ok, I’ll be back soon. What if there are encounters?” I said to her with curiosity. I will do anything she says for me to do.

“I know you would, I’m going to give you a little something for you to take with you. If you happen to encounter anypony on your visit, I want you to blow some of this powder into their face. It is a little something I had made for anypony that didn’t want to follow orders. It will send the pony into a state of suspension from reality. They will pass out and will only be woken up by the serum, which I have. Use it wisely, and only if things get out of hoof” Ezra said before she levitated a small pouch over to me.

I took it and nodded and I left the castle. I put my hood back up and took off into the air. I flew all the way to the outskirts of Ponyville with Ezra’s thoughts silently guiding me as I went. I share a mind with her and I find it to be enjoyable in some sense of the word. Two minds working as one.

I landed and I walked into the town and began to search for anypony that would be a likely one to plot against Ezra. I was walking through the center of town and I saw that same pony from the castle walk into a tree house. I smiled a little and I walked up to it and looked through one of the low windows.

Inside I saw three ponies and a foal. One was a purple unicorn and she had her horn charged up with magic. She then waked over to a cyan pegasus and touched her forehead with it and there was a flash and after it was gone I resumed looking. The purple unicorn looked my direction and saw me standing there and I then quickly ducked and began to walk away.

“Who are you and why were you looking in on us?” a voice called from behind.

I turned around and I was face to face with the cyan pegasus from inside the house. She was looking a little irritated and she was looking me over. “I’m sorry, I was just looking around. I didn’t mean to cause any problems.” Good job little one, keep it up.

“That still doesn’t answer my other question. Who are you?” the pony asked me.

I was getting a little worried now. Ezra, what do I call myself? Call yourself Windbreaker. “My name is Windbreaker. I’m just down here visiting.”

The pegasus looked me over again, she was getting suspicious. Don’t do anything, we may need her later. I listened to Ezra and just stood there looking at her. The pegasus got closer to me and she walked around me a few times and then she surprised me by pulling the hood off my head, revealing my identity.

The pegasus gasped as she looked at me “I-I-but, You’re a liar. You tell me who you are right now before I buck the living brains right out of you! The pegasus was furious now, looking at me with pure anger.

Rainbow Dash was face to face with a pony that she had never seen before. As she looked at him though more and more similarities of him and Kyle were starting to show. The mane was the exact same, only a different color, and his eyes were clouded, just like Kyle’s after the spell he had done to him. The only thing different was the fact that his mane and coat were different colors, red and dark grey instead of light.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m Windbreaker and I am just visiting from Canterlot” I said to her.

Rainbow Dash had just finished putting all of the pieces together in the puzzle. She looked at the pony in front of her and she sighed “What has Ezra done to you Kyle? Can you tell me that?”

“I don’t know who you’re talking about. I’m not Kyle, and all I do is provide service for princess Ezra. I don’t know who you are, or anypony anywhere for that matter, the only pony I know is Ezra. What are you all in there trying to do to her? I know that there are plots to do something in this town and I want to know about them!” I said to the pegasus with anger rising in my voice.

“Kyle, it’s me Rainbow Dash. You have been with me since you practically got here. Don’t you remember anything?” Rainbow Dash said to me with sadness rising in her voice.

“For the last time, I don’t know this Kyla nor am I him! All I want to know is what you plan on doing to Ezra!” I said to Rainbow Dash with fury. Ezra, it’s getting pretty bad, what do you want me to do? I want you to come back here; we will attempt a different method in the near future. Ok, I’ll be back soon. I was fed up with everything here, I don’t know anything any of them are talking about, they think I’m somepony else. I took off into the air and flew off back in the direction of Canterlot.

Rainbow Dash watched him go, she was getting really upset now. She needed to get him back….again. She trotted back into the Twilight’s house “Twilight, take care of Stratus for a little while for me. I’ve got to go do something.”

“RD wait, who was that pony?” Twilight asked a little shocked as to why RD was acting so strange now.

“It was Kyle, Ezra turned him against everything. He has no memory at all. He….he doesn’t remember who I am; all he knows is that he has to do for Ezra. I’m going to drag him back here! And then we’re going to kick Ezra’s flank!” Rainbow Dash said before she flew out of Twilight’s house and into the air to give chase to Kyle.

I was flying high in the air, far above the ground so nopony could see me. I was getting close to Canterlot now; I could see it clearly in the distance. I was almost sure I was alone, but I soon felt something tug my cloak clean off me. I turned around in the air and saw Rainbow Dash floating a little ways away from me.

“Kyle, you lost your memory to Ezra, she has control over you. You may not believe me now, but you came here ten months ago and you met me and we got so close to each other, and we had a beautiful foal together, and then you married me. You became my whole life; I don’t want you to forget everything we’ve done together. Please come with me so we can get help for you” Rainbow Dash said to me with sadness clearly visible in every syllable.

Come back to me my child. We need to prepare for the next part of the plan. She will become part of it as well, bring her with you. “Rainbow Dash, I know that you lost somepony you love, and I don’t know who that is, but I’m not that pony, and I am not going to go on a hopeless journey that will just be a waste of precious time. I’m sorry if you think of me as Kyle, but I’m not him, I’m not even Windbreaker, I honestly don’t know who I am. All I know is that Ezra was there with me and I need to repay my debt to her for keeping me safe” I said to her stone-faced.

“Kyle, you need to get help! I want you to come with me back to Ponyville, you need to remember everything! I won’t let you leave here otherwise” Rainbow Dash said with tears starting to form in the corners of her eyes.

“I can’t do that. I am needed back at Canterlot” I said to her before I shot off to the city. I was flying faster than I ever did before, but she was right on my tail. I landed in the entrance to Canterlot gardens and ran to the big gilded doors. Rainbow Dash was still right behind me and she got up to me before the doors would open and she tackled me onto the ground and pinned me there. I wanted to throw her off, but something inside of me didn’t want to do that to a mare.

“Kyle, you are not going to stay like this! If I have to knock you out cold to save your flank than I sure as hay will do it if it means you act right again! Now what is it going to be?” Rainbow Dash said to me, tears sliding down her face in anger and sadness.

“I think it’s going to be none of the above stated ideas, how about we try this instead?” Ezra said as she opened the door. She used her magic and she lifted Rainbow Dash up off me and held her in the air. “Come along little one, it’s time we got to work with the next part of the plan” she said before she walked inside the castle again with me following.

We walked up the long entrance way and the doors shut behind us. Ezra was still holding Rainbow Dash in her magic and she was struggling despite the futile gesture. Ezra smiled and brought Rainbow Dash close to her face “Welcome to the family.”

A/N: I know this one is surely got you all mad. Please bear with me though; I will get it into a better mood soon, a few more chapters of sadness that will lead it in to the beginning of the conflict. I want you to all take a deep breath and wait patiently for the next chapter ok? If you need some music to make you feel a little better I recommend Interrobang Pie Invades Equestria by Icky. Until the next update everyone!

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