Holy fuck I remember everything. The chases, the explosion, my life, everything. You’d think recovering from amnesia like that would render memories made afterwards would go forgotten. But fortunately, not the case for me. I notice Luna laying away from and I rush to her.

“Luna, you alright?” She fidgets and I help her up.

“Thank you. I’m alright.” But then her eyes widen. “Did the spell work?”

“It sure did, thanks Luna.” I offer a genuine smile. She smiles back, a bit sheepishly.

“I... expect you to be angry with me.”

“I you did go against your word. But let me ask you this; was it this intention that you did this?” She nods feverishly.

“Of course! It would’ve been a great loss if you never recovered your memories.”

“Then it’s ok that you... copied my memories.”

“Thank you.” We hug each other. I was really grateful that Luna essentially made an exact copy of my memories should I ever lose them myself. When we let go I noticed the stars and galaxies begin to fade, and so does Luna.

“Thanks again Luna. I owe you one for that.”

“I’ll be sure to remember that.” Then, eternal blackness. I quickly realize that I’m awake, I’m laying on a bed so I bolt up to a sitting position. Taking in my surroundings I notice that I’m in a hospital bed again, this time dimly lit. How long was I out? The girls are all sitting or laying around the bed I’m sitting on, all asleep. And there’s an I.V. in my right arm. Ugh... I hate needles. I carefully take the needle out and set it next to the nightstand next to me. I ponder what to when a nasty idea formulates in my sick mind; I want to scare absolute fuck out of Rainbow. I’d be getting her back for scaring me when I had amnesia. I then begin to think of something I could use to scare her. Yes I know it’s going to scare the others. That’s why I’m going to spawn earmuffs to put on their ears. I saw Vinyl wearing a pair that looked exactly what you’d see back on earth. I think they’ll fit… Yes! They do! Now, what to scare Rainbow with…

Ooooohh… I know exactly what I need. I snap my fingers and a mask poofs into existence.

*Perfect…*

-Mmmhh…-

*Embris?*

=Wha… what?=

*Emby?*

~Ugh, that was an awful nap~

*Ruby! You’re all ok! Right?*

~For the most part, yes~

-Yeah, just a little sleepy.-

=Yeah, pretty much.=

*Well can you guys see?*

~-=Yes.=-~

*Good, ‘cause I’m about to take the best opportunity to scare the fuck out of Rainbow as a prank.*

~-=We’re awake.=-~ I smile inwardly and put the mask on. Then I quietly get off the bed, tip-talon over to Rainbow, as she’s sleeping on the floor. I get down and position myself so that I’m inches away from her face, and then get my eyes to glow red. After getting in proper position I tap Rainbow on the tip of her snout. It scrunches up and she snorts. I tap it again, a little more insistently.

“Mmmm...” She grumbled as her snout twitched. But it still didn’t get her to open her damn eyes. This time I poke her right on tip-top of her snout, making it scrunch up. That made her swat a hoof at my hand. “Mmm... MM.” She repositions her head. I move accordingly. But this I flick her snout. That got to blearily open her eyes.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!” And let me tell ya, when she focused on me, the face she had while she screamed at the top of her lungs; fucking priceless. It was a work of pure art. Luckily the girly scream didn’t wake the others. But that didn’t keep me from howling in laughter.

“Oh god Rainbow… The look on your face!” I managed to huff out between laughing fits.

“Ember!? What the BUCK!?” At this point I’m rolling on the ground holding my sides. Rainbow apparently got angry enough to start punching me. I couldn’t care less, she hardly does anything to me. After like, ten punches she gave up, and I was starting to calm down.

“Whew fuck Rainbow, that was almost too hilarious.” I get up and face the startled pegasus.

“Buck! You! And take off that mask! It’s creeping me out.”

“Fine, fine.” I do so.

“What the heck’s wrong with your eyes!?”

“What?”

“They’re glowing!”

“Oh yeah, I can do that.” My eyes lose their red glow. “I never showed you?”

“No!”

“Oh, well, now you know that I can do that.”

“Dude, that’s creepy.”

“Yeah yeah. Hey, how ‘bout you shut up and help me to the earmuffs off of ‘em.” I begin to gently take the earmuffs off. Rainbow grumbles something. “The fuck was that Rainbow?”

“What?”

“I know what the fuck you mumbled. You better say it before you piss me off.” I say nonchalant.

“Fine, I said that it’s good that you’re back.”

“Heh. Even after you said that you wanted to buck me in the head?” I turn to Rainbow and she’s looking at me like a deer in the headlights. Her looking at me like that made me chuckle a bit.

“How did-”

“My mind is like a steel trap Rainbow, now shut up while the others sleep. I need rest too. And judging by the look of it, you need some too.”

“Yeah, I think you’re right.”

“Woah, you think I’m right for once? Damn.”

“Shut up.”

“Up yours Rainbow, see ya in the morning.” I flop onto my bed and fall asleep as soon as pillow meets head. Enjoying the dreamless sleep until morning.

“Are you sure you want to check out this soon? You did suffer massive brain damaged and we would like to keep you for observation.” I’m trying to check out of the hospital. The girls left a few hours ago while I still slept, surprising that Rainbow neither Pinkie left anything written on any part of my body.

“Thank you for the concern, but that won’t be necessary. Even though… things happened yesterday.”

“Are you really sure?” The receptionist asks. She better not start the ‘are you sure?’ wagon.

“Yes.”

“Alrighty then! Just sign this and you’ll be officially discharged!” The receptionist hands me a paper from a draw she opened in her magic. Along with a quill and ink well. She set it on the short counter for my use. I kneel down, grab the quill, and read the paper. It just says that by signing the document it grants me the ability to leave the hospital on my own accord. I nod to myself and begin the sign at the bottom where it’s telling me to. But before I can do any of that the paper is whisked away in a light yellow magic aura. I follow where the paper went and it’s floating right next to a pony; Dr. Stable.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t let you do that. You need to stay for observation.” He says coldly.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t give a flying fuck.” I wretch the paper from his magical grasp with my own magic, and sign my name.

“Sir, you do not understand,” My writing hand is restrained in his magic. “there still might be something wrong with you.”

“I know my body better than you,” I reply calmly and forcefully remove my hand from his magic. “and I know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with me, besides that I smell a bit.” I managed to sign the first three letters of my name when the doctor tried to stop me again.

“Orderlies!” Two big unicorn stallions step up to each side of Dr. Stable. “Restrain him!” One of them shoots a bolt of magic, probably a stun spell, luckily I put up a shield and it absorbed the magic. I resume signing and hand it to the shocked receptionist before another orderly tried to ‘restrain’ me.

“Sir, I’m going to ask you think only once: listen to Dr. Stable and stay for observation.” I cuckle at his face and stand back up.

“Do you know what I just signed? I just sign an official release. Meaning I can leave and you can’t tell me otherwise.” I start to walk out the two front doors. “Oh, and I’ll be sure to let Princess Celestia know of this little event. Good day Dr. Stable!” I close the doors. behind me. Heading to Twi’s place I decided to teleport to her castle. “Twilight!” I called out from the main entrance. Twi walks in from a door.

“Ember? What are you doing here?”

“I just came by because I need you to send a letter to Celestia.” A scroll and a quill appears in her magic grip.

“What for?”

“You know Dr. Stable?” She nods. “Well he tried to keep me in the hospital for ‘observation’.”

“... What’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing really, except he called some orderlies to try and keep me in the hospital for observation.”

“Really?” I nod.

“Yeah, and I want you to send a letter to Celestia.”

“Ok. What do you want the letter to say?”

“Just letting her that Dr. Stable tried to force me to stay in Ponyville General for observation or whatever the fuck he had planned. And to keep an eye on him if she can. This raises a few suspicions.” She nods and scribbles onto the parchment.

“Aaand done!” She punctuates the completion with a firm poke at the scroll with the quill. Said scroll rolls up and Twi teleports it away when she put a seal on it. “There! Is that all?”

“Pretty much. Thanks Twi.”

“You’re welcome. Oh! I just remembered, I need your opinion on something.”

“Oh?” She waves me to get closer and I do so.

“You see… yesterday I received a letter from Princess Celestia say that she thinks it would be a good idea to have guards around the castle. I haven’t asked the girls because I know what they would say. So I think that you can give me your honest opinion about whether or not I should have guards here or not. So, what do you think?” Wow.

“Wow, um… ok. Lemme... uh… think about it. For a minute.”

“Ok.”

“... Well, it is pretty dead in here without another living begin around. And it would look better for you in an aesthetic way… But, I just have one question; would it feel like home to you?”

“N-no… it wouldn’t. But it would make the place feel more lively.”

“Then do it for that then.”

“You’re saying I should have guards in my castle?” I nod.

“Yeah, better it be filled with guards than nothing at all.”

“I suppose...”

“Plus I’m sure that the girls will think of something to make this place feel like home for you.”

“I guess… Wait, how are you so sure?”

“Eh… just got a feeling.” Eh… not really. I just happen to remember a particular episode in the show back home.

“Ok… Well, thank you.”

“Anytime. See ya.”

“Bye Ember!” We wave to each other and I walk out the main doors and head home to catch up with Spark and Chrysi.

“Golden. Good to see ya.” The bastard returned the day after the, ahem, incident. Yes I meant Bastard in a good way.

“Ey Ember! Long time no see!” He showed up just a few seconds ago outside my house. And he also decided to enter my home unannounced and almost startle me. ALMOST.

“Likewise. I can assume it’s been a few years?”

“Actually no. It been a few months.”

“Oh, huh. Cool. I thought more time would’ve past.”

“I know right? All this confusing crap about time.”

“Yeah… Anyway, what made ya come by?”

“I just wanted to come and say and catch up with you guys. And maybe give some spoilers.”

“Golden, you know how I feel about spoilers.”

“I know, I just thought it’d be better to tell ya what’s gonna happen, unless y’know, you already know.”

“I have an idea, like Twi having the girls deal with making her castle ‘more like home’.”

“Oh! You’re gonna love that one! This is perfect because after that Twi and Spike go to Canterlot, then there’s the yaks, then-”

“Wait, it goes in that order?” He nods. “Dude, it’s not like that here.”

“What?”

“Yeah, a while back I went to the Gala. Now Twi’s dealing with home problems.”

“Really? Fuck man… You what that means huh?”

“Yeah… events here happen in a different order than the Earth you life on. Fuck this is gonna suck.”

“Yeah, how am I gonna give spoilers!”

“To be honest Golden, I don’t really want to know what’s gonna happen, especially since it’d be a bitch to find out what order they come in compared to the show.”

“You sure man? I think it’d be worth it.”

“No, no. It’s fine I rather find out for myself.”

“Alright dude, whatever you say.”

“Ember? Who’s that?” Spark walks into the living room. “Who’s this? Is it another human?”

“Yes, in a way. Spark, meet Golden Streak. Golden Streak, meet Spark.” They both stare at each other for long time before Golden gets his voice back.

“Umm… uh… he… h-hi...” I think he thinks that it’s a girl from his world. I guess the breasts Spark has gave it away. I bet if he was human he’d be blushing.

“Hello Golden. Are you that human from another Earth Ember has talked about?”

“Uh… y-yeah. Aren’t you?”

“No, Ember actually created me.” Golden froze.

“... What?”

“You heard her right, I created this lovely person.” I get up from the chair I was on and stand next to Spark proudly.

“... No fucking way dude, prove it!”

“Spark, remove your chestplate.” She does so, revealing the bright blue crystal situated as her heart. Which rendered Golden speechless. Yes I did figure out how I can have

“Ah… I… heh… You gotta be shitting me! You’re fucking telling that you… made her!?”

“Sorry to interrupt you Golden, but you should try and be a little more quiet. Chrysanthemum is sleeping.”

“Chrysi’s sleeping?”

“Yes, it is about seven in the morning.”

“Oh...”

“Uuuh, am I missing something here? The fuck’s Chrysanthemum?”

“She’s a changeling I saved from a manticor.”

“What? Really?”

“Yeah, and she’s not evil or anything. She was running from her hive when I found her.”

“Really? So she’s not from, like, Queen Chrysalis’s hive?”

“If she was she’d be dead already.”

“Woahdude. That’s harsh.” I shrug.

“Eh, whatever.” I sit back down and so do the rest of us, Spark taking a seat next to Golden.

“So, you’re the human Ember told me turns into a robot when you arrive here?” Spark said after an almost painfully long silence.

“Yeah, that’s me.”

“Interesting. Your real name is Gabriel, right?”

“Who told you!?”

“Who do you think?” Golden looks to me.

“Why the fuck would you tell her?” He angrily asks.

“She though your new name was strange for our kind. So I told her your real name.”

“Oh… Ok.” He slumps back into the sofa. “Yeah, my real name’s Gabriel.”

“Ah. Ok. And you come from a different Earth than Ember?”

“Apparently. Back home there isn’t anybody I’ve seen that looks remotely like him or any other… uh...”

“Anthros.”

“Yeah, that. Closest thing we got are some gene-spliced animals like goats with spider milk and shit like that.”

“Oh duuuuude! Your people got a looooong way to go.”

“Really? Why?”

“‘Cause if your tech is advancing at the same pace as mine, and if they advance the same way. In time you’ll get to look like me.”

“No fucking way.”

“I think it might happen, what year are you on?”

“Two thousand sixteen.”

“Oh yeah, you’re close. Though you might be a little old if and when your people develop actual nanobots.”

“Ooooooh that’d be awesome if that really happens.”

“Tell me about it.”

“Excuse me.” We both look to Spark. “Is Golden Streak from a different planet than your own Ember?”

“Yes, actually, Golden’s from another dimension.” Spark froze for a minute.

“... What? You never told me this. How do you know this.”

“I never have? Huh, I thought I did. And we figured it out when he said there’s not one single human being on his planet that looks like me, or any other anthro. Plus he’s about a decade behind me when it comes to place in time.”

“I see…”

“Pretty weird huh?” Golden asks.

“Yes, it is. Well, that confirms the multiverse theory doesn’t it?”

“Yeah, well, more like the parallel universe theory.”

“You think there might be another ‘you’ where he comes from?”

“Why not say it’s true? At this point we should be mind-blown that an age-old question was answered.”

“Yeah, I wonder why that never happened?”

“Well it could be the magic that’s keeping us from reacting in some dumb way. Or it could be that it was a total let-down from what little hype was built upon that question.”

“At least for people who aren’t astronomers.”

“Heh, true.”

Author's Notes:

Next chapter will be a surprise! And sorry for not posting at my regular time, my internet was down this morning by some stupid driver.