While he slept he dreamed of the pony in grey armor that he had seen. He was walking along a hallway with the other pony at his side. He looked over and saw that it was a filly and that she looked almost exactly like him. The only difference was the mark on her flank which was a storm cloud like his except it had a bolt of lightning with it.

She looked up at him and asked, “Why do you have to go big brother?”

“I have to help the others get rid of that dragon.” he replied.

“But you might get hurt!” she said with fear in her voice.

“Don’t worry little sis, I’ll be fine.” he replied with a smile.

Suddenly the dream started to distort. He struggled to keep a hold of it but it slipped away as he was awoken by a knocking on the bedroom door. He got up and walked to the door. On his way he looked in the mirror and saw that his mane had gotten messed up during his sleep. He quickly grabbed a brush and combed it into what looked usual for him, spiked a bit up front and straight as it went back. He got to the door and opened it to see Rainbow Dash waiting for him.

“What is it?” He asked.

“I came to see if you were awake.” hhe replied.

“Anything else?” he asked.

“Ya, do you want to go meet my other friends?” she asked.

“Sure.” he replied, though his mind still wandered back to his dream. She led him outside and took off into the air with him following close behind. She led him through Ponyville and he got quite a few strange looks from the ponies in town. They finally arrived at a place called the “Carousel Boutique” and Rainbow Dash led him inside. When he entered he looked around and saw all sorts of dresses and clothes displayed on mannequins. He spotted a white unicorn working on a dress and walked over to her with Rainbow Dash close behind.

“Hey Rarity.” Rainbow Dash said when they got close.

The unicorn jumped at first but turned around with a smile on her face.

“Oh, hello Rainbow Dash. Who’s your new friend?” she asked.

“Well he can’t remember his name so I don’t know what to call him.” Dash replied.

“Well it’s nice to meet you anyway.” Rarity said and held out her hoof. He shook her hoof then continued to look around at the dresses. As he browsed around, Rainbow Dash talked with Rarity.

“Are you sure we can trust him?” Rarity whispered so the stranger wouldn’t hear her.

“Does he look evil to you?” Rainbow Dash countered.

“Well no, but you can never be too safe.” Rarity replied. They continued on for a few minutes then Rainbow Dash took him back outside and led him toward Fluttershy’s house. When they arrived they found Fluttershy talking to her pet bunny and when she turned around to greet Rainbow Dash she froze at the sight of the newcomer.

“It’s ok Fluttershy, he’s friendly.” Rainbow Dash said when she saw the shy pony’s reaction.

She relaxed a little bit and gave a feeble “hello.”

“This is Fluttershy.” Dash said, introducing the stranger to her friend.

“Nice to meet you.” he said. She gave a feeble nod and he decided it was probably best to not scare her any further. He turned around and walked toward Twilight’s library to talk to her about his dream and see if she could understand anything about it.

“Where are you going?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“I’m going to see your friend Twilight and talk to her about something.” he replied.

“Ok, I’ll cya later then.” she said.

As he walked through Ponyville he looked around. There weren’t any ponies around, but he didn’t think about it very much, and just continued on his way to the library. He finally reached the library and opened the door. To his surprise, he was greeted by what looked like everypony in Ponyville. Even Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were there. Before he could think about it, the Pink Pony he had seen when he was reading the sign came out of nowhere and yelled, “Surprise!”

“What’s going on?” he asked in bewilderment.

“I threw a party for you! I’ve never seen you before so that means you’re new here, because I know everypony in Ponyville, so since you’re new I threw a welcome party for you!” she said very quickly without even pausing to take a breath. “I’m Pinkie Pie. You’ve already met my friends and from what they tell me, you can’t remember your name.” she continued.

“Yes that’s right.” he said.

“Maybe we could give you a name until you remember yours!” she said excitedly.

“No it’s fine. I’ll just wait until I can remember it.” he replied, thinking of what names this pony might come up with.

“Awwww.” she said with a pout on her face. He enjoyed meeting all the other ponies but he tried to avoid Pinkie Pie as much as possible for fear that she might try to name him anyway. He managed to talk to Twilight about his dream and she said that it might be that his memories are starting to come back to him. He hoped that this was the case and that his brain wasn’t just teasing him with the memories just out of his reach.

When he was finished talking with her, he went back downstairs and talked with some of the other ponies. While he talked he also ate some cake and had some punch with the other ponies. When the party was finally over, everypony started to leave until Pinkie Pie was the last one. He shook hoofs with her in goodbye but got a tiny electric shock from it. He looked and saw that she had a joy-buzzer on her hoof. She looked surprised when he didn’t pull his hoof away because the buzzer usually did that to everypony. She didn’t think it even fazed him until she saw the curious look on his face.

“That was the best party ever!” she said with her usual smile when she finally walked out the door.

He waited for her to get out of earshot then said, “Please tell me she doesn’t do that all the time.”

“She doesn’t. Just on special occasions.” Rainbow Dash replied with a giggle. He smiled then walked outside.

“Where you going now?” Dash said as she followed him out.

“Oh nowhere. Just going to fly around and maybe look at some of the scenery.” he replied.

“Ok then.” she said, then turned and walked back inside. He spread his wings and flew as high into the air as he could. He looked in amazement at how small the buildings and trees in Ponyville had become. He raised his head a bit and saw a few mountains in the distance. He gazed at them for a while before turning to look at the tower that Rainbow Dash had identified as Canterlot. He thought about flying over to it but then he saw something fly away from the tower. He followed it with his eyes and saw that it was heading toward the Everfree Forest. It flew over the forest and would occasionally pause at points as if looking around. It continued like this for about an hour then gave up and flew back to Canterlot.

When nothing else appeared from Canterlot he flew back down to find Rainbow Dash waiting for him.

“Want to race back to my house?” she asked.

“Sure, I could do with something to do.” he replied. They both zoomed off toward Dash’s house. He came very close to beating her but she put on a burst of speed to get ahead of him.

“Well that was fun.” she said when they reached her home.

“Sure was.” he agreed. They were both tired from the race but while Dash headed straight for bed, he simply walked to the window in his room and looked up at the tower of Canterlot. He continued to wonder about the strange thing he had seen fly over Everfree Forest. It had looked like it was looking for something. He thought about it for a few minutes before finally getting into bed and drifted asleep.

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