Babs wouldn't stop pacing in front of Magenta's old friends. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were calmly ignoring it and decided to look past her to the wall that held pictures, inspirational quotes, and history facts. But the nervous atmosphere was still there. Applejack could feel it, Twilight felt it rush across her fur when she stepped in, and Rainbow Dash definitely. Magenta's parents weren't in yet, but they would definitely be here soon.

The silence and tension reached its peak when Bright Snow slowly walked out of the hallway she disappeared into with a forced smile on her face. Sweetie gasped and bounced out of her seat. Then immediately started slinging those hoof signs around. Well Apple Bloom was more vocal. She rushed up to Bright and asked in a rushed desperate fashion, "What happened? Is she okay? How's she doing?"

Bright pressed a firm hoof against Bloom's running mouth and deadpanned, "Sis is fine. She just woke up. The reason why... She had a brain overload."

Babs walked over with Rainbow Dash and repeated, "Brain Overload?"

"It's a lot of Brain Activity. Too much was happening in her mind at once, so her conscience shut down to prevent any damage. Basically, she passed out from a major headache. But she's fine now, everything's cool, Babby." Babs scowled at the pet name Bright just used. Only Magenta gets to use that. But that smirk on Bright's face let her know that wasn't even the least of her worries.

Bright's smirk dropped before she rubbed the back of her neck and added, "So uhhh... Here's the deal. Magenta's brain overloaded because..." She waved a hoof in a small circle to the ground to try and get her point across. But it didn't reach their minds.

Sweetie Belle made a sign for her to clarify quickly. So Bright sighed and took the plunge in a hushed tone. "Everything rushed back to her. She remembers everything."

Apple Bloom bit her lip while Sweetie Belle's heart raced. Bright could only imagine what was going on in their heads right now. And she was sure it wasn't good. Rainbow was the first to ask the question with flopped down ears. "So... How is she taking it?"

Bright sighed and answered sadly, "She... Doesn't want you guys here. She... Doesn't want to see you anymore." Twilight and Applejack visibly twitched as if it hurt them from afar and shifted their eyes to Rainbow Dash. Sweetie Belle whimpered—possibly, it was more like a weird silent squeal—and Apple Bloom... She just pushed her sad gaze to the floor. Rainbow Dash's expression was just... Unreadable. It was like she was trying to make a decision in the back of her mind.

"Can I at least say something to her before I go?" She asked.

Bright wasn't so sure that would have a pleasant result. When Magenta recalled her memories, she looked more mad than when somepony actually lays a hoof on Bright herself. Downright murderous. Bright shook her head and pleaded, "I guarantee you won't like what she has to say. All of you already said what you had to say years ago. That was the last time she saw all of you before she flushed away into my life. Guys... Magenta doesn't look back to the past too often. We had good recollections of us together in the orphanage but life still got to us. Magenta doesn't really... Do well with the bad of the past, if you catch my drift."

Once again their faces were stoic and begging for clarification. Bright huffed and admitted, "You'll be lucky if you walk out of there with shattered hearts. So I'm going to suggest that you guys just... Walk away. Magenta isn't the type of pony to be tested with. Maybe send a letter. But if she sees your faces... There's no telling what she'll throw at it."

While the three of them pondered their decision, Babs asked, "Am I still allowed to be there?"

"Oh definitely, Magenta freakin' loves you," Bright immediately answered. And she wasn't joking. Bright could just say Babby around Magenta and her expression would immediately switch from focused to goofy girlfriend. Babs was definitely still around. And that brightened Babs' day.

But the three mares of the hour seemed to have come to a decision. They nodded in an unspoken agreement. Then Sweetie Belle signed, "We want to speak to her one last time."

Bright shrugged and replied, "Suit yourself. Follow me. Babs I'm gonna need you for this one." Then turned around and pranced down the hall with them hot on her tail. Babs could easily tell that Bright was the one calling the shots around here right now. Were the Manehattan Elite so powerful that all attention was focused on one pony when a member was hospitalized? It made a bit of sense, but not too much to their small minds. They would never understand.

Their hooves clopped anxiously along the white floors with Bright leading the charge ahead of Babs, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Rainbow Dash taking up the rear. They were all nervous. They could admit, they were nervous. The pony they've been looking for for years was discovered as an Equestria-wide millionaire with lost memories of her traumatic past. Since then they've been hoping for a fresh new start. Before now she definitely knew that they knew something about her past that involved Equestria's government to search. She knew that they knew every detail.

But what she didn't know was that they were the root cause for the loss of her wings, floating down a river in her own blood to the port of Manehattan where she went through years of untold struggles they didn't know about. But she revealed a glimpse of it to the nation during her Ponyville concert. They had yet to understand exactly how those events played out up to this moment.

Bright slowed down to a single closed wooden door on their left directly across from a wide spaced Nurse's Station and said over her shoulder, "Wait here." Then trotted over to them instead for a moment.

While they did, Apple Bloom looked to the sign on center-top of this wooden door that read Magenta Streak. These nurses acted quickly. Really quickly. Sweetie Belle had only been in this hospital a few times for a doctor's visit and she always had to make an appointment

Babs turned to face her cousin and stated, "Just be sincere, okay? I talk to Magenta a lot more than you guys think I do and she practically feeds off of emotions. If you get angry, she'll bite your heads off."

So don't get mad to keep her from getting even more mad than she already was. Rainbow deadpanned, "Gee, thanks."

Bright trotted back over with a stoic expression and said, "This area's been cleared for a few minutes. There's not many patients during this season for some reason." Cleared? They swiveled their heads to the Nurse's Station which was now abandoned. Did they just take a sudden break or something? The area was just swarming with ponies. Definitely Manehattan Elite's doing. Bright cleared her throat to get their attention back and stated, "So I'll get Babs to calm her down for a bit. Then she might let you in. Not sure. Just be ready. And stay out from in front of the door."

Then without delay, Bright grabbed the handle and pushed the said door open.

When Bright left the room a few minutes ago, Magenta immediately pulled out her phone and started watching her pages from the comfort of her bed. At all the notifications pouring in from fans and industry pros she has contacted in the past. The doctor apparently wanted her to stay in observation until they deemed her stable enough to go. They wanted her to be calm and relaxed. Kind of hard to be either of those when the flashbacks were at the front of her mind like next week's video. Where would this go? What was the point of it? Things like that.

Magenta sighed when her notifications started ruining her poor hoof. So she put her phone on silent for awhile. She'll know when mom starts calling. She flopped down on her bed and faced the ceiling with anger in her eyes. Anger at Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Fluttershy, Rarity, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, everypony here in this town that laughed at her misery. There was no way in tartarus she was doing a show here ever again. Maybe the artists she would sign to her forming label could if their fanbase was here. But she wouldn't be.

Magenta's brooding was interrupted from the door opening. "Uh ohhh, you're brooding. Coming up with psychedelic plots again. What did I tell you about that?"

Bright. Magenta rolled over to face her and... Babs! Magenta sat straight up with that goofy grin on her face that Babs mirrored. "Hey, Babby," she whispered.

"Heyyy, Maggy," she cooed. Babs and Bright trotted into the room and over to the bed on clearly worried hooves. They were fast to the point of running. Babs was the first pony Magenta talked to though when they were close enough though. She and Babs bumped muzzles and shared a quick smooch. "I was seriously worried when you passed out. In the street of all places. It didn't look too good."

"It didn't look good at all," Magenta corrected. She used her hooves to pull Babs onto the bed next to her. Then nuzzled into the crook of her neck. Quite a bold move that Babs melted into. "But I still passed out though. My socials are blowing up right now though."

"Yeah, I bet." She pecked Magenta's cheek and hugged her head to her chest tight. "I'm so happy you're okay," she whispered in here ear.

"...thanks. I uh... I remember." They pulled back slightly and stared into each others eyes. "I remember everything. You weren't there. But... It was painful, Babs."

"Speaking of which..." Their sight turned to Bright Snow at the foot of the bed. She held a respectful distance even though it wasn't necessary. She rubbed her neck nervously and seethed through her teeth. "So I told them about you telling them to get the buck out, but... They want to talk—"

"The answer's no," Magenta spat out. She let Babs go and faced Bright with her entire body. Her face contorted into a clear rage. "There's no way in bucking Tartarus that I'm just going to let them try to 'sort things out!' Why would they even need to talk to me, what could possibly have to say?"

"Magenta, they just want to apologize—"

"They can send a bucking letter. It'll go where the rest of those letters go that come in after we break the news: Into my fireplace."

Babs calmed her down by nuzzling her cheek. "Please, Magenta," she whispered. "Just hear them out. They've been through a lot. The entire town has been through a lot after you disappeared. Just... Give them this one shot. Please?"

Magenta huffed a metaphorical smoke through her nose. There was no way... There was no way she was just going to let them... Buck it. Magenta grunted and growled, "Fine. They can say what they want to say. But I also get to say what I want to say with no filter."

Bright looked up to Babs with tightened lips before she left for the door. Her message was clear: That was the best they were getting. So Babs nodded and coalesced, "Deal. Remember to stay calm, you're in the hospital okay?"

"I know that," Magenta grumbled. It was so cute how Angry Magenta looked. She had puffed out cheeks with her body curled up underneath the covers. Her eyes were trained on the closed window. She was obviously refusing to acknowledge the clopping of the hooves entering into the room.

Then the door shut and bathed it in a thick vat of eternal silence. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Rainbow Dash remained in front of the door while Bright chose to abandon it. "I cleared the Nurse's station for you, by the way. Yell all you want, I'm used to it."

Magenta shook her head and muttered, "I doubt that, Bright." Then turned around and glared at the two... Three ponies in the room. "And what's she doing here?" She upward nodded her head to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow gulped and greeted, "H-Hey, Scoots. Ol' buddy, ol' pal—"

"Yeeeah, we are not friends. You can keep that here in your little inner circle I don't want to be a part of. Say what you have to say and get out."

Apple Bloom's eye twitched once more before she took the bold step forward. "Scootaloo... We're sorry. We didn't mean to cause you pain and suffering, okay? It was all just a terrible accident."

Terrible accident? Terrible accident?! Magenta took a calm breath to calm her racing heart. "Apple Bloom... That doesn't even scratch the surface of what you guys did to me." She pointed a hoof up to the ceiling and slowly angled it down to the floor. "I crashed into a wheelbarrow, rolled into town and was thrown around like a rag doll while all of you watched... Then laughed at me. The entire bucking town laughed at me. I was trying to help, and you guys did the worst thing imaginable to me for helping. It... It hurt. A lot. Physically and emotionally."

Rainbow Dash sniffed and said, "Scootaloo, we've been beating ourselves up over it ever since. I mean... The Crusaders ran away all the way to Manehattan just to look for you. Sweetie and I... We almost committed suicide. We felt really really bad, Scootaloo. Words can't explain it. But we're sorry."

"Sorry? Look at me." Magenta threw the covers off her body and jumped off the bed to stand directly in front of them. Showing every last single scar she had to give. Almost all of them. "LOOK AT ME!!!" She yelled. They jumped and stared at her body. "I fell in a rushing wave of water that carried me downstream. I was hit, I was hurt, then I was chopped up by blades! They bucking hurt, Rainbow Dash! And you weren't fast enough to save me! Your super speed couldn't even save the pony you let down the most because you were too busy laughing at me. Sorry, isn't going to change a bucking thing!

"I was carried through a dark drain pipe before I hit a service line. And during that time... I felt nothing but pain. Pain, agony, and frustration. And I kept asking myself... Why? Why would they do this to me? Why would they fling me into the air as a joke? Why did the whole city laugh at me? That hurt. It hurt so bad

"I bled out in that drainage pipe. Oh and guess what? My wings were ripped clean out of my body before it happened. And I felt every single nerve light up in flames. Every single thing hurt. It hurt so much I just stopped moving in that drain and let the pain overtake me."

Apple Bloom couldn't hear anymore. She shook her head to rid of the tears and yeklec, "Scootaloo, we're sorry—!"

"I'm not finished!" Magenta interrupted. She pointed behind her to the window and yelled. "I floated in my own blood! I died! Twice! Because you guys thought it would be funny to launch me into the air!"

"We were foals, Scootaloo!" All eyes turned to the hoarse and definitely painful yell from Sweetie Bell. She coughed into her hoof and made a sign to get her message across that Apple Bloom sadly translated. "We grew up since then. We realized our mistakes, nothing was the same. We missed you Scootaloo."

"Well I forgot about all of you," Magenta growled. "I couldn't walk. I was alone. I had no background, no legal name... Nothing. It was like I appeared from another dimension. And to this day, I still don't know my real parents. But I wouldn't trade the family I have now for them at any cost. They were there for me ever since I washed up. Bright lost both her parents in an accident and I had absolutely no family." Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle looked to Bright who just stared at them nonchalantly in response. Guess they didn't know about that last bit. "I forgot how to read, how to write, how to walk. I had wings, I wish I could fly. I didn't know I couldn't fly in the first place. But that didn't stop me from making sure my sister got her wings back. Guys... You killed me that day. Then again, you gave me a new beginning. I mean look at this."

She walked over to Bright and pointed to the shiny necklace she had around her neck. It was a golden heart with diamonds colored orange in the center. The chain itself was wet with glistening luxury. "I had this custom made for five hundred thousand bits each! I have one that matches, and Mom and Dad got one too! I live in a mansion that's much bigger than what I really need. I'm about to start a record label and am going to start receiving partnerships really really soon once we release this video. So much stuff is going on... And it's all thanks to you. You know... I couldn't sing before I arrived in Manehattan."

Well that was news. Even Bright glanced her way. She tilted her head back and reached up to move aside some fur. Right there maybe an inch away from the point of no return was a large scar that Bright gawked at. "If I got cut an inch to the left, I would be done for. Then there would be no Magenta Streak, no Scootaloo. One of those blades cut a spot in my throat that causes distortion if I yell. Now I don't have distortion in my voice. I can go as high as I want to with as much Vibrato as possible without worry about discomfort or pain. Because the part of my body that would cause it was cut in half. And with that, I caught the attention of listeners, viewers, and industry professionals everywhere. And not one of you were there. It was just me, Bright, and our old friends. They may not be around anymore, but I can absolutely admit they did nothing to hurt me or Bright. They were there and supported us to the very end."

"But we support you too!" Rainbow Dash pleaded. She trotted forward and stopped directly in front of Magenta. "We know we messed up, but we all realized our mistakes. We punished our own selves for it. These mares have been looking for you non stop for years. They've been holding onto hope for so long and to finally see you alive brought relief. Let alone the richest teenage pony."

Magenta growled through her teeth, "Do you seriously think that because of my success I can simply move on from this? That I can move on because you guys pushed me to my death? You're forgetting about what I had to go through since then."

"But there were good things too," Apple Bloom argued. "You got a family, you got friends, you found love. We know we screwed up, but we're still happy you found happiness."

Ad true as that was, Magenta just wasn't going to allow this. She shook her head madly and ordered, "Out! All three of you out! Now!"

"Magenta—"

"Out! I don't want to see you anymore! Get OUT!!" Magenta started using her head to push Rainbow Dash out. An impressive feat since Magenta was much smaller than she was. "Get out!! I hate all of you!" She did the same to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. They were practically thrown out of the room before Magenta grabbed the door and slammed it straight in their faces.

The resonating boom traveled down the hall and around the hospital. On both sides, both parties stared at their sides of the barrier keeping them from the other. Keeping Bright, Scootaloo, and Babs away from Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Rainbow Dash. After a few seconds, they cried.

Magenta bumped her head against the door and took deep breaths while the tears of emotion escaped from her eyes. The source of her pain was on the other side. She didn't need that right now. She needed the ponies nuzzling under her chin and wrapping her in a hug.

But even while Magenta, Bright and Babs embraced, a single extremely annoying thought settled into the back of Magenta's mind: Apple Bloom was right. Thanks to their mistake, Magenta restarted her life with a family, friends, and riches. She became an entirely new pony. A better pony.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

P.S. Remember, this story was planned and published before the aunts were involved. So they are completely out of the picture. Thy don't exist... Until the sequel.