Ch 11 - The Amnesiac's Nightmare

----------(NOON TIME AT FIRELIGHT'S RALLY NEAR SIRE HOLLOW'S TOWN HALL)----------

Outside of the marbled steps of Sire's Town Hall lied a set-up wooden stage and a center podium, where Firelight stood proud and well-dressed in his velvet red suit and brown-white striped business pants. Standing behind Firelight was Minty Mocha on his left side and his daughter Starlight on the right side, who is now wearing her strapless teal nylon dress and sitting on the metal chair feeling bashful on the stage. Flanking on each side of the wooden stage were two large surround-sound speakers, which were connected to the podium's microphone. In addition, a large banner featuring his large photographed face was set up high above Firelight's head on dual wooden posts on each side, with this slogan written on the right side of his portrait:

"Kindle the town's spiritual fire to light up a bright future by voting for me!"

In front of the stage, there were five rows of 10 fold-up metal chairs for the audience, freelance journalists and camera-flashing newspaper reporters to sit on, with only one third of the seats being occupied by supports of Firelight's political party. Some supporters donned the violet and teal color schemes in their civilian fashion, while others waved support signs and flags that express their approval for their favorite mayoral candidate. The only creatures who were neutral to Firelight were Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head, Yona and Gallus, who were all sitting at the middle front row seats within the crowd.

After introducing himself as Firelight from the Progressive Republican Party, he then turned on the podium's microphone and went on with his long rambling speech on identity politics, past meetings with community leaders of other races, his past life as a conservative preservationist and the historical account on the foundation of Sire's Hollow. Though some of the audience attempted to stay awake as part of respect for their candidate, others ended up dozing off to his filibustering speech.

"Geez, when I heard political party rally, this ISN'T what I had in mind!", cried the bored Tiny Turnip Head to tears as he slouched down on his chair.

"UGGHHH, when do we get introduced as his propped-up examples of diversity onstage??? I'm SO bored now!", groaned Gallus as he positioned his squishy face on his vertical arm support.

"Yona want those coupons right now! This go on too long no see!", moaned the nak girl as she was about to doze off.

"Shhhh, QUIET!! I think he's about to announce the heroes now!", shushed Mr Tang loudly as he waited for this anticipating moment. Firelight continued on with his appraisal as the final part of his speech.

"....as you may know, there are four very unique individuals in the front row seat of the crowd tonight! Two of which are the heroes who saved my daughter from a tragic cart crash accident back in Ponyville!"

As Firelight pointed out to his daughter who was sitting on a metal chair on the far right side of the frontal stage, Starlight began to blush about the re-directed attention as cameras started flashing at her.

"HEY, that's us!! FINALLY, we've been acknowledged!", cheered Master Zhi.

"Took him 45 minutes!!", grumbled the tired Mr Tang.

"In addition to them, I would also like to introduce two students from the School of Friendship, who would like to demonstrate their appreciation of having another diverse town be modeled after their current residence in Ponyville! So PLEASE, let's hear it all from both the heroes AND the students of Starlight's School of Friendship!", cheered the smiling Firelight as he left the podium and signaled Minty Mocha to escort the invited guests onstage.

"YEP, that's me! Young Master Zhi!! The hero!!", hollered the eccentric young yellow Earthen stallion man as he waved and pointed a thumb to himself for the crowd to see

"HEY, don't leave me outta the equation, you fool!!", scorned Mr Tang who wanted part of the short fame.

As Minty Mocha approached the two unlikely heroes, she whispered to them with a stern tone

"Hey, you better keep your end of the deal like you promised! Otherwise, we'll sue all of you for breaching our contract, understand?"

All the guests nodded with reluctant agreement, before Minty Mocha went up to the stage and called out for the guests.

"All right then! Let's get you all up on stage, shall we?"

"What are we going to do, Master Zhi??!! I REALLY hate to lie to these poor people!", whispered Turnip Head with a high-pitched worrisome voice.

"Yona no like lying too, but Yona also no like losing coupons for free food even more!", the hungry nak girl said as she rubbed her grumbling tummy.

"Don't worry, fellas! I have a plan! Just follow my lead!", ordered Master Zhi as he and Mr Tang got up from their seats.

Not knowing what they had in store, but not having any other choice in hand, Yona and Turnip Head got off from their seats too and followed the two heroic gentlemen with no question.

"Plan??! You never told us about a plan!! MASTER!!", shouted Gallus as he quickly got up from his seat and went after his friends.

The crowd soon quietly clapped for the strangers, mostly out of both confusion and respect, as they have no idea what these foreign creatures will be performing onstage. Even Starlight was rooting for her "new" friends to do their best onstage, though she was pretty timid in her support.

"All right!! Yona, take this gong! Go crazy with it!!", shouted Master Zhi abruptly as he randomly took out a pair of bronze gongs and a small mallet, before tossing the instrumental tools at Yona.

"GASP! Yona LOVES playing loud music!!! YONA NOW GO CRAZY!!", shouted the excited nak girl as she continuously started to rapidly and continuously bang the low-bass percussion gongs.

BONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONGBONG!!!!!!!!

As Yona's extreme gonging started to get even faster and louder, the microphone ended up picking up the sound waves from the gong and experienced some feedback, causing the speakers to screech some high-pitched tones occasionally.

The crowd started to wince and cover their ears to muffle both the loud gonging and the microphone feedback. Soon, even Minty Mocha, Firelight and Starlight started to feel the annoyance building up on the stage.

"THIS IS YOUR PLAN??!! ANNOYING THE WHOLE CROWD WITH LOUD PERSISTENT BANGING??!!", shouted Gallus as he started to plug his ears tightly with his talon fingers.

"IF THEY CAN'T HEAR ME SAY THE SPEECH, THEN IT WOULDN'T MATTER IF I WAS LYING OR NOT!!!", shouted Mr Tang as he randomly whipped out a pair of bongo drums and ear plugs. "HERE, PUT THESE ON AND PLAY THE BONGOS FOR ADDED EFFECT!!"

"I CAN'T believe you are dragging me into this!! BUT AS LONG AS WE GET THESE COUPONS!!", Gallus shouted loudly as he shoved corked plugs into his ears and played the bongo drums as rapidly and loudly as he can.

BONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGABONGA!!!!

As Tang went up to the podium to recite the speech, his words were successfully muffled out by the amplified loud percussive cacophony blasting from the speakers, therefore making it much harder to make out what he was really saying. It was great loophole in the contract for both Master Zhi and Mr Tang to exploit.

"HOORAY FOR THE AMAZING YOUNG MASTER ZHI AND THE TERRIFIC MR TANG!!!!" shouted the elated Turnip Head as he bathed in the loud rambunctious low-pitch vibrations.

As soon as Mr Tang was done with the speech, Master Zhi (who was now wearing a headset) pulled out a straight steel sword from behind and announced to the audience

"And NOW for our finishing performance, our little yak here will attempt to swallow this 2-meter sword!"

"Wait, WHAT??!!", shouted Yona as she continued to bang on the gong.

"Just RELAX, this won't hurt a bit!", yelled the reassuring Mr Tang as he pulled back Yona's horns from behind, plugged her nostrils with his two fingers and tilted her head back. Unable to breathe through her nose, Yona started opening her mouth realy wide to take in as much air as quickly as she can.

"ALL RIGHT, a circus performance from the Master!!", cried the excited Turnip Head before shouting at his friend

"And you're part of the performance, Yona!! Don't worry! Master Zhi is a professional! As long as you don't move, you won't bleed!"

Yona suddenly stopped playing the gong and stood paralyzed with fear as Master Zhi shove the sword straight vertically down into Yona's throat as her head was bent back.

"SEE, if you could swallow a sword, you could've swallowed that crossbow!! Yaks be best at EVERYTHING, riiigghhhtt???", shouted the very connivingly toned Mr Tang.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH, what the hell??!! Are you two trying to kill her??!!", cried Gallus when he suddenly stopped playing the bongos after witnessing the madness.

"HEY, I didn't tell you to stop playing!!", shouted Mr Tang as he turned his angry attention towards Gallus. Feeling pressured and intimidated by his menacing stare, Gallus reluctantly agreed to continue playing, fearful that his nak friend would be killed onstage if he didn't do what he was told.

"YOU TOO, YONA!!!", ordered Mr Tang before Yona continued to play the gongs vivacously, while having a sword shoved down deep into her throat and esophagus. Master Zhi then suddenly let go of the sword, scaring Yona to the point of a heart attack.

But lo and behold, Tiny Turnip Head had came over to save the day by grabbing the falling sword by the hilt in time as he vivaciously hovered above the terrified Yona! One wrong move and the sword would've ended up piercing through Yona's stomach!

"THREE CHEERS FOR YONA THE BEST SWORD SWALLOWING YAK!!", cried the elated wing-flapping Tiny Turnip Head as he raised one hand up in the air while holding the sword.

Over the loud vibrating gonging and high-pitched feedbacks, Young Master Zhi yelled at everypony in the audience

"Remember!! This stunt you witness here is a result of many years of training and practice!! So take heed of this advice to heart: PLEASE never try this at home----OR at a friend's house!!"

As amazing as the performance may be, most of them were too disorientated and confuzzled from the echoing bass of the grumbling gong and bumbling bongos to even notice the stage entirely. Even for those who could tolerate the sound winced and cringed at the sight of a fat nak girl with a sword being forcibly shoved into her throat by three mad Far Eastern Equestrians.

As soon as Master Zhi pulled out his sword from Yona's gullet, and Mr Tang unleashed his grip from Yona's horns and nostrils, Master Zhi cheered with a "WOOPEEEEEE!!!", while Yona started to cough loudly, expecting a pool of blood to pour out of her mouth.

Just as the show was about to get crazier, Minty Mocha started grabbing Master Zhi and Mr Tang by the ears, before pulling these two madmen towards her scrunched-up furious face and whispered to their ears loudly

"This is a political rally, not a circus freak show! If you idiots don't behave yourself accordingly, there will be ZERO food coupons for ALL of you!"

"Uhhhhh, that's all for today!! Hope you enjoy the show!! C'mon Yona! Let's pack up!!", shouted Master Zhi as he exited to his right side of the stage.

"Huh?? OH---RIGHT!! YONA COMING!!", the sweaty nak girl cried as she began rushing to her left, and then to her right side of the stage to follow Master Zhi. Unfortunately, Master Zhi was just about to exit the other way when he later collided with Yona, causing him to recoil violently, before landing hard on his back. Consequently, that caused Yona to trip over, tumble and roll over Master Zhi as she exited off the stage.

"Remember to take Master Zhi's lesson to heart, fillies and colts!!", cried Tiny Turnip Head before he flew upwards away from the stage.

"MAN, that was intense, yoh! Maybe next time, warn me about what you are planning next", suggested Gallus as he unplugged his ears, picked up his bongos and exited the stage to his left side.

"NOW, if we told you what we had in store, it would've ruined the surprise for the whole audience!", replied the happy Mr Tang as he followed Gallus off the stage.

"HEY, I'm not a stool pigeon, in case you were wondering!", squawked Gallus as he took his seat at the middle front.

"Hush! Firelight's manager is now making her speech right now!", shushed Mr Tang as he sat on the seat next ot Gallus' right side.

"AHEM, well uhhh--THANK YOU---for giving the whole crowd that very---unique performance! Let's give a round of applause to our dear heroes and students of friendship!", Minty Mocha nervously said with a wide fake smile on her face. She was teething with anger on the inside, but was committed to maintainting her composure for the sake of continuing her boss' campaign. The crowd, unsure of how to react, awkwardly clapped with bewilderment as they looked at each other and asked what in Equestria had just happened on that stage.

"Now, moving on!", Minty Mocha spoke into the podium microphone. "Our next speaker will be the mayoral candidate Firelight's daughter, Miss Starlight Glimmer, Headmare of the School of Friendship from Ponyville! She would like to have a few words to say, before we can move onto the Q&A!"

As Starlight Glimmer timidly got off from her seat, the crowd of Firelight's supporters, reporters and journalists started applauding very loudly for the mare who had once started out as a lost soul who left Sire's Hollow to pursue her dream paradise to a well-respected member of a government-funded institution. Everypony in the town knew her beforehand when she visited her original hometown once more to rekindle her relationship with her mayoral candidate, as well as her best friend's mom who is also, as of now, running against their favorite candidate. Cameras from the journalists and reporters started flashing and clicking as they took pictures of the well-respected mare who had survived that terrible cart crash back in Ponyville. Little do they know that she had recently lost most of her memories about her current life as the Headmare and a well-known associate with the Princess of Friendship.

More than an hour ago, she had already been informed by her students about her former past life as an equalist cultist, how she once planned a time-altering revenge against the Princess of Friendship and that time she saved everypony in Ponyville from the clutches of Queen Chrysalis. This was made quickly possible from the Friendship Journal that was borrowed by the students visiting the local library in town. Slowly, but surely, she was able to regain some of those lost memories bit by bit as she read the Friendship Journal with her students.

There was one snag in her muddled-up memory banks that troubled her though. For some reason, she could not remember the name of Sunburst back in her childhood memories, nor that time when she revisited him again back in the Crystal Empire. Though Sunburst had been mentioned occasionally in the Friendship Journal, she tends to forget who that stallion man is and his students had to constantly remind her who he was. Though she also had some trouble remembering the Elements of Harmony, that was made easier by the students who drew out both the professors and their cutie marks on paper. However, even with their sketch of Sunburst and his cutie mark being shown directly to her, for some reason, Starlight had much more bigger trouble in remembering his role as both the Vice-Stallion and her best friend. It was as if there was something in her brain was being locked by some enclosed memory shield that could only be open by a certain trigger word.

Before they could continue on any further to the part where Starlight became a counselor for the School of Friendship, the students' leisure time with their Headmare had expired. Minty Mocha had to prepare Starlight Glimmer for her upcoming speech for her dad's political rally in front of the town hall. Though saddened by the turn of events, they were at least somewhat satisfied that they were making progress with their Headmare. Gallus was satisfied that he had done his part in compensating for his mischievous mayhem and Yona was glad she got to spend personal time with her Headmare as a friend instead of a school authority figure. As for Tiny Turnip Head, he felt like he had learn a lot more from his Headmare by simply spending time with her, rather than learning her story in a classroom setting.

Now facing the onslaught of camera flashes and curious mumbling from the crowd, Starlight Glimmer slowly approached the podium microphone. Once an active speaker who was fluent in rallying speeches, the amnesiac Starlight Glimmer was now a timid shy stage-fright mare who got easily distracted by the bright camera flashes from the journalists and reporters. However, she was determined to not disappoint her dad onstage, who was sitting on a chair behind her and giving her a thumbs up as an encouragement gesture. Taking a deep breath, she positioned the podium microphone next to her mouth, and nervously spoke

"Uhhh----sorry about this---I---uhhh---I'm not good at speaking in front of the crowds yet----this is my first time speaking in public----I mean----you all knew me since filly hood, of course, but------as you may not already know-----that accident kind of messed with my head, so----uhhhhmm---"

Starlight shook her lower hooves and gulped really hard as she shook her microphone very anxiously. She later continued

"How about we just skip to the Q&A instead?! Ask any question about me and I'll do my best to recall my past!"

One of the journalists in a grayish-brown suit and fedora stood up and asked

"How would you describe your family relationship between you and your dad? How important was he to you back in the past and as of now?"

Starlight Glimmer stroke her mane anxiously and scratched her head, before mumbling into the microphone

"Well--you see---my dad was----"

As the cameras started to click and flash a bit more frequently, Starlight shut her eyes really tight and shook her head, hoping to rattle out any misplaced memories she had stored in her brain.

"Oh NO, Miss Headmare Starlight seems to be losing herself onstage, Master Zhi" cried Tiny Turnip Head as he hovered next to Master Zhi and tugging on his shoulder.

"You think I don't know that?", rhetorically asked Master Zhi as he stood by at the left side of the front stage.

"Yona super worried for Headmare! Afraid she may go crazy!", muttered Yona loudly as she continued to watch the agitated Starlight struggle onstage.

"Uhhhhh---I don't seem to recall what my Dad does for a living, all of a sudden...", muttered Starlight as she held onto the podium microphone.

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It was an echoing and flashing nightmare hell for Starlight Glimmer as she struggled to find the right words to her answer. As her pupils started to dilate, they were darting side to side as the sight of curious reporters eager to know her forgotten past began mumbling questions about her sanity. Cameras shuttered, voices muttered and her sanity fluttered down into the dark abyss, as each flash and click increased in frequency and loudness in her head. No matter how hard the mare tried to think deep within her subconsciousness, she failed to find even a scrap of good memory about her father, despite being told a familial history of her past in her very own home. Her eyes shut tight, her head shook violently, her ears were muffled by her hands---suddenly, she found herself becoming a paralyzed victim of extreme stage fright.

"I--I---I don't know anything about my dad!! I can't remember who my dad was supposed to be!"

⚡*CLICK!* *FLASH!* *CLICK!* *FLASH!* goes the cameras....⚡

⚡*CLICK!* *FLASH!* *CLICK!* *FLASH!*⚡

"I'm sorry, Dad! I can't remember what you wanted me to say! I really tried to memorize the speech you gave me over and over again!! I really did!!"

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"UH OH, looks like she's not doing well onstage, old man! What the hell are we going to do?", asked the worried Gallus as he turned his head towards Mr Tang.

"All I could remember about my dad used to lie to me as a filly to stop me from seeing the world, so that I would feel safe with him at home all the time!", cried Starlight Glimmer before her dad and his assistant manager rushed over to the podium in an attempt to pull her off the stage. But alas, they were too late in stopping her from accidentally revealing the truth about the mayoral candidate's past.

"BIG NEWS!!!", shouted one enthusiastic reporter as he and the rest of the press began rushing over onto the stage to further personally question the mayoral candidate. As more camera-wielding reporters started surrounding the three Equestrians to get a better shot of their faces, Firelight's supporters rushed on over and attempted to shove the reporters away from their favorite candidate. More journalists with their quill and notepads started asking serious questions about the candidate's honesty and integrity, but their loud cries and hollers were intermingling with each other, causing their voices to become loud background noise for the surrounded trio onstage.

"PLEASE, no more questions and no more pictures!! This rally is over!!", shouted Minty Mocha as she attempted to disperse the crowd, but her angry pleas were ignored as her voice was overrun by the curious and combative crowd around the podium.

"HEY, where do you think YOU'RE going, Mister??!" shouted Mr Tang as he pulled Gallus' lion tail as he was flying away.

"What does it look like I'm doing, you old geezer??!! I'm trying to save my Headmare from being overrun!!", shouted the flying Gallus as he yanked his tail out of Mr Tang's grip.

"WELL, why are you hovering around like a pigeon with a magnet around its neck??!! Get over that crowd and yank her outta there!!", ordered Mr Tang as he pointed at the rambunctious reporters and voters on stage.

"I WAS gonna do that before you yanked my tail, YOU KNOW??!", shouted Gallus as he flew over the crowd.

"I can't believe her dad used to treat her like that! She never mentioned any of that in her friendship journals before!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he continued to stare at the crowd.

"Yona hope Headmare is okay! No like seeing Headmare in head pain!", shouted Yona as she was shook frightened with shrinking pupils and bitten cloven hands.

"HEY, guys!! I got her!! Let's get the hell outta dodge NOW!!" cried Gallus as he was lifting Starlight Glimmer up in the air above the rambling crowd.

"HEY, gimme back my daughter!! We're not done with you creatures yet!!", shouted the frustrated Firelight as he struggled to push his way out of the curious crowd.

"Stop pushing!! Everypony, STOP PUSHING!!", shouted one of Firelight's supporters as they held tightly onto Firelight's and Minty's arms in an attempt to pull them away from the eyes of the press.

But alas, once Firelight and Minty Mocha were finally grabbed out of the crowd of reporters by his political supporters and the rest of Starlight's unicorn voters formed an Equestrian shield to block the reporters from chasing after Firelight, they were too late in stopping Starlight Glimmer from being "kidnapped" by her saviors. Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head, Gallus, Yona and Starlight Glimmer were now nowhere to be seen.

"DAMIT, they got away!! What the hell are we gonna do now??!!", cried the frustrated Minty Mocha.

"Let them go, Minty." ordered Firelight. "They done their part in the rally already. When the next morning comes, I want you to make sure these hooligans leave this town, or else they'll have to face litigation!"

"What about your daughter, Mr Firelight?", asked Minty Mocha.

"...Let her return back to Ponyville with the rest of the creatures for now. I got that contract signed anyway, so even if she did get her memories back, there's no way she could escape the arrangement.", replied Firelight as he dusted himself off from the debris on his red-violet suit.

"C'mon, Headmare! This town hall's not safe for you anymore!", cried Gallus as he grabbed hold onto Starlight while flying through the hidden brick-laden alleyways behind the town hall. All his other friends were rushing alongside Gallus, following him as he turns at random corner to corner.

"Where are we going?", Starlight asked as she held onto Gallus' arms.

"Some place where they won't bother us...", replied the assured Gallus as he stared head onto the alleyway exit.

----------(SOMEWHERE IN A SEEDY MOTEL IN SIRE'S HOLLOW, 1:00 PM)----------

Inside the motel room's large drab brown-painted and dusty bedroom, Starlight Glimmer quickly sat on a scratched mahogany chair with an under-stuffed red cushion. Standing beside Starlight was Master Zhi, who was now holding his silver pocket watch with his right hand. As Starlight Glimmer stared at the peculiar young stallion man, he quickly said to her

"NOW, let's focus on your first hypnotherapy session, shall we Miss Starlight? What I want you to do now is to stay focused on the clock face on my pocket watch and heed my instructions."

Master Zhi later dangled his pocket watch by the chain, making sure the clock face was directly into the sight of Starlight's focused eyes. Master Zhi then proceeded with his therapeutic procedure

"Ready?....Let's begin. And 1,2,3---"

Master Zhi proceeded to swinging his pocket watch side to side.

"Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right..."

Starlight's eyes immediately began to dart side to side as she focused on the swinging pocket watch.

"Switching now! Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up..."

Upon the change to a perpendicular axis, Starlight's eyes immediately began to bob up and down as she continued to focus on the pocket watch.

"Switching back! Left, right, left, right, left, right, left right..."

Once again, Starlight's eyes immediately began to dart side to side in conjunction with the pocket watch's movements.

"You sure this is gonna work??", whispered Gallus as he spoke to Mr Tang. Both these creatures looked head on as they stood barely far behind Master Zhi as he does his work.

"Hey, last time he tried that on me, he got me to confessed to the whole village about me farting into Master Zhi's face every morning! Damn prick got me banned from the red bean bun stall for weeks until I was forced to make an apology in public!", whispered Mr Tang into Gallus' ear. That awkward confession made Gallus' feathers stand up on end.

"SHHHH, be quiet! The Master is at work here!", whispered Tiny Turnip Head as he quietly hovered above Mr Tang's head.

"Now, when I snap my fingers, I want you to reveal everything that had been buried deep inside your subconscious mind and tell me all your secrets about your hidden past for all your friends to hear in a first-person autobiography format. Whether it be good memories or bad memories, don't be afraid to talk about it", calmly spoke Master Zhi as he continued to swing his pocket watch side to side.

Suddenly, with his left hand raised, he suddenly snapped his fingers and shouted, "Ready??! GO!!"

Then out of nowhere, a female voice was heard at Starlight's right and Master Zhi's left; as they slowly turned their heads toward the source, they noticed the voice was somewhat ethereal, calmly monotone and was speaking at one short syllable in a pentameter beat, sort of like a "da-da-da-DUH-da da-da-da-DUH-da da-da-da-DUH-da da-da-da-DUH-da..."

🍥🍥"I first met Gallus in Friendship School back when I was two years old¹. Though we differed by our own species, we were the best of friends through thick and thin. But sometimes, that blue griffon would torture me by playing pranks both inside and outside school. In return, I would pull pranks on him as well for payback."🍥🍥

🍥🍥"One time, he dropped a millipede on my nose during my picnic time with Sandbar. I got so scared, I thrashed around and wrecked all the yummy dishes. Sandbar couldn't walk without his crutches for two weeks right after that."🍥🍥

"PFFFTT, heeheehee!" chortled Starlight as he listened to Yona talked about her darkest secrets in a monosyllablic tone. If she were her back to her original self, she would glare at Gallus about all the bad behaviours he had showed in the past and gave her more weeks of suspension as a result of Yona's forced confession. But knowing that she had no memory of being headmare, it was all dramatic fun-and-games for the bemused Starlight.

As it turned out, Yona ended up being the poor creature who got hypnotized by Master Zhi's tantalizing silver pocket-watch and her eyes were now fixed as a pair of rotating swirls. On Starlight's right, she was laying back on her own scratched mahogany chair as she ranted about her unfortunate past-times in a tranquil and sleepy tone.

🍥🍥"As payback for his prank, I poured itching powder in his jockstrap during buckball class. It was fun to watch Gallus miss the ball as he flew in crazy loops with his loins on fire."🍥🍥

"PHTFFTTHFF!!!", blurted Tiny Turnip Head as he tried his best to contain his immature laughter.

🍥🍥"At one other time, Gallus took pictures of my new black undies during cheerleader practice and showed them to Sandbar for him to masturbate about. I only found out when those pictures slipped out of Sandbar's backpack. I got so mad that I forced Sandbar to eat them and never spoke to him for months."🍥🍥

"HEY HEY HEY!!! WAKE UP!! SHUT UP, you stupid yak!! I said WAKE UP!!!", shouted the red-faced and abashed Gallus as he rushed over and shook Yona's body as hard as he can. No matter how hard he tried though, he couldn't get Yona to shut up about her rival past with Gallus.

🍥🍥"In return, I filled his backpack with my dung when he was sleeping. When morning came, it smelled so bad, it made poor old Gallus faint! It made me laugh to see him be carried to the nurse's office."🍥🍥

"HAHAHA, and I thought I had dark humorous secrets!! I could listen to this for hours!", cackled Mr Tang as he smiled towards Yona, before turning his attention to Gallus.

"HEY, this isn't funny, man!! Would some creature just shut her up before I die from any further embarassment???!!", bemoaned the panicking Gallus as he started to wave his arms wildly and waving his tail up in the air out of sheer urgency.

"All right, all right, all right!", hollered Mr Tang as he slightly raised his hands to make a 'keep-calm' gesture. "Just don't piss on the floor before you faint!", shouted Mr Tang as he exited the bedroom to fetch some things from the kitchen.

🍥🍥"Why must yak gods forsaken me to be with griffon? Was it for my sin of not sharing my half dozen cupcakes back last spring? How long before I must endure my pain and he in turn endure his own pain?"🍥🍥

"Seriously, you lousy black-horned oaf!! You're pissing me off!!", protested the frustrated weeping Gallus as he was reaching his limit.

🍥🍥"Then one summer break, Gallus hooked my tank top to a taxi cab before it drove off, which led me being topless in public at Panamare beach. I lost my temper and chased after him, before I crashed into an ice cream cart."🍥🍥

🍥🍥"As payback, I shoved a crab down in his shorts, before it pinched him on his erectile cone-shaped di--"🍥🍥

*✴PONK-PANG-PANG!!!!✴*

😱"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!", Yona screamed as she woke up and almost fell back on her chair.

"HEY, sleepy eyes!!! He's helping Starlight to retrieve back HER memories, NOT YOURS, YOU IDIOT!!!", Tang scolded towards Yona after he clanged his iron pot and ladle together really hard to break her out of her trance.

"OH, right!! Yona sorry!", the fat embarrassed nak girl apologized as she rubbed the back of her head.

"Yeah, you should be!!", sneered Gallus as he set his glare against the frightened Yona.

"WELL, did it work?? Are you remembering anything yet??!", quickly hollered the worried Tiny Turnip Head as he zipped up right towards Starlight's face.

As Starlight pressed her fingers against her forehead and thought deeply hard as she could, she cried

"I---I----I STILL can't remember anything yet!!"

"Awwww, Yona was sure that would work! Yak is sad now!", cried Yona as she hung her head with disappointment.

"WELL, it certainly did worked on you---AND you were speaking with perfect Equestrian grammar! Maybe Master Zhi should start hypnotizing you to be a proper Equestrian!", joked Mr Tang as he sincerely smiled at Yona.

"BAH, be there before, did that!", scoffed the prideful Yona.

"HEY, don't give up now! You were able to remember how to sign your name AND draw out your cutie mark before! PLUS, you remembered how terrible your daddy really is! Soon enough, you're going to remember EVERYTHING! We believe in you, Headmare!", cheered Tiny Turnip Head as he hovered around Starlight with a big smile on his face.

"Yeah, Headmare! You just needed to take things down a notch for today, take a nice long bath, put on a change of clothes, get some rest and then you'll be chipper like newborn chick in the morning!", advised the positively motivating Gallus as he raised his arms and wings out in the air.

"Maybe then Headmare will remember more much faster!", happily cried Yona as she quickly lifted her arms.

"I---didn't bring a change of clothes with me---...", said the low-spirited Starlight as she looked down onto the brown plaid carpet ground.

"That's all right! You could borrow MY clothes!", offered Mr Tang as he opened up the bedroom wardrobe that was next to Yona to reveal his twelve identical pair of brown tweed suits and pants. "Perfect for professional school attire!"

"Mmm-hmmm!!", Starlight hummed in disgusted disapproval as she shook her head side-to-side.

"BLEH, what homeless shelter did you raid to get these clothes?", insulted Gallus as he sticked his tongue out in sheer disgust of the plaid, patchy and smelly suits.

"Same ones near where your mother sold her soft goodies to me!", back-sassed Mr Tang as he glared at Gallus.

"JOKES ON YOU! I was born an orphan!!", shouted the upset Gallus.

"That explains a lot!", muttered the grouchy Mr Tang.

"ANYWAY, if Miss Starlight doesn't approve of my clothes, you could always try out MY wardrobe", insisted Master Zhi as he introduced his own set of four black silk three-buttoned vests, long stretched-out sea-blue shirts and plaid-brownish orange pants in his own bedroom wardrobe.

"Ooooh, these look so well-ironed! Such silky smoothness!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he felt the softness of the shirt and vest.

"Yona love grids on soft pants!", the fat nak girl exclaimed as she cuddled her face onto his pair of pants.

"Très bien, I know! Aren't I the best sharp dresser of this group?", boasted Master Zhi as he pulled out a coat hanger with one of his clothes.

Then a short argument broke out between Master Zhi and Mr Tang!

"HEY, no fair!! I call bullshit on this! My clothes are more professional than yours!"

"No, they're not! You just have MORE shitty clothes! Utilitarian style doesn't cut it for the millennials these days!"

"Having fewer fancy clothes with no professional style doesn't give you respect from the kids neither!"

"GUYS GUYS GUYS!!", shouted Starlight to halt their argument. "If you two agreed to stop swearing and bickering in front of these kids, I promise I'll pick either half from both of your clothes together in the break of morning! Are we clear??!!"

"YES MA'AM!!", the two men both shouted in agreement.

----------(MIDNIGHT AT THE SIRE'S HOLLOW MOTEL)----------

As the resting Starlight Glimmer slept the quiet night away on her white mattress, all the other children lay in their own smaller sleeping bags provided by Tiny Turnip Head for the trip. Gallus slept on the floor adjacent to Starlight's mattress on one side and Yona snored on the floor opposite side of Starlight's mattress. As for Tiny Turnip Head, he was sleeping in his own bag in a room shared by both Master Zhi and Mr Tang. As they dreamt their little fantasies during this blue-moon night, a strew of very calm soothing saxophone tunes were being played by Master Zhi and a melody of soft electronic piano tunes were being played by Mr Tang.

🎷🎶🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXuRwCTs44 🎶🎶🎷

As they played their lullaby tunes with a jazzy and harmonious finesse next to the open entrance into Starlight's shared room, Mr Tang used his levitation magic to slowly close the door shut to keep the warmth in and lower the volume of the lullaby playing by their room.

As Tang continued to play on his electronic piano, Master Zhi ceased his playing to quietly say a few words to Mr Tang

"It's a shame she still couldn't remember her role as Headmare of her own friendship school yet. When school day begins, I'm going to be the one who will dutifully take her place! Maybe then I could quit my job as a bat slinger!"

Then Master Zhi had a realization before shaking his head, before claiming

"Naaahh, if the real Starlight were here today, she would've not approved of my non-traditional teaching methods. I can't dishonor her like that while she's still recovering!"

Master Zhi then resumed on with his saxophone playing, before Mr Tang ceased his piano playing to say a few encouraging words in response

"Don't you worry, Zhi! With me by your side, my strengths will help out-balance your weaknesses!"

He then resumed his cue on the piano, before Zhi abruptly stopped playing to snap back at Mr Tang

"Wha---YOU???!! It should be the other way around!! You're a rusty ol' unicorn who could barely fight off a bunch of kirin before passing out! Plus, you're a racist douchebag that always gets into brawls for even the slightest insults! If it wasn't for me, you would've spend the rest of your life in jail! Honestly though, I don't see what kind of strengths you possess that will help me out on the long-run!"

Master Zhi then proceeded to continue with his saxophone playing before heading out to his bedroom.

"HUH??!!", cried Mr Tang after he stopped playing piano. "You're always running into bad trouble, even when you don't mean to do so! That's all because you're too rash with your thinking, overconfident with your own polymath abilities and get over-hyped over the smallest details in life, especially on the politically correct jargon! If it weren't for ME, you would've been lying six feet under and leaving me alone with your damn little annoying adoptee!"

"Hush now, Tang!", quietly snapped Master Zhi after he stopped playing his sax to open his bedroom door. "We got to wake up early at 7:00 am to catch the train back to Ponyville, right before school starts. I suggest we call this a night for now and get our bodies re-energized in the morning"

Tang heavily sighed and reluctantly agreed with his long-time friend, before packing up his electronic piano and heading off the the same bed as Master Zhi.

"FINE! Just as long as you don't fuck up your second chance again, I'll come along with you for the long haul! Just like ol' times---only with more creatures right now...!"

---END

Author's Notes:

1. In yak years, that's equivalent to being a teenager