The new pony looked around his surroundings. As he did so, he discovered several useful things: he had wings and he had pockets. The wings were difficult enough to understand, but the pockets were confusing. He went through them and discovered around 500 bits and some miscellaneous metals. After that, he tried to fly. Emphasis on 'Tried', he couldn't get the wings to cooperate with him. However, something dangerous was watching the pony. While previously scared off by the human's size and strength, the predators of this forest weren't afraid of one measly pony. In fact, a pony would be considered a meal in the Everfree.

As the pony struggled to get his bearings, and coping the best he could with not having any memories, one of the predators of this forest watched him with interest. A fairly large creature, at least compared to most ponies, it was also an ungodly conglomerations of several animals. A lion, a scorpion, and a bird, amongst others. In one word: a manticore.

Whether he knew it or not, The Forgemaster, in his crazed wanderings, had actually ended up rather close to the forest's edge. Near Fluttershy's house, to be exact.

Fluttershy was busy tending to her animals early in the morning when she heard a roar from just inside the forest. She looked towards the forest to see a very large, dark red pegasus running towards her, with a manticore just behind him. As she looked on in horror, the pony tripped over the uneven ground.

'Oh no', thought Fluttershy.

Her concern was unwarranted however, as the pony turned his trip into a roll. When he came out of the roll, he saw Fluttershy standing there with her animals and screamed at her. However, he was far too far away for her to make out any words, but by the gestures he was making, he wanted her to run away.

However, Fluttershy was frozen in fear. She was very, very afraid, both for her life and for the other pony's life.

When the red pegasus noticed her not moving, he knew she wouldn't run away like it was sensible to do so. He knew that if he got much closer to the yellow pegasus the manticore would try for the un-moving, and therefore vulnerable, prey.

And so, he turned to face his foe. The manticore was a few seconds behind him and running at top speed. But, the manticore didn't expect the pony to stop and couldn't stop itself in time. The pony bucked the manticore right in the chest, both the muscles in the pony's legs and the manticore's own momentum contributing to the blow. With a loud *CRACK*, several ribs in the manticore's body were broken, and it was bucked back many yards. The pony took the time he had gained from knocking the manticore back to roar a war-cry at the creature.

""Na xérete óti sas antimeto̱pízoun Spartiatikí̱, thi̱río!" yelled the pony. Know that you face a Spartan, beast!

(A/N- this is Greek, I Googled it so it's probably wrong, that is the phonetic spelling and the English in italics and underlined is what I wanted him to say.)

Now, the Forgemaster was fairly confused. Due to his memory loss, he had no idea what he just said! But it felt like what he said had power in it, and that it felt to him that he had said it a million times before, just as the fighting felt. He felt as though, and his muscle memory confirmed, that he had been in many fights. His subconscious was telling him that the manticore was an easy battle and that he had fought much worse.

The manticore was bucked away from the red pegasus, but said pegasus pressed the assault. Even though the manticore was severely injured from the first hit, it fought the pegasus to the last. The pony hit the manticore hard and fast, the manticore could only respond with claws, tail, and bite. The pegasus kicked the manticore to the ground, but the manticore threw its tail up to stab the pegasus in the stomach. The pony narrowly avoided the tail but the manticore wasn't out of tricks. It lunged out at the pegasus with his claws, scoring deep gashes down his flank. The pegasus didn't seem to notice that he was wounded, and the manticore's assault had left an opening. His left front hoof reached out and slammed the manticore in the face. While the beast was stunned, the pegasus repeatedly stomped on its head, crushing it and ending the fight.

All told, The Forgemaster had received multiple gashes from the manticore, as well as many smaller cuts from running through the forest. No broken bones, no torn ligaments, no cut arteries, and he could walk away easily. A great victory for the pegasus; nothing damaged excessively and the enemy was dead.

He looked up to see that the mare from earlier hadn't moved an inch from where she had frozen. However, her face was not frozen like her body was. She had a look of horror and sadness, as well as a trembling lip.

He walked up to her, but she didn't seem to notice. She just stood there, looking at the dead manticore. After several, awkward moments, the red pegasus decided to follow the path to the settlement he could see in the distance. He looked back to see the same thing he saw earlier; a frozen, yellow pegasus. He mentally shrugged and continued down the path. His eyes were telling him that everything he saw was new, but his mind was telling him that he had seen it all before. It was… confusing to say the least.

As he was walking through town, all of the ponies gathered in groups and were trying to hide their staring. Some of them shrieked and fainted, others ran away. Most stayed and talked amongst themselves. They were all staring at him and whispering about him! He couldn't imagine why; he was no-pony interesting. As he thought that, his subconscious screamed at him in anger.

He was in the main street of this village now, there appeared to be a tree up ahead. The sign on the tree said, 'Library'.

He certainly didn't need a library. So he just passed it by and continued his explorations through town. That is, he would have, had not somepony left the library and notice him.

He heard a shrill screech come from the library-tree he just passed, "OhmiCelestia! Are you alright?"

He didn't think the voice was addressed at him, so he kept walking away. He was doing so, rather successfully, until a lavender unicorn stepped in front of him.

"Hey, I asked you a question! Are you alright?"

He looked at her and said, "I'm fine."

She looked at him in shock before saying, "But you're bleeding!"

He looked back at his body and noticed that she was right: the wounds from the manticore were still weeping blood. He was also coated in the blood of the creature, but the unicorn seemed to think it was his.

He said, "Oh yeah."

She looked even more shocked than she did earlier, "How can you just forget about those awful injuries? Why aren't you in pain?"

He shrugged.

"Come with me, you've got to get to the hospital!"

She ran off, clearly expecting him to follow. He did not; instead, he went off in another direction to continue exploring the town. He shortly found himself in a large, open field. He sat down underneath the only tree in the field, and watched as some random blue pegasus did tricks above his head. Watching the agile flyer, he became envious of her. He stood up and tried to use his wings to achieve flight like the pegasus above him was doing. After several minutes of angrily trying to fly, he had a breakthrough: if he watched how the pegasus above him was flying, he could learn that way!

After about 5 minutes of him watching, staring really, he had learned much, enough that he felt he could fly, too. Then pegasus he was watching noticed him noticing her. In an instant, she dive-bombed on to him. She 'pulled up', as it were, at the last moment and landed beside him. Now that she was closer, he finally got an idea of who exactly he had been studying; a young, rainbow-haired, blue coated, mare. She looked at him and liked what she saw. Oh sweet mother of Celestia did she like what she saw. She grinned at him.

She spoke, "See anything you like, hot stuff?" in an entirely too forward manner.

He, oblivious to what she was actually asking, said, "Yes."

She grinned even more before laughing, "Really? HAHAHA! You're not even trying to be smooth, lover-colt."

"I don't understand, your tricks were enjoyable to watch."

She started to laugh even more than previously, and then she noticed his injuries, her eyes widened and she said, "You're hurt!"

She rushed to his side in an instant and examined the wound.

"This doesn't look very good. Can you fly? Follow me; I can bandage you up at my place."

She started to hover just above him while he looked at her.

"I'm not entirely sure I can fly. But I will try." He said

He took off, and for his first time, he wasn't that bad at all. He managed to stay afloat in the air and began following the mare at a slow pace. She led him to her house; a flying house made out of clouds with rainbow waterfalls.

She led him inside and he was amazed: the inside was coated in 'Wonderbolts' posters. She had left him in the living room to go get bandages. When she came down the stairs, she noticed him staring at the posters.

She sheepishly said, "I really like the Wonderbolts" while she was scratching the back of her neck with a hoof.

He said, "Who are the Wonderbolts?"

She was shocked at this and said, "How can you not know the Wonderbolts? Have you been living under a rock or something?"

He replied, "Maybe."

She scowled and went to bandage him. This, however, did not deter her from speaking.

"So what's your name? My name is Rainbow Dash."

"It's nice to meet you Rainbow Dash." He replied.

She managed to cover the entirety of the manticore slash with the bandages, but many of the smaller cuts from running through the forest were left uncovered. She noticed his cutie-mark, and she was confused by it. It was a large blue 8 turned on its side: (A/N- Tried to put the infinity symbol here, but it doesn't work!). She knew it was a symbol for something, but she didn't know what.

"So what's your name, pal?"

"I don't remember."

She scowled, "UGH! I met another guy recently who didn't remember what his name was either. Is this some sort of disease running through the stallions of Equestria?"

He replied, "I do not believe so. But I will need more data before I can substantiate my claim."

She looked at him for a long, hard moment before replying, "You're serious aren't you? You don't remember your name? You got amnesia?"

"Perhaps."

She let out another groan, "I guess if you can't remember where you're from, you can sleep on the couch. I'll take you to see Twilight tomorrow; she'll know what to do."

They both stood there for several moments before Rainbow Dash continued, "Do you really think my tricks are good?"

"Yes."

She looked at him with something he had never seen before in her eyes, "Are you sure you want to sleep on the couch? It could get lonely down here, all alone."

He was confused, "How would being alone or not affect how I sleep?"

She face-hoofed, and then said, "UGH! Do you even know what I'm asking?"

With a straight face, he replied, "You're asking if I would like to sleep somewhere more comfortable."

"No, you idiot." She said, face-hoofing once more, "I'm asking if you want to sleep with me!"

"Oh."