Realizing what Andy just said, they all dropped what they were holding(various drinks, food items, a pinata stick, and a mallet). They were all truly scared, even Nick and Hunter.

Austin was the first to speak "Do you know where he is?"

"He's-" With that, Andy disappeared.

"Did he just teleport himself?" Ike asked.

"Andy's too... Himself to teleport" Twilight answered. "Think about it. No magical aura and an advanced magical ability. Who else could have done that?"

"So he knows?" Nick said. "I'm hiding." In addition to that, he pulled out one of his hand cannons and started running.

"Wait for me!" Rainbow Dash said while flying off.

"Hold up!" Twilight said while encasing the two of them in magic, effectively stopping them. "Think about it. Hiding won't work. You managed to trap him inside a magic bubble without his weapons or tools and he managed to get to four of you. Now he has both."

"And if he's just waiting for the right moment?" Nick asked.

"Hiding would still be useless" Twilight said. "Remember when he gave Andy his gum and left? He's either depressed and wants to be alone or angry and blowing off the steam. Either way, we should find him and cheer him up if its the first option or apologize if it's the latter."

"And if he kills us for angering him even further?" Rainbow asked.

"He's not going to kill us. He wouldn't kill his friends. When killing someone, he always has a good reason. Now he doesn't" Twilight said.

Nick popped open the cylinder of his right hand cannon and checked if it's loaded. "Alright. I'll help look for him" Nick said.

"Wait, you agree to look for Tran after you check if your gun is loaded?" Austin asked.

"Wouldn't you?"

Austin turned to face the others. "Can I borrow something? I left my guns at home." Ike pulled out one of his six .44 revolvers and tossed it. Austin caught it and checked the load. "Thanks" Austin said.

"Just don't break your hand shooting it" Ike said.

-X-X-X-

Logan, Applejack, and Austin slowly walked towards Tran's gun store. Logan was armed with his AR10 and was looking left and right, paranoid about an attack. Austin had his MP5 and was in the same mental situation as Logan, paranoid. Applejack had her shotgun out and was probably the most paranoid of the bunch.

"So who wants to go in first?" Austin asked.

"Not it" Logan and Applejack said at the same time.

"Well fuck" Austin said. He took a few cautious steps forward while shouldering his MP5. Reaching the door, he lifted a foot and kicked the left front door with as much force as he could muster. Despite being biologically augmented, Austin's kick did nothing but cause pain. "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

"You idiot! The doors open outward!" Logan yelled at him.

Austin pulled open the same door he kicked and stepped inside, facing several ponies who were shopping for guns. "Sorry about that" Austin said.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Calamity demanded.

"Oh uh, we're looking for Tran. Do you know where he is?" Austin asked.

"No! Now get out!" Calamity yelled at him.

"Right and sorry about that." With that, Austin went back outside. "Why did you let me do that by myself?"

"If Tran attacked you, we would have had a few precious seconds to run" Logan said.

Austin looked at Applejack for her response. "Well it seemed like... Yeah, what he said" Applejack said.

-X-X-X-

Nick kicked the front door of Tran's bunker home. The door held and resulted in him breaking his foot. "Oh my god that fucking hurts!" Nick screamed. Besides the pain, it was just a simple injury that would quickly heal.

"Well damn!" Ike said. "Tran really knows how to make doors!" In his hand was his Tommy Gun.

"How strong can he make a damn door?" Nick said, hobbling backwards. "Gun?" Ike handed him, with a heave, his minigun.

"Apparently very strong if you can't kick it down" Rainbow Dash.

"And this is Tran we're dealing with. He once blew up a tank with chocolate, an icing bag, and a bottle of liquor" Rainbow Dash said.

"When and why did that happen?" Ike asked.

"It involved Pinkie" Rainbow said.

"Never mind" Ike said. "So how the hell are we going to get in?"

"Secret key?" Rainbow Dash said.

"Where would it be?" Ike asked while motioning to the featureless area.

"Knocking?" Nick said.

Ike gave Nick a flat look. "Yes because that will work" Ike commented.

The door suddenly opened outward. At the door was Scootaloo. "Yes?" she said. She noticed that Ike and Nick were armed. She leaned out to see that Rainbow Dash was also armed with her revolver.

"Hi Squirt! Wait, why aren't you at my birthiversary party?" Rainbow asked.

"What about Tran and his birthday?" Scootaloo shot back.

The three of them felt even guiltier. "You knew?" Nick asked.

"Of course I knew!" Scootaloo said. "A better question is why didn't you?"

"We forgot" Nick said.

"Like Rainbow Dash's birthday?" Scootaloo said.

"We're not here for questions. We're here for Tran. Is he in there?" Ike said.

"No. I haven't seen him all day. I've been here all day" Scootaloo said.

"Wait, why have you been in there all day?" Ike asked.

"Since I actually remember Tran's birthday, I've been working on a birthday gift for him" Scootaloo answered.

"I don't suppose there's a chance that we can ride along a little bit with your present?" Nick asked. Scootaloo slammed the door in their faces.

-X-X-X-

Rarity and Alex walked through the military training camp located barely outside of the Everfree Forest. Out of the two, only Alex was armed. In his hands was his Saiga.

"You know, we never spend time together as friends" Alex said.

"Alex! We're in the middle of an stressed situation" Rarity said. "But you are still right."

"Why don't-" That was when a gunshot rang out. To the two of them, it sounded exactly like a 1911.

"Was that?" Rarity started.

"Yes" Alex answered. "That was a 1911."

The two of them immediately went out on a run towards the noise. As they ran, they heard more gunshots, from the exact same weapon. Unfortunately, they found the gunshots. It wasn't Tran. It was only one of a member of Tran's little special forces unit(platoon).

"Well fuck" Alex said.

-X-X-X-

Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Twilight Sparkle wandered through the outer levels of Ponyville for any clues to Tran's whereabouts. They could still hear Rainbow Dash's party still going on in the distance.

"Where could he possibly be?" Twilight said out loud.

Pinkie was quick to answer Twilight's obviously rhetorical question. "Well where ever he's hiding, or the last place we look, or his location, or maybe its-"

"Pinkie!" Twilight said, interrupting her.

"Sorry" Pinkie said, her mane deflating in the process. "I just wanted to make this seem happier."

"I'm sorry Pinkie. I'm just a little agitated with our whole situation" Twilight said.

Her mane poofed right back up. "It's okay, Twilight!" Pinkie said.

"Twilight" Fluttershy said, not heard by any of them.

"I'm just trying to figure out what Tran is thinking of" Twilight said.

"Twilight" Fluttershy said, louder this time but still unheard by the two of them.

"Just imagine if he's thinking of doing something or how he's thinking" Twilight continued.

"Twilight!" Fluttershy yelled out, this time heard very well by both of them. "I think I know where he is."

"Where!?!" Twilight and Pinkie yelled at Fluttershy who cowered in response. "Sorry" the two of them apologized."

"Why haven't we checked Andy's home?" Fluttershy said.

"Well-" Twilight paused to think. "Why haven't we? Where does he live?"

"In a cardboard box behind town hall" Fluttershy said.

"That's horrible! Why doesn't he have a home?" Pinkie Pie said.

"How does the others let him live like that?!" Twilight said.

"It's not like that" Fluttershy said.

"What?" Twilight said.

"You'll understand when you see his home" Fluttershy said.

Some Time later

As the Fluttershy, Twilight, and Pinkie neared town hall and away from the audible range of Rainbow Dash's party music, they began to hear piano music being played. It was barely heard but still, it was heard by the three of them.

"Do you hear that?" Twilight asked her two friends. The three of them followed the music until they found a small cardboard box.

"There's Andy's house!" Fluttershy called out.

"Andy lives in that?! How would he fit in it? It's not even big enough for him to sit in it!" Twilight said.

Pinkie Pie carefully examined the box. "Or he's tinier than we thought."

"It's like Tran's backpack. Bigger on the inside" Fluttershy said.

-X-X-X-

Doctor Whooves, AKA the Doctor, looked up from his cup of tea.

-X-X-X-

"How can be sure that Tran's in there?" Twilight asked.

"Silly Twilight. Who else plays the piano?" Pinkie asked.

"Then we need to gather everyone else!" Twilight said.

It didn't take the three of them that long. Minutes later, Daring Do in disguise, the Mane Six, the Human Six, the members of the CMC minus Scootaloo, Breaker, Dinky, Meadow, Chrysalis in disguise, Derpy, and the Doctor were waiting. Most of them were armed.

"Exactly how do we know that Tran's in there?" Daring Do(in disguise) asked.

"Who else plays the piano?" Twilight asked.

"Pianists" she replied.

"Who else plays the piano in Ponyville and also has the ability to make something bigger on the inside?" Twilight further explained.

"Ah fuck it!" Logan said before jumping into the box. Then Rainbow Dash was the next one in, then Ike, then Pinkie Pie, and so on.

As Logan was the first one to jump in, he was the first one to land. In this case, he crashed to the ground after falling, to him, about ten feet. Even worse, the ground was made of hard tile. Even worse than that was how Rainbow Dash landed on him afterwards, followed by Ike, then Pinkie Pie, and so on, further adding to the pile of people and ponies.

"Wait, has Nick landed?" Alex asked. The ones who had already landed realized this too. That was their cue to scramble away from the landing zone. The only person who didn't scramble away was Logan who was too much in pain from being crushed a few times.

Then Nick jumped into the box. He landed mere inches away from Logan and when he touched down on the ground, the tiles cracked under the impact. "Damn" he said while looking at the tiles. He shifted the weight of the minigun in his hands and walked away from the landing site.

Then Daring Do slowly descended in via her wings. "Exactly why didn't you think of that?" she asked Rainbow Dash.

Then was Breaker who, instead of crashing like the others, landed on all four hooves with Dinky and Meadow on his back. "Let's do that again!" Meadow yelled out.

The last one in was Chrysalis and she landed on Breaker, just behind Meadow. "Huh" she said. Everyone that had dropped their weapon grabbed it from where it landed. Once they were done, they gathered into a group once again.

The music that had led Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie to the box was now louder and defined the pianist that played the piece was more skilled than they thought. What was thought to be a simple piece was now revealed to be a much more difficult piece.

Everyone followed the sound of the music to it's source, a large concert grade grand piano. The pianist was concealed by his piano as everyone stood from the opposite end of the piano.

"Tran, we're sorry!" Nick yelled over the piano.

The music abruptly stopped. "Wrong person" Andy's voice called out from behind the piano.

"Andy?!" everyone yelled out in surprise.

"Since when could you play the piano with such proficiency?" Rarity asked.

"Since before my brother started playing" Andy said. "Now I'm going to guess that you're going to ask for Tran?"

"Oh don't you start with the knowing what we'll say next" Twilight said. "But yes."

No one had realized that Tran had actually been standing behind them the whole time. "I'm right behind you." Everyone recognized the voice. He looked exactly like his usual self and was chewing gum like normal. What really caught their eyes was that he was wielding a suppressed 1911 in his left hand. That and Fluffle Puff held under his other arm. At the sight of the pistol, everyone got nervous and most of them gripped their weapons tighter.

"We found out it's your birthday and that we forgot" Twilight said.

"And we just want to say that we're sorry" Pinkie said.

"Please don't be mad" Fluttershy begged.

"I'm not mad" Tran said. Everyone nearly lept in relief until they heard what he said next. "I'm disappointed in you all. He walked through their little crowd and into a room near the piano. Then Fluffle Puff leaned out of the same doorway and frowned at them.

-X-X-X-

I looked down the sights of my suppressed 1911. I had temporarily outfitted one of Andy's rooms with a shooting range. It was a simple single lane range with a human silhouette suspended in the air ten yards downrange as a target.

And so, I fired once. Then I fired again. Then another shot. Another. One more shot. Second to last shot. Last shot. Thanks to the suppressor, I could still hear Andy's playing over the shots.

That was when the others entered the range room. My friends. The first one to speak was Logan. "What's with the accuracy?" he asked in a rather quiet tone. Small talk. He's trying to initiate conversation to help forget the main problem.

I looked downrange. Indeed he was correct. My shots were all over the place, none of them proving that I was as good a shot as I normally performed so, I ejected the empty magazine in my pistol and replaced it with a fresh one before chambering a new round.

Seven more shots went downrange, all in a small grouping on the target's head. The display of marksmanship completely contradicted every other hole in the target. "There's a difference between having fun and being accurate" I commented.

"Look Tran, we're sorry" Twilight Sparkle said. "It wasn't right of us as friends to forget about you like that."

I felt something lick my hand and looked down to see Fluffle Puff. I sat down in her fur. "Hmm. Fluffle Puff managed to remember."

"Really?" Chrysalis asked.

I reached into my pocked, I pulled out a folded up piece of paper. I unfolded the paper, revealing a very detailed crayon drawing of me brandishing Yin and Yang, standing atop a cliff. I quickly folded it up and placed it back in my pocket. "One day. You just had to remember one day."

"It was a simple mistake" Twilight said.

"There are nearly thirty of you" I said.

"A very big, simple mistake" Twilight added in.

"Please?" Fluttershy said.

I let the air out of my lungs. "Let's go for a little trip."

"Where to?" Nick asked.

"A solitary area with no witnesses?" Ike said.

"It's into my mind" I replied. I snapped my fingers and Scootaloo was teleported into the room.

I snapped my fingers once again. Everyone waited for the result but after a small suspense less wait, they were all left disappointed.

"What was that one supposed to do?" Rainbow Dash asked.

I looked at my watch. "Three, two, one." With that, everyone went unconscious, Fluffle Puff included. Seconds later, I joined them in the world of unconsciousness.

-X-X-X-

I stood there, in front of everyone's unconscious forms. Snapping my fingers, they all awoke.

"Ugh. What was that?" Rainbow Dash asked while rubbing one eye with a hoof.

"Where are we?" Twilight asked, noticing that we were all in one seemingly endless white hallway. Alongside the walls of the hallway were doors of the same corresponding color and design. The only thing that told of what the doors were, were the supposedly random set of numbers and letters that labeled the doors. Otherwise, the doors seemed plain, down to the door handle.

"We're in his mind" the Doctor said.

"Wait, how would you know about this?" Twilight asked the Doctor. "Have you been here before?"

"No but I have been in other ponies' minds" the Doctor said. He looked down one of the seemingly endless directions of the hallway. "But never this extensive before."

"Who are you?" Twilight asked.

"The Doctor" he replied.

I smiled knowing that Twilight will most likely never figure him out. "As he said, we are my mind. The doors you see lining the hallway represent individual memories and my knowledge."

"We have access to everything you remember and know?!" Twilight exclaimed. She immediately ran up to one of the doors and glared at it.

"Your magic doesn't work in here" I said. "And your weapons and belongings are also not available to you, save for clothing, glasses, and other basic things as that." Everyone realizing what I said, patted themselves down in search of their belongings.

"Fine, I'll have to do it the old fashioned way" Twilight said. She bit down onto the door handle and pulled. It didn't work and only worked to humor me.

"Nice try Twilight but do you think I'd let you of all people free reign in my mind. You'd learn something like the source of how I know everything" I explained.

"But science!" Twilight said.

Most of them giggled at her statement. "Ain't gonna happen Twi" Applejack said.

"I want to show you few of my memories." I walked towards one of the doors. "Oh yes. Before we go." I snapped my fingers and Fluffle, Scootaloo, Dinky, and Meadow disappeared.

"Where did you send them?" Hunter asked.

"In a different memory of mine" I said. "Specifically the one where I visited the Candyland universe."

"Why didn't I get to go!?" Pinkie Pie demanded.

"Fluffle Puff and Scootaloo remembered while Dinky and Meadow are at the age where forgetting is reasonable" I explained. Pinkie Pie shied away from me knowing that I had good reason to not let her go. I looked at Andy. "Do you want to go too? You might not like what you'll see with us."

He nodded.

I pulled open the handle and stepped inside.

-X-X-X-

I was sitting on a boulder atop a cliff side. The wind inside was just blowing enough to be considered a breeze and the air smelled fresh and laden with nature. In front of me was Arizona's rust colored mountain-y terrain surrounded with trees.

The others soon appeared in this memory, most of them having trouble to gain footing(hoofing) in the rough terrain of the rocky cliff. Even my human friends had difficulty finding footing as Ike and I were the only ones that were usually found wearing boots.

"Whoa!" most of them said.

"May I ask about our whereabouts?" Rarity asked.

"We are in Arizona, the location of my home. Well, it's a memory of it" I replied.

"It's amazing. Every little detail remembered, down to the trees" Twilight said. "That's why you were so disappointed in us for forgetting your birthday. It's not something as simple as forgetting a little fact about you, it's about forgetting about you entirely in general"

"Yes, people have a fear of being forgotten once they have passed away so many try to do things on a tangent so that they will be immortalized." I picked up a rock and threw down the cliff.

"What was that for?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"The rock? I always throw rocks when I'm sitting atop cliffs" I said.

"That's awful! Why would you do that! Somepony could get hit!" Fluttershy said.

"I'm miles away from any trails. The only things that can get hit are the trees. Animals are no worry either. There aren't many to be found here" I explained.

"I wonder what'd this place look like from the air" Rainbow Dash while jumping up and flapping her wings. It failed to do anything but injure her slightly when she crashed back down. "What the hay?!"

"No magic. That includes pegasi magic" I said.

"Aww!" Rainbow Dash groaned. A few of the others had a chuckle over her anguish.

"Tran, why is this mountain so... Weird?" Applejack asked.

"I prefer climbing up sheer drop cliff sides" I said.

"Well even with the abnormal scheme, this place is beautiful" Rarity said.

Fluffle Puff then wandered over and sat down beside me. I turned around to look at the others. "Want to see why I'm afraid of heights?"

Rainbow Dash was staring at me, not believing my words. "How are you of all ponies, afraid of heights?!"

I snapped my fingers once again. "What's that one for?" Ike asked.

And suddenly, we were all falling. A simple fall off a cliff seems like something that would be over in a flash but when I had initially fallen, my mind went into overdrive(adrenalin included) giving me the perception that everything had slowed down. I was helpless to do anything but watch my surroundings move as gravity took over my actions.

Then I impacted the ground. Sitting back up, I scratched my head. "Oh that's fun the second time around!" I said, laughing. I looked around and noticed everyone just staring at me in horror.

"That was absolutely horrid!" Rarity said.

"Why did we feel that? Fluttershy asked who was quivering in fear.

"Doctor, do you want to explain it?" I asked him, who was not even fazed by the experience.

He nodded and I stepped away from where I was lying and joined their crowd while the Doctor took my place. "Whenever you enter someone's mind, you also experience what they experienced in the memory."

"So" I said while walking up to my original crash site. "So if I feel adrenalin, excitement, or the feeling that I'm about to die in the next instant-"

"We'll feel it to" Daring Do finished.

"Next memory" I said while snapping my fingers.

-X-X-X-

We all found ourselves standing in the same hallway as usual.

"Oh now you can teleport us without having us appear in the air?" Alex asked. I snapped my fingers and he appeared ten feet in the air, upside down. "Son of a bitch!" He hit the floor and did this usual routine of falling to the ground and getting back up before cursing me out.

"Now that that's over with, we can move onto the next memory." I walked over to one of the identical doors and opened it up. Once again, I stepped in.

-X-X-X-

One of my uncles and my dad were playing ping pong in the former's garage, both of them giving each other a hard time with their ping pong skills. Younger versions of my Andy and I stood in the background, watching and waiting for whoever would lose. My former self stood next to my brother watching while my current self was standing outside of the garage, watching the memory.

I heard a warping sound and turned around to see the others. "What's this memory about?" Daring asked.

"Spoilers" I said.

"Well that's helpful!" Rainbow Dash commented.

Then my dad missed a hit, letting the ball fly out the garage. "Ai yah" he said. He walked over to retrieve the ball. "Cho tanh *** nhin tai mai khi sung tui co a trong khi xe co tui di."

"What?" everyone said outloud, minus the Doctor, Andy, and I. Nick and Ike could speak a little bit of Vietnamese, but they just couldn't speak it fluently or enough to say something back to someone else. Everyone else just plain couldn't speak it.

"Oh, sorry" I said while snapping my fingers.

My dad missed the a hit, letting the ball fly out the garage. "Ai yah" he said. He walked over to retrieve the ball. "Let *** look at the guns that you have in your car.

"Al riiiight" my uncle replied.

Like I did, six-ish years ago, I had an inner feeling of excitement that everyone would probably only ever experience once in their life.

"Even when you were eleven, you were excited tah look at guns?" Applejack asked.

"Eeyup" I replied.

My uncle returned back with two pistol cases, one shotgun case, and a single rifle case. That's a lot considering that's what he carried in his car. Yeah, he was a gun nut too. It wasn't illegal. We did live in Arizona, the least gun restricted state in the US.

My uncle placed all of the cases on the table and opened them up. As I was eleven, I was only able to recognize two of them. "Do you know what they are?" my uncle asked my younger self.

My younger self pointed one finger at the shotgun. "That one's a Remington 870." Then he pointed the same finger at the rifle. "And that one's an AR15."

"Yeah" my uncle said. He pulled the two open pistol cases closer to him. "Do you know what these are?"

My younger self focused on the two cases. "No" my younger self replied.

"When I was first shown those two pistols, I had no idea what they were. The only thing I knew that was different about those two was that one was small and meant to be hidden while the other was the big size(full size) meant for soldiers" I said. Back then, they looked so foreign. I had never seen them before but I could still recognize that they were pistols. "Just wait."

My uncle picked up the smaller one. "This one is a Walther PK380." He then picked up the much bigger pistol. "And this one is a 1911."

Everyone was genuinely surprised as shown by their expression.

"There was a time when you didn't know what the 1911 was?!" Logan said.

"A better question is, there was a time when you were normal?!" Nick asked.

"Not exactly" I said. I looked back at my past self who was now standing on the roof.

"What? We looked away for only a few seconds!" Austin said.

"It's like the colt version of you had wings" Rainbow said.

"***, can I have some gum?" the past-Andy asked.

"No!" my past self yelled back.

"Aww" the members of the Mane Six said.

"You were oh so adorable back then!" Pinkie Pie said.

"No, I was adventurous" I quickly retorted.

"That makes it more adorable!" Pinkie Pie quickly added.

That was when my past-father noticed that I had climbed up onto the roof... Again. "Get down there before you kill yourself!" he yelled at me.

"I'm adventuring!" my past self quickly yelled back.

"D'aww" the Mane Six said again.

"Adventuring huh?" Daring said, nudging my arm.

"Oh shut it" I said back.

"Exactly why couldn't you stay that size? Taking care of a little you would be oh so fun" Fluttershy said.

"And not hazardous to everyone's health" Logan said.

"A year later and..." I snapped my fingers and the scene switched from the house with my uncle, father, brother, and I at a small house party in the middle of the Phoenix suburbs to the deserts of Arizona with only my uncle and I. While my uncle was firing a Taurus Model 66 in .357 magnum, I was firing a 1911. Other than the cacituses and plants of the Arizona desert there were several bowling pins and oranges set up in unspecified locations, meant as targets.

Everyone else, along with me, watched from a distance. They all watched my former self. The ponies of the group were amazed by one fact.

"How have you not died from heatstroke?!" Daring asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Daring looked at me like I was crazy. "Look at what you're wearing!" She pointed at my past self.

Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy looked at Rarity. "Well dear" Rarity started.  "It appears that your past self is, or was, wearing a coat, one jacket, a shirt, and long pants."

"And what's wrong with that?" I asked.

"You're in the middle of the desert in the summer!" Alex said.

I looked at the memory again. The sun was in the middle of the sky and made it a pleasant 110-ish degrees. This type of weather, I absolutely loved(still do) and I'll honestly say that it'd be nicer if it was warmer.

"Wait for it" I said.

Some of them were confused by what I had said. "What?" some of them asked.

My past self fired off the last round in the 1911 in his hands. As he ejected the empty magazine, he made his way to a table that held dozens of firearms and a few crates of ammunition. Past-Tran grabbed a box of .45 ACP and started reloading the empty 1911 magazines in his possession.

Daring Do whistled at the sight of the table. "Now that's a lot of heat" she said.

My uncle fired off his last shot and walked over to the table too. "Why are you wearing all of that?" my uncle asked my past self.

"It's cold out here" my past self replied.

Everypony turned to look at me. "You're insane, you know that?" Rainbow said.

"Next memory" I said while snapping my fingers.

-X-X-X-

The scene had changed again. Previously, it was my uncle and I in the middle of a desert. Now, we were in a old house. My past self was standing up straight with his hands by his side. Beside my past self were four other people, the same age as I was. The four others were all Asian like I was however, they were shorter than my past self by a head. They too were standing the same way my past self was. Of the five of them, only one was a girl.

"Where are we now?" Twilight asked.

Another man entered the room. The man was obviously older than all of us, more so than four of us added together in age.

"So where are we?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Patience is a virtue, Rainbow Dash" I said.

"Just tell us already!" she said.

"I was once in your position, Rainbow Dash" I said.

"An amazing stunt flier?" Rainbow Dash said.

"No, a student" I said.

"Student?" Twilight asked. "This doesn't looked like an ordinary class."

"So what's going to happen?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Is it a movie?!" Accompanying her question, she had somehow gotten a bucket of popcorn and was munching on it.

"You have to be patient" I said.

"But that's boring!" Pinkie said.

I face palmed while snapping my fingers on my free hand. The scene hadn't changed much. We were pretty much in the same place but at a different time. While my past self in the earlier memory was only standing alongside several other kids, this one was in a fighting stance, slowly making strikes in unison with the old man and the four other kids.

"He was one of my masters" I said. I assumed the same stand as my past self and started performing the same strikes as the people in the memory. "I was the student and he was the teacher. A true master."

"Do we even want to know how good he was?" Nick asked.

"Good? His skill? He was a master. A real master" I explained. I froze in my current position. "Comparing my current skill to his is like comparing Andy to Nick in terms of strength."

"I wouldn't want to be the one to get on his bad side" Daring said.

"I miss taking those lessons from him" I said. "And sparing with them. Definitely sparing. I haven't had a good spar or opponent in such a long time." My human friends and Rainbow Dash glared at me. "Hey! It's true. Watch this." I snapped my fingers once again.

Instead of being indoors like the previous memory, all six of them were outside in the backyard of a home. The backyard was bare, minus a few plants and a tree, with the ground covered in a grass covering.

My past self and the female student were standing in front of each other, both of them ready for someone to make a move while the old man and three others were standing on the sidelines merely observing.

She was the first one to move. She started out by throwing a hook kick which my past self easily caught. However, she was prepared for this as she brought up the other leg and tried to kick me with it. My past self also caught this kick before throwing both of her legs up into the air in an attempt to throw off her balance.

It didn't work. She caught herself on the ground with her hands before jumping back onto her feet where she face past-Tran throwing a standard palm strike at her. She quickly deflected my strike before throwing a punch. Past-Tran deflected it before pushing her away from him to get space.

Then past-Tran threw a push kicked to which she caught. However, past-Tran went in for a forward slide with the other leg, pointed forward, aimed at her left foot. The move struck, distancing her left foot away from the right, damaging her balance.

She quickly caught herself when she fell backwards by moving both arms behind her to stop herself. However, this freed up past-Tran's other leg. He quickly got back up before going in for a punch.

The punch would have landed on her face if it hadn't stopped inches away from her face. She froze, staring at past-Tran's fist before smiling. My past self smiled also and helped her to her feet.

"See, I can't find anyone that could replicate that" I said.

"Now that is an independent mare" Daring said.

"Yeah. One time, someone tried to rape her" I said.

"That's horrible! Was she okay?" Fluttershy asked.

"You should feel bad for the rapist. She fought back" I said.

"Was she able to fend off the assailant?" Twilight asked.

"She broke one of his arms, a leg, three fingers, and a wrist. When he laid bleeding and battered, she looted his wallet before calling the police" I explained. Then I remember something. "I was actually jealous of her. As opposed to when I made seven dollars when someone tried to mug me, she made forty-two dollars."

"Wow. Why can't you be like that Rarity?" Rainbow Dash asked the mare in question.

"I enjoy the more... Nonviolent activities" Rarity said.

"She also did ballet" I said.

Rainbow looked back at Rarity. "Well I guess I'm not cut out for it. Are you happy, Rainbow?"

"Very" Rainbow said with a smile.

I snapped my fingers again.

-X-X-X-

We were all back in the same hallway as earlier.

"Now what?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Last memory" I said while stepping up to a seemingly random door. I pushed it open and stepped inside.

-X-X-X-

"Great! Now, who's ready to join this super duper party pony to plan this super duper party?" past- Pinkie Pie said.

"I am" said someone entirely new. He had a brown mane and a yellow coat with a hairstyle that mirror past-Pinkie's. He was wearing a poncho and a cowboy hat. He had been standing beside a wall, hiding from everyone else.

"Who are you, stranger?" Pinkie asked.

Then the memory froze.

"Wait, what are we doing here?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"We already know what happened" Twilight said.

"Did you now?" I asked. "Do you remember what I said to Rainbow Dash?"  

"Patience is a virtue" Rarity answered.

"So?"

"We should wait?" Twilight finished.

"Correct."

The rest of the memory played through until my past self was walking away from everyone.

"So what was that for?" Rainbow Dash asked. "We already know what happens."

"You didn't notice." It was a statement. I snapped my fingers and the memory played back once again. "How about now?" They all shook their head. I snapped my fingers again and the memory replayed.

"Wait" Daring Do started. "We share your feelings while we share your memories and you were supposedly depressed when you knew that we had truly forgotten your birthday."

"But we felt nothing" Twilight said, finishing Daring Do's statement.

"You son of a bitch!" Alex said.

I snapped my fingers once again. Scootaloo, Dinky, and Meadow appeared by my sides while Fluffle Puff appeared on my head. "Gotcha!" all four of us said.

"You did all of this for an elaborate prank?!" Twilight said.

"Basically but to be fair, you did forget my birthday" I replied.

"You felt nothing about that!" Twilight said.

"So." I picked up Fluffle Puff and walked over to a nearby door. This door, unlike every other door, was shaded completely black. Instead of the pull handle that all the other doors sported, this one had a door knob that had to be turned. "Come with me!" I opened the door and jumped inside.

Everyone was reluctant to follow him in. Inside, they found a giant library instead of a played memory. "Welcome to my subconscious intelligence. Everything I know is in here." My subconscious's library seemed to go on forever with no possibility of ending. Every shelf held books that no label but it radiated knowledge.

"Everything?!" Twilight yelled. She ran up to one of the bookshelves and pulled out one of the books with her teeth. When she opened it, she found it was blank. "What kind of cruel world is this?" Twilight said, nearly shedding a tear.

"You have to tell the bookshelf what you want to see" I said. I walked over to the same bookshelf that Twilight had gone to. "For example, nuclear physics." In front of me, all of the blank labeled books grew labels of various categories and subcategories. I pulled out a book and placed it open in front of Twilight.  

"Nuclear fusion?! That's only theoretical!" Twilight said. "And to create the source of the energy is impossible!"

"Actually, that's how I power my home. I have to make my own fuel cells but it provides good energy" I said.

"What am I going to do here?" Rainbow Dash asked.

I walked up to another bookshelf. "Aerial maneuvers." I pulled out a book that had something to do with Immelmans and tossed it to her. I walked over to another shelf. "Pastries." I pulled out a book about double chocolate, fudge, coca cola brownie cakes and tossed it to Pinkie Pie. I walked over to another bookshelf. "Cutie mark ideas." I pulled out a book and tossed it to the crusaders.

"I know everything. Go and choose you pick, though you are restricted from certain topics" I said.

"Could you provide us an example?" Rarity asked.

"Logan, walk up to a bookshelf and say Novichok agent."

"Okay." Logan walked up to a bookshelf. "Novichok agent?"

A loud defending voice sounded out. "Access denied."

"Go and fill your hearts glee" I said. Everyone went into a mad sprint down into the library. Fluffle Puff jumped down from my head and trotted over to the disguised Chrysalis. I followed suit. "Can I trust you in here?" I asked Chrysalis.

"Yes" Chrysalis replied.

Fluffle Puff had started noming Chrysalis's mane. "Fluffle Puff, watch her" I said. Fluffle Puff blew a raspberry in response. I looked up at the sky. "Tacos!" I yelled. A plate of tacos fell from the sky and down in front of Fluffle Puff to which she quickly started eating. "Don't touch any of those if you want to keep your hoof" I said to Chrysalis.

I picked up one of the tacos and started eating it. "What could possibly go wrong?"