Part 2

We couldn’t breathe. None of us. We watched as the purple pony said again with slight uncertainty in her voice. “Umm... Hello? I said my name is Twilight Sparkle.” She said again waiting for a response. When she got none, she said; “Well... I was practicing a new spell to help the pegasi make more thunderclouds. There’s been a flu going around Ponyville for a while and a lot of ponies couldn't make it to work. Anyways, the spell didn’t exactly work out and I saw a rainbow colored lightning bolt strike over in this direction. We had to make sure everypony was okay.”

By now most of us had gotten over the shock of have the Twilight Sparkle standing in front of us and talking, but we hadn’t gotten over the fact that all of the other Mane Six were standing right behind her looking at us.

“Umm... Are you boys alright?” Asked Rarity. “You look like you’ve seen something horrible. Is it this hat? I knew I should never wear red out in this light. It always clashes with my hair.” She was speaking to us like she knew us already. “Oh, where are my manors, my name is Rari-” Stupidly, I cut her off.
“Rarity.” I said knowing my mistake almost immediately.

“Oh, why, yes! It is! How did you know?” She asked happily. I was struggling to find a believable reply when she said; “Oh, you must know of my famous dresses! Silly me, I almost forgot!” I was relieved that she didn’t push anymore questions.

“HI!” I heard a voice yell from behind Rarity. “Mine name is Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie said jumping up and down to get a look at us. She rushed up to the front our group and shook all of our hoofs almost with out us realizing.

“Howdy.” A southern accent chimed. “I’m Applejack.” Applejack said causly.

Rainbow Dash quickly descended from above. “I’m Rainbow Dash. The fastest flier this side of Canterlot.” Rainbow Dash said with her typical pride. She seemed to be talking to me and Mike more directly. I assumed it was because we were pegasi.

“I’m Fluttershy.” Fluttershy said from behind the safety of her friends. She was looking at the ground while talking in her typical, shy ways.

“Well, you know all of our names. What’s yours?” Twilight said with her polite smile. I could tell she was a little suspicious of us.

“I’m Just-” Justin tried to say before I clamped my hoof down hard on his mouth.

“His name is... Umm...” I looked around for any inspiration. My eyes fell on Justin’s cutie mark. “His name is Goalie!” I said with a burst of thought. Justin shook me away.

“What? What are you talking about? My name isn-” This time Mike was the one who covered his mouth from behind. Justin looked up in surprise at Mike. Mike just slowly shook his head. I saw Justin’s eyes widen with the realization that I hoped everyone else had come up with. We couldn’t use our regular names because it would be extremely weird. I mean in a world where somepony is named “Fluttershy” or “Twilight Sparkle” names like “Carl” and “Justin” would sound just as ridiculous in their world as their names sound in our world.

We all turned and saw the six ponies looking at us as if we were crazy. “Oh, sorry.” Mike said with a shrug. “Goalie here just sometimes... forgets stuff...” Mike said the last words as if they were a question.

“Okay?” Twilight said obviously confused about our previous actions. “What are the rest of your names?” It was easy to tell she was suspicious now. The other five of her group looked slightly skeptical but not as much as Twilight.

“Oh... Umm... My names...” I said pausing to try to think of a name. I looked at my own cutie mark like I did for Justin. “Pyro.” I said flatly. “My name is Pyro.”

“I’m Blitz Fly.” I heard Mike say after me. I wondered how he came up with such a good name so quickly and easily, but didn’t really care.

“I’m... well....” Josh said looking around like I did. He spotted his cutie mark much like I did for myself and Justin. “Cob. My name is... Cob...” Josh said like he regretted saying it.

“Cob? Like corn on the cob?” Pinkie Pie said enthusiastically. “I LOVE corn on the cob! Applejack here grows really good corn on the cob! And sometimes she heats up the corn off the cob and makes popcorn! But popcorn doesn’t come on a cob. It’s only off the cob. I wonder if popcorn on the cob would be better or worse? I guess it’d be messy with all of that butter on your hooves.” Pinkie Pie said in her typical, rambling, rushed sort of way.

“She IS always crazy like that.” I heard Zack say with a slight giggle. He didn’t realize his mistake until it was too late.

“How would you know how she’s usually like?” Twilight asked pressing her face closer to Zack’s. To Zack’s credit, he didn’t miss a beat and acted completely cool.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I meant; IS she always crazy like that?”

“Yeah, she can be pretty crazy.” Rainbow Dash said while lightly punching Pinkie in the shoulder.

“What’s with all of these questions Twi?” Applejack said speaking up.

“Oh nothing...” Twilight said obviously hiding her true feelings. “What is YOUR name anyway?” She asked facing Zack again. This time, Zack didn’t really have a good answer.

“Soap.” He said trying to act cool again. Even we had to look at him like he was crazy.

“Soap?” No one in particular said.

“...Umm... yeah. My parents... really... liked.. soap?” Zack said suddenly uncertain of his choice of name.

“And what’s your name?” Twilight said almost as if not even trying to hold back her suspicion. There was only one person (or pony?) that hadn’t said their name yet. Carl.

“Raito.” He said calmly. It was pretty obvious now that I thought about it. He used his old Xbox Live Gamertag. I almost laughed out loud at that idea.

“Oh my, sounds foreign.” Rairty said. “Where are you gentlecolts from anyway?”

“Oh yeah... we’re from... Fillydelphia.” I said recalling that only city name I could remember from the show besides Ponyville and Canterlot.
“How’d y’all get out here in the middle of no where then?” Applejack asked innocently.

“We... don’t exactly remember...” Carl said actually remembering the plan we tried to forge before the Mane Six arrived. “We just remember going to sleep last night, then waking up here.” With that Twilight grew even more suspicious then I thought possible.

“So, you’re telling us, that you woke up here in the middle of no where, with no memory of how you got here, and....” She said as if she wanted us to continue for her.

“That’s all.” Justin said.

“Well, you seem to all know each other.” Twilight said cocking her eyebrow. “How did you all meet?”

“On the inter....” I was able to catch myself before I said internet. “...change. Yeah, we met on the interchange of a train station.”

“Anything else?” Twilight pressed.

“Nope.”

“No.”

“Nothing.”

“Nada.”

We all said quickly.

“Well what did you all do in Fillydelphia?” Rarity asked. I was beginning to despise her for asking questions.

“We... don’t remember... that either...” Josh said looking at the ground.

"You don’t remember what you did for work?” Fluttershy asked finally saying something besides her name. “Sounds awful.”

“Yeah. It’s real frustrating.” Mike said smiling and rubbing the back of his head.

“Hey, I have an idea!” Pinkie said with a huge smile. “Why don’t you try that memory spell that you used on us after that meanie Discord made us all messy wessyied up?” She said to Twilight.

“Sounds like a great idea, Pinkie.” Twilight said as she lowered her head and pointed her horn at us. Without warning she charged at us and went to me first. She pressed her horn against my forehead and I felt a cool, rushing sensation pool into my brain. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but all that happened was I felt like I learned something. I didn’t see anything from the past, but I felt like something had changed. Then I realized what it was.

“Fireworks.” I said staring aimlessly at nothing. “I... used to make... fireworks.” I said slightly confused with my own words. Then I realized it was true. I now knew how to make fireworks. It was like I’d been taught everything about them in less then ten seconds. I looked around and realized that Twilight had already done the spell to the other five in my group and were starting to get the same look I did.

“I.. think I remember... being a DJ...” Mike said. His focused features suddenly got relaxed and I saw him roll his eyes. “That’s not cliche at all...”

“I think I was your producer...” Carl said. “Yeah. I remember too. You made on album and I was about to release it...” Carl said as if trying remember something on the tip of his tongue. “Can’t remember anything else.” Carl said clearly frustrated.

“I was a barber...” Josh said slightly confused. “I guess that explains my cutie mark.”

“I was a sports coach.” Justin said in that “as a matter of fact” kind of tone.

“I think I was a student councilor.” Zack said as if he was very confused. “That... doesn’t really make sense. But it feels like that’s my job. Huh.” He said with a shrug.

“Well that’s kinda weird.” Rainbow said scratching her head. “Cheerilee was just saying on how she wanted to have a sports team for the elementary school, but she didn’t have a coach. And she wanted to have a councilor for the kids to talk to while she was teacher other classes.” She said to Zack and Justin. She then turned to Josh. “And our barber, Mr. Snips, just moved to Canterlot last week.” Now she turned to Mike and Carl. “And Vinyl Scratch just opened a new recording studio and was trying to get some ponies to record with her.” Now she turned her rainbow colored mane to me. “And we love fireworks in Ponyville, but we’ve always had to import them from Canterlot which cost’s a lot more money.”

Twilight looked as if she was going to burst with suspicion. “So you all mean to tell me, that you don’t remember anything, even after my memory spell, except that you all have jobs that the town needs right now? And that you’ve all met before and have weird names?”

“Twilight! It’s not nice to make fun of other ponies’ names!” Pinkie Pie said with a glare.

“And maybe it had something to do with your magic lightning that made them loose their memory in the first place.” Rainbow said turning to Twilight. “Why are you so aggressive towards them anyway?”

“I’m just suspicious is all.” Twilight said stating the obvious.

“And regardless, they have jobs the town needs. What’s wrong with that?” Applejack said. “I say, let’s bring them to down and let them settle down. With nearly guaranteed jobs, why not?” She said turning to us. “So what do y’all boys say? Ponyville is a mighty fine town. And friendliest folks you could ever meet.”

We were all in shock again. They were asking us if we wanted to live in Ponyville, and take jobs that would help the town out immensely. You might as well asked water to be wet.

“YES!” Justin said literally leaping up in the air. He fell on his face. Everyone laughed. Even Twilight giggled slighty.

“But where would we live?” Josh asked curiously. “We have no money to do anything.”

“OH! I know!” Said Pinkie jumping up and down again. “We can all pitch in a little money to help you guys buy a house and enough money to buy food until you guys can get your own jobs! You’re all good friends right? So it would be like a slumber party, but forever!” Pinkie said as excitedly as if it were her having a never ending slumber party.

“Sure, I’ll help out if you fellers are going to end up helping the town.” Applejack said with a smile.

“I’ll pitch in too!” Rainbow Dash said excitedly. “I’ll even show you two a few of my favorite flight moves.” She said to Mike and me.

“Of course I’ll help out. After all, what would the world be if ponies didn’t help out their fellow ponies.” Said Rarity with a small, but cute, smile.

“I’ll pitch in too. I mean, if it’s okay with you...” Fluttershy said still looking at the ground.

Now that only left Twilight who was getting anticipated looks from here friends. She sighed and shrugged, almost as if trying to shrug away her suspicion.

“I guess.” She said, not looking too happy about it. But she didn’t look suspicious anymore either, which was a start.

“Yay!” Pinkie Pie screamed. “Let’s go and find you all a house right now!” And took off running the direction they came.

“You get used to it.” Applejack said smiling nudging Mike.

You can tell that everyone was trying to hide the fact that they were extremely excited, but weren’t doing such a good job at it. Even I couldn’t stop smiling. I watched as the ten ponies began walking towards town, even thought Pinkie had already run way ahead and had to run all the way back.

“Pyro, is it?”

For a moment I didn’t realize who Twilight was talking to. Then I remembered it was me. I turned quickly to try and make up for the slow response.

“Yes? Twi... Twilight right?” I said trying to sound as if this was my first day meeting her.

“I’m not sure if you’re telling me the whole truth or not, but I don’t really care about that. I don’t care about any of you too much either. But if you even try to hurt my friends, I will make sure you regret it.” After her words were said, she trotted up to catch up with the group.

I was caught off guard by Twilight’s threat, but tired not to think of it. I even found the smile returning to my face. I was here. In Equestria. As a pony. How could I not smile. And I ran up to catch up with my friends. Both the old, and the new.
End Part 2

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