🎂 001 The Saga Begins

[preformthisneigh]

Who: Cheese Sandwich and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Right now!

[It takes a lot to worry an Equestrian. Given the fact their country faces some sort of horrendous attack once every few months, they've become rather used to the unexpected dropping upon them from great heights. As such, when the little tan pony hops out of bed, he doesn't look worried, but he does look a tad confused.

The last thing he remembers is seeing the magical rainbow all the way across the sky (it was so intense) and now, suddenly, there is space. He pulls a rubber chicken out of seemingly nowhere, plopping it on his back, before starting to walk over to the window, his hooves clip-clopping against the metal floor as he glances around his surroundings.]

Okaaaay. This is new. Where the hay are we?

[He rests a forehoof against the window once he arrives at it, peering out into the vast nothingness. He remembers another place, that wasn't Equestria, and was prone to fits of magical strangeness. He puts two and two together to make five. When he speaks again, it's a little louder, as if addressing an invisible audience, which he thinks he is.]

Hey, everypony. Did the castle turn into space while I was away?

[He wanders away from the window, seeking out his journal. He pays the communicator no mind for now, the thing he's looking for is distinctly more book-shaped.]

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[hellofist]

[Oh... She'd heard that people could come here with memories that other people didn't have, but it hadn't really happened to her before. She's certainly never met this pony, but his body language makes it impossible to deny he knows her. That he'd liked some version of her she doesn't remember being.

It feels odd, but when she smiles at him she means it. It's better to be happy she had friends than sad she doesn't remember them, right?]

Happy to see you, too. [She is, because he seems very sweet. It's not a lie.] But, uh... I don't remember you. I'm sorry...

[preformthisneigh]

[This is fine. It's just a blip. It's fine.

It's fiiiiiine.

His smile falters a little, but he still manages to keep a semblance of one. ]

Oh. Well, I was gone for a few months. Things got kind of crazy back home. And I can't remember how good human memories are.

[But how could she forget him? Nopony forgets him. Not since he got his cutie mark anyway. ]

I'm Cheese Sandwich! All fun-loving, party pony, ready for a shindig any time it's needed.

[He holds his rubber chicken up to the screen, somewhat desperately. ]

And this is Boneless Two! My trusty party companion.

[hellofist]

[She feels guilty for it, honestly. It's out of her control completely whether or not she remembers him but that doesn't make it feel any less terrible. There's a whole lot there to take in, the strange name and the fact that party ponies even exist, the rubber chicken with a name, but there is one part that sticks out to her as important.]

What happened at home? Is everything okay?

[preformthisneigh]

[He's trying his best not to freak out because she clearly doesn't remember him, and that means something is horrendously wrong here. His ears fall back and he paws the ground nervously. Something is super duper wrong. ]

Oh, a centaur escaped from Tartarus and started stealing the life force out of ponies so he could take over the world. There were some explosions? And a rainbow? So the girls saved the day, again. Like they do.

[He says it in a distant, conversational tone. The fact Equestria nearly crumbled under the weight of a psychotic megalomaniac (again) isn't nearly as worrying as Cass not remembering him is. What would Pinkie do about this? She'd have the answer. ]

[hellofist]

[Despite the fact that it would be much easier to just look away, to look at something other than him and read each and every iota of his unhappiness, Cass keeps looking. It seems wrong to deny his feelings of sadness by ignoring them.

But he's having two different conversations with her, one with words and one with hid body language, and she doesn't know where to start. Best to focus on what he says out loud, perhaps? That tends to be the thing that creeps people out less.]

He caused rainbows? That seems like... weird evil power.

[preformthisneigh]

Oh, no. He didn't cause the rainbow. I'm pretty sure that was the girls.

...Ninety per cent sure. They have a lot of weird friendship powers.

[He still has no idea of the role he plays in the defeat of Tirek. Obliviousness is nice. He still looks like he's thinking, a lot. After a moment's quiet, his train of thought pulls into a station and he gives a wide grin.]

I'm just going to have to tell you heaps of stories and you can get to know me all over again .

[Sudden, veering changes of topic seem to be the norm. ]

[hellofist]

Yes. I would like that.

[More than she really expected when she thinks about it. With Stephanie and Tim gone it's been lonely, but Cass had been doing her best not to let herself feel it. It was easier to just hit things until she was too tired to hit things, but she knows that never lasts. Eventually she'll have to pull herself out of those terrible feelings.]

Do you have... weird friendship powers, too?

[preformthisneigh]

Great! And when I get outta here and can get to you, I'll throw you the best friendship renewal party ever! It'll be a blast.

[That gets a snort, but it's an amused one. ]

Nah, I'm just a regular party pony. The girls, they protect the whole realm. They're the only ones with the friendship powers.

[hellofist]

[Well that gets a frown.]

Anyone can have those. Friendship powers. You just have... to have friends, people you love.

[preformthisneigh]

Oh, no. I mean actual powers, that come with their friendship. There was talk of a rainbow that could wipe an enemy out, some...elements of harmony thing. I don't get how it all works,

[hellofist]

[Well that's an entirely different thing. What the hell.]

They used rainbows... as a weapon?

[preformthisneigh]

Yep! Right before I came here I saw this weird guided one going through the sky, it passed right by me. Pretty sure that was them because regular rainbows don't actually do that.