>Wallflower dwells in Equestria now. after the events of the Memory Stone there really is no going back. over weeks then months she erased herself completely accidentally. she damaged the brains of everyone who knew of her besides Sunset Shimmer who is fairly new to her home land. she has become truly invisible by erasing everything embarrassing she realized nothing else she did was interesting enough for them to recall her without those public embarrassments. Wallflower had realized she was nothing more then a object of mockery to that entire place.. after finally erasing herself completely from all their minds she was unable to be remembered by any of them ever again. it was an accident.. but now she's here. In Equestria.
    >She looks at herself in the mirror, with hooves and mane, larger eyes and big ears. she has grown used to her equine appearance and ponies here seem to remember her easily and none are ever mean. yet Wallflower feels something is off here.. something missing she doesn't quite know. something buried under it's peaceful surface.
    >Ponies history is oddly peaceful, yet outside it's expansive borders are lands unknown filled with desolate earth and monsters incomprehensible. alien races who hate ponies.. yet they don't enter pony lands
    >Celestia raises the sun and once before the moon, but now her Sister does so
    >Wallflower leaves the bathroom mirror and the room itself. she leaves her small cottage and walks the streets of ponyville. Home.
    >Ponies wave to her and greet her. everything she has ever wanted. but this place.. it feels too perfect. she thinks to herself that maybe she is just so hurt she can't accept a good thing. maybe it is that?
    >Or maybe it's her own worlds history of war and violence
    >she peers down into a small lake, seeing her reflection once again. she thinks to herself.. If this place really is a mirror of her own world, then there must be a history of violence and war? like her own world?..
    >Wallflower knows little of this place yet there are few statues and no plaques or memorials around for anything. a small town graveyard but nothing indicating a war of any kind. maybe this town is too new..

    >Wallflower visits Twilight Sparkle's tree library 
    >"oh! Hello Wallflower Blush" Says Twilight Sparkle. this worlds Twilight is oddly enough a princess and some sort of acceded race of being.
    >You heard something about a giant castle being destroyed for being ugly? some sort of temporal magic to restore this.. tree library... doesn't really matter
    >"So.. um, what are you here for?"
    "Oh u-uh I wanted to learn about Equestrian History"
    >Twilight squee'd in excitement and trotted in place jumping up and down a bit. very childish.. fillyish?
    >"Where do you want to start? oh there are so many good places.. Hearth's warming, Lunar Banishment, Lunar revival!.. but that's fairly new actually.."
    "I want to hear the oldest tale you know"
    >"O-oh?" Twilight looked a bit nervous
>Twilight lowered her voice and spoke again in a whisper "Well, you see I have learned a very very old tale from the restricted section of the library, I only found that place because of your whole memory erasing thing!"
>Wallflower cringed
>"oh yeah.. sorry.. uh anyways, it's very weird and I'm not sure if it's just myth, a bedtime story or really history. I'm not sure I want to ask Celestia about it, she would probably know but.. it's strange. I've seen your world and know quite more then you might expect about it! I think you could handle the story"
"Handle the story? this place is practically made of cotton candy, I can handle the story"
>Twilight grinned oddly
>"I know you can.. I actually need your help. I can't ask Sunset Shimmer. she knows Celestia too well and has all this bias. I need an outsiders perspective on this"
>Wallflower began to wonder if her suspicions on this lands history weren't so wrong
>Twilight opened a small portal to a strange fractal dimension and pulled out a book, a very old book and a second newer book
>"I copied overt his old book here and used a translation spell! it was pretty clever actually.." she puts the old book back in the pocket dimension and closes the portal keeping the newer book"
"Okay.."
>"ah ahem well.. let me start.."
> Book of Onyx Hoof

>In the early days of this world. in the most primitive days of it's design, when the world was fresh and life freshly given to all Equine. the sons of the creator entered mare. producing great beings. Giants tall and imposing. they bore wings and horn, they bore fur rough like scales and faces like their fathers. they were great and in this age Mares of renown were born.

>They build and destroyed. taming the dragons of the world, all equine knelt before these inter-racial beings. descendants of the very stars. giant ziggurats and great pyramids, obelisks piercing the sky. they challenged the one whom loves us all, our creator. they claimed to be greater then he, they built towers to touch the firmament. and they did. our creator let them for they touched it and it burst. the waters above flowed and drowned out the world. for ages to come, water and then ice. Only few remained.

>Soon my old tribe, we were given life though a great ark of wood. we landed on mount' and began to live once-more. yet these beings were not all gone. Two remained of this age, Two children, mere fillies. My tribe had left them in as they were small and harmless. I must write this knowledge down as I have no heir to pass it to. those who did let the young ones in wish they had never done so. as now it is far too late.

>Today, as I write this. four hundredth and ninety third day of the Age of Soluna it has been dark for an entire seasonal rotation. I am sure I will go mad soon enough, many of us have gone mad already. the sun does not rise and the moon does not rise in it's place. the stars are absent and the sky is but void. the one whom loved us has left us to our fate. we took in the gods of old. So we are given unto them
>I write this now. For the twin gods of the lost era cause chaos, they slaughter and destroy all the other races my forefathers and foremothers were commanded to save on that great ship, ages past, They have been driven to madness and savagery, their children grow without mothers or fathers. they learn nothing and must begin anew. wild. untamed. This darkness chokes them all out. the rest of the world dies while our false gods of old carry us forward. they feed us and give us light. Yet.. all is wrong

>Book of Sapphire Hoof

>I continue my great granduncles legacy, I oncemore bear no heir myself for this as he did before him. In ages since the twin gods have left us to the great mountain, they build, they have been building for a hundred years since. a grand castle for themselves. they leave us to rot and civil war has come upon us all. all the ponies fight and kill each other. "you bear a horn of sol!" "you bear the wings of silver sol!" (Twilight notes this could also mean "moon") and those like myself with none of these "you bear the spirit of the gods!" and they thrash each other. the snow spirits howl and laugh. they cause us madness, I am so very old.

>It has been many moons since and we have come together oncemore. The castle is almost complete. Equestria. our new land will oncemore fall into false goodness and accept these fallen daughters of the stars as our lords, They will not listen to one such as I. I conclude this here. for this time my bloodline truly ends,I have no sister no brother. no one. This book shall be sealed away. I Curse thee gods of sun and star. blasphemers. this book shall remain forevermore. It shall never be destroyed. He Who Is has decided so.

>Twilight sparkle looked up at Wallflower
>"Does this make any sense to you?.. I don't really understand it. it sounds like alot of stories I know but from someone else's point of view?.. it seems like nonsense.. is there anything like this in your world?"
>Wallflower is unwell, her stomach twists in her body
"I-I suppose we have stories like this.."
>"Well? what happened in them?"
"I guess.. it's really not so different then what happened in yours.."
>Wallflower felt she said the wrong thing
"Well actually.. uh.. no, we have n-nothing like that. not quite.."
>"Oh" Twilight said disappointing
>"I thought you could maybe tell me more about it, i've heard stories of worldwide floods from your worlds mythology"
"W-what? No no I don't know much about that" Wallflower said, now feeling deeply unwell in this place.
"Uh.. do you think I could go see Sunset Shimmer for a day or two? She can still remember me, I could really use a cheeseburger but this place.. well I can't eat that here"
>"Ah well I could, the magic mirror is actually stored here now, alot more "unsafe" as Celestia says then the crystal empire buut.. It's mine so, and I'm an Alicorn now so I get to make such choices!"
>Wallflower felt nauseous, she wasn't sure why. something was wrong here.. the story was so similar to ones of her own land. yet those creatures were wiped out.. right?.. right..
>"Are you okay?" Twilight said with concern, she placed her hoof on Wallflower's shoulder
>It felt like fire to wallflower, but only in her head, she brushed her off
"Y-yes this place is just very overwhelming..."
>Twilight squinted with suspicion and said "Are you sure?.."
>The room got cold
"It's just this new b-body.. is hard to um.."
>"oooh!" Twilight said bringing life back to the room. "I understand completely! it's alot to get used to a new body. let me get that portal for you.. so when are you coming back?"
>Wallflower thought to herself "never". but she said
"Just one day from now, I can stay with Sunset Shimmer for the night, is that okay?"
>"of course, Wallflower, you're always welcome here"
>Wallflower noticed Twilight's eyes glowed a bit, and her fur looked sort of thicker then other ponies
"S-see you soon, Twilight"
>"Yep! Come back soon"
>Wallflower passed through the portal, finally human once-more. she no longer felt so.. uneasy. just slightly so. she saw the portal close. the stone stopped swirling
>Wallflower ran behind the school to the old tool shed she used to get gardening supplies from, there were other tools in there, for woodworking and various other things.
>She found what she was looking for. A sledgehammer. 
>She grabbed it and ran over to the statue an found Sunset Shimmer standing there with her book, the one that connects her to Twilight.
>>"Oh! Hey Wallflower, Twilight said you.. uh.. weren't feeling too good.. uhm.. why do you have a sledgehammer?"
"I-I NEED IT!" Wallflower screamed, far louder then she anticipated
>>"W-whoa calm down, What's wrong?"
>Wallflower raised it above her head
"S-stay back! you don't understand you don't understand"
>>"Put the hammer down!" Sunset said with authority
"Y-you d-d-don't understand.." Wallflower said, trembling with fear, she could barely hold up the hammer
>Sunsets attitude shifted to concern and worry
>>"Wallflower please stop and tell me what's wrong, please"
"They're not like you and them, They're something else, they're evil you don't understand you can't know. I can't.. I.. it's too complicated it's too much"
>>"Please! Wallflower please stop, what are you going to do? Why are you trying to hurt.. me.. wait, no. NO!"
>Wallflower only now understood that Sunset thought she was trying to hurt her and not shatter the portal
>>"You can't do that, Wallflower, That is my home through there. whatever happened in there we can sort it out. Please Wallflower.."
>Wallflower was unable to speak, her mind a swirl of images from elsewhere, she remembered things she never knew
>She saw fires, towns only lit by their burning buildings, soldiers tall and pale, manes golden blonde and eyes like oceans, radiant abysses. the royal guards of Equestria..
>Creatures like ponies but so different, dying, burning. being devoured before her very eyes, golden idols, silver statues and there the castle grew. the zebras, giraffes, and other equine-like races long gone carried on their backs stones of marble up the great peak. it snowed and some were crushed by their own stones. the giants laughed and devoured their remains. there the old gods stood. daughters of sun and moon. towering in giant thrones over it all, yet it was not just these non-ponies but ponies too. ponies in colors she had never seen. they looked older.. more horsey. in this vison one turned to her and said "please.. please help me, Wallflower" the mare knew Wallflower's name. In this vision wallflower was her human self.
>the mare held a giant stone on her back
>Wallflower grabbed it trying to hold it up, she couldn't.. her feet sunk into the snow
>>>"I-..I'm blossom.. don't forget, Wallflower.. T-thank.. y-"
>CRUNCH
>Wallflower fell to the floor. the stone fell, the mare.. gone..
>The towering ponies came over and lifted the stone with their mouths for they were that size. the size of 12 ponies tall
>The two giants turned to her. their eyes golden, glowing, radiating in the darkness. moonless.sunless sky. snow poured all around and swirled
>Wallflower was back there, back in the present. no time had passed..
>>"W-wallflower please I can't stop you.. don't do it! it can't be worth it.."
"Blossom.."
>Wallflower swung the hammer as hard as she could. she hit the stone and it cracked. for a moment it glowed the color of Gold. she turned up to the horse statue above. it shifted and changed into the image of the sun god of Equestria.
>Sunset cried out and went to the shattered stone and tried to pick up the broken pieces to fix it. 
>>"No no no no.. no no no no no no.." Sunset spoke rapidly. about to cry
>Sunset went to her book and tried to write to twilight.. she wrote rapidly and piercing through the page. she didn't take her eyes off that page for what felt like forever..
>Wallflower felt different now.. a little lighter, a little better.
>She stepped back still carrying the sledge hammer
>Sunset dropped to her knees and began to cry. She couldn't know..
>Sunset looked to the statue, the horse of her old mentor..
>Wallflower felt something far worse. she saw oncemore Blossom in her mind. she heard the words "don't forget"
>Wallflower stepped forward
"I'm sorry"
>Sunset looked up at wallflower, her face was red and tears coated her cheeks
>>"Sorry.. s-..sorry?.. you.. you don't.. How could you.."
"I had to" Wallflower felt something inside her, she felt a conviction. Blossom told her something else beyond words
>She knew
>Sunset was the first choice heir. Twilight was the second choice heir
>Sunset left.. yet.. she still had the potential to be like Celestia, to ascend.. into one of them
"I.."
>Wallflower raised the hammer above her head
>>"W-w-wallflower? what are y-"
>CRUNCH
>Wallflower dropped the hammer and ran... and ran..
>Wallflower walked through the heavy rain
>down the town streets, local shopfronts were mostly closed this time of day, it was quite late..
>the rain drenched her and the blood.. the blood.. it sort of washed away but not enough
>yet no one who passed with an umbrella even noticed her there
>she walked past an electronics store
>police cars rushed past. red and blue lights burning away the darkness for mere moments as they quickly left, screeching away down the road
>the tvs were all on the news
>"-A Graphic scene on Canterlot High School, a student has been found brutally murdered and their statue defaced and shattered. Police are unsure what sort of action or weapon could shatter a stone that large. it is believed there were multiple accomplices and the dead student was caught in the middle of it all, we will update you when we get more info.. now back to our scheduled report. Rabbits? should we keep them as pets?-"
>It trailed off into nonsense. just like that. like it never happened.
>How does it feel, Sunset Shimmer? Just like that already forgotten
>A women standing next to her spoke
<"Wow.. who would do such a thing? a student? that's so horrible.."
>there was no one else around besides you, she must be speaking to you
"It is pretty terri-
<"AH! holy buck where did you come from!?"
>She jumped back and screamed at you
>you were covered in rain, mud and blood but the blood was obscured by the rest. your hair matted, wet and dirty
"I.. I w-was here before you.."
<"W-wha.. who.."
>She quickly walked past you then started pacing away
>Wallflower kept walking until she found an alleyway. it was covered by the awnings of nearby buildings. there was a barrel on fire.. homeless folk. but warmth
>Wallflower walked up to the barrel, there was only one other. an old man. bearded. tattered coat or robes. hard to tell in this light
>Wallflower put her hands out and rubbed them together over the fire
"Y-you don't mind if I get some heat huh?"
>The old man looked up suddenly. he also didn't see her before
<"You.. ah.. yes, go ahead."
>He stared for awhile and squinted his eyes
<"What is one so young as yourself doing out here so late? do you not have a home?"
"What?.. oh.. it's complicated, they don't remember me"
<"may I ask you a question, young one?"
"Well.. that in itself is a question.. b-but okay.."
>he gave a soft chuckle. then rubbed his hands over the fire 
<"You didn't happen to shatter a.. rock? with some carvings on it? did you?.."
>Wallflower shivers, she did, the memory stone
"maybe.. why.."
<"You scared me when you approached. only one before ever had that ability to sneak up on me before, hehehe long ago.. ah.. i miss those days.."
"O-okay"
<"ah yes.. and i notice an odd feeling about you.. it's the same feeling I felt with the other, this other had a special rock to erase themselves from others minds.. but you know me haha crazy old homeless man you know?"
"The memory stone.."
<"You found it? damned! I've spent years looking for that.. you used it! you broke it! i need that! NO YOU FOOL"
>he rushed over and grabbed you by the shoulders and shook you
<"NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! HOW COULD YOU?"
>Wallflower was terrified. you killed them. Twilight, Sunset.
"n-no! please no I had to kill them please i had to. t-the alicorns.. please"
>you cover your face and cower away
<"Y-..I-I'm sorry young one, you don't understand, I needed the stone, there is a great spell placed on my people back home, I have been here for far far too long in this place.. I am Clover, I was once called Clover the Clever"
>Wallflower knew the name.. sunset told you of him
"You saught the memory stone here?.. it's broken.. gone.."
<"you mentioned killing, what did you do? is that why you're out here? who did you kill"
>he looked at you sternly. even moreso then before
"T-twilight Sparkle.. and Sunset Shimmer.. I had to, Twilight is-was an Alicorn and sunset could have become one"
<"How do you know these things? I don't recognize these names.. are there more alicorns now? How do you know they must be killed.. nopony can know these things, it's why I need the stone.the memory spell on it. Celestia placed the spell and tossed the stone here. I needed that to awaken my race.. and you broke it.. but, by breaking it you can see now can't you?"
"I don't know.. I'm just cold okay? i did terrible things! I killed them.. over a mere story. just a story, but I feel it in my heart, my very bones.. they had to go.. they had to go.. I shattered the portal too. they can't come here"
<"The portal?.. there are many gateways here, they shift and churn, here and there they go. never in the same place.. you broke a stable portal? I had naught the knowledge of such a portal"
>Wallflower went pale
"What do you mean.. there are more portals here? n-nononon.. no.. i killed.. I KILLED TWILIGHT SPARKLE. THEY WILL COME FOR ME"
>Wallflower grabbed the old man and held him
"P-please help, hide me please they're going to be coming! NO I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER. C-Celestia.. n-no.. the daughter of the stars.."
<"So you really do know.. We must prepare, they will be coming here.. you know their magic works stronger here? We must use these human inventions against them. these people are a people of war and death, We can secure tools to defend this realm and then go to equestria and save our own
"B-but i'm a human.. i'm not a pony.."
>Clover hugged the girl
<"I'm so sorry.. if you are capable of knowing these things.. you are a pony, always were.. most of this world is an illusion, a mirror. but those who step through the mirror don't have a reflection, the mirror doesn't reflect into reality. only reality into the mirror.."
>Wallflower froze

"W-what?"
<"Equestrians were reflected here. mirrored into false images, they are alive but they only exist as reflections of their other halves. if their other half never existed they wouldn't exist either. If you are capable of knowing this plot. then your other half knows, which she can't since you broke the stone. once shattered its effects are sealed forever. but I am.. resistant.. I trained for years but it's not perfect..
"what do you mean.. you're saying this isn't my home?"
<"No, it never was, if it was you shattering the stone would have done nothing. the spell of the unknowable would still be on your other half, thus on you.. since you would be her reflection.. I'm guessing you've never seen a 'doppelganger' of yourself around either?"
"No.."
<"Exactly, because you are one of a kind. your other reflection may never have existed.. either way you ended up here it seems and have lived here your entire life, I couldn't tell you why but it is the only possibility"
>Wallflower thought over her entire life.. everything she ever knew. every feeling of unbelonging, every feeling of fear and weirdness at the world. every time she felt out of placed
>The old man let her go and got closer to the fire
<"killed an alicorn huh?"
"No.. not really. i just.. i feel like it, I don't know how to explain it.. I feel she is dead"
<"What does that mean?"
"I.. I think she got in trouble.. she knew too. I don't think she was supposed to
<"not supposed to know? but they all know"
"She didn't.. and I think for it she was punished"
<"How do you know this?"
>he raised an eyebrow
"I just.. I just know somehow"
<"Interesting.. you must be some sort of sage in the other world. with such inherent insight"
"I don't even have magic there, I'm an 'earth pony'.."
<"Hm.. very odd.. perhaps you were sent here for a reason then. perhaps you're special in some way you do not yet know"..
<"let me tell you of this place.. After eons of war and violence between ponykind. The daughters of the fallen stars seperated ponykind into 2 half. The purely innocent and the" purely corrupt". The corrupt in their eyes.. I believe this part of us is deeply important to make us real. Without struggle or darkness to overcome we will never know our true selves. And to put all the dark in one place.. Unfair for truly innocent souls who are but fresh. Yet still put in the other world before they can even be tested. There are some who are spared seperation. Theyre kept intact and untouched. Often they don't have a double who.. Well look around. Even the "dark" halves live in peace now. They didn't always. "
"But.. I don't have a double? And I wasn't spared either.."
>clover looked deeply sad
<"some aren't seperated.. They are tossed away from the beginning and sent here. The daughters must have seen so much " darkness".. Or.. Rebellion in you that they just tossed you here. From the very start."
>wallflower began to fully grasp the horror of the situation..
"M-my family.."
<"don't worry. When we're done all will be made right. All shall be unified with their other half. The world complete again.. We just need.. Time. We need help too. I have ideas. But I'm unsure.."
"So.. Those who are spared.. They must be the ones who have the potential to become alicorns?"
<"hm.. That's a very good idea. I don't know truly but that inference is as good as true from all I've learned. This was a fact I never could get from my teacher"
"Sunset shimmer was worthy. She betrayed celestia and came here ages ago. They made up but she lives.. Lived.. Here"
<"Interesting. Must have been more rebellion in her to draw her to here. Where she would have been sent if not spared. Must have had great alicorn potential.."
"That's why I had to do what I did.."
<"it's ok young one.. Harsh choices have to be made. It's her life or everypony else's"