I watched Twilight closely, fully expecting her to ask me what a foot was. Instead, to my surprise, her face lit up, and she hurriedly left the room, only to return a few minutes later with a large book.
My eyebrow raised as I shot a questioning glance at the large tome, of which she returned my stare with a quick flash of the books' cover.
Huh, she just happens to have a book on foot health, doesn't she? I thought, continuing to stare at the large book.
Mirroring my thoughts, Twilight explained that she had picked up the book from the medical section of a college bookstore, which supposedly exists on "The other side of the portal". Interesting.
While my mind was focused on the fact that a pony just happened to have a human medical book, I realized that Twilight had somehow... healed my sprained ankle. Like as in, there wasn't any pain anymore, the swelling was gone, and all signs of the sprain even happening in the first place were just... gone.
"Wow. Uh, Thanks, Twilight..." I half-mumbled, hopping onto my feet. I was now able to walk normally, and thankfully, the doors weren't locked this time. Time for some exploration.
After requesting permission from Twilight, who appears to be my caretaker, in a way, she allowed me to wander freely throughout the so-called "bunker" that everyone was in. Simply from looking down the first hall I saw, however, it clicked in my mind that this "bunker" seemed to, in reality, be a repurposed freakin' castle.
Honestly though, I'm not really all that surprised anymore. Dropping from the sky after being sucked out of your own universe does things to you.
This is the new reality, I realized.
I continued my casual stroll through the sprawling network of hallways, before noticing some commotion in one of the larger, central rooms. I peeked inside, noticing Pinkie and Twilight, along with four other mares, and what appeared to either be a large lizard, or a tiny dragon. Either way, it appeared to be staring out the window with a telescope of some sort. The rest appeared to be talking about the funny-looking mirror behind Twilight. Suddenly, Twilight began yelling out a long string of cries. I didn't catch it all, but it was somewhere along the lines of "THE UNIVERSE IS ENDING," and "WE'RE DOOMED!". I also heard mention of the bunker being built within the ruins of a castle, which likely explains the many sealed-off doors I had encountered.
During her yelling, Twilight kinda... flopped onto the floor. She was still laying on the floor, when Pinkie began patting her back and reassuring her of whatever they were talking about. After the mares finished their continued talks about whatever it was they were talking about, Twilight began making her way towards the door. I waved a hand, smiling gently as she stormed past me, still muttering nonsense about universes and doom.
"What's wrong?" I asked, trailing the mare as we walked down the hall, "What were you talking about?"
Twilight dismissively waved a hoof. "Nothing, it's just... I'm just going through a hard time, okay?"
I nodded, watching as Twilight unfolded her wi... Oh. She has wings.
Anyways, Twilight flew up to the second floor, continuing her babbling as she soared.
As for me, I decided that it was about time for lunch, and wandered off for whatever counted as a kitchen in this place.
After noticing Twilight glide overhead in the direction of the room with the mirror, I decided to head back over to said room.
This time, Twilight was standing beside the mirror, which was very obviously modified with various odds and ends, many of which streamed towards a metallic bowl on Pinkie's head.
I listened closely, hearing varied talk about Pinkie's energy levels -- which I was later assured by Pinkie herself were over 9000, -- and some more talk about universes. Though this time, I also heard talk that the mirror was also supposedly a portal. I'll have to check it out later...
I watched tentatively from the doorway as Twilight stuck a hoof into the portal. Instead of simply pushing the mirror back like I expected, it simply disappeared, so to say, into wherever the portal led. Twilight hesitantly glanced back towards the other mares, then quickly towards me, before asking the others if they were sure they didn't want to follow. They all nodded, including the small dragon/large lizard creature. I was just about to ask if I could follow, but she had already entered the portal.