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// Part Six: Waking up 
// Story: The First Artificial Alicorn 
// by bron33guy 
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More cracks are appearing.
The next thing I can remember is feeling like I'm being squeezed in all directions at once.
Another black out.
The first thing I saw was a red ceiling. Then, as my eyes adjust to the surroundings, I realize I'm in what appears to be a spare bedroom for the castle. A quick look out the window confirms my suspicions. That's the Canterlot market in the distance.
What the hay was all that? I ask myself.
Then I feel it. A cold set of bandages, mainly focusing around my horn, I reach up with my hoof and my horn feels really hot, like I've been doing something really magic intensive.

Then as I realize that my ears are working, I can hear muffled voices. Good luck working any magic at the moment, my horn is really hot. I twitch my ear in annoyance. Can they keep it down, darn it? Who knows what happened to me and the least they could do is give me some rest, from whatever it was. I fall asleep.

I wake up, and, glancing at the clock beside me, come up to date with how long my snooze was. 4 hours. Well at least it was half decent, and I didn't get any nightmares. It's a start. Then my eyes re-focus and I see Twilight standing there. She looked...concerned?
"Don't speak Thunder. You're still weak." Twilight starts. "I don't know what happened to you, nor does anypony else. I'll have to wait until you feel better before I can get a recount. Don't worry. I can wait. Anyway, there's other duties I have to attend to."
I watch Twilight leave, pulling the door closed behind her.
What.. just happened? I ask myself. Why is is that everypony doesn't seem to want to give me the full story? And did she just seem like she just wanted to get out of the room? Was it something I did before I collapsed?

Nightmares. They came for me. But they didn't seem to bother me anymore. Suddenly something rips me out of my thoughts as a colossal explosion reaches my ears. Waking up, all I can see is party streamers falling in the corridor beyond the bedroom door. This I must investigate. I flick my hooves out of bed and fall onto the floor, collapsing in a heap, then blacking out.

Floating. Again. But not like when I collapsed. Instead the great unicorns of the past were in this... unicorn heaven? Starswirl The Bearded trotted up to me:
"Congratulations Thunder Strike!"
"For what?"
"You created magic, the likes of which I am most impressed by." he replied
"Are you even real?" I ask
"Oh yes very real" he replies "But not real enough to walk in Equestria anymore"
"So what now?"
"We have watched you, Thunder, work on the piece of magic, hoping you were ready to release it for Equestria"' he continues "And for that, I am very grateful"
Considering myself, I plucked up some more courage, to speak to the ancient teacher.
"It was my pleasure"

The squeezing sensation again. The smell of the carpet of the bedroom fills my nostrils. I'm back.
I get up. Not a moment seems to have passed since I blacked out.
Was it just a dream?
Was that really Starswirl?
I trot over to the bedroom door, expecting to find a corridor with party streamers on the floor. Instead, It's just Twilight.
"Oh, you're up."
Rolling my eyes, I reply
"I did have a little help"

---THE END---