I opened my eyes, seeing nothing but the white, and hearing nothing but the sound of a swinging IV tube... in, my, HOOF! I bolted upright, ripped the IV off, and ran out of this plain hospital room. My legs were like jelly, but I managed to keep on my toes... er... hooves. Sitting at a desk with Twilight, and Apple Jack was a pink maned, nurse looking horse. "Ah, Periwinkle. Awake I see. And without your IV." She said. I was flabbergasted enough, I didn't want sympathy. I wanted answers.
"Okay first off, where am I? And second, SHUT UP HORSE NURSE."
She smiled, purring as she approached slowly. "All in do time Periwinkle. For now," She grabbed my hoof, and stabbed a needle into it, "Sweet dreams." I hit the floor.
I was inside a new room this time. A little darker, like an interrogation room. A shadow loomed in a chair in front of mine. I couldn't see the figure, and growled, "Got any more tranquilizer, cause I'm not talking to some government agency weirdo. I want to talk to Princess Star Twinkle or whatever!" The figure laughed in an almost familiar way.
"This is her." A light clicked on. Twilight stared intently at me. "Who are you really?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"Are you one of Discord's pawns?"
"Who's Discord?"
"A Changeling?"
"What's that?"
"And no cutie mark either..."
"Huh?"
Twilight groaned in exasperation. "Maybe you are a pony. But are you a good one?" I snarled in frustration. Who was she to ask me questions I don't even understand?!
"I don't know where I am. I don't know how I got here. I woke up in a crater, so obviously I'm an alien for you! There I said it! I just plummeted to my almost death, and woke up in a NEW BODY. I WANT TO GO HOME! I MISS MY MOTHER, AND MY SISTER, AND JOHN! Now will YOU stop asking ME all the QUESTIONS!?" I screamed, jumping to my hooves, and kicking out my back legs. "Stopping bucking and sit down!"
I stopped rough housing. "Excuse me?"
The 'pony' tilted her head in confusion. "Did I say something unusual? I just want you to sit." I lowered myself into the chair I was in again, resisting laughter. A kids' show... right.
"Sorry I thought you had said something else."
"Now let me just get this straight. You are an outer dimensional being, sent into another specie's body by a god of some sort, then you fall from the sky with the force of a comet, and you are still alive?" Twilight droned. I nodded, after telling her the whole story.
"Basically. And now I gotta say here for the rest of my living life." Twilight took out a sketch pad, and took a pen from the desk in front of me, and started to write with the pen in her teeth. She put it down quicker than she took it out of the desk, and dragged me along, out the door, and into a parking lot. Wait ponies had cars...? My mind had been blown for the third time I'd been here. And I'd only been here a days worth.
"Twilight dear, where are you taking that pegasus?" Rarity asked, trotting after us.
"To Apple Jack's. I know she has room at her farm for this so called 'pegasus.' She'll understand." Twilight replied, not stopping for her friend. I flattened my ears indignantly. Farm?
"Wait," I interrupted, "You're gonna put me in a farm house with the pigs, and crap?" Twilight looked taken aback, but she didn't stop galloping away from the hospital. I frowned, and looked back at the slowly smaller hospital. Speaking of backs, I had just remembered I had those wings! So did Twilight... She had to know how to use them right? "Hey uh, Princess, could we maybe fly there?" Twilight thought a moment on that. Which was followed by a curt nod. She spread out her huge, gossamer, downy wings, and flapped until she was suspended in air. I couldn't quite get the gist of having extra appendages. Especially on my back. But after a quick flying lesson, they made perfect companions.
"Okay so first, spread you're wings to their max." I had to nearly rip them out of their sockets for them to spring out. Blinking from the gust of wind, I gave one a flap, and the other a quick shake.
"Check."
Twilight nodded, and continued, "Then get a running start, and kick out, and your wings will flap instinctively." I did as she said, jumping up after running faster than I ever did in my normal body! My wings spread into an arc, and I took flight. My wings were at least 4 feet apart in diameter, I must have been a pretty big pony then. That, or I was still really skinny, and tall. Twilight looked up, and shot after me like a bullet, to my level in the blue sky. Bluer than it was... at home. My joy of flying for the first time sunk deep into my gut, and stirred up the nausea of nasty Home-Sickness. The city was so busy and loud. I couldn't leave behind that... But I couldn't disobey the Lord God himself!
"Something the matter Periwinkle?" Twilight inquired, shaking out her mane as she flew silently. I sighed replying quietly,
"Just a bit Home-Sick." My hooves scraped a cloud quietly, and I bowed my head. But what if I already was home?