Bermuda Beginnings

by ScarFox9700


Chapter 6: A Cute Couple, the Message Arrives, a Sent Reply, and a Passed out Doctor!

Meanwhile, back inside Taylor's room, Taylor was still remastering the art of walking with Redheart's help. He had one arm around her neck/upper back, and her fur met his skin all along his arm, and side.

"Your fur is very soft". Taylor blushed, even as he said this. After all, he was a human, and she was a pony mare. Redheart didn't seem to mind.

"You, you really think so?" She giggled slightly.

"Yeah", Taylor replied. He leaned over a bit closer, and gently scratched her behind one of her ears. "You're so warm and furry, I could almost fall asleep cuddling something as soft as you."

He sat back down on his mattresses again, and Redheart sat down next to him. She was blushing even more deeply than before. Truth be told, in all of her adult life, she'd never really been complemented by another male before, stallion or otherwise.

She wrapped her pink tail around his back, and leaned in close. "T-Th-thanks", she whispered. "I-I, um, I think you're cute!"

She then turned away from Taylor, completely embarrassed, and thinking that she had come on way too strongly. She was surprised when, a few moments later, he touched her chin gently, and turned her head back facing him. He then pulled her into a hug.

"It's ok", he whispered softly to her, "I think that you're beautiful as well."

Taylor then lay back down on his mattresses again, however, before he could say anything else, Redheart lay down on top of him!

Taylor was at a loss for words. "So, um, I-I take it that you, um, w-want to sleep in here with me tonight?" He asked curiously.

Redheart merely leaned forwards, and kissed him gently on the mouth. Then she rolled off of him, and cuddled up next to him. Taylor wrapped his arms around her, and held her close.

"I love you", Reheart whispered as she fell asleep in Taylor's warm embrace.

He kissed her forehead gently. "I love you too", he whispered while petting her mane.

"Wow", Taylor thought as he drifted off to sleep, A really cute pony mare who finds me attractive? Why didn't I find this place sooner?! I hope that the rest of the guys get here soon, I know that they'll have a blast!"

And with that, Taylor fell asleep, blissfully unaware that his wingmen were never coming to Equestria; they were dead. In fact, he himself had been declared dead back on Earth.


After Flight 19 disappeared, and the plane sent to look for them had apparently blown up, the base commander in Fort Lauderdale had to face the fact that the crews were not coming home. They were lost at sea, and their bodies were probably never going to be recovered. Even though it was getting late, the commander made the phone calls that every senior officer dreads having to make; the calls to family informing them that their loved one had been killed.

Out of them all, Taylor's mother still stubbornly held out hope that her son was still alive.

"There's no way that my Charlie's dead. If anyone could find their way out of a situation like that nasty storm, in a plane with no fuel, he could!" Her story was confirmed by Taylor's radio gunner who, being too ill to fly, was now considered the only survivor of Flight 19. He agreed with Taylor's mother, and they both continued to hope beyond hope, praying for some news of Flight 19. As time went on, and nothing came to light, they became very discouraged. Sadly, both of them would go to their graves, never knowing that her son Taylor was indeed still alive and well; trapped in another world, trying to adjust to having colorful ponies as his friends and neighbors, of whom, 90% were female. It would prove to be a very stange adjustment indeed!


Meanwhile, high up in the Canterlot Mountains, Princess Celestia was sitting on her throne in Canterlot Castle, still pondering why her experiment to use magic to see into another world had gone so awry.

"I don't understand it" She thought to herself, "Starswirl himself said long ago that the spell was foolproof, but all I saw were rainy skies, and a dark, stormy ocean. What kind of a weird planet is that?"

As she was considering these geological/meteorological features more closely, a guard suddenly interrupted her thoughts.

"My Princess!" He called out as he raced through the doors of the throne room, and up to the base of the throne where Celestia sat. "I'm sorry to have disturbed you this evening, but this urgent message just arrived from the head doctor of the Ponyville General Hospital. It was marked 'URGENT' and the messenger who delivered it stated that it requires your immediate attention!"

Celestia was very surprised. Nothing interesting ever happened in Ponyville. What had happened that had the head doctor all tied up in knots?

She then took the message from the guard with her magic. "Thank you, my subject."

The guard then stood at attention while Celestia read the letter.

"Your Royal Highness, Princess Celestia of Canterlot", the letter began,

"It has to be noted that earlier this afternoon, a giant blue metal machine fell from the sky, and crashed to the ground outside of the Everfree Forest. A few brave souls went to investigate, and they found that the damaged craft contained a lone occupant; a strange, bipedal creature from another planet called Earth. He was found injured, and is currently being cared for here by our hospital staff. The male creature, (called a 'human') seems to be/have been a soldier in his home country, called 'America'. He is rather hard to describe unless you see him in person, but he stands on two legs, has very little fur, mostly flesh, and he has a brown mane, blue eyes, and is a warm-blooded mammal of about 25 years of age.

It must also be brought to royal attention", the letter continued, "That the human is sentient, as well as highly intelligent, having an IQ of 120. He also speaks our language fluently, most likely suggesting that we share the same native tongue. I am however concerned about this creature's arrival", the doctor warned. "His purpose here is still unknown, and I personally do not trust him. Since neither I, nor my staff, know what to do with him, I therefore inquire of you for advice on how to proceed with this matter. I will anxiously be awaiting your reply.

Your Faithful Servant,
Doctor Stables, Head of the Ponyville General Hospital"

Celestia sat back on her throne with a look of more than a little mild shock on her face.

"So it did work after all", She thought to herself, "Just not in the way that I was expecting!"

She then wrote a reply to the doctor.

"My faithful Doctor", she wrote,

"This human creature that you have brought to your hospital for treatment was brought to Equestria accidentally during an experiment conducted earlier this afternoon here in Canterlot. The purpose of this experiment was to explore this 'Earth' via a magic portal, but it only revealed a dark ocean during a thunderstorm, with no land in sight. The human's craft must have gotten sucked inside the portal unseen at some point, and crashed not long afterwards where you found him. It is in my full interest for me to meet this creature. Bring him before me tomorrow afternoon, and I will decide for myself what his intentions are, and whether or not he will live among us, or return from whence he came. Please bring him before me tomorrow at exactly 4:00 sharp. I will be awaiting his arrival with great anticipation.

Your Princess in Canterlot,
Celestia."

After Celestia was done writing the letter, she gave it back to the guard, who left to give it to the messenger, who in turn left to go give it back to the doctor. Once this was complete, Celestia summoned one of her servants.

"Fair servant?"

"Yes, My princess?" The maid asked.

"We will be having a very special guest at the castle tomorrow, and I would like accommodations made up for him, as well as the Head Doctor of the Ponyville General Hospital, and two or three other medical staff. Also, please inform the castle cooks and serving staff to prepare a banquet in the banqueting hall for our guests's dinner."

"Yes Ma'am!"

The maid turned to leave, but she turned back for a moment longer.

"Um, if I may ask, my princess, who is coming tomorrow, and why does he need a full medical entourage?"

"Our guest has traveled a great distance from another world to get here, and was injured upon his arrival. He's here thanks to an experiment that I performed earlier this afternoon."

With that, the maid nodded, and went off to fulfill the princess's wishes, while Celestia made her own preparations for her meeting the next afternoon.


Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, the hospital's day shift was ending. The hospital worked round the clock, but it was often very quiet at night. The head doctor was sitting in his office.

"It's outrageous!" He muttered angrily to himself. "Having a creature like that here in MY hospital, and sleeping with a nurse! It's simply ludicrous!"

(A bit earlier that evening, the doctor was making his rounds, and his last stop was the room where Taylor was staying under Redheart's care. He was rather scared about opening the door, fearing that he might find Redheart dead on the floor, and Taylor standing over her lifeless body, or any number of other nightmarish scenarios. When he finally did open the door, he could only gasp in horror, as the scene in front of him, was worse than he could have possibly imagined!

Taylor was sleeping on his mattresses, his jacket and shirt were folded neatly in a small pile, and his shoes and socks were in front of them. Taylor was underneath his blankets, sound asleep, seemingly sleeping very comfortably. But what the doctor had found so disturbing though was Redheart's methods of "patient comforting". She was asleep on the same mattresses, her forelegs were wrapped around Taylor, and his arms were wrapped around her. Redheart's head was snuggled against Taylor's chest, and her tail was partially wrapped around him as well. On the night table next to the bed, the doctor saw Redheart's nurse's cap, as well as the ties that she used to keep her mane in a bun most of the time.

Her mane was currently free, hanging down her neck. Both of the makeshift bed's occupants were smiling in their sleep, and after looking at them for a minute or two, the doctor closed the door again, and trudged back to his office.)

He was still muttering when there was a knock on his door.

"Come in."

The door opened, and the messenger walked in. He was red in the face, and completely out of breath. Instead of talking, he handed the doctor Celestia's letter.

"Is this the Princess's reply?"

The messenger could only nod. The doctor then took the note, and read it.

"WHAT?!?!?!?!" He almost shrieked. "THE PRINCESS WANTS TO MEET WITH HIM IN CANTERLOT TOMORROW AFTERNOON?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Wh-wh-what.....who....? Oh Celestia my nerves......Nurse?!" He stammered into his intercom, "Please bring me a sample of formaldehyde. I think I'm going to........"

The doctor then fainted. The messenger went over to him, and smacked him in the face with his wings, but there was no response from the doctor. A few moments later however, the doctor's nurse assistant, Nurse Starlight, walked in with the requested sample. After reviving the doctor, he climbed back into his chair.

"Nurse Starlight?" he asked her.

"Yes doctor?"

"Pack your bags. We're going to be leaving on the 12:00 train to Canterlot tomorrow afternoon. Bring everything that you'll need, (and everything that I'll need!) for the next two days or so.

"What, why?" Nurse Starlight was very confused.

"The Princess has asked me to present the human to her tomorrow at precisely 4:00. So he goes, I go, you go, and hmm..." the doctor pondered. "And I suppose that we'll need one more nurse to come along as well to help monitor his condition."

"What about Miss Redheart? She seems well suited for the role, and I'm sure that Mr. Taylor would love to have her along."

Against his better judgement, the doctor agreed to bring Redheart along to help monitor Taylor's condition.

"What about me sir?"

The doctor had forgotten about the messenger.

"You need to go home and relax for a while. You've more than earned your pay for today."

"Thank you sir, I will!"

After the messenger left, and Nurse Starlight went to go pack the necessary items, the doctor spent the rest of his waking hours that night gathering together all of the medical files that he and his staff had gathered together on Taylor earlier that day, and packed them up for the trip to Canterlot.

He was still very uncertain about the whole affair. While he still didn't completely trust Taylor, or approved of his relationship with Redheart, he did feel a sense of pride.

"My whole family will be very proud of me", he mused. "Generations of doctors, all favored by high society, and now I get to present a new species to Princess Celestia herself! This will surely ensure that my legacy will live on for generations to come!"

The doctor went to bed that night, wondering what the next day would bring.