Henry groaned as he woke up once again feeling his skin sting 'what the hell was that dream?....god I'm gonna kill Donny when I see him’ he looked around the hospital room finding it was different than one he had in his dream “heh for a second there I was worried it wasn't a dream” he closed his eyes to get some actual rest.
His eyes shot opened wide after realizing his voice was different, he sat up quickly and winced from the burns on his body, he looked around and spotted a mirror across the room but it was facing away from the bed, he groaned annoyed and looked down from the bed, oddly things looked so much farther down now.
He looked at his stumps and messed up legs then back at the floor “I'm not going to like this” he shuffled his body around and tried to get off the bed, he was able to get his legs over the edge but he soon realized without fingers he had nothing to help him hold onto the sheets of the bed.
He started falling backwards “eep!” he let out a cute noise as he fell backwards and then hit the ground, wincing feeling a new pain on his back, he quickly rolled off his back and sighed in relief, he then looked across the room at the mirror, finding he still had a long ways to go.
He looked at his legs, they did not look capable of walking but he had to try, he put his legs under him and pushed himself, his back hurt when he tried to stay upright “ow ow...ok...fight through it….now walk” he winced and moved his right leg forward and proceeded to face plant on the ground.
“Ok….no more walking….let's try crawling” he started pulling himself across the ground wincing, his stumps hurt putting pressure on them, he slowly made his way across the floor, it took him awhile but he finally got to the mirror “oh thank you god….”
Finally at the mirror he still couldn't see himself in it since he was on the ground “dammit….it's like this crap never ends”.
He put his legs under him and pushed himself up, he used the mirror to hold himself up putting his stumps on it for balance, he was looking at his shaking legs as he stood “ha there….ok now my refl-” he froze looking into the mirror.
In front of him was a small yellow horse, it had black hair with a yellow stripe in it, it's eyes were violet colored, it had bandages all over its legs and chest, it had a shocked expression on its face with its mouth open, it was trembling as well.
Henry didn't want to believe what he was thinking but the truth was literally in front of him, he slowly pulled back one of his stumps, the horse did the same, he touched his cheek and the horse did the same.
“That's….that's not me….” He said in a shaky voice, he stumbled back away from the mirror and landed on all fours, surprisingly this was a lot more comfortable but his stumps or hooves still hurt from being burned.
He ignored the pain and continued looking at his new reflection, now on all fours he could see his back better and noticed he had wings, though they were bandaged “that explains the pain on my back.." he flinched hearing that voice again, it seemed to only exist to remind him of his situation.
Looking at his new body he spotted a black lightning bolt on his upper thigh “wait is that because I was hit by lightning? That's fucked up” he frowned looking at it, he reached one of his front legs back to try and touch it only to fall forward, his back legs sticking up in the air, blowing his hair out of his face revealed a very unimpressed expression.
Repositioning himself into sitting upright, he then bent his now much longer neck around to look at the mark, he tried to rub it off with his new hoof but it wouldn't come off, huffing in annoyance he looked around for some water, spotting a glass of water on the table next to the bed he smiled before frowning “I literally just got over here….and now I have to go back….my life blows right now”
Getting ready to crawl back to the bed e stopped and looked down at his four legs “hehe yes! No more crawling, I've walked on all fours as a kid before, shouldn't be too different” he took one step and started falling forward, he quickly put his other leg down “ok…a little different than before….” He took a deep breath and looked at his destination “legs let's do this”.
He stumbled across the room tripping all the way, he kept getting tangled on his own legs “ngh dammit...c'mon...hang on...ok yes!” He slammed into the table next to the bed “ow…” he rubbed his head in pain.
Looking up he saw the glass of water “well I made it….but now how do I get up there?” He looked at the bed a remembered he couldn't grab anything without fingers “maybe I can jump up and grab the bed sheets with my teeth” he turned to the bed and crouched down getting ready to jump.
He jumped up and fell onto the ground “yeah...I don't know why I thought that would work…” getting back up he looked at the bed and frowned at it “I loved beds….but you have turned that love into hate….” He bit the sheet and pulled himself up, he then bit the sheet again pulling himself up further.
His hooves reached over the edge of the bed and he bit the edge pulling himself all the way up, he panted laying on the bed “why….why is everything so difficult…” he looked over to the table at the water, he stood up uneasily because of the bed and made his way to the table.
He looked at the blows and then his hooves once he got to it “well crap….” He slowly put his hooves around the glass and tried lifting up only the glass remained on the table while his hooves went up “hrr” he tried again won't the same results, growling he tried wrapping his arms or front legs around it.
Lifting up he was able to get the glass “haha victory! Wait how am I standing up?” He looked down and saw his back legs standing up but they began shaking before giving out causing him to fall over the edge of the table and onto the ground and he groaned, the glass shattered next to him but the water wasn't in it “where'd the water g-” he looked up and saw the water coming down.
The water fell on to him soaking him completely, he spit out some water “my life officially sucks….” As he laid on the ground the door to the room opened and he saw upside-down a yellow horse with wings and pink hair.
Fluttershy had heard the commotion from outside and had come to see what was happening, she spotted the small filly on the ground all wet with glass on the ground by her “oh my” she quickly walked over to her “are you ok?”
Henry was still having a hard time dealing with the horses here being able to talk, although he was also a horse now so it was at least lucky he could talk, or wait could the horses talk because he now understands horse talk?
He realized the horse was looking at him worriedly most likely because he hadn't answered her “yes…” there's that voice again.
“Oh that's good, but um….why are you on the ground...all wet? If you don't mind me asking” Fluttershy asked.
“I wanted to rub this thing off” he pointed at the mark on his butt still laying upside-down.
“Your cutiemark? Why would you want to rub that off?” She asked confused.
“Cutie what? I want this thing off because it's basically a fuck you to remind me I was hit by lightning” he huffed looking at it.
Fluttershy gasped “a filly shouldn't use that language”.
“Filly? Wait that's a baby horse, oh...that's why I'm small, hang on isn't a filly a girl baby horse? Why would you….” Henry went silent and looked between his legs and what he saw made his eye twitch “FUCK!!!!!” he or rather she screamed.
Fluttershy flinched back at the scream, she quickly left the room and was now face to face with the girls.
“sugarcube was that you who said that?” Applejack asked her, even though she knew Fluttershy would never say something like that, it was either her or the filly.
“No...the little filly did….” Fluttershy said.
“What?” Rarity gasped.
“Woah first time I hear her talk and she says a cuss word” Rainbow Dash smirked.
“Rainbow Dash that isn't a good thing, a filly shouldn't be using that kind of language” Twilight glared.
“Her party may need to be put off” Pinkie frowned sadly.
Twilight face hoofed “these are not the parts of this we should be focusing on girls, let's just go in and see her” she walked into the room followed by the girls.
When they got into the room they found the filly by the mirror with her back end facing the mirror and her neck bent around to look at the mirror, she had a horrified look on her face, all the girls gasped and their faces turned bright red, Twilight quickly used her Mahdi to force them out of the room and closed the door.
“Perhaps she needs a bit more time alone….” Twilight said looking at her friends, Fluttershy had her face covered with her wings as she was on the ground, Applejack looked like she was trying to erase that memory, Rarity fainted, Rainbow Dash was banging her head don the wall, and Pinkie Pie was washing her eyes out with soap and water.
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After the yellow horse left Henry was left staring at the ceiling trying to presses what she just found out about her new gender 'ugh…..I've seen pictures and yet seeing it on your body is so much worse….but how? How could being hit by lightning cause all this?! I'm a fricken horse!! A girl horse!! Last time I checked lightning did not do this to people….wait there were other horses too….that nurse horse had clothes….so than everyone was hit by lightning? But then why are they acting like it was nothing strange…?’ she tried to think of how all this could have happened, but then it struck her just like the lightning had.
'Donny’s machine! Lighting connected with it and I was electrocuted, but he had turned it off….could I have been sucked into another world?? Did I die and my soul was reincarnated into this body?! Why do I have so many unanswered questions?!?!!’ she covered her eyes with her hooves as she tried to calm herself, which was difficult since not only was she in a new world full of colorful talking horses, she herself was one as well as a girl one.
'maybe what I saw was an optical illusion? Yeah maybe since she said filly I imagined I had girl bits, hehe I probably have a concussion and imagine it there yeah….I need the mirror’ she quickly got up running over to the mirror but tripped and stumbled before slamming her face into the wall “ow god….I really really need to learn how to walk….” Luckily she had made it to the mirror, she looked at her reflection and took a deep breath.
She turned around and bent her neck around to look at her reflection, she couldn't see anything though because of her tail being in the way “ugh….wait horses can move their tails…..move….move….move please?” Her tail remained unresponsive, her ears folded back in irritation but instantly got weirded out “eh...my ears moved….so weird” she shook her head and they went back up, looking back at her tail she focused hard on making it move, it twitched before raising and moving “haha success! Now time to see the...truth…” she had looked at the mirror and saw the truth in it's full glory.
her heartbeat picked up and her ears folded back 'why….why couldn't I have imagined it….?’ as she was staring at her reflection her ear twitched as she heard the door opened and a group of gaspes filled the room before the door slammed shut.
She bent her head back forward and sat down, she looked at the floor and her hooves “ok….I'm nowhere near close to having my body...and nowhere near close to being home...wait!! Sam's alone!!! Shit shit shit!!! How do I get home?! Wait maybe one of those horses can help?” She went to run to the door but stopped “no...they won't believe me…. they'll just see me as some kid with that's gone insane….I need to find a way home myself”.
She looked at the window and walked towards it, she pushed it up opening it, she then looked down finding she was on the third floor “crap….these are the times I wish I could...fly” she looked at her back finding the new wings and smiled, she then positioned herself in the window and with some concentration she spread her wings “ok now time to give down onto the ground and search for a way home shouldn't be to hard” she was about to jump when the door opened.
“Um excuse me but are you done...looking in the mirror?” Twilight asked covering her eyes with her wing, when she got no answer she uncovered and found the filly wasn't at the mirror anymore, looking around the room she spotted her in the open window with her wings spread, gasping she ran towards her to grab her.
Henry jumped back in fright as the horse that at her, but she had forgotten she was in the window when she jumped back, she ended up falling out the window her wings doing nothing to help her fall, she screamed as she covered her face as the ground closer, she thought she was going die and leave her brother alone.
But the ground never came, uncovering her eyes she found she was floating just above the ground, she was surrounded by a strange purple glow, she then started floating up and back into the room before being set on the ground, the purple horse in front of him had a glowing horn it was glowing the same color as she was.
“What were you doing?? Are you ok?? You didn't hurt anything right?” Twilight checked the filly all over finding she was fine, she then hugged her in relief “thank Celestia…”
Henry was surprised to be so suddenly hugged, it was odd, she's gotten hugs from her brother of course but the way the purple horse hugged her reminded her of the way her parents had, it was so full of caring and kindness, she missed those hugs so much after they died, she had started to forget the feeling of them, she hated herself so much because of it, how could she forget the loving embrace from her own parents?
But now she was feeling those hugs again, she remembered each of them, tears formed in her eyes as she hugged the purple horse back tightly, tears streaming down her face as she sobbed into the horses fur.
Twilight looked down at the now crying filly 'she must be so scared…..’ Twilight rubbed the filly's back up and down comfortingly “it's ok….let it out” she sat there letting the filly cry.
It had been so long since Henry cried this hard, she had to bottle it up and look brave for her brother, but right now she was able to let it all out.
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Twilight had moved the filly and herself over to the bed, the filly was still crying though a lot less now, she continued to comfort the filly, Twilight heard the door open then and Applejack peaked her head in before spotting them, Twilight put her hoof up to her mouth in the quiet gesture.
Applejack nodded walking over and whispering “is she ok Twi?”
Twilight nodded “she just got scared after falling out the window…”
Applejack looked scared hearing she fell out the window before Twilight calmed her “I caught her she's fine”.
Applejack sighed in relief “you want me to get a doctor?”
“No it's fine, I'm gonna stay with her a bit until she feels better, I'll meet with you girls after ok?” Twilight asked looked at Applejack who nodded smiling as she left the room, Twilight then looked down at the filly “you ok?”
Henry nodded sniffling before her face turned red in embarrassment, she justed sobbed on somebody like a child, she rubbed the tears off her face and turned away from Twilight trying to hide her embarrassment.
Twilight looked confused before smiling slightly “hey it's ok to cry, it helps you feel better, I'm not going to judge you for it”.
Henry turned back around and shuffled closer to Twilight hugging her, the action made Twilight smile and hug her back.