//------------------------------// // Cliché 2 // Story: Cliché // by Khanathara //------------------------------// Arrival At Pony-er Rockville My vision faded in and out. Dark fog blurred shapes and sounds. Bright lights and slurring colors. "Uhhhg... whath hathend...?" *Beep* "Wah-" *Beep* "Hospital, got i-" *Beep* My vision began to clear. *Beep* 'Alright that's starting to get annoying' *Beep* 'Well this is definitely a hospital room. Smell of sterile cleaner, blank white walls, and annoyingly bright as fuck lights.' *Beep* '... Ignore it. Alright, memories what have thee.' Fear, adrenaline, speed. 'A train.' Gray, female voice, German language. 'Angry or something horse woman.' Grey, male voice, conductor outfit. 'Train conductor, probably. There should be more than tha-' Pink, female, surprised, unsure, scared. 'Ok, something pink surprised me... And now I'm in a hospital... There has to be more to it than that.' Maud let Pinkie know what she was doing and said pink pony decided to go with her to see if she could get the filly to talk to her. The filly however seemed to be distracted as she wasn't reacting to Pinkie unless she shoved her face in to the filly's. It was not long before they came up on the conductor, but when Maud began to explain what happened the filly collapsed. "Conductor, is there a Doctor on the train." Maud asked. "Yes, I'll be right back with the trains physician." The conductor said before he took off further up the train. Maud and Pinkie made sure that the filly had room around her and not long later the conductor was back with the physician. "What happened?" The unicorn questioned as she approached the downed filly. "Idon'tknowshewasuponemomentbeingallgloomyan-" Pinkie continued on with Maud's hoof in her mouth. "She ran alongside the train and jumped on. We were bringing her to the conductor to explain and she collapsed not long after we got up here." Maud said in a calm and clear tone. The physician began to scan the filly with diagnostic spells to try and find out what was wrong. After her spells finished she lifted the foal in her magic brought her to an empty booth. "She is malnourished, severely malnourished. The fact that she was standing at all is a miracle in of itself. We need to get her to a proper hospital as fast as we can. How long before the next stop Stop Watch?" "Uh, two and a half hours. But I can go and talk to the boys in the engine room and bring it closer to an hour." The conductor Stop Watch said. "Then do it fast. You, bring me a water bottle." She said while pointing at one of the crew members. "Pinkie, when we get to the station go and tell the rest of the family what's going on. I'm going to take the filly to the hospital. Got it?" Pinkie saluted at Maud's words as she pulled her hoof out of her mouth. Maud sat in the hospital waiting room talking to one of the local guards to file a report on what had happened while she waited to get word back from the Doctor's. "Thank you Ma'ma. We will look into this as soon as we can." The Solar Guard said as he went to meet his Lunar Guard Partner at the door. Pinkie's timing was perfect as ever as she burst in to the room right as the guards had turned to leave, smashing the double doors into their faces and knocking them to either side of the entrance, and rushed up to her sister. The sisters family was not far behind her and, surprisingly, so were Pinkie's Ponyville friends. But just before any of them could start talking a Doctor came out to speak to her. "You would think someone was righting a story with how convenient that was." Monotone Maud said. "I know, right?" Pinkie rhetorically asked as she popped in beside her sister and they both looked off to the side as if looking at an audience. That is until Pinkie let out a shout. "LINE BREAK!" I need to use the bathroom. I looked to side and saw two doors. One most likely led out into a hall way while the other was probably a bathroom... I hope. Turning over I let myself fall out of bed and on to my hooves. Of course during my fall I felt several things pull on me and fell on my side instead of my hooves with a splash, and I do have to say-"FUCKIN' OWHAHOW!!" I looked back up to the bed to see was just yanked out of me, emphasis on the out of part. Hanging off the edge of the bed I saw some kind of bracelet thing that, paired with the flat line, was probably the heart monitor. Then there was a IV that had been yanked out with a small amount of blood and... is that... That is a Jimmy fucking catheter. Well... considering I don't still have to pee I at least know what that splash was. I need at least three showers now. I thought with a shudder.