The soft beeping of an EKG woke the marine from his slumber. He cracked open his heavy eyelids and gazed around the room. A standard sanitary hospital room with a few machines and a curtain divider. He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed, taking a moments respite from all thoughts. Taking a deep breath and clenching his eyes he gathered up his energy and heaved himself up into a sitting position. Remembering last nights events he took a moment to gaze down at his body, or more specifically, his side. He found there was no cut, no bruise, not even a scar. And he felt just fine. He wasn't even very tired, he felt like he had just woken up at the right time and was set to take on the day.
He heaved himself out of bed and walked to the door and as he reached for the handle the door opened, and a white pony with a pink mane was in the door frame.
"Oh! hello there, glad to see you're up!"
"Yeah thanks, I feel a LOT better. what did y'all do?"
"Well, us doctors and nurses didn't do anything,if you wanna thank anyone, thank the princess" at this she stepped to the side and the gently smiling form of Princess Celestia took up the door frame
"When we found you in the state you were in we were a bit worried for your health. Fortunately, Twilight had the great idea of bringing you back to the epitome of health with the Elements of Harmony. Normally, with a threat to Equestria I wouldn't dare move the elements; however, we believe you deserved some special treatment considering your situation."
"Well thank you Princess. I appreciate it."
"You're welcome. Care to take a tour of the town? Twilight and her friends are waiting right outside the hospital if you would want to."
"Uh, sure. Just let me get dressed"
"Alright then. I hope we meet again soon." At this she walked off and the nurse quietly closed the door giving the marine a gentle smile and pointed at the dresser in the corner of the room that he had failed to notice. He grinned back at her as the door clicked shut." inside the dresser he found a very limited selection of clothes. suit, BDUs, rotted shirt, towel. There wasn't really much selection and he was sick and tired of his shirt so he slapped on his BDUs and carefully slid his derringer handgun into his pocket.
The derringer pistol is a dual barreled handgun typically carried for self defense. In Victors case in Iraq he kept it down where the sun don't shine due to his mild paranoia at getting captured. Now here in Equestria he was carrying his gun in his pocket. He knew he wouldn't need it in the land of brightly colored ponies but he just felt naked when walking around unarmed.
Flicking open his shades and putting them on he left the hospital and met the six ponies outside.
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yeah, yeah this chapter's short. but hey, next ones gonna have the first gun violence in Equestria! No spoilers but someone dies.