Chapter 10: The Final Day
(Quick prestory note: now double periods (..) are POV changes and (…) Is a time shift)
I woke up in a hospital bed in some strange hospital in some state I didn’t know.
“Ugh” I groaned as I lied up in my bed, wearing a hospital gown. Rick was next to my bed, along with the others, except Dashie.
“Where am I?” I asked, finally getting a hold of my surroundings.
“Tennessee” Rick replied.
“Why?”
“Because, it has the best hospitals I could find” He replied.
I nodded in acknowledgement and looked at the others, that’s when I noticed something was off.
“Where’s Dashie?” I asked, finding her absence a little shocking.
“She-uh, hasn’t talked to us since you were shot” Rarity said nervously.
“Why not?” I asked again “And how long was I out?”
“We don’t know the answer to the first, and roughly 3 months” Rick said. That’s when I noticed he was holding Fluttershy’s hand.
“THREE MONTHS?” I asked, dumbfounded.
“Yeah, it was a special bullet, magical fragmentation, it stopped 3 centimeters from your spine, they had to keep you under to make sure everything was okay.” Twilight said.
“But three months?” I asked, still confused “Isn’t that a little, I don’t know, excessive?”
“Meh, whatever the doctors say” Rick said.
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It was about 5 hours after that when I was sent through my first round of physical therapy. It wasn’t to difficult, mostly just rebuilding my muscles that failed due to lack of movement.
Within two weeks I was free to go, then the issue was getting home since Rick had my portal gun. I decided to call him to get me.
However, turns out I didn’t need to because he and Fluttershy were going for a stroll through town and happened to be going the hospital.
“Hey Rick!’ I shouted to him, he looked and I waved him over.
“Well looks finally back to civilization” Rick said jokingly.
“Ha ha, very funny” I said. “How long have you two been together?” I asked, motioning to their locked hands.
“About 2 months” Rick said, looking at Fluttershy and smiling.
“By the way, what happened to the war?” I asked, wondering why everyone was on Earth.
“Well, we found Celestia in the old castle, pretty stupid hiding place really, then we freed her and, it was just awesome” Rick said “Come on, the others will want to see you”
So we walked to the hotel they were staying at and Rick and Fluttershy explained almost everything on the way over. I won’t bore you with it because I’m a nice narrator.
When we walked in Rick asked for an extra key to room 302 for me, since I was checked in there and gave it to me and we went down the hall to the elevator to go to the third floor.
When we decided to go our separate ways I asked Rick for my portal gun back, and he said it was in my room already. I thanked him and walked inside.
As I walked through I was quickly assaulted by a very familiar purple clothes wearing human known as Twilight.
She quickly kissed me before letting me go and smiling.
I smiled back and asked her where the portal gun was.
She pointed to my bed and I thanked her.
“Where are you going?” She asked.
“I got to talk some sense into Rainbow” I replied, setting the portal by hand this time.
“She won’t listen to reason from anyone” Twilight said “I don’t know what you did, but the princesses can’t even get through to her”
“I plan to best them” I said before shooting my portal into the wall and entering Ponyville, in all it’s war ravaged glory.
I looked around to find some, not all, but some of the ponies walking around and surveying the damage.
I decided the best place to look would be Cloudsdale so I flew up there in my fancy flying Bathtub that I forgot about until now.
I guess a lot happened because the air was rather empty, which was rather strange to me because a lot of stuff usually happens up there.
I finally got to Cloudsdale and put my tub away, that still sounds so strange when I say it like that, and walked up to Dash’s house.
I knocked on the door and waited, and waited, and waited.
I finally got sick of the “and waiting” thought’s going through my head so I decided to take the initiative.
I shot a portal through her wall and through a conveniently open second floor window and went inside the awesome way.
After I got inside I realized she wasn’t there, but there was a note. I had a bad feeling it wasn’t a “Gone to lunch” note either.
I ran over to it and began reading. The further I got the worse I knew it was.
“To whomever reads this note, I want you to know that I will not be coming back to this house. I have decided that this life was fun but now it’s time to see if I can make a sonic rainboom all the to Coltna (That’s China to all you humans) and want to thank all my friends for being so supportive.
Sincerely, Rainbow Dash”
“Shit” Was the only thing I said before flying out the window, getting my tub, and speeding off to the place I knew she would go.
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I don’t know why Alex needed the portal gun but I got the feeling it wasn’t good.
I decided not to worry though and I joined my friends in the lobby for a nice, rousing game of Apples to Apples, after explaining how to play because they had never heard of it.
..
I found Rainbow climbing up to an obscene height and turning towards the ground, I knew time was running out.
“Rainbow, Don’t do this!” I shouted.
“Why not? It’s not like my life could get any worse from now, what else can I do?” She replied.
“Well, you can not kill yourself for one” I said “And second I just want to talk”
“Why? You want to brag about your relationship with that tramp Twilight?” She shouted down.
“No, far from it. Look, I love you ok. I just love Twilight more. I care about all my friends, and they care about you too” I shouted back.
She just looked at me for a minute. At least I think she did, it was kind of hard from about 500 feet below her. Finally she slowly flew back down.
“I guess you’re right. I’m sorry I thought like that, my life has just been total shit lately” She said.
Then I heard a commotion below and looked down and saw a crowd of about 50 ponies, including the Princesses, below us.
“Well, looks we drew quite a crowd.” I said “You know this might cause some sort of mental rehab right?” I asked her.
She nodded and flew down and was quickly met by 2 doctors who began asking her questions. I flew down in front of the Princesses and put my tub away before looking at them.
“What was that?” Asked Celestia, obviously frightened by what just happened.
“Dashie just tried to end her life, I stopped her, glad I came when I did” I replied, looking at her.
“Well, that was probably enough scares for a while I think” She said. I didn’t realize it before now, probably because I hadn’t seen my family in months, but Celestia looked a lot older than before the conflict.
Finally I couldn’t resist. I ran up and hugged her, just glad to be around my true family. She hugged me back.
“I missed you so much mom.” I said “Same to you Aunt Luna” I said hugging her when she walked over.
They both hugged me and for the first time in the whole time I was awake after the accident I felt truly loved.
Now, don’t get me wrong, the hospital staff was nice, but nothing can beat being around family again.
I sighed and looked at both of them. Even after the ordeal you could tell they still had that regal and official aura to them. I then turned to find the whole crowd staring at us. I just smiled and waved to them.
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About three days have passed. I called the others and told them what happened and that I would be back tomorrow, I just wanted to spend time with family.
“It’s been fun, but I don’t think I’ll be coming back for a little bit” I said at breakfast with the Princesses.
“Why not?” Asked Luna, looking at me.
“I love it here, don’t get me wrong, but I think I belong with humans more” I said. Celestia agreed and said I could come back anytime I wanted.
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I arrived back outside the hotel to find Rick and the others checking out. As I walked in I was assaulted by hugs.
We all turned in our room keys and began our journey back home. This ordeal got me thinking a lot, and I decided that despite everything, the last day always seems to sneak up on you and hit you hard. You just need to remember to fight through to the end, and eventually everything will improve.