It had been a week since the strange pod landed on the library. Since then, it had been unopened. Moved to the hospital for when it did and whatever was inside needed medical attention. Dusk came every day to see it, documenting any things he found or suspected about it.
On the ninth day however, he ran out of ink. His friends, Rainbow Blitz, Elusive, Berry Bubble, Butterscotch and Applejack had decided to see this mystery pod.
It wasn’t until just a little after they arrived that the pod did anything...
Sabrina
My head was pounding. A wall of green blocked my line of sight but I don’t remember doing that. I tried to move my hand up to my eyes, to try and see if anything was over my eyes, but some leaf stopped them.
Bits and pieces came back to me. Black figures, chants, something that sounded like a rushing river.
‘Good morning Sleeping Beauty!’ I heard. I thought something was about to attack until I remembered a little more. A lone plant had come up to me. I made a cocoon to keep me alive. But then there’s darkness.
“How long was I out?” I asked the cocoon. My voice sounded a little scratchy.
‘Nine Days. All of which I spent saving your witch ass from bleeding through me.’ Dang, why did she have to have an attitude?
“Could you maybe get me out?” I asked, my voice slowly coming back to normal.
‘I could. But you’ll wish I didn’t.’ Now she wanted to play hardball.
“What, I’m not missing half a leg am I?” I joked.
‘I warned you Sabrina. You’re gonna regret this.’ Slowly she retreated around my eyes.
A blinding white light was it at first. The walls of the cocoon retracted, giving me the room to lift my arms out and use them to pull me out.
“You’re right Cocoon, the color in this room is already making me blind. My eyes!” I joked. The room was white as a cloud. The only color was the cocoon and me. I gave myself a quick look.
I was wearing my favorite midnight blue tank top with white rhinestones on it, making it look like a starry night, with the light blue wrap to put over my shoulders. It reminded me of Princess Luna after the Mane 6 used the Elements of Harmony on her. It was my favorite t-shirt. My good jeggings (jeans mixed with leggings) had a small tear by the ankle but other than that nothing seemed wrong with my outfit.
‘Here they come. You have been warned.’ Oh, now she was gonna be all vague.
The white door opened and I felt defeated. I hated when the plants were smarter than me.
Stallions. Five Stallions. All of them resembling the Mane Six minus Twilight’s double. Okay, not the time to panic. I can start panicking when Twilight’s double decides to run tests on me.
Pinkie Pie’s double bounced up to me.
“Hey my name’s Berry Bubble but all my friends call me Berry, me and my friends were watching you to see what was inside the green thing but for a REALLY long time nothing happened and Blitz starting groaning about it but the we saw you come out and I was like *GASP* so we ran in here to see you!” Man, he could talk. “What’s your name?”
Time for a little fun.
“Ok Bubble. How about we play a game?” I asked him. His bright blue eyes dilated.
“A GAME!” He nearly shouted in my face.
“Yeah. I guessing game. If I can correctly guess one fact about each one of you then I’ll tell you my name.”
“What if you lose?” Asked Rainbow Dash’s double. I laughed.
“Then I’ll chew my hand off and shave my head.” RD’s double stared at me, a little alarmingly. “What do you say Bubble?”
“Hmm... OK!”
“BERRY!” The others yelled.
Fully prepared to scare the hell outta them, I began walking up to each stallion. Bubble first.
“You, are gonna throw me a welcoming party with everyone in town present.” Bubble nodded enthusiastically. I walked up a familiar cyan pegasus. “You don’t like me. Somewhere in your name is the word Rainbow. Finally you have an ego the size of the moon.” The double gave me the evil eye while some of is friends laughed at my rightness. They didn’t know they were next.
Rarity’s stallion double was next.
“Why, somepony of your sophistication must be a VERY high profile designer. You design suits don’t you?” The double looked like he appreciated the kind words and even better when I guessed correctly. TIme for Applejack’s double.
“You’re a family guy. You’re name has apple in it based on the tattoo on your behind. You are also in a grudge match with Rainbow over there.” Male Applejack laughed. Rainbow just mumbled angrily.
Fluttershy’s double was next but my guess was he didn’t want a lot of attention.
“The last member of your group is very shy. He loves animals and would go as far as putting themselves at risk to help a fallen creature.” Tuning back to the pink earth stallion. “How many did I get right Bubble?” The stallions had been left speechless, minus Bubble, at how close I got them right.
“ALL OF THEM!” Bubble shouted joyfully. I laughed as he bounced around each of them and began introducing the rest of the stallions.
“This is Rainbow Blitz. This is Elusive. This is Applejack and this is Butterscotch.”
“My name is Sabrina, nice to meet you all.” I greeted.
“And all that’s left is Dusk but he went get some more ink. He should be back really soon!” Bubble said.
No sooner had he said that, I detected another presence coming. It had a friend too.
Preparing myself for an on slot of questions. If I knew Twilight Sparkle, a little thing like her gender wouldn’t change her nerd-like attitude. It would be fun for Bubble to explain how I guessed about his friends. Blowing a book nerd’s mind was always a fun time, or at least it was...
Until my eyes locked with his purple ones.
Dusk
With a full glass of ink and Spines sitting happily on my back, I walked into the observation room of the hospital. The others were gone but I noticed the familiar pink tail of Butterscotch inside the room where we kept the pod.
“What are they doing in there?” Spines asked as she hopped off my back.
“Let’s go see.” We began walking over, Butterscotch saw us and moved so we could get in.
I saw the pod, broken and empty, and Berry bouncing around somepony.
She was beautiful.
She looked tall, 5’8”; her brown mane curled down to shoulders and was tied back by a light purple tie. Her coat was pale with a few freckles on her almost heart shaped head. She had two different colored eyes. One of them was near ocean blue with flecks the same shade of green as the Everfree Forest while the other eye was as blue as the sky with flecks of deep red.
Again, she was beautiful.
“Dusk!” Berry said, “This is Sabrina. She came out of the pod and she’s really fun! We played a guessing game and she won!” The stunning creature known now as Sabrina began looking down at her feet.
“She was too good Dusk. She’s got to be a spy!” Rainbow Blitz yelled while pointing a hoof at Sabrina.
“You just proved me right Blitz! I knew you didn’t like me.” Her voice was beautiful and almost alicorn like.
But she been here probably a couple minutes and already she knows Blitz is easily suspicious? She must be good. The two started having a small argument over this.
“Anything to say Dusk? You look like you got really surprised!” Berry said.
I turned to Applejack.
“AJ, how long as she been here?”
“I’d say bout a minute er so. She’s good Dusk. She knew I worked with ma family and I had Apple in my name. She knew Butterscotch was really shy and didn’t look him in the eye.” Applejack explained,
“She even knew I was a designer. A very successful designer I might add.” Elusive pointed out while giving his dark purple mane a toss.
“A DRAGON!” Sabrina suddenly screamed while running up to Spines. “Awesome, I always wanted to see a dragon. And I’m not alone in the fingers department.”
I didn’t notice. She had five fingers on her hooves. Spines was also surprised to see another creature that wasn’t a dragon have fingers.
“My name is Sabrina, what’s yours?”
“You have fingers too!” Was all Spines managed to get out.
“We’ve been over that. I asked you a question too.” Sabrina explained.
“Spines, my name is Spines.”
“That name suits you.” She said before turning to Berry. “Can I guess something about them Berry? Double or nothing bet.”
“Deal,”
“Whoa hold up,” Blitz said, “last time you said if you lost you would shave your head and chew off one of your hands. What is the double for the head shaving?” She bet what?
“You are quite the business colt aren’t you?” Sabrina joked. “If I guess wrong I’ll chew off both my hands, shave my head, and poke an eye out.” She was that confidant she would be right, she must’ve scared these guys pretty hard if she was that reckless with the detachment of body parts.
“Now that is a fun deal.” Blitz stuck a hoof that Sabrina quickly shook.
Sabrina leaned down and whispered something unintelligible to Spines.
“She’s right.” Spines said, laughing a little awkwardly. Sabrina slowly lifted her head up to me.
“Hey, um, Dusk. You love to read. You are a hard worker and you are a very organized pony. Was I right?” Sabrina asked. An awkward smile showed on her face.
“Yeah. It was spot on.” Her smile turned smug and she turned to Blitz.
“And that is how you play Blitz! Oh, and I’m not a spy I’m just amazing at guessing games. Anyone a mile away can guess you have Rainbow in your name so don’t go getting saddle in a twist because I said it." Sabrina told Blitz. He just looked angrier than he did before.
I felt a strange magical essence in the room, Sabrina groaned.
“Shut up Cocoon. The punk disserved it for saying I was a spy!” She yelled at the pod.
We all gave her strange looks.
“Hey haystack, what’cha doin’ yelin’ at them there plant?” Applejack asked Sabrina.
“I can talk to plants, the only downside is they talk back. This one just so happens to have an attitude.” Sabrina explained.
“You talk to plants?” The student inside me was beginning to take over the half that was beginning to like Sabrina.
“Talk, move, grow. If a plant can do it then I can help. Why, do you think that’s cool Dusk?” She asked.
“Of course. There hasn’t been a documented plant controller in Equestria!” Her cheeks reddened.
“Thanks,” Her feet shuffled the white floor. “So, what’s there to do for fun around here?”