Pain. That is what I feel. I try to open my eyes, but when I do, I have something covering my face. Then I hear yelling. The noise hurts my head.
“Get the morphine, get the morphine! She’s coming to. The patient is waking up. Quick. Give me that! Put it in her leg!” The voice moved what was covering my face, and I felt a poke in my leg.The pain went away. I looked up before blacking out, and what I noticed, was that I couldn’t move my head. It was stuck in place. The room was bright. All I could see was a light. There was pressure in my head. I then felt dizzy. I felt like i was falling, and then the world became fuzzy and distant. Then it disappeared.
When I woke up again, I was in a room. I looked to my left and saw a weird machine. It’s my heart rate. How did I know that? I don’t remember anything. Why was I here? Does anypony know I’m here? Wait, do I know anypony? Wait, Who am I?
I start to sit up, but the pain in my head comes back. “Ughhh” I whimper. The pain is horrible.
A voice began to talk, I didn't realize I wasn’t alone. “Easy now. Just take it slowly. You just got out of critical condition. Here, take this,” The voice says, handing me a cup and two pills. I look up and notice it’s a stallion. A doctor. I tell myself. “This will make the pain go away.” I didn’t hesitate in swallowing the pills. They were the big kind though, and they tasted nasty.
The doctor got up and looked to me and then smiled. He then began to walk to the door to the room and exited. Seconds later, it opened and five Mares entered. One was a orange earth pony with a cowboy hat and a blonde mane. She was followed by a yellow pegasus with a pink mane who just walked in, and looked at the ground timidly. Then a White unicorn with a purple mane. Then a purple pegasus, er uh, unicorn, I mean alicorn came in and smiled to me. After she entered, a flash of pink zoomed in and stopped just inches from my face. I recoil out of shock. Who is this pink pony? Who are these ponies? Who am I?
“Hey, Dashie. Feeling better? Maybewhenyougetouticanthrowa’rainbowdashisbetterparty’!!” Shouts the pink one in my face. I don’t know why, but I whimper and stick my head under the covers. I feel a strange fear. I hope they don’t see how much I’m shaking.
I hear a voice calm, but stern like a parent talk. “Now Pinkie, ya’ know RD here just got out of bad condition. She needs quiet. Not an overactive pony causin’ a ton a fracus and what not.”
“Sorry”
I hear another voice, calm, but seemed to sound funny, it had a ‘Proper’ accent about it. “Now Rainbow, darling, it’s okay. So how are you feeling?” She questions.
Who is Rainbow? Who is Dashie? Am I the one they’re talking too? I can’t think straight. My voice is gone. I can’t talk. Could I ever talk? I hear them murmur around me. but I don’t do a thing. I hope that it all ends, that I disapear from here. Thats when I feel something touch my side from outside my makeshift barrier. I jumped and yelped, but didn’t peek out. A voice followed after that was soothing, and level. Like a mother.
“Rainbow, you okay?”
I don’t answer. Can’t find my voice. Stuck. I’m stuck, I can’t move. Then I feel something grab my barrier, and move down under my face. The alicorn from earlier. She looked at me in concern. I just looked straight ahead. I could see her face out of the corner of my eyes.
“Rainbow?”
I don’t do anything. I am stuck. I finally find my voice, and quietly whisper, not so much to her, but to myself, “Who is Rainbow?”
She heard, and stiffened. I don’t know how I know, I just do. She just sighs and laughs to herself. She doesn’t know I’m clueless about who this Rainbow is. She then tells me something I don’t quite understand.
“She is our friend. We love her. We couldn’t live without her.”
I look at her. My face showing nothing but seriousness. And the second I make eye contact with her, she backs away confused. I ask again, so she can hear.
“No, who is rainbow?”
Her face contorts to that of real confusion. Then her eyes widen and she backs away. She looks from me to her friends. She then starts talking.
“Hey, guys. Can you guys step out real quick?” The pink one was about to say something, when a the orange one just grabbed her tail slightly then started walking out. The pink one just sighs, “Oh, okay.” The white one looked at me in concern for a second, before she decides not to question me further, then trots out of the room.
When they were done leaving, the alicorn just looked at the door. She got up and looked back to the door, with a face full of worry. She then left the room without a word to me.
Why would she worry about me? She kept calling me Rainbow. Hopefully the craziness is over. I just now start to feel tired and my head hurts a little from what just happened. I decided to lay my head down on the pillow and try to sleep. I really am tired. I yawn and somehow, find myself sleeping. I wake up in what felt like seconds, because the door opens and the doctor from earlier enters.
He looks to me. His face wearing a warm, welcoming smile. He pulls up a chair from a table beside the bed and sits down. I just look at him. He looks back to me. We sit here for a few seconds, then he pulls out a pen and a clipboard from nowhere. He looks to me and starts to clear his throat. He then begins to question me.
The questioning lasted about ten minutes. All the questions I knew the answers too were that of how I felt. I didn’t understand what the questions were for. At the end the doctor just shook his head and sighed. He left the room. I heard voices outside the door when he closed it. Out of curiousity, I tried to get up. It took a second. My legs were wobbly. I had to learns how to walk. I finally was able to walk to the door, careful not to make too much noise to arouse any suspicion. I put a ear near the door. I dared not touch it, as if the act would get me caught. What I heard from out there confused me further.
“Well, from what I could gather, she has complete amnesia.” Said the doctor.
“What?!” Said multiple voices. they sounded like the ones from earlier.
“I’m afraid so.” He replies.
Then what sounded like the orange one, began to speak. “Well, why don’t you use that memory spell, like during the discord accident, Twi?”
“I’m afraid that won’t work. You guys had your memories, just lost yourselfs.” Said the alicorn. She must be ‘Twi’. I’m not following what they’re saying. I just shake my head and walk away. I find a bathroom in my room and enter it. I look into the mirror and study myself.
I have magenta eyes. Thats what I notice first. My eyes. I then begin to explore the rest of my face. I have a cyan coat color. How did I know what colors those are? Cyan? Magenta? I continue on, not thinking anymore on this, I just trusted it. I look down my back. I have wings, so I guess I’m a pegasus. Anyways, I look to my mane, I would say what color it was, but it was multiple. It had the colors of the rainbow. Rainbow. Why did that stick out? Then it hit me. It was that name the alicorn called me. Wait. Then that means. I’m Rainbow. But I’ve never met them before. I can’t be her. What is going on? My head hurts now. I look down, and see my hooves on the ground. The ground seems to be miles away. I get a weird feeling in my gut. Then I get scared, Because I begin to fall. I’m falling, the trip takes forever, and I can’t stop my heart from pounding. I’m afraid it’ll leap out of my chest. I begin to scream. Low at first, then louder. I hear the door open behind me. I feel a hoof grab me. it pulls me back to reality. I look back to see the doctor try to help me stand back up. I was on the ground. When did I get here? I don’t stand up. Afraid of being away from the ground. I don’t ever want to fall again.
The ponies from earlier are standing outside the bathroom door. The pink one looks at me in worry. “Rainbow Dash, are you okay?”
The question hit me hard. I am Rainbow, aren’t I? But. But. I Feel dizzy. I look at them one more time. Their faces fading away. They continued to fade, until they were replaced by black.