I sat up straight and let out a shrill scream. Cold sweat pouring down my face. I looked frantically around the room. The image of what I just saw flashing angrily in my head.
What the &^$& was that? I thought to myself. Then I remembered what had happened prior to the nightmare. I looked around. I was in what seemed to be a hospital bed. There was a window next to me that was allowing pale light to filter in and there was a green curtain next to me. Fluorescent light shone palely above me and aggravated my eyes. The walls were painted an interesting shade of pink that made me believe that I was in a children’s hospital. There was a door near the foot of my bed with a small window. I got out of bed and walked over to the door, the cold tiles stinging my feet as I did so. Peering though the window. All I saw was a long hallway leading into an intersection of sorts. I saw ponies walking about with lab coats on with nurse ponies following closely behind holding up x-rays.
“Yep, this is a hospital…” I said to no one in particular. Suddenly I heard the sound of hooves clacking on the tiles, and then a familiar voice.
“I’m telling you Twilight, I’ve never seen anypony like him before.” I heard Vinyl say from down the hallway. I quickly scrambled back to the bed and jumped under the covers. The bed creaked in rebuttal. And closed my eyes, pretending to be asleep, hoping the bed would stop swaying and making noise.
“Okay Vinyl, I’ll take a look at this patient of yours...” Just then the door opened and I heard the sound of approaching hooves towards my bed. “Hmmmmm, well I will tell you this, he is interesting.” She said thoughtfully. “Let me know when he’s awake so I can have a talk with him.”
“Yeah, sure Twilight. Will do” Vinyl said. “I just can’t believe he’s been out for this long…” This long? How long have I been here? “It’s been almost three days and the doctors say that he was screaming all day yesterday about the moon or something.” Vinyl said. Was she worried? Why did she care so much about someone she just met?
“I know Vinyl,” Twilight said “let’s let him rest for now, how about we get some lunch?” she said quickly.
“Yeah, okay, I am hungry.” Vinyl said “lets go to a café or something.” I heard the sound of their hooves moving slowly away from me. I heard the door shut behind me as they left. I quickly threw the covers off and got out of the bed. The first thing I noticed was that I was in a hospital gown.
Well this is the first thing that has to go. I thought lividly to myself. After searching for a few minutes I managed to find my clothes in the nightstand next to my bed. Then I continued to scope out the rest of the room. I remembered the green curtain that was next to my bed and decided that was a good place to start. I pulled the curtain away. The first thing that struck me about the pony was its mane. It was literally the rainbow. Her fur was a light blue. Her wing was taped up… wait a second… wing? Yep there was no doubt about it, wing. Suddenly my mind flashed back to the nightmare I had. The horrid flapping sound filled my ears. I backed away quickly from the prone pony. Knocking over the curtain as I did. It fell to the floor with a loud clang.
Its eyes flew open to reveal violet pupils. A wave of relief washed over me. They weren’t like the eyes I saw in my nightmare, and I added quickly she also doesn’t have a horn. I sighed, “Sorry I startled you. My names Trusty Gunner, what’s yours?” The pony simply blinked and turned over. “Well that was rude!” I said to the pony “it is common courtesy to say your name when someone introduces themself to you.” The pony said nothing. “Can you not speak?” Still nothing, “well I’m not going to sit here and get ignored by a pony!” I declared indignantly. “If Vinyl and that other pony come back tell them that I am leaving.” I picked up the curtain I tipped over and approached the window.
“Good luck” I heard the pony from behind me croak. “We’re on the second floor, and you don’t have wings or a horn so good luck getting out of here without the doctors or nurses noticing.” She said pessimistically.
“Well aren’t you a ray of sunshine.” I said sarcastically. “I don’t know about you but I want to get the heck home. So goodbye Rainbow pony!”
“My name is Rainbow Dash!” she said indignantly. She rolled her eyes at me and then took pulled the curtain across, obstructing my view of her. I sighed and turned back to the window. The pony was rude but she was right, there was no way I could get out of this hospital by going out the window.
“Whatever!” I said angrily. My blood pressure was rising, and I could feel adrenaline coursing through my veins. “If I can’t out of this place through the window then I’ll just walk right out the front door!” I yelled defiantly at Rainbow Dash.
“Whatever you do just make sure Twilight doesn’t catch you.” She said casually. I stopped at the door.
“Thanks, and I hope you get better soon Rainbow Dash.” Then I opened the door and began to walk out. Then adrenaline began to pump again and I quickly started to run like a madman. Racing down the hallway I began to look for a staircase. I started to get aggravated when I couldn’t find one as quickly as I had hoped.