I lied there in the now sweat-covered bed for a few minutes, pondering everything about the dream i'd just had. I really hope I hadn't fucked up on that part, because I knew my actions were most likely going to bite me in the ass sooner or later. While staring up at the ceiling, my eyes wide open, and my mind filled with worry, I noticed the door open from across the room once more. The same doctor from last night, had trotted in, noticing immediately that I was awake.
“Oh, you’re awake now; do you think that you’re ready to head out now?” He said to me, whilst readjusting his glasses momentarily. I sat there for a moment, and turned my head to look out the window, to see an orange glow in the sky, some stars still visible.
“Uh, yeah, doc, I think I’m ready to head out now,” I replied, now leaning to get off the bed, partially wobbling my legs upon contact with the floor.
“Do you need assistance, sir?” He asked, noticing my momentary struggle with standing, as I began correcting myself, now standing normally again.
“Oh, no thank you, I’m good,” I said, as I walked through the open doorway, just passed him, ready to head out as soon as possible. I paused in my tracks and turned around to face him for a moment, raising my hoof as I was about to ask him directions to the main entrance.
“Down the stairs, to your left, and follow it straight forward until you see the main entrance,” He said abruptly, before I had a chance to even open my mouth. I laughed a little bit after that, waving my hoof before turning around to head out.
“Thanks,” I said, now taking said directions.
I have to admit, climbing down the stairs on all fours, was so strange, not to mention I almost fell a few times, adjusting myself as frequently as possible. Thank god no one was around to see that. After reaching the bottom of the stairway, I notice the entrance at the end of the long hallway, so I started lightly trotting towards it, turning my head towards some of the doors as I passed them by, expecting to hear something. By the time I reached the entrance, to my right, there was a pony walking by. She had a white coat, with a pink mane, and her hair tied up in a bun behind her head.
“Thank you, take care, come again,” She half-mindedly said to me, still walking in the opposite direction, as I pushed the doors open with my head. I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the, ‘come again’ part. I rolled my eyes, and passed through the small anteroom, now standing outside the building entrance.
As I let the cool breeze wash over me, cooling me off significantly, after being inside for so long. I looked around, expecting to see other ponies around me, but there was no one. It was empty for the most part, the only sound, being the occasional chirping of the bird flying by, which made me think about my wings for a moment.
Now being at least a quarter-mile away from the hospital, walking along the light-colored dirt path, I decided to experiment with my wings a little bit, my goal, being to at least hover off the ground.
After what seemed like an hour, of awkwardly flapping my wings, trying to get a good feel for them, I eventually managed to flap them properly, my body now hovering mere inches off the ground, but still wobbling a little bit. I knew it wasn't that much, but holy shit, I felt like a total bossatronio right then and there! (Points to those who get that reference)
Aside from the flying (or hovering in my case), my wings eventually got really tired from trying so much, so I decided to give up on that for a little while, and keep on walking towards Ponyville, which I could see vaguely in the distance.
I immediately began thinking about what I had thought when I had first showed up, why I was here to begin with. Was it by sheer luck, or was it my destiny? All I knew for the time being was that I didn't trust any of the princesses with my situation, considering Luna was pretty damn straight forward with wanting to know, and quite frankly, I didn't want to get banished to the moon or some shit like that. At least I didn't have to worry about her invading my dreams again, due to my extensive knowledge of lucid dreaming, including how to wake up from one at will, which thankfully still applied to me, even in this world.
Not too long afterward, the sky began turning significantly brighter by the minute, its rays beaming through the clouds overhead.
After a while of walking, my legs almost cramped up on me from being so sore, I had to pause in my tracks and sit down for a little while, getting a slight shiver from the slight chilliness of the wind, and the dark shadows of the tall trees. I then noticed a large, flat-topped rock, off to my right, peaking just above the tops of the trees themselves. It gave me a little idea. With my still clumsy wings, I managed to fly up there briefly, somehow making a smooth landing on my hoofs on top of it. After feeling proud of myself for managing that, I lay flat on my back, soaking in the now, well balanced mix of cool temperature, and sunlight. I didn't close my eyes or anything; considering I was already wide enough awake as is, so i just relaxed.
Not a minute later, I lift up my head from my arms folded behind my head, as I heard fast paced, light galloping in the distance, followed by high-pitched giggling sounds. I leaned my head over the edge, to see Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle running past, them not seeming to have noticed me up above. I let out a small, slightly inaudible laugh by the time they were well out of sight, before a thought had struck me.
'Where am I in the show right now?'
Of course, I was referring to whether I was in the chronological setting of season 1, 2, 3, or 4. I couldn't think of any way to figure that out for now, so I left that thought alone, but still kept it lingering in the back of my mind. If I was however, around the beginning of it all, then I already knew everything that was going to happen in the future, even more so than Pinkie Pie’s legendary ‘Pinkie Sense’.
That simultaneously made me worried though, because I didn't want to be in any bad positions, like discord roaming free, or something of the sort. Even though Discord is actually one of my more favorite characters, mostly due to the fact (evil or not) that he was an absolute master of dicking with everyone.
After a good half hour, I’d gotten bored of lying down, so I hopped down off the edge of the rock, using my wings to lighten the fall, which was still pretty damn cool to me. I then set course for Ponyville, which was a short walk from the looks of it. It occurred to me that I wouldn't know what to do, even when I reached Ponyville. I disregarded it though, letting whatever what was about to happen, happen.
I’d finally reached the buildings, the town near abandoned, only a few ponies wandering the dirt streets. It was still early in the morning, so I figured not many ponies would be awake now.
As I wandered past the food stands, observing the buildings surrounding me, I began thinking deeply.
'Should I talk to Twilight about everything that has happened?' I thought to myself out of curiosity. I knew that off-hand; it was probably a really bad idea. I couldn't help it though. I just got sucked into this world for God-knows why, and I can’t say a word to anyone about it.
Right then and there, in mid-walk, I had frozen in my tracks, as if my entire body had just been paralyzed. The world around me began to ripple like the surface of disturbed water for a moment, until the tall blue princess stood before me, her expression, the same as before, but this time, much more serious, as if she was going to snap my neck at any second. I stood there, struggling to move, as she approached calmly, her eyes locked onto mine.
“So, I see that you too, have mastered the art of dream control, not many can do such a thing,” She said, her voice more intimidating than ever before.
I felt a mix of slight flattery, and utter fear (mostly fear), as I tried the same methods as before attempting to wake myself up, with all of my will power. Soon, after even mentally struggling, my surroundings began slowly fading away, that is, until Luna’s horn immediately glowed a luminescent shade of blue, and my surroundings had returned back to normal, my body still invisibly bonded to the ground.
“Shit!” I mentally shouted, 'Guess I knew this would be coming at one point or another.'
“I’m afraid that that won’t help you this time,” She said, now approaching me closer, until she was a solid 3 feet away from me.
“Now then, as I had asked you once before,” Her voice filled with dead-set determination, “Who are you, and how did you get here?”