"Is he ok?" Button heard a voice ask.
"Poke him with a stick or something." Said another.
"We should get some help." He heard Sweetie Belle say.
The blackness that once consumed him, was now beginning to fade. He could make out a bunch of heads, looking down at him. In an instant, light flooded in. He covered his eyes with a hoof. Button groaned, and rubbed his throbbing head. He tried to shake away the pain, but that made the pain worse.
"Owww." He moaned. "My heeaaad."
Button sat up. While he rubbed his head, he looked around to see who was with him. He immediately noticed that he was in fact, surrounded by school phillies. Some, he recognized from school. Others, we're completely new to him. He saw that Snips, Snails, Twist, Pip, and the crusaders were all around him. The rest, he either didn't recognize or know at all.
"Woah, kid." An older colt asked. "You alright?"
The colt was the tallest out of them all. Button assumed to be the leader of the group. His coat was a dark blue. He wore a brown baseball cap backwards. The hat, covered most of his mane, except for a patch of hair, that stuck out from the hole in the back of the cap. He looked down at Button. He reached out a hoof to help him up.
Button took the hoof, and was helped up.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Button said, still trying to block out the plain in his little head.
Button just stood there as he was surrounded by phillies and colts. He took the silence and the embarrassment of that situation as a sign to beat it.
"I guess I'll just be going." He said.
Button turned to leave the pack of small ponies, when he bonked muzzles with another pony. He flinched at the sudden impact, closing his eyes. When he opened them, he was face to face with Sweetiebelle. A lump in his throat began to form. He looked nervously at her, as she looked back at him with concern.
Before he could say anything, a hoof reached around him, and pulled him back abruptly. Button stumbled a few steps, before he caught his footing. He was then face to face with another colt. He was shorter than him by only a quarter of an inch. He was a whitish creamy color. His mane was slicked back not from sweat, but from gel.
He moved button's head so he could look at where he was struck.
"Let me see. My mom is a nurse." He said.
Button stood there, confused, and fearful. He felt a hoof touch it, and he jumped back. Button yelped and glared at the pony.
"Ow jeez, that hurt!" Button exclaimed.
"Uh huh. You are gonna be fine. You are going to get a nasty bruise on your head, not to mention that bump that is already forming on your head." He said.
"I just can't believe that you took a hit from Stripe Stride!" A pony to his side exclaimed.
A commotion of ponies all agreed in unison. Button looked around nervously.
"Should I see a doctor?" Button asked.
"Does that even matter? You took a blow from Stripes, himself!" Another pony asked.
"Why? What's the big deal?" Button asked.
"Well he is the best batter on the team. Not to mention he tends to have a good swing." The same pony said.
Button pushed the ponies out of his way to see a doctor. He began to trot. He trotted through town. He looked back, only to see the whole group of ponies following him. Each, wore a guilty face. All except for the crusaders, who gave him a worried look. He trotted into the hospital.
Thirty minuets later, Button's mom was notified and made her way over to the hospital. She came into Button's room. She looked over at Button, who had a ice pack on the side of his head. He saw his mom, and sheepishly waved at her. Button's mom, walked over to him.
"Sweetie, are you alright?" She asked, worriedly.
Button waved it off. "Psssh. I'm fine, Mom." Button assured.
"Can you tell me what happened?" Button's mom asked.
Button explained the whole thing with the baseball and the extreme boredom he had to endure to get in the whole mess. Nurse Redheart, was the nurse who took care of Button. Nurse Redheart grumbled and face hoofed.
"Dang it, Coco." She grumbled.
"Is your kid on that team?" Button's mom asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, he spends most of his weekends playing baseball with those colts. He tends to get into trouble this way."
"It was an accident." Button said.
Nurse Redheart looked at Button. She shrugged, before taking out a clipboard. She read it off to Button, and his mom.
"Ok, it seems that Button, has not suffered from any major or minor traumas. My recommendation, is for him to stay indoors and he rests. Be sure to keep an eye on him." Nurse Redheart explained.
"I will." Button's mom assured.
They both left the hospital ten minuets later. Outside, the whole group of colts waited for them, including the crusaders.
"Hey." Stripes said.
He stepped forward to Button. Stripes reached out a hoof. "Sorry about hitting you."
Button kindly shook his hoof. "It's ok. It's all good."
Stripes took off his cap to reveal his blue hair, with an orange stripe running down the middle. Inside, it was his hat! Button's propeller hat! Button reached up, to feel that his hat, was absent.
"Found it lying on the ground. I must have hit you pretty hard with that baseball." Stripes said.
Button held the hat in his goof. He couldn't put it on, due to the enormous ice pack strapped to his head.
"Gee, thanks!" Button said happily.
Stripes's eyes widened. "Speaking of baseball, why don't you play with us! When you get better!"
The whole group of colts suddenly became excited, wanting Button to join. Button looked uneasily at them.
"Eh I don't know." Button said.
"Why not?" Stripes demanded playfully, shoving him gently in the shoulder.
"Well, I'm not much of a sports pony. Plus, I don't know how to play."
"That's alright! We can teach you!"
"YEAH!" Yelled the rest of the team.
"Ehhh." Button said.
"I think that sounds nice!" Button's mom said happily.
"Naahhh." Button said.
"Come on, Button. The crusaders joined. Why not you?" Stripes asked.
Buttone's eyes widened in disbelief. Sweetiebelle...playing baseball? Oh sweet Celestia! This was his chance to impress her! This was his chance, and he was gonna take it!
"Uhhh...ok ok. Fine." Button decided.
"Alright! See ya later, But!" Stripes said, as he ran away with the rest of the team, including the new recruits.
"Button...what have you gotten yourself into?" he thought to himself.