Derpy awoke in unfamiliar surroundings. She was in a hospital bed. The floor appeared to be very drab linoleum. In front of her a TV was playing some ads for something involving cars. Beside her was a bare night stand. The curtains on the window were drawn closed. Derpy noticed that her clothes had been switched with a hospital gown.
“AAAAA!!!” said Derpy.
“Oh, you’re awake,” said a doctor.
“Oh no! Oh no! I didn’t get horribly injured in my sleep again, did I?” said Derpy, “School starts tomorrow and it’s really important for me to be there!” said Derpy.
The doctor put on a bemused expression.
“You’re perfectly fine… physically,” said the doctor, “Your mom just took you in in order to find some answers to why you have sleeping troubles.”
“Has it really gotten that bad?” said Derpy.
“Pff, I dunno,” said the doctor.
Derpy faced him with an unamused looking stare.
“Anyway, your mother was only letting me keep you here until you woke up,” said the doctor, “but you should really come back here some time.”
“Why?” said Derpy.
“You’re a bit of a medical mystery,” said the doctor, “You’d make some sort of impact if you let someone study you.”
‘Sorry doctor, but right now one pony studying me is enough,’ thought Derpy.
“I maybe might consider it…” said Derpy.
A purple pony princess paced the perimeter of her bedroom. Derpy was nearby sleeping in the guest bed. The princess was trying to figure out a way to wake up a pegasus that was impossible to wake up. There wasn’t actually anything to really go on. She had had confidence in the specific sound theory, but that seemed to be a bust.
“Maybe I should continue with that hypothesis, but I’m not sure I’m not barking up the wrong tree,” said purple pony Princess Twilight Sparkle.
“I could try exposing her eyes to various types of light!” said Twilight Sparkle, “But that wouldn’t be very conducive to test since I’d have to hold her eyes open and that involves an expensive amount of eye drops.”
“Smell is probably actually the most effective sense to bother her into consciousness with,” said Twilight, “but I don’t have a convenient way to produce smells like I do for light or sound.”
“Who are you talking to, Twilight?” said Spike, waking up.
“Oh, um, no one,” said Twilight with a smile.
Watermelody and Derpy’s mom were sitting in the hospital’s waiting room. Derpy’s mom was reading an old magazine while Watermelody had her head thrown back in boredom and her feet on a chair that she dragged over. The area was empty of other people except for a rainbow-haired man who was sitting on the opposite side of the room from them.
“Ugh! I knew I should’ve charged my cellphone today,” said Watermelody.
“Oh quit being such a baby, there are plenty of magazines to read,” said Derpy’s mom.
“Pff, yeah sure,” said Watermelody.
An annoyed looking Derpy walked into the room. She was dressed back in the clothes she had when she had fallen asleep.
“So, um, waking up in a hospital was a bit of a surprise,” said Derpy.
“Yeah, my bad,” said Watermelody, “I convinced your mom here to have you examined.”
“Um. okay?” said Derpy.
“I mean, did you guys seriously not think of doing that before?”
“Um…” said Derpy.
Spike eyed Twilight before rolling his eyes and asking a question.
“So did anything come from the whole ‘sound theory’ thing?” said Spike.
“No Spike, only one frequency really had any effect and that was breaking glass,” said Twilight.
Spike smiled excitedly.
Twilight rolled her eyes.
“Okay Spike, grab one of the beakers that’s already broken,” said Twilight.
Derpy, her mom, and Watermelody made it back to the car. Derpy had just buckled her seatbelt when she remembered she had a question to ask.
“By the way, I need another tur-” said Derpy right before she collapsed into a slumber.
“‘Great’ it happened again,” said Watermelody.
Still though, they drove back to Derpy’s home.
Derpy snapped awake. She was in the library’s bedroom. On the opposite side of the room, Spike and Twilight were hovering over a pile of broken glass.
“Wow, that wasn’t as high pitched as I thought it was going to be though,” said Spike.
“Go get a dust pan, Spike,” said Twilight.
“Fine…” said Spike.
Derpy got out of bed and walked up to them.
“What are you doing?” said Derpy, “‘Cause I think it might’ve woken me up.”
“Aa! Oh you’re awa- wait really? I have got to run a few tests then,” said Twilight.
“Hold it off for a while alright? I still have to talk to Sunset,” said Derpy.
“Oh, right,” said Twilight.
Derpy stared at the broken glass still on the floor. She gestured to it and raised an eyebrow. Twilight stroked the back of her neck.
“Heh, the only thing to come out off the sound experiments,” said Twilight, “Though, if evidence holds true, it might be just what we were looking for.”