beep, beep, beep, beep.
Am i dead? can't be, unless angels exchanged all there harps for beep machines. No, i think i'm in some kind of hospital. Well, time for an inventory check. Legs working? Check. Arms working? Check. Excruciating pain? Double check. Well, everything seems to be working. No, wait, toes and fingers? Nope. Can't feel them. Dam. Should have known that I'll not come out of a crash like that with all my limbs intact.
"Doctor, I think the patient's waking up." I was that obvies? Dam. I opened my eyes and turn my head towards the voice. My jaw hits the floor. Then I close it
so fast I bite my tongue. Bitten tongue? Check. Now your probily wondering 'why did his jaw hit the ground?' I'll tell you, but you won't believe me. The reason
my jaw dropped is because the nurse... Well she's a horse. And not just any horse, a Pegasus. Told ya you wouldn't believe me.
"Glad to see you awake," the doctor says as he walks in. Surprise, he's another Pegasus. "We nearly lost you for a second, and no wonder, it looked like you
crashed through a window at a hundred miles an hour."
"where am I?" I ask, starting to hyperventilate.
"Your in Cloudsdall." the doctor says frowning, "You must really be out of it if you don't know where you are. Cloudsdall? Never heard of it. Then again, I've
never seen a Pegasus ether.
"When will I be able to leave?" I ask.
"Not for another day or two to let your wounds heal." The doctor says.
"how long have I been here?" I then ask.
"2 weeks. What I don't get is how almost every part of you body is injured, but not a single feather is out of place on your wings." He Answers. Wait, wings?
Scence when do I have wings?
"Well, i got to check on the other patients." and with that, the doctor leaves. I raise my arm so i can see it. Blue? Well that's new. I lower my arm and think to myself, this can't be heaven or a dream because i'm in far too much pain.
I think back to the crash. First, the left wing of my plane catches fire, then it blows off completely. After that i hit the ground with enough force to go through the cockpit window. Also there was a flash of bright blue light. Could the light have possible been a portal? Don't know. I grab the clipboard (don't ask me how) lying next to me on the table. I start to skim through the past patients. As i do this i notice the names sound kind of funny. Sunny Skies? Blue Moon? Shooting Star? What kind of names are those?
Then it hits me. I'm in a new world so i'm lucky the names arnt that hard to understand. Also I'm going to need a new name to fit in better. I decide to go with the name Shadow Hoof. Just as i think of a name for myself, the nurse walks back in.
"Excuse me Sir, but i'm going to need your name to finish these medical sheets for your release" she says as she walks over and takes the clipboard from me. Well, this is as good of a time as any to see if my name works.
"My names Shadow Hoof." I answer. She writes that down on the clipboard.
"I'm nurse Silver Heart." She says. "I was wondering, who are the Blue Angels? It was on the jacket you had on when you came in."
"Don't know, the jacket used to belong to my dad." I lie.
"Oh well, I guess I can look it up at the library, and it's best if you get some sleep." Silver says.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." I yawn as my eye lids suddenly get heavy. I then slowly drift of to sleep.
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"Checking out?" The mare at the counter asks, startling me.
"Yeah, why?" I ask.
"Shadow Hoof." I reply. The mare turns around and picks up a box and gives it to me.
"Have a nice day." The mare says in a tone that says she dosent care if I have a nice day or not.I leave the hospital to find... Clouds? The sidewalks, the
roads, heck, the whole ground was made out of clouds! I walk over to the edge and look over. I get dizzy as I see the ground far below. Who the hay builds a city
in the clouds? Then again, everyone here is a Pegasus.
I decide to back away from the edge before I fall. I head over to a bench near by and sit down to look at what was in the box. I pull out my Blue Angels
flight jacket and see that it is in a realitivly good condition dispute the crash that it had been in. My flight cap and goggles were also in the box, along with a small
pouch. I pick it up and dump the contents into the box. I gasp in shock as gold coins pour into the box.
"you must have really good friends somewhere to have payed for your hospital bill." Startled, I look up to see Silver Heart hovering in front of me.
"Oh, hi Silver," I say, starting to relax. "You startled me."
"Sorry about that. I just like to sneak up on ponies to see how high I can make them jump." she says, blushing.
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah, and so far you've jumped the highest, I mean that was at least 12 feet!" She exclaims. I look down and see the bench far below me, then I look at my back to see my wings flapping. Well, that would not have been how i planned to learn how to fly, but at least it worked.
"Hey Silver, do you know where i can get something to eat?" I ask as I turn back around.
"Sure, best place to eat around here is Sugarcube Corner, follow me!" Silver Heart says as she darts away sudenly, catching me by surprise.
"Hold up!" I yell over my shoulder as i quickly stuff everything back into the box. I fly over to the waiting Silver. But as soon as i reach her, she flys over the clouds edge. I follow as fast as I can to keep up with her as we fly towards the ground. As we fly, I notice a small town in the distance. As soon as we get close enogh to see the indeviduall ponies, Silver stops.
"See that building over there?" She says as she points at a small shop.
"Yeah, why?" I ask
"Good, 'cause the last one there pays for the food!" she yells over her shoulder as she zooms towards the shop.
"Hey, no fare!" I reply as I try and keep up with her. To my surprise, not only do I catch up with her, but I pass her completely. I look behind me to see Silvers shocked expression. Then I fly straight into the shops front door.
"Who's there?" A bright pink pony says as she opens the door. Frowning as she doesn't see anyone, she looks left, then right, up, then she steps forward onto my face.
"HiI'mPinkyPieIdon'tknowyouandIknoweveroneinponyville!YoumustbefromCloudsdale-
"Pinky! Slow down! Shadows just flew into the door and had you step on his face. At least let him get off the ground." Silver says as she finally catches up. I slowly get up and rub my very bruised face.
"Who put that door there?" I ask dumbly. Pinky and Silver try as hard as they can not to laugh. Alas, in that department they were unsuccessful.
"Oh hardy har har. you still owe me lunch Silver." I say sarcastically.
"All right, what do you want to eat?" Silver gasps when she finally gets enough air to speak. I think over this carefully as we walk into the shop.
"Cinnamon bun." I decide finally.
"And I'll have the apple fritters." Silver says. As Pinky goes to get the orders, i notice that she doesn't have any wings. I frown. I guess not everyone has wings. Pinky comes back with our orders and sets them on the counter.
"That will be 12 bits please." Pinky says brightly. I watch closely as Silver puts 12 of those gold coins on the counter. So the money around here is called bits? Thats good to know as I didn't want to look stupid when I tried to buy something. I pick up my cinnamon bun and turned around. As we were about to leave the front door opens and a purple unicorn- wait, a unicorn? At this point nothing will surprise me. Behind the unicorn is a light blue Pegasus with rainbow hair. Great. Just great. I spent weeks tring to get that song out of my head. Now I'm going to be hearing Afro circus for a very long time.
“Looks like you finally got out of the hospital.” The Pegasus says to me.
“How did you know I was in the hospital?” I asked surprised.
“Because it was me and my friend and I that found you.” She replies.
“Well I guess that makes sense.” I say.
“Oh, I’m Rainbow Dash by the way.” She says to me.
“I’m Shadow Hoof.” I reply.
“I’m Twilight Sparkle.” The purple unicorn says as she reads from a book held up with… is that magic?!? Ok, now I’ve seen everything.
“That was some nice flying there Shadow, your almost good enough to join the Wonderbolts, if it weren’t for the that you crash into doors.” Rainbow says to me.
“Who are the Wonderbolts?” I ask. Everyone in the shop stares at me.
“How could you not know who the Wonderbolts are?!?” Rainbow Dash practically screams. Where are you from, Kirkwell?”
“Yeah.” I say, my face turning red in anger. Who was she to yell at me because I didn't know who someone was?
“Wow RD, guys berly been here an hour your already insulting his hometown.” A orange mare says as she walks into the shop.
“Come on AJ, how was I supposed to know where hes from?” Rainbow says.
“Sorry about that sugarcube, but Rainbow Dash’s mouth often runs without her minds permission.” AJ says.
Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and AJ go up to take there orders. Me and Silver go outside to eat our lunch. Then I think of something.
“Hey Silver, why did we come all the way to Ponyville to eat? Don’t they have restaurants in Cloudsdale?”
“Yeah, but Cloudsdale isn't known for its cooking, and most Pegasus come down here if they have the chance.” She replys. RD walks out of Sugarcube Corner and sits by me on the bench.
"So you've never heard of the Wonderbolts?" She asks me.
"Nope." I reply. RD takes that as her cue to jump right in to inform me on the Wonderbolts. When shes done, I conclude that they are an aerial stunt team simulare to the Blue Angels.
"Hey, whats in the box?" RD asks suddenly. I hand over the box so she can go through it. She opens it and pulls out my jacket.
"Who are the Blue Angels?' She asks frowning.
Don't know, the jacket used to belong to my dad." I lie. RD shrus her shoulders and goes back to looking at my things. Finally, she puts my stuff back into the box and hands it back.
"Well it was nice meeting you, but I got to et back to my job." RD says as she fly's towards cloudsdale.
"I just thought of something Silver, I don't have a place to stay."
"You can stay with me tonight." Silver reply's.
"I don't want to be any-" Siver cuts me off.
"Don't worry about it, I have a spare bedroom that no pony has ever used." No pony? Looks like the grammar here is different then back home.
“It’s getting late, we should be getting back to Cloudsdale.” Silver says. Together we fly back to Cloudsdale. As soon as we arrive, I see a help wanted sign. I look around so I can remember where it is. Tomorrow I’m goanna come back and try to get a job. We fly over to Silver’s house, about a block away from the sign. It’s a neat little 2 story painted a light blue.
“Well, here we are.” Silver says as we land in front of the house. We walk in and she shows me to the spare bedroom. I set my box on the night stand.
“Good night.” I say to Silver.
“See you in the morning.” She replies. I climb into bed, and before I go to sleep, I think that there sure are a lot of things I have to learn if I’m goanna live here.