I slowly opened my eyes, blinking slowly. There seems to be some sort of magenta light, and illumination, from somewhere near my left. I slowly sat up, making a whirring sound. I discovered the light seemed to follow me. I reach a hoof to my throbbing head and notice it’s not exactly…pony. Frantically, I searched around the room for something to use as a mirror. I find myself right next to a window and look carefully at my reflection.
Most of my head is flesh and bone. I have blue fur and a rainbow coloured mane. My eyes are magenta, however one is completely robotic, providing the light I noticed earlier. One of my ears is also made of a light blue metal. I look at the rest of body and notice a similar metal covering most of it, almost like armour of some kind. I open my wings and find one is normal while another is mechanical, yet when I flap them they seem to work the same. All legs except my right back are covered, and my cutie mark is a cloud with a blue, yellow and red lightning bolt from it. On the robotic leg it depicts a gear behind it.
I put a hoof to my face to find my sense of touch seems to be working, despite this body. I was curious to see what else still worked. I couldn’t really find out like this though. I needed to find out what was going on.
Just as I had this thought, a unicorn doctor walked in.
“Ah, Ms Dash, you’re awake!” He said, trotting over to me holding a clipboard with his magic.
“Um, yes,” I said, or rather, attempted to. When I opened my mouth, no sound came out. I simply nodded instead.
“Ah, yes, you see we haven’t been able to install a voice box into you yet,” he explained. “Don’t worry,” he said, noticing my worried expression. “it won’t hurt, and we will putting you to sleep while it happens.”
I nodded.
“Now, I’ll be you’re wondering what happened to you,” he said solemnly, sitting next to me on the bed. I nodded slowly.
“Do you remember anything?”
I shook my head.
“We didn’t think so. We had to replace most of your brain with wires and circuits. We tried to download some memories on there but they will be hard to access. Similar to amnesia. But I have faith in you! We also tried to keep as much of your personality as possible, but…it was hard,” he took off his glasses, wiped them on his coat and put them back on again. “At the very least you have quite the data base of knowledge now.”
I nodded, and mentioned to him to continue.
“In the meantime I will tell you what I know. Your name is Rainbow Dash, one of, if not THE, best flyers in Equestria. Of course, it might not be that easy with the prosthetic wing, but you’ll get used to it. You tend to be quite arrogant but you’re a good pony, and loyal to the bitter end.
“I’m sure you’d like some time to think about all this?”
I nodded.
“I’ll leave you then. We’ll be back soon to fix you a voice-box, then you can talk to your friends,” he said. He walked out, giving me a small smile as we walked through the doors.
I was alone now. Alone with my thoughts. I was basically a robot now. Limited emotion, lack of personality. At least I still had my free will. But…what now? All my dreams, aspirations, gone. And the doctor mentioned my friends? What would they think about all this? They’ll probably be sad, and miss the old me. I feel tears welling in my eyes, or eye.
Rainbow Dash is gone. And she’s never coming back.