//------------------------------// // Coma // Story: The Pony of the Jacket // by MaskofLimbo //------------------------------// 21st July, 12:16 Equestria - Ponyville Room 4B. The patient of this room was a survivor of a bullet in the head, but result in him being in a deep coma. For 43 days, to be exact. And for each day, Pinkie Pie, as well as a good friend of this guy, as being visiting him, making him company and wanting to be there when he woke up. Today was no different. Pinkie, as well as her friends, was in Jacket’s room. It was a normal hospital room. 4 beds separated by hospital curtains and each bed had a little desk by the side. Only one of the beds was occupied and one of the desks had something in it, since this patient was the only one in this room. Pinkie was talking with him, like she does every time she visits him. She liked to make company to him, even though not many understood why she considered him somepony special. “Is so adorable how Pinkie talks to him” Rarity comments with the others with a small smile “But, still sad that him is in this situation” “I’m more confuse to why she is so into him, all of the sudden” Rainbow Dash comments. “Maybe is because she is worried about him?” Applejack said back to her serious “She found him almost dead, for crying out loud” Yeah, so? This don’t automatically makes someone like someone who hurt you bad” Rainbow Dash said looking at her “It would help is she gave a more detailed answered to why she cares for him, other than “he passed through a lot”” “I agree that I’m also curious about this, but I’m more curious about the Changeling who shot him” Twilight said, getting their attention “He didn’t seem to be the criminal kind and he even gave himself up for and answered for the crimes he committed. So, why did he do it?” “Well, It’s hard times, Sugarcube” Applejack said “Maybe it was a job or was forced” “Then in this case, WHO would want Pa…” “Excuse me, Princess Twilight?” A doctor enters the room and interrupts Twilight “Forgive me for interrupt, but a detective from PPD would like to see the pacient in privacy” This request was… curious. But, she kinda understood “I… see. Give us some minutes. We be out soon” “Very well” The doctor leaves the room and Pinkie sighs. “Time to go, Pinkie” Twilight said with a frown. “I know, give me a second” Pinkie said with a small smile and look back at her friend "It’s time for me to go, now. But I’m coming back tomorrow, and the day after. I won’t stop visiting you until you wake up. Yeah, I’m not sure if you like me or not, but I feel I must make you company. Weird, right?” She giggles a bit, but stop, staying quiet for a second “I wish I was a unicorn, because I would search every magic book until I found a spell to help you. I wish I could do anything to help, but, for now, all I can do is hope for the surgery you went through works” She sighs and then looks at him with a smile “Well, until next time, Retro Pale” After giving a small kiss on the forehead, she turns around and trots to the door, and this whole cenario was making Twilight sad. She hated seeing her friends sad, and she wanted to do something to help. But, unfortunately, she couldn’t do anything… or maybe. “Hey, Pinkie” Twilight call the attention of her friend, who was about to turn the doorknob "I think I know a way to help him wake…” "How? How? How? How?..." Pinkie didn't lose time in going to Twilight face, bumping up and down frenetically "Pinkie, calm down!" Twilight said and Pinkie stop… in midair "Listen, I have being reading about a spell for some time, that is used to enter others minds to see memory from others. But also it was used to cure some mental problems, like amnesia, coma,..." "Use it! Use it! Use it! Use it!” "Pinkie!" Twilight said, making Pinkie stop, this time on the floor "Listen, this spell can help, but, it may happen some bad side effects. Nothing bad will happen with him, but it may happen to who use it. And since I never tested, I have no idea if it is going to work or not” Twilight said serious, but Pinkie continued with a determined look “Are you sure you want to try it out?” "Yes” Pinkie said in the same second “I will do whatever I can to help" "Very well, then" Twilight said and look at her friends "Girls, I’m going to use this spell that is going to bring Pinkie and I into Retro’s head. I need that…” "Now, hold on for a second! What you mean you and her?" Applejack said "We are a team, so you can count me in on this, Sugarcubes" "And me, Darlings" Rarity also said. "Me too" Flutthersy said "And me" Rainbow Dash said "I still don’t like him and I have a very bad felling about him. But this won’t make me abandon you, Pinkie" "Thanks, Dashy" Pinkie said with a smile "Thanks you all, girls" "Ok, prepare, girls" Twilight said, preparing the spell "Stay still and close your eyes" She said, and the other do as she said. With their eyes closed, they prepare for whatever was coming, principaly Pinkie Pie We're coming for you "3...2..." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . After a while, Pinkie Pie finally managed to open her eyes to see one thing: darkness. Left and right she saw nothing, only her friends, who were awakening as well “Is this… Jacket’s head?” "His mind, to be more specific" Twilight corrected her “But, yeah, basically we are on his head” "Is more dark that I though" Rarity said, a bit concerned. "Perhaps is because of the coma" Applejack said looking around. Suddenly, floating images fly by them, surprising them "Wow, what are those?" "His memories" Twilight said and then look at some specific memories "And this shattered ones might be the cause of his coma, maybe" This memories was shattered, like a broken mirror, making it hard to see what was the memory was about. "How do you know?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Because of the book I used to learn the spell” Twilight explained, approaching at a shattered memories to a close inspection “It said that Shattered Memories were the cause of some things, specially “Eternal Sleeps”, in other words: comas” She look back at her friends “So, maybe if we fix all the broken ones, Jacket have a chance of waking up. But, it’s a long shot on the dark” "Well, we have a chance, so it’s something” Pinkie said “What we need to do” "Well, the book also teach a spell that could fix all the memories in once, or one at a time” Twilight made a pause to sigh with a frown “But, I didn’t had time to learn it, unfortunately” “So, what do we do then?” Rarity asked. “Well, there is another way we can fix this memories, but it’s more practical” Twilight explain "We enter this memories and, in a way, play them, like they are cassette tapes. This will result in Jacket reliving them, in a way, and repairing the shattered one” “So, basically, playing this shattered memories will make Pale remember them, resulting in this memories fixing themselves?” “Correct” Twilight nod. “But, if they are shattered, doesn’t mean they are broke?” Rainbow Dash asked confuse “In my head, it shouldn’t be possible to enter something shattered” “Actually, if they are shattered, they still be saved” Twilight answer “Although, if a memory is completely broke, it can only be repaired with the spells I didn’t had time to learn, because this memories cannot be played, since they are basically destroyed” “You mean, like that ones?” Applejack points to four memories that were completely destroyed, with some of its shards floating by its side. Different from the shattered ones that at least had colors, these ones were completely dark, looking very like the dead memories that they were. Oh no The sight of this memories made Pinkie completely nervous, and Twilight notices this and approaches at her friend with a hoof on her shoulder. “Calm down, Pinkie” She said with a calm smile “We can still save him, even if we can’t fix this broken ones” Pinkie look at her with frown “Everything is going to be fine, ok? Believe me” Pinkie look down for a bit, but then close her eyes to take a dep breath, opening her eyes again to look at her friend with a small smile. “Oki doki, then” She said with a nod "So, where do we start?" "Well” Twilight take her hoof off her friend to look back at the memories “The book also said that playing the shattered ones in chronologic order would give the one in coma more chances of waking up, so we should start with the first shattered one” “And how can we find the first shattered one?” Rainbow Dash asked “There’s like one million memories here” “Don’t worry, I managed to learn a spell that can help us” Twilight said and then prepares herself. Her horn shines and suddenly all the memories start moving quickly organizing themselves in a horizontal line in front of them “There we go. Now they are organized in chronologic order. And this one…” She points to a Shattered Memory in front of them “Should be our first target” "Awesome!" Pinkie said with a smile "Let’s do this!” "Yeah!" They said in union, minus Rainbow Dash, who simply grunted in silence. "Okay, get ready girls!" Twilight said and starts concentrating again, lighting her horn and engulfing her and her friends with a purple aura, and suddenly, with a snap of purple light, everything went dark.