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// Chapter 4 - Brand new start 
// Story: The Rise of Metal 
// by PanzerBrony Metallicom 
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I stared at it … sorry her, for the longest time. What the hell?! I was in awe and couldn’t find any words to say at least something to bring me out of my stupid, staring stupor. This is very awkward. “Hello, my name is nurse Red Cross, dear. Do you have a name?” the equine form asked in a voice of an angel. I picked up my dropped jaw and closed it, while I was trying to shake my head to get some clean thoughts trough my brain again. “What are you?” I asked, still trapped in an awful awe. Very clever Alex, you just made a fool of yourself in front of her. My mind basically underlined that statement with a mental, triple face palm.

She looked at me like I offended her or something. Red Cross softened her expression after a short while and said with a light smile on her face: “Well I am a pony of course. And I am working as a nurse here in the Canterlot Central Hospital.” Somewhere in my brain something clicked like it knew that name of the city, Canterlot, but because I was still pretty banged up, nothing useful came to light. I took in a sharp breath of air and said with all the strength I could bring up at this point: “To answer your earlier question, Miss Cross, I indeed have a name. Alexander Windhund to be exact. And I have no bloody idea how I ended up here. Everything just feels wrong and hurts pretty bad.”

Nurse Red Cross still held that soft smile as she spoke to me: “Alexander Windhund? That is a strange name I’ve never heard of. And how you ended up here, well the princesses found you seriously injured at the old castle in the Everfree Forest. They wasted no time to bring you here and get you medical treated.” Suddenly her face changed to an expression like a light bulb went on in her head. With wide eyes she said: “Speaking of which, I should let the princesses know that you are finally awake. They wanted to speak to you in person, when you wake up again.” With that she turned around and left me to myself again.


--- Some time later ---


I was still on my bed, thinking about what the nurse told me. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. Then three firm knocks from the door destroyed every hope of more ‘thinking time’. “I am awake,” I called out. The door opened and two white ponies with golden armor and blue mane and tail stepped into the room and took each side of the door and stood to attention. A little bit of fear entered my system as I noticed that these ponies where armed with a spear. Must be military or something like this, I thought. One of the golden armored equines cleared this throat and announces: “Behold and welcome the rulers of Equestria, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!”

Two tall creatures walked into my hospital room. One was white, wore a golden crown and golden regalia, both with a purple gem in its middle and golden ‘shoes’. She had also a rainbow like mane and tail that flowed in an invisible eternal wind and beautiful pink eyes. The other one was grey, had a little black crown on top of her head and also wore a black regalia with a white crescent moon on it, plus some blue ‘shoes’. She had a light blue mane and tail and tale blue eyes. I should mention here that both of them and a horn AND a pair of wings and also some sort of tattoo on their … rear. The white one had a golden sun, while the grey one had a black cloud with a white crescent moon. I’ve never seen something like them before in my entire life.