Chapter-4 Who are you?
*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*
Hearing that all too familiar sound, you slowly crack open your eyes and take a look at your surroundings. You're in what looks like a standard hospital room. Pale blue curtains on either side of you and a small dresser next to your bed.
'When did I get here' You think to yourself as you continue to process the situation you are currently in.
"Hello?" You hear a female voice ask from the corners.
"Hey, mom." You say without thinking.
'What the heck... why did I say that?' You think while also noticing that your 'mom' is in fact not your mother but rather another pegasus.
"How are you feeling?" She asks with worry plastered across her face.
"I feel alright." You say trying to hide the discomfort in your voice.
'What the heck is happening? I'm not talking but I'm talking...'
"Oh honey, I was so worried about you." You hear her say while walking towards you and giving you a hug which you return with a slight wince.
"Hey mom, how long was I out for?" You ask with apprehension in your voice.
'Seriously, what the heck is happening?!' You think while watching the scene unfold while not being able to do anything.
"You were out for umm..." She says while suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
"Just give it to me straight mom." You say while resting your hoof on her shoulder.
"You were... out for 3 months..." She says while looking back up to you with a combination of worry and sorrow on her face.
"I... I was... 3 months... What happened to me?" You say much softer.
"Some ponies found you after that storm and took you to the hospital. They said you had been struck by lightning and you are lucky to be alive. They had to put you in a coma..." She says with a noticeable sadness in her voice.
"Well, I'm awake no-" You are cut off as your heart-rate monitor starts beeping a much higher speed. "Argh! W-What's happening?" You say while clutching your chest.
"Doctor! Doctor! What's happening to her!?" She says in a panicked voice.
"Ma'am, could you please step out of the room?" He says while a nurse attempts to escort her out. It was at this moment that the monitor flat-lined and your mother is forced out of the room.
'What the heck is happening!' You think while the doctor and nurses all gather around you, each poking your body with something you can't see.
"Clear!" You hear one of them yell before bringing the paddles down onto your chest.
"Aaah!" You shout while falling off your bed and onto the carpet. "What the heck just happened!" You say while trying to slow your breathing. "D-Did I just..."
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
"Open the door, Preston!" You hear Brock shout.
"I'm coming!" You yell back while getting back to your hooves and decide to think about that dream another time.
Walking out into the hallway, you take a quick right and head to the front door of your house.
"Come on Preston, open the door already!" He shouts again as your picking up the key with your magical hooves.
"Bro, chill!" You say back to him while sliding the key into the lock and opening the door.
"Took you long enough." He says as you shut the door behind him.
"Hey, you're not the magical pony are you?" You say while casting him a glare.
"Yea, how the heck did you open the door?" He asks while taking a seat on the black sofa in your living room.
"My 'magical hooves'" You say while waving your foreleg around in the air.
"I'm not even gonna question it anymore..." He says while staring at you with one eyebrow raised.
"Alright, tell me, what happened at your place?" You ask while taking a seat adjacent to him.
"You want the long or the short version." He asks with a small chuckle.
"We got plenty of time, so just give me the extended version." You respond
"Well, after that cop chased you for a couple of houses, he came back and asked me what that was. I kept trying to say that it was just a critter but then he asked about the fence and I had to just shrug it off. After he left, I went and talked to my sister. The second I got in her view, she started demanding answers to you got into the house."
"Did you tell her about me?" You ask while praying that he didn't.
"Nah, just said I left the back door open. I can't believe she bought that." He says while shaking his head.
"Oh and dude, what the heck! I thought you said you had the place to yourself?" You say with your voice raised.
"I forgot this was the weekend she was coming back from college. Of course, this is the weekend she comes back." He says while mumbling the last part.
"Well we got out of that mess, so, I'll ask again, what the heck do we do now?"
"I honestly have no idea, but I'm tired, so can we talk about it in the morning?" He says while suppressing a yawn.
"Fine, but what time is it? I just woke up and feel fine." You say while looking for a clock.
"It's 3:13 in the morning." He says while getting up off the couch. "Where can I crash for the night." He asks while looking back towards you.
"You get the couch tonight. I'll get you a blanket and a pillow." You say while getting up yourself and walking over to the closet in the corner of the room.
"Eer aah yoo" You say with the blanked on you back and the pillow in your mouth.
"Umm, thanks." He says while grabbing the pillow and blanket and looking at the spit stain on the pillow.
"Alright, I'll just be in my room." You say while walking down the hall back towards your room.
'Time to have a mental breakdown.' You think as you close the door to your bedroom.
"O-Ok, I'm better n-now." You say while wiping a tear away with your foreleg.
After calming yourself down following an embarrassingly long break-down, you start to recollect your thoughts and think about that dream you had before you woke up.
'What the heck happened? It was like I was watching a play, and I was in it! But I couldn't do anything? I've never heard of that happening in a dream before.' You think while walking over to your computer and turning it on.
After logging into your computer, which takes forever when your password is 50 characters and you have to type with a pencil, you look up the news and see that your picture is still on the front page.
"Well great, they think I'm legit... well, I am real." You say while scrolling through various articles.
After looking for around 30 minutes, you found nothing particularly interesting.
"Well, I guess I can try to go to bed again." You say to yourself while suppressing a yawn. "My not so little breakdown wore me out." You mumble right before you hop back onto your bed.
Opening your eyes, you are greeted by an endless black void. Looking around you in all directions yields no better results.
'Umm, hello?' You try to ask but your body doesn't want to cooperate.
"Hello?" You hear yourself say without trying to.
'Great, I'm in another dream.' You think after quickly connecting the dots.
"Oh, why hello there little pony." You hear another masculine voice say from all around you.
"Wha- who's there?!" You shout into the void only to get an answer from everywhere.
"Why it's me! The spirit of chaos itself!" You hear him say with a chuckle.
"D-Discord?!" You quickly say with a very frightened tone.
"My my, don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you. Just looking for a little chaos." You hear him say with a very noticeable amount of malice in his voice.
'Who the heck is this guy?' You think but almost immediately get your answer as if he heard your thoughts as a creature that looks like it came from Sid's room in Toy Story materializes in front of you.
"W-What are you doing here?" You hear yourself say as you take a step back.
"Why I am here to offer you a deal!" He exclaims with a grin on his face so massive he had to hold it up with his hands.
"W-What ever i-it is, I don't want it!" You shout while stomping a hoof.
"Really, not even a second chance at life?"
"W-What..." You are completely taken by surprise by his statement and are left speechless. Even dreaming you is somewhat surprised.
"Why, didn't you know? You died! I stopped you on your way to the great beyond to offer you a second chance! You should be thanking me." He says while giving you a fake pouting face and a few sniffles.
"I... I don't... what happened to me?" You hear yourself ask with a few tears rolling down your cheeks.
"You were struck by lightning!" He says before getting blasted by lightning and reforming right next to you in a hospital bed. "Then you were put in a coma on life support. You didn't make in the night." He says with a hint of sadness which seems to surprise your host.
"S-So what can you do about it?" You ask still shedding tears.
"Well, I can't send you directly back to Equestria, but I can send you to a universe that is linked to Equestria." He says while snapping his fingers and a globe of a planet forms floating above his talons. "This is called Earth, and should you choose to accept, this is where you will be sent, although... with a few minor changes."
"Why are you doing this for me?" You ask now realizing how absurd this is.
"Why it will benefit you and me alike! You get to live again while I get to have a little extra chaos!"
"But why do you need me? Why not just go there without me?"
"Well you see, I cannot just go there. I am bound to our dimension, but, that can be bypassed by simply having a pony in the dimension as well!" He says while squishing the globe between his hand and starts swimming through the air around you. "So, what do you say?"
"I... I-I'll do it." You say just wanting to be alive again.
"Alright then, just please sign on the dotted line." He says while a scroll with writing that gets progressively smaller to the point where it cannot be seen.
"But I can't even read it!" You say wondering if this is really the right decision. Your thoughts are cut short, however.
"Oh, it's just the usual mumbo jumbo." He says while waving his paw.
"But I don't have a quill?"
"Yes, you do."
"No, I don-" You stop after seeing the quill floating right next to you. "Fine fine, I'll sign the contract."
"Thank you, now we may begin." He says after you sign the line and the paper disappears right in front of you.
'This guy is nuts!' You think to yourself.
"Alright, let's begin. FOR FIVE SCORE-" He begins but cuts himself off. "Wrong story."
Hearing him say this just adds to the pile of confusion already crushing your brain.
"Ah whatever, I'll just do it the easy way." He says before touching your forehead with a glowing talon.
"What's supp- ARGH!" You scream in surprise at the amount of pain that suddenly took hold of your entire body. You are also surprised that you can feel every bit of pain as well considering that this is just a dream. You can't think properly as you convulse on the ground while the landscape around you fades to a perfect white. The pony in the dream is able to form one last partial thought before passing out from the pain.
"Wait, he can only go where ponies are so-"
"AHH!" You scream as you shoot up in your bed.
"Bro, you alright?" You hear Brock shout from the living room.
"Y-Yea, just a dream." You say while shakily getting out of your bed. You had never felt that much pain in your entire life. You thought it wasn't possible to feel pain in a dream, but that was just proven otherwise. Considering the recent event, you are basically on the borderline of throwing everything you ever knew about... well everything out the window.
Taking a look behind you, you see that your bed is soaked in sweat and your fur is also thoroughly soaked in sweat.
"Hey, you good?" You hear Brock ask from the doorway to your room with a worried look on his face.
"Yea, although I think I know why I am here now." You say taking a few breaths, still trying to slow your heartbeat.
"Really, that's great-" He starts saying but you quickly cut him off.
"Stop, just, wait. I wanna take a shower first and then we can talk. Also, what time is it?" You ask while taking a look around your room for a clock.
"It's 8:25 in the morning." He says while putting his phone back into his pocket.
"Alright, just let me shower first." You say while quickly striding past him and heading towards the bathroom.
After figuring out how to use a shower as a pony, which was considerably more difficult than you had thought even though your parents have a massive shower, you finally settle down on the couch, though still a little damp, on the opposite side of Brock.
"Alright, so there-" You start but are cut short by an all to familiar sound
*Grumble*
"Heh, could we talk about this over breakfast?" You trying to hide your embarrassment.
"Sure, I already ate so I'll get you something. What do you want?" He asks while getting up and heading towards the kitchen.
"Just some apple juice and haycakes." You say seemingly out of instinct.
He stops and then gives you a questioning look. "What are haycakes?"
"I-I don't know, that just felt natural. Plus, I hate apple." You respond while trying to think of why this would happen.
"Well, how about something I know of, like cereal with milk?" He asks while resuming his walk to the kitchen.
"Sure, that's fine." You say while hopping onto the only chair at the dining room table that was still pulled out.
"Alright, here you go." He says a few moments later while sliding a bowl of Captain Crunch and a glass of water in front of you.
"Thanks." You say as you pick the spoon up with your hooves and start shoveling the food into your muzzle.
"Ok, not that you got your food, why is this happening to you?" He asks while he takes the seat opposite.
Swallowing, you start your explanation. "Well, first..."
Canterlot Royal Palace
Princess Luna, princess of the night, was performing her nightly routine of protecting all her little ponies from their nightmares.
"No more nightmare in sight." She says while looking around the dreamscape. "We think that concludes our-" She cuts herself short as she feels another pony having a nightmare, although, this one feels so faint compared to the normal tugging sensation she got when a pony was having a nightmare. She looked in the direction she felt the nightmare coming from and was greeted by the smallest of white dots in the distance showing a pony's dream.
"Why is thy dream so distant?" She asks herself quietly as she starts flying towards the dream bubble.
After what felt like several hours of flying, galloping, and panting, Luna finally collapses on the ground having given up.
"AAAH!" Luna screamed out in frustration as she leaves the dream realm after not being able to get into a dream for the first time since she arrived back from her banishment.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
"Princess! Are you alright in there?" A lunar guard shouts from just outside the door.
"We are fine." Luna says as she falls back onto her big princess sized bed, staring at the stars through the window in her room.
"We must tell Tia about this..." Luna says with worry filling her mind. This was not normal she thought to herself.
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'thy', perhaps? Also, that looks like a statement rather than a question.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's now fixed.
This might just be me but should anyone ever feel embarrassed by natural bodily noises that don't do anything? This has happened across so many other fics. Am I just missing a cultural thing?
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"Alright, so there-" You start but are cut short by an all to familiar sound
*Grumble*
"Heh, could we talk about this over breakfast?" You trying to hide your embarrassment.
Also should this have an added "about"?
"Well, how "about" something I know, like cereal with milk?" He asks while resuming his walk to the kitchen.
That 5 score joke just made this chapter xD
great chapter! keep it up!
That’s perfect😂😂😂
Why'd Preston have to use a key to unlock his own door from the inside?