Chapter 1 - Absolutely Great Start

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My day to this point was rather normal, just a typical Saturday for me: waking up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, etc. Nothing special, right? Well, as you probably guessed by the way I'm leading this up, it certainly was not a normal day; in that while out on a morning walk, I was assaulted by a random beam of rainbows... Well, today's certainly gonna be interesting.

"The hell is this?" I shouted, utterly confused. The evil rainbow-bullet responded by extending a hand from inside itself, and slapped me, then pointed at me with its rainbow-colored index finger. Now, I'm not sure what happens wherever you're from, but random rainbows bursting out of thin air and attacking is not something I'm used to; so naturally, I panicked. I turned and tried to run, but this thing was FAST. It immediately zipped around me, blocking off my path.

And as my mind likes to do, even when I'm not being attacked by rainbows, I started thinking up a ton of worst-case scenarios about what this thing was gonna do to me; I mean, normally I wouldn't be afraid of freaking rainbows, but they normally don't come down from the sky and start attacking people on the ground. I was also a ways away from home, so no chance I'm getting help from there, plus most people in my neighborhood were probably inside, sleeping in for reasons of Saturday.

The thing expanded until it surrounded me on all sides, guaranteeing no escape. Then, the colors started moving, making me extremely nauseous. Before I could respond with the logical solution, closing my eyes, I felt some kind of mist...was this thing hitting me with sleep gas?! Before my brain could dart to thinking about how ridiculous it is that some kind of weird rainbow-bullet-thing was surrounding me, and getting me with knockout gas, I passed out. Big surprise. Though, little did my currently unconscious self know, however; that the same thing (or at least something similar) was happening to my best friend (who lives in England), Miles Logan.

I guess it's my time to shine! Or start talking about those bloody rainbows that came to attack me.

Despite my friend in America, Alex Bird having been awake for several hours I had barely even awoken. 'This is because I thought it was a good idea to stay up until six am on Friday...' I thought to myself. As I was about to open my eyes and move from my bed a stream of rainbows decided to come and force my eyes open. I don't know what a seizure feels like but I imagine it felt like what I felt next.

My body was shaking and I felt overwhelming warmth, my eyes stung and my head throbbed with pain. It didn't take me long to scream out. My family was downstairs but apparently in the upper floors of my house no one can hear you scream. After screaming I don't remember much. Just blurry colours and pain.

When I woke up, I had almost no memory of what happened before I fell asleep; I mean, what COULD have happened? I'm a 13 year old kid (and a half, but that's not important) that has no transportation of his own besides walking, and while I do have a bike, I honestly was never interested in it enough to learn how to ride it properly. There's also the fact that I'd have to walk for a LONG time to get to any kind of store, and even so, I'm fairly certain there's no bars, or drugstores/dealers anywhere near my suburban neighborhood.

When I woke up, I only had vague memories of bright rainbows and pain. I had only just woken up. And I'm fairly certain my Mum didn't put hallucagenics in my dinner. So there was no way I could think of that caused it; other than being in a very, very realistic dream.

A few moments after I woke up, I realized I was falling.

"...Uh oh." I said, trying to wrap my mind around the situation.

I had no idea WHY I was falling, but there I was. Falling. And judging by the height, I certainly wasn't gonna have a graceful landing.

I desperately tried to remember what could have led to me suddenly falling from the sky; it wasn't because I went skydiving, because I honestly just find that to be a stupid way of toying with death, and plus I would've had a parachute with me. It wasn't because I fell out of a plane, because the only memories I had of flying in a plane certainly weren't recent.

'Maybe it was- Wait, it was that rainbow thing, wasn't it!' I thought as I recalled what had happened seconds ago. At least, it felt like seconds; I've never been very good at telling how much time has passed without looking at a clock, and the fact that I was recently unconscious didn't help.

Moments after realizing that the evil death-rainbow probably had something to do with me now falling from the sky, I realized that I was, in fact, still falling, and attempted to look downwards to see how far away I was from impact. It wasn't easy to keep my eyes open, due to the constant wind in my face, but I saw that the ground wasn't that far away, and I was closing in fast.

I scanned my brain for anything that could help me out here, and I remembered once reading about how, if you find yourself falling from a very high distance without a parachute, you should spread your arms and legs in an X shape to slow your fall; while I knew I'd still be going at about 125 miles-per-hour, at least I wouldn't be hitting the ground as hard as I would have without doing so.

I didn't spread my arms and legs out. So I was falling face first downwards towards the ground. In truth I've always wanted to go skydiving. BUT NOT LIKE THAT! I couldn't open my eyes because of the mad winds. Though, I don't recall hitting the ground, I recall hitting something squishier...

Unfortunately, I couldn't see any bodies of water, so I couldn't land in that; but I did see a medium sized tree, and decided to try and fall through that, as I had heard of someone in World War II that survived a jump from about 18,000 feet without a parachute by falling through a tree and into deep snow. There wasn't any snow around, but the tree was my best chance. I managed to steer myself towards said tree, and braced for impact.

Magnificently, I survived! While crashing through a tree didn't feel very good (probably for both me and the tree), it absorbed some of the energy from the fall, but not enough to keep me from hitting the ground at a relatively fast speed, and I was barely conscious when I hit the ground...Although, I wasn't conscious for much longer, as something (or probably someONE) landed on top of me, knocking me out…

Me and Miles were both normal, 16 and 15 year old kids, respectively, when we were knocked out, but as we both lay there (with him on top of me, no less), unconscious, we began to transform, our features changing from that of humans, to that of the evil, the HORRIFYING, PONIES...

Chapter 2 - Suddenly, Ponies

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"Uugghh..." I groaned as I slowly returned to the land of the living-things-that-didn't-just-fall-out-of-the-sky-and-have-their-best-friend-land-on-them.

I tried to open my eyes, only for them to feel like lead weights that did not want to wake up.

I also couldn't move my arms or legs at all, which wasn't too unusual. I've had something like this happen to me before, when, after I wake up, my mind is up and running, but the rest of my body hasn't quite gotten the message yet. It'll just take a few seconds...

I waited a few seconds and tried again, but I still couldn't move anything. Ok, now I'm starting to get worried, I've never been able to not move for this long.

'Holy crap, am I paralyzed, or something?' I thought as I began to panic. I really could not move any of my limbs, and I couldn't even open my eyes. This could be very, very ba- Oh hey look I can open my eyes.

Since my eyes had decided to no longer be lead weights, I opened them and took a look around where I was. Of course, normally, I wouldn't be examining my surroundings after waking up, but considering I'm probably paralyzed in some form, I think I should probably be checking for signs of danger or something or someone that could help me.

The room I was in was definitely not my own, and it was very... white.

So much white.

This would have been rather annoying if white was a bad color. No, I quite like white, white's a nice color.

...Though, can it really be considered a color? I mean, it's moreso just a blank canvas, isn't it? I mean, why else would things erase into white? ...Why the hell is this what I'm focusing my thoughts on? I may be paralyzed, and I'm thinking about whether or not white can truly be considered a color. I'm a freaking genius, aren't I?

Anyways, going back to what I was thinking about before debating with myself on white's status as a true color, I guessed that I was in a hospital ward of some kind, most likely as one of the patients.

I mean, duh, of course I'd be one of the patients, I fell from the sky, didn't I? ...Wait, I fell from the sky.

'Holy crap, did that actually happen? I fell from the sky and LIVED?!' I thought, amazed at my incredible luck. I mean, just wow. I'll admit, I have been a decently lucky guy when it comes to life in general, but I never imagined I'd end up falling from the sky and living.

Come to think of it, how DID I survive? I mean, that fall surely had to be high enough to be fatal, even with the tree helping me somewhat. Oh well, at least I'm alive, I mean, not many people would be able to fall from that height and live, right?

Moving back from my thoughts to the real world (again), I noticed I had regained full control of my body, and proceeded to sit upright, but closed my eyes, as there was a rather bright light in front of me.

"Well, that was a thing..." I said, partially to myself, but also to hopefully grab the attention of anyone in the ward. And, it worked; I heard someone walking over to me, though, it sounded more like hooves clopping rather than...whatever noise it is that shoes make. Tapping? Let's go with tapping.

"Ah, I see you're awake, then?" said a feminine voice from somewhere in front of me.

"Well, unless I've somehow managed to sleep sitting upright without any support, I'd say I'm awake," I said, and was pleased to hear a bit of a giggle from who I assume was a nurse.

"So, uh, what happ–" I began, but stopped abruptly, as I had opened my eyes to see that both the light was turned off, and that the nurse in front of me appeared to be some form of horse.

Before I could process this information, however, my mouth decided to stop hanging agape and made use of itself by responding with the only possible response: "...What?"

The nurse looked at me confusedly and said, "Oh, I thought you'd like the light turned off."

"N-no, it's just that I think I might be hallucinating; I mean, you look exactly like some kind of horse, or pony..." I said, becoming unsure near the end of the sentence, and trailing off.

"Well, I should certainly hope I do, because otherwise that would mean I've been hallucinating all my life," the nurse said cheerfully, "I think you may have hit your head on the way down, we've all been ponies for a very long time."

"Y-yeah, I think that's gotta be it..." I said, with a growing suspicion.

I looked down at my hands, only to find that they were light blue hooves. But my Team Fortress 2 BLU Pyro sweatbands were still there, so that's a plus.

I looked up to find the nurse (who was a lime green earth pony) walking away to check on a sleeping patient in the bed next to mine. Now that I got a good look at her, I saw that she was, definitely, a pony from the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She definitely didn't look as cartoon-like as she would've in the show; she looked a lot more real, but there was still that unmistakable look of a cartoon about her; and me, for that matter.

Also, now that the light was turned off, I could see that the room was not, in fact, white, but instead the walls were a dark, kinda reddish brown, with the floor following the same color scheme, albeit with tiles.

'Okay,' I thought to myself, 'so this can't just be a simple hallucination, 'cause she said we're all ponies... Geez, maybe I've finally cracked; I mean, my options are: I'm insane, I'm in a dream world created by a coma, or the least likely scenario: I'm ACTUALLY experiencing something that's been dreamt and written about, but never truly experienced... Yeah, right; I'm probably just in a coma, or something...'

I heard something hit the table next to me, and looked to find a glass of water sitting there.

"I thought you might like to have some water," the nurse said casually.

"Oh, thanks," I said, grabbing the glass of water.

...Wait, how did I do that?

I just grabbed a glass of water. With hooves. No fingers, no nothing. It looked like it was just sticking to my hoof, but I could pass it between my hooves without feeling like I was un-sticking it every time.

I guess the nurse was watching me mess with the glass, because she said, "Um... what are you doing?"

I quickly thought of an excuse, and said, "Oh, uh, I guess I just never really thought of how weird it is that we can just pick things up without having anything visible to grab them with."

"Oh, well you do know how we hold things, right?" I shook my head. "Well, it's a bit of magic that each of us has that allows all of us to subconsciously do a lesser version of a levitation spell; pretty handy, if you ask me."

'Well, there's one mystery solved...'

"Speaking of magic, how's your horn feeling?" she asked.

"Horn?" I moved one of my hooves up to my head to check for a horn, and (unsurprsingly) found one. "Oh, I forgot you were there, buddy," I said, trying to sound as casual as you can when you're a light blue unicorn talking to his own horn. In all honesty, I was kinda freaking out at all this new stuff, but I managed to keep all that in my head; don't want to end up in the loony bin.

Then again, they let Pinkie stay in Ponyville, so I'm not entirely sure what gets ya' tossed into one an insane asylum here...

Before the nurse could respond to me talking to my own horn, the pony in the bed next to me starting moving and groaning, and the nurse mumbled something about getting a doctor, and left.

While the nice Miss Nurse Lady was gone, the pony woke up, and proceeded to sit upright and rub his head with his hoof. Getting a better look at him, I saw that he was a dark purple pegasus, with a wingboner, for some reason; or, maybe he was just stretching, I dunno.

"Ughh. What happened?" he groaned, "I seem to recall falling from the sky. Wait... Falling from the sky!? I FELL FROM THE GOD DAMN SKY! WHAT?! Clearly I was dreaming. Then again I'm in a hospital and feel like shit. And why do I feel strange... Extra limbs? EXTRA LIMBS! I HAVE FOUR ARMS! Then again they don't feel like arms. They feel feathery... AM I A BIRD NOW? I'M A BIRD! BRILLIANT!" The pegasus ranted, utterly baffling me.

Before I could even fully process what he said, the crazed pegasus looked down at his hooves and continued, "HOOVES? HOOVES? I'M A PEGASAUS? Or an Alicorn." he shouted, "GOD! HOW DID I BECOME THIS? DOES FALLING FROM THE SKY NOW RESULT IN TRANSFORMING INTO A MYTHICAL CREATURE INSTEAD OF DEATH? Alright Miles... Calm down... You're a purple pegasaus in a hospital ward with injuries... WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SAY? THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE! Well it clearly is considering... Wait a freaking minute. That weird rainbow thing. GOD DAMN STUPID RAINBOW THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FALL FROM THE SKY AND BECOME A BRIGHTLY COLOURED EQUINE!"

As I was recovering from the shock of this guy screaming his head off (and how he continued ranting after that), I tried to make sense of what he had said, 'Ok... I guess he's in the same boat as me, saying that the weird Rainbow Bullet Of Death got him, and that he fell from the sky and turned into a pony as well... Or, maybe he's just insane, not sure. But he may be that only pers- er, PONY I can talk to about this, no matter how insane either of us are...'

"Hey, uh, dude?" I said, trying to get the rather crazy pony's attention, "You probably wanna stop yelling before the nurse comes back and puts ya' in an insane asylum."

Unfortunately, this had given him another thing to rant about, "WHAT?" The very crazy pegasus shouted questioningly, "I recognise that voice... AW DAMNIT! I've gone insane! There is no way that Alex is conveniently in this pony world of rainbowness and in this very same hospital.

'What the hell is he- Oh.' I thought. I had just realized who this very, very, crazy pegasus might be, 'This is Miles, isn't it?' I listened to him rant for a second, '...Yeah, it's him; the voice is the same,' I mentally sighed, 'Of course he's the insane pegasus; I mean, why WOULDN'T he be? I get attacked by some stupid rainbow bullet, fall from the sky and have something else fall on top of me (though, now that I think of it, it was probably him), and wind up in a hospital as a unicorn from my favorite show. I mean, on top of all that, seeing Miles as a pegasus seems pa-retty normal in comparison...'

Now that I knew that this was Miles, I realized I should probably stop my best friend from getting himself sent to an insane asylum, "Hey, Miles?" I asked.

"Yes, disembodied voice of Alex?"

"Shut up."

"But talking is fun, not real Alex who is somehow talking to me!"

"Oi... One: I am real. Two: you ARE a pegasus, and thre- TURN YOUR HEAD TO THE FREAKING LEFT, DUMMY!" Miles was looking around, shocked, after I said that I was real; although he was mainly looking up, and not actually where my voice was coming from.

After I shouted at him, he turned his head to look at me and said "Oh, hi blue unicorn Alex!" Miles said cheerfully, "So, if you're a blue unicorn, then what's gonna happen next? The Heavy pops out of the ground and says 'POOTIS'? Or a Magikarp starts dancing on your head? Then again you have a horn which means it'd DIE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No that's not funny it involves death. Umm... Lighten the mood, lighten the mood... Why did the turkey cross the road? No wait it's a different bird. Umm. FUNNY THINGS AND JOKES! HAHAHAHAHA!"

I just rolled my eyes. I was used to Miles acting insane when we talked via the Steam chat feature, or did a voice chat in Skype. Though, there is the issue of him probably not acting this time.

"Anyway! I'm actually kinda damaged! So when will a medic or someone appear here?"

"If you're waiting for a nurse, she left a couple minutes ago to get a doctor; she should be back soon."

"I vonder if zhe doktor ist a sadistic German." Miles said in a bad German accent.

"Aren't all doctors?" I said sarcastically.

After some idle chat, the door swung open to reveal a white unicorn with a light blue mane and tail.

'Hm. So he looks like the BLU Medic; here's hoping he's not like him...'

"Ah, greetings, gentlemen. I see you're both awake?" the doctor asked while walking in.

Me and Miles both said yes, and the doctor continued, "So, how are you two feeling?"

Miles took the liberty of responding before I could say anything, "Well, fine. FOR SOMEONE WHO GOT ATTACKED WITH RAINBOWS AND FELL FROM THE SKY!"

The doctor pulled his head back slightly in surprise, and leaned over and muttered to the nurse, "The patient may be delusional from a head injury on the way down." the nurse then proceeded to write this down on a notepad.

"So, what are your names?" the doctor asked us.

I briefly considered trying to come up with a pony's name, then decided against it. "Alex, Alex Bird." the doctor nodded and turned his head to Miles.

"Miles Logan."

"I assume you two know each other?" the doctor asked, looking between me and Miles.

"Yeah, we do. We're best friends, actually." Miles said.

"So, do you remember what happened before you woke up here?"

"Well, I don't remember anything before finding myself falling from the sky with this guy screaming his head off," I lied, jerking my head towards Miles, who looked back at me, scowling.

"Way to make it sound like I dropped you from the sky." Miles said, still scowling at me.

"Oh, come on, Miles." I rolled my eyes. "We both know that you'd never purposefully drop me from the sky; much less come falling after me, screaming about how you never want to go skydiving again."

"...Well, you still made it sound like I dropped you accidentally." Miles muttered, finding his hooves very interesting.

"Yeah, well, we both know that didn't happen, so just forget about it."

Herr doktor decided to bring the conversation back on topic, "Well, we just need to check for any broken bones, and then you can leave."

"Yay! I wonder which part of me is broken!"

Falling into Equestria is Not Fun (Co-op fic)

by Boy with a Robotic Hand

Chapter 1 - Absolutely Great Start

Chapter 2 - Suddenly, Ponies