Dangerous Dog and Pony Show

It was a beautiful summer day – it was warm, but not too hot thanks to a cooling breeze, and soft, fluffy, beautiful clouds were scattered in the clear blue sky. Rarity was sat in a field, playing with her baby sister. The foal was just playing with a ball, and every time it escaped her grasp the elder sister would push it back towards her. The young filly couldn’t imagine anything ever being more important than her sister, thought wished she had learnt how to do magic so she didn't have to chase after the ball by hoof.

Twilight and Fluttershy were monitoring their friends’ vitals as the sedation wore off - the doctor stood nearby but wasn't really needed. Everything was looking good from a physical perspective, but everypony in the room was concerned by the look on Twilight’s face

“What’s wrong sugarcube?” Applejack asked

Twilight looked at her friends and especially Sweetie Belle, wondering whether or not to tell the truth. But in these circumstances she was acting as a doctor, and as a doctor she had certain codes to adhere to. Besides, her friends and Rarity’s family deserved to know the truth.

“Her brain waves are still showing she is in a deep sleep – by now we would be expecting her to start waking up. There should be an increase in activity”

Rarity had her foal sister napping on her back as she made her way through Ponyville. The filly was so happy, trotting slowly through the town being passed and greeted by all the adult ponies. But then something struck her. She carefully looked around and noticed everything seemed just a bit bigger than usual. Of course to the filly the buildings etc were the same size as they had always been, but something about them just seemed wrong. She then instinctively started trotting over to a part of the market she didn’t usually go to, away from her parents house where she and her sister lived happily...

Twilight looked through her books, studying her options. She wondered if she was out of her depth here, and if they should perhaps get Rarity over to Canterlot University Hospital, the best unicorn hospital in the kingdom. Or she could get some of the doctors to come to Ponyville – afterall, nopony was going to say no to Twilight Sparkle when she was determined, not even the Princess would be able to deny the unicorn what she wanted.

“It’s like she doesn’t want to wake up…” Twilight thought out loud.

“You can hardly blame her.  She spent a day being abused, and then the last thing she saw was a massive dragon bearing down on her. A dream probably seems much more appealing to her right now” Rainbow replied, a little brashly.

“Besides, shes dreaming about her baby sister…that’s going to be such a nice dream to leave behind!” Fluttershy added, using a wing to cuddle Sweetie Belle to comfort her.

“Can’t we enter her dreams to help get her out? Surely there must be a machine, or a spell, to do that. Surely with all the powers Twilight has there must be some way of getting in? And if not, why not?” Pinkie asked, suddenly donning a suit and brandishing a potato gun.

Everypony looked at the pink mare, although Twilight was the least surprised “Only Luna can enter anypony else’s dreams, and whilst she can interact with them I think in these circumstance it would be dangerous. Rarity sleep and dreams are part of her recovery, so it’s best we let them play out...

The young filly approached a familiar, yet unfamiliar part of the market, where there was a large empty space. ‘Something should be here’ she thought to herself, looking around. Nothing was out of place compared to the day before, but something definitely was...well best described as missing. She stood there, and had an image of a building she had never seen before enter her mind.

She focused on the thought, and slowly it started to form out of the mist. A four story round building, with amazing details - the colour was a beautiful shade, there were lots of engravings everything and some ponyquins around the top made it look like a carousel. The filly had never seen the building before, but yet it looked like something she would draw if she ever designed a building. And with that thought, she noticed that she suddenly seemed bigger than before. She looked down and noticed that she now had a cutie mark! ‘Where did that come from, and why is it gems?’

The ponies had been telling Sweetie Belle and her fellow filly friends, a story about how they each got their cutie marks. Of course Applejack had to fill in for Rarity, having been told the story by the unicorn previously. Suddenly, Twilights face started to brighten, which grabbed everypony’s attention “Her brain activity has increased 18%, that’s a good sign”

Rarity entered this strange building, but as soon as she crossed the threshold it all seemed so familiar. Ponyquins, gems and cloth…it all seemed so right! Suddenly she remembered who she was and everything faded to darkness…

Rarity found herself waking up in her bed at the boutique. ‘What a weird dream’ she thought to herself. She got up and started her morning ablutions, which took the best part of an hour. She looked at her calendar and noticed today was pony-pet playdate day “Oh Opal, won’t that be nice” she called out to her cat

Rarity should have been awake over an hour ago, but her brain activity was still improving which was a good sign. Her friends and family didn't leave the unicorns side, and continued chatting about all the good times they had had.

Rarity made her way to Ponyville Park with Opalescence, and met up with her five BFF’s. Fluttershy was there with Angel rabbit, Pinkie had brought that ghastly yet admittedly a little cute alligator gummy and Applejack had her faithful canine companion Winona. Rainbow Dash of course didn't have a pet, but still liked to play chase with Applejack and Whinova.

As they all played and chatted, something was amiss to the white unicorn. All her friends were there, as were their pets, but somepony seemed to be missing. She looked around and noticed Twilight was reading a book…not exactly unusual for the mare. But it was unusually for Twilight to be reading now, she would normally be joining in. But then, she didn’t have a pet.

But she did have something…something was missing. The unicorn thought hard, finding something in the back of her mind. But she couldn't seem to access it properly. But then an image of a purple pony with a green mane filtered into her mind. ‘Urg…a green mane, that doesn’t seem right’ and the image started to transform into something else…

Rarity’s thoughts were suddenly broken by Pinkie Pie screaming out a word everypony dreaded ‘DRAGON’

The group of friends had started discussing Spikes currently status. Everypony was interested in hearing what Twilight knew about the new Spike, but she didn't know too much. Everypony then noticed Rarity start to move about and moan, like she was having a nightmare.

The group of pets and ponies had galloped off in the other direction from the Dragon, but the creature was much faster than them and landed down blocking their path. The giant beast bore down on the group, and Rarity noticed that everypony else had disappeared…she was alone with the brute. But suddenly she wasn’t afraid anymore, as she noticed something familiar about it’s eyes…

Rarity’s eyes slowly flickered open just a tad, and a smile formed over her face “Spike” she croaked. Everypony let out a huge sigh of relief as their unicorn friend had woken up and already talked. Perhaps everything was going to be just fine.

Outside of the hospital, Spike with his super-effective hearing had been listening to all the conversations inside the hospital, and infact all over town. He afterall had nothing else to do and his battle ready mind could easily processes lots of information at the same time. But one word suddenly snapped all of his thought to a single point, his name being uttered by the pony he adored.

A few moments later the front door opened and Rainbow Dash stuck her head outside “She’s awake” but the dragon was already aware and had what passed as a smile on his face.