Chapters Every cloud has a silver lining
New York
"This looks like the place" you say to yourself while approaching a dark, metallic blue door. A good friend of yours, Trevor, has invited you over to the bar downtown for your 21st birthday "celebration". Not much of a big surprise that he would plan it at a place like this. While gripping the door handle, you let out a sigh, then push it open. Blaring hard rock music mixed with the sounds of conversations and laughter greet you as you step inside. The door closes with a creak, then you begin to scan the area for Trevor. Several customers notice you as you walk by, and they give a,"you don't look like you belong here" glare at you. You turn your head in the opposite direction to avoid eye contact with them, only to see a bunch of drunken, somewhat attractive girls dancing on a stage while spilling alcohol from frost-covered bottles in their hands. Directly in front of the stage stand a couple of burly-looking men with cigarettes between their fingers, who are laughing with each other and enjoying the show. The vibrating of your phone interrupts you, and after sliding it out from your pocket, the screen reads that you have a "new message from Trevor". You tap on the screen to open the text, which reads," I'm at the bar. Hurry up".
"calm down Trevor, jeez" you say as you try to find the bar. five minutes after going in a circle, you see Trevor sitting at the bar. you sit next to him. He is better looking than most guys you know, he usually gets all the ladies. He turns toward you and smiles. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY" he yells. he pulls you in for a manly hug and then he says "I know you have never had ANY alcohol in your life, so as a present I'm paying for all of your drinks!" You smile and then laugh at that. We both are sophomores in college. He always gets invited to parties and you always get pushed aside. He has been drinking since he was a senior in high school so he can handle his alcohol, you on the other hand are a bit concerned that you are going to barf on the floor and then slip on it. Trevor calls the bartender and says "I'll have a shot of whiskey and my friend here will have some beer." he says pointing at you. "But Trev..." you begin but he cuts you off. "No buts, you are going to drink your fist drink and enjoy it" The bartender arrives giving Trevor his shot an you your beer. Trevor pops the cap on you beer and drinks it all in one go. "Trevor! what the hell?" you ask. "you though that would be your first drink? HA yeah right." he pulled out a bag from his hoodie and poured a clear liquid into the beer bottle. You manage to see the label on the bottle inside the paper bag. "Everclear?" you say out loud "isn't this stuff illegal?" "SHHHHHH! shut up man!" Trevor says "I don't want to get arrested like last time"
About a year ago, Trevor had gotten arrested because he was smoking a joint on campus with his friends. Trevor had called you the "goody goody child" before because you never did anything with a risk. You were about to take the biggest one of your life.
You stare at the bottle. "Okay lets drink at the same time" said Trevor as he put the bottle back in you hand. You think "Oh well, what could go wrong?" "Three" Trevor starts "Two" you continue. "ONE" you say at the same time as You bring the bottle to your lips an Trevor brings the Everclear bottle to his mouth instead of the shot glass.
The liquid burned as it trickled down your throat. You look at Trevor who drank the entire bottle!
Your vision began to blur an you felt terrible. You lean over to Trevor whose face began to turn very red. "LETS GO HOME NOW" He nods as you stumble out the bar together. You jumble with your keys and unlock your car. Trevor sits in the passenger seat as you turn on the car. The last thing you remember is the loud roar of the engine going down a road.
Ponyville-
Rainbow Dash sits on a cloud bed rereading her favorite Daring Do book. She hears a knocking at her door. "Who had the audacity to disturb Rainbow Dash on her day off?" Rainbow thought as she flew toward her door to answer it. She opened the door saying "Hey WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?" Twilight and Fluttershy stood at the door. "RAINBOW! THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE!" Twilight screamed as she yelled "FOLLOW ME!" and took off. Fluttershy followed her as fast as she could and after her, Rainbow with not a clue to what's going on followed too. They arrived at the library where the rest of the town was. Pinkie jumped out of nowhere and yelled "OMIGOSH THOSE TWO ALIENS FELL OUT OF THE SKY!" and then ran off in another direction screaming.
"What?" Rainbow asked as she flew above the crowd and saw a big chunk of metal stuck on the side of the tree and different unknown parts littered all over the ground. What's going on?
Two strange figures hung out of the large piece of metal stuck in the tree. They were covered in blood, lots of it. A fire erupted from the back of the metal thing and progressively got bigger every second. There was an explosion and the two figures hit the ground hard. The loud bang threw all of the residents of Ponyville to their knees and backs. Terrified, the cutie mark crusaders cowered under Rarity who still stood in horror. She turned and ran to Twilight who was hovering over the wreck. "DO SOMETHING TWILIGHT!"
"Oh alright" she said unsure of herself. She pulled the two figures off the ground with her magic and placed them in a safer spot.
"What are they?" Scootaloo asks
"I don't know darling, I don't know" says Rarity. A crowd of ponies circle around the two bloody figures.
Rainbow lands next to one of the figures. "Did it just move?" Rainbow thought as she saw one of the aliens move it's head.
"GET A DOCTOR NOW!"
Every cloud has a silver lining
A sharp pain in your chest causes you to scream and throw open your eyes. You look around you only seeing bright colors around you. where am I? You try to move, but your chest stings with pain. confused, you start crying "Where am I? I want to go home. Please let me go home. PLEASE!" Your vision begins to clear up when you start seeing colored figures all around you. "How drunk am I? There is no way I'm dead if I can feel this pain." You hear something speaking to you. "SHUT UP AND STOP MOVING! LET ME OPERATE!" You start to cry again. sweat falls into your eyes making them sting even more. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" You scream as the most pain you have ever felt in you life runs through your body. "Give It more sedatives!" "which kind?" "MAREPHINE NOW!" "YES SIR" You feel some pills and a liquid running own your throat. You can't feel anything or for that matter think anything. You can still see though. You look around seeing multicolored horses? "What the hell is going on?" you ask. The blood loss was too much to handle. right before you begin to pass out, you look at your chest which has a piece of metal the size of a license plate sticking out of it. You could hear something else screaming too.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH MOTHERFUCKER! Stop stabbing me you weird ass HORSE!" TREVOR! HE'S ALIVE! Wait, what did he say? Horse? You also hear "SHUT THAT ONE UP NURSE, HIS PROFANITY IS KEEPING ME FROM OPERATING SAFELY!" You could only see a tunnel of darkness and a rainbow? Your eyes fight to stay open, but the inevitable was near. You couldn't stay conscious much longer. your eyes begin to shut and all you see is darkness. The last thing you could hear was "we're LOSING IT!" "DO SOMETHING! NOW! You feel an unnatural force pulling at the metal in your chest. "The only way we can save it is to pull out that shard, NO THERE IS NO TIME FOR MAREPHINE! HELP ME GET IT OUT NOW" Your eyes open once again, this time with a surge of energy. Something had zapped you. You see a bright blinding light. "RAINBOW DASH WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU SHOT IT WITH LIGHTNING? ARE YOU INSANE?" "IT'S OPENING IT"S EYES AGAIN DONT YOU SEE TWILIGHT?" The morphine or "marephine" was wearing off just as you saw a purple unicorn with wings rip the metal out of your chest. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" you scream as your eyes begin to close again. "RAINBOW! ZAP IT AGAIN!" "I'll try!" Your eyes shoot open again with a huge amount of electricity running through your body.
You begin to breathe heavily. Your chest stings more than when you got hit by a car in the 9th grade when you were riding Trevor's older brother's dirt bike. You look from side to side. You start to cry not from confusion, but from pain. You could smell burning flesh and clothing. You could smell and taste the musky and metallic blood. You could feel your thigh writhing in pain. "Look at those clothes, my they are HIDEOUS!" "SHUT UP RARITY" "sorry Rainbow"
Rainbow Dash fell on her back, mane a mess. She was panting harder than the alien when it was zapped. how had she done that? She had never controlled lightning before and she did it twice! "spur of the moment I guess" she thought. She watched as the doctors carried both of the aliens to the hospital. Fluttershy came up to Rainbow and sat down with her. "hey rainbow, how did you do that? that was really cool. Everypony wants to know how you got that lightning to zap the alien." "oh that." said rainbow "Do you really need to ask? The answer is that I'm the coolest pony in all of Ponyville! DUH" she says a little bit defensively. "oh alright Rainbow. by the way Twilight and Rarity wanted you to meet them at Sweet Apple Acres later today" said Fluttershy "why?" Rainbow asks. "JUST DO WHAT I SAY! umm if that's alright with you." "jeez Fluttershy, lay off of those assertive lessons for a while will ya? It's just not you anymore." Rainbow says thinking about how much he friend has changed.
Back at the hospital
"FUCK!" Trevor yells as the doctor pushes his femur back together. "calm down alien" he says annoyed by Trevor. You are lying on the bed next to him. you wake up from the yelling. "UUUGH where am I?" you say grabbing your head which is now bandaged as well as your chest. The second you touch your head, it rams a pain so severe that your back arches and you can't feel your legs for a moment. "Damn it" you say. Make sure you don't do that again. "what happened?" you ask. The doctor trots next to your be making you jump. "what the HELL ARE YOU?" The doctor, confused just says "calm down alien." He uses his unicorn powers to bring a platter of medicines and syringes and some food. "what the hell are you" you ask once more. He sighs and says "maybe your visitors later today can explain better than I can. It's magic"
You just stare, straight into the doctor's bright blue eyes. He cuts off your death stare with a question. "What are those things on your limbs? Those sticks that branch out into smaller sticks? Are you some sort of tree?" you can't help but laugh at that question which really hurts your chest. "HA, no I am a human being. I'm really worried right now because there is a small talking horse in front of me, I have no clue where I am, I'm injured really badly and I want to go home." You say in a ranting manner. The doctor then hovers the platter onto the bed and begins to give you pills. "first of all, this is Equestria, Ponyville to be exact. Secondly, you aren't injured as badly as your friend there, and thirdly you still haven't answered my question." You eat the pills and drink the water and after you swallow you answer his question "These are arms" you say as you pick up your arms and wave them around. You extend your hand "this is my hand and these are fingers" you wiggle your fingers. I can use them to pick up things easily. You pick up the bowl of mush from the platter and show him "see, they are really useful". You can smell the mush which seems to be mashed potatoes "these smell really good. Are these potatoes?" The doctor seems surprised. "you know what a potato is?" "Yeah, back in my world we have these and many other things too." you look around the room. "This hospital is really old" you say. "old? this was built last year!" Your turn to be surprised. "That's weird, hospital on earth where I live are a lot more advanced the ones here." The doctor turns. "That's interesting, well my name is doctor Redcross. I'm a very busy pony so I'll have to continue this conversation some other time." "Yeah okay see you later then" you say as Redcross walks out the door. You feel drowsy so you close your eyes and start to dream.
Every cloud has a silver lining
Your eyes open. You are no longer in a hospital, but now are in an endlessly long white room. you look at your chest which is miraculously healed. You can hear faint whispers. You strain yourself to listen harder. "wake up" Wake up? you already are awake. You listen more. "Nurse, tweezers" "yes sir" You fell another heavy pain in your chest. It was at least ten times worse than before. You fall to your knees. A hissing sound running through your ears kept you from hearing anything else. You feel dizzy and try to stand up. The hissing stops. "he's gone"
You feel yourself falling. You realize that you are now on the floor of the hospital. Blood sweat and tears all over the ground. Redcross runs in. "What happened?" he asked picking you up with his magic and placing you softly on another bed. One question runs through your mind. "where is Trevor." Redcross doesn't look in your eyes. He answers softly "your friend is badly injured and was moved to the intense care ward. It doesn't look good for him." You get up with great effort and stand upright once more. "I want to see him." You say in a low tone voice, looking at the ground. "I'm not sure you.."
"I said now" you cut him off.
"Very well" Redcross says as he drags a bed with wheels over to you. "Now, sit down and relax. I'll take you to him only if you promise to relax and try not to move too much. The spell that is placed on you can heal you in a couple of hours instead of months but it wears off from moving too much"
You sigh and climb onto the bed and try to get comfortable. "Alright fine." you say just as the doors swing open to reveal a long brightly lit corridor. Doctor Redcross rolls you through the hallway. As you roll, you start to think.
How did I get here? Why am I here? Last thing I Remember is Driving home after drinking that crap Trevor gave me. Wait, Am I in a coma? If that's true, then this is one bizarre dream.
Two doors swing open in front of you and they reveal a small square room about 12 feet by 12 feet. in the middle of one of the walls there was a about four beds pushed together holding a dark figure in grey sheets. Trevor. You get up and trudge you way to the beds clutching your stomach. Trevor was out cold. his skin was burnt and smelled worse than your flesh after you got shot by lightning. You put out a hand to shake him awake but nothing happens. The doctor advises you not to move him too much. You ignore him as you shake him once more. This time, he starts coughing and his bloodshot eyes searched hungrily everything he could see. He wheezed and began to cough violently again. You heard him say your name and he lifted his arm and grabbed what was left of your shirt. "was I right or what? that was awesome!" It seemed painful to see him talk. You turn around to check on Redcross, but he was gone. Speak of the devil you think as Redcross trots in with two other doctors (probably specialized) In white coats with a red heart on it.
Trevor began coughing again and the doctors pushed you out of the way and started saying doctor things. One with a blonde mane and a feminine voice said "Redcross, Get him out of here. Now." He nodded an bit your tattered black jeans and pulled you out the door. As you walk out, you hear "Get his chest open NOW! he's going critical!" you hear a scream and more coughing and right before you go back in your room, you hear "Get that thing out of him now! (another scream) good work doctor."
As you enter the room, something is strange. It feels; colder. You turn around and see a mare about as tall as you, standing in the doorway. She was Blue and had a long beautiful flowing mane. She had large navy wings and a matching horn.
She spoke in a soft and strangely 'freezing' voice. It felt almost soothing.
"Hello, My name is Luna. I am a princess of Equestria. Who are you and why are you here?"
You try to open your mouth and answer but a strange force keeps you from moving your mouth.
"UUUUUUUHHH" you say in a slightly unintelligible manner.
Luna speaks again, "I apologize, perhaps you are a less intelligent species than I had expected."
this time, feeling insulted you say "Oh I'm sorry, I was just gathering my words, My name is Anon, and I am a Human Being from planet Earth. It's a pleasure meeting you princess Luna." You bow.
Luna was taken aback and began to blush. (obviously, she isn't used to this) "I'm sorry Anon, I apologize if I insulted you. You have startled the citizens off Ponyville, and destroyed the public library. Why have you done such deeds?"
You try to come up with a good answer, but end up just saying "I don't know princess, I'm scared. I don't know how I got here or if I'll ever get to go home to my family and friends."
Luna hid behind her mane for a second and replied "I see, so the damage that has been done was not intentional?"
You reply loud but maybe a bit too loud because it hurt your chest. "Oh no, I would never hurt anybody ever!"
Luna had a confused look on her face. "any-body? do you mean anypony?"
You were going to answer but she cut you short
"I apologize Anon, I have other duties to attend to. I must speak to my sister, Princess Celestia to see what is to be done with you. You have hurt many of m- I mean 'our' subjects and put them in this very hospital. there must be a punishment. You will get a chance to a fair trial, and to defend you I have arranged for the heroic mare that brought you back to life to defend your cause. Since i'm a princess, I cannot choose sides." she leans toward you and whispers "I would have defended you. You said that you did not have any intention to harm anypony, but you can still call me as a witness"
She leans back and shoots you a sly smile.
You stand confused. why did she defend you? Obviously you had not meant to harm anyone, or "Anypony"
You say "thank you" to the princess, who had turned and began to walk out of the door. She nodded and whispered "good luck Anon" and left.
Screw the long chapters, Right now I'm failing English and chemistry because my teachers suck. I'll have longer chapters after I bring my grades up. I'm just gonna do 1000-2000 word chapters a week and when I have a grasp on my grades I'll bring out 5000-6000 word chapters.
Great, see you guys next week!
Every cloud has a silver lining
The wind rustled the side of the dilapidated barn. Six mares and a dragon sat in a circle around a small fire. Pinkie pulled out a platter of marshmallows from absolutely nowhere and offered them to the other mares and the dragon who all took one an put it on a twig found on the floor. A large gust of wind caused everypony to shiver.
"That autumn weather is really beginning to cool down ponyville" Rarity says tying to lighten up the mood. It doesn't work.
Rainbow Dash sits between Applejack and Twilight. She does not pay attention to anything in the barn, but instead a hole in the roof of the barn where daylight shone through. She stares blankly out into the bright blue sky as she wonders if the alien will be okay. She tried everything to save it. Somehow even shot lightning at it to revive its heart.
"I hate being mushy-gushy, but I really hope the alien is okay.I shot it with lightning. If that took away my ability to fly for a couple months just by controlling it, I wonder what happened to it." she thought as she stared at her wings covered in bloody bandages. it hurt to just move them an inch.
"Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash, RAINBOW DAAAAAAAASSSSHHH!" Pinkie screams shoving an entire bag of marshmallows in Rainbow's mouth. "MMMmPHHHhhhhMAPhh!" she tried speaking but it sounded like a retarded seal on drugs.
She spits out the marshmallows like a machine gun leaving them on Pinkie's, Twilight's and Applejack's face. (spike rolls around on the ground laughing and Fluttershy hides behind Rarity, who face-hoofed) Twilight shakes the crap off of her face.
She speaks for the first time in an hour "So girls, apparently we are the defense lawyers for the aliens. They will be having a trial in Sugarcube corner later this week. Any of you have any idea at all what to do?"
"Ah think that we should take up Princess Luna's offer and go interview it ourselves." suggests Applejack wiper her face and dusting her hat off.
"That Is A GREAT IDEA!" screams Pinkie, somehow with a clean face.
Rarity stands, startling Fluttershy once again.