“Whatever it is, it appears to be in perfect health, but it is unlike anything I have ever treated before. From observation, it is clearly male, and from the condition his body is in, I would guess that the only thing that is wrong with him is exhaustion.”

The stallion that had just spoken looked away from Dominic's body, and when he did, he turned his attention towards the Princess, before asking a question that was on everyponies minds. “Princess, are you sure he isn’t of a threat?”

All eyes turned towards Princess Celestia as she glanced over at the creature, before she calmed the fears of those around her, even if slightly. “He is dangerous, which is clear from what was witnessed earlier, but I will have guards posted around the hospital, and if Dash chooses, then I can have one or two in here as well.”

This time, while most the eyes were shifted towards the mare in the opposite bed of Dominic, only the Princess turned her gaze back towards the strange creature. It was unlike anything she had ever seen before, and while she knew of the danger he seemed to possess, it was unclear as to what extent that danger reached.

“I don’t need any guards to watch over that thing for me. If he tries to hurt me, then I will make him pay for breaking my wing...” said the haughty voice of Rainbow Dash, who despite the small fear that she felt for the strange being, it was being covered up with her interest in what strange creature was. And deep down, she hoped that the thing would try something, so that she would have more of an excuse to give him a black eye for breaking her wing.

On the other hand, for Celestia, she was mildly glad that Dash chose to remain alone with the creature, as that meant the mare could get to know it a bit better; possibly learning more about it. While she would have happily posted guards inside the room, she still understood that someponies still wanted some form of privacy.

While Rainbow Dash would have normally had the company of her friends, they needed to go back to Ponyville to resume their duties. Pinkie Pie was still a helper at Sugercube Corner, so she was needed to go help the Cakes with their store. Rarity, while she could normally close her business for a few days for her friends sakes, had a large order of dresses and clothing to make for a noble of Canterlot; so she was going to be tied down to being on time with her orders. Fluttershy would have enjoyed staying with Dash to give her company, but the strange beast was a bit... frightening; so she claimed she needed to get back to her cottage to take care of the animals that had gotten hurt the previous days. Applejack was probably one of the only mares that had a valid excuse to not be by one of her friend’s side during her time of pain and boredom; Apple Cider Season was around the corner, and she was needed on the farm for harvesting of the apples.

Twilight on the other hand had been called to the side by her mentor and friend earlier though, and she had a task of searching for a possible explanation for the strange creature’s appearance. While Twilight Sparkle would be researching anomalies and strange occurrences at the library, Princess Celestia would resume her royal duties; along with searching the royal archives with any spare time she had. That left Rainbow Dash alone, by her lonesome self, with the strange creature that had broken her wing. She was anything but thrilled, but she wasn’t going to let her friends, or heavens forbid, the Princess, know of her discomfort of the situation at hand.

While everypony was saying their good-byes to their friend, Celestia pulled the doctor aside and said, “I want you to check up on Rainbow Dash and our guest every few hours. When the creature awakens, I want you to have one of my guards alert me. The same goes for when Rainbow Dash is cleared to leave the hospitable.”

The doctor nodded his head, but before he could reply, Princess Celestia raised her head and said louder, “I am terribly sorry everypony, but I need to return to Canterlot so that I can search for answers to our questions as soon as possible.”

At this, Twilight spoke up, hoping to get some time to talk to the princess, “Actually Princess, we were just leaving as well. Is it alright if we join you?”

“Of course Twilight.” Princess Celestia responded with a light smile, and with that, everypony started to leave the room, all except Rainbow Dash...

...
(Rainbow Dash’s P.O.V.)

It had only been about ten minutes since the door had closed, but already, the boredom was too great, and this time; I didn’t have a Daring Do book to read! Groaning as I let my hit the headboard of the hospital bed, I wasn’t sure if I was going to survive this time with a broken wing. The creature that broke my wing had better wake up soon, because if it didn’t, I was going to go insane from all the nothingness to do...

...

Forty minutes later, I was still sitting in my bed, with nothing to do, and there wasn’t even a single thing happening outside the lone window that sat at the far end of the room. I had tried napping, but that made time seem to crawl at an even slower pace, and while it did make me feel well rested, I couldn’t do anything to burn off the extra energy now. Standing up was out of the option, as my leg had been hurt when the creature crashed into me, but I wasn’t about to let my friends know a small pain was going to bother me. The only reason I had been able to feign my wing was the only thing hurt, was they paid attention to making sure it didn’t receive any additional movement. It was a good thing they hadn’t noticed my limp, but the soreness was enough that I still rubbed it every so often. It was easier to hide, as it was my right foreleg that was hurt too, and it only flared up at certain moments...

...

Twenty minutes have gone by, and the only thing that has changed, was the back of my head was now sorer than my leg. I had stopped once I felt a dull pain shoot through the back of my head, but that had only been the start of it, and now I had the beginning of a headache. The headache wouldn’t have been so bad if I had someone to talk to, but the creature was still sleeping. Why won’t you wake up!?

Groaning, I grabbed the closest thing to me, which so happened to be my pillow, and as I looked down at it, I started to process this gift I had. Looking up and at the opposite bed where the creature resided, I looked down at my pillow again, before raising my gaze towards the only other occupied bed. Then I felt a grin making its way across my muzzle, and while I squeezed my pillow tightly between my hooves. Why hadn’t I thought of this before?

Giggling a bit, I frowned as I quickly cut the small girlish and uncool behavior out, but I felt my devious grin return full force as I lifted my pillow over my head. Pulling it back and over my head, I prepared myself, and I ignored the small amount of pain in my left hoof; then launched my projectile at the target across from me.

The pillow gracefully, yet speedily arched through the air, and when it did hit its target, I felt surprise run through my mind as it had an immediate response. The creature shot up as it grabbed the pillow from the top of its hind legs with its fore legs. Its eyes shot around the room as an irritated frown appeared over its muzzle... or face, as it lacked a clear muzzle. However, when its eyes landed on me, I watched in mild fascination as it seemed to tense up, and I watched as its eyes widened...

(Dominic’s P.O.V.)

Looking towards the Pegasus across from me, I could only stare back into its eyes, while taking brief glances at the rest of its body. I didn’t know exactly what to make of it, as I had hoped all my memories I had been shifting through had been some sort of hallucination from piloting a jet for so long. Those hopes were dashed however as the rainbow maned... pony, confirmed that I wasn’t hallucinating.

My hold on the pillow faltered slightly, and I started to take in more details of the mythological creature across from me. It had a large variety of colors in its mane, as the rainbow colors couldn’t be natural, yet still seemed to be somewhat natural. And its body, from what I could see, was nowhere near any sort of horse I had seen in zoos, or the occasional wild horse. For one, its hooves were a solid cylinder shape, with almost no clear indication as to where its joints were. And its body was slimmer than that of a regular horses, or ponies, but I could wager that was just because it had wings, and like birds, the slimmer body meant less weight and a more streamlined flyer... though that brought up another problem. It had wings...

The wings in question where behind it, and I saw one of them appeared bandaged, while the other seemed to remain tucked against its body. The wings shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but I had seen much stranger yesterday if my memories were correct, as I had seen a Pegasus hybrid. It only classified as a hybrid as it had both the wings, and the horn of a unicorn, yet both were mythological creatures, weren’t they?

I was cut off from myself musing and analysis as the Pegasus across from me seemed to clear its throat, and I felt my eyes widen a bit more in shock as its eyes shifted around a bit in a very human like manner. If that wasn’t enough, it spoke in a somewhat feminine voice... with flawless English nonetheless, “Hi... would you mind throwing my pillow back over here...?”

Looking down at the pillow in my hands, it was then that I realized what had just happened. Even though it was still hard to believe that such a creature could exist, I was just woken up from said creature throwing a pillow at me. Grabbing the pillow a bit more, I weakly flexed my muscles, before tossing it back towards the female Pegasus across the room from me.

I watched as her hooves actually bent in a way very similar to that of humans, and she caught it between the bottoms of both her hooves. Amazing... I wonder what other range of movements she can utilize if she was able to bend just her legs that way.

Looking around, I saw that we were both in some kind of medical room, though I couldn’t say we were in a hospital, as this room lacked the shelves, gurneys, and machines used in hospitals everywhere. The only reason I would venture to call it a medical room was the box near the doorway with a red cross on it, and the curtains that were on tracks around beds. Other than that, it was a four bed room, with two of the beds remaining empty.

Looking down at myself, I didn’t notice anything was wrong, and nothing felt damaged or even remotely sore. Grabbing the covers and removing them with a deft sweep of my arm, I was pleasantly surprised to see my entire uniform was intact, and even my boots were still on.

Swinging my legs over the bed, I slowly stood up, and once I was standing up, I heard the Pegasus across the room speak up once more, “My name is Rainbow Dash, uh... so what is your name?”

Looking back towards the cyan colored pony, I observed it once more, before I replied back as calmly as I could, “My name is Dominic Wild, but please, just call me Dominic...”

Looking back across the room towards the doorway, I was about to make my way towards it, but then I stopped. Talking ponies, let alone Pegasus, weren’t a common sight, nor were they even known about or possible. Was there more outside this door? Did they think that I was dangerous, and would attack me the moment I was in sight?

Turning towards the cyan colored, rainbow maned Pegasus, I asked a question that sounded as absurd verbally as it did in my mind, “Rainbow Dash, do I look, dangerous?”

“PSSH! Nah, you’re not scary at all! I have seen things much worse than you!” She said, and I didn’t fail to notice the confidence in her voice. If she is so certain that I don’t look dangerous, then I doubt whatever I find out there will- “but then again, you might scare those outside...”

Well, that is out the door then... literally...

Letting out a sigh, I turned around, and walked back towards my used bed, and as I sat down on it, I looked towards Rainbow Dash, and couldn’t help but look over her some more. The same of which she was doing to me from the way her eyes were shifting over various parts of my body. While she didn’t look all that dangerous to me, I didn’t want to test that, but she didn’t appear hostile; so it would probably be best to keep it like that.

“What are you?”

Looking away from her hooves as her voice echoed through the room, I found myself now looking into her curious violet eyed gaze. “I'm a human... I take it you have never met a human before?”

She shook her head, before she replied back, “Nope, never even heard of a creature that called itself a human.” She looked towards the window a bit, before her ears suddenly stood up straight, and she looked towards me with a curious gleam in her eyes, “What was that thing you came out of? The giant metal thing that you were in...”

“You mean my jet?” I asked, and I leaned forward a bit.

“Yeah, that jet thing, why were you inside of it, and why did it have tiny stars coming from the back of it?”

Tiny stars...? Maybe she means flares... heh...

Smirking a bit, I chuckled quietly, before I said, “Those tiny stars are called Flares. They are used to trick a missile into chasing them instead of my jet.”

Rainbow Dash seemed to like that idea, and she made it known as she said excitedly, “That is cool on how they can trick a missile... but what’s a missile?”

Chuckling a bit louder this time, I looked towards her with a slight humorous glint in my eye, before I started to explain a missile to her, which I knew would ultimately lead to more questions...

Author's Note

Hello everyone, I must say, this was interesting to write. please leave your thoughts down below... or the thoughts that pertain to this story that is...

Hope this was up to standards for everyone, and I hope it wasn't A. Typical, or B. Similar to the other stories that deal with jet pilots. Please note however, that this deals with jet pilots, NOT jets. Rainboom Anomaly Isn't meant to focus around flying our high tech equipment, it is meant as a ground based story of course.