Descending to Equestria

by Burst

Stuck in bed.

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It was cold, dark and I found myself lying down unable to regain my motor skills. All I could feel was loneliness in this dark void, until light came into place and I find myself being held close to some one's chest. My body has reverted into an infant state, as the light finally came I see the one who was holding me was my mother. She stared at me lovingly as she held me close to her, the sight of my mother was enough to make me burst into tears and cry.

My mother cooed as she rocked me trying to calm me down, and it worked. She put her finger on my cheek trying to give me a tickle and I just couldn’t help but giggle. Everything suddenly went cold as ice and was again engulfed in darkness. The worst part was that my mother had completely vanished and I was then returned to my teen state falling into the darkness.

I was screaming as tears left my eyes terrified what was going to happen to me, after a few moments I landed hard on the black as night floor. I was left breathless, but soon recovered as I slowly got up moaning in pain. I looked around, but saw only black. I called out to my mother who vanished on me, wondering where she had gone, but that was when I started to hear a mocking laugh surround me.

The sound of it made me have that tingly feeling inside again while burning my very being as my anger was starting to rise at a very rapid rate. I couldn’t see who was laughing, all I could do was clench my hands on my head trying not to let the laughs get to me. The more I tried to block them out the louder they got. I had enough, and roared at the darkness as my right arm caught on fire giving me a bit of illuminating light.

"What's so funny?!" The laughter grew as though more had joined to mock me."WHAT'S SO FUNNY!?!?" My body was then engulfed in flames as I roared in frustration at who was mocking me at my time of anguish.

Suddenly a pair of giant red eyes appeared in front of me with a menacing glare while a purple streak was leaving them. I heard a loud chuckle, but I didn't cower as I was too enraged to be bothered by fear, standing there in silence gritting my teeth.

Then it spoke to me.

"You are..."

My eyes went blood shot at the answer that was given to me, I charged with my fists raised screaming, set on tearing this thing apart.

When my fist made contact with the entity, everything suddenly was set ablaze as I was sent back flying, screaming in defeat.


Before I hit the ground I was pulled back into reality, shooting up while screaming, I couldn't see much however as most of my face was covered in some sort of cloth. My left eye though was not covered, but could barely see through. My shirt was taken off, and my upper body and my arms were completely covered in a gauss, I was also in a bed but as I tried to get off I saw that I was once again restrained.

"Wha-Where am I?! Who tied me up?!" I shouted as I heard clopping coming to the room I was in.

I white mare with a pink mane and blue eyes with a cross with four hearts on her flank walked in and started trembling at the mere sight of me. Before I could ask what was going on she shouted someone's name as another pony trotted in, but this one was stallion with brown fur, and a white coat.

He quickly came to my side and placed his hooves on my chest pushing me down. I grunted as I tried to struggle but I was to hurt to make any real attempt of escape, all I could do was lay there panting heavily.

"Calm down, its okay. You're safe, there is nothing to be afraid of." He tried to calm me down as I tried to control my breathing.

"Who...who are you? Where am I?" I said a bit panicked as I was trembling in fear.

"Relax, you're at the hospital, after you passed out Twilight Sparkle had brought you here along with her friends." He said as he took his hooves off me. "You were very injured, and in all my years of working in this hospital never, and I mean never had to treat something like this in Ponyville, or in Equestria for that matter."

All I could do was stare at him as I tried to remember the fight I had barely survived from two wood wolves, and soon realized that I had completely forgotten about Applejack, and Fluttershy.

"Wh-where are the other two mares!? Ar-are they..." The doctor hushed me as he tried to calm me down.

"They're all right, a little traumatized but alright." I leaned back and sighed in relief for a moment until I realized how stupid I was for saving them. What was I thinking? I almost died for two mares in a different world that I don't even know.I was snapped out of my thoughts from the doctor's voice “That was a good thing you did back there." He said.

I tilted my head in confusion at what the doctor had said. What exactly did I do? "What are you talking about doc?" I asked

"You risked your life to save two ponies, and they are not even your species." He was quite happy about it, I Could'nt help but sigh irritably as I closed my eyes processing the things that had happened in this world.

I came here through a lake, got bucked into a tree by a cowmare, laid out a big stallion using a tree (the irony), ran into a dangerous forest, fought two big wood like wolves, almost died then heard a scary voice that gave me a "confident" boost, and finally ended up here in this battered up state.

I have a feeling I won’t be on my ass like back home wallowing in my self-pity, no instead I'll be here in this weird after life getting bucked by adorable ponies and attacked by monsters.

Seeing as this might be the afterlife, I am still pretty much suffering, just not mentally or emotionally. Nope only physically like with my dad, and to me that kind of is sort of an improvement since I was in a world ruled by cute huggable ponies. Who were also unicorns and pegesai.

Laying there in my thoughts I was soon interrupted by the doctor's throat clearing as he tried to catch my attention.

"Excuse me if you don't mind me asking but...what are you, and who are you?" I just rolled my eyes, and sighed again at the same damn question that has been asked of me since I got here.

"My name is Leo...and I am a Human." I said flatly as I closed my eyes, returning to the garden of my mind as a question came bugging me since I came here. 'What am I gonna do in this world?' Just then another important question crawled its way into my mind.

"If this is the afterlife, then why am I the only human here?' A good question indeed, maybe I'm not dead.


At Twilight's Sparkle's home the mane six were gathered as Twilight was going over the second text book that Leo brought. The other five were mumbling on about the creature known as Leo on what plans he had in this world.

"I still don’t think we should trust that creature. He's from another world, what if he's planning an invasion?" Rainbow dash said as she stared nervously out the window where the hospital was. Her fore hooves on the frame of the window as her ears were flickering nervously.

"I highly doubt it Rainbow dash, if he was planning something like that he wouldn’t have risked his own wellbeing to save me and Fluttershy." Applejack glanced as Fluttershy who was pacing back and forth wondering if Leo was ok. Rainbow dash couldn't help but huff, and rolled her eyes at her friend's meaningless concern for the foreign creature.

"Fluttershy, would you stop that! You're getting all worked up over an alien you don't even know who could possibly be out to enslave all pony kind!" Rainbow dash grunted irritably returning her attention back to the window.

Fluttershy glanced towards Rainbow dash with a very angry look plastered on her face.

"How could I not get worked up!? He sacrificed himself to save both me, and Applejack, and she bucked him into a tree, and sicked her brother on him, and he still risked his life to save the both of us!" She shouted at Rainbow dash while pointing to Applejack who was staring at the floor shamefully with her hat tipped forward. "So excuse me if I'm all worked up!"
She stomped away from her friend who was stunned at her friend's outburst, Fluttershy never spoke to anypony like that, and scared Rainbow dash.

"Will you girls please keep it down? I'm trying to go over this book and I'm halfway done!" Twilight shouted as she flipped the pages translating them.

"Twilight dear, what will you hope to find in those books that could prove useful?" Rarity asked.

"Reading these books is very relevant Rarity, so far it has taught me a lot about the human species, and all of their incredible accomplishments, but..." She turned to the book and stared in silence. Catching the attention of her friends as she just stood there.

Rarity approached her friend slowly with a worried look. Twilight was just standing there in complete silence was making her a bit nervous.

"Twilight?"

"His species...they're...so violent." She shut the book and turned to her friends. "Earlier today while Leo was lying there unconscious I felt a vibe from him, a disturbing one and I just couldn’t stop thinking about it." She trotted towards her bookshelf and magically pulled out a black book with a red insignia of an alicorn. "Not only that, but I felt magic, very violent magic. It was weak like a foal's, but at the same time it was like a wild fire was inside him, and I could feel it." She opened her book to a specific page in the chapter.

"Come to think of it, when he was near death he suddenly let out an Ursa like roar and started wailing on them two Timberwolves like if they were nothing while wounded." Applejack approached her friend having a look at the book Twilight was reading.

"That's the thing, whatever magic he was subcounsiouly using seems to have altered him making him stronger and more resistant to pain." She stopped at a page with a picture of fire surrounded by a pony figure. "And from what you told me it would seem that he triggered it by using rage." She started going through the page she was on.

Everypony gasped at what they heard, trying to comprehend what Twilight said. Did she say rage?
"Bu-but if that true then..." Pinkie Pie stuttered squeaking like a scared filly.

"Yes, it might be true Pinkie, but I don't think that he's aware he has that ability." She shut the book and placed it back on the shelf. "Magic powered by rage only serves one purpose girls and that's destruction." She turned to them.

"S-so are we gonna try to keep him from finding out?" Asked Rainbow dash.

"Yes obviously, what I read from the books about humans is that they are a violent war like species that mostly kill each other for their own gains, and Leo could be just like that. So we can't let him wander around Ponyville or Equestria, we need to keep tabs on him, make sure he doesn’t hurt anypony." She quickly turned and levitated a quill and paper to her desk as she moved the text book.

"What are you doing Twilight?" Rarity tilted her head.

"I'm writing a letter to Princess Celestia to tell her about Leo and see if she can advise us on what we should do about him" She said as she furiously wrote down every word on her mind.

Suddenly a creak was heard from the stairs, the six turned their heads to see that it was Spike sneaking off with a tub of ice-cream.

Spike finally noticed he was caught when he turned his head only to show a mouth full of vanilla ice cream. He let out a huge gulp and chuckled nervously at Twilight's glare, suddenly he dropped the bucket and fell screaming as he landed at the bottom of the stairs.

"AAAHHHHHH, BRAIN FREEZE!!!" He yelled as he gripped his head wailing in pain.

Twilight just rolled her eyes and sat Spike straight up, dusting him off and casting a spell that made his headache go away.

"Stop fooling around Spike. I need you here while I write a letter to the princess." She said as continued with her letter.

"A letter, what for? We don't have anything to report on friendship." Spike asked as he walked to Twilight.

"This isn't about a friendship report Spike, its about an alien that came recently." Rainbow dash carelessly spoke up which earned a glare from her friends. She smiled sheepfully and chuckled nervously when she realized that the whole situations was meant to be kept under wraps. "Uh....whoops...sorry."

"What!? An alien!? No way, where is it!?" Spike jumped excitedly only to be stopped by Twilight’s magic and set down gently.

"He's in the hospital." She said while rolling up her scroll and putting a seal on it. "I need you to send this letter Spike, it's about Leo."

Spike tilted his head and looked at her curiously.

"Leo?" Spike asked.

"That's his name."

"Aw, no fair I always wanted to name an alien and you know it!" Spiked pouted as he crossed his arms.

"I didn't name him, he already had that name!" Twilight sighed and handed the scroll to Spike. “Look, just send this to Celestia so she can give us instructions on what to do with him!"

Spike took the scroll, and just shrugged and burnt it into ashes with his green flame as it went out the open window carried by the wind towards Canterlot.

"So now what?" Pinkie pie asked.

"Now we wait..." Twilight made her way to her couch and sat pulling a book from her shelf to read. Rainbow dash trotted to her friend and placed her hoof on her back.

"OR...we can go to the hospital and check how Leo is, if he's still alive..." This earned a large gasp from Fluttershy which earned another glare from her friends. "Whoops...did it again."

"Well when you put it like that I guess we should check if he's okay, and hopefully he still bound to his bed. Common girls lets go check on him" She stood up and trotted to the door along with her friends. "Spike stay here and watch over the library." Spike just pouted and stomped his foot on the floor.

"But I want to go see the Alien!" He whined like a foal that did not get his toy.

"Sorry Spike but I need you here for now. Next time I'll take you, I promise" She trotted and shut the door and started making her way with her friends to the hospital.

'Besides, he might not be safe to be around just yet, who knows what kind of chaos he could be causing at the hospital.' Twilight was worried at the thought and soon began to pick up the pace towards the hospital, wondering what kind of chaos Leo could be causing.


"Sir, will you please stop doing that!" The mare known as Nurse read heart was getting rather irritated with me as I was messing with the bed remote for the past hour.

"I'm sorry, but I'm bored in case you haven't noticed, and you guys haven’t invented T.V. which means I'm stuck here against my will trying to make my own fun." I said as I rapidly pressed the button with my restrained hand. "But I might stop if you bring me something to eat." I smiled behind my gauss which I was pretty sure she could see.

She let out a huff and trotted out of my room leaving me alone in wait of my meal, and a way for me to come up with a plan to escape from my bounds. 'Okay Leo think, think, you only have a few minutes to find something in this room to free yourself with. Now let’s see...'

I observed my environment to see what could be used to free myself with. There was book on the night stand with a lamp and...That was it. 'Common Leo, You're a human, you can be resourceful.'

I inched my bed as much as I could to the night stand and desperately reached with my bound hand. It was hopeless, I just couldn’t reach with my hand restrained, my muscles tensed as I started to hear hoof steps coming to my door.

'What, already?! But she just left like a freaking second ago!’

I panicked an inched my bed back to the spot I was before the nurse came back letting out huge painful grunts as I could feel some of my wound re-opening. Right when she was about to enter to the room I made it back to the spot I was in at the last second trying to control my breathing, Nurse Red heart just walked in with a tray of food on a cart as I quickly put myself back into my comfortable position.

"Here is your lunch sir..." She had a rather unpleased tone on her face as she trotted to my side and placed the tray full of carrots, cucumbers and lettuce with some gel on the side on my lap.

She just stared at me expectantly waiting for me to eat my lunch, I just stared back at her blankly and at my food hoping this mare would figure out that she would have to feed me.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" She asked as I raised my eye brow.

"I'm waiting to be fed." I said, she then gave me a mad look and shouted a bit.

"What are you talking about?! I brought you your lunch, can't you eat it yourself?" I huffed and rolled my eyes at how ignorant this mare was. I guess I was going to have to explain it to her.

"You seem to not get what I'm trying to say, so I'll try to make this very simple for you...I am restrained and I need you to feed me. FEED...ME. You understand?" She took a few steps back and shook her head.

"Uh-uh, I'm not going to feed you! You could try to bite my hoof off!"

"If I wanted to do that, I would have done it already!"

"Then what are you waiting for!?" She asked.

"I'm waiting to be fed!" She stepped back a bit, I might have frightened her a bit. "Look...I'm sorry I just had a bad day as you can see, and I'm a little short tempered at the moment. So if you please, PLEASE, feed me my lunch so you don't have to deal with me anymore."

She stood there with a sympathetic face and after a second she trots up to me and picks up my fork from my tray picking up some carrots and cucumbers and gestures me to open my mouth.

I do so as she slowly placed the vegies in my mouth, but I could see her sweat bullets as she was nervous. The whole time she stared right at me teeth as tough she was sticking her head into a lion’s mouth. I bite down and she quickly pulls the fork out of my mouth ad runs out of the room.

"I just can't do it!!!" She shouted as she ran off dropping the fork on my right restrained hand.

"How convenient..." I had a grin on my face as I grabbed the fork and started to undo the buckle on my restraint but had little luck.

"Grr! Common you stupid buckle, undo!" I mumbled as I kept my pathetic attempt to free myself with a fork.

"Hijo de tu puta madre, déjame ir!" I then suddenly heard hoof steps coming to my room once again. "Dammit, it's probably useless nurse again!"

I hastily tried to free myself but the restraint was too strong for the fork to rip through, at that my fork slipped out of my hand and feel to the floor clattering loudly. I cursed at how stupid I was for panicking again, then at the corner of my eye I see none other than the lavender mare standing at the door way.

"Seems like you dropped your fork." She picked up my fork with her magic and placed it back on my tray.

"Gee...Thank you so much."

"You're welcome" She said in a happy tone. "Hope you don't mind if we came to check up on you." Behind her were the rest of her friends entering the room.

"Hey Leo, how ya doing?" Pinkie pie shouted as she quickly zipped to my side in a flash that kinda almost made me jump out of my bed.

"Whoa!" I cocked back. “You’re fast."

"Not as fast as me!" Rainbow dash appeared next to me in faster than I could blink causing me to nearly jump.

"Jeez! Will you stop doing that! I'm gonna get a heart attack!" I breathed heavily as I tried not to spit out my heart.

"Sorry sheesh..." She folded her hooves as she was hovering next to me.

"My apologies Leo, my two friends here get very excited when they meet something that is not from this world, which is never." Twilight spoke as she trotted to my side.

"Is that why I am restraint here on this bed, because I am an alien?" She seemed to be taken back as her ears folded.

"No that's not what I-"

"Is this how you also treat different beings that saved your friends from two ravenous Timberwolves at the expense of their own health?"

I could see the guilt in her eyes as I kept chewing her out.

"N-n-no! We only did it as a contingency!"

"What contingency exactly?" My voice grew deeper and a tad bit angry.

"I-I-It was because...you kind of lost it back there, and we didn't know if you were still in the zone so we didn't want to risk you lashing out at somepony."

I just sat there quiet staring at her in suspicion, she hesitated for a second. Was she hiding something, what exactly happened back there? I know I fought two Timberwolves but I can't remember the exact details on the fight.

"I-is everything okay?" She asked.

"I'm fine, I'm just...Peachy..." I lied back trying to remember that event, what happened back there? Why couldn't I remember it?
"Um...Excuse me?" I heard a familiar timid soft voice call out to me as I turned my head to see Fluttershy.

"What?" I said in a annoyed tone.

"Um...thank you." She whispered.

"What are you thanking me for?"

"For saving me and Fluttershy silly." Applejack said as she gently jabbed her friend.

"Um, yes, what she said." She smiled trying not to seemed shy.

I just stared at them both for a while as they had smiles on their faces. All I could do was scoff and turned my head to the wall.

"I didn’t do it for you cowgirl, I did it for her." I pointed at Fluttershy while all eyes went to her. "If she hadn't decided not leaving you I would have just taken her and left you for the wolves."

This earned a large gasp from everypony in the room, but Applejack. It looked like I had just driven a knife to her heart.

"W-Why would you say such a thing!?" The white unicorn known as Rarity shouted in her high pitched voice.

"Why wouldn’t I, She attacked me, tied me to a tree while I was injured, accused me of being some kind of assassin and with a cherry on the top she made that big red stallion attack me."

"Well you make a point but-" The white unicorn tried to defend, but I cut her off.

"But nothing, do you really expect me to forgive a pony who I saved and in return got mauled half to death."

That did it, Applejack quickly stormed out of my room in a flash as Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow dash and Pinkie pie went after her. Leaving just me and Twilight.

"What is wrong with you!?" She stomped her hoof on the floor cracking it a little giving me a very scary death glare.

"What's wrong with me!? What's wrong with you! I save two of your friends and you repay me by binding me once again but only this time to a bed!"

"I told you it was a contingency!" She shot back.

"I don't care what you call it! To me it's still cruel, and unfair! I don't appreciate it! It's seems very ungrateful, I don't expect to be rewarded okay! I just wanted someone or pony as you say to treat me with just a little dignity instead of being tied like an animal!" I yelled nearly turning red as I was breathing heavily at the barrage of words I threw at her.

She just stood there and stared with disgusted look on her face for a moment until a tear left her eye which caught me off guard. She turned, and trotted towards the door, but then stopped and gazed at me one last time.

"She helped you know..." I tilted my head in confusion. "I only carried you half way while she carried you the rest of the way when my magic depleted. How does that sound for ungrateful?" She slammed the door as hard as she could as she left.

I just sat there staring at the wall blankly, I couldn't help but feel like a total jerk at what I said. Damn it I let my emotions get the better of me and said some things I shouldn’t have. What was wrong with me? Ever since my day started after touching that damn plant I've been getting rather pissed so easily, and it was because of that lady! I don't know how but I know she has something to do with me being aggressive.

'I know you're in this world you bitch, and when I find you, I am going to put you through a world of hurt!' I raised my fist while shaking it.
"What the, my hand is free?" I must have unlocked the buckle without noticing. That doesn't matter now, I gotta get myself free and find my stuff before they return!


Author's Note

Feel like I had writters block the whole time I wrote this.

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