Hopes in a Star

"Ok, one more time." Fluttershy backs up, and trots forward. She jumps and opens her wings, gliding to the ground. I back up, breathe, and trot forward. I jump and open my wings, gliding to the ground just like her. My hoof catches a rock, and I trip the moment I land. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." If you forget the blood on the ground. "I should see if I can find Twilight, it's been a couple of hours."

"Ok, good luck."

"Thank you for the lessons." I fly into the sky in the direction Twilight went. As I keep flying, I think more and more I'm hearing someone whisper to me. I try to I ignore it, but it quickly grows to a normal voice. It's turned to dark grey clouds now, and I can barley keep in the sky from both tiredness and the wind.

"You."

"Hello?" Nothing. "It's just your head, your going crazy from-"

"You." I turn and stop on a cloud. I lie on top of it, ready to sleep, yet so awake from the fact I'm being stalked by somepony. As I sit up, I'm hit to the side by something. I'm being pushed.

"Who are you?!" I struggle to talk with the wind in my face. "Where are you taking me to?!" Still no answer. The pony let's go, letting me roll into the side of a cloud wall. I land on top of the cloud floor, dazed and confused. It's pitch black, the only light coming from the hole I just made. I stand, hooves aching and legs shaking. I hear a small puff and I'm knocked backwards. Something wet is dripping on me and there is breathing.

"Finally, I got you." A light from the corner flicks on and above me is a dark blue Pegasus, with blood red eyes and an orange vest on with a white coat. The light shows his dilated eyes and open drooling mouth. "She's been waiting for you my dear."

"What are you talking about? Who are you?"

"Shhhhh, you'll know everything soon enough." He leans in, "I've been waiting for you as well." He backs away, disappearing into the darkness, the lights shutting off.

"Hey! What's going on? Where am I? Is anyone-" It goes black.

"Is he ok?"

"He'll be fine, otherwise to the Everfree with him. He is my key."

"But mam, I don't think-"

"I don't care what you think! He will live, otherwise you'll both be banished to the Everfree."

"Ughhhh." I sit up, my vision double for a minute.

"No no no, please stay seated, you'll hurt yourself."

"Who are you?" I rub my head, there is a big egg on the top of it.

"My name is Sky Falcon. I'm the nurse here, and as the nurse, I'm telling you to stay here."

"Where is here?" My vision focuses and I see a light blue Pegasus with crystel blue eyes in front of me.

"You are in Aviation Incorporated HQ."

"Aviation what?"

"Let me show you." She goes to the back of my bed and begins pushing it. The bed is made of clouds. As it moves it picks up cloud from the floor and drops the cloud it lost, pushing it to the floor. We get to a big room with a tv in it. She let's go and grabs a remote, clicking the on button. The tv flashes and the video starts. Twilight is on the screen in front of what I'm assuming is this building.

"Hello citizens of Equestria. We here at Aviation Incorporated have served you for ten generations, coming out with the latest and greatest in flight technology. We are the ones that made the first and only flying bandana, meant to increase your maximum elevation while in flight. We also constructed the panoramic goggles, allowing you to see anything and everything during your flight. For the last thousand years, we have brought you little gadgets like these to keep your flying safe and enjoyable. But now, our next project will be our biggest ever made in the history of pony. We are now making artificial wings. That's right, if you are either an earth pony or unicorn, well no longer do you have to look at your Pegasi friends from the ground, with these you will be able to look at them in the eye. We are always hiring  and we can always use more ponies to increase both our production and quality. We have buildings both on the ground and in the sky, so no matter what you are, you can help to make the skies a better for everypony. Aviation industries, the sky's the limit." The TV clicks off and the lights in the room turn on.

"So Aviation Industries makes technology for flying?" I ask, being pushed back into the other room.

"Yes. The word aviation means to operate something while flying. Specifically for us ponies, organic wings, but once the artificial wings are finished everypony will have this ability." There is a loud puff in the wall, and in comes the pony from earlier. "Sky! Out!"

"Y-yes sir. I'll talk to you later." She quickly walks out of the room.

"So, Write Holliday. I suppose you need a tour, but I don't do tours." He paces back and forth, his red eyes not letting me go of their grasp.

"I don't know what you want from me, bring that mare back, she didn't almost kill me and doesn't know my name randomly!"

"Nice try, and her name was Sky!" He yells, jumping at me going face to face. "Besides, you don't understand what it's like."

"What?"

"I said, you don't know what it's like! To use others for your selfish needs, to do things that you thought were good for the whole of Equestria, but really it's-"

"Remmer!" Twilight comes walking in. "That'll be enough out of you."

"Y-yes mam, of course." He glares at me, and walks out of the room.

"What are you exactly doing here?" I ask, furious with Twilight.

"Making the skies a better place of course."

"So why do you need me?"

"The more help the better."

"Then why did you threaten everypony with eternal night?" She begins to pace in the room.

"I did no such thing."

"Then why did... forget it. So if you want me to work, when do I start?"

"You start now." She looks over and uses magic to pop my bed, making me fall to the floor. There is a hole under my bed I didn't see, and I slide down it and into a dark and loud room, filled with mechanical noises. The pony from earlier walks up to me as I struggle to get up.

"Welcome to the crypt."