The awakening

I awoke to shouts of joy, screams of pain and cries of sorrow. My eyes were blurry and my ears were ringing with a painful frequency. I had no idea what was going on but when I gained focus of my eyes, a sharp metal knife was just a hoof away from my face. Quickly, I jumped up but dull, grey rubble was securely held onto my right wing and without a thought, I pulled and tugged at my dust covered wing. The rubble rolled off and crashed onto pieces of metal and the sound was like shattering glass. All that surrounded me was rubble, metal and bright colours dotted around but its source was unknown to me. My ears were still painful but I could hear something, loud but horrified shouts and chanting like phrases that were produced by fellow ponies. They came closer to me with weapons in their hooves. I had no idea what to do. I tried to fly away but my limp, crooked wing had every single bone shattered making it impossible for me to fly. My instincts told me to run, run as fast as I could so that's what I did. On the way, I spotted so many colts, fillies, mare, stallions dead. So, so many. Some were lying with faded out manes and coats, knife wounds in their chest and fear in their faces. Others were simply crushed by the now destroyed, popular building. As I passed them, I examined them to prove my theory. They were all pegasi which then concluded that this building had an origin of home in the now dark, storm like clouds. Tears filed my eyes on what monstrosity could of caused this pain and grief on fellow ponies. My heart pounded at the sound of the hooves not far behind but it soon stopped after a pony of purple mane and orange coat stared at me with a knife in their hoof.

"Please help me! I can't fly and-" my words were soon cut short when the pony pinned me down to the ground.

"Another failure then? We both know what we do with failures!" she spoke harshly, raising the knife above her head. I covered my eyes and expected a solid, cold piece of metal to plunge into me like when you cut fabric with newly bought scissors. Nothing. I hesitantly, moved my hooves and opened my once more blurry eyes. She looked me in the eyes and viciously threw the rusty knife to the side. "You disgust me for you have done... That's why I'm not going to repeat your actions!" she held her hoof out and i grabbed it. She pulled me up and spoke "Leave... Leave now and stay away from here!" This mare who was going to kill me was now telling me to leave and stay away. Her protection seemed so familiar as if she was related to me... As if she was my sister! I looked her in the eyes and nodded then continued to run.

After much running, I finally arrived at some sort of forest, one that seemed to spark fear in my mind but why? I ignored it and cautiously, roamed around inside this forest. The same trees repeated over and over again until a blue box was there. I walked up to this box with curiosity on what lurked inside. I reached for the shiny, golden handle when a voice drew my attention behind me.

"Hey! Who are you?" the stallion shouted running over me. He was of brown coat, darker brown mane and sparkling blue sea-like eyes. He stopped and looked at me with a kind, gentle face. "Well?" he questioned. I had no idea on my name... Nothing!

"I-I don't know..." I spoke fearfully, stuttering.

"Really? Huh... Well, I could help you if you want?" he spoke the way he looked.

"How?" I questioned feeling confident.

"I've been working on something! You would be a perfect test subject for it!" he screamed in a childlike manner. I slowly nodded clearly seeing he was mad. "Come on then" he spoke, pulling my front hoof and entering this strange box which grew in size as we stepped in. "Just stay still and it will be over faster than err... Lightning I guess?" He placed a strange gizmo onto my head. I sat there and looked him up and down.

"An earth pony! I'm so glad to see one not trying to get me!" I laughed. He turned around.

"Indeed I am and why would someone-somepony try to get you? You seem a nice pegasi! Oh, by the way, I'm the Doctor!" he spoke shaking my hoof vigorously.

"Doctor who?" I questioned.

"Close! But its Doctor Whooves!" he laughed again. "Now shhhh! I'm getting something!" he said quickly getting glued back to the glaring screen facing him without an answer for his question concerning me. "What the? Ermm... Pegasus mare, you might want to see this and hear it in fact!" he, as calm as possible, spoke looking at me. I wearily rose up trying to avoid my broken wing hitting something, walked up to screen and he turned to volume up.

"Ms. Dash! We're under attack! Everything is shutting down and-"

"Shut up you pitiful fool! Can't you see I'm trying to sort this out?" my voice snapped at an unknown stallion on what was a memory but now a crooked, disgusting view of somepony's imagination. I backed up from the screen but the Doctor kept his eyes locked firmly in place on what was once a memory. As the seconds passed his kind warm face slowly turned to a disgusted face full of horror and disturbance. Screams echoed through the box that was projected from the speakers and the Doctor cringed and he soon shut it off. He turned to me and I expected a face of angry, betrayal or disgust but nothing. He still had that warm glow to his face, that gentle expression on it and the soft, childlike manner.

"Well... We kinda know your name and... What I hope, was not your memories but your disturbing imagination." he spoke struggling to grasp his words that lingered in his mind. He cautiously walked over to me trying to still see me as somepony who is nice but what was shown on the screen chilled us both to the bone and made us see the world and each other completely differently. He took the gizmo off and looked me deeply in the eyes. "Ermm... Dash?" he quietly spoke.

"How dare you address me like that! I am your superior!" I shouted at him but looked down apologetically to show I didn't mean it.

"hmm... Guess it was a memory but Ms. Dash, what was going on for you to be 'attacked'?" he spoke with a sense of fear with the thought of asking.

"Just call me Dash... And I don't remember..." I spoke softly and quietly not wanting to scare the only stallion who would actually stay, to run away with fear.

"Okay Dash! I hope you do recover what you lost and I wish you luck but I must go now!" he shouted with cheer again.

"Oh... Sure! But I'm guessing this is a machine to get you places?" I questioned. He looked at me with confusion on me guessing such a ridiculous thought.

"How-how did you know?" he cautiously asked.

"The technology seems understandable for me... Its like I've learnt about this stuff!" I answered him with a sense of pride of having some sort of knowledge of my damaged memories.

"I see... Well, I should really go! My Tardis is telling me to get somewhere else... Hmmm" he said looking behind him to a different screen. Willingly, I walked over to the door and placed my hoof on the handle. "Wait!" the Doctor called over to me. I spun around excitedly for that warm, welcoming feeling he projected. "May I ask... Where exactly is Hoofington?" he questioned with a puzzled face after trying to pronounce the town properly several times. I did in fact remember that place as I recall flying there with a young filly that looked similar to the mare I mentioned that had purple mane and orange coat but this fillies name, if I remembered correctly, was Scootaloo but that mare couldn't of been this filly.

"Ermm... Yeah! Actually, here's a deal! If I tell you where this place was, do you mind taking me with you?" I questioned walking over to him. He looked at me with a positive look for I just succeeded in getting a trip.

"Of course not!" he joyfully said bouncing over to a lever.

"That bounce... I-I saw it before..." I mumbled to myself, thoughtfully as I had saw it... Somewhere but I didn't know where from. The Doctor turned round and of course asked what I said then I just told a little white lie and luckily he believed me! So, he pulled down on the shiny, silver lever and, what he called, the Tardis shuddered and was filled with life. Soon later, we stopped. He smiled with accomplishment and ran over to the door and burst it open with excitement.

"A new adventure, new place and new challenges! Unfortunately, this is goodbye for us... Some time, I would like to meet you again!" he called over to me and shook my hoof as I walked out into new grounds.

"We shall! And thank you for this, it was great help!" I shouted as I walked away into open grounds. He waved and we parted ways. Now to fathom out my broken memories... I thought walking cautiously on this new ground I never knew existed below my flight paths.