"We're really going to do this?" A muffled voice said.

"Shut up, don't wake him. Is the matress in position Frank?" Another said.

"Yup, throw him in whenever." The third confirmed.

I opened my eyes at the familiar voices. "Huh? Where?" I asked, eyes adjusting to the light.

"He's awake! Now!" Shouted my neighbor Todd.

I suddenly felt weightless and I realized whats happening. The guys from the next door frat house threw me off of the bridge. Everything slowed down as I fell past the small concrete wall, then the open air river hole. I dared to look down at the river below me. At least they were smart enough to put a matress at the bottom for me. I took a deep breath as I splashed down, the impact actrually hurt my back, everything flashed purple then faded black as I fell unconscious again.

I felt a gentle jab to my side.

"Five more minutes mom." I croaked.

There was another jab. "Fluttershy wake up!" A girl shouted at me. From her tone I could tell she was scared and was crying for a while.

"Who?" I asked. I sat up and went to rub my head, but smacked it first. "Ow."

"Oh thank Celestia! I was so scared, I thought you were dead!" Whoever it was ran to me and hugged me.

I sat there for a moment. Am I just really tired or is there a blue pegasus hugging me?

"Never do that to me again! I was worried sick!"

"Never do what again?"

"Who said that?" I asked.

"I did, you know, your friend Rainbow Dash?"

"Whats happening?"

I realized this voice had that echoey thing you hear in movies when someone is thinking. Who is this?

"Who are you?"

I asked first!

"Whats happening?" The voice started crying.

"Fluttershy? Are you all right? You've been staring at me for a while now." The pegasus said to me.

"Huh? Fluttershy? Whos that? More importantly, where am I?"

"Flutters, are you ok? You're in your cottage, just outside Ponyville. Come on, you know this."

I stopped for a moment to piece together what I knew. I'm in an unknown house, theres a pegasus talking to me, she insists my name is Fluttershy, I'm just outside a town called Ponyville. What did I smoke to get this screwed up dream? Wait, I don't smoke. I got it! I'm-

"What is going on?" The voice in my mind cried louder and threw off my train of thought.

"Someone start explaining." I begged the mare in fromt of me and the voice in my head.

"It's ok Fluttershy, you-"

"Quit calling me Fluttershy!"

"But thats your name!"

"No it's not! I'm Derick!"

The pegasus stared at me, frightened. She bolted out the door and flew away, not even bothering to shut the door. I looked at the cartoonish town in the distance as I trotted over. Something felt weird about the way I walked. I'll try to figure that one out later. I took one last look at the strange scenery before turning and shutting the door by bumping it with my butt. I walked into my kitchen and dug around in the pantry for some chips or something. When I found nothing, it dawned on me.

"Hey, stop crying for a minute." I told the voice in my head.

"What's the point? My body is controlled by an alien, and now my friends are scared of me!" The sobbing resumed.

I think I may know what happened.

"What?"

I'm having a nightmare!

Even though the voice had no body, I felt sure it'd be staring daggers at me. "You're having a nightmare? This is real! This is my life and you just barged in and ruined it!"

Calm down, I'll just chill here for a while and then my alarm clock will go off, then I'll wake up and my life will resume like nothing happened.

"What would happen to me?"

You'll vanish, you don't exist, you're just part of my dream.

"I've been living here for as long as I can remember, pretty sure I'd know if this was all just some filly's dream."

You're memory isn't that long, you were just created.

"My memory goes back at least ten years."

Sure, I'll just crash on the couch and wait this out. I walked over to the couch in the middle of the room and hopped up on it. I took a minute to actually look over myself. Short, yellow fur, long pink hair. I stroked my hair as I had nothing better to do.

"Hey, quit messing with my mane! It took me an hour to get it smooth and voluminous like that!"

Relax, I can't do much damage with these. Hooves?

"Yes, hooves, why couldn't you have been an intelligent alien?"

Rude.

"Oh my Celestia! I'm sorry! Its not like me to be mean."

Will you just let the whole 'I exist and have a life' thing go already? I snapped, finally losing my wits. I'm not a horse! So clearly this is a dream!

"Fine, just keep thinking that." I sensed the voice turn around, lie down, and try to go to sleep in my head. She seemed angry. "Good job detective, you can identify negative feelings."

I 'harumphed' out loud before turning onto my side and going to sleep.

Author's Note

I realize there are grammatical and other lingual errors, if you feel they are really distracting, please make a list and message me privately. I will reply as soon as possible, hopefully with fixes.