Peni Apocalypse

Pain.

That was the first feeling I had as a slowly came to being conscious. I didn't remember anything that had happened before everything went black. The pain was dull, and after the pain came hushed voices. Two very different voices. Both higher, definitely feminine, with a memory of two mares clinging to them. One mare, a navy blue unicorn, was slightly taller than the other, her ginger mane constantly kept in a braid. The second mare was not much shorter than the first, but shorter nonetheless. Her mane was brown, almost black, and her coat a light violet with pink tipped wings.

"...the doctor said Peni should be waking up today, but she may be out another day."

"What about Josie? When will... Spirals?"

"The doctor... Aqua. She... waking up in a few days, her head... pretty hard." I picked up only snippets of what the two mares were saying. I slowly began to open my eyes, and I saw two pegasi mending a hole in the ceiling. Out of my peripherals, I saw the two mares the voices belonged to. Their backs were turned to me, and they hadn't seen me wake up. My ear flicked, and the pain caused me to groan. Aqua Marina turned around slowly, and Spirals jumped, only to immediately run off. I assumed she went to locate the doctor and tell her I had woken up.

When Aqua was halfway turned, I saw that her pupil wasn't black, like it was supposed to be. Her magic glowed light red consistently. "Thank goodness you're finally awake, Peni," Aqua said to me, but I couldn't answer. I knew what had happened now.

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The coronation.

The party.

The EXPLOSIONS.

I remember everything. My eyes shot open as I started to recall everything.

"Thank you all for coming to see me become a princess. I don't know what I would do if, when I become the princess that raises the sun, I didn't have any subjects. No, not subjects, FRIENDS." Spirals was giving her speech. Copper pulled me over, told me about the job he needed to do. Five to ten minutes later, an explosion. A scream. The screams grew louder as they filled the room I was in. Another explosion, and a very familiar scream. Aqua.

Several shards of glass flew past me, and both my ears were nicked. A huge chunk of stone mashed into my head, putting a huge slash under my right ear, and then the darkness.

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Voices in reality same to life. I could hear four of them now, three feminine, one masculine. Each one was frantic.

"...ni? Peni! PENI!"

"Princess... needs air, we need some ponies to leave! Red Cross... UV needle."

"Come on Aqua..."

All the voices were melting together in a strange mix. I opened my eyes once again. "Shit, what caused all of this?" I said, most of my words slurred in drowsiness.

"Damn it, Peni! You just blacked out when I turned around!" Aqua said, seeming more worried than angry. Her pupils were not only not black, but were colored lighter than her eyes.

I said, "Well, dear Celestia, can I sit up..? My body is so stiff..." I moved my fingers slightly.

"No, you need to stay laying down," said the colt I assumed was Red Cross. He was a handsome unicorn colt, with a white coat, a deep red mane, and silvery gray eyes. I jolted up in my bed, propping myself up on my elbows, and he pushed me back down. "Please, you need to stay laying down. You might open up the wounds on your eye and forehead."

"Where is Copper?! Spirals, is he here? Did he ever come back?!" I was frightened for my coltfriend, since he had left even before the attack.

"No, Copper didn't end up coming back before you woke up. Why, where did he go?" Spirals asked.

I replied, "He told me, early on in your speech, that he had to go to Haywaii for work. And wait, what happened to my eye? I don't remember that."

"It must have happened," the doctor told me, "after the wound in your forehead. We assumed the first wound was what knocked you unconscious."

There was another groan from across the room, a gasp, and a thick sob. The voice was familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. "Looks like another patient just woke up." Red Cross  walked across the room, to a bed where a deep blue horn was visible past R.C.'s arm. I recognized the color, and once Red Cross got all the way next to her, I saw who it was.

I gasped, and said, "Light Skies!" Before the doctor could protest, I jumped from the bed, grabbed my UV, and hurried over to Light's bed. I was horrified at what I saw.

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Blood had caked almost her entire face. Long bandages were wrapped around her right eye, in need of replacement. Tears ran from her eyes, and the ones on the right were red with old blood. She lay in ratty clothes, scars littering her body, bandages protecting other cuts from bleeding and possible getting infected. Light Skies gasped once she saw me.

"Peni! Y-Your EYE!" She looked mortified. I touched the tender pink skin that struck down my face and past my eye. Miraculously, my eye had come out undamaged.

"Light, what about yours? It's completely bloody and bandaged!"

She replied, "I know, th-that's why I'm cryi-ing."

"Ms. Hearts," Red Cross started to tell me, "you need to be laying down." I felt a sharp prick in my arm, and my vision started to fade.

"It's the only way to get her to cooperate," I heard Spirals say, and I fell back into somepony's arms. "Let's get her to the bed..."