The Planet Equis you say
Chapter 3
Previous ChapterI started slowly coming back to conscience. My eyes opening ever so slowly, I saw white. A blank canvas, unpainted, in front of my eyes.
I thought to myself 'Am I dead?'
I couldn't feel my legs, literally. I couldn't feel my legs, neither could I move them. My left arm was immobilized but my right arm was still slightly functioning as I gradually lifted it up to my face. Before my hand touched the flesh that surrounded my skull, I touched a soft blanke covering my face.
"doctor, doctor he's awake" I heard someone shout, though I couldn't hear them very well over the immense headache that had formed in my head.
Then all the events that had happened all came back to me. I started violently shaking as panic began to take over. I wanted to move my limbs really badly which caused me to forcefully attempt to move my right leg, which resulted in agony as my leg fell on a metal pole at then end of my leg.
"AAAAAHHHHH" I screamed as the pain shot up my leg.
"hey, stop moving, you're supposed to be still" I heard. Suddenly I felt a tingly sensation on my right leg and my leg was lifted back up on the footrest. eerily enough, I did not feel any hands touching my leg while it was lifted back up.
"w-where am I" I asked
"you are in ponyville hospital, and if I may ask you a question, what are you?" A male voice replied
"what am I?, well I'm human of course, just like you"
"human?, whats a human?"
by now I had the feeling that all of this was a prank. I probably had that bandage across my eyes so I couldn't see all the snickering faces and cameras pointed at me for some sort of reality show that I was put on.
I then started laughing. "hahahahahaha." I heard gasps of confusion from the male voice beside me and a sigh from a female voice on the other side of my bed.
"Sir, I think we might have to run you up on mental stability once you get better. your current situation is no laughing matter"
My snickers died down and I told the voice. "oh please, do you really expect me to believe that I'm dying or something. This is just some elaborate prank set up by some TV-show. Undo the bandages across my eyes and well see who's laughing. Plus, these bandages are really itchy." I held my right arm up to my face, trying to undo the bandages, to no avail.
"very well sir, but let me warn you. You wont like what you see. "
I felt that tingling sensation again as the bandage was unraveling of my face
"How are you doing that" I inquisitively asked
"doing what" the voice replied
"unraveling the bandage without using you're ... you know, hands"
"Isn't it obvious, I'm using my magic to unravel the bandage, and if I may inquire, what are ... hands, as you put it?"
i barely had anytime to think before the cloth was lifted away from my face and I came to stare directly into the eyes of a ... horse? No, not a horse. more like a pony, horse weren't that big. My jaw hung loose as all I did was stare. This pony had a doctors coat on ... wait, he had a horn. A HORN for christ's sake. and what was weirder, there was a brown energy surrounding the horn and the piece of cloth that was being laid down on a table. what was this place? This had to be a dream, there was no other explanation. there was no way that this could be physically possible.
To my absolute horror, the pony on my left with a nurse's uniform spoke.
"well, you still aren't laughing. Bet you're as surprised to see us as we are to see you, ehh?"
It was all I could do not to faint. My mind was being overloaded with all kinds of emotion ranging from curiosity to fear to anger.
"Nurse Rose, could you please alert Miss Sparkle of the condition of our patient. Im sure that she's anxious to see it" The doctor said.
The nurse took one last look at me before dashing of to go and find this Sparkle lady. I looked back at the doctor who gave me a kind smile before turning away and scribbling some. After coming to my senses, I looked down and the sight that greeted me looked awful. My right leg was on a footrest, covered in bandages all the way up to hip. My right arm was bandaged up as well, though it looked much better than my leg. I also noticed the bandage across my chest.
"Didn't I say you wouldn't like what you would see?" The doctor smirked at me.
I looked back at the doctor to see that he had moved to the right side of my hospital bed and was now staring at me with two huge pairs of green eyes.
"B-b-bu" I stuttered as I finally began to recompose into my old self.
"h-how is this possible? this isn't possible. YOU aren't possible." was the one sentence I was able to get out before the doors slammed open and in walked a purple pony with wings and a horn. The doctor immediately bowed to the authority figure. I figured that this was the Sparkle lady which was supposed to come and meet me. I started backing away from the figure before she came over. I was scared out of my wits. All my thoughts were spinning around one phrase that had embedded itself into my mind; First talking ponies, then unicorns and pegasi, and now a pegacorn, or was it a unisus. As the pegacorn slowly approached me, My fear overwhelmed me.
"S-stay back. P-please dont hurt me" I pleaded with the pegacorn as I started crying.
The pegacorn looked towards me with a kind smile before speaking, "you don't have to be afraid. Im not coming to hurt you. however I do expect for you to cooperate as I am going to ask you some questions, that is if its okay?"
Figuring I didn't really have a choice in the matter, I nodded.
"Splendid, lets get right to it then" she (at least, I assumed that it was a she) said as she took out a piece of parchment, a quill and an ink bottle. How peculiar. I saw her scribbling some stuff down her parchment and I heard her mutter "It speaks Equish, amazing, and I thought that guard was lying"
"First question, what are you exactly?"
" ... "
"well go on then, answer the question. the sooner you do that, the sooner you can get out"
"I am a human, Homo Sapien to be scientific" I answered skeptically as I still needed to be cautious around these ponies."
As she wrote down my answer, I started taking in my surroundings
"Second question, who are you?"
"My name is Thomas, Thomas bucklough Polet"
The room was painted completely white with the exception of the grey door on the far wall. There was one window on my side but I was too far away to see through it. My attention was snapped back to the pegacorn who asked me yet another question.
and so, I lay there in my hospital bed, answering all of the question that the pegacorn asked me for at least half an hour before the made her utensils disappear. She started walking away from me but before she was through the door, I called her back.
"Hey um, miss ..."
"Twilight Sparkle" she said as she turned around to face me.
"Okay, miss Twilight Sparkle, I also have some questions that need answering. Like what are you? Where am I? Who are you? and what am I doing here?"
she chuckled "Well, I am an alicorn, which before you ask is an winged unicorn or a horned pegasus. you are in ponyville, in the country of Equestria, the largest and greatest off all the kingdoms and nations on the planet Equis."
I looked at her with my jaw wide open. 'a different planet?' Now I understand why she stood there flabbergasted when I told her I had told her that I was from earth.
"My name, as you already now is Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and Element of Magic"
Royalty, I stood here in front of royalty. I was now really scared that I might do something or say something that offended her, so I attempted to bow in my hospital bed which resulted in dull pains all across my body.
"Im not one for formalities you know." she stated in slight concern as My face showed some painfull expressions.
I gratefully lay back down and looked back up at her.
"As for the last question, I don't know. I was actually hoping that you could answer that one."
I looked dismayed at her last answer but accepted nonetheless. Not like I had any other choice.
"Now I suggest you get some rest since the doctor will be here shortly to remove your bandages"
"My bandages are already coming of? Man, I must have been out for years."
"No, actually you were out for exactly five days. We used some healing spells on you and they seemed to have done their job well."
My brain couldn't handle the information that it received right then. Before I was able to react however, the doctor came in and asked the princess to leave. I unexpectedly got the overwhelming desire to back away form the suddenly frightening doctor who was using his magic on me.
"Im going to put a sleeping spell on you, don't worry, you wont feel a thing." He smiled happily.
I wanted to protest, but I could feel my eyes getting heavier by the second, soon I drooped down back on the bed and started sleeping.
"good, now this wont hurt a bit."
Dearest sister, I do not think that you should be out this night.
I know, but I cant shake the feeling that there is something going on that we don't know about.
I haven't felt that presence since the castle incident. You should really get to bed you know.
I appreciate your concern, but I do not wish to sleep just yet.
know that you can always come to me if you want to talk about it
I will, once the time is right, for now I will take to my chambers and let you rule your domain
What happened to not sleeping just yet?
I changed me mind
Don't pout at me, I know you've wanted to sleep all along. I could feel it
Huff
See you on the morrow sister
goodnight my sister
