The Conversion Bureau: Far Beyond My Time

by Guiding_Passion

Rating: teen
Tags: Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Human, Princess Luna, Original Character, Other, Adventure
Length: 5701

A man wakes from a 50 year long coma to find himself converted.

Sigurd Fiore was an ordinary young boy living a happy life in the pre-collapse United States. That is before the terrible accident where a car hit him while he was riding his bike. Since then Sigurd has been in and out of a coma brought on by his injuries with no hope of recovery.

50 years later Sigurd finally awakes from his coma to find the world a very different place and himself in a body which is not his own.

Published 2015-07-03 20:40:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-07-13 15:01:36 UTC

Chapter 1: A Phoenix Rises

Prophetic Heart peered through her binoculars atop a large dead pine tree down at the target below.  Brushing her long purple mane out of the way with her indigo hoof Prophetic Heart could see that the hospital was much larger than she had expected and there was way more activity outside than her squad had expected.

‘This will not be easy’ she thought to herself as she watched an ambulance drive up and unload its charge.  On the side of the ambulance Prophetic Heart could see the name of the hospital written in bright blue letters Capital Medical Center Olympia, Washington.

The hospital itself was in surprisingly good condition compared to most other human buildings in the city.  She recalled that this was a hospital for the human “twopers” which was why it was in such good repair.  The very thought of this made her wince she never understood why humans thought it was okay for some humans to greedily hoard resources while so many others struggle just to survive.  It was one of many things about humanity she did not understand and one of the many things that made her feel sorry for them.

Lowering her binoculars Prophetic Heart carefully made her way back down the dead tree and went to rejoin her squad.

The squad consisted of seven ponies including herself four unicorns, two earth ponies, and one pegasus which they were currently attempting to rescue from the hospital.  All of them were new foals and all of them were members of the PER (Ponies for Earth’s Rebirth).  She was a unicorn herself, but unlike the others she was not a newfoal, she was a native Equestrian.

The squad was led by Vanguard a large and imposing earth pony with a dark green coat and brown mane and tail.  A former blackmesh Vanguard quit the security force after becoming disenfranchised with it, and joined the PER shortly after it was formed converting around the same time.

Seeing him as she approached Prophetic Heart mused at him standing there so commanding, ‘Oh Vanguard you like to act so tough and commanding, but we all know you're nothing but a big softy.

“How does it look?” asked Vanguard.

“Its gonna be difficult to get inside there's a lot of ponies er I mean humans around”  she blushed a bit at her slip she’d never quite gotten used to referring to humans as humans and using terms like everybody rather than everypony.

Ignoring her blushing Vanguard straightened up and turned to face the rest of the squad.  “Be that as it may we can’t give up now.  We need to get Zero out of there and soon.”  Vanguard paced for a bit pondering the best coarse of action muttering different plans to himself.

Heart watched as he paced for a bit before finally speaking up, “Vanguard you mind if I offer a suggestion?”

Vanguard stopped pacing and looked at her, “Of course Heart what did you have in mind?”

“Perhaps instead of trying to sneak in we should instead try and talk are way in.”

Vanguard thought about this idea for a moment before nodding, “I take it you have any idea Heart?”

She nodded, “Yes instead of trying to sneak into the ambulance area like we originally planned. We should instead just walk into the main entrance and tell the person at the front desk that we’re here to visit a hurt friend,”  she beamed a smile.

The others took in what she said for a moment before nodding in agreement, “That’s a great idea Heart, thanks for sharing it,” they all said in unison returning her smile.

Scenes like this were quite common in the squad.  As a native Equestrian the others often looked up to Prophetic Heart and viewed her as a role model.

Watching this display Vanguard chuckled a bit before clearing his throat grabbing everyponies attention, “Very well let us do as our Princess commands and go visit our hurt friend in the hospital,” Prophetic Heart shrank a bit at being called a Princess.  The others often did this as a form of reverence for her even though she told them repeatedly that that title was reserved solely Celestia and Luna.

As they approached the hospital Vanguard fell back tell he was trotting beside Prophetic Heart, “So how exactly are we gonna get back to where Zero is being kept?  Its not like there gonna let us visit him.”

“Just follow my lead Vanguard we’ll get in and save Zero you’ll see.”  She grinned.

Vanguard rolled his eyes, “Geez it's times like this I think you should be the commander rather than vice versa.”

“Don’t sell yourself short Vanguard you are a great leader don’t ever forget that.”  She smiled warmly at him.

Vanguard couldn’t help but smile back, “Thanks Heart.”

As they approached to the entrance to the hospital the paramedics unloading the new arrival gave the ponies a few curious looks to which the ponies waved in response smiling at them.  The paramedics smiled and waved back before returning to their work.

Upon entering the building the ponies were immediately hit with the pungent smell of disinfectant which caused them to recoil a bit.  “Oh boy I never liked hospitals before I got converted, but at least they didn’t reek back then.”  complained Mystik who activated his TK field to plug his nose.  The others nodded sharing his sentiment.

This exchanged was interrupted by the sound of someone clearing their throat.  The ponies looked over to see a heavy set nurse sitting at the front desk with her arms crossed.  She stared at them with a glaring gaze which made the ponies shrink a bit.

“What are you grass eaters doing here? this is a hospital for humans not a vet.”

Vanguard clenched his teeth at her insult and was about to yell back angrily before Prophetic Heart placed her hoof in front of him and shook her head at him.

Prophetic Heart then stepped forward and addressed the nurse.  “Hello Ms. um...” she looked over at her name tag which read Rita, “Rita we’re here to visit a hurt friend of ours.”

The nurse looked the ponies over like she was sizing them up and then released an annoyed grunt, “Fine what's your friends name?”

Thinking quickly Vanguard spoke up, “A...man...da... Taylor.”

“Hmm,” the nurse stared at a him for a moment suspiciously, “Amanda Taylor?”

Vanguard nodded nervously, “Y.y.y...yes she’s supposed to be registered here.”

The nurse gave off an annoyed, “Fine give me sec.”  The nurse sat down at her computer and began to sigh look through the database for the patient in question grumbling as she did “Stupid ponies things were much better before you grass eaters showed up.”

At that moment Prophetic Heart crossed her back legs and started to hop around, “Um miss if it's not to much trouble can I use the bathroom I’ve really gotta go.”

The nurse looked up at her suspiciously.

Prophetic Heart then stared at Vanguard who gave her a dumb look for a second before realization sunk in, “Oh yes yes yes I need to go as well.”  he smiled crossing his rear legs to emphasize his point blushing a bit in feigned embarrassment.

The nurse sighed, “fuckin ponies,” she swore under her breath. “Fine it's back there and to the left,”  she pointed behind her to the doors that led to one of the patient wings.

Prophetic Heart beamed her a smile, “Thank you miss.”

As she and Vanguard turned to head into the patient wing Vanguard quickly whispered to Mystik, “stall her while we find Zero.”

“Yes sir!” Mystik whispered back to him.

Entering the patient wing Prophetic Heart turned to Vanguard and giggled “Boy she really had you shaking in your fetlocks huh Vanguard?”

Snorting in annoyance, “No she didn’t it's just people come off as a lot more gruff and mean now than they did when I was human.  I wasn’t scared of her I was just intimidated by her behavior.”

Teasingly Prophetic Heart stuck her tongue out, “Right whatever you say Vanguard.”

Turning their attention to the corridor they are standing in they quickly spie a nearby map detailing the layout of the hospital.  The hospital has four different patient wings each with between three to five floors.  The hospital is shaped like a giant capital H turned sideways with the entryway located at the left middle part of the H.

Studying the map Prophetic Heart shook her head a bit “Hmm finding him is not gonna be easy.”

“Maybe not, but we need to find him before those worldcorp thugs get a chance to interrogate him.  It shouldn’t be too hard to identify which room it is though since it will be the room guarded by blackmesh.”

“Yes that will be the easy part.  The hard part will be getting into the room once we find it.”

“No worries that’s what the potion is for.”  He moved the satchel bags on his back to emphasize his point.

“Of course.” Prophetic Heart smiled warmly ‘and as a plus a few more humans will be saved,’ she thought to herself.  That fact always made Prophetic Heart feel good knowing that with every human she converted she was doing Celestia’s will and saving more of these humans from a terrible fate.  This was the whole reason she came to earth in the first place and joined the PER despite warnings about the dangers of this world.

From the moment she first heard about these humans and their plight she knew she had to help them, and once she got to earth she knew she really had to help them.  Fortunately at least as far as she was concerned she soon found and joined the PER which was working in secret under Celestia’s orders to save as many of these hairless monkeys as they could.

“Just keep in mind Heart we only have three vials of potion each so use them sparingly.”

It took Vanguard and Prophetic Heart about 10 minutes of wondering around the hospital, but eventually they found the room Zero was in which as expected was guarded by a pair blackmesh.

The room was located close to one of the intersections of the hospital wings and seeing this Vanguard motioned for Prophetic Heart to keep walking past the room.

The two ponies walked by the room and waved at the blackmesh as they walked by.  The blackmesh paid no attention to the pair and continued to scan the the hallway for trouble.  Rounding the corner Vanguard and Heart turned and faced each other.

“Okay we’ve found the room Heart now we’re gonna have to act fast on the count of three we jump out and throw one of our potions at them and then quickly duck back around the corner.”

“Got it,” Prophetic Heart nodded.

“Okay...One...Two...THREE!!!”

The two ponies jumped out and threw there flasks of potion at the blackmesh.  The blackmesh were caught completely off guard by this and failed to jump away in time both getting hit directly in the face with a flask of potion.

Vanguard and Heart quickly ducked behind the corner and a few seconds later they heard two loud thumps as the blackmesh hit the floor as the anesthetic took effect.

Heart quickly rounded the corner and activated her horn’s TK field pulling the uniforms off the rapidly changing blackmesh.  “Oh these humans why must they always wear clothes and so much of it.  If you didn’t converting you would so much easier.”

Vanguard chuckled at her rant, “Come we only got 15 minutes till they wake up.”  Prophetic Heart nodded and they entered the room.

Inside Zero lay on top of a bed with various wires attached to him monitoring his vitals.  He was not restrained since it was obvious he was not going to regain consciousness anytime soon so the blackmesh hadn’t bothered.

Prophetic Heart recalled how Zero went and got himself caught after he tried to flee from an earlier mission that went badly.  The mission was supposed to be a very simple affair they had been ordered to attack and convert everyone in an indoor marketplace the humans called a mall.  Things went south almost immediately when no sooner did they step into the mall then they were greeted by some HLF thugs hanging out around the entrance. Who upon seeing them decided to take a few potshots at them with their guns. It was when they ran out of the mall that Zero tried to flee by flying off in a random direction, just for him to slam headfirst into a blackmesh helicopter that happened to be flying by.

Vanguard looked at the poor pegasus lying on the bed and shook his head in frustration, “Zero when are you going to learn to watch where you're going?  You could’ve gotten yourself killed.”

“Well luckily he ran into that helicopter otherwise he would have been killed by the HLF.”  Of all the humans Prophetic Heart had encountered in her time on Earth the HLF was by far the most bizarre to her.  How could those humans look at the paradise that was Equestria and reject it.  This boggled her mind more then anything else.

“Anyway Vanguard we need to get him out of here.” Activating her TK again Heart meticulously removed the various monitors from Zero.  Vanguard then carefully grabbed the injured pegasus and placed him on his back.

“You think he’ll be okay this time?”  asked Heart as she examined Zero.

Vanguard nodded, “Of course he will Zero has already proven he can take worse crashes.  You’d need a bazooka to kill him.”

“Bazooka?”  Prophetic Heart cocked her head at the strange word.

Vanguard shook his head, “Never mind, let’s just go.”

No sooner did they step out of the hospital room then they heard a scream.  jerking their heads to the right they saw a young nurse screaming at the sight of the two blackmesh converting.  Seeing them she pointed a finger at them accusingly, “You two what are you doing here and with my patient? Your PER aren’t you!”

Prophetic Heart attempted to try and talk them out of this, but before she could even open her mouth the nurse reached down and hit a button on strange machine attached to her belt.  Immediately klaxons began to blare and a second later a group of six blackmesh came running down the hall towards the nurse.  Seeing this the two ponies did a quick 180 and ran down the hall as fast as they could.

The nurse pointed at the pair, “Get them they’re trying to kidnap the patient.”

Prophetic Heart and Vanguard pressed their ears hard against the side of their head as they ran down the hall.  “Cupcakes that’s loud.”  yelled Prophetic Heart as she tried to shout over the blaring sound of the alarm.

Seeing an intersection in the hallway Vanguard shouted at the top of his lungs, “Quickly there’s no time I’ll get Zero out of here.  Heart you go down the left passage and I’ll take the right lead as many of those blackmesh away from me and Zero as possible.”

Giving up on trying to shout over the alarm Prophetic Heart merely nodded falling back so Vanguard could turn right first.  Once he had Prophetic Heart quickly turned left and quickly sprinted as fast as she could.  Looking back she could see two of them had taken the bait and were following her.  Mentally she groaned, she had wished more of them would have taken the bait, but it was better than nothing.  Now all she had to do was lose these two.

Heart ran down the corridor for a bit trying to escape the blackmesh but to no avail.  “Wow these humans are persistent.” Prophetic Heart looked around the corridor desperate to find a means of escape before spying a door up ahead that led to the stairs.

Quickly opening the door with her TK she quickly ducked in the stairwell and hid underneath the stairs.  The blackmesh chasing her bursted into the stairway shortly after. “Where did that pony go?”

“Spread out and look she couldn’t have gotten far.”

“Great now what.  Its not gonna take them long to find me.”  Prophetic Heart frantically scanned the room looking for some means of escape before finally looking up and seeing the door that lead to the next floor above her.  Smirking she activated her TK and opened the door and then slammed it shut.

Hearing the noise the blackmesh stopped there search, “She went up to the second floor.”  the blackmesh rushed up the stairs to the second floor slamming the door behind them.

Prophetic Heart crawled out of her hiding place and looked up, “Well thats that now all I have to do is get out of here.”

Prophetic Heart left the stairwell and proceeded back down the hall towards the exit.  “Wonder what part of the hospital I’m in?”  spying a nearby directory Prophetic Heart discovered she was in a place called a hospice.

Cocking her head she looked at the name curiously “What’s a hospice?”  Going off this curiosity Prophetic Heart decided to take a peak in the room closest to her and see what the occupant was suffering from.

Inside she was greeted with the sight of a middle aged human lying in the hospital bed motionless.  Looking over she could see the various human medical machines beeping away.  Turning her attention back to the human she could see various wires attached to him much like they had been on Zero and curiously she also spied a long flexible tube which went from one of the machines to the humans abdomen and appeared to stick into him.  Prophetic Heart winced at the site of that.

Walking over to the motionless human Prophetic Heart experimentally prodded him with her hoof from which he failed to respond at all.  Perplexed by his unresponsiveness Prophetic Heart prodded him even harder “Hey human are you okay?  What happened to you?”  Once again though he failed to respond at all.

Confused by this Prophetic Heart looked around for his chart.  After some searching she finally found it hanging from the foot of the bed, “Guess Earths not completely different then Equestria after all,” she mused as she read the chart.

Name: Sigurd Fiore

Age: 58

Date Admitted: April 23, 20XX

Diagnoses: Coma with intermittent periods of vegetative state.

Prognoses:  Poor: Patient has been alternating between coma and vegetative state since he was in an accident as a child 50 years ago.

Family has insisted he be kept alive and has had the funds to keep life support going.  Ponification has been recommended, but family

refuses to give the go ahead cited religious reasons.

Prophetic Heart drops the chart from her TK field and looks down at the comatose human in horror, and starts to cry.  “How how could anypony do this to somepony?  Keep him alive in a state like this for decades? Its just so cruel.  Isn’t there anything they could have done?”

Rereading the chart Prophetic Heart’s sadness turned to anger, “They won’t even ponify him, why won’t they ponify him? Don’t they know that it would save him?”  Prophetic Hearts vision grew blurry from her crying.

“Do they not care about him? Do they enjoy making him live like this?  Monsters!  Why do so many of these humans treat other humans so cruelly?”  This was a question she had asked herself time and time again since she first arrived on this planet.

“NO! I won’t stand for this.  I won’t let you be treated like this anymore you deserve better you deserve to live a happy and fulfilling life, and I’m going to give it to you.”  Making up her mind then and there Heart reach into her saddlebags and pulled out the another one of her vials of potion and trotted over to the human’s head.  She then threw her forehooves around him and gave him a hug.

“My dear human accept this gift of new life from the princesses.  We welcome you to our herd with open hooves and hearts.” She unscrewed the lid on the vial, “We may never meet again my dear human, but know that I am the first friend among many you will meet in Equestria.  I wish you happiness in your new life.”

With that Prophetic Heart pulled the blanket off of him and took the hospital gown off before pouring the contents of the potion onto his chest.  Stepping down from the bed Prophetic Heart turned to leave room.  Briefly as she was almost out the door she turned back at the now changing human and smiled, before finally exiting.

Chapter 2: Rip Van Pony

Sigurd felt as if he were floating in a sea of nothingness, everywhere he looked he could see nothing, but an endless white fog.

‘How long have I been here?’ he asked himself as he floated in that fog, ‘I remember, nothing.’

He floated there for bit pondering this when out of the corner of his eye he saw a number of strange objects coming out of the empty whiteness towards him.  Squinting his eyes he eventually made out the shapes of multiple miniature horse like creatures that oddly enough seemed to be flying towards him.

The flying horses rapidly flew further into view and Sigurd could see that they were indeed flying and each one sported a pair of wings on their backs.

‘Pegasi?’ questioned Sigurd as the lead pegasi reached his location. Sigurd watched as the creatures started to circle around him like they were predatory birds sizing up there prey.

Seeing them up close Sigurd could now marvel at how beautiful and majestic they were.  He watched as they soared over, under, and around him in a carefully coordinated manner.

As he stood and marveled at this he suddenly heard a voice in his mind that seemed to echo all around him, ‘Join us human come and fly with us.  Its a lot of fun!’

This startled Sigurd and he looked around frantically trying to find the source of the voice before realizing the pegasi were the ones speaking to him.

‘Fly! but I can’t fly!’ Sigurd thought as he continued to watch them circle him.

‘Yes you can human just follow us.’  ‘Yes follow us human,’  the others chimed in, ‘Follow us home. We’ll have even more fun there!’

Sigurd had to admit it did look kinda fun and he decided to give it a try.  Closing his eyes and concentrating Sigurd attempted to will himself forward and much to his surprise he began to feel himself moving foreword.  Opening his eyes he could see that he was indeed flying with them and looking up over his shoulder he could see to his astonishment that he had grown his own pair of wings which had sprouted out of his back.

‘That's it, your doing it’ the pegasi around him cheered in excitement, ‘Now come follow us home human, you’ll love it there.’  The pegasi in front of him beckoned him forward with there forehooves.

Sigurd followed the herd of pegasi as they soared through the sky.  As he did he felt an overwhelming feeling of warmth from them as if they were welcoming and accepting him as one of their own.

This feeling built inside of him and he began to feel his body changing.  Looking down at his hands he watched as the fingers on his hands begun to shrink and merge with the rest of his  hands.

This caused Sigurd to panic at first, but the feeling of warmth from the nearby pegasi calmed him and as he changed a feeling of peace swept over him and he closed his eyes focusing on that feeling, ‘it's okay don’t be scared embrace the change.  Feel the love we have for you.’

Sigurd’s body began to change swiftly at this point as did the warm peaceful feelings of love he was receiving from the other pegasi.  Sigurd had never before felt like this in his entire life this feeling of love and belonging and he happily whinnied in happiness as the transformation finished.

Opening his eyes again he looked down in wonder at his now light green hooves.  They felt good and strong hell he felt good all over.  He had never felt this good before in his entire life.  It was if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders that he never knew he was carrying.

“Welcome home my little pony!”

Sigurd turned his head to the right and saw a new pegasi had joined the group.  This one was much larger than the other pegasi and had a horn on its head.  Her coat was the purest white he had ever seen and seemed as if it glowed and her mane and tail seemed to ripple in an unseen wind and possessed hues of green, pink and blue.

The new pegasi? smiled warmly at him and motioned downward with her hoof, “Your new home is down there and I can’t wait to show you around.”  Her voice sounded motherly and gave Sigurd an overwhelming sense of peace.

Looking down Sigurd saw the whiteness dissipate and below he could see a beautiful white castle with golden trim come into view.  All around it beautiful emerald colored forests, crystal clear lakes, and flower covered meadows stretched to the horizon.

Squinting his eyes Sigurd could see other horse creatures some with wings like his, but others with horns on their heads and some with neither all playing together happily, or lounging about talking with each other.

“Isn’t it wonderful my little pony?”

Sigurd turn his attention back to the large white pegasus tears welling up in his eyes,  “This is my new home?”

She smiled and nodded, “Yes my little pony I hope you like it.”

Sigurd smiled at her, “Why? why would you do all this for me?”

“Because I love you!”

As tears of joy ran down Sigurd’s face he flew towards the larger pegasus who instinctively pulled him into a hug.  Sigurd melted into her embrace as he began to drift out of consciousness.  A sense of love and safety overwhelmed him as his world faded to black.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee... “Ahhhh!”

Sigurd opened his eyes and saw that he was lying on the floor of a hospital room after being awakened by the sound of an alarm.

Without thinking he scrunched his ears down against his head and raised his forehooves attempting to block out the horrible sound, “Too Loud Too LOUD!”  It felt as if the sound was echoing in his head and pounding on the inside.

“Stop it please stop it!”  The siren continued to bellow uncaring of his pleas.  Shutting his eyes Sigurd tried to concentrate on anything besides the horrible sound.  His mind drifted wondering how he had gotten here and how long he had been here.  As he did he finally became aware of the fact he couldn’t feel his fingers, but before he could pursue this query the alarm finally shut off and the sound abated.

Opening his eyes he breathed a sigh of relief and looked around at his surroundings.  The room was pretty unadorned and had a very spartan feel to it. The room consisted of a bed, a chair next to the bed, a full length mirror hanging on the wall opposite of the bed, and a bank of machines Sigurd reasoned must be for monitoring a patient’s vitals.

Turning his attention away from the unremarkable room Sigurd looked down and saw the same light green forehooves he had in his dream.  Surprised by this Sigurd quickly wobbled onto his new hooves and with a stumbling gait managed to make his way to the full sized mirror. The reflection that greeted him made him fall onto his haunches in shock and to some extent awe.

Staring back at him was a jungle green colored pony.  On its head was a long and flowing mane of candy apple red hair which cascaded off the back of its head and spilled onto his back and seemed to shimmer in the light.  This was complemented by a long flowing tail that dragged across the ground a bit.  A pair of chocolate brown eyes stared back at him from the mirror and Sigurd felt as if he could lose himself in their gaze.

Looking at his new appearance Sigurd could not help but feel a sense of wonder and joy.  He was not sure why he felt this way, but he felt the same sense of peace and happiness that he had experienced in his dream.  “I...look amazing!”  Giggling like a schoolgirl Sigurd began to twist and flex his new body exploring his new form eagerly.

It was then that Sigurd first noticed the wings on his back.  Curious he opened and closed them a bit experimentally and marveled at how beautiful they were.  His wings were the same jungle green as his coat but towards the tips of his primaries the color shifted to the candy apple red of his mane and tail.

“This... is... awesome!” he began to laugh happily as he examined his new wings.  “I wonder if I’ll be able to fly with things?  How cool would that be?”

Sigurd continued to admire himself in the mirror for a few more seconds before he was interrupted by the sound of voices coming from outside followed by footsteps coming in his direction.

“Hang on I think I heard one of them in there.”  A split second later a blackmesh soldier wielding a pistol burst into the room and pointed it straight at Sigurd, “Freeze!”

Upon seeing the blackmesh brandish the gun at him Sigurd slipped off his hooves falling to the ground in surprise and tried to back away quickly.  “Please don’t shoot me.  I haven’t done anything wrong.  I don’t even know how I got here or why I look like this please don’t hurt me. Please!”

The blackmesh stood there dumbfounded by Sigurd’s behavior.  He was clearly an adult pony, but was acting like a frightened child.  After a few tense moments the blackmesh remembered that this room belonged to a coma patient and that the patient had been in a coma since age eight.

‘wait a minute is it possible that...it couldn’t be.’  The blackmesh looked down at the cowering pony who had curled up in a corner, “Sigurd...Sigurd Fiore?”

Trembling Sigurd looked up at the soldier and weakly responded,  “Ye...yes?”

Then it hit the blackmesh this pony was the coma patient, the PER operatives must have converted him.  Lowering his weapon the blackmesh looked down at Sigurd his hard expression softening into a smile, “Sorry about that kid.”  He walked over and sat down in the chair putting his gun away, “I thought you were one of the intruders.”

Slowly Sigurd uncurled himself from his ball of terror and carefully got to his hooves, “Intruders?”

The old blackmesh chuckled a bit, “Yeah PER, Ponies for Earth’s Rebirth they attacked the hospital.”

Slowly Sigurd trotted over the the blackmesh, “I see so you you thought I was one of them?  Mr. um...?”

“Oh sorry my names Sergeant Murphy blackmesh security detail for Capital Medical Center.”  The blackmesh gave him a cheesy salute.

“Security detail you some kind of cop?”

‘Cop?’ it took Murphy a few minutes but eventually he remembered that cops were a sort of security entity that existed in the pre collapse days and that it was their job to enforce the rule of the old US government.  “Well I guess you could say I am kinda like a cop, but there haven’t been any actual cops for a long time.”

Sigurd was about to ask him what he meant, but just as he opened his mouth a voice came from outside.

“Sergeant Murphy is everything alright in there?”

“Yeah everythings fine Vallery, however it would appear that our very own Rip Van Winkle has finally woken up and he’s traded his hands for hooves.”

Vallery entered the room and looked at down at the young pony sitting next to Sergeant Murphy and before Sigurd and Murphy could react she immediately squealed and rushed over to Sigurd pulling him into tight hug.

“Oh aren’t you the cutest pony I’ve ever seen!  This is a miracle your family was just gonna let you die, but now; oh you can’t even imagine the wonderful life your gonna have!”

Sigurd struggled for air as he nurse held him in her vice like grip.  He felt as if the nurse was trying to crush him.

“Vallery put the poor kid down your strangling him to death.”

Vallery quickly pulled Sigurd out of her vice like grip and set him back down, “Whoops sorry its just that...well I’m just so happy for you and your such a cute looking pony.

Sergeant Murphy chuckled,  “You think all ponies are cute Vallery.”

Sigurd coughed a bit trying to catch his breath, “Its alright what are you guys talking about leave me to die?  PER? What’s going on?”

Hearing this both of them fell silent and looked at each other both unsure of what to say.  Finally after awkward moments Sergeant Murphy spoke up,  “I think you better sit down for this one kid it's a long story.”

“Okay?” Sigurd sat down and nervously looked up at the two humans.

After a few more seconds Vallery finally spoke up, “Sigurd honey, I know this may be difficult for you to take, but you’ve actually been in a coma for the past 50 years.”

Sigurd eyes shot wide open and his pupils shrunk to a pin point, “I’ve what!  I’ve been in a coma for 50 years!”

Vallery nodded, “Yes Sigurd I’m afraid so.  You see about 50 years ago you were in a terrible accident.  A car ran you over as you were crossing an intersection on your bike.  Since then you’ve been in a comatose state interspersed by periods where it seemed as though you would regain consciousness, sadly you never did.  The only reason you are even standing here now is because your family refused to allow us euthanize you, and since your family is part of the elites they had the power to keep you alive like that indefinitely.

Sigurd took a moment and let it all sink in “50 years! He had been in a coma for 50 years and only now woke up cause he had been turned into one of these “ponies”.  ‘what does this all mean,’ Sigurd shook his head in confusion.

“Vallery I think we should hurry up and call the nearby bureau they should be able to help him.”  Sergeant Murphy turned and smiled at Sigurd, “Don’t worry kid take your time I know that’s a lot to take in, but don’t worry you're gonna be okay.”

Sigurd looked up and nervously nodded at him, “Thank you.”