Can I Adjust To This Colorful New Life?

Chapter 2: The Hospital

As you attempt to figure out how to free yourself from the embarrassing position you got yourself stuck in, you hear a little giggle coming from Rainbow Dash. "How did you manage to do that, were you still asleep or something?!" Hearing that causes you to feel some warmth in your cheeks, and you physical cower away, hoping to make yourself small enough that Rainbow will forgot about you and move on, but fate has a way of screwing with you. "So I take it you're not from around here, it's painfully obvious, seeing as you aren't wearing a vest like everyone else" Rainbow decides to finally say, after realizing she just laughed at you, "Sorry for startling you, I thought you were on the weather team, and since we're down a few ponies, we need everyone working their hardest!" It was then you finally notice the light blue vest she was wearing, and the leg band, you assume that means captain, or something like it. After a few more minutes you finally got the courage to ask, "Are you really Rainbow Dash?"

"Am I Rainbow Dash! Duh, of course, couldn't you tell by my rainbow mane!" Rainbow managed to say, making the most serious face she could, in a feeble attempt to hide her blush at the fact you knew her name beforehand. Being an average guy, you would never notice it, and it didn't help that you now felt even more embarrassed at your little accident now knowing that the self proclaimed, best flyer in all of Equestria, happened to be the one who saw it, which caused you to look down in a extremely pitiful manor. "Oh, sorry, I guess hearing that you knew me made me get a little excited" She said after noticing your pitiful look, "So, how did you know my name?" At that moment you completely froze, both figuratively, and literally, as it happens a certain grey Pegasus had managed to cover you in snow. Luckily that gave you time to think, and possibly a mild case of hypothermia, but you were content knowing that you could create a lie before you passed out due to the cold.

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You come to with the smell of muffins, possibly blueberry, and the smell you can place fairly well, even being in another world. You're in a hospital, but who carried you here? From what you gathered all the Pegesi were busy trying to finish their part of Winter Wrap-Up, unless they got an earth pony to carry you all the way here, or a unicorn to teleport you to the...

Your thoughts are brought to a sudden stop when you feel something move on your stomach. "What was that?" you think to yourself, almost afraid that maybe your in a human hospital, and you actually just had an accident. Either way your eyes are hurting, and you are dying to eat the muffin that you know is on the table next to you, so you open your eyes. What you find laying on you nearly makes the muffin seem as important as a penny when compared to a 100$ bill. Rainbow Dash, the Rainbow Dash, is laying on you, seemingly fast asleep. You mind races for a few seconds, then comes up with a conclusion that you believe makes the most sense. She was afraid that you could have died under her watch, and was just there to make sure you were okay. You then think that the only reason that you didn't go for the she has a crush on you route was because you knew nobody, not even a colorful cartoon pony, could go head-over-heels after seeing how you embarrassed yourself. It also helps that you never felt any strong connection to any of the mane 6, or at least, none more than the others.

A quick look around the room revealed to you that it was around seven in the morning, meaning she probably just fell asleep, and happened to fall forward onto you, or you hope so. As you run though ever possible reason as to why she is laying on you, the door opens, and an orange earth pony trots in to your room. "Ah, hello there, mister, uh..." The pony you quickly recognize as Applejack mutters as she sees you have no name on your charts, "I'm here to pick my troublesome friend of mine, she said she was only stayin' for a few hours, but it looks like she stayed the night." You hear what sounds like annoyance in her voice, but say nothing in return.

After quite a few attempts to wake Rainbow up, Applejack decides to turn to you. Having engulfed the muffin that was left, hopefully for you and not Rainbow, you're more than happy to talk to anyone. "So, from what she told me" Applejack says, making a slight motion towards the Pegasus on your lap, "You're not from these parts, and are extremely clumsy, and she mentioned that you were actin' a bit sheepish when she was talkin' to ya." First thing you think of is how embarrassing you acted, secondly, how could you explain that you're from somewhere called Earth, and your first time being a pony was when Rainbow woke you up?

Thankfully Rainbow managed to wake up, apparently hearing Applejack's voice, and maybe even your own stomach before you could eat that muffin, she slowly gets up, to about a few inches on your lap, then bolts upright, face almost as red as the Apples in Applejack's cutie mark. "I WASN'T SLEEPING ON YOU ON PURPOSE!" was all Rainbow managed to say before turning away to hide her face. The sudden outburst cause both you and Applejack to laugh harder than you though you ever would. After composing herself, Rainbow turned to you and said, "I was only here because one of the Pegasus under my command got you in this mess. I see you already ate the apology muffin that Ditzy had made for you, she was really devastated when she found out she could have really hurt you." Hearing that, and thinking of what you imagine Ditzy being like, made you feel a little bad, since you were the one who propelled themselves into the tree in the first place.

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After a few more minutes of talking the girls prepared to leave, but something clicked in your head, luckily before AJ had managed to get out the door. "If it isn't too much, could you ask Twilight Sparkle to come see me, I need to talk to her" you ask, hoping that one of them had heard you. "Sure thing, I'll see if she can come down tomorrow, now get some rest, or Rainbow's gonna be worried sick" says an almost laughing Applejack. Well, at least you can trust her to actually ask Twilight, because you have a feeling that talking to her might put you in contact with the only pony who might know what's going on. Princess Celestia.