Twisted Friendship: An MLP story

Twisted Friendship: An MLP story

Chapter 4: Welcome to Equestria

Senshi began to breath through his mouth as his eyes slowly opened. At first, his vision was a bit blurry until he regained focus once again.  He was staring at a green painted ceiling with yellow streaks randomly going across the surface. He turns his head left and saw a window with green curtains. The walls were painted sky blue in the middle and light brown on the bottom. The floor tiles were checkered color light and dark brown as well with a shining gloss. One thing he forgot to notice that he was lying in a bed but it was too small for him. It felt and looks as though it was meant for someone shorter than him. Right next to his bed was a small lamp with a box of tissue on a desk and to his left is a clock on the wall. He checks the time and it read 10:45 PM. All of this adds up to the fact that he's in some sort of hospital...but what kind? A children's hospital due to the small bed? How long has it been since he was asleep? Who rescued him? What is going on here?

The stock car driver then realize that his bullet wound is bandaged but can still feel a bit of pain inside of his body. Plus, his clothes are gone except that his LAPD pants are kept on. Looks like whomever the doctor was only focused on his chest and cared less about the rest of the body. He guess he can thank him or her later. Senshi gets up from his bed, still in a bit of pain, and checks the window to see what's outside. It was night outside and he can see a full moon emulating the night sky with shining stars around. He hasn't seen the night this shiny before. Weird! He was expecting to still be in Los Angeles though he might regret it for the fact the police are outside waiting for him to slap the cuffs on him. To his surprise, he's not in Los Angeles! He's inside of a hospital, which is one thing, but outside is a long stretch of road on an open field that leads to some sort of village with buildings looking more like European, timber framed style with thatched roofs and overhanging upper floors. The stock car driver saw street lamps on the road but they were not ordinary street lamps. These lamps had fireflies flying around in them to stimulate light and lit the road for anyone to see in the dark.

“What the fuck kind of place is this?” He whispered. “This sure doesn't look anything like California.”

He backs away from the window and looks around the room to find any kind of clues to know where he is. In front of his bed was a clipboard with a document and information that was written down. This has to be the answer he's been looking for. He picks up the clipboard and read what was written in it. What he read, however, was rather confusing and strange.

Softly, Senshi brings to read the written words. “Name: Unknown Creature? What? Age: Unknown? Address: found in...Everfree Forest? Examined by...Nurse...Redheart? Patient suffered mysterious wound to the shoulder. Bandaged to the wound helped prevent the bleeding. Patient was found by...Fluttershy?!? Who the hell is Fluttershy?”

He continues to read the document until he heard the sound of the door opening behind him and he felt that someone is standing right behind him.

“Oh, you're awake.” A female voice said from behind. “But what are you doing out of bed, sir? I was going to do a minor check up on you.”

“Oh nothing, ma'am.” Senshi said as he began to turn around to see who it was. “I just got up because...”

Before the stock car driver can say another word, he stood there frozen with a startled face and his eyes wide opened. Standing in the doorway was someone but more like something that was not expected. A white, fur coated pony with a nurse hat, pink mane and tail; and a red cross with hearts on each side tattooed on her flank. He dropped the clipboard from his hand and it fell on the floor in between his feet.

“Are you okay, sir?” The white pony asked Senshi.

Senshi couldn't believe it. He slowly backed away from this creature, only to hit the small dresser next to his bed that had the lamp and tissue. He can feel his heart beating faster and his breath getting heavier. He was frightened to see a white pony in front of him that spoke English!

The nurse pony trotted to Senshi carefully to know if her patient is feeling okay. “Sir, don't be afraid. It's o...”

“Stay back!” Senshi warned by grabbing the lamp off the desk . “Don't come any closer to me!”

“Please relax. I'm not going to hurt you!”

“Oh ho ho wait a minute, waitaminute! How am I supposed to believe that from a talking white, pony when in reality ponies don't talk?!? This must be a dream...or...maybe I'm hallucinating or dreaming or something!”

“Sir, if you are dreaming, how can you still breath the fresh air in this room and feel the cold tiles on the floor with your feet?

“I'm warning you that if you touch me or come near me, I'll kill you with this lamp!”

“Please, I'm just trying to help you. You have to trust me because I'm the head nurse of this hospital and I'm the one who patched you up when Fluttershy and her friends brought you here. You were unconscious and losing a lot of blood but thankfully Nurse Sweetheart, Tenderheart, and Coldheart were able to take you to the ER where Doctor Stable perform an operation on you. He pulled out...some...metal, shiny thing that was stuck in your clavicle bone that caused the bleeding. According to Dr. Stable, if Fluttershy and her friends didn't find you in the next twenty minutes, you would've died in the Everfree Forest.”

The stock driver remained silent though speechless. This nurse and her staff had saved his life from certain death and he had to thank this “Fluttershy” and her pony friends for finding him. He looked at the white coated pony and sees that she has a worried, sad face and that her ears were drooped. He sighed and sat back on his bed while still looking at her while putting the lamp back on the desk.

“I apologize if I acted that way.” Senshi said. “However, I do want to thank you for your hard work and the staff as well.”

The Nurse smiled at the complement. “You're very welcome, kind stranger. Oh, I brought you some dinner in case you got up. Are you hungry?”

“Sure. What do you have?”

“I brought you some corn, some chopped up carrots, graped flavored jello, and grape juice.”

“Sounds delicious. I'll have some.”

“Just a moment. I need to write down your information on my clipboard that you dropped on the floor. It will just take a moment, sir.”

The Nurse walks up the clipboard and picks it up with her mouth. She takes a pen from behind her right ear by using her right hoof. She sets the clipboard on Senshi's bed and places the pen in her mouth in order to jot down the stuff she needs.

“What is your name, sir?” The nurse pony asked her patient.

“Senshi L. Daniels.” He replied.

“Date of birth?”

“March 3, 1987.”

“Species?”

“Human.”

“Age?”

“25.”

“Your cutie mark?”

Senshi raised an eyebrow as to understand what that meant.“...my what?”

“A cutie mark it's your special talent as described by your symbol on your flank.” The Nurse replied as she pointed to her cutie mark. “For example, my cutie mark is a red cross with hearts and my talent is treating patients in this hospital as their lovable, trustworthy notes.”

“Ohh...so you're saying that if I have a tattoo on my butt cheeks it indicates what I do for a living. Right? To be honest, humans don't have cutie marks and we have our own ways of discovering our talents at what we're good at.”

“Oh, I see. Well, that is all the information I need for tonight. I'll bring you your dinner, Senshi.”

“Oh by the way Nurse. I have a question to ask: where exactly in the world am I?”

“You're in Equestria, home of us ponies of all kind. Now, I'll be right back with your food.”

She trotted out of the room as Senshi got comfortable by laying on the bed with hands resting behind on his bed while having thoughts run through his head. His first thought was that he was not in Los Angeles, CA nor on Earth but in a place filled with talking horses as he believes. The Death Warrant must be in this Everfree Forest where this “Fluttershy” had found him and in need of repairs after the crash. However, the big question that really brings to mind is: did Calypso's magical ring brought him to the right place where he can find his sister? If so, someone in Equestria knows where. He can guess that Nurse Redheart had never seen a human before so any chance of asking her if she came in contact with Stacy seems unlikely.

Five minutes later, Nurse Redheart brought in Senshi's dinner on a tray that she held in her mouth. Senshi thanks the Nurse as he began to eat his food and drink as she exits the room once more to help out more patients in the hospital. The food, in Senshi's opinion, was very delicious and better than the hospital food in one of LA's General Hospitals. The last time he had hospital food in LA was a year back while recovering from a broken femur that he suffered in a crash during the last two laps of a race. He was served with some food that tasted unhealthy and some food that was decent.

After finishing his dinner, Senshi sets the dinner tray on the dresser next to him on his right. He lays on the bed and starts to play with his fingers a bit until Nurse Redheart came back in.

“Oh excuse me, Senshi.” The Nurse said. “You have some visitors here to see you.”

“Visitors?” Senshi questioned as he tilted cocked his head not understanding.

“Yes, your rescuers are here to see you.”

She stepped aside from the door and along came five different colored ponies: two unicorns, two pegasi, and one earth ponies. One unicorn was purple with her mane and tail having a purple and pink streak and has a cutie mark of stars sparkling. The other unicorn was white coated with her indigo mane and hair looking glamorous and her cutie mark are three diamonds. One pegasus was blue and had rainbow colors for her mane and tail and with a cutie mark of a rainbow colored lighting bolt underneath a cloud. The other pegasus was yellow and has her mane and tail pink and has the cutie mark of three butterflies. One earth pony was orange and white freckles on her face. She wore a cowboy hat and has her yellow mane and tail tied up and has a cutie mark of three apples. All five of these ponies surrounded his bed with smiling faces as to show their kindness and respect to the new visitor.

“Hello there.” The purple unicorn spoke. “You must be the human named Senshi L. Daniels that Nurse Redheart told us about.”

“That is correct.” The stock car driver said. “But for the record...just call me Senshi. Just plain Senshi.”

The purple unicorn giggled. “Okay...Senshi. My name is Twilight Sparkle and I'm a student from the city of Canterlot and currently living in Ponyville as the local librarian. Anyway, my friends would like to introduce themselves to you.”

The yellow pegasus approached Senshi, all timidly and hiding her face behind her mane. “Umm...h...hi. I'm...I am...Fluttershy.”

“Oh, so you're the one who found me.”

“Ye...yes.”

“There's no need to be scared, little one. I kind of think that shy ones are cute.”

The yellow pegasus blushed upon hearing that and showed the rest of her face out of her mane. “Re...re...really?”

“Of course. I would like to thank you for finding me.”

“Oh...uh...you're welcome.”

The white unicorn introduced herself to the stock car driver and extended her hoof. “Hello there, my name is Rarity.”

Senshi holds her hoof and gently shakes it. “Nice to meet you Rarity. You have a lovely accent and you look great today.”

“Oh why thank you, darling. I spent hours yesterday at the spa getting the finest treatment for my hair in order to get it more stunning than usual.”

The orange pony with a cowboy hat came up to Senshi next. “Howdy, partner. Ah'm Applejack and Ah work at Sweet Apple Acres makin' the finest, sweetest of apples in all of Equestria.”

“That's nice.” Senshi said. “So you make all kinds of food that involves apples.”

“Eeyup. All kinds like pies, cakes, drinks, cider; ya name it, city boi.”

Hovering above fluttering her wings was the blue pegasi with the rainbow colored mane. “What's up? I'm Rainbow Dash! I'm the fastest high flyer of all Equestria and most totally awesome!”

Senshi laughed. “Most totally awesome? Heh, you remind me of myself back in high school when I said that to my classmates during Physical Ed class.”

“Oh? How so?”

“I ran track and lift weights to show off my skills to the coach. He was impressed all right but my classmates, on the other hand, were not. Don't know why but I guess they were just jealous.”

“...And there was one pony that didn't show up named Pinkie Pie as Twilight Sparkle explained because earlier when she saw me unconscious, she ran into Ponyville at the Library for a 'special errand'. Don't know what it was but I got to tell you two what happened after that was more surprising than meeting English speaking ponies.”

Detective Cade sat in front of Senshi with a face of confusion while his partner Hoss stood near a wall in the interrogation room while shaking his head in disgust with his right hand. The room right now was in complete utter silence; so much silence that anyone can hear a pin drop. Meanwhile, in the adjacent room, the two officers Lucas and Michaels just glance at each other and looked back through the mirror. The both of them questioned in their heads on who exactly did they arrest tonight. A weirdo or some drugged up lunatic who spent two and a half hours talking nonsense about their boss being a demon from hell and talking ponies that saved his life? None of them are buying it.

Back in the Interrogation room, Senshi took his last sip in his Pepsi before running out and was quite disappointed that he finished it all.

“Hey, Detective.” Senshi said to Det. Cade. “You mind giving me another Pepsi?”

Det. Cade let out a frustrated sigh, “Mr. Daniels, we don't have time to get you another one and besides it's getting late for us. We'll continue this discussion tomorrow about you being...in this Equestria or whatever with talking ponies.”

“Oh come on, detective. I was just getting to the best part where I came face to face with the rulers of Equestria.”

Det. Cade gets out of his of chair and grabs the file with Senshi's information that he left on the table. “Mr. Daniels, it's time for you to get some rest. I'll let Officers Lucas and Michaels escort you to your cell where you be staying for tonight.”

“Gee, I wonder if I can get free cable with that reservation.” The stock car driver joked.

The tired detective shook his head and sighed as he signaled his partner to follow him to exit the room. Before he left, Det. Cade took the evidence file of Senshi Daniels with him to make sure he brings it back tomorrow for the next day of interrogation. Hoss didn't say anything but followed his partner out of the room while leaving the stock car driver alone at the table.

Outside the room, Officers Lucas and Michaels exited out their room to meet up with the detectives.

“So what do you think?” Michaels asked Cade about Senshi.

“I have...absolutely no comment.” Cade said all baffled. “I mean, I just don't know what to think of him. I interviewed, negotiated, and interrogated all kinds of criminals from dumb to genius...but I don't know how to describe this young man.”

“Let me tell you what I think.” Hoss spoke. “He's a total nutcase! William Sparks is a demon? Twisted Metal is soul harvesting factory for hell? Talking colored PONIES?!? PONIES?!? WHAT KIND OF FUCKED UP DRUGS HAS THIS GUY TAKENED? Did you two Officers double checked his drug test before we came in?!?”

“Yes we did.” Lucas replied. “Records show no indication of drug use. All the tests came in negative!”

“Bullshit! How about a polygraph test?”

“No, sir. We didn't do that yet?”

“Well here's what the two of you are going to tomorrow before we come in: one of you is going to give him a polygraph test and one of you call in the local hospitals and national parks for any records of Senshi Daniels crashing his vehicle into a tree and getting surgery to have a bullet remove. I WANT ANSWERS BY TOMORROW EVENING SO WE CAN CLOSE THIS CASE AND SEND THIS MOTHERFUCKER TO PRISON! UNDERSTAND!”

“Yes, sir.” Michaels said. “You guys have a nice night. We'll take care of the rest.”

The Detectives nodded as they held towards the elevator and left for the night. The two officers go inside the Interrogation Room where Senshi is waiting and put the handcuffs back on him and instructed him to get up.

“Let's go, Mr. Hands.” Michaels said as he clutched the arms of Senshi tightly.

“Ow!” Senshi yelled. “Watch my arms! I bruise easily.”

“Shut up, pony boy!” Lucas said. “Get your ass moving. We're taking you to your cell.”

The three of them left the room and headed to the same elevator that the detectives went to earlier. Lucas presses the button that read BF1 were the holding cells are located as Senshi continued to joke around with the two officers. “My cell? I can't get another Pepsi? Come on, your prisoner needs a midnight snack after a hard day from coming back fr...”

“From what?” Michaels interrupted. “This...Equestria? What the fuck kind of person you take me for?”

“I thought you guys would be like 'OMG, a world full of talking ponies? Magic exists and friendship is a way of life. I would love to live in a place like that than Los Angeles.' Don't you agree? Think about it! We can all go for a cupcake or...or...see the Wonderbolts in action at...UUUFFF!”

Before Senshi can finish, he was punched extremely hard in the gut by Lucas as he heard enough of his suspect acting like a complete goofball.

“Keep talking and I'll make sure the next blow to the gut will make you bleed out of the mouth.” Lucas said angrily.

Senshi tries to catch his breath after the hit. “Geez, I was just trying to have fun, Officer. No need to hit me like that you know. Besides, you have to keep me alive for the next day.”

“I know that but I'm getting annoyed by your uncanny behavior. Now keep your mouth closed and do exactly as we tell you.”

Within minutes, the elevator arrived at BF1 where the holding cells are located. The floor not only consists of cells but it also consists an armory, an electrical room where the main power runs through the whole station, a kennel for the K-9 units, and a door that leads to the 1st floor of the garage. The two officers and the stock car driver passed through a security checkpoint in front of the elevator and headed towards the East Wing to the holding cells. As they arrived, the two officers took Senshi to his cell and he enters. Expecting his cell to be filthy and old like he had seen movies and tv shows, Senshi's cell was rather clean and spotless. It had a single bed with a white pillow, white mattress, and green blanket on the left side of the cell. His toilet was in the middle while his sink was on the right with a tooth brush and tooth paste just for him. Good thing his cell had no bars but rather a regular door with a security lock to prevent any escapes. Not to mention, his door has a small latch that the officers can provide him with food or anything that's necessary.

Senshi goes into his cell as the officers uncuffed him and closed the cell door behind them as they left for the night. Feeling tired, Senshi goes into his bed and closes to get some sleep at last while still thinking about what just happened tonight.