From one world to another
Chapter 4

Twilight’s pov

The Ponyville hospital was often a busy place. Due to many of the accidents or incidents that happen in Ponyville, the hospital is often kept busy, and soon became one of the most well equipped hospitals in the region besides the ones in Canterlot. Even so, most of these injuries weren’t too bad and at the most were a broken bone or something similar.

So why much of the staff were in a frenzy when I arrived worried me greatly. Looking around the waiting lobby, I spotted Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy and quickly rushed over to them. “Girls, Rainbow Dash said something happened with the CMC, is everypony alright?” When Rainbow Dash had rushed into the library, she hadn’t said much, just that somepony was in the hospital and that the CMC were involved. Panicked and worried, I had rushed over here to see what was happening.

“They’re alright sugarcube. Apple Bloom and her friends had come running to me telling me that they had been attacked by timber wolves and that somepony had saved them. Well, the pony is now in urgent care, and she’s quite banged up. I sent the girls back to the farm so big mac could watch over them. Still can’t believe they would go into that darn forest, especially after that cockatrice problem that happened a month ago.” Rarity then entered, quickly followed by an exhausted looking Rainbow Dash. Applejack told them what she told me as I processed what she had said.

After getting my thoughts together, I asked about the pony that saved the CMC. Before Applejack could respond, a doctor burst into the room, levitating a clipboard. After looking around for a moment, he spotted us and trotted over, asking if we were here to see the pony that Applejack and Rainbow Dash had brought in. After nodding, the stallion told us to follow him to the room. While walking, I asked for information about the pony and their injuries. Nodding, he gave me the clipboard, which conveniently contained all of the information I asked for. I started reading out the information about the pony, telling it to everypony else as we trotted along.

“Small unicorn mare, mid twenties, gray coat with a brown mane, green eyes, ‘odd device’ for a cutie mark. Injuries are 3 broken ribs, broken bone in right foreleg, 3 large gashes on chest, minor internal bleeding, concussion, multiple cuts and bruises.” I took a step back after finishing reading. This mare was more injured than I had thought. I then noticed some special notes at the bottom and decided to read them out loud too.

“Special note number 1: This mare a few scars, with the most notable one being from on her neck, likely from a magical strike. Special note number 2: She has an odd anatomy, with multiple minor and barely noticeable changes and mutations due to unknown substances. Special note number 3: Somehow the device on her left forearm is fused to her skin. It is unknown how this happened or how to cure it, so it has been left alone for now.” This nearly brought me to a halt.

‘Just what had this mare been through?’

After another 6 minutes of trotting, we finally reached the room. We followed the doctor as he opened the door and entered the room. Inside, we saw the mare lying on a bed, a ventilator helping her breath, along with multiple other machines nearby showing her vitals and contributing to either monitoring or helping her health. She had thick gauze wrapped around her stomach and chest, along with normal bandages on at least a half dozen spots visible on her body. The only audible responses I heard was a gasp from Fluttershy and a ‘wow’ from Dash. “She’ll hopefully be awake by tomorrow. Spells and medication have luckily healed most of the injuries, and her concussion should hopefully be gone within five days at most.” The doctor said, eyeing the ‘get well’ cupcake on the nearby desk that wasn’t there a moment ago. “I’ll give you girls a few minutes alone.”

“Thank you doctor” I said as he left the room. “Well girls, what do you think?” The room was silent for a few moments before Rainbow dash commented. “She seems pretty cool to me.” That released a flood of other statements from the girls.

“OOOH! I hope she’ll like her ‘get well party’! *GASP* She needs a ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party too!”

“Well, I hope she’ll be okay.”

“I can’t wait to try a few new dresses with the darling. After all, it’s not so often that you get a mare with colors like that. The possibilities are endless!”

“Ah can’t wait ta thank her for saving Apple Bloom back in the forest.”

Smiling at the girls antics, I look at the mare again. ‘I hope that she's alright?’ I thought, noting that her face was slightly grimacing and had a couple drops of sweat on it.

Littlepip's pov

“Get away from me!” I yelled as I shot a charging shadow pony in the head with the 10mm pistol, killing it.

I had appeared yet again in the S.P.P hub, only this time it was filled with shadow creatures like the dragon from the previous nightmare. I had managed to fight my way through them to the elevators and had just now excited the front entrance of the hub to the town below. It had been one of the new towns to be created after the day of ‘sunshine and rainbows’. It was also one of the biggest, due to a combination of pegasi refugees and being near some major trade routes and resource areas.

Now I was fighting my way through the ruined town, trying to escape to some unknown exit. As I ran into an alleyway I ran into a couple of shadow earth ponies. I recovered from the shock quick enough to jump back from the swing of a sword from one of them. After a moment of quick thinking, I slammed both of them against the nearby wall before running past them further into the alley. Looking back, I saw them both get up and be joined by another dozen shadow creatures who then commenced to chase me.

After a few more minutes of running through the various alleys and staying away from the shadows, I reached a dead end. Panicked, I tried to turn back and go down a different path, only to see that the group that was chasing me was now blocking off the exit. Looking up, I saw that multiple shadow pegasi and griffons were either flying above me or perched on top of the roofs, eliminating the option of levitating myself over the wall. I tried to think of another way to escape, but i couldn’t think of a plan that wouldn’t involve me getting shredded to pieces.

Thought: ‘Guess the only option left is to fight.’

Grimacing, I levitated out my magical and combat shotguns, as well as my sword and SMG. Seeing me do this, the shadow creatures on the ground started closing in, equipped with swords and axes and an occasional spear. Glancing up, multiple airborne shadows pulled out crossbows or short swords for dive bombing attacks. I also looked at my ‘eyes forward sparkle’, taking note that there was a large mass of red ahead of me, with about another dozen red dots to around me, probably those that were above me. Accepting that this would be a very difficult battle, I charged at the approaching ranks of shadow creatures, giving out a battle cry as I fired off all of my weapons.

Author's Note

Sorry for the short chapter, I had sort of hit a brick wall for a while in terms of both motivation to write and in general ideas and ways to let the story flow well, so I figured that I might as well push through this chapter and finish it before I become inactive too long. Luckily, I have been getting a bit more determination to keep working! =D

The next chapter will hopefully be out shortly before or after the fourth of July. I'm hoping to make this a decent size one and include another perspective that hasn't been shown yet. On another note, did any of you notice the little fallout reference?

So I believe that's all I got for now, make sure to leave your opinion about this. Don't forget that any comment, advice, or criticism (except for blunt hate) is accepted and wanted.

Stay determined folks!