The Winds Of Change, Season 1: Friends and Enemys, New and Old.

6/21/1000 C.E.

8:25 A.M.

Ponyville General Hospital.

Beep...Beep...Beep...

The soft sound of a heart monitor was the first thing to rouse Star from his pain induced coma.

"Uhhh...where am I?" Star opened his eye's to a room that was blindingly white. "Gah!" He yelled slamming them shut once more. His hearing was coming back a little at a time and he heard what sounded like a muffled gasp of surprise and heard the faint sound of a door opening and slamming shut. All at once his sense's came back to him in a rush along with his memory's of the event's leading up to him passing out.

"Girl's!" He screamed shooting up and scanning the room. Everything was a blur but he felt a pair of hooves on his barrel and heard a muffled voice.

"Shh. shhh. It's ok! We're all here!" It said. He couldn't make out the owner of the voice but he felt assured as the hooves ran themselves up and down forehoof and a soothing motion. The smell in the room was one of pungent sterility.

"I must be in a hospital." His eyes began to adjust to the light of the sun filtering through the window.

"The Sun?" He mumbled. Gazing around he saw a sight that warmed his heart. The room he was in was small but it held several beds enough for four patents. All of them were occupied. One held a very distraught looking Rainbow Dash who had a wing in a cast, another had a very amused looking Pinky Pie with a forehoof wrapped in gauze. She gave him an enthusiastic wave with her other hoof. He smiled and took a peek at the last occupied bed. This one held the sleeping figure of Twilight Sparkle herself, a bandage wrapped around her forehead.

"What happened while I was out?" Star asked causing everypony to jump.

"Well look who decided to rejoin the land of the living?" Came the southern tinged voice of AppleJack herself. All at once Star became the center of attention and he was not liking it. The girls all swarmed him with questions. Finally, he held up a hoof.

"Hold on now." He said getting them to calm down. Giving them all a look that said wait your turn he asked them his own question.

"What happened?" He looked to the window. "It's obvious you girls defeated Nightmare Moon but what happened to all of you?"

"Broken Wing."

"Sprained elbow." They all looked at Twilight.

"Slight concussion." Rarity said. Star winced. "Yike's. Sounds like you girl's put up one hell of a fight." He said as s yawn escaped his mouth. Fluttershy, Rarity, and AJ all laughed.

"Well, it's a good thing that you're awake Star," Fluttershy said as she nuzzled his hoof. He just chuckled and smiled.

"Yeah. I'm just glad you're all ok." He looked at Rainbow, Pinky, and Twilight. "Well mostly ok." He added. Fluttershy chortled.

"We won't keep you all up any longer." she said as she, Rarity, and AJ all turned to leave.

"Ya'll get better real soon Ya hear?" AJ said waving goodbye to everypony. The two that were awake sent them off with a chorus of thank's and we will's. When the door closed Star let out a sigh of relief.

"I'm glad they all at least got out of this unharmed." He said to thin air. "Yeah, you should have seen what we had to go up against," Rainbow said leaning back into her pillow, getting comfortable. Rainbow was about to elaborate but she was interrupted by a small bit of snoring that filtered through out the room. Star and Dash looked over to see that Pinky Pie was fast asleep.

"Wow. You know I don't think I've ever seen Pinky out of energy before." Star said giving her a quizzical look. Rainbow snickered. "Ha! Yeah, this is a first for me too." She looked around the room until her eyes fell on Star. "You know you had us worried there for a bit." her once cheerful face now forlorn. Star scowled, his anger directed at himself.

"Yeah. Sorry about that." He diverted his gaze to the nearby window. Then his mood perked up. "Hey we came out mostly intact so there's that." He smiled trying to brighten up the mood. Dash gave him a deadpan look. "Oh yeah mostly unscathed. We only had one of us get impaled in three different parts of their body. Another suffered a broken wing. Oh, and the last one took a hoof to the head." She smirked. "Yup we got real lucky." She suddenly burst into laughter with Star following soon after. The two shared a small moment with one another.

"Huh, this feels like old time's." His face lost in thought. "Just like back in high school." He added. Dash nodded. "Haven't had a blast like this in forever." She sighed. "Still the next time we go to hang out let's not end the night by taking on some ancient super villain from the past." She smiled a toothy grin. Star returned the smile. "Yeah after this morning I could go for a nice calm night on the town." He said as he stretched out and settled back down underneath his cover's.

"Get well soon Dash." He said before closing his eye's for a good morning's sleep. "You to bug boy." She said before drifting off to sleep. Star smiled at the nick name. "Yup, just like old time's."

7/5/1000 C.E.

8:57 A.M.

A little over two weeks had passed and the small group of three ponies was finally released from the hospital. Star's parents came to see him in that span of time he was stuck there. They said there hello's to Rainbow and the rest of the girl's and asked them to not be strangers. They didn't admit it but they were glad that their son was interacting with others of the opposite sex.

"At least now I can die knowing my son is a stud." Sky joked to his wife as they left the hospital after their third visit.

"Oh hush you!" His wife Ruby said as she playfully slapped him on the flank. Then she smiled. "Still it was good to see little dashy after all this time," she said remembering all the trouble the two of them would get into. Then she laughed.

"What has you so giddy all of a sudden?" Sky asked as they made their way home. Ruby shook her head.

"That poor boy still hasn't told dear sweet dashy how he feel's." She said as she held the door open for her husband. He just shook his head.

"Well, he better get to it before some other stallion set's his sight's on her or he's going to have one hell of a fight on his hooves." He too shook his head. "any stallion that can keep up with that mare is going to try their hardest to get her affection's and that means some of them are going to fight dirty." He didn't relish the thought of his son having to fight for any reason but that just went out the window. "He just fought and nearly died just to help save Equestria. Please, Faust let him be able to woo Dash without an all out war on his hooves."

"So when do you think they'll be out today?" Sky asked his wife trying to drown out the many thought's flooding his brain. Ruby tapped her chin in thought.

"They were just about to get there last check up as we left so I would say it'll still be an hour or two before they get fully released." She said throwing her saddle bags onto a nearby coat rack before she collapsed onto the living room couch. Sky stood there admiring his wife's plump flank before he got a devious grin on his face.

"You know honey all this stress can't be good for us." He snaked his way over to his wife and draped a hoof over her shoulder. She looked up and thanks to the sultry look in his eyes knew what he was suggesting.

"Oh?" She said fainting ignorance. "And what would you suggest we do?" She tilted her head still maintaining her facade.

"Well, I can think of few thing's we could do." He dragged his hoof from his wife's shoulder all the way down to her flank and gave her cutie mark a gentle squeeze. Ruby eeped in extasy as endorphins began to flood her system.

"Oh, you!" Ruby growled as her horn glowed, engulfing her husband in her rosy hue. "You know just what buttons to push." She said as they disappeared in a flash.

10:27 A.M.

"Come on slow poke!" Rainbow said as she trotted out the hospital's main entrance with Twilight and Star in tow. Star, unfortunately, had to have a set of crutches braced to his hind legs. These were held in place by a saddle strap that went around his barrel which was wrapped in gauze still. He was struggling to get out the door on his own however thanks to the limited movement afforded to him by the contraption strapped to his body.

"Grr! One...Sec...Dash." He grunted as he hobbled along at practically a snail's pace.

"Come on!" She snickered. "So what you have a few more holes in you. You should be fine." smirked as Star looked ready to laugh himself to the ground.

"You know if I didn't have this stupid thing strapped to me right now." He muttered to himself. "What was that?" Dash asked looking bored. "Oh, nothing!" He said as he managed to hobble out the doors.

"Finally!" He said as he rested his weight on his crutches while he caught his breath. Twilight trotted over to him.

"Star are you ok?" She asked eyeing the set up he was trapped in. "No, I'm not." He said flatly. "I don't know what the doctor was thinking to give me this stupid thing." He huffed. "My X-rays came back just fine." He said as he fiddled with the straps on his own personal torture device. He gave after he failed to grip a strap in his teeth.

"Gerr! you know what screw this!" He shouted as his horn lit up. With a grunt and flash Stars, crutches were off of his body and heaped into a pile where he once stood.

"Whoo! Much better." He said as he stretched out his back, leg's, and neck. A symphony of crackles met the ears of all three ponies causing Twilight to wince and Dash to smirk.

"You good to go there champ?" Dash asked. "You bet'a Dash," Star said giving his hind leg a tentative test as he set it down on the ground. There was a burning pins and needle's sensation for awhile as the blood began to flow back into his limb.

"You sure you're good Star?" Twilight asked as she came up to his left to help steady him. He just snickered.

"Well, I'm not screaming in pain right now so that's a start." He laughed at his own dark humor and began to trot down the road.

11:07

The three friend's found themselves heading to the one place that could lift any ponies spirits.

"Hello, Pinky!" Twilight waved as she entered, the door being held open by a green aura.

"Lady's first!" Star said as he bowed low causing Rainbow to snicker as she shook her head and entered the establishment behind Twilight. Star trotted in after them and the three took a booth in the back, away from prying eyes and deft ears.

"So Star what are your plans for the next few day's?" Dash asked catching him off guard. "Um?" Star said thinking about what it was he wanted to do. He shrugged his shoulder's.

"Eh, not much in the name of plans. Probably just going to take it easy. Lay back." He said stifling a yawn. Dash smirked.

"So you don't want to do anything too strenuous is that it?" She said as smirk flashed across her muzzle. Star nodded.

"So would flying be on that list of being too strenuous?" she asked her face calm and cool. Star froze. "What?" "What?" He voiced his thoughts. Rainbow smirked. "Well, i figured since you seem to be healing really fast we might as well start you off with your flying lessons." she gave him a soft smile. Star thought about it. "How can I say no. We haven't seen each other in a little over 5 years. Here's my chance to catch up on all that I missed as well as reconnect with one of my best friends." He rubbed his chin. "What have I got to lose?" He asked himself. He grunted.

"Eh sure, why not." He tried to act all nonchalant which earned a snicker from Dash. "Cool. You know where my house is right?" She asked. He nodded. "Kinda hard to miss it. Big, puffy, cloud mansion on the outskirts of ponyville?" He said pretending to be a new pony in town. "Yeah never seen it before," he said smirking at the last minute. Rainbow busted out laughing.

"Has anypony ever told you you're a real smart-ass?" She jabbed him in the arm. He just laughed. "Everyone I've ever been friend's with." He said as Pinky came over. Twilight just sat and watched. "So this is what friendship is. Hanging out, sharing old stories, reminiscing about the past." She thought to herself. A smile crossed her muzzle. "I can get used to this if this is what I have to look forward to..." Her thought died in her head. "Oh right." She sulked. "I have to go back to canterlot tomorrow." She sat there her head beginning to hurt. Star sensed her distress and gave her a look of concern.

"Twilight? You ok? You've been real quiet." Star asked. It took Twilight a while to notice he was addressing her. she shook her head.

"Huh? what? Oh me? Yeah, I'm good." She said chuckling awkwardly. The other two gave her a nod. "Are you sure?' Dash asked. Twilight nodded. "Oh yeah, I'm good. Just going over the last few week's in my head you know." She smiled. Star could feel that she was sad about something but chose not to pry.

"Ok as long as you're sure." He said as Pinky brought their order's over.

11:49 A.M.

"So you're telling me that you and Rainbow met each other in cloudsdale?" Twilight asked as she took a sip of her drink. Star nodded. "Yup me and Dash have been friends for a while now." He said as he took a bite from his sandwich. Just as Dash was about to elaborate the group was interrupted as the door swung open and a member of the royal guard stepped in, instantly gaining everyponies attention. He cleared his throat.

"Is there a miss Twilight Sparkle here?" He looked around, his crimson eye's scanning the store for his quarry. "There she is!" His brain shouted. While on the outside he was calm cool and collected, in his mind he was anything but cool and collected.

"Just calm down. Trot over, tell Twilight about her Brother. Then I have the rest of the day off so I can chat with Dash." He took a deep breath to calm his nerves. "One hoof in front of the other." Putting on a smirk that could melt any mare's heart Hot Shot trotted over to the trio. "Show them who's in charge. Mare's love that!" With a confidence brought on by to much self-admiration the smug stallion strode up to the trio to intent on making an impression on Dash that she wouldn't soon forget.