Location Unknown
Time Unknown

"Get it in here NOW!"

Faint sounds from the outside world helped me escape the gravity well of unconsciousness. The world around me started to become more real and less muffled.

"Clear the hospital!"

I could barely see, only being able to make out certain colors as they flew by my vision. My eyes were blurry with tears of either pain or fear, although I guess it didn't really matter what they were. Even though I could see very little, I could still identify the green and yellow colors of a hospital. Its features were so defining and were accompanied by the unique hospital smell.

"Bring into emerge...

The sounds of doors opening and closing along with many quiet gasps filled my ears as I was rushed throughout the building. Any attempt to move or talk was met with immense sharp pains that would run up and down my body. It appears that I had been locked into place, however, my restriction of head movement prevented me from viewing the world around me with the white roof and the top parts of the walls being the only exception.

"Heart rates 170, I need morph... over her..."

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Sounds of beeps and cranks surrounded me in a sea of machinery at work. The beeps were quick, following in rapid sensations. I could feel tubes being inserted down my throat (most likely to help with breathing). Hissing sounds of respiratory machines soon followed along with the sounds of what I hoped were doctors talking seriously amongst themselves.

"Okay we need to make an incision here,"

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Doctor it's waking up. What should we do?"

"Just send it back to sleep,"

The thought of being put back into a state of sleep terrified me as I tried to lash out in protest. Unfortunately I had been restrained and any attempt in movement only resulted in pain. I could only lie here awaiting my ever approaching sleepy fate.

HISSSS

The sound of machines starting up could be heard next to my head. Soon after a cold feeling of liquid began running up my arm starting at the base of the hand. I must have been injected with some form of IV line which caused myself to strain as I let out a grunt of pain.

"Arghh!"

The grunts were to no avail the world around me started to fade away. Despret to stay in the land of the living I fought with all of my strength, however, it was a battle I was quickly losing and soon my strength faded away as the colors and sounds started to dim.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Looks like it's in pain, bring more morphine over already!"

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Canterlot Castle
13:17

Within the walls of the majestic castle, the normal day proceedings of the day court were in full swing. Ponies from all over Equestria and beyond its borders lined the various visitor waiting rooms in the castle. Each waiting room seemed to be unique in both the way it was designed and the ponies that currently occupied it.

One such room was a small cramped room with a large ceiling and many windows of different shapes and sizes. The room was hardly ear friendly, with many ponies talking at once the room was soon filled with an unbearable drone much to the despair of the Solar Guard who stood watch in their designated posts outside the large golden doors.

Across from that waiting room was another with similar golden doors, however, the interior of this room was quite different to the other. It was a much larger room than its smaller weaker counterpart with many bits of furniture for ponies to rest on. It was beautifully decorated with many old paintings from times gone by. Some of the paintings depicted the old pony wars with generals leading the charge against the various enemies of old. Along with the paintings were several large stained glass windows that appeared to show the images of various noble ponies.

The ponies themselves were different in nature to the other across the hall. Most of them were clothed and had a very sophisticated look to them. Some even bore golden pocket watches that they would occasionally look to with much contempt.

Various ponies in white suits would walk around the room carrying silver trays of horderves stopping every now and then to offer some to the waiting ponies.

One of the waiting ponies was Lord Ashdown, he had been patiently waiting for at least nine minutes and yet still no call for his name. It was an outrage. Every so often he would catch a glimpse through the opening doors of those... Common ponies being led towards the throne room whilst he was left waiting like a caged animal.

He was an important pony and he had many things to attend to. Honestly what could be causing such a holdup. As he looked around the room he could tell that many of the other nobles clearly shared his views as they too were also pacing the room looking frustrated.

As he was about to say something the large golden doors swung open as a Unicorn guard walked into the room before clearing his throat.

"Lord Ashdown, it is my duty to inform you that your request for an audience with the princess has been accepted. Follow me please," The guard turned on the spot and began to walk back out of the room as Ashdown followed still bearing ill will.

He took one last look to the room before mumbling "It's about time,"

"And you see your majesty, that is why the need for a new tax fraud agency is a complete waste of money," Ashford finished his mini presentation almost expecting a round of applause, however when none came he simply returned to his original stance and awaited the response from the princess.

"Curious,"

The response knocked Ashford back a few steps as he gazed up towards the throne. The guards standing next to the throne and doors smirked ever so slightly.

"Y... Your Maj... jesty?" He questioned streaks of nerves suddenly filling his voice.

"This is the fifth time this year that you have petitioned this government with regards to cutbacks, yet you offer no alternative on where best to spend the funds instead," Her voice remained calm and consolidated as she read over the many pieces of paper that had been given to her.

"Oh... Well, of course, your majesty I was thinking that we sho...,"

BANG

The doors to the throne room swung open as several guards flooded the room with their spears in hoof. The leader quickly separated from the pack coming to a stop beside Ashford who stood with mouth dropped open in shock.

As the leader of the group stopped he bowed his head low to the ground, "your majesty,".

Celestia (who was initially taken aback by the sudden intrusion) regained her normal sense of composure as she waved her hoof towards the guard signaling him to rise. "Lieutenant, what can I...,"

"Excuse me but just who do you think you are? I was in the middle of a very important discussion with the Princess!" Celestia followed the trail of harsh words back to Lord Ashford who had recomposed himself and was now standing with a look of outrage and fury on his face at the interrupting guard.

Celestia frowned ever so slightly and opened her mouth to speak but was once again interrupted.

"Remove him at once," The Lieutenant signaled to the two guards standing behind him and the Lord.

The two guards quickly saluted as they grabbed hold of Ashford as they began to remove him from the court room.

"THIS is outrageous!" The Lords protests started to fade as he disappeared down the corridor out of the throne room.

Turning his head back towards the princess he continued. "Your majesty, I bear news from Ponyville. A large foreign object has crashed south of Ponyville,"

"Has anyone been injured?" The princess asked her eyes showing concern as she put down the papers she had been levitating.

"Nopony was injured, however, I have to tell you that an unidentified species has emerged from the object. It's severely wounded and has been taken to Ponyville Hospital," Finishing his report the guard stood back to the position of attention. "Awaiting orders Ma'am!"

As Celestia thought she levitated a piece of parchment up towards her and started writing as she spoke. "Once the creature is stable enough have it transported here, please deploy the Ponyville garrison around the "object" and create an exclusion zone, we wouldn't want the press getting their hands on this. We don't want to cause a national panic,"

The guard threw up a quick salute "Ma'am!" The guard then turned face and sped off down the hallway as several other guards followed him down the same route.

Location Unknown
Time Unknown

BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP BEEP BEEP

That sound. The evilest sound on this Earth. The sound with no heart or emotions. The hotel alarm clock. I could hear it buzzing and buzzi... wait, no, beeping and beeping?

I tried to move my left hand but found it stiff and hard to move from its position by my side.

Great, just great I thought to myself. I hated waking up only to find out that I'd slept on top of my everything, it always seemed to happen to me. Guess I'm just unlucky that way.

As I lay on my back unable to turn off the annoying beeping alarm clock I decided to make an official start to the day. As I slowly began to open my eyes I allowed my eyes to adjust to the light using my other hand to clear out the bits in my eye that had formed during sleep.

As I pulled my hand up towards my eye I felt something slide along my arm. I may not be a genius but I'm pretty sure I didn't pull at last nights party. Fearing an impending spider attack I snapped my eyes open and brought my back upwards with immense speed as my anti-spider defense systems kicked in.

As I rose from my lying position I felt a sudden pain shoot up my spine as my alarm clock sped up. Trying my best to ignore the back pain, I freed my stiff arm from its sleepy demise and began to swat like mad at anything that might have been on my arm.

To my relief, I didn't find any signs of spiders on my arm. Looks like it was just an IV line that had been inserted into my arm during my sleep.

WAIT! WHAT? My brain did a double take as I quickly started to take in my surroundings as the beeping increased to such a rate that it sounded like a single beep.

I was in a white room that was definitely not my hotel room. As I looked around I began to take in more features. I could definitely tell I was in some sort of hospital or medical ward, I could see several lines that had been inserted into my arms along with several bandaged areas where cuts had been treated.

I quickly turned my attention to my alarm clo... No, not an alarm clock at all. In my alarm clocks, usual place was a huge set of rustic machines made out of wood and metal. One of which I assumed was some form of heart rate monitor. Along with other machines one of which was printing out a vast amount of paper.

The room had no windows making it quite dark with just a single lamp next to my bed illuminating the room I was in. Overall it was starting to feel like a really creepy Hollywood horror movie.

The ward I was in appeared completely empty with just myself present. I looked towards the lone door in the room which was completely closed over. It was a strange looking door, it was much wider than normal doors and appeared to be made out of metal. It bore a striking resemblance to a prison door.

God I hope I didn't do anything stupid last night, the next thing you know I'll have the governor of some American prison coming in to wake me up.

As if on cue a large mechanical noise started coming from the large door. I could clearly hear gears turning and locks being undone. The last lock finally became undone and the heavy door started to open. It was followed by a hiss and s blanket of steam (most likely from the release of pressure on the door).

As the steam started to clear three people... Three... Horses? rushed into the room. They were all dressed in what appeared to be lab coat attire, they had goggles and masks on which gave them points in the creepy department. They all were carrying some form of equipment on their backs which looked similar to crash packs that ambulance drivers would carry.

As they entered they froze, their eye locking with my own. Suddenly a rush of memories came flashing back. The crash, the horses and the distinct lack of people.

"It's awake!" One of the horses said breaking the staring match. He was a slender horse with a coat of brown that was mostly covered by the lab coat he was wearing.

"Okay what the HELL IS GOING ON!" I screamed finally snapping.

Collective gasps came from the horses "It can talk!" one of them said. "Quick one of you go and get the Princess," said another.

"I CAN TALK, WHAT ABOUT YOU, YOU CAN TALK!" I continued screaming at the clearly scared horses as one of them galloped out of the room shouting as it ran.

Just as I started to regain some control over my breathing several horses with SPEARS burst into the room. Unlike the other horses, they wore golden armor and golden helmets and they looked very angry with me for some reason.

I quickly tried to jump out of the bed taking a few of the machines with me. This, of course, resulted in another spark of pain that ran up and down my spine. I let out another grunt of pain which caused the horses to tighten their grip on their weapons. I started fighting the pain as I began ripping the lines that were connected to me out of my skin.

"Don't move!" One of the guards said as they began to corner me with their weapons. I had now formed a makeshift barrier between myself and the armed horses. Of course, this meant that I was now trapped in this room.

"FUCK OFF," I yelled at them trying to sound as intimidating as possible. Most of the guards standing there were taken aback by this seeing me speak for the first time. "YOUR Horses, how can you talk?" I said as my voice started to falter. The strain of the constant pain and shouting started to take its toll as I began to use one of the nearby machines for support.

"Watch your tongue, we're ponies, creature!" One of the guards snapped at me inching closer to me with his spear. I guess the word horse is an insult around here. I'll have to take a mental note of that one for later.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed trying to through bits of loose machinery at them which they quickly deflected with their spears and horns.

With my machinery ammunition now depleted we now stood face to face in a staring contest. The staring went on for a couple minutes with no one wanting to make the first move. After a little while, I began to hear more noises coming from outside the door.

"Your majesty I must protest, your safety is paramount in these circumstances,"

"I understand the risks, I want to see for myself,"

"Attention!" A voice came from just outside the door as the guards suddenly snapped to the position of attention. Their spears came away from me and pointed to the roof. Their expressions also changed from one of anger to no expression at all, they became like statues.

The ponies in the lab coats all planted their faces towards the ground in some sort of bowing motion, this only added to my confusion.

I looked towards the metal door as another figure appeared. It was another hors... Pony. However, this one was different from all the others.

It was much taller than the other ponies. It had a large unicorn horn and wings by its side. It looked like a she but I couldn't be sure. Her coat was a snow white and her mane was a blend of many different colors, her mane seemed to defy gravity as it floated in mid air without a care in the world.

Her eyes were the most interesting out of all her features. They looked old, really old. It looked like she had seen eons go by yet her body was young which created an interesting contrast.

She soon caught sight of me standing there in my bunker of machines. She appeared to study me taking notes of my various injuries. Her expression soon softened as she cleared her throat.

"Hello," she only spoke one word but it changed everything. Her voice was soft and motherly, it felt calm and reassuring... Unless this was some sort of trick I should probably play this safe.

"H.. Hello," I spoke back unlike the other ponies, she didn't flinch at my words, she simply smiled before carrying on.

"I'm sorry, this must be a shock for you, waking up in a strange room would shock anypony,"

Anypony? If this is a dream then it's certainly a very detailed dream if my minds bothering to change simple expression. Before I could continue my train of thoughts she spoke again.

"How rude of me, I should probably introduce myself. I am Princess Celestia, I am the co-ruler of Equestria. I must ask you little one what your name is?" The way she spoke it was as if I was her kid or something.

Equastria? The puns keep coming. It seems that this pony is a princess and a ruler at that, suddenly all that bowing by the lab coat ponies made sense.

I soon noticed that all of the ponies were staring at me with confusion plastered on their faces. I guess I'd blanked out for a minute. They seemed to relax and tense up when I cleared my throat.

"Um, my name is Phillip, Phillip Scott," I looked toward Celestia who simply smiled back at me.

"Well it's nice to meet you, Phillip Scott," Celestia said before turning to the guard that she entered the room with. "Guards you're no longer required, I wish to speak with Mr Phillip Scott alone,". At this, a few of the guards exchanged confused looks with each other.

The guard that had entered with Celestia suddenly spoke up. "Your Majesty I must protest, we cannot leave you alone in here with this thing. There's no telling what he could do,".

I glared at the guard who had spoken with a hint of anger. I was about to rebuttal his statement but Celestia beat me to it.

"Thank you for your observations Captian, you are dismissed," the guard was about to speak up again however thought better of it than to challenge Celestia.

"Of course, your Majesty," bowing once more the guard barked a couple orders at the remaining guards who one by one filtered out of the small room, each one gave me a different sort of look. Some looked nervous, some angry and some looked plain curious.

After a minute or so it was just me, Celestia and the few ponies who had originally entered. As soon as the guards had left I immediately felt more relaxed, those guys were assholes.

"Apologies for my guards, they can be a bit over protective at times but given the circumstances, I hope you can understand Mr Phillip Scott," Celestia said.

"It's okay... Celestia and also just Phillip is fine most people just call me Phil anyway," I said as I went to stand up straight, however, I had forgotten that I was still injured and ended up falling down face first into my barricades of machines.

I heard gasps from the three ponies behind Celestia and I could hear hoof steps approach me.

If this is a dream it's got some realistic pain I thought as I tried to look up at the pony that had approached me.

Just as I looked up I felt myself tingling all over. The pain in my body went dull as if I'd been given the worlds best pain killer. The feeling of tingling intensified as I felt myself being lifted off of the ground. Besides me, I could also hear bits of machinery kicking back to life.

As I was placed back into my bed I noticed that it was Celestia who was doing all of this. Her horn had a yellowish aura around it and found myself and other bits of machines wrapped in the same color of aura.

Soon the aura died off but I felt so much better for it. I still had some pain here and there and to be honest I was knackered however it was a vast improvement from before.

"See it as a small apology for the trouble we have caused you today," As Celestia spoke I could see the other ponies start to move around the room checking different bits of machinery that had been knocked over in my panic.

"Thank you," I said adjusting myself in the bed in order to be more comfortable. "Celestia, if you don't mind me asking can you tell me what you know? My memory's pretty fuzzy and if it weren't for you coming in when you did, I fear I probably would have had a mental breakdown,"

At this Celestia smiled softly as she spoke. "Certainly, I guess you have a lot of questions and you must be very confused,"

"Well that's the understatement of the century," I said bluntly receiving a small chuckle from the princess. However, when I looked behind Celestia I could see one of the ponies giving me a glare.

Guess they don't like how I'm talking to their Princess so informally. I cleared my throat and tried to sound as professional as possible. "Apologies for the interruption your Majesty, please, continue,".

Celestia eyed me curiously at the sudden change of tone but soon caught on after seeing where I had been looking. "Do not worry Phillip I know you are not of this world,"

This caught my attention, I kinda figured I wasn't on Earth anymore. Last time I'd checked we didn't have talking hors... Ponies walking around the place.

When I didn't give a response Celestia continued. "Your craft entered our airspace in the imperial north a couple days ago, we initially detected a high level of magical background residue when you came through,"

Magic, is this lady telling me I was brought here by magic. You know given everything that has happened today that didn't seem so far fetched.

"The levels were so high that your craft warped all the way from the imperial north to just a few miles north of where we are now. A teleportation of that distance with a craft the size of yours is unheard of,".

"If you don't mind me asking Princess, where are we exactly," The lack of windows made it very hard to get a bearing on where I was.

"Right now you're in the Canterlot Castles Dungeons Medical Wing," she said casually.

DUNGEONS! Hell no.

Seeing the look on my face Celestia quickly caught on and tried to calm my increasing nerves.

"Oh, you misunderstand. You aren't in trouble we just have to make sure that you weren't a threat to ponies, also we don't want to cause a panic on our streets,"

I relaxed at this new information. Knowing I wasn't going to spend the rest of eternity in a castle dungeon.

"Your craft crashed into a field south of Canterlot near a small town. Our guard's ponies had been following you since you passed Canterlot and brought you to the local hospital before transferring you here,".

"What about the others?" I questioned my tone taking a serious turn.

"Others," Celestia asked puzzled.

"Yes, others! There were hundreds of others with me, where are they?" I asked starting to get frustrated.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid you were all we found at the crash site. Nopony has been allowed access to your craft and it's being kept under strict lockdown by the local garrison and additional guards ponies," Celestia looked to me with sympathy but could clearly tell I was becoming stressed. "We tried looking in through your port holes but we couldn't see anypony in there,"

"I.. I jus... need time to think," I said bringing my hands up to my head.

"Of course, I will let you rest for the time being. The other rulers of Equestria will be gathering here within the coming days now that we know you are sentient, but until then we will provide you with whatever you might need,"

"Thanks," I said resting my head back into the pillow with a sigh as I lay there one of the ponies attached some wiring back onto my and the beeping started all over again.

As Celestia was about to leave I shouted out to her. "Your Majesty, if it's not any trouble could I maybe get a room with a window in it?" I asked in a pleading tone. The current room was okay but I needed some natural light.

Celestia simply smiled before responding "I'll see what I can do, I know this is hard for you Phillip but trust me we will help you get home,". No words were needed I just responded with a simple smile and nod.

"Doctor if you may, there are things we must discuss,"

"Of course your Majesty,"

And like that she was gone from view.

"Fucking hell," I said out loud much to the surprise of the two remaining ponies.

"What's a fucking?"

*sigh*

Author's Note

Ah, the hardest part of a HiE fic, how will the human react?

I like to think this is a realistic reaction. I find it kinda weird how so many humans easily get over the fact that they were just teleported into another universe.

However, my question is this: How would you react?