New guy at CHS

Like the night before, Cobalt woke up to being extremely sweaty. He looked around to see that he was hooked up to an IV machine. He then looked around once more to gander at where he was. He was in a hospital room. He sighed as he laid his head back against his pillow.

Meanwhile, outside in the nearby waiting room, his friends were eager to see Cobalt again.

"If only Twilight was here...," Sunset thought, then she had an idea. She quickly stood up, and her friends looked up at her in confusion.

"What's wrong Sunset."

"Wait here, I'm heading to school for a second. Text me when he wakes up!"

Sunset ran to the nearest elevator, a smile on her face as she rode it down to the bottom floor.

All of her friends were left clueless as to what had just happened, "What was that about?" Pinkie asked as she was eating a cupcake... randomly.

"I don't know..."

Nearly 5 minutes after Sunset had left, Nurse Redheart arrived with a reassuring smile, "Girls?"

"Yes Nurse..."

"He's awake, you're all allowed to see him, just... don't make any physical contact with him. He still doesn't feel well."

The girls rushed to Cobalt's room to see him staring out the window. His ponytail was now down, causing all of them to stare in awe, "Cobalt?"

Cobalt didn't turn around as he held his hand out, "Where's the note...?"

Rarity handed Cobalt the note, and he read it over. He crumpled the note up and finally looked at his friends. His facial features hadn't changed, yet they could tell he was different, based on his current actions, "I would like all of you to stay away, but I feel like all of you will stand by me through this, correct?"

They all nodded, Cobalt chuckled as he looked at the arm that was nearly torn off. It was the arm with the tattoo.

"Cobalt, do you know who or what could've done this?"

"Nah, and I pretty much don't care. Who or whatever did this is going to taste my blade."

"Oh, does your halberd have a particular taste? Is it chocolate, cherry, strawberry? Oh, cupcake!"

"Cupcake isn't even a... nevermind. Listen, I may have a hint if who attacked, but I can't be for sure. For now, just live normally. I'll recover fast, so I'll be out of here in a few days. Until then, just... be on the look out for any suspicious people."

You fool. All you need is me, and you'll be back on your feet in no time.

Cobalt's eyes bolted open as he searched for the voice, but to no avail. He then heard it speak again.

Come on, you are what you see...

He finally turned towards the window and saw himself, the same one he saw in the dream from the other day.

Just accept it and come to me. You'll feel so much better!

Cobalt gritted his teeth, and leapt from his bed. He picked up a nearby chair, and threw it at the window, "Leave me alone!"

The girls all sprinted to stop him. They all attempted to stop as he kept swinging the chair around maniacally.

"Cobalt stop this! What are you doing?!" Is what they kept saying or asking.

Meanwhile, in a small house, an older woman, who looks to be in her mid 30s heard her phone ring. She answered it and was met with, "Mom, Cobalt is-!"

"I know... I could feel a disturbance in our home. Emerald my daughter, I'm afraid the day humanity dies... is fast approaching..."

Soon after Cobalt's debacle, Sunset was running through the halls of the hospital, and saw Cobalt being stretched out the room. Fearing the worst, she glanced inside the room to see police tap across a destroyed window.

"Sunset!" She turned to see her friends all eagerly waiting for her.

"What happened? Was there another attack?"

"More like Cobalt attacked that window..."

"Huh?"

"Cobalt went crazy and started hitting the window with a chair. He screamed, 'Leave me alone!', or something of that matter. Rainbow Dash and Applejack stopped him, but only after he completely destroyed the window. It was... so scary seeing him like that...," Fluttershy said as she hid behind Rarity of all people.

"I've never seen or heard Cobalt act like that. Usually, he's so calm and laid back. Even in class, he learns to keep his mouth shut whenever the teachers asks a question to the class. Seeing him like this causes me to... somewhat grow in fear of him..."

"Oh man..., well, I think we'll be getting some help soon. I talked to Twilight."

"What?!"

"Yeah, I remembered about this book Princess Celestia gave me. I would use it to send her messages. Hopefully Twilight sees the message I sent her, and she'll come to help."

"What help could she do now? What could she do for Cobalt...," Rarity said as she stared at the ground.

"Well, I told her the situation, so maybe she could have a plan. Right now, I have no idea what could do..."

"Perhaps we can be of assistance...," They turned towards the feminine voice. A familiar voice...

"Principal Celestia?"

They then saw another woman beside her, "Who's that?" Sunset asked.

"This... is Cobalt's mother."

"Huh?!"