Part I: Discovery

Chapter 1: Waking Up

A young mare was asleep on a bed in a hospital in Manehatten. The doctors had looked her over, and concluded that she had merely overexerted herself, and just needed to rest.

The young mare was coming to, and the doctor rushed into the room. No mare this young should be on her own, especially since she didn't even have a cutie mark.

The doctor looked at the mare as she woke up. "Where... where am I?" she asked, still having a splitting headache.

"You're in the Manehatten hospital, I'm Doctor Rocky White," he replied, allowing her to fully regain her senses.

"Manehatten? Don't you mean Manhattan?" She asked, confused, not having looked up yet.

"No, I mean Manehatten. Are you alright? You appeared in here last night and passed out," Doctor White said.

"Appeared here?" She asked, believing her experience being some sort of unicorn to be a dream.

"Yes, we believe you-"

The young mare interrupted him with a scream, seeing that she still had hooves and not hands, and that the Doctor was also a unicorn.

"Miss, you need to calm down. You've clearly been through something," Doctor White said reassuringly.

"Calm down? But I'm some sort of horse! How do you expect me to calm down when I'm suddenly a horse? And you're a horse too! How??" the young mare said in a panic.

The Doctor calmly reassured her, "We aren't horses, we're ponies. What else would we be?"

"Ponies? I'm a human! Or, was a human! What is going on here?"

"Excuse me, but I do not know what this who-men thing you speak of is. Perhaps it would be better for you to start with something you do know, like your name for example."

The young mare started to calm down. "My name... My name is Sunset Shimmer."

Author's Note

I apologize for these chapters being short, I am new at this. I really just wanted this chapter to end, well, with that.

As always I am open to spelling and grammar corrections. I promise that I will try to make the chapters longer from now on. This sort of still feels like a prologue chapter, even though it's not.

I appreciate everyone's feedback, and I hope everyone enjoys reading this!