Is My Life Really Worth Anything

"Don't you worry princess, I'll keep and eye on Flurry Heart while you guys figure out whats going on." Sunburst happily stated.

"Thank you so much for coming on such short notice. I just hope this isn't something life threateningly serious." Cadence said while giving Sunburst a hug.

"Oh I'm sure its nothing you guys can't handle. You'll have Barb and Shining Armor with you as well after all."

"Looks like we are all set, lets get going over to the barracks medical building and see what's going on." Barb suggested. With the guard barracks stationed close by to the palace, it wouldn't take them long before they finally arrived and found that security was very tight and on edge. "What's gotten into everypony?" As it seems, everywhere they looked the medical staff and most of the guards seemed to be very shaken up. The receptionist having over heard Barb's question pointed a very shaky finger towards the emergency room which for some odd reason was not only left open but had a wall of armed guards standing in the opening facing towards the inside of the room. With Cadence taking the lead, the trio approached the emergency room and upon arriving closer, noticed one of the doctors with his medical coat roughed up a bit.

"Oh my goodness, are you alright?" Cadence asked with concern now evident in her voice.

"I am ok Princess, a little roughed up but no injuries at all."

"What happened to you?" Shining Armor asked.

"Well after the border guards brought in something from out in the snow that was barely alive and freezing we started to treat it." The doctor began as he gave an irritated sigh, "But once we got its temperature slightly stable it got very violent."

[My own point of view after gaining consciousness]

As I tried to open my eyes my vision was instantly blurred by bright lights. Without much thought or care, I threw the covers off of my body as I rolled off the side of the bed I was placed in. "Damn light, way too bright to deal with right now." Using the bed to help myself stand up, I began to realize that although I am not freezing my body still feels very cold. Attempting to just walk it off however suddenly became irrelevant to my mind for just after a few short moments of observing the room and coming to the conclusion that I'm in some hospital, I spot an anthropomorphic cartoon looking pony in a doctors medical coat. "What the hell?"

"I insist you get back into the bed, you haven't fully recovered yet." The pony said to me.

"To hell with it." I declared with hostile intent. Naturally, I tended to get very hostile when under a lot of mental stress of any kind. The fact that there is some kind of talking anthro pony in front of me, really didn't help my mind to remain calm in the slightest. Wanting to find a way out as soon as I could, I start walking toward the doors only to be stopped by the pony who spoke to me.

"Please you haven't fully recovered." The pony said as he attempted to grab me to stop me from reaching the door. Unfortunately, despite his intention of worrying about my health I reacted aggressively by grabbing and yanking his arms off me as I then forced his right arm behind his back and pushed him off to the side. "Guards! Stop him!" He shouted, stopping me dead in my tracks as a realization hit me. I just made my situation a very bad one to be in. Within barely one second the doors burst open and there I see a group of armed ponies blocking my way out. One guard steps into the room allowing the pony I shoved to the ground an opening out before the rest of them formed a wall in front of the door way. Out of all the others this one didn't seem to be armed at all, but i could clearly see he has some experience in hand to hand combat. If the look of his defensive stance was anything to go by, then my odds didn't look good.

"Just calm down, I don't want to hurt you." he said as he started to approach me. On instinct, I throw a high head kick out of fear from him approaching me, not fully realizing what he had just said. After blocking my kick, he took that as a sign of aggression and immediately lunged toward me in an attempt to grab me. With my balance still being on one leg since I couldn’t recover from the kick in time, he easily grabbed me and with very little effort flipped me over his shoulder thus resulting in my back slamming into the floor hard. With a groan, my vision became blurred due to the impact of hitting the ground. In addition to the pain in my back, I began to feel light headed and stayed on the ground as I try to somehow force the pain away with no success. “Stay down, don’t make me do this.” The guard said as he stood over me with one arm gripping my shirt, the other pulled back ready to throw a punch if I did anything else hostile.

“I’ll cooperate!” I yelled as I pulled my arms up to cover my face in case he decided to continue beating me. Due to barely getting my vision back, there wasn’t really much more I could do.

“What in Equestria?” Cadence shouted as she entered the room surrounded by shining armor and the guards. Carefully while still being held, I take a look over at who may have arrived and what I saw other then the guards was what looked to be a white non-crystal looking pony in armor, a pink non-crystal looking pony in regal attire, and from what I could guess they were accompanied by a dragon.

“What in Tartarus are you?” Barb asked

“I’m someone that just realized they made a very big problem for themselves.” I stated looking toward the female dragon. “Look I’ve calmed down bit, can someone please get this guard horse thing off of me so we can talk?”

“I’m a pony.” The guard nonchalantly replies

“How do we know we can trust you right now?” Shining asked in a hostile manner. “You just assaulted a medical staff and a guard on top of that.”

“Look you all clearly have the upper hand, as evident of this guard completely kicking my ass at the moment.” I then open my hands and bring them up over my head. “I don’t mean any real harm, I’m just so confused and startled by all this.”

“Stand down.” Cadence ordered. “I can tell by the look in his eyes that he is telling the truth. His eyes only carry the look of shock and fear.” Doing as he was commanded the guard holding me up by my shirt let go and backed off of me. Offering his hand to me to help me up, I reluctantly took it and allowed him to help pull me up. “Let’s head back to the palace. It seems we have a lot to talk about.” Cadence said taking the lead.

“Ok I’ll follow you.” I said following her while being watched by the guards and the other non-crystal looking guard. Throughout the entire duration of the walk my arms remained above my head with my hands held open, not wanting to further screw myself over. The situation itself isn’t off to a good start as it is.