Mlp: A Saiyan Among Ponies (anthro)

The sun rose across the horizon, shining its light down upon Ponyville. A beam of morning light passed through a window landing upon the unconscious Pegasus that was Rainbow Dash. The glowing light of the sun backed the plain painted hospital room. Her injuries from the previous night had been bandaged and cared for by the family she had startled in the middle of the night by literally crashing into their home. The bandaged blue Pegasus now dressed in hospital gown groaned, and shifted her body slowly as she cracked her eyes open confused as to what had happened.

"Owww... Why do I feel like I got hit in the head by a barn?" She closed her eyes only to snap them back open again after the memories of last night events played in her head, causing painful memories flood into her head. Quickly, she sat up and tried to figure out what had happened only to lay back down, groaning in pain from her many injuries. She could already tell what was either broken or bruised. Fortunately, her wings didn't suffer much damage from the crash.

"Okay...let’s see what happened. I chased it down past Sweet Apple Acres, and next thing I knew, there was a bright light and then...." She groaned again, clutching her pain filled head with her hands. "Oh...yeah. I flew into the barn and got knocked out. Ugh! So not cool..."

She heard the door slam open and turned to see her friends filing into the room, circling her bed with looks of deep concern. Thankfully nobody else seemed to have been hurt by the alien which eased some of Dash’s fears, even though she would never admit she was scared of what could have happened.

"Oh Rainbow Dash darling, are you alright? Applebloom said you took a terrible blow to the head! We have been worried, sick! Oh! I could faint!" Rarity said, using her magic to levitate a beautified ice pack against the large bruise on Rainbow Dash's forehead.

"Yeah! That was one doozy of a landing, Rainbow!" Pinkie shouted, getting a bit too close for Dash’s comfort, and her loud voice was only making her headache worse.

"I'm fine, you guys. It doesn't even hurt that bad." She lied trying to hide the pain, before looking over to Applejack with a look of guilt on her face. "Sorry about the hole I made in your barn, Applejack,"

"Aw, shucks Rainbow. Don't worry abou’ it. It was an accident, after all. B’sides, Applebloom has been wantin’ anotha window fer sometime now," Applejack chuckled giving her a dismissive wave of her hand and a wink. "You just saved me half th’ trouble, sugarcube."

Dash smiled, feeling a little bit better; she saw that Spitfire was standing behind the group with a look of defeat, one she knew all too well, though she would never admit that. But considering how well Spitfire was well known for keeping her cool and having a good poker face, so that could only mean something happened while she was unconscious. “Something wrong, boss?" She asked after sitting up slowly to better look at her. Spitfire’s frown deepened.

"Well, after we managed to get out of the lake and found you knocked out, we lost track of that thing, and haven't found a single trace of it anywhere," Spitfire admitted, looking to the side as if to save a bit of her dignity at having to admit defeat.

The room was silent by this news. All the ponies soon began to wonder. What kind of creature could out fly the Wonderbolts, and disappear without a trace? Soon more questions danced around in their head, why was it here? What will it do next? Is it a threat to Equestria and all who live in it?

Twilight could see that everyone was a bit nervous and decided to try and gain as much information about this mysterious being. Summoning a quill and parchment paper, she turned her attention to Dash. "So Dash, since you were the closest one to it, did you happen to get a good look at what it was you were chasing?"

Dash closed her eyes, folded her arms in front of her chest, and tilted her head trying to remember the details through the haze of pain throbbing in her bandaged head. "Hmm...well he stands on two legs like us and has two arms too." She closed her eyes, trying to remember when she how tall it was. "It was just as tall as me if but maybe a few inches taller. And it could fly without wings."

Twilight furiously wrote down every word that Dash spoke not wanting to miss any details that could give her a better understanding of what it is they were dealing with. "Uh-huh, and is that it? Were there any other features that stood out? Anything that you can remember will be able to help us."

Dash tried to think of everything that happened before she crashes into the barn. Then the last thing she remembered seeing before the flash of light. "Oh! And it had a tail."

Twilight quirked a brow hearing this. "A tail? You mean like ours?"

Dash shook her head. "No, it was long and thin; it reminded me of a monkey's tail." She could see that her friends were giving her questionable looks. "Hey, I'm just telling you what I saw." She held out her hands defensively.

"Hmm, I feel like I've heard or seen something like this before, but I can't seem to remember from where." Twilight paced back and forth as she held her chin on her hand as she was deep in thought.

Everything about the situation was bizarre to the scholar alicorn. She had checked and rechecked and rechecked her astronomy notes from the previous night and was positive that she had not seen any signs that a meteor was anywhere near hurtling through space bound for Equestria. With her enchanted telescope, she could see far enough to the other planets, by this logic she should have seen this mysterious meteor days ago if not months ago. No...it had somehow appeared out of nowhere, but that wasn’t logical at all now was it? Twilight found this whole situation odd when it came to astronomy science had never failed her, now she had to admit defeat as it has passed and something new was in Equestria.

Decide that she had enough of the topic and could easily see that it was making everyone upset Rarity voiced her thoughts. "Well, there's no point wondering about that dreadful creature," Rarity said, fluffing Rainbow’s pillow with manic, and helping her lay back down. "For now darling, you should get some rest until the doctor says it is okay for you to leave," Rarity placed the custom ice pack back on Rainbow's head. The others nodded and left the room so Dash could rest.

"I'll see you when you’re feeling better Dash. Till then, relax, and we'll worry about that thing later," Spitfire smiled as she left the room along with the others who bid their friends farewell.

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Soon the daylight began to fade as the sun was slowly setting across the mountain, casting shadows down onto Ponyville. Rainbow Dash was now left alone in the room staring up at the ceiling in sheer boredom. From time to time, she would adjust the ice pack to fit more comfortably on her head, but otherwise had nothing else to do to keep her occupied. She regretted not asking Twilight for a Daring Do book to help her pass the time. All she could do was watch as the lights that was slowly fading caused the shadows of objects to move until finally, it was night time.

As she laid there, awake and unable to sleep due to the pain, she realized that she had left out some crucial details that Twilight should have known. The first was the way the creature looked at her when it was in the crater, and just before she was about to grab it by the tail. It looked at her with curiosity as it tilted its head, and a bit worried when she nearly had it by the tail. Then she remembered that just before she could grab it by the tail that it moved its hands over its face and closed its eyes before it shouted 'SOLAR FLARE!!' And then seeing the light so bright it had been like Celestia sun had appeared right in front of her. She could still see the bright light burned into the back of her eyelids. It was a miracle she hadn’t gone blind. “Solar flare?" She repeated the words it had spoken. What did those words mean? Where did the light come from? And what the heck was that thing?

She began to wonder again in silence but quickly stopped when she felt the pain in her head throbbing once more. The ice pack had lost its coolness not too long ago, rendering it next to useless. Reaching up, she took it off her head and placed it on the table next to the bed, but as she did so out of the corner of her eye, she could have sworn she had seen something move by her window. She stared at the window for a good minute before shrugging her shoulders. "Must have been my imagination or something," She shrugged again, leaning back against her pillow and started at plain white hospital room wishing for something, anything to help take her mind off the throbbing pain in her head and body.

Soon seconds turned into minutes and minutes into hours, all the while, the pain in her head still throbbed, causing her to wince in pain. She called for the nurse by pressing the button by her bed but received no answer. She knew they kept medicines and painkillers on hoof for ponies just like her who needed them. Heck, she had gotten them the last time she was here, why not now?

"Oh, man. This headache is going to be the death of me,” She moaned as she tried to rub the pain away with her hand, only for the pain to increase from her touch. Her eyes scanned the room in a desperate attempt to try and get her mind off the pain. “Wish I had have asked Twilight for a Daring Do book."

With no signs of her falling asleep, she looked around, decided to take in the little details of the hospital room seeing as she had nothing better to do. She took in every little detail, but nothing helped her escape her boredom. From the plain sky blue paint on the wall to a poster of a cat hanging off a branch with the words ‘Hang in there!’ in bold words underneath it. "Heh. Bet Fluttershy would like that poster."

She chuckled, continuing her scan of the room. As she did, her eye had locked onto the window for the second time today when she thought she saw something move by it. This time she could have sworn she saw something at the window again. She turned her attention back to it, yet again, there was nothing there to see. "Geez. The thing I hate about hospitals is how creepy they can get...sheesh..." She muttered, shivering at the idea which was reasonable since the sun had already gone down and the lights for the room weren’t on at the moment.
"Heh, look at me all scared for nothing! It's not like that thing is waiting by my window."

In her imagination, she could see it now. That the alien was at her window looking in from the outside within the shadow of darkness the perfect time to be all sneak through the town and creep its way over to her window, it was a classic horror movie cliché after all!

There was always at least one scene in any of those movies where the killer body could be seen in the frame of the window as all you could see was its silhouette with some scary music playing in the background trying to add more suspense before the jump scare. 'Rainbow Dash doesn’t get scared. Maybe taken by surprise and forced to...advance in another direction away from what surprised her but never scared.' She boasted, knowing her pride would never allow it.

"Next thing you know it’s going to decide to open the window and let itself in, ha-ha!” She chuckled to herself, laying back in bed and looking back at the ceiling to occupy herself once more. She continued to laugh at how ridiculous the idea was. The idea that it would track her down when she was alone and vulnerable in the dark was too far-fetched. Dash whipped her brow as she was starting to feel warm being covered by the sheets, and her aching headaches was burning as well. 'I wish Rarity's ice pack were still cold; it is way too hot in here.

Dash soon felt a cool breeze wash over her, bring her overheated body some much-needed relief. For Dash, feeling this gentle breeze was almost like a good friend, one that she knew anytime she would fly. Even now, while she was cooped up in her hospital room neglected by the nurse who was supposed to be taking care of her, the breeze still found a way to her make her feel better. "Mm, that feels nice, it was getting warm in here. Good thing the window was open already, or I just might have died of a heat attack or whatever they called it." She sighed, enjoying the cool evening breeze that lightly touched her face and cooled her skin. As she closed her eyes savoring this blessing, she remembered that she hadn't opened the window and that no one had come in to check on her since her friends had left some hours before. So how could there be a breeze coming through a closed window? Slowly she looked back to the window only to see it was open, and that something was standing directly on the other side. The moon's light created the shadow of a tall silhouette.

Dash felt her heart racing as her eyes never moved away from the window. She could only watch as whatever was outside her window stood there. But then she remembered something; her room was on the third floor, there were no ledges for someone or something to stand or climb on. Her heart sank as the silhouette move, and she could see what she imagined to be the head moving down, looking inside. She watched as it stared at the door that was on the right side of the room adjacent from the window, and slowly it turned its head until it was directly looking at her. Even though it was dark outside Dash could still see its eyes, a chill went down her as she saw that both its iris and retina are black.

Her heart nearly slipped a beat as she watched it slip its head inside, and soon, the rest of its body followed. Its hand gripped the inside of the window frame as its legs slipped in until it was standing in the room. Dash wanted to yell for help, but her fear overtook her as the alien slowly walked towards her, she couldn't even hear its footsteps as if it were a phantom.

Dash wanted to get out and run for help, but her body wasn't responding to her commands as the creature slowly made its way closer to her. Many questions plagued Rainbow Dash's mind as she watched the alien make its way to her. 'Why is it here? Why is it in this room? Why is it in my room?!’ Again Dash tried to move her body but to no avail. Within seconds the tall figure stood over her staring down at the injured pegasus.

The creature slowly crouched down until it was eye level with the cyan mare. Dash, in her fear-driven state, was able to take in more of this mystery aliens features. It had broad shoulder and spikey hair, due to how dark the room was she couldn't see its face, only its dark eyes. The figure eyes slowly scanned her body and turned its head until it stopped, and was looking at something at the side of her bed. Dash took a quick look to see what it was that it was staring at and saw the ice pack Rarity had made for her. She glanced back to see that the alien was looking at her again.

As the questions raced through her mind, it approached her bed and bent over. With a swift movement, it was now at eye level with where she laid unable to move. As she looked it in the eyes, unable to break its gaze, she noticed it turning its head to look back at the ice pack and then back to her again. Watching she noticed it tilting its head looking at the bruise on her head.

To break the eerie silence and to figure out why it was here, Dash summoned up all the courage her to speak. “What...d-do..w-want?" She stuttered her as her body was shaking.

As if in response to her question, she saw it turn its head to the side, and saw its arm move down to what she could only imagine was a...pocket? It had pockets? She wondered before seeing that it pulled something out of it. As it raised the object out, so the moonlight from outside shined on it casting it in silvery light and revealing… "A… a bean?" Even in her fear-stricken state, she was caught off by this. To confirm her question, it nodded its head and then brought one of its hand up and made a gesture of putting the bean into it then quickly pointing to her. Rainbow Dash’s eyes widen as she could see a row of incisors and sharp canines in its mouth. She found her voice weakening as she tried to ask her next question "Y-you want me t-to eat t-that?" It nodded once more, "Why?"

The alien didn't respond immediately, as it stood there crouched down staring elsewhere as though it was thinking leaving Dash to wait in silence to receive her answer. The silence didn’t last long as she could hear it breathe in. "It will heal your injuries." Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped. It could speak. It could talk! It was deep, giving the impression that it was male. Before she could say else, it inhales and spoke again "This will remove any pain you feel and restore you to full health." Hearing it speak yet again helped her confirm that it was male, and judging the tone she could tell that it was young seeing as its voice pitch was much lower to Big Mac’s but slightly deeper than Soarin's.

For the next few moments Dash considered its offer, she was, of course, skeptical about the whole thing, but then she remembered that it hadn't done anything to harm her or her teammates. True it did knock her teammates into the water, but all that happened was they got wet and had to dry off. And it only flashed that bright light to get away from her, and though she hated to admit it she could have stopped flying when she knew she couldn't see, but she was reckless and did so anyway.

She decided to take a leap fate and to pray to Celestia that she wouldn’t die, Dash closed her eyes and opened her mouth and waited. She felt something enter her mouth and inspected it with her tongue first; it was small and smooth. “Now carefully chew and swallow." She heard the alien speak once more; she couldn't get over the way it sounded, almost like it a normal pony and not some weird techno voice like in the movies.

Listening to the alien's words, she carefully began to chew the bean and noticed that while it did make an audible crunch, it had no particular flavor. Once she believed that she had chewed it thoroughly, she slowly swallowed and waited for a reaction. For a moment, she felt no different than earlier. She patiently waited for something, anything to happen. Feeling rather annoyed that nothing had happened Dash was about to voice her questions when she had finally noticed that all the pain in her body was nonexistent. She dared to tempt fate Dash raised her right hand to rub the bump on her head that had been the source of her pain earlier. The moment that her hand came into contact with her head, she flinched on reflects. However, there was no pain whatsoever. Tempting fate, she rubbed her hand harder half expecting the pain to return quickly, but to both her surprise and delight, there was no pain to speak of. Next, she moved her body a bit to see if the pain in the rest of her body was gone, and once again to her delight, it was and as if it never existed.

"Hey, the pain! It's all gone!" She cheered, opening her eyes ready to thank the mystery alien, only to see that it was gone. "Where did he..?" She looked all around her and drew her attention back to the window, but she found it closed. 'Did he go out the window when I had my eyes closed?'

She could hear the sound of hooves clopping on tiles from the other side of the door, and soon a nurse with snow white coat and light pink mane walked in and turned on the light while pushing a little cart. "Sorry Miss Dash for keeping you waiting so long, we're a bit short staffed today." Dash had nearly forgotten that she had called for a nurse. She looked back at the window half expecting to catch a glimpse of the alien one last time. "So Miss Dash, shall I change the ice in your ice pack for you?" Red Heart asked, pulling a bucket of ice out from her cart.

"No, thanks. I'm feeling a lot better now." Without looking away from the window, Dash answered the nurse. 'Why did he help me?'