Sunset groaned and opened her eyes. She noticed that she was no longer in the colourful tour bus that the Rainbooms owned.
She looked at the end of her bed and saw that her leg was hung up by a cast. Then she also felt that there were bandages wrapped around her chest. Yup, definitely in a hospital again.
She looked all around the room she was in and saw every other Rainboom were in a bed of their own.
"Sunset! You're finally awake!" Pinkie said happily.
Sunset looked over to Pinkie's bed and saw that both her arms were in casts and there was a bandage wrapped around the vertical perimeter of her head.
"What the heck happened to us?!" Sunset asked, extremely confused.
"Well, ya see, funny story, it was last night and we were driving along, happily, in our bus, when all of a sudden, POP! Something pops one of our tires and Applejack tries all she can to steer us out of danger then that just sends us spinning uncontrollably into a large, sturdy tree going at about... something along the lines of fifty to sixty miles per hour," Pinkie explained. "And then, here we all are. All bandaged up, in hospital beds, with nothing to do."
"Wait, what? Nothing to do?" That, Sunset questions, not the fact that they all somehow survived the accident they were just in. That would be crazy, because of course they survived that.
"Yup! I asked the nurse if she could turn on my TV for me, but then she says that none of them are working right now! Just our luck, lemme tell ya!"
"Why are you shouting so loud?" Twilight moaned, now also waking up.
"Twilight! So glad you could join us!" Pinkie excitedly greeted.
Sunset looked at her left to the bed sitting right beside her. There was Twilight Sparkle with both of her legs being supported and wrapped in bandages and more of them wrapped around her left arm.
"How are you feeling, Twilight?" Sunset asked her.
"Hell," was her only response. "You?"
"Equally as. I can barely turn my body around with these chest bandages!"
"Meanwhile, I can't even lift my body because of my legs both having support," Twilight responded.
"And meanwhile I don't even have my hands!" Pinkie finished the chain of responses.
"WHAT?!" Twilight shouted, looking over at Pinkie's bed with panic.
"Well, not literally, I mean I just can't use them right now." Pinkie laughed at her purple friend's reaction.
Twilight loudly moaned as she looked straight up at the ceiling. "What even happened to us?"
Pinkie went on to tell Twilight the exact same story she told Sunset, word for word, the same exact thing. Including the part where there was nothing to do.
"Is there not even, like, a little library or anything?" Twilight asked.
Sunset put her hand up, getting Twilight's attention to be paid at her. "I've been here before, they don't have a library here what with how many books they've had to replace because people either kept breaking them or stealing them."
"That's not very fair."
"No, it's not, and it especially didn't help when none of you brought me anything the last time I was stuck in a hospital," Sunset added. "I mean, I loved the card and the fact you all signed my cast, but not even any entertainment?"
"Wait, we didn't?" Twilight asked, now more confused. "I thought we brought you some books."
"What are you talking about?"
"We asked Rainbow Dash to bring over some of her Daring Do books, and from the sounds of it, she didn't do that."
Then there was the sound of more uncomfortable moaning. Everyone turned their head to see that now Rainbow Dash was waking up. She had a broken arm, a broken leg and a bandage wrapped around her forehead.
"Did someone say my name?" Rainbow asked, rubbing her eyes with her only good arm.
"You okay, Rainbow Dash?" Sunset asked her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Rainbow's eyes finally came into focus, she could now see the predicament that they were all now in. "Yikes, the heck happened to us."
And then Pinkie began explaining again.
Soon enough, everyone was awake again, each of them suffering a different variation of suffering, whether that was no arms, no legs, difficulty to breath, difficulty to move. All in all, no one was in any way fine. And to top it all off, there was still nothing to do other than talk, which a certain pink haired, yellow skinned girl couldn't do as her whole face, apart from her eyes, nostrils and ears, was completely bandaged up.
Luckily for her, Pinkie Pie could speak muffle and could translate for her, because of course she can.
Currently, it was quite silent. No conversation topics were being cooked up. Just a moment of silence, which Rainbow Dash ultimately despised as it makes the world seem so slow.
"Is there anything else anyone can talk about, at all?" Rainbow asked impatiently.
"You've been asking that for the past ten minutes, Rainbow Dash!" Rarity said with a very croaky voice. "Clearly no one has a topic."
Rainbow huffed. "But I'm gonna die of boredom if nothing happens! Sunset, what did you do when you were in hospital a few months ago?"
"Well, one thing I did was make up a scene, you know, improv," Sunset responded.
"How long did that last you?"
Sunset shrugged as best as she could. "I don't know, a few minutes, I think. I can imagine it lasting a little longer this time, what with there being seven of us now rather than just me."
Fluttershy tried to say something, but her bandages caused her to only muffle something.
"She says six," Pinkie translated. "She thinks she shouldn't be part of this what with her having to rely on me to constantly translate for her."
"Are you sure, Fluttershy?" Sunset asked, looking at the almost unrecognisable girl if it weren't for the long, pink hair.
She muffled something again.
"She says yes."
"Okay then, who wants to start us off?"
"I will!" Rainbow Dash quickly jumped in. She began thinking of a scene to create and how it should start. Unfortunately, nothing came to mind. It turns out that starting off a story was very hard. Who'da thought?
"Having a little trouble, Rainbow Dash?" Sunset asked cheekily. "I can give you a scene to start off with if you want."
Rainbow tried harder to think, but then heavily sighed when she came out empty. "Fine. What've you got?"
"How about... School Life?"
"Boring!"
Sunset blinked. "Okay then... how about Western?"
Applejack perked up in excitement at the suggestion.
"Nope!" Rainbow said, crossing her arms, which she immediately regretted doing as one of them was broken. She was met with a nasty glare from the farm girl.
"Girls' Night Out?"
Rainbow scoffed in annoyance. "Oh my God! Have you seen that photo that Brittany put out last night? She looked so fat!" she said in an annoying, generic, teenage girl voice. "As if."
"Fine! Then what is it you want to do?" Sunset was having just about enough of this.
"I don't know! That's why I'm thinking!"
"We're going to be let out of here before you can think of a concept," Rarity bluntly added. Her voice did not sound like would get any better anytime soon. "I for one quite liked the 'Girls' Night Out' concept."
"Ah liked the sound of the western one," Applejack said.
"Yikes. Looks like we're all quite split on ideas," Sunset commented. She turned to face Twilight. "How about you, Twilight? Any of those interest you?"
"Meh, I'm fine with anything honestly," Twilight replied.
Sunset deadpanned. She then let out a sigh and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Right. Well, we are getting absolutely nowhere with this."
"What are we supposed to do then of it's such a lost cause?" Rainbow asked with a lot of attitude.
"I don't know! Sleep? I mean, it doesn't seem like we can do anything, so how about we just pass the time the fastest way and sleep it away?"
Fluttershy then got an idea. She looked over to Pinkie and spoke in muffles.
Pinkie nodded as she spoke to show she was understanding, and when Fluttershy finished speaking, Pinkie had a very bright smile.
"Fluttershy says that she remembers Nurse Redheart telling us that Sunset passed the time by singing lots of songs she knew," Pinkie translated. "Why don't we do that?"
"But what about Rarity and Fluttershy?" Twilight asked. "Rarity's throat is all messed up and Fluttershy can't even talk."
More Flutter-muffles.
"She doesn't mind humming along."
"And I don't think I should let a little croaky throat stop me, I'll still join in," Rarity explained as happily as her throat would let her.
"You like the sound of that, Rainbow Dash?" Sunset asked cheekily.
Rainbow Dash snorted. "Alright, but I'm picking the song."
Everyone loudly moaned after she said that.
"Shut up! I know what song I want to do!"
"Oh really? What song then?" Sunset asked.
With a confident smile, she gave her suggestion. "Better Than Ever! We all remember that one, right?"
Everyone then smiled at the suggestion. Better Than Ever was a song that they all haven't done in a long time, not since before the music festival turned Battle of the Bands had started. It'd be a miracle if they all even remembered the lyrics, it was that long ago.
Then Twilight remembered something. She put up her hand to get attention. "Umm, Rainbow Dash?" she called out. "I don't know that song."
And after that, Rainbow heavily sighed and spent another eternity trying to think of what song they should do that Twilight actually knows of. Since she absolutely insisted on being the one to pick the song, everyone else was just forced to be left waiting and waiting for the clearly very indecisive girl to decide.
It was going to be a long how many days or weeks for them until they can leave. Some even thought that they would die of boredom. Nobody was having fun. And it was probably going to stay that way.
Author's Note
This is the result of a tired, slow night, the most unneeded sequel to ever cross the face of this here earth.
Basically this is just a filler story to ensure I have something out for July. Even if it's totally bollocks, which it is.
