To Be The Best Once Again

“Girls, I’d like you to meet, Michael and...,” she looks at me then to my sister down on the floor who is currently hiding behind my leg acting shyly for some odd reason.

“Her name’s Angel, and she’s my little sister. It’s nice to meet you all,” I greet them with a smile. I then rub my sister’s head and push her out gentle from behind my leg. “Go on and say hi kiddo, don’t be rude,” I hear a snort of laughter coming from Rainbow.

“Michael, I think you have no room to talk about being rude,” she states with a giggle.

I narrow my eyes at her, “Hey now, we just went through a touching moment, don’t go on and ruin it,” I playfully hit her on the shoulder.

“Touching moment?” a voice questionable says.

I was going to prepare and explain what went down a couple minutes ago, but a cyan colored hand is placed over my mouth to stop me.

“I’ll explain later!” she hurriedly says with a heavy blush on her face. I raise a brow and then slowly nod my head. She moves her hands away and averts her eyes away from me. Before anything can be asked about the situation, Angel peeks her head from behind my leg and stares up at the girls. The one with the purple curled hair spots her and lets out a squeal of delight.

“Aren’t you just the most cutest thing I have ever seen!” she giggles and kneels down to greet my sister. “Hello there sweetie, I’m Rarity Belle. It’s a pleasure to you meet you.”

Angel steps out from behind me slowly and looks up at the girls and then to Rarity. She then runs up to Rarity and wraps her arms her. Rarity couldn’t help but let out a little high pitch squeal. She couldn’t resist hugging back my little sister either. “Ooooh, your so precious!”

I tilt my head to the side at my sister’s behavior. “Kiddo, you know who they are?”

She lets go of Rarity and looks up at me with a happy grin, nodding her head. “Yeah! It’s the Elements of Harmony, big bro. My dream of meeting them has finally come true!” Tears of joy start to slide down her face. A girl with a light pink mane comes out from behind the five that were standing in front of us. She walks up to my sister and kneels down in front of her. She then lets out this warming smile as she rubs the top of my sister’s head.

“It’s alright, don’t cry,” she says in one of the most softest voices I have ever heard. I couldn’t help but stare at this girl. For some reason she was really catching my eye. Never would I have thought someone to be so gentle and caring as her. You really don’t see many people like her.

Angle then wraps her arms the butterscotch colored girl. She replies with her own as she softly combs her fingers through her hair, humming a little tune. I couldn’t understand the behavior of my sister towards these girls. Just, what are they to my sister?

Are they really that special to her?

I couldn’t help but feel a little jealous that my sister is acting this way towards them. She only acted this way with me and no one else. I couldn’t help but let it show either, and one of the girl seemed to catch it.

“Gettin a little jealous there sugar cube?”

I point to myself, “Me? Getting jealous? No way,” I turn away and cross my arms over my chest. “I don’t get jealous,” I lie.

The girls giggle at my attitude, which in turn gets me to scrunch my nose up in annoyance. I then feel someone grab my sweat pants and tug on it. “Don’t get jelly, big bro,” she giggles. “l still love you the most.”

I don’t look down at her. “You sure?”

“Yup.”

“Your positive?”

“Yuppers!”

I uncross my arms and place a hand on her head. “Ok then, I believe you,” I playfully tussle her hair. She giggles and hugs me tightly. This gets the girls to awe at the affection being shown. Then this girl with poofy pink hair appears before me. She had this crazy wide grin on her face, which kind of spooked me a bit. I held my sister close to me, and backed away a bit. For some reason I’m getting weird vibes from her.

She starts to bounce in place, making her poofy hair bounce with her and other things that my eyes couldn’t look away from. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie! I’ve never seen you two here before, and I know everypony here, so that means you two are new! And that means a party needs to be made,” she shouts excitedly as confetti shoots up into the air out of no nowhere.

“How did you-...” my sister stops me from asking my question.

“Don’t think on it, it will only make your head hurt.” I giver her a strange look.

“Listen to your sister, she knows what she’s talking about,” a girl with purple hair and pink highlight that goes through her hair, speaks out. I give her a look to elaborate on it, she gets the idea and just shrugs her shoulders.

“Not even I can understand how Pinkie works. She does things that no pony can do, or understand. It’s better if you don’t try to think on it much, or you’ll end up with big migraine,” she clarifies.

I cautiously look at the bubbly girl and just nod my head. “Whatever you say.”

I soon got to know everything about the six girls, and I mean everything. I got the info mostly from my sister, cause she knew all about this place and who they were. The girls were very shocked to hear my sister explain everything to me about them. Things about their childhood, how they became friends, and all the adventures they had. I was even shocked that she knew so much about them, but not so much as the girls. I knew she was into the cartoon about them, but I didn’t know she was that into it that much. She even explained how Twilight became an Alicorn. I didn’t even know what that was until my sister explained it to me, which again, was a shocker to me and the girls.

When my sister was finished explaining everything to me about the back story of the six girls, we were suddenly blinded by a light and our scenery was changed from partially clouded blue clean sky, to a huge library built from crystal. I look around cautiously, wondering how we got here. My attention is then pulled to Twilight who is looking at me with seriousness in her eyes. Even the other girls look at me the same way, but for what reason? Did I do something to make them cautious of me?

“Michael, how does your sister know so much about us?” Her horn light’s up in a purple aura and necklaces appear on the girl’s necks, while a crown appears on the Twilight's head. “Are you one Tirek’s minions?”

I didn’t like what was going on. I grab sister and push her behind me. I hold out my hand towards them in a surrendering manner. “Whoa, take it easy. I don’t know who this Tirek guy is and I’m not one of his minions. Let explain why my sister knows so much about you guys, so ease up on... whatever those things you got,” I say warily.

“AppleJack, is he lying?”

There’s a small pause as AppleJack locks eyes with me. Her stance seemed to relax a bit after staring at me for a bit.

“He’s tellin the truth.”

I let out a breath that I didn’t know I was holding and let my tense muscles relax. Twilight still has her eyes locked on me and her horn still wrapped in a purple aura.

“Explain,” she harshly says.

“Angel, I don’t think these girls are the same kind and lovable characters you enjoyed watching on T.V.,” I look down to her. My ears pick up on something being charged up and before I can react, I’m launched back against a wall and feel back make contact. Pain spread out throughout my body, like a virus. I bounce off the wall and hit the hard floor. I coughed up some blood and tried to get up, but when I moved my left side surged in pain and another glob of blood is coughed up. My ears are ringing and my eyesight is distorted, I couldn’t make a single thing that was happening. I soon feel myself start to slip away, as my eyes slowly close.

Third person P.O.V

Everyone stood around shocked at what had just happened. The only two to react quickly was Angel and Fluttershy who ran towards Michael.

“Twilight! What in tarnation was that for?!” AppleJack exclaims loudly.

“Oh crap, Twilight. He’s banged up,” Rainbow bluntly adds in.

Twilight was just as shocked as them. She opens and closes her mouth, but no words come out. Tears start to slowly slip from the corners of her eyes from what she has down. Fluttershy is working diligently and fast on Michael’s downed form. She carefully flips him onto his back and puts her ear against his chest. After hearing that his heart was beating regularly, she listens to his breathing. It was irregular and harsh. She then pulls his shirt up and quickly spots a very discolored bruised spot where his left rib cage is. She gently pokes around the bruised side and feels that a rib has broke off and mostly likely punctured a lung.

“Girls! We need to get him to the hospital quick,” she looks towards her friends and sees them coming out their shocked states. Twilight is next to Fluttershy and with a flash of her horn Fluttershy, Twilight, and Michael are gone.

The one’s left in the room are Rainbow, AppleJack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Angel. Angel, not really taking it to well let’s out heart-rendering cry. The girl’s ears fold back at the powerful cry. AppleJack is the first to move towards her and hold her in her arms to comfort the little filly. Angel latches on to her cries into her shoulder.

AppleJack is silently cooing quietly to her to calm the troubled filly. She then holds her against her, and rocks back forth. This seemed to help as the filly started to quiet down. The four girls didn’t know what to do next, everything happened so suddenly. The things they could only do now is comfort the distraught filly, and hope that Michael will come out fine.

Fluttershy and Twilight follow closely behind the medical ponies who were rushing Michael down a hall in a gurney. They quickly make swift and careful turns to get to their designated area. Once they arrive to a room numbered 304, they push through the double doors. The two mares are stopped and told to wait in the waiting room until further notice. They don’t get anything else from the doctors, so they’re do as they’re told.

Twilight collapses on a chair and silently cries into her hands. She was so ashamed that she caused a pony harm without reason. She was just being too cautious and attacked Michael, even after being told that he was telling the truth. Twilight then felt her friend wrap her in a hug. She leans into her friends shoulder and cries softly.

“I-I didn’t mean to attack him t-that way, I was j-just scared,” she sorrowfully mumbles into Fluttershy’s shoulder. Fluttershy doesn’t say anything and just comforts Twilight to the best of her ability. She just silently hopes that Michael and his sister can forgive Twilight for what she has done.

Few hours later///
Nighttime

All the girls sit quietly in the waiting room, anxiously waiting for any news from a doctor or nurse, but nothing has come up. Angel is swiftly asleep on a chair, dried tears evident on her face. An hour goes by and soon a unicorn doctor that took Michael to the room is seen coming around a corner with a clipboard floating in front of him. He looks up from his clipboard to look around for the girls. He spots them and makes his way to them with a smile. The girls look up to find the doctor heading their way. They all stand up to hear any news about Michael?

“Hello you six, I’m here to tell you that your stallion friend, will be making a quick recovery,” he says happily. All the girls let out sighs of relief and slump down to their seats. “But,” all their attention is back in the doctor, “I have a few things that came up, nothing bad, I can assure. They’re jus things I’ve never seen in a earth pony before, or in any pony for that matter,” he says in awe as he once again looks at his clipboard.

“What you mean doctor? What kind of things did you find?” Twilight asks, a bit worried now. Thinking that she probably did something to Michael.

“Well for starters, he has a very fast healing factor, which is why I said he will make a quick recovery. Also, this stallion has a very solid muscular body. His muscles are tougher than most metals here in Equestria,” he stated loudly. He then continues. “When I was going to insert an IV into his arm, it wouldn’t puncture the skin. The first time I tired it broke! It took four of us doctors to magically force a needle into his arm! No wonder he didn’t receive to much damage from your attack, Princess Twilight. If it were a regular earth pony that you attacked, they would of died from far more major injuries. Can you believe that?” the girls can only shake their head disbelievingly. “I couldn’t either, but those were the least of my concern. It’s the last one that had me worried,” he carefully pauses as he looks down at his clipboard. The girls anxiously await for him to start again. “Your friend is...”

First person P.O.V Michael///
Morning

The morning was an opponent that I never seem to ever win over. Its fast jabs of sun rays hit my eyes annoyingly. I groan tiredly and try to shift to my left side to get the annoying light away from my eyes, but stop and wince slightly in pain. I let out a hiss as I slowly move back onto my back. I open my eyes, slowly blinking them to adjust my vision. I shift my eyes around to scan the room I’m in. Different scents hit my nose as I take a breathe in. The room I’m in smelled clean and sterilized, almost like hospital rooms did. I look around some more to confirm that, and find that I indeed was in a hospital room, but why? I remember I was with the girls and we were chatting, but that’s all I remember, everything else after that is a little fuzzy.

Something shifts under the covers from my right side, so I lift the covers up to reveal my sister sleeping soundly, cuddled up to my side. I chuckle lightly at how cute she looked. I lay a hand on her head and lightly scratch at her cute little ears. Then, a soft vibration sound emits from my sister. Is she purring? That’s something I didn’t know ponies can do. Also, I couldn’t help to notice the pony version of my sister. She had the same colored hair as me, black with faded in blonde edges. Her coat wasn’t space gray like mine, it was beige color. She’s still the same height and still her lively self, so even if she’s something different, she’s still my baby sister.

I started to get tired of laying down on my back, so I went to sit up, but my sore left side held me back. I let out a groan of pain, which accidentally woke my sister from her slumber. Her eyes flutter open and lets out a cute little yawn. She lifts herself up and looks around tiredly, rubbing the sleep out her eyes.

“Morning sleeping beauty, did you sleep well?” I softly smile. She turns my way and stares at me with a long yard stare, then in the corner of eyes tears started to form. My smile vanishes in a look of worry is placed on it. I prop my elbows on the bed to lift myself up. “What’s wrong, Angel?”

Angel softly pushes her face against my stomach and wraps her arms around me. She starts to quietly sob into my stomach, not telling me what’s the matter. All I can do to comfort her is rub her head. “Angel, do remember what happened to me?” She nods her head, but doesn’t look up at me. “Are you sad because of what happened?” She nods her again. That explains why she’s sad, but doesn’t explain what happened to me. Did something bad happened to us that got me in the hospital? What exactly did happen to me? Before I go any further into my thoughts, Angel mumbles something incoherently into my stomach. “What did you say, I couldn’t hear you,” she looks up me, and does something that makes my heart melt. Her eyes look up to me in a pleading manner and she pouts as her lip trembles.

“I said, c-can you s-sing me a song, p-please?” She pleading says with a sniffle. My face heats up a little as I look away from her.

“Aw, kiddo. You know I don’t like singing, it’s embarrassing for me and you know that,” I rub the back of my head awkwardly.

“Pleeeeeeeeease!” her plea is heard, but then muffled has she sticks her face back into my gut. I let out a tired sigh and quietly listen towards the door to see if anyone was behind it. I don’t hear anything so I prepare myself. “Ok then, if it will make you feel better,” I tussle her hair lightly. “Do want the usual song you like, or another one?” She mumbles out the usual, so I nod. “Alright then,” I close my eyes and clear my throat. I begin with a soft hum, and let the words flow freely.

[“I Won’t Give on You”]

“Hmmmm ... Hmmmm ... Hmmmm ... Hmmm ...,” I look down at my sister and find her looking up back up at me.

“When I look into your eyes
It's like watching the night sky
Or a beautiful sunrise
So much they hold
And just like them old stars
I see that you've come so far
To be right where you are
How old is your soul?”

I let out smile and poke her on the nose, to which she giggles at.

“I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up”

“And when you're needing your space
To do some navigating
I'll be here patiently waiting
To see what you find”

“Cos even the stars they burn
Some even fall to the earth
We got a lot to learn
God knows we're worth it
No I won't give up”

I raise my voice in volume so I don’t miss a beat.

“I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily
I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make
Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use
the tools and gifts we've got yeah we got a lot at stake.”

“And in the end, you're still my friend at least we did intend
for us to work we didn't break, we didn't burn
We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in
I had to learn what I got, and what I'm not and who I am”

I let my body fall back against the bed and continue on.

“I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
I’m still looking up”

“I won't give up on us
God knows I'm tough, I am love
We got a lot to learn
God knows we're worthy”

“I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I’m still looking up”

I softly end the song with a smile on my face. “There, happy no-... oh,” my sister blissfully sleeps away, a smile adorning her face. Knowing I could make her it made me also just happy. Nothing right now can ruin my happy moment with my sister, but fate had other things planned for me, like a group of anthropomorphic females standing outside an open door, looking at me with shocked looks. Judging from the way they’re looking at me, I can safely say that they heard me sing and all I can do in reply to their shocked looks is avert my face away from them as a heavy blush of embarrassment soon appears across my face.

Jesus Christ, I mentally sigh, can this day get any more embarrassing than it already is?

Soon I will find out that I have just jinxed myself, ultimately sealing my fate for whatever embarrassing moment that has yet to come.