Broken and Rebuilt

Starlight woke up in an unfamiliar room. She looked around to see that it was painted a putrid dull green. After noticing the color of the walls, she tried to move but could not. She was bound to the bed and this immediately angered her. She began to try to free herself but to no avail. Her instincts told her to try and teleport out of the bonds but all she got were sparks flying out of the base of her horn, which sent her into a fury.

"When I get out of these bonds, whoever did this will be sorry." Starlight screamed.

She again tried to rip her hooves free and it caused the bed to begin to shake. Finally she got the attention of a couple of ponies. They rushed into the room to try and stop the unicorn from knocking the bed over. They grabbed her hooves to stop her from moving and would be greeted unpleasantly, "Don't touch me! Nopony touches me, nopony!"

The two rushed out of the room causing the unicorn to yell, "Afraid of what will happen when I break free? Well you better be! I may not have my magic but I'll still make you wish....."

Before she could finish the statement, the two returned with a unicorn in a white lab coat. He gave her a stern look and ordered, "Calm down. If you remain like this, we will have to sedate you again."

Starlight continued to struggle and yelled, "Why did you do this to me? What the buck did I do to deserve this?"

The pony replied, "From what the ponies in Ponyville told us, you had become violent, that you had harmed yourself and that you had told them some rather strange things, things that made them think you needed our care."

"Care? Care?" Starlight screamed, "This isn't care, this is false imprisonment!"

She again tried to rip the bonds that held her. She caused the bed to shake so hard that it finally fell over. Once the bed fell over, Starlight began trying harder to break free. No matter how hard she tried, Starlight just couldn't break even one leg free from the bonds. The doctor ordered, "Get the bed set up but be careful not to touch her. Even the slightest touch will make her angrier."

The ponies were able to get the bed set up and the unicorn approached Starlight enough to where she could read his name badge, Dr. Clear Mind. He saw a scowl form on Starlight's face and began, "Starlight, I don't know exactly what happened with you but if you cooperate with us, you might not be restrained like this."

Starlight sighed, "Fine. Whatever the buck I have to do to get out of these bonds I suppose I'll do it."

Clear Mind replied, "Well I think figuring out what happened to cause you to break would be a start." He saw a scowl forming on her face and continued, "Could you tell me what happened that maybe led to this?"

Starlight began, "Well this all began in the human world when Sunset Shimmer, my girlfriend, had convinced me to stay with her when I was due to go back through the portal to Equestria."

"You bring this up, what caused you to go over to this 'human world' to start with?"

"Well Sunset Shimmer had to come over to get a new journal because her old one was full." She sighed and continued, "And Twilight and her friends were gone and I had a moron moment and became curious about this human world."

"You asked her if you could go with her and she said yes?"

"Yes."

"Ok but what would possess you to want to stay in this place?" He gave her a half smile and continued, "If it is anything like the comic books you, a unicorn, would go without magic. What would cause you to go without something that important?"

Clear Mind nodded as she continued, "You see, Sunset and I did things that felt really good and caused us to bond closer than most ponies, I mean people, would."

"Oh?"

"It is things that most ponies keep private, that should sum that up. Eventually though, we became too close."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well whenever we'd even have to be apart for even a couple of minutes, we'd begin to get really anxious that the other wouldn't return. When we were together, we clung to one another most of the time."

Clear Mind was becoming very curious about the whole situation, "So did the two of you ever go to the bathroom together in public?"

"After several months, yes. We developed what ponies like you would call separation anxiety. Looking back at things, it really wasn't a good thing."

"Ok, but what caused things to change? What caused you to suddenly decide you didn't want that anymore?"

"Because the one year of me going over there was....." Starlight's mood changed as she was bringing it up, "Curse that Sunset Shimmer. She tricked me into staying! She used sex and holding me to get me to stay." She began to try and break free and yelled, "When I get my hooves on her, she's going to pay for this!" Her focus then shifted to Twilight, "And Twilight, she could have made me come home! She was supposed to be my mentor! She could have tried to lead me in the right direction!"

"What did Twi......"

Starlight's fury was becoming worse. Her eyes began to shine white and her attempt to free herself became greater, "But no, she had to let me be blinded by filthy, lustful disgusting desires. She let me continue to remain a magicless, miserable, pathetic, worthless and stupid human!"

As Starlight's rage continued over this, something woke up within her. She realized that none of this was Twilight or Sunset's fault. Again her mood changed as she broke down in agony, "Oh Faust no, Mother Faust no! It is all my fault, I allowed myself to fall victim to things I shouldn't have." Her body began to shake as she continued, "I just couldn't handle not having my magic anymore and I wanted out, I wanted out."

Clear Mind gave her a slight smile, "Admitting that is the first step in your road to recovery but still, you seem to be living in an alternate reality of comic books. Everypony knows that humans aren't real."

This angered Starlight again, "Yes they are!" Her angry yell returned, "You want proof? Go visit Princess Twilight and she can take you to that bucking world! Do that and then you'll see I'm not some bucking loon that belongs in this place."

Clear Mind was ready to diagnose Starlight with a list of conditions that would keep Starlight there for quite some time but couldn't help but be curious. What if Starlight was actually telling the truth instead of living in a world her mind created? He knew that she wouldn't bring up Twilight like that if it weren't true. Still though, he wanted to see this for himself.

He gave Starlight a half smile and replied, "Very well, I will see if she will see me."

Clear Mind left Starlight's room with plans to call Twilight but feared how she would react. He knew that the two were very close friends and that anything that may sound like him bashing Starlight would not be well received.