Running from the Past

(Rainbow's thoughts = cyan *)

Rainbow was walking around town. She decided to go and visit Fluttershy. Rainbow thought that she should go check on Flutters, it had been a while. Rainbow Dash reached Fluttershy's house, but couldn't find her anywhere. * Hmmph, that's odd.* She heard a moaning sound from the woods. * Who is that? I should go and check it out.* Rainbow went to investigate.

Rainbow made sure she was ready incase it was something dangerous. She waited for a second, and then jumped out of the bushes. She saw something she didn't expect. Lloyd lying on the ground, groaning in pain.  Dash quickly ran over. As she got closer, she realized just how bad Lloyd's condition was. He was bleeding from multiple places and in extreme pain.

"Rai- Rainbow.....help...me." Lloyd said in a drained voice. He wasn't gonna be able to hang on much longer. Rainbow got straight into action, lifting him up. He was quite heavy, but she was ready. Rainbow flew off to the hospital. It took about ten minutes, give or take a few seconds. She flew into the entrance, with all of the haste that she could possibly muster. Rainbow quickly waved Nurse Redheart over.

"Oh Celestia, what happened to him?" Redheart asked.

"No time to explain, just get him in the emergency room!" Rainbow said, a glare in her eyes. Redheart and two other doctors quickly got him onto a strecher, and wheeled him off into the E.R.

Lloyd was unconscious, but was in a stable state. He had been like this for the past few hours in the hospital. Nopony know what happened to him, but whatever happened, it seemed to be some kind of assassination attempt, or mishap.  Rainbow Dash had found him in the Everfree Forest, laying on the ground in a clearing. During the few hours that Lloyd was unconscious, Rainbow informered the mane six and some others about his condition. The rest of the mane six, aswell as Vinyl and other ponies Lloyd recently introduced himself to, decided to visit and wait until he came out of that dreaded room.

Lloyd opened his eyes slowly, and saw the very same hospital that he had been in quite recently. It took his eyes a little bit to readjust to the brightness of the room. He looked around, and saw a doctor running some tests with his back turned. Lloyd tried to get up from his layed down position, and quickly fell back into bed. The pain from trying to get up was too much for him. The doctor turned around and saw Lloyd wide awake.

"Ah, Mister Lloyd, I see that you're awake. How did you sleep?" The doctor asked in a gleeful expression.

"Well, let's just say that getting blown up doesn't exactly help you sleep any better, if you get my drift." Lloyd said. Lloyd looked around again, seeing various machines and medecines around him.

"Wait a sec, where are my friends? I have to go and see them." Lloyd asked in a serious tone. He then tried to get up again, but failed a second time. the doctor walked over to him.

"Sorry sir, you can't get up now, although you do have visitors." The doctor gestured over to the door and Lloyd saw many of the ponies he had met within the past few days. The mane six, Vinyl, Big Mac, and a few others. Lloyd smiled at them.

"One at a time please, in an orderly fashion." The doctor said. The mane six were up first, many of them offering words of compassion and hopefulness. Pinkie Pie had even left a pink cupcake with white frosting letters that said, "Get better soon!" Rainbow was last of the mane six. She walked up to him, and he smiled.

"Hi, Lloyd." Rainbow said in a nervous tone.

"Hi, Dash."

"Are you okay?" Rainbow asked.

"Besides some cuts and bruises, I'm not too bad." Rainbow nodded.

"Okay, goodbye, Lloyd." She began to walk out.

"Hey Rainbow?" Lloyd asked.

"...Yeah?"

"Thanks for saving me, I would've died if it wasn't for you. Thank you."  She ran over to him and gave him a hug that Lloyd didn't expect. They just hugged there for a few seconds, like no one else was there. Rainbow broke the hug, and walked out.

Vinyl then walked up. She had a sad look on her face.

"Hey Lloyd." Vinyl said in a sad tone.

"Hi, Vinyl." Lloyd looked up at her, and smiled.

"Are you going to be ok?" Vinyl asked.

"Don't worry about it, doctors say that I'll be out later tonight, guaranteed. I'll still be able to show you some of that music sometime." Lloyd said with a smirk. Vinyl had the instinct to shove him, and instead just laughed.

"I'll see ya later, Lloyd!" Vinyl said with a wave.

"Alright, bye Vinyl!" Lloyd said happily.

The rest of the ponies then said greetings and goodbyes, and the visits were finally over. About an hour later, Lloyd was determined by the doctors as healthy enough to go back home. He got out of his bed slowly, he didn't want to hurt himself anymore than he had already. All of the pain stopped, but he still had pains coming from his back for some odd reason. He walked back to Twilight's place. He opened door and shut it behind him. Lloyd saw Twilight sleeping on the couch, with no covers. *Heh, typical Twilight. Probably waited for me to come home.* He quickly picked her up and cradled her in his arms. Lloyd carried Twi back to her room and set her back onto her bed and put the blankets over her. He was suprised he didn't wake her up. He blew out any candles in her room. *Night, Twilight.*

Lloyd quickly made himself a late dinner and looked around, realizing that he had never really stopped and looked up. He knew that the library was made of a giant tree, but it was quite big when you just took a second to admire it. Lloyd shrugged, and then finished off his dinner. He washed any dishes left over and went straight to bed.

Lloyd woke up the next morning feeling.....different. *Meh, whatever.* He quickly got up and streched. He noticed a large pair of wings protruding from his back. *WOAH, what in the hell happened?* He had just as much feeling in the wings as he did with his limbs. He streched them out, and observed them closely. The wings were very pegasi-like, but bigger. They had a dark blue outline on the top and sides, with black in the middle of his wings, and white on the tips of the feathers. He tried flapping them, and quickly levitated off of the ground. *Heh, would ya look at that?* He opened the door to the main room of the library, and flew out. He flew around the library room, and felt awesome. After a few seconds of flying around, he sat down. He made himself breakfast and ate it quickly. He was super anxious to get outside and fly around.

*I don't want to wake up anyone, but I'm really eager to take these things out for a test run.* Lloyd saw Twilight walk out of her room. She looked at Lloyd with a shocked expression, and rubbed her eyes to make sure that she wasn't seeing things. Lloyd looked up at her with a smirk.

"Whaddaya think?" Lloyd said, streching his wings out to make them look as big as possible. Lloyd just stared at the wings with a dumbfounded expression, unsure of what to say.

"How did this even happen?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I guess I just woke up with them. Would probably explain the back pains yesterday." Twilight just looked at them, fascinated by the fact that Lloyd had just developed a pair of wings.

"I have to take these for a test run! Off I go!" Lloyd said. Before Twilight could stop him, he was off.

He flew all around town. Lloyd never felt so free in his entire life. It was a beautiful morning, and Lloyd was happy.

"Wooooo!!! THISS IISSSS AWEEESOOMEE!" He screamed as he flew by the houses of various ponies. Many of them looked up out of their windows to see something that many of them were shocked by. Many of the ponies who were watching just stared. Some of them just shut their windows, not wanting any more commotion. Lloyd looked around, and determined that he should probably return back to Twilight's. He flew back down and was exhausted already. Lloyd went back to his room and took his laptop out of his bag. He turned it on and started playing some video games.