What If: My Second Life

CHAPTER 6: Alive

“Fu...ck..” Was the first thing I said coming out of unconsciousness. Looking around I seen that I wasn't in Sweet Apple Acres anymore and in a hospital. The bed was big enough to hold me, and about a foot left over. If it was Coal, it probably wouldn't have fit his six feet of awesome. The walls were pristine white and I looked over to see my arm with an IV in it. I lifted my head to see my shirt off and my chest bandaged up.

“What the hell happened?” I asked myself in a soft voice. I couldn't remember anything that had happened that would have went up to this moment in time. I tried to recollect all those memories, but all it did was give me a headache. I could barely move I was so sore. It felt like my chest had been blown open by a Chestbuster from the movie Alien. It wasn't fun I'll tell you that much.

I really couldn't hear that well but I could hear a small amount of sobs from right next to me. I looked over and saw a blue mane and a horn. I smiled and slowly reached over to stroke her mane and she looked up and went wide eyed at the sight she saw. “J-Jace?”

I smiled at her and nodded. “That's my name..” She cried tears of joy and wrapped her arms around my neck, kissing me all over. I just sat there and held her close to me.

“NEVER. Do that again!” She sobbed out. “I was scared to death when Applejack came to tell me you were dying....” She was still crying and I had to kiss her to reassure her that I wasn't going anywhere.

“Why would I want to die? I have so much going for me..” She was glad to hear these words and nuzzled my neck.

“Just.. Don't do it again.. Please..” I nodded and kissed her cheek. It was salty, but I didn't care. She was so sweet. Everything I wanted in a girl. I then started to remember a girl I used to date back on Earth. Her name was Chloe, and I loved her to death. Vinyl was just like her, loved dubstep, fun to be around, cute.

After sitting there holding each other for a while, she turned to leave and Coal entered the room. “Hey Jace..How you holding up?” He asked, walking over to the bed and looking down at me. I met his eyes and chuckled.

“Seen better days man...This certainly tops that parkour incident.. (True Story btw.)” I sighed and put my head back on the pillow. “Sorry I tried to save you man.. I..I didn't want my friend to be hurt is all..” I looked down, guilty that everyone had to care about me.

Coal narrowed his eyes. “Jace.. You saved me from dying.. I probably would have died long before you. You are way stronger than me that's for sure..” I looked up at my friend with a smile.

“Ah betcha could have gottin' through this..” I blinked at the accent. “I've been hanging around Applejack too long..” We both laughed and I had to clutch my chest. “Oww..Fuck...It hurts to laugh man.. I think I shattered a rib or something.”

“Alright well, everyone else wants to see you so.. I'll get outta here.” Coal walked out of the room and I was left alone for a couple seconds before Applejack walked in and smiled at me.

“Hey there Jace.. How ya feelin'?” She sounded a little sad but still glad to see that I was awake.

“I'm doing better than I was in the orchard I'll tell ya that much.” My accent was starting to peek through again. Applejack just giggled at it.

“Well, that there is some accent! Coal has the same thing iff'n Ah'm correct.” I nodded at her.

“Yeah, we came from the west where we lived on Earth so, we got a slight accent.” (LOLSLIGHT)

“Well, that's what makes ya unique...Ah find it kinda cute actually..” She kicked the ground a little and blushed.

“AJ, you know that me and Vinyl have hooked up..” She looked up in surprise at this.

“Y-Ya did?! When was this?”

“Well, I was jogging one day and I saw a stage with a DJ booth on it. On Earth was a good DJ, so I went up there to use it. Vinyl was there and I didn't see or hear her because of the music. She came up started to DJ with me and we had a blast. Backstage we talked and I went to go meet you, then went back to Twilight's house. Vinyl stopped by and offered to go out for drinks and I guess I had too many.. She didn't want me going back drunk so she offered to keep me at her house. I woke up having problems breathing and she got worried for me.. It just sparked off right then and there. I don't know how it happened so soon. Maybe because we have a lot in common..” (I am so full of shit)

“Well that's good news for ya Jace! I hope ya two are happy bein' together and all..” I smiled at her.

“I think so.. Now come over her so I can get a hug..” Applejack giggled and trotted over, wrapping her arms around my neck and hugging me close. I smelled her mane slyly. Smelled like apples. Go figure.

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After everyone came in to see how I was doing, I was signed off and released from the hospital. I learned that I was in a coma for a couple days and was really hungry. The thing about being a human is that we're omnivores, but ponies were herbivores. They were afraid when we told them that we ate meat, but we could eat fruit in place of it, that gave them some peace. I've been eating apples for about a week and I don't really miss meat a lot.

After getting out of a coma for two days, it's surprisingly hard to walk. I had to stretch out my legs when I woke up. I was going to exercise every day now, just to get my strength back. I might actually start working again as well.

Walking to Twilight's house wasn't that bad, except for the weird stares I got from some ponies. I just shrugged it off and walked back to the library.

As I neared the library, I could hear Coal talking. I stopped and put my ear to the door to listen to what he was saying.

“Honestly, I think he's going to seriously hurt himself if we don't keep an eye on him! He's as stubborn as a mule and if we tell him to stay, he probably won't listen!” There was then a sigh from Twilight.

“Well Coal, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe we should just give him some space. He couldn't be all that bad, seeing that he's injured. He's a smart guy, I can tell you that much. He can probably tell that if he overworked himself the wounds would open up again but, I'm sure he's not THAT stubborn. (Oh you have no clue.)

I sighed and knocked on the door, and saw Twilight behind it with a smile on her face. “Good to have you back Jace. We were worried about you.” I nodded and smiled the best I could. My poker face was badass, bur I don't think I could keep one around a bunch of sweet ponies.

“Thanks for caring about me. I just met you guys a week a go and you are all just wonderful.” Twilight smiled.

“You are a really good friend too Jace. Now, I have something bugging me. What's with you and Vinyl?” She asked me with a curious look.

I chuckled and told her that we hooked up over a few drinks. She remembered something about me going out with Vinyl one night and not coming home. I told her she let me stay at her house that night and we ended up hooking up.

Twilight smiled at me. “Well, just be true to her now.” I nodded to her with a nice smile.

“Oh trust me, I will. She reminds me a lot of a girlfriend I used to have back on Earth. She's perfect for me I'd say.” I walked over to a chair and sat down. Spike was behind the kitchen counter.

“You feeling hungry Jace? I can whip you up something if you want!” I looked over at the baby dragon who had a smile on his face.

“Thanks Spike, but I think I'll just have a couple apples. I've been addicted to those things recently.”

“I'll take one to Spike!” Coal piped up.

“Three apples coming up!”

At this point, I was actually enjoying life. This place is where I was meant to be all this time. I feel so happy here, feel like I can do so much more than I could on Earth. I spent only a week here and already found love! If I can accomplish something like that in just a week, I knew I could do so much. I already got a good job and an amazing marefriend. I think life is just going to get a lot more sweeter.

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Author's Note: I promised another chapter today, and I did! You guys are awesome but, next chapter is going to be rather hard for me to write. It's going to have a lot of stuff in there that I won't be proud of, but it will give them a good reason to have a certain item that is actually important in the original My Second Life story.