Zapped to Equestria

When I woke up I was in an uncomfortable bed. I had something over my head that stopped me from seeing which kind of felt like gauze. Feeling around, I realized that I had no feeling in my hands and after a minute or two I remembered what happened.

'It was raining outside and, lets face it, I loved the rain. So as always I grabbed my raincoat and said a quick "I'm going outside" to my mother. She was used to me going out when it rained plus there wasn't any thunder or lightning so she just let me go. I opened the door and all I could see was a bunch of rushing water drops falling from the heavens which in turn became water pools all over the ground. Which was odd seeing as how it had only started raining a few minutes ago, but i didn't care and went out anyway.'

'Once outside I got to the middle of the yard and sat down on the bench we have out there. It was a little cold sitting in it but I could manage.”Nice day to have a little rain” I said as I sat there starting to think of random events. Which I usually do when it rained.'

'I sat there for maybe twenty minutes staring at a triangular prism that my mom had gotten when I was young. It was about four to five inches tall and wide at its base. As I sat there deep in thought I didn't realize that I was starting to hear thunder. Then it happened again about as quiet as the first time but this time it had gotten my attention. I looked up to see if there was any lightning but couldn't so I got up to go inside.'

'As I did a bolt of the stuff came from the sky directly above me. Which hit right in front of me right on the prism that I was just looking at. The last thing I remember was a bright rainbow-like bolt of some sort that went straight for me.'

At that moment  a door opened somewhere to my right  as someone walked in. Which I didn’t get to  see from the....well I guess it's a bandage. At the sound of this I tried to sit up on the bed.

At the moment the nurse heard the movement and moved to his side.

“Don't try to get up, you're still injured." Said the nurse, who was female. “I’ll call the doctor in and have him see to your bandages." At that she walked out of the door and closed it leaving me to my thoughts.

‘ OK so I'm at a hospital... Somewhere I don’t know after being hit with lightning I guess’. I thought moving a little bit to try and get more comfortable. After shifting I felt that most of my muscles were stiff and tired so I tried to move and loosen them. As I did, I noticed that something was VERY wrong as I didn’t feel the same movements that i was use to.

Before I could do any more examining, someone came in with a small squeak from the door.

“Hello there Sir, I am Doctor Needles and I've been taking care of you since you arrived here."

He paused to give me a time to speak.

“Uh, thank you for that." Not really thinking thinking what I was saying because of his strange name, ‘I mean Needles really’?

“Would it be okay if i were to take off the bandages to see if the injuries have gotten any better?" Needles asked.

I thought about this for a bit and moved my head from side to side to see if I felt and pain. When I didn’t I answered him.

“Yes, I think it should be okay." At this the doctor walked to my side as I felt a hard kinda rubbery object on my head as the bandages were unwound and fell off.

All I could do is gape at what I saw in front of me because smack dab in full view of my stricken eyes was Nurse Redheart in the flesh and fur.

"Is there something wrong sir you seem to be staring?" She asked as I quickly looked away.

"N-nothing at all uh I'm just caught a little off guard." I said now trying to look anywhere but at the techno-colored equine standing several feet ahead of me.

"Well it seems that over the course of the last day and a half that you have healed far past our expectations." Doctor Needles said "are you skilled in healing magic?"

"Wait healing 'magic'?" I asked.

"Yes well you are a unicorn so I thought you might have had some practice in it.

"Wait I'm a unicorn?" I asked almost screaming frantically looking around for any kind of reflective surface to see if it was true. But instead I saw hooves, my hooves.

"Yes you are Sir, but i’m  sure  you should know that.” Nurse Redheart said turning to the doctor and whispering, “ He may have brain damage or amnesia if he can't  even remember what race he is.” I could hear them, but only slightly.

“Yes we might want to get him into get a scan and see if he has suffered an unforeseen head trauma.” He whispered back and looked to see  me staring at my grey hooves. “We should ask how much he remembers anything to see how bad this could be.”

At this they looked back at me with almost forced smiles as she asked me,

“excuse me sir but do you know what your name is, or how you got yourself hurt?

I peeled my eyes away from my hooves to look at them and thought about this for a second and came up with nothing. “I-I don't remember what my name is but I remember getting hit with lightning.” I said which got a worried look from them. “I don't even know what I look like.” It felt like my eye’s were as small as pinpricks at that point from the fear of not remembering or even knowing who I was.

“Well that's... unnerving.” He said as the nurse started to walk out of the room. “Do  think you might want to see yourself, maybe see if you could remember?”

“Sure, I would like that.” I said. At this he walked over to one of the walls that was to my left and somehow picked up a small double sided mirror with his hooves.

As he got to my side I looked at what I guess was now my reflection. I was, of course, a male unicorn with (what was a surprise to me) a rainbow mane ‘wow that's going to be hard to get used to’ and a grey coat. I couldn't see my tail or flank from being under the covers of the bed. But The strangest thing by far was my eyes.They were kind of like a cloud of gray-ish white and for some reason had a little image of me looking at myself in them for a couple of seconds until they hazed over till it looked almost like a cloud of gray.

After a while Nurse Redheart came in. Needles coughed to get me attention

“Sir do you think you can remember anything?” A thought came to mind when he asked me this.

“Well I think that my name is Spectrum, something.” I told him and after I did he looked a little less concerned. “Spectrum um, Swirl ya that's it, my name is Spectrum Swirl.”

"Well then Swirl, is it alright if I call you that?" He asked and I nodded in return. "Well then Swirl, Nurse Redheart here has called for somepony to come in and take a scan of your head to see just how badly you got hurt."

I started in a laughing fit at this. Which got both of them to stare at me for a long second before the she asked me "and why would that be funny?"

"S-somepony" is all I could get out between my laughter. 'I guess the writers got it right after all', is all I could think. After maybe a minute or two I could finally stop.

"Well then anyway as I was saying we have a pony coming to help us with this and after that your visitor can come in." He said specifically not saying somepony again on purpose.

“Fine but who is the visiter? I don't know any (stifled giggle here) pony here." I said.

"Well we already knew that because she couldn't give us any information on who you are or even how you got yourself hurt." The nurse said.

"OK that makes sense but that didn't answer my question of who she is. Could I get a name or something?”

“Her name is Rainbow Dash, rank sixty-two and she was excited and frantic when she brought you in after finding you.”Said the nurse and then saying under her breath. “Something like somepony she can finally talk to, or something.”

Before I could even think about what she had just said a new unicorn mare walked into the room.She had a nice orange coat with a blue mane and tail and dark-pink eyes. She then proceeded to talk to the doctor directly like we weren't even in the room.

“Well hello there and who is this unlucky chap with amnesia?” she asked. The doctor pointed a hoof in my direction. “Ah good now where you able to get his name or or rank or anything out of him?”

“Yes.” He said “He said it was Spectrum Swirl so he might not have had it that bad.”

“Okay good with that I should be able to get some information from him.” She said now turning to me. “Hello Mr. Swirl i'm going to need to ask you several questions and I will need you to sign this sheet with your signature.”

“Um... well okay fine but can i read it first, you know for fine print and all that?” I questioned.

“Well that would be fine.” She said handing me the paper to read to read somehow with her right hoof. As I tried to grab it, it fell to the bed so I just maneuvered it from there.

I read through it and it mostly said ‘this document permits the access to my thoughts to be reacted and searched by the given unicorn I permit to do so. I _______ hereby agree to this contract and allow this of my own free will. With a lot of mumbo-jumbo, laws and back laws and whatever.

After reading this I asked for something to write with and tried to write my name on the line in the middle and bottom of the page. Of course it wasn't that easy. I first tried to grab the pen with my right hoof and that failed, so I grabbed it with my mouth and made a small scribble that kind of looked like my name.

“Ah, good now would you follow me to a more private room please?” The mare asked before I tried to get out of bed and fell on my face.

‘Yeah let me tell you, if you think it hurt to fall on your head as a human than you would ball like a child if you did it as a unicorn.’ First off I now know that a unicorn's horn is very and I mean Super-Very sensitive. It felt like I had jumped off a cliff and into a huge pile of needles, and I mean like the huge needles that you think you would get at a doctors (not that you actually do) added with sewing needles and any others you can think of. Plus the new muscle didn’t help because it was longer and hit the floor first.

Well after all that I had to almost peel my head off the floor and to a laying position. Here was the fun part, telling them that I can’t even walk on my own two-- I mean four, legs.

“Mr. Swirl are you going to lay there all day?” she asked in a somewhat worried tone.

I looked over at them for a moment before finally replying

"Well uh-OK here it is... I-i don'tknowhowtowalk." I said looking down at the floor again. There was a long pause as they all stared at me on the floor.

"Excuse me mister Swirl but did you just say that you can't walk?" Redheart asked.

"That is exactly what i am saying." I said with another long pause to follow before I tried to get up again. Only to fall back on my stomach. After several attempts to stand I finaly was standing on my hooves.

"Well that was... interesting to say the least." Needles said before asking. Well if you can take him from here I will take my leave." With that he walked out the white hospital rooms door.

The new mare turned to me after he left and asked, "Can you follow me please." I nod my head and she turns to start walking and I start to follow her and fell right on to my face.

I got up again and tried to take another stop forward and didn't fall this time.'Fortunately.'