I woke up again a bit later, in a bit less pain than the last few seconds I could remember. I could move, albeit with some degree of pain, so I looked down at myself to see the extent of my injuries. To my surprise I was nearly covered in bandages. The parts of myself I could see seemed to have healed, even my burns had shiny new skin grown over them. I had to have been out for a while. I took an idle look around after inspecting myself and saw that I was clearly not in the same place I had been before. It was pretty obvious that I was in some sort of hospital, or at least what looked like one. Everything was bright white and spotless; the kind of hygiene and design one would expect for a hospital. Except everything seemed really... small. I wasn't even laying down on a normal cot, I was laying down on two tiny cots pushed together. There was even a line of small chairs along one of the walls.

For visitors I suppose I thought to myself, If only there were anyone left to visit m.... I stopped at the end of my thought as my gaze settled on the chair closest to my joined cots. In the chair nearest to me, the last one I had looked at, there was a sleeping lavender horse. The same one from earlier. I couldn't help it, it was just too weird. I screamed.

"WAAAAGGGH!!!" The little horse woke with a start and screamed right back.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"WAAAAGGGH!!!"

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"WAAAAGGG..." I paused my scream to let out a few ragged coughs. "...ehm." after I finished screaming, I stared blankly at the little purple horse as she finished her screaming.

"AHHHHHhhhhh....." she slowly stopped as she realized I wasn't screaming anymore. Then she looked right at me and noticed my blank expression. "Why did you scream like that?" she asked, "You scared me half to death!"

"Y....y...you're a...a...talking horse..." I stuttered out dumbly. Her immediate response was to glare at me.

"Pony." she corrected forcefully. I gave a small nod, my mouth hanging open. She held my stare for a little while then looked away, clearly feeling a bit awkward about my unbroken eye contact. "Now that we've established the obvious, what in the name of Celestia are you?" she asked while pointing a hoof at me.

"Shocked beyond belief." I retorted. Glad to see my smart ass wasn't broken. She rolled her eyes.

"Fine, don't tell me." She snapped with a noticeably irritated tone. She hopped down from her chair and started to leave in a huff. When she turned around, suddenly everything clicked into place. I knew without a doubt where I was and exactly who I was pissing off.

"Oh wait! I'm sorry!" I practically screamed. The pony jumped and turned around in the same motion like only cartoon characters can do. I took a deep breath and tried to calm down despite the whirlwind of new questions whipping around my mind. "I'm called a human where I come from."

"Ooooh" said the pony, looking very interested suddenly. "Where are you from?" she asked quickly.

"Earth." I replied cooperatively. Then I freaked out a little and scooted back in my cots, pressing my back against the wall. "Wait...WHEREAMIWHATSGOINGONWHOAREYOUHOWDIDIGETHERE?!?!?" I shouted in a rush, completely forgetting the answers to the questions I already knew.

"Ummm... In order, The hospital, you are healing, Twilight Sparkle, nice to meet you, and I carried you." she replied.

"I'm like 3 times your size how did you carry me?" I asked, holding onto the one answer that made the most sense, minus the hospital and healing ones.

"Magic, duh." she snorted as her horn, which I was just now noticing, glowed and I felt myself float about an inch off the mattresses.

"Magic..." I breathed out the words gently as the torrent of questions filling my mind only grew..

"Eeyup!" she said proudly. I fainted again as I lost the capability to even think clearly.

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I was woken when a bucketful of water hit me in the face.

"I'MAWAKEDON'THURTME!" I yelled in a half-asleep jumble. When I regained my senses I glared at the lavender pony magically levitating a now empty bucket. "Why did you do that?!" I yelled. She looked shocked. Her ears dropped back and her eyes started watering.

"I just wanted to keep talking..." She mumbled. I immediately felt sorry.

Annnnnd cue feeling like a dick. I thought to myself. "Oh no no no, don't cry... I'm sorry... I like talking to you too." I apologized and wanted to reach over and pat her head, but felt like it wasn't a good idea. "What else do you wanna talk about?" I asked.

"What was it that made you so hurt when I brought you here?" She asked with tears still in her voice. I froze. How am I supposed to explain planes and bombs to a creature from a world of friendship. I decided to avoid it and turn this around on her.

"Well..." I said, pretending I was going to answer her. Then I faked a look of shock and yelled, "Wait! You brought me here?!" Her cheeks turned red through her purple coat. Once again, a random part of my mind drifted off into a realm of irrelevance and noticed that the red didn't blend with her fur, but rather stood out. I shook my head clear as she looked at her hooves. She then mumbled unintelligibly

"iwjsprctsvehd....." I didn't understand a word.

"I didn't understand a word of that." I informed her.

"I was practicing a new spell and messed up!" she confessed rather loudly. Which reminds me, there's been a lot of yelling... Why hasn't anyone run in yet?

"What was the spell supposed to do?" I asked. "and on a side note, why hasn't anyone run in to investigate the yelling yet?" She turned about five shades redder and gave an odd laugh.

"ah ha ha ha ah....Ummm all the staff are scared of you. That's why nopony is here..." She replied, very obviously dodging my first question. I decided to ignore the dodge for now. I figured the reason everypony was afraid was obvious, they've never seen a human after all. Then something occurred to me.

"Why aren't you afraid of me?" I wondered out loud. Her blush faded and she looked right at me.

"My spell was active long enough that I saw you stand and rush towards whatever caused you all that damage. I saw the look on your face, you were trying to save the other...humans is it? From whatever hurt you. Anypony with that kind of selflessness can't be bad." She stated matter-of-factly. I froze again. did she see the bomb? Oh my gosh I may have ruined this poor girl!

"Um twilight... you didn't see what hurt me... did you?" I asked, pure fear in my voice. She looked at me quizzically.

"No the spell only focused on you and your immediate surroundings. I could see how scared the people around you were...how scared even you were... It must have been terrible wasn't it?" She asked. She was staring right into my eyes. I really REALLY didn't want to lie to her, but it must be done.

"No it ah....wasn't that bad. I was um... ACTING. Yeah acting. In the play I'm supposed to get attacked and WIN, but I messed it up and hurt myself." Not a bad lie if I say so myself. She appeared to buy it, she even perked up and looked a little excited.

"Oooooh an actor?!" She squealed, "Are you famous where you're from?" I relaxed as my lie took hold.

"Hahaha do you really think I could be a famous actor if I can mess up a role so bad I hurt myself like this?" She continued on her little fan girl thing totally undaunted.

"Oh don't be so modest!" She squeaked, "Even the best mess up, like that one time my friend Rainbow...." She grew silent, her pupils shrank, and she jumped up really fast. "Oh my gosh I haven't even introduced my friends yet! They must be wondering where I've been the past three days!" With that she magicked the door open and dashed out, slamming the door behind her. I started laughing.

"I wonder how you're going to introduce us if I haven't told you my name yet!" I yelled at the closed door. This ought to be funny.