Looking ahead of me, I saw Applejack and Big Macintosh was there with Granny Smith were there, though they didn't seem too worried.

When Applejack saw me, she smiled and hopped to me. "Yer awake! Well ya haven't been asleep for long, they just took Applebloom in to check on her, i reckon your teacher is getting checked on too."

I was still dreary from sleep but i looked about, blinking out the drowsiness in my eyes. "Cheerily has a broken hoof and applebloom is cut on the flank, could get bad if we don't fix it." Then i looked to Big Mac. "Hey, why aren't you all in there with her? It's not that bad of wounds."

Granny Smith nodded slowly "You were the one to save her, we all agreed you should s-" at that point she mumbled off to sleep.

Applejack took it up. "You saved her, least we can do is let ya see her first. She ain't been long, maybe two minutes. We'll be there shortly after."

I nodded and got up, going to Appleblooms room. None of the nurses stopped me or asked me for my name or anything, which made sad sense. I came here quite often unfortunantly. Crashes into buildings, failed scooter tricks, fights with bullies, exploding schools, and stuff like that always put me bedridden or injured.

I even knew what room Applebloom was in before anypony told me. Just a quick glance at the front desk told me she was in room 10, so i entered that room. She was sitting on a chair as a doctor did the usual checkup that you'd do on a minorly hurt pony, checking her hooves and face and dabbing alchohol stuff on her smaller cuts, which she winced abit to until she saw me.

Applebloom smiled wide and hopped off the chair. "Hi Scootaloo!" She gave me as big of a hug as she could, which i greeted with one as well. Her mane still smelled like smoked wood from the school. There was a bandage across her flank over the cut.

"Hey Applebloom, it's good to see you're ok." She was so happy to either be alive or see me, she shook abit into the hug. The nurse gathered her materials and left, giving us some private time.

She stood in silence, keeping her head on my shoulder. "Thank ya for savin me, scoots.", she finally whispered. Her voice was soft and happy next to my ear, and from another look at the bandage on her (yes that is what i was looking at), i felt a small wave of guilt roll over me.

"I wouldn't of had to if i didn't tell you to follow me. In the end i put more ponies in danger than i had to."

"But if i wouldn't have been there, something much worse could have happened to Ms. Cheerily!" She broke the hug and looked at me, abit annoyed. "If i hadn't followed, would you have been able to save her on your own?"

She had a point. I still felt bad, but I decided not to let that show. "I guess not. Mind if i look at the cut?"

She eyed the bandaid on her rump and smiled, speaking sarcastically as she waved it abit. "Oh that's what ya wanna look at?"

The thought of me considering staring at her like that made me feel funny, and her shaking her flank made my face hot. "Uhhh... I can heal it if you want"

She looked at me confused "It'll heal over time, like all of your injuries. Worst I'll get is a scar or something, and ah can live with that"

Even with that comment, i knelt down next to her and inspected the cut. Undoing the bandage, the cut looked the same as in the dream, but cleaned out by the nurse.

Something glinted on my chest and i looked down, just noticing the crystal on my neck. It was like Zaanne's, but abit smaller and with a chain holding it instead of leather, thankfully. It glowed faintly on me, the ship thing patiently waiting to heal Applebloom, so i let it.

I'm not completely sure what i did to help, but it worked. I placed my hoof on her flank and watched. At first, nothing happened. Then, the crystal glowed brighter, sending a warm feeling through my body. As the warmth hit my hoof, the wound on her began to close. She didn't protest, so I figured it was painless, and she seemed content with laying down on the floor. The cut slowly closed into a scar, and even that was fading. It shrank into the size of a paper cut before dissappearing completely.

A.B. Had fallen asleep at some point, breathing deeply and leaning abit against me, so i put her back on the checkup bed that is always covered in paper for some reason. She smiled in her sleep, grabbing my hoof before i could move back and hugging it like a teddy bear.

I felt weird, having Applebloom hold my hoof in her sleep, but she seemed to like it, and eventually i decided to let her have my hoof until the nurse came back. Her body was warm on my hoof when she pulled it closer, sending a small shiver down my spine for no reason.

Then Zaanne came up in my head. Hello? This thing on? He said.

"Uhhh hello?"

think when you talk to me, no talking to talk, got it?

"Uhhhh, no." I had no idea how Zaanne had started talking in my head, since he was apparently in Gabriel's. I guess there's a wireless phone line in brains or something.

Ugh fine, one second there was a lot of tinkering noises and the sound of banging hammers, which quickly gave me a headache.

After about a minute of the tinkering, the crystal started speaking like a speaker. "Better? Now you don't sound insane in public!"

"This is Zaanne right? I saw you in my dream."

"Yeah that's me. I can't see you but you sound familiar, who exactly are you? Ben Ten?"

"My name is Scootaloo, I'm a pony from ponyville."

There was a really long pause on the other end before i heared "HOLY SH-.... Uhhhh you're a pony?"

"Yes, is that bad?"

"NONONONONONO that's awesome! I'm talking to Scootaloo!? Like no joke, an actual Pegasus?!"

"How'd you know I'm a Pegasus?"

He didn't seem to hear, he was too busy yapping random things. It sounded like he was fanfillying, which i could understand if i were somepony famous, like spitfire or the princess. This made no sense, to be so happy about hearing me.

Applebloom was still asleep so i left her there, she was healed and happy, so i was happy. Even the smaller cuts and bruises had faded away, plus i didn't want to disturb her any more. Once i was back in the lobby, i told Big Mac and Granny Smith that she was asleep. I found Applejack talking to Rainbowdash, laughing and smiling at things i couldn't hear. They seemed so overjoyed to talk to each other i heard myself chuckle under my breath.

Applejack heard me and jumped abit, looking startled at me. "Oh, Scootaloo! We were uhh, talking"

I had a slight idea of what i interrupted thanks to Sweetiebelle, so i just nodded.

"Is Applebloom ok?" Rainbow asked, anxious to go to that subject. Her cheeks were slightly red and she was sitting pretty close to AJ, not that i noticed or anything.

"Yeah, she's fine. She's asleep though so i wouldn't wake her up." Zaanne had gone silent then, and I wasn't sure if he was listening of not. The crystal had stopped glowing and hung loosely on my chest. It was so light i barely felt it when i was still.

"Well, Cheerily is doing pretty well, only one problem."

"Broken hoof, Yeah i know."

Rainbow looked suprised, and i was amused that i could intrigue her. "By the way, how did you know her hoof was broken?"

Then the thought occurred to me that, if i were to say that a rock told me in a dream with a psychotic monkey that could talk, I'd be put in a padded room with that weird filly Screwball.

"I... Uhhh... Noticed it when we were at the school..." I studdered.

She seemed to belive it and layed back in a chair, looking out the window. "I don't know what was caused the damage, but it's gone now. Thanks for helping Applebloom, kid, you did good."

I thanked her and looked outside. The smoke had dissappeared, thanks to the weather ponies making wind drafts away from the town. I didn't realize how hungry i was until one of the drafts went through the food market and drifted into the building.

Applejack heared my tummy rumble and laughed heartfully. "She must be starving after the whole thing, let's getchya something to eat."

"Can i come too?" Rainbowdash said "I'm starving!"

In the back of my head, i heared mayor mare talk again. ~She ate before she came here, she appears to be full.~

How do you know that? I asked, or thought, or something like that.

Planet scan, Rainbowdash was eating a hay sandwich while the medics inspected the teacher.

You're kinda nosey for a space ship... Rainbowdash was up with AJ and they left to sweet apple acres, so i followed.

I gather information and say what is relevant to it, is that not what a computer should do?

Computer.... What's a computer?

The complete walk to the apple family's farm consisted of a rock talking in my head over what this computer thing is.

Ok ok, so it's a box of electricity that transfers information?

That's about it, and you can access games from it.

What kind of games?

Suddenly the convorsation was inturupted by Zaanne, who came through my head with the sound of explosions. We're being attacked by Megan Fox cheerleaders and you're talking about software?! Get your head in the game!

I'm talking on both sides, no need to worry yourself on something you can't comprehend.

Well screw you too. Scootaloo, can you help me out? He explained the situation of Gabriel being trapped in some dark magic room, the ship/mayor revising him whenever he exaggerated. I was listening so hard that i accidentally ran face-first into an apple tree.

After a few grumbles to myself i found that i had completely moved off the trail from the other two, but they didn't even seem to bat an eye at me. They spent their time, walking slowly about ten yards behind and again picking up the conversation that i couldn't hear.

Uhhh, get the nurse to shoot fire at the other end or something, make both sides bright. I decided. It seemed logical enough, having light shot at you would mean you have light to expend. I recalled learning something like that from Ms. Cheerily in "Magic Science Week", where we all try to match scientific theories with magic and mumbo-jumbo like that.

It's our best bet, I'll see if it works. they went silent after that, so i regained the path to the Apple farm house and waited for the two there.

They must have noticed my stares, since they immediately regained their space bubbles at the sight of me. "So..." Rainbowdash said, "what do you have here?"

"Uhhh, you know... Apples?" She looked off at the apple trees, that or RD's tail hitting the sunlight as she walked up the steps of the farmhouse porch for about three seconds. Four seconds... Five seconds... "Right!" She finally stumbled out, "apples it is then!"

As she left to gather the nessecary materials for apple products, namely apples, i looked to Rainbowdash. "You two done with the girly crush stuff or is this gonna keep up until hearts and hooves day?"

She seemed confused by my question, since i got a well informing "huh?"

"Seriously, when Applejacks not checking you out, you're looking at her." I figured i should have kept it to myself, but i had alone time with my non biological sister, so i figured it'd be the best time to ask. "What's up with that?"

"Wait, Applejack checks me out?" She said in the same tone you would ask for candy at a candy shop.

"Yeah, but why do you?" I already knew the answer, but i felt obligated to hear it from her instead of in some gossip.

She scanned around to make sure nopony was looking and motioned me closer, whispering silently into my ear, "Well, if you really wanna know, I've kinda liked her, for a while now... You ok with that?"

"Yeah, totally cool with that, I just figured out this morning that most of everyone here is into mares anyway" i told her about what Sweetie said about her friends, realizing i was just as bad with secrets as her right as i finished.

Apparently rainbow and I have an equal style of A.D.D. "Oh, Pinkie's bi? That explains that party she threw a few weeks ago!"

"Yeah by the way, what's bi mean?" I still hadn't gotten a straight answer on what that was.

"Uhhh it mea-"

it's someone that likes both genders. mayor mare inturupted.

"Oh, thanks." I said out loud

"No problem" Rainbowdash said, which made me unsure of who i was refering to. Applejack was trotting back, about ten yards away with a batch of apple pies on her back. There was no possible way that she could have baked three pies in so little time, but they smelled delicious, and I was hungry, so i wasn't going to question.

"Oh also, please don't tell AJ what i said, Pinkie Promise you won't."

I did the hoof gestures for the Pinkie Promise as the farm pony came, setting the pies on an outdoor table. "Y'all ready for some good ol' apple pie?!"

We all ate quickly, smiling in delight of the taste of the pies. Every so often the beings in my head would talk, and i would stop to listen to them. Zaanne seemed to be aggressive but kind hearted to his friend Gabe or anyone that wasn't human, while the ship was pretty much Twilight without the shyness, spouting facts and constantly informing me of what Gabriel was doing, switching voices to random famous or important ponies.

As the voice of Princess Cadence was telling me what he about Gabe's new clothing articles, and Zaanne talking about how Rarity could go for some magical accessories, i realized applejack and Rainbowdash were looking at me funny. "Yes?", I asked.

"You've been spaced out for almost five minutes now," rainbow asnswered, "what's on your mind kid?"

Purple hair? Zaanne said, which made me giggle to myself.

The two that couldn't hear him were really looking at me now, seemingly questioning my sanity. "You ok there, sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

I figured that i shouldn't stay longer, since they couldn't hear who i was talking to anyway, and having the necklace talk would give me way too much attention. "Yeah yeah, I'm fine. I'll just be going now, check to see if dinners being made or something..."

"But you just ate..." But i was already down the steps and galloping off.

Now that i had some free time, i asked aloud, "If you can do all that magic for us, why can't you just send Gabe's friends out of the hospital?"

"The aliens have set a force feild that disables teleporting anyone that doesn't have the crystal on them.", Ship said as i entered town, sneaking into an alley way to talk.

"Why don't they disable the crystal?"

"Two reasons." Zaanne said, speaking grimly, "One, they can't do that without the crystal. Two, they want Gabe to give them the ship. They're leading us into a trap."

"Then you two get to helping him, you don't need me distracting you."

"Actually, we could use you over here. The crystal said, flashing brightly. "Would you like to meet Gabriel?"

"That'd be awesome, but isn't he on a different planet?"

"Simple teleportation, i can send you there, on one condition."

"What would that be?" Me and Zaanne asked. I sat on a crate, looking off in the distance. Gabriel was a few zillion miles away, fighting two insane aliens that wanted to make some thing called "The ultimate world" or at least that's what Zaanne had said. I really wanted to help them out.

"You become human while on earth, to lower suspicion of other worlds."

I paused to that. "A... Human?"

Zaanne didn't seem happy over that. "Why a damn human?! Why can't we just make her an actual horse or something?"

"Horses can't talk, they just neigh. Besides, the dominate race is humans on Earth, so it'd be the most reasonable transformation."

"Can you make me a human? How does that work anyway?"

"The same way that Gabriel aquired a new body. You take the elements of a human being and transfer it to your DNA, morphing you into a human. It's completely painless, i promise you."

I hopped off the crate and looked to the town of ponyville, hesitating abit. "Will i be able to go back home?"

"Yes" Ship said, voice resembling Soarin from the wonderbolts.

Zaanne was grumbling some uncouth comments about humans, which confused me. Why would someone, who lived with humans their entire life, hate them so much?

"Then take me to Earth then, to the hospital that Gabriel's friends are at." As i finished my words, the world went white, then green, then in a flash of light, i was standing on my himd legs, green flames circling me as my body changed, the fur on my arms shrank to nothing, leaving skin and bones. I stared in amazement and horror as my hooves shrank and became something new, five appendages coming out of the base of a small square where my hoof once was.

"I suggest closing your eyes." I heard Zaanne say right in front of me, so i shut my eyes tightly and waited.

"When you open your eyes" A new voice said, who i figured was the ship, "you will be in the room next to Gabriel. For now, rest. The trip won't be long."