If i was going to sneak in, I'm not sure why i set my hands on fire before i did. Strangely enough i got noticed immediately. The woman at the front desk eyed me from a magazine, staring at me with a confused face.

"Ship, will the nurses attack?" I asked, since i realized i didn't have a plan for if i got caught.

"They have the same mind set of a human, but they're only an emulated version of the species. They will attack, but chances are you won't be damaging anyone if you were to attack them."

As he was saying that, the nurse broke from her confusion and sat up quickly. "A-are you ok? Are you the special patient my boss told me about?"

"Uhh, maybe?" If it was a fake hospital then i figured I'd be the only patient anyway. That must have been what she was talking about.

She still studied me in shock. "H-how are your hands on fire?!" She asked shakily. Her manicured fingers were on her desk, inching toward some button.

"Magic rock, I don't really know myself." On that, I walked toward the door that had the least amount of traps, pushing on it. It didn't open.

"They open from the other side, or by a button on my desk." She pressed a button and a completely different door swung open, which i could feel magic lightning zip through it, waiting to electrocute me. "Your bed is this way, sir. Zaanne is your name, right?"

"Uhhh taco." I hadn't noticed that i didn't babble random words since the explosion, but now that my mind wasn't really set on talking (as it never is), i couldn't think of what i was supposed to say. "I mean, sure."

Hey, that's my name! i heard Zaanne say in my head.

I know, but the aliens apparently refer to us by your name for some reason, so I'm going with that for now.

The nurse gestured over to the death hall, which i wasn't reluctant to disobey. With a thrust of my fingers, the fire on my hands bolted into the door, obliterating it into a simmering hole. "I'm good, thank you-", I looked at her name tag, "-Danika. Nice meeting you!"

On that note, i skipped through the red-hot door frame, running like a bullet as I heard her yap over some intercom "Patient 001 is loose! His hands are, like, on green fire and stuff, and he's running down hall 10!"

This time, instead of females in tiny nurse get-ups, two male cops walked into the hall, ten yards in front of me. They had the usual navy suit, with a gun in one holster and what i figured was a taser in another, though I've never seen one before. They had night sticks equipped in their hands and were tapping them on the walls, waiting for me to come closer.

"Why are there cops?!", i yelled, firing two green fireballs at them. They raised their batons and batted the flames as if they were really dangerous base balls, sending them into the walls and causing the hall to catch on fire. I figured the batons were goners, but they didn't even look charred.

"They're like the nurses, just... More powerful.", Ship informed, voice changing so he now sounded like Siri.

The police officers advanced, looking straight at me with stone cold eyes. They were close to three feet away now, within swinging distance, so I did the logical thing. I yelled "PIZZA!", fired my magic at the walls around me, and ran at them. The walls erupted into a pacific green inferno, encircling the guards as i pushed through them.

For the moment, the guards' only reactions were to fall backward, literally, and scramble away from the fire. Their sleeves caught on fire as they tried to evade it. By the time they could gather their wits and snuff out the flames, i was long gone.

The next room i ran into had four guards, this time with no other door. The scanner said there was a hall behind them with a trap-free elevator, but i couldn't see any entrance. The door behind me slammed shut with a "click", which ment no turning around.

The officers surrounded me, each one having a different weapon out, from the hand gun to the taser to the baton. The fourth one had a metal bat, which didn't seem right for a cop to have. Whenever i looked one way, i could see the gunman and the bat boy, but not the taser or baton guy. I was surrounded.

"Lemme at 'em!" Zaanne yelled from the crystal. After what i saw him do at school, I could see how Zaanne could handle himself on one or two cops, but four, with weapons?

Before i could decide if i even could switch out for Zaanne, the officer charged at me, raising his bat up.

I didn't really think and i ducked from his swing, shooting my fire at his arm. It exploded and he spiraled to the floor, screaming in pain and smoking like a barbecue. He dropped his bat, and I immediately felt bad for him. "Oh, sorry!"

He looked at me with pure hate, reaching for the bat with his other hand. At the time i saw the taser man start up the electricity inside the gun. He fired as soon as i ran for the bat man. We both grabbed the bat when the taser hit my arm, making it go numb and sending electricity through the metal, zapping the cop's good hand.

I might have apologized again, but there was an electric wire sticking out of my arm, which didn't feel good. I yelped and extended my arm, expecting to light the guy up, but something different came out.

As i yelled, the flames on my hands died and switched to white and green electricity, shooting out like i were a taser. The pain in my arm subsided and cop #2 glowed brightly and fell. I looked at my jacket sleeve, which was undamaged somehow. Plasma surged through my arms painlessly.

"Fire" i said, and my original magic returned. Taser man was nothing but a pile of clothes and bat man's arms were scorched to his shoulders, with the other two cops staring with awe, or fear, I don't know. My left arm tingled and still wouldn't move, but it didn't hurt and the wire thing from the taser had fallen out at some point. I couldn't register what just happened, but Zaanne beat me to questioning.

"What the hell did Gabriel just do?!" Zaanne asked.

"He absorbed the electricity that should have paralyzed him and shot it back at the target, which seemed to disentigrate him. Fairly simple feat compared to surviving the grey people."

"Wait, I killed the guy?!" The other cops were staring at me, gun and baton pointed as i chatted with myself. "I was just trying to stun him!"

The crystal stayed too calm for my comfort. "Don't worry, he wasn't real. He was made like the hospital, you can destroy almost anyone here without hurting a single soul."

"Wait, almost? You mean my friends, right?" The police advanced slowly, eyeing my hands as they got closer.

"Well, them, and an ally, a newcomer to Earth, she'll be here soon, just finishing her adjustments. You won't mind that right?"

"The more the better." The baton guy got over his fears and swung the stick at the back of my neck. I ducked again and tripped him, hopping over him as the other cop fired at my feet. "Well hurry up with your reinforcements!"

I shot fire at the cop's weapon, making him drop the now heated gun. "Wait, how did you guys have time to talk to anyone but me?" That sounded selfish after thinking about it, but too late to rephrase.

"Multitasking! We can be in two places at once!"

I continued dodging and knocking back the police. They both came at me, but I held them back with fire, not anxious to disentigrate anyone else. I didn't really care that they were fake, they still had feelings.

After keeping back the two cops with fire and the occasional lightning, the ship said, "Done. She is in the next room, just open the wall and she can help you with your mission."

"You couldn't tell me who she is?!", I asked as i grabbed the baton in the cops hand, raising my palm up and burning his head to a crisp. "Sorry!"

"I wanted it to be a suprise", Zaanne laughed out. They were hiding something from me, and i wanted to know what. Something about the ally. As the cop fell, I ran to where the hall should have been and touched it. This time, i imagined the explosion that the aliens did at my school.

Cybernetic lining burned in the wall and it exploded, sending dust and wood through and causing a giant hole in the wall, showing a hall. The scanner showed a new aura. A yellow glow with a light green inside it. The elevator was right next to it. The remaining cop ran for his gun, which had cooled off, but with a wave of lightning, he turned into a pile of ash. "So sorry, guys!"

I couldn't see the person in front of me, but i heared coughing and the sound of a marching band running at full speed down every hall, so i grabbed the human, who was strangely light, and pulled us to the elevator. I pressed the "up" button and we waited.

I heard the kid shout, "Hey, you're Gabriel? She sounded about ten, with a slightly scratchy voice that pretty much equaled mine in pitch. From where i had grabbed her, she was about three/fourths of my height.

"Yeah, how do you know me? Have we met from somewhere?" Ship and Zaanne had gone silent for the moment. The dust lowered so i could see the kid, but I was too distracted by the cops that came forth.

There were about twenty now, all with random police weapons drawn. Guns, tasers, even riot shields, were all aligned in each exit. Every cop's eyes focused on me and the kid as they marched forward.

The kid yelled, "how do you shoot fire?!"

"I just yell 'Fire'!" Immediatly the flames on my hands grew and i began shooting my fireballs at the cops. A few got through and burned up some cops, but most were just deflected by batons or blocked by the shields.

I heared from behind me, "Fire!" And turned long enough to see the girl's hands set ablaze. I wasn't sure who was more suprised, me, her, or the police. That shouldn't have been possible without the crystal.

She rose her hands and two green infernos blazed out, rocketing them like torpedoes. The front line of her side of the hall staggered back as the elevator finally opened, and we ran in without hesitation.

I turned the flaming hands off to press the top floor button, which was where my friends were at, as she blazed up the hospital guards that tried to approach. They were now scattered, running around like chickens with their heads cut off, their hair on fire in bizzar shades of green.

Cops dropped shields and weapons, scrambling about and running into eachother. It would have been amusing if they weren't giving us murderous glances and some still trying to fire guns at us, which we somehow dodged the bullets and electric wires.

The doors closed and we slumped down on the floor, breathing heavily. I figured the police would just press the button before we could go up, but the kid did a good job at setting the hall on fire, so they might have been hesitated.

"Wh-who are you?" I asked, looking over to her. She wore a red t-shirt with the emblem that i remembered far too well as the Cutiemark Crusaders logo, with the pony and the cape in the royal sheild thing. She has punk style black jeans, with a chain running from two belt loops. Her hair was either purple or so black it appeared purple, i couldn't tell.

Her face was caramel colored and red on the cheeks, which caught my eye pretty well. My crystal didn't normally expend physical strength for magic power, so she must have been pretty stressed from something before we met. Then again, I'm terrible at reading faces, so i couldn't tell.

That was also a big thing that boggled me. On her chest, in a white chain necklace, was the exact same crystal i had, glowing with energy until she snuffed out her fires. "I'm Scootaloo, nice to meet you too."

Truthfully, i should have called bluff, but at that point i figured many impossible things were happening at the moment. Aliens hold my family hostage, Scootaloo appears as a human to me, why not?

My reaction was immediate and overdramatic, as i expected myself to react to seeing a pony. "YOU'RE SCOOTALOO?! Like, the pegasus, CMC member, RD's best admirer?!"

She laughed, which i couldn't help but hop around the elevator and laugh with her. I was over ecstatic about her existence, but she seemed to be ok with my hyperactivity. "Wow," she said, "you act so much like Pinkie Pie, it's scary! Yeah, that's me, I'm also your reinforcement, so let's go save your friends!"

That set me back on track. She was fairly calm, smiling at me with beautiful purple eyes. The crystals flashed on both of us and we sighed deeply as i felt a surge of extra strength roll through. For a rock, it does pretty well with keeping your stamina up.

"The room is to the left," the crystal ship said from her necklace, sounding like somepony i couldn't think of at the moment, "but there is company there."

I looked with my aura vision. The room still had the captives, but they were in a circle and laying flat on their backs for some reason. The alien was at some desk, tapping on it quickly. At the far side of the hall, i saw the second alien walking with some force, stomping his or her way to the room.

"Thanks ship." Scootaloo said, looking at the level on the button. Three more to go, and I'd be fighting aliens again. No magnesium to get me out of this one.

"So, you two know eachother?" I asked.

"Not too well. He acts like a... It's a computer right?"

"Yeah that's it.", Zaanne said from my crystal.

She explained her story, about the explosion of her school and how she moved really fast and healed applebloom's wounds, then turned human and appeared in the hall next to me. "Woah, you turned human? How'd ya do that?"

"The ship changed me to a human to lower suspicion or something," she said, looking at my crystal, "Maybe he can turn you into a pony."

That sounded like the greatest thing to ever happen to me, and i was certain I wanted to become a pony. I'd gladly fight off aliens to do that, I'd even let Zaanne have my human body, just to tick him off.

"We are SO doing that later!", Zaanne said as the elevator doors slid open, revealing a dark hallway that glowed faintly with a supernatural humming noise that spread through the hall.

The scan said there was a trap down the hall that lead to the designated room, but there was a detour we could take that would get us there. The problem was, the aliens had gathered now, and they were marching side by side in green auras, routing in our direction.

"Why are there so many damn halls?!", Zaanne grumbled, and i realized that he was trying to censor himself around the filly/human, which was really kind considering who Zaanne normally is.

"It's a hospital, whadya expect?" I couldn't see the grey people with my own two eyes, but they were getting closer.

"You got any ideas?", Scootaloo asked, looking down the random halls. I guess she couldn't see the aura or traps.

"I got a few, none all that great." The walls were the same aqua-green color as the other halls, a strangely reoccurring color scheme of the whole alien thing.

There was a smile on my face, despite the situation. I felt overjoyed from meeting Scootaloo, and now that I was certain that Equestria exsists, i couldn't wait to save my friends and turn myself into a pony, i didn't care what was in my way, whether it be hot nurses or cops or psycho aliens.

I must have spaced out because i suddenly felt Scootaloo's small hand grab my arm and pull me into some janitorial closet door. Shutting it, she held her hand over my mouth to silence my confused protest.

The aliens were there now, both looking completely different than their previous forms, but obviously alien. They were Asian now, one wearing a white on black tuxedo and the other in a karate gi, a black and red stitched belt around his waist. The gi was impressive, pitch black with flaming dragons encircling the arms, their mouths open at the wrists to show his hands catching in fire, which he could do without the stitched lizards.

They're the bad guys, i thought, ~the ones we're fighting to save my family~

They look awesome. Scootaloo responded in my head, making me stare at her for a moment. She was like six years younger than me, why couldn't i figure out telekenises so quickly?

The Asians were talking in whispers, looking at the elevator and waiting. I guess they thought we were still in it.

Zaanne said We need to get away and get your friends out, before we get killed. It sounded like a great plan if they weren't a few feet from us. The moment they needed some frebreeze, we'd be busted.

I say we charge out, disorient them as we get as much distance as possible., Scootaloo said, This would be way easier with my scooter.

I'll send it over, ship said, then there was a flash of light. I was suprised the aliens didn't notice. As the light faded, Scootaloo smiled contently. At her feet was her usual scooter. She picked up and studied it.

There was some writing burned into the wood, but looking at the flash of light had left too many white spots in my vision to read. Thanks ship, let's start the charge.

On that, she kicked open the door and sped off down the safe hall, knocking over the aliens in their shock. I didn't have any skating stuff, so i imagined being the speed of scooter and barreled after the human/pegasus.