Chapter 1: Head-first

It was a dark and stormy night in Equestria thanks to the Pegasi ponies who provided the weather for the nation, everypony had taken refuge in their homes including one Twilight Sparkle of Ponyville.

Everypony in Ponyville knew who she was, she was the Pony who lead herself and 5 others to defeat Nightmare Moon and Discord when they attacked Equestria and assisted in the defeat in Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra. She was also the town librarian who always had her head buried in a book of some sort of magical study as the student of Princess Celestia herself, she often helped the town with certain Chaotic things that happen occasionally even if they are caused by Twilight herself.

Twilight Sparkle was in her usual spot reading yet another book with her number one assistant, Spike keeping the books in order when suddenly, a strange purple lightning flash filled the sky and illuminating the library which made Twilight look up and out of the window as a scream rang.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” screamed something from outside

And then...

THUD!

“What in the name of Celestia was that?” asked Twilight to herself mostly

“I dunno Twilight but that sounded like trouble” said Spike heading to the door

When Twilight and Spike went out to the heavy rain to check what it was they were unpleasantly surprised to see something quite strange: A weird Bipedal like creature was face down but the thing that horrified the pair was that it was bleeding a lot of blood most especially from the head and it was naturally assumed that this creature was in serious trouble.

Wasting no time, Twilight flared her horn with a Magenta colour of magic to lift the creature carefully inside onto the nearest bed which already was staining with blood. There was no time for error as the creature seemed to be in life and death mode and Twilight knew she had to what she had to do

“Spike, I need you to run as fast as you can to the Hospital and get Nurse Redheart or anypony from the Hospital to get here as fast as possible” ordered Twilight urgently

“On it” replied Spike and he disappeared out the door

Twilight Sparkle was no expert at first aid but she read a lot of theory and the instructions about it and it was time to put it into practice and hold at as long as she could as she knew she could not do this herself but desperate times called for desperate measures as Twilight started wrapping bandages and healing spells at once.

As she started, she got a better look at the creature, it was with natural assumption that it was a he for starters, it was wearing clothes in the weirdest style Twilight ever witnessed. Around the top of the creature were two “Arms” with five claw like things sticking out of each arm and there were definite feet but there was some shoes covering his feet so she could not see what it had. His face was much like a pony’s but it looked different but it’s “Mane” was kind of a blonde like colour and it was short but untidy to the point Rarity would flip out if she ever saw him like this.

After around 10 minutes, Spike returned with Nurse Redheart and a few other Doctors and Nurses who kept pressure on certain wounds and took the creature to the hospital to fix him up as Twilight relaxed slightly after doing so much work to keep the creature alive.

“I really hope the poor thing is okay, I can’t help but worry despite trying my best to keep him alive”

“Uh Twilight? Not to sound rude but you should probably wash yourself up” suggested Spike

“Why? What’s wrong with me?” asked Twilight not noticing the blood on her

“You’re covered in blood, lots of blood of an unknown creature” pointed out Spike

“Oh, I suppose you’re right” said Twilight noticing

True, Twilight did have blood on her coat and mane from trying to save the creature and she did not know if the creature has any diseases or anything that can pass on so she wisely went to wash up.

After a good wash, Twilight could not help but wonder so many things about the mysterious creature. What was it? Who was he? How did he fall from the sky? Will he be alright? And just where did he come from?

“Twilight, are you okay? You’ve been pacing in this room for 15 minutes now” said Spike

“I wish I was but I can’t help but wonder…” Twilight trailed off

“That creature’s got you curious hasn’t he?” asked Spike

“He would get anypony curious Spike, he’s never been seen before in the history of Equestria and he just fell out of the sky for reasons none of us can understand and it just raises more questions about his being! I guess I’ll have to make a checklist of things to ask him when he’s better” said Twilight muttering the last part

“I get it okay? But you don’t need to worry, Ponyville hospital has never let anypony down before and there is no reason it shouldn’t now” assured Spike

“I needed that, thanks Spike” thanked Twilight feeling a lot better

Spike, now that the tension was over was starting to feel tired as he let out a huge yawn.

“Yaaaaawwwwwnnn! Well I need some sleep” said Spike

“I need some as well it’s…11:30 already?” said Twilight

The pair of them went to the bed or in Twilight’s case she had to use the spare room as the creature bled over her sheets, which she wrote a reminder to wash them tomorrow morning. The dark and stormy night continued outside and the heavy rain poured down on the houses of Ponyville as sleep took control of Twilight plunging her into a dream.

Twilight’s dream…

Twilight Sparkle was walking along the town of Ponyville doing her usual business when the same purple lightning came down and down the creature fell directly in front of her. She checked it to be alright but it seemed like it was slowly dying as she did all she could to keep the creature alive and she sent Spike to get the Nurses to come and fix him up.

(Ripple effect and change of scene)

Twilight woke the next morning and a knock on the door came from the Nurse proclaiming the creature is dead which saddened Twilight greatly, she never got to know the creature, it could have been intelligent as ponies but now it’s gone and...why is it right in front of her?

“Twwwwiiiiilliiiiighhhhtt Spaaaarrrrkkkllleee!” the creature spoke in a male voice

“It’s you, you’re alive!” said Twilight gladly

“No, I am dead! Why didn’t you save me?” said the creature with a hint of anger as he towered over her

“But I did everything I could!” protested Twilight

“Why didn’t you save me?” repeated the creature even more angrily

Suddenly the creature started duplicating into more and more clones of him all chanting the same thing over and over again.

“Why didn’t you save me?”

Why didn’t you save me?”

Why didn’t you save me?”

“I tried all I could” said Twilight

“Why didn’t you save me?”

“No, Nooo” said Twilight despairing and galloping away with tears

Twilight galloped but everywhere the creature spawned until she bumped into some clones blocking her way who started shouting even louder with angry voices.

“WHY DIDN’T YOU SAVE ME!”

“WHY DIDN’T YOU SAVE ME!”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” screamed Twilight

…

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!” screamed Twilight as she sat up quickly waking from her nightmare, breathing heavily

“Twilight! Twilight! Are you alright? You were screaming” said Spike who rushed in

“Oh Spike it was the most horrible nightmare” said Twilight with a few tears as she was shaking slightly

It was morning in Ponyville, the sun was shining through the spare bedroom Twilight had slept in through the night. But still the thing that was bothering her was that nightmare.

Twilight remembered the nightmare, the guilt of that nightmare and she hoped that did not pass last night. After a couple of minutes together in silence, Spike spoke up.

“Do you wanna talk about it?” asked Spike

“NO! I mean no thank you Spike, last night was a long night and I need to check on that creature” said Twilight getting up

"Well if you want to, I'll be here" said Spike kindly

Twilight proceeded to exit the room leaving Spike so confused about her behavior and felt a tad worried about her as he watched her exit the library to check on the creature.

“That creature has really gotten to Twilight hasn’t it?”