"Captain Andrews, can you hear me?"

I tried to open my eyes, but they were taped shut. I raised a hand but felt another push it back down. "Woah, take it easy, sir."

Soon after, I got the bandages taken off my eyes and realized I was in a hospital.

"Sir, do you remember what happened? How you got here?"

I shook my head. My mouth was so dry I couldn't say a word. The nurse brought me some water, and I was able to talk again.

The doctor stepped beside my bed. "You were in a training accident. Your aircraft took a very hard landing. You've been in a coma for two weeks."

I recalled everything from before I woke up. I remember living just like I had normally, but most unusually, I remembered her. I remembered the cartoon that brought me back.

But, as soon as I realized I was back in the real world, I had a sad realization. She was gone. She was as she was before. Rainbow Dash was now no more than one of a cast of six in a children's show. Why my subconscious decided she was the best thing to lead me out of a coma, I'll never understand.

I ended up having a few broken ribs and a pretty nasty concussion. I was in the hospital a while longer before I was released. I didn't have to go into work for a few weeks while I recovered back at the homestead, but to be honest, it was strange coming back to an empty house. Before, it had always been empty. Just me and Boris. I looked at my couch and felt a pain in my heart. There was no little blue horse curled up on it.

Upstairs, my spare bedroom was empty, save for the deflated air mattress, not a single blue hair or feather anywhere near it.

After my visitors and well-wishers had left, I sat alone in my living room. I could think of nothing better to do, so I went to my movie collection that had gathered a considerable amount of dust since my accident. As I was scanning through the volumes, I came across The Shining.

I smiled, remembering Rainbow's reactions to it.

Even recalling the time spent with her was kind of depressing. I pulled the case out of the rack, and saw a note scribbled on it in marker.

'That kid is still fucking creepy.'

I sat back on the couch, still holding the cover. I turned on the TV, and found Netflix. I found a show I hadn't watched in quite a while, and flipped it on, starting with the very first episode. Rainbow was just as I remembered her.

I glanced back at the blu-ray case and smiled.

Maybe I am crazy.

But maybe that's okay.

Author's Notes:

Yeah so... I dunno why I wrote this. It was more a stream of consciousness that I just sat down and wrote. Some of it came from how I though certain ponies would react to things we humans do every day, and then I realized I couldn't just write a series of random vignettes about them doing stuff we do with us. So I kinda tacked on a back story and made up a guy to narrate. I suppose it's more about how long we'll all be on this crazy ride until it fades into the past as we move on to something else, or after the show goes off the air.

Anyway, hope you got a few laughs out of it.