Chapter 3:

Where did you say we are?

"Now what in tarnation is goin' on here?" A voice echoed from the entrance to the barn. I awoke with a jump, still in my jacket. Jaelin jumped up across from me and we turned to face the source of our disturbance. The bright sunlight beamed in behind the person confronting us so we could not see them. "Oh my god!" I exclaimed. "Sorry, my friend and I here got lost and we needed a place to stay the night." "What the hay! You can talk?!" the voice exclaimed. "Yeah of course" Jaelin said. "Wha' are you?" the voice enquired. "We are magical monsters from the land of earth!" I said sarcastically. I expected a laugh as a response, but all I heard was CRACK and Jaelin fell beside me. I looked up to see… a hoof? flying towards my face.

"Ah bloody hell I've had enough of being knocked out" I said. I tried to open my eyes, but there was some sort of bandage blocking my eyesight. "Jaelin you there?" I called out into the gloom. I was met with a constant "beep beep beep" of a heart monitor. Am I in hospital, I wondered. "Yeah I'm here" said Jaelin, just off to my right a bit. "Are we in hospital?" he asked. "Yeah I'm pretty sure we are." "Thank god, I don't know how much longer I can handle being knocked out." "Same here bro" I said back to him. I felt down, bloody nurses didn't even bother to take off my jacket. It was starting to get uncomfortable.

"They can talk!" A surprised female voice came from somewhere around my feet, In the same room. "Yeah ah told you they could" replied the voice from the barn earlier. "Oh my gosh oh my gosh what do you think they are!?" A surprised voice exclaimed from the bottom of the room. "They don't look like any animal I've ever seen" said a timid sounding. "Darling isn't it obvious they are some sort of filthy forest creature?" Said a…posh sounding voice. "They don't look to scary to me" claimed another confident voice. "Excuse me but I'd love it if you stopped talking about us as though we aren't in the room." I said in the most polite way possible, without showing any anger. "Yeah we are not monsters!" exclaimed Jaelin from beside me. "Terrible sorry about my friends, we've just never seen anything like you in Equestria before." It took a moment for that comment to sink in. "WE ARE WHERE!" We both yelled from our hospital beds in sync. "In Equestria of course" the voice replied. "If you don't mind could you please take these bandages off my face so I can see" I said. "Okay" the voice, hesitantly. The moment that bandage dropped, my eyes bulged. Before me stood 6 multicolour ponies. None other elements of harmony themselves. "Oh…my…god" I whispered to myself as I saw them all standing in front of us. "Jaelin can you believe what we are seeing?" I asked. "No fucking way" he replied.