Lost Cause
Chapter 2: A strange surprise
Aces POV
"ughh"grunts and groans emitted from my mouth. My sense of touch was starting to get back to me as I felt something soft underneath my hand. "Wait a second, am I in a hospital bed?" I questioned out loud as my hearing got to me. "Yes you are, our friends carried you over hear, they said your were a bit heavy but that didn't bother them as they saw a ughh... creature in need" A strange yet smooth voice called from in front. I guessed that the voice was a female as it sounded heavenly. I ignored the fact that she called me creature as I suddenly splurted out "Wait, my eyes, I can't see, am I blind?" I worriedly asked the heavenly voice. "No, you've just got bandages on your eyes" She said with a slight chuckle. "Well can you take them off" I kindly said. "I'm not aloud to, Nurse Redheart said that she can take them off in the morning" The smooth voice said. Nurse Redheart, What a peculiar name I thought to myself.
I tried to lift up my left arm up to stretch it but I felt something hard and soft slowly push my arm back down which made me puzzled as what seemed like she didn't use her hand. "No no no, you can't move that arm just yet you can move the other one though" She commanded me. I obeyed and started to stretch my right arm and wiggle it around to get the blood to flow. "Am I allowed to move anything else heavenly voice" I said as a sudden realisation of what I called her came to my head. "You're only allowed to move your right leg and that's about it, your chest and left leg have horrible injuries which have only healed the slightest" She states. "I got a few questions for you to answer, Where am I, Who are you and What time is it?" I inquire. "First of you are in the Canterlot hospital and Canterlot is a place in Equestria. Second, I am Princess Celestia and I raise and lower the sun. Lastly the time is 4:30 in the morning" Celestia proudly said."Anyway you should get some more sleep because you are going to meet the ponies that saved you in the morning" Celestia said. "Urrrmm... ok" I said in a weird yet puzzled tone of voice.
I twisted and turned restricting my left arm and leg from moving to cause any extra pain. I heard the sound of hooves clopping against the floor but I couldn't react to it as I was half asleep but then when the sound came to a halt I could hear whispers "Is he alright, did he say anything mean, did he hurt you" A mysterious voice quietly said. "Everything is alright sister, he's got a good soul and I know it" Celestia replied.
-Afternoon after Aces POV-
"He's waking up everypony, get your celebration hats on" An extremely excited voice tunnelled through my ears. "Pinkie now's not the time" A southern accent appeared. "Girls stop arguing, we need to be in a happy mood for when he fully wakes up" A sophisticated voice said. "What in the world is going on" I tiredly delivered whilst trying to fight off a yawn."Nurse, may you remove his bandages" The sophisticated voice said. "Sure Princess Twilight Sparkle" The nurse replied. Princess Twilight Sparkle I thought to myself until I was interrupted with the unravelling of bandages over my eyes. Bright light started peaking through the small holes but then the last bandage came off and I was engulfed in light and my vision was blurred but started to regain its position. I could see weird shaped but colourful figures in front of me. "Hello" The heavenly voice called again."Is that you Cestia" everyone chuckled at me calling her that. "It's Celestia" She replied with a chuckle. It was now that my eyesight was brought back to life and the colourful figures looked real as they were trying to talk to me. I just sat there in shock and the arm I had free wiped the two of my eyes not believing a single thing I saw. I knew this was real as I tried to pinch myself as well.
"Hey sleepy head, you've been asleep all morning" The pink one said. "Aghhhh" I screamed in shock and quickly pulled the IV tubes out of my left arm giving it movement. I made a bolt to the exit but a golden aura surrounded me and slowly drifted me back to the bed. My best efforts of getting out of it was no match for the strange glowing magic. "Don't worry we're not going to hurt you" Celestia reassured me. As the golden glowing magic dissapeared around me I put my fists up and stood in a defensive position "What the fuck is going on!?" I demanded as I heard gasps escape from some of their mouths. "I said don't worry, if you sit down we will talk about it and be careful your leg is hurt" Celestia spoke in her smooth heavenly voice. Her voice calmed my shock a bit and I somehow obeyed her and sat on the bed letting my arms drop to my sides but it still didn't mean I was worried as I darted my eyes looking at everyone just in case something happened. "When you blacked out these six ponies saw you with a timberwolf just below your umm..." Celestia stopped as she motioned her eyes towards my feet. "Feet" I said to her. "Yes and even though they've never seen you before they saw that you were terribly injured and brought you here without anypony else seeing you" Celesita replied adding a warm smile. My gaze set upon a purple pony and I saw her scribbling some words on a note pad. "So I guess you guys are ponies right" I asked. "Yeah" A cyan pony replied. "Well not really, I mean me and fluttershy are Pegasus and the princesses are alicorns, Rarity is a unicorn and the rest are earth ponies" The cyan pony said in cool tone.
I looked around at every pony she was naming and rubbed my forehead to massage it from a sudden headache. "Well then, Thank you everyone" I blurted out confusingly until I was met with a very posh voice. "It's quite alright Mr..." She trailed off. "Ace, just call me Ace" I replied to the posh pony. "Well then, it's quite alright Ace" She replied back. "Wait a minute, i'm missing something" I said with a stern look on my face. "What's there to be missing?" Celestia questioned me. "My stuff, you know my bag and clothes" I replied looking around. "Oh, they're in the corner over there" She responded warmly. I walked about three steps and my left leg started to hurt badly "Ow, shit" I whispered quietly as I limped the rest of the way. Every step was painful but I didn't want to show any pain because they would've put me back in that sweaty hospital bed. "Know if I can get any place for some privacy and to think about what's happened over the last ten minutes" I asked kindly to the nurse. "Well there is a bathroom just outside with a shower and a toilet ready for use" The nurse pointed a hoof to the door. Ooh a shower does sound nice I thought to myself whilst stroking my hairless chin "Thank you and i'll be back in a bit" I gave a slight wave as I limped out the door and saw a sign that said 'Stallion' written on it. I just shrugged and opened the door to see a fairly big sized bathroom all to myself. I twisted the shower knob to set it to what temperature I like it on and pressed the button to turn it on then dropped all my stuff on the floor whilst steam filled the room. I entered the heaven that was infront of me and sighed a good sigh as the hot water washed all of the sweat and remains of blood off of me.
I had my shower and was mid way getting my military clothes on. It was then that I thought of how they got the clothes off me but I didn't really care. All my clothes were on and I looked through my bag to find everything that was in it, even my knife and pistol were in my bag as I swore they were laying beside me when I blacked out. I just shrugged and grabbed my phone from my bag to see that it was on 30% battery. "Oh great and even better I left my charger back at base"I muttered to myself. Knock Knock "Is everything alright in there?" Celestia asked. "Yeah i'm good, just about to come out now" I replied. "Good because i'll like you to meet my sister, she wasn't sure about you at first but when I told her you were ok, she gathered up some courage to face you" She spoke in a proud yet smoothing voice. I twisted the doorknob and pulled the door open to see Celestia and what i'm guessing was her sister. So that's who she was speaking to last night I thought to myself as the blue coloured alicorn looked at me. "H-Hello" She stuttered. I ran a hand through my now damp hair and simply replied "Hello". I somehow started to walk properly as I got used to the pain already.
I opened the door to the hospital room that everyone else was in and I signalled for the alicorns to go first. "Ladies first" I pronounced. They both went in with puzzled looks on their faces and I followed along straight after. They didn't notice at first but when I cleared my throat to speak they all stopped and looked at me curious as to what will come out of my mouth. I looked around and couldn't see the pink pony. "Before I ask my big question, where is the pink one gone to?" I asked a bit worried that she has just gone and told everyone of my existence. "Pinkie Pie, she should be right here darling" The posh one spoke up but turned to face nothing. "Wanna cup cake?" The excited voice said whilst trying to shove a cupcake in my face. "Aaagggghhh" I screamed and jumped back but failed to land on my feet. I got back up and dusted myself off. "Pinkie!" The purple one exclaimed. "What I just asked him if he wanted a cup cake Twilight" Pinkie defended herself. "Anyway, My guess is that i'm most likely going to stay in where ever we are for a while, right" I looked at everyone whilst they silently nodded. "So where in the wide world am I gonna stay?" I asked concerned. "I would let you stay in Canterlot but the guards will think you're an intruder and attack you" Celestia returned. "I guess he can stay with me, I mean I have a castle now and a lot of rooms need to be filled" Twilight spoke when all was silent. "Ok" I simply said to her."Before everyone goes, can we get a proper introducing" I kindly pronounced. "Yes" Celestia spoke up. "As you know i'm Cestia, oops Celestia" She remarked at my mess up earlier whilst everyone's response was a chuckle. "This is my baby sister Princess Luna and the six here are Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity Belle and Pinkie Pie" She proudly said pointing to the correct ones. I tapped the back of my head to keep a mental note of all the names Celestia represented me. "Well you guys, just call me Ace for now" I introduced myself to them. "Is this a wrap up" I called to everyone. They all nodded their heads but Twilight motioned me to come to her. "How are you with teleportation" She asked. "Teleportation!" I exclaimed confusingly. "Don't worry I'll tell you later" She said. "Before you go Twilight make sure to give me a progress update on everything later on" Celestia required. Twilight gave a silent nod and in a flash of light we were gone.
I will try and aim all chapters from now on to be at least over 2,000 words or over. But this does mean more waiting time.
Thank you for everyone that has read this.