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After having left Sour and Sunny at the veterinarian, Indigo, Sugarcoat, and Lemon immediately burst through the hospital's glass doors and saw it was chaos in there. They recognized students from both schools there, some with minor injuries and others with their arms and legs twisted unnaturally.
"Yo, we need some help here!" Indigo yelled out at some nurses passing by who noticed the devastating state Sunset was in.
Terminology that the girls were unfamiliar with was ordered out by the nurses, some doctors and nurses getting a bed for Sunset to be placed on. The girls stayed back as they watched the redhead be wheeled away. A nurse came by and sat the girls down, who looked shaken up.
"Alright girls, we're aware of what happened at Canterlot High, " the nurse, a brown haired woman, spoke seriously. The girls looked at each other in surprise.
"Wait miss, you know about the magic duel and portals?" Indigo raised a brow. The nurse looked at the girls in confusion.
"Girls, " she began, "All of our current patients were talking about the same thing, " she paused and knelt down. "At first, the students that came by early were talking about this, we ruled them out as hallucinations due to stress-" She got cut off by the girls talking over each other.
"No, miss, you have to believe us!" Lemon raised her voice, bewildered by the nurse's assumption. "There's this girl that transformed into a person with magic and wings!" She raises her hands high to resemble wings.
"Ma'am, it's the truth." Sugarcoat looked at the nurse sternly. "Don't you think it's worth believing if two schools worth of students come to you with the same story?" She crosses her arms. The nurse hesitated, and eventually rose.
"Follow me girls." She motioned, and the three girls followed along. They reached one of the hospital rooms, a TV mounted on the wall. The nurse reached for the remote and turned the TV on, changing it to the national news. The girls were left aghast at the sight. What was once Canterlot High was now engulfed with the strange portals. Now that they got a closer look, it seemed like horses were in these portals. Lemon pointed at the TV.
"There! That girl!" She jumped, "That's her, the girl with the wings!" The four of them say that Sci-Twi was finishing off the last bit of Canterlot, when she noticed that a camera crew was recording her. She charged up her magic and shot at the camera man, and the signal got cut off.
"Holy shit!" Indigo gasped. The three girls turned to the nurse, who had gone pale. Far away in the hospital lobby, people were shrieking and yelling at each other just as the scene passed the news.
"We are aware that this story your classmates and Canterlot High students is real, and quite frankly..." She turned off the TV, "It's nothing like this country had ever seen before."
The girls walked back to the waiting area and sat quietly. All the TVs in the waiting room were playing news stations from different channels and broadcasters. The silence in the room was deafening, save for the occasional nurse yelling out orders.
Lemon's phone ring and she rose from her spot, walking away from Sugarcoat and Indigo. Soon, their phones rang too. Indigo hung up first and waited for the girls to hang up as well.
"So..." Indigo rocks back and forth in her seat, looking to the ground. "You guy's parents call too?"
"Yep." Lemon sat back down.
"Yes." Sugarcoat nods.
They sat in silence for a while...
"Are you guy's parents coming to pick you up too?" Indigo looked up, fidgeting with her uniform shirt.
"Yeah..." Lemon, who's phone vibrated, said as she got up and said goodbye to the two blue haired girls.
"No..." Sugarcoat stared blankly into space. "I told my grandma I'm staying here for a while, just to keep an eye on the girl."
"That's nice of you dude." Indigo pats the girl on the shoulder. Her phone beeps, "Well dude, I guess I'll see ya later...?" Indigo got up and left. Sugarcoat let a couple more minutes pass, some students leaving already.
She wasn't sure how much time had gone by, hut she must've fallen asleep because it was extremely dark outside. He body was covered in a blanket, and she looked around the waiting area and noticed some students still sitting, asleep. A couple were awake and talking to reception. She rose from her spot and walked towards reception.
"Please miss, tell him Wiz was here, tell him that I'm ok." A guy with a brown bowl cut pleaded with the nurse, who nodded sympathetically. Once he walked, Sugarcoat began to speak.
"Excuse me ma'am, but my friends and I can in here with a red haired girl, " the nurse nodded and began to look through her computer, "And I was just wondering if there any way I can see her?"
The nurse frowned at the computer, then turned to face Sugarcoat. "Are you family or a close relative of hers?" Sugarcoat shook her head.
"Do you know anyone who is?" Sugarcoat shook her head again.
"Well miss, the best thing you can do is wait, she came in critical condition. The doctors are still working on her."
Sugarcoat felt frustration build in her, but remained calm.
"Ok, fine, but can yall at least tell me if she has a phone on her? Check her contacts or something!" Sugarcoat tried arguing.
"We'll try to find a phone, but for now, you can wait in the waiting area." The nurse smiled softly, which made Sugarcoat slump slightly as she walked back to her seat.
The sun was rising at this point, and from what little battery she had on her phone, she saw it was 5 in the morning. The news continued playing 5he events that had transpired in CHS, but Sugarcoat's attention heightened when they announced that the president of the United States was giving a statement.
"My fellow Americans, know that your safety is of the utmost importance. We are currently investigating the gravity of this foreign attack, and will take measures to prevent further destruction. Please be advised to stay indoors, and if encountering this irregularity, take all measures to escape."
The screen faded to the presidential seal while playing a patriotic song. Sugarcoat heard someone clear their throat and faced them. It was the nurse from the front desk.
"Miss, we looked through your friend's contacts and called each number, nobody answered." She folds her hands in front of her, "And we found no parental or guardian contact either."
"What do you mean?" Sugarcoat raised an eyebrow, "So she doesn't have parents?" The nurse nodded slowly.
"As it stands, yes. Miss, do you have a parent or guardian?"
"Yeah, my grandma."
"Can you call her? Since this girl has no guardian, we need a stand in for the time being."
"Yeah, I can call her, gimme a sec." Sugarcoat turns and calls her grandmother, explaining the situation. She felt two taps on each shoulder and turned to see Sour and Sunny.
"Is that girl ok?" Sour sat down next to Sugarcoat.
"I don't know, she's still in surgery." Sugarcoat hung up the call.
"Well, she did look pretty rough after that fall." Sunny sat next to Sour.
"Yeah..." Sugarcoat looked down, but then looked at the girls confused, "Wait, how'd you guys get here anyway?" Both girls smiled, but Sunny answered.
"I know the president said to like...avoid going out at all costs because of that Twilight girl, " she shrugged, "but we did kinda want to know what happened to this girl." She signals to the door separating the lobby from the actual rooms.
"Fair is fair, but-" Sugarcoat cut off her sentence when she saw her grandmother, and ran up to her.
"Grandma, cmon, we have to go see her!" Sugarcoat grabbed her arm and pulled her to the front desk, the other two girls following suit.
"Alright, alright sweetheart, calm down." The elderly woman soothes the girl, who along with her friends, also began to yell for a attendant to help them. Once they had set everything up for the woman to be a temporary guardian, they were finally allowed inside.
Before they entered, they were stopped by Lemon and Indigo's voices. They soon made their way to Sunset's room, where she was staring blankly at the TV screen replaying last night's events.
The CPA girls seemed relieved to see the redhead awake and less bloody. But when the girl turned to face them, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
"God, this is all my fault, I-" She hiccups, "I should've know better, I was supposed to know, I..."
"Hey girl, take it easy." Sunny frowned and got closer to Sunset, who wouldn't stop crying.
"You tried your best..." Sour started, "But like, at least all of those kids managed to get out of there." She gently touched Sunset's hand, which was connected with IV bags.
The girls talking overlapped for a while, and they all felt an immense grief for Sunset. In Sunset's mind, she didn't feel capable of trying to stop Twilight anymore. So much so that each time the girls brought it up, she immediately dismissed the idea with aggression.
"Dude, you're literally the only one here that knows what that Twilight is doing." Indigo points at the TV, which has been replaying more of Sci-Twi's attacks, now no longer contained at CHS.
She had moved on to destroying CPA, and those 5 other girls next to her fended off the police officers at the scene. The portals engulfed the entire school, cracking at the edges, letting the girls see the horse-like creatures inside of them.
"I'll be really honest, ok?" Sunset breathed deeply, "In your world, there is no power strong enough to defeat Twilight's. The military can't stop her, they'll only get themselves killed trying."
"Bullshit!" Sugarcoat hissed, "You were close to beating her, you knew how to use those powers." She pointed at the screen.
"Yeah, which is weird since you said no power on Earth can beat her, so that can only mean one thing..." Lemon leans over Sugarcoat.
"You're not from this world, are you?" Sugarcoat crossed her arms.
Sunset looked down and began to fidget her fingers nervously, "I'm not, that's why I was so close to beating her."
"Alright, that's a good first step, right girls?" Sour looked around the room.
"Sunset, I want you to be honest with me here, " Sugarcoat leaned closer to her, "Are you from that horse world?"
"Pony world, actually..." Sunset smiled painfully, "Filled with ponies that can fly and use magic."
The 5 girls stared at Sunset for a while, the only sound coming from the TV.
"So, like, what could you do in that world?" Sunny leaned on the bed railing.
"I'm a unicorn?" Sunset chuckles awkwardly, "I can use magic from my horn? It's why I looked the way I did back at CHS."
"Easy stuff, we just go to that world and get some magic ponies to defeat godzilla over there." Indigo jabs her thumb in the TVs direction.
"It's not that easy. Equestria is probably trying to fix the problem from their side."
"Ok, we're not gonna get anywhere if we keep talking about it." Sugarcoat backs away from the group and faces the TV. "We can't warn the government about not attacking, we can't directly fight her, we can't send you to get help from that other world."
"Yo... are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Indigo wraps her arm around Sugarcoat, who looked at her with a smile of her own.
"Sunset, I think our beat option is to go there ourselves." Sugarcoat turns her head back to the now panicking girl.
"No, you can't!" She begged, "I don't know what will happen to a human being over in that world, it might be completely different going from here to there."
"She's right, Sunset, " Sunny holds the girls shoulder to calm her down, "You're in no condition to fight. But we can go and get help."
"Do you know anyone that might know what to do?" Sour stood opposite of Sunny, rubbing Sunset's other shoulder.
"I..." Sunset hesitates, "I do know someone, but I don't know what she's been up to now. I wrote to her and she never responded."
"Tell us her name, maybe we can ask around?" Lemon jumps excitedly.
"Well, you guys aren't gonna like this but..." Sunset looked at each of the girls, "Her name is Princess Twilight Sparkle."
The girls repeat the name with shock, which then turned to overlapping talking. Meanwhile, Sunset wondered if letting them go find the pony Twilight was a good idea.
"Ok, quick question!" Sour hushed the other girls, "Is that Twilight like this Twilight?" She points at the TV.
"No! Not at all! She's genuinely kind and smart. She'll know what to do."
The girls turned to the chaos on the TV, which was now covered by Sci-Twi's face.
"Hi everyone! Oh, it feels so good to finally be recognized for my greatest achievement. I could speak of my victories so far, but instead I'll provide a little warning for anyone trying to prevent me from what I want."
A pause, then she begins giggling.
"You'll die trying!"
She cackled evilly, the flames on her eyes shone brightly, the camera going static, then completely disconnected, showing a "Technical difficulties" symbol. Even within the closed doors of the hospital room, the girls could hear the panic in the patients and visitors voices, however muffled they were.
Then the ground began rumbling, making the objects in the room shake, and causing the girls to start losing their balance. Sunsets bed started rocking to and fro, the panic in her voice causing general the girls to panic.
The door burst open and in came a group of nurses, all yelling instructions at each other, disconnecting the machines Sunset was connected to. She was wheeled away, the girls followed, having to run to keep up.
The hallways were chaos; hospital beds raced by, patients still on them, some sicker than others. The patients in surgery still in their rooms opened up, doctors urging the hallways to be cleared, nurses carrying medical supplies like mad.
The girls had reached a wall of nurses who were blocking a crowd of visitors from getting to their loved ones. At any moment, it seemed like a riot would begin. Demands and begging people urging to be let through, the girls voices joining.
"Please! I need to see him, I need to be next to him!" The guy with the bowl cut gasped out, seemingly having been yelling for a long while now.
Then he pushes one of the nurses really hard and caused a domino effect of a scared crowd pushing the nurses. One which the girls did not follow along with.
They pushed their way out of the crowd and back to the entrance of the hospital, blankets and supplies scattered on the seats and floor.
They stopped, watching a laser beam shoot to some offside area of the hospital, still relatively far away.
"Holy shit, she's here!" Lemon points hurriedly at the floating girl.
"This is fine!" Sour smiles uncomfortable, "Just fine! So do you guys have a plan?"
Sugarcoat was looking around, and then she pointed towards the hospital parking lot, where there was a rather large portal to the pony world.
"We have to go in there."
The girls looked at each other, but then nodded confidently. So they ran out of the hospital, careful to avoid any blasts overhead, and the debris falling from the building.
They stood around the portal on the ground, which overlooked what looked like a forest.
"This is it, yall." Sugarcoat looked up at the girls with a nervous glance.
"No backing out..." Indigo began walking backwards, then began running towards the portal, jumping in.
Then Lemon did the same, followed by Sour and Sunny interlocking their arms. Sugarcoat let herself fall over.