- =BiE 16=
- >Hospital smell isn't new to you.
- >You've been in them often enough, usually by Anon dragging you to them after you got yourself hurt.
- >You sat in the exam room waiting for this doctor.
- >The painkillers you took earlier had been keeping a lid on your pain.
- >This "Horse M.D." was taking his sweet time getting here.
- >At this rate, you were going to heal before he showed up.
- >This room wasn't too different from ones back on Earth.
- >Anatomical posters of various body parts hung around the room.
- >A mock skeleton was in the corner.
- >A doctor was walking in the door.
- >Wait, shit.
- >"What's up, doc?"
- >Nice. That shit would get you smacked back on Earth.
- >"Hello, Mr. Mous. What seems to be the problem?" he asks.
- >This guy has some ridiculous hair.
- >It's all red and poofy.
- >He asked you a question, dude.
- >You snap back to reality.
- >"I got clawed up pretty good by a manticore a few days ago, I got fixed up by some tribal goo a friend of mine made, but it still hurts pretty bad."
- >These painkillers are making you weird.
- >Had to stay on top of that.
- >The doctor looks over a form you saw the nurse filling out.
- >"Hmm...Well, let's take a look, shall we?" he says as he makes his way over to you.
- >That's your cue.
- >You hop off the examination table and remove your shirt.
- >The doctor makes his way behind you.
- >You can hear him sighing, thinking, everything but telling you why you were in pain.
- >It eventually becomes too much to bare.
- >"So, what's the damage doc?"
- >"Did you see what kinda of treatment this friend of yours gave you?" he asks.
- >You had apparently lost a lot of blood that night, you didn't remember much after you got hit.
- >"No, I was pretty out of it after the manticore got me."
- >"Hmm...I'm going to have to take some blood for a quick test." he says.
- >Great. Needles.
- >You don't like needles.
- >"Alright, fine."
- >You roll up your sleeve, gotta bite the bullet here.
- >The doctor looks at you. "In order to confirm the theory I have, I need a blood sample from as close to the wound as possible."
- >...bite the bullet here.
- >Fifteen minutes later, you're laying on the examination table trying to rid your body of the pain it had been through.
- >That idiot doctor had missed the vein three times.
- >Being stabbed in an already painful wound wasn't a fun time.
- >That general anesthetic hadn't done shit.
- >You're thinking about how you would go about burning down a hospital when the doctor returns.
- >"Does it still hurt?" he asks.
- >A grunt through gritted teeth was all the reply he was going to get.
- >You were gonna kill him.
- >You were gonna rip that fucking stupid hair off his fucking head and force feed it down his fucking throat.
- >"Well, I can see why. Your blood tests showed us why you're in so much pain." he says.
- >Is it because you're fucking incompetent you idiot ha-
- >"You were poisoned."
- >Wait, what?
- >You turn to give him your full attention.
- >Zecora didn't seem the type to poison someone she never met.
- >"What?"
- >The doctor looks at his clipboard again.
- >"Manticores have a poison they use the incapacitate their prey. The one that hurt you must have had it running through its claws when it hit you.
- >He puts down the clipboard and prods you to sit up.
- >He rotates a mirror to show you your back scars.
- >Three jagged marks are carved into your back, one glowing an angry red after being stabbed repeatedly with a sharp needle.
- >He raises a hoof to your back. "When the manticore slashed you, it released a poison into your wounds to paralyze you."
- >That must have been why you were so out of it when Anon dragged you to Zecora's.
- >"Whatever treatment you took closed up your wounds, yes, but also trapped the poison inside you. The pain you feel is your nerves inflaming around the infected areas."
- >Well shit.
- >Poisoned.
- >That's never happened before.
- >"Can you fix it?"
- >Okay. Fuck.
- >This could be serious.
- >This could be "stop your heart" serious.
- >You can't die yet.
- >Not before Anon.
- >"Stop worrying." the doc says.
- >Fuck.
- >Was it that obvious?
- >"We wouldn't live near a manticore's habitat without having some sort of antitoxin." he says smiling.
- >He starts writing on a small notepad and rips the piece of paper off it.
- >"Give that to the pharmacy to pick up your antitoxin pills. Take them three times a day with water." he says, handing the prescription to you.
- >"What about my pain?" you ask.
- >Don't want to not get treated for the reason you're here.
- >"The pain should subside when the swelling goes down, take those pills and that should happen in about a week." he says as he walks out the door "Have a nice day Mr. Mous."
- >He shuts the door before you can answer.
- >You're walking in to town holding your antitoxins and a fresh bottle of painkillers in a bag.
- >You had taken your first dose on antitoxin as well as some painkillers already.
- >Feels good man.
- >Feels REALLY good.
- >You've been in pain for the past few days, to be rid of it felt incredible.
- >Damn.
- >The town got FUCKED UP.
- >Everything was broken and shit.
- >Ponies were flying around and running all over the place.
- >You should help, probably.
- >But how?
- >You try to find Twilight, she'll know what needs to get done.
- >You wave at Derpy as you walk by and get a wave and a smile back.
- >Derpy was so cool.
- >Shit, you could really go for some of her muffins right now.
- >You wonder if you'll run into Lotus, you wanna give her your clean bill of health.
- >You come up on Twilight's tree house thing.
- >There's Twilight and everyone else outside, Twilight was probably coordinating everything again.
- >But she isn't coordinating, it looks like.
- >She's walking around Anon, it looks like.
- >Anon looks like he's sitting on a box.
- >Was he...bleeding?
- >Big Bro mode: Engaged.
- >Anything that was on your mind is pushed to the side as you stomp over to Anon.
- >Applejack hears you approach and starts walking towards you.
- >"Well, howdy ther-"
- >"Move."
- >You don't have time for her shit right now.
- >You blow past her and approach Anon.
- >He's getting bandaged up around his head.
- >You grab his chin and turn it up before he can talk.
- >"Uh...dude?" he starts.
- >"Look at me."
- >Twilight and the girls stand in shocked silence as you examine Anon.
- >You turn his head to get a look at the back of it.
- >Bloody, a small gash on the back of his head was the cause.
- >"Bro!" Anon shouts and he waves you off him.
- >You crouch down and meet his eyes as he turns back.
- >You hold up a finger.
- >"Follow."
- >No chances, he could be concussed.
- >His eyes are narrow in annoyance, but he follows your guide all the same.
- >Satisfied, you stand up again.
- >"How did this happen?"
- >"Dude, it's nothing, I'm getti-"
- >"How?" you interrupt.
- >He was your bro, you had to protect him.
- >You can do that if he's bullshitting you.
- >He still looks pissed.
- >"I was out cleaning up debris on the edge of town, I started goofing off and hit my head on a barrel, you happy?" he says.
- >Your eyes drift to Rainbow Dash.
- >She looks guilty.
- >Of course these two were together, they're best friends.
- >But you were his Bro.
- >You could care less that Dash was there, you got the answer you needed.
- >You could push the point, but that would just get him pissed off and make him lie to you when this happened again.
- >You let out a sigh.
- >"You can't be so reckless, bro."
- >His good cheer seems to return to his face
- >"Excuse me? This coming from the manticore wrestler?" he says as Twilight finishes wrapping his bandages.
- >"That's different. I can take a manticore, barrels are too far out of your league." you quip.
- >"Oh please! Which of us had to go to the hospital because he couldn't take his old man back problems?" he shouts with a smile.
- >With the situation back in friendly territory, the two of you plus the girls get to work on the town.
- >With everypony working, you finish before sunset.
- >Rainbow heads back to your apartment for the most recent movie night.
- >Tonight was Terminator's I and II.
- >Rainbow liked the chase on the motorcycle, good times were had by all.
- >She left shortly after the second movie, work in the morning.
- >You popped some of your pills in your mouth as you got ready for bed.
- >"Yo, bro." Anon stopped you in the hall as he was taking off his bandage.
- >"Hmm?"
- >"What was the deal in town today? You kinda freaked." he said.
- >Great. This.
- >Best to just get it out there.
- >"I'm the older bro here, it's my job to protect you."
- >Anon leaned against the wall. "Well isn't that sweet? I'm only two years younger than you dude, I can handle myself."
- >Shit. You knew.
- >But you've been protecting this kid since you were seven.
- >"Sorry..."
- >You don't wait for him to respond, you just head inside and go to bed.
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