A Marine in Debt (Being Re-Written)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Twilight's POV

I saw him pass out, and the doctors are losing him... My tears are flowing freely. I may have only known him a couple of days, but I consider him to be a close friend; A friend I don't want to lose. *BRZZT* The zap startled me, I look over to find that they zapped him. I mentally browse my spell list, before coming on a small healing spell. It won't heal to quickly, but it's better than nothing.

I walk over to where the doctors are helping Parker. I charge my horn up with the healing spell, and I release it. A steady stream of purple magic flowed into him as his wounds from the manticore start to slowly mend together. The bleeding stopped almost immediately.

Approximately thirty six minutes after I started the spell, his wounds closed completely. But, he was still unconscious. I took a seat, and just waited for him to wake up. It felt like hours. Soon after the rest of the gang comes in. Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. We watched in silence, other than the shallow breathing of Parker. Rarity broke the silence.

She looked towards me with a depressed expression "What did the doctors say Twilight?"

I look to the white tile floor, to Parker, then back to Rarity. "They are not sure, which is why I'm so worried... Anything could happen!" With that said, I look to the floor as a tear dripped from my face, and hit the tiles. "I could've helped stop the manticore, but I just stood there... I -

"He's waking up!" Pinkie got into my face and startled me. I look to Parker, and sure enough, he was starting to awake.

"Am I dead?" He groaned as he looked around and his eyes landed on us. "That's good at least, heh." He tried to stand, but he immediately sat back down, he did lose a lot of blood...

He looked at me, wide eyed. He looks down to his chest; only to find it fully healed. "Hey... How long was I out?! How am I fully healed?"

I giggle, I haven't told him much about magic... hmm... "You were out for a year Parker! We're so glad you're awake though!" The girls look at me, and then laugh.

His expression soured, glaring, he lays back down, and points one of his fingers, pointing up and towards us. "Bullshit, How long was I actually out?" He glares at me, albeit jokingly.

I jokingly stick my tongue out at him, "Only a couple of hours, calm down, I used a healing spell on you. But I can't put your blood inside of your body, and you've lost a lot. So you will have to stay here," I paused, "You should have been unconscious for longer... I'm curious if my spell did that, I'll have to look at it again."

He looks to each one of us. He rose a brow "Where is my -" He was cut off by 3 mares hugging him. They just couldn't hold back any longer. With eyes of gratitude, Rarity, Applejack, and even Rainbow surprisingly hugged Parker, and, if he was standing, he would have been tackled.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" They wept. He looked over to us with confusion and mouthed 'Help me'.

"Ahem, girls..." They look at me and smile sheepishly.

"What's up with the sudden hugging?" Parker looks to each of the mares

"You saved our sisters and me darling!" Rarity exclaimed

"It's what I was trained to do. But usually I don't have to deal with a fucking manticore," With a pause, he shook his head in disbelief before continuing, "But as I was saying, where is my uniform at?" He glances around the room before stopping at a corner. Only to see his uniform, half torn up. He sighed.

I glace over to the corner, and pick it up with my magic. I levitate it over to him, which he then grabs and reaches into a pocket, pulling out this black and silver item which gleamed in the sunlight streaming through the window. "Parker, what is that?"

"My I-Pod. I don't want to be bored, now do I?" He presses a button on the 'I-Pod' and it lights up. He moves a finger across the device and he taps a few times.

Rainbow just looked at him, like he's gone bonkers. "How could that be entertaining? It's a piece of metal..."

He glared at her, then smirked. "It's called human technology. I have tons of songs on this thing, and you can also play games, watch movies, etc."

Rainbow scoffed "Ha! I doubt that."

"Oh really? How about a demonstration then?" He smirked, and tapped it a bit more. He played this...

Youtube Video

Fall

Now the dark begins to rise

Save your breath, it's far from over

Leave the lost and dead behind

Now's your chance to run for cover

I don't wanna change the world

I just wanna leave it colder

Light the fuse and burn it up

Take the path that leads to nowhere

All is lost again

But I'm not giving in

I will not bow

I will not break

I will shut the world away

I will not fall

I will not fade

I will take your breath away

Fall

Watch the end through dying eyes

Now the dark is taking over

Show me where forever dies

Take the fall and run to Heaven

All is lost again

But I'm not giving in

I will not bow

I will not break

I will shut the world away

I will not fall

I will not fade

I will take your breath away

And I'll survive, paranoid

I have lost the will to change

And I'm not proud, cold-blooded fate

I will shut the world away

I will not bow

I will not break

I will shut the world away

I will not fall

I will not fade

I will take your breath away

And I'll survive; paranoid

I have lost the will to change

And I'm not proud, cold-blooded fate

I will shut the world away

We just looked at him in disbelief. We don't have music quite like that, we have things like Vinyl's music... But nothing like that. "Oh, that band is called Breaking Benjamin, one of my favorites." He caught on to our expressions and put another song on. "This is a slightly calmer song."

Youtube Video

Another day in this carnival of souls

Another night's sands end as quickly as it goes

The memories are shadows; ink on the page

And I can't seem to find my way home

And it's almost like

Your heaven's trying everything

To keep me out

All the places I've been and things I've seen

A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams

The faces of people I'll never see again

And I can't seem to find my way home

Cause it's almost like

Your heaven's trying everything

To break me down

Cause it's almost like

Your heaven's trying everything

To keep me out

Cause it's almost like

Your heaven's trying everything

To break me down

Cause it's almost like

Your heaven's trying everything

To break me down

Your heavens trying everything

To break me... down

He individually looks to all of us, and chuckles. "Is that good enough Rainbow?" He looks to her, and she just nods. "That... was... SO AWESOME! Rainbow squealed.

Parker POV

Since they've never heard this type of music, they just look at me with amazed expressions. Except Pinkie... She is just sporting that face-splitting grin. I couldn't help but smirk once again. "What's your opinion on the music?" Surprisingly, even Fluttershy and Rarity nodded in approval. Twilight broke the silence

"Come on girls, he needs his rest." Was all she said before the girls scurried out of the room. "Awww..." Pinkie said. Twilight walked up to me, and said,

"Parker, I'm glad you're okay. Thank you... for saving my friend and their sisters, again. I'm going to try to visit you every day. Oh, and the doctors said you can be out in a week, minimum."

I groaned, I'm not going to be looking forward to this long week. "Alright, thank you Twilight. Oh, by the way... Were you crying?" She looked away, sheepishly

Twilight looked back to me, blushing. "Yes, Parker, I was... even though you were here for only a few days, I consider you a good friend. She walks over and gives me a hug, which I return. "Thank you for saving me Twilight."

She broke the hug and had a smile on my face "I still owe you one Parker, I'll be back later."

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A day after the incident

I was lying in my bed, and it was 12:23 PM according to my I-Pod, which I think the time is different around here, due to Celestia actually moving the sun and whatnot. But I just want out, I can't be confined to this bed for the entire week. Twilight is coming to visit me soon I imagine.

I wait for what seems like hours, but it was actually 20 minutes when Twilight finally entered my room. I look over to her, only to find a lot of parchment, quills, and ink wells. I forgot that I had promised to teach her about my world. She assorts her stuff as neatly as possible, Smiling like a certain Pink pony. And then asks me about it.

"So, are you ready to teach me about your world?" She just looks at me, with pure excitement.

"Honestly, I don't even care. Anything to keep from starting at a white wall all day. I'll tell you about my world."

She levitated a quill and dipped it in one of the inkwells, then levitated up a piece of parchment. She finally asked the first question, "What was your home and family like?"

"I... would rather not talk about that, maybe some other time, but not now." I glance to the wall next to me, then back back to Twilight

Twilight had raised an eyebrow before she understood that I didn't want to speak about it "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to intrude." She looked at me "It's fine Twilight, you didn't mean to, How about I teach you about my worlds history?"

She perked up immediately at this statement. "Alright! Sounds fun!"

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Awhile later, I finished telling her about my world, and its history. All I saw was a couple of empty inkwells, broken quills, a lot of parchment filled, and a very tired Twilight. Visiting hours are over soon, so we finished for now.

Twilight gathered her new information and supplies "Thank you Parker, I'll see you again tomorrow. I can only imagine how boring it can be sitting there doing nothing."

"Oh well, anyways, thank you for keeping me company. I just hope I can get out of here soon. I hate being confined to a bed 24/7." I glance to Twilight, she had a small frown on.

"It's okay, the girls and I are going to stop by tomorrow, as three other guests you didn't officially meet yet. We'll be here around 3:00 PM." Twilight looked at me, with a renewed smile, before she left the room I was in.

I was wondering what she could be talking about, before I noticed I was getting fairly tired, my last thought of the evening was, I'm so going to run 10 fucking miles when I get out of this place. And, I'm so going to run 10 fucking miles when I get out of this place.Which I smirked to, before drifting off into sleeps embrace.

Twilight POV

I left the hospital, and I was walking home. My mind raced with one particular unanswered question. 'What was your family like?' I'm going to get that out of him, one way or the other. But for now, I need to get some sleep, but before I do that I have to send Celestia a letter about what happened. So I focus my energy into my horn, and I teleport myself to the library. I took one of my unbroken quills, a half empty ink well, and an unused piece of parchment and I started to write.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I am reluctant to say, that our human friend, Parker, had a serious injury while protecting 4 ponies from a manticore. He had saved the 4 ponies, 3 of which were fillies, Scootaloo, Applebloom, And Sweetie Belle. Along with my best friend Rarity, who went in the Everfree forest looking for the fillies. No ponies were harmed. But for Parker it was a different story. He had deep lacerations to the abdominal and chest area. He is currently stable at Ponyville's emergency center. I had healed his current wounds, but the doctors said he had to stay there and recover for a week at least, due to blood loss.. I am really worried about him.

Yours truly, Princess Twilight Sparkle

I charged my horn up once more, and sent the scroll to Princess Celestia. After a long day, I finally walked upstairs, where I plopped onto the bed, exhausted. I pulled the warm comforter over me, and I gently descend into the embrace of sleep.

Rainbow POV

I was at home, in my bed, restless. I was just thinking of what happened the other night with Parker... And how he just risked himself for 4 ponies he barely knew. That was not the only thing invading my mind, the explosion, the scattered parts of mangled flesh and bones of the manticore... I can't get them out of my head. I also need to talk to Scootaloo about going into a certain forest, and being chased by a certain animal, and having to be saved by a certain human, who almost died.

Rarity POV

"Ugh, sometimes.. What am I to do with you Sweetie Belle? You nearly got yourself, and Parker killed!

"You mean that monster guy?" She squeaked

"Sweetie Belle! He saved us! How could you even think of calling him a monster?!"

The filly looked down at the ground in shame. She just called the one who saved them a monster.

"Not only that, but he was almost dead when he got to the hospital! Darling, what do you have to say to yourself?"

Sweetie belle looked to to her sister, and started to apologize. "I'm s-sorry, I didn't realize..." With tears brimming, now Rarity knew it was her time to apologize to her little sister

"I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have been so harsh... He just threw himself in front of us to protect us..."

Sweetie belle looked to her bigger sister, and their gazes met Sweetie Belle embraced her sister in a hug, which Rarity returned.

Applejack POV

I was scoldin' Applebloom for going into the Everfree. Ah' told her to never go in to that musky ol' forest. Now jus' look at the consequences! Parker almost had gotten killed defendin' us. After ah' scolded her, and grounded her. Ah' told her to go to bed. Then I headed in to mah' bed. Ah' continued to think about how everything went down with the manticore an' all... It scared me to death! Just thinkin' about what could've happened to AppleBloom... ah' jus' don't want her to get hurt or anythin'...

Pinkie POV

OhmygodIneedtoplanParker'spartystillbuthe'sinthehospitalnowhowcanidoanything?!

There was too much commotion in Pinkie Pie's head, that's all I could get.

Fluttershy POV

I just hope Parker is okay... He is so nice... And brave. He helped us without caring about is own well being. Although that he k-killed that manticore, he did it to save us. I'll have to thank him... For saving us that is.

Parker POV

I awoke fairly early in the morning, or so I thought. I glance around; Still in a hospital, in an alien world. I'm not exactly happy with this whole hospital business. I take a look at my IPod, It's ... 1:12 PM? But... Oh, the blinds are closed. I open them, and rays from the sun start shining in. I noticed that I'm pretty hungry, so I hit the buzzer and a nurse comes in. I asked her about lunch and she would bring it in soon.

I had eaten lunch, which was a salad, carrots and apple juice. Man, do I miss meat. Even if it was the M.R.E. stuff, I wish here was some way to get some. I look around a bit, before checking the time on my IPod. "2:25 PM." I mumble. It felt like an eternity later, but I heard a lot of hoof steps in the hallway outside of my door. I lift my head up a bit, and then the door opened and the girls entered, along with the three fillies I saw in the forest.

"Hey Parker" All the girls said at once. They looked at each other and laughed

"Hey girls, how are things? I ask them

"Everything is fine, nothing bad has happened recently, and-" Twilight was cut off

"Oh yeah! The Princesses are coming!" Rainbow exclaimed

"Actually, Rainbow Dash, we are already here," A motherly voice came from the doorway. "Teleporting is much quicker than a chariot."

The girls and three fillies looked towards the doorway, only to spot Celestia and Luna standing in the doorway. The ponies all bowed, I waved.

"Hey, Princess Celestia, Hello Princess Luna." I say.

"Parker, I've already told you to call me Celestia," She giggled "Anyhow, I heard about what happened, and I would like to hear about it from you directly."

"Are you sure? It's a long story..." She nodded, "Well, I was walking to the library, and when I walked in, and found Twilight upset. I had asked her what was wrong. Twilight told me how Rarity had went into the Everfree to look for her sister and their friends. I gathered my gear up, and headed out of the door. Once we had gotten to the forest, these 3 fillies had come charging out with Rarity behind them, and behind her was a manticore. I had started to shoot it, but I forgot to deploy the bi-pod on my M249. The recoil from the rifle was too much, and I ended up missing a lot. It hit me in the chest, along with my stomach, and I had just forgotten about my rifle and I decided to use one of my M67 frag grenades. It blew the manticore up, killing it. I collapsed, and Twilight here flew me to the hospital."

Celestia looked like she was thinking about something. She has one hell of a Poker face. Luna just sat there, jaw wide open.

Celestia looked at me with a brow raised. "Parker, could I speak to you privately for a moment?"

"Sure-" Was all I got to say before a flash of light engulfed my vision, blinding me momentarily. We land in Twilight's library. I fall over due to nausea, stiffness, and considering the lack of blood, I would have fallen over anyhow. My face connected with oak, which stung to no end. I attempted to stand, and managed,

"Are you okay Parker?" Celestia asked me, with a sheepish smile on her face.

"Yes, it wasn't my first time being teleported." I get up off of the oak floor.

Celestia suddenly went very serious. "Well, anyways, I wanted to ask you about a job offer. It seems, that, in the past few years, a lot of things have been happening around Ponyville. Such as Discord, for one example. I, would like to know if you wanted to be a bodyguard for my little ponies. You would get paid every week, 250 bits a week, and you get your own squad of my elite day guards. As again, I ask you this because with the recent commotion, which always seems to be getting worse by the day. Do you accept this offer?

I think about it before deciding. "Hmm, ah hell, why not? I don't have a job currently, and I hate mooching off of people, or ponies in this case. I'll do it."

"Splendid, lets get you back to the hospital though, you still need to rest," She looked at me with worry.

"Dammit, I don't want to go back to that place," I fake pout.

She giggled, "Sorry, you have to," She sticks her tongue out at me jokingly. Troll.

"Okay, I'm ready to faceplant." I say to Celestia, to which she giggles. She charges her horn, which glows a radiant yellow. Bracing myself, I-

*FLASH*

*Thump*

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