Endure for an Eternity

by Roran Dreamon

Medical Leave

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I stared at the doctor and nurses in the room. There was three of them and they were all just standing there staring at me, all of them were giving me a creepy smile and I can easily think of a reason as to why they are doing so.

They need me to be naked for this physical examination.

"That isn't happening." I crossed my arms as I stared at the doctor, the tall chestnut colored mare in a doctor's coat standing across from me stood between her employees while holding a clipboard in her left hand and a quill in her right.

"But sir we can't do our job if you are fully dressed so please, take off your clothes and put them within the basket. We will get it washed and cleaned while we make sure you are not carrying any deadly diseases and are in perfect condition." The nurse on the doctor's left said, this one was a earth pony who was teal in color and had a light green and yellow mane.

"I don't care, the only way you are going to see me without my operations suit is if I am dead." I said while crossing my arms, giving the doctor a withering glare that made her back down for a moment before standing straight and returning said glare.

There is no way in hell I am stripping down, this room is positively cold!

"Sir, please listen to me and take off your clothing, we cannot proceed with the examination as you currently are. If you refuse to listen to me then you will leave me little choice on the matter and I will be forced to give you a sedative so we can continue." The doctor said as she motioned for the nurse on her right, a unicorn that was white in color and had a blonde mane and tail, and in her hand was a syringe that was filled with a pale blue liquid within its vial.

I barely had any time to register what was said until a small needle filled a mysterious green liquid floated by my head, almost a warning of what will happen if I refuse to comply with her demands.

"I am sorry but that won't happen." And just like that I entered the void by phasing into it, leaving behind black wisps of smoke.

To them they saw me vanish like an illusion but in reality I am still there, just non-existent as I walk out of the room and stood next to my warframe before phasing back into the world.

As soon as I made my reappearance the doctor and her nurses stormed out of their room to see me standing beside my warframe, the doctor was pissed while the nurses were angry, but not as mad as their boss.

"Mr. Viktor! You will have this full body physical examination or by Celestia's sun I will give you that sedative and make your examination way worse than it should be!" And when she shouted that I watched as she went from murderous rage to complete and utter stillness.

The princess whose name she just used in vain was standing right in front of her and she was looking nonplussed.

"Uhh...I mean...he-he-he...I am sorry your majesty." Doctor Sawbones said sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head while her subordinates were snickering behind her.

"It's alright Doctor Sawbones-" I paled immediately as soon as I learned that her name is Sawbones, note to self do not get injured, I might lose a limb or two to this girl, "-but do please be patient with our guest, he is not used to our ways let alone our medical practices, so please let him go at his own pace along with taking it slow and easy." Thank you!

Looking at me I watched the doctor go from embarrassed for pretty much screwing up in front of her princess to annoyed that I pretty much put her on the hot seat and the spot light at the exact same time.

That's what you get for trying to get me to strip down to nothing and threatening me with a sedative that I don't know what it will do to my body seeing how the species gap between is an unknown length. Hell the sedative might just kill me or render me an inert vegetable.

"I am sorry for my earlier actions Mr. Viktor, but we must simply give you an examination, we have to be sure you are biologically sound and safe to be around. If you have any pathogens or diseases on you then they might prove dangerous or worse fatal to us if left unchecked." Well she got me there, I don't want to accidentally get all of these people killed because I coughed or sneezed on them.

What a way to die, death by getting coughed on by an alien. That tombstone would probably be defiled in an instant.

Sighing to myself I started to walk towards the doctor but first I had to lay down a few ground rules.

"Alright, I'll do this, but this won't be a full body examination. I will not take off my suit, at best I will have it rolled up to where my arms and legs are exposed but that's it. You can check my reflexes, check my pulse and blood pressure, hell you can even take a blood-sample but there is no way in hell am I taking this suit off." Both of the nurses let out saddened sighs and tried to give me a sad dog stare but I just stared them down and they relented, retreating back into their office before being followed in by their boss with me in tow.

The girls tried to follow us in but the door was slammed shut in their faces.

With the nosey little aliens blocked from spying on me, the nurses started to prepare the limited examination as the good doctor pulled out some sort of medical instrument from a cabinet and turned around to face me.

"Just relax Mr. Viktor, we will be starting with checking your vitals, just hold still while I check your heart rate." Dr. Sawbones said and for a moment the room was silent as she pressed the tool to my heart, the small metal disk was connected to what looks like a rubber tube that splits in half as they rise up and are what I assume to be connected to her ears. I think my heartbeat is being listened to by its vibrations or thumping is being echoed up the tubes to the doctor's ears, that or she is just making sure my heart is beating.

For a moment I just sat there on the table, patiently waiting for this to be over with but as time went on it only quieter and quieter until finally the doctor pulled back and looked at me with a questionable stare before writing something down on her clipboard where there was a written order or something on a piece of paper before turning her attention back to me as we continued on with the next step.

If only it were that easy.

"Okay now I need you to open your suit just a bit, I didn't get a proper reading on your heart due to your suit making the readings unclear and hollow." And for a moment I heard the two nurses giggle between themselves but they stopped when Sawbones glared at them and they resumed their silence.

Scratching my head I let out a weak laugh as I looked at my operator's suit and realized that I had no idea on how I got in this thing let alone how to pull this off of me.

"Uh...how?" I asked as I looked at myself, trying to figure out how to get this thing open.

"What do you mean how? You are wearing that suit right? You should be able to take it off or at the very least open a part of it up!" Fair point.

"Actually hehe...I don't exactly remember how this got on me let alone know how to open it..." I said sheepishly, in all honesty I don't know who put it on me but I think that Ordis might have a figment of an idea or maybe even a manual on how to get this thing off of me.

"But how do you not know on how to take off your own clothes?" Applejack said from the door as pondered on those words because this would be one of my embarrassing moments, let alone an embarrassing moment in front of aliens.

Female aliens no less and I don't know why but it just feels worse whenever females are involved.

"Look, I have been sleeping for the past seven hundred years, it is a miracle unto itself that I am even able to walk let alone talk without there being any permanent damage to my vocal cords and muscles. I can barely even remember my life before I was put into that deep sleep so lay off." I spoke defensively as I raised my hands, my warframe shuffled itself to the door and was pressing against it lightly, causing the door to creak and moan from pressure being pressed against it.

Glancing toward the window my warframe backed away from the door at the very least stopped putting pressure on it to stop it from breaking it off the hinges.

"How did you do that?" the doctor asked me as she and her assistants stared at the shadow at the door.

"Do what?" I responded back, not quite knowing what she is asking.

"With that thing out there. You just stared in its direction and it stopped trying to break the door down! How did you do that?" Oh okay, now we have a question instead of something incredibly vague.

"We are connected, I am its operator and it is my body. We share a link and I can tell it what to do without saying a word and it is fully capable of moving on its own. In essence it is another me." I said as I started to talk to Ordis, questioning him if there is a way of taking off my suit or at the very least get it to open up.

His response was that at the base of my neck is a button that disengages the sealing properties of the suit and allows it to be taken off if necessary.

With that knowledge now in my possession I did just that but there was a problem, if it allowed me to take off my suit then how do I exactly take it off? Last time I looked at myself I didn't see any seams or zippers or even buttons to take this form-fitting off of me, I guess I just have to pray that it doesn't blow itself off of me in an instant.

Steadily moving my left hand to the base of my neck I felt around for this so called 'button' and after a few presses I finally found what I was looking for and gave it a firm press.

A loud hissing sound can be heard as my suit decompresses and loosens up and after three seconds I felt it go saggy against my body and that was the only sign I am getting as I am finally able to peel this thing off of me.

Sadly by peeling this thing off of me I had to unzip myself out of it by pulling down the zipper that is at the back of my head at the neck.

"Okay, let us try this again." Sawbones said and this time was able to put that strange metal disk thing on my heart and by the gods was it ice cold, it was like a Frost Prime stepped into the room and just unleashed an Avalanche on top of me.

I let out a loud yelp of surprise from the cold and due to it my warframe broke down the door by smashing its head through before obliterating the door with its body. This shocked everyone, both those outside trying to take a peek and those inside who are trying to scramble and get away from the hulking beast of metal and flesh.

"Jumping Celestia on a pogo stick! Get that bucking thing out of here!" One of the nurses said and for a moment my warframe stared right at her before backing away slowly but she sadly bumped into the wall behind her.

"Sheesh girls, its not going to hurt any of you, just keep doing your job." I said with a bit of a snide tone, that earned me the cold disk to my chest once again but this time I did not react to it like last time but I did hiss through my teeth as I felt its extreme coldness press up against my flesh.

Listening to my heartrate for two minutes she nodded to herself before writing it down on the clipboard before moving onto the next part of my medical examination.

Pulling out a small hammer with a rubber-looking head on it, she directed herself to a kneeling posture before striking me right on the knee and my reaction was immediate.

My leg kicked up and nearly broke the doctor's jaw if she hadn't have moved backwards at the last possible moment.

"Okay, that was a little too close for comfort. Great reflexes though." Sawbones said nonchalantly before coming to a table and grabbed some more medical objects to use on me.

Next she checked my ears, I don't know what for but it was slightly irritating and annoying at the exact same time but I let her do it as it is her job. I just wish her job wasn't so invasive or for the matter grinding my gears.

"Hmm...your vitals appear to be normal, heart rate is within acceptable parameters if you were a pony, reflexes are good, hearing seems normal. Now for lung capacity and also blood pressure so please, breath in as deeply as you can and hold it there for as long as possible."

I did as I was instructed to do and to their amazement I held my breath for several minutes before exhaling, my meditative breathing exercises finally paid off and for a moment I caught from the corners of my eyes several ponies giving me strange looks. The white unicorn and her purple friend were biting their lower lips for some reason, the cyan pegasus and her orange earth pony friend were just staring at me intently while the pink one bouncing in place while her tail was whipping around like crazy. Hell even the princess of the sun was staring at me strangely, maybe it is because my suit is slightly open and that they are wondering what I look like underneath it.

If I can remember correctly I still look normal but what with the strange sign of Infestation that has been halted and killed staining my torso with its ugly as sin splotch of grey flesh with what looks like mini tendrils crawling all over it.

"And now your blood pressure, can you please peel back either one of your arms so we can wrap this around your bicep." A strange request but I merely shrugged at it, pulling my arm out from my suit I exposed myself partially to the gazing of several ponies but I ignored it as best as I can as I felt the doctor strap to my arm a weird looking bandage.

"Don't freak out now, this will tighten around your arm and it will gauge what your current blood pressure is and we will compare it to the standard results of the three pony races." Sawbones said and for the moment I nodded back, this test didn't appear so bad.

This test actually didn't take long, a minute or two at most and as the doctor compared my results with those of her previous patients I was busy putting my suit back on, well for the most part zipping it back up. Turning my attention to the girls they were still looking at me, I don't know why they are staring at me as if I am the single most important person in the world but their stairs are starting to unnerve me.

Trying to ignore their staring I went back to looking at the doctor all the while thinking on returning back to my ship and getting back in working order. Or for the most part getting it so it can fly again, just not being able to enter subspace for fast travel.

Glancing to the door I saw how many splinters was on the floor, the broken glass and even the intact doorknob was within grabbing distance if I were to jump off the table I was sitting on, but I wasn't going to kill anyone here, none of them deserve it. But if they dare to revoke their end on our deal than I may have to take certain measures into account.

"Okay I got your results, and I must say that they are most peculiar."

"Peculiar in what way doctor."

"Mr. Viktor, these results are peculiar in the way that they are no where even close to the safe regions for us ponies. Your blood pressure is by all means either too high or too low and I can't even fathom a reason as to why it is doing so!"

"I know the reason for this oddity, but I am not at liberty to share this information with any of you."

"And why are you not at liberty to share this important piece of medical information with us?"

"Because if I did then I would be forced to kill you."

"Wh-what? Why?"

"Because we all have secrets, us Tenno just hold our secrets a little more closer to home and we can't let anyone know anything about us. It is because of our secrecy that we are even still alive let alone still retaining our power over our enemies."

"Okay...I guess for blood pressure I will put 'Non-Pony' and for reasons of anomaly it will be 'Unknown' for the time being." Sawbones coughed into her hand as she wrote this down before putting aside the clipboard and quill as she reached out and grabbed an empty syringe from the medical table and turned around to face me.

I stared flatly at the doctor and nurses, I knew what was coming next and I started to think of a quick response to get out of it but I decided that if they want a sample of my blood then they can have it. It is not like they can simply find a way into the Void to gain access to the power that it has granted me and those like me.

Pulling my arm out from my suit and sticking it out, I waited for the nurse to snap out from her stupor that I was going to willingly donate a sample of my blood to them to study. That and I know for a fact that one of these ponies will be stupid with my blood and try and figure out how I got my power and find a way to replicate it for themselves.

But I know that can't happen, these ponies don't have access to spaceflight nor do they have access to the Void so the secrets of the Tenno is safe for another day.

The girls were looking at me as I sat their silently, staring inquisitively at the doctor as she brought the need to my arm, one of the nurses swabbing it with a cotton ball that must of had some disinfectant on it because the moment it touched my skin the affected area got all tingly for a few seconds before dying down. As soon as it died down that was when I felt the needle prick my arm before going right into my arm, the needle found a vein and I watched as the plunger was slowly pulled back as I watched my blood slowly fill up the red vial until it stopped at the very end and I felt a bit woozy from it all but I kept on staring at the doctor during the entire ordeal.

"Hmm, usually most ponies who have their blood drawn from them are either freaking out or are trying not to hyperventilate. But you on the other hand, you...you are unusually calm about this. May I ask you why you are so calm at the sight of your own blood?"

"You may ask and I can answer." As I said that all eyes were on me and all ears were open, waiting to hear what my infinite amount of wisdom that I am about to spew out.

"Alright, why are you so calm at the sight of your own blood?" Twilight asked me as she wrote something down on her notes, it better not be a crude drawing of my head. Only Clem is allowed to do so, with bullets, and grenades.

"Because it is just blood, we have enough of it to keep ourselves running. The amount you just extracted from me is not even close enough to leave me impaired to continue my duties. We all have blood inside of us and sometimes a little bit of it comes out from time to time for various reasons. And after all, I have spilled my fair share of blood over the past six hundred years that is surely more than enough to drown this entire castle several times over along with the city connected to it." That and there would be oil and electricity from the proxies that belong to the Corpus as well being spilled here.

That made everyone, even the guards outside waiting for their princess to leave the infirmary paled immediately and to such a point that I thought they all had their blood drained from their body and have seen a ghost at the exact same time.

"Uh Viktor, just how many ponies have you killed?"

"Ponies? None." That made everyone let out a sigh of relief, but it was only temporary as I continued where I started, "But Grineer, Corpus and Infested? About roughly half a million, maybe more I don't know, I lost count after I spent like a month in an infested corpus super-carrier...my Excalibur still smells of rotting meat and stale blood..." And I would have the smell removed but how else will I instill terror into the hearts of the grineer elite when my warframe smells sterile and clean?

"Wow...and here I thought that you just use the threat of death to make ponies stop fighting...you actually kill them." Rainbow Dash says as she slowly backs out of the door before turning the corner to hide behind it to stay out of my line of sight.

"Girl, the solar system is not a safe place to be in, it used to be several hundred years ago but when a bunch of fools thought that they can colonize a neighboring system with machines that are able to constantly adapt to its environment and also weapons used against it. My creators set themselves up for their own downfall and we Tenno helped their defeat along until the empire collapsed all around them due to their arrogance, their stupidity and above all else trying to play god."

"The solar system isn't safe and we Tenno try our best just to bring a hint of normality to it. Even with our aid along with the syndicates that try to assist our efforts we are still vastly outnumbered by the other enemy factions and with the constant outbreak of war between the Corpus and Grineer along with the usual technocyte infestations...pretty much everywhere you go is either a warzone or an isolated paradise, but the two are always switching around so no where is ever safe unless you are at a relay or a dojo."

"Not to sound rude Mr. Viktor but it sounds like your home sucks." Sawbones said as she scribbles something down on her notepad.

"It does doctor, it really does." I said nonchalantly, because come on, everyone back home knows that the system sucks ass and that it won't end until both factions are dead and the Infested are burned out of existence.

During the lull in the conversation the doctor took my vial of blood and gave it to a nurse who then left the room after gently pushing her way out, the girls were curious what was next after that but what was said next made me give off a confused look.

"Okay Mr. Viktor, we already gave you the basic physical, checked your blood pressure and got a blood sample, all that is left now is that we will need you to give us a semen sample." The good doctor said with a hint of redness on her cheeks.

"...what?"


Author's Note

College is done, I'm on break until January 30, so until then I am going to be between cranking out chapters with time permitting and playing final fantasy 14 heavenward. I lost all of my shit in that game with the exception of my login rewards so the only good thing is that I have a miniature Odin following me around for looks and shits n giggles. Peace!

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