The fatal error
Chapter Five
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Rainbow awoke at around noon the day after the surgery in an attempt to save her wings. She opened her eyes just a little, only to have to shut them because of the Suns bright rays. Rainbow slowly opened her eyes, allowing them to adjust to the light, and then sit up. She tried to move her wings, but she couldn't feel them. She decided that they were just numb. She also felt a burning pain where her wings would be, right where the bones connect. Then a green earth pony in a nurse outfit walked into the room and asked rainbow, "How do you feel?"
Rainbow could hardly speak, but she managed to reply in a raspy voice, "Terrible."
The nurse barely pressed her hoof on Rainbow's ribs and asked, "Does this hurt?"
Rainbow shook her head as the nurse repeated this in many other spots.
About five minutes later, the nurse finished and said to Rainbow, "Alright you're fine. Nurse Redheart will be here soon to give you information on the surgery, and the pain you are feeling should go away in about seven minutes."
Rainbow didn't feel much pain except for a major head ache and an intense pain around the area of her wings, but it was still awful. Wait a minute... her wings... she just realized something felt different. She tried to move her wings, she didn't feel anything. She decided that they were numb and just then nurse Redheart walked in,"Ah, hello Rainbow Dash. I assume you are feeling intense pain around the area of where your wings used to be?"
Rainbow nodded. Then she realized what she just heard. Her eyes widened until they looked like they would explode or pop out of her head. She furiously tried to move her wings, to prove herself wrong. She could live without her wings, but it would be absolute hell for her. Being a Pegasus that flew all her life to do everything, not being able to fly at all would be the exact opposite of amazing. She couldn't feel her wings. She tried to move them. She felt nothing. She touched where her wings would be. She felt nothing. She wanted to cry. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run away from it all. She wanted to do something. She couldn't do anything. Her emotions were too strong. She just sat there, with her jaw hanging open and staring at the nurse.
Nurse Redheart was half suprised at Rainbow's reaction and half expectant of it. You would think that after going through surgery to fix your wings, you would try and check your wings. Redheart decided it would be best to leave her alone until her friends got there, which fortunately for Rainbow Dash, was nearly the second that Redheart had left.
Rainbow was still stunned and still locked in the position that she was earlier. Twilight was the only one that had entered the room. As soon as she saw Rainbow, she rushed over to her side and embraced her. Twilight felt really bad about her wings, and she blamed herself for it all. She managed to keep the emotions from showing on the outside, but on the inside they were slowly destroying her.
Surprisingly, they stayed in that position for well over 10 minutes before Rainbow was out of her trance and Twilight let go. Twilight started, "I....I....I'm so sorry Rainbow."
Rainbow opened her mouth to reply, "I... How.... What...." Rainbow still couldn't feel any emotion, or rather, she felt too much emotion to understand what was happening. Rainbow thought of her home, her dreams, her life, her job, everything, and how it would all change. She then wondered if there was a way magic could give her wings back. She would have to ask Twilight as soon as everything calmed down. Rainbow sighed, nothing more.
Twilight could no longer hold in the guilt she was feeling and yelled,"I'm so sorry!" She fell into rainbow and sobbed loudly.
Rainbow was surprised at this, and she was able to suck up all the feelings she had and stay strong for Twilight, "Twi, it's not your fault... It was just a stupid move on my part... don't feel bad... I'm sure I can make this work." It took Rainbow a good five minutes of convincing to calm her down. Then, Rainbow asked Twilight, "Hey, Twilight, this can't be fixed with... you know, magic? right?"
Twilight responded, "I don't think so... since your wings have been surgically removed, they would have moved the bones into a formation that can hold your body together without wings, and it would be to difficult for me to alter that many muscles and tendons and bones back to be able to give you your wings. However... I think if I can reorganize your genes and alter your skull a little bit...that would require some research and practice."
"Erm.... I think a simple no would have done just fine, but I am very interested in hearing about that possible 'solution' you have. Oh and, Twi, I have one more thing I want to talk to you about..."
"What is it?"
"Well... Scoots told me some things about her family, and well, apparently both her parents died before she knew them. She has lived in an orphanage for all her life... about a week ago, the orphanage had to close down for some reason, and now Scoots is living with Applebloom, and has no legal guardian... so..." Rainbow paused.
Twilight had a couple of possible answers for the unfinished explanation, but she wanted to see if she was correct, "So?"
"Well... I'm uh, kinda thinking about er," She didn't really want to finish, but she knew she had to, "Adoption."
Twilight nodded, and wanted to argue but she knew she wouldn't be able to win, so she just replied, "Well, if Scootaloo is living with no legal guardian, you have to talk to the mayor to get the paperwork to legally make her your guardian, and why would you even want to adopt a filly? Your only Twenty-three years old."
"Well, if I am going to spend the rest of my life with you, which I plan to do, I wont be able to have a kid of my own, and I uh, really want to be a parent."
That warmed Twilight's heart, and she understood why she would want to adopt Scootaloo, and Scootaloo would probably be overjoyed to live with her idol, let alone have her as a parent. She knew it wouldn't be easy, but not necessarily hard. She also knew that Rainbow would probably want to now move in with her, and that was a good thing for Twilight. Also, that 'solution' she had was going to take some time, and the combination of a couple of spells. Rainbow interrupted her train of thought with a question, "Hey Twi, do you know when I can get out of here anyway?"
"As a matter of fact, I do. Nurse Redheart said that you only need to be here for another five or six days, to make sure there are no fatal complications of anything including the medicine you have been taking, and the surgery you went through. And when you are checked out of the hospital, you will be prescribed to take painkillers for a week, or you will go through the worst pain of your life."
"Err okay, and how exactly did I lose my wings?" Rainbow seemed to be taking the situation a lot better than Twilight thought she would.
"Well, what I have been told is that during the surgery, while they where trying to relocate the bone where your right wing connect to your body one of the surgeons accidentally hit an artery and they had really no better option than to remove your wings. I'm really sorry Rainbow. I don't think I can ever make up for it." Most of that was true, but if she was correct, she could almost make up for her wings. Then she brought this up, "Hey, Rainbow since uhh, you won't be able to fly up to your cloud home any more, I was thinking that uh..." for some reason she couldn't bring herself to finish, luckily Rainbow did that for her, "I should move in with you? I'd be happy to." Rainbow said it with a smile on her face and motioned for Twilight to come closer to her. Twilight did so, and Rainbow pulled her into a kiss.
After about half a minute they broke the kiss, and Rainbow said, "As soon as I get out of here, we have a lot of stuff to do."
"Yes we do."
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Hey guys, thanks to Systemfail, My Proofreader, without him I would be doomed, and I really need somebody that is good with applejack and her grammar, please PM me or I'm just going to cut her out of the story. Sorry for such a late release, and don't foget to rate this story! Oh and if anybody thinks they know what Twilight will do, don't post it. I will remove comments. Errors will be corrected, comment if you see any!
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