Equestrian Japanese Club

(Author's note: In this chapter, for the sake of clarity, David's thought' will be brown, Tom's red, and Orlando's will be in bold.)

Time: Afternoon
Area: Ponyville Hospital
POV: Tom

After walking(or more accurately limping) a while with Spike and Rarity Tom had made it into Ponyville. As expected from Tom the town was excessively colorful, all of the bright colors of the buildings and ponies almost hurt his eyes. Spike returned to the library which he was looking after while Twilight was in Canterlot, when he got back he'd write a letter about the attack and the dog that had saved them and send it to Celestia. As Tom and Rarity walked to the hospital they received many curious looks from the ponies in town. Not many other ponies knew about the mane six's first encounter with the diamond dogs when they had kidnapped Rarity and even fewer had encounters themselves, however those that did reported a less than pleasant experience, though not as dangerous as Rarity and Spike's most recent meeting.

Even Rarity still felt uncomfortable around Tom although she felt it was necessary to treat his wound seeing as he had just saved not only her's but Spike's life. He was completely different than all of the other diamond dogs she'd seen. He always appeared to be calm, and he'd remained silent during their walk here, the only emotion she'd seen from him so far was anger from the injury he received, which instantly disappeared in the strikes he used to finish the diamond dogs. The other diamond dogs were easy to read always blindly following their simplest needs, being unable to read Tom as easily made him frightening especially when it was clear that he was far more dangerous than any other diamond dog.

Rarity shook herself from these thoughts when they reached the hospital, when they entered all of the ponies in the room turned to look at Tom. Rarity trotted up to a nurse. "Excuse me nurse, my friend is injured and needs medical attention."
The nurse turned to face her, she had a short pink mane, a white coat and a red plus sign cutie mark. "Of course, where is he?" Rarity pointed near the entrance to Tom, the two walked over and the nurse inspected his wound.
"Can you help him?" Rarity asked.
The nurse kept looking for a moment before answering. "Well, we're used to working with ponies, but the wound doesn't seem too serious, we'll see what we can do." she motioned for Tom to follow her while Rarity remained in the waiting room.

David was in the recovery ward with Fluttershy at his bedside. David had asked her to stay, but didn't know what to say to her so they just sat there in silence for a time. After a few minutes in the recovery wards David heard someone else walk in.
"The wound wasn't too serious, so you should be fine if you don't strain your leg too hard for a few days, mister..."
"Just Tom."

"Well alright Tom, I'll go tell Miss Rarity she can see you now."Huh, I know a Tom. The nurse left the room and David heard loud foot steps walking up to a bed. David turned to look at who walked in. He saw a diamond dog, with black fur, wearing a gi setting down by his bed a... HOLY CRAP IS THAT A SWORD!? Tom noticed David staring and looked at he and Fluttershy. Tom recognized Fluttershy, who shied away when he looked at her, but he didn't know who the other pegasus was, he had a brownish-red coat and a short, smooth, black mane. He looked almost familiar.
David spoke first. "Hey... where did you get that sword?" He asked.
"I dunno, I sorta found it." He replied plainly. Wait, how does he know what this is?
"Your name is Tom right?" David asked.
"Yeah, what's yours?" Tom asked back.
"David." David! Is it him!? There's only one way to be sure.
"You wouldn't happen to be part of Japanese club, would you?" Tom asked.
David's eyes widened. "Wait a minute, TOM!? You're here too!?" he exclaimed.
"Yep, woke up here a few hours ago." Tom replied.
David laughed. "That's crazy man!"
Fluttershy spoke up. "Oh, you know him?" Fluttershy seemed less shy of Tom now that she saw that David knew him.
"Oh yeah, he's a friend." David told her. She looked back at Tom
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you Tom." she said
Tom smiled at her. "Nice to meet you too, Fluttershy."
Fluttershy gave a confused look. "Wait, how did you know my name?" She asked.

Tom froze for a second, realizing the error he just made. He was about to say something else before another pony walked in.
"Fluttershy? What're you doin' here?" Everyone turned to see Applejack with a large bandage on her face.
Fluttershy walked up to her friend. "Applejack? What happened!?" She asked her.
Applejack sighed. "I'll tell ya'll later, fer now who are these two?" She pointed to Tom and David, both gave a quick wave back.
"Oh well David there helped me earlier today, and Tom appears to be his friend." Fluttershy told her.
"Yes, and Tom actually saved me and Spike earlier." Everyone looked again to see Rarity enter the room.
"Hey, Rarity." Tom greeted her. Applejack and Fluttershy gave a small look of surprise, they expected Rarity to be the last pony to be friendly with a diamond dog.
Rarity smiled back. "Hello again Tom, what did they say about your injury?" she asked.
"They said I shouldn't strain my leg for a while, but other than that it's fine." he replied.
Rarity nodded. "That's good."
"Wait a minute, yer sayin' that dog saved ya'll?" Applejack asked.
Rarity nodded again. "Yes, Spike and I were out collecting gems when we were attacked by those diamond dogs again, they didn't want to take me like last time they just came at us like animals! Thankfully Tom showed up in time to..." she took a breath and shook her head. "Well it suffices to say that he stopped them."
Fluttershy then spoke. "That's strange, a cloaked pony attacked me earlier and David was there to stop him, we turned him in to the guards before coming here." she told them.
Applejack continued. "and Ah was hit by a pony in a cloak too, though Orlando stopped him." Everyone including Tom and David looked at her upon hearing that name.
"Orlando? Who's he?" Rarity asked.
"Ah found him in the orchard before this monster of a pony came outta nowhere and attacked us. He tried holdin' Orlando hostage, but..." she sighed "It didn't turn out too good fer 'im."
"You mean, Orlando is..." Rarity started.
"Naw, he's fine, that big pony was the one who ended up bitin' it."
David and Tom looked at each other and leaned in while the other ponies talked so they wouldn't here them. "That definitely sounds like him." David said.
"Yeah, she didn't say what he looked like though," Tom began "how are we gonna-"
"Hey, Applejack." They both turned to look at a black and red zebra who had entered the room.

Orlando was on his way to the recovery ward after a nurse told him Applejack would be there, he was a little nervous. What am I going to say to her, maybe I should apologize. He was thinking of what to say to her about the pony that had attacked her. He, along with Applejack notified the town of the pony that attacked them, and had sent a few ponies to take care of it. She hadn't spoken to him on the way to the hospital and thought that she might of hated him now. Thinking back at what happened, he actually couldn't remember much. Seeing that pony hurt Applejack invoked a lot of anger out of him, anger that he unleashed when the same pony had grabbed him and taken him hostage.

He walked into the recovery room and saw Applejack speaking to Rarity and Fluttershy. Aw crap, if I don't think this out properly they might all hate me.
"Hey Applejack." he called for her attention.
"Oh, hey Orlando..." she replied not sounding too happy about seeing him again.
"ORLANDO!" before he could say anything else he was tackled by a red pegasus colt, who was now trying his best to strangle him. "WHY ARE WE HERE!? ANSWER ME DAMMIT!" He shouted. After he recovered from his shock Orlando got out from under him and had him in a pony version of a full nelson. Two years of judo and jiu-jitsu wasn't much, but it was enough to escape from him.
Applejack tried to stop him. "Orlando, no!" This time he let go immediately, he wasn't angry like he was last time and he didn't want everypony to think he was always violent.
"David!" Fluttershy rushed to him. "Are you alright?" Wait a minute, David?
David stood up not too phased from Orlando's hold and pointed at him. "YOU!" He said dramatically.
"Um... David?" Orlando, said still unsure if it was him. His overly dramatic attitude matched David's personality but he was still unsure.
"David calm down." Orlando turned to see a diamond dog, wearing a red gi and with a sword at his waste.
"Okay, that has to be Tom." Orlando said to him.
Tom laughed. "You would be the one to know that instantly." he said.
Orlando turned to David. "So that makes you..."
"Yeah it's me." David said.
"What are you guys doing here!?" Orlando shouted.
"You mean you don't know!?" David shouted back.
Orlando shook his head. "No, I'm just as confused as you are!"
"Well if it wasn't you, then why are we here?" Tom asked.
"I don't- wait, you guys thought I brought you here!?"Orlando asked.
"Alright, WHAT THE HAY IS GOIN' ON!?" Applejack said ending the awkward exchange.

After everyone calmed down, they got to explaining their stories. Tom, David, and Orlando told each other about where they woke up and how they met a member of the mane 6. Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy told each other about how they were all attacked and saved. "Hmm, it appears all of our stories are very similar, except I wasn't attacked by a cloaked pony." Rarity observed.
"Even so, one of the dog said something about a horned pony, by which I could only assume that he meant a unicorn." Tom added. The three mares looked at him. They still weren't used to hearing a diamond dog speak in such a well toned manner.
"Tom, you appear to be very different from any other diamond dog I've had the displeasure of meeting, where are you from, exactly" Rarity asked.
"Somewhere far I'm sure." He replied. "Although where it is from here, I can't really say."
"You also said something about a "Japanese club" what is that exactly?" Fluttershy asked.
This time Orlando answered. "Oh, that's a club where we try explore and understand foreign cultures as best we can." he said.

Applejack piped in. "Ah think Ah get it, that's why Tom's in it, that way ya'll can learn more about diamond dogs, and he can learn more about ponies." Orlando nodded. It was actually a better explanation than any he could have come up with on the spot.
"So... there are other members?" Fluttershy asked.
David answered her. "Yeah it's actually pretty big, I'm not sure any other members are nearby tough..." After David said that, the three club members began to think, if they were all there, whose to say others didn't follow.
"Right, well Ah think we should get hold a' Spike and send a letter to Celestia." They all nodded in agreement. Applejack turned to Tom and David. "You two think you can walk alright?" she asked.
They both nodded, "Yeah We'll be fine." They both got up and Rarity and Fluttershy followed them out.

Applejack was about to leave too before Orlando spoke up. "Um, Applejack." She turned to face him. "About what happened in he orchard. I-When he hit you, I don't know, I just got angry so when he grabbed me I just sort of-" Orlando was interrupted by a hug from Applejack.
"It's alright, sugarcube Ah know what he would've done if you hadn't stopped him." They stayed like that for a moment before Orlando spoke again. "I'm sorry." He said.
"I know" She let go and went to the exit. "We should go, they're probably waitin' fer us."
Orlando nodded and followed her out of the hospital.

Orlando and Applejack walked out of the hospital. Rarity greeted them. "There you two are, come on let's go get Spike so we can-"
*KA-BOOOOOOOOM*

Rarity was interrupted by a loud explosion. "What the hay was that!?" Applejack asked.
Fluttershy pointed. "Look." They all observed a large mushroom cloud. "That looks like it's coming from Sugarcube Corner!"
Tom raised his voice so everypony could hear him. "You three go get Spike, Orlando, David, and I are gonna go see what that was."
"Wait! Ah'm comin' too!" Applejack said.
Tom looked at her. "You know this is probably another attack."
She nodded "Ah know that, Ah won't let anypony else get hurt!" She said, determined.
Tom nodded back. "Alright, let's go!" the four of them rushed to Sugarcube corner wile Rarity and Fluttershy went to the library.