What a Doctor can "Do"

I decided to spend the rest of my day setting up my new office. Remembering Bolt, I went over to Fluttershy’s house to pick him up. I knocked on the door, hoping she would answer. She did.

“Oh, hi Stan. Are you here to pick up Bolt?” Fluttershy asked me

“Yeah, I’m so sorry about that. How much do I owe you?” I asked pulling my wallet out.

“Oh, no need for that. He was such a sweetheart. He would always come back after I let him go hunting.” She said.

“Really? I can spare a few bits or...” I said

“No. But if you have your equipment set up, I’d like you to take a look at Angel. He’s been very sick lately.” She said looking worried

“Sure Fluttershy, it’s the least I can do.” I said, “Just let me send Bolt to the castle with a note to Twilight.” I pulled a pen and a piece of paper and used my wing to write a note to Twilight. I gave it to Bolt and sent him off.

I met Fluttershy and Angel at the door to my office. I unlocked the door, grabbed my labcoat, clipboard, and pen. I directed Fluttershy to my exam room, Angel on her back.

She put Angel on the exam table while I grabbed my stethoscope. I went over and looked the bunny over, he looked fairly normal. I checked his core temperature and heart rate, which send red flags flying. Temperature of 106 degrees and an elevated heart rate.

“Angel, do you have any cuts or scrapes?” I asked him thinking the fever could be due to an infection.

He nodded and showed me a nasty gash on his right leg. It hadn’t been washed properly in days it appeared.

“Fluttershy, did you know about this?” I asked her looking borderline angry.

“Yes, but I didn’t think it needed medical attention. If it helps, he’s only had it a week.” She said

“Alright, but from now on just let me know about things like this. That is a serious gash that I need to work on. I think it would be best if you stepped out of the room while I clean it.” I said

“Will he be OK?” Fluttershy looked worried

“Yes, it’s going to be very painful for you to watch, that’s all.” I say to her.

“OK, I trust you, just be gentle.” She said stepping out and closing the door behind her.

“Alright Angel,” I said putting gloves on my wings (I had them specially made as I was the only pony who could maneuver them that well in the medical field) and grabbed gauze and alcohol, “I’m not gonna lie, this is gonna hurt and sting a lot.” I said to the rabbit.

“If you want to have Fluttershy come back in, you can’t scream because I don’t want her to freak out” I said.

A nod from him acknowledged my statement. I opened the door and asked for Fluttershy to come in.

“But I thought you said you didn’t want me to be in there.” She said

“He asked for you to come in, he has to be brave, and he wants you to just be there next to him.” I stated.

“Oh, well, in that case,” Fluttershy said walking back into the room.

I soaked the 3 gauze pads with alcohol and moved in on the gash on his right leg. He cringed as the pad touched the open wound. He grimaced through the pain, clutching Fluttershy’s hoof. As I continued the procedure of cleaning out the wound, finding only a minor infection. I would attribute the septic fever due to the fact that he is only a rabbit and has a smaller immune system. I found the wound to be fairly dirty, but managed to clean it up rather quickly and stitch it shut.

“Alright Angel, I’m all done. I’ll just need to bandage you up. I said prepping a large bandage after throwing the bloody gauze pads in the red biohazard bin. I quickly bandaged the leg and told Fluttershy that he needed to come back in a week to let me see if it was healing properly.

“You’ll also need these antibiotics. They’ll help him heal the infection faster.” I said to her giving her a bottle of pink liquid.

“Oh thank you so much Stan!” She said throwing her arms around me.

“No problem, you take care now” I said waving them out the door.

I ended up seeing a few more ponies with their animals, mostly just shots and a few bandages were needed. There was this one mare who brought in her “pet” rock and asked me to examine it, I shrugged that off and began to lock up my office for the night. As the lock clicked shut behind me, I began to walk to the clearing in the trees to take off. I slowly became aware of a presence behind me. Picking up my pace, I kept on walking to the clearing. Its speed matched mine. I began to run, as fast as I could to that clearing and prepared for a running takeoff. The clearing in sight, I began to spread my wings but just as I was about to lift off, I was brought down. Whatever it was hit me like a freight train, and sent me as well as itself, rolling. Regaining my senses, I scrambled to my feet and looked around for what hit me. I then found it or rather her.

“Princess Luna?!” I said my mouth agape.

There was no response from her. I ran over and saw that she had landed on a rock and was bleeding quite a lot from the wound. Panicking, I sprinted as fast as I could back to my office, unlocked the door, and grabbed alcohol, gauze and bandages. Sprinting back, I found the Lunar Princess still sprawled on the ground. I kneeled down beside her and cleaned off the wound with some alcohol and gauze, and wrapped it very tightly in some bandages.

“St-Stan...” Luna tried to say something.

“Luna, you tackled me and you gashed your head pretty wide open on a rock. I just need you to stay with me while I take you to Twilight’s castle. She’ll know what to do. Just stay awake for me alright?” I said taking the dark blue alicorn into my arms and lifting off the ground.

I flew as fast as I could do safely. The flight lasted about 5 minutes, it was punctuated by me talking to Luna to make sure she was still conscious. After getting to the castle, I banged hard on the door. To my surprise, Twilight answered it, not Spike.

“Twilight, I know this looks bad but I need you to do exactly as I say!” I said to her firmly.

“HOLY SHIT!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!!” She screamed in horror.

“Twilight, focus on me, I’ll tell you the details after, right now I need as many medical supplies as you can summon.” I said frantically.

“Uh...Ok, Medical...” She said to herself as I went inside and put Luna on a table.

“I got it!” Twilight said, floating all the supplies that I could ever need over to the table.

“Wait, you’re not a physician! You’re a vet!” She said

“I am now, unless you can find somepony else who knows how to perform an emergency head trauma procedure!” I said to her in an authoritative tone.

I began working on the wound, peeling away the bandage. Thank Celestia, the bleeding had mostly stopped. I checked for swelling in the skull, not finding any, breathing another sigh of relief. I checked for hemorrhages and aneurysms, but found none. Holy Faust, Luna had really dodged a bullet. I stitched her up and put a fresh bandage on the princess’ head. I came out of the room, to find 2 guards and Celestia standing outside the door.

“You are hereby under arrest for the crime of assaulting royalty and attempted murder.” one guard said as another placed cuffs on both sets of hooves and strapped my wings down.