Cheating the Cycle of Life- A Padded Pony Collab

"B-but Fluttershy, I don't want to go, the doctors are mean there!" Scootaloo whined, as she curled up under the light blue cloud-themed covers of her bed. Fluttershy sighed, as she moved the bed's covers away.

"Scooty, you know that these kind of appointments have to be respected," Fluttershy said, caressing Scootaloo's back in the attempt to get her to relax. "If you behave, I'll buy an ice cream, okay?"

Scootaloo looked at Fluttershy, as she crawled to the farthest corner of the bed on the side of the wall, shivering a little.

"N-no!" she said, "I don't want to, it's too scary!"

Fluttershy turned around to let out an exasperated groan, at her current situation with Scootaloo. Sometimes, Fluttershy regretted not listening to her mother to leave Molise and go up north, where everything was more modern, better organized. And, in this particular case, where the doctors did not all suffer of the God Complex.

"Scootaloo, please, don't make this harder than it already is," Fluttershy said “Please, just follow me. I'll try my best to make the doctors stop being mean to you, but you'll have to obey me."

Scootaloo squeaked, as she crawled off her bed and walked towards Fluttershy.

"O-okay..." Scootaloo said, looking up at Fluttershy with wide and somewhat-teary eyes. Fluttershy smiled at her and patted the little girl's head, before going towards her wardrobe.

"Let's get all dressed up now, shall we?"

After twenty minutes of walking, Scootaloo and Fluttershy arrived in front of the hospital. It was gray, with half-destroyed caryatids and scraped-off plaster all over the place, with scaffolding around most of the places where it did not fall off. Doctors, nurses and patietns passed by the entrance.

"And here we are," Fluttershy said, as she grabbed Scootaloo's right hand while walking in. Scootaloo held Fluttershy's hand tightly, as she entered in the hospital proper.

She was greeted by the sight of people lying on stretchers left around the hallways, doctors smoking right in front of signs explicitly telling them to not do so, nurses armed with carpet beaters or canes chasing crippled terrified young patients, and the strong smell of medicine mixed with the odour of sawdust.  Coupled with the seemingly overly big proportions of the furniture, all of this was because of fear for Scootaloo, who started to sweat, as she was escorted around the hospital.

Finally, after passing by a corridor turned into a maze of stretches and biological wastes cart, Scootaloo and Fluttershy arrived in the same waiting room where all of Scootaloo's little odyssey begun.

Scootaloo sat down, her back hunched, as she looked around her with fear and insecurity.

"I don't like this place... it's scary, really scary..."

"There's nothing to be afraid of, Scooty. The doctors just want to do your best, even if they aren't being very kind." Fluttershy said, as she ruffled Scootaloo's hair, which made SCootaloo whimper softly.

"O-okay..." she said unsurely.

All of the sudden, the door in front of the chairs was slammed open with a drop kick once more, revealing the human mountain of muscles that was Nurse Coldheart, accompanied by a much slender and taller nurse in a light pink attire, Nurse Kindheart. Nurse Coldheart scratched her butt visibly, as she looked around her, before setting her eyes onto Scootaloo, which made her groan loudly

"Oh. It's you." Nurse Coldheart said, "It's your turn again, Scootaloo."

Scootaloo gulped and got up, receiving a pat on her shoulders by Fluttershy, before she actually walked towards Nurse Coldheart and Nurse Kindheart.

"Did you eat anything?" Nurse Coldheart asked, before burping "'cuz, if you did and you dont' tell me, I'll send your kidneys to the Molisan Central Organ Bank!"

Scootaloo whimpered and brought her hands to her mouth once she heard those words, as the door was closed behind her.

"Coldheart!" Nurse Kindheart said rushing to grab Scootaloo by the shoulders and moving the girl closer to her"that's not the way to deal with little ones at all!"

"Eh, whatever, the guys in Campobasso pay me jackshit, migh as well do whatever." she said with a shrug, causing Nurse Kindheart to glare at her, as she petted Scootaloo's head and helped the girl to undress fully, before setting her on the examination table.