Hurt and Healing
Chapter 4: My Saviour
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt was a beautiful morning, birds chirped and the rays of the sun began to shine from the horizon lighting it with a yellow-blue glow announcing the start of a new day. In a small cabin house located in the outskirts of Ponyville the rays of the sun began to filter through the curtains and hitting the eyes of Redheart. "Nooo, 5 more minutes," she protested. Redheart stirred in the bed trying to ignore the light, but in the end she gave in finally sitting up on the edge of her bed. She made her way to the bathroom to wash her face, so she could wake up, she didn't have to walk too far since the bathroom was exclusive to her room. Five minutes later she emerged from her bathroom refreshed and her hair tied into a bun.
With a cheery attitude she heads for her closet "Alright! Just gotta get dressed, breakfast and then head on to work!"
Redheart changes into her nurse uniform; the uniform was a one piece uniform that could open from buttons that ran on the left side of her body and ended where the skirt began, the skirt reached just a bit above her knees and finally to complete the uniform a small white nurse cap with a red cross in the center. Nurse Redheart posed in front of her full body mirror doing a pin up she had seen in a fashion magazine once. Giggling, she walks out of her room.
She proceeded to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. She made a sunny-side-up egg breakfast sandwich complete with a sautéed tomato. She served the tasty breakfast on a platter and served herself a glass of orange juice, looking at her recent creation she bites in tasting the delicious, mouthwatering sandwich savoring every moment "Breakfast is the best," she sighs. She looks up from her plate and looks at the hanging clock: she was late for work.
"Oh crap, I'm late!" Redheart quickly downs the sandwich with the orange juice and gets up from her seat, runs out the cabin and starts jogging down the gravel road. After a few minutes she starts slowing down to a walking pace as she begins to admire the scenery; the blue sky, the white puffy clouds; the green hills, the strange creature lying down in said hill.
Redheart stops and from a distance narrows her eyes to try see what it is that she saw. With a bit of courage, she walks slowly towards the figure and quickly notices from the blood he's visibly hurt. She starts running up hill toward the creature and kneels at the creature's side. She notices he looked strange, he looked like a pony but his facial features were much flatter, he had no fur except for the top of his head, he didn't have hoofs at the end of his legs and his clothes were made of a strange fabric which seemed smoother and delicate.
Whatever this creature was, he seemed to be badly hurt; a thin line of blood was flowing out of his mouth and he seemed to be unconscious.
Redheart uses her hands to gently touch his chest and use the bit of magic earth ponies usually have and since her special talent was related somewhat to the field of medicine she would have a bit of an idea as to what she could do at the moment. 'A broken rib, a light concussion, and... Foreign objects in his brain, arteries and back of his ear?' the mare looked at the creature with a puzzled expression shortly after receiving the information she was able to gather from her magic. The broken rib would prove to be a serious problem, with a broken rib she couldn't just try to pick him up and carry him to the hospital it meant she would have to improvise. Looking around, she spots a branch close to the edge of the everfree forest, an idea quickly forming in her head. Running back to her house, she grabs the blanket she slept in the night before and quickly runs back to the wounded creature tying up the blanket to the branch she creates a makeshift stretcher.
She gently puts his upper body on the blanket making sure he doesn't accidentally hit his head on the gravel, she picks up the branch which in turn lifted his upper body a bit and start to move towards the hospital gently dragging the creature behind her. The creature grunts in pain and she, upon hearing him, tries to pick up the pace.
She looks back at him with sympathetic eyes, "I'll get you to a hospital, hang on for a bit".
Ponyville Hospital
5 minutes later
The hospital was relatively calm that morning the only ponies coming in were going to get a checkup or had a mild case of stomach ache from consuming too much of Pinkie Pie's muffins. The peace, however, was interrupted by nurse redheart who pushed open the doors to the entrance of the hospital as she steps in with the creature behind her. She looked as if she ran a marathon and her bun was close to breaking free.
"DOCTOR, WE NEED A DOCTOR HERE!"
The receptionist looks at the creature and runs off to get a doctor, but the doctor was already running down the hall towards the entrance. Quickly using his magic, he grabs an emergency stretcher trolly from the end of the room and pulls it close.
Redheart immediately tells him the details "Doc be careful, he has a broken rib, concussion and foreign objects in his body. I found him atop a small hill at the edge of the everfree."
The doctor nods "Is he even pony or is he a minotaur? Any sort of identification? What about a medical history?" The Doctor without hesitation picks the creature up with his magic and gently lays him on the stretcher trolley.
Redheart shakes her head "I'm afraid I don't have anymore information."
The doctor does a short nod "I'll see what we can do. Meanwhile, go clean up well talk later" the doctor speeds off towards the emergency room with the injured human beside him leaving redheart behind wondering what exactly did she just save.
Over an hour later she had already cleaned herself up having taken a spare uniform from her locker and retied her hair bun back into place. She was currently sitting outside the room of the creature waiting for the doctor to come out.
The head nurse, Nightingale, was lenient towards Redheart; having decided to assign her to care for the creature as a reward for her heroic action. Redheart was sitting at the entrance desk trying to distract herself from the boring routine but from the back of her mind she was still worried for the creature , it seemed to be in a bad state while it was unconscious. The Doctor emerged from the room and walked over to Redheart.
Redheart stands up facing the doctor "Is it ok doctor?" she asks.
The doctor puts on a smile "He will be fine Nurse Redheart, we were able to ID him through what looked like a presentation card he had in his pocket. It seems his name is Anon Reyes, male and according to his presentation card born September 1 2035." The doctor hands her Anons ID.
"That's not possible, that's a little over a millennium from now" Redheart replies with a puzzled look.
The doctor nods in agreement "That's not all, the country of origin named here isn't from anywhere I know."
"Strange" replies redheart.
"Right now what he needs is rest, I was able to treat his fractured rib and concussion only partially. As for the foreign objects, unfortunately, those will not be extracted until I get more information about them so make sure to talk to him about it if he wakes up ok?" as the doctor finishes speaking redheart nods in affirmation.
"Why were you not able to treat him completely?" Redheart's complexion seemed to fall a bit in worry.
"something is stopping me from treating him completely. I dunno what it is but until I can get more information I can only do this much unfortunately." the doctors expression sullens.
"I will go contact miss Sparkle, I'm sure she will be excited to talk to him once he wakes up" the doctor pats her on the shoulder and continues "You did good today nurse redheart, had you not noticed him he would probably have suffered more before expiring." the doctor then walks away.
Redheart enters the room and sees Anon asleep on a hospital bed. Taking a seat on the armchair beside anon she takes a closer look at him noticing his facial features. 'He's not bad looking I guess?' she looks him over, but stops when her conscious catches up to her. 'What am I thinking I don't even know this guy' she mentally scolds herself.
Autumn 2045
"Anon, hold onto our hands!" Maximiliano and Joy held the hands of their 10-year-old son while Alice, a 5-year-old girl, was carried by her mother. They had just left their house to head towards a public bomb shelter that was near. The neighborhood was in chaos many people ran in and out of their houses trying to gather their belongings, others sagely left behind their belongings and also made their way to the bomb shelter. Anon had an idea as to what was happening, but his sister could still not understand the magnitude of the problem they were in.
The world seemed to faze into darkness as they ran down the street eventually Anon saw only his younger self from a third person perspective and followed him as he ran into the darkness. Young Anon's clothes began to tatter and get dirtier and soon the world fazed in to reveal the walkway to the hiding spot in which they took refuge he and his sister: under a partially destroyed bridge. Young Anon carried in his hand a small can of canned corn, Anon knew exactly where young anon was headed and followed him. Young anon stopped in the middle of the bridge, facing where the bridge would start and pulled on a door that had its hinges partially destroyed the door made a loud creaking sound and revealed a small room originally designed for storing a few maintenance droids only now the home of two orphans. Anon was standing in the entrance watching everything unfold.
Young anon walked up to a small dirty mattress that lay on the floor and on that mattress was his sister sick, cold and wrapped up in her jacket trying to make it through the cold. It was a cold December they had been surviving for a bit over a month, but winter proved to be harsh even in Los Cabos: they had global warming to thank for that.
"I brought food" Young Anon sat down cross legged in front of his sister trying to open the can with a knife he had taken from an abandoned house.
"You eat it" Alice says in between coughs.
Her brother shakes his head "No, you need it more than me" He hands her the opened can and helps her up to a seating position.
"Thanks Anon" She says as she starts to sniffle "I jus- I just wish mommy and daddy were still here!" she breaks into a sob.
Anon silently watched his younger self hug her and silently join her sadness. The world around Anon started to darken and an intense light shone through it which blinded him, slowly the light got closer until his whole world was consumed by the light.
1 day later
Anon stirred in the hospital bed starting to wake up, he feels a mild pain emanating from his chest. Instinctively he reaches with one of his hands towards where the pain came from, only to be stopped by a soft hand. Anon finally opens his eyes and sees Nurse Redheart.
"Please, don't move, you have a fractured rib" she says in a smooth voice that strangely calms him down if only for just a bit.
Anon stares at Redheart "Wh-what are you?" he looks up and down at the mare that stood before him, her fur was short and pure white, had pink hair tied up in a cute bun and those large blue eyes seemed to mesmerize him; her body had an hourglass figure, she was quite busty and a few other details he noticed was that she had no feet, but instead hooves she had what looked like a snout but more rounded and less pronounced and finally her ears seemed equine; to Anon she looked alien to him but breathtaking nonetheless.
"My name is Redheart, Im a pony, I'm also a nurse of this hospital and I was assigned to take care of you until you get better." she says calmly. She noticed now that when Anon spoke to her he has this sort of accent when speaking equish he seemed to roll out his r's a bit more.
Anon nods in silence still admiring her beauty before finally speaking "Nurse Redheart, may I ask how I got here?" he asks.
"Well, a day ago I found you wounded, I made a makeshift stretcher and dragged you to the hospital so the doctor could treat your wounds." Redheart explains with a serious expression.
Anon eyes went wide "I was out for a day?"
Redheart nods.
Anon thinks to himself, 'Well, damn I guess im pretty lucky to have been found.' Anon looks at her with a sweet smile and chuckles lightly before speaking "Mi salvador, My saviour," he says while maintaining eye contact with her.
Redheart didn't really know what that first part meant but, that voice, it was earcandy to her; she was slightly blushing when she heard that last part "Your welcome Mr. Reyes." she says trying to hide her blush by looking in another direction.
Deciding to return the conversation on track,she composes herself and looks back at Anon "A-anyway I have been told by the doctor he was not able to remove some foreign objects that seemed to be in your body so by any chance do you know anything about them that might help?".
"I'm sorry Redheart but those objects must stay inside, of course, I'm not saying I would die without them but they help out my body to perform better than what a normal human being would and no offence but by looking around the room I doubt you would have the right tech to extract them," He gives Redheart a warm smile and continues "Did I by chance have any belongings with me?"
"Why, yes if you excuse me I'll go fetch them." Redheart heads out the door.
Anon takes this opportunity to think things over, 'What the hell? A pony she says! Well, she does seem to have some characteristics but she looks almost human! and where the hell did that flirt come from? compose yourself dammit! You just met her. More importantly I was out for a day and got a broken rib! I need to take the pills for faster recovery'
Anon calms himself a bit and looks out the window his bed was close to looking at the town below he could see more of the same species as Redheart but he also saw others that looked like her but with different colors of coat and hair. What astonished him was seeing others with horns and some flying with wings of their own 'This world is definitely not earth or any of the other colonies how did I get here? How do I get back?' His thinking was interrupted when Redheart enters the room with his clothes neatly folded in her hands. Anon didn't notice at first but he was in a hospital gown.
"Ah, thank you, could you hand me my pants?" Anon reaches his hands out wincing a bit at the pain as he did so.
Redheart gives him the pair of pants "You can't leave yet ok? You need to completely heal first"
Anon nods with a warm smile "Now why would I leave if your here?" Anon mentally facepalms himself. That damn habit of being flirty around the opposite sex had caused trouble before.
Redheart was visibly embarrassed "I'll just...be outside, if you need anything just call out for me" flustered she leaves the room before Anon could say a word.
Not able to resist anymore, Anon facepalms himself only to wince at the pain from his chest caused from moving his arm. Anon sits up in his bed, toughing through the pain from his chest and dips his hand into the backpocket and feels what he was looking for. He pulls out a small aluminum case that still contained 10 green pills with a small printed red text on them saying 'TWIST BEFORE CONSUMING'. Anon takes one of the green pills and twists one of the ends causing a silent hiss to emanate from the pill he then immediately pops it in his mouth and swallows.
The pills were first aid nanobots capable of repairing and destroying harmful or damaged tissue in the body. Developed during WW3 these pills gave many soldiers a second chance to fight another day and after the war they were used to cure many types of injuries without the need of a surgery. The pills however were not cure-alls, they couldn't be used to treat illnesses due to how "messy" at their job nanobots were. Anon judged by the extent of his damage it would take at least 1 hour to heal his body.
Anon was sitting on the bed when he starts to feel the nanobots work their way through his body and finally congregate themselves in the affected areas. It felt as if there were hundreds of ants crawling on his chest and head area; It was mighty uncomfortable.
*Knock Knock*
Anon looks up towards the door as it opened to reveal another one of those ponies but this one was had a lavender coat with long hair that reached a bit past her shoulders and had a pink stripe running through it; another major difference he noticed were the wings and horn she seemed to possess, he hadn't seen that on any of the other ponies when looking out the window. She was also wearing a sort of librarian outfit that looked adorable on her.
"Oh, good afternoon!" the lavender pony steps into the room with a cheery smile. She proceeds to sit in the armchair beside his bed.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle what's yours?"
"Um, name Is Anon, Anon Reyes"
"Well Anon, I'm here to help you get back home do you remember anything before arriving here?" Twilight's horn iluminates with a dull purple glow and starts to float a notepad and pen to write down some notes when Anon looks amazed at it.
"WAIT! How are you doing that?!" Anon pointed at the levitating notepad in front of her. Anon was astonished at the scene as his mind tried to formulate a logical reason.
"Oh right, I forgot humans don't actually use magic" she says with a sheepish smile "Sorry to have surprised you like that."
Anon was caught off guard about what she said 'Magic? what the heck?' he open his mouth to speak "Wait, you know what I am? how?" he looks at her with a surprised face.
"Well I actually stayed in your world for some time after passing through the portal. I must say that you look quite different from your peers, your eyes are noticeably smaller."
"You've been to earth? When? and what do you mean my eyes are smaller?" Anon was amazed at the thought of humanity having established unknowingly with a different species but he found her last statement a bit odd.
"Well it was about 5 years ago, I was a student in Canterlot High for at least a week and the eyes of your peers were of a similar size as to mine," she states matter-a-factly while giving a nervous grin.
Anon, without saying a word, decides to speed up his brain functions. The world around him seemed to go at an excruciatingly slow pace, twilight's eyes were half-lidded because she was blinking and moved extremely slow; it was as if he stopped time. Anon starts searching information stored in the artificial third lobe of his brain for this high school she mentioned. After what seemed like hours no information came up about this "Canterlot High", no records, no register; nothing. Anon frigidly came with to a hypothesis: she is either lying, referring to an unknown location inhabited by humans or from what she mentioned about the eyes talking about a completely different place which would be an amazing discovery.
Still thinking to himself, he thought about this portal Twilight mentioned 'could it be a way out? maybe this is where she found those other humans.'
Decreasing his brain functions to reestablish normal perception of reality he immediately corrects her with a deadpan expression "I'm sorry but humans with similar eyes as yours? It doesn't seem to be the same place im from."
Twilight's eyes widen "Oh my gosh! Could it be your from a different world?" Twilight squeals as she starts scribbling notes blindingly fast.
Pointing to himself Anon speaks "Im from a country called the North American Union, which is located in the American Continent um...planet earth." Anon didn't know if he wanted to go into more specifics so he leaves it at that.
Twilights lean in on him, hands on the bed and a huge grin that would make the cheshire cat make a run for his money "NO WAY!" Twilight squeals with glee once more.
"um...yes way?" he tries to avoid eye-to-eye contact but fails and for a few seconds he's caught in the gaze of the purple mare and blushes slightly. Although not as "gifted" as Redheart he still struggled a bit from looking down. 'You're a soldier! get a hold of yourself dammit!' he mentally scolds himself.
Twilight sees him get flustered and realizes what she is doing, pulling back and returning to her seat; she looks to the side and lets out a nervous cough into her fist.
"Sorry about that, I got a little excited," she says with a nervous smile.
"It's fine Twilight, anyway, regarding your first question I actually don't know how I got here; I was walking behind a friend and then this sense of vertigo just made me collapse."
"Huh, well that certainly complicates things, without much information I won't be able to actually pinpoint where you come from." Twilight's face sours a bit after saying that information.
Anon looks towards the window with a solemn expression on his face. He spots a family walking in the streets of the city, the parents walked while holding the hands of their child who was floating an icecream cone in front of him, happily walking along the path. The silence was interrupted when Redheart entered the room with a tray of food in her hands.
Redheart's eyes widen in surprise as she does a small bow towards Twilight "Oh, Princess Twilight Sparkle! It's an honor to see you here I didnt think you would come this late. Were about to end visiting hours."
Anon looked back at Twilight wide eyed at the sudden revelation "Princess?!"
"Please, I don't really like being called princess, Twilight is fine" she turns around to RedHeart "I wasn't aware, I'm truly sorry"
Redheart shakes her head "Not at all miss Twilight, however I think it would be better to leave Anon to rest."
Twilight nods and turns to Anon with a tender smile and puts a hand over his "I will see you tomorrow Anon, Ill send a letter to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to ask for their advice, although knowing them, they just might come by and visit."
Twilight gets up from her chair and makes her way through the door. Redheart lays the tray with Anons food on his bed and lays out a spork. The food was a salad with red fruits with a side dish of yogurt and a cup of water.
"Thank you Redheart you been of great help to me" Anon takes the spork and begins to eat.
The next day Anon woke up because of the sunlight filtering through the curtains, as he rose his hands to rub his eyes he noticed that the nanobots had done their job and he no longer felt any pain. Satisfied with the results he gets up from the bed to stretch and walks to the bathroom. After taking care of business he sits down on the bed.
*Knock Knock*
Anon turns to the door then speaks "Come on in, Im awake" Anon yawns. Suddenly he hears a tray drop to the floor.
Startled Anon looks at the direction of the door and sees two mares in royal regalia. One of them had a pearl white color of coat, was tall probably a bit taller than Anon, magenta eyes, multicolored mane that seemed to flow in an ethereal manner and possessed both wings and horns. The second one had green eyes, had a dark shade of blue for coat, her hair was also ethereal like her taller counterpart and of an almost equal dark shade of blue.
Celestia and Luna looked at Anon with a shocked expressions.Celestia was the first to move forward, she held a hand to her mouth as her eyes seem to well up. Anon was starting to get worried and wanted to say something but was cut off by Luna who got close to him and gave him a hug. Anon noticed she was sobbing silently as she pressed her face forward to his chest.
Luna tries to speak silently in between sobs "We missed you so much dad" the waterworks let loose as she held him harder, scared that Anon would disappear into thin air.
"H-how?" Celestia spoke up in between sniffles as she also got closer slowly. She hesitated before reaching out with one hand trying to make contact with his shoulder just to confirm if what she is seeing is real.
When her hand made contact with his shoulder she could feel the warmth from his shoulder confirming to her he was real. Almost immediately she also succumbed to tears as she tried to smile "D-dad, its really y-you, I, no, w-we have missed you so m-much" Celestia drops on her knees and grabs hold of his leg nuzzling against it as she breaks down to a sob.
As the two mares continued to break down, Anon looked towards the door to see a two shocked guards and Redheart holding her hands over her mouth as she witnessed her leaders crying like foals.
Finally Anon looks at the two and lays to each a hand on their shoulders and with a calm face speaks "Im sorry but I think you got the wrong person"
Author's Note
Hi! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. While writing the chapter I couldn't make up my mind If I should write Nurse Redheart or just Redheart. Is Nurse part of her name? or just a job title? meh. The benefit of using background characters is that there's much more room to work with in regards to their mannerisms and personality.
It feels good to finally write about Anon. I have however my doubts, you see there wasn't supposed be an Anon. It was going to be a unique character with his own name, personality and quirks but the only thing that really was transferred over to Anon was everything but name.
What's the problem? Anon characters are usually a self insert for the reader so adding too much character traits can make the reader not able to see himself in the character as this completely defeats the purpose of having an Anon. Even though Im using the Anon character just because I was bit lazy and choosing names are the bane of my existence I will continue to use the previous character's personality traits and quirks.
ANONS THEIR FATHER?! Patience all will be explained in due time.
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