Author's Note

Ok so I know I've got another short chapter but I'm having some trouble with writer's block and this has taken me so long just to feel like this is how I want this next part to go. There is also some changing of point of view in this chapter fragment.

This is also a tidbit to let you all know that this isn't dead.

Ch. 5 Fever Dreams Part 2

BOOOM!!!FWUSHHH!

"Shit, Medic!" I scream out at the top of my lungs as I watch a Harvester's maw cannons detonate and increase a squad of Turian and human soldiers. I raise my rifle and open up on the mechanical monstrosity along with my team and several other squads of multiple races. After the defining roar of gunfire continues for several seconds before the beast finally lets out its shrill scream and explodes in a spectacular show of metallic gore.

"You always take me to the best places Sheperd," I hear Garrius comment as we raise from the cover we were using.

Before I can make my quip back Javic interrupts me "indeed Sheperd you certainly know how to fight the Reapers" as he offers me a grin.

"Yeah, yeah you know you love me Garrus." I tease back as we begin to jog to another area as we hear the chatter of rifles going off in the distance and over the radio we hear the reports that a squad is pinned down by a horde of husks and a few Marauders.

I let out a scream from the pain as my eyes flash open catching the sight of more pretty ponies in medical gear surrounding me with bright overhead lights holding medical instruments. I hear one call out "Horseapples she's awake give her a sedative! NOW!" the light brown stallion orders the frantic pink nurse who quickly gets a syringe filled with sedative and injects it into the IV bag that I now notice above me. And just like that the pain fades away and I feel myself growing further and further from my body as my eyes slide closed allowing the ponies to do their work.

(Doctor Stable Beat POV)

I nod to nurse Tender in gratitude for her quick action on sedating the thrashing dragoness after she awoke on the Operating Table. Letting out a breath thankful that she didn't do anything more than thrash about I get back to removing the tip of the stinger that broke off in her stomach due to her armor. It was the main worry for me and my staff for as long as it remained within her body it would continue to pump more venom into her making any other effort to save her life useless.

Leaning forward I take the diamond-edged scalpel used for cutting through dragon scale to widen the entry wound for the stinger as tainted blood gushes from the wound a mixture of dark red and black due to the venom of the Manticore and its high toxicity. I spot a bit of dirt brown in the center of the wound and with a muttered prayer to Faust I reach in and pull out the barbed tip of the stinger.

(Commander's POV)

I let out a yawn and reach up to rub the tiredness from my eyes as I look away from my computer screen, where I've been working on my writing for the past few hours. I lean back and stretch my arms up getting a few pleasant pops from my body as I do. I look to the clock on the wall to find the time to be after 11:00 at night, I'd been working really hard to write my next chapter for my story that I didn't even notice that I missed dinner. Looking down at the thought I look at my overweight gut and think ruefully about how I could stand to skip a week's worth of eating and still be fine.

Pushing my chair back I stand up and shut down my computer after saving my work, I head to the kitchen to throw away my empty soda can. I then begin to head upstairs turning off the lights behind me as I go, soon I'm finished in the bathroom and am laying down in my bed and as my eyes begin to close.

When I shoot up screaming from the pain as I find myself once again in the operating room surrounded by ponies though this time I notice scorching on the ceiling that is blackened with soot like a building after a fire. As I notice the brown doctor from before holding something in his hand and the hole in my gut gushing bright red blood instead of the mixture of brownish-red and black from before.

Though I can still feel the fire in my veins from the venom still in my system making me let out a screaming roar accompanied by a blast of flame towards the ceiling once more shocking me for a moment. That moment was all they needed to snap back to action and sedate me once more. My eyes slid closed as the pain fades and I drift back to the chaotic mess of my mind.