Part 1: A Slice of Life Interrupted

Where am I? I kept thinking to myself. Over and over. Where am I? How did I get here? What happened? Why can't I move?!

My thoughts were nothing but a jumbled mess of questions upon questions. All that I knew for certain was the darkness; this... void that I found myself in. Try as I might I couldn't move, I couldn't speak... I... I... couldn't do anything!

Oh my God, am I dead?! Is this death? Dreamless sleep, a never ending blackened void, and then being left with unending questions for all of eternity?

"We're losing him!" Came a very faint voice from the darkness. Or was it a voice at all? Was I imagining everything? Did I ever even exist at all?

"We need an extra pair of hooves in here, Where is Nurse Redheart?!" There it was again, I wasn't imagining it! With all of my might I tried to call out, move, do anything... but... I couldn't feel any part of me. Why couldn't I move?!

"Three, two, one, CLEAR!!"

A sudden wave of fiery pain raced all throughout my entire being. It was as if liquid fire was being poured into my veins all at once; every muscle in my body cramped and seized. For what seemed like an eternity the agony continued. How long was it? Minutes? Hours? Months? I didn't know. As quick as it came it passed just when I started to think I couldn't stand it any longer.

"Nothing. Again, higher voltage! Three, two, one, clear!!"

The pain returned again fifty times worse than before. I couldn't take it! If I wasn't dead then the pain I felt right then I thought would surely do me in.

"Clear!"

My vision went a bright white, slowly faded to a dull red, and then slowly sunk back into the darkness once more. I don't know how long I drifted in the eternal void between life and death. Time had lost all meaning and slowly I succumbed to the nothingness around me...

Beep... Beep... Beep...

Slowly the sound of a high pitched electronic beep started to pierce the darkness. I still couldn't move, but the internal monologue returned. What is that beeping sound? Why can't I move still? Wait I'm hearing that sound, does that mean I'm not dead? I need to try to open my eyes.

I tried to open my eyes and nothing happened. All the while the persistent beeping continued with it's rhythmic quire of never ending beeps that started to go a little faster. Beep... Beep... Beep...

I tried once more, this time with all of my willpower and finally something happened. My eyes fluttered open to a bright light that instantly blinded me and I quickly shut them again.

"Oh my stars he's waking up!" came an elegant sounding female voice. There was a sound of clocking noises that echoed within the room I must've been in and it was followed by the sound of a wooden door opening. I then listened as the clocking sounds slowly disappeared down a long hallway that I assumed was outside of the door that had just opened. I tried to move again but I still couldn't.

My God, am I paralyzed?! I felt my heart rate start beating faster and the rhythmical beeping next to me start increased along with it. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! I opened my eyes more slowly and gave them time to adjust to the light. At first the surroundings only appeared as gray smudges enveloped in a bright glow, but slowly they started to come into focus. The first thing I seen was a wooden ceiling above me. I realized that I must've been in some kind of hospital because I found the beeping I had been hearing was from a heart monitor that was on the left side of the bed I was lying in. The beeping it was making continued to beep even faster as I realized I couldn't even move my head to see the rest of the room.

I moved my eyes frantically around to see as much of the room as I could. From my limited view I had seen that my legs were inside white caste wrappings suspended above me. As I took it all in I realized to my horror that my legs weren't the only thing that was covered. I discovered that the reason why I couldn't move was because I was completely covered from head to toe in a full body caste.

Oh my god What happened to me? Where am I? I thought to myself as I tried to call out. When I tried to speak I felt a tightness in my throat and I almost threw up. I moved my eyes as far as I could to my right and seen a quarter sized tube that hung off from the side of my bed that lead down into my throat. Sweet Jesus, I'm on life support?!

Although I couldn't see the machine that the tube was connected to, I could hear the faint hissing sounds the machine made as it pumped oxygen into my lungs. The hissing sound began to increase in rythum as I begin to feel as though I was starting to hyperventilate.

The clocking sounds began to return from down the hallway outside my door. The original sound was followed by two additional sources as they rapidly approached the room I was in.

"Get Doctor Horse, tell him that the patient is conscious!" came a different voice than before. "His heart rate is increasing, have a crash cart on standby!" As the voice said that the third set of clopping noises stopped and started to head in a different direction than the other two. When they got to my room I couldn't have been prepared for what I seen next. I at last discovered what the sources of the clopping noises were and to my utter shock it was coming from two... ponies?

The two ponies burst through the open doorway with incredible speed. Although I couldn't turn my head to look at them, I seen enough of them out of the corner of my eye to have an idea of what they looked like and I couldn't believe it. One of them was a unicorn! She had snow white fur and a purple colored mane and matching tail that was done up in a regal-like way, both of which descended in a curly swirl like design and flowed through the air in waves as the unicorn ran to the foot of my bed. The unicorn had a deep bluish colored set of eyes and she had a look of concern written on her face. The other pony wasn't a unicorn, but a regular horse. She too had white color fur, but unlike the unicorn her mane was pink and was done up in a neat bun. She wore a doctor's mask covering her face. She also sported a white nurses's cap that miraculously didn't fall off the top of her head as she ran over to the heart monitor with the quick pace she had. Her eyes were also a deep shade of blue, and she came in right behind the unicorn and as soon as she read the reading on the heart monitor she gasped. "Blood pressure is 180 over 120. We need to calm him down or he could have a heart attack!" The nurse pony said as my heart rate increased even more.

I was freaking out. If I could've screamed I would've. Something about this was all off. What is this place? Why am I in a hospital? Unicorns? Talking ponies?! This isn't normal. Oh my God what in the hell is going on?!! I thought as an orange light began to glow from the top of my head. It was just barley visible over the obscuring view of the caste I was in.

The nurse looked at me as another pony ran into the room. The third one was larger than the other two. It wore a doctors coat and had a dark brown mane and light brown fur. "Call a rapid response right now, we need a crash cart in here now!!" he yelled as he approached the other side of my bed. As he came to my side a female voice over an intercom system and sounded throughout the hospital 'Code Rapid Response: Room 117. Code Rapid response: Room 117!'

The white unicorn at the foot of my bed put a hoof up to her mouth and it looked like she had started to cry. The doctor leaned down over top of me so he could look me in the eyes. "Sir you need to calm down. Your at the Ponyville Hospital right now. You were in a severe accident and if you don't calm down you could stroke out!" He said trying to sound calm but still an edge of worry hid underneath the collected tone that his voice carried.

Accident? What accident?! What happened to me?!

The orange light that was glowing from the top of my head got even brighter and the doctor took notice to it. As soon as he seen it he took a step back in shock. "Nurse Redheart look out, he's about to use his magic!"

The nurse moved away from my bed as another pony pushing a big red medical cart that had various medical instruments on it ran into the room. The white unicorn at the foot of my bed gave a surprised yelp of surprise as my vision went a bright red. I don't know what happened next.

Ponyville Town Square, one hour prior...

Rarity the fashionista unicorn made her way past the Ponyville town hall humming a small tune to herself as she walked. It had been three and a half weeks since that unicorn fell through the roof at her boutique and Rarity was on her way to the hospital to see the poor dear. It had been a rather strange couple of weeks actually now that Rarity thought about it. For one thing Discord had been acting weird... well more weird than normal anyways. He had actually made fixing her roof a relatively simple matter by using his magic to repair it without asking for something in return which was very odd for him. True, Fluttershy had reformed him and befriended him; which had actually blew Rarity's mind at the time; but he still wouldn't do something nice like that usually without being asked by Fluttershy or getting some kind of benefit out of it. He was Discord after all. The following morning after the accident Rarity had seen that Fluttershy made it home okay. After she said goodbye to her and made it home herself she had feeling quite drained. Fluttershy had been really distraught after the doctor said that the unicorn had flat-lined. Even after Nurse Redheart came back in later and let them all know that they managed to stabilize him, Fluttershy still had been upset by how hurt the condition that the stallion was in. She knew that there was physically nothing that she could to help him, but it was just the thought of somepony almost passing away after something so terrible happening to them really hurt her and she was completely powerless to do anything about it. Applejack talked to Rainbow Dash most of the time they had been there and once Nurse Redheart told them that the unicorn had been resuscitated they were the first two to leave. Shortly thereafter Pinkie Pie was the next one to go. She explained that she had to help the cakes with a large order they were having to fill by the end of the week so she left to go get whatever small amount of sleep she could for the day ahead. Being the last two there, Rarity seen how still emotionally upset Fluttershy still had been and decided to make sure that she made it home okay and do whatever she could to comfort her. By the time she had gotten her home and made it home herself Celestia had already started raising the sun and she had been completely exhausted. Rarity had sent Sweetiebelle over to her friend Twist's house down the street from the boutique immediately after the accident so she wouldn't see the gruesome scene that had been in her sewing room and ensure she wouldn't be in the way of the paramedics when they arrived so she was glad that she didn't have to make breakfast for the both of them when she got home.

As Rarity remembered the horrific scene she shuddered as she recalled the amount of blood that was on... well everything. One thing that Rarity was for sure of though; that stallion had been lucky. For one thing he was lucky that he had survived the fall to begin with, that much was a given and even the doctors had been amazed by that fact. The first reason was because the doctors estimated that due to the severe state he was in that he must've had fallen close to seven stories. That fact alone left everypony that was aware of what had happened scratching their heads in shock. Another amazing occurrence was how he had landed. If he had just hit a few more inches to the right he would've landed directly on the table that Rarity keeps all of her sewing needles and gems on for her dresses and he would've been impaled on hundreds of gems and needles of all sorts of sizes. That and not to mention his head was literally centimeters from smacking the edge of her sewing machine...

Someone is definitely was looking out for him in high places. Rarity thought to herself as Sweetiebelle who had been walking next to her spoke up interrupting her thoughts.

"Hey Rarity, you mind if I go over to Applebloom's while your at the hospital visiting your friend? I really don't want to be stuck in the hospital for hours like yesterday." Sweetiebelle said in an annoyed tone. "Besides me, Applebloom, and Scootaloo have more crusading to do. I got a feeling that today is the day that we finally get our cutie marks!" She exclaimed as she stopped and took a dramatic pose. Rarity couldn't help but chuckle at the little one's act.

"Of course darling, run along and play with your friends. Just make sure you're back before dark." Rarity replied as she turned to face her younger sister. Sweetiebelle was half the size as Rarity and they shared the same white coat. Sweetie's poofy light pink and purple mane blew slightly in the breeze as she met Rarity's gaze. After she heard that she was aloud to go, her green eyes lit up with excitement and she smiled from ear to ear.

"Hooray! Thank you Rarity. I promise I won't get into any trouble!" She said as she began to trot off the opposite direction towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Rarity smiled as she watched her sister make her way through a small crowd of ponies. "Boy I hope not..." she said turning around continued back on her journey. It was a start of a beautiful late spring day. Rainbow Dash had gotten up early and cleared the skies with the local weather team and the air was filled with the sounds of birds singing to one another. As Rarity walked a small blue colt ran by her with a yellow balloon in his mouth and all around her she could hear different ponies talking amongst themselves or trotting towards various destinations in town. While she walked Rarity passed by a stand that had flowers on display and she stopped to see what the owner had for sale.

"Good morning Rarity, how are you today?" Rose, the owner of the stand said cheerily as she noticed Rarity checking out her display. She was a unicorn with a pale yellow colored coat. Her hair and tail was a raspberry color that had a single streak through them that was a lighter shade color that ran through it.

Rarity looked up from the flowers that she had on display and greeted Rose in kind. "Hello Rose, I'm doing just fine today. How's business been treating you lately dear? Have you had any more trouble with rabbits eating your flowers at all since that whole bunny herd incident that happened awhile back?" Rarity said with a gesture with a hoof. At the sound of that Rose gave a gulp and looked away.

"No luckily. Oh Rarity it was horrible that day when Applejack started that stampede! Oh my I didn't think I would EVER recover from the horror of it all. It took us a whole day to replant all of those flowers!" She said looking back at her friend. Her pale green eyes had shrunken down to the size of pinpricks and she had a look of pure terror on her face. Rarity almost laughed but she held it in so she wouldn't hurt the mare's feelings. Rarity knew all-to-well that Rose and the rest of the flower ponies overreacted to any small thing; often times comically so. One of Rose's friends in question, Lily Valley, actually fainted as the baby rabbits ran through the town the day of the stampede. That said, Rarity was afraid Rose might get upset if she didn't take her feelings seriously... at least try to anyways.

"Oh yes, I know dear. That was um... certainly a... traumatizing event as it were." Rarity said somehow managing to keep a straight face. Rose narrowed her eyes at and seeing that Rarity quickly changed the subject.

"Yes well in any case, I was hoping you could help me with something dear. You see I'm on my way to the hospital to visit somepony and I was looking to get the perfect flowers to sprucin' up his room. Would you by chance have any recommendations?"

Rose's face instantly lit up and she gave a happy smile. "Oh Celestia yes! If you want to get a more refreshing fragrance," She began as she started gesturing to the different breeds of flowers on her stand. At that point she started to list the pros, cons, benefits, aromas, and color combinations that would go well with a hospital room layout.

That'a girl Rarity, you really dodged a bullet there. Rarity thought to herself as she listened politely to Rose go over every single flower on her stand. That was one thing about the flower ponies; if any of them start to get upset or mad just get them to talk about flowers. It cheers them up every time and they often forget what the were even mad about to begin with.

"...That said, I would probably recommend either some lavender leaves for it's calming aroma or roses if your looking for a sweet smelling flower that's color matches with most of the decorations of the rooms there." Rose concluded as she closed her eyes and gave a confident smile almost thirty minutes later.

"Alright then you have me convinced. I'll have two vases of lavender please." Rarity said as she used her magic to levitate her coin purse from her saddlebags that she had been wearing.

"Okie dokie then, that'll be two bits please." Rose said as she gathered two vases of lavender off of her stand with her magic and levitated them towards Rarity. Rarity counted out the bits and gratefully paid the kind mare. After putting her coin purse back into her bags, she then used her own magic to grab the vases from Rose's magical grip and put them in her bags. Her saddlebag was just the right fit for both of the vases and it wasn't too loose for them to clink together as she walked. Once the vases were secure, Rarity exchanged farewells with Rose and continued on her way. A little further down from the flower stand Rarity crossed a bridge that was over a small river which cut through the middle of town. Once she was on the other side she took a left onto the dirt road that lead to the hospital.

I hope Rose is right about the lavender having a calming fragrance. After all that poor stallion went through I'm sure the dear could use at least some form of relaxation even if it is just aroma. Rarity thought as the hospital came into view. Rarity had been visiting the unicorn every day she could since e fell through her roof. At this point it had become somewhat like a routine of sorts. Every morning she would wake up and make sure Sweetiebelle and herself ate and afterwards go for a walk. Ordinarily, her walks in the mornings would be to buy supplies for the orders she had to fill however now though she usually made her way to the hospital to see haw he was doings since business had been slow the few weeks prior. She felt so sorry for him and especially bad for not being able to do more to help him when the accident had happened. She knew that his injuries had been far to severe for her to be able to physically to do anything without any medical training. That said she also knew that technically she actually had done everything she could've for him. It had been the fact that she wasn't able to do anything more that upset her. Suffice it to say that was the reason why it had been so important to her to at least visit him whenever she could.

At the end of the day Rarity still doesn't know how the accident happen; the same as anyone really; but truthfully even if it turned that it had been his fault or he was a bad pony on the run from the law, Rarity didn't care. She didn't even care that her roof got damaged and some of her one of a kind dresses almost got completely ruined despite the fact at the time she had no idea what she was going to do about it. Oddly enough though, the one that ended up saving the day and fixing everything had been none other than the Spirit of Chaos himself.

Since there had been a gaping hole in her upstairs roof, Rarity had laid down on the sofa that she had in her reception area as soon as she got home the morning after the accident. Just as she had started to fall asleep she heard knocking on her front door and she had assumed that it was one of her friends coming to check on her or Twist's mother dropping Sweetiebelle off because of her being brought over last minute the night before, so despite her complete exhaustion she got up and trudged herself to the door and answered it. Being half asleep, her surprise had been doubled when she seen that the visiting guest was none other than Discord.

"Why hello Rarity. I was just in the area and I figured I would drop in on a close friend and see how she was doing this morning." The draconequus had said with a smile. He had been wearing a tuxedo and top hat that was shaped to fit his mix-matched form. He also sported an old fashioned tobacco pipe in his right claw and in the other he had a black cane that he absentmindedly twirled around on one of his out stretched talons. Once he was done with his greeting he took a puff from his tobacco pipe and a series of bubbles floated out of the top it and floated high into the air.

"Discord, what are you doing here?" Rarity asked clearly annoyed. "I have enough to worry about right now and I hardly have the time for your shenanigans."

Discord stopped twirling his cane and took the pipe from his mouth and pretended to be offended. "Why Rarity I'm shocked. Here I am dressed in my finest attire to appease your sense of fashion and high standards and this is how I get treated? Why I am appalled."

"What do you want Discord?"

"'Want?'" Discord repeated. "Why, I just wanted to visit with a friend of mine. You're not still mad over that whole 'Tom' incident are you? Sure I may have overdid it a little but you have to admit it was rather funny to watch. I even have it in high definition." Discord said as a television set appeared and it showed Rarity protecting a giant boulder for dear life. Discord had used his magic to corrupt her and had her convinced that it had been a giant diamond which caused her to go absolutely nuts over it. The television set showed a scene where Rarity was flipping out on Twilight and accusing her of wanting to use Spike, her personal assistant, to steal it from her. At the sight of Rarity's ensuing blush and reaction, Discord gave a hearty laugh and slapped his knee. "I mean Tom? Of all the names in Equestria why did you go with Tom? Ah it's too much!" Discord said as he wiped a tear from his eye. "All in good fun though? That's what friends do right? Have fun with one another?" as the television disappeared with a flash of light.

"Fun? You were trying to take over Equestria and leave it in a state of Chaos!" Rarity said with a stomp of her hoof.

"Well, yea but you have shown me the errors of my ways and now we can all look back at it and laugh right? I'm reformed remember?" Discord said as a golden halo appeared over his head with two tiny versions of discord above it. They were dressed in an angel's outfit and they started playing a tune above it with two matching trumpets.

Rarity's eyes narrowed and she rolled her eyes. She had been way too tired to deal with this and just wanted him to leave. After a brief silence Discord scoffed. "Oh fine let's get past the pleasantries then and get on with this." He said as he snapped his fingers and the tuxedo, cane, top hat dissipated in a flash as well as the halo and tinier Discords. "I heard that you happened to have had a little accident here last night." he said as he crossed his arms.

"Yes as a matter of fact I did. How did you know about that?" Rarity asked slightly accusingly.

"Why, Fluttershy told me. Poor dear was awfully tore up over what happened. Thank you by the way for seeing her home. I would've seen to it myself but I had been busy keeping an eye on her animal friends while she was away so I was quite disposed of."

"Fluttershy told you?"

"But of course. Fluttershy and I tell everything to one another. That is what good friends do." Discord said as a picture of him and Fluttershy appeared in his hand. The picture showed Discord having one claw on Fluttershy's back and giving a thumbs up gesture with the other. They were standing outside Fluttershy's cottage smiling and both of them wore matching black t-shirts that said 'best buds' on the front of them in white letters. He gave Rarity another smile which earned another eye roll from Rarity. The picture disappeared and Discord continued. "That and plus there's a huge gaping hole in the top of your roof so that was also a big giveaway." He said as he pointed to the top of her house.

"Okay so what what does it matter to you? Since when do you care about somepony other than yourself."

"Well when Fluttershy told me about what happened I just knew that I had to do something to help one of my dearest friends in their time of need. Despite what you think I actually do care."

"Oh really? There's got to be some kind of catch Discord. Yes you may be 'reformed' but we both know that you wouldn't do anything just out of the kindness of your heart unless your getting something out of it in return."

At that Discord actually did get a little irritated and he put his hands on his hips. "Well I never. I'll have you know I've done plenty to help ponies who needed help."

"Really? Name one time. Or I should say name one thing you did that didn't involve you fixing a problem you help create or helping us with a friendship problem that you didn't have your hoof in."

"Well for starters I saved that stallion's life..." Discord muttered under his breath as he looked away in frustration.

"What was that?"

"Okay fine you've made your point. Do you want your roof fixed or not?" he said as he looked at her frowning.

Rarity looked at her hooves and bit her lip as she considered it. It would've costed her a small fortune to get it done by a construction team. That and plus the Apple family had been really busy with the orchard at that time and Rarity didn't want to add to their overwhelming burdens that they still had on their plate. Not to mention all of the fabrics that she needed to replace because the blood stains that would never come out. Some of the fabrics that had gotten ruined were unique one of a kind or limited addition sorts that couldn't be replaced. Loosing them would've been a detrimental loss and plus all that blood was still up there... It would all cost too much money that she could afford at the time because of how slow business had been that month but if Discord fixed everything with his magic than it would save her and Sweetiebelle months of ensuing hardships. But this was Discord they were talking about here. Could she really trust him into her house? Only Celestia knows what he could, or rather would do just to fill some kind of quick laugh before he continued on with his day.

"You could fix it from out here right? You wouldn't need to come inside to do it would you?" She asked looking back up to the towering draconequus.

Seeing that Rarity was considering it, another smile came onto Discord's face and he relaxed his posture. "Now Rarity there's two ways to do a job," he began extending his arms slightly to his side. "You can either do it and second guess yourself and take the chance of doing it wrong, or you do the job right the first time and make sure it gets done properly. With how intricately crafted you home is it would be very easy for me to put something out of place. That said, I do need to be inside to look at how the original framework is laid out so I can get it exactly right. I'm the God of Chaos, not a miracle worker."

Rarity looked away as she considered it. He did make a really good point. She didn't know the first thing about construction and it would be impossible for her to explain it to him. But still having him in her house...

"Plus I'm sure you would want me to clean up whatever bodily fluids he might've left behind too. I can do that for you as well." Discord concluded pointing a finger in the air for emphasis, that smile never left his face.

That had been all Rarity needed to hear. "Okay fine. Just don't break anything or do anything... Discordly."

Discord slapped his claws together and rubbed them in excitement. "Great, I'll get started right away!" With another flash of light his appearance changed a second time. He then wore a black and red plaid shirt and a pair of blue jeans. He had a construction hat on and a tool-belt with a pair of steel-toe boots that completed the look. "Now who's ready for some home improvement?"

Rarity sighed and face hoofed. "Oh Celestia what have I just gotten myself into?" she breathed exasperated.

"Why, progress my dear." Discord said, his eyes gleaming. "Now if you would be so good as to show me upstairs?"

Reluctantly, Rarity nodded and headed inside as Discord followed behind whistling the My Little Pony theme song while he walked. He ducked to get through her doorway due to his height and as he passed through the end of his tail wrapped around the door knob and pulled it close behind them.

Despite all of Rarity's concern that she had had though, Discord had actually came through. He evaluated the damage to the roof and once he had seen how everything was supposed to go he fixed exactly to a tee of how it had been before the accident. He even cleaned the blood off of everything like he said he would and even got it all out of her fabrics as well so she didn't have to throw any of them away! The thing about the whole situation that had surprised Rarity the most is that he actually had did it without her even having to keep an eye on him. She would've, especially because she didn't trust Discord at all, but she couldn't stand the idea of seeing the blood again. Just the thought of it had made her nauseous and she had to excuse herself before she had even gotten to her door and by the time she had recovered not two minutes later and returned to check on Discord he had already had been completely finished.

She could've sworn he was going to do something to mess with her and that's what she had been expecting to see. Instead though when she actually seen that she had been wrong her jaw literally had dropped. When she came in through the door Discord had been hovering up close to the newly installed roof dressed in a maid's outfit brushing the ceiling with a feather duster. When he noticed her standing there he landed and shifted his appearance to normal with the usual flash of light.

"There you go Ms. Rarity. All spic and span and what-not. Don't worry about compensating me. Like I said I only wanted to help out a friend in need and helping you was all the reward I needed."

Rarity had just stood there mouth agape completely dumbfounded. Maybe Discord really had changed after all and she just couldn't believe it. Either way Fluttershy really could work miracles on anypony, or draconequus, in this case.

"Don't worry my dear I'll see myself out. You have a good rest of you day now." Discord said as he walked past her and ducked under her doorway. When he was through he stopped. "Oh and I noticed that your trash bin hadn't been emptied in awhile so I took that out for you. I know how busy you get making dresses and saving Equestria and everything so I just wanted to lend a hoof to help 'fight the good fight.' Ta-ta now."

With that he waved good bye and walked downstairs and Rarity heard the front door close shortly thereafter that had signaled his departure. Rarity had double and triple checked everything after he had left and everything had been perfect and nothing, not even any of her gems had been missing. Once she had made sure everything was accounted for she made her way back downstairs to go and get Sweetiebelle. Since she had dropped her off last minute the night before she figured that she would pick her up early since the house had been back in order. On her way out she said goodbye to Ovalescence, her fluffy white cat who had hissed and ran away when Discord had entered, and began her day. Once Sweetiebelle had been picked up and Rarity had thanked Twist's mother for being so understanding and helping her out the night before, Rarity's mind had drifted back to the stallion while she had been making breakfast for her and Sweetiebelle had returned home. Once she had answered Sweetiebelle's millions of questions about what happened after she had went to Twist's house the night before and had sat down to eat, she had wondered if he was okay. For that matter, who was he to begin with? Nurse Redheart had asked Rarity and her friends to look into the accident so in order to do that they needed to a least find out who he was. As soon as that thought had crossed her mind, she figured out what she was going to do the rest of the day. Once Sweetiebelle had told her that she was going to head up to Sweet Apple Acres to see Applebloom and Scootaloo, Rarity decided that she was going to start looking into the mystery that was still on everyone's mind.

After Sweetiebelle had left, and also three cups of coffee later, Rarity took to Ponyville and headed straight to the town hall. She figured that Mayor Mare would be her best bet in starting her search for information considering Twilight still was in Canterlot doing her research. As soon as she arrived, and had gotten a moment of Mayor Mare's time, she immediately explained the situation and about the unicorn. Once she said that Nurse Redheart had asked specifically for Rarity and her friends to launch an investigation into the matter considering the strange nature of the accident Mayor Mare was more than willing to help. Mayor Mare checked Ponyville's records to see if they had any files on anypony that matched the unicorn's description and that had been a dead end. After that came to light, Mayor Mare explained that she would send out letters to the other cities of Equestria to see if they might have had any records of IDs of the pony.

Her chore finished and after exiting the town hall, Rarity decided to stop in to see how the stallion had been doing. Her plan initially had been to stop in, talk to Nurse Redheart to see if she found out if anything and if anything had happened after she had left a couple of hours prior, and then leave. Had been her plan. As soon as Rarity had seen the unicorn hooked up to all of those machines however it broke her heart. She wished that Twilight had been there right then. She didn't know if Twilight knew a spell that could heal him or not, but she knew that she would at least have an idea how they might be able to help him. What made her feel even worse about it? When Nurse Redheart showed Rarity his X-Rays and she seen the full extent of his injuries. As soon as Rarity seen them she knew that even if by a miracle's chance that he survived there was a nine out of ten chance he would be a vegetable the rest of his life.

Her originally planned short visit turned into thirty minutes, then an hour, then two. By the time she actually had left and because of how upset she had been when she actually did leave, she could've sworn that she heard some of the staff at the hospital asking one another if she was a relative to the unicorn. After that she started to come and see him every day, especially about a week later when Mayor Mare actually had gotten a response from the other cities. It was as if he never even existed at all.

Author's Note

Okay if you made it this far I want to thank you so much for reading my story. I just want to say as the author, I deeply appreciate you taking the time out of your day to read my work; it means more to me than you know. I ended the chapter here because the chapter itself isn't even half way done. I'm hand writing my book first then typing it up when I get the free time in between work and taking care of my family so that's why there was quite a hiatus on this chapter, or at least the start of it. Don't worry, more will be coming soon, let me know what you all think in the comments