Repo in Equestria

Minutes pass by when he finally arrives at Star Swirl's castle, landing on the ground while the blizzard continues on and then bangs on the door with his forehoof.

Star Swirl is woken from a peaceful slumber when he hears some pony banging on the door and rises from his bed, then makes his way over to answer it saying groggily, "Now whoponyever could that be at this hour?"

When the door finally opens, the husband speaks quickly and says, "I'm sorry for waking you at such an early hour, but a strange creature is in our home and has suffered an injury. My pregnant wife insisted on me coming to get your help, can you please come with me back to me and my wife's home?"

The aged wizard blinks the sleep out of his eyes and asks, "Your pregnant wife is injured? Let's get going, lead the way."

The younger stallion turns around and races towards his home, then looks back at Star Swirl saying, "Thank you so much for agreeing to help us out, but my wife is not the one injured, the creature is."

He hears the stallion clearly this time as his cloak flaps in the breeze while he gallops after the expecting father, his eyebrows rise as he says, "Oh? There's an injured strange creature in your home with your pregnant wife? It's not hostile is it?"

The husband shakes his head and keeps running saying, "Not sure, but we saw how bad it was bleeding and doubted it could even wake up and move around."

Star Swirl follows the galloping pony, curiosity piquing his interest at there being a new creature in Equestria. He follows him for several miles when the storm finally starts to pass, saying, "It was rather dry this year, so I assume that the weather pegasi had to compensate with this nasty blizzard."

The husband chuckles lightly and blushes saying, "Yeah we did, but we didn't mean for there to be snow up past our ears. It will be around until well past Spring."

An hour passes when they finally reach their destination as the husband holds the door open for the hero, saying, "Here you go, sir Star Swirl."

The wife looks at Star Swirl and bows her head to him saying, "Welcome to our humble home, sir Star Swirl." She then looks at her husband as he closes the door and smiles, making her way over to him to nuzzle his neck, saying, "Welcome home honey, thank you for being so swift in your return. The creature still has not woken yet, but I have not been able to stop the bleeding. There seems to be another injury to the back of one of his legs." and looks to their honored guest and asks, "Sir Star Swirl, is there anything you can do for this poor, unfortunate creature?"

Star Swirl walks around the strange creature and takes in its strange appearance, staying silent while looking it over for a few moments before casting a spell to search the body for injuries. After the spell completes, he looks at the couple and sighs gently saying, "I have discovered that this creature is in fact, male, has a severed tendon and a small, circular wound in his abdomen. He is losing blood, but fortunately, there are talented healers at the castle that can heal his wounds. You have done a remarkable job of slowing his bleeding, so I have confidence that he will survive this. I will take him there immediately for treatment, I wish you have a strong and healthy foal this year."

She smiles and rests her head on her husband's shoulder while gazing at the father of her foal saying, "Oh you are so caring to everypony sir Star Swirl, please let us know when the creature wakes up because I doubt he is hostile because he knocked on our door and asked for help, even saying please. I do hope he survives and makes a full recovery, he seems like a nice creature even though his outfit is quite odd." and nuzzles into her husband affectionately.

The wizard nods his head and says, "I will be sure to do that miss, I do believe that he will make a complete recovery. I bid you both goodnight." then casts a spell to teleport both him and the creature to his castle. Once they arrive in the meeting room, he calls out, "Are there any healers here right now?!"

A chartreuse-colored mare gallops down the hall and into the room, breathing heavily saying, "Wh-what's wrong sir Star Swirl, are you injured!?"

He shakes his head and then looks at the creature saying, "No, I'm fine, but this creature is the one that really needs the help. See to it that he gets treated right away before he passes away from blood loss."

She nods her head and hurries off to get other ponies to help treat him, returning a few minutes later with half a dozen mares and stallions. With their assistance, they rush the creature away to the medical ward to start tending to his wounds.

Star Swirl looks around his empty castle and sighs, thinking, 'I hope that poor creature lives through the night, I have so many questions to ask...'

The next morning, in the castle's dining hall...

Star Swirl is about to take a bite out of a bread roll when one of the healers' assistants trots towards him with an exhausted look on her face and hears her say, "Excuse me, Mister Star Swirl, sir?"

He looks at her curiously and responds, "Yes, miss? What is it?"

The assistant smiles lightly and says, "I have good news for you, sir. The creature has made it through the treatment and they removed a piece of metal that was lodged inside of his body, although he is unconscious, he is expected to make a full recovery!"

Star Swirl smiles and sighs with relief saying, "That is very good to hear, when do they expect him to be awake to answer questions?"

She then sighs sadly and says, "I'm sorry sir, they cannot be sure. They say he could wake up at any time such as a few seconds from now to a few days or even weeks. Would you like for one of us to continuously monitor him and notify you the moment he wakes?"

He shakes his head saying, "Hmm...how about you set up a continuous shift, assigning a different assistant to relieve the previous attendant after a set number of hours?"

The assistant smiles widely at the idea inspired by hers and says, "That's a brilliant idea Star Swirl, sir! I will start figuring out the details right away and take the first shift!" then hurries off to come up with a schedule.

A day and a half later, in the medical ward

Nathan groans as he stirs awake, slowly opening his eyes to find himself in a white room and lifts his head, muttering in a low tone, "Where the bloody hell am I?"

When silence continues, he pushes himself up and hisses in pain. Reacting instantly, he reaches up to his chest with his left hand and feels bandages wrapped around his bare torso, looking down to see he is on a hospital cot and grabs the edge of the blanket that is covering him to pull it aside to see the rest of his body.

As an assistant heads inside the room to check on the patient, a smile crosses her face as she sees that he is awake and makes her way over, saying, "It's good to see that you're finally awake! Are you able to understand me?"

Sitting up on the cot, Nathan turns his head to see the strangest creature mentioned only in myths and fantasies while answering, "What?"

Approaching him at a steady walk, making herself appear as friendly as she can, she asks again in a kind tone, "I'm asking if you can understand me, sir."

Realizing that he isn't imagining it, he shakes his head clear of the shock and says, "I can, surprisingly." then asks, "Would you be able to tell me where I am, uhm, miss? You are female, correct?"

A slight giggle escapes her as she nods her head, saying, "I am a mare, yes." then says, "It's great that you figured out how to tell my gender." Returning to his question, she then says, "As for where you are, you are presently at Star Swirl's Castle in the Everfree Forest."

Unable to hide her curiosity, she asks, "Would you mind me asking who and what you are?"

Feeling sore, Nathan feels a cough coming on and raises his arm to cough onto. Once the coughing passes, he sees that he isn't coughing up blood and lowers his arm to support himself, saying, "My name is Nathan Wallace, and I am a human doctor. Would you be so kind as to tell me what you know about this world, my knowledge is quite vague after coming here at the whim of a higher being?"

Nodding her head with a bright smile at how he is a doctor, she says, "Of course! My name is Gentle Touch, I am a Unicorn of the pony race." She then spends a few hours telling him what she knows about the world and their race when she spots another assistant enter the room, turning out to be a Pegasus on second glance.

Hours later, the two assistants fill Nathan in on what they know of the world as he then asks, "You might not have the answers I seek, but could you share with me anything you know about anything that can ail someone outside of obvious wounds such as a broken leg, severed limb, burn or a laceration of any kind."

The pegasus gets what he is getting at and asks, "Oh, you mean the illnesses you can't see without using a spell or other instrument?"

Nathan waves a finger at her with a nod, saying, "Precisely miss, what all can you inform me about?"

The two tell him the few they know of, but are unable to provide anything further when they hear the door open and see Star Swirl the Bearded walk in with a doctor in tow. Bright smiles light their faces up as the first assistant says, "Good news sir Star Swirl, the patient is awake and a human doctor named Nathan Wallace."

As his eyes rise in curiosity, Star Swirl nods his head, saying, "Thank you very much for keeping him company, you two. I have a few things to speak to our new guest about, if you would kindly tend to your other duties."

Nathan watches the two mares make their way out of the room with nods and smiles on their faces as he watches the door close behind them, asking, "So, are you going to be treating me like a prisoner now?"

Chuckling, he shakes his head, saying, "Of course not, sir. I was just wanting to talk to you a bit about how you came to be here. Would you mind sharing your story with me?"

Deciding to answer his questions honestly, he still leaves out some details of his story in regards to his darker, other self. Starting his story out, he says, "Well, I was a very talented surgical doctor several years ago when the epidemic of organ failures hit, nothing I tried worked against it. By the time it was stopped, the human population swiftly went from over 6 billion to just over two million..."

His heart drops into his hooves as his sadness rises at hearing his tale continue, thinking, 'My heart goes out to the ones that went through that nightmare...'

Once Nathan reaches the end of the tale, telling him only enough to inform him he encountered benevolent beings of great power that had graciously offered him a chance at a second life, saying, "And so I thought of what three things I thought would be most useful and requested immortality, because it would be bad if the epidemic came here after I died of old age in a few decades. The next thing I asked for was to be able to use any magic, which she allowed , but not the special magic that some types had like flying or increased physical strength. The third, I asked for all of the equipment I owned and used as a doctor to be brought over, as well as being able to carry everything I would ever need inside my bag. After everything was done, I was sent on my way and dropped to the snow-covered ground amidst a blizzard..."

When the story comes to an end, he looks away in thought for a moment, saying, "It would be best for us all if we utilized your talent as a doctor... What do we need to do to allow you to help us ponies out?"

Thinking quickly, he says, "Well, for one...most importantly, I will need to study and learn everything I can about your equine bodies, meaning your nervous system, blood vessels, muscles, bone structure, internal organs, your blood types, and even how you fly and use magic. Speaking of which, I will also need to be taught about magic and how to use it."

Realizing the monumental task ahead of him, he nods and then says, "Very well, your studies in equine biology shall begin once you are healthy enough to care for yourself, once I am satisfied with your progress, we shall move on to your magic studies."

Smiling, he says, "I will not be a disappointment, I promise. For I must also further my knowledge in the medical profession."

Time passage

As Nathan makes a full recovery, he is given a room in Star Swirl's castle and studies the bodies donated to serve as research specimens to further Equestria's knowledge of their own biology at Star Swirl's request. It takes him only a year to memorize the makeup of the Equine race's three types and please his mentor, but it takes him twice that long in his magic studies to gain his approval. He then goes on to study in the medical profession, however, he is greatly disappointed by how infantile it is in development.

With no other options left, he learns Alchemy and sets out to explore the world, learning about various plants and animals for a few years until war breaks out between the ponies and the griffons. Utilizing what he discovered so far, Nathan makes a big impact as both a front line medic and a surgeon at a temporary hospital for the wounded, with a patient survival rate of two out of ten dying from their injuries.

However, as the griffons strike at the hospital numerous times, his other side comes out a bit and defends the hospital with a sinister look of glee on his face as he uses his special scalpels to slice up the griffons. His methods of defending the hospital earns him a new nickname, 'Knife Surgeon' which his gleeful laugh soon strikes terror into the griffons foolish enough to come near the hospital. By the end of the war, his rate plummets to nearly 0, earning him the Equestrian Medal of Valor for going above and beyond what is asked of his station.

Unfortunately, beyond his knowledge, all the blood, gore, and agonized screams cause heavy damage to a few of the bars of the cage imprisoning his other half, which makes Equina sweat nervously while fighting harder to keep the monster locked away and repairing the cage, praying that it will hold.

When his mentor asks him to return from his studies abroad to help a mare with a difficult pregnancy, Nathan provides what treatment he can throughout her remaining pregnancy. To his and the world's utter surprise, the foal is born as a nearly white mare with a multi-colored mane and tail, as well as having wings and a horn.

With the mare being unable to hold her filly for very long, she names her Celestia and passes her to Nathan before passing out from exhaustion and dehydration.

Sticking around to help the single young mare with her alicorn filly, six years pass as she winds up with foal again from the stallion that fathered Celestia while Nathan takes care of the quite frail dark blue pegasus mare with yellow eyes. The second pregnancy takes a great toll on her as she barely has the strength left to deliver her second filly when Nathan holds the cleaned filly towards her, swaddled in a pink blanket as he asks, "What do you wish to name her, Gally?"

Too weak to hold her own filly, she lies on the bed panting, saying, "I would hold her, but I don't have the strength left in me to do so, Nathan." Gathering what strength she has left, she turns to look at her caretaker with a weak smile, then looks at her filly to see a beautiful filly sharing her coat color. Cooing at how beautiful she is, she reaches forward with her muzzle to nuzzle her daughter affectionately so that she can imprint on her. When her filly opens her eyes to look at her, she sees the most beautiful light blue eyes that melt her heart, saying, "Oh my beautiful little filly, I think that I shall call you Luna." Exhaustion starts to try to pull her into slumber when she turns to her other daughter, saying, "Come say hello to your baby sister, Cece."

Celestia walks forth with a happy smile on her face and nuzzles her face against her sister's when the blanket comes loose to reveal that she is just a unicorn, making her cock her head at the sight and asking, "Why isn't she like me, mommy?"

With a smile, she chuckles weakly, saying, "Every pony is special in their own way, sweetheart, no creature is any more important than another regardless of what individuals may think. I am quite tired now, so can you stay with my caretaker until I can return home?"

Nodding her head with a smile, she nuzzles her mother affectionately as Nathan helps the foal learn to breastfeed, causing her to look away and make her way out to the hall, saying, "Could you not do that with me in the room, yuck."

Unable to help himself, Nathan chuckles and says, "You did this too after you were first born, Cece, it's a natural part of life that even you will do one day when you find someone special and have your own foal."

Trying not to hear him as an embarrassed blush colors her cheeks, she uses her wings and hooves to cover her ears, saying, "I can't hear you! LALALALALALA!"

It takes a few weeks for the mother to be well enough to return home, though she is never able to hold her filly for very long as her body grew weaker after her second pregnancy. Eventually, she has no choice but to relocate to the hospital and sell her home five years later as her strength further wanes, looking at her caretaker happily, saying, "Please take good care of my daughters for me, will you Nathan, and raise them as your own?"

More cracks appear in a few of the already damaged bars of the cage, greatly worrying Equina as she says, "No no no... please don't break, please don't break..." When the cracking stops, she sighs in relief, saying, "Thank god that the cage continues to hold, but I should try to repair it even further."

A few years pass as Celestia continues her studies under Star Swirl's tutoring when Luna begins her own studies with Star Swirl, with Equina making unseen repairs to the cage bars. The repairs to the bars slows to a crawl as they start to resist further treatment, causing Equina to wonder what else she can do to fix the issue.

When Celestia turns 16 and enters her rebellious phase, she lies on Nathan's exam table as he uses his fingers and magic to study and examine her body. With the season upon her, a soft moan escapes her mouth when his fingertips run along the underside of her wings near the base, saying, "Careful there, doctor, for you know that a mare's wings are extremely sensitive to touch during the spring estrus season."

Brought out of his thoughts and back to reality, he pushes his glasses back up, saying, "Hmm? Oh, right...apologies. You know how I lose myself whenever I study how your body works, which is quite fascinating really, because I have determined that your wings have magical channels running through them, though not as many compared to your horn."

The season passes as she makes romantic advances towards her guardian as her relationship with her sister slowly gets more distant, acting like Nathan is her father and always being around him during the off hours of her studies. Eventually managing to get some time alone with him, she has her first time with him after learning that he is immortal just like her. When she wakes up one morning weeks later to run to the bathroom to throw up, she fears she might be pregnant and races to get examined. It turns out that she is not pregnant at all, though is only sick with the flu. Greatly relieved to hear the news, she starts to think things through and decides it best to end her relationship with him.

End of time passage

As things get a little colder between the two sisters, things come to a head as Luna turns sixteen and runs to her guardian's side, hugging his waist while sobbing, "Father, Cece has just said that I wasn't like her at all and never will be that special!"

Nathan wraps his arms around the filly so precious to him and caresses the back of her head soothingly, saying, "Now now, Lulu don't you fret." Then pushes her head back a little and places his hand against her cheek, continuing, "For you are always special in my eyes, you are my most precious treasure. There is nothing that your sister can do that you can't, you are equal to her in every magical way."

Sighing at hearing that, she looks back at the sides of her body, then looks back up to him with a pout on her face, saying, "Yes there is...she can fly while I can't."

His heart breaks at her being so upset and pulls her close, saying, "That can't be helped, sweetie, so you will have to make up for what you lack with your magical studies."

Huffing and getting a desperate look on her face, she says, "There is only so much magical power that I can wield as a unicorn, isn't there something that you can do about that, dad?"

One of the bars breaks free and falls away from the cage inside Nathan, greatly alarming Equina as she tries in vain to put it back into place, muttering, "Please keep the monster locked away...please keep the monster locked away..."

A dark idea comes to his mind as he sits back and removes his glasses to clean them, saying, "Umm...well..."

A glimmer of hope appears in her eyes as Luna latches on to it, pleading, "What is it daddy, I'll do anything you ask me to do just to be my sister's equal! PLEASE HELP ME!"

Looking into her eyes, he sees how desperate she really is and sighs in defeat, then caresses her right cheek affectionately, saying, "There is one way, sweetie, but it is extremely painful and has never been considered before."

Wanting to hear her salvation, she eagerly nods her head, saying, "I'll suffer whatever I have to, to be like Cece! What is that?"

With her giving him puppy-dog eyes, he gives in and says, "Well, it would be a procedure considered most heinous and unforgivable, which involves surgically transplanting a body part from one pony to another, though it must be from a pony of the same blood type and having the same coat color." With a sorrowful sigh, he says, "With your incredibly rare blood type and coat, there's only one pony that could possibly help you...your mother. If she agreed to the procedure and let me remove her wings from her body to transplant them onto you, she would die and leave you and your sister behind forever. I strongly advise against attempting this procedure, as I cannot guarantee that it will succeed or you will survive, but your choices are your own, dear."

The news hits her like a brick and crushes her happy mood, causing her to pull out of his reach and then trot out of the room in a sullen and dark mood, saying, "I-I...I need to go brush my mane..." Roaming around aimlessly, she finds herself outside of her mother's private hospital room and knocks before entering, saying, "Mother, can we talk?"

The very skinny middle-aged mare is nearly skin and bones as she looks at her youngest daughter with a bright smile, saying, "Of course dear, close the door and lock it so we won't be disturbed." Once the door is locked, her daughter makes her way to the bed and asks, "Now what has my little Lulu feeling so blue?"

Unable to hide a brief smile at her joke, Luna sighs and says, "Well, you know how things have been between Cece and I?"

Nodding her head, she then listens to her daughter's story, shaking her head at the end, saying, "That sister of yours is being so mare-ish these days, that is much crueler than anything she has said before. So then what happened after that?"

She then tells her the rest of the story and asks, "Mommy, am I evil for wanting your wings for myself?"

Shaking her head and laying a wing tip on her right cheek, she says, "Not at all sweetheart, a little greedy perhaps, but that is not evil in the slightest."

Luna bites her lower lip between her teeth, thinking hard of what she wants to say next and then sighs, saying, "Even though it is extremely risky, I would like to try the procedure if it would finally allow my sister to treat me as her equal. What do you think about it mother, should I go through with it? I'm so scared that I will go to sleep and never wake up again..."

Pulling her close, she looks into her eyes and says, "I know that you are scared, sweetie, but so am I of never opening my eyes again. One thing that I will tell you now, is that every pony is afraid of something." getting an inspirational idea, she smiles and says, "It is up to us to get over that which scares us so we can move on with our lives, can you do one thing for me and find a way to help others work past their fears?"

Leaning against her mother, she nods, saying, "I will do that for you, mommy, but what about the procedure?"

Caressing her daughter's face lovingly with her right forehoof, the weak pegasus mare says, "I know I am not long for this world sweetie, but if I can help bring you and your sister closer together... Then I will do whatever is required of me to do so."

Smiling widely at her mother's answer, she wraps her forehooves around her mother and hugs her gently, saying, "Oh thank you mommy, I love you so much!"

After spending a little more time with her mother, their time together ends when her sister comes to spend time with her mother, putting her nose in the air, saying, "I shall let you have time alone with mom, be mindful of her condition so you don't cause her any stress."

Leaving the room without letting her sister say anything, she makes her way towards Nathan's room and finds him at his desk, looking over diagrams and other documents. Entering the room and closing the door, she climbs up onto his lap and sits down, laying her head against his shoulder, saying, "My mother has agreed to the procedure, when can it start?"

Wrapping one arm around her barrel, Nathan holds her on his lap, saying, "You're getting awfully big to be sitting on my lap, you know." Letting it slide, he runs his other hand up to her mane and caresses it affectionately as if she were his actual daughter, saying, "We must wait until I have the things I need, but you need to understand, that due to what you desire me to do...you cannot be put asleep. The reason for that is because your magic channels go dormant during a pony's slumber, and become active again when you wake. For the procedure to have a significant chance to succeed, you and your mother will need to both be awake for the duration of the surgery. Therefore, I have to create a particularly tricky anesthetic that will numb you and your mother to all pain, but won't put you asleep."