Chapter 18: Flatline

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Chapter 18: Flatline

“NURSE! Get the defibrillator in here, ASAP!”

“Quick, give him 50cc’s of epinephrine!” The doctor told another nurse while they came back with the defibrillator.

“Here doctor, it’s ready.” The nurse had returned, handing over the defibrillator to the doctor.

“CLEAR!” He announced before giving quickly electroshocking Peter’s bare chest.

“It’s not working!” He said, discharging again onto his chest. “Come on!” Finally at the third discharge they managed to get a pulse again, a weak one so they needed to act fast.

“Clear the operation room, this kid need serious an immediate operation!” They quickly rushed his bed out and toward the operation room, Fluttershy, the girls and Peter’s family were all outside when they saw him being taken out. They asked one of the nurses what was going on.

Fluttershy nearly collapsed onto the ground if it weren’t for Peter’s brother, John who managed to grab her, Rarity fainted and everybody simply gasped and started to tear from the drastic news.

They said they were going to try and heal the ruptured vein as much as they could so he could have a little more time to survive for a kidney transfer but they warned them that the odds of the operation were very low.

“Okay, what are we dealing with?” The doctor asked before starting any big incisions.

“An internal hemorrhage and a abdominal aortic aneurism.”

“Okay people we’ve got to work fast, it’s a matter of time and there is a lot of bleeding that needs to be done.” The doctors and nurses started to maneuver around Peter’ dying body. It only takes one small error for him to seize so the doctors not only had a certain time limit but as well as chary when making any cuts or stitching, but time was starting to run out, ten minutes into operation and Peter’s heart was starting to slow down, his heartbeats becoming less frequent

“Fluttershy calm down” John tried to comfort her but was having a rather hard time, she was squirming and moving a lot trying to break free.

“NO! I WON’T! Peter’s dying and I can’t do anything!” She said ceasing her movements, John let her go.

“I think you should take her home.” Twilight told him.

“What about you girls?” She asked her, how come they were the only one that had to stay?

“Incase…” She got closer and lowered her voice. “Incase Peter… you know, we’re going to need some time to think of how to tell her.” She told him, and backed away.

“Ok… I’ll stay with her, call me if anything happens.” John said, he then turned around and got Fluttershy off the ground. “Come on Fluttershy; let’s take you home, you’ve had a rough day.” She put up a little bit of resistance.

“But… what about Peter?” She said trying to break free again.

“Don’t worry, we’ll call you incase anything happens.” Peter’s mom said, giving her a reassuring pat on her back, she hesitated for a moment but after that she, John and the other girls were heading out the hospital.

“Luna, what are you planning to do?” Celestia questioned her sister.

“I plan to set things straight. I’m going to clean up our names.” She said proudly.

“Just pray that you get to him on time.” Celestia answered, she knew her sister was doing the right thing. “Oh, and one more thing, Luna, sorry for lashing at you.”

“Don’t worry sister, I forgive you.” Luna said turning around to look at her sister.

“Understand that the only reason I did it was for to get you to do something about it.” Celestia confessed.

Luna hesitated for a second, thinking whether or not if her sister wouldn’t have acted that way, would she have done something.

“Wish me luck.”

“Scalpel.” The doctor said, one of the nurses immediately handed it to him. “Dear god, this is taking longer than expected and the bleeding hasn’t stopped.” The nurse on the other side wiped sweat of his head.

“How much more do you time is this going to ta-“The doctor was cut off by the sound everyone was dreading, it was the horrible sound of a long nonstop beep.

“OH GOD NO!” The doctor quickly put the scalpel down and commanded everybody to do something.

“Epinephrine! Give him epinephrine!” In a heartbeat one of the nurses was injecting Peter but that didn’t help.

“We have to reanimate him, he can’t die on us!” They started applying CPR on his upper chest, straight on the heart. “Come on little fella!”
*Beeeeeeep*
Everybody looked at each other; there was nothing left for them to do. He was gone.
“Time of death…” The doctor turned to look at a big LED clock that hung above the door.
“12:34 am” He finished saying.

“I guess… We have to break the news.”

“Um… Excuse me.” Luna said walking up to a couple waiting outside an operating room.

“Hi, what can we do for you, doctor?” Peter’s dad said, oblivious to the fact that it was another character from Peter’s favorite show.

“Yes, umm… Do you by any chance know the room a certain Peter Anderson is being treated at?” She wasn’t sure whether or not the hospital’s worked the same way here like in Equestria.
“He’s being operated on right now.” Peter’s dad answered in confusion pointing towards the operation room where Peter was, not knowing if she was supposed to be helping out the other doctor.

“HE IS? I mean… He is, oh ok then I guess I better hurry up and go help out. Um… Thank you.” She said rushing off; she was praying she was on time.

“What a strange looking doctor.” Peter’s mom said.

“Excuse me for being late!” Luna said walking into the room before noticing Peter’s lifeless body on the operation table. “W- what happened?” She said in shock

“Excuse me but who are you” One of the nurses asked.

“I’m a doctor of course, can’t you see?” She signaled herself.

“I’ve never seen you before.” The doctor answered.

“Well I’m new.”

“Well I don’t care, you have to get out of here, this patient just died and we can’t have you in here.” The doctor said getting closer to her to escort her outside.

“No, wait, I can bring him back!” She said, horrified inside of the fact that she was late.

“How? He’s been dead for the last 5 minutes, plus one of the nurses has already been dispatched to tell his parents.”

“No, I’m serious! All I have to do is use my magic!” She said trying her best to not be thrown out of the room.

“Magic? Okay now you really have to leave” The doctor was hearing nonsense coming from this supposed ‘doctor’

“Please! Just… Let me try!” She said pushing the doctor aside and transforming back into an alicorn, everybody was left mouth opened when they saw the human turn into a flying-unicorn- equine creature.

“What in the name of god?” A nurse said in a whisper.

“W-wha- What are you?” The doctor questioned in a horrified.

“Please, I need everybody to leave the room, I need to concentrate all I can if I want this spell to work. It took all the nurses and the doctor a few moments to compile Luna’s request and slowly one on one went leaving the room.

“Please convince everyone not to tell anybody about me.” Luna plead to the last nurse that was leaving.

“O-okay.” He said before leaving.

“Hang on Peter, please do.” Luna said, her horn starting to light up as she began concentrating on a spell she had studied before coming to this world.

“I’m very sorry for Mrs. Anderson, we’ll tell Fluttershy.” Twilight said, hanging the phone, she was fighting off tears over the news.

“What did they say?” Pinkie asked, a gloomy expression on her face.

“He… passed away…” Pinkie’s hair instantly deflated after hearing the news, hers eyes glistening.

“I guess we have to tell her now.” Both Twilight and Pinkie headed upstairs where John and the other girls where comforting Fluttershy.

“Who was it?” John asked, but by the look on their faces he knew what it was.

“It was your parents… I think you might want to go with them, we’ll take care of her.” Twilight told him, he two had watery eyes now.

“Yeah, it’s probably for the best.” John left the room, leaving the girls up to the toughest task they’ve had in a while.

“Sugercube?” Applejack said, giving her a light touch on her shoulder, Fluttershy simply sat up in place a move they weren’t expecting.

“You okay darling?” Rarity asked.

“Let’s… go home.” Fluttershy mumbled, her face covered completely by her face.

“What?” Everybody said in unison.

“Let’s go back to Equestria, to Ponyville.” She said again with no emotion.

“But, but what about Peter? Wouldn’t you prefer to at least wait until after the funeral?” Rainbow said, trying to reason with her.

“No.”

“What ‘bout the house?” Applejack asked. “And all y’all belongings?”

“Unless you girls want to take anything, his family will take care of it.”

“Fluttershy, are you sure about this?” Twilight asked her.

“It’s what he would’ve wanted…” She replied to her friend

“How do you know?” Pinkie finally spoke up, still in her gloomy state.

“He told me, before I left his room.”
All of them vacillated for a minute, unsure of what to do. They weren’t sure if they wanted to leave just yet or if they should.

“Well Fluttershy, if that’s what you want, than let’s go home.” Twilight told her, all the girls simply nodded except for Fluttershy and within a few seconds they were all engulfed by a white light before leaving this world forever.

Luna had cast the spell twice already but this time she used all her willpower to make the effect as strong as possible.
“Come on Peter, you can’t die, not like this, not because of me.” She said before casting the spell for the third time, she collapsed next to the table, crying for failing, for failing her sister and for causing all this in the first place.
“Forgive me Peter.” She said between hey cries.

“What?” Luna instantly shifted her head towards the source, it came from the table, and she quickly stood up to see what it was.

“Luna?” I asked rubbing my eyes, before noticing I had tubes connected on my arms.

“Peter! You’re alright!” She jumped on me hugging me tightly.

“What? What’s going on?” I said, dumbfounded by the whole situation.

“You were dead but I brought you back, Peter I’m so sorry!” She said it very quickly not loosening her grip.

“Wait, what?!?” I said not believing what I was hearing.

“Yes, I came here because Twilight sent my sister a letter about your state, I came as fast as I could.” She seemed really relieved but she said I was dead.

“Wait… So I did die?!?” I knew I blacked out but not that I died.

“I guess so, but now you’re okay! Look even the cuts they made have healed!” She said pointing at my abdomen.

“So you mean to tell me, I was dead just a few seconds ago?” I said sitting up on the table.

“Well, you’ve been dead for the last five minutes or so.” She told me, holy crap that is something scary to hear.

“Do my parents know?” I asked her.

“I’m not sure.” She said smiling at the fact that I was alive.

“Well I have to go see them.” I said hopping of the table. “Wait, how did you get through here without being noticed?”

“Oh everybody that was in here saw me, they seemed surprised for some reason.” She said like if it wasn't a bad thing.

“What now?!?” I said, stopping in my tracks and turning around to face her.

“What? What’s wrong?” She asked me.

“I sure hope you can erase people’s memory.” I told her with a stern expression.

“Why?”

“Luna, other people here can’t know of your existence, please tell me you can erase their memory up to the point where I died.” I told her trying to be sound as firm as possible.

“Of course, no problem.” That was some good news, not that coming back from the death were nothing short from amazing but I’m glad she can do that kind of stuff.

“Alright, thank you.” We walked out of the room where we were instantly met with a crowd of still amazed doctors and nurses. “Now would be a good time, but first turn into a human.” I told her.

“Oh yeah, don’t worry, I got this.” She transformed into a human with a doctor looking uniform. “Sorry people, but you can’t tell anyone about me.” The room was soon engulfed by a white light and everyone was still there but they seemed to be lost.

“What were we doing again?” One of the nurses asked.

“I think you were about to let me go.” I told them.

“We were?” The doctor asked scratching his head.

“Yeah, but don’t worry, I’ll escort him to fill out the required documentation” Luna said, we both smiled mischievously as we left towards the waiting room.

“P-Peter?” My mom mumbled as we walked out of the doors from the operation room.

“Hi, mom.” I said trying to act normal.

“What in god’s name?” My dad said, they couldn’t believe their eyes. “We’re already starting to hallucinate.”

“But how, they told us you died?” John said, he had arrived just a few minutes ago.

“Well, I owe it all to Luna.” I said pointing at her, she simply smiled.

“Luna? Luna as in Princess Luna?” My brother questioned, my parents turned around to look at him funny.

“The one and only.” She answered with a royal like voice.

“Thank god!” My mom said about to burst into tears again as she hugged me.

“Don’t worry mom, I’m fine, I promise I won’t take any dumb decisions anymore.” I told her returning the embrace.

“Wait, so do we have to wait a few days for you to check out?” My dad asked.

“Don’t worry, I can take care of that.” Luna answered with a sly smile on her face.

“Are you sure you don’t want one of us to stay?” My mom asked me, as they dropped me and Luna off at my house, it’s amazing how fast I recovered, it’s like it didn’t even happen.

“Don’t worry mom, I’ll be fine, Luna will spend the night with me, plus the girls are here so I’ll be fine.” I assured her.

“Well… Okay, just call us if anything happens.” She was really worried.
“Thanks again Princess, for saving our son, we owe you.” My dad said from the back seat.

“Please, call me Luna.” She said smiling.

“Okay ma’am.” After that they drove off, leaving me and Luna heading towards the front door of my house.

“Mind If I turn back to a pony now?” she asked me as I fumbled around my pockets to find my house keys.

“Sure, I don’t mind.” I opened the door to the house and we both entered.

“HELLO! ANYONE HOME!” I called out with a smile. “Make yourself at home.” I told Luna while I waited for a response from the girls.

“I think I’ll go lay down, I’m a bit tired.” She said, yawning and heading towards the living room.
I didn't hear any response from the girls, that’s strange; they’re supposed to be here.
“Twilight? Fluttershy? Dashie?” I called out heading up stairs; I walked directly towards my room. When I opened the door I was met with silence and emptiness.
“Is anypony here?” I asked looking around; I then noticed the pillow in Fluttershy’s bed. It was damp, like if somebody had been crying on it… “Aw crap.” I said out loud remembering what I had told her before I passed out. I had told her that if I died I wanted them to go back to Equestria and never comeback, they most likely got the news and Fluttershy told them to leave.
“Luna!” I yelled running towards the stairs and heading down as quickly as possible.
“Luna!” I said entering the living room; I saw her mane dangling from the end of the side of the couch. “Luna, you've got to take me to Ponyville rig-“I stopped when I finally reached her and realized she was asleep.
Now I had to decide whether I waited until morning to go to Ponyville or wake Luna and go there now.
Not wanting to disturb her I decided to wait, it may not be the best option but after all the magic Luna used today she deserves a good rest.
I went and placed a blanket on Luna and headed outside, I wasn't tired but I could use a good walk. I stopped in front of my car and took a quick peek inside. There were some blood stains on the driver seat. I drove it inside the garage and tried to clean them, I managed to get a good amount of the stain of and left it at that.
The rest of the night went pretty much the same; I walked around the house waiting for morning to see my little pony again. Hours passed by slowly and I finally fell asleep.
“Peter…”
“Peter…”
“Five more minutes…” I mumbled.

“Peter, wake up. I have to leave already.” Luna said tugging at my shoulder, I immediately woke up.

“Thank god you woke me up.” I told her, lifting myself out of bed.

“And why would that be?” She asked me.

“I need to go with you to Equestria.” I know she won’t mind but she might ask why.

“What for?”

“I need to go see the girls, especially Fluttershy.” I answered her.

“Wait so they aren't here?” She asked me, I guess she hadn't realized but she had fallen asleep rather quickly last night.

“No, and they think I’m dead so I have to get to Ponyville.”

“Well I have no problem with that. Are you ready to leave?” She asked me probably wondering if I was going to change or anything, probably a good idea since I was wearing the shirt that I had been stabbed with.

“Let me just change and I’ll be ready.” I told her getting up from my bed. Hopefully she knew where Fluttershy lives because I have no idea.

We appeared in the outskirts of Ponyville, it was just about passed noon and all the ponies could be seen around the town doing their business.
“Luna, do you know where Fluttershy lives?” I had to make sure she knew, she went to her house in the fourth episode of season 2 so she should know hopefully.

“I do remember vaguely.” She answered; we were walking down a dirt road leading towards Ponyville.

“Well if you don’t, we could just go visit Twilight or Pinkie or Rarity.” We continued to walk down the road, talking about little things like the weather or the scenery.

“Where to now?” We were standing in front of city hall, I was getting some strange looks from the ponies walking around but none of them really overreacted, I guess they got used to it after Discord attacked.

“I can’t remember which way it was.” She said biting the bottom of her lip trying to remember.

“Then let’s ask somepony.” I said walking up to Sweetie Belle, she and Scootaloo were passing by and at such a good timing.

“Hey girls.” I said to get their attention.

“Um… Hi?” Scootaloo answered freaked out a bit.

“Wait a second… Are you Peter?” Sweetie asked me, thank god she probably knew who I was.

“Yes, I guess you sister told you about me?” I said smiling a bit, this is good progress.

“She came back last night; she seemed sad and told me that you had died.” She said a bit confused.

“Shit… She said that, well anyways, I need to know where Fluttershy lives.” They knew, they had stayed and gone to her cottage on multiple occasions.

“Yeah!” She gave me the instructions and I thanked them once they finished telling me and headed back to where Luna was still waiting, she was waving at some ponies that were passing by.

“Okay I know where she lives now, we should get going.” She turned around and got up on all four of her legs, it was a bit difficult to get around the town, we even stopped a few times to get help until finally we were walking up the little road that led to Fluttershy’s house.

“Finally, we made it.”

“Yup.” She said, her voice sounded sad for some reason. “Well I guess you have somepony to talk to, I have to be heading back to Canterlot, and my sister must be worried.” She was about to fly off but I just barely managed to grab her.
“Wait, Luna.” I said, I wasn't quite sure what I was doing and was amazed when I reached in and hugged her, she too seemed surprised but returned the embrace.
“Thank you Luna, you saved my life.” I said holding her tight. “If there is any way I can repay you just let me know.” I offered her.
“There is one thing I want…” She said, blushing a bit.

“Anything, just name it.” After saying that, she quickly pursed her lips against mine, her eyes were closed shut but I could see tears streaming out of them, I now knew she had strong feelings towards me but she also knew she couldn’t be with me for obvious reasons.
After a minute she broke the kiss, her eyes were a bit red and tears still falling from her face.

“Sorry…”She apologized, wiping a tear of her face.

“Don’t worry. This will be out secret, I promise. You’re welcome in my house any time.” That made her smile and soon she flew away towards Canterlot.
I let out a sigh as I headed towards the cottage door. I have no idea how she was going to take, hell I didn’t even know if she was here.
I knocked three times on the front door. There was no response, I took a quick peek through one of the windows, there wasn’t anything but animals running around.
“Fluttershy!” I yelled out. She didn't respond. I went to the back of the house only to be greeted with more animals. I looked through the back windows.
“Fluttershy?” I said again. I was starting to worry. I moved a few bags and boxes and was able to climb to the roof; I looked through the one of the windows it led to the bathroom. I moved to another one that was close to it.
It looked like the one Rainbow Dash has entered through once in season two and again in season three, meaning this one was her bedroom window.
“Where could she be?” I said sitting down for a bit, facing the woods behind her house.
I managed to see a lake in the distance, barely visible through all the trees. I guess that was my next choice, I wasn’t leaving until I find her.

As I made my way through the woods I walked into a meadow area I hadn’t seen from the roof, there was a low noise coming from my left but the only thing there was a big tree.

I headed towards it to see what the noise could be. The scene in front of me lit my heart up, Fluttershy had her face buried between her front hooves and I could hear her crying.

I went to lie down next to her, I thought she would have noticed me but she didn’t. I laid next to her looking at her, a smile plastered on my face.

I reached out and wrapped my arms around her. She flinched and looked up rapidly. When she was it was me she only continued crying but she rested her head on my chest. I started to shed a few tears of joy.

“Don’t worry, everything is okay.” I said running my hand up and down her back. Minutes passed, she slowly started to stop crying, all this while I sat against the tree with her in between my hands.
The sun was starting to set and Fluttershy seemed to start getting tired.

“Want to go inside?” I asked her, she nodded and I moved my hands around so I could be able to carry her, she wasn’t really heavy so I had no problem.

“How?” She asked as we made our way through the trees, I was caught off guard by her question since she hadn’t really said anything.

“Luna.” I answered boldly. “She came in and saved my life with some spell.”

“Peter…” She said quietly.

“You don’t have to say anything, I’m okay and I’m here.” I said looking at her with a smile on my face.

“But… I want to apologize for leaving.” She said apologetically.

“Fluttershy, don’t worry. You only did what I asked you to do.” I didn’t mind that at all.

“But you didn't die and we still left.” She sounded like she was going to cry again.

“I did die, but I was revived by Luna. Something that I didn't know would happen. You have nothing to be sorry about.” She stayed silent for moment and then she reached up and gave me a peck on my cheek.
” We had arrived at her house, I set her down so she could open the back door and we both entered.

She headed upstairs and I followed her the whole time. We both entered her bedroom and she was the first to lie down. I took a bit longer since I had to take my shoes and shirt off.

I missed seeing her in pony form. Human or pony form, she equally looked beautiful. I gave her a goodnight kiss and she returned it, it lasted more than it should of but I had no problem with that.

I was happy of being alive, in Ponyville and the most important thing was that I had her by my side.

The next morning started out great. We woke up bright and early and with a kiss I might add. I helped her out with the breakfast. I also helped her out with her animals before we both remembered that the other girls didn’t know I was alive and that I was here.

We headed straight into town, she said that Applejack was most likely selling apples, Rarity’s boutique was close as well as Sugercube corner and that Rainbow Dash was most likely on weather patrol today near Applejack.

We headed out the front door and towards Ponyville. Sure enough all the girls were where Fluttershy had said they would be, each one greeted me the same way, happy and amazed that I was alive. I told them all what had happened and how Luna had been my savior.

The last pony we visited was Twilight, she was at the library and when we knocked on the door we were greeted by Spike, he jumped the instant he saw me but he simmered down a bit when he saw I was with Fluttershy.

“Is Twilight home?” Fluttershy asked Spike.

“Yeah, she’s reading some books on medicine.” He said showing us the way to her location.

“Hey Twi.” Spike said as the three of us entered the room where she was, there was a big stack of books on both sides of her.

“Not now Spike! I told you I’m busy with some research.” She lashed, not moving her attention from the books.

“Geez Twilight, you really got to have more fun.” I told her, she instantly looked up from her books and turned to look at me.

“Peter? Peter!” She said focusing her eyesight on me, she used a spell to teleport from where she stood and appeared in front of me.

“Hi Twilight!” I said as she took a minute to sink in the idea that I was alive and in front of her.

“Huh? But how in the name of Celestia are you alive?” She said with a dumbfounded look on her face.

“Well you can thank Luna, she came in saved my life with some spell.” I answered what I had told everypony else.

“She did? Well whatever the reason. It’s great to see you okay and alive.” She said hugging me.

“Wait so this is Pete?” Spike asked.

“Oh I almost forgot, Spike, this is Peter, the person I've been living with.” We both shake hands and I noticed he looked older, not like when her became greedy but just older than in the show.
It was good to see that they've been talking to about me with their loved ones, makes me feel less uncomfortable around everyone.

“So when are you going back home?” Twilight asked me, I wasn't quite sure to be honest.

“I have no idea, maybe today would be good. Don’t want to have my family worried about not being there for two days.” I shrugged. “Plus I don’t know if you girls are all coming or what.”
Twilight thought for a second and smiled before telling us her idea.

“I know how about you two go back and take a good time to do stuff, without us.” Twilight told me and Fluttershy.

“What do you mean?” I asked her not sure if I had understood.

“Yeah, just the two of you like old times; you can go out to a fair, dinner, things of that sort.” She explained better, sounded good to me.

“I’m okay with that.” I said with a cheery smile.

“What about you Fluttershy?” Twilight asked, turning to face her.

“That would be lovely.” Fluttershy looked up at me and smiled.

“Okay then, it’s settled! You two will take a few days without us to do whatever you want.” Whatever?
“Well, if you could teleport us to my house that would be helpful, I mean if you’re ready Fluttershy.” I said, I really needed to head back home.

“I’m ready; I hope you don’t mind checking on my animals though.” She told Twilight.

“Not at all, now stand still so I can cast the spell.” She said back up a bit, her horn starting to light up a bit.
I closed my eyes like always and when I reopened them I was standing in my living room, dazed by the light like always but when my vision cleared up I saw Fluttershy standing next to me.
We were back at my house, safe and sound with everything as it was when we left.

“Peter?” Fluttershy spoke, getting my complete attention.

“Yes, Fluttershy?” I responded with a big smile on my face.

“Please don’t ever leave me.” She said tearing up. I picked her up and gave her a tight hug.

“I promise I won’t and I promise I’ll never do anything to hurt you like I did again.” I told her, myself feeling the joy of the moment.

We spent the rest of the day in each others embrace, we talked, we laughed and we watched movies and we played games. We mainly did the activities we did when we had barely met.

“Fluttershy...” I said looking into her beautiful eyes. We were lying on the bed while we talked.

“Uh huh?” She responded in a playful manner.

“I’m glad I freaked out when we met.” I said in all honesty.

“What do you mean.” Not remembering what I told her at the hospital.

“You know, when I first saw you on my bed. I’m really happy that I did what any other brony would've done in my place.”

“I still remember how I bit you... I still feel bad for it.” She said slightly turning away, a blush visible on her face.

“It’s these memories we’ll be recalling down the road.” I said before kissing her, a great way to end the day as after that we slowly drifted off to sleep in each others embrace.
It had been a long day for both of us but after seeing her in sleeping in my arms I finally knew that nothing in this universe could separate us.