Rest for the Weary

"ARE THOSE... PENISES I SEE WRIGGLING AROUND ON ITS FEET? DISGUSTING." -Doctor Klein

Rainbow Dash sat in a chair across from the unconscious creature. They probed and prodded inside the surgical incisions they made while nurses removed the excess magic like they did with Fluttershy. The doctors pulled out multiple pieces of metal from the creature with their hooves, but when they pulled out a metal nail, Twilight left the room.

The creature woke up a few times, but she didn't seem to comprehend what was going on. The first time she woke up she started singing. It was mostly jibberish, and she never stayed on one song too long, but at least she wasn't kicking and screaming. The second time she woke up she giggled, like the tweezers pulling random bits of metal out of her tickled.

Rainbow Dash watched the entire time thinking, 'What is she? Where did she come from? Is she here to hurt us? Why does she have so many scars?'

Finally, the doctors started sewing up the wound. Rainbow Dash asked them why they were doing it with their hooves and teeth and they informed her that the creature, as well as Fluttershy, could not be exposed to any more magic for a couple of weeks. Once they finished sewing her up, the doctors washed up and left the room to look at their data.

"Why did they leave?" Rainbow Dash asked the remaining nurse, "Shouldn't they, you know, give her some medicine?"

The nurse shook her head, "We don't know what effect our medicine could have on it."

"But she" Dash motioned toward the giggling creature and putting emphasis on the word she, "Is probably in pain!"

The nurse had a blank expression, "Fine. She has thirteen unusual wounds going all the way through her body, as well as a numerous fractured bones. She's lost huge amounts of blood that we have no replacement for, and she had a large amount of timberwolf venom injected into her system via the massive bite on her leg. The mere fact that she is breathing has thrown every single doctor here through a loop. So, sure, let's just pump some of our medicine into her on the assumption that that can't kill her too."

That shut Rainbow Dash up for a while. She went back to her chair and decided to take a nap.

"Oh... My head..."

Rainbow Dash was roused from her sleep by a voice in front of her. She opened her eyes to see the creature stretching out its neck. She rolled her neck around making a loud popping sound as it did so. Then she yawned and opened her eyes. She looked down at the bindings with a calm gaze pulling on them slightly to test their strength, completely unaware of Rainbow Dash's presence.

Rainbow Dash coughed to get her attention.

The creatures head shot around. Its small hazel eyes seemed to study everything about Rainbow in a mere second.

"So, uhhh, how do you feel?" Rainbow Dash asked slightly jarred under the creatures predatory gaze.

The creature studied her a moment longer before letting a bemused grin split her face. She giggled quietly for a few seconds before bursting into full-on laughter. It wasn't a normal type of laughter, nor did it sound evil like Nightmare Moon or any of Rainbow's past foes. This laughter sounded painful.

The creature slammed her head back on the operating table. Hard. She seemed to be talking to herself whenever her laughter halted for a moment, but it was too quiet to hear.

Her laughter cut off abruptly as the creature took a long breath and looked up at the ceiling. The room was quiet without the echos of her guffaws bouncing around, making it possible for Rainbow Dash to hear the quiet whisper of the creature, "Go to therapy they said. It'll help they said. You won't end up strapped to a table in a room with a talking horse..."

Rainbow Dash was at a loss for words. She moved her jaw, but no words would come out.

"So I wonder what chems I'm on right now?" The creature seemed to be talking to herself again, "Maybe buffout and psycho? Or maybe I made some more slasher then drowned myself in vodka. What do you think?"

Rainbow Dash could only form one complete thought, "I'm a pony. Not a horse." she said.

The creature rolled her eyes, "So what are you gonna do with me? I can think of a few things, but I wouldn't want to give you ideas now would I? But a fair warning, if you plan on replacing any body parts someone already beat you to it."

Rainbow Dashs brain function seemed to come back partially, "The doctors healed you. Sewed up the holes and removed all that metal. They also removed all the magic from your system. They saved you."

The creature chuckled to herself again, "Magic? Ohhh... Now I know what happened. I overdosed on jet, read some Tales of Chivalry, then passed out in my suite!" She snorted, "You'd think I'd learned that lesson the first time."

She was making no sense. Rainbow Dash didn't understand most of what the creature was babbling about, but Rainbow had gathered that she didn't think this was actually happening.

"Look! I can promise you that this is completely real!" Rainbow Dash told her.

The creature merely raised an eyebrow.

Rainbow Dash grumbled to herself as she walked over to a trashcan in the corner of the room. She reached into it, careful to not touch the blood, pulled out the torn up outfit. She held the ragged piece of clothing in her hoof for a bit before she spoke, "This is what you were wearing when we found you," she put the clothes back in the trash, "do you believe me now?"

The creature stayed silent for a moment, she seemed to be thinking, then she spoke.

"My names Courier... It's nice to meet you."