The 4th Tribe

Ponyville hospital- Time 7 PM

The nurse sat quietly at the front desk, reading the latest “Forbidden Romance” novel by Midnight Shining… She didn’t notice the head doctor currently on shift walk up behind her.

‘BOO!”

“EEEPP!” She jumped out of her chair and fell on the ground, gasping from nearly dying.

“AHAHAHAHAHAH!” The doctor was on the white floor of the hospital, rolling around laughing.

“DR MONITOR, THIS IS NO TIME FOR PRANKS!” He stopped laughing and got off the floor.

“SOME PONY COULD COME IN AND HAVE A GRAVE INJURY.” He walked over and leaned against the desk

“Nurse Tenderheart, would you like to place a little bet. “He leaned over the desk and was staring at her.

“What do you mean Doctor?”

“I bet you that if a anypony comes in gravely hurt or anything at all, between 7PM and 9PM I will give you my pension.”

“And if you win?” He chuckled and gave her a strange look that she did not get.

“I get to take you to dinner.” Nurse Tenderheart pondered this for a second…Knowing Ponyville, there’s bound to be a major disaster or accident sooner or later.

“You got a deal!”

Author's Note: I'm very sorry about the start of this chapter. In the words of Dumbgamer, "*coughs* SOUNDS LIKE A HOSPITAL PORNO *coughs*"Once again sorry!

1 hour later…

Doctor Monitor was looking at the clock, counting the seconds until his shift was over… He could not wait to go out to dinner with that fine mare. He only had an hour to go, and then he might get lucky!

And that dream was destroyed as soon as a cyan Pegasus and the rock of earth ponies came in with a bleeding, dying human with a pitchfork in his chest.

“PLEASE, HELP HIM!” The cyan Pegasus, who they recognized as Rainbow Dash and the rock was the one and only Big Mac. Dash’s hooves where covered in blood, and right wing was stuck out at a bad angle. Almost immediately, Nurse Tenderheart jumped over the counter and took the badly hurt human off ofMac’s back. The Doctor had called for a gurney and in less than 10 seconds, there were 3 nurses and a very very big gurney, Mac breathed a sigh of relief as the heavy, but not fat human was lifted off his back and onto it. They whisked him away to the E.R. As the bigger doors slammed shut, Nurse Tenderheart walked over to Dash.

“Ms Dash, I need you to come with me. We have to bandage up that wing.” She proved her point by lightly touching it, causing Dash to wince in pain!

“Please…Take care of Matt 1st, this is nothing.” She tried to fold her wing up, but it hurt too much for her to continue.

“He is going to be fine, now come with me!” She got Dash and basically took forced walked her to a small exam room. She examined her wing for a little bit, before leaving the room to go get some bandages and raps.

Dash leaned back against the wall of the exam room and thought of how this all happened.

How a stupid mistake might have killed one of her friends, and also her maybe special some pony…

1 hour before hand…

I zoomed out of the library and up to my favorite cloud. I jumped on it and sunk into it.

"HOW THE HAY DOES STORM KNOW I LIKE MATT?! Wait... didn't he said he could read minds or something earlier? Oh horseapples, THAT'S JUST GREAT! I just hope he can keep his mouth shut about ANYTHING else I think... for his sake! I mean it too, if Matt hears about this from Storm, I swear by Celestia's Sun I'll beat his flank so hard his hair will change colors!"

30 minutes later

Dash woke up in frenzy, limbs flailing as  she nearly fell of the cloud she was sleeping on. It took her a good 5 minutes for her to calm down. She looked over her body and sighed.

“It was only a dream, RATS!” She stood up on the cloud and stretched her wings. She smiled after hearing a good, solid couple of cracks. She looked down from the cloud and saw a single pumpkin roll down the hill into the Everfree forest. She looked down, and then towards the pumpkin had come from. Dash saw nothing, and was about to go down and see for herself.

Until…

“COME BACK HERE YOU GHETTO ASS GREAT PUMPKIN!”  A very loud and angry voice screamed. She looked over towards where the farm was. Dash squealed as she saw Matt in hot pursuit of the runaway pumpkin, unknown to him that she was watching him from above.

‘NO, YOU ARE NOT GOING INTO THE FOREST YOU SON OF A BITCH!” Dash was shocked; she’d never seen anypony use that much language before…

Then again Matt wasn’t exactly a pony…

But she liked it…

For reasons she had no idea why…

…

She debated with herself for a couple of minutes before she saw Matt come out of the forest, carrying a very large pumpkin, muttering to himself. She saw him go back up towards the house and then disappear into the apple trees. She giggled uncharacteristically and laid back down onto the cloud. She closed her eyes to continue her nap when she saw Matt chase ANOTHER pumpkin down towards the forest. She started laughing so hard and rolling around on her cloud. She swore Matt would hear her, but he kept on chasing the pumpkins and spouting at them. This happened once more before Dash got bored with it and decided to go check on the President of the Rainbow Dash fan club. The one and only Scootaloo, who should be getting out of school anytime now. She jumped up and flew towards the school house.

“Storm can wait; I need to go say hi to my biggest fan.”

After about 5 minutes she heard the school bells ring. Dash spends up and landed in a cloud above the school house. She looked down and saw her favorite fan walking with her fellow crusader, minus Apple Bloom. She droped from her cloud and hovered in front of the surprised filly.

“Hey squirt, whats happening?” She asked to the shocked and surprised filly. Sweetie Bell seemed to be carrying a large something in her back pack.

“No-not much Rainbow Dash. Ho-how about you?” Dash laughed at the filly’s nervousness at talking to her idol.

“Do you know where Applebloom is?” They looked at each other and then back to Dash.

“She fell asleep in class and she has homework…So she can’t go crusading with us.” She said sadly.

“What are you crusading for this time?”

They looked around and then whispered to themselves.

“Sorry Rainbow Dash, its sorta of a secret.” Now this surprised Dash, usually Scootaloo would tell dash anything. She could keep a secret, and them not telling her it.

“Well I guess I will leave you girls alone.” Dash said coldly as she zoomed up towards the cloud. Scootaloo tried to say something, but she was already out of the general vicinity. She landed on a cloud and stared at the beautiful sky.

‘SO THEY CAN’T TELL ME A LITTLE SECRET, EVEN THOUGH I AM HER IDOL!” She was stomping around the cloud, not in a good mood.

"I'll show her! I'll wow her with my Sonic Rainboom and get to Sweet Apple Acres in no time. Then when I get back, Scoots will HAVE to tell me her secret! “She zoomed up towards the sky, climbing higher and higher.

“I, RAINBOW DASH IS NOW GOING TO PREFORM THE ONE AND ONLY SONIC RAINBOOM!” She yelled to a nonexistent crowd.

“THANK YOU THANK YOU.” She exclaimed, bowing to another invisible crowd. She dived straight down and began to pick up speed. A cone began to form around her as she got faster and faster. Her face was contorted in a mix of anger and concentration.

And then of course it failed.

“Oh  no not AGAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!” She yelled as the cone threw her back at incredible speeds. She tried to move her wings, but nothing was working. She flew over the apple trees, nearly colliding with a branch before she managed to get one of her wings out. It started to slow her down, but not enough for her to stop.

“This is going to hurt…” She managed to say. She looked and saw that she was heading towards the Apple family’s tool shed.

“Oh sweet Celestia, please make me not die.” She muttered as she closed her eyes, waiting for impact.

“WATCH OUT ANYPONY!” she yelled before colliding with the shed with enough force to demolish the entire well-built structure.

She felt herself crash deep into the now-wrecked shed. Pieces of wood, iron, and supplies made contact as the sounds of falling debris finally ceased to a halt.

'Ow...'

She tried to force herself upright, and winced. She definitely messed up her right wing with that landing, which meant a visit to the Hospital would be in order very soon.

"Ugh..."

She froze. She recognized the voice, and it made her blood go cold.

"MATT!" She frantically started swiping through the debris, trying not to further upset her wing. She stopped and gasped in horror at what she found...

Matt was barely staying conscious. A large pitchfork had embedded itself into his stomach, followed by large pieces of wooden support pinning him down on all sides.

'Oh no... no, no nonononono!'

"MATT! ARE YOU OKAY?!" No response, just slight gurgling. "OH CELESTIA, I'M GOING TO GET HELP. JUST HANG IN THERE!"

Tears had already sprung up since her discovery, and with that hopefully-comforting statement, she quickly ran out of the remnants of the shed.

She had to get a certain big red stallion as soon as possible, but with a shed being destroyed and such a loud scream, Big Mac was already on his way. Dash saw Mac coming from across the acre. She was about to run over to him when she heard a horrendous cough from Matt that made her heart sink to her chest. She rushed over to Matt and began to cradle him, trying to bring some sense of peace to both her and him.

“DASH, WHAT IN TARNATION HAPPENED? IS MATT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, AH AM GOING TO-“ By this time he noticed that Dash was crying. Big Max had seen a lot of things, but a crying Rainbow Dash was a 1st. He looked over towards the shed and saw a pitchfork sticking out at an odd angle. He walked over and recoiled at what he saw. Dash was cradling the human that he had been chasing, and by the look of him he was not going to last much longer, He was lying down and was shaking slightly. He looked pale and his usually happy smile was replaced by a look of pain. His eyes were fluttering and his right side was under a lot of debris.

“PLEASE, HELP ME MAC!” Dash screamed, tears streaming down her eyes. Matt coughed and blood began trickle slowly out of his mouth.

“1st thing we need to do is get the debris off of him.” Mac said as calmly as he could. He reached over and began to take some of the heavy peics of wood off of him. He got all of it off and looked over his body. His right foreleg was defiantly broken. He wasn’t going to make it unless they got him to the hospital fast.

“DASH, STAY HERE, AH AM GONNA GO GET MAH WAGON. IT’LL BE EASIER TO TAKE HIM.”

“What do you need me to do?” Dash asked with pleading eyes.

“If he wakes up, keep him calm. Also under no circumstances are yall to take that pitchfork out.” Normally Dash would have asked why, but she was close to losing it. She nodded to Mac and he ran to the barn to hook himself up to the wagon he normally used to carry and transport large amounts of products.  He hitched himself up and ran as fast as he could to the rubble of the shed.

‘Now we have to be VERY carefully when we pick him up, one false move and we could kill him, do yall understand?” Dash nodded and together r, they managed to get Matt into the wagon without much difficulty. There back of the wagon was littered with spare hay used to transport and keep apples from being bruised. They laid him down onto it and Mac jumped out and hitched himself up to the wagon.

“Dash, keep him steady!” And with that they took off towards the hospital…

“Please don’t die…PLEASE!” Dash cried…

Rainbow Dash walked about pensively after her arrival to the Hospital. When both she and Big Mac had brought Matt in, they ushered both of them away and brought him to an emergency room.

That was fifteen minutes ago, and it wasn't helping her anxiety much in that regard.

Big Mac had departed along with Nurse Redheart, one of the head medical practitioners, to Twi's Library and gather the rest of the girls. However, the main focus was getting Storm.

While she wasn't extremely well-versed in his capabilities, having another human at the very least could be very useful when trying to properly sustain him and make sure his signs are stable.

Any nurses or doctors that attempted to converse and calm her down were tuned out by the Technicolor pony. She nervously scrapped her hoof against the floor, her ears constantly flicked back and forth in hope of hearing news...

"Miss Rainbow Dash!"

That snapped her out of her concentration. A male doctor stood before her, a rather hesitant smile on his face that made Rainbow nervous. 'Why is he smiling like that? Oh no, please let it not be something bad involving Matt!'

"Oh um, hi Doctor...?"

"Doctor Monitor, at your service.” He said proudly.

"Right. How is Matt?"

He sighed and looked at her with a smile that portrayed the bearer of bad news. "We're having some difficulties trying to patch him up. We currently do have him stable, but we have no idea how long we can keep him like that until this other human shows up... What was his name again?"

"Storm."

He briefly nodded and silently mouthed the word to himself as he looked away. His head swiveled back and motioned for Rainbow to follow him. She really didn't have a choice in the matter, and accompanied him up the flight of stairs.

"While we were patching him up, we ran into a... predicament." Doctor Monitor started, his horn enabling him to carry several files as he trotted. Rainbow perked up at this, albeit it was rather worried than anything. "Our medical squad of Unicorns were attempting an advanced healing spell to sustain him for the time being..."

"Yes, go on." She replied impatiently, eyes showing slight hints of twitching.

"The magic we inserted into his body to repair his muscle tissue somehow came into contact with his phenotype and DNA sequences, reconstructing his skeletal and organ system into that of an Equine."

There was a brief silence before Rainbow responded. "In Equestrian please?"

The Doctor (No, not that Doctor) snorted at this and exposed a smile. "The magic turned him into a pony."

Rainbow froze in front of the room where Doctor Monitor had stopped. 'Matt, a pony...?' She hastily entered the room and took in the sight of Matt.

Bandages adorned his abdomen area several times over, the white a sharp contrast with his dandelion-yellow coat. His electric-blue mane lied about in disarray over his pillow, with the occasional strands tickling his unconscious facial features.

"I'll give you some time alone and direct the other Elements here when they arrive." Doctor Monitor pronounced as he quietly shut the door, and made his way back to the front desk.

There was silence. Rainbow shifted slightly to adjust her own bandages from her crash into the shed. She was still kicking herself over that little stunt, and now it may or may not have cost Matt his life.

"Oh Matt..." Rainbow began, cantering over and sitting next to Matt on his bed. "I'm so sorry."

She was content to simply sit there for a few minutes and took note of the way he'd occasionally murmur something about 'Q's and Bacon, how his tail flicked outwards for a brief moment before becoming unmoving once more, his wings fluttering-

Wait, wings?!

Indeed, through the improvised design of the bandages, there were two slots for his wings to tuck up against him. It brought a sense of joy to her; if Matt was possibly stuck in this pony form, at least he could fly with her. Hay, maybe she could even teach him!

Rainbow felt herself perch her body atop of Matt, and her simply relishing in the warm glow of Matt's sleeping and recuperating body. What she did next though shocked even her into a stupor...

She bent over... and began to kiss him.

It was a strangely comforting feeling, her mouth locked onto his. Even though he was unconscious, she swore she could see a small smile spread across his mouth. It brought a warm feeling to her, she felt a little bit of the pressure and also the guilt of what she did slowly begin to melt away. She adjusted her body so that herwasn’t putting any pressure on her wing, and also to make sure she wasn’t hurting any part of his healing body. She pulled away from him and looked over his new body. He had a dandelion yellow coat that went perfectly with his electric blue mane.  A night sky black tail complemented his body. She chuckled to herself a little bit. She looked around to make sure that no pony was looking at her. She noticed the curtain was open, but was scared that she might hit him if she tried to stand up. She sighed and once again, for reasons she could not understand, she began to kiss his unconscious body. She absentmindedly began rubbing her her left hoof against his left cheek. She didn’t even notice Storm and the rest of the gang walk into the room. She heard a gasp behind her and she turned around to see Storm and her friends staring at her, mouths open is shock. Dash gasped and fell of the bed, nearly hitting Matt in his healing ribs. They stared at each other for a little bit, before Dash tried to run out of the room…

Authors note

And that is the chapter people...

I am very very sorry for not getting this out earlier. I had Finals in school and a Parent that wants to take my PC away at all costs...

Anyway expect a very very long next chapter to make up for the lateness.

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