Equestrian Humanity

Medical Attention

Rainbow Dash limped down the path to Fluttershy's house, muttering angrily to herself. Her fur, once completely soaked, had mostly dried. She had several lightning burns on her, with some worse than others. Her left wing hung limply at her side, a large black spot covering a good portion of it.

She smiled to herself. 'Twilight is not going to be happy about this.' This was her third injury in nearly a month. While the other two weren't that bad (a clipped wing and a sprained hoof), this was the worst she'd had to date.

The lightning strike had damaged several of her feathers and left her with little control of her wing. She knew that the damage wasn't permanent but it still needed to be treated. The damaged feathers would need to be preened out and the wing would need to be dressed to keep it from moving.

Even with all that, she knew it would be several days before she could fly again, and that hurt the most.

She continued to limp to the door of her friend's cottage of and proceeded to knock on the wood. She heard a scrambling of hooves from inside. The door opened to reveal Twilight Sparkle. Her mane, which usually was nice and straight, was ruffled with several strands out of place. She had spots of soot on her fur and her chest was heaving slightly. The pegasus chuckled to herself.

"This has taken a lot out of us all, eh Twi?" The unicorn didn't answer, and simply rolled her eyes as she stepped aside to let her friend enter. Rainbow walked past her into the cottage. Some animals had returned, but they still seemed uneasy, as if they could sense that this wasn't entirely over. The room itself had also seen better days. Bags of animal feed of several sizes and kinds laid on their floor, some of whom's contents had spilled on the floor as well.

Twilight closed the door and turned back to her friend. Her eyes fell on Rainbow's wing and she gasped in surprise at the burned appendage. "Rainbow Dash!" The pegasus turned to the mage. Twilight had a look of worry mixed with annoyance. Though the latter did seem more prominent. "What did you do?"

Rainbow shrugged her shoulders. "Just got struck by a little lighting," she answered. The total nonchalant way that she answered brought a hoof to Twilight's face, her annoyance rising.

"Well why did you come here instead of the hospital?"

"Ponyville General is full!" She countered. "It seems like half of Ponyville was hurt in the crash. I didn't want to wait forever to get treated, and I knew that Fluttershy has treated this before, so I came here."

The unicorn sighed. "As if we didn't have enough to deal with," she mumbled to herself. She walked to the stairs and instructed Rainbow to follow. The pegasus shrugged and did so.

"Hey, did you guys find anything in the forest?" She asked.

The mage tensed slightly. "Yeah, I guess you could say that."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's really best if you just see for yourself." She said nothing more and continued to Fluttershy's room. She stopped inside the doorway and waited on her companion.

"What the-?" Twilight giggled at Rainbow's slack jaw expression received at her first glimpse of the creature. "What in the name of Luna's left hoof is that?" She exclaimed.

The unicorn was about to relay her lack of knowledge on the offender of the royal footing, when she was interrupted by Fluttershy.

"Rainbow Dash!" The two turned to see the lemon pegasus standing behind them, a bundle of medical supplies on her back. Her eyes were fixed to Rainbow's wing. "What did you do?"

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Meanwhile, in Another Time Period

"Doctor! Slow down!"

"No time Ditzy! We need to get back to the TARDIS!"

A brown earth pony and a grey pegasus sprinted through the halls of Canterlot Castle causing guards  and servants to scatter to avoid being trampled by the pair, one of whom was obviously not stopping for anything.

Ditzy Doo panted slightly. "Couldn't we have stayed for the after party at least?" The two had recently thwarted the Weeping Pegasi's occupation of Canterlot and the Princesses wanted to throw a party as a thank you. Ditzy was more than happy to stay once she saw the muffin buffet table, but the Doctor got an alert on his sonic screwdriver and had taken of, forcing the pegasus to follow.

The earth pony rolled his eyes. "Oh please, it's just one party. I can nearly guarantee that Miss Pie will have a party planned for some reason or another when we get back." The two found themselves at the Royal Baths, where the TADRIS had landed (and created quite the awkward situation with Princess Celestia). The earth pony beeped his screwdriver and the doors of the time machine opened. The Doctor ran the console in the middle of the control room and set to work. Ditzy closed the door behind her and leaned against a spot of railing to catch her breath. 'Wow,' she thought. 'For somepony who eats butter like it's his last meal he has some speed.'

"So," she began as she climbed the ramp to the console, "what was so important that we had to miss out on all-you-can-eat muffins for?"

The Time Lord continued to work on the control panel when he answered. "The TARDIS detected a disturbance in space-time and sent me an alert to investigate it."

"What caused it?"

"I'm about to find out..." He trailed off as he pulled a monitor in front of him. "Now let's see-" his eyes went wide at what he saw and he adopted a look of utter disbelief. "Nooooo...."

"What is it?"

The Doctor didn't answer. "Those slippery basterds. Even across dimensions I can't get away from them. Can't they just stay in one place?"

"Doctor?" Ditzy asked in confusion.

The brown stallion sighed and flipped a switch, causing the TARDIS to shudder. "Might want to get comfortable Ditzy. I have to fix something, and then we have to make a little trip."

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Fluttershy dried her hoof on a nearby towel and brought it up in front of her. She took a deep breath and slowly moved it forward.  'Careful.....careful...'

POKE

"Yow!" Rainbow Dash recoiled back as her friend made contact with her wing, a stab of pain shooting through her side. She shot an evil look at the caretaker who paid it no mind.

Fluttershy sighed in relief. "You still have feeling. Good. At least your nerves are still functioning." The yellow pony reached behind her to pick up some gauze. She brought it to the outstretched wing, causing its owner to draw a sharp intake of breath.

"I haven't even touched you yet," her operator sighed.

"Oh."

Twilight listened to the exchange with mild interest. Fluttershy had tasked her with the job of removing the creature's clothing so the could get an idea of its injuries, and then to preform a medical scanning spell to know exactly.

It would seem that her early hypothesis of its clothing  being used for warmth was correct, as she already removed the garments and saw that its legs were bare of any fur. At least she did at first. Closer observation led her to find that there was a short layer of fur but it was clear and not nearly thick enough to provide any sort of warmth. She also found his arms were similar in this and made a note of it on a nearby roll of parchment.

She discovered that his 'hooves', like his hands, had five small appendages each. But while the ones on his hands were long, nimble, and designed to grab, these were short and had less range in movement. She couldn't see what their purpose was and decided to leave them for now.

Turning to the upper body, she lifted the creature's arms and took off its cloak (at least she thought that's what it was as it had a hood of some kind), to reveal a grey shirt. She removed this and exposed its torso. He had a large bruise on his left side. It was possible that it had some broken ribs but she couldn't know for sure until she preformed the spell.

She turned her attention lower. For some reason, it had seen it fit to put on two lower garments, with these being shorter and thinner. 'Well that's redundant,' she thought as she lowered them down its legs. 'What purpose could these ser-' when she had the garment at a low enough level, her eyes went wide. She carefully pulled them back up, and sat for a moment. She shook her head and wrote a single word on the parchment:

MALE

"How is he?"

Twilight turned to find Fluttershy standing next to her. Behind her, Rainbow Dash lay curled up in a ball on floor, sleeping soundly. Her left wing was bandaged and a healthy dose of sedative in her bloodstream.

"Not sure," Twilight answered. "Aside from a few cuts and bruises I can't see anything to serious on the outside- other than his side- but he could have any number of problems on the inside that I won't be able to identify until I preform the spell."

Fluttershy nodded in understanding and took a few steps back to give the unicorn room. Twilight stood, taking a few breaths from her nose. 'This is going to be tricky.' The medical spell she was about to preform, while it was a higher level spell, was fairly simple. Unfortunately, her earlier actions in the forest had left her magic reserves quite low, the effects of which she was already starting to feel.

Under normal circumstances this spell would leave her feeling lightheaded, but now she would be lucky if she didn't pass out after the spell was finished.

She took another deep breath as she picked the alien up with her magic. She took a few more breaths as sweat already started to pool on her brow, then initiated the spell.

Now, the way the Medical Scan works, is a patient is held in the magic aura of a unicorn doctor while another doctor stands by to initiate the spell itself. When the spell is initiated, a beam of light will start from the patient's head, to its rear hooves, to the head, and back to the hooves. The whole process usually takes about a minute.

To Twilight it felt like an hour.

Not only did she have to do the work of two ponies, but her 'patient' was nearly twice the length of a pony and much heavier. The unicorn gritted her teeth as sweat poured down her face. As the spell went its course, physical information ran through her mind.

When the the final pass crossed his 'hooves', Twilight gently brought the creature back down to the bed. Once he made contact, she killed the spell and fell to her knees. Her breaths were shallow, her face was drenched in sweat, and the edges of her vision was going dark.

She felt Fluttershy rubbing her back in small circles as she gave the the diagnosis.

"Th-three fractured ribs on his left side. Minor con-concussion." Fluttershy nodded as she helped her friend to her hooves and lead her downstairs. She set the exhausted mage on the couch. The pegasus fetched a towel, sopping up the sweat from the unicorn's face. She brought a blanket to her, placing it over her body.

Twilight's last thought was of Fluttershy tucking her in as she slipped into the warm embrace of unconsciousness.

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AN/

Well there it is!

Ponyville is in shambles, Twilight is unconscious, and Fluttershy is caring for an alien! This has never happened before!

What's going to happen next? pfft. Hell if I know. I kinda make this up as I go.

In all seriousness though, thanks for taking the time to read my story. If you've made it this far, I asume that I'm not as much as a total hack as I thought!

Constructive is wanted. Tell me what you liked! More will defiantly be here soon probably!

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