Scootaloo rushed into the hospital, breathing heavily, she had flown as fast as she could to the Ponyville hospital. She rushed to the front desk “Where is he” Scootaloo gasped and nurse Redheart looked at her with a friendly smile, “I’m sorry dear, but I’ll need to know who ‘he’ is before I can tell you” Redheart explained. “Joe… where is Joe, he’s the one who got crushed by the tree last night” Scootaloo informed her frantically.

Redheart pointed down the hall, “Last room on the left” she said casually and Scootaloo dashed down the hallway and burst through the door. She looked in the medical recover room and saw Joe lying on a medical bed, he wasn’t conscious and had a breathing mask hooked up to his face, and a medical blanket was cast over his body except his head.

Scootaloo rushed over to his side, “Joe… please Joe answer me… no please Celestia let him be okay” Scootaloo said as she began to cry. Tears strolled down her face as she wept over his body, she wrapped her hooves around Joe’s body and squeezed him tightly. “AAAAHHHHH” Joe screamed in pain as he lept up, pulling the breathing mask off his face. Scootaloo gasped and staggered back.

“J…Joe” Scootaloo stuttered, Joe winced in pain “Yeah, the one and only… why’d yah do that?” Joe asked as he stretched painfully. “I…I thought you were hurt” Scootaloo said through her sniffles. Joe laughed through a grunt of pain “Yeah, I am hurt. Hence why I am in a hospital bed” Joe chuckled, Scootaloo walked up beside him and gave him a light hug.

“I thought you were hurt really bad” Scootaloo whimpered and Joe just sat there. “Uhm… okay, you know that it was only a tree that landed on me right?” Joe asked as he returned Scootaloo’s hug and embraced her in a light hug. Scootaloo pulled her head back and looked into Joe’s eyes “But Applebloom said it was a huge tree” Scootaloo said as she wiped some tears from her eyes, “Yeah for a pony it was huge… but the tree only weighed around 400 pounds… that’s just like a motorcycle landing on me and besides some of the branches slowed the fall” Joe replied casually.

Scootaloo brought her head back into Joe’s shoulder and Joe simply sat there thinking ‘I hope Applebloom didn’t over exaggerate it too much’. “You know it wasn’t that bad right?” Joe told her and she whispered to him “Just like how you heroically saved Mario… that wasn’t that much either… Joe… I can’t” Scootaloo began but Joe pulled back from the hug.

“Heroically?” Joe asked curiously and Scootaloo wiped some more tears from her eyes “You went into that burning building to save him” Scootaloo began and Joe chuckled “Yeah, but that’s what any-pony with courage would do to save another pony” Joe told her. “And how you carried Mario out in a 600 pound freezer and threw it out the door then survived the propane explosion” Scootaloo said and Joe laughed.

“I think your information is a little off kid… yeah Mario likes to stretch that story out. Okay for starters Mario weighs more than the freezer did and for seconds I didn’t survive a propane explosion, the roof simply collapsed and I jumped out a window in the back of the building” Joe informed her. “And what about the 250 pound burning beam of wood that fell on top of you while you were carrying the freezer?” Scootaloo asked and Joe snickered “Yeah, now that actually happened” Joe chuckled.

“Joe… please don’t take such big risks… I… I” Scootaloo was about to reveal her love for Joe when suddenly Rainbow Dash burst through the hospital door.

“Scootaloo…whew, I got a call from the school saying that you just ran out, Applebloom had said that she was talking about Joe going to the hospital so I came looking for you here… what’s gotten into you anyway?” Rainbow Dash asked. “I had to know if Joe was okay” Scootaloo informed Rainbow Dash who let out a sigh of relief, “You should know that Joe can survive almost anything I can” Rainbow Dash said with a wink and Joe chuckled “Well that might be a little bit of an understatement” Joe laughed and Rainbow Dash shot him a sly look.

“Well Scootaloo, I signed you out of school for the rest of the afternoon… I was thinking maybe we could head down to the lake for a swim” Rainbow Dash offered and Scootaloo’s jumped up in excitement. “Well how bout it Joe, you want to tag along?” Rainbow Dash asked and Joe shook his hand “Nah, you girls go ahead” Joe replied. “What’s wrong Joe, feeling a little sore… can’t handle as much as me” Rainbow Dash teased, obviously poking at his pride. Joe rolled his eyes “No thanks… I don’t think doc will let me out anyway” Joe replied and Rainbow Dash shrugged, “Okay… guess that just means you can’t take as much as me” Rainbow Dash laughed and Joe simply shrugged, not minding that she was poking at his pride.

“Awe come on Joe, it’ll be fun” Scootaloo begged and Joe simply shook his hand again. Scootaloo got up closer to his face and gave him puppy dog eyes “Pretty please… with a cherry on top?” Scootaloo begged and Joe’s stomach rumbled. “Okay but only if I can stop and get a coffee and a jelly doughnut” Joe replied and got out of the hospital bed, stretching and wincing a little from the pain.

“So any plans on how to get me out of here?” Joe asked and Rainbow Dash shrugged, “I’ll bug the desk receptionist and you sneak past” Rainbow Dash replied, formulating a really badly thought through plan. “Alight… my car is out back, let’s go” Joe said and the trio exited the hospital recovery room. They walked down the hallway casually but as they got closer to the front of the hospital Joe stayed behind and waited for Rainbow Dash to start distracting nurse Redheart. “Hey nurse sooo I was wondering…”Rainbow Dash began and Scootaloo waved to Joe. Joe crawled past the desk undetected and out the front doors.

“Oh sorry nurse, I just realized the time, gotta go” Rainbow Dash replied as she looked to the imaginary watch on her wrist and dashed out the front doors. “But I… okay” nurse Redheart said and shrugged, not quite sure what just happened.
Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo zipped around the corner to see Joe changing out of the hospital clothes and into some cargo pants and a white T-shirt. Joe looked to Rainbow Dash “You think they’ll mind if I don’t return the clothes?” Joe asked and tossed the hospital clothes into a dumpster and hopped in the driver seat of the car. “Hey… hold on I’m driving” Rainbow Dash laughed and Joe gave her a frown, “I don’t think so” Joe replied but Rainbow Dash simply opened the door and made Joe move over. “I don’t think I even want to go anymore” Joe complained and Rainbow Dash laughed as she fidgeted with the keys to try and start the car, Scootaloo hopped into the back seat as Joe leaned over and started the car. Joe leaned back into his seat “If you crash this car…”

Author's Note

So since alot of people didn't like the idea of Joe being an absolute tanked out character I made him seem a little bit more realistic