In Stitches

The days dragged. Wake up screaming, panic for an hour, change battery, eat, feed fillies, lay around, get poked at every now and then, eat, feed fillies, lay around, change battery, eat, feed fillies, sleep, repeat. A whole month passed of nothing but this and Rainbow was sure she was going to lose her mind. Finally she gave up.

"Okay. I am absolutely sick of this garbage." She thought to herself. She was alone and bored beyond belief. "Let's see. Legs" She moved them all one by one, her back right was still sore but everything checked out. "Okay. Good... Cord." She checked her cord making sure it wasn't tangled around herself. "Okay, good to go" She slowly worked towards the edge of the bed and stepped off one leg at a time. Out of reflex she grabbed her battery like she had at least a hundred times now and carefully set out. She took nine steps and pushed the door open and placed her foreleg against the wall following it along. She walked for what seemed like an eternity bumping into this and that. Eventually a smell caught her. It was strong like soup and made her mouth water.

"Mmmnnn... I like the smell of that." She thought following her nose and the edge of the wall. After a while she found an opening and her hooves began to fall on tile. She could hear water boiling and someone humming to themselves. She followed the wall in eventually finding a table and setting her battery down on the wood making the hum turn into a shocked yelp.

"R- Rainbow! What are you doing here?!" Rachel exclaimed.

"Well you guys kinda have had me locked in a room for weeks on end and I was just soooo bored."

"You could have hurt yourself! And how could you scare me like that!? I could have burned myself!"

"Aren't you fireproof?" She asked making the dragon take a long pause.

"Sh- Shush..."

She burst out laughing and Rachel joined her shortly.

"Okay... You have to admit, that was funny"

"Kinda was i guess." she replied embarrassed

She heard hooves walk in. "Having fun wandering about?"

"I knew where I was going!"

"I was just coming to get you, I figured I'd see what you were up to first though."

"You were following me?" She exclaimed hoping she hadn't done anything dumb.

"Sure was, now then, we have everything together. Ready to go under the knife again?"

"What is it with you and cutting me open every time I start moving?"

"coincidence?"

"Ugg. well I don't have all day, lets go." She said actually somewhat happy to be going anywhere other than her room.

"Alright, want me to lead you?"

She thought for a moment "Better to just roll with it then hurt myself again I guess"

"Well?" He asked

"Fine..." She replied grudgingly.

"Great!" He began to lead her through the house for a while. And she followed boredly.

"So... What am I being volunteered for today?" She asked.

"Do you want the full list?"

She rolled her eyes knowing at this point she was going to hear it ether way. She waited for him to start like he always did, secretly wondering how many of the words she would actually understand. It never came, she started to feel dirt again. "We are going farther than normal" She thought getting just a tad nervous. The dirt shifted to cobbles as her hooves hit the road she hadn't touched since she came. "Uh... where are we going?"

"To the docks" He said.

Now she was nervous "Wh- Why?"

"Well...." He paused trying to word it as to not spook her "Since you moved in... EVERYPONY has been talking about you. We are taking you to the docks cause we actually had to import a full hospital to deal with you."

She stopped talking and she could hear other ponies and hushed voices. She was trying to process just exactly what it was he said. "d- don't panic. didn't hear anything. just keep walking. k- keep walking" she thought starting to tremble a bit. she continued in her state of light panic until she noticed it was now wood under her feet and the winds were kicking up.

"Almost there, do NOT trip okay?" He said sounding dead serious.

"R- Right" She replied feeling the wood slope up into a ramp. The wind stopped suddenly like she had been led inside "Wh- What now?" She asked.

"Okay, hop up on the bed alright?" He said leading her hooves to it.

She clambered up still trembling and she could almost FEEL ponies staring at her.

"Okay. We are going to put you to sleep here alright?"

"O- Okay.." She whimpered and she could feel a needle entering her side.

"I'll count from five" He said "Five. Four.... Three....... Two-" And with that, it was lights out for the mare.