In Stitches

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Audio log 021
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My name is Rainbow Dash. Have you ever woken up, not sure if it is morning or night? How about waking up feeling like every fiber in your body was torn apart in a rock grinder? Welcome to my life.

~Dash

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Rainbow awoke. She tried to scream but her mouth would not move. She tried to flail and panic, her body would not comply. It hurt too much to even think. Everything everything was on fire. The feeling lasted a lifetime, two maybe. She whimpered a little.

"There you are. Stay quiet okay? You are healing. Your modifications are taking and your body is holding." The doctor spoke quietly.

She just whimpered in reply. She slowly became aware of something cold against her back. She tried to think about what it could be but the pain was just too much. She passed out.

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Awake again. This was the twelfth time, or maybe it was more, she wasn't sure any more. The pain was only just bearable. She tried her hardest to keep it together this time, trying to be strong. She checked her points, moving each limb one by one. "F- Front legs.." She thought moving them both very much to her body's protest. "Ch- Check." She let her broken body settle, not even trying her lower legs. She tried to analyze where she was. Something hard and cold was under her back. She could feel a bed around that. She tried to move her forelegs to find more but the pain stopped her.

"How are you feeling?"

"Wh- What the h- hay have you d- d- done to me?" She asked weakly.

"Well... That's quite the list" He breathed. "Short list?"

"Long list." She replied.

"Okay. Well we opened you up and removed your temporary kidneys. We replaced them with a smaller, more efficient version. We made a new lung for you. We realized your bones couldn't hold that much weight though... It was a fairly complicated procedure to get them out without damaging you more-" He was cut off.

"Wait wait wait wait... You pulled WHAT out of me?" She asked sure she heard wrong.

"Well what we did is we pulled out your ribs intact. We separated your spine, vertebra by vertebra, from your spinal cord and took that as well. Your back hips were pretty damaged so we pulled them out too." He finished.

"Don't I need those?" She asked more than a little concerned.

"Of course you do. We replaced them with new ones made of High-Entropy metal Alloy. It is as strong as titanium and light as aluminum. Your body is actually lighter than it used to be." He paused waiting for her to say something, she didn't. "After that we fixed in your new organs and re-secured your body to your bones. We also implanted some protective plates, almost like internal body armor. Whoever tries breaking your back will have a bad time. We also implanted a new rechargeable battery inside you. You have some kind of gland that assists in flight by producing magic, the battery we put inside you takes magic and converts it to an electrical current. We did some work in your head as well. We tried to keep from messing around in there too much. We implanted some logic chips designed to allow your nervous system to interface your brain to your new parts. We also threw in a cutting edge flight computer. In addition to that there is some testing equipment that means we don't need to inject you anymore. No more needles, no more drugs. It's all inside you now and can be done remotely. That also means we don't need to give you anti-rejection meds. Oh and we also gave you an audio recorder, so you can keep a journal. Just say 'audio log' an start talking"

"Great..." She said still processing everything. "Why would you give me anything to help flying?" She asked sounding upset and feeling inexplicably hopeful.

"Well" He baited and Rainbow could feel his smile.

"W- Well what?" She asked

"A local pegusi, about the only one in town lent his wings to us. We brought in a flight engineer and a black smith who were able to reconstruct your wings using his as a template. Now before you do anything i'm going to tell you you are tied down."

"WOOHOO!" Rainbow shouted remaining still on the bed not wanting to fight bonds. She laid back and smiled. It didn't mater that she couldn't see to fly. She could fly, she had her wings.

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Audio log 005
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Have you ever had something you love, something you can't live without? Have you ever had that thing taken away from you. Had to feel the depression of never getting it back? It happened to me, I lost my wings. Today they were given back to me.

~Dash

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A few days passed, the smile never leaving Rainbow's face. "When can I get moving?" She asked eager to not be in a bed.

"Well... You should be down a few more days... You have been doing pretty well though... We can try."

"YES!" She exclaimed.

"Slowly okay?" He said and she could feel his hooves on her side like a million pin pricks.

"C- Careful okay?" She hissed in pain slowly working onto her side and getting a leg over the edge and onto the floor. She hissed again as her joints burned and she lowered another leg now half off the bed.

"Almost there Rainbow, a little more..."

She pushed off the bed, standing with a wide smile. She felt like something was spreading from her head outwards. It felt cool as it slowly worked over her body the fire like pain became a dull throb. Her grin grew and she laughed a little.

"How do you feel?" The doctor asked

"Better than I have in years." She replied spreading her wings with a metallic sound like a sword leaving a sheath.

"What are you going to do now?"

She thought about is seriously, sheathing her wings. "Raise my children" She said finally happy with life.