In Stitches
Chapter 5
Previous ChapterNext ChapterDash felt very light, all around her, a mind-numbing whiteness.
"Where am I?" She thought as she looked around. There was a faint mumble in the background, like voices in the distance. "What on Earth is happening to me?"
Colour was creeping into the whiteness, drawing a blurred image. She wasn't sure if she could see, or if she had lost her mind. The colors faded in. She could see ponies running back and forth, hurriedly to and fro, from a pony on a table.
"What on Earth? Who is that?! What is going on here?!" The ponies all around the table were wearing white doctors coats and had face masks on. She watched, trying to understand what was happening in front of her as an erratic beeping sound entered her mind. "What is that sound? Is it a hospital? Am I dreaming about a hospital?" She could make out a device of some sort attached to the pony.
"What is that thing? Wait... Twilight has one of those in her basement. what was it called?"
The heart monitor was all over the map, reporting very low one second, then very high the next.
"She's slipping! Quick, doctor! We can still save her!" An echoing voice called out. The pony, on what She now saw was a bed of sorts, had her chest cut open, and doctors running around with more tools than she knew they had.
"I know! Get more blood, I'm not letting her die now!"
"Her mouth is sealed! I can't get a tube in Doc!"
"We don't have time, give her a trach'!"
"What on Earth am I watching, here?" She thought to herself as she almost floated, watching the frantic doctors doing everything they could to attempt to save the light-blue pony on the table. "I hope she makes it... Hang on, is this even real?" She tried to make up her mind for a few moments. "I don't know, I'm nuts, probably. I'll roll with it." She watched with interest, as parts of the pony's body were hacked, slashed, and sewn together, her guts explored by the frantic doctors. She watched because there was nothing else to see. She couldn't look away. She seemed to be moving closer. She could see into the pony's chest, where there was a mass of bones and organs. "Oh, dear Celestia. I think I'm going to be sick." She said, to nopony at all, feeling like everything she had ever eaten was about to come up.
Rainbow looked away from the body and was trying to see around the rest of the room, but there really wasn't much to see. "Come on... there has to be SOMETHING else to see, here... Why am I seeing this, anyway?" She tried hard to remember what she was doing to bring on this dream, but it seemed that everything was a haze before now.
"Come on, Dash... Think, what were you doing a few minutes ago?"
She continued to think hard, getting nowhere as the voices began to muffle, and were soon followed by her sense of sight blurring. Everything faded, until the sound of a heart monitor flat-lining was the only remaining sound. "Wow... I'm really tired... Maybe just a quick nap. Not like anything is happening." Rainbow's eyes fluttered, and her vision began to blacken around the edges. "Just a quick nap," she yawned, "Only a few minutes." the sound of the dead heart monitor cut deeply into She as she slowly passed out, everything going black.
Her reality exploded back, as over a thousand volts arced through her body. The heart monitor jumped to life, and failed again. There was another high-voltage zap, and She arched her back before falling back to the bed and the monitor failed a third time. She felt like her mind was being cooked on hot rocks, every inch of her screaming out in pain. A fourth shock came, and the beeping remained low and constant.
"I think we did it..." A voice she could barely hear reported.
"I hope so, Doctor..." She twitched the slightest bit. "Hang on. Doctor, I think she is awake!"
"That can't be right, we haven't even finished putting her back together! Put her out. If she is awake I can't even begin to imagine what she just went through. Check her life signs first... let's see what kind of a chance she has."
"Yes, Doctor Monocles. What are you going to do?"
"I am going to see if she really is awake." The doctor spoke, as his voice drew closer to her face. "Hello? Can you hear me? Are you awake?" the pony spoke in his English accent.
"She's not going to be able to talk with that tube in her neck, Doc. even if she could, her mouth is sewn shut" The distinctly female voice replied.
"Why, thank you, Captain Obvious..." His voice turned back to her.
"I want you to do anything you can, ok? Signal to me that you can hear me." There was an air of doubt as She tried her hardest to find something she could do.
"Um... Doctor?" The nurse spoke in a very shaky voice.
"Oh, what is it now? You sound worried... Is something wrong?" She could feel concern in his voice, and began to wonder what the nurse could possibly say to make her life even more miserable.
"Some of the blood work has come back... And, well..." She could barely make out a clipboard changing hands, followed by the doctor reading under his breath and taking a gasping breath. "That's not possible, is it?"
"Why wouldn't it be?"
"Look at her! She's beaten within an inch of her life!" She heard papers shuffling and braced for whatever news it was. "Hey... If you can hear me in there.." The Doctor paused "You're pregnant."
Author's Note
sorry on the delay. i had tonnes of work to do between school and homework
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