Fate Chapter 14: The Unfortunate Accident
The cars had gotten into a head on collision; dumb drunks playing chicken, and guess who lost? Glass flew through my front window and I somehow managed to use razor sharp reflexes that I picked up at PHAT training to cover Dashie from the glass. Rarity dived out of the way but still took some glass to the ankle, no big deal.
Fluttershy took glass to the shoulder but avoided serious injury, Twilight however, did not. She took a piece of glass to the leg, severing a major artery. I managed to get to her in time to cover and stop (somewhat) the bleeding.
Since those d-bags were outside the ambulance was already there, so we just loaded Twilight in there to get to the hospital.
"Sorry only family can ride in the ambulance" said the EMT "We are" I replied. "You're a pretty big family" he said getting in "eh, 3 sisters and a brother, not that bad" I say "fine get in" said the EMT and we were on our way.
When we got to the hospital I saw them take Twilight to the ER and I saw an injured soldier talking with who I assumed was his family and when he got a break I walked over.
"Hello" I said kinda nervously, kicking the ground a little "hi there son, what can I do for you?" he asked, I could tell he was injured because, even under his uniform pants I could tell he had lost a leg.
"I just wanted to say thank you for everything you've done for our country" I said as I held out my hand. He took it and shook it firmly "your welcome son" he replied
"What happened to your leg?" I asked sitting down in one of the chairs "oh that? My squad got ambushed in the sandpit and an RPG hit our Humvee and a piece of it crushed my leg" he looked down, sullenly "I still have nightmares from that night"
I put my hand on his shoulder and looked at him "I can relate to that, I lost some of my best friends in combat" I said
"Aren't you a little young to be fighting in a war?" he asked turning to me. I just smiled and said "man, ive been through more shit than you can think of, trust me, I can relate" "yeah, what happened to you?" he asked.
"I'd rather not tell the tales, I'd probably get sent to an insane asylum" I said with a laugh, he looked at me skeptically so I just shook my head and looked away. A few minutes later his family came back, so I helped him up and walked over to where Rainbow and the others were.
"Is there any word on her condition?" I asked sitting down next to Dashie "Well it's not life threatening, if that's what you want to know" said Rarity.
I let out a little sigh of relief and got up "I'm going for a run, anyone wanna come with?" I asked, no one stood so I just walked out and started to jog, thinking.
I ran for about a mile before I stopped to catch my breath. It was then that I saw the three goons walk up behind me. I knew who they were and that they were after me so I did the only I knew, I turned around, that's when I saw the gun.
I'm sure I could've disarmed him if I wanted, but he had people with him, so I just turned and ran. The first three shots rang out, that's when I grabbed my own gun. I stopped, fired twice, and kept running.
I hit one of the guys, but it wasn't fatal, so I turned and ran at them. The only reason I did that was because I knew that I had to get back to the hospital.
When I got back I didn't have to worry about pushing the door open, I just ran through the gunned out part. "DON'T ASK QUESTIONS JUST RUN!" I shouted to the others as I grabbed Rainbow's hand and pulled her up, Rarity and Fluttershy followed suit.
We ran into Twilights room and closed and barricaded the door, it was there I collapsed from exhaustion. When I could talk again the others helped me up and I began to explain what happened. Obviously it wasn't perfect but come on; I don't even know what happened.
After I described it we heard gunfire in the hallway so I pulled out my portal helped Twilight out of bed and ran through the portal, the others in close pursuit.
When we landed in Ponyville I looked around and sighed, everything was its dandy little self. Twilight, who was still next to me seemed to have healed and was looking around as well. The others were a few feet behind us.
Rainbow who was the first to talk asked "is everyone alright?" we all replied yes of course and I stood up and shook my wings as if drying off. We all walked back to the library, chatting it up I got a brilliant idea.
"Twilight is there any way to bring people or ponies back from the dead, in one living piece of course?" I asked, pulling her aside. "I'm not sure but I think so" she replied "good you look it up and then could you help me with something?" I asked.
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"Um last time I checked you were a lot stronger than me at magic" she said "no, that was probably just adrenaline, I could barely lift the portal out when we left" I replied "alright, I will help you just meet me at the library" she said "as opposed to elsewhere?" I said as she walked away.
Once we got back the others had dinner and they left, me and Rainbow kissed, ok pecked, when she left, but of course Twilight saw. "You didn't see anything, now let's work on the magic" but she did see that and she had a wry smile on her face.
"Can we focus please?" I asked when she started laughing; when she didn't stop I walked over and Gibbs-slapped her and she stopped laughing.
"Ok let's do this" she said as she stopped laughing "now, magic takes energy from your body so you need to focus, until you're stronger then you can do the smaller things no problem" she said "now try to lift the brush" she said and she stepped aside.
I focused on the brush and began to lift it when Rarity burst in "TWILIGHT, TWILIGHT! Oh hello Alex how are you? TWILIGHT! I NEED YOUR HELP" she shouted making me lose my focus "hello Rarity, what's the big deal?" I asked.
"Opal is missing!" she said. "Really?" I asked "that's it?" "Oh but it is a big deal, she had my last diamonds on her collar, and I think the Spanish Inquisition was involved"
"Blimey I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition" I said [JARRING CHORD] "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" shouted Michael Palin pony as Cardinal Ximénez.