The halls of the hospital were in disarray and chaos as the doctors and nurses ran in and out of rooms frantically as they attended the many injured pony’s in need of help. If the hallways weren’t crowded with hospital personnel and patients it would practically look as if one stepped into a horror movie.
Noah and Gary were hauling fluttershy into the hospital as many nearby pony’s flinched at the sight of the humans. Some were shouting at the two and others were hiding their children behind themselves. As at the doorway John arrived just in time to see the chaos.
“WE GOT INJURED HERE!”
”and what could be so bad to remove a patient from th-“
It wasn’t the fact that she recognized who Noah was or the fact that he was carrying a pony with a severed leg bleeding everywhere. It was when Gary had gotten close to the nurse that she suddenly to John’s disbelief stopped and started smiling. In fact everyone in the room had stopped their hysteria and simply smiled as if nothing was wrong. Gary winked and one of the pony’s even fainted as the nurse slowly put fluttershy on what looked like a poorly crafted table on wheels. They carted her off and Gary gave a sly expression as he walked out of the hospital. When he walked by John there was a flash of intensity on Gary’s face as he looked into john’s eyes. No one except John noticed that the improvised stretcher was previously occupied by a injured pony that was dumped when fluttershy was set down. The pony didn’t even make a sound. The hospital jumpstarted and everyone affected went back to a slightly less manic panic as they started worrying about the remaining human.
Noah was evicted from the hospital and they boarded up the door not wanting anything to do with humans. Noah spotted Alex in the distance as he approached the hospital no longer carrying Derpy. She was awake and looked somewhat spooky with her bloodshot eyes. Suddenly the doors of the hospital flew open as a pink blur blasted through the baracade. Shouting from a few ponys rang out and a few minutes later Gavin was thrown out of the hospital alongside Scootaloo and pinky pie who had a large green reptile on her back.
”I don’t know why but somehow that looks adorable”
”...great now I want one-*DING* I HAVE AN IDEA!’
“No we can’t have a gater cannon”
”DAMMIT”
Derpy nudged Alex and to Noah’s surprise this started Alex
”muffins?”
”oh right. Sorry guys I gotta go make a cannon that bakes and shoots muffins. it won’t take long since it should work like the old mail cannon-“
”wait. Your telling me you also have a mail cannon?!”
“Yes he does. I used to work on his boat with him and we shipped mail and goods from Canada to America. It’s how he made his first cannon: ‘the mailman’ ”
”...you ever consider working for the ponyvill post office”
”...can I?”
Derpy nodded and told Alex an estimate of his salary. Apparently the post office pays handsomely for mailmen who can take over Derpy’s route if she can’t (she is still the best mailmare they have. It’s just that sometimes her eyes lead her astray and she gets lost)
and so with the threat gone and the bronys in a full retreat. Eventually the only ones remaining were the dead ones and the occasional straggler who simply got lost. When Noah returned with scootaloo to the tree house Noah put the box the bronys used over a precious pit and he traveled to earth and left a note on the box warning anyone else who would try anything about the instant death that awaited. Only one tested this and he was swiftly caught and brought back to earth before he could fall to his death.
John returned to the house since he wouldn’t be allowed in the hospital to check on fluttershy. A few days passed and after the body’s were cleared from the streets via magic and Fluttershy was released from the hospital...they had to cauterize the wound and couldn’t save the leg. Noah remembered a running joke in the fandom about fluttershy wanting to be a tree and he asked Alex for a peg leg
”...are you seriously asking me this just because I’m a pirate?”
“Yes”
”...I have one in the back of the ship that is made of stainless steel.”
“Aw but-“
”dude just trust me on this. It’s mechanical and should work similar to her old leg.”
“Ok that actually sounds good”
Alex nodded and went off to the ship to collect the leg as pinky attempted to throw a party to cheer fluttershy up. It didn’t work thanks to fluttershy constantly tripping and forgetting about her missing leg. Alex returned shortly with the leg all wrapped up like a present. When pinky started handing out some gifts eventually fluttershy opened Alex’s.
”ok and it says here that this one is from Alex. Thank you.”
She opened the gift
”...uh excuse me Alex? I don’t mean to be rude but...what is this?”
”it’s something special I picked up on one of my adventures...it’s a leg fluttershy. But not one of those basic pegs or anything like that. You slap this on and suddenly it’s as if you got a brand new leg!”
Fluttershy’s jaw dropped as Alex picked up the mechanical leg and he pushed a button. He moved the leg to fluttershy’s stump and strapped on the leg. It twitched violently in all directions before calming down and moving with fluttershy.
She could control it just as easily as her old leg. Alex pushed another button and the leg turned a shade of yellow similar of the colour of fluttershy’s fur and thanks to the power of magic she could also feel the entirety of her new leg as if she had it since the day she was born.
Alex put a special sleeve over the prosthetic and if it weren’t for the lack of fur or the slight glow coming from the middle of the leg it would be impossible to see the difference between her old leg and this one. The entirety of the party came to a crashing halt as they stared not at fluttershy. But at Alex.
”...what? It’s not like it’s weaponized or something.”
Everyone continued to stare except for Noah and Gavin who both let out a sigh of relief.
”it’s not that. It’s just you would actually do something like this for us?”
”twilight. I’m crazy not heartless. Anyway I gotta get going. Me and Derpy have got a date-“
Suddenly Clyde crashed through the floorboards tied up with rope
”AHA!”
”...with a muffin cannon. Dude I just met her. Give it a rest.”
”...ok then.”
Alex and Derpy left as John untied Clyde.
”...we need to talk”
”about what?”
”everything”
John looked around for the source of the voice only to find that he wasn’t in fluttershy’s house anymore. He was in a quaint little room with a laptop on a desk and a bed in the middle of the room against the wall On that bed Clyde was sitting down and in a chair next to the bed sat a young man with a small beard. He looked similar to Noah except much more...plain
” so John. What’s your opinion on breaking the forth wall?”