//------------------------------// // recovery // Story: Crashed and Burned in Equestria // by Gaz1997 //------------------------------// ‘Come on, come on, where’s the b****y exit around here’ I’ve been walking through these caves for almost twenty minutes now, I was starting to get even more worried about scootaloo, I was no army medic but I could tell her condition was beginning to worsen as time went by, “M-m-m-matrix” I heard the weak voice say coming from the injured filly in my arms “Scootaloo shhh don’t talk you need to save your energy, just rest” I spoke soothingly to her whilst looking into her light purple eyes which she slowly closed and drifted into unconsciousness “I got to get the hell out of here and quickly” I eventually came to the end of the current tunnel I was walking in, with both the fillies, scootaloo in my arms and dinky was resting in my head, I could see what looked to be an old wooden ladder leading upwards, I looked up the mine shaft and could see a faint light near the top of it “This is gonna be an awkward climb, dinky hold on tightly” I said to her as she slipped slowly of the back of my head and gripped her forelegs around my neck tightly but not so much that I couldn’t breathe, I made sure I had a secure grip on scoot’s with my one arm while I gripped the ladder with my other arm and slowly started to ascend upwards. it wasn’t difficult but I was awkward climbing the ladder with one arm occupied as well as that my left shoulder was starting to get that burning pain again ‘curse you dodgy shoulder’ but I eventually made it to the top of the mine shaft but it was blocked by a round wooden trap door with gaps between the wooden boards, letting the sunlight seep through. I hooked my legs around the step I was on and tried to open the door with my free hand, it wouldn’t budge. ‘Locked, s***….…………wait ideaaaaaaaa’ I said in my mind as I pulled out one of my guns “Dinky, this may be a little loud” I said as I put the barrel next to the lock and pulled the trigger, shattering the lock, I holstered my gun then bashed the door open with my free arm then climbed out into the open air, dinky let go of her hold on my neck and clambered back onto my head, I did a quick glance at the area around us, we were on a dirt hill a short distance from the mines where I went in. I took a step forward and I nearly fell onto my knees again from the pain, blood flowing freely from the wound on my leg and face ‘Looks like my magic adrenaline has worn of, it’s gonna be a b***h walking back, but I gotta help scootaloo’ I stood back up ignoring the pain and continued to walk on…….well limp on but I didn’t care these fillies needed help, then I get help later, what made it worse now was that it slowly started to rain, with each step I took the pain got worse and worse but I kept walking, my vision then started to blur but I kept walking, by know I could sort of see the edge of town as my whole body was screaming at me to stop but I mentally told it ‘f*** you I do what I want’ As I walked past the town entrance sign, I managed to catch the attention of a few ponies, one being a mint green coloured unicorn “Matrix what happened?” said Lyra as she rushed over to me and held me up before I nearly collapsed “Lyra……..takes the fillies……..to the hospital…….now” I managed to speak before I collapsed to my knees again, Lrya managed to catch scoot’s and dinky with her magic before I dropped them then ran in the opposite direction towards what I presumed was the hospital, I fell into the puddle in front on me and I caught a glimpse of Lyra running before I blacked out ‘not again’ ……………………………………………………………… “HOLY S***!” I shouted as I was falling towards the ground then fell flat on my face, but I felt no pain strangely enough. I opened my eyes and all I could see was blackness around me, I got to my feet and again felt no pain, I was wearing a black shirt and trousers, no sign of my weapons though, I took a nervous step forward and surprisingly didn’t fall over. “Well…………..this is awkward” I began walking in no particular direction since I had no clue as to where the f*** I am, as I casually walk with my hands in my pockets, whistling some random tune, I notice a light in the corner of my eye so I turn around and see a door with the white light…..thing glowing around it “The f*** is the s***?” I said as I walked up to the door, as I got closer I could hear what seemed to be a name being called out that sounded like…… “Zenesis……………..zenises……………..zenesis” “Ooooooooooooook I’m officially freaked out now” I reached for the door handle and opened the door causing the light to brighten and almost blind me, I fell forward and the door shut behind me, I got to my feet and tried to bash down the door, It wouldn’t open “f***” I shouted letting my arms hang by my sides, that was when I heard a noise, an all too familiar noise, it sounded like jets……….in a dogfight, I turned my gaze behind me and I was looking at the same dogfight I had been in………..the last time I flew with my squadron, I watched as I saw my friends die again and myself get captured and tortured, that b ****** who kept dishing out the torture was again smiling in my face, I could do nothing, not even move, so I was stuck there forced to watch the event happen again, I closed my eyes and this time I saw something different. I was still in the same cave, chained to the wall but across on the other wall was………….the girls, also chained to the wall “oh f*** no” I shouted, that’s when the evil laughter sounded throughout the cave, the girls whimpered as he slowly walked in……….with a gun in his hand, he looked at me and laughed then pointed his gun at one of them, and pulled the trigger “No, no no no no no noooooo” I pleaded but he just went down the line…………..exterminating them…………one………….by……………one………..until he came up to rainbow “Don’t you dare, DON’T YOU f****** DARE” I shouted at him through tear filled eyes he just snickered and aimed at her, she looked at me with here magenta eyes that just screamed help me, but I was powerless to do anything *click* *BANG* “nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo” “I am zenesis, you will be tested again” the mysterious voice from early spoke again before darkness engulfed my vision ……………………………………………. I slowly began to regain consciousness only to squint my eyes as I looked right into a bright light, I quietly took in a breath of life giving oxygen refilling my lungs with natures life force, my vision and hearing slowly coming back to me, the first thing I can see Is a white pastel ceiling, I moved my eyes around the to get a better look at where I was since I couldn’t move my neck or any other part of my body for that matter, I see a heart looking monitor thing on my left, and a IV stand on my right ‘must be in a hospital, ahh old times’ I thought to myself, I then heard voices to my left, I shift my eyes over and I see a large group of ponies heading into the room I’m in ‘Must be the girls’ “Look he’s waking up, rainbow dash, ditzy he’s waking up” said a voice that was all too familiar, it was twilight’s. then just when I gain control of my body again I feel two large lumps sitting on my abdomen that I didn’t recognise before, I slowly moved myself to a more sitting upright position and a I rubbed my eyes and saw dashie and ditzy lying asleep on my lap, well were asleep until a wild twilight came in the room with the rest of the mane six along with the sweetiebelle, applebloom and the guys “Wha-what” dashie and ditzy said in unison before finally waking up and realising I was awake then proceeding to jump on me and hug me in a death grip “Well hello to you to girls, could I ask one question as to how I got into this hospital?” “well when we got word that Lyra had found you on the edge of town with dinky and scootaloo we had guessed you may be hurt since Lyra also said that you looked pretty banged up, so we all went to help you and now here you are” answered twilight with a smile "That’s great; well I don’t give a damn about me right now what of dinky and scoots?” “Dinky is fine” said ditzy as she and dash hugged me more and were beginning to cry “thank you for saving my little muffin” she sobbed so I rubbed there manes in comforting way and loving way "Hey, it’s fine, she’s ok and that’s what matters, now what about scootaloo?” “………………………….” “What is wrong with scootaloo?” I asked again this time with a hint more concern and anger in my voice, they all looked at me with worried faces, I instantly knew something was wrong “It would probably be best if we show you” said twilight with a saddened look as she turned and exited through the door, I climbed out of bed feeling slightly dizzy at first but I could stand up easily enough and with rainbow and ditzy still clinging onto me, surprisingly I was still wearing my clothes which was good and even more surprisingly my guns, but minus the knife? ‘Obviously they would take my knife as they’ve already seen it but they wouldn’t have a clue about my guns except for rampage, I thought he would have taken them since he saw me and silver use them in the caves, oh well I guess twilight will ask about them later, I can almost guarantee it’ sad song I walked out of the room following twilight with the rest of the gang behind me and with me holding ditzy and rainbow in my arms whilst the clung to my chest, I could understand why rainbow is but ditzy, I wasn’t so sure, maybe because I saved her daughter, probably, twilight eventually came across a door to a room labelled twenty six, she hesitantly pushed the door open and went in followed be me and the rest of the company. What is saw made me almost die inside. scootaloo was lying on a bed with a heart monitor and an IV attached to her, her left wing wasn’t bandaged but was held up in a sling looking thing all crumpled and misshapen, you could see the large dried gash on the side of her where she had impacted the wall and the numerous bruises and small cuts that were spread all over her tiny frame It nearly made me cry, seeing her like this, I was glad that she was alive but not in the condition she is in at this moment. “the doctor said she will be out of it for up to four days at least, she’s in a stable condition but with the current damage to her wing it’s a fifty, fifty chance that it will repair properly and will be able to fly later on in life, the gash on her head we can heal and fade away so it won’t be there as well as the cuts and bruises, but she will be unconscious from the all the physical and mental trauma she’s been through and the surgery she has had on her wing and a few of her ribs” said twilight ‘Bull s***!’ I screamed in my mind ‘I’m not going to continue to look at her like this, I’m gonna get her back to normal if it kills me’ “Could you guys leave for a few minutes” I asked they didn’t answer but did so any ways ditzy let go and walked out the room while rainbow looked up to me and nuzzled my chin then flew out of my arms and out the door closing it behind her I then turned back to the filly lying on the bed; I silently moved over to the bed and knelt down beside her, watching her regular breathing and the beep from her monitor, I kept thinking of ways I could possibly help her but one idea stuck in my head, It was a stupid idea that probably wouldn’t work but I had to try it. I stood up and looked at my hands, turning them over and back glancing up and down “I hope to god this works” I leaned forward and gently placed my hands on scootaloo’s chest, “common magic, just work for me, just this once” I almost pleaded and after a few seconds I almost gave up until I saw my hands beginning to glow grey, the glowing grey aura was getting brighter as it spread from my hands onto her body and as this happened her body slowly started to heal, I think, the gash on her head closed up like something from a movie, all the cuts and bruises disappeared and the her wing mended itself and looked perfectly normal and exactly the same as her other wing, the whole time It felt like something was tearing itself from me, but without pain Once I was sure that she looked normal I took my hands away and the aura vanished from her and my hands into thin air, I could see her smiling happily in her sleep but I guessed she would still be asleep for four days like twi said because of all the mental stress, seen as I only healed her body she may be still exhausted and what not but that was just what I thought so I’ll just have to go along with that, ‘it is done’ I heard a voice in the back of my head say, it sounded almost exactly like the voice I heard in my dream earlier, but I deal with that later I then smiled as I now knew that she would be fine, but I was completely unaware that part of me was now part of her, so I just sat there sitting on the bedside stroking her burgundy like mane while she peacefully slept on, I felt a hoof on my shoulder, I looked back and I saw rainbow and the rest of the gang there looking at me with the same smile I had, I looked back to scoots and saw that she was hugging my hand in her sleep ‘that is just too cute to wake up’ “Come on guys let’s give her some peace” I said as I carefully removed my hand from her grasp them walked out the room with the gang and rainbow resting on my shoulder, I walked back to my room and asked if just the girls would wait outside, which they agreed to, as I sat back down on the bed with the guys all sitting on chairs or beside me on the bed. *narrative/3rd person* *stop music if it hasn’t already* “Alright let’s get some of this s*** from earlier straightened out and out of the way, rampage how about you go first and just so you all know well keep this between ourselves alright, now rampage if you please” spoke matrix “Well I all ways wanted to be a guitarist but I went and joined the royal guard and have been since I was young, I used to be one of princes celestia’s personal guards but when I transferred a couple of months ago into a different branch, I was sent here to ponyville as an undercover guard but since this town is relatively peaceful I’m off duty most of the time but that doesn’t mean I don’t keep an eye out, that’s how I also met my friend split second over here” “I guess I can believe that, but can you explain to me how you did that thing with the crystal armour in the caves because I recall that your horn wasn’t glowing when it happened” mat inquired “That little trick, I call it crystallokinesis; it gives me the ability to control gemstones and make them grow where I want them to and how I want them too. For instance I can coat my hooves in diamond like I did earlier and many other cool stuff, I got this ability many years ago when I was sent to look for this rouge unicorn in the mountains he was doing something with diamonds and gemstones that could make then better and more profitable but to also weaponize them, me and a small team where sent to bring him down but we came across some complications or in other words he was prepared for us.” He took a deep breath before continuing “In the fight he managed he cut me across the face and the sword he was using, it was covered in this enchanted diamond dust substance that got into the wound and into my bloodstream, not that I knew at the time, after we apprehended him and put his flank in jail, I went out to the training yard alone and I discovered I could this use ability when I kicked this gem that was lying around without using my own magic, in other words I can only do it if I have a diamond or gem stone on hoof or very close to me like in the mines, and I’ve been keeping this a secret ever since” “Wow cool story bro, well like I said we’ll tell no one, right next pony or should I say ponies, frost storm and split second how about you tell me your story, starting with storm” “*sigh* well it all began many years ago when me and my brother lived in cloudsdale with our parents still, dad had an accident at work in the weather factory and we all went to see him hospital but split had other ideas, he took of ranting about how his master or something needed him, I now he has problems but that doesn’t mean he had to fly of like that” he spat as his brother before continuing “that same night our father died, I promised him that I would look after our family and so I stayed with mom and worked at the weather factory until I had enough money to help me and mum keep living by and stuff, that’s when I planned to go looking for my brother, I spent two years on and of looking for him then I just gave up, some I went back to working at the factory but my job recently has been keeping my down here in ponyville” “Wow, split that was sounds really low, can I ask you a question, why did you leave, why abandon your family?” Said matrix who was getting more intrigued “I……………..don’t know, I just did, there was now reason, I just…………did, and I’m sorry I wasn’t there and I know it’s too late to change that but I just left for no reason” he answered ‘Bulls*** senses are tingling’ matrix mumbled to himself “Well that’s sums up you two now there just one left…………………silver, I do believe that there is something you aren’t telling us, like how you have that gun and where you came from” he said whilst looking sternly at silver “Alright, I’ll tell you, I come from the Republic of Karalia, it borders Equestria and the Changeling nation. It's a gritty nation, and the zebras or 'Insurrectionists' are constantly rebelling against it, and the changelings harass our borders, unlike Equestria we are more………technologically advanced than them and as you may know we do have guns and similar weaponry to what you have here matrix” “I was part of the military and a member of an elite squad that being part of is one of the greatest honours, but one day our squad was on a skirmish in zebra territory when we got ambushed, they were being led by the infamous zebra colonel……………..zakoto, years ago he led another group of soldiers into the town near the border where I was living with my parents, he killed almost everypony, including my, my parents” he broke down into sobs so mat leaned forward and brought him into a bro hug. “when we got ambushed, we all fought hard but soon enough they all fell, but me, I managed to escape but I couldn’t bear to go back home, so I left, I’ve been on the road ever since going from town to town until I ended up in ponyville and met you matrix” silver stopped finally pulling away from the humans grip “Damn dude, I’m feel sorry for you, I really do” said matrix reassuringly “It’s ok dude your weren’t there and you couldn’t do anything about, it’s all in the past” “Good to know, well I think that’s everything sorted out here but there’s one more thing I need to do” “Oh yeah and what might that be” asked frost “Something, something happened to me back inside the caves and there was only one pony that saw what exactly happened……………………………I need to talk to dinky” he said as he stood up and went for the door.