//------------------------------// // 12) A Medical Emergency! // Story: Loyalty's Vision // by SapphireRose87 //------------------------------// {Jude} I think it's funny that Rainbow Dash's taunting every time she fights Firewall Molly is starting underneath her skin and I have no idea why. Of course, Rainbow Dash just can't help herself, I didn't know any better, I'd say her main job is fighting the Firewalls. That makes sense to me because she's so good at how she fights. Especially when she fights Firewall Eli. That's probably because Firewall Eli used to pose as Rainbow Dash's brother when she was trapped inside AI.  Every time Firewall Eli would give me the video footage of Rainbow Dash and Oliver, I would give him an annoyed hiss like I normally do and Firewall Eli would return the favor by giving me an annoyed look. I would have to bite my tongue literally to keep myself from laughing at his reaction to me until he walked away. However, every time I gave Firewall Molly an annoyed hiss, she would actually flinch. Because I had a new victim to be a monster to, I stopped being a monster to Firewall Eli altogether.  But I knew for a fact, everyone that worked at the castle wondered why I was so overprotective of Rainbow Dash like Oliver is of her. If they knew Rainbow Dash is my mother then they would probably understand. There's no way I'm telling anyone about that. About the only people that know Rainbow Dash is my mother is First Mother and Ivy of course. I'm very worried about the fact that Rainbow Dash is doing those partial out of sonic rainbooms and out of control is definitely what you would call them. Those are very dangerous in my opinion and I wonder if my suspicions are correct and Rainbow Dash is pregnant, she might never get them under control until the baby is born. But seeing that I have no idea how long it takes for a baby pony to be developed enough to be born, I didn't know how long Rainbow Dash would be pregnant.  As I watched the latest fight that Rainbow Dash had with Firewall Molly, I was snapped out of my thoughts when Servant Charlie cleared his throat, "Lord Jude, First Mother wanted me to notify you that she's on her way here."  Even though the fact that First Mother kept popping up for a visit was getting on my nerves, I knew there was nothing I could do to stop her at the moment. I just nodded to let Servant Charlie know that I got the message. Soon after Servant Charlie left, First Mother entered the room. I rolled my eyes. "Well, at least you announced your visit this time. But you always seem to pop up when I'm in the middle of something. What's your reason for this visit?" "I was just wondering if you made any progress in trying to figure out what's wrong with Rainbow Dash?" First Mother asked. My jaw dropped. "Okay first of all, why are you so concerned? Second, are you feeling okay?" First Mother chuckled, "I'm fine Lord Jude. I'm concerned because what if Rainbow Dash does one of her partial sonic rainbooms and doesn't live to tell the tale?" I was stunned by the fact that First Mother was concerned about Rainbow Dash. That's because most of the time First Mother doesn't like Rainbow Dash.  "I must be dreaming, who are you? And what have you done with First Mother?" First Mother laughed and not wickedly or with a snarl like she used to do. She laughed a gentle laugh and the fact that she didn't snarl at me, gave me the creeps for some reason.  "Yup," I said, "that confirms it, I'm dreaming." I narrowed my eyes at her as she laughed that gentle laugh again. Yeah I think she's gone nuts or something with a laugh like that! First Mother never does that type of laugh! "I know, I know," said First Mother. "Yes I've had ill feelings towards Rainbow Dash but to tell the truth, I've changed my mind. I'm worried about her and you." I paused. "Huh?"  First Mother nodded. "Oh yeah, Lifeforce Princess Twilight isn't just angry with you for not giving her a seat on the throne, she's angry with Rainbow Dash for not telling her, her story about escaping AI's Castle a couple of years ago." Hearing this information puzzled me. "I'm confused. Why would a friend be angry about something like that? Friends don't have to tell everything to each other about what's happened to them. I'm sure Ivy does things that she doesn't tell me about because I don't tell her everything I do." "That's exactly what I told her," First Mother said. "But she seems to think that she's in this situation because of you and Rainbow Dash." "Okay wow," I said. "I think Lifeforce Princess Twilight is confused about how the world works." "Yup," said First Mother, "I totally agree. Now it seems that you're busy right now, so I shall take my leave. Bye for now." As First Mother walked away, I didn't believe that she was actually worried about Rainbow Dash, not one little bit. * * * {Firewall Eli} I'm getting really annoyed with Lord Jude's new assignment for me besides fighting the Agents of the Sixth, now he's asked me to follow Agent Rainbow Dash around for some reason. Although I have to admit, I was worried about her because of those out of control partial sonic rainbooms. Honestly, I didn't really want to kill any Agents of the Sixth and I knew Lord Jude felt the same way. There was no way I was going to let Rainbow Dash die because of doing one of those out of control partial sonic rainbooms. If anything was going to kill her, it would be being hit by a Copper courtesy of me. But I doubt that would happen anytime soon because Lord Jude doesn't give me the Copper when I'm sent to fight Agent Rainbow Dash yet. Agent Rainbow Dash seriously gets on my nerves with her stupid taunting. Of course I like to taunt her back and for some reason her fellow agents with her find us taunting each other entertaining. But unfortunately, because Agent Rainbow Dash stays true to her virtue by being loyal, she won't let me at least disable her fellow agents with her. I know for a fact her fellow agents get on her nerves because they find our taunting of each other funny. But I think deep down inside she does want me to kill them for her.  The other thing that gets on my nerves about her fellow agents is they don't seem to care at all for her safety. As a matter of fact, Agent Rainbow Dash did one of those partial out of control sonic rainbooms during our last fight and her fellow agents didn't even bother to rush to her aid. They stood there laughing at what happened and I wanted to kill them just for that.  I mean seriously? Firewall Molly has enough common sense to know that when her teammate is down she should go and help them. Especially since we have those new Firewalls that AI has created to worry about. I hid around the corner as I saw Agent Rainbow Dash talking to her coworker and the coworker's voice I could've sworn sounded a lot like Agent Rainbow Dash's friend Agent Gilda.  "If you try any more funny business like trying to set me up on a date with Gary one more time I swear Sia..." Agent Rainbow Dash growled. Sia laughed a playful laugh, "I'm not trying anything Nancy! I'm just teasing, if Gary wants to take it that way, then that's his problem!" "Yeah sure, I believe you," Agent Rainbow Dash said with sarcasm.  "If I'm going to try anything again," said Sia. "it would be giving you another pet name or playing a prank on you again. I'm already thinking about a good pet name for you. I'm thinking of Awesominator!" "Awesominator?" Agent Rainbow Dash asked. "Now why would you give me that nickname?" "Do you remember your catch phrase back in Equestria?" Sia asked. "Let's see I think it was 'it needs to be 20% cooler?'" "That wasn't supposed to be a catch phrase! I only said that to Rarity when she was making me a stupid dress!" Agent Rainbow Dash snapped. "I don't do dresses and I didn't wear one for my wedding. I just made a friendly suggestion and somehow it became a catchphrase!"   "You know why it became a catchphrase?" Sia said. "Because everything you say becomes one." "It wasn't supposed to be a catchphrase!" Agent Rainbow Dash said, she sounded annoyed and trust me, I don't blame her. Her friend was starting to get on my nerves too and I was the one watching the conversation.  "Oh really?" Sia joked. "Because I think the 'it needs to be 20% cooler' will be back!" Okay, now that joke I did find funny. I looked over to see the inventory door open.   "You want me to help you with the inventory this time?" Sia asked. "Not this time," Agent Rainbow Dash growled, "I think I'll go ask Gary to help instead."  Sia's jaw dropped. "But you usually ask me to do it!" "Yeah, and right now you're getting on my nerves," said Agent Rainbow Dash. "So I don't feel like being around you at the moment. So, later!" This conversation was annoying up until Sia said the 'it needs to be 20% cooler' joke. So as I watched Agent Rainbow Dash walk away, I bit my bottom lip to keep myself from laughing.  * * * {Rainbow Dash} I unloaded another box from inventory and Gilda was starting to get on my nerves, so I asked Discord to help me out instead of her this time. At least this time Discord didn't do the whole pulling the flower out of his hand thing.  "So," said Discord, "I hear you have a new pet name, Loyalty is it?" I groaned, "I swear I'm going to get some payback for that!" Discord smiled, "What's so bad about being called Loyalty? I think it's a noble nickname if you ask me."  "It's not bad," I answered. "I'm just getting tired of it!" "If you and Sia get on each other's nerves so much, then why are you still friends?" Discord asked.  "That's a good question," I said. "But Sia and I have been friends ever since grade school. We just can't seem to get rid of each other."  I was still irked by the fact that Discord is already laughing his original laugh that he had back in Equestria every time he laughed now.  Discord tilted his head and looked puzzled. "What's wrong Nancy?" I gave a nervous laugh and shook my head. "It's nothing Gary."  Finally, the last box was put away and I noticed it was time for a lunch break. I went to lunch then when I came back, I finished my job of rotating the inventory for the day when Gilda tapped me on the back. "Yeah know what I think?" Gilda asked. "Awsominator is the perfect pet name for you! I wonder, how do I do it?" "Don't even bother!" I hissed. "Too late," said Gilda. "I'm doing it." I seriously wanted to strangle Gilda but I held myself back from doing so as she walked away laughing. * * * After work I decided to do some training in my pocket dimension. Of course Oliver sent Gilda to babysit me. I actually felt kind of tired so I set the difficulty level to easy. Gilda was stunned by this because normally I set the difficulty to the highest level. When I finished training I practically collapsed on the ground because I was so tired. I turned the simulator off. “Wow Rainbow,” said Gilda. “I’ve never seen you this tired before! I’m shocked Samantha hasn’t benched you from fighting the Firewalls yet.” I groaned, “I’m fine Gilda. Honestly, why is everyone so overprotective of me? People need to lay off already!” “I know Rainbow,” said Gilda, “everyone is worried about you. Even a Firewall is worried about you. That’s a little weird but okay." "That's the same Firewall that gets on my nerves!" I growled. "Now he's been following me around because the Lord asked him to." "Huh, honestly," said Gilda, "I haven't seen that guy on this assignment yet, maybe he's too busy working on something else?" "Hopefully that's the case," I said, "and he's decided to leave me alone for a change."  "If everyone's worried about you including a Firewall," said Gilda, "I don't think you'll be left alone any time soon." Suddenly I felt a small surge of power go through me and it sent me flying into the ceiling. I heard Gilda freaking out and the last thing I remember saying before I passed out was, "At least I crashed in my pocket dimension this time." * * * "What happened?" I heard Oliver say as I came to.  "Somehow, she did a partial sonic rainboom and crashed into the ceiling in her own pocket dimension," Gilda said. "Good thing they're indestructible." "Yeah," Oliver agreed. "What I want to know is why this keeps happening?" "I don't know, your guess is as good as mine," Gilda replied. I opened my eyes and didn't get a chance to see where I was but then I quickly closed my eyes because the light was too bright. I then felt something cool on my head and it felt like someone had put an ice pack on my head. "Wow, she's got quite a bump on her head," Gilda said with concern. "Yeah I know," I heard Samantha say. I would've opened my eyes in surprise but it was still too bright in the room to do so.  "Samantha!" Oliver gasped. "What are you-" "Doing here?" Samantha cut him off. "I got an alert from Rainbow's pocket dimension that something was wrong there, so I came right over." "But we're not at the Sixth!" Gilda exclaimed.  "I know," said Samantha. "Even though I don't trust hospitals inside the Machine, this is the safest place for Nancy at the moment. I think this is grounds to bench Rainbow from fighting the Firewalls." "What!" I said. I tried to sit up this time but I laid back down.  "Yes Nancy, Rainbow Dash is benched from fighting the Firewall's," Samantha said. "Fine," I said, "then someone else can-" "Nope, that's not the way it works," said Samantha before she shook her head. "When you're benched because of medical reasons, you still keep your spot in the ranks. Now if you're benched because of discipline reasons, that's when you're at risk for losing your spot in the ranks. You'll be here for a couple of days and then you should be released when you're recovered." "What if the Firewall's show up at the assignment?" I asked. "Then you'll be able to fight but at your own risk," Samantha said. "But until then, Rainbow Dash is benched. So without further ado I'm out of here." In a flash of light, Samantha disappeared.  * * * Oliver seemed satisfied with the decision Samantha had decided for me. "Good, now that that's taken care of, I'm staying right here as much as possible until you're released Nancy." I rolled my eyes. "Gee thanks dad for the supervision." Gilda chuckled, "You know what? That's exactly how I felt Kai has acted around you since day one. Like an overprotective father. Although if he was your dad and you two were dating that would be incest and that would be gross." Oliver rolled his eyes. But Gilda didn't seem fazed by it.  "I gotta go. I have to go back to the assignment. It's too bad you two are going to be missing from work for a couple of days because Gary has decided to do a juggling act on his breaks at work. I must admit, he's pretty good at it too. Although I think he's doing it to impress the ladies. More importantly you two." "Well it's not working, now is it Sia?" I said. Gilda blew a raspberry at me and rolled her eyes. "Real mature Sia," I responded. Gilda didn't respond to me, she just turned around and left. * * * {Jude} I was not happy when I found out that Rainbow Dash was in a hospital inside AI. At the same time I was relieved that someone called Samantha had benched Rainbow Dash from fighting the Firewalls. The doctors had no idea what happened to Rainbow Dash but I had my suspicions that Rainbow Dash crashed somewhere after doing a partial sonic rainboom.  "What am I going to do with you mom?" I said to myself. "You're just bound and determined to kill yourself aren't you?" I heard First Mother chuckle, "Talking to yourself again, huh?" I rolled my eyes and groaned when I turned around and saw her. First Mother's unannounced visits are starting to get on my nerves.  "Oh come now Lord Jude," said First Mother, "am I getting on your nerves that bad?" I gave First Mother an annoyed look. I would've hissed at her but I didn't feel like getting the crap beat out of me at the moment. "Uh, yes you are. You keep popping up for no good reason and can't a guy talk to himself in peace for a change?" "If you're going mental then no I don't think so," First Mother said after she shook her head. "I'm not mental!" I snapped. "I'm just concerned about Rainbow Dash as usual because she's in a hospital inside AI and I have no idea why. My guess is she did another one of those out of control partial sonic rainbooms and crashed. It's a good thing she hasn't done a full sonic rainboom again in a while because a crash from that would be worse." First Mother raised an eyebrow. "Full sonic rainboom?" "It's the thing that Rainbow Dash did that creates a rainbow in the sky after she does it," I explained. "The first time she did one she freaked out because of it. The funny thing is, she doesn't want to become more powerful than she already is. Not to mention she didn't even want the number one spot of her job. She'd rather be at the number five spot instead."  "I think that means she's humble or something like that," First Mother smiled. Every time First Mother smiled that irked me too. I'd rather have her snarl at me instead. "Okay, where is your evil twin First Mother?" I asked cautiously. "I understand you have a grudge toward me," said First Mother. "That's because I've been evil to you ever since you became the ruler of AI and I must admit I was jealous because Rainbow Dash is your mother and not me. But I've changed my mind. She's becoming more powerful by the day, I mean she created a rainbow in the sky because of her power! I doubt AI even has that type of power!" I paused not knowing I should even believe a word First Mother was saying. "Okay." First Mother smiled and then she gave me a loving pat on my head as she was a loving mother.  "Yeah," I said, "I'd rather have you snarl at me instead of smile." First Mother didn't say anything, she just turned around and left. Yup, she's just being creepy at the moment. Maybe she'll snap out of it? I don't know.