//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: Calling the Dr. Your Patient is Waiting. // Story: A New World, a New Terror // by TroWolf15 //------------------------------// A/N: Yeah, I was gone for a while (or what feels like it) and I’m back with another exciting chapter! Hope you all like it! Enjoy! Don’t forget to rate and comment!! :D Matt’s POV “WHAT!?” Was all I could get out after hearing the news about Rarity from Pancho. “I’m dead fucking serious Matt. We need to get back to Base Camp and work on her, ASAP” Pancho replied, sounding as serious and worried as ever. “You know I’ll be there. See you soon. God Bless” “Shit, we’re all gonna need it in these crazy times” he responded, hanging up right after. I didn’t even want to think about any bad possibilities, just the possible ways to help treat Rarity right now. Anything else would come after we get back and try to do our best. “EVERYONE IN THE CAR NOW!!” I yell out, and startling everyone as well. “Jee willickers, why the rush?” AJ asked, still walking to the car, not hustling like I did. “Cause Rarity’s hurt! Bad! Now the sooner you get in, the sooner we can get to her. So if you don’t mind…” I point to the backseat, with a sarcastic tone. “WHAT!?!?” Everyone yelped. Yupp, shit’s getting real now. “Ya, you heard me. Now please, GET IN!” I yell again, this time everyone promptly getting in. I screech off towards base camp. I see a zombie on the way, I felt a tad upset, so as I drove by I opened up my door and let it collide with the zombie, sending it flying. Gah I needed that. “What happened with Rarity?” Dash asked me, sounding scared. “Remember that explosion we saw a bit ago? Well turns out Rarity got caught in that explosion.” I responded, trying to hold back my scared feelings. “Is she going to be alright?” RD asked what we were all thinking. “I hope so…” Beans POV “Why? What’s goin on?” Mig asked, somewhat reluctantly. “Rarity just got seriously hurt. That smoke over there?” Beans said pointing towards the smoke in the distance. “That was a car explosion. Rarity was right next to it when it exploded, really messing her up. We need to get back to fix her up!” “Oh shizznet. Well why didn’t you say so? Let’s book it!” Mig responded. Fluttershy and Twilight were stunned at hearing the news. The boys nearly forgot about them. “Oh shit, the girls…” Beans whispered to himself. He looked to see they were nearly heartbroken after hearing their best friend was gravely injured. “Girls, she’s going to be ok. But we have to hurry back to make sure she will be. Ok?” Beans sympathetically reasoned with them. Twilight agreed with the reasoning and ran for the car. Fluttershy soon followed, but reluctantly. Almost afraid of going with them, with Mig. Everyone raced towards Base Camp. Pancho and company got there first, followed by Beans and Co. Matt and his group were the last to reach home. We got back to the sight of Pinkie and Fluttershy outside. “Hey where are the others? Hows Rarity?” I quickly ask the girls. “They’re all inside, upstairs, trying to help her.I can’t be there, she doesn’t look right, I can’t stand seeing her like that.” Fluttershy got out, scared of the fate of her friend. “And I don’t know how Rarity is doing, really. She just doesn’t look well.” “And I’m out here to keep Fluttershy company! We all need to smile a bit more! Even now!” Pinkie yelled, jumping for glee. Still Pinkie, at least one of them still has their usual cookiness to them. Good. “Alright, let’s head upstairs and check up on them. Girls, you can choose to join us or not. Up to you.” I ask RD and AJ. “I’ll join you guys. I don’t want to be away from Rarity. I want to help!” RD responded, still sounding kind of shaken up. “Ah’ll go too. No way Ah’m gonna leave Rarity alone in a time like this.” AJ reasoned. With that, we all went up to see the situation. We got up there to see Pancho, Mig, and Twi all huddled around Rarity on a bed. “Hey Pancho, how she doin?” I ask Pancho, barely getting his attention. “Burned. Hurt. Ow.” Was all I got. Well no shit ow. Thanks for the intelligent report bro. “Twilight, mind deciphering what he said?” I annoyingly asked, still haven’t looked over Rarity myself. “She has 3rd degree burns all over her body. We are doing our best to cool her down, but you don’t have much ice so it makes it hard. A zombie almost had her, and we thought it did get her. But there are no bite marks anywhere so we can only assume she didn’t get bit.” Twilight responded. Finally, a detailed answer. RD and AJ were still stuck at the door. They couldn’t believe their eyes. There was their friend, who they could barely see through us crowding the bed. But they knew she was there, but didn’t want to accept it. “Golly, Rarity sure looks mighty bad.” AJ whispered to Rainbow. “Yeah, I can’t believe it. But, I guess we are lucky we ran into these guys, huh?” Rainbow responded to AJ, still whispering. “Ya darn right we are. But I changed mah mind, I can’t stick here, it’s too much.” AJ resolved, before quickly turned around and walked out. Leaving Rainbow there at the door, still frozen. It took a second to register that a zombie almost got Rarity. “Woah, hold on a second. A zombie almost got her? Lemme look. Whereabouts did it almost get her?” I ask, finally reaching Rarity. Her skin had been discolored and burnt all over. She was quiet. But breathing, luckily. She was extremely hot to the touch, this was bad. My little medical knowledge remembers 3rd degree burns normally require surgery. We currently lack a surgeon at the moment so it might be difficult to perform it. First, however, I examine for those bite marks Twilight mentioned, or lack thereof. “The zombie tried for her neck. But again, I don’t think it got her.” Twilight responded, trying to get me to believe her words. “I trust what you saw and believe, Twi. But you can never be too sure about these sorts of things. If it goes unnoticed we are all at serious risk.” I reason to her, sensing her annoyance. I continued examining Rarity’s neck. It got very little burning. It looked more 2nd degree, possibly even first. But, no bite marks. None that I could see. “Pancho did you ever examine for bite marks?” I ask him as he’s still trying to patch up Rarity. “Yes. Nothin.” At least this made sense. “Ok, let’s conclude she didn’t get bitten. There’s still these burns. How’s her back?” I ask, trying to get a better idea of what’s going on here. “Not bad. It, along with her neck, got the least of the blow. It was really weird, considering that’s the part that faced the car.” Twi thought. “Unless the zombie on her back took the damage for her…” She began to realize that as a major if not the answer to why Rarity’s back and neck weren’t as bad. “Makes sense. But still, normally surgery is done to remove burns of this magnitude.” I still think outloud. “Then let’s do it.” Pancho muttered out, finally stopping his work on Rarity. Lots of burn cream all over body, along with ice packs all around her. “Excuse me, Pancho?” I asked, dumbfounded at what he said. “Let’s do the surgery. We got the materials, remember? When we searched that hospital? We have the equipment, and you got the know-how.” Pancho reasoned. “That’s insane! What if we screw up!? We’ll kill her!!” I yell, thinking Pancho finally lost it. “If we don’t, she will die. We have to try. It’s her best hope.” Pancho responded, calmly. Crap. He was right. There was no way around it, if we wanted her alive. Which we did, so I finally conceded to the idea. “Fine. You’re right. We need to operate. Now. We can’t wait. Get the equipment. Twilight, get plenty of water. This could take a while.” God help us. A/N: Had to do some Wiki searching for some of that burn info hehe :D Anyway, DUH DUH DUHHHH. What'll happen next chapter? Wait and see ;D A/N 2: I wonder if anyone caught my huge derp in this chapter...