A/N: Next chapter! YAY! Hopefully you enjoy this one! Please rate and comment so I know if I’m doing good or not. Remember this is my first ever fic! :D
“Well dammit, Pancho, get the medical supplies from downstairs. Shadow, go inform the girls we will be a while up here. Twi you go too.” I ordered the group upstairs, still uncertain whether this was the best thing to do for Rarity.
“But I want to help! I don’t to sit and do nothing to help my friend!” Twilight protested.
“Well how much have you learned about the human anatomy? I don’t doubt your medical expertise if we were ponies, but we are a different species all together.” I tried to reason with her.
“Well, not much… But I can learn!” she responded.
“No, we don’t have the time. We have to act now. I’m sorry Twi, really, I am.” I sympathetically told her. She wasn’t too happy with that at all.
“C’mon Twilight, let’s go downstairs. We can do something else to help out, okay?” Mig tried to help the situation. It didn’t really do much good for her, I could tell she was upset, who could blame her? But there wasn’t anything she could do, plus I don’t know how steady she would be with those hands.
Pancho eventually got back with the medical supplies, and it was just me and him. We were nervous as hell, but something had to be done for her, and this was the best thing we could think of.
“Alright, bro. She has it worst on her arms here” I say pointing towards her left arm “and right shoulder here, as well as the back of her right leg. Those need this removal bad. But also her lower back is pretty toast as well. So I say we focus on her shoulder, her leg, then her back, then her arm. Sound like a plan?” I ask him.
“Sounds good to me. And, sorry about all this. I shoulda been more careful.” Pancho said, with a slight rasp to his voice.
“We can discuss that all later. For now, let’s focus on getting Rarity patched up.” I responded, holding back a tad bit of anger directed towards Pancho, and myself.
We got out the scalpel, and started cutting around her first bad burn. It was a real soft and easy cut, making me a little uneasy. Once I finished cutting around it we slowly removed it. Blood starting seeping out a bit, Pancho quickly got some gauze and patched it up. That went surprisingly well.
*Back downstairs while the work is being done, Beans’ POV*
I was getting worried, about what might happen to Rarity. All the girls were nervous as hell. I need to distract them.
“Hey girls, I got an idea to pass the time. You ever heard of video games?” I ask them, trying to sound peppy for them all.
They all shake their heads, looking slightly confused.
“Great. Well, you know the TV and how we watch stuff on it, ya?” I ask, this time getting a nod from them. “Well with video games, they are games you can play on the TV. You can control characters on different adventures, or race, or fight, or nearly anything!”
They seemed intrigued by the idea, and I knew I needed a good game to reel them in. I go to the TV and make sure the Wii is plugged in. It is, awesome. Then I go to the cabinet in the same room, and grab one of the boxes with a game in it. The title? “Super Smash Bros Brawl”.
“This game, is a fighting game. You choose a character and fight. Try to knock them off the stage, and whoever loses their last life loses. It’s a last man standing type of deal. Who wants to try it first?” I ask, no one raises their hand.
“Fine, AJ, Rainbow Dash, you two can go first. Against Shadow.” I ordered.
“Aww what? Why 2 on 1? That isn’t fair!” Shadow complained.
“What? You too big of a wimp to go against two girls who never even heard of the term video game?” I retorted. It shut him up quickly and he agreed to play.
Applejack and Rainbow seemed a little more intrigued to try it. The game started up and Shadow set up the match settings. 5 lives each, no time limit. Shadow chose his favorite character, Snake. The girls took a bit to choose, but eventually found one they liked. Applejack chose Donkey Kong, and Rainbow chose Sonic. Shadow chose the stage as well, going on the Pirate Ship (from LoZ: WW)
First thing that was said was by AJ:
“Woah look at those little critters! My monkey looks big, he gon’ put a stompin on ya’ll!”
“Nyuh-uh! My blue guy is going to get you good!” RD retorted, sounding motivated.
Then they realized they have no idea how to control them, and resorted to button mashing. Shadow laughed as their characters flailed about on screen. He attacked them from afar, and continued laughing his ass off.
“Girls, use the sticks to move! And use the A button to hit!” I call out, and they quickly use my advice to improve. They got a hold of it quick, because after they both lost a couple lives they were fighting smart. Eventually they were all yelling as the fighting took place, and everyone got involved and was cheering and yelling. We all were taking turns to play, it was a blast.
I notice Twilight whisper to Mig for a bit, before I see them begin to head out for the door.
“Hey! Where you two going?” I call out while everyone else is distracted at AJ and RD’s competitiveness.
“Quick scouting. Be back in 5. I promise!” Mig responds before heading out.
They better not get us in more trouble.
*Back upstairs to Matt’s POV*
We repeated the process of cutting, peeling, and patching up all over her body, where she needed the removals the most. It took us a couple hours of work but we eventually did it.
We succeeded. She’s gonna pull through.
We both heaved a heavy sigh in relief. She heavily covered in gauze, but knew that at least the burnt areas were much better and her blood flow should run smooth now. She was still knocked out cold, but still breathing, regular heartbeat, she should be fine. We decided to let her rest and head downstairs, and find out why it got so loud downstairs.
We get down to find AJ and Dash playing…. Super Smash?
Awww sheeett, someone introduced them to video games. This won’t end well. They were surprisingly good at the game and played it smart, like me.
“Hey Matt, you might have some competition in this game for once” Xoch told me, implying the skill of both the girls. Everyone knew I was the best out of the group in that game, our favorite game.
“Heh, we might need to settle who’s the best huh? I’m down for a good ol’ fashioned beat down as always.” I triumphantly proclaimed. Then I noticed, we lacked a Mig and a Twilight.
“Hey, where’s Mig and Twilight? I thought they were with you guys.” I ask, curious.
“Oh, they left. I don’t know why. I think he said scouting, but back in 5?” Beans responded, unsure of his own answer.
“Well, fuck. Remember, people? We keep tabs on who is where AT ALL TIMES. We do this to make sure we have no accidents or issues. Plus we aren’t worried or kept in the dark on each other. FUCK.” I angrily yell out. No one really noticed, which upset me even more.
I get out my phone and try calling Mig, but he doesn’t answer. I tried a few more times and same thing, no response.
That isn’t good.
“God dammit” I whisper, before I yell out for everyone to hear “DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE MIG AND TWILIGHT WENT OFF TO?”
“They left? Where’d they go?” AJ responded, pausing the game.
“Yeah, we didn’t even notice” Shadow added. This set me over.
“GOD DAMMIT EVERYONE. I just said this, we need to know where everyone is at all times, so situations don’t get fucked. I tried calling him 5 times and he hasn’t answered. He’s good with his phone too, so something isn’t right. Best part? We have no fucking clue where he is because no one got a response from him or Twilight on where they went. This is just fucking ridiculous.” I was seething, and terrified.
“Calm down there mister!” Rainbow cut in “I’m sure they’re perfectly fine, they’re probably-“
My turn to cut in.
“YOU’RE NOT SURE! None of us are! That’s why I’m so goddam worried something might have happened! For all we know they got ambushed and are both dead!” You could hear the dust hit the floor it was so quiet after my burst of anger.
“Why are ya more wound up than a rattlesnack in a pickle barrel? Ah don’t think you need to be this crazy over where they are.” AJ said, a little annoyed at my anger.
“BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO PROTECT YOU ALL! I don’t want anything to happen to ANY of you if I’m here to do something about it. The way I lost my parents, my sister, my girlfriend…” I began to taper off, and AJ began to regret her last statement.
“I lost those closest to me in the beginning of the craziness, and after that I swore not to let that happen to anyone else. I can’t handle anymore pain.” I was beginning to tear up, memories of the past, flooding my mind. It was a wave of pure emotion, raw emotion.
“Well everyone else here lost their parents, what makes you so special?” RD again asked, sounding so sure of herself.
“Oh no…” Shadow whispered.
“What makes me special? What… makes me special? You think that I’m under the impression that I’m special? If I’m special my fucking parents would be here! My fucking little baby sister would be here with me! Not up in fucking heaven! They all died in the worst possible way that I could have imagined. They, were all lucky.” I say pointing towards the group.
“Their parents abandoned them, or just flat out rejected them. They didn’t really give a crap about their families, except me. I did, and I lost them. In a terrible way..” I was crying hard at this point. There was no point holding back my tears. They were already out, I gave in.
“What happened, sugercube? You know you can tell us anything” AJ asked, sounding worried for me.
“I don’t wanna talk about it. Let’s just… let’s just find Mig and Twilight. But we can’t leave Rarity here alone.” I began to clear myself up as best I could, trying to sound better. I was still miserable on the inside. Remembering my loving mother, my brave father, my innocent little sister… I always thought life would be nothing without them, especially my little sister. I’m still amazed I’m here without her.
“Pinkie, Pancho, Fluttershy, and Xoch, I want you to stay here and watch over Rarity. Everyone else, split up and find them.”
“WAIT! I THINK I KNOW WHERE THEY ARE!” Beans yelled out, even startling me.
“I remember when we first split, we went to the university. She was amazed at the library.” He began to think.
“And she wanted to learn more about the human anatomy to help with Rarity…” I also thought outloud.
“She’s at the university library.” We both concluded at the same time.
“FUCK! But it’s infested with zombies. We split there and went to the market instead.” Beans said, worried.
“You serious? Why the hell would they do that? Is Mig stupid?” I was annoyed, beginning to forget the past, for now.
“I don’t know, but we should hurry” Beans concluded.
“I agree. Let’s go people.” I gesture towards the way out and RD, AJ, Shadow, Beans and I headed out.
God let them be ok.
A/N: Well, another chapter in the books!! Or book... whatever. Anyway, expect things to pick up a bit more from chapter to chapter. Thanks for reading!! :)