"What's going on?" Fluttershy asked herself when she heard two ponies charging towards her house at full speed. There must be a race or something, She thought to herself. But she didn't remember seeing any posters about it, or anypony talking about it. Suddenly she heard a series of short and rapid knocks at her door. Without waiting two ponies burst through the door carrying another on their backs. They ran upstairs and burst into her room. they laid the pony that was on their backs down on her bed. Fluttershy followed them and saw that it was Applejack and BigMac. Applebloom was on the bed, and Granny Smith walked in soon after.
"Applebloom, what were you doing, how did this happen?" Fluttershy asked her. Applebloom was lying on Fluttershy's bed. Her back left leg was mangled horribly. There was blood everywhere."Nothing, I was just trying to get my cutie mark," she said in her adorable accent, but now with a twinge of mixed pain and panic. "Applebloom, 'nothing' doesn't practically destroy a leg, I want to know what you were doing," Fluttershy said. "Oh fine," she said "I didn't want to tell you because I knew they would get get upset," she told Fluttershy, indicating the Apple Family. BigMac and Applejack were bloodstained, having carried Applebloom here.
She hung her head and mumbled "Uh u wuzzun a algar." "Applebloom, this is serious, okay, speak up," Applejack chimed in. "Fine, I was wrestling an alligator," she said. "WHAAAAT?!!" yelled the whole Apple family, literally shaking Fluttershy's hut. "I knew you would do that. It's why I wouldn't say what I was doing," said Applebloom. "Okay now that I know that no poison was involved, I can get to work," said Fluttershy. "But first I need you to run to the hospital and get an amnesia pack, okay Applejack? Tell them I sent you," the yellow pony said. "Okay, I won't let you down Fluttershy," AJ responded strongly. But Fluttershy could sense a hint of fear behind that mask.
It was beating down rain with no end in sight. Applejack ran furiously. Fluttershy picked her to go because she knew that no other pony in all of Equestria could run so fast. When AJ finally got there, she could see Nurse Redheart waving frantically, saying things like "Get in here!" or "Get out of that rain!" AJ ran through the doors, barely missing nurse Redheart. Nopony but they were here. "Nurse, my little sister was wrestling an alligator to try to get her cutie mark when it almost ripped off her back leg," she paused to take a breath. "and now Fluttershy is about to operate on her but she needs an amnesia pack so could you please, please, please give me one to take to her?" asked AJ, her mouth moving almost as fast as her legs had done on the trip here. "Oh, I suppose so, let me get it." said the nurse,walking over to a nearby closet. She came back with a pouch full of clear liquid. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, nurse." Applejack said quickly, then ran out the door, running as fast as she ever had in her life.
When she got to Fluttershy's house, she didn't even knock. She burst through the door and ran right up to Fluttershy's room and walked in the door. Panting, and pulling the amnesia pack from her saddlebag, she said "Here you go Fluttershy." "Thank you Applejack. I couldn't have done this surgery without it," Fluttershy said, taking the bag and hooking it up to a machine. She then took one of Applebloom's forehooves and said "This might hurt a little bit, okay?" but she didn't wait for a response. She took a small needle that was hooked up to the machine and stuck it into Applebloom's hoof. "Ouch!!" Applebloom shouted. "Oh, it wasn't that bad," said Applejack. Applebloom was out almost instantly. "Will you please leave so I can Perform the surgery, you can go down to my sitting room." the yellow pegasus said gingerly "Of course we will," responded the Apples.
Fluttershy took her scalpel in her hoof. She made a small incision right at the hole that the alligator made in a blood vessel. She ever so slowly stitched up the massively bleeding laceration. "That makes it much easier now that it won't be bleeding!" Fluttershy said happily. The operation was painstakingly slow. She slowly stitched up all of the small cuts and tears. the last thing to do was to stitch up the big wound. After that was done she put a cast on the filly's leg and washed her hooves.
She went downstairs to find the Apples waiting anxiously for her. "How is she doing?" Applejack asked as soon as Fluttershy stepped off the final step. "She's doing fine. Tomorrow she can go -" Fluttershy was interrupted by Applejack "Why can't she come home today?" "Applejack, I was just about to tell you." said the yellow mare with a great deal of surprise. "Oh, I'm sorry, Fluttershy," AJ apologized. "It's okay. Tonight I just want to keep her for observation. If that's okay with you all of course," said Fluttershy "Course it's fine with me," came the response from the orange earth pony and little old Granny Smith. "What about you, BigMac?" asked the yellow pony. "Eeyup," he said. this was his normal response to any question asked by any person out of the family.
"Well, I'll see you all tomorrow." said Fluttershy. They each said their thanks as they passed through the door. All except BigMac, of course. He, instead, gazed into her eyes. Only she would know that that look meant more than thank you. Later that night, she only dreamed about one thing while she slept on her couch. BigMac. Little did she know, but the only thing he dreamed about that night was her. He dreamed that they were in paradise together. Nopony else. Not a single soul. She dreamed that it was him, her, and two little fillies. One being a small red pegasus, the other being a somewhat larger yellow earth pony. Both dreams had two things in common. One was that they were together. The other being that they were extremely happy.