Scootaloo slowly open her eyes, still somewhat dazed from the anesthetic, to the sound of voices around her. The voices of her friends. She was back in her cubical.
"Hey! Hey everyone, she's waking up!" said one of the voices. She couldn't quite make out who it was due to the light hurting her eyes. After a couple of seconds, and excessive blinking, she made out the face of Twilight. Scootaloo let out a weak smile and to have Twilight respond with her own smile. Scootaloo slowly turned her head to the crowd of pony's that had gathered around her. All of her friends were her. All of them had brought her gifts that were placed carefully on the bedside table.
"Scoot's! Your OK!" Applebloom exclaimed, smiling at her friends.
"I-I'm fine guys." Scootaloo whispered. Scootaloo scanned through all of the faces that surrounded her looking for Rainbow Dash.
"W-where's Rainbow Dash?" she asked, looking up at Twilight. Twilight glanced at Rarity who walked over to the curtain hiding the bed next to hers. Twilight then trotted out of the way allowing her see Rainbow Dash laid in bed asleep. Scootaloo let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Asleep as always." Rarity laughed. Scootaloo sat up a little to get comfortable only to be halted by a huge strike of pain shooting through her wings. She cried out in pain and clutched her wings. Applejack, who was to closest to the door, swiftly pulled it open and called out for a nurse. Both Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were pushed aside by Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy attempted to calm her down by stroking her mane, sadly to no avail. Nurse Redheart, accompanied by two other nurses, burst into the room. One of the nurses began hurrying everyone out of the cubical, the other was rummaging through the bedside cabinet looking for something. Nurse Redheart had to try and calm Scootaloo down so the other nurse could administer some painkillers. After everyone was outside,
"Will she be Ok? Tell me she'll be OK." Applebloom begged at the nurse. The nurse looked back towards Scootaloo, then turned back at her.
"She'll be fine" he said before closing the door.
The group of pony's could do nothing but wait as the nurses tried to help Scootaloo. Fluttershy was shaken up and went outside, accompanied by Rarity and Sweetie Belle. Twilight was stood next to the door, trying to see inside. She couldn't make much out through the frosted glass but she could tell that they were doing something.
"How does she look Twi?" Applejack asked.
"It looks like she's calmed down a little. I'm sure she'll be fine." Twilight said comfortingly. Applebloom was sat down on the floor next to Applejack. Applejack turned to her, she was covering her face with her hoof to try and hid her sobbing. She sat down next to her and wrapped her hoof around her, Applebloom looked up with tears in her eyes,
"She'll be fine." Applejack reassured. Applebloom fell into her shoulder and began weeping. Twilight and Pinkie Both looked at each other. Pinkie's normally hyperactive mood didn't seemed to exist, she just sat there quietly.
"Are you ok Pinkie?" twilight asked, trotting over to her. Pinkie looked at her. Twilight could see the tears welling up in her eyes.
"She will be ok, won't she Twilight?" Pinkie asked.
The door was opened and the three nurses came out,
"We've stabilized her. She'll be fine." Nurse Redheart announced confidently. Pinkie then wrapped her hoofs around Twilight,
"Did you hear that Twilight! She's going to be OK!" She screamed, attracting the attention of other patience and doctors. Bothe Applejack and Applebloom darted up and galloped towards the door.
"Thank you." Applebloom said to the male nurse. He crouched down slightly,
"I told you she'd be ok." he smiled. Applebloom jumped up giving him a small peck on the cheek before weaving between the pony's and through the door. The nurse's began trotting down the corridor towards the offices.
"Erm Pinkie, don't you think we should go inside. Pony's are starting to stare at us." Twilight suggest, trying to free herself from Pinkie's grasp.
"Oh yeah." Pinkie realized before releasing Twilight. She then hopped into the room, Twilight closely followed.
Applebloom was the first inside the room and was already next to the bed. Applejack was by the window, Scootaloo had asked her to open it. Pinkie hopped cheerfully up to her bedside.
"Are you Ok Scoot's" Applebloom questioned, holding one of Scootaloo's hooves in her hoof.
"I'm fine Applebloom." Scootaloo replied, smiling, but noticing the redness in her face. 'Applebloom, were you. Were you crying?" Scootaloo smiled. Applebloom imminently looked away,
"Of course not. I'm a big pony and big pony's don't cry!" she defended.
"That's not true Applebloom." Twilight cut in. " Big pony's do cry." Twilight continued, looking at Pinkie. Pinkie just smiled awkwardly.
"Were you-were you crying about me?" Scootaloo asked. Applebloom just nodded. Scootaloo lent forward and wrapped her hoofs around her.
"You don't need to worry about me Bloom. Have you forgotten who's in here with me?" she laughed.
"Doesn't it hurt Scootaloo?" Twilight inquired, pointing at the cast around her wings. Scootaloo released Applebloom from her hug and turned to Twilight.
"Not as much as you might think. It's just earlier the nurses said that the anes. Anast- anaste-" Scootaloo stuttered.
"Anesthetic" Twilight corrected.
"Yeah, that. That wore off. So it was bound to happen." Scootaloo replied, somewhat cheerful.
There was a knock on the door, followed by a faint voice outside,
"Can I come in?" asked the voice.
"Yeah, sure." Scootaloo replied. It was Rarity and Fluttershy accompanied by a nurse. Both of them breathed a sigh of relief to see Scootaloo looking well. The nurse was reading from a clip board he was holding with his magic.
"I'm happy to see you well darling." Rarity smiled.
"I'm glad your Ok, Scootaloo." Fluttershy said softly. The nurse withdrew the pen he had in his white overall pocket and looked at Scootaloo.
"How do you feel?" he asked.
"I'm fine, wings feel a tad sore but other than that, I'm fine doctor..." Scoot's replied, trying to read his name tag.
"Nurse." he corrected.
"A male nurse?" Pinkie Pie commented.
"Yes, I'm a male nurse. feel free to laugh. Everpony else does." he said, checking some boxes on his check board. Pinkie Pie was containing her smile.
"I think you're do a great job. Nurse Cross." Rarity added, smiling.
"Thank you. Now miss Scootaloo, we will monitor the progress of the wing bone marrow transplant for a couple of hours. And, all being well and good, you'll be out of her in as little time as possible." Cross stated very matter-of-factly.
A loud groan came from behind the curtain, scaring Pinkie causing her to scream.
"Pinkie..." Rainbow Dash said pulling back the curtain.
"Oh, sorry Dashie." pinkie apologized.
"Rainbow Dash! You're awake." Scootaloo said jolting up. Rainbow lent forward on her bed and stretched her hooves a little.
"Yep. Moring Kid." Rainbow yawned.
"Afternoon." Twilight corrected. rainbow looked and her and shrugged.
"Meh." she responded. The nurse finished filling out the check sheet and looked up at Rainbow.
"Ahh awake are you. Finally. I would have thought that the 'fastest pony in Equestria' wouldn't be so lazy." he chuckled.
"Hey! I am the fastest pony in Equestria!" She defended.
"Yeah, you tell him Rainbow." Scootaloo added.
"Yeah, who told you that? All your previous coltfreinds?" he responded. This left Rainbow Dash with nothing to say, she simply blushed and sank beneath her bed sheets.
"I think you'd better leave..." Pinkie said bluntly, not breaking eye contact with him. The nurse just smiled and turned around and trotted towards the door. He then exited the room leaving an awkward silence in the room.
"What a bas-" Applejack started before being irrupted by Rarity. "Children in the room!" she barked.
"Oh right. Sorry y'all." she apologized.
For the next couple of hours the group of pony's were cheering up both Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash, after they coaxed her from under her bed sheets.
"Visiting time's over everypony, time to go I'm afraid." announced nurse Treasure. As the pony's funneled out of the door, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were still by Scootaloo's bed.
"Here Scoot's. We thought this might cheer you up while you in here." Sweetie Belle said withdrawing her Cutie Mark Crusaders cape. Scootaloo let out an eep of joy and took the cape from her and wrapped it around herself.
"See y'all tomorrow Scoot's" Applebloom said, hopping down from the bed, closely followed by Sweetie. Applejack and Rarity were waiting at the door for them. As they disappeared, nurse Treasure took the clip-board from the bottom of Scootaloo's bed.
"That nurse Cross is a real piece of work." Rainbow piped up. Nurse Treasure rolled her eyes,
"Don't get me started." she agreed. "anyway, Scootaloo will you please turn around so I can see your wings?" Nurse Treasure asked, going to draw the curtain.
"You don't need to close them." Scootaloo stopped. She nodded and repositioned herself next to the bed. Scootaloo slowly turned around on the bed, reveling her wings.
"Tell if I hurt you." she said as she began to pat various regions of her wings. All of the didn't seem to give her much pain, which was the bad part.
"Interesting." Nurse Treasure said fearfully. Scootaloo turned a little,
"What's interesting?" she responded. She continued to pat on various sections of the wing.
"Can you feel me patting your wings? Treasure asked.
"You're touching my wings? I thought you were going to inject me or something. Why what's wrong? Is it bad if I can't feel you touching my wings? Scootaloo asked, fearful of what the answer might be. The nurse looked at Rainbow, and shook her head a little.
"WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!" Scootaloo demanded, turning fully around to face nurse Treasure.
"It means the operation didn't work..." She replied "I'm sorry Scootaloo. I'm so sorry." She repeated.
"Isn't there anything you can do?!" Rainbow Dash begged. She looked over at her and shook her head again.
"We've done all we can. The operation was an experiment after all. it also means..." She trailed off.
"It also means what?" Rainbow asked fearfully. Getting up out of the bead and trotting over to Scootaloo's bed.
"...It mean's we have to fully remove her wings." She told. Shutting both her eyes. Rainbow looked over to Scootaloo, who was looking up at her . Looking for some kind of sigh that she would keep her wings. Rainbow just wrapped her hooves around her and began crying onto her shoulder.
"I'm sorry Squirt." She sobbed. Scootaloo didn't know how to react, Rainbow had always been who she drew strength from. She's always been so strong. Now she's broken down, she doesn't know what to do. Nurse Treasures words haven't quite settled in yet, she just staring blankly at the wall. She didn't know what to do. She turned and looked at the blue patch on her cutie Mark Crusaders cape that she had bundle on the bedside table. She spent so much time think about what she might be. But now what will she be...