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// Chapter 8: Examination 
// Story: Scootaloo's Big Daddy 
// by DarthVendar 
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"One does not undertake an experiment knowing one has failed "
―Rosalind Lutece




Rarity sat down in her throne and rubbed her face not knowing what to do. For some reason the giant tan suited pony, that Scootaloo believed was her "dad", had decided to wake up in the middle of the night, break down nearly every door in the castle, and took Scootaloo. The worse part though was that nopony could seem to find the orange filly and her giant friend. Doors could be repaired, but if anything happened to Scootaloo Dash would be devastated. Just as she thought about her the cyan and rainbow Pegasus flew into the throne room and made a quick landing. All of the old bearers of Harmony looked to Dash for news.
"Nothing... I found nothing..." The usually brash Pegasus was on the Virge of tears as she spoke. "I tracked them to the Everfree but then the trail went cold. I don't know what to do girls..." Rainbow Dash buried her face in her hooves, and a heavy silence filled the room. Everypony watched as their friend suffer and felt completely helpless.
"Hi girls! We're back!" Scootaloo cheerfully announced breaking the silence. The orange and purple filly was covered in mud, came riding in atop her "dad", with a odd tan form bundled in wire beside her and a giant smile on her face. Scootaloo jumped down from the massive pony's back and was immediately hugged by a teary eyed Rainbow Dash.
"I'm so glad you're okay!" While the rest of her friends were still recovering from the shock of the filly's sudden return, Rainbow Dash asked the one question on everyponys' mind. "What happened?"
Scootaloo looked around to all the curious faces staring at her, cleared her throat, and began. "Well... I'm not sure exactly why it happened, but here's what happened. I went to sleep tonight on top of my dad, because he's nice and warm, but for some reason in the middle of the night he wakes up, and stands up so fast he launches me across the room. I don't know what, but something must have spooked him, because before I could even realize what is going on, he picks me up and starts charging through doors. I'm yelling at him to stop, but he just doesn't listen and carries me into the Everfree forest." Scootaloo then sat on her haunches and began emphasizing her words with her front hooves. "Then things get weird. He takes me to a bog and suddenly just set me down on a rock. Now I'm thinking 'Maybe he just wants to show me this place, or somthing', but then he takes off without me and starts searching for a weird giant needle in the mud. Well when he finds it he pins me down and tries to inject me with it! That was scary, but just before he stabs me with the needle a weird talking box falls from the sky and lands like ten feet away from us. He let's me go, I don't know what's going on, I still don't know what was going on, but when I looked up to see where the box fell from, I see a weird tear thing in the sky. Suddenly Boooooooooosh!!! it explodes into water, and soaks everything." Scootaloo spreaded her front hooves out wide to demonstrate the explosion. "Then were the water lands this thing suddenly appears." Scootaloo gestured to the Big Sister tied up on Alpha's back. "And it and Dad get into an Epic fight, but in the end Dad won and we brought it back here. And that's what happened." Scootaloo smiled and folded her front hooves her tale complete.
Everypony stared at the filly not sure of what to make of her tale, except for Rarity who stared at the wobbly legged Big Daddy and the blood trail following it. Rarity quickly formed a plan and spoke before anypony else. "That's quite the tale Scootaloo. Uh... Dash can you go clean her up, please." The cyan Pegasus nodded and the two of them left the thrown room. As soon as Scootaloo left Rarity slowly approached the behemoth, getting between it and where Scootaloo left with Rainbow Dash. "Your hurt..." The alabaster unicorn tried to reason with the Big Daddy gesturing to the blood trail behind it. "Please, let us help you." The tan giant turned his bulbous near featureless helmeted head to look at it's blood, and then turned back to the mare in front of it. Rarity didn't know what it was thinking, but she knew that nopony was going to be able to help it if it didn't get out of that suit. "Please darling, would you kindly take your helmet off?" For a moment the giant pony remained completely motionless, and Rarity grew worried that it would not allow anypony to help. Slowly it sat onto its haunches and brought its front hooves to its helmet. Rarity silently thanked Celestia and watched as it quickly twisted its head. Slowly the metal bulbous helmet came off revealing a startling sight. 
The Big Daddy was a large orange stallion, with a dark auburn mane. Both his mane, and coat were very unkept long rats nests. As horrifying as his mane and coat were, his eyes were far more unsettling that is if you could call them eyes. Where the stallion's eyes should have been were two yellow lifeless glowing bottomless pits. There was no distinction between the whites of his eyes, pupils, or irises, only yellow. His muzzle was more concerning health wise though. It was a mixture of orange fur, brown dried blood, and red fresh blood, that poured from his nose and mouth. All in all Rarity was terrified of what she saw but glad she had the stallion remove its helmet. The silent moment of observation of the pony underneath the mask suddenly came to an end when the stallion vomited a horrid mixture of sick and blood. Rarity just managed to dodge out of the splash zone when the great stallion keeled over, sending his forgotten unconscious prisoner skidding across the smooth floor. 
What little medical know-how the fashionista had, kicked in. She rushed over to the Stallion and with both her hooves applied pressure to the gapping wound on the stallion's side. "Somepony get a doctor!" The reserved unicorn shouted.





Less than ten minutes after he had collapsed the Big Daddy, and Big Sister had been loaded onto separate reinforced metal gurneys and rolled into the castle's infirmary. Doctor Suture looked over Alpha thinking of how this was the stranges procedure he had ever preformed. He had been called to the newest Princesses castle in the middle of the night alongside Nurse Redheart, with no idea what was in store for him. The light blue unicorn wiped sweat, and stray strands of his white mane away from his dull blue eyes. Now here he was beginning what could possibly turn into a operation, with a screwdriver, as he had to remove a pony from a suit not designed to be removed from. Giving one final twist the large metal saddle made a solid thud against the gurney, finally free from the rest of the suit. Sighing Suture placed the screwdriver on a small table beside him, and gave a glance at his cutie mark, a green cross.
He silently remembered the promise he made to help everyone, pony or otherwise, no matter the challenge and turned his attention to the four guards standing guard around his other patient. "Hey, you four! If you would do something useful, by helping me lift this heavy thing, instead of stupidly standing around a restrained sedated like a bunch of idiots, that would be great." He deadpanned. The guards all glared at him in frustration just as tired, but gathered around the stallion's gurney with the Doctor. "Redheart, when we get this thing off of him I want you to take my place and get him out of this thing." The tired nurse 
Together the five stallions lifted a four hundred pound peice of Rapture machinery to an empty gurney. The gurney managed to hold the advanced saddle's weight, but made some very concerning groans of protest. The five stallions took a moment to catch their breaths. Twilight had wanted to study all the equipment they took off those two, and had insisted that instead of piling it all on the floor, that it was taken to her study.  Dr. Suture though, was just glad he wasn't the one who had to wheel it all over to the princess. 
"By Celestia!..." Redheart exclaimed, interrupting their panting. Suture walked over to the mare to see what sort of unseen injury had disturbed her so greatly. What he saw made him freeze in his tracks, where the stallion's navel should have been at the center of his belly, was a vast multitude of tubes, wires, cables of all various sizes, and colors. Each tube and wire was in some way connected into the Big Daddy's lower torso, pumping various fluids into a system between the stallion, and small machines hidden inside the suit. It all reminded him of a foal attached to a placenta by its umbelical cord. "Doctor, what should we do?" Nurse Redheart brought him back from his reverie. Shaking his head he Suture got back to the task at hand. He tried to think through what the situation required of him, while also passing his unsureness off as him educating Redheart. "We can't remove any of the equipment attached to him, obviously, as we don't know what the purpose of each part is... I want you to take a blood sample, hook him up threw the helmet hole to a monitor and I.V, and then give him a transfusion of O negative. He's lost a lot of blood. I'll treat his wound, scan his body for anything else, and take bone, and horn marrow samples. Then let's put him back inside this thing, don't want to accidentally disconnect something." Nurse Redheart gave a quick nod, and the two set to work.
The two medical professionals encountered no issues as they worked, however the monitor reported the stallion's brain activity slowly dropping, until Dr. Suture scanned the unconscious stallion's body. Suture took a double take, and did another magical scan. Redheart took notice of this and prepared for the doctor to list injuries for her to treat. "Gallbladder, Appendix, Tonsils, Adenoids, Prostate, Right Kidney, Spleen, Testicles..." The doctor mumbled out barely loud enough to be heard. "Doctor? Is something wrong with all of those organs?" She asked, hoping that she had just misinterpreted that the large stallion had massive organ damage. "Yes. They are gone. They have all been surgically removed. This stallion has been under the knife many, many times." He replied matter of factly, hiding his shock while, Redheart's jaw dropped.
Everything else went without a hitch, and they moved onto their next payment. The guards stood at the ready as the restraints on the Big Sister were removed, just in case she somehow woke up early. Suture messed with its helmet for a few seconds, before finally figuring out how to remove it. However as soon as he saw the muzzle underneath the doctor froze. "She's just a filly..." He spoke in shock trying to confirm what he was seeing. Underneath the mask was a very light grey mare with a black mane, who could be no older than sixteen although her legs were abnormally long. She was at the cusp of marehood, her face still pudgy like a filly, but deffinately with a more mature form. "I have daughter that's older than her." The doctor spoke quietly feeling a heaviness in his heart. Fortunately removing the mare from her suit was easy as she wasn't attached to her suit like the stallion. 
Upon removal they discovered that she was a Pegasus, her wings had been restrained against her body with belts, and that her open wounds from fighting Alpha had already miraculously healed. Finally Dr. Suture scanned her, fearful of what had been done to the tall young mare. Redheart watched as Suture backed away from the gurney, sat down, his face nearly turn green, and his eyes grow wide. She stared at the mare and wondered what had been done to her. After a moment of fighting his gag reflex the doctor finally spoke. "Well nurse... Her legs are extremely weak, having grown rapidly to math the height of princess Luna, which explains those braces... And... I need you to bring the ultrasound over." Redheart stared at him completely in shock. "She's with foal?!" Suture nearly shook his head slowly, and was silent as Redheart set the ultrasound up. When Suture activated the advanced device he didn't bring the probe to the mares uterus, but instead much higher up the Big Sister's torso. Redheart, and the guards watched the monitor of the ultrasound in horror as a low resolution image of a living fat snake like creature inside the Big Sister's stomach appeared. Suture and Redheart both silently wondered, just what kind of monsters would do these things to ponies.





Twilight sat with Scootaloo in the infirmary the next day, they couldn't hide her "dad's" absence from the filly for very long. Scootaloo was sitting at the foot of the massive stallion's make shift bed, and watching him like it would make him better faster. "Is he going to be okay?" Scootaloo asked the violet Alicorn not removing her gaze from the Big Daddy. Twilight had to take a moment of silence to think. "I don't know Scootaloo..." She answered truthfully. "The Doctors did everything they could, and hes stable now.... But we aren't sure what's wrong with him yet..." Scootaloo was silent for a few seconds... "He has to be alright Twilight..." The orange and purple filly choked out as tears began to flow. "He has to..."
For several hours Twilight watched as Scootaloo curled up against the massive stallion, waiting for the test results to come back, and to make sure that nothing happened to the filly. The alicorn got lost in her thoughts and paced the room trying to figure out why somepony would do such terrible things to Alpha and the Big Sister. The sound of struggling and panicked breathing brought Twilight back to reality as the grey mare woke up. The purple Alicorn quickly faced the struggling gangly pegasus, and charged a spell. "Stop!" Twilight commanded trying to channel her inner Luna. The grey mare had broken her front hooves rerestraints and looked up at the Alicorn with her wings opened wide. The mare's yellow sonless eyes locked on Twilight and for several long tense seconds nothing happened. Neither made moved a muscle, until the pegasus noticed her wings. Twilight watched in confusion as the Pegasus suddenly turned to look at her right wing, and acted like it was the very first time she had found it. She grabbed, stretched, and flexed her wings in absolute astonishment. A huge genuine smile formed on the mare's face as she turned back to twilight. "I'm an angel." Suddenly blood poured from the pegasus's nose, and she collapsed back on her bed.