//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: My Little Naruto: Family Is Magic // by madhat886 //------------------------------// In the Ponyvile hospital, Megan stood at the counter as she explained what happen to nurse Redheart. The ambulance and the paramedics came to the farm, but they needed one of the Apples to come along to fill out some forms. Megan rode in the ambulance with the boy while the other members of her family stayed behind. "Megan there you are," Fleetfoot said as she and Soarin came into view. "You came to make a police report?" Megan ask her old firend who joined the police force. "Not everyday a kid gets struck by lightning. You found anything on him?" Fleetfoot ask. "Just an empty frog shape wallet," Megan said handing her the frog wallet then she pointed to the oversize scroll. "He also had that." "A scroll?" Soarin ask picking it up. "And he was dress in an orange jumpsuit and had this on him too," Megan said handing over a kunai larger than what real ninjas used. "A ninja fan that's just great," Fleetfoot said remembering the old wizard and dragons geeks in high school. Now it's ninjas that are all the rage. (1) "Thinking about it he's dress like what an anime ninja would wear," Megan said as she's been at comic con during a sneak peek at the up coming animated movie base on her first book. "Any idea why he was in the orchard?" Fleetfoot ask. "None," Megan said. "He just appeared out of nowhere. Funny thing is that there wasn't any clouds in the sky that could produced a lightning bolt that hit him. You should ask Pinkie Pie and her sisters they were filming outside when we all heard the boom." "What is she doing this time?" Soarin ask remembering what happen last time. No one wants to talk about it. "She was fighting a dragon that she will edited into the shot later," Megan deadpanned. "Enough said," Fleetfoot said. "What will happen to him?" Megan ask. "If no one comes for him he'll become a ward of the state," Soarin said. "Well once he's wakes up he can tell us," Megan said wondering who the boy is. "Well if he's anything like Firefly maybe he'll take you into a world of ninjas," Fleetfoot said as the girl in the book has the same name as the writer. She likes to think that Megan just wrote of all the made up adventures she had when she was younger on her family's old horse ranch. "Yeah that be something," Megan said as she fingers a heart shape locket she always wore around her neck. ! In one of the rooms - Doctor Horse look over the young boy who was struck by lightning. He saw the signs of many operations having been done on the boy. From the looks of things the doctors were doing the operations to fix his body. The x-rays showed that much, bones having been rebroken to be set right, organ transplants and other operations to fix his body. He also suffers from years of malnutrition and stunted growth. Whatever the boy went through much have been hell for him. "Well doctor how is he?" Nurse Redheart ask. "Not well, I am afraid. He's been through alot but looks like someone has been operating on him. And from what, I'm seeing he's been in and out of the operation room for more times than, I can see. It's like he's been operated on only to heal enough to be operated on again. All to heal his body. The lightning strike has damaged his body to beyond it's limits. He shouldn't be alive," Doctor Horse said. "Isn't that taxing on the body?" Nurse Redheart ask. "Yes it is. He shouldn't even be alive with all the back to back operations he's been put through," Doctor Horse said. "All, I can say is that whoever or group who did the operations on him is very good. I wish, I know how they did it, I can see more than a dozen operations done on him. His body systems are all strain at their limits just to keep his body going. It's like he survived something he shouldn't have and was operated on till he was all better." "Or maybe it's just the operations were just held back till they needed to fix everything," Nurse Redheart said. "Yes that could be," Doctor Horse said knowing what she's getting at. "Better report possible child abused. Has the dental records found anything on him?" "We check and there is no one on the data base that matches his. We also check his finger prints and nothing. He's not in any of the files, I had his file sent to the mainframe and still nothing. He's a John Doe or he never been put into any data base," Nurse Redheart said. "We learn more when he wakes up," Doctor Horse said as he read stories of these kinds of things happening before. A child hidden away or kept in total isolation, nothing good ever comes out of it. "What do we tell the cops and Ms. Apple the one who brought him in?" Nurse Redheart ask. "Tell them that the boy should awake in the next couple of days. Till then he must have rest," Doctor Horse said as he walks Nurse Redheart out of the room, letting the unnamed boy to have his rest. ! The next day at school - Applejack found herself surrounded by her friends and fellow classmates during lunch. With Pinkie and her sisters having filmed the lightning strike and them having uploaded it on youtube on their page, all the students quickly found out what happen last night. Things like that doesn't happen alot and is always big news when it happens. "Well?" Rainbow Dash ask Applejack. "I already told you all what, I know. The kid is badly hurt and is in the hospital. Mom went with him and answer some questions for the cops. She was told that he'll come around in a couple of days," Applejack said. "What was he doing on your farm?" Buddy Blue ask. "Have no idea," Applejack said. "Well who ever he is, doesn't know that the ninja craze is dead," Sunset Slimmer spoke up from the next table. She's sitting with Trixie, Stormy and Peppermint Fizz. Sunset Slimmer use to be the top girl in school till Twilight beat her as the school dance princess last year. Rainbowdash pointed out that everyone hates her from being the alpha bitch and having no redeeming qualities at all. No one voted for her at all and no one would talk to her for the rest of the year. That's when Lightning Dash the bus driver took her aside and told her about how she was just like her when she was her age. That she spent her entire high school year doing nothing but making the other kids as miserable as she could, that once high school life was over, it was all down hill for her. She was lucky to land a job at all with all the people that hate her guts in the town. It's only thanks to the town growing that she has people she can talk to as they didn't have to deal with her in high school. Even with her family being well off, it was her sister the down to earth and nice one who they left everything to, as she's the one with the family and needed the money more. (2) Sunset Slimmer was a different person than she was last year but she was still an outcast. She did managed to become friends with Trixie and her two friends. She and her friends are jerks but have redeeming qualities that allow them to befriend other kids. Trixie likes to entertain younger kids with her magic tricks, Stormy is always willing to help out if someone is in trouble, and Peppermint Fizz is the same. "Sunset please, he was struck by lightning and lucky to be alive," Peppermint snaps at her. While she's a jerk even she doesn't make fun of someone who gets hurt like that. Well she did make fun of Rainbowdash after she broke her leg after a stunt went bad, but she did pointed out how dumb it is to try to jump over a car on roller-blades. "Sorry," Sunset said not wanting to be kick out of the only group that lets her be with them. "Pinkie what did you and your sisters saw?" Applejack ask said girl sitting at her table. "Lightning suddenly appeared out of nowhere and boom," Pinkie said making a booming sound. Which all of her friends gave her a flat look, seeing they're not going to get anything out of her. "Too bad they only got a few seconds of that," Cherry Jam said having see the video online. "Don't worry, I'm sure that someone will be able to figure it out. Like Doctor Whooves in his big blue box, he'll be able to figure it out," Pinkie said. "You mean the guy who lives in the junkyard in that blue RV?" Patty O'Green ask. "Isn't he trying to turn that RV into a time machine?" Banana Candy ask. "Yes he is," Pinkie said. "He's always asking people to find him things that he can't find in that junkyard of his," Canary Yellow spoke up. "He post what he needs on the school board," Rarity said. "He ask for lemon peels last week," Bon Bon said. "An old tv before that," Red Butler adds. "They're all parts he needs to build his time machine," Pinkie defended him as she likes to hang around him and help him. "There's no way any of those things would create a time machine," T.N Honey said who is the smartest girl in school. "I agree with her. How machine parts are one thing, but lemon peels?" Shy Violet adds. She and Honey always hangs out with each other. "What he's smart, he fix the school lightning with paper clips and rubber bands, plus a ward of gum," Pinkie pointed out. "I don't understand how he did that," Banana Candy said with Ginger Snap, both are good at putting together machines both being gadgeteer genius but even they don't understand how Doctor Whooves is able to do what he does. He just slap things together and they just work, which is why besides running the junkyard he is also the repair man everyone turns to to fix things. "He's just better at putting things together than Mac Guyver. It's tin cans and an old transistor radio method of construction, he's a mechanical genius," Pinkie explained. "I just wish he'll build me a giant robot with a car for a head like in Megas XLR, the greatest humongous mecha of all time!" "What about those animes?" Plum Puddin ask. "Please those are all about drama, politics, or girls in revealing outfits with big boobs! Forget all about that, I just want a giant robot fight without any messages," Pinkie said. (3) "He might be good at putting things together but come on. The boy got struck by some weird lightning nothing more," Stormy said. "You're right about that. Whoever he is, I hope he's doing ok," Applejack said. With no one stepping in to claim him, the boy was now under the Apple family care till the boy's family is found. !