Regeneration
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How the hell does steryl smell so bad? He thought. Isn't it supposed to be...steryl?
The whitewash color scheme of the Castle infirmiry was totally unwelcoming. Wasn't the atmosphere of a hospital meant to bring comfort to the patient? Instead he felt like he was being lulled into insanity. Looking down at his five-foot-eight-inch frame, Xeno could only shake his head.
Well, he couldn't actually shake his head.
He was covered in third degree burns, all over his body. The majority of which was wrapped in pure white gauze that was slowly becoming stained in red.
In his blood.
The most worrying wound of all, however, was the splintered two-by-four that was currently stabbed into his chest, near his heart.
Yeah, that hurt like a bitch.
Things couldn't possibly get any worse.
"XENO!" Aaaannnd it just got worse. I stand corrected.
The cry, prohjected by multiple voices, was followed by the sound of stampedeing hooves, and a crash outside his door. Instantly, the door was knocked down and several mares rushed into the room.
There were gasps of horror and winces in sympathy. Fluttershy even began to cry.
"Oh my word..." Whispered Celestia. "When...I...I didn't think it would be this..." She couldn't even finish her sentence.
"Dearest Xeno," Began Luna. "How do you feel?" She asked slowly, dreading the answer.
Xeno said nothing for a few moments. He could only look at them with his eyes right now, it was too painful to move his head.
"How's the kid?" He asked. His voice came out pained and gravelly.
Rarity approached his bedside.
"Dear, can we get you anything? Perhaps we can ask the Doctor to increase your painkillers?" She asked in her worried voice.
"How is the kid?" He repeated.
Xeno was out on the town in Canterlot. He enjoyed the upscale culture and often frequented restaurants, bars and lounges for drinks and the local cuisine. During his leisure stroll, he came across burning building. The firefighters managed to evacuate the building except for a small colt in the upstairs bedroom. They couldn't magically flood the house in fear of drowning the child, nor would a firefighter dare teleport inside. They didn't know the damage and could end up teleporting inside a wall or between floors. Their last idea was to cut off the house from oxygen, which would suffocate the flames---and the child with them.
Horrified by their no-win situation, the firefighters only stared in shock at the scene, hearing both the child's cries and the mother's devastated screaming.
It wasn't a hard decision to make.
Rushing inside, he paid no mind to the smoke or heat; the only thought in his head was saving the child. Finding him was easy. What was hard was shielding the child from the heat and flames, and protecting him from the falling debris.
He got burned, so the child wouldn't, he took all the heavy, burning debris, so the child wouldn't.
Unfortuantely for him, the damage pushed him to his limits.
"The kid is fine." Said Applejack in her southern drawl. "Just a little smoke inhalation, nothing major."
It was as though a weight was lifted from his shoulders. A shuddering sigh escaped his lips.
"Good. That's good." There was silence for a few moments. "So what'd the doc say?" He asked changing the subject.
Twilight stepped forward.
"I-it's not good news." She began. "Your body is too weak and badly burned to operate." Her eyes teared up a bit. "If you don't die from an infection or shock, then the splinters will eventually find their way into your heart."
"So, I'm dying" He deadpanned. There were some choked sobs coming from the eight ponies. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Twilight were openly crying. Their silence confirmed his comment.
"That's good, because if this is alive then life isn't worth living." He commented humorously.
No one laughed at his joke.
"I thought you said you were immortal!" Demanded Rainbow Dash. "You said that you lived for thousands of years! That you were the mysterious Xeno that shows up at random in history! How can you be immortal if you're dying, huh!" She cried.
"I am immortal." He said. "The problem is you assumed immortal meant unchanging and undying. That isn't so." He explained.
"What do you mean?" This time it was Celestia that spoke. She was obviously very interested in where he was going with this.
"You asked me before what my goals in life were, and I told you that I wanted to finally die. Do you remember that?" They all nodded. "My immortality is a curse. I've done everything imaginable to try and finally kill myself off, but I keep regenerating."
"How can your immortality be a curse? What is so awful about eternal life!?" Asked Luna.
"I don't have eternal life, Luna. I have eternal death." He said. "Unlike traditional immortality, where one doesn't get sick, grow old and is impervious to physical damage, or is simply capable of healing right away, I can die. I can get sick. I can get hurt, I can grow old. But at the moment of death, my body is reformed from scratch. I am one hundred percent healthy and fit."
"You are like a pheonix then?" Asked Fluttershy.
"Yes and no. When I say that I have eternal death, I don't just mean that I will physically die with every regeneration, I also die mentally."
"What does that mean?" Asked Pinkie Pie.
"It means that me, this Xeno, will be gone forever when I regenerate." He said. "My memories carry over into the new body, but everything that makes me me, every synapse, every though process is changed."
"So even though you'll come back to life, you won't be you anymore?" Asked Rainbow Dash.
Xeno nodded.
"Everything about me is changed. Everything about this me dies and some new person goes sauntering away, with my memories, my name and wearing my clothes." There were tears in his eyes. They didn't fall but they were there. "I don't want to go." He said softly. "I like me. I always like who I am, and then that person dies. That's why I want to die. When I finally die, for good, it will end. One final, good death, and then nothing. I want to be free." He was silent.
The ponies didn't know what to say. What can you say to that?
"Xeno, dear?" Asked Rarity. "How...how much time do you have?" She asked tentatively.
Sighing, Xeno began to move.
"My time is up." Despite the terrible agony that overloaded his brain Xeno swung his legs over the bed and stood up. The ponies tried to protest but he ignored them. He stepped into the corner of the room, placing a good distance between them and himself. They all watched him curiously. "It was nice knowing you." He said finally.
Immediately, he flashed an orange-gold color that enveloped his whole body. The intense light made it so that they couldn't look directly at him. A thundering sound was heard coming from him, but thankfully no cries of pain and no sound of shattering bones or squelching flesh. At least, that's what they assumed it would sound like.
Moments after the light vanished and the sound was silenced. Finally looking at their friend, they were surprised to see a totally new person standing in his place. This person was shorter and much lighter skinned then their Xeno.
Xeno stood at five-foot-eight, and was very dark skinned. They had heard him refer to himself as a "black man." His hair was nappy and usually cut very short to his scalp, and he had deep brown eyes.
This new Xeno was approxiamtely five-foot-two and was very light skinned. They also had long blonde hair that fell down to the small of their back, and deep blue eyes. They were also much curvier than their Xeno.
"I've got boobs again!" Squealed a new, higher pitched voice. Obviously, Xeno had become a woman. She brought her hands up and immediately began squeezing and bouncing the breasts in her hands.
Awkward...
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Editing note: You have a number of word constructs along these lines:
"What does that mean?" Asked Pinkie Pie.
"It means that me, this Xeno, will be gone forever when I regenerate." He said.
This has been split into two sentences. The correct format is a single sentence, as follows:
"What does that mean?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"It means that me, this Xeno, will be gone forever when I regenerate," he said.
(You also may want to consider using words which are not "asked", as this has been repeated for multiple questions.)
Love it I love the spin you've taken and love your character keep up the good work
That ending...
Huh well this is going to probably be an emotional story right at the end of every regeneration it has good premise so I'll definitely follow it. Hope to see more soon :) Upvote
Haha! This looks good...
looks good so far.
and, lets face it, every guy have wondered what it would be like to have boobs for a day.
3260369 one I love your profile pic and two I could not agree more!
He may not be a time lord, but he sounds almost exactly like one. Especially with the 'I don't want to go' line.
3263001
If you were about to regenerate, and everything that made you you was going to die forever, wouldn't you say the same thing?
Why not? It's not like you lose anything, you're going to die anyway. At least when you regenerate, even if you take the view that 'you' are fully dead, it also creates a new life, rather than just a corpse.
timelord obviously
Why is he a woman now?
I thought you had to stay the same gender.
It makes the story feel...
Off putting having the MC switching like that.
Other than that, good concept and nice story.
I'll be watching.
3261880 not everyone
3826578 not really, just think the character to be like a timelord. Just without the tardis, knowledge and so on. The master changed gender, to be honest I thought and still think that was a bad move. It felt like they only changed it becuase of demand or fear of being branded sexist or something. Instead of doing it for the story.
I don't care if a character is changed, wether it be gender, characteristics and so on. Just as long its for the STORY and it IMPROVES it.