The Prince's Mentor

by CodenameB4LYFE

A Good Start

Chapter 3

While Code was regaining consciousness, he heard muffled voices, he couldn’t identify the words or where they were coming from but he could tell they were arguing, when the voices soften he could try moving his eyelid, but his face choose to ignore his brain. He couldn’t move his face or any part of his body for that matter, but he could turn his neck so he tried to look up and see, sadly all he did was move his head up. Tired with his attempts, he heard the voices go silent and with the uneasy peace, he went to sleep.

Arising from his slumber, he noticed that his body had finally chosen to answer his calls, as he was able to move his only eyelid. Looking down he noticed that he wasn’t sprawled out on the floor, but was resting in a couch. Looking to his right, his blurred vision counted four ponies, moving a hoof to his face, his cleared vision saw the two siblings, but behind them looked like two apprehensive ponies, looking to the left, it was a light blue stallion, his short dark blue mane matched his coat. To the right was a white mare, hiding herself by her violet and light grey mane. Adjusting his body, he sat up and turned directly the four of them. As he laid his head to the rest, he felt a sharp pain in the back of a head, and cringed in pain. As he looked back, he noticed the mare seem to hide more and more form his sight. Speaking out a question that answered his situation, “What happened, and why does my head hurt so much.”

The two adults looked like they knew as he stared them down, the mare broke, “Look, I’m sorry, I thought you were a thief, honest.”

Looking at the floor, he saw that he was on the living room couch, and past the group, was a frying pan, as if it was marking where he could last remember where he was. Adding together the evidence, Code laughed, a small chuckle which only lasted for a few moments. “So you introduce a pony, with a frying pan to the head,” Code accused.

Cringing at the comment, the mare herself, “My name is Twilight Velvet, we are the parents of Shinning and Twilight, we have not expected you to come until later,” turning to her husband, he said.

“I am Night Light, Apologies on our actions.” He said. Turning to his son, he instructed, “Shinning, why don’t you take you sister and play a game with her in the basement.”

Nodding to his father he nudged his sister, and the two of them walked to the stair well and left the parents alone with his mentor.

Looking to two of them, he gestured to the other couch, “You guys don’t need to stand there,” he offered. Readjusting his uniform, he looked back to the pair, who had seated themselves side by side. “Thank you for your hospitality, it’s good to see your kids have protective parents,” Code commented.

Caught off by his complement, Twilight Velvet smiled, replying “It’s nothing, but we really are sorry about what happened, We both saw the door unlocked and neither of the kids were in sight and…” she went on before being cutting off.

“You acted to protect the things you held dear, there was no need for sorrow,” Code cut in abruptly. Looking towards the two, he put his fore hoofs on his lap, leaning his body forward. “Let’s switch the subjects, I’m assuming that you were lettered about my assignments, but we haven’t I haven’t formally introduced myself, my name is Code, I was part of Celestia’s international guard. I switched to her personal operations group.” He spoke those words as if he rehearsed it like a script.

Looking to his wife, he started the conversation “We had been informed that you would be taking Shinning as a personal apprentice, but Celestia never disclosed the reasoning why, or why you.” Night Light explained.

Taking a sigh, Code replied, “My assignment was only to train your son until Princesses Celestia dictates when, but the reason I was chosen was a mystery, I have very little difference from the others in the operations group.” Code answered bluntly, he himself had questioned what experience he had that made him more favored for training a child. ‘There were more important ponies who could have done this assignment, why was I picked out.’ He thought. Snapping back to reality, he realized he had missed a question that was asked. “I’m sorry I must have zoned out, what did you say?” He asked.

Nigh light replied, “I asked what happen to you, your body I mean, if it doesn’t bother you.”

Looking at his uniform, he chuckled, “These,” he said as he gestured to his body, “Are the cons of my job, but I was kind of lucky to be training you son, I really needed a break from everything.” Moving a hoof to a large cut right at his upper abdomen, feeling a sharp pain as his hoof contacted the mending tissue. “Yeah, I definitely need a break.” He told himself. Looking back, he noticed the two ponies, their faces filled with fear. “What?” He asked.

“How could you say that to those wounds, why are you so calm about something that serious?” Twilight said, practically screaming.

Moving his head up, Code replied, “If you are worried, don’t be, I scraped by with worse, and anyways,” he said, “At least I can still see.” He said as he gestured to the black cloth scrap over his eye. Again the expressions of the two didn’t change for the better, as the pair seemed to have changed from fearful to petrified. “Look,” he started, “Your son will never have my type of job, and his military contribution would be a local guard than anything else.”

Eased enough to speak, Night Light tried to change the subject, “Why don’t we move on, what about your friends, do you know any pony that lives in Canterlot?”

Moving his head back, he took a long thought before answering, “I know of a local field medic who studied here, goes by the name Godfrey, he was usually my field medic on my assignments.”

Intrigued by his medical system, Night Light continued the conversation, “You said he was your field medic, what do you mean by that?”

“Yeah, during some of our assignments, we can’t risk giving away our identities to the public, so a trained medic is assigned to an operative and assist us when we come back from harm’s way.” Code answered.

“Oh, what training goes in to becoming a field medic?” Twilight asked.

Looking back, he realized he couldn’t remember the answer, “From the stories I heard from Godfrey, after receiving normal medical teaching, he had to either go join the guard, or place their service in an area of turmoil, and actually,” Code said realizing something “That’s how we first met.”

Intrigued, Night Light asked, “What do you mean?”

“He didn’t want to fight,” Code chuckled, “He didn’t want his folks to worry about him being in harm’s way, so a common solution for field medics were to have the false story of studying abroad, and he chose to ‘study abroad’ at a city of Manilla. I was finishing my formal training there, he was finalized his training at the hospitals in the outskirts, and we both were assigned same government housing unit, and ever since then we were partners.” A long pause fell down the three of them, as the faint sounds of giggles from downstairs seemed to have been hushed.

Unknown to the pair of parents, the two children had silenced themselves and tried listening in on the conversation but their silenced movements and whispers could not get by the trained solider. “If you two wanted to hear this, why don’t you two sit down here?” Code said in an open and loud voice.

The parents looked at him with confusion, until the two figures exited their cover of the stairs and entered the living room. The white pony held his head down in fear of what his punishment would be, and behind him was the little filly, cowering behind him. The silence continued as the parents looked at Code with amazement, and Code gleamed down at the two little ponies.

To Shinning, the silence felt like an eternity with no apparent end, he knew it was wrong to indulge in others secrets, but his curiosity took over as he wanted to learn how Code lost his eye. Now in the spotlight and without the intel, he feared the wrath of his new mentor.

Then Twilight bluntly broke the silence, “Were there any filly field medics?” The comment took the atmosphere out, as the little filly didn’t get told about the birds and the bees, or how weird it would for somepony to inspect every part of your body and be the opposite gender.

Everyone looked at her with anger, all except for the one who the question was directed, “Yes there are a select few mares who chose to become a field medic, and you two can sit down somewhere,” Gesturing to the seat next two their parents, or the two to his own left. Twilight, having seen the dead stare from her brother, had sat down in between her parents. While Shinning sat down next to his mentor.

As the two sat down, Code remembered an offer Shinning proposed to deal with his broken muzzle. “Shinning offered the service of your family nurse, is he here now, maybe how that thought came to be in little Twilight?”

The statement let the parents laugh a bit, “First off it’s, he’s a mare, and secondly, I don’t recall where she went, she’s been gone for about two months, I think she should be coming back soon, especially if she wants to help out the school’s medical staff at Canterlot Acadamy.” Night Light replied.

Interested, Code asked, “Oh, do you know where she left.”

Looking back, he replied, “Not on the top of my head, she did leave a note of absence with the royal stamp and everything, um Twilight, could you get it, it’s on the fridge.”

Getting off the couch, Twilight walked out of the room and into the kitchen. While she did that, her parents, talked to each other.

“Didn’t she go to Manhattan?” Twilight Velvet asked.

“No, that was a year ago, I think it was Fillidelphia?” Night Light responded.

“No dear, she used to work at Fillidelphia.” Twilight said in replied.

The conversation would have gone for some time if it wasn’t for Twilight coming from her trip. In her mouth, was a folded page, she gave it to Code, who was amusingly observing the parents. Interrupted by Twilight, he took the page and slowly opened it up, looking through its contents.

Looking past it greetings, he looked at down in the letters body, scanning for any place or location. Not finding any type of place, he looked at the signature. Its cursive writing was hard to tell the name if it wasn’t for a Cutie Mark stamp added to the end, a Red Cross with light pink hearts at the corners of the mark. The Cutie Mark seemed so familiar but his memory couldn’t add them together. The possible location popped in his head as he remembered why the Cutie Mark felt so familiar. Looking back at the letter, he looked for one specified location. After two seconds, he saw what he was looking for.

“THE FILLIPINES that’s it!” Night Light practically screamed.

Moving down at the letter, he saw the signature, adding two and two, he got his four. The name of the family’s nurse, Nurse Redheart, and by the looks of the letter, she is still at Maneilla, Fillypines.

Author's Note:

This chapter took a while, expect a longer break, finals are coming up, so less time to work on this project. Thank you for your comments on my grammatical errors.

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