The next morning the three of us were woken by a door opening and the cheerful, sing-song cry of "breakfast~" come from Redheart as she pushed a cart into the room.
As soon as she saw Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle with me, I saw her brow furrow and her muzzle scrunch up. Thinking quickly though, Sweetie Belle saved us.
There are a few things Sweetie Belle is known for. One is singing. Another is having a giganta-mongus vocabulary. Her most known one is the fact that she accidentally sets a lot of things in fire or burns them in some way.
But the most powerful thing she's known for are her puppy eyes.
I'm guessing Sweetie Belle instantly picked up on the fact that Redheart was gonna give us a tongue lashing because she threw her forelegs around my shoulders, let out a wet sniffle, and threw on the puppy eyes.
"Oh please Mrs. Nurse, don't be angry! We were all just so worried about Applebloom, and we thought she was so sad and lonely and that just broke our hearts so we wanted to make sure she was okay! Please don't be mad!"
Redheart never stood a chance.
Her gaze instantly softened and she just told Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle to go find their "parents or guardians", because after breakfast I had a long day ahead of me.
As my friends left the room, so too did my traces of hope and happiness.
I was going to hate the rest of my stay.
The rest of my stay was slightly less miserable than I thought. I'd rather not discuss a lot of it, but that day I got caught with Sweetie and Scootaloo, I also got fitted with my wheelchair. I swore I would never get used to that uncomfortable feeling. They didn't really have wheelchairs in my exact size, so I had to get the next biggest size.
I didn't really have to deal with an awkward feeling in my lower half, but just with my upper half, it was a strange feeling. My lower half was suspended so that the hooves on my hind legs were almost level with my elbows on my forelegs.
And then I had to start "occupational therapy". The nurse in charge of that basically started off by telling me that I was gonna need some help with a lot of things now that I didn't before. She told me there was no shame in what life had made me, and that accepting help was okay.
Not only did she talk to me like a little foal, but with what she was actually saying was more or less that yeah, I was useless now.
The rest of the time dragged on slowly. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo visited every day. Big Mac and Granny too. Applejack tried to see me a few times but I told Redheart to absolutely not let her in.
I know she hung out just outside the door when the rest of the family was there. Probably moping, picking at the floor or something.
I still didn't care.
Her friends did show up. Rarity came in once and told me she had a fabulous surprise waiting for me when I got out. Rainbow Dash offered to take me for a fly sometime. From the look on Scootaloo's face as she asked that, I get the feeling it was actually her idea.
That went well until I came clean and told Rainbow Dash I was scared of heights. I saw that take the wind out of her sails.
Those two especially seemed intent on making me happy. I think they might have been feeling guilty considering they were also going way too far when it came to the derby.
This feeling doubled when Scootaloo admitted both her and Sweetie Belle went off on their sisters when I was in surgery.
At least Rainbow Dash and Rarity had the decency to not cripple their little sisters.
Pinkie and Fluttershy came by a lot. Fluttershy always seemed to be feeling guilty too, even though she had nothing to do with the derby. She read and told me lots of really neat stories.
I really liked her.
Pinkie, on the other hoof, just couldn't handle somepony feeling depressed if she could help. She threw me little private parties that the nurses always had to clean up, offered to help me "deck out" my wheelchair, whatever that means, and often told me jokes to try and lighten the mood.
The jokes were terrible. I still loved them.
Twilight came by too. I'll admit that when I first saw her, I got my hopes all up thinking the princess could fix me. Maybe magic my problem away.
She didn't have to answer when I asked her if she could. The look on her face told me all I needed to know.
She couldn't.
Finally, we got to the last day I was spending in the hospital. I would have been jumping for joy if… if I could jump.
Big Mac, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Rarity picked me up.
Apparently, Applejack had finally gotten the idea in her head that I didn't want to see her.
Good.
They started leading me to Carousel Boutique. Rarity started doing that thing where she gets all happy and starts jumping up and down. She asked me to close my eyes, and I felt weightless as I was magically lifted. The wheelchair was removed and I felt some kind of fabric wrapping around me. A moment later I was on the ground, back in the wheelchair, and she asked me to open my eyes.
I opened my eyes and saw Rarity holding up a mirror, a giant smile on her face.
And then I saw it. She had me in some sort of dress. The main part was the color of a red delicious apple, and there were some… I think the right word is "accents" running over my shoulders to my chest. They were almost the exact color of a Granny’s coat.
Turning to the side I saw the accent turn into a trim, and the dress ended just so it covered my tail. There weren't no frou-frou layers or nothing.
It was actually really nice.
"Um, thank ya kindly Rarity." I hesitated. "But I don't think I can afford something like this."
"Oh don't be silly, Applebloom, I would get nowhere if I tried to market to just foals. I made this gratis for you."
I stared back at her blankly.
"It means 'free'," Sweetie Belle explained.
"Oh!" I replied. "Well thank you! But uh, not that I ain't grateful, but… why?"
"Well…" Rarity paused. "Several reasons, darling. I want it to be some sort of apology for how ridiculous I was acting the day of the… ah, the incident. Secondly, since the wheelchair draws attention, I want something to accent your looks, so if you get some strange looks, you may get some positive comments on that. I do hope that helps. Finally, I do believe it will help you with… modesty."
"What do y'all mean?" I arched an eyebrow.
Rarity's eyes swept from side to side before she gingerly lifted a forehoof and pointed to the inside of her hind leg.
I felt the blood rush to my face a moment later as I realized she was referring to the plastic bag currently strapped to the inside of my left hind leg.
"With all that happened, I believe you deserve all the positive attention you can get, dear," Rarity spoke softly. "Hopefully then you can feel like the shining star that you are."
I felt my face burn even hotter.
"T-thank you," I stammered.
"Of course." Rarity smiled. "Now go dazzle the town tomorrow at school, darling. Best of luck!"
"Wait, what?" I gasped, wheeling around to look at Big Mac. "I gotta go to school tomorrow?!"
"Eeyup."
"B-but I'm… Diamond Tiara is gonna…"
I saw Big Mac's face fall just a tad and he broke eye contact.
"Sorry, Applebloom," he simply responded.
Stars above, tomorrow was going to be terrible.
Short but good! And I can understand AB's fear.
Though, a little mistake I noticed
Aww, poor Apple Bloom...it was a sweet thing of Rarity to do though
What she going to do, this set after Diamond stood up to her rotten mother and started to become a better mare.
One would hope DT and the other foals would have the decency not to make fun of a handicapped filly but kids can be cruel.
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even Twi isnt All Powerful, and shes probably the most magical pony on the show, and how often has her magic made things WORSE not better? magic isnt just magic...theres somethings it just cant fix!
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Yeah. It still will be intersting to see her response. Hopefully, Diamond Tiara has enough sense ot not make fun of her.
FINALLY! Magic can't fix everything. That should be a given. We saw ponies in the show with physical disabilities (Kerfuffle comes to mind with her prosthetic leg). I saw the comments last chapter saying get Discord to do it.
One. Why would he bother? It's been shown that not even Fluttershy can keep him on the straight and narrow. So I doubt he would.
And two. It's a lazy as buck cop out by the author if they do that anyway. It would make all of this pointless in the end, and the story not worth reading.
This fanfic has reminded me of a plot bunny I had where Sweetie Belle loses her horn.
As for why Discord can’t magic Apple Bloom’s spine back together, there’s a simple answer: since when did Discord care about the Crusaders?
My headcanon is that healing magic is dangerous because it promotes rapid cell division, which is also the cause of cancer.
I... feel like it is wrong to force her back into school so soon.
Yes, education is important, but how the hell do they expect her to focus on education when her whole life has been turned upside down, and not in a good way. She is not gonna be able to focus on anything and only risks being a target for unwanted attention.
Let her have a vacation, let her recover mentally before she is forced to go back.
But yeah, I get it. The story must go on, but from a realistic perspective, I find this decision morally broken.
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I agree with you, I did that in a story with Scootaloo as well.
Only used regenerative magic in a story with Pipsquiek, but that was only on the insistence of a friend who helped me with it
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Why wouldn't Discord care about the CMC? Their Disharmony Freed him and they cause SO MUCH CHAOS!
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Back to school already? I don't think that's a very good idea.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
is this where we find out that DT was the one who loosened the wheel?
I've been reading this story for a while and I like it. I'll admit I had an idea similar like this to a story I wanted to try but it involved all three crusaders but I didn't know where to start with it or how long I wanted it to go on for and how it would end. Reading this has giving me some inspiration and I hope I can come up with how to get it going.
Anyway I can't help but feel both sad and angry for Applebloom. I'm sad for her because she won't be able to do a lot of the things she used to do and I don't like how she keeps thinking she is useless when she's not. Honestly I wish she wouldn't have to go back to school so soon and that little prick Rumble better keep his mouth shut otherwise I hope someone beats the hell out of him. I could see Sweetie Belle having enough anger to catch him in a levitation spell and repeatedly slam him into the ground.
I really hated that episode The Cart Before The Pony's as Apple Jack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash were the biggest fucking idiots as it was never their carts to beging with. I honestly wish in this chapter I saw Scootaloo's aunt's give Rainbow a verbal beatdown for being so reckless and stupid and would have even told her to stay away from their neice. Sorry if I was a parent or uncle this is probably how I would react. I even wanted to see both Rarity and Sweetie Belle's mom and dad in this story also give Rarity a good verbal beatdown for endangering her little sister like that.
Apple Jack is the worst and I honestly hate her as she is not one of my favorite characters, along with a whole lot of others. I'm honestly pissed at her still because it's her fault her sister is like this and if she never pulled out that broken piece out of her soon, I'm wondering if she would have been able to move still and recover. Apple Jack is an oblivious prideful idiots who kept treating Applebloom like she's a baby and was so fucking oblivous to her sister's bullying she did nothing to stop it! It was worst with Babs Seed as that little shit was never punished for what she did. Hell how could AJ not notice why her sister wasn't in her own bed?
I hope Diamond Tiara can help in some way like make convince others to make a fund raiser to make Apple Bloom prostethic legs. I know this may be a silly idea but I was wondering if you will create a character who makes special metallic limbs for her like how Edward Elrich from FullMetal Alchemist got? That would be cool to see.
But another pony to blame for Appelblooms state is and I'm sorry if I offend anyone is Miss Cheerilee. Seriously she was the fucking teacher to the school and she should have done more to stop the Crusaders sisters from doing what they did! I can beat Diamond Tiara's bitch for a mother stating she is at fault and will want to replace her for what happen. I'm sure a lot of family's will be like that too.
Plus I'm glad you didn't have Twilight or Discord just crue Applebloom so suddenly as even they have a limit to their magic. I'm sure even Discord does to. Speaking of which I can beat AJ asked Discord to fix her sister but Discord would tell her no and state that this was her mess and he isn't going to clean up after her or her friends. He would also state even if he could he wouldn't as she would just go back to being an idiot and learn nothing from her mistake.
That's all I got to say for now and I hope Apple Bloom can get a happy ending. I'll review the other chapters when I can and I look forward to seeing more from you.
Good Luck Jinzou.
If what I think is gonna happen, happens. I'm going to arrested for beating a child. Because if she makes fun of Applebloom I'm gonna do it. At least Rarity and Rainbowdash are trying to fix things.
Scootaloo?
Liking this so far! Keep it up.
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Prosthetic legs? She's paralyzed. Despite what the cover image shows, there is no mention of her legs being gone.
Perhaps it's best for Apple Bloom to NOT go to school. I think home school would be best in this case. It's still far too soon, and it's clear that AB is still mentally unwell from the whole ordeal. Give her a little more time to heal up. The thing I'm hoping for is that while this does take place before CotLM, I don't think DT would go as low as to mock AB for what happened. I think there are some lines that even before DT's redemption, she wouldn't cross.
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There is no limit to magic, but we "don't talk about that". Come on, at least don't mention it, like the MLP writers (in Scootaloo episodes, btw did I mention that Scootaloo's parents episode, S9E12, was at least 7 seasons late?), instead of creating limits (writers did that too, in Season 7 Episode 19). Didn't make any sense, because we've seen more complex body-altering spells in Season ONE.
I was fooled by the cover image too (as seen in my comment before reading), but it clearly states that her hind legs are paralysed in Chapter 2.
Also, you have to be really poor to not be able to afford prosthetic legs IRL and require a fundraiser. While Apple family is "supposed" to be poor, they're friends with pretty much all royal/powerful figures. Money would not be an issue.
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It took me to a porn site...
Well assuming the school is wheelchair extensible
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Another "magic limit" to justify the existense of problems like the one mentioned in the story in a world where magic can solve everything.
Of course it would be pointless. Magic makes stories like this pointless, unless you make up a limit for that magic. Why even mention it?
This is done tastefully. But it is not impossible to fix Applebloom with the right knowledge in Medical Science and Magic. It would be difficult, risky, and potentially lethal. But Applebloom while incapable of applebucking or doing any sort of exhausting or difficult physical labor would be able to walk again. The problem here isn't the missing leg as much as the permanent nervous and spinal damage, that is still part of the brain in its own way and nearly impossible to perform surgery or chemically or electrically stimulate correctly.
Also homeschooling seems like a plan.
My recommendation to Applebloom would be just to concentrate on either Science or Art and understand that just because she is a physical cripple does not mean she is a mental one. She can probably be one hell of an Agronomist, or Chemist as we see in later seasons.
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In description: "This is set before Crusaders of the Lost Mark"
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She didn't lose her legs.
How come Big Mac and Granny Smith aren't a bit upset about Applejack for not putting the seat belt on correctly for Apple Bloom?
There are two possibilities I can see in my head:
1. Diamond Tiara’s gonna have her ass whooped, physically or verbally, by literally every pony in town by the time this story is over for being an ableist piece of garbage.
2. She’s gonna show a shocking display of empathy of AB’s situation, but in her own way - she’ll act all tsundere about it.
I’m hoping for the latter, but seeing as she was willing to jab at Scoot’s disabilities...yeah...
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I’m willing to bet that they either have already shown disdain for her foolish actions, or understand that she’s going through enough heartache with causing Apple Bloom to hate her guts - they don’t need to add to her grief.
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While I personally think that such abject hatred of AJ and Cheerliee is unwarranted, I will fully agree that "The Cart before the Pony" was to Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Cheerliee how "Lesson Zero" was to Twilight (we'll never speak of this again levels of stupidity).
As to Cheerilee's appearing blind to Diamond's bullying, perhaps (and this is just a thought), Spoiled Rich does everything in her power to make it so that Diamond was never called out for it.
Anyways, I have yet to read the story, so I can't judge quite yet anything else in your comment.
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It's one thing to make fun of a cripple (which DT has done, Scootaloo's wings), but it's another to make fun of someone who is visibly disabled. My guess is that Diamond Tiara is going to accuse Apple Bloom of faking it (because that's what she'd do) and try to prove it somehow. Possibly by stealing her wheel chair.
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Oh god she's multiplying!
Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it.
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Nope. This is an AU where the cart episode took place before Crusaders of the Lost Mark.
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I won't say nothing, except Flight to the Finish,
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Yeah honestly, I kinda dislike Discord for that, and numerous other facts. He's also just a dick. But I don't think he'd come in and help Applebloom anyway. I think the only pony he'd straight up magically fix would be Fluttershy.
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Exactly.
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And now they're about to create more. If that's what he really cared about, then he'd leave Applebloom unhealed.
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Nobody actually loosened a wheel?
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I hope this is good inspiration!
Rumble? Last time I saw him was Hurricane Fluttershy. I had no intention of involving him.
The paralysis occured because AB's spine got severed. Sure, AJ jostling it around made her lose more blood, but she was stuck in the cart and most the damage was done.
Yeah, I can agree about Cheerilee, but can kinda see if she didn't go further is because the sisters were national heroes and saviors of Equestria. Ponies with such titles might make you nervous to question. But you're still right.
Equestria in this isn't advanced enough for bionic limbs. In the future? Who knows.
As for DT, this is set before Crusaders of the Lost Mark. That's all I'll say.
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I considered home school, but neither of her siblings probably have enough free time to learn how, and I don't think Granny would be up to it.
I'm not saying exactly what will happen, but remember Flight to the Finish. DT has made fun of a pony's disabilities to their face.
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That is an issue that will be addressed next chapter.
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Yeah agreed, and she isn't missing legs. She has both, they're just paralyzed.
Also, on that note, you may be onto a plot point I'm introducing later.
But for reasons posted above, no homeschooling.
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They absolutely are mad. But right now their main concern lies with trying to make AB feel better, so that's what we see, and that's what we learn. This is first person limited.
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See, I can see that kind of plot point, but consider this: to get her out of the wheelchair, you need to undo two straps then pull her out. Somebody would stop her first.
And the entire school was there at the accident and saw her impaled through the back of the cart. Then she spent almost a month in the hospiral. Pretty sure they all believe her.
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You're welcome!
This story has a lot of promise. Kind of reminds me of the one revolving around a Blinded Rainbow Dash.
I look forward to seeing where this goes from here :)
Applebloom has to suffer like this, then pre-reformed Diamond Tiara comes in?
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You sure do love to reply
Precedent with Scootaloo shows that this is not going to go well.
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Never heard of it, but I hope the upcoming chapter are enough to keep your interest!
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Yup. Next chapter will be interesting.
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Why wouldn't I reply to people who took time out of their day to not only read, but comment on my horsewords?
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I like your funny words, magic man.
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I think its this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/58418/shut-the-blinds.
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That's the one. I didn't wanna link it bc it's important to not try to influence an author's vision. That being said, it's a great read, and definetly worth the time.
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I'll add it to RIL
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Neato
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I think you replied to the wrong comment.
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I checked back in chapter 2 and you were right, plus I believed with what the artwork showed Applebloom had lost her legs. Sorry my bad.
I swear to all things the light touches if Diamond Tiara says a SINGLE mean thing to Apple Bloom about this situation, I'm gonna personally break into area 51, teleport to Equestria, and give her the biggest roundhouse kick ever seen by mankind!