Where No Pony Has Gone Before
“I’m very sorry...” said the doctor.
The expression on everypony’s faces instantly dropped in shock. Tears immediately welled up in their eyes.
“Fluttershy’s skull has a hairline fracture, and she’s bleeding internally. We need to operate immediately to repair the tissue damage and relieve the pressure building up. However, this is a very difficult surgery, with a very low rate of success.”
Everypony wept openly for their friend. They just couldn’t believe it. They started looking at one another, from face to face, searching for answers and finding none.
Geordi, who had remained silent until now, was waging a battle in his mind. Finally, he arrived at a decision.
“I can help her."
It was just a little more than a whisper, but it was enough. Everypony’s face snapped to Geordi's with the sharpest expressions of both hope and doubt.
“How?” Twilight demanded while cocking one eyebrow. She held even more reservations about this creature than the rest of the group did, but she would do anything if it meant saving her friend.
“I… I… I have a magic of sorts,” Geordi quickly made up. He realized that, with the unusual circumstances of this world, he might just be able to explain it in such a way that wouldn’t necessarily damage their culture any further than he already had.
This was most unusual behavior for Geordi. By now, he would have already beamed back the moment he had been spotted, and the mission would have been scrubbed. Instead, he found himself still planet-side, wanting to help their injured friend.
In the back of his mind he was arguing with himself over what he should do. But a voice deep inside him kept telling him, "You can't just leave them. They're too cute and innocent to leave them with their friend in this state that you caused."
“Give me one hour," he said out loud. "You’ll need to leave us alone for that time, but I promise I can fix this!” He spoke very sincerely and pleadingly.
“How can we trust you alone with her?” said Twilight distraught, tears running down her cheeks. “You’re the one who caused this in the first place!”
“I know, but I didn’t mean to, and I want to fix this. Give me a chance. Please."
When he could see their doubts still lingering, he added, "Lock us in if you don’t trust me. Then give me one hour.”
Twilight looked from Applejack, to Rarity, to Pinkie, to Rainbow, looking for some sort of sign. They all seemed to want to give the stranger a chance. Even the doctor seemed to be looking toward the stranger, knowing the odds as he did.
“Do it!” she said with a tone of almost disgust.
“Geordi."
“What?”
“Geordi. That’s my name: Geordi LaForge.”
“Tw-Twilight Sparkle,” she replied, wiping away some of her tears. “Please help her.”
The doctor showed Geordi into the operating room. Closing the door behind him, Geordi approached the unconscious pony lying on the operating bed. He knew he needed to act quickly, and any request to bring her onboard the Enterprise would almost certainly be denied.
Tapping his comm. badge he said, “LaForge to Transporter Room Two: Two for emergency transport to sickbay!”
The glow of the transport beam wrapped around both Geordi and the pony. When it completely engulfed them, their bodies disappeared into the matter stream, rematerializing in sickbay.
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Dr. Crusher rushed over, and before Geordi could even begin to explain his actions for bringing the pony aboard, she had her medical tricorder already out, examining the patient.
“Her skull is fractured… Slight hemorrhaging near the frontal lobe... Cranial fluid pressure is building rapidly. Let’s get her on the bed.”
Dr. Crusher worked on the winged pony repairing the tissue damage, followed by the cranial damage. While this was in progress, Captain Picard arrived to discover the situation. Geordi debriefed, explaining the circumstances to the captain, including his attempts to minimize the damage caused by this violation of the Prime Directive.
The captain was furious at Geordi for bringing the pony onboard. He not only violated the Prime Directive by this incident, but by refusing to follow protocol and beaming out at the moment he was discovered. This was a serious lapse in judgement that was unexpected from his dutiful Chief Engineer. However, he decided that any punitive measures would be discussed at a later date.
“We will keep the creature under sedation,” said the captain. “She is not to be revived at anytime while onboard the Enterprise. Mr. LaForge, you will transport down with the creature alone and revive her once back on the surface of the planet.”
“Yes sir."
After fifty minutes, Dr. Crusher had completed the repairs to the pony's injuries. She carefully wrapped up the its’s head in bandages as a guise to prevent overexposure to their technology. When she was finished, she and Geordi readied the patient for transport back to the hospital room down on the planet.
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“Something’s wrong,” Rainbow Dash commented, pacing in the air outside of the operating room. “I haven’t heard any noise coming from that room, and it’s been almost an hour already!”
“We agreed to let him try,” Twilight said. She found herself pacing as well, with a rate that was causing grooves to form in the floor. “We promised to give him the full hour.” Twilight tried to keep herself calm as well as everypony else, but even her patience was razor thin.
A clock on the wall nearby ticked away loudly. Each tick echoed in their ears like somepony banging on a large drum.
Rarity, normally less concerned with affairs that didn’t concern fashion or beauty, was so distraught that her mascara had run from her tears down her cheeks. Her silken hair started fraying and curling. She hadn’t even noticed.
Pinkie Pie’s hair had also changed, falling from its usually bubbly and curly mane, to its straight and smooth hair that only ever occurred in times of deep sadness. Applejack held her hat in her hooves with her head looking down to the floor in deep thought. Rainbow Dash was flying in a circle overhead so fast she was starting to create a wind tunnel in the waiting room.
“Rainbow, quit it!” Applejack yelled.
Rainbow stopped circling, but her face had twisted. It contorted with rage at the situation: trusting a complete stranger with one of her best friends and not hearing any news or even sound coming from the operating room. She lost her will, and her patience had completely run out. Screaming, she charged straight through the operating room doors, bursting them open so fast they nearly popped right off their hinges.
At that moment, a bright light seemed to be emanating from the center of the room. Rainbow looked around, but saw no pony in the room. But in the next second, both Fluttershy and Geordi LaForge spontaneously appeared within the light. All anger was shocked away from her face as her jaw fell to the floor.
The other ponies quickly followed into the room to see what was happening. They saw the look of shock from Rainbow but not what would cause her such a look of surprise. Fluttershy was lying on the table with her head covered in bandages. Geordi stood beside her.
“Where were you just now?” Rainbow demanded. “And since when can you teleport?”
That statement hit Geordi in two ways. Firstly, that he was caught transporting in, and secondly…
“How do you know about teleporting?”
Rainbow didn’t seem nearly as concerned with how he teleported so much as where he teleported from. “Twilight’s teleported us tons of times,” she said, “but where did you just come from and why did you go there?”
Geordi felt trapped. These ponies seem to be more insightful about concepts they shouldn’t have even conceived of yet.
“I… I took her to get the help she needed,” he thought quickly. “I teleported her back to my people for help. She’s fine now! All she needs is a few days of rest.”
Hoping they would focus on their friend more than his background, he used a hypo spray cusped in his hand, so they would not see, to revive the pony. “See?”
Fluttershy shyly fluttered her eyes as though she had awoken from a pleasant dream. “Good morning,” she said softly. “Where am I?”
That was the last phrase anypony could hear her say as five ponies suddenly drowned out her quiet voice with cheers and hugs.
“Thank goodness you’re doing better!” said Rarity.
“It’s good to see yer O.K.!” Applejack cheered.
Pinkie Pie’s hair instantly popped back to its usual shape, and her smile was so big, one could wonder how she wasn’t splitting her jaw open.
“Ooh thank goodness, thank goodness you’re okay Fluttershy! We were so worried about you, but now you’re okay! Yippie! Yippie!” said Pinkie, bouncing up and down all around her.
Twilight simply smiled warmly and patted Fluttershy on her shoulder. “It’s good to have you back with us."
Rainbow Dash had taken an extra minute or so to soak in the situation. Still confused about what she had just witnessed, she shook it off upon seeing Fluttershy’s eyes awake and alert. She dashed to her bedside with tears in her eyes. She didn’t say anything. She just rested her head on Fluttershy’s waist and cried. Fluttershy smiled warmly and stroked Rainbow's mane reassuringly, letting her know everything was okay.
In fact, she felt better than okay. She felt happy and pain-free. She recalled something hitting her in the head, but felt no residual pain whatsoever. Happy to know she was well and her friends were also okay, she relaxed on the bed while she spoke with her friends.
Twilight wanted to thank Geordi, but as she turned to find him, she saw him apparently trying to slip away from the scene. She had just caught a glimpse of him as he turned into the hallway.
Knowing her friend was now alright, this suspicious behavior allowed Twilight to return to her usual inquisitive nature, and she followed him. There were a great many questions that needed answering. One of which was, and she wasn’t sure why, but his shoes seemed to flash into her mind for some reason.
She trailed behind him discreetly, trying not to alert him to her presence. He headed off in search of a more secluded area of the hospital. This was difficult for him as every pony he passed in the hall stared at him, never having seen anything like him before. Eventually, after walking down several wings of the hospital, he found a small hallway off to the side that was unoccupied and the lights were off.
Once he believed he was alone, his tapped a strange pin on his chest.
“LaForge to Enterprise: one to beam up,” he said aloud to nopony.
Twilight watched as a light started to appear, like the one that had emanated from the operating room when Rainbow had burst in. A sudden realization dawned on her that he was about to teleport again. Running straight at him, she tackled him just as the light enveloped them both.
Chapter 3-4 Release Notes: This was originally going to be one chapter, but I decided to split it into two. Since I had finished I figured you would appreciate seeing chapter 4 sooner than later!
Next Estimated Release Date: 10/1
I hope you're enjoying it so far!
(And yes I know this Chapter title is cliche and overused - but it fits! so there! )
I'm coming with you mother fucker lol
semper fidelis
Moar!
Go Twilight! Loving this story so much! You got all the characters exactly right.
*Sigh*
Twilight, why must you mimic the actions of the chick from 'The Journey Home'
Not enough Q
As a trekkie and a brony, I approve my good sir.
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You might be in luck sir! Tune in next week. Some chaotic time. Same chaotic channel!
He should have beamed up right before AJ bucked the tree.
Good thing she had no idea the 'port was mechanically created, otherwise she would have had second thoughts..
He tells them his name... and Dr. Crusher doesn't attempt to alter Fluttershy's memory engrams? Has everyone forgotten pre-warp civilzation protocol?
On another note, that is exactly what Twilight would do. She dies tend to act forst and think later when the pressure is on. And I look forawrd to more Q; I love that guy.
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There's going to have to be a little leeway there I think. I want to say that the statue that the princess thought she locked discord away in was actually just a statue and Q had been freed 5 min after he was frozen and a false statue put there to fool them. (I'm trying to work that into the story angle somehow, but we may need to let this one go. .
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Ahh plot direction, it sometimes creates bigger holes than plot. All we can do is put up a sign so no one falls in!
(Note: In Star Trek 9: Insurrection (not my personal fav but gives my the leeway I need to pull this off) they break protocol with a "pre-warp" civilization to help them out. (even if they turn out to have previously had warp-technology). So my intention is to violate protocol in favor of damage mitigation to get "the magics!" Right to do: No; Can get away with it: Yes.
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Happy Birthday! Here's ponies!:
Picard's going to be more pissed when Twilight arrives! LOL!
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Those are the very rare exceptions. It's just that beaming out would have produced a visual warp signature. But between a warp signature, and Geordi taking off his gear, the former is a far more appealing prospect.
Insurrection had them break protocol because Data's damage had already screwed the pooch so bad that a landing party would cause no more further contamination. There was also that instance where a bunch of dudes got injured and were being watched by natives. They tried a landing party to extract them, but they got caught too and were held as hostages. Then Picard gets shot with an arrow.
They break Prime Directive, but only do so when situation is FUBAR. I'm just peeved because I know Geordi is more careful than this.
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Ok, that makes sense! Thank you for taking time to listen to your readers. :)
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* squeak * Chaos works for an explanation then, if its all right with you that is...
(Twilight) "Oh for.. Mr Hoss, speak up confidently, please..."
>>Evil-Lovieness - SPOILERS! SHHH! - In the end, everyone dies - there are no survivors!
only joking - there are at least 1 or 2!
DisQord!! DisQord!!! DisQord!!!!
I think it would be even funnier if Geordi accidentally reveal his comperrison of Twilight and Picard preferably in ten-forward
1333969 Huh... That kinda sounds like how all me weekends end up.
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All of your weekends end with 1 or 2 left alive!?
Remind me to never accept a party invitation from you!
1344178 Aww don't be like that... All we really do is through a huge party!!! With singing, and dancing, and cupcakes.... Except we party for our lives... Unfortunately I died three or four weekends ago.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbGtjnluyY
This would be my only possible response!
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Just realized - somone should take the cupcakes video and make a pmv to this!
1345167 What? Nope I just joined the Black Lantern core.
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Time travel.
It's Q.
What did you expect? He was one of the first molecules in the universe, he even helped cause the Big Bang.
Chapter 5 Release: I'm nearly finished making final edits and will release on time later tomorrow (10/1)
Estimated time: 3:00PM EST (8:00PM GMT)
Look forward to it!
Et tu, Tree?
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I'm with Mr. Protocol here. You can explain this away for plot's sake, but you're going to do more explaining than you have written here.
Perhaps fate, not pity (and maybe also a little more pity) caused his inability to escape? Also, giving Fluttershy such a major injury and doing away with it so quickly story-wise seems inappropriate. That may have been the amount of narrative time spent on it on the show, but they had only an hour, lots of visual effects, and entire natural (or not) disasters injuring innocent indigenous... Not a stupid tree. Come on.
Something to rewrite, not something to cancel the story over. It feels very much like an actual Q/flubbed first contact episode so far.
1345464 *Blasts you with a White Lantern Ring.* That ought to take care of you for a while.
Oh great job Twilight, now you've ruined everything and the future of your species will be endangered even further.
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That's what she does! Soon to be princess and all!
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YES! That woud be hilarious! Oh Picard is not gonna be happy...
So, if I push Twilight into Rarity and she gets gored by Twilight's horn, Twilight would be blamed. Good to kno. No difference between that and Applejack causing someone to fall on Fluttershy, it could even be an accident, like bumping into her while walking down the street.
Oh my God, Twilight, you are so stupid in this story!. I like the fic anyway, though. By the way, touching someone beaming out does not take you with them. You pass right through them. Beside, Twilight would be stunned by someone in the transporter room right away when he/she sw her, then transported right back down.
6567505 Star Trek 4 disagrees. this does work
She carefully wrapped up the its’s head in bandages as a guise
1. She carefully wrapped up its head in bandages as a guide.
I like the description you gave the story. But the way the story is going i'm not a fan of. Also him breaking protocol is so annoying, So if how powerful your making the ponies out to be and how dumb of a move Twilight did. As of now this turning out to be cliché
This will be problematic, unless they wipe her memory to forget the unforgettable event to come.
Usually I say magic should be able to fix it, but brain injuries of sny kind are no laughing matter.
It shows that Q has a effect on the humans mind, but nothing to intrusive in my oppinion.