Dr. Rare

by Art Inspired

Episode One, Part Three: School, Friends, and Young Beauty

Author's Note:

The following fiction is an adaptation of Dr. Slump, and it focuses primarily on outdated jokes and questionable themes from Japan that some may find offensive, and/or discomforting. Dr. Slump is owned and written by:
~Akira Toriyama
~Published by Shueisha
~For Monthly Shōnen Jump

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Mr. Pink Gopher points, and says, "Pony Village Middle School."

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The school stood tall with two flights of stairs. A large humanoid bug could be seen hanging onto a palm tree, and don't forget about Mr. Sunshine. He's busy brushing his teeth, and just beneath, Sourpony could be seen soaring over someone's field.

Mr. Pig drives along in his red automobile, and announces, "Colts and fillies of Pony Village, morning is here once again!" He happily does this every day. "Morning is here!"

At this time, the author would like to take a moment to elaborate more on the day and age. The ponies don't just live in peaceful harmony with a wide range of sentient animals. Actually, the pegasi, and unicorns, and regular earth ponies also all co-exist with one another as well.

This town is basically made up of all of those different kinds of ponies! Isn't that so unique? "Oh, but why haven't you mentioned that at all yet?" you may ask. Well, it just so happens that except for Sweetie Belle and Dr. Rare, we haven't come across any of those other kinds of ponies yet! HA! So... Where were we? Ah, yes.

They got out of the parked car, and before Dr. Rare could even step onto the sidewalk, Sweetie had wandered away.

"Hey," he called out, and he then came trotting in her direction. "What is it? What're you-"

The smell struck faster than the sight.

"Hah... Whew!"

He backed away, but Sweetie just kept on pondering over its pink, crusty texture. "Hoyo?"

"Sweetie!" The Doctor was losing his patience with her. "Get away from that! It's disgusting! Gah!"

She nabbed a stick, and instead of listening to the Doctor's orders, Sweetie Belle proceeded to poke the poop a couple of times. She began to giggle, and then, Sweetie Belle laughed hysterically. "I bet I can pick it up and-"

"Enough!" The Doctor at last grabbed her by the back of her shirt, and drug her away. "Do not EVER do anything like that!" She watched as Dr. Rare shivered while he furiously walked, and then went, "Yuck!"

Of course, she just laughed and laughed as he dragged her on into the building. "Haha! Doctor made a funny face!"

It happened almost as soon as he entered the complex. Directly down the hall stood a mare in a maroon dress. She had a brilliantly yellow mane which matched her equally impressive yellow coat, and she was busy directing a few of the children towards a nearby classroom. She then saw Dr. Rare, and just smiled peacefully in his direction.

He smiled back, but before he knew it, she was gone. Sweetie came up next to him, and asked, "Where do we go from here?"

"I'm... not too sure. We're looking for the principal."

"Yo," the principal said just as he went by them on roller-skates. He then stopped before Sweetie Belle, and asked, "Are you here to attend classes?" He was a unicorn, and had a white, combed back mane, and wore striped pants with a brown vest and tie.

She nodded, and then Dr. Rare said, "She sure is! Uh, which way to your office?"

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"It says here that she's your daughter?"

"Er, no! Actually..." The Doctor remembered the teacher from earlier. "She's my sister!"

"Your... sister...?"

"She's just gotten out of the hospital," he lied.

"Oh, is that so?" The principal flipped a few pages. "She's just... much younger than you are, I'm noticing..."

"I was in the hospital, Doctor?"

"Yes! You were, and now you're much better! Also, I may be a doctor, but call me your brother..."

The principal had a raised eyebrow.

"Haha... Perhaps she has some memory loss due to her illness..."

"Yes, well, Doctor... Rare Belle... As I recall, didn't both of your parents die when you were young?"

Dr. Rare's ears nearly fell off. He rushed to whisper into the principal's ear, "Actually, okay... truth be told, she actually really is my daughter."

Just then, the same teacher from before that was wearing the maroon dress came wandering in gracefully. "Excuse me," she said politely.

Dr. Rare's attention was diverted, and the principal said to her, "Oh, please come in, Miss Young Beauty." Dr. Rare made sure to check the spelling of her title. Yes, Dr. Rare. Miss means that she's unmarried and open for dating. The principal resumed, "This is Miss Young Beauty, and she's the school's homeroom teacher."

Dr. Rare's eyes were wide, and they just kept getting wider the closer Miss Beauty came towards them. "H-h-homeroom...? T-teacher???"

She also had on green earrings which highlighted her brilliant, hazel eyes. Her stare was almost breathtaking.

"Are you Rare Belle? The inventor?"

He just quivered where he was for a moment, and then answered her, "Y-yes..."

She just looked down, and said, "Then you must be Sweetie Belle. Right?"

Sweetie responded by raising a hoof to wave at her, and said, "N'cha!"

The teacher caught on right away, and gave her a hoof bump while also saying, "N'cha to you."

"A-and," the principal said. "Miss Young Beauty, this of course is her fa-"

"Her older brother! It's wonderful to meet you."

Dr. Rare was now more handsome than ever.

The principal did a double-take on Dr. Rare. "But you just... I'm a little confused," he whispered.

"How nice to meet you," Miss Beauty said forwardly just before kindly grabbing hold of Sweetie Belle by the hoof.

"Well then, Brother," Sweetie said. "I guess I'll be going with Miss Young Beauty to class now. Bye'cha!"

He waved while playing along. "Bye'cha! Sweetie, be sure and pay close attention to your teacher, and learn lots."

Miss Beauty also said, "Bye'cha!"

And they were gone. "Whew!" The Doctor returned to normal and quickly became exasperated.

"Is she your sister, or your daughter?"

Dr. Rare shouted, "That was just a joke! She's obviously my sister! It's hard to explain, alright?"

The principal then asked, "How did you do that to your face just now?"

Dr. Rare answered, "I can only do it for a short period of time. The longest I've ever stayed handsome like that is about three minutes or so."

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Needless to say, Sweetie Belle did not hold back her talents once inside the classroom and thoroughly distanced from her so-called brother. "Everypony," the teacher announced.

They were all in their seats. There was a kid that looked like Frankenstein, and there was one that looked like Dracula, and a whole bunch of other diverse children also occupied the room. There was also one that was wearing a white bunny mask, and one that wore and hat that looked like the top of a kitten's head. Sweetie Belle thought it looked really cute on him.

Finally, way in the back sat a pegasus filly with an orange mane. She had on a red ribbon tied to the back of her head to keep her hair out of her eyes. "Everyone, Please welcome our newest student, Sweetie Belle!"

Mostly everyone cheered for her.

"Sweetie Belle?" The teacher said to her, "Please sit anywhere you'd like."

There were open spots in the front, middle, and back row, and Sweetie Belle could've sat anywhere she wanted. However, she went all the way to the farthest row in the classroom, and Sweetie sat by the only pony in the whole room who didn't cheer for her.

"Eep!"

"N'cha," Sweetie said kindly, but the pony next to her was sweating.

"H-hello..." She then rolled her eyes and continued slouching.

"What's your name?" Sweetie asked.

"Mmh..." She glanced at Sweetie. "It's... uh, it's Apple... but everypony calls me Jane..."

"Why?"

"My full name's Applejane, but it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue."

Sweetie was much smaller as compared to Jane, so as she looked up at her, she smiled, and Jane smiled back.

"Alright, everypony, please pull out your math books and please turn to page three hundred and ninety-four. Can anyone solve the problem?"

"Yep!" Sweetie rose her hoof. Jane had her pencil in her mouth, but then, she just looked at Sweetie with disbelieve. "Number one is just one kitten. He's sitting by a pond watching carp frogs. Number two is a chicken divided by an elephant's trunk. That's how you get a mole's tail! Number three is obviously the square root of a wasp's wing. Number four is when you take zero points from a turtle after he swims minus a large gorilla and then put him up for sale."

The whole class turned back around to face the teacher, and to see if she was in fact correct.

"Let's see..." The teacher buried her muzzle into the answer book, and then replied with astonishment, "T-that's right, Sweetie! Goodness... I didn't even know all of that..."

Next was science class. Miss Young Beauty had on her lab coat and proceeded to pull up a poster of a frog. "Everyone," she said while pointing with a ruler, "this is the frog's heart."

However, Sweetie Belle was already hard at work. "You're too late," one of the kids yelled.

"Yeah, Sweetie's already finished an appendectomy," another kid shouted. "The frog's all better now!"

The teacher trotted on over to Sweetie Belle and Applejane's desk, and then the frog hopped up and onto Sweetie's head with ease. He held onto the scar that now kissed his belly, and said, "Why, you saved my life! Muchos gracias, sweet stuff."

The teacher almost couldn't believe this was happening. "A plus..."

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At soft ball, Sweetie Belle broke a new world record. The ball went all around the world and landed right back where she had thrown it. Everyone was at first very scared, but then impressed. The ball even had stickers of all the equestrian nations stuck to it. Jane couldn't believe what was happening, and as time progressed, she eventually deduced that this just might be the same pony from yesterday who trashed not only the whole town, but also her and her friend's bikes.

School had ended, and Jane was walking home, but she wasn't alone. Sweetie Belle was with her, and she was holding onto her jacket. Jane just glanced at Sweetie, and Sweetie smiled back. "Uh," Jane spoke up. "Say? Sweetie Belle? It was nice to meet you, and you're... well, you're crazy amazing, but..."

Sweetie then said something that Jane hadn't counted on. "Can we be friends?" A couple of the other kids ran by, laughing while they played. "We're friends now, right?"

"Phhsh," Jane sighed as she rolled her eyes, and just kept walking along while still slightly being pulled on. "I guess so... Let me introduce you to the rest of the gang."