> The Doctor's Experiment > by Daylight Glimmer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyra walked calmly through the hospital walls. She had grown used to their sad, blankness. Lyra turned the corner back into her the hall where her room was. I can't believe I've been here for a whole week! I have only been here because of a bad concussion,but at least I haven't lost my memory. She sat back on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. This hospital is sooooooo boring! Maybe Bonbon will come by to talk. There was a knock on the door and Bonbon walked in. "Speak of the devil!" Lyra cried out. "I think this concussion has done more damage then those doctors will ever know," the earth-pony muttered loud enough for her friend to hear. "Hey, how would you like it if I said that about you?!" Lyra threw back accusingly. "And I only said it because I was wondering if you would come by!" "I was only joking," Bonbon answered. "Anyways I ran into Dr.Stable on my way here. He said he was coming by in a bit." "Ugh, not him again!"Lyra yelled annoyed. "I mean I get he is a doctor and I am his patient, but seriously. Does he have to come by everyday?!" "Listen Lyra, it's his job so don't go giving him any crap about it ok?!" Bonbon lectured her friend. "Here, this is a new book written by Princess Twilight. It has something to do with an alternate wor-," she was cut off by a loud scream of excitement from Lyra. "EEEEEEKKKK!!!! HANDS!!! I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW THE WERE REAL!!!! IN YO FACE 'QUESTRIA!!!" Lyra bragged as she danced on the bed. "Lyra! Keep your voice down and stop acting like a filly. geez," Bonbon said in a most annoyed voice. Lyra stopped and threw her arms around Bonbon. "Thank you," she told the earth-pony. Bonbon blushed. "Think nothing of it, we are best friends for life," the cream coloured mare replied. *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* In came the well known Dr.Stable! He had Nurse Redheart with him. "Hello Ms.Heartstrings," the unicorn doctor said warmly. "Hey Doc," Lyra replied forced. "And how are you today Ms. Bonbon?" he asked the sweet making mare. "Good, and you Doctor?" she replied. "Fine, fine," he said. "You are being released today Ms.Lyra. I want you to remember to not do anything big for a week,"he informed them. "FINALLY, I'm getting out of this prison!" Lyra exclaimed relieved. "Uh-huh, well then just sign these papers and you can be on your way. Also I have a experiment I am trying to do , but I need somepony to try it out on. I thought you would be good candidates," he told them handing them a paper. Bonbon took the paper and glanced over it before quickly stuffing it in her saddle bag. "Thank you doctor," Bonbon said quickly forgetting the flyer. "Ok, I'm done signing this thing! Come on Bonbon you have no idea how long I have been craving a hot fudge sundae!" she excitedly said to her best friend. "Alright then lets go," Bonbon said back to Lyra. "Thanks again," she told the nurse and doctor while giving them a small bag of bits. They went to Sugar Cube Corners and Pinkie immediately freaked out when she saw Lyra. "YAY! You're out of the hospital!! Now I get to throw a 'Welcome Home' party! How does 5 o'clock Friday at your place sound?" she asked Bonbon enthusiastically. "I think we should wait another week Pinkie Pie," Bonbon replied with a smile. "Ok! What'll it be for 'ya? Wait! Whatever you order is on the house!" Pinkie told them with an ear to ear smile. "Two hot fudge sundaes!" Lyra told the bubbly pony with another smile. After eating their sundaes they went home, but a few ponies gave Lyra smiles and 'Great to see you better!' type of stuff on their way. When they got inside the mares settled down at the table and emptied out Bonbon's saddle bag. Bonbon saw the paper the doctor gave them and picked it up surprised. "Wow I totally forgot about this!" Bonbon exclaimed staring at the flyer. It read: Dear Reader, Recently I have taken most knowledge from ancient pony times all doctor knowledge, and such. I have come up with a way that could make ponies lives longer or shorter, but I need a test subject for my experiment. Please, if you are interested take this flyer to Ponyville General Hospital and I will personally talk with you about everything. Signed, Dr.Stable "Interesting....." Bonbon whispered. "Maybe we should put this in town hall or the message boards." "With something as big as this maybe they already have," Lyra countered. "I think we should get more info.," the green mare continued. "Oh, well. I am done with that place! This is going in the garbage," she told her friend. "I can put it in the can in my room," Lyra said quickly taking the paper in her magic. "Goodnight!" she called back to Bonbon. " 'Night?" Binbon replied confused. In her room Lyra read over the letter a few more times and put in her desk drawer. Make ponies lives shorter or longer...... This could make ponies live forever!!! Hmmm, I am gonna take this to the hospital tomorrow and ask about it. He gave it to us just today! It's not like somepony already decided to do it. "AHH-AH-ah-ah," she yawned. "Welp, looks like it is time for bed!" Lyra looked across the room at her warm clean bed. She snuggled under the covers and sleep overwhelmed her. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyra woke up ate a bowl of oats in her normal robe, and waved goodbye to Bonbon as she went away to her street shop. "Goodbye have a nice day!" Lyra called out to her as Bonbon left. And in 3,2,1... Yesah! She is gone! Lyra ran up the stairs into her room, bruched her haiir, took off the robe, and grabbed the book Bonbon gave her and the flyer. Lyra left their house and went to Ponyville General. "Hi there I'm Lyra I was signed out yesterday," she told the receptionist. "Uh-huh," the receptionist the started going through some files. "Yes, alright then what do you need?" she asked Lyra. "I have this," she showed the receptionist the flyer. "Oh yes of course Dr.Stable will be right with you!" she said happily. Wow world's first happy receptionist! Lyra thought surprised. About an hour later she finally was in a room with Dr.Stable. "So you are interested?" he asked. "Well uh-dur!" Lyra replied annoyed at his stupidity. Being a unicorn with about five friends she took everything very light heartedly. Unlike most ponies did. "I just wanted more information!" she told him "Well, it goes like this. There has been lots of knowledge and Princess Celestia agreed to power the machine for my test subject," he continued when she didn't reply. "You see it takes lots of magic and I still need somepony to try it out on!" he finished. "Ok then, where do I sign up?" she asked. After filling out a form and learning the date to come she went home to tell Bonbon, her bestest friend. Of course Bonbon was shocked, but relaxed a little when she learned it was free. Pinkie found out and decided Lyra needed more friends to encourage her. There was a party and overnight she gained about ten more friends. It was a true miracle!!! Lyra was so happy she finally had more shoulders to lean on and support her. On the day of going in, Lyra found that all of her new friends and old friends were there the entire time! Wow, my life used to be so crappy. But now, now I am actually doing something for pony-kind! she thought as she walked in with her friends. Life is good..... > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyra walked in surrounded by her many new friends, they were asking questions about the 'machine'. Lyra confessed she had never seen it, but was being powered by Celestia. Many were in awe that Celestia was doing this for Lyra! A few, such as Cloudkicker and Cherry Berry, were not as impressed. "Wow, all of this just for an experiment!" Carrot Top marveled. "Well, it is pretty dangerous. Not to mention I could die, but I could. That is why I decided to be the one to do it. My life is crappy and means nothing to no one. Except Bonbon, and apparently all of you!" Lyra told them. "Lyra, you are my best friend. I will be praying to all the Princesses that you live," Bonbon said giving Lyra a little hug. "Thank you Bonbon!" Lyra replied. After checking in, the receptionist showed Lyra to Dr.Stable. "Hello Ms.Heartstrings," Dr.Stable welcomed. "Hi," Lyra replied feeling a little more optimistic. "Are you ready to begin in thirty minutes?" he asked coolly. "I'm ready whenever you are ready," Lyra told him. "Then we will start then," he finished. He then showed Lyra the room she would be staying in. She got settled in and talked with her friends until a another doctor came in and had everypony leave. "Hello Ms. Heartstrings," he greeted. "Please just Lyra," she said with a bit of a smile. "Lyra then, I am Dr.Pulse, but you may call me just Pulse. I am going to tell the details. I am an anesthetic, I will be giving the medicine that should keep pain away," he informed the green unicorn. "Ok,' she commented. " Dr.Scope and Nurse Coldheart will be giving you a proper check-up before I do my part," he finished as they reached their destination. " Well here we are then," he said as they entered a white room with another door. There was the other doctor and nurse both special bags. She could hear talking in the other room, also there was a sort of bed with wheels in the middle of this room. The other doctor beckoned her to sit on the wheeled bed, so she did. Once settled, Dr.Pulse left and Dr. Scope started speaking, the nurse got things out of their bags. " Hi there Lyra, I'm Dr.Scope all I'm here to do is make sure that you are going to be ready for this and disinfect your body before Dr.Pulse comes in to do his job." he stated. Lyra simply nodded. The nurse and Doc gave her a thorough check-up before giving her like five shots! Outrageous. Once done they both gave goodbyes before leaving. Then came in the anesthetic with two other nurses and some sort of thingies she couldn't describe. After slipping on a patient gown, and being leaned back fully on the bed, she felt Dr.Pulse strap a mask over her face, then a few minutes later the world became fuzzy and she couldn't feel her body. She could hear muffled words, and expected to unconscious, but never did. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the room with the 'machine' Celestia stood beside it and watched Lyra get pushed inside and transitioned onto the steel platform next to the 'machine'. She was strapped in securely, and suction cups were connected all over her body. Next Celestia stuck her horn inside a special hole that draw magic from her. Dr.Stable put the 'machine' on a level of one. It slowly started powering and was pulling a little magic from the alicorn, not enough to feel it coming out though. Lyra was shaking and looks of fear and pain were crossing her face. "I thought you put her on full?" Dr.Stable asked Pulse. "We did...." he trailed off. "Let it finishing running doctor, we may not know if anything has been done to her at all." a nurse said. "Hm, you have a point Nurse Snowyheart," Dr.Stable replied. Celestia spoke," Do we really want to risk more than we need to?" "Well your highness, it only has about thirty more seconds," he answered. "You're the doctor," Celestia replied as the second was up and the machine powered down. Lyra's eyes were wide and scared. "Quick, we need conscious sedation- STAT!" he said quickly. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Once Lyra was in her room asleep, all the ponies in the room with the 'machine' had a talk. "What we saw today, was unusual," Dt.Stable started. "We will have great knowledge once this is over, but first I think we need to know if her life span has extend or decreased. The best way to do that is by doing a blood test," he informed the ponies. "Then we can try again tomorrow afternoon." he finished. "But doctor, we all saw she went through a lot. Why don't we wait a week?" Nurse Snowyheart asked. "I completely agree, Dr.Stable I saw with my own two eyes the pain within," the Princess told him. "With all due respect your highness, we need to keep this as short as possible." he replied. "I can leave and come back next week," Celestia told him. All the others agreed, so the doctor was forced to give in. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Lyra's friends were waiting the entire time, Lyra knew they were waiting for her. She now knew that she was only wanted by one, but by many. That everypony had a part to play in the world, that life was never crap, but a gift. A gift to share with others, the gift of light and love..... > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyra woke up in that room Dr.Pulse had shown her. It was buckin creepy! She looked around and saw her saddle bag leaned up against the wall. The door opened and in came Bonbon, she was such a good friend! "Heyo," Lyra greeted her. "Hello to you too!" Bonbon replied. "Are the results in?" she asked eager to know if it could make ponies live forever. "Kind of.... they think with a few modifications it will work," Bonbon answered warily. "Modifications?! You mean I have to do that AGAIN?!" Lyra complained. "Hey, you're the one who signed up for it," Bonbon told her sternly. "Yeah, yeah ok...." the unicorn answered. "I hope you realize that you can't back out now," the earth pony told the unicorn. "I don't plan on backing out," Lyra told Bonbon smugly. "Don't you sass me!" Bonbon raised her voice a little because of irritation. "I AIN'T SASSIN YOUS!" she yelled back. "Grrr, Lyra stop this childish nonsense right now!" Bonbon demanded. "This is not childish nonsense!" Lyra screamed back. Lyra was hooked up to a heart monitor so it was rising faster and started bleeping. "SHUT UP!" Bonbon yelled out and then she crushed the monitor. "You're gonna have to pay for that ya know," Lyra pointed out innocently. "Why you little *bleep* of a mare!" Bonbon screamed. She then stormed out of the room. > Chapter 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonbon raced out of the hospital in disbelief. I can't believe I said that to my best friend.... She shook herself out of it. Bonbon reached the cafe and sat down beside Octavia and Vinyl. "Hey Bonbon," Vinyl greeted. "I said something awful to Lyra..." Bonbon whispered gloomily. "Good to see you too," Vinyl replied rolling her eyes. Octi gave Vinyl a little shove. "Like what?" Octavia asked raising an eyebrow. "I'd rather not say," Bonbon replied sullenly. "Look, just go back, say sorry and leave it behind in the past," Vinyl said trying to give her advice. "Oh yeah, that will work so well. It worked out the last time we fought," Octavia said sarcastically. Vinyl paused for a moment, then blushed and moved down in her seat. "Oh yeah... hehe kinda forgot... about that... hehe... hehe...." "What am I going to do with her now?!" Bonbon wailed. Just then a certain funny eyed pegasus landed on the table. "Give her muffins!" the pegasus said smiling widely. "If muffins were the answer to everything... life would be too easy Derpy," Bonbon groaned. Derpy got off the table and put on a thinking face. "Just apologize and do what you two do best," it wasn't Derpy who said that. He had a more sophisticated british voice. "I was starting to think you couldn't catch up!" Derpy joked giving the Doctor a little hug. "Ah, my dear know one thing: I will always catch up," he told her. "Do what we do best....." Bonbon threw the words around in her head. "I'll help!" Vinyl said with a smile. "Count me in!" Derpy joined. "Friend's always help friend's," Octavia told Bonbon. "I can help as well my dear," Dr.Whooves said. "Vinyl.... get your best music together. Derpy, Doctor you two can get the sweets. Octavia come with me!" Bonbon told then excitedly. "We're about to get our friendship on!" > Chapter 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonbon and Octavia raced to the hospital. Questions raced through Octi's mind but kept quiet, sensing Bonbon was still piecing everything together herself. They entered through the big glass doors. The two earth pony mares walked silently to the receptionist desk, the sturdy mare looked up. "What do you need?" she asked in nasily tone. "We're here to see our friend, Lyra Heartstrings," Bonbon replied smoothly. "The experiment. We moved her to room 312 on floor 5 due to somepony breaking the monitor," the receptionist told them giving Bonbon a suspicious look. "Wait? What?" Octavia asked with a startled face. "You never said anything about bre-" the mare was cut off as Bonbon shoved her cream colored hoof over the musicians mouth, leaving only in-audible muttering behind. "Uh, thank you so much, we will just be going," Bonbon told the snotty receptionist. Bonbon walked away, her hoof still covering Octavia's mouth. Once on the elevator, Bonbon took her hoof off of her friend's mouth. "Really?" Octi asked glaring at Bonbon. "I don't wanna pay a bunch of money to fix something like that, besides, I was mad," the curly haired mare told the other glaring pony. "You know, I'm not even going to try." Octavia replied flatly. They walked off the elevator and went to the right. The mares walked silently down the dimly lighted halls. After walking for another two minutes, they came to room 312. Bonbon gave a little knock on the door before pushing it open. "Hello?" the green unicorn asked. "Bonbon! I knew you'd be back!" Lyra exclaimed at the sight of her friend, she put the book she was holding on the nightstand beside her before getting up to hug her friend. "Hey Lyra," Bonbon greeted with a hug. "Hello friend, good to see you better after that concussion," Octavia told Lyra gladly. "Octi! I've missed you!" Lyra cheered as she tightly squeezed the cellist. "How are things?" Octavia asked after Lyra let go. "Well, Bonnie here bailed me this morning so I'm pretty confused as to why," Lyra told them as she gazed expectantly at Bonbon. "I called you a *bleep*, that's why I bailed!" Bonbon exclaimed very confused. " Do I look like I care?" Lyra asked giving Bonbon that look you give people when you are annoyed/grumpy. "No, you don't, wow." Was Bonbon's surprised reply. Suddenly, the door burst open and in came the rest of the ponies. DJ had her big boom box, and Derpy and the Doctor came in with a cart full of Lyra's fav desserts. " You wanna explain what's going on here?" Lyra asked giving Bonbon a long hard stare. "Well, I figured you were mad at me for calling you a *bleep*. But I guess not, so, random party time???" Bonbon asked kinda confused at the fact that Lyra wasn't mad. "You do realize we fight like, all the time! I know when you are just mad or something, and that never changes the fact we're best friends!" Lyra told Bonbon with her heart full of friendship. "Oh, yeah, right, at least we don't fight as much as Vinyl and Octavia." Bonbon pointed out with a cheeky smile. "HEY!" Octavia and Vinyl yelled in unison, then looked at each other and started laughing. "Well then my friends," Doctor Whooves started, " looks like there was never a problem in the first place, just all in the mind! Now, if you will all excuse me, I've got a world to go to save," and with that, the doctor left the room. The ponies looked around the room at each other, Derpy was all cool with it though, like that was completely normal. "Random party time?" Vinyl asked. "Heck yeah!" Lyra shouted. And thee was a big party until after five minutes everypony, except Lyra, was banned from the hospital for the rest of the day. > Chapter 7 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day Lyra found herself with Discord to try out the weird machine thing. It was, odd to say the least, being in a room with a guy she barely knew and didn't trust one bit. She gazed warily at the draconiquis (sorry if I spelled it wrong) and lied down on the table. The doctor's injected something into her system and Discord started to work his weird magic. She heard a whirring sound, making the unicorn uncomfortable. She felt a surge of power run through her veins, and another sensation she couldn't recall. Crap, this is scary! She thought. Once the whirring stopped Dr.Stable took some blood and ran off. This time they were more hopeful. A nurse escorted Lyra back to her room, and of course people were waiting on her. "Hey Lyra," Bonbon greeted her friend. "Bonbon! HI!" Lyra welcomed. It was soon a group hug since Vinyl, Octavia, and Derpy, were there too. They chatted, and laughed, and enjoyed each other's company. Dr.Stable cam back after about two hours with.... RESULTS! And Twilicorn. "Hi, Lyra, it's good to see you," Twilight told her. "Hi Twi, he rhyme!" Lyra mused. ENDING 1 "Lyra, I am terribly sorry, but it is impossible to scientifically extend a pony's life time," Dr.Stable informed downcast. "Oh, so you're saying that I spent the last three weeks here for nothing." Lyra's face was twisted with anger. Hey eyes wide and bloodshot with a twitching bottom eyelid. "Lyra......?" Bonbon asked cautiously. Lyra turned into a raging storm, crashing and destroying everything. Twilight used her magic to sedate the wild horse and Bonbon and Derpy ended up carrying Lyra back to her house and lived happily ever after, I guess. Sure we'll go with that. ENDING 2 "Lyra it worked you will now live forever, and never die! I'M A GENIUS!!!!" the stallion shouted happily. After that Lyra turned into the most famous pony around Equestria, and became quite rich too. The procedure was something expensive, not cheap! Bonbon and Lyra lived happily together for eternity as sisters. ENDING 3 "This was a waste of time and money Ms.Heartstrings, it was a fail, I am very sorry for the inconvenience," Dr.Stable told her. "Oh well, all is well that ends well I guess," Lyra shrugged. "BUT!!!!" Lyra used her magic to lift the book to Princess Twilight Sparkle. The alicorn understood and signed it for the mare. "YAY!!" The friends left to get ice-cream, and lived happily for about a week. 'Cause it's Equestria we're talking about here. You can only be peaceful for so long. THE END.