Can Spike survive in a hospital that wants the opposite of his well-being?

Just a heads up, there will be a bit of adult content coming up in this chapter, not enough to warrant the sex tag but I'd thought I'd give the fans a heads up.

Anyways enjoy the chapter! Luckily I had enough time before work to do the remaining edits.

“A red cross?.... I don’t remember, who has that one?” Spike asked, genuinely confused.

“Clearly they must be a nurse,” Rarity pointed out.

“OH OH I know! I know every cutie mark in Ponyville by heart!” Pinkie chirped.

“Yes, Pinkie?” Luna said.

“That’s Nurse Redheart!” Pinkie pointed out.

“Nurse Redheart? But I hardly even know her. Why is she with the main souls?” Spike asked.

“The connection is by the strongest souls not by relation to you Spike, There must be something about this Nurse that the Shadow was interested in perhaps,” Luna explained.

“Hmm, well I guess we gotta help her too regardless,” Spike said before turning to the portal.

“Be wary, Spike. The Shadow and its host become more cautious and smart as time goes on. They know you are nearly halfway to your destination, and they will stop at nothing to ensure your demise,” Luna warned.

“Got it!” Spike nodded before stepping forward into the portal.

Spike found himself at a hospital.

“Should have been obvious.” Spike sighed before looking ahead to the entrance.

“Be wary Spike, No matter how innocent a place seems, in the nightmare realm there’s no telling what horrors lie within,” Luna said

“Ah agree,” Applejack said appearing next to Spike “This place has all sorts of wrong written all over it.”

“I’ll be careful,” Spike said walking up to the door “I mean, what could be so shocking about a hospital-” Spike paused when opening the door.

Nurses…

Mares in Nurse outfits with bags over their heads were in a strange room full of music and prancing and the Nurse ponies making these… weird dance moves?…

“What the?” Spike said before AJ slapped a hoof over his eyes and forced Spike to exit the building.

“What the heck Applejack?” Spike complained

“Luna, there has to be another way… Those ponies in there were…” Applejack shuddered uncomfortably

“I understand what is happening in there is… above Spike's age group but he has no choice but to press on,” Luna replied, though her discomfort was clear.

“I REFUSE!” Rarity said forcefully taking control of who is speaking “There is no way I’m allowing those… those… perverts to contaminate Spike's mind!” Rarity said

“Can somepony explain?” Spike asked.

“Have you forgotten what’s at stake, Rarity!?” Luna said ignoring him

“Surely there must be another entrance or-” Rarity yelped as Pinkie replaced her.

“No time girls! We gotta move!” Pinkie got behind Spike and pushed him in there.

“H-hey!” Spike yelped as she pushed him through the doors, Spike could hear their argument in his head but he managed to tune them out.

Spike looked up and found himself in the weird club-like environment and as he walked through he found the ponies doing other dance moves.

Moves that were making him seriously uncomfortable.

“This must be one of those adult parties Twilight warned me about,” Spike said hurrying past the dancing mares.

He eventually found his way to a desk and saw a Nurse pony talking on the phone.

“Mhm, yeah, one of us saw him enter the building, he should be here any minute… understood, bye now!” The Nurse pony hung up and laid back in her chair until she heard a hesitant ‘hello?’

“Hm? Is somepony there?” The Nurse pony looked from side to side.

“Down here,” Spike said.

“Huh? Oh hey there! Twilight's little errand boy! Ain’t you just the cutest!” the Nurse gushed.

“Errand boy? Cutest? Hey! I’ll have you know-” Spike indignantly began before Luna interrupted him.

“Later Spike!” Luna said

“Ugh, fine, Listen… are you really Nurse Redheart? This all seems a little… weird for a Nurse.” Spike gestured to the club-like environment.

“Oh no, Sweetie. Nurse Redheart ain’t here no more. She’s busy elsewhere, but my associate here can take care of you.” The Nurse gestured to another Nurse who trotted over to him.

“Watcha need?” the Nurse asked.

“Uh… the soul?” Spike meekly asked.

“Hmm……… Sure! I can take you right to it!” the Nurse cheerfully said as she suddenly sprouted a pair of wheels on her hooves and skated off.

“...This is by far the weirdest nightmare yet,” Spike said following her “The monsters here seem friendly, and nothing scary has happened yet,” Spike said as she led him off through a hallway. Spike noted with some alarm that the Nurses behind the windows were making more of those weird movements… Spike honestly wanted out as soon as possible.

“It’s a real shame you're a kid. We adults have so much more fun!” The Nurse giggled.

“Seriously, is Nurse Redheart secretly a perv?” Spike said, following her into another hallway.

“Oh deep down we’re all a little kinky,” she said, glancing back at Spike.

Spike swallowed his discomfort and continued on.

“Alright! Here we are!” The Nurse stopped at a room.

“The soul’s in there?” Spike asked.

“No, but before we give you the soul we need to do a few check-ups, just as a precaution. You still want the soul, don’t ya?” The Nurse said with a tilt of the head.

“Yeah,” Spike said.

“Alright, follow me.” The Nurse went in and Spike followed.

“Spike, I don’t like this…” Spike turned and saw Fluttershy, who switched to AJ.

“Yeah, ah don’t trust this Nurse,” Applejack said.

“She said she’d give us the soul if we followed her,” Spike said.

“Just be careful who you trust,” Luna said

“I will,” Spike said going in.

“Took ya long enough,” the Nurse said.

“Sorry. So what’s going on here?” Spike asked.

“Simple. I’m just going to check your weight first. Once you are ready to begin accepting our mercy, please step up onto the scale." Spike shrugged and did as he was told.

Not ten seconds passed when suddenly a jet of flame from the ceiling struck him and he screamed and tumbled to the ground.

Thank goodness dragons are fireproof.

“What the hay was that!?” Spike yelled at the Nurse who just innocently tilted her head.

“Oh dear, must have been a malfunction. We’ll get that fixed. Meanwhile, if you'll follow me.” The Nurse left and Spike hesitantly followed her.

“Ah told you we shouldn’t trust her! Had you been a normal pony you’d be charbroiled right now” Applejack said angrily.

“What do I do?” Spike said as they paused.

“What you do is go in to give a little blood,” the Nurse said and when Spike backed away she spoke again.

“Oh don’t be a baby, it’s just a little prick. Now get in there.” The Nurse shoved Spike in and Spike found himself in a room with a bunch of holes in the walls.

“Spike, I don’t trust this! Get out of here!” Rarity demanded.

“How? I think she locked the door!” Spike asked.

“Oh! Oh! Memememe!” Pinkie said.

“That’s right if Pinkie can escape, so can you!” Luna said.

“Gotcha!” Spike used Pinkie's power and jumped out of view. He reappeared outside of the room and turned just in time to see through a window a dome of needles converging where he was standing a moment ago.

“Hey! How did you get out of there?!” The Nurse barked.

“You tried to kill me back there!” Spike shot back.

“Whaaaat, no. We just needed a little blood, but as always kids are scared of needles. If you’ll follow me.” The Nurse began to skate away but Spike stomped.

“No! Take me to the soul!” Spike yelled at the Nurse.

“Don’t be a brat, kid.” She spun around and threw a pill at Spike. As it hit him, his body suddenly went limp and he fell over.

“W-what? I can’t move!” Spike cried.

“Because I’ve stunned you. These pills sure are handy aren't they?” She grabbed Spike by the nape of the neck and tossed him into another room.

“Stay in there and accept our mercy!” the Nurse said before slamming the door. A red barrier appeared just as Spike regained feeling.

“It’s official. They're no different than the other monsters!” Sweetie Belle said as the CMC came out.

"Applejack! I need assistance!" Spike said as he saw an x-ray machine beginning to shake and glow.

"On it!" AJ said and Spike used his strength boost to punch through the barrier, and then he busted through the door, just in time to avoid an explosion.

"Hey! What are you doing!?" The Nurse skated after him as Spike ran for his life.

"You're crazy! I'm out of here!" Spike screamed.

“Nopony likes an unruly patient! Get back here!” the pony Nurse said impatiently.

“Nope!” Spike said, opening a double door before locking it and backing away.

The Nurse got to the door and banged on it a few times before stopping and looking through the little window at Spike, sighing in frustration.

"So that’s how it is. Seems Luna picked a stubborn one. Oh well, I tried to be nice about it but if death is what you want, it’s death you're gonna get! A male who refuses our salvation is another male who dies! And it’s not gonna be painless I assure you! But look at the bright side.” The mare stared down at him. “You’re never gonna see it coming!” And with a laugh, the mare spontaneously vanished before Spike’s eyes.

“What the? Where did she go?!” Spike said while backing away.

“It’s worse than we thought. Spike, be wary. They can conceal themselves,” Luna said.

“Wonderful.” Spike went through the room, opening a door and approaching an elevator.

Pressing the button, Spike stood back as the elevator opened. With an additional look around, he got in. When he arrived on the level he needed to reach, he exited into a lobby.

“Where do I go from here?” Spike wondered but jumped a little as a speaker came on.

“Attention Nurses! We have an unruly patient loose in the hospital. All Nurses are to be on high alert and the hospital is in lockdown until further notice. Full lethal mercy is authorized. That will be all.”

“Ulp, maybe they won’t know it’s me-” Spike said before the voice came back on.

“Oh and just if you're wondering, he looks like a small purple dragon so aim low if you wanna nail him!”

“Seriously! Argh!” Spike kicked a wall in frustration.

“It seems we have no choice but to venture forth and be ready for anything,” Rarity said. “You may want to use me a lot in this place if they can turn invisible.”

“Got it,” Spike said before entering the fray.

Seeing shards already he ran forward and began collecting them. As he ran around a hallway he heard roller blades scraping against the floor.

“Where are they?” Spike said, looking from side to side.

“Spike! Remember me!” Rarity said.

“Oh yeah!” Spike used precise vision to see a red shape moving to his left.

“Little cheater!” The Nurse growled and appeared wielding a giant syringe so big it looked like it could impale a pony.

“WHAT THE?!” Spike said, stepping away.

“You may feel a little PRICK!” And with that, the Nurse drove the needle forward and Spike jumped away from it and ran.

“Did you see the size of that needle?!” Spike shouted running through several hallways to avoid the Nurse chasing him but when she vanished again he had to just pick a direction and run.

“Spike! Use me!” Pinkie said.

“Ok!” Spike activated Pinkie’s power and dove through a door.

When the Nurse came through, she looked around for him.

“Where are ya? You little twerp!” the Nurse said as she looked.

Meanwhile, another Nurse came in.

“Didja find him?” one asked the other.

“Briefly, but it seems he gave me the slip,” the other Nurse said with clear disappointment.

“Don’t worry, he won’t escape our mercy! Come on!” And with that, the two left and Spike poked his head out from a ceiling lamp.

“Whew…” Spike said before hopping down and running on.

Spike collected more shards until he entered a morgue. As he was about to leave he heard voices and dove behind one of the counters.

“When we kill him, I wonder if the boss will let me stuff him and keep him,” one of the Nurses said as she skated past.

“Don’t count on it,” the other Nurse said as they skated on.

“These Nurses are hard to see coming,” Spike said as he ran after they left only to bump into a solid figure.

“Thought there was something off,” the Nurse said as she appeared.

“Crap!” Spike tried to run but a thrown pill hit him on the head and he fell limply to the ground.

“Sorry darlin, but I got my orders.” And with that, she raised her syringe and plunged it down for Spike's heart.

---Elsewhere---

Spike got up having been saved by Luna at the last second.

“Be careful, Spike. Remember Rarity’s power can counter their invisibility,” Luna said.

“I know, I know,” Spike said as he ran on.

Spike ran through the hallways collecting shards and using Rarity’s power to keep an eye peeled until he suddenly tripped. As he looked behind him to see what he tripped on, he saw a Nurse appear.

“Whoops, clumsy me!” The Nurse giggled before driving her syringe forward like a spear. Spike twisted his body a few times to avoid the needle before biting her hoof.

“OW! You little savage!” She brought out a pill but Spike moved first and used Applejack's strength to punch her and she flew into a wall.

Spitting a little blood, she looked at Spike with an implied angry glare through the bag over her head.

“You’d hit a mare!?” She got up and Spike ran for it.

As he ran through a door still collecting shards another Nurse appeared and tried to blindside him but Spike ducked the swing and she wound up hitting the Nurse chasing him.

“Ouch!” the Nurse cried hitting the ground.

“Whoopsie!” the other Nurse said.

“Hah! I’m out of he-” Spike was cut off as he ran between an electrical gate he didn’t see and he was blasted with electricity. He screamed and hit the ground twitching after it stopped.

“SPIKE!” Rarity cried kneeling beside him.

“Are you okay?!” Luna said sounding worried

“Y-yeah, thankfully you can’t burn a dragon…” Spike coughed smoke and looked behind him to see the other two Nurses recovering. he quickly got up and ran for it.

“It seems they’ve laid traps,” Luna pointed out.

“Really?” Spike said, avoiding another electric gate and the two Nurses going after him. Spike repeatedly used his precise vision ability to keep track of them and he nearly slipped on the floor when he rounded a corner.

Eventually, he couldn’t hear the two anymore. He stopped to take a breath.

“Ow, my lungs,” Spike wheezed before realizing he was at a fork in the road.

“Which way?” Spike asked.

“Left?” Scootaloo offered as the CMC came out

“THERE YOU ARE!” A Nurse shouted as she entered from the left door.

“Right! Go right!” The three fillies frantically cried.

“Ok!” Spike darted away from the pony trying to skewer him.

“Girls, time to split!” Spike said and the CMC nodded and became copies of him before splitting off to the sides.

“What the?” The Nurse paused as she looked around at the copies running through different doors.

Spike kept to the edge of the maze and collected the shards there before Luna spoke to him.

“That’s good, Spike. You have all the shards here.” Luna said as Spike collapsed to catch his breath.

“Thank goodness. But let me guess, there’s more elsewhere.”

“Yes,” Luna sadly admitted.

“Point the way.” Spike got up and Luna directed him to a door outside. As he exited he took a deep breath.

“Good to be out of that nuthouse,” Spike said.

“Hey! Who’s hospital are you calling a nuthouse!?” A Nurse angrily said hopping down from the roof, a second one joining her.

“Oh great,” Spike said, backing away.

“There’s nowhere to run, little guy. Just surrender to our mercy,” the Nurse said.

“Mercy?! Your brand of mercy involves baking me, needling me, and whatever that x-ray was going to do to me!” Spike said.

“Eh, don’t be a scaredy-cat,” the evil Nurse said before approaching Spike.

“Psst! Spikey!” Pinkie whispered to Spike.

“Gotcha,” Spike said before jumping into a trashcan next to him.

“Are you desperate or just stupid? We saw you jump into that trashcan,” the Nurse said before bucking it over.

But Spike wasn’t in it.

“What the?!” The two shouted. Meanwhile, in the background, Spike exited another trash can and quietly entered the next door.

“Whew!” Spike ran down several hallways and found himself at an ambulance. After looking around, he saw signs on the walls telling him to get on top of it.

“Sure, why not?” Spike got on the raising platform and jumped onto the ambulance vehicle.

The ambulance vehicle drove off and Spike held on tightly. It took several minutes but he managed to hold on until he arrived at another road junction. Getting off, he entered a series of hallways and found himself at a door.

“Well, here goes nothing.” Spike entered the room and found himself on a catwalk. The sight of Nurses immediately made him get down onto the ground and he snuck up to the railing.

It was a room with damaged ambulances and rubble was strewn about. And in the center of the room was a white soul.

“There’s so many here,” Spike said.

“What should we do?” Luna said.

“Well, we’re obviously going to have to sneak past them. Now how do we do tha-”

“GET TO WORK!” A booming voice echoed about the chamber and when Spike looked up his jaw dropped.

A mare at least ten times his size… anypony’s size was behind a massive counter.

She had to be at least the size of an Ursa Minor.

Her coat was black, her mane and tail was red, and sitting on the desk was a scalpel. This scalpel was massive, like big enough to cleave through a normal pony in one swing.

“We’re sorry, Nurse Blackheart. This little dragon gave our girls at the main building some trouble, and now he’s coming here!” the Nurse shouted up to her better.

“Well, assemble the Nurses here! I want that dragon captured the moment he shows his face!” Nurse Blackheart said back.

“Aye aye, Blackheart!” The Nurse saluted before skating off.

“That’s Nurse Redheart? She’s huge!” Spike said not noticing the door opening and closing behind him.

“Ah think we should steer clear of her,” AB helpfully said.

“Agreed, a Nurse that big would be-” Spike said before a sudden voice cut him off.

“It ain’t nice to call a mare, big y’know,” the voice said. Spike whirled around just in time to get the back of a syringe to the face.

“SPIKE, NO!” Luna shouted as Spike fell unconscious.

---later---

Spike woke up in a jail cell. As he looked around, he spotted the open door, and not wasting a minute he tried to bolt, only for the door to slam in his face and a Nurse to appear.

“Naughty naughty,” the Nurse said.

“Let me out!” Spike said.

“I’m thinkin, no.” This Nurse was red in color now as opposed to her previous white.

“I’ll get out,” Spike said, running up to the bars and using AJ’s strength boost, but the bars didn’t budge.

“Sorry, reinforced steel bars. I bet they could even hold Celestia at her worst,” the mare said with a laugh.

Spike sat down to catch his breath while the Nurse kept talking.

“Now that you’ve given up, listen well. You’ve caused our boss the Shadow a lot of trouble by stealing his souls, so kindly have Luna undo the enchantment on the souls and return them and we’ll put a good word in for ya.”

“Not a chance! They're not his souls to begin with!” Spike shouted.

“So unruly, what a shame. Well if you’re not going to give them back willingly, we’ll just hold you here until our boss arrives and tortures you until you cough ‘em up.” And with that, the Nurse skated away.

“I really don’t like the sound of that.” Spike shuddered.

“We need to get out of here,” Sweetie Belle said.

“I got an idea. Pinkie!” Spike said and Pinkie came out.

“Got it, chief!” Pinkie saluted

Spike glowed pink and he jumped into a bucket that was in the corner and reappeared outside the bars.

“I am so glad to have your powers, Pinkie,” Spike said, knowing he can flaunt that he figured out Pinkie's powers before Twilight later.

“Yeppers, it’s good to be partners!” Pinkie cheered.

Spike then crept along the hallways using Rarity’s power to keep an eye out for the Nurses. When he found his way back to the main room, he hid behind an ambulance.

“We need to sneak by them,” Luna said.

“Got it,” Spike said. He activated Pinkie's power again and quickly dove in and out of view, hiding while the big Nurse was looking.

“Come on, hurry!” Spike whispered as Blackheart looked down at a paper she was writing on.

Suddenly, Spike’s Pinkie Sense began to tingle and he realized he was about to be spotted. He hid under an ambulance as one of the Nurses skimmed past where he was.

“Nothin’ to report,” the Nurse said, moving on.

Spike crawled out and shuffled over to the big desk, slowly walking around the back of it to avoid the giant Nurse.

“Don’t see me, don’t see me, don’t see me,” Spike said under his breath over and over again. Thankfully, she didn’t and Spike got out of there.

“Whew, I made it without being seen,” Spike said, running on.

He had to pause briefly as he came upon a buzzsaw coming out of the ground and then he ran on to find himself in a vaguely prison-like environment with shards visible.

“What the? What kind of Hospital is this?” Spike said before hearing a siren blare.

“Attention Nurses! The patient has escaped his detention. I want him found and killed! Don’t make me take care of this myself or you’re all gonna suffer for it!” Nurse Blackheart boomed over the speaker.

“Oh crud,” Spike moaned before running on. He began to collect shards as he heard voices echoing all over the area.

“There he is!”

Spike instinctively activated his perception power to spot two Nurses descending upon him. He turned and ran around a corner as the Nurses pursued. As he ran towards a metal platform, he remembered what it did and jumped onto it. It carried him to an upper pathway while the two Nurses slung curses at him.

Spike ran along the upper pathways and found more shards but as he was running to grab them a buzzsaw came out of the ground and Spike narrowly skidded to a stop before the saw.

“Whew…” Spike’s relief was short-lived when a Nurse appeared behind him and hit him with a pill making him limply fall forward onto it with a surprised scream.

----

“Darnit!” Spike said back at the entrance.

“You have to be observant here, Spike” Luna scolded.

“Easier said than done.” Spike approached a pillar bearing an insulting message.

‘Stallions are weak and stupid.’

“Sheesh… how small-minded are these Nurses?” Spike shook his head before moving on. He ran through a hallway, but when he heard a whirring noise he hit the floor as saws whizzed by above his head.

“This place is crazy!” Spike got up and ran through the halls before the saws could come back.

Spike ran along and collected the shards while using the perception power to keep an eye out.

Spike paused at a corner when he saw several cloaked Nurses with perception. He waited until they left before going out to collect the shards in that area and moving on to the next.

Where he was suddenly bucked off his feet and hit a wall.

“Ow!” Spike said, looking up and seeing three Nurses standing there.

“That’s far enough, dragon!” one of them said.

“I still got a trick up my sleeve!” Spike said, getting and coughing a little blood.

“Oh yeah?” another Nurse said.

“The STARE!” Spike shouted and he used Fluttershy’s go-to move that caused the Nurses to gasp and back away.

“Now, Spike!” Fluttershy said.

Spike ran while the Nurses were still recovering and jumped onto another platform.

Now on the upper catwalks, Spike ran around while the Nurses tried to find available lifts to get up there.

Spike ran around the upper catwalks collecting shards, he made it into another area, and to check he immediately used Rarity’s power. He spotted two Nurses heading down two other paths so he took the middle one and looped around as the two nurses gave chase.

When he was done with that area he leaped down to the lower level and wasted no time running through a minefield of buzzsaws.

Spike had to pause and step around them.

“Yikes!” Spike yelped as one grazed him.

“You’ll never make it out!” one Nurse said as she skated around the buzzsaws. Spike hurried through the traps and spotted another lift. He looked back and had to duck a swing from the Nurse behind him, then spurted some flames to keep her back before running over to the platform and climbing on. The Nurse tried to leap on as well, but as she gripped the side, Spike kicked her hooves making her fall back down.

With that bad experience out of the way, Spike ran down the path in front of him.

“The last shards are down this path!” Luna said.

“Ok!” Spike said as he saw the shards he needed to collect.

After Spike grabbed the last one he could find, he paused to catch his breath.

“Luna? Did I get them all?” Spike asked.

“You did! Hurry!” Luna said.

Spike was about to do that when suddenly something appeared above him.

A Nurse was clinging onto the ceiling

“Peekaboo!” The Nurse said as Spike looked up, and he screamed when she dropped down on him.

Spike thrashed in her grip and she threw him against the wall, then stomped on his back.

“No!” Spike cried reaching for a wall to get some traction but he gave a pained scream when the Nurse plunged her syringe through his hand.

“GYAAAAAAAAAA!” Spike screamed in pain

“Aw did that hurt? So sorry, all out of Novocaine” The Nurse taunted before rolling Spike over and she wrapped her hooves around Spike's neck before trying to strangle him.

“L-luna…” Spike wheezed.

“I’m trying Spike! It’s not working!” Luna said audibly panicked.

“Yer princess can’t save you now! JUST. DIE. ALREADY!” The Nurse tightened her grip.

“LET HIM GO!” Rarity screamed trying to buck her off of him only for her hooves to phase through the Nurse.

Spike’s mind was ablaze with thoughts about this being the end, he tried to use his strength boost but his mind was growing foggy as the Nurse was strangling him.

But just as he was about to give in, thoughts about Twilight and the others being the slaves of a dream demon for eternity spurred something inside him.

“I. WON’T. DIE. HERE!” Spike yelled and he used Applejack’s strength to pry the Nurses' hooves off of him.

“What?! You shouldn’t have any strength left!” The Nurse said in disbelief

Spike blasted her in the face with fire. She pulled back in time to avoid the flames, but she fell back which let Spike get up and run as fast as he could.

He clutched his bleeding hand tightly but gritted through the pain.

He made it down to the entrance and ran through the hallways until he was in the room the big Nurse was in, only to pause when he saw she wasn’t there.

“Oh great, where did she go?” Spike asked.

“We should keep moving, Spikey. You're bleeding an awful lot.” Rarity said, looking very worried.

“Agreed.” Spike stumbled towards the soul before pausing at an ambulance.

“What is it, Spike?” Rarity asked.

“Give me a sec.” Spike crawled into the ambulance, dug through some of the supplies, and thankfully found bandages. “Guess I'm lucky they didn’t bother to clean these things out.”

Spike then wrapped up his hand and exited the vehicle.

“Smart idea, Spike,” Luna said.

“Thanks” and with that Spike grabbed the soul and left for the exit.

Spike went down a few more hallways until he found himself at a similar junction and an ambulance waiting for him.

“Convenient” Spike said before using the platform to leap onto the Ambulance and it took off.

Spike took this time to lay down and catch his breath.

“JUST WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING, DRAGON!?” A booming voice yelled out.

“Give me a break…” Spike sighed as he got up and saw Blackheart and a small army of red Nurses pursuing him.

“I repeat, GIVE ME A BREAK!” Spike said.

Nurse Blackheart held the oversized scalpel in her mouth. “I’m gonna grind you to dust!” she shouted, somehow not dropping her weapon.

“What do I do?!” Spike said looking around and he saw other ambulances ahead. Thinking fast, Spike jumped onto the next ambulance as Blackheart sliced the other one in half.

Meanwhile, a Nurse jumped onto Spike's car and pointed her weapon at him.

“You're a tough one to catch, but now that Blackheart is in on it, you're through!” She tried to stab Spike again but Spike dodged it and used the stare.

The Nurse froze up and Spike pushed her off, making her tumble back and into the big Nurse.

“Oof!” Blackheart grunted.

“Wait… Idea!” Spike said, memorizing that for now.

“GET BACK HERE!” Blackheart drove her scalpel forward and slashed the tires on the car. It overturned and Spike leaped onto another ambulance.

A Nurse jumped onto the ambulance Spike was on and tried to stab Spike but he caught the needle and held it back before staring at the Nurse to stun her and then he tossed her at the big Nurse with AJ’s strength, Blackheart grunted as the mare hit her.

“HOW DARE YOU HIT A MARE!” Blackheart roared

“You're the ones trying to kill me!” Spike said

Blackheart responded by skating up to the car Spike was on and swinging her scalpel down several times, cutting gaps in the roof of the ambulance while Spike avoided the swings. Growling in anger at Spike's evasion, she got closer, putting her forehooves on the vehicle.

“You're going down!” She tried to punch Spike, but he jumped back and landed on the hood. Blackheart leaned further over the ambulance and swung her forehooves down to try and crush Spike, but he still managed to hold on and avoid the swings at the same time.

Thinking quick, Spike used multiply and all of his copies ran up to her

“What the?” Blackheart became disoriented by all the Spikes.

The real Spike shot flames into her face, making her scream and back off as the flames lit her bag on fire.

“Take that!” Spike said.

“YOU’LL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE!” Blackheart screamed and in a blind fury she threw her scalpel into the ambulance Spike was on, making the ambulance lose control and begin to toss from side to side. Spike clutched onto the side as it overturned and slid across the ground.

“Ah, Tartarus…” Blackheart said, realizing her mistake before the ambulance collided with her, sending the giant mare tumbling.

“Spike! Get off of there!” Luna called out.

“Pinkie!” Spike yelled as the ambulance blew up.

The Nurses all paused at the wreckage.

“No way he survived that,” one Nurse said

“What about Blackheart?” another asked.

“What about her? We don’t die, remember?” The Nurses all converged to investigate.

Not noticing Spike was on another ambulance that was driving away.

“See ya,” Spike wheezed.

---later---

Spike arrived at the junction and hopped off.

“Spike, your heroics this time around were outstanding,” Luna said.

“I guess I'm getting used to fighting monsters. It’s nothing, really,” Spike said, feeling proud of himself before hearing a siren blare again and the voice of Blackheart shouted over the speakers.

“All Nurses, guard the portal with your lives! HE DOES NOT LEAVE!”

“Guess I’m not done yet,” Spike said as he ran down the halls and into the elevator.

After exiting the elevator Spike ran down the halls and into a decontamination area. He heard sounds behind him and looked to see Nurses banging on the glass trying to get through.

“See you later!” Spike said as he left that area and made his way through another door but saw two red Nurses.

“NO MERCY LEFT YOU BRAT!” One Nurse screamed as the other grabbed her, spun her and threw her, while the thrown one tried to stab him.

Spike responded by jumping to the side and avoiding the needle by a mere inch and kicking the Nurse in the face as she flew past him.

“After all I've been through, NOTHING will stop me from saving my friends!” Spike said as he ran up to the other one and used the stare on her. Then he ran around her while she was stunned and made his way back into the club area.

“GET HIM!” There were six Nurses in the room but Spike used his copies to confuse them while he ran past them.

“NO! HE CAN’T LEAVE!” One of them chased him out of the hospital and into the parking lot.

Spike was nearing the portal and just as he was almost there the Nurse jumped and drove her needle right through his back and through his heart.

"Hah! I got him!" the Nurse cheered.

"Nope, ya didn't," a country voice replied.

"What?" The Nurse said in disbelief as the Spike she stabbed vanished and was replaced by Apple Bloom, her needle phasing right through her.

"See you later!" The Nurse looked up and saw the real Spike standing by the portal.

"NO!" The Nurse cried before Spike jumped in.