Chapters The Life Of A Homeless Filly
Morning came and Scootaloo decided to head out, she crept out of the small trapdoor and peered around in search for flutter shy, she was obviously still in bed. "Ok," she thought "I need to tell the others, but... were will they be?"
It was a Saturday so no pony would be in school, maybe they were at the tree house? She will go there first!
On the way to the tree house, she didn't seem to see any pony, although she did see weather ponies setting up clouds for a due storm. Scootaloo, Hated, Storms. Especially as water always seems to drip through the trap door, normally on to her.
When she finally got to the tree house, the rain started to fall, only slightly at first, but falling none the less. She quickly took cover in the tree house. It was warmer than her small room, much warmer, and apple bloom's handy work had made it waterproof, so no drips of water fell on her. She lied down on one of the beanbags, and slowly fell asleep.
She dreamed of rainbow dash, standing next to her open-hoofed, she ran towards her but as she got closer, rainbow dash got further away. she finally caught up using all her strength. Rainbow scooped her up in her arms, and dropped her in a small cage near the van labeled 'Home For Abandoned Filly's'. Scootaloo's heart sunk to the sight of a police pony giving rainbow money for the deed she had just done. She couldn't believe her eyes. The police pony threw her cage in the van and at the moment he closed the doors, Scootaloo woke up.
She woke up to see two very puzzled friends, "Why are you sleeping in the tree house Scoot?" Apple Bloom asked "we couldn't find you anywhere."
"Yeah silly! You never even told us were you live!" Sweetie Bell said, clueless.
"I... Dont ... live any were.." Scootaloo mumbled, hoof over mouth.
"What was that?"
"I DONT LIVE ANY WERE!" Scootaloo shouted, tears forming in her eyes.
The two girls looked at each other stunned.
"Then were do you sleep?"
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Scootaloo looked to the floor, she knew that this might be the end, that she might need to go back to the orphanage.
"I sleep under flutter shy's bridge," Scootaloo said with a sad look on her face.
"But why? Why didn't you tell some pony, they would set you up in a nice orphanage!" Apple Bloom said, still pretty clueless of Scootaloo's situation.
"I dont want to go back, they cant make me!" Said Scootaloo, tears forming in her eyes, "They used to beat me, and i had no friends... so i ran away, to pony vile."
A long pause of silence in the tree house, Scootaloo looked to the floor and Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell looked at each other, hoping that one would talk first.
"Please dont tell any pony..?" Scootaloo mumbled softly.
The girls glanced at each other
"We wont..." Sweetie Bell groaned.
"I promise" Continued Apple Bloom.
Scootaloo looked at her two friends in thanks, they looked back still puzzled,
"So what now?" Asked Apple Bloom, unsure of what to do.
"I dont know..." Scootaloo said, leaving the room
Before the girls could say anything, Scootaloo was gone, and was buzzing to the bridge, using her wings to boost her along.
She finally got back to see Flutter Shy outside with her animals. She couldn't go back and risk getting seen, she would just walk around, maybe ask for some work. She trotted off to town square, there were lots of pony's in town. See stood by a wall and placed a sign, 'Odd Jobs' and after about 5 minutes, a large stallion walked up and said, "I need some ground plowing."
He paused, "A lot of ground..."
Scootaloo paused and thought about it, "How much are you paying?" She said.
"20 Bits for the whole field, you get payed after."
Scootaloo walked up to the stallion and held out her hoof, they hoof-bumped and headed off to were the stallion was taking them.
They got to a large farm and to the left was a plowing machine. it had a saddle for Scootaloo, but she had a better idea,
She slid through the saddle and went up a bit more, displaying her wings. She started to buzz and the plow started to move, it was working! She did this for about 20 minutes and by that time, it was done. she fetched the stallion and he handed her the bits.
"There's more were that came from, if you're up for it!"
Scootaloo nodded with joy.
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Scootaloo woke up early the next morning to hear a strange but familiar mumbled voice calling "Scootaloo, your coming with me!"
She quickly got up and sprung open the cold trapdoor, it was still dark but the little bit of sun that Celesta had rose, was creating a silhouette out of the large group of ponies. She could see one Pegasus in the sky and about 7 different ponies on the ground, varying in size. She heard the voice again "Come on Scootaloo! Come home!"
She thought back, she only had one home, the orphanage, the one she had ran away from, they were coming to take her back.
She buzzed off, leaving the bits she had earned the previous day, behind.
The group seemed to be catching up with her, the Pegasus at front, Scootaloo had no way of running, so she started glancing side to try and find somewhere to hide. she seen a small hole in the tree and instantly dived in. she caught her wing on it and landed with a thud. She planted her face into the cold soil and screamed in pain. The group of ponies ran past, causing the roof of the hole to drop dirt on Scootaloo's head and on the cut on her wing. She screamed once again, she was in massive pain. The group that were looking for her, now knew that she lived under Flutter shy's bridge and it would be too risky to go back to collect her bits. So she was stranded, no home, no bits and no pony to go to. She crawled out of the hole, she thought about going to the girls to tell them about all that had happened, and that somepony was out to get her, but that would be putting them in danger, especially if Scootaloo now counted as a fugitive. She couldn't do that to her only friends.
Scootaloo started heading to town, maybe some pony would know how to get to the next town, or maybe know a way out of this.
When she got to town, ponies were staring at her, she felt a little bit awkward, and by the time she was at town center, a large group of ponies were staring at her, silently. Silently until a voice spoke out,
"Isn't that Scootaloo? She needs to go home !"
Suddenly ponies started crowding round her, Scootaloo leaped off, using her wings to provide a little bit extra height in her jump, but she landed with a crack, she had broken her leg.
At that point Scootaloo was filled with pride and despair, pride in how high her wings had taken her, and despair in that she had broken her leg. For some reason he leg had went numb but she didn't think anything of it as all her thoughts were on getting away, fast! The crowd of ponies didn't seem to run that fast, in fact they weren't running at all, they were just trotting while calling her, "Scootaloo, come back!"
After 3 minutes of hopping frantically, Scootaloo fell to the floor, her leg was no longer numb and all of the pain hit her at once, she let out a hedge scream.
She could still see town and knew that somepony would be able to hear her, so using all her might, she pulled herself up and started to hop once again. As soon as she put any weight on the broken leg, her skin split and started gushing with blood, she let out another ear-parsing scream, causing birds to fly out of the tree's around her. She didn't have the energy to trot, and she knew that if she stayed still any longer, they would find her, so she tried to climb a tree but got half way and started losing the last bit of strength she had and fell to the floor, scraping all of her body across the rigid bark. She hit the floor with a loud thud, she could see that she was bleeding and she slowly started bleeding everywhere her vision slowly blacked out.
She started seeing blurred images again after being woken up by noises, she looked around to see the red ground around her and at least half of the town standing around her. Up close was 2 unmistakable figures, a cyan blue rainbow-maned Pegasus and a purple Unicorn, it was Rainbow Dash and Twilight, they were speaking, she couldn't make out what they were saying, as her senses were still weak, but she could see Twilight pointing here hoof to her and looking at Rainbow. Scootaloo turned her head to Rainbow and muttered the words "Help... Me..."
Scootaloo took one more look at Rainbow and her senses started kicking in, she could see the blank look on Rainbows face and the back of her hoof in the air.
"Good bye for now Scoot..." Rainbow said while punching Scootaloo in the face with full force.
Scootaloo's head was forced to turn to the side, The last thing she saw before shutting down, was Twilight's horn start admitting fire.
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“Come on Scoot!” A voice called from round the corner. “Hurry up!”
Scootaloo sighed and sped up trying to catch up to her friends, she would have been far in front if she hadn’t decided to lose her scooter. She caught up and started gasping for breath as the 2 other filly’s stared in disappointment.
“What took you so long?” Asked Applebloom.
“Yeah! You took forever!” Complained Sweetiebell
Scootaloo stared up at the two older filly’s and sighed
“I lost my scooter…”
Her head fell to the ground.
“This is great!” Shouted Applebloom a bit louder than she should of.
“It is?” Scootaloo’s head perked back up
Applebloom and Sweetiebell looked at each other and said “Investigator cutie marks!”
Scootaloo still didn't look that happy, but she couldn't complain, they were trying to help.
The two energetic filly’s bounced off in search for clues,
leaving Scootaloo alone with her thoughts. What Applebloom and Sweetiebell didn’t know, was that Scootaloo sold it, to a traveller, she needed the bits too bad to keep her beloved scooter. It was getting dark now, so she decided to start heading home, if you could call It a home.
On the way back she seen every pony else calling their children home, she missed when her mom would do that.
“I bet Applebloom and Sweetiebell are going home now.”
She said out loud, knowing no pony was around to hear,
“and Rainbow…”
She paused, hearing what she thought was an unfamiliar voice shouting “You’re coming with me!”
She instantly started running as fast as she could, heading towards Flutter Shy’s cottage, hoping flutter shy wasn’t outside to see what she was going to do. She was surprised that the voice hadn’t tried to chase her, any pony could catch her when she was like this! Luckily flutter shy was either in bed, or out, because she wasn’t there to stop Scootaloo from going home, if you could call it home.
Scootaloo slid down the brook and hid under flutter shy’s bridge, there was a small trapdoor underneath and she opened it to find a small room, it was pretty dark and had posters of rainbow dash in it, this was her home...
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The room was damp. Flutter shy didn't know that the trapdoor was even there, and if she did, then she hadn't checked it since Scootaloo claimed it as home. Scootaloo lay, slump on the pile of rags she had stole from Rarity's garbage. "I wounder who called out to me." she though in her head, still a bit out of breath. She looked to the side to see a cyan feather laying on the floor of the tiny room. She had got it from Rainbow Dash, she picked it up and held it to her chest. "One day.." she thought eyes clamped shut. "One day i know you will love me..." she lay the feather back down and sighed. She knew that Rainbow would never love her, or at least not enough for her to adopt. she couldn't even tell her, because if Rainbow didn't want to adopt her, she would have to go back to the orphanage, the horrible, lonely, abusive orphanage, she wished she would never have to think of it again, but one day she would have to tell rainbow, and her friends two.
She assumed the pony that called out was a mere, mostly because the voice was high pitch, but also because the blurred figure she saw wasn't very tall, from what she could tell although she couldn't put her finger on what race the mere was, could it of been Pegasus? she didn't make out wings, but she didn't see for long, so it could of had wings, but it didn't have a horn, so it wasn't a unicorn, so it was either an Earth Pony or a Pegasus, either way the mere was out to get her, or maybe another filly?
"A filly-toucher!" she screamed. she quickly put her hands over her mouth realizing that flutter shy was probably sleeping.
she needed to tell the others about what she saw. but it was late so she decided that it could wait until the morning.
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Scootaloo had a hard day of work, but she couldn't help but think what her friends would do, and what they would say/
If they would keep it a secret, or if they would tell every pony...
She had came to the conclusion that they would keep it quite, they did say they would, and Apple Bloom is the sister of the element of honesty !
By the end of the day Scootaloo had two Things: A total of 150 bits and a REALLY bad wing ache.
She trotted of to sugar cube corner and gave Mrs Cake 15 bits "What can i get for 15 bits?" She chirped happily.
"Anything you want dear, but be quick the store is closing soon." Replied Mrs Cake.
Scootaloo went for the biggest cake she could see, and snapped it up!
"Is this ok?" Scootaloo put the cake on the counter.
"Yep, That's exactly 15 bits!"
Scootaloo left the store with a smile, and the cake.
By the time she got 'Home', it was dark and flutter shy was no were to be seen, Scootaloo slid under the bridge and opened the trap door to be shocked by the fact that the once full room, was empty and all of her past belongings were gone.
She almost cried at this sight. Who would do this? Why would they do this?
She placed the cake on the floor and took one more look round, just to make sure her eye's were right. They were.
Se paused. And thought about what she had did to deserve this, then she remembered,
"THE GIRLS!!" She screeched, forgetting about flutter shy.
She stopped being say and started getting worried, she had forgot to tell her friends what had happened to her the night before, they might have been kidnapped. Her thoughts were interrupted by a strange grumbling sound, it was here, she was very hungry.
"Cant eat on an empty stomach..." She thought, taking the first bite of the cake. She soon finished the cake and lied down on the cold floor, she moved the box underneath her and started going to sleep.
