Loyalty

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

The alarm clock that lay beside Rainbow Dash's bed blared, awaking the Pegasus and rattling the walls. Dash's eyes rose from their eternal slumber slower than her pet, Tank. Dash lifted her legs out of her bed, while hearing sickening cracks for each movement. Her eyes may have been open but her body was still asleep. Rainbow stepped out of the room into the hallway that separated her between the bathroom, her room, and the kitchen. There was an empty room at the end of the hallway that has never been used. All that is in there is her favorite Nightmare Night costume, a Wonderbolts outfit. Dash had no idea why she had kept it, as it has been 25 years since she could fit into it. She sighed as she stepped into the kitchen, greeted by an old photograph of a smiling filly with two older looking Pegasi. She had this photo for viewing purposes. She showed no emotions as she walked by, having no relation to them. Rainbow, ignoring the photo like usual, stepped to the pantry to make the one thing she could actually cook. Cook is kind of a loose term though, as she only made cereal. Rainbow poured the cereal, hearing each flake hit the porcelein.

She sat down at her cloud table, thinking about the day ahead. All she had to do was a shower at 3 for Applejack, and sun at noon, just like every day. It wasn't a requirement as much as a favor to her biggest fan, Scootaloo. Rainbow wanted her to have recess. What Pegasus can go to school and NOT have Recess after all? So, she always prevented any scheduled rains at noon until one. Dash wondered if Scoots had known that she was keeping the weather nice for her. Doubt it. I bet she's too concerned trying to get herself killed to get her cutie mark. A small chuckle weaved out of the cyan mare.

After eating her breakfast, she walked over to her bathroom. Taking her shower, feeling the warm water coursing through her mane, she sat in philosophical thought. She started thinking about the Wonderbolts, but for some reason drifted into thinking about Scoots. While she was her biggest fan, it was kinda weird that she thought of her while thinking about the Wonderbolts. Rainbow's deep thoughts were interrupted when she realized she had been in the shower too long. She jumped out as fast as she could, causing a wind to fly through the bathroom. She looked in the mirror to find her hair straight. Gross. Rainbow looked over at the clock. 8:30 AM. Rainbow was already running a half hour late, so she quickly compromised in saying that the wind would fix her hair. Dash stepped out of her front door and prepped her wings.

She jumped off the ground and shot downward to Ponyville. Every morning, Rainbow Dash would go by the school to wish Scootaloo a good day. For some weird reason, Rainbow saw herself in Scootaloo. Why was beyond her. But telling her to have a great day always brought a smile to her face. Rainbow landed on the ground with the most graceful pose she could make. She heard a laugh.

"Whatchya doin Dashie? You're not Rarity!"

Dash turned in the direction of the origin of the voice. There stood an orange filly with a beautiful magenta mane. Rainbow walked over to the little squirt and looked down at her.

"Heh. At least I'm awesome enough to do that. You probably couldn't even do that if you tried." Dash responded with her always confident gusto.

"Oh yea?" Scoots, looking determined, began to flap her disfigured wings. "Watch this?"

She levitated on the ground for a couple of seconds, a huge feat for Scootaloo, until she fell onto the ground with a shuddering "Oof!"

Whilst the Cutie Mark Crusaders that surrounded her giggled, she walked up to Scoots and gave her a pat on the head. "Still not as awesome as me, but you're getting there!" Scootaloo's eyes widened in excitement that her hero had told her that she was doing great! Dash was reminded of a certain filly when she met Spitfire for the first time. The exact same face that Scootaloo was making looked exactly like that. "Well, I gotta get off to work. See you fillies later!" Each cutie mark crusader waved as Dash flew off into the sky.

Rainbow Dash flew through the sky at breakneck speeds only to be stopped by a gray pegasus in her way. "Hey! Out of the way!"

"Sorry Rainbow!" It was Derpy. "I was sent to get a letter to someone and I've lost my way..."

"I'll help! Who is the letter for?"

"Fluttershy..."

Rainbow facehoofed hard enough to where her face became red. "Derpy. You've known Fluttershy for ten years and you STILL have no idea where she lives?"

Derpy looked down at the Earth below her. "No."

"Look. I'll take it to her. You go...............try not to break something." She swiped the letter out of Derpy's fragile hands and flew by the Everfree Forest. On her way to Fluttershys, she looked at the letter that she was delivering. The mouthwriting looked oddly familiar. Rainbow shook this off as just being weird. Mouthwriting can look the same every now and then after all. As Dash continued to think about the letter, her skull crushed through Fluttershy's door. "Yep....pretty sure it's broken." She rubbed her head where the trauma was centered, from the facehoof and the facedoor. Rainbow quickly got up and dropped the letter off in the mail slot. Hopefully she gets it! Rainbow still couldn't help but feel she recognized that mouthwriting though. "Bah! Better shake it off. I'm being stupid as always!" Rainbow soared off into the sky, on route to her weather patrol when she noticed an orange filly walking, whilst looking down at the ground....