To Disappearby ImpossibleReflectionChaptersTo contemplateDay OneDay TwoDay Three EpilogueTo contemplateScootaloo huddled in a large wooden box hidden in a dark alleyway of Ponyville. If they can't find me, they can't hurt me. A few splotches of moisture dotted the wooden floor of her makeshift shelter. She sniffled as the events flowed back to the foreground of her mind. _-~/|~-_ She waved goodbye to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom as they made their way home. Then she proceeded to make her own way to the Ponyville Orphanage. She was the only foal there, and because nopony ever thought of there being foals there, ponies never visited. Suddenly something felt off to her. A small tingling down her spine through her mane and tail. A sensation that she only felt if something terrible was about to happen. This could only mean one thing. . . "Hey Blank flank!" Chorused a pair of fillies. "Ponyfeathers," Scootaloo muttered under her breath. "Where are your other worthless friends? huh?" Diamond Tiara sneered, Silver spoon mimicking her expression. "Go Away!" Scootaloo shouted, at wits end. "Fine, we'll go, off to our loving families!" They had never commented on that before. The young pegasus sat there in shock as the two bullies walked away. Silver Spoon had lost her smirk after that last comment, "Diamond, you went too far. That was mean, even for you." "Whatever." _-~/|~-_ She wiped a hoof against the side of her face, which had become matted with tears. They were right, all I have are the crusaders. Rainbow Dash said she would be my sister, but I still rarely see her, does she even care? . "Would they notice if I were gone, if I just disappeared?" "Well what if I told you, you could?" Spoke an eerily familiar disembodied male voice. "What do you mean? Who are you?" "Oh, I'm just the Friendly neighborhood spirit of chaos. As for what do I mean, I can make you disappear!" "Discord! Why should I trust you, and how would you make me disappear?" "Oh I would simply make you invisible, then you could see if ponies would notice if you disappeared. I can only imagine it would be a great show." "But, why would you do that?" Scootaloo questioned. Discord Grunted, "Didn't you pay any attention? I said it will probably be entertaining to watch. So, do you really want to see if ponies would notice if you went missing?" Scootaloo thought about this, she didn't have a home, only the orphanage, but that wasn't a home, it was a building with the guise of a home. I bet dash wouldn't notice. The crusaders might notice, but no one would ever listen to them. At least I won't be bullied by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. And for that matter, what the heck are they good at? Wearing tiaras and eating cereal. Focus. The orphanage might notice, but they probably wouldn't care. Cheerilee probably would just think I'm ditching. Who would really notice? I guess there is only one way to find out. "Yes," Scootaloo answered. "Hmmm?" "Make me invisible." With a flash of light Scootaloo vanished, but didn't go anywhere. She looked down, not seeing her own legs, "Whoa," she mumbled. She lifted up a foreleg and didn't see it, she booped herself on her nose to see if it was real. A sight that probably would have been adorable, if she wasn't invisible. "Now what?" Scootaloo asked. "Now is the most boring part, waiting to see what ponies will do." "Oh." Scootaloo didn't like waiting. "But feel free to pull some pranks while you're like this. You may never get this opportunity again." Scootaloo thought about that for a moment, when a grin spread across her face, a brilliant, malevolent, wonderful grin. She had just the prank in mind. _-~/|~-_ Night had fallen on the residence of Diamond Tiara. Diamond walked into her room leaving the door open to let light in. she then went to her nightstands, and she turned on the lamps on either side of her bed. "Diamond Tiara," was heard in a creepy sounding voice with excessive vibrato. "What, who's there?" Diamond spoke with unease. The door to her room slowly closed, and the lock engaged. "You killed me Diamond Tiara. I froze to death because I didn't have a home. You killed me." Diamond was in utter terror at this point. "Sc--sco-sc-scoot-t Scotaloo?" She asked unable to control the tremors encompassing her body. "YES! I died because of you!" She said moving stuff around the room for the added affect of objects moving on their own, "Your heartlessness caused me to die!" she shouted still in a mock ghostly voice. Though if her face was visible it would have been the biggest smile you had ever seen. She went over to one of the lights, "Now I want my revenge!" Scootaloo mashed the button on one of Tiara's lamps to create a flickering effect, leaving it turned off. As she walked over to the next lamp she purposely brushed against Diamond Tiara, "And now," she paused to flicker the next lamp off, "I AM GOING TO TAKE YOU WITH ME!" Scootaloo shouted tackling Tiara, causing her to scream at the top of her lungs and flail helplessly. While Diamond Tiara was in stupor Scootaloo decided to make her escape, while holding back laughter till she could get out of the house. _-~/|~-_ Scootaloo was lying down in a patch of grass. Laughing herself to tears, soon to be joined by a more baritone peal of laughter, "Oh how cliché, but that never grows old. They always do the ghost gag. It's just too easy, but works so well. Keep up good work like that and you might be a spirit of chaos one day kid," Discord commented. "Thanks." Author's Note Wooh, hopefully this story will get posted and then completed. Let's see how much improvement on my writing skills I can achieve with this story. WARNING: mildly angry rant following. I can't believe this failed moderation because I had it rated "everyone", and it needed to be set as teen. My favorite movie is rated 'G' and it has mild torture, murder, and sword fighting, and mild blood on the weapons. It's called "The secret of NIMH" if you're curious. Though I guess a lot can change in three decades. People are becoming soft. Day OneScootaloo awoke in her box to the sounds of birds chirping. She looked around still groggy from just waking up, then she realized something. She hadn't opened her eyes yet, she could see through her eyelids. She decided to have a little fun with that. She walked out of the alley with her eyes closed, but decided to open them. The strange sensation of seeing with her eyes close had finally become overwhelming at that point. Scootaloo wasn't sure what to do, so she stopped to figure out a plan of action. what to do? I could continue pranking, but that's not why I'm invisible. I should probably go where I would normally go and see if anypony notices a difference. With a plan of action in mind she meandered over to the schoolhouse arriving fifteen minutes before class starts, about sixteen minutes before she usually shows up. She watched as the foals came from all directions, varying expressions on their faces: amusement, grins, asleep, grumpy, and the sorts. Soon Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle wandered to the schoolhouse, they must have met somewhere along the way. Soon after Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon came along, the former with eyes constantly shifting, repeatedly looking over her shoulder. "Diamond, what's wrong?" Silver questioned. "She's coming, help, coming for me." Diamond Tiara muttered incoherently. Scootaloo snickered at that, enjoying the lasting effects of the prank. Soon the class started. Scootaloo sat in the back corner quietly to watch the class. It took her all of three seconds to get bored and remember that she had trouble sitting still, and being quiet. Cheerilee looked over the class, before saying, "Has anyone seen, Rumble?" "He's sick," replied an anonymous colt. Cheerilee looked over the class once more, "And how about Scootaloo, have any of you seen her?" Diamond Tiara let out a high pitched groan and sunk lower into her desk. Scootaloo let out a snicker, which drew the attention of a chubby colt wearing a fez. The colt stared at the corner for a few seconds before continuing to read the latest edition of The Foal Free Press. After a few minutes she decided to close her eyes and try to take a nap, though soon she remembered that she can see through her eyelids, so napping was out of the question. She decided to explore the town a little; see what she could get away with while being invisible. As she walked out of the classroom she passed Diamond Tiara, "Hi," she whispered flapping her wing a little to create a draft. Diamond screeched and fell out of her chair, muttering nonsensical gibberish about ghosts and Scootaloo which disrupted the entire class. Cheerilee had noticed the student's strange behavior as soon as she walked in the door. She could tell something was terribly wrong, so she had to make a decision, let her stay in class and be disruptive, or send her home. After a few moments of though she sighed, "Diamond Tiara, you should probably go home. Silver Spoon I think it might be a good idea to help her. She doesn't seem well, and should get some rest.Come right back to class Silver Spoon." "I'm not feeling good too can I go home?" "No." Scootaloo chuckled as she left the school in chaos. _-~/|~-_ In a few short hours that seemed to drag on for the visible crusaders ,with the invisible images on their flanks, the school bell rang dismissing class for the day. "Hey Apple Bloom?" Sweetie Belle stated. "What is it Sweetie?" "Are you worried about Scootaloo? First she doesn't show up to school, and then Diamond Tiara screams and mutters stuff about Scoots and ghosts trying to get her." "Ah wouldn't worry 'bout it. It's probably nothing. she's probably just sick like Rumble. How 'bout we just head on over to her house and check it out?" "Alright," Sweetie concurred. They walked about ten short paces before Sweetie Belle spoke up, "Do you know where Scootaloo lives?" "Uh, hmmm, no, Ah don't." They both thought about it for a few moments before Sweetie once again broke the silence, "Oh but I know who has to know! Pinkie Pie, she knows everything about everypony!" Scootaloo had been following them since they left the school. She was pretending she was a super spy, sneaking, watching, and waiting with a magical invisibility bracelet. The fillies, eager to alleviate their growing concern for their absent crusader, nearly galloped to the Sugar Cube Corner. The bell above the door rang signaling the professional pink party planning pony to welcome new customers. She looked from over the counter at the panting fillies, "Hey girls, what's up?" Apple Bloom cleared her throat, "Scootaloo didn't show up fer school today, we got a tad worried and thought we would check up on 'er..." "But we don't know where Scoots lives!" Sweetie Belle interrupted, having finally gained the ability to use her lungs for things other than not dying. Pinkie stopped for a moment, just stopped. Her eyes became unfocused and a determined expression appeared on her muzzle. After a few hours in the eyes of the fillies, the clock ticked a few times too, Pinkie spoke, "Huh, I don't know, I assume she lives with her parents, but I can't seem to recall seeing her parents. Must not have ever seen them with Scoots." Scootaloo's heart fell at that. Not even Pinkie knows, and she knows everything. She goes out of her way to learn everything about everypony. Scootaloo was on the verge of tears at that point. "But I'm sure she's fine, she's just like a miniature Rainbow Dash. I'm sure she can handle herself." Any tears that were forming at that point simply ceased to be, now she had to contain a squee of delight. I'm just like Rainbow Dash! "But don't tell her I said that, she would go crazy." She gave a wink after saying that, and if Scootaloo didn't know better she would have sworn it was directed at her. _-~/|~-_ The crusaders trotted around what seemed to be all of Ponyville before they had to return home without getting deep in trouble. Little did the majority of the crusaders know, that the crusaders were all present for that excursion. Scootaloo decided to go back to the orphanage, it would at least be heated. She didn't want to sleep in a wooden crate again, it was too cold. She quietly entered the orphanage, making sure not to alert the caretaker, Kind Heart, of her arrival. As she exited the entryway and into the orphanage she noticed that the caretaker was watching the doorway. She was clearly worried. She went across the room to the hallway that lead to the rooms as quietly as she could manage. As she had just left the living room she heard from behind her, "Where are you Scootaloo? Please be alright." Scootaloo went to her room, and walked towards her bed. Wait. She paused as a realization occurred to her. If I sleep in my bed, it will be noticeable I'm invisible not interng.. intagullible, ugh, where's Sweetie when you need her? I guess the corner will do, at least this place is warmer than the box So she curled up as tightly as she could in the corner and slowly drifted off into sleep. She woke up in the middle of the night with a strong thirst. She got up from her corner and walked through the orphanage. She poured herself a glass of water drank it quickly before putting it back where she got it. As she walked back to her room she noticed that Kind Heart had fallen asleep on the sofa in the living room. She appeared to be shivering. Scootaloo went over to the laundry room, and she brought back a blanket for her caretaker. She placed it over the sleeping form and went back to her room. Author's Note Spot the reference. This probably would have been out sooner, but I had a power outage last night. P.S. I have the rest of the story planned out, so as long as I don't have any major schedule conflicts the chapters should come regularly. Day TwoKind Heart shifted under the blanket as the sun started to shine through a window. She slowly opened her teal eyes. Wiping away the sleep from her eyes with a light brown hoof and pushing the dark brown mane from her eyes and back over her ears, she looked around taking in the surroundings. She recalled waiting for Scootaloo the night before, and then falling asleep on the couch. However she did not remember getting a blanket. Thinking as hard as she could she could not find any recollection of getting a blanket. A thought crossed her mind, Maybe Scootaloo's back and she got it for me when I slept. The middle aged mare rushed down the hall to Scootaloo's room. Looking in the open door to see an empty room, "Scootaloo, where have you gone?" The gentle voice of the light brown earth pony caused Scootaloo to awaken, but she remained silent, as she wouldn't remember how to operate her jaw enough to be capable of proper speech for another few minutes. Kind Heart left the doorway a few moments later, Scootaloo had gotten up and began to follow her, trying to be quiet as possible. She wasn't very quite, but she was quiet enough not to be discovered. The caretaker walked down the hall, through the living room and stopping at the entryway, but only long enough to put a scarf around her neck, before she made her way outside. Scootaloo rushed out the door as Kind Heart opened it, being the best time to do it as to prevent being closed inside, or squeezing as she is going out or closing the door. Scootaloo's caretaker started walking down the street. Which normally would not intrigue Scootaloo, however, it was opposite of the way she would normally go. If she were going to get groceries, she would have traveled in the other direction. So Scootaloo decided to follow Kind Heart to find out what she was going to do. During the walk Scootaloo got a good look at her caretaker. She had bags under her eyes, and a frown etched across her face. Scootaloo also noticed something that she had never seen Kind do before. She kept looking up and watching the sky. After about ten minutes of walking Kind Heart had reached her destination, the Ponyville guardhouse. She walked up to the front door and pulled it open. Scootaloo squeezing in as the door was pulled outwards. As the light brown earth pony entered the building a guard in silver armor walked up, "Hello ma'am, what brings you to the guard station today?" "My name is Kind Heart, and I own the local orphanage. A few nights ago, Scootaloo, the foal that I take care of didn't show up, and she hasn't shown up since." "Follow me, ma'am, I will get you the necessary paperwork." _-~/|~-_ After Filling out the necessary paperwork, the guard said he would make posters to notify the public and send a copy to the local dairy to have it printed on the milk cartons. Kind Heart thanked them and made her way out, unbeknown to her the filly she was searching for was mere feet away. Currently she was looking up, walking towards a cloud, with a prismatic multi-chromatic tail dangling over the edge. _-~/|~-_ Meanwhile in the crusader's clubhouse, two fillies are wondering what to make of the current predicament. "What if Scootaloo's an alien!?" "And what would give ya that idea?" "Pinkie Pie didn't know about where Scootaloo lived or who her parents are, what if she's an alien from outer space? What if she left to go back to her home world?" "That makes about as much sense as Scootaloo suddenly becoming invisible. She ain't an alien." "What if she turned invisible and she needs our help, but we can't see her to help her!?" "Now yer jus' bein' stupid. She's probably at her home, in Ponyville havin' hot soup and layin' under some warm blankets." "But we don't know that!" "Makes a lot more sense than aliens." _-~/|~-_ "Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo wondered what Kind Heart wanted with Rainbow Dash. "Huh?" Rainbow's head peered from over the edge of the cloud. "I need your help." Kind Heart yelled up. Rainbow Dash dropped down from her cloud and landed in front of the light brown earth pony, "What's up?" "Well, my name is Kind Heart, I run the local orphanage," Rainbow raised an eyebrow at this, "And Scootaloo hasn't shown up for a couple days. I thought that since she never seems to stop talking about you, that you might have seen her recently. Have you seen Scootaloo recently?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Scoots is an orphan?" "Yes," Kind Heart answered, "Have you seen her in the last couple of days?" "No," Rainbow Dash had lost her confident grin. Instead it had been replaced with a determined scowl, "But, I'm going to find her." "Oh thank you, I've been so worried." Scootaloo had made her way over to Rainbow Dash, and because of this she heard her muttering, "Why didn't she tell me. I didn't know she wanted a big sister because she had nopony. I have to fix this." She took off Immediately after finishing that last sentence, leaving Scootaloo in a cloud of dust. Rainbow Dash was now flying across Ponyville at a breakneck pace, looking out over as much of the town as she could as she made her way over to sweet apple acres, "First things first, gotta check her clubhouse." She's probably just hanging out with her friends. _-~/|~-_ Meanwhile at the clubhouse the the crusaders with the only invisible parts being the images on their flanks were still in a tizzy. Sweetie Belle had mastered her unintentional possessed Diamond Tiara impersonation, and Apple Bloom was trying to get her to stop. "Calm down Sweetie, everthin' is gonna be a'right." THUNK!!!! "What in tarnation was that?" On the clubhouse balcony, just outside the door Rainbow Dash was dusting herself off from the impact landing. She walked into the clubhouse to see a muttering confused filly, with a bewildered filly right next to her. "Hey, you girls seen Scoots recently?" "No, we were just wonderin' where she lived to see if she is alright." They didn't know either. I guess she didn't tell anypony.Darn it, I should've known though, Why the feather didn't she tell me. She realized she was beginning to show anger, so she calmed herself before saying, "Well, you too keep an eye out for her, she's bound to be around somewhere. Tell her Rainbow Dash is looking for her." "Alright." Apple Bloom replied. _-~/|~-_ The sun was setting, and Rainbow Dash was dead tired from flying non-stop looking for Scootaloo, as well as all the stops she made at her friend's places to get their help. She hadn't found Scootaloo, and was becoming very distressed. Some element of loyalty I turned out to be. She thought from her vantage point atop a cloud. "Please Scoots, just come back. I didn't know, I'll adopt you scoots, just please come back." She said, looking at the kaleidoscope her tears made when mixed with the sunset. Author's Note The winner for finding the reference in the last chapter is ??? Day Three Day Three Rainbow dash was up before the sun. The only time she has ever done that is back when she was at the Wonderbolts Academy. She was circling the outskirts of Ponyville, looking for the telltale orange and purple of Scootaloo. She was doing her second lap around Ponyville when she noticed discord was watching her. Dash had an idea, Maybe discord could find her. She flew up to discord. He was eating popcorn and was wearing strange glasses with one red and one blue lens. "Discord!" "Yes?" He spoke with a sing songy voice. "Have you seen Scoots?" He placed a paw to his chin, "Hmmmm, No I don't recall seeing her." "Could you find, her, you know just teleport her here or something?" "Dash, for me to be able to do that at will I would have to keep track of everypony, and that would require too much, bleh, organization." "Fine, but if you see her tell her to find me." "If I see her I'll do just that." "Good." "Happy hunting!" Discord called to Rainbow Dash as she flew off. 01010011 01101111 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101111 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 00101110 , Discord thought with a grin. Discord snapped a claw, a a bright flash was emitted from right next to him and the cloud had a new depression. "Whoa," Scootaloo said trying to regain her bearings. "Hey, Dash is looking for you. You want to follow her?" "Yes!" Scootaloo shouted excitedly, before her face fell, "But I can't keep up with her." "She'll be going slow to try and spot you. You should be able to keep up with her on your scooter." "But won't a scooter going about on it's own be kinda weird?" "I can make it so only you can see it." "Cool!" A bright flash brought a scooter and another sent Scootaloo and her transportation to the ground to follow Dash. "Now where was I? Oh yeah." He turned the cloud he was sitting on to face the Whitetail Woods where distant polka music could be heard, "Watching Pinkie's search party." _-~/|~-_ Dash was flying over the town, trying to spot the missing filly. Posters had been put up on every street. Yet no one had seen hide nor hair of the pegasus filly. Dash flew on looking, Scootaloo hadn't been seen in three days, and that really worried Dash. Darn it, why did I have to promise myself that I would adopt her when she showed up. I don't think I can handle that responsibility, but darn it, I promised myself. I have to find her, she deserves somepony that will love her, somepony as amazing as she is. Somepony... Dash hung her head, better than me. As the sun made it's way to the midpoint of the sky, rainbow was getting weary. The overwhelming sadness was beginning to take effect. She flew to the outskirts of town and lied down on a cloud. Scootaloo caught up to Rainbow Dash She, gave up. I thought she cared, but, Scootaloo wiped a tear that began to flow down her cheek, but, I guess she doesn't. A sniffle could be heard coming from the field, but much to the surprise of Scootaloo, it didn't com from her. She looked up and saw that it was Dash who had made the sniffle, "Damn it Scoots." Those words shocked Scootaloo, her tears forgotten, replaced with rapt attention. "Where did you go? Why did you leave? Why didn't you tell m-me!?" Sobs where beginning to punctuate her words. Scootaloo continued staring, listening to her idol. "Why d-didn't you tell me you where an or-orphan. I-I should have known." "I didn't tell anypony," Scootaloo whispered, as if subconsciously trying to answer. "Scootaloo, pl-please come back. I promise I will be your family," she sniffled, "We'll go to the orphanage, an... and I'll take you home." That last sentence brought that final reassurance of what she had doubted so thoroughly just a few days prior, "Discord, I don't want to be invisible anymore!" Scootaloo shouted as loud as she could. "That's my cue," Discord appeared with a bucket of water, unceremoniously dumping it on Scootaloo, leaving her visible and soaking wet. "Scootaloo!" Discord raised his claw to snap Scootaloo up onto the cloud with Dash, but before he could the filly was replaced with a rainbow contrail. "Scoots, I was so worried. Where did you go?!" "I didn't go anywhere Discord made me invisible," Scootaloo responded, finding it difficult to breath in Rainbow Dash's forelegs. "DISCORD!" Rainbow yelled. "Yes?" he said mockingly. "WHY DID YOU TURN SCOOTS INVISIBLE?!" "She wanted me to." "HORSEAPPLES!" "Ask her yourself." "It's true dash," Scootaloo spoke, "I thought no one cared, so I wondered what would happen if I disappeared. So Discord made me invisible. I now know that You do care Dash," She hugged dash with those words, "Please don't be mad at Discord." Rainbow gave Discord a death glare, "I was only helping, everything turned out better than before!" He said in a half hearted defense with extra theatrics. "Why?" "Why what?" "Why did you do this, and why did you help her?" Dash interrogated. "Because look at all the chaos that ensued, half the town has gone wild in the search for that little filly, and since everything turned out for the better, I can't be punished for this because I was helping ponies." "Fine, I won't convince my friends to turn you back to the statue you should be. I can't believe I am going to say this, but thank you." Dash thanked the draconequis, "Now get out of here before I change my mind." Discord popped away in an instant. Scootaloo looked up at Dash from the embrace, "Did you mean it." "Mean what, Scoots?" "Are you really going to adopt me?" "I said I would, and I will," Dash said. What am I getting myself into? Scootaloo let out the most adorable squee, hugging Dash with that much more vigor. "Well, I guess it's time to make this official. Which means we need to head over to the orphanage and fill out a bunch of boring paperwork, but after that, you can come home with me." "YAY!!!!" Author's Note For those of you who didn't use the binary decoder linked to decode discords thoughts. "Soon Scootaloo will see that ponies do care about her." We're almost done folks. just an epilogue, maybe a bonus story will be posted. Oh my Celestia, I made it into the popular stories box. now, to just get to the featured box. - EpilogueAfter Dash brought Scootaloo back, the whole town stopped searching and Rainbow had made her way over to the orphanage to adopt the orange filly. "Alright Rainbow Dash, you are now the legal guardian of Scootaloo. Congratulations! Scootaloo, you look as happy as I had always imagined you to be when this day was to come. This warms my heart, I hope you will both be very happy." "Come on Scoots, let's get you home." Scootaloo loved the sound of that, I have a home now, not just a house, a home. I am finally going home. Dash squatted down exposing her back to Scootaloo, "Okay Scoots, hop on, and hold tight." Scootaloo quickly obliged, hopping on to Dash's back and placing her forelegs around her neck. "Goodbye Kind heart!" Scootaloo waived to the orphanage's caretaker as Dash walked out the door with Scootaloo on her back. "Okay, you ready?" Dash asked taking position to fly off. "Yes!" "Okay, hang on tight, here we go!" With that Rainbow Dash took off flying towards her cloud mansion. Scootaloo could not be happier. Her idol was flying her to her house, to her home. It wasn't long, with the speed Rainbow Dash tended to fly at, before they made it to Rainbow Dash's cloud home. Rainbow landed on the front porch and let Scootaloo off of her back. Rainbow walked over to the front door opening it, "Welcome home Scoots." Scootaloo entered the large cloud house, looking around with wonder in her eyes. Rainbow looked at the awestruck filly as she wandered about the room, I guess I will have to give her the guest room, Rainbow figured, "Hey scoots, how about I show you your new room?" "Yes!" Scootaloo said, so many thoughts going through her head she couldn't keep track of them all. "Alright, follow me." Dash walked across the room and up a flight of stairs, checking behind her to make sure Scootaloo had followed. On the top of the stairs was a hallway of sorts. Dash walked to one of the doors, pushing it open, "Scoots this will be your room." A purple and orange blur rushed passed Rainbow dash Straightening her mane. Rustling her mane back to the normal style she followed the ecstatic filly into her new bedroom. As the filly was examining every molecule in her bedroom, a thought crossed Rainbow Dash's mind, "Hey scoots, I adopted you, does that make me your mother? Heart said that I was a 'guardian' but does that make me your mother, or will I be your big sister?" Scootaloo thought about this, It would be awesome to have the Rainbow Dash as a mother, but she's already my sister,"You were already my big sister, why change it?" "Just what I was thinking," if she turns out smarter than me her teenage years are going to be extremely difficult. After it appeared that Scootaloo would not calm down or sit still in the near future, Dash decided on what to do about dinner, she wasn't much of a cook. She also didn't have much food in the pantry. That left one place, "Hey, wanna go to Sugar Cube Corner and get something to eat?" "Yes!" They walked down the stairs and outside onto the front porch, "Okay Scoots, hop on!" "YAY!" Scootaloo scrambled onto Rainbow Dash's back and as soon as Dash was sure that Scootaloo was securely resting on her back she took off heading towards her favorite confectionery. In a few moments Dash landed in front of Sugar Cube Corner, and let Scootaloo off. She went ahead and opened the door walking in with Scootaloo. "Surprise!" Why didn't I see this coming? The Sugar Cube Corner was decorated for a party, a banner hung from the rafters "Congrats Scoots+Dash on new fami" "Hey Dashie, and Scootaloo! Do you like it? unfortunately I ran out of room on the banner." Scootaloo latched on to Rainbow Dash in a hug, and once Pinkie had managed to pry her away, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle trotted up to Scootaloo. "Hey girls!" Scootaloo exclaimed. Sweetie Belle responded by slapping Scootaloo in the face, "Why didn't you tell us you were an orphan?" Scootaloo lost her smile, "I didn't want you to think you were better than me." "Why would we think that?" Sweetie still seemed hurt. "Because you had a family and I didn't!" Scootaloo began to get angry. "Now now, let's just enjoy the party and celebrate scoots' new family," Apple Bloom interjected stepping between the two other fillies. "I'm sorry," Sweetie Belle said. "So am I, I am sorry I didn't tell you, but I never told anyone." Over on the other side of the room Applejack was talking to Rainbow Dash. "So ya adopted Scoots? Why though, why did you feel the need to adopt her?" "I am the element of loyalty, and this entire time, the pony who looked up to me the most, had no one. Well other than the orphanage owner, but that isn't family. If anyone would appreciate family Applejack I expected it to be you." Rainbow Dash nudged Applejack playfully. "I agree with ya there. It was a mighty good thing ya did adoptin' Scoots like that, but ya know, raisin' a crusader's like parentin' on hard?" "No sweat, I'm sure I was just like her when I was a filly." Rainbow dash gained a contemplative look at that, "On that thought, I'm probably going to have to get some headache medicine." "Ah'm sure you'll be fine," Applejack commented with a chuckle, "If ya get the extra strength stuff." "I'll head to Zecora's next chance I get," Rainbow Dash said as Twilight walked up. "Hello Rainbow Dash. Do you want to borrow any books on parenting? I have some at the library." "You get me to start reading and now you want me to read constantly. Not everyone reads constantly, Twilight. I think I'll be fine. Though if I have any major issues I'll come to you to get that book." Scootaloo had just finished retelling the vents that transpired when she was invisible, "Hey Scootaloo, what if you're talent is being invisible?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Sugar cube please, what would that cutiemark even look like?" Apple Bloom asked. Scootaloo thought about that, "Well it would probably be invisible... OH NO, WHAT IF MY SPECIAL TALENT IS BEING INVISIBLE, AND MY CUTIEMARK IS INVISIBLE!!!" The crusaders went on being themselves, and visible, for the rest of the party. Rainbow Dash had three other conversation like that, and a conversation with Pinkie. After the party was over everypony went home wondering what the next party will be for, and what time they should show up the next day. "Okay squirt, we should probably get to bed." Scootaloo groaned at this. "But, tomorrow's a Saturday so we can hang out all day." "YAY!" "And since we live in a cloud house I figured I would finally teach you to fly." Rainbow Dash said with a proud smile. Scootaloo's face fell at that comment and she hung her head, "Oh." Author's Note I have that big empty space there because I wanted Dash's words to sink in before the story continued.
To contemplateScootaloo huddled in a large wooden box hidden in a dark alleyway of Ponyville. If they can't find me, they can't hurt me. A few splotches of moisture dotted the wooden floor of her makeshift shelter. She sniffled as the events flowed back to the foreground of her mind. _-~/|~-_ She waved goodbye to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom as they made their way home. Then she proceeded to make her own way to the Ponyville Orphanage. She was the only foal there, and because nopony ever thought of there being foals there, ponies never visited. Suddenly something felt off to her. A small tingling down her spine through her mane and tail. A sensation that she only felt if something terrible was about to happen. This could only mean one thing. . . "Hey Blank flank!" Chorused a pair of fillies. "Ponyfeathers," Scootaloo muttered under her breath. "Where are your other worthless friends? huh?" Diamond Tiara sneered, Silver spoon mimicking her expression. "Go Away!" Scootaloo shouted, at wits end. "Fine, we'll go, off to our loving families!" They had never commented on that before. The young pegasus sat there in shock as the two bullies walked away. Silver Spoon had lost her smirk after that last comment, "Diamond, you went too far. That was mean, even for you." "Whatever." _-~/|~-_ She wiped a hoof against the side of her face, which had become matted with tears. They were right, all I have are the crusaders. Rainbow Dash said she would be my sister, but I still rarely see her, does she even care? . "Would they notice if I were gone, if I just disappeared?" "Well what if I told you, you could?" Spoke an eerily familiar disembodied male voice. "What do you mean? Who are you?" "Oh, I'm just the Friendly neighborhood spirit of chaos. As for what do I mean, I can make you disappear!" "Discord! Why should I trust you, and how would you make me disappear?" "Oh I would simply make you invisible, then you could see if ponies would notice if you disappeared. I can only imagine it would be a great show." "But, why would you do that?" Scootaloo questioned. Discord Grunted, "Didn't you pay any attention? I said it will probably be entertaining to watch. So, do you really want to see if ponies would notice if you went missing?" Scootaloo thought about this, she didn't have a home, only the orphanage, but that wasn't a home, it was a building with the guise of a home. I bet dash wouldn't notice. The crusaders might notice, but no one would ever listen to them. At least I won't be bullied by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. And for that matter, what the heck are they good at? Wearing tiaras and eating cereal. Focus. The orphanage might notice, but they probably wouldn't care. Cheerilee probably would just think I'm ditching. Who would really notice? I guess there is only one way to find out. "Yes," Scootaloo answered. "Hmmm?" "Make me invisible." With a flash of light Scootaloo vanished, but didn't go anywhere. She looked down, not seeing her own legs, "Whoa," she mumbled. She lifted up a foreleg and didn't see it, she booped herself on her nose to see if it was real. A sight that probably would have been adorable, if she wasn't invisible. "Now what?" Scootaloo asked. "Now is the most boring part, waiting to see what ponies will do." "Oh." Scootaloo didn't like waiting. "But feel free to pull some pranks while you're like this. You may never get this opportunity again." Scootaloo thought about that for a moment, when a grin spread across her face, a brilliant, malevolent, wonderful grin. She had just the prank in mind. _-~/|~-_ Night had fallen on the residence of Diamond Tiara. Diamond walked into her room leaving the door open to let light in. she then went to her nightstands, and she turned on the lamps on either side of her bed. "Diamond Tiara," was heard in a creepy sounding voice with excessive vibrato. "What, who's there?" Diamond spoke with unease. The door to her room slowly closed, and the lock engaged. "You killed me Diamond Tiara. I froze to death because I didn't have a home. You killed me." Diamond was in utter terror at this point. "Sc--sco-sc-scoot-t Scotaloo?" She asked unable to control the tremors encompassing her body. "YES! I died because of you!" She said moving stuff around the room for the added affect of objects moving on their own, "Your heartlessness caused me to die!" she shouted still in a mock ghostly voice. Though if her face was visible it would have been the biggest smile you had ever seen. She went over to one of the lights, "Now I want my revenge!" Scootaloo mashed the button on one of Tiara's lamps to create a flickering effect, leaving it turned off. As she walked over to the next lamp she purposely brushed against Diamond Tiara, "And now," she paused to flicker the next lamp off, "I AM GOING TO TAKE YOU WITH ME!" Scootaloo shouted tackling Tiara, causing her to scream at the top of her lungs and flail helplessly. While Diamond Tiara was in stupor Scootaloo decided to make her escape, while holding back laughter till she could get out of the house. _-~/|~-_ Scootaloo was lying down in a patch of grass. Laughing herself to tears, soon to be joined by a more baritone peal of laughter, "Oh how cliché, but that never grows old. They always do the ghost gag. It's just too easy, but works so well. Keep up good work like that and you might be a spirit of chaos one day kid," Discord commented. "Thanks." Author's Note Wooh, hopefully this story will get posted and then completed. Let's see how much improvement on my writing skills I can achieve with this story. WARNING: mildly angry rant following. I can't believe this failed moderation because I had it rated "everyone", and it needed to be set as teen. My favorite movie is rated 'G' and it has mild torture, murder, and sword fighting, and mild blood on the weapons. It's called "The secret of NIMH" if you're curious. Though I guess a lot can change in three decades. People are becoming soft.
Day OneScootaloo awoke in her box to the sounds of birds chirping. She looked around still groggy from just waking up, then she realized something. She hadn't opened her eyes yet, she could see through her eyelids. She decided to have a little fun with that. She walked out of the alley with her eyes closed, but decided to open them. The strange sensation of seeing with her eyes close had finally become overwhelming at that point. Scootaloo wasn't sure what to do, so she stopped to figure out a plan of action. what to do? I could continue pranking, but that's not why I'm invisible. I should probably go where I would normally go and see if anypony notices a difference. With a plan of action in mind she meandered over to the schoolhouse arriving fifteen minutes before class starts, about sixteen minutes before she usually shows up. She watched as the foals came from all directions, varying expressions on their faces: amusement, grins, asleep, grumpy, and the sorts. Soon Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle wandered to the schoolhouse, they must have met somewhere along the way. Soon after Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon came along, the former with eyes constantly shifting, repeatedly looking over her shoulder. "Diamond, what's wrong?" Silver questioned. "She's coming, help, coming for me." Diamond Tiara muttered incoherently. Scootaloo snickered at that, enjoying the lasting effects of the prank. Soon the class started. Scootaloo sat in the back corner quietly to watch the class. It took her all of three seconds to get bored and remember that she had trouble sitting still, and being quiet. Cheerilee looked over the class, before saying, "Has anyone seen, Rumble?" "He's sick," replied an anonymous colt. Cheerilee looked over the class once more, "And how about Scootaloo, have any of you seen her?" Diamond Tiara let out a high pitched groan and sunk lower into her desk. Scootaloo let out a snicker, which drew the attention of a chubby colt wearing a fez. The colt stared at the corner for a few seconds before continuing to read the latest edition of The Foal Free Press. After a few minutes she decided to close her eyes and try to take a nap, though soon she remembered that she can see through her eyelids, so napping was out of the question. She decided to explore the town a little; see what she could get away with while being invisible. As she walked out of the classroom she passed Diamond Tiara, "Hi," she whispered flapping her wing a little to create a draft. Diamond screeched and fell out of her chair, muttering nonsensical gibberish about ghosts and Scootaloo which disrupted the entire class. Cheerilee had noticed the student's strange behavior as soon as she walked in the door. She could tell something was terribly wrong, so she had to make a decision, let her stay in class and be disruptive, or send her home. After a few moments of though she sighed, "Diamond Tiara, you should probably go home. Silver Spoon I think it might be a good idea to help her. She doesn't seem well, and should get some rest.Come right back to class Silver Spoon." "I'm not feeling good too can I go home?" "No." Scootaloo chuckled as she left the school in chaos. _-~/|~-_ In a few short hours that seemed to drag on for the visible crusaders ,with the invisible images on their flanks, the school bell rang dismissing class for the day. "Hey Apple Bloom?" Sweetie Belle stated. "What is it Sweetie?" "Are you worried about Scootaloo? First she doesn't show up to school, and then Diamond Tiara screams and mutters stuff about Scoots and ghosts trying to get her." "Ah wouldn't worry 'bout it. It's probably nothing. she's probably just sick like Rumble. How 'bout we just head on over to her house and check it out?" "Alright," Sweetie concurred. They walked about ten short paces before Sweetie Belle spoke up, "Do you know where Scootaloo lives?" "Uh, hmmm, no, Ah don't." They both thought about it for a few moments before Sweetie once again broke the silence, "Oh but I know who has to know! Pinkie Pie, she knows everything about everypony!" Scootaloo had been following them since they left the school. She was pretending she was a super spy, sneaking, watching, and waiting with a magical invisibility bracelet. The fillies, eager to alleviate their growing concern for their absent crusader, nearly galloped to the Sugar Cube Corner. The bell above the door rang signaling the professional pink party planning pony to welcome new customers. She looked from over the counter at the panting fillies, "Hey girls, what's up?" Apple Bloom cleared her throat, "Scootaloo didn't show up fer school today, we got a tad worried and thought we would check up on 'er..." "But we don't know where Scoots lives!" Sweetie Belle interrupted, having finally gained the ability to use her lungs for things other than not dying. Pinkie stopped for a moment, just stopped. Her eyes became unfocused and a determined expression appeared on her muzzle. After a few hours in the eyes of the fillies, the clock ticked a few times too, Pinkie spoke, "Huh, I don't know, I assume she lives with her parents, but I can't seem to recall seeing her parents. Must not have ever seen them with Scoots." Scootaloo's heart fell at that. Not even Pinkie knows, and she knows everything. She goes out of her way to learn everything about everypony. Scootaloo was on the verge of tears at that point. "But I'm sure she's fine, she's just like a miniature Rainbow Dash. I'm sure she can handle herself." Any tears that were forming at that point simply ceased to be, now she had to contain a squee of delight. I'm just like Rainbow Dash! "But don't tell her I said that, she would go crazy." She gave a wink after saying that, and if Scootaloo didn't know better she would have sworn it was directed at her. _-~/|~-_ The crusaders trotted around what seemed to be all of Ponyville before they had to return home without getting deep in trouble. Little did the majority of the crusaders know, that the crusaders were all present for that excursion. Scootaloo decided to go back to the orphanage, it would at least be heated. She didn't want to sleep in a wooden crate again, it was too cold. She quietly entered the orphanage, making sure not to alert the caretaker, Kind Heart, of her arrival. As she exited the entryway and into the orphanage she noticed that the caretaker was watching the doorway. She was clearly worried. She went across the room to the hallway that lead to the rooms as quietly as she could manage. As she had just left the living room she heard from behind her, "Where are you Scootaloo? Please be alright." Scootaloo went to her room, and walked towards her bed. Wait. She paused as a realization occurred to her. If I sleep in my bed, it will be noticeable I'm invisible not interng.. intagullible, ugh, where's Sweetie when you need her? I guess the corner will do, at least this place is warmer than the box So she curled up as tightly as she could in the corner and slowly drifted off into sleep. She woke up in the middle of the night with a strong thirst. She got up from her corner and walked through the orphanage. She poured herself a glass of water drank it quickly before putting it back where she got it. As she walked back to her room she noticed that Kind Heart had fallen asleep on the sofa in the living room. She appeared to be shivering. Scootaloo went over to the laundry room, and she brought back a blanket for her caretaker. She placed it over the sleeping form and went back to her room. Author's Note Spot the reference. This probably would have been out sooner, but I had a power outage last night. P.S. I have the rest of the story planned out, so as long as I don't have any major schedule conflicts the chapters should come regularly.
Day TwoKind Heart shifted under the blanket as the sun started to shine through a window. She slowly opened her teal eyes. Wiping away the sleep from her eyes with a light brown hoof and pushing the dark brown mane from her eyes and back over her ears, she looked around taking in the surroundings. She recalled waiting for Scootaloo the night before, and then falling asleep on the couch. However she did not remember getting a blanket. Thinking as hard as she could she could not find any recollection of getting a blanket. A thought crossed her mind, Maybe Scootaloo's back and she got it for me when I slept. The middle aged mare rushed down the hall to Scootaloo's room. Looking in the open door to see an empty room, "Scootaloo, where have you gone?" The gentle voice of the light brown earth pony caused Scootaloo to awaken, but she remained silent, as she wouldn't remember how to operate her jaw enough to be capable of proper speech for another few minutes. Kind Heart left the doorway a few moments later, Scootaloo had gotten up and began to follow her, trying to be quiet as possible. She wasn't very quite, but she was quiet enough not to be discovered. The caretaker walked down the hall, through the living room and stopping at the entryway, but only long enough to put a scarf around her neck, before she made her way outside. Scootaloo rushed out the door as Kind Heart opened it, being the best time to do it as to prevent being closed inside, or squeezing as she is going out or closing the door. Scootaloo's caretaker started walking down the street. Which normally would not intrigue Scootaloo, however, it was opposite of the way she would normally go. If she were going to get groceries, she would have traveled in the other direction. So Scootaloo decided to follow Kind Heart to find out what she was going to do. During the walk Scootaloo got a good look at her caretaker. She had bags under her eyes, and a frown etched across her face. Scootaloo also noticed something that she had never seen Kind do before. She kept looking up and watching the sky. After about ten minutes of walking Kind Heart had reached her destination, the Ponyville guardhouse. She walked up to the front door and pulled it open. Scootaloo squeezing in as the door was pulled outwards. As the light brown earth pony entered the building a guard in silver armor walked up, "Hello ma'am, what brings you to the guard station today?" "My name is Kind Heart, and I own the local orphanage. A few nights ago, Scootaloo, the foal that I take care of didn't show up, and she hasn't shown up since." "Follow me, ma'am, I will get you the necessary paperwork." _-~/|~-_ After Filling out the necessary paperwork, the guard said he would make posters to notify the public and send a copy to the local dairy to have it printed on the milk cartons. Kind Heart thanked them and made her way out, unbeknown to her the filly she was searching for was mere feet away. Currently she was looking up, walking towards a cloud, with a prismatic multi-chromatic tail dangling over the edge. _-~/|~-_ Meanwhile in the crusader's clubhouse, two fillies are wondering what to make of the current predicament. "What if Scootaloo's an alien!?" "And what would give ya that idea?" "Pinkie Pie didn't know about where Scootaloo lived or who her parents are, what if she's an alien from outer space? What if she left to go back to her home world?" "That makes about as much sense as Scootaloo suddenly becoming invisible. She ain't an alien." "What if she turned invisible and she needs our help, but we can't see her to help her!?" "Now yer jus' bein' stupid. She's probably at her home, in Ponyville havin' hot soup and layin' under some warm blankets." "But we don't know that!" "Makes a lot more sense than aliens." _-~/|~-_ "Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo wondered what Kind Heart wanted with Rainbow Dash. "Huh?" Rainbow's head peered from over the edge of the cloud. "I need your help." Kind Heart yelled up. Rainbow Dash dropped down from her cloud and landed in front of the light brown earth pony, "What's up?" "Well, my name is Kind Heart, I run the local orphanage," Rainbow raised an eyebrow at this, "And Scootaloo hasn't shown up for a couple days. I thought that since she never seems to stop talking about you, that you might have seen her recently. Have you seen Scootaloo recently?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Scoots is an orphan?" "Yes," Kind Heart answered, "Have you seen her in the last couple of days?" "No," Rainbow Dash had lost her confident grin. Instead it had been replaced with a determined scowl, "But, I'm going to find her." "Oh thank you, I've been so worried." Scootaloo had made her way over to Rainbow Dash, and because of this she heard her muttering, "Why didn't she tell me. I didn't know she wanted a big sister because she had nopony. I have to fix this." She took off Immediately after finishing that last sentence, leaving Scootaloo in a cloud of dust. Rainbow Dash was now flying across Ponyville at a breakneck pace, looking out over as much of the town as she could as she made her way over to sweet apple acres, "First things first, gotta check her clubhouse." She's probably just hanging out with her friends. _-~/|~-_ Meanwhile at the clubhouse the the crusaders with the only invisible parts being the images on their flanks were still in a tizzy. Sweetie Belle had mastered her unintentional possessed Diamond Tiara impersonation, and Apple Bloom was trying to get her to stop. "Calm down Sweetie, everthin' is gonna be a'right." THUNK!!!! "What in tarnation was that?" On the clubhouse balcony, just outside the door Rainbow Dash was dusting herself off from the impact landing. She walked into the clubhouse to see a muttering confused filly, with a bewildered filly right next to her. "Hey, you girls seen Scoots recently?" "No, we were just wonderin' where she lived to see if she is alright." They didn't know either. I guess she didn't tell anypony.Darn it, I should've known though, Why the feather didn't she tell me. She realized she was beginning to show anger, so she calmed herself before saying, "Well, you too keep an eye out for her, she's bound to be around somewhere. Tell her Rainbow Dash is looking for her." "Alright." Apple Bloom replied. _-~/|~-_ The sun was setting, and Rainbow Dash was dead tired from flying non-stop looking for Scootaloo, as well as all the stops she made at her friend's places to get their help. She hadn't found Scootaloo, and was becoming very distressed. Some element of loyalty I turned out to be. She thought from her vantage point atop a cloud. "Please Scoots, just come back. I didn't know, I'll adopt you scoots, just please come back." She said, looking at the kaleidoscope her tears made when mixed with the sunset. Author's Note The winner for finding the reference in the last chapter is ???
Day Three Day Three Rainbow dash was up before the sun. The only time she has ever done that is back when she was at the Wonderbolts Academy. She was circling the outskirts of Ponyville, looking for the telltale orange and purple of Scootaloo. She was doing her second lap around Ponyville when she noticed discord was watching her. Dash had an idea, Maybe discord could find her. She flew up to discord. He was eating popcorn and was wearing strange glasses with one red and one blue lens. "Discord!" "Yes?" He spoke with a sing songy voice. "Have you seen Scoots?" He placed a paw to his chin, "Hmmmm, No I don't recall seeing her." "Could you find, her, you know just teleport her here or something?" "Dash, for me to be able to do that at will I would have to keep track of everypony, and that would require too much, bleh, organization." "Fine, but if you see her tell her to find me." "If I see her I'll do just that." "Good." "Happy hunting!" Discord called to Rainbow Dash as she flew off. 01010011 01101111 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101111 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 00101110 , Discord thought with a grin. Discord snapped a claw, a a bright flash was emitted from right next to him and the cloud had a new depression. "Whoa," Scootaloo said trying to regain her bearings. "Hey, Dash is looking for you. You want to follow her?" "Yes!" Scootaloo shouted excitedly, before her face fell, "But I can't keep up with her." "She'll be going slow to try and spot you. You should be able to keep up with her on your scooter." "But won't a scooter going about on it's own be kinda weird?" "I can make it so only you can see it." "Cool!" A bright flash brought a scooter and another sent Scootaloo and her transportation to the ground to follow Dash. "Now where was I? Oh yeah." He turned the cloud he was sitting on to face the Whitetail Woods where distant polka music could be heard, "Watching Pinkie's search party." _-~/|~-_ Dash was flying over the town, trying to spot the missing filly. Posters had been put up on every street. Yet no one had seen hide nor hair of the pegasus filly. Dash flew on looking, Scootaloo hadn't been seen in three days, and that really worried Dash. Darn it, why did I have to promise myself that I would adopt her when she showed up. I don't think I can handle that responsibility, but darn it, I promised myself. I have to find her, she deserves somepony that will love her, somepony as amazing as she is. Somepony... Dash hung her head, better than me. As the sun made it's way to the midpoint of the sky, rainbow was getting weary. The overwhelming sadness was beginning to take effect. She flew to the outskirts of town and lied down on a cloud. Scootaloo caught up to Rainbow Dash She, gave up. I thought she cared, but, Scootaloo wiped a tear that began to flow down her cheek, but, I guess she doesn't. A sniffle could be heard coming from the field, but much to the surprise of Scootaloo, it didn't com from her. She looked up and saw that it was Dash who had made the sniffle, "Damn it Scoots." Those words shocked Scootaloo, her tears forgotten, replaced with rapt attention. "Where did you go? Why did you leave? Why didn't you tell m-me!?" Sobs where beginning to punctuate her words. Scootaloo continued staring, listening to her idol. "Why d-didn't you tell me you where an or-orphan. I-I should have known." "I didn't tell anypony," Scootaloo whispered, as if subconsciously trying to answer. "Scootaloo, pl-please come back. I promise I will be your family," she sniffled, "We'll go to the orphanage, an... and I'll take you home." That last sentence brought that final reassurance of what she had doubted so thoroughly just a few days prior, "Discord, I don't want to be invisible anymore!" Scootaloo shouted as loud as she could. "That's my cue," Discord appeared with a bucket of water, unceremoniously dumping it on Scootaloo, leaving her visible and soaking wet. "Scootaloo!" Discord raised his claw to snap Scootaloo up onto the cloud with Dash, but before he could the filly was replaced with a rainbow contrail. "Scoots, I was so worried. Where did you go?!" "I didn't go anywhere Discord made me invisible," Scootaloo responded, finding it difficult to breath in Rainbow Dash's forelegs. "DISCORD!" Rainbow yelled. "Yes?" he said mockingly. "WHY DID YOU TURN SCOOTS INVISIBLE?!" "She wanted me to." "HORSEAPPLES!" "Ask her yourself." "It's true dash," Scootaloo spoke, "I thought no one cared, so I wondered what would happen if I disappeared. So Discord made me invisible. I now know that You do care Dash," She hugged dash with those words, "Please don't be mad at Discord." Rainbow gave Discord a death glare, "I was only helping, everything turned out better than before!" He said in a half hearted defense with extra theatrics. "Why?" "Why what?" "Why did you do this, and why did you help her?" Dash interrogated. "Because look at all the chaos that ensued, half the town has gone wild in the search for that little filly, and since everything turned out for the better, I can't be punished for this because I was helping ponies." "Fine, I won't convince my friends to turn you back to the statue you should be. I can't believe I am going to say this, but thank you." Dash thanked the draconequis, "Now get out of here before I change my mind." Discord popped away in an instant. Scootaloo looked up at Dash from the embrace, "Did you mean it." "Mean what, Scoots?" "Are you really going to adopt me?" "I said I would, and I will," Dash said. What am I getting myself into? Scootaloo let out the most adorable squee, hugging Dash with that much more vigor. "Well, I guess it's time to make this official. Which means we need to head over to the orphanage and fill out a bunch of boring paperwork, but after that, you can come home with me." "YAY!!!!" Author's Note For those of you who didn't use the binary decoder linked to decode discords thoughts. "Soon Scootaloo will see that ponies do care about her." We're almost done folks. just an epilogue, maybe a bonus story will be posted. Oh my Celestia, I made it into the popular stories box. now, to just get to the featured box. -
EpilogueAfter Dash brought Scootaloo back, the whole town stopped searching and Rainbow had made her way over to the orphanage to adopt the orange filly. "Alright Rainbow Dash, you are now the legal guardian of Scootaloo. Congratulations! Scootaloo, you look as happy as I had always imagined you to be when this day was to come. This warms my heart, I hope you will both be very happy." "Come on Scoots, let's get you home." Scootaloo loved the sound of that, I have a home now, not just a house, a home. I am finally going home. Dash squatted down exposing her back to Scootaloo, "Okay Scoots, hop on, and hold tight." Scootaloo quickly obliged, hopping on to Dash's back and placing her forelegs around her neck. "Goodbye Kind heart!" Scootaloo waived to the orphanage's caretaker as Dash walked out the door with Scootaloo on her back. "Okay, you ready?" Dash asked taking position to fly off. "Yes!" "Okay, hang on tight, here we go!" With that Rainbow Dash took off flying towards her cloud mansion. Scootaloo could not be happier. Her idol was flying her to her house, to her home. It wasn't long, with the speed Rainbow Dash tended to fly at, before they made it to Rainbow Dash's cloud home. Rainbow landed on the front porch and let Scootaloo off of her back. Rainbow walked over to the front door opening it, "Welcome home Scoots." Scootaloo entered the large cloud house, looking around with wonder in her eyes. Rainbow looked at the awestruck filly as she wandered about the room, I guess I will have to give her the guest room, Rainbow figured, "Hey scoots, how about I show you your new room?" "Yes!" Scootaloo said, so many thoughts going through her head she couldn't keep track of them all. "Alright, follow me." Dash walked across the room and up a flight of stairs, checking behind her to make sure Scootaloo had followed. On the top of the stairs was a hallway of sorts. Dash walked to one of the doors, pushing it open, "Scoots this will be your room." A purple and orange blur rushed passed Rainbow dash Straightening her mane. Rustling her mane back to the normal style she followed the ecstatic filly into her new bedroom. As the filly was examining every molecule in her bedroom, a thought crossed Rainbow Dash's mind, "Hey scoots, I adopted you, does that make me your mother? Heart said that I was a 'guardian' but does that make me your mother, or will I be your big sister?" Scootaloo thought about this, It would be awesome to have the Rainbow Dash as a mother, but she's already my sister,"You were already my big sister, why change it?" "Just what I was thinking," if she turns out smarter than me her teenage years are going to be extremely difficult. After it appeared that Scootaloo would not calm down or sit still in the near future, Dash decided on what to do about dinner, she wasn't much of a cook. She also didn't have much food in the pantry. That left one place, "Hey, wanna go to Sugar Cube Corner and get something to eat?" "Yes!" They walked down the stairs and outside onto the front porch, "Okay Scoots, hop on!" "YAY!" Scootaloo scrambled onto Rainbow Dash's back and as soon as Dash was sure that Scootaloo was securely resting on her back she took off heading towards her favorite confectionery. In a few moments Dash landed in front of Sugar Cube Corner, and let Scootaloo off. She went ahead and opened the door walking in with Scootaloo. "Surprise!" Why didn't I see this coming? The Sugar Cube Corner was decorated for a party, a banner hung from the rafters "Congrats Scoots+Dash on new fami" "Hey Dashie, and Scootaloo! Do you like it? unfortunately I ran out of room on the banner." Scootaloo latched on to Rainbow Dash in a hug, and once Pinkie had managed to pry her away, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle trotted up to Scootaloo. "Hey girls!" Scootaloo exclaimed. Sweetie Belle responded by slapping Scootaloo in the face, "Why didn't you tell us you were an orphan?" Scootaloo lost her smile, "I didn't want you to think you were better than me." "Why would we think that?" Sweetie still seemed hurt. "Because you had a family and I didn't!" Scootaloo began to get angry. "Now now, let's just enjoy the party and celebrate scoots' new family," Apple Bloom interjected stepping between the two other fillies. "I'm sorry," Sweetie Belle said. "So am I, I am sorry I didn't tell you, but I never told anyone." Over on the other side of the room Applejack was talking to Rainbow Dash. "So ya adopted Scoots? Why though, why did you feel the need to adopt her?" "I am the element of loyalty, and this entire time, the pony who looked up to me the most, had no one. Well other than the orphanage owner, but that isn't family. If anyone would appreciate family Applejack I expected it to be you." Rainbow Dash nudged Applejack playfully. "I agree with ya there. It was a mighty good thing ya did adoptin' Scoots like that, but ya know, raisin' a crusader's like parentin' on hard?" "No sweat, I'm sure I was just like her when I was a filly." Rainbow dash gained a contemplative look at that, "On that thought, I'm probably going to have to get some headache medicine." "Ah'm sure you'll be fine," Applejack commented with a chuckle, "If ya get the extra strength stuff." "I'll head to Zecora's next chance I get," Rainbow Dash said as Twilight walked up. "Hello Rainbow Dash. Do you want to borrow any books on parenting? I have some at the library." "You get me to start reading and now you want me to read constantly. Not everyone reads constantly, Twilight. I think I'll be fine. Though if I have any major issues I'll come to you to get that book." Scootaloo had just finished retelling the vents that transpired when she was invisible, "Hey Scootaloo, what if you're talent is being invisible?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Sugar cube please, what would that cutiemark even look like?" Apple Bloom asked. Scootaloo thought about that, "Well it would probably be invisible... OH NO, WHAT IF MY SPECIAL TALENT IS BEING INVISIBLE, AND MY CUTIEMARK IS INVISIBLE!!!" The crusaders went on being themselves, and visible, for the rest of the party. Rainbow Dash had three other conversation like that, and a conversation with Pinkie. After the party was over everypony went home wondering what the next party will be for, and what time they should show up the next day. "Okay squirt, we should probably get to bed." Scootaloo groaned at this. "But, tomorrow's a Saturday so we can hang out all day." "YAY!" "And since we live in a cloud house I figured I would finally teach you to fly." Rainbow Dash said with a proud smile. Scootaloo's face fell at that comment and she hung her head, "Oh." Author's Note I have that big empty space there because I wanted Dash's words to sink in before the story continued.
