The fatal error

Hey guys, i hope you dont hate me for what I could do later in the story... or this chapter in the story... but probably not this chapter... but it starts this chapter... but i got the worst and greatest idea ever. whatever I do don't hate me!, Anyway enough of my rambling. Chapter four HERE WE COME! O and if you guys are wondering i usually dont care about grammar in these authors note thingys :@

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It was about four, right after school got out, and Scootaloo was on her way to the hospital to visit her idol, Rainbow Dash. She had heard what had happened and had to see for her self if it was true or not. She didn't believe that Dash was hurt, she had seen her do some insanely stupid things, like that one time when she crashed into the water tower, which for some reason, was in the middle of nowhere, and it landed on her. She didn't even know it was possible to get crushed by two tons of water and not get... well, crushed.

She was about halfway there when she was brought out of her thoughts by the voice of one of her friends, "Hey Scootaloo, where you heading?" The cheerful voice asked.

"Oh, hey Sweetie, I'm on my way to the hospital, cause you know, Rainbow Dash."

"Oh, is that who my sister has been talking about? She told me one of her friends was really hurt and she wouldn't say more than that."

"I don't know yet, that's what I'm going to find out. Wanna come with me?"

"Sure, I don't have anything better to do." And with that, the two friends set off.

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It was 4:20 in the afternoon when Rainbow heard the door to her room opening, curious she forced herself into a sitting position and waited to see the visitor, or nurse, or doctor. What she saw totally shocked her, it was Scootaloo.

When Scootaloo entered, she just stood there for a minute, then her friend walked in and said, "Hey, why is it so quie- oh... I'll be in the lobby if you need me."

Scootaloo was the one to break the silence, "R-rainbow Dash w-what happened?"

Rainbow managed to cover her feelings near perfectly, "Truth is, I only remember half of what happened."

"Well I don't know what you could have done that managed to get you hurt THIS bad," Scootaloo pointed with a hoof at all the bandages she was wrapped in, "but it wont be long before you're back in tip top shape and soaring through the skies again!"

Upon hearing this Dash fell completely silent and looked down at her bed. In a confused tone, Scootaloo continued, "Right?"

Dash didn't bother to try and hide her emotions, "W-well you see I did so much damage to my wings that..." She stopped.

"That what?" Scoots asked.

"I might not ever fly... again."

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Scootaloo was shocked at what she heard a few hours ago. They had multiple conversations but there was something that Rainbow had caught during one of the specific conversations they had.

Rainbow asked Scootaloo, "Hey kid, don't you have to go home, won't your parents get worried?"

When Scootaloo had processed the words she was just asked, her head dropped low, and she muttered under her breath "Not any more."

Rainbow Dash cought this and continued, "What was that? I heard you say something..."

"Oh it's nothing." Scoots lied. Unfortunate for her, she was bad at lying, her left eye twitched whenever she lied.

"Scoots, you're really bad at lying, whats up?"

"Well, remember my super awesome parents I always tell you about?"

Dash interrupted Scootaloo, "Let me guess, they aren't really that awesome, or cool what so ever?"

"Oh no, no, it's nothing like that. My parents were really awesome... but..." Scoots paused there, as if waiting for Dash to try and coax out more information.

"But what?" Rainbow asked.

"I-I never met my parents..."

Rainbow was slow, probably due to her head injuries, but who knows. "I don't follow."

"Well... both of my parents were Wonderbolts, as you know. My parents were Cloud Dasher and Neon Light, My father, Cloud Dasher, died in a tragic accident three months after my mother became pregnant. And my mother died upon giving birth to me... I lived in an orphanage all my life, until four days ago, when the orphanage had to be closed down and all the kids there had to be transferred to a different orphanage... I didn't want to leave so I ran away... I've been managing, living with Applebloom and her family, for now, that is." She stopped then.

It was a couple of minutes before Dash could respond, but eventually words came back to her and she replied, "Wow. I never knew... I'm so sorry Scootaloo," This was one of the rare occasions she would call Scootaloo, Scootaloo. She continued,"wait, wait, why am I hearing about this now? Why didn't you tell me sooner kid?"

"Well I thought that it would be un cool talking to you about my life, so I never really tried. Oh and whenever I am with you, I tend to forget about all my problems and enjoy the few moments I get to be with you."

"Scootaloo, I don't know when, but sometime soon you and I are going to have a very long talk about this."

"Thats what I thought you would say, well I guess I didn't think you would say that, but looking forward to it!"

"You remind me of me when I was your age heh."

"I don't know if that is a complement, or an insult so I'm just going to guess and say both"

Rainbow chuckled a bit, "It was an insult, Scoots."

Scootaloo only grinned and replied, "I wouldn't want it any other way then."

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It had been a couple of hours since Scootaloo left, and Dash tried to get some sleep, but she couldn't. She kept thinking about Scootaloo and her parents. She was surprised they were both wonderbolts, but that thought slipped past her when she heard Scoots had grown up in an orphanage. She wanted Scoots to have a better life than she did. You could say that Rainbow had it a little better than Scootaloo, she got to know her mom, atleast. Her dad died in a tragic accident at the cloudsdale weather factory. And that was all she knew. Her mom died when Rainbow was six years old, of disease. She lived in an orphanage until she was sixteen, when she got a job as Lead weather pony for Ponyville.

Her thoughts were interrupted by Nurse Redheart's voice, "Miss Dash, I have some good news, considering the condition you are in. Would you like to hear it now, or later?"

Rainbow thought for a moment, she needed to hear some good knews so..."What's the news?"

"Well, your wings haven't been damaged to the point where they would be removed, so we can perform surgery and bring your wings back to less than half of their original power, bad news is that you will never fly like you use to, no more dangerous tricks either. And we managed to figure out why you survived the fall, it seems your friend, Twilight Sparkle, concentrated almost all of her magic on your body with a levitation spell, but since you were going so fast you were impossible to stop. She managed to slow you down to the point where you would survive the fall, and that was the reason she collapsed at the scene."

'Oh great, another thirty or forty things to think about, just what I need.' Rainbow thought, then replied, "What are the dangers of the surgery?"

"Considering you choose to go into surgery, if one of our surgeons screws up on the tiniest of things, you could lose your wings for good. If you don't go into surgery you may be able to use your wings again, but probably not to fly."

Rainbow had to consider her options, 'Okay, if I go into surgery and somepony screws up, I lose my wings for good. If I don't go into surgery there is a near 100% chance I'll never fly again...' She thought for several minutes comparing the pro's and con's of each of her options. She finally made a choice, "I-I'll do it."