The Rebellion

Years.
It had been years since Scootaloo had left The Rebellion to live with Nightsky.
She had grown accustomed living in a house, and was truly acting like a pony her age. There was a happy and cheerful skip in her step whenever she hung out with her friends, and she had become a great rider of the scooter.
But of course things had changed quite a bit within those months.
Scootaloo had made another great friend. Actually, it was the small yellow cowpony she had met the first day she had come to Ponyville. The filly they called Apple Bloom. The three had become great friends, and had even started up their own club! They called themselves ‘The Cutie Mark Crusaders and their goal in the club were to earn their cutie marks. They got into strange and funny antics all over Ponyville, and were known as the troublemakers of Ponyville; it seemed everywhere they went there was a disaster afterwards.
But other great things had stemmed up too. Scootaloo was now the little sister of her idol Rainbow Dash!
Scootaloo had finally got the attention of Rainbow Dash one day. She had been performing one of her tricks when Rainbow Dash had flown up to her and said…
“Nice moves kid.”
That moment had defiantly excited Scootaloo the most out of all the things she had gotten up to in Ponyville. Scootaloo had known she had grasped the attention of the cyan mare on the first day she got her scooter, but now that the Pegasus had commented on her awesomeness? Now that was a whole new level!
Of course the trick had ended with Scootaloo falling into a pile of hay… But that wasn’t the point…
Then Scootaloo had been told that Applejack and a few other ponies were going camping! Scootaloo wanted to be in on that action immediately! And which pony had actually come to the camping trip with Scootaloo?
Rainbow Danger Dash!
She even got to share a tent with her idol! Scootaloo was so excited to learn more about her idol and maybe even be taken under her wing. There were endless possibilities of how the camping trip could have gone.
But the trip hadn’t really started out the best. However it certainly ended in the most amazing way possible for the orange filly.
Rainbow Dash had decided to tell the campers scary stories on their first night there. These stories had sadly scared the living daylights out of Scootaloo, but she tried to keep her cool throughout. This led to a few problems…
The first problem was the nightmares Scootaloo repeatedly got every time she fell asleep. And the second problem was the fact that Scootaloo got barely any sleep for the next day!
They finally reached another camping site later on, but Scootaloo was still extremely scared from the story. Of course Rainbow Dash decided to tell another scary story… Like that didn’t scare the little filly enough!
Eventually Scootaloo went back to sleep inside an extremely scary cave with the rest of her friends. She once again suffered another nightmare, which promptly ended when Princess Luna showed up in her dream. The princess told Scootaloo she needed to face her real fear, which was of course being rejected by her idol.
After waking from the dream Scootaloo ran thinking that the “headless horse” was chasing after her when she heard his whiny (which was actually just Rainbow Dash snoring). She raced through the forest on her scooter until she ended up flying off the edge of a ravine, where she managed to hold onto a tree root from the floor.
Her scooter went over the edge and into the ravine, probably to be never seen again.
Scootaloo fell off of the edge with the scooter, but was quickly saved by Rainbow Dash who had followed the missing camper when she had disappeared.
There at that moment Scootaloo had to face her fear.
Rainbow Dash was expecting answers for why Scootaloo had raced out of the cave in the middle of the night, and Scootaloo had no good lies to cover her tracks.
She finally revealed how scared she was when Rainbow Dash told her stories and how she was desperate for Rainbow to take her under her wing. Scootaloo expected her idol to leave right at that moment, but the cyan mare actually stayed. She even told Scootaloo she was scared of those stories at one point, but quickly realised that the creepy monsters in them were nothing to be afraid of. Finally, Rainbow Dash happily agreed to take Scootaloo under her wing and be her big sister!
There, that was the best moment in Scootaloo’s life.
Since those few happy months a few other things had changed.
Twilight Sparkle, the leader of the elements of harmony had since become an alicorn. She was now a princess in her own right.
After Scootaloo had lost her scooter, Rainbow Dash had searched for it in the churning waters of the ravine and soon came back a few days later with it cleaned up and ready for some more tricks to try out.
Despite all these happy things and the great life she was having there was still something in the back of her mind. Always there. Always reminding her not everything is perfect. A battle loomed over the horizon, and when it happened Scootaloo was sure she was one of the only ponies capable of stopping it.
Endless training lay before her. Nightsky had started the training when he had received a letter from Merryweather. They hadn’t seen him since the day Scootaloo was dropped off from the camp site, and finally they had received contact with him.
The note had stated Dark Spirit was becoming increasingly stronger with the help of Blazingstorm. Scootaloo’s sister had done nothing but train since she had left and was now Dark Spirit’s main commander, which meant demoting Cold Ice.
It was also known that Blazingstorm had mastered flying a few months afterwards, and was now learning new tricks for when they reached Canterlot. None of the other ponies suspected Scootaloo of still being alive, and they had moved their campsite into some woods beside Trottingham and had been staying there for a number of months.
Nightsky realised that now was the time for Scootaloo to be remembering all the things she had learnt in the forest. That meant going back into her old routines and spending less time with her friends. She was re-disciplined and was becoming a soldier in her own right.
But there was still the art of flying to be mastered.
Nightsky had tried to teach Scootaloo everything he knew about flying, but he simply wasn’t a good instructor on those types of things. When he was a young colt he had picked up flying very quick and didn’t know any methods for Pegasi with difficulty learning.
And there was only one pony that could help Scootaloo.
Rainbow Dash had been a late bloomer when it came to flying, and even when she learnt she was still pretty bad at it. By this, Nightsky was sure she could teach Scootaloo everything she needed to know.
“Come on Scootaloo!” Nightsky ordered the orange Pegasus, “just a few more wing push-ups!”
Scootaloo grunted as she carried on using her wings.
“Nightsky, I don’t even know why I have to do this! I can’t even fly yet!” She complained.
“Well, if your wings are strong enough before then you won’t have any trouble getting off of the ground,” Nightsky retorted.
Scootaloo let out a heavy sigh and fell to the floor, making a small mark in the long grass.
“Scoot, you know Blazing has already learnt to fly, right?” He asked the Pegasus, who briefly nodded.
“And you don’t want to be behind her. You have to match your sister step for step or you’ll stand no chance against her,” he tried to reason with her.
“Why can’t I just be a normal pony?!” Scootaloo cried out in anger, “I just want one day where I don’t have to worry about the stupid rebellion and stupid Blazingstorm and Dark Spirit!”
“Who?” A voice interrupted the two arguing ponies.
Scootaloo turned to see Rainbow Dash looking down at them in confusion while she flapped her wings in a rhythmic fashion. Both Nightsky and the filly’s eyes widened as they looked up at her.
“Uh, nothing,” Scootaloo spoke up first, a clear lie written all over her face.
She let out a nervous chuckle, briefly followed by Nightsky. Slowly the two began to back away towards the back door. Rainbow Dash landed in the garden and just stared at them with the most confused expression known to ponies.
“Seriously, who the hay are Blazingstorm and Dark Spirit?” She asked curiously.
“Noponies important,” Nightsky spoke up, “just some of Scootaloo’s relatives,” he lied.
“And what was the whole thing about a rebellion?” Rainbow raised an eyebrow.
Scootaloo looked at Nightsky for answers, but the dark blue pony could only stand and stare.
“It’s umm… just a game me and Nightsky play. I’m always the soldier fighting against the rebellion and he is the rebellions leader… and it’s up to me to stop him.”
Scootaloo had to admit that it was a pretty good lie on the spot. Rainbow Dash still looked skeptical but didn’t say anything else about it, causing Scootaloo to breathe normally again.
I think I might just pat myself on the back for that, she thought joyfully.
“Anywho, Rainbow Dash do you think I could speak with you?” Nightsky looked at the Pegasus with a bright smile on his face once his nervousness had cleared.
“Uh, sure,” Rainbow Dash flew to the other side of the garden with Nightsky.
Scootaloo watched them curiously, unsure of what they were talking about. She sat herself down on the grass and sighed impatiently. She needed to train more, and having small little breaks like this wasn’t going to help her in the future.
Looking up she see Rainbow Dash walking back across the garden with Nightsky with a smile plastered on her face. She bent down to get closer to the filly.
“Nightsky suggested I take you flight training.”