Consider // Book 4

"How dare you!" Applejack yelled, her tears falling.

"It's easy really", Twilight said, as she teleported behind the group. All of them whipped around from Luna.

All of them began crying, except Scootaloo. She just stared at Twilight.

"You never take care of Fluttershy", Twilight said. "You never paid attention to her needs, she just let them fly away. But, she told Scootaloo everything."

Scootaloo just stared.

"You can't make her say anything!" Rarity said.

"I can", Twilight said. She used her magic to pick up something from the shadows. Curled up in a ball, was Princess Cadence.

"Don't risk it Scootaloo", she whispered.

"Release her!" Pinkie Pie yelled.

"Oh, silly Pinkie Pie", Twilight snickered. She used her magic to levitate her.

"Silly, silly, Pinkie."

Suddenly, Pinkie began choking. Twilight let her fall on the ground, and the ponies gasped.

"All you need to do is talk Scootaloo, and these ponies will be okay", Twilight smiled.

She kept staring.

"How did you even become this way?" Shining Armor said.

"From neglect of my friends", Twilight said. "Who didn't give me a chance to redeem myself."

Pinkie Pie finally stopped coughing, and stood up beside her friends. Her eyes were filled with pure tears.

"We didn't let you redeem yourself because you killed Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash said. "You can't give somepony a chance when they killed another pony."

"Why would anypony give you a chance?" Applejack snapped.

Twilight looked away, she brought Princess Cadence to the ground and the magic faded. A tear fell to the ground from Twilight's eye.

"I had to kill her", Twilight said. "Or else my allies would."

"Who's that?" Applejack said.

"Spitfire, and Fleet Foot", Twilight sighed. "I paid them to kill Scootaloo, but I'm the pony who made the plan. I wanted Scootaloo gone, so I could tell Fluttershy everything."

"You killed our best friend", Pinkie Pie said.

"I know I did!" Twilight snapped. She looked at the group of ponies who stood two yards away.

"I never meant to do all of this", Twilight said, collapsing and beginning to cry.

Princess Cadence walked over slowly, followed by Shining Armor.

"But, why would you try to hurt your friend?" Shining Armor said, standing over her.

"Do you think I wanted to hurt them!?" Twilight said. "Greed takes over my body."

"You have to let that out", Princess Cadence said. "If you want to be close to forgiven, then you must tell us everything."

"I don't remember most of it", Twilight cried, looking up to expose her tear-stained face.

Scootaloo walked over, her face beginning to tear up also.

"I'm sorry Scootaloo", Twilight said.

"Save the sorry's for Jail", Scootaloo snapped. She kicked Twilight in the face, and walked back to the rest of the girls.

Twilight sighed. She got up, and stared at her brother and her sister-in-law.

"Now if you excuse me", Twilight said. "I have business to attend to."

She teleported off. Scootaloo ran over to Fluttershy's dead body, and laid down next to her. She hugged Fluttershy, and she was cold. The rest of the girls walked over slowly.

"She never wanted to hurt us", Rarity sniffled. "But she killed three ponies."

Cadence and Shining Armor whispered to each other.

"Fluttershy just wanted to protect Scootaloo", Rainbow Dash said, one of her tears showing.

Applejack grabbed her hat, and put it to her chest.

"She'll be remembered in our hearts, always", Applejack said.

Scootaloo didn't let go of Fluttershy, she just kept hugging.

"It's just us now", Rarity sighed.

Cadence and Shining walked over.

"We have to protect Celestia", Shining Armor said. "And of course - Cadence."

"We have to find the Crystal Of Hope", Cadence said.

Scootaloo got up, and walked over to the girls.

"I need to come", Scootaloo said.

"No, you need to go back and train", Rainbow Dash said. "You must make it into the Wonderbolts! It's your dream."

Scootaloo groaned.

~~

"Please, find that crystal", Scootaloo said.

"No need to worry", Applejack said.

Scootaloo took off for Rainbow Falls. After a short fly, she saw her dorm building and flew her way down. She grabbed her key and unlocked the door to her room. But when she opened the door, a colt and a mare were making out on Red Feathers pile of clothes. Scootaloo quickly closed the door, and shivered.

Scoot made her way to Rumble's dorm room. She knocked on the door, and Rumble answered.

"Hey!" Rumble smiled, opening the door for her to come in.

"Hi", Scootaloo smiled back. "I missed you."

"Why would you miss me?" Rumble said, closing the door.

"My mom died", Scootaloo whispered.

Rumble took a step back. "Fluttershy!?"

"That's my mom", Scootaloo said. "Or, my Guardian."

"How?"

"Twilight."

"Oh."

"Twilight also killed Princess Luna."

Rumble went quiet.

"And Spike."

"Well, we need to do something", Rumble said.

"No", Scootaloo said. "Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash have it covered."

"But I wanna help!" Rumble whined, and Scootaloo chuckled.

"Well, you can't", Scootaloo said.

"Whats this?" Rumble asked, pointing to Scootaloo's eyes. There were bags underneath her eyes.

"I was up all night on the train", Scootaloo said.

"You should go to sleep", Rumble suggested, sitting on a chair.

"Red Feathers is making out in the room", Scootaloo groaned.

"Oh yea, Red and Butterscotch had a date", Rumble chuckled. "That went well."

Scootaloo yawned.

"I'll get them out of your room", Rumble laughed.

"Please", Scootaloo laughed.

~~

"Who's next?" Spitfire asked.

"Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash", Fleet Foot said.

"Well, we have to stick to a schedule", Spitfire said, flying off to Ponyville.

Fleet Foot groaned. "This isn't gonna end well, for all of Equestria."