Flight of the Flightless

***Flight of the Flightless

Chapter 2***

Today marks two long months since I woke up as Scootaloo that very morning but also five weeks since I last saw my mum, brother or sister directly. I sat outside of a small building in the middle of no where, nothing for miles around and those that was staying in the same house was assigned officers the UK government had placed to keep me safe from multiple things.

I got up and took a walk toward the sound of waves, the only pleasant thing about this place was the sight of the North Sea on a nice clear day, wearing the blue shirt my sister made and the small key chain torch attached around my next kept my hopes up seeing them again one day.

“Another day far from home...” I whispered feeling the cool calm breeze through my mane and wings.

A heard the sound of foot steps, I turn to see it was the lady in red hair holding something in her hands. “Afternoon Wayne, a latter from your family.”

I took it with my mouth and place it before my front hooves keeping it from being blown away. “Thank you Max. I'll read it later ok?”

She sat down beside me. “Sure kid.”

I heard that said to me so many times that I just got use to it. “Why did we have to be burgled?”

“That I can't answer Wayne, events that unfolded from it was sort of your own doing in a way.” She put her hand on my back and removed it, Max got up and walked back to the house.

I look to the bracelet I had to wear, it was their way of making sure I didn't try and run away like I tried a few times within the few weeks of being here. “Yeah, not be discovered for the sake of my little sister. What would you of done?” I muttered, in this place I was alone... No family, no friends.

The only thing was the letters I had from home that kept me going. I picked up the envelope off the ground with my hooves ripping it with my mouth and pulled the letter out of the envelope. I opened it up and started to read it.

“Wayne it been six weeks since I saw the face you had now, I really wish we could be with you but no matter how much I try there is no end to the reasons they give to stop me from seeing you. I've had it with the government and their political...” I paused looking at the words seeing then bluntly shoved into the letter for anyone to see. “They keep giving.” I skip reading that part between the words.

“I know your well and safe but I wish I could be there for you son, all of us wish we could. Continue to have faith in seeing us again one day and no matter what rubbish they come up with, don't believe it.” I sighed looking over to my right then to my left seeing the armed guards with the sound of a chopper flying by.

“We always love you no matter what. Yours truly...”

I closed the letter up knowing that most of it was black inked again. I hardly get to know what mum really saying anymore. “Being a look alike to Scootaloo sucks. Hey... I bet Scootaloo not going through this kind of hell I been through.” I felt tears running down my face feeling so isolated and trapped.

I just wanted to be with my family again. Not alone…

The second week in all of it changed in a space of days for me.

All I was doing that evening was watching on my XBOX ONE of the Lost tv series with the time almost gone midnight lying on the bed with my head resting against my forelegs, I had adjusted being stuck in the house and waking up in Scootaloo's body, it was just strange acting as if nothing really happened.

I yawned feeling that I was about to drop off to sleep when suddenly a smash came from downstairs with my ears perking up instantly. “AH!” I heard my sister scream out.

“Alanna!” I quickly got up jumping off my bed quickly running to the door opening it up with my front hoof I rushed down the steps jumping almost five steps with each leap. I land on the wooden surface sliding into the door to the cupboard.

Dazed I heard another voice. “Shut up girl! Give me your laptop and everything valuable now!”

I got up shaking my head and stood in the door way seeing in the dark the man covered up with a gun to my sister Alanna. “Hey buster!” I yelled out.

He turn to me. “Little brat if you know better you will...” He look down at me with a shaking hand with the gun.

“You want to draw! DRAW THIS!” I took the keychain solar charged torch with my mouth and turned it on blinding him with the white LED bright lights.

“AH!” He screamed out dropping the gun with it discharging it, the man ran right into the double glazed window face planting it hard. He fell over out cold.

“Ha! That what you get for messing with a crusader!” I grinned.

Alanna turn to me with a shaking finger pointing to me. “W-Wayne...”

“Yeah sis? Are ya ok?”

She nods. “Y-yes but you've been shot!”

I look to my left top foreleg connecting to my body seeing where it hit with blood coming from it. “Oh look at that...” I wobbled and fell flat on my stomach with all legs giving up.

“MUM! NIGEL! GET DOWN HERE!” Alanna yelled out rushing over to me leaving the man still lying out cold in our living room. “Please stay with me!”

I chuckled. “Don't worry sis, a bullet can't stop this orange filly.” I wasn't sure what I was saying at the time, I was just taking in the internal shock and gone completely out of it being shot.

Not sure what happened not because when I came too I was in hospital with the sound of beeping, I knew the gig was up and discovered but worse thing I saw was mum fighting to get to see me. “Let me go you bastards! That my son! You can't stop me from seeing him!”

“Ma'am! Your 'Son' is endangered, we got to get 'him' to a safe disclosed location.” The officer said.

“What!? You can't do that! I didn't agree to this!” I yelled out instantly kicking one with my right hind leg as I leap out of bed, I did another kick and bouncing off them, good thing I knew some moves since I been a pony. I using my good three legs ignoring the pain and just waking up, my aim was to get to mum.

“Get her!” One of the officers yelled.

“Stop her!” Another shouted but he got hit by me sending him flying into two others.

I landed right into mum's arms. “Run!” I yelled.

Mum turn and made a run for it with Nigel soon joining me and Alanna as we went down the stairs fast they could to get away. Everything was happening instantly and fast I listened to everything that was happening, police being called from all over as we reached my brothers car.

That when two cars pulled right up in the way. “Shit!” Nigel cursed seeing the men get out and pull out their guns to us.

“Hands up!”

Mum held onto me. “I am not going to let you take my son from me! You want him you going to have to kill me!”

I gasped looking up seeing the serious look in her eyes. “M-mum...”

“That won't be happening.” We look at a man in a suit step up to us. “You will be able to write him, but for your own and his safety we be taking both the family and him to disclosed locations in the UK. The press is already eating this up and the USA already trying to make moves to get your son set over because of Hasbro are the creators of MLP after all.” He had white hair and bread looking like he was in the mid 50s.

“Don't worry you will be able to keep in touch via letters, I promise you that.”

“Who are you to make that kind of statement!?”

“Child, I am the kind that the government placed to keep this country safe and her citizens even those that been changed into some strange talking orange pegasus filly like yourself.” He said calmly with hands behind his back.

I raised my right hoof up at him. “I'm 29 years old you old mule!”

“Yes you are.” He turns away.

“Hey I am talking to you mister!” I continued to yell at him.

He turn slightly looking at me with his right eye. “Yes indeed, but we will talk again soon. For now it not the time.” He raise a hand up. “Tranquilise them.”

“What!?” Nigel shouted and the guns fired hitting both my brother and sister.

“Nigel! Alanna!” I watched them fall over soon unconscious.

Mum turn her back to them with two hitting her in the back. “Run... Wayne...” She let go of me as she fell.

I landed on the ground quickly turning to them with fear. “L-lea-leave me alone!” I shouted at them backing away.

“This won't hurt a bit.” The man said pricking me with a needle, I felt my eyes fall heavy and I fell limp into his arm and that was the last time I saw my family.

I open my eyes staring out to the sea again seeing the moon shining in the night sky, I had fallen asleep and lying there I just looked at all the countless stars in the clear night sky the letter still under me.

“I believe that talk has finally came.” I heard the voice of that annoying man, turning with tears falling still I look up at him hurt. “I know pulling you away from your family seem unfair but it was for your and their protection.”

“Yeah right...” I turn away wiping my tears away. “You did it for the bettering of yourself and those you work for, nothing more, nothing less.”

The man sat down beside me with his legs hanging over the edge of the cliff, it looked temping to just push him after what he did to me, but I wouldn't go that low unless he made me. “That not exactly true Wayne Osman.”

“Whatever...” I turn away. “You and the stupid government took us apart!” I quickly turn around glaring at him. “I been suck in this stupid place for over five weeks! Poked by some random stupid doctor at all parts of my body! Think how I feel!”

“...”

“And worse of it all! Is I am a prisoner to your stupid politics! As they try to think of how to deal with a orange filly that talks!”

He just kept calm through out my out burst. “Are you done?”

“Not even close...” I grumbled.

He sighed. “In the last few days the USA won their case to get you and your family extradited back to the states.”

I raise a eye. “That why your here? To get me all packed up into some need little box to be sent to the USA? And my family getting 5 star treatment by the US government?” I gave an sarcastic replied.

He shook his head. “Not at all my young friend, in fact the government officially announced to do so but unofficially we are to do whatever in our power to protect you and your family, we made a promise and keeping to it.” He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket. “This is from your mother, you are to be meeting her, Nigel and Alanna tonight. And getting you all out of the country before the police are sent in.”

I wasn't buying this for a second. “Police sent in? Seriously? You think I am going to believe you just like that?”

“Believe what you like Wayne Osman because as we speak they are on the way.” He replied. “Enjoy reading it my friend and be ready to move out in ten minutes. They coming.” The man got up. “Oh one more thing.” He reach down and undo the bracelet I been wearing. “Your free.” And he walked back to the house tossing it behind him and over the cliff edge.

I watched it fall down into the crashing waves below and back to him. “Who is this guy? Almost six weeks ago he was some creep and now want to be my savour? What in hay is going on around here?” I decided to open the letter up to see what it said.

It had a picture printed on it of me in my current appearance with the rest of my family on Halloween a week after my transformation. I saw the words written directly below it with a smile. “Words only can say so much.” And I knew what it meant and hugged the letter tightly with tears falling again.

Max came up to me. “Wayne...”

“Ok I am ready.” I folded it up and placed the picture in my pocket, it was hit or miss time, let see what these people really want. I got little choice in the matter any how.

We walking back to the house and saw lights coming up to it from behind. A black Land Rover slid right up to us with it lights off. “Get in! They here already!” The man spoke.

We quickly got into the Land Rover and slamming his foot on the accelerator we was on the move, I looked over the seat standing up on my hind legs with front hooves on the back rest seeing armed men moving in on the house with people getting out of it with arms in the air.

“What about the others!? We can't just leave them!” I turned to the elderly man driving the vehicle.

He look through the rear view mirror at me for a moment before focusing on the road we entered. “They buying us time to escape, they'll be fine I promise.”

“You make a lot of promises ya know?” I was very uneasy about trusting this jerk.

He just smiled from what I saw from the mirror. “And have I broken any of them?”

I shook my head. “Not at all, that kinda cool that you do but still I don't trust ya for a second.”

“I'm not surprised.” He checking the mirrors for anyone following as he turn the lights back on. “We in the clear, get some rest Wayne, it will be quite some time before we arrive at our destination.” I look over to Max, she just nods to me and I sighed sitting down into the seat.

I closed my eyes feeling the bumps from wheels as they ran through the pot holes in the amazing roads we brits had. I smirked slightly as I drifted to sleep with forelegs crossed thinking about it.

I dreamt of a crazy firefight stand off between the people that first was my captives and now rescuers fighting the US agents that want to take me and the family. It became something really crazy as I let my imgination run wide with war bots fighting now with spaces ships zooming in with beams, energy balls, pulses of lasers with missiles.

Huge explosions rip through the skies and a bright light came from the middle causing all forces to lose power and fall from the skies high above, I shielded my eyes from it seeing something in the light appearing flapping wings as it got closer.

Before I could see what it was the dream ended, I heard the breaks screech with me waking up instantly. I open my eyes looking around to see through the front window flashing lights, the old man staring at the armed police officers before them, they clearly blocked the road.

“Wh-what going on?” I asked feeling scared.

He turn to me and then to Max. “When you hear the signal run, Max get him out of here.”

“Sir...”

“Don't, I made a promise I tend to keep it.” With that said he undid the seat belt, opening the door and left the car. “Hello officers how can I help you tonight?”

One of them spoke up. “Hand over the little filly and put your hands behind your back! And lay on the floor!”

The man stood there with hands on his hips. “Really now? Why would you think I have that creature in my car?”

“We not going to tell you again! We have...”

BOOOM!

My ears pulled back and I flinched at the sound, in the hand of the old man was a Colt 45' and he just used it on the officer. My jaw just hung open, he just blew away a police officer without hesitating “Run you idiots!” He yelled out to us.

Max open the passenger door pulling me out. We made a break for the tree line close by. “Come on kid move your legs!”

“You try being a filly and tell me that again!” I yelled at her as we continued to run, suddenly a helicopter shined it light directly onto us. “Stay where you are!” Hanging outside it side was a officer holding a gun aimed at us.

“Run into the woods and don't look back!”

“B-but...”

“Do it!” She pulled out a pistol from the back of her jeans aiming it right for the helicopter high above firing directly at it, this forcing it to move quickly back the light moving away. “Run you stupid filly!”

I turn and ran for it into the woods with one of the other police officers calling out. “We have sightings on the escaped female filly! We under heavy fire and requesting assistants!”

I heard another gun fire come then more and more as I ran away with tears falling, everything that was happening was so fast and so crazy I couldn't even understand what happened. All I knew I had to gallop as hard as my small four legs could carry me, I tripped on a root and tumbled down an embankment.

I landed at the base of it in a daze with the feeling of rain droplets fall on me, I look up as the heavens opened up heavily. I still can hear the gun battle going on but three lights on top of the embankment caught my eyes, police officers shined their lights down directly at me. “We found her!”

“You two after her! I will get back up!”

“Yes sir!” The two men slid down the embankment towards me.

I got up and ran again terrified of what will happen to me. I jumped over a few logs and slid under others, galloping harder then ever before to out run them with splashes of mud from each hoof fall. Lightning struck near by causing me to scream out like a filly being thrown by the blast into a trunk hard.

I groaned feeling painful from the impact then the ringing faded and I heard the officers closing in on me. I ran again with them closing in on me, the sound of the gun battle just a echo in the rain pounding around and above me.

I saw what came to the end of the path, I slam my hooves into the muddy ground sliding to a stop just before the edge with the raging water below and across the route of escape. “Ponyfeathers! What am I going to do!?” I look around for a way to cross and saw it a downed tree creating a bridge. “Yes!” I ran up to it jumping up on it without thinking, I quickly trying to cross it with the men behind emerging from the brush.

They didn't try to follow me, I look at them as if they was waiting for something. I turn my head and right there before me was two more on the other side. “You got to be kidding me!”

“Give up you little brat!”

“There no where to go!”

I look left and right. Everything was going out of control, I had no idea what was going on anymore!

Running through my mind rapidly was how I spent five weeks stuck in some coastal building to escaping from the British law with some whack out people that basically ruined my life and now was protecting me from the law, why? What in hell was going on?

Now I stood with only two options, they take me in or I try to jump and fly in this pouring down rain. My mind was racing and I just had to act on something and I did. “Oh yeah you think?” I smirked.

They realised what I was going to do. “She going to jump in! Stop her!”

“Please work!” I jumped flapping my wings hard as I could trying all my might to stay in the air, but I got no lift and fell right for the raging river hitting it with a mighty splash. I surfaced trying to fight against the water from pulling me under and could see the men rushing down the river embankments to catch me.

This wasn't an hot idea at all and the world soon went dark as I tried helplessly to swim in the super strong current as it pulled me under.

Next thing I knew was waking up sharply inhaling and soon coughing, I could feel the grass under me and saw some trees near by from my vision.

I crawled away from the river side still trying to get my breath back coughing. “Wow *cough cough* Can't believe *cough cough* I survived that *cough cough cough* Never again...”

I trying to get my breath back and noticed the warmth of the sun high above, putting a hoof over my eyes it seem brighter then usual and everything else seem an different contrast of colour in fact as my visual starts to clear.

As more did I noticed how everything looked like some huge cartoon. “Is th-this Equestria? Bu-but ho-”

My thoughts was suddenly interrupted by the sound of an voice but that not possible it was... “Come on Rainbow we found her right over here!”

“Ok squirt keep your wings on!” I heard the other voice and it was unmistakeably Rainbow Dash's!

“Ah still can't believe there another ya Scoots.”

“I know! She lying right by the river! We quickly left and got ya Rainbow!”

“Scootaloo don't you think it was best for one of ya to wait by her...”

“Why?”

I quickly got up trying to make a run for it but the whole waking up sluggish feeling made me tumble right over my front hooves, I span a few times through the bushes landing on the otherside with a thud.

I heard the talking stop and I slowly turn my head to come face to face with the real Scootaloo and her friends and the rainbow mane cyan mare Rainbow Dash, seeing them for real made me not only speechless but scared at what they might think I am. I turned and bolted it without a second thought.

“That's why!” Rainbow Dash spoke out loudly and the sound of hooves behind me was closing in fast.

“Rainbow Dash you got to stop her now!” I heard Sweetie Belle yelled out

“Don't worry she can't out run me!” Rainbow Dash spoke back.

“No that not it! She heading right for-”

I felt something caught my right hind leg, it tighten instantly and pulled me backwards into the air suddenly. I gasped at the sudden thrust right by them swinging back and all I felt was a heavy impact to the back of my head.

Everything instantly went dark...