Flight of the Flightless

***Flight of the Flightless

Chapter 3***

“Come on Twi! Try again!” Rainbow Dash point over to the still lying form of the Scootaloo double resting in the bed within one of the rooms of the Castle of Friendship.

Twilight groaned placing an hoof to her head. Spike answered for her while searching through the blue jacket pockets for anything to give them clues. “Rainbow she tried six times, I don't think lucky seven is going to work.”

“But-”

“She not a mirror pool pony either!” Twilight yelled out. “Leave her to rest and get over here and look what Spike dug out of the young fillies jacket!” Twilight pointing an hoof to the table. “Before I throw you out of this room rump first!”

Rainbow Dash sighed and trot over from the bed side still looking at the injured filly. “I don't get it how can she be identical to Scootaloo in every way? Right down to her D and whatever you call it.”

“DNA Rainbow Dash. Even her internal magic is almost exactly the same, there is noticeable differences though.” Twilight trying her best to calm herself down. “I even contacted Sunset and she said that Scootaloo in the other world is still there with her friends, so that rules out the third option.”

Spike raise a claw finger up pointing out a few differences. “She does have that strange small scar on the left upper foreleg and when you try to do that memory spell all you got was confusing responses from it.”

“Yeah what up with that? I never seen you react like that before.”

Twilight rubbing her head. “I don't really know what happened when I cast the spell but no way in Celestia's name I be doing that again!” Twilight trying to shake out the headaches she had. “It was as if I was seeing an endless creation of imagination beyond anything I seen, some might make sense but others was really confusing. Over all I never seen any that so infinitely complexed. It almost as if even asleep the brain stays active.”

“Wouldn't you know, burn out from that?”

“Indeed but her...” Twilight glance over to the orange filly. “I don't know why.”

Spike held up a coin tilting his head as he read it out. “Two Pounds. Elizabeth II. D. G. Reg. FID. DEF.” He flip around and read the words out. “1863 London Underground 2013.”

Twilight took it from him with her magic. “It look like an form of currency.”

“Yeah but pounds? Really?” Rainbow Dash raise an eye.

Twilight shrugged. “Well the human counterparts used dollars and not bits.” Twilight answered the cyan pegasus. “Also this London Underground and those two numbers must be dates, which mean this coin showing a train of some sorts that must be celebrating 150 years of this train system.”

“How can you tell it a train?” Spike asked.

Twilight drew a carriage on the blackboard that she dragged in with her magic. “Look at this and then at the coin.”

“Oh!” Both of them answered.

“What about the weird looking figure on the other side?” Rainbow Dash point to the image of a person.

Twilight took a good look at it. “I say that's Elizabeth the second which is what the two I's mean. She might be a princess or even a Queen with the second time to be called Elizabeth to take the throne.”

“You sure of this?” Rainbow Dash asked

“No...” Twilight only answer came.

Spike opened up a piece of paper that was badly wrecked by the water. “This was also in her pocket, it look like a letter, but the image is all but destroyed.”

Rainbow Dash looked over his shoulder at the words. “Words only can say so much.” Rainbow Dash turn slowly to the filly all her anger gone in a flash. “Twilight those words. What would you think they mean?”

Twilight took the paper reading it to herself. “It an message from her mother of course.”

“How are you so certain Twilight?” Spike asked.

“Because I saw it in her memories.”

Rainbow Dash rubbing her head a little. “Twilight didn't you just say you couldn't make sense of any of her memories?”

Twilight turn to Rainbow Dash. “Well yes, but this I saw clear as day, I could even remember the last two months of her life as if I...” Twilight froze in mid-sentence slowly looking over to the orange filly.

“Twilight...” Spike saw her frozen look gazing at the filly.

Twilight snapped out of it with a sharp gulp. “No I couldn't have.”

“Couldn't what?” Rainbow Dash raised an eye with an questionable look to her alicorn friend.

This answer was to come with the filly starting to wake up. “This isn't going to end well...” Twilight whispered seeing that something she did was going to have consequences to her actions.

I woke with the worst possible headache ever. “Err... My aching head.” I muttered putting my hand over my the top of my head trying to block the light. “I really should get curtains for my room.” I continue to mutter, the sound of my voice seem to come out wrong but I just ignored it as part of playing too much Destiny and not getting enough sleep.

I couldn't feel my fingers or my toes for that matter. Yawning I rubbed my eyes a little, that didn't feel right the feeling was all wrong,the touch of something fuzzy against fuzzy. My eyes adjusting to the bright colours before me, a new feeling came to me as well, I felt the only contact was the sheets and the bed I was in.

“Am I naked in my bed?” I felt my ears pin to the top sides of my head from the fear of hearing my own words in my thoughts that sounded light Scootaloo from the cartoon show. I slowly stared at what I used to wipe the sleep out of my eyes and there before me was two orange forelegs with a hoof on each.

My stomach twisting and my mind racing to make sense of what I was seeing, moving them I felt it and witness it. I felt very sick inside as my eyes slowly fully noticed an orange short snout more my field of vision below.

I rose my head slowly seeing that I was in fact in another room completely and that with what I saw made me gulp hard when before my eyes was an cartoon world that look very much real with two ponies and an dragon looking directly at me.

Dead silence between me and them, we just stared with the sound of my heart beating quite fast and feeling very anxious. The silence lasted for a short time that seem forever but my stomach growling and the sick feeling I had gave out. “Spike could you go get something for the filly?”

“Sure thing Twilight!” Spike salutes, he ran up to the door opening it he look over at me for a moment then leaves with the door closing behind.

Twilight step up to me, I shifting a little feeling very uncomfortable seeing here so close to me that I could touch her with one of these hooves I had. “Easy there, I am just seeing how your head is, you took a real nasty blow to the back of the head.”

Rainbow Dash step up to the bedside now beside Twilight Sparkle as I felt the strange magic buzzing around my head as she undressed something that was around it, I saw bandages coming off and replaced by some clean ones, on the old was dried blood. “How is she Twilight?”

“Well the bleeding stopped and I just checked for any internal injuries with spell that Doctor Stable taught me, nothing seem to come up so I think just putting this fresh one will be just for caution.” Twilight explained to Rainbow, I watching them talk but keeping silent.

Rainbow Dash look directly at me, I turn my eyes away a little with my hooves pulling the sheets close to me as I try to think of what they meant about blow to my back of the head, all I remember was going to sleep as human one moment and Scootaloo double or in Scootaloo body the next. “Hey kid...” I slowly look back at her. “Sorry for chasing you.”

I frown a little trying to understand what she meant. “Chasing me?” I said slowly feeling sick inside at the sound of my voice. “I don't know what your talking about.”

“Huh?” Rainbow Dash look surprised by my response as I felt very anxious again shifting a little away from them. “Erm, you step out of the bushes and looked at me and the crusaders then made a dash for it.”

I was even more confused by this point. “I did?”

Twilight was next to speak. “What do you remember?”

I rubbing my head a little with the headache still painful as I woke up. “I remember going to bed after playing my game Destiny and waking up here.” I answered truthfully to the alicorn princess.

“I was afraid of this...”

“Twi?”

Twilight seem to be lost in thought and broke out of it. “Oh I mean... The blow must of caused some form of amnesia.”

I never had it before even I hit my head hard, but it could make sense but it didn't seem to hold. “You said crusaders?”

“Yes, one of the fillies look exactly like you infact, her name is...”

“Scootaloo.” I replied cutting her off giving them both a surprised look.

“How in Equestria do you know that? Your not Scootaloo from the other world, in fact I talked to Sunset Shimmer about it via the book. So are you another Scootaloo from another universe?” I shook my head at questions brought forwards not answering the first. “Then how?” Twilight asked.

I look up at her. “My world sees your world as... Well... Cartoons, stories, comics and such. Your not real to us...” I answered feeling very sick at saying such things to them.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes dismissing this. “Yeah right! Look I am here and talking to you! If I wasn't real I...”

“You were nervous at the Young Flyers contest and the girls came to help but Rarity got caught up in the wings Twilight gave her and in results she ended up burning them to ashes and you saving her and three wonderbolts, Soarin, Spitfire and Fleetfoot with a Sonic Rainboom just about 3 to 5 metres from the ground resulting in you not only saving them but winning the contest too.” I said to her in a blunted tone of voice turning away as I finished saying it all.

Twilight spoke up in a instant. “That kinda make sense.”

“Twilight what do you mean by that?” Rainbow Dash sounding very anxious.

I slowly look back. “After crossing the portal to another universe the possibilities that one or millions out there that see our world as nothing more then an cartoon is kinda true and interesting. I wouldn't mind getting a understanding of this!” Twilight was getting giddy and excited over the idea tapping her front hooves together. “Oh I got to know this! I-”

Rainbow Dash put her hoof on Twilight snout. “Geez Twilight! Quit it! Your going to scare her!”

I shrugged. “I kinda expected it from her Rainbow Dash.” I replied.

She turn to me removing the hoof. “And why aren't you freaking out about it?”

I look to her and away once more. “Because I got a real bad headache and I want to panic but I just don't have the energy to do it, I feeling sick to my stomach seeing you for real and trying to get my head around how it happened...”

“I can't really answer that for you Wayne, it nothing that simple to fix.” I quickly look directly at her so did Rainbow Dash.

“Wayne?”

“Yeah that her, well his name.” Twilight replied. “Why?”

I was wide eye. “Ho-how do you know my name!?”

Twilight sighed turning away walking to the window looking outside. “I did tests on you, changeling spell, mirror pool spell test and finally a memory spell. But the memory spell was different to anypony I done it too, your mind was confusing and overwhelming.” Twilight slowly look over to me. “I saw parts of your life and slowly collecting the pieces I saw your name, what you do and how childhood was for you.”

“I-I see...” I replied feeling a little disturbed by this.

Spike came in pushing in a trolley, good timing too. “I'm back! With nice hot food for a growing filly!”

Rainbow Dash helped me out of the bed, feeling strangely weak I almost fell over a few times. “Easy there kiddo, you been out for a few days.”

I look at her with an startled look. “A-a few days!?”

“Yeah. But let's get you to the table and get some food and fluids in you first then worry about how we can help you." Rainbow Dash helping me over to the table. I sat by it as Spike place a sandwich before me, it had daisy in it, beside it was soup and the smell of it was tomato soup.

Spike place the glass of apple juice beside them. “Daisy sandwich, tomato soup and apple juice, the perfect lunch to get your strength back.”

I smiled. “Thank you Spike, it looks... Tasty.”

“What wrong with it?” Spike notice my hesitated tone of voice.

I held up the sandwich looking at the contents. “I never ate flowers before.” I answered.

Twilight still by the window sitting there smiled. “Don't worry about it, you should find them taster then you usually would. Give it a try.”

I went with what Twilight said and gave it a try, I first wasn't sure how I was able to hold it up with these things but I managed to and took a bite out of it. I chewed on the sandwich finding the texture of it on my tongue quite strange but pleasant. “It not bad, wouldn't mind some ketchup on it though.”

“Really?” Rainbow Dash raise an eye.

I dipped the sandwich into the soup and took another bite out of it enjoying the taste even more, I was glad that tomato soup still tasted great as it did when I was human. I froze in a instantly staring at the remains of the sandwich. “H-home...” I whispered feeling tears well up. “M-my family...” I was now thinking clearly and remember my brother, sister and my mum. They would find me missing.

“Wayne are you ok?”

I shook my head placing the remains of the first sandwich down. “No...”

“What the matter squirt?”

I turn to Rainbow Dash. “Please don't call me that, it Scootaloo's nickname not mine. Also to answer the question, I want to go home... My family will be worried that I am not home. If I been out for days who knows what they been thinking right now...” I sniffed a little starting to feel scared. “I-I...”

“It ok kiddo.” Rainbow Dash hugged me. “We do what we can to help you. That a promise.”

“Th-thank you...” I sobbed a little into her.

“Now wipe those tears away and eat up ok?” I look up nodding a little wiping my tears away with my foreleg sniffing a little bit. “No point worrying over something you had no control over, it get you no where, trust me I been there and you know it.” She winked.

I giggled a little feeling her ruffle my mane. “Thank you Rainbow Dash.”

“No problem.” She released the hug and allow me to continue to eat the food and drink the juice.

Twilight step away from the window. “I will go to the library to look up anything that could help, getting started on this right away be best for us and for you Wayne, Spike can you help me?”

“Sure thing Twilight!” Spike walks over to Twilight.

Twilight turn to Rainbow Dash before they left. “Rainbow Dash I know this might be strange and sudden but would it be ok for you to take Wayne back to your home for now till we know what exactly to do.”

I almost chocked on my drink hearing this. After coughing a little I glanced at Rainbow Dash and quickly looking at Twilight. “Wh-what?”

“The crusaders already know of her Twilight, they been bugging me everyday to meet her when she woke up and I kinda... Well I...”

I stared at the glass that was almost empty in my hooves. “You gave into their charms.” I said looking over to her.

“That just sound weird when you say it.” Spike responded.

“Spike!” Twilight had a go at him for it.

I drunk the last of the apple juice placing the glass on the table. “Twilight he's right. I sound exactly like her, I even look exactly like her and know you Twilight you took a feather or even a mane sample to see if it true all the way through.”

Twilight sighed. “It is. At least you be able to tell yourself apart from her though.”

“How?”

She used her magic and landing beside me where I sat was a blue jacket and a LED solar keychain light made into a necklace. “These was on you.”

I finished off the soup and wiped my snout with the napkin that came with it. I held up the jacket amazed but found it somewhat familiar. “This was on me?”

“Indeed. To my guess you was a pony before arriving here in Equestria.” Twilight replied. “It be hard to find out how you got here with the memory lose but we will do what we can ok?”

I wasn't sure if she was telling the truth or not but decided to go with it. “Ok. But if the crusaders been asking to see me how are we going to do it?”

Rainbow Dash smirked. “Leave that to me Way...” She paused. “You know what. Calling you Wayne just seem stupid for some reason.”

Twilight was trying to leave then spoke out. “Swift Roller! Just call him... Her that!” Before either me and Rainbow Dash could react or say anything Twilight pick up Spike with her magic, placing him on her back and slamming the door behind her.

“That got a nice ring to it, don't you think?” Rainbow Dash turn to me.

“I... Guess...” I look to the jacket and necklace of the LED light. “Erm... One question...”

“Yes?”

I felt my face flush as I asked. “I am not sure how to go to the loo in this body?”

“Loo?”

“Toilet! Rest-room! That where you do your business!” I yelled out.

She chuckled “Why didn't you say so? Come with me and I'll help you out Swift.” I got up with a wobble and slowly followed Rainbow Dash out of the room, looking back the dirty plates. “What about the plates and glass?”

“Don't sweat it kiddo, Spike will get around to clearing it up, you do need to go don't you?” I looked down with a deep blush feeling embarrassed. “Then let go.” I slowly followed her feeling very awkwardly as well left the room, I carrying the jacket on my back the LED light now around my neck intox the depths of their castle.