Paint knocked on her sister's cloud door. "Huh, I seem to do this a lot." She said to herself. She waited for a minute and, before she could make another knock, she saw a rainbow-colored tail next to the home. She flew over to see Rainbow lying on her back, hooves behind her head, gazing up to the sky.

Paint sat next to Rainbow. "You doing okay?"

"Whatever, I guess." Rainbow said without looking at her. She then sat up. "I don't know. Scootaloo has done stuff before that got me mad at her, but, she never did that same thing twice. If she told me she wrote the first rumor about me before this all happened, I would be mad at her, but I wouldn't be THIS mad. I just don't get why she would want to make everyone in Ponyville think I was, you know, THAT kind of pony."

Paint sighed. "I don't know. She said she was sorry, though." Rainbow rolled her eyes and snapped. "Yeah, you think that will fix what they think of me? I basically watch over Scootaloo every day! All of Ponyville wonders why she knows what she knows! This isn't something you can just say 'sorry' and move on! This could last forever!"

"Rainbow, everyone knows you, you're not that kind of pony."

"Everyone knows you're not that pony after one rumor, but two? That's when things get suspicious around here. I gotta get to sleep."

And with that, Rainbow flew into her home, and left Paint still sitting on the cloud. "Since when did Rainbow ACTUALLY care about what other ponies think?" She then flew off towards Fluttershy's home, hoping she wasn't asleep.

Paint landed in front of the kind mare's home and looked around. She then heard a pony singing and followed it, where Fluttershy was giving her chickens their dinner. "Hey, Fluttershy? Can I talk to you about Rainbow?"

Fluttershy turned to see Paint standing at the gate and smiled. "Of course! You can go inside and sit down if you want, I'll be right there."

Paint then walked into Fluttershy's cottage and sat down. Fluttershy came in shortly after and sat down next to her. "So, what do you want to talk about?"

"It's Rainbow. I understand why she is mad at Scootaloo, but I don't get why she all of a sudden cares about what everyone else thinks! You grew up with her, so do you know?"

Fluttershy thought for a moment. When did Rainbow actually care about what ponies thought? Then the answer struck her.

"It actually wasn't that long ago. I think it was around the time the first rumor went around, I'm sure Rainbow told you."

Paint shrugged. "Bits and pieces."

"Well anyway, when the first rumor went around, ponies gave her dirty looks. They were calling her dirty names, made fun of her, and, well, just completely humiliated her. After that, she shut herself out for months, but continued her flying lessons with Scootaloo after a few weeks. Poor girl wouldn't talk or look at anyone!"

Paint thought for a moment. "What exactly did the rumor say?"

Fluttershy began petting Angel as he hopped onto the couch. "I don't want to get too much into it, but when Rainbow was hanging out with a few stallions she was friends with back in Flight School, a rumor went around saying that she used them as toys, you know what I mean?"

Paint nodded. "That's awful. Why would Scootaloo do that? I don't think it was for fun like she was saying."

Fluttershy shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe in the morning you should ask Scootaloo. She and her friends stop at Sugar Cube Corner before heading to school."

Paints smiled as she began to fly away. "Thanks, Fluttershy!" Fluttershy waved. "No problem!"

Paint went into her home where Streak was eating an apple. Electric was in there to, for he couldn't see his way home in the dark. "Hey, guys!" Paint said with a smile. "Hey, Splashie!" Waved Streak cheerfully. Electric just grunted. "Wow, Electric! I think that's happiest mood I seen you in ever!" Paint said sarcastically.

"So, where were you?"

"I went to visit Rainbow, just to see how she was doing after finding out what Scootaloo did. She's really depressed. Afterwards I went to Fluttershy's home and talked to her for a while."

"FLUTTERSHY?!" Electric said looking up. "Um, yeah. You know, the pink maned one with the light yellow coat?" Paint said.

"What did she say?! Not that I care anyways." Electric said, going back to staring into the abyss.

Paint giggled. "Looks like your brother's got a crush on Flutters!" Electric shook his head, looking at her. "No, I don't! Just," he sighed, "I'm going to bed."

Paint and Streak then laughed for a while before they both calmed down, cuddling with each other. "Do you think everything will work out? That Rainbow will forgive Scootaloo and She will go back to being herself?"

Streak sighed. "I think so, but it's just going to take some time."

After a few moments of silence and cuddling, Paint and Streak fell asleep.

Author's Note

Awwwwwwwwww! Paint Splash and Blue Streak ARE SO ADORBS!!!!!

And poor Rainbow.... WHY YOU DO THIS SCOOTS?! Scootaloo: I didn't do anything wrong!

And also, does Electric have a crushy wushy? He would probably knock me out if he were real because of this!

Don't worry, this story isn't CLOSE to being over! Hope you enjoyed it!