Those Wings Kept her Grounded
On a very warm and slightly timid day in Cloudsdale, a young filly named Scootaloo awoke to see the sun rising, as she started to walk outside to see the beautiful twilight of the sun touching the horizon. She took the Cloud Bus to Ponyville and looked for her friends Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. She found them at Rarity’s carousel boutique; it seemed they were having a slight argument so Scootaloo thought of not going to them but then she remembered she had news for them both about how her flying was going. She ran a bit closer and heard Applebloom yell “I told ya, that she wouldn’t be here for us! She is just a useless Pegasus that can’t fly! She is better being called a chicken than anything else! That’s why she couldn’t help her!”
When Scootaloo heard that comment she felt her heart sunk like a stone to the bottom of her soul. She moved slightly slower towards them. Sweetie Belle replied to Applebloom saying
“That isn’t true. She can fly it’s just she is having some troubles with flying, it’s not her fault Applebloom!” The more of this argument made Scoots feel like Applebloom hated her fully. When Applebloom turned to see Scoots was standing there listening to her yelling. Her demeanor changed and her face showed an impression of anger and sadness. Sweetie Belle asked Scoots quietly and worried, “How much did you hear Scoots..?” Scootaloo replied with a tear in her eye.
“I heard what Applebloom said about me is how much I heard...” Sweetie Belle said softly to Scootaloo.
“I’m sorry you had to hear that…” she pointed her head to the ground with a saddened voice. Applebloom still had the face of anger and sadness, a tear of utter sadness fell from her cheek to the ground. Applebloom muttered something to herself and ran off after that. Sweetie Belle tried to calm down Applebloom, but she went to attend to Scoots feeling’s about what she heard.
Sweetie Belle asked Scootaloo, “Are you alright Scoots? I’m sorry you had to hear that from Applebloom she is still upset about what happened to..well ya ’know.” Scootaloo tried to remember what happened to see what could have made Applebloom so mad and hate her so much. Scootaloo said to Sweetie.
“I’m sorry...but I can’t remember what happened…” Sweetie remembered what happened to cause this, Rarity asked Twilight to erase Scoots’ memory of what happened so she wouldn’t feel like she was to blame for it. Sweetie walked with Scoots to the Cakes restaurant for some milkshakes, Scoots got her favorite but just stared into it and Sweetie patted Scoots on the back trying to help her calm down after what happened. It looked as if it was raining outside, seems that Cloudsdale’s Weather Control Factory decided to make a few rainstorms today in Ponyville. Scoots looked at the raindrops and tried to remember what happen but it was to no avail all it succeeded in doing was giving her a slight headache. Sweetie Belle told Scoots; “Give it time don’t rush it, you’ll remember sooner or later Scoots. Now, drink your milkshake; it’s your favorite!” Scoots cracked a half smile at what Sweetie said and started to drink the milkshake still trying to shrug off what she is trying to remember but she felt it must have been something big if it got Applebloom upset.
“I’m not sure Sweetie Belle if I should stop trying to remember it. If it got Applebloom to cry like that and even yell about hating me, it must have been something really bad I did…” Scootaloo sighed after saying.
“I just hope Applebloom calms down and she didn’t mean what she said to me…” Sweetie was about to cut her off from what she was saying, but she stopped herself to keep Scoots happy and not worried about what the memory could have been. Sweetie than said to Scoots with a soft tone
“No matter what that memory may have been it could have been Applebloom over-reacting to it.” Sweetie tried to lie the hardest she could because she knew what happened and what it would do to Scoots if she found out. At Applebloom’s home she trotted over to the CMC clubhouse and started to cry and kicked the wall a few times out of anger. She was the most damaged from what have happened, after what had happened Sweetie Belle tried to help everyone forget what happened, but Applebloom couldn’t forget because it was such a great effect of pain onto her that it burned its way deep into her mind and heart. The apple-farm was affected by this too, some of the trees started to die and some of the apples weren’t able to be picked because of it, and Applejack was nowhere to be seen for a while. Big Mac had to try to handle the farm all by himself which was taxing on his body as it was. Granny left with Applejack some time ago for some reason.
While up in Cloudsdale they were trying to pick up the slack because they have lost a good flyer to a grave accident. A mare stood to the Cloud Control team and she yelled; “After what had happened to one of our best workers we had to find a way to gather new flyers so we have called for help from the Rainbow Factory.” A few of the flyers gasped and were severely shocked to hear that they were going to have to work with the “drones” that work at the Factory. Most of the workers that worked at the Factory were very one dimensional and showed very few emotions towards others outside of the factory. Some of them showed only one or two emotions to others; one was an emotion of total rage and anger to those who question what they do. The other was an emotion of sadness and blankness, they had a very deep shown face of tears and utter anguish. The most common one was the feeling of sadness between the two and when it showed they would try to comfort them from their sadness but it went to no avail.
After Scoots finished her milkshake she sighed slightly than put her hoof on the table and moved it around from the boredom and slight amount of worrying. She was thinking of what she did that was so bad to make her forget what happened. In her mind was racing many thoughts that caused her hind legs to shake and quiver, maybe she broke something important, maybe she killed someone. That last thought, the thought her possibly killing someone struck her so hard she almost started to cry from it, maybe that was why Applebloom was crying while being mad at her. Sweetie Belle looked at her and went over to hug her but Scoots pushed her aside and told her to not touch her. She was crying for near an hour until she stopped and waited to go home, but she would have to wait for the Cloud Bus to come back and get her since she can’t fly unlike some other pegasi. She would sometimes get very badly made fun of for this tiny little fact. Most of the time she would ignore this fact because she would normally get flight training from her greatest hero, Rainbow Dash one of Equestria’s greatest flyers. But something seemed odd, she hasn’t seen Rainbow Dash all day long. Normally she would be helping with parting the clouds because of the latest rain-storm has been nowhere to be seen. She than ponder that maybe that was what she may have done, maybe she killed Rainbow Dash. That thought made her feel sick to her very stomach. As she thought of it she felt like vomiting up that milkshake, because if she killed the one person she felt love from the most than she would have no one left.
Sweetie Belle walked up to her and asked quietly; “You are remembering it aren’t you..?” Scootaloo was filled with anger and sadness and ran off with tears in her eyes and tried to fly but her wings made a buzzing sound and only lifted her off the ground by a small amount of space. Her anger made her try to push her wings harder to fly but she felt pain from this and fell down and tried to run off towards the bus to Cloudsdale and she made it there but she felt weak on her legs from the energy she pushed out to get there. She gave the driver a few bits and sat down in the back of the bus and tried to stop crying. Her brain was trying to force her to remember what she forgotten. She was getting rapidly increasing headaches that kept on getting worse as time progressed from her thinking of it all. She could feel light-headed from all of this hard thinking and the pains from the headaches.
Then one strong enough headache made her see a glimpse of what happened. She could see her and Rainbow Dash practicing on her flight, Scootaloo was able to get herself off the ground for a short while then Rainbow playfully pushed her off a cloud to see if she could fly her way back up. Scootaloo was only able to see that tiny fragment of the memory and only that one moment. She was confused from it but it made her very scared of what happened too. After the bus dropped her off home, she rushed inside to her house and looked around to see what she could use to help her remember more of this sad memory. She was pushing her mind to painful limits to remember this little amount of information that kept her in a constant state of disarray. She felt a massive amount of fatigue and passed out from this heavy brain pressure. As she was sleeping she felt that her body was under some very high amounts of pain that seemed to get stronger as time continued. She woke up with tears coming from her eyes. The dream she had was a bad one, she dreamt of her kicking Rainbow Dash off a cloud and she couldn’t stop her fall so she landed onto the ground with a hard impact that broke her ribcage, spine, neck and fore-arms. Seeing this happen made her feel like a monster and she felt like killing herself from this, but she knew that couldn’t be what happened, she knew it had to be an accident. That it wasn’t truly her fault, she kept trying to force this thought deeper into her head.
She wanted to force Twilight to make her use a spell to make her remember this but what that would seem like to her. Would she want to seem like a psychopath that wanted to remember what happened to one of Twilight’s closest friends? She wasn’t sure to what to do about this thought, so she just walked outside and looked at the moon then sat down on the cloud Rainbow and her used to sit on when relaxing. Sitting her and thinking of Rainbow Dash right next to her almost made her start to cry again, but no one would be here to comfort her. Scoots parents left a long while ago to attend to the Rainbow Factory a very high paying job, but required that they would need to be far away from their daughter till they were done with their careers at the factory which would be some years. Scoots was near being a called a teenage Filly. Her wings have slightly gotten bigger since then and her mane has gotten slighter less tomboyish which Scoots was mad about at the time of finding out.
There was only two things in her life right now that made her feel important; the CmC and Rainbow Dash. One of the CmC hated her, and she may have been the reason Rainbow Dash is gone…or dead. Scoots started to bang her head down hard onto the cloud and made her much sadder. She felt as if that she was to blame for all of the sadness and hectic work problems in Cloudsdale. Someponies in Cloudsdale had to get an extra job to help keep up with the loss of Rainbow Dash. After Scootaloo found this out she wanted to rush down to Twilight’s and find out if she could help fix this problem. She was in such a rush she leapt off the cloud and tried to fly her wings only let her hover her way down to Ponyville, she landed and felt as if she had finally did something amazing. But she knew that she would have to push this to the side and get back to what she had started. She began running in the direction of Twilight’s home in the Ponyville library. She saw some of the windows were boarded up, Scootaloo was shocked at the sight of the library being in this state of disrepair, and she looked at the door and saw that there was some damage to the door. It didn’t look sever like she assumed it would be. She knocked on the door and it sounded a bit odd for the sound. She sat there waiting for a response, it was near 30 minutes of waiting. Twilight’s hoof opened the door but it had some bandages on it. She asked calmly but seemed to be a bit paranoid. “W-who is there? Are you a safe pony?” Scootaloo answered back
“Yes, it’s me Twilight…can I please come in I want to talk about something.”
Twilight; half-heartedly opened the door and was ready for anything, she was afraid of what would happen after she lost Spike and the Princess’s will. Ever since what happened to Cloudsdale and what happened to some of the ponies in Ponyville, Princess Celestia called off all of the Friendship Studies because she saw that this was a bad idea for the safety of others from what Twilight may have caused. Celestia asked for the capture of Spike for his own safety and asked for the library to be foreclosed and be left there as a sign of importance. Twilight took all of these actions to heart and denied anyone into the library unless she trusted them fully. She helped Scootaloo to make her forget the whole incident that changed how things were in Ponyville.
Scootaloo asked Twilight very scared and worried; “What did I ask you to make me force to forget…?" Twilight didn’t want to answer that question to her because she knew it would have a bad effect onto her mind if she knew what happened. So Twilight thought of ways to distract her from this question, she found a few that may or may not work to her full deployment.
“You wished to forget it because it was something stupid, Scootaloo. Rainbow Dash is fine.” Scootaloo quickly reacted to what she said.
“I never asked about Rainbow Dash!” this sent Twilight into a panicked mode because she failed at distracting her again.
“I-I have to go, I can hear Celestia calling me!” Twilight thought of teleporting away, but Scootaloo tackled her to the ground leaving her pinned down to her back. Twilight was starting to freak out from this, because the last time she was pinned down a Royal Guard did to stop her from fighting back against them taking Spike away from her; the Royal guard that pinned her down made some very suggestive swings at Twilight while having her pinned like that. So this caused Twilight to try to struggle, she bit Scoot’s arm while struggling. Scoot got off Twilight and cried because Twilight bit hard enough to cause bleeding.
Twilight realized what she did and went over to Scootaloo and started to heal her arm so the bleeding would stop fully. It worked but Scoot was slightly filled with anger because Twilight basically attacked her like that. Scootaloo kicked Twilight off her, Twilight landed on a table and it broke from her impact onto it. She groaned in pain and was close to passing out from the pain that was caused by her landing on the table. Scootaloo tried to stand and saw what she did in her burst of anger. Twilight was laying down in the broken wood of a table she had caused to break because she kicked her onto it. Scootaloo realized what she did was fully wrong and then thought maybe it was her anger that made her end up killing Rainbow Dash and this caused her to fall to her knees and sob hard into her legs. Twilight tried to crawl to Scootaloo and in her last breath before she passed out was a small muttering that Scootaloo wasn’t about to hear fully from Twilight.
Scootaloo tried to focus upon what she said but she failed in the process of trying to hear it fully. Scootaloo looked around the library for something to help Twilight recover from the pain and wake up. She found some old books on some spells that some Pegasi could learn to use which shocked Scootaloo to the core because she had always thought only Unicorns could use magic. She looked through the book for any spells that could help with brain damage or being knocked out from heavy amounts of pain. She found only two; one that some of the text for the stuff needed was damaged to the point of being not able of being read by anyone. She looked at the other it was a headache spell that needed some feathers to be used as a sacrifice to cause the spell to happen. Scootaloo pain-staking pulled some feathers off her wings and placed them into a pentagram like shape and stared at Twilight and muttered the spell and thought as hard as possible on soothing thoughts with Twilight in them. The pentagram glowed bright blue and the feathers rearranged into the shape of a star and lifted mid-air and shot at Twilight and faded into her body.
Twilight’s body seemed to stop tensing up from the pain, Scootaloo panted hard from using up most her energy to do this. She fall to her knees and sweated quite a bit, her vision was slightly blurry from the loss of most of her mental energy. She felt a gust of wind from outside, one of the windows was opened even though Twilight had blocked most of them off. It was Rarity trying to sneak and see what all the yelling was about. She saw Scootaloo on the floor and Twilight knocked out, this lead her to believe there was an intruder, but Scootaloo told her exactly what happened and she gasped at hearing that some pegasi spells could still be used. She also attended to some of Twilight’s wounds from landing on the table, some splinters and some bruises were on her body. Twilight was trying to wake up but she was very weak still the loss of some her blood made her a bit weak.
Scootaloo was worried that possibly she may be so hurt that she may never tell her what happened, that maybe she broke her trust by hurting her so badly. Twilight was about to wake up just when Rarity went over to Scootaloo and asked if she was alright after what has happened. “Are you alright darling? You seem to be shaken and quite anxious” Scootaloo nodded her head shaking slightly, her mind puzzled what exactly Twilight would do after waking up and seeing what she had done to the place. As Twilight opened her eyes fully she saw Rarity and tried to stand up but fell back down, she was still much weakened from almost breaking her back on that table.
“W-what happened while I was knocked out by Scootaloo…?”
Rarity walked up to Scootaloo and told her how and why she came inside of the library, Twilight wasn’t surprised how she broke in. Rarity and her dress business hasn’t been in the best way of work ever since a few people in Ponyville have left after Pinkie Pie disappeared from Ponyville, everyone started to hate each other to enough levels to make them want to leave Ponyville and live somewhere else. Rarity’s dress making was badly effected from this little problem, people weren’t buying dresses, no one was ordering them either and some of the time a robber would break in and steal from the shop. She thought of trying other jobs, but most didn’t work to her best effort. Most of the people who loved Pinkie went to look for her to help with things.
Scootaloo asked Twilight what she exactly said before she pasted out.
“I said to you that Rainbow Dash dying wasn’t your fault fully...” Scootaloo was full of complete fear and sadness, she started to cry hard learning she helped with killing the one mare who had protected her the most. Her worst fear was just near to being real to her, did she really hurt the one she loved?
END OF CHAPTER 1
