Prototype-Equestrian visitor

"Rainbow dash, are you sure you didn't hit your head and imagine the thing?" Twilight asks. It had been a day since Rainbow saw Alex. She had told Twilight about 'it' and how it survived uninjured from a two mile fall.

"I'm not lying! I can take you to the crater where it landed!"

"I don't have time for a silly prank."

"It's not a prank! I am seriously freaking out here!"

"Fine, tell me what happened."

"Okay, I was flying back home after the Wonderbolt's show and there was a large explosion, almost like a sonic rainboom, except instead of rainbows, there was something like black lightning coming from it. When I got to the area where it happened I saw something falling from the sky, it looked like it was panicking so I went to help it, when I got closer I saw that it was flying so I decided to fly by it and try to talk to it. It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before so I asked what the hay it was, it didn't answer and it wasn't slowing down to land. I told it to slow down so it wouldn't crash and it told me to leave it alone and that I wasn't real. I pleaded with it to slow down but it wouldn't listen, I tried to grab onto it and slow it, but it smacked me away with it's hand. Like the things from the human myths. I told it that it couldn't live from a fall that high, and you know what it told me?" Rainbow stopped a minute for Twilight to finish writing on a piece of parchment.

"What did it say?"

"It said, 'Watch me'. It crashed into and caused a huge crater. I tried looking for it after the dirt settled, but it was gone. There was a set of foot-prints but it lead into the Everfree so I decided to just let it go."

"Fascinating, maybe when I finish putting up these books," She pointed towards a small pile of books, "we could go check it out."

"Alright, see ya then." Rainbow flies out of the library window, leaving Twilight alone to do her book stuff

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(Meanwhile!)

"Scootaloo! Where did ya go? Scootaloo!" The CMC where in the Everfree looking for their flower collector cutie marks. But Scootaloo got separated and was lost in the dense, dangerous Everfree.

"Scootaloo! Answer us! Where are you?!" Sweetie was panicking a bit, she never liked going into the Everfree, but if it could supply them with their cutie marks, she didn't care.

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(Meanwhile! Again, but on Scootaloo's side)

"Sweetie belle! Applebloom! Where are you?" Scootaloo would never admit it, but she was scared. "What was that?!" There was a sharp twig snap behind her, she turned around to come face to snout with a large, starving manticore. "Oh buck me..." It let's out a deafening roar, stunning Scootaloo and waking something near by that was far more dangerous. Scootaloo bolted into the thicker part of the wood, hoping to escape the hungry manticore. "Not good not good not good not good!" She screamed when she encountered a dead end.

*RRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR*

Scootaloo almost wet herself when she heard that. She turned to face her predator with teary eyes. "D-D-Don't eat me! I don't taste very good!" She pleas. She looks back up to her attacker and sees it in an unholy amount of pain.

"Stop movin so I can kill ya!" Alex shouts, the manticore didn't notice, but when it was chasing after Scootaloo, Alex was launching his whip-fist at it and missing consecutively. Once it stopped moving Alex sent the claw into it's back, causing it to roar in pain. He wraps another tendril around it and pulls it towards him, when it gets close enough, he reaches out and consumes it, leaving no evidence.

"W-W-what are you?" Scootaloo asks her savior.

"I'm a human, you okay?"

"Y-yeah, I'm fine. Thank you thank you thank you!" She hops up and clutches onto Alex "Wait, human?!" She looked terrified, even more than she did when the manticore was still around.

"Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you."

"Really?"

"If I was going to hurt you, I would have done it by now." Alex states plainly. "What are you doing in the forest anyways?"

"Me and my friends were collecting flowers to try and find our cutie marks."

"Cutie marks?"

"You don't know what a cutie mark is?! What rock have you been living under?"

"I'm not exactly...from here, I have no knowledge of this place. What your name, kid?"

"My name is Scootaloo, whats yours?"

"Mine's Alex. Your the first person that has talked to me without trying to kill me in a long time, you know that?"

"That's weird. What are you doing out here?"

"This is as far as I've gotten so far, I've only been here a day."

"How did you get here?" Alex only had one secret to keep around this pony, his powers, and he already blew that, so he told her the story of New York Zero. The full story took about two hours.

"And that's how I got here, any questions?"

"You met Rainbow dash within your first minute of being here!"

"Who's Rainbow dash?"

"Only the coolest most awesomest pegasus to have ever come out of Cloudsdale! I want to be like her some day."

"You fly with her a lot?"

"I...can't fly. My parents never taught me on account of me not having parents."

"Ouch. My parents were just assholes, never supportive with high expectations. My only family left is my sister and she is stuck on a hospital bed, almost dead. Families an unneeded tie." Alex explains coldly. "If you don't have a family, where do you stay?"

"I sleep in a shed behind the school house, Pinkie usually brings me a weeks supply of food every sunday so I don't starve."

"Who's Pinkie?"

"Pinkie pie, baker at the Sugar Cube Corner and nicest pony in Ponyville." Alex grumbled at the towns name. "What's wrong?"

"I hate puns." Scootaloo laughs.

"You're pretty cool, can you do anything else along with your whip thingy?" Alex proceeds to show Scootaloo the extent of his power, which takes another hour. By the end of it, Scootaloo is left dumbfounded.

"So? Pretty cool huh?"

"T-That's.....amazing! Rainbow dashes sonic rainboom is cool, but the devastating tentacle thing is super awesome!" Wherever Rainbow was, she cringed. Alex had done the overload with her watching from a safe distance.

"Scootaloo! Where are you?!" A voice called from the forest, it sounded ragged and weak from strain.

"My friends are here!" Scootaloo sounded relieved.

"See ya, Scoots. If you ever want to talk again, just call my name at the forest's entrance, I'll find you. Oh, and don't tell anyone about me, you can tell'em you found a forest pony or something." Alex said before jumping high into the air and gliding into a tree. Scootaloo turns to where the voice came from and ran towards it.

"I'm here! I'm over here!" Scootaloo jumps out of a bush that was separating her from her friends.

"There you are scoots! We thought we lost you!" Sweetie cries.

"Lets get outta here!" Applebloom suggests. They start walking out of the forest when Scoots says,

"See you later, Alex."

"Who's 'Alex'?" Sweetie asks

"Just the coolest hu-forest pony ever! He's even cooler than Rainbow dash!" Applebloom was taken aback, Scootaloo said someone was cooler than her idol, Rainbow dash.

"Someone say my name?" Rainbow asks as she enters the forest with Twilight. "Oh, it's you." Rainbow sounded annoyed. "How do you manage to stalk me everywhere I go? I guess I'm lucky you can't fly or I'd see you looking in my window." Rainbow thought it was funny, but she seriously hurt Scootaloo. "I guess that's the price of being idolized."

"You're not my idol anymore." Scootaloo cuts. Rainbow looks like she was punched in the face with the way she jumped back.

"Of course I am! I'm the coolest pony in Equestria!" Rainbow argues defensively.

"Yeah, sure, so you think." Scootaloo says before pulling her scooter from nowhere and riding off without Applebloom or Sweetie belle.

"Rainbow! That little joke seriously hurt Scootaloo, go say your sorry!" Sweetie demands.

"She'll be fine." Rainbow says before walking back into the forest with Twilight, who wasn't paying attention at all.

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Scootaloo moved fast, as to not let anyone see her cry, the pony she looked up to said she was lucky that Scootaloo couldn't fly. She got to the shed she called home, shut the door and wept.

"Why do you hate me?" She asked a picture of Rainbow dash. "I hate you!" She brought a heavy hoof down on the fragile frame, shattering it. "I wish Alex was here..." She then continues to cry herself to sleep.