The Life I Once Lost

Soft taps of rain hit the small makeshift roof of Scootaloo’s “new” home. Ever since the murder of her parents had dropped her spirits and will to move on; she had sunk into bitterness, usually hating everything, and everyone she saw, but still felt fear in her heart. A small trickle of the rainwater hit the tip of her muzzle, and she flinched, jumping back just merely a few centimeters deeper into her little home. Scootaloo’s recent nightmares over that murder becomes worse every night, a new explicit detail is introduced, and it becomes even more clear and gory as she remembered the night it happened.

She was just in the Living room with her parents, her father reading one of his favorite books and her mother knitting. Suddenly, a loud shatter of glass from the window just near Scootaloo, her mother suddenly screaming from the sudden loud noise. Two ponies jump in through the shattered window. One, was a Large stallion earth pony with a brownish coat, however he worse a Ski mask and it seemed he wore some sort of cloth around his cutie mark. The other was also stallion that looked the same, except he had a gray coat and was a unicorn carrying what seemed to be an old rifle.

“Shut the hell up and get on the ground”, came the raspy voice from the larger stallion.

Her father, slowly nodded and urged his wife and daughter to slowly lie on the floor and cover their heads. The largest stallion watched over them while his accomplice is gathering anything valuable in the house. Getting bored, the large one lifted Scootaloo’s mother,

“Well ain't this one a cutie” he said. “I think I'll play with her”.

She is lifted up showing a face of melancholy as she knows that her daughter can see the horror of what will happen to her own mother. The large stallion turns her around and he roughly places the tip of his cock at her pussy. She stood there expecting the worst to happen, when suddenly, her husband jumps up and screams

“GET AWAY FROM HER!” Lunging to the large stallion, wings flared out to boost his speed in the air.

Unexpecting the attack, he closed his eyes and awaited the blow. It never came, instead a loud explosion was heard along with a loud thump; Everypony slowly opens their eyes. Scootaloo’s father’s head had been removed from his shoulders, almost disintegrated and instead of crashing right into the target he was practically cut off , his body flew to the side and crashed into the table next to the big pony. The larger stallion turned to see his partner holding a gun pointed right where the father once stood. Her mother never saw it coming. She screamed in absolute horror. Scootaloo looked up to see what happened to her father, her heart almost stopped right then and there.

She had never seen a pony die in her life, and there lies her father, his head was missing and blood was all over the floor. Her memory ends when she watches her mother get raped and swiftly took a pair of scissors from her knitting stand and sliced the stallion’s cheek yelling at Scootaloo to run. When she snapped back to reality, she wondered if it was all her fault her parents were murdered. She stood up and looked down the path to the cliffs at the end of the forest and walked down it. She looks over the edge of the cliff and stood on her hind legs and looked back, shedding a tear.

“It will be just like falling asleep” she says to herself silently.

She closes her eyes, and jumps. She feels the fast wind as she falls,

“I love you mom and dad, I'll get to be with you now” she mutters under her breath, and almost smiles.

Suddenly, a rainbow streak shoots up towards her and caught her just before she hit the ground. She opens her eyes and sees a beautiful blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane that had caught her from her suicide attempt. She gently places Scootaloo on the solid ground and stares at her with worry.

“Are you okay kid? Why on earth did you jump off that cliff?” She says, waiting for an answer.

“Who are you? Why did you save me?” Scootaloo asks in shock.

“Well,” the rainbow Pegasus starts, “my name is Rainbow Dash, and it's not every day you see a young filly just jump off a cliff, now why did you do it?” She says.

Scootaloo couldn't do anything but look down as she spoke to the mare.

“They'll find me and kill me too just like my parents, I want to end it here, no more stress, no more pain” she said, tears welling up in her eyes.

Rainbow Dash looked at her in confusion, then it clicked.

“D-did they take them from you kid?” she said, her jaw almost dropping at the thought that a filly so young could lose her parents in such a way.

“They killed them both, m-my father’s head….gone.. And what they did to my mother..” Scootaloo drops to the ground sobbing.

Rainbow Dash sits next to her and wraps her hooves around her small body. Scootaloo looks at her in awe, then embraces the hug, finally breaking down, letting out all emotions she felt so long ago. After a couple of minutes, they broke their hug, wiping their eyes.

“Hey kid” Rainbow Dash started.

“It’s Scootaloo” the little filly said.

“Well then, Scootaloo, would you like to live with me? I could always use some company at home” Dash says. “Oh and don’t worry, a bunch of dumb criminals aren’t going to take me down that easy, and that’s a promise” she added, giving a small wink.

Scootaloo nods and both head towards Dash’s cloud home. Later that afternoon, Rainbow dash sets up what used to be her spare bedroom into Scootaloo’s personal room, bringing in a few of her own prized wonderbolts posters. Rainbow Dash looked at the little filly just sitting on the bed staring at the posters.

“Like the posters Scootaloo? I thought you’d like them” She silently nods and looks down at the floor.

Rainbow Dash walks up to her, placing a hoof on her shoulder.

“Look, I know it’s going to be hard to get over what happened, but I Pinkie promise you that I will keep you safe no matter what as long as I have something to say about it, Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye” Rainbow Dash does the series of silly movements and they both make a little giggle.

“Alright, you should get some rest, i’ll see you in the morning” Dash says, making a motion to walk out the door

“W-wait..” Scootaloo says, in a slightly desperate tone. Rainbow Dash looks to her,

“Yeah? What’s up?” she says.

“C-could you maybe...sleep with me tonight?” the little filly says, looking up at her.

Rainbow Dash gives Scootaloo a small smile, “Sure kid, I don’t mind keeping you a little company for the night” she says.

Dash slips in the bed next to Scootaloo, gives her a small kiss on the forehead, and lies down.

“Goodnight kiddo” she says.