Scootaloo Fights Celestia, Then Takes Her Throne

"A full set of foal sized Crystal Empire armor?! Thank you so much Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo leaned over and hugged her adoptive mom.

It was Scootaloo's first birthday since moving in with her adoptive family, and she had been spoiled rotten. Behind her was a brand new brake and motor kit attachment for her scooter from Spike, a bejewled helmet from Sweetie Belle (Sweetie Belle had bought the helmet and Rarity attached the gems), a beautifully drawn picture from Applebloom featuring Scootaloo in the middle, with the Crusaders on each side of her. She was standing in front of Rainbow Dash and Twilight, the latter of whom was carrying Spike. Twilight had elected to give her a mirror for her wall that portrayed pictures of her and all her friends and family hanging out, and at the top, the biggest picture was her with Rainbow Dash and Twilight. It was taken the day they had adopted her, which Scootaloo still regarded as the best day of her life.

But perhaps the biggest, most eye catching gift there was from Celestia and Luna. They had teleported in a full statue showing Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Scootaloo, and Spike all smiling and posing. The stone Scootaloo was about the same size as the real Scootaloo. Next to it was a stained glass window depicting the same scene, which Twilight agreed to put in Scootaloo's room. Twilight asked to move the statue into the map room, so whenever the Elements of Harmony were dealing with stressful, potentially Equestria dooming business, she and Rainbow Dash could look at their happy family and draw strength from that. Scootaloo wouldn't deny that she cried like a foal when Twilight asked her that.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight shared a smile and a knowing look. There was still one more present that Scootaloo didn't know about.

"There's one thing left. A present from the both of us." Rainbow Dash announced dramatically.

"More?!" Scootaloo turned and looked at Twilight, trying her best to contain her excitement. From the look on Twilight and Rainbow's face, they too were trying to contain their excitement. All three were failing miserably.

"Scootaloo." Twilight said slowly, enjoying the manic look in the filly's eye. "I have a very special present for you. It's not a physical present, but it's something I'm sure you'll remember forever."

Scootaloo gasped and started involuntarily wagging her tail in excitement.

"It's something that, considering you still aren't the strongest flier, Rainbow Dash and I agreed would make today something you'll never forget."

Scootaloo's smile dissapeared and a look of confusion appeared on her face.

What does she have? A magical pair of new wings? A speed potion? Lessons from Spitfire?

"I may have found a spell..." Twilight drew out. "That will allow you to change bodies with somebody else for up to twenty-four hours. And Rainbow Dash here volunteered."

Scootaloo gasped again and stared in amazement at Rainbow Dash, who just smiled back and nodded.

"Well actually to be fair, Rainbow begged me to do it before I could even say anything else." Twilight laughed.

"Not only that squirt." Rainbow stuck her chest out. "I'm gonna teach you how to do the Sonic Rainboom!"

Scootaloo started feeling lightheaded as her brain started short circuiting. "I... buh... wha... huh? Sonic Rainboom?"

The mares merely nodded.

"So Scootaloo, are you inter-"

"YES!" Scootaloo shouted. Scootaloo then cleared her eyes and smiled sheepishly at Twilight. "Uh, please."

Twilight took a deep breath and closed her eyes, lighting up her horn. As her horn started humming louder, she snapped her eyes open, which were suddenly pure white and glowing, and sent out a wave of light. Scootaloo found her vision going black.

After rubbing her eyes for a moment, Scootaloo opened her eyes to find herself staring at a small orange filly with a purple mane, who looked just as disoriented as she did. She glanced over to the hoof she had used to rub her eyes with and saw that it was blue. Looking around for a moment, she also saw a lot of things in the castle looked much less tall.

Oh...

Oh Celestia.

It worked!

Unfurling her new wings, Scootaloo took off of the floor castle, sailing up far faster than she was used to. She let out a happy gasp, and flew right at Twilight, tackling her into a hug and falling over and hitting the ground with her.

"ThankyousomuchmomIloveitsomuch!" Scootaloo rambled, nuzzling Twilight's cheek. She jumped up and pulled Rainbow Dash in her old body into a tight hug, nuzzling her too.

"Glad... you... enjoy... it..." Rainbow gasped. "Scoot... can't breathe!"

"Oops." Scootaloo blushed, releasing the hug. "Sorry."

Her old body leaned down, taking in a large gulp of air before matching her gaze. "Now do you wanna sit around all day, or do you want to do a Sonic Rainboom?"

Scootaloo loud out a loud squee before picking up Rainbow Dash in a much less tight hold. She turned and motioned for Twilight to follow her as she flew out of the castle at a high speed. She found a nearby cloud and deposited Rainbow Dash onto it, while taking great enjoyment in just flying around as she waited for Twilight. By her rough calculations, in Rainbow Dash's body she could go three times her max speed with ease.

Twilight flew up to the cloud Rainbow Dash was on and smiled at the filly-fied Rainbow Dash. "You know, I almost can't tell you switched right now. She really is a smaller, maybe smarter version of you."

Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes and chuckled. "Hey squirt! Over here!" she called out.

Scootaloo swooped over to her, a giant grin seemingly permanently affixed to her face.

"Alright squirt" Rainbow Dash said. "What I want you to do is fly up about 400 feet, then build your speed by spinning clouds like I taught you earlier. Then take a dive at like..." Rainbow gestured wildly with her hooves. "this angle. Tuck your wings, and you'll feel the air resistance turn into a mach cone. Push through that and be ready to pull out of your dive."

Scootaloo nodded, enraptured by the idea of what she was about to do.

"You got this, champ." Rainbow reassured her.

She's right. I do have this. Time to go make dreams come true.

Scootaloo sailed up until Rainbow Dash and Twilight looked like ants. She took a moment to enjoy to cool, crisp air and the gentle breeze blowing her mane around. She had never been this high before. She couldn't even hear the birds chirping. It was just a never ending ocean of blue with the occasional cloud. She could see all of Ponyville.

Scootaloo smiled to herself as she realized Rainbow Dash had probably gotten the weather schedule today to have clouds just for this exact moment. There was so much riding on this. So much pressure. So much adrenaline.

Scootaloo took off, rocketing for a nearby cloud. Dipping her left wing down slightly, she hit her elbow against the cloud, riding the cloud as it spun. Carrying the momentum, she rocketed toward the next cloud, continuing the process until she had five clouds rapidly spinning. As she departed the last cloud, she used the inertia to send her flying at a downward angle matching the one Rainbow Dash had shown her.

Taking a deep breath, she tucked her wings and posed her front hooves in front of her as she had seen Rainbow Dash do when she showed the Rainboom off to her. As she picked up speed, she could feel the wind whipping wildly at her face. She shut her eyes as the wind started to make them water.

I got this. I can do this.

As she started feeling like she was pushing through something, as if the air had grown thicker, she snapped her eyes open. As she saw the telltale sign of the mach cone start around her, the same one she had seen Rainbow Dash push through so many times, she tried to give off a gasp, but the speed at which she was going she felt it almost impossible to breathe in.

As the mach cone tightened, she started feeling like she was being squeezed through a tube. Her lungs burned for fresh air. Her eyes watered as the wind resistance kept whipping at her face. Scootaloo grit her teeth and shook her head, trying to clear her eyes. And at the final moment, when Scootaloo felt like she was being completely flattened by the cone, she felt for the briefest of moments like everything had stopped. No air resistance, no mach cone, nothing. And then she heard it.

BOOOOOOM

Fresh air filled her lungs as she felt her speed double. As she glanced behind her, a large shot of adrenaline went coursing through her bloodstream when she saw a rapidly expanding prismatic circle of rainbow light erupting from where she had just been.

I did it.

Oh my Celestia I did it

How... but I... Buh...

"I did the Rainboom!" Scootaloo screamed, tilting her wings up ever so slightly, and rocketing back up into the beautiful ocean of sky. She didn't even need to flap, she just made minor adjustments to shift her path seemingly almost by thought. She sailed straight up, leaving a chromatic trail in her wake.

As her momentum finally ran out, Scootaloo contented herself with reaching the peak of her arc, then pulling herself into a glide as she found herself hyperventilating. She let an involuntary giggle, then a loud scream of joy as she felt the adrenaline still coursing through her veins.

"WWWHHHHOOOHOOOO" She yelled, rocketing towards the mere pin pricks on the ground that was Rainbow Dash and Twilight. As she rapidly picked up speed, she planned her entrance, and overshot the cloud the other ponies were sitting on. She tilted her wings up so she did a back flip while soaring over the cloud, and came to land in front of Twilight and Rainbow. She instantly pulled them into a rib-shattering hug, unable to do anything other than make excited squeaks as she words completely failed her for the moment.

Scootaloo sniffed as tears started streaming from her eyes. "I just... thank you so much." She spoke to nobody in particular. "I love you guys so much."

"We love you too." Rainbow and Twilight chorused as they returned the hug. The trio spent several minutes like that, before finally breaking the hug and just enjoying each other's presence quietly.

Best. Day. EVER!