Author's Note

before we get to the Story, here are the results of the Intermission votes for the four other Un-Naturals from my made up universe that will be added, in this order.

1st - Dove/2nd - Archangel/3rd - Roc/and finally Dragonface.

hope you all look forward to when these Un-Naturals come to Equestria.

Chapter 8: Scootaloo's Big School Showcase

Scootaloo was walking towards Ponyville Elementary, a big happy smile on her little muzzle, as today she was Show & Tell. Usually for a filly like Scootaloo, this once a month day is typically not her favorites, because the filly usually doesn’t have anything worth sharing. But this time, she has something that’s going to blow her teachers, and schoolmates minds! And even better is that her Show & Tell topic agreed to this little idea.

“Scootaloo!” the filly turned to find her two friends trotting up to her, as they come down the path.

“Hey girls.” Scootaloo says to her friends as they meet up. “So what do you two have for Show and Tell this time?”

“Nothing really for me.” Apple Bloom says to her friends with a defeated sigh. “I haven’t gotten a chance to get anything new, or special recently.”

“How about you Sweetie?” Scootaloo asked the little unicorn filly, who actually has a small smile on her muzzle.

“I actually got a new flute that my mom got me, I’ve even been practicing, watch!”

Sweetie pulled the flute from her saddlebags, reveal the long black wooden instrument, and played an actually good little tune. Both of her friends ‘Ooohed!’ as they looked at the flute, which looked to be hoofed carved by a professional. Once Sweetie has finished playing her little tune, she placed the flute back into her saddle bags.

“That’s so cool Sweetie, you actually sounded pretty good.” Apple Bloom commented.

“I don’t think I’d be able to play that well, even if I practiced.” Apple Bloom then looked at Scootaloo, who seemed to be in a really good move. “By that smile I bet you got something good for Show and Tell?” Apple Bloom said to her pegasus friend who just snickered.

“So what is it?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“You’ll see.” Was all that the pegasus said.

Scootaloo then trotted ahead of her friends as her snickering grew, leaving the two fillies to ponder on what the pegasus has in store for today. But they could probably guess that it has something to do with Red Hawk. The three fillies eventually made it to their school, where a bunch of other foals were walking in, some holding something they probably have for Show and Tell. When they entered the school each of the foals took their assigned seats, while Miss. Cheerilee was finishing up some paperwork before class officially starts. While the ponies inside were all talking, and waiting for school to officially begin, Red Hawk gently landed on the roof of the school’s roof, where he would wait for Scootaloo to give the signal to show himself to her class.

“Alright class settle down now.” Miss. Cheerilee says to her class as she gently taps the floor with a hoof, getting them to calm down. “Now I know you’re all excited for Show and Tell, but first we we’re going to start on where we left off yesterday. So pull out those textbooks, and turn to the chapter of where we left off.”

“Kay!”

The foals said in unison as they dug through their saddlebags, and pulled out their textbooks. Four the next four hours the students have been learning about ancient Equestrian history, before the age of princesses. Aside from studying about the topic, the foals also had to work on some of their basic math work, which resulted in a pop quiz to test how much they learned today, and the days prior to today. After the tests were completed, the foals were then scheduled to do some reading assignments, which was actually quite relaxing for them.

While the foals were busy with their studies, Red Hawk was laying on the rooftop of the building and simply sky watching, but since the clouds are controlled and monitored by pegasi, the clouds weren’t as whimsical or free roaming as the ones back home on Earth. Red Hawk started to chuckle as a thought came to him as he continued to think about clouds.

“Still can’t believe how much I miss Earth clouds.” The young man mumbles to himself as a rouge cloud slowly drifts into view.

But as the cloud was drifting overhead, a thought came to Red Hawk as he remembered something about Equestrian clouds. Standing up and flapping his wings, Red Hawk flew up to the cloud, which was only a dozen or so from the school, upon reaching the cloud the young man tries to stand on the cloud. But his feet just passed right through it. he tried several more times, and each time he does so they just slipped through the clouds.

“Guess you really do need to be a pegasus to walk, or even touch these things.” Red Hawk bemoans as he claps his wings, causing the stray cloud to fly off.

As he was flying back down to the school, Red Hawk’s stomach started to grumble, and after checking his watch he saw that it was actually getting close to lunch time. Scootaloo did inform that the Show and Tell part of today was going to happen after lunch, so Red Hawk decided to head back over to town and pick something up. it was a relatively short flight back to town, and as he flew ahead he was going over what he should have for a quick lunch.

“Yo Red!” Red Hawk turned to see Rainbow Dash was flying over to him.

“Hey Dash, what’s up.”

“Just finished having a nap.” Red Hawk quirked a brow as he looked at the mare.

“A nap? It’s only eleven?” Red Hawk questioned as he and the pegasus flew past over the market.

“And what’s wrong taking a nap before noon?”

“Nothing, I’d just thought you’d be doing, something like practicing your flying or, something. Not sleeping.” The pair then landed at a stand near the edge of the market, with a few ponies that are standing a head of them.

“Yeah will sleeping helps get me energized.” Rainbow commented. “So what are you up to?” she asked as the line in front of the stand moved.

“Just getting lunch before heading back to the school.” Rainbow Dash gave the human a confused look as the line moved again.

“Why are you going to the school?” she asks suspiciously.

“Scootaloo asked me to be her Show and Tell for today. The class is going to be doing it outside this time, so she asked if I could put on an aerial performance for the class.” Red Hawk said as he and Dash reached the counter.

“Hey there big guy, you gonna get your usual sandwich today? Usual fixing’s and everything?” a tall slender brown coated unicorn mare asked the young man; her horn operating sever utensils as she waits for Red Hawk’s confirmation on her prediction.

“E’yup, and can you make it an extra?” the mare nodded and got to work on making Red Hawk’s food. As they waited, Red noticed that Rainbow was looking at him with a surprised look. “What?” he asked causing the mare the fidget slightly.

“I didn’t think Scootaloo would ask you to do that.”

“Why not?”

Before Rainbow could say anything, the mare of the stand placed a paper bag on the counter. Reaching into his coat, the winged human pulled out nine bits, plus a few extra, and handed them to the mare who gave Red Hawk a wink as he left. As for the pegasus, she didn’t order anything, instead she followed after Red Hawk as he was flying back to the school. As they reached the schoolhouse the pair found the foals outside, eating their own lunches while talking to one another, while a good number of them had their saddlebags with them. landing on the roof Red Hawk reached into the bag, and pulled out a large sandwich that looked like a BLT, but instead of bacon, it had what looked like a flat reddish brown tofu patty in it. while everyone was eating, Rainbow just sat down a foot away from Red Hawk.

Taking a bite of his food Red Hawk just looked down at the class, and was just blown by how much color the foals came in. sure the adults were also multi-colored, but for some reason these kids were WAY more colorful. But the young man’s eyes were soon drawn away from the foals, to the sole adult among them. she was a maroon earth pony mare that looked to be around Applejack’s height, as for age…well Red hawk isn’t as good on picking that up, as the ponies don’t really seem to show any signs of aging until really, really, REALLY late in their life. But this mare was actually really pretty looking. As he was looking the mare over, something was caught out of the corner of the winged human’s left eye, and when he turned his head to see what the thing was, it was Scootaloo and her friends waving at him.

“Alright now everypony, I know you’ve all been waiting, and I think you’ve waited long enough.” The mare says as she steps to the front of the class.

“It’s time for Show and Tell!” the foals cheered and clapped their hooves, and the ones that had whatever they brought to show off, or display. “Now, who wants to come up first?”

Red Hawk then watched as a pink earth pony filly made her way to the front, where she then tapped her hoof on the floor twice, and as if from nowhere an old looking earth pony stallion backed flipped to the fillies side. Everyone then watched the old stallion start doing back flips, twirls, and other gymnastic stunts that actually surprised everyone. Red Hawk was actually surprised that the stallion was able to pull these moves off, considering how, old, and stiff he looked. after about a couple of minutes, the stallion finished off his gymnastic performance with a dynamic mid-air spin into a pose…and was pushed to the side by the filly who mimicked the pose. After the stallions display, every one of the foals gave an awkward clap of their hooves, while the teacher along with Red Hawk and Rainbow Dash just looked dumbfounded.

“Well Diamond Tiara thank you for, ugh, showing us those fantastic gymnastic moves.” The teacher said as the filly bowed and pranced back to her spot on the floor.

“Who is that filly?”

“That’s Diamond Tiara, she’s the daughter of Ponyville’s wealthiest family. And she’s kind of a brat.” Rainbow explained to the young man as the next foal got up and showed of his new guitar, and started playing a little tune.

After the colt played his guitar, with a good level of skill, a few other foals showed the class what they brought. Some brought new items they got that has a story behind it, some showed off their new skills that align with their special talents. After the twelfth student, who happened to be Sweetie Belle playing her new flute, Scootaloo finally took center stage.

“So Scootaloo, what do you have for us today?” the teacher asked the foal. The pegasus cleared her throat as she was ready to give a speech, and as she got ready to speak Red Hawk prepared himself.

“Well everypony, what I have to show is something very special. Actually, you might have seen him around town.” Scootaloo then pointed the sky, where Red Hawk flew up into. “Introducing my new guardian, and Ponyville’s first alien visitor—RED HAWK!”

The foals along with the teacher looked up and saw Red Hawk dive bombing towards them, before spinning like an Olympic diver which he then came crashing down onto the ground, wings covering his entire body. The class then watched as Red Hawk stood up to his full height, as his wings extend outward while sparks of fire wafted from them. needless to say the foals as well as the teacher were in awe as they looked at him. The young man greeted the class with a small nod as he looked down at the foals, as his wings fold to his sides. It was awkwardly quite for a moment as the foals just looked at Red Hawk, but the silence was broken as the foals trotted up to the winged human, and started to examine him while muttering to themselves or to each other.

“He’s really tall!”

“Look at his wings! They’re so beautiful!”

“His claws don’t have sharp nail.”

“How did his wings make those sparks?”

As the foals continued to fawn over Red Hawk, a good majority of them standing behind him so they can see his wings, the teacher of the class trotted up to the human. Fully intrigued herself about the unusual being before her. meanwhile, Scootaloo looked like she just won the blue ribbon at a fare, as other members of her class asked her questions, and she tries to answer them all.

“Um…mister” a small little blue unicorn filly said to get Red Hawk’s attention, and when the young man looked over to her, the filly gulped before continuing. “Can we get a better look at your wings?”

Red Hawk just simply smiled as he leaned down, to be at a proper height, he then fully expanded his wings and held them low enough for the foals to look at them more closely. The filly, along with a few of her classmates, reached out to touch the wing…and the moment their hooves touched it, they could feel the soft feathers and the incredible warmth that was radiating off them. the foals then started to nuzzle into the wings, which started to cause Red Hawk to chuckle at the sight, especially when he starts hearing the foals hum in delight.

“All of you ponies really like my wings, no matter what age you all are.” Red Hawk said as he petted Scootaloo—who joined in on the wing nuzzling.

“For ponies, having an impressive set of wing like yours is a great advertisement of your status.” The teacher says as she ran a hoof along the feathers. “It shows ponies that your strong, healthy, and some other, things.” The teacher then looked at Red Hawk right in the eye, her light green eyes meeting Red Hawks monochromatic eyes.

“Nice to meet you, I’m Miss. Cheerilee the teacher at the school.” Red Hawk then took the mare’s hoof in his left hand, and gave it a few shakes.

“Nice to meet you Miss. Cheerilee, names Red Hawk. But you can call me Red for short.”

After the introduction was over with, Red Hawk began answering any and all questions that the foals may have about him. demonstrate his powers, fire wings and bird talon arms included, as well as putting on a little aerial show for them the class. Who all were basically star struck. The young man’s popularity only grew as he took a few of the foals on little rides, only soaring a few feet off the ground. while all this was going on, Rainbow Dash just sat their on the roof, watch as the herd of foals flock towards the winged human, and seeing how much fun they were all having. Especially Scootaloo. Letting out an annoyed ‘humph’ Rainbow took off to get more sleeping done, although she has a feeling that falling asleep was going to be a little harder than usual.

~~Elsewhere~~

A large male manticore’s body slumps to the ground with a wet ‘smack’, as blood gushed from its now missing head. stepping over, and on the body—crushing bones in the process—the four towering Collectors strutted through the woods, with their Observer in-between them. they have been traversing through this uncharted world for a full day, following the coordinates of the Collector that Red Hawk dismantled. The Collector at the front of the group stopped in its tracks, before turning to look down at the Observer.

“We are exactly one mile and 12 kilometers from where the destroyed Collector unit’s last transmission was relayed.”

“Good.” The Observer says to the metal giant. “We’ll rest up her for the time being, and tomorrow will smoke Red Hawk out, along with any of those other Un-Naturals.”

“Rodger.” All four Collectors said in unison as they went into sleep mode, while the Observer walked over to a tree, and sat down. As he sat under the tree the Observer removed his helmet, and placed it beside him as he reached into a vest pocket, and pulled out a protean bar.

“I’ve only seen this Red Hawk guy from footage captured by Collectors, and if he’s as good as I think he is…” the older man swallowed the chunk of protean bar before continuing. “Then it’s going to be a long day tomorrow.”