Scootaloo always wanted to join the Wonderbolts, but after she learns that she has a degenerative disease her dreams are crushed and she is forced to move to Ponyville, leaving her friends behind. She believes her life is forever ruined and her heart is forever broken, but after she meets an unlikely friend she learns that the sky is still the limit, but first she needs to heal a different sort of wound...

This is a sequel/spinoff to Learn to Fly. If you have not read it, skip the the forward.