Chapter 6: Cutie Mark Crusaders

Scootaloo trotted across the dusty and empty library back and forth.

Scotaloo then looked around, seemingly bored, she gave up and just laid her head on the floor.

She heard a sound as Twilight and Discord were both coming up from the basement stairs.

"Hey, You!" Scootaloo called.

Twilight's ears perked up and she looked over to the orange pegasus.

"Wanna do somethin'?" Scootaloo asked.

Twilight looked sorrowfully at her.

"Not right now, I have some things I need to talk about with Discord,"

Scootaloo's mood went from mildly hopeful to disappointed.

Scootaloo looked at the ground with a crushed spirit.

Twilight paid no mind to this as she had already left.

Scootaloo lay on the ground again, hoping another pony would show up.

Scootaloo didn't like to admit it, but she was very bored.

She didn't really know anypony. The only other fillies are Applebloom, Sweetiebelle, and maybe Screwball never spent time with her either.

She was only left with her thoughts, but she didn't want to think, because she would think about that moment.

Scootaloo shuddered, she looked to see if anypony was around her.

Nopony was there.

Scootaloo felt tears brimming her eyes of exhaustion, loneliness, and emotional fatigue.

She choked out a sob.

"Are you ok?" Somepony asked.

Scootaloo nearly jumped out of her own hide and turned around to see Sweetie belle.

"Uhh, w-what?" Scootaloo was still trying to process what was happening.

"You seem sad," Sweetie Belle said sympathetically.

Scootaloo thought

Scootaloo lived in an orphanage in Canterlot.

She hated it since pegasi were looked down upon here.

Scootaloo always felt out of place, she liked to sneak out at night sometimes until she met someone.

"you ok?"

Scootaloo jumped out of her skin.

She looked around trying to find who just said that.

"I'm over here," They said.

Scootaloo looked over and saw the male unicorn.

"W-who are you?" Scootaloo asked.

"I snuck out of my parent's house," He said spitefully.

"Whatever for?" Scootaloo asked.

"Cause they hate me,"

"Why would you say that, I would do anything for parents,"

He looked taken aback "Where do you live?"

"the orphanage, I snuck out too,"

He looked at her with interest.

Scootaloo waited for a response.

"Well, my, my mom is always so bossy, like" He put on a voice "Clean your room before you eat dinner," He said.

Scootaloo looked at him with disbelief.

"What, just clean your room," Scootaloo said.

He sighed.

"Is that the only reason you ran away?" She asked.

He then took a dark look "N-no, something happened recently and I'm scared of what will happen," he admitted.

"What happened?"

"I... I broke my mom's video camera... She just got it as a gift from my dad on her birthday 2 weeks ago,"

Scootaloo looked worried "What happened,"

"I-I tripped and fell into a desk and a bunch of stuff fell over onto the camera and the camera fell off the table,"

Scootaloo looked at him with understanding.

"Ya," She said sadly.

"Wanna do something?" He asked.

"What is there to do?" Scootaloo asked.

"I'm really good at eye spy!" He said.

"No, I don't wanna play that," Scootaloo said.

"What would you wanna do?"

"How about we play hide and seek?" Scootaloo suggested.

"No, that seems too scary," He said.

"I- what goes on where you live?" he asked.

"I, nothing much that I can think of, boring... stuff." Scootaloo looked down.

The colt just sat down with Scootaloo, they just looked at the sky, not talking to each other, just laying down.

Scootaloo felt at peace and fell asleep.

Scootaloo felt a tinge of pain at the memory, looking back to when things meant more to her.

She remembered waking up in an alleyway and was very scared to go back to the orphanage, she got a huge scolding.

"Are you ok?" Sweetie belle asked.

"ya, why?"

"You're shaking," Sweetie belle said.

"Ya, just cold," Scootaloo said.

Sweetie belle nodded "Do you wanna do something?"

"ya, what do you wanna do?" Scootaloo asked.

"We can sneak out of here and-"

Scootaloo jolted "No, something else," She said, sadly.

Sweetie belle looked taken aback "Ok, ok, don't get mad," She said frightened.

Scootaloo just sat back down.

"H-How about we talk?" Scootaloo said desperately.

"Nah, I don't really feel like it, talking's boring." She said.

"Ok, how about a game?"

"Like what?" Sweetie belle asked.

Scootaloo was drawing a blank "I-I"

"Well, I am gonna go," Sweetie Belle said leaving.

"Don't go," Scootaloo said quietly as Sweetie belle left, not hearing Scootaloo.

Scootaloo sat back down lost in her thoughts.

"Hey, Scootaloo!" The colt called excitedly.

Scootaloo smiled "What is it?"

"I got the book I wanted for my birthday!" he said excitedly showing the comic book.

Scootaloo has been meeting him almost every night for the past 2 months.

"I wanted to know if you wanna read it with me?" He pulled out a lantern.

Scootaloo beamed. "Sure," she said trying to sound cool.

He chuckled, and Scootaloo's face flushed red.

"A-anyway. let's read this," Scootaloo said.

He put the book down and read the book for an hour before they departed and Scootaloo snuck back in carefully, hoping not to get caught.

"Hey!" Scootaloo called.

The colt walked over.

"Can I tell you about something?" He asked.

"Sure,"

"Come this way," He called.

They walked for a bit and Scootaloo followed to a door.

"They say this door leads to a haunted room," he said.

Scootaloo laughed.

"No, seriously, I heard some ponies talking about it yesterday,"

Scootaloo just looked away.

"It's nothing, besides, this door looks super magic--y or whatever, it doesn't mean anything,"

The filly looked at the ground embarrassed "uhh'" he stuttered.

"It's fine," Scootaloo said ruffling his mane up.

He laughed.

They left the door, but Scootaloo looked back and made a mental note of it.

Something felt very wrong about that door, very wrong.

Author's Note

Sorry, this took so long, I've been working on a lot of other projects, and needed to edit this chapter so many times, I noticed some of the lore and stories I had written for the side characters were a little basic and not too in-depth, so I worked on all of those before I finished this chapter completely.