Broken Hearts Part 1: Entropy's Wrath

Scootaloo had spent a few weeks searching for Rainbow Dash with the rest of the CMC, yet another thing she could not find, she thought to herself. It had been several years now and the CMC have done a lot of growing up. Scootaloo however never really grew up, she has gotten significantly taller and her mane has grown out a bit along with her tail, but other than that she's just the same old Scootaloo. Unfortunately for her this was not a happy thought, unlike Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo had never found her cutie mark and to top it off she still lacked the ability to fly. Now it's not like she didn't try, whenever Rainbow had free time she had tried to train Scoots to fly but nothing seemed to work. Even though she couldn't fly Scootaloo was still very fast, just like her idol, on her scooter and she knew this was what made her special. When she saw Applebloom and Sweetie Belle accept their special talent, she knew it was only a matter of time before she would get hers. However, Scootaloo, who was not the one to just accept what she's given, refused to allow this, what she called "a stupid talent", define her as a pony.

It had been some time since she accepted that she would never get her cutie mark, and she was okay with it, she never rode her scooter again, just in case. But there were somethings she just had to get, like Rainbow's attention and admiration. To be honest, Scootaloo never cared for getting a cutie mark, the only reason she wanted one was to impress Dash. Scoots had her mind set, she was gonna find Rainbow Dash no matter what. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, who unlike Scootaloo had other things they needed to be doing. After yet another day of searching it began to get late, Sweetie Belle was the first to speak up, "Listen, Scootaloo, I really need to get back to my sister's, I need to practice and help her with orders, you know how she's been since Spike passed." Scootaloo replied spitefully, "Whatever! Go home, me and Applebloom don't need your help! Do we Applebloom?!" Applebloom shrugged. "Well it is getting late Scootaloo, maybe we could pick up the search tomorrow?" Scootaloo shot them both a snide glance then looked to the ground, "Fine! I don't need either of your guys' help!" Applebloom had walked away by this point, not in the mood for Scootaloo's attitude. Sweetie Belle stayed and snuggled Scootaloo, "I'm sorry Scootaloo, you keep looking and I'll catch up first thing tomorrow morning, okay?" Sweetie said with a loving smile, Scootaloo didn't look up, she simply nodded and let Sweetie Belle take her leave.

When she finally decided to look up she realized she was alone. This feeling however did not stop her quest in finding Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo continued her search with incredible zeal. Even though Scootaloo had been pretty plain her whole life and her looks haven't really changed all that drastically, there are still some very distinct things about her that have changed. Her body is the most obvious of the changes as she is no longer a filly, she has grown gaining much more muscle mass than normal fillies, but not too much, she was still a mare after all. Like most mares, her flank had gotten bigger and her face became more proportionate to her body, her slender yet muscular form was very appealing to stallions her age but she never really had an interest in boys or anypony but Dash for that matter. Scootaloo had grown into a fine young mare but, oddly enough, she did have one thing about her that stood out. Scootaloo's wings, while they were pretty much useless to her, were a sight to be seen. These wings, unlike most pegasi, were of great size, only comparable to Celestia or Luna. While they were large they also contained unyielding beauty to them, and were admired by everypony except Scootaloo, who despised the useless things.

Scootaloo had been searching for several hours and it was already late into the night, about 2: A.M. she thought. She began to feel drowsy and seeing as though it was late and her friends would most likely be asleep by now, she slept where she used to sleep before she became friends with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, the cold hard ground. Sadly when she began to lay down by a tree not to far from Ghastly Gorge, Scootaloo realized that by sleeping on the ground she would have, THAT dream again. To Scootaloo it was more of a nightmare, and it would never leave her mind, that nightmare, that memory of the day she lost everything. Scootaloo began to fall asleep, when she did, she began kicking and wimpering, the nightmare was back.

It began as it always did, in her little home in Cloudsdale, she awoke from her bed, still a bit sleepy, and wondered out of her room. When she approached the dining room she saw them, her family. Her father, a large brown coated, a sort of medium dark orange maned stallion, as tough as they came in Scootaloo's eyes. Her brother, and her mom, who, as Scootaloo would describe it, was the most beautiful pony in all of Cloudsdale. Scootaloo loved her mom, she idolized her, Scootaloo knew that she wanted to be just like her mom when she was older. She knew that she could not be exactly like her mother, she told her this everyday, "Haha, I know you want to be like me dear, but just wait, you will find your special talent that makes you special, but mo matter what you know that I will always love you." These words echoed through Scootaloo's mind as her dream went on, she took a seat next to her brother who was quite a bit older than her and already had his cutie mark, unlike Scootaloo he wanted to be like his dad.

Then it happened, the knock on the door, Scootaloo got the look she always did when she heard that knock; the look of sheer terror and horror struck her like a ton of bricks, she knew what would happen next. Her father got up to answer the door, Scootaloo's heart skipped a beat as she began to hear that music play, it was an orchestra, a compilation of cello and heavy bassed techno. The door swung open, "hello? Can I he..." her father was cut short, literally, as his throat was slit open quite rapidly, blood seeping from the new hole. A loud scream from her mom, "Dad!" her brother yelled, Scootaloo just sat there tears in her eyes as the events unfolded in front of her. Her brother ruched to her dad only to be pinned to the ground by powerful magic, before he could get away the strange unicorn came up to him and slashed his chest open with a record. After recovering from the wound but still bleeding he fled the house leaving a trail of blood behind.

After wiping her bow clean, the maniacal looking earth pony proceeded towards Scootaloo's mother with a blood thirsty look in her eyes. Scootaloo could only watch as the unicorn with strange glasses pinned her to the chair with magic saying, "Let's watch the show, shall we?" Backed up into the corner, absolute fear in her eyes, Scootaloo's mother could only scream as she tried to tell Scootaloo to run, the crazed grey pony raised her bow and began her work. She slashed and tared at Scootaloo's mother's flesh with the sharp strings of her bow, leaving Scootaloo's mother lying there on the ground lifeless. The magic dispersed as Scootaloo rushed to her mother's side, the two ponies just laughed, "See, I told you killing a pegusus was exciting!" the unicorn stated. "Yeah that spell you learned to get us up here worked perfectly!" the grey pony smirked cleaning off her bow another time.

This was the scene Scootaloo remembered most vividly, as it scared her ever since. Her father, lying beside the door in his Wonder Bolts outfit and a pool of his own blood, he loved his job and was ready to go too if just a few moments before. Her brother, the only part of him left there was the trail of his blood leaving the door way. And finally her mother who's bloody lifeless form lay in her hooves, her silvery blue body matted by blood and tears, as well as her mane and tail, which used to flow with grace and poise, those long rainbow colored locks that always entranced Scootaloo, now lay limply on the ground in a pool of blood. Scootaloo was in tears, everyone she loved was dead and she was next, or so she thought. "What should we do with her?" the unicorn asked. "I say we put her on a cloud and just blow her away." the black maned earth pony replied. "Great idea, and we can let her listen to the record of hr families demise too!" the blue maned unicorn said excitedly. The rest of Scootaloo's dream and her memories at that were fuzzy, all she could see were tears, and when she had no more left in her body, not a drop of feelings left to express, she found herself on a cloud somewhere she had never been listening to that damned music that played when it all started.

Distraught from the horrors of which had just occurred Scootaloo knew only one way out of this nightmare, the same way it always ended, and the way it had happened, suicide. She leaped from the cloud and began to tumble towards the ground, as the music grew fainter she found a sense of peace. She came crashing down through a tree outside a large building and was knocked unconscious. This was the end of the dream, but as she remembers she awoke to find Sweetie Belle nuzzling next to her, this was the day she met her friend, she had been taken to Ponyville and landed near the tree next to Rarity's Boutique. Normally, when she would wake up from this dream after hitting the tree she would find nobody there, however, she awoke the same as that lovely Ponyville morning many years ago, with a loving Sweetie Belle snuggling her side. "See, I told you I'd come. I saw you shaking so I decided to lay next to you and keep you warm." Sweetie Belle said with a large smile on her face. Scootaloo was actually shivering in fear but that was unimportant, she was happy to see her friend by her side, so she smiled back contently. "Now lets go look for that Rainbow Dash!" Sweetie Belle said with enthusiasm, Scootaloo continued to smile at Sweetie and agreed, "Yeah, lets."

Before they could get up however, they were startled by a loud boom, and were blinded for a few seconds by something near Ghastly Gorge. When they could finally see again the thing they saw was very hard to describe for them, they were still young after all, and they could hear the sad frustrated screams of somepony flying away at great speeds. The two of them decided to check out the Gorge seeing as though this was their only lead. When they arrived at the Gorge they began to look around for any traces of the pony they had just seen or Rainbow Dash. After a bit of walking through the Gorge they came upon a large pile of rocks with somepony pinned underneath one. What Scoots was about to see would mark the beginning to the end of the stable life she had long but created herself.