when heroes aren't there to save you

Chapters

*unedited*chapter 2-trial and error
*revised* chapter 3- flight.
*unedited* chapter 4-surprise!
*unedited* chapter 5-when it rains...
*unedited* chapter 6-a new beggining (part 1)-revelations
*unedited* chapter 6-a new beggining (part 2)-equinox
*bonus chapters* unused crap I found in word
*unedited* When heroes aren't there to save you: part 2 (Flight of the phoenix) Prologue:
*revised* chapter 1-and so it begins
*unedited* When heroes aren't there to save you: part 2 (Flight of the phoenix) Chapter 1: Confessions

uneditedchapter 2-trial and error

note: I realize that my grammar isn't the best but please understand that English is my second language. I could really use an editor so if anyone is willing to, please pm me or leave a comment otherwise DEAL WITH IT. please.

It was as if the fact that rainbow just put her life in danger did not matter to her. When scootaloo heard those words of acknowledgement she immeadiatly got up and ignored the the aches in her knees and face and smiled a wide, dirt-filled, smile.

"alright, consider that the easiest part of your course, because the next 8 weeks will be the toughest of your life and this week we're gonna get you to fly. Now what you did there earlier was gliding, I don't like gliding and you won't either got it?"
"sir yes sir!" said scootaloo. "right. now give me fifty pushups to start."

It was the Afternoon and scootaloo felt torn, her muscles were aching and she already threw up twice.

"alright I'm impressed you made it this far so since you're in the zone let's see what we can do about those tiny wings of yours" rainbow dash unzipped her duffle bag and pulled out weights that looked like boards, each being 20 pounds.

"I want both of these lfted 50 times." scootaloo looked in horror as she saw the two small 20 pound board weights. Now she was able to put up with alot of the excercises and she hadn't complained, until now.

"b-but rainbow dash I don't think I ca-" a sudden feeling of force hit her in the back of the head interrupting her complaint.

"you don't THINK anything you worthless shit, you just DO, now quit your sobbing and lift those weights. And since your whining, instead of 50 I want 60, double time let's go!"
Scootaloo almost couldn't believe what had just happened and what she was hearing, but she stayed strong for rainbow dash and with one lift after the other she began to cringe in pain. Her wings were aching and her body was screaming to stop but her mind was telling her to shut up and deal with it. After 49 she began to slow down with each lift and rainbow dash saw this and immediately took action.

"why're you slowing down huh? I thought you said you were gonna prove to me that you were worthy of training with me and no apprentice of mine is a quitter."

these words penetrated scootaloos rage like a jagged knife, rage and adreneline began to pour out of her like an open wound and she let out a wail much like a battlecry and began to keep lifting the weights one after the other almost twice as fast now. She got to 120 before she threw up yet again, she then dropped the weights and collapsed on to the ground. "not bad kid, not bad at all" rainbow dash said with a proud grin on her face.

"y-you really think so?" scootaloo asked as she struggled to get up.

"yeah you'll be fine now go home and get some rest squirt, you'll need it. But I don't think you'll need me to tell you that anymore." scootaloo nodded and then got up and headed home despite the fact that she was mentally assaulted by her idol she cast that all aside knowing that today, she made rainbow dash proud and no amount of pain, blood or vomit would even dent the happines and acknowledgement she felt at that very moment, she made rainbow dash proud of her today, and she intended to keep it that way for a long time.

Scootaloo got home at about 11:30p.m., and when she got there she was exhausted, she could probably fall asleep on the porch if she didn't get in. As she walked in she was greeted by a familiar face but this was a face she would rather not deal with right now, It was ms.burns, the mother of the kids at her foster home.

"Oh! Um, hi ms.burns, um sorry for coming in late I was.......studying at the library" scootaloo tried her best to sound convincing but her tired and aching little body were preventing any type of creative and logical excuse from seeping into her brain.

"now you know you're supposed to be home by 10:00, and do I look like a clueless idiot? I know more about you than you think, so saying you were studying at the library when you always come home from school saying how you wish books were burnt at the stake along with the pony who invented them doesn't really convince me that you were at the library this whole time. So I'll say again, WHERE WERE YOU?" Ms. Burns was running out of patience and scootaloo could see it, but at this point scootaloo was just so tired and angry she didn't care what would happen but she had to say this;

"ms.burns........though you may be my foster mom you aren't and you never will be my real mom. So, therefore, I don't have to tell you SHIT about where I've been and who I was with." scootaloo had her face down the whole time knowing what was about to come but she dared to look up despite her better judgement. As soon as she did she saw Ms. Burns walking away and was a bit surprised by this, but not as surprised as she was when she felt two giant hooves buck her in the stomach sending the little pegasus flying across the living room and hitting a lamp.

"consider that a warning you little shit, next time I'll take your fucking life. So until you're adopted, I FUCKING OWN YOU, GOT IT?"

Scootaloo couldn't answer as the world around her started to swirl. She was bleeding from her mouth and her esophagus was filling up with blood and she was fainting from lack of oxygen. As she was going down, she noticed a gray figure reach down at her, but she was only able to make out that gray figure before she was swallowed by the darkness.

Scootaloo woke up at around 2:20 am and she noticed she wasn't in her room but in avion and zelos's room. She was in avion's bed too, She sat up and immediatly cringed in pain, she clenched her stomach and she let out a little yelp that was loud enough to wake up avion sleeping on the carpet floor below her.

"Scootaloo You're awake! A-Are you okay, What is it!? Oh please tell me you're alright." avion had a very concerned look on his face and he was on the virge of tears too it appeared.

"yeah, yeah avion. I'm fine, but what's with the Ice packs under my wings and the bandages on my body?"

"oh, well you see I heard the the argument you and Ms. Burns were having and I had to come see what was happening. But when I got there ms. Burns left and you had shards of glass on the back of your head, blood coming out of your mouth, and a giant bruise on your stomach. That's when I took out any medical supplies I could to make sure to stop the bleeding and numb the pain. Here, take another painkiller while you're up, It'l help you go back to sleep." avion then handed scootaloo a glass of water and some ibuprofen, Scootaloo drank the pills and looked up at avion who was still looking like he was about to cry.

"avion, why are you so worried? I'll be fine, thanks to you anyway, quit looking so worried." scootaloo tried to reassure him with a smile. But it was to no avail as the little gray pegasus looked like he was about to cry even more.

"avion, what is it? You're making me worried now."
At that moment avion slumped down and put his head on her shoulder and his arms around her and began to weep softly but with alot of tears flowing.

"scootaloo *hic* you're the only friend I have here who actually talks to me. You're the only one who talks to me period, all the kids at school make fun of me and beat me up for whatever reason, my parents took their own lives because they didn't want to support me so *hic* I cant lose you I *hic* just can't scootaloo. I can't! I won't lose the only thing that makes my life worth living." at this point the poor little white Pegasus's throat was burning because he had so many tears to let out but couldn't because everyone else was sleeping. " That's why I'm so worried, when I saw you with your eyes rolled back and your head and mouth bleeding it reminded me of the way my parents looked the day they killed themselves and how I was too late to save them, I wasn't about to let the same thing happen to you. I told myself to stay up to keep watch over you but I fell asleep, I was so scared scootaloo. I don't want you to go, I don't I just don't. Oh scootaloo please don't go. I love you, And if you leave i'll *hic* be alone all over again."

Scootaloo could not believe what she had just heard. She never heard words that told her she was the reason that a pony lives, she then reached out and hugged avion back.

"oh avion, that's the sweetest thing anyponys ever told me, I promise I'll be okay and I promise to never leave you. C'mon n' sleep up here with me, the floor is really cold."

"r-really? *sniff* I mean, a-are you okay? I dont know if you're still in pain or not and I don't want to hurt you"

"yeah it's alright I don't mind now cmon, I'm tired."
Avion then crawled into his bed with his pillow and blanket and turned the opposite way as to give scootaloo some breathing room. Just then he felt scootaloos arm bring him closer to her and he almost melted as he turned his head to see scootaloo with her eyes closed and a smile across her face. This, and scootaloo snuggling with him was enough to make him cry tears of joy. But instead he smiled, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.

authors note: I actually cried while making this part and I think I'm about to again. Just picture it. Two little pegasus ponies cuddling together, sleeping. It's so damn cute I could just-HNNNNNNNNNNNGGG!!!!! *dead* any way this is just a bridge for the story. It gets better I promise, I normally don't like writing this "wishy-washy" type of stuff but I felt as though it needed to be an element in the story. Sorry for the typing errors, still working to get those resovled. P.S. 4 stars guys? Thank you so much :)

revised chapter 3- flight.

chapter 3-edited by: luna's guard

The next morning came, and Scootaloo couldn't have been more excited to start her training. She sprang out of the bed and onto the carpet. Upon doing this she forgot that yet again, she had just been kicked in the stomach last night. She bent over and cringed in pain. She hoped that training today wouldn't be as brutal as it was yesterday , because if she had to push herself like that in the condition she was in, she knew that she wouldn't make it. She looked over at the clock and almost fainted. The clock read 6:50 a.m. and she was supposed to be there by 7:00. She galloped out the front door and hopped on her scooter carefully. Even with that, as soon as she got on ,she took off as fast as she could, trying not to flare up her pain even more. She clenched her stomach all the while steering the best she could with one hoof. Every bump on the road slowly sent a surge of pain up her body to her stomach. Regardless, she ignored the pain and focused on the road ahead of her, and set off to the edge of the Everfree forest, hoping that Rainbow Dash would still be there and wouldn’t notice that she was late.

It was 7:03 a.m. when Scootaloo finally arrived. Scootaloo looked around for Rainbow Dash, but saw no sign of her. With her head down , she began to walk back in the direction she came. "You’re late." a familiar voice penetrated Scootaloo's ears like a harpoon; She turned around to see an angry rainbow dash. Rainbow dash noticed the bandages Scootaloo had on her and raised her eyebrow.

"Bandages? You're not going soft on me now are you?" As she asked this she gave a somewhat playful kick to Scootaloo's injury. Scootaloo winced, but she did her best to put a smile on and said "Me? No of course not, I just uh have them there for uh…….circulation purposes…."

Scootaloo was lying through her teeth and Rainbow Dash could easily see it. She squinted at the filly for a few seconds and then gave a grin much like the one she had the day before.
“Circulation purposes huh? Then you won't mind if I doooooo-THIS?!" Rainbow rammed Scootaloo who then felt a surge of extreme pain emit from her stomach and let out a yelp as she fell to the grass clutching her stomach in pain and agony.

"Uh huh, that’s what I thought, now that you've learned your lesson not to lie to me, I think we can begin our real training. See that hill to the left? That’s where I learned to fly and that's where you’re gonna learn to fly today." Despite being in so much pain, Scootaloo very much liked the idea of getting to fly where her mentor did when she was her age. With that in mind, she got up and headed to the hill.

When they got to the top of the hill Scootaloo noticed it was far too steep for anypony to trot down.
"Now even though I don't like gliding, it does help you a bit here, what I want you to do first is get some speed by gliding down face first and then pulling up, the wind will catch your wings and then nature will do the rest."
Scootaloo looked down again and thought she was going to throw up, She didn't want to get hurt anymore and was about to complain about being way to sore when suddenly from behind her she heard a sharp "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!" Scootaloo got so scared that she jumped off inadvertently, even though she managed to make it off she was gliding way too close to the ground. Her heart pounded a mile minute, and she was way too scared to focus on flying and because of this, she hit the steep ground hard. She saw that she hit the ground but the pain didn’t register to her. she didn’t feel anything, and she was in shock,. Even through she was so scared but she didn't scream, she just slowly saw the world going dark as it was spinning violently all around her from one direction to another. She watched this and slowly faded into the black.

"ey.........ake.........hey............ke up...........cootaloo............ALOO WAK........." Scootaloo slowly opened her eyes a little and her eyes began to adjust to the light, Just then she felt an ice-cold sting surround her body and she shot straight up and would have almost screamed if she hadn't then realized that it was just water. She looked around and noticed she was still in the Everfree forest. She looked down to see her arms and legs were riddled with cuts and bruises. It was the afternoon and the sun was about to set. Evidently, she had been knocked out for a while. She then turned her head to see Rainbow Dash throwing away a pale of ice water to the side. She looked upset and Sootaloo knew why.

"That was THE MOST pathetic attempt at flight EVER! I can't believe I even considered having you as my apprentice, if I had known that my apprentice was going to be a weak, worthless little shit, I woulda asked a fuckin’ earth pony to fly. I'm done with you kid you were just a huge waste of my time." Scootaloo felt tears coming out of her eyes; she knew that it was a horrible attempt but she thought Rainbow Dash would have had more patience. Suddenly a surge of anger and adrenaline rushed through her veins, she was mad, and she wasn’t going to let Rainbow Dash give up on her this easily.

"HEY! I CAN-TO FLY AND I'LL GO RIGHT BACK AND SHOW YOU!"

"Hmph, that's mighty big talk for someone who rolled down a hill when I clearly instructed you to fly, do you care to prove this?"

"Yes I do, right now, I'll make you regret saying that." Scootaloo didn't know how, but she was going to do what she had said. She climbed up the hill, got to the top and then looked down. Doing this, she readied for the worst. Without hesitation she jumped and glided downwards. The whole time she had her eyes closed and was hoping that nature would indeed “kick in”. It did and she felt the air flow around her face and mane and under her wings. She couldn't believe it, she was actually flying! She opened her eyes, and saw how high she was and laughed. She began doing 360's and loops in excitement and joy. In fact, she was having so much fun she almost forgot Rainbow Dash was supposed to be watching her but Scootaloo had flown so far away from their training spot that she was sure Rainbow had forgotten about her. Just then a streak of blue shot past her, the force from the streak almost knocked her off balance, but she maintained her position and noticed that Rainbow Dash was actually flying right next to her. She looked at rainbow dash , and smiled while Rainbow Dash smiled back.

"Gotta admit kid, you're pretty good at making a doubter a believer. Now go home and get some flying in, we’ll work on maneuvers tomorrow. I'm proud of ya’ kid,. I really am. Now get out of here."

Scootaloo saluted in affirmation and proceeded to fly home, still in disbelief that she was flying, and very earlyat that too! Most of the pegasi in her class still couldn't fly. She was on top of the world and no one could bring her down. She saw her foster home and flew down to it in a slow, calm, descent.

When she got inside she was surprised to not see Ms.Burns ready to give her another lecture or another beating. But instead of pondering it for too long she went into Avion’s room. The little gray Pegasus was fast asleep, and Scootaloo carefully walked over to the side of his bed and gave him a kiss on the forehead and whispered “Thank you for believing in me Avion. I couldn’t have done it without you.” She smiled and walked back to her room. As she was getting in bed she was contemplating about today. She hadn’t gotten beaten by her foster mom, she learned how to fly in a matter of two attempts, and most importantly Rainbow Dash said she was proud of her. To Scootaloo, this was a blessing in disguise; this was her last thought before she drifted off into slumber.

“Wha-where am I?” Scootaloo woke up from her sleep to see that she was in her room from her old home. It was the home of the place where her nightmares never seemed to end. It was her parents’ house.

“Oh no……oh no-no-no, I can’t be here, I can’t, I gotta get out of here.” She tried to get up only to see that she was tied to the bed by some thick rope. She tried to wriggle around violently in an attempt to break free, but then she decided to stay put as she didn’t know what tied her to the bed , and she didn’t want to wake or provoke her captor…whatever it was. As she stopped she looked around to see her old room like it used to be. She remembered how there was a loose floorboard she used to hide under when her father came home drunk and threatened to beat her. She remembered getting hit by her mom in the left corner of her room. All the memories of her past rushed in her at once and she began to swallow tears. Just then a gray and orange figure emerged from the doorway ever so slowly.

“Scootaloo sweetie is that you? Oh my, how wonderful we’ve been so worried about you.”
The room was dark but the figures stepped next to the window and the moonlight revealed the figures; it was her parents. Scootaloo’s eyes went wide in fear and she began to sweat and wriggle around some more. She didn’t know why her parents fillynapped her , but she knew it couldn’t have been to welcome her back home.

“N-no, you can’t be real, y-you’re supposed to be gone b-both of you. LET ME GO, I DON’T BELONG TO YOU ANYMORE! SOMEPONY HELP!” The larger orange stallion crept closer to Scootaloo and said in an insane voice,

“Oh my dear sweet child, I don’t think you realize where your place is in this family. When you left us that fateful day it KILLED your mother and I. Your mother and I were wrongfully accused of a crime and then they took us away from you. Your mother loved you so much that she took her life before they caught us. She was hoping that you were dead so that way she could see you in the next life, but unfortunately she didn’t go to her pre-determined destination and instead ended up in a place of eternal suffering and sorrow. She tried to cut out her own heart for you Scootaloo. Look at what you have done to your poor mother.”

As he said this, the other figure emerged from the darkness only to reveal what looked to be an emaciated white mare. Blood was pouring out from its stomach and blood was dripping out of its mouth.

Scootaloo was to petrified to even scream. She only looked on in fear at this monstrosity before her.

“THAT is what you did to your mother Scootaloo. Look at her she doesn’t even know you’re here! She’s gone, mentally, of course, but now that you’re here we can be a family all over again.”

Scootaloo couldn’t believe what she was seeing. This “thing” was supposed to be her mother. She looked on in horror as the orange pegasus pulled out tray of what looked to be like surgical equipment.

“Wha-what are you doing?” Scootaloo whimpered, tears forming again.

“I thought I told you dear daughter! Now that you’re here we can be a family again. But in order to do so, your mother needs a heart. Now, I think she would much rather prefer the heart of her own daughter than some other random filly, wouldn’t you agree? That way a part of you still lives on inside your mother. She’ll be so happy to know that the very thing that gives her life is her own daughters beating heart. She won’t have to suffer anymore and we’ll be a happy family all over again.” His voice took a dreamy quality as he said that and he wheeled the tray closer to Scootaloo.

Scootaloo kicked and screamed violently in a desperate attempt to break free but it was no use. The big orange pegasus drew a scalpel from the tray next to him and proceeded to lower it to her chest.

“P-please……….d-don’t” Scootaloo only let out soft little sobs, hoping that her father would have even an ounce of mercy and let her go. Sadly, it was to no avail as the big orange Pegasus only turned meet her face and a twisted evil smile curled across his lips. Her father began to chuckle, than it turned into a fool out insane laugh. He then stopped in place and only turned his eye to meet Scootaloo's. The look on his face would forever haunt Scootaloo's dreams. It was the most evil and twisted expression she had ever seen before. Her dad resumed lowering the knife slowly in the style of a mad doctor. It drew even closer and almost penetrated her skin when Scootaloo let out a scream and bolted up.

She looked around and her parents were gone. Now she was back in the foster home. Scootaloo was drenched in cold sweat and panting heavily. jSuddenly a torrent of liquid surged from her stomach and out of her mouth and her vomit spilled on to the carpet below. She was still a bit sore from her workouts and the sudden movements made her cringe in pain. She began sobbing again and sniffling. .

“R-rainbow Dash………….Where are you? Please come save me Rainbow Dash, I love you so much and I don't even care that you hit me sometimes I know that you are just trying to make me a better flyer. Am I not giving it my all?”
Scootaloo contemplated this as she crawled back into bed. She was sure that the only reason Rainbow hadn’t adopted her yet was because she wasn’t giving Rainbow any reason to. In that very moment Scootaloo made her mind up that if she didn’t experience any pain when she went training, then her chances of being adopted were only getting slimmer. She wanted the pain; she welcomed it with open arms. She then began to drift off into a more peaceful slumber, as she closed her eyes she whispered to herself:

“Don’t worry Rainbow, yawn* I’ll make you proud.”

unedited chapter 4-surprise!

(note: this is an unedited chapter meaning THERE WILL be grammar mistakes, I put this on every unedited chapter because alot of people have been complaining about it, I try my best to make sure there isnt too many errors but for right now just wait until I get out the edited one.)

It was the eighth week of summer; scootaloo had been training long and hard with rainbow dash and today was their last day for the summer together. Scootaloo had come a long way since her struggle in the beginning and she was now almost just as fast and agile as rainbow herself.

"Well scoots, I've taught you all I possibly can. The only thing that's left is to go out and celebrate.

"really? Oh my goodness thank you soooooo much rainbow dash, I promise I'll make you proud even after I’m gone. I will become even better than the wonderbolts themselves."

"heh heh, shoot for the stars kid I know you'll make me proud, you're the only one who was able to keep up with me when flying and you survived my methods of training, if you arn't better than every other pegasi in equestria than I've failed and I DONT like failure so I know I taught you well."

Scootaloo couldn't be more happier to hear those words, words of acknowledgement, words implying that she did something right, words that said someone one was proud of her. Her heart was melting, she almost cried but kept her composure as to not ruin the moment before her.

"I got a little surprise for ya scoots."

"Really? Okay, what is it?"

"I'm not telling you-butfirstonetosugarcubecornerwins GO!"

Just then rainbow dash shot off in a burst of speed and scootaloo followed suit.
The two ponies eventually got to sugarcube corner, it was much too dark out to be out-and-about so scootaloo was contemplating all the possibilities as to what her surprise probably was. As they were walking up the stairs to the entrance scootaloo noticed that there was a "closed" sign on the door ahead

"Was my surprise a cake rainbow? Cause if it was, sugar cube corner is closed now, we're too late."

"Hmm, that's odd well I'm sure pinkie won't mind making a quick one." rainbow knocked on the door twice, opened it and walked inside. The lights were off and nopony was there, just then a flash of bright light pierced the darkness followed by a very loud "SURPRISE!” Scootaloo almost jumped in excitement, everypony that was near and dear to her was there applebloom, sweetiebell, some of her other classmates, and even avion. Of course pinkie pie and her friends were there as well, pinkie pie was the first to jump up to the little filly

"scootaloo! Were you surprised, were you? Huh,huh,huh?"

"haha, yes pinkie I was most definantly surprised thank you for this"

"aww you're welcome, now c’mon let's get this party started!" Scootaloo looked back at rainbow dash who standing behind her, tears were welling up in scootaloo's eyes and a wrinkled smile quivered across her lips. She ran back to rainbow and hugged her

"Thank you rainbow dash, this is the nicest thing anypony's ever done for me."

"Aww scoots don't thank me, you earned it, now go and have fun ya little goofball you know I hate this mushy-gushy type of stuff."

And scootaloo did just that. She played games with her friends, sang, danced, and ate as much cake to hearts content, even though she didn't have much of a family, the company of her friends made it seem like she did, she wished this night to never end. The party went on and she decided to go mingle with some of her friends, she noticed her foster friend in the corner of the room sipping on punch by himself, so scootaloo headed over to go talk with him.

“Hey avion, glad you could make it, having a good time?”

"Haha, yeah I am, I heard you can fully fly now scootaloo, that's great you should teach me sometime."

"I'd love to avion, it would give me someone to mentor. I'm so glad you're here, you dont know how much it means it to me that you came." Scootaloo then gave her Pegasus friend a big hug

"It was my pleasure coming here, I've never been to a party before so I don't know what to do, w-would you mind if I stick with you for tonight?"

"Heck no not at all, having my best friend by me the whole night sounds fun. Here I wanna introduce you to applebloom and sweetiebell they’re my friends from school, you’ll like em’. This is gonna be so much fun"

And the night went on without a worry or care to distract anypony from just having fun and enjoying themselves. But, like all good things, the party had to come to an unfortunate end. It was about 12:30 p.m. when they finally brought it to a close. Everypony went home for the night; scootaloo was a bit disappointed that they couldn’t party longer but more happy at the joy that surrounded the party while it lasted. Everypony was gone and it was just scootaloo, rainbow dash, and pinkie pie, they all were picking up the mess the party had made.

"yawn* great party as always pinkie pie." rainbow said as she was throwing away the last bit of trash

"yeah *yawn* real great party, I had tons of fun."

"awww thanks it was my pleasure scoots, you guys have helped enough now go on home, it's late."

"thanks pinks see ya later" rainbow said as she headed out the door.

"yeah pinkie see ya later"
And on that, the two walked out the door and headed home.

As the two were walking rainbow looked over to scootaloo. "so did you like your surprise?"

"are you kidding me I loved it.”

"Glad to hear it scoots” rainbow paused for a brief moment “so what’s it like you know, living in a foster home and all? I've never had the chance to experience it and it's a pretty long walk back home and I don't feel like flying right now, probably cause I’m too tired, anyway back to my question."

Scootaloo looked up at rainbow in excitement and in a bit of surprise, she wasn’t sure what brought them to that topic but she was hoping that maybe, just maybe, rainbow was thinking of adopting her so she wasted no time in compiling her response.

“Well, it’s pretty hard to explain if you’ve never been a fosterfilly but, sometimes you feel as though nopony loves or even cares that you exist, sometimes you wonder how you got to a foster home in the first place. Did you do something wrong, why would somepony give you up? Those questions are the ones that I ask myself a lot and each time I do I realize, even though I don’t want to, that my parents didn’t care about me and that I’m in a foster home because of it. Then you start to hate ponies, you feel as though the world is out to stab you in the back and everypony, but you, is the enemy. I felt that feeling a lot during my early days in the foster home but when I met my friends and we hanged out some more, I slowly lost that hostility and anger inside. Then as you keep going and going, you’re pretty much just desperate for a home, even if it means going back to what you left, you don’t care if the ponies you left hurt you; at least you have something to call “family” again. And I guess that’s where I’m at. Sorry if I rambled a little bit rainbow its just nopony’s ever asked me that question before and I’m not sure how to answer it but in that way, I hope I didn’t confuse you too much.”

Rainbow Dash almost dropped her jaw, she couldn’t believe how much this little filly overcame on top of the brutal training she gave her but she kept her composure and continued their little walk and talk.

“Oh don’t worry about it scoots, I wasn’t a fosterfilly when I grew up so I wouldn’t get it anyways, I was really just wondering on how you felt about it all. It sounds pretty tough but it also sounds like you’re making it through pretty well. Anyway looks like we’re just about to your house, think you can make it back?”

“Yeah rainbow, don’t worry about it, thank you so much for the party. You’re the best rainbow dash.”

“keep on flying kid, you got something special so use it.”

And with that the two parted and went their separate ways.

Scootaloo finaly got home and entered the house, upon entering she almost jumped back in surprise; there were empty bottles of beer everywhere, some were broken others were not; there were some razor blades with specs of cocaine on them to the coffee table to her left. Scootaloo was stunned by this rather unusual sight and was going to investigate it more if it wasn’t for the “no, NO PLEA-” that pierced her ears; it was coming from the bathroom and scootaloo immediately took off in hopes of finding out who screamed. She got to the door and noticed it was a little bit open, when she got inside she almost screamed in fear, it was Mrs. Burns, she had a hoof placed behind avion’s head and was forcing it into the bath tub, the little Pegasus was screaming but his cries were muffled by the water. Scootaloo didn’t know what to do; she wanted to help, but she didn’t know how, she kept thinking faster and faster until only a “STOP IT!” escaped her mouth. Mrs. Burns turned her head, her eyes were bloodshot and her teeth were showing “YOU! I have just about had it with you. C’MERE!” the purple pony then pulled up avion’s head by his blonde mane and threw him to wall next to her. The little colt was coughing violently and gasping for air, wheezing between random breaths. Scootaloo wanted to go and help her friend but had no time to as the pony started chasing her around the house knocking over lamps and furniture on her way. Scootaloo fled to the basement and didn’t bother turning the lights on her way down. She ran straight to the very back where the washing machine was and hid behind it, the door to the basement creaked opened again and Mrs. Burns flipped on the lights, she walked slowly looking for scootaloo, poking her head around every inch of furniture, equipment, and anything that was downstairs.

“COME ON OUT YOU WORHLESS SHIT I’M ONLY GONNA END YOU WHEN I FIND YOU SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT NOW!”

Scootaloo was scared but she didn’t like being called a coward, she immediately leapt out the back of the washing machine and charged at Mrs. Burns only to be hit on the side of the face with a heavy hoof that knocked her to the wall beside her.

“NO WHERE TO RUN NOW IS THERE? I’M GONNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS TIME YOU DON’T WAKE UP!”

Scootaloo wanted to move but couldn’t as her back was in a lot of pain from being struck so violently. She tried to move and was only able to move her torso at the moment until she heard a loud “crack” that came from her right leg. Scootaloo screamed in pain, she had endured pain but none like the one she was feeling now. She looked up and saw Mrs.Burns smiling a crooked and twisted smile much like the smile she saw in her nightmare. She wanted to run but her leg was broken and she couldn’t do anything, she tried to crawl with her good leg but it was immediately pulled back and another “crack” could be heard from the other leg. Scootaloo screamed again, she thought she was going to die, her eyes felt like they were going to pop out of her head any minuet if the pain didn’t stop soon. She was crying hard and was crawling for the exit again when she was pulled back again by her broken legs. Mrs. Burns turned the poor filly over and with the same crooked expression on her face said:

“This is where it ends my dear, here and now”

Scootaloo didn’t want to believe it but it looked to be inevitable. At this point she was hoping that whatever was about to come, came quick and without any more pain than she already had. Mrs. Burns raised her hoof right in front in front of scootaloo’s face and was just about to drop it when Mrs. Burns screamed and fell to the ground with a loud thud. Behind Mrs. Burns stood avion with a bloody meat cleaver in his mouth, he spat it to the side, sat down, and began to weep, his mane still dripping from when he was almost drowned.

Scootaloo looked at her friend and sympathized for him, celestia knows what that poor colt has been through, and an experience like this would surely forever traumatize him. As she was thinking, everything started to become hazy again, the world started to spin slowly but increasing speed, then a blackness started to surround her and she slowly faded into the black.

"vital signs are rising, she's regaining consciousness. Scootaloo, sweetie can you hear me?"

Scootaloo woke up and looked around, she could only squint as the light above was unbelievably bright but she tried talking and only let out a groan.

"Alright she'll be fine go ahead and start the procedure."

This was the last thing scootaloo heard before falling into sleep again.

Two hours eventually passed and scootaloo woke up again to another bright light, she was in the same room she came from only this time her friends were resting their heads on the rail of the bed she was in.

"Ungh, guys? What are you all doing here, don't we have school tomorrow? You should be in bed."
Just then each of the faces that were planted on the rails of the bed shot up and looked at straight at scootaloo

"Oh my celestia, scootaloo are you okay?" sweetie bell's eyes were tearing up as she asked this "We heard the sirens around your house and everything then they brought you out on a stretcher and-oh my celestia it was the most horrible thing ever.”

"Y-yeah I'm fine where's avion? Is he okay?"

"Yeah he's fine he's downstairs talking to the police but anyway, what happened? We asked avion but he didn't talk."

"It’s not important right now, I need to see him, he saved my life.......again. Now I gotta go-”
Scootaloo looked down and noticed bandages on her legs; she had almost forgotten why she was in the hospital in the first place. She then moved her body back to where it was originally.

"Y'all gonna tell us what happened eventually ain't ya scoots? Ya had me an sweetie here worried sick not to mention practically all of ponyville in a stir. Ya can't blame us if we seem a lil bit over-concerned."

"I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT OKAY!?" just then a nurse pony walked in and glared at the fillies informing them to leave. Applebloom and scootaloo left and the nurse pony came over to scootaloo's bed

"How are you feeling sweetie, are you comfortable?"

"Y-yeah I'm fine, what's gonna happen now?"

"Well we're gonna go and let you rest here for the night an-"

"No, not that, what's gonna happen to ME, Where will I go now? If you know why my legs are broken then you'll know what happened to the pony that did it."

The nurse pony had a nervous look on her face "Well, the only other foster home is in manehattan so I think they'll be sending you there after you're done here, I assume they're going to send you there. So unless you're adopted here and now while in ponyville, I'm afraid you won’t be able to see your friends again for a long time. Luckily you’ll be here for about a month so I’m sure something could happen by then. Y-you okay honey?”

“Y-yeah I’m fine” but scootaloo wasn’t fine she didn’t know what she was gonna do now that she may have to move, she only had a month left in ponyville, tears began to well up in her eyes she wanted to cry then and there, but she decided not to, she figured she had cried a lot before and that it never solved anything so she saw no point in expressing her sadness and instead just laid there with a depressed look on her face.

“Well it’s late sweetie, take some of this medicine and go to sleep.”

“Okay thank you.”

The nurse then handed her some pink liquid and water and started to leave the room when scootaloo spoke up.

“Oh hey one quick question before you leave Ms. do you know what will happen to avion, my friend down there?”
The nurse had a grim look on her face but she turned around and tried her best to find words that wouldn’t upset scootaloo.

“It looks like he’ll be put in a mental hospital or juvenile hall; the mayor will decide his fate.”

“W-WHAT? NO! You can’t he saved my life, I wouldn’t be in this bed if he hadn’t killed that witch why would they even THINK of such a thing. Where are the police I need to talk to them, no I need to talk to avion and thank him for saving me. Don’t put him away, lemme out of here NOW!"

“That’s just it honey, he killed a pony and now he has to pay the price. It’s just the way things work in equestria an eye for an eye, or in this case, a life for a life. He’s lucky that they’re not considering an adult trial.”

“look I made a promise to that colt that I would watch over him like he has watched over me if I break that promise it would kill him, you don’t know what that poor colt has been through anymore suffering and he’s sure to take his own life!”

“I’ll talk to the police, but for right now get some sleep and don’t worry about it.”

Scootaloo’s medicine was starting to kick in and she was getting sleepy, she wanted to argue more but sleep was overwhelming her more and more, she couldn’t fight it anymore, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

unedited chapter 5-when it rains...

author's note: if I may make a suggestion, listen to the song mad world by gary jules while reading this chapter, it was the song i listened to while writing this chapter, I kinda want to help my readers get a certain "mood" for the scene im portraying, this is optional, of course, I just want to offer that as something that would make your reading more enjoyable.

Scootaloo woke up from her sleep; still groggy from the medicine she took before falling asleep last night. She sat up and turned her head to the window to her right, the skies were gray and not a single spot of blue could be seen in the sky. Scootaloo got up and flew to the wheelchair next to the bed, she wheeled herself out of the hospital and off to school. As she was rolling to school, she noticed the dull scenery that passed by as she was going on her way; she was somewhat amazed at how sad ponyville looked when a simple rainstorm was coming. nopony was in sight, the stores weren’t open, and scootaloo was alone in a sad and gray world, she drooped her head down and continued on her way. She finally arrived and applebloom and sweetiebell could be seen standing outside the door, waiting for her fellow crusader to show up.

“scootaloo!” the two fillies said in excitement as they saw their friend wheel herself closer and closer to the school entrance. Sweetiebell ran to her friend and got behind the wheelchair and began to push it with her head.

“Hey, guys.” Scootaloo said, trying not to sound depressed. “sweetiebell, you don’t have to push me, I’m fine, I still have my wings y’know.”

“Oh don’t be silly scoots, of course I have to, what else are friends for?”

Those words caused a small smile to lightly curl around scootaloo’s lips even though it was only a matter of seconds before it turned back into a frown. Scootaloo was contemplating the way she was going to have to tell her friends that she may be moving. As she was being pushed applebloom came up next to scootaloo and asked:

“Heya scoots, how ya feelin’?”

Scootaloo didn’t want to answer, but she looked at her friend and saw how genuinely concerned she was and felt as though she HAD to think of something that wouldn’t worry her fellow crusader too much.

“I-I’m fine applebloom, thanks for asking…W-we should hurry into class, school’s about to start.”

“Oh horse-apples y’all are right, c’mon then!”

Applebloom and sweetiebell darted into the door for their classroom and scootaloo slowly lifted herself up the stairs by her wings, she then wheeled herself into the class. As she did, she noticed everypony stopped what they were doing and immediately stared straight at her. Scootaloo sighed and hung her head in embarresment and shame as she made her way to the very back desk. She didn’t like the back but it seemed to be the only way to escape the awkward stares that her classmates were giving her. She found her spot and looked up only to see that they were still staring at her, applebloom noticed this and attempted to take matters into her own hooves.

“ALLRIGHT, listen up y’all! If anypony has somethin’ to say to scootaloo, DON’T, y’all talk to me. Until then, stop scarin’ her okay? Gall-lee ain’t like none of y’all ever seen somepony in a wheelchair, sheesh!”

Scootaloo placed a hoof to her face, she knew applebloom had good intentions, she just wished she hadn’t expressed them in front of the whole class on her first day back. Just then Ms. Cheerilee walked into the classroom, she went to her desk and addressed the class in a cheerful tone.

“Welcome back my little ponies, I hope all of you had a good summer and are ready to start the new semester” Ms. Cheerilee paused, but only for a moment “Now I know that you all have questions for a “certain student” of ours but I ask that you save those questions for whenever “he-or-she” feels like answering them. Now I want you all to get out your writing equipment and write what you did this summer break.”

Scootaloo wanted to hide under a rock and never come out, she was so embarrassed, she didn’t know what to do other than just sit there and sulk. The day went on and the rain was only coming down harder, raindrops could be heard hitting the roof above.

“Alright class, no homework for today, make sure to grab your coats on your way out. Have a good rest of the day.”

Everypony then darted out the front door and proceeded to play in the rain, scootaloo was the last out but before she left she could feel a soft hoof placed gently on her shoulder, it was Ms. Cheerilee, and in a calm and sympathetic voice she said:

“I’m so sorry scootaloo, I can talk to your doctor and have you stay there until you’re better and off of the wheelchair if that would help.”

“No it’s fine Ms.Cheerilee you know what will happen at the end of the month if I don’t get adopted, I just want to be able to spend as much time with applebloom and sweeitebell as I possibly can.”

“Well okay then, remember you don’t have to answer to anypony about where you got your bandages from and if anypony is bugging you about it, come find me and I’ll be sure to talk to him or her okay? You poor thing, there are things in life that a filly or a colt shouldn’t experience till they’re older or not at all. I’m so sorry honey.”

“Thanks Ms. Cheerilee see ya later.” And with that, scootaloo slowly descended the stairs and continued to wheel herself back to the hospital in the rain. Scootaloo didn’t mind the rain, it was humid and the heat sent a calm and relaxing feeling down her back with each drop. As she was going on she noticed some posters across some street lights in ponyville square. The poster read:

Come one, come all to the first annual pegasi of the decade race! This race will decide once and for all who IS, the best flyer in all of equestria. The prize for first is a custom-tailored wonderbolts outfit, 100,000 bits, and the highest honor a pegasi can receive; a place in the pegasi hall of fame. Any pegasi is permitted to enter, no holds barred, this is your chance to prove that YOU are the best.”

This caught scootaloo’s attention but she only thought little of it and continued back to the hospital.

She eventually got back to the hospital around the afternoon. She took the elevator to her floor and proceeded to her room. There was some medicine on the counter next to her bed, she drank the medicine and laid back down on her bed. Just then a knock came from the door and a nurse pony entered

"scootaloo, you have a visiter." the nurse pony said happily

"rainbow dash!" scootaloo's eyes lit up an her face immediately brightened as she saw her favorite Pegasus enter.

"hey kid, how ya feelin?"

"Oh I'm fine, just recovering you know?"

"Well I thought I'd just check in on you and see how things were going, I actually gotta go start training for that open Pegasus race coming up at the end of the month."

Scootaloo’s eyes went from bright to dim, she looked defeated, like something in rainbow dash's words caused her to slump, scootaloo stuttered nervously "t-that's the only reason you came here?"

Rainbow dash raised an eyebrow to scootaloo "well, yeah scoots I mean why else would I come he-............um scoots, are you okay?"

Scootaloo had her head down and she was trembling angrily, a long tear rolled down the little filly's cheek as she whispered angrily: "what am I doing wrong?"

"Um, what?" rainbow dash tilted her head slightly to the side as she asked this.

There was silence and the sound of the storm outside was the only thing that could be heard. There was a feeling of great depression and confusion between them. Suddenly scootaloo with a much calm but sad tone said;

"rainbow dash...d-did my training mean nothing to you, Was I not giving it my all, What am I doing wrong? *hic* please tell me."

Rainbow dash looked more confused than ever, she began to stutter "I-ah-w-what? Scootaloo what are you talking about?"

Scootaloo couldn't take it anymore; all this time through the training, the torture, the endurance of pain and verbal abuse and rainbow dash STILL couldn't see the real reason scootaloo asked to be rainbow's protege in the first place.

"How on earth can you ask me what I'm talking about, you know I'm a fosterfilly, you know I don't have a home, you know I was abused by my parents as a filly, you know how I ended up with two broken legs yet you can't see the reason I asked you to teach me to fly? WHAT AM I DOING WRONG RAINBOW DASH? TELL ME!”
Scootaloo lifted her little Head to reveal to rainbow dash a very sad scootaloo, her face was red, streams of tears could be seen on the side of her cheeks, and her nose was running rapidly. Scootaloo couldn't take it anymore.

"I never liked flying to begin with, I only asked you to teach me so that way I wouldn't have to deal with being beaten or sitting in my room all summer, crying and wondering about why I'm not adopted. I still have nightmares of my parents coming home and beating me to the verge of death like they used to, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S LIKE!? Do you know how scary it is to even TALK to somepony after that? I just don't even-nnnnnAGH! SOMEPONY PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!" scootaloo was wailing in misery as a swirl of sad emotions flushed through her body, the memories of her abusive parents raced through her body, the feeling of death she felt way too many times for a filly to experience, every bottled feeling she held was let out right before rainbow dash. She stopped crying for a brief moment and with her head down she trembled as she asked: "rainbow dash,*hic* why won't you love me?.......why won't anypony love me?"

Rainbow dash was stunned, she didn't know how to feel or react, she simply stuttered nervously again, anything that came to her mind that would even remotely compensate scootaloo was said "scootaloo I-I didnt know-"

scootaloo interrupted, not letting rainbow finish her sentence "Yeah I know you didn't, just leave me alone it's not like you care any. The only reason you came here was just to tell me you were preparing for a race at the end of the month. Just leave me, everypony I know seems to be good at it, why should you be any different?”

And on that, rainbow dash silently walked out the door and scootaloo laid on her bed, resting on her side.

a couple minutes passed and scootaloo turned on the tv with the remote that was on her lamp desk to her right, she was flipping through the channels and as she was flipping she thought she saw a picture of avion, she flipped back a few channels and it turned out it WAS avion, he was on the news channel and scootaloo immediately turned up the volume to hear what it was the ponies on the channel were saying:

"In other news; an abusive foster-mom is killed by one of her foster-colts in an attempt to protect themselves, 65 year old Ms. Burns was found dead with a large stab wound to the stomach. 10 year old colt named avion is not injured, 11 year old, scootaloo, is in the hospital suffering only two broken legs, and 10 year old zelos, brother of avion, was found dead at the scene with multiple shards of glass, reportedly, forced down his esophagus.”

Scootaloo placed a hoof to her mouth, she hadn't even noticed that zelos wasn't there when she was attacked, she didn't "like" zelos but not enough to not care that he was dead, if only he had come to the party then maybe he could have lived, scootaloo thought to herself. She felt terrible for not even considering her fellow foster-colt’s existence, she looked back up to the TV and the news ponies continued talking.

“The punishment for this crime is still being considered by mayor mare, further investigation is still underway.”

Scootaloo couldn’t hear it anymore; she turned off the TV and laid on her back. She didn’t know how to feel, she only looked out and watched the raindrops splash and glide down the window of her room, the sky was black with heavy rain, some thunder could be heard a couple miles away, scootaloo watched this sight as she drifted into deep thought;

Was I too hard on rainbow, I mean she didn’t do anything, did she? Should I have let her finish? W-wait no, NO, I already know she wasn’t gonna adopt me so why should I care!? She only came here to brag to me about her stupid race….

Scootaloo paused for a moment; an idea was hatching deep within her brain, more ideas started flowing and flowing until an “I GOT IT!” escaped her mouth.

I’ll enter that race and WIN, maybe not first place but l WILL beat rainbow dash, she hates losing and if I beat her she’ll be so angry, THEN she’ll realize what she gave up, she’ll wish she could have adopted me when she had the chance. It’s the perfect plan, I CAN’T fail, I was able to keep up with her during training so this shouldn’t be too much of a problem. I don’t care if I get first place as long as rainbow dash feels the shame and humility I felt each time I tried to be sincere. Watch out rainbow dash, you’re about to hate what you created heheheh.

Scootaloo was blinded by rage and anger, her logic was distorted but to her, this made sense. She was determined to make rainbow dash feel the pain she felt in the most humiliating way possible, and that “way” was beating rainbow dash at the one thing she cares most about, “winning.” A devious smile curled across scootaloo’s lips and as she watched the raindrops hit the window, she slowly drifted off into a peaceful slumber, only listening to the quiet and peaceful *pitter-patter* of the rain hitting the glass next to her.

*authors note: short chapter, I know but trust me, the next one will be worth it. a very special shout out to JamesIsaBrony for being the first one to ever read my fic on youtube brohoof /). and a big thank you to just ANYONE who reads this story of mine, I love you all and hope you'll continue to stick with me for the chapters to come. thanks again.

sincerely

James Lopez

unedited chapter 6-a new beggining (part 1)-revelations

*For enhanced reading: alright so I’m going to try something different, if I may make a suggestion, listen to the song numb by linkin park. I feel as though it fits this chapter and this story to a tee so, if you so desire, you can listen to that as you read this chapter. I want to give my readers more than a chapter; I want them to have a full scene going on inside their head. Anyway this is completely optional and is not required. Oh and if you’re wondering what the cover art Is, all will be revealed in time, anyway enjoy the chapter and will be posting the last part sometime this weekend.

Chapter 6 a new beginning (part 1)-revelations

It was 3:30 a.m.; Scootaloo was sleeping soundly in her bed when she thought she heard a knock coming from the window next to her. She slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to scan where she thought she heard the noise. She looked and looked but couldn’t find anything, just then she turned her eyes and what looked to be like a filly her age was there standing behind the glass in her bedroom window. Scootaloo gasped in surprise, she couldn't make out who he, she, or it was but she knew it was something and that "something" was staring right at her. Scootaloo didn't know what to do, she wanted to scream but she couldn't somehow. Both of them were staring at each other, it wasn’t until about a minute when the figure looked to the right and slowly walked away and didn't look back. Scootaloo's heart was racing, she didn't know what was looking at her but it was something that was able to petrify her in an unknown fear. After a long pause, scootaloo finally fell back to sleep, still wondering what it was that was looking at her through her bedroom window.

“Now scootaloo, are you sure you want to try this?” the nurse pony asked as she was about to remove scootaloos casts on her legs. scootaloo nodded with a determined look on her face and said:

“Yes I’m sure, I’ve been slowly regaining feeling in them, I know I’ll be fine”

The nurse pony looked nervous as she continued to take off her casts “okay sweetie, if you think you’re ready.” She then removed scootaloo’s casts and scootaloo’s legs drooped down slowly and her legs began to move back. Scootaloo bent down from the bed she was in and placed her front hooves out in front of her and slowly lowered her hind legs on the ground below, she then shifted her weight to her back legs and began to wobble, trying to maintain her balance. The nurse pony was trying to let scootaloo do her own thing, but out of instinct, she went in to catch her.

“DON’T TOUCH ME, I’LL BE FINE!” scootaloo snapped, she was determined to walk even though it had only been two weeks since her operation, she didn’t care, if she was going to beat rainbow dash she had to get clearance from her doctor first, and in order to do that she had to convince them that she was healthy.

“I-I’m sorry sweetie...keep going.” The nurse pony said, trying not to upset the filly.

Scootaloo began to tremble as she placed her front hoof in and then her back hoof. Step by step she struggled but she pushed herself and pushed herself, her legs wanted to collapse but scootaloo didn’t let them, come on, COME ON COLT-DAMMIT! she thought to herself as she trembled while walking in the room. It felt like the room was an entire mile when she only had to walk from the bed to the door. Each step was a struggle but she somehow found a way to deal with it. She finally got to the door and looked back at the nurse pony.

“so, how’d I do?”

The nurse pony had a concerned look on her face. “Well, it’s good to see you’re walking but I think a few more days in bed with some more time with the cast in will be okay.” Scootaloo sighed “oh all right.” Scootaloo flew herself back into her bed and laid back.

A couple of hours had passed when a knock came from her door “scootaloo, you have some more visitors!” the nurse pony then let in applebloom, and sweetiebell, they both had an obviously fake smile on their face as they walked in.

“Hey guys what’s up?” scootaloo said with a bit of a smile, she still hadn’t told her friends that she may be leaving in a month and each time she was with them it only made her want to tell them even more.

The nurse pony left and the two fillies looked back to make sure the door was closed. Scootaloo raised an eyebrow and said “uh guys, I’m over here.”

The two fillies then turned back around in a flash and they both had a concerned look on their face. Sweetiebell dug her hoof into the tile and bit her lip as she nervously said:

“Um,scootaloo…our parents told us not to tell you this but we felt like we had to, um” sweetiebell paused for a moment, trying to think of the right words to say to her friend. “Y-you see…avion went missing yesterday and they havn’t found him. We know how important he was to you s-so we felt as though we shouldn’t hide it from you.” Scootaloo’s eyes went wide in surprise. Just then she remembered the figure that appeared in the window last night and she went numb with the sudden realization of what she had seen last night. No…n-no, that couldn’t have been avion, could it? No he’s much too scared to even TALK to somepony let alone wander out in the dark by himself Scootaloo thought to herself. Applebloom then grabbed the remote and said: “Don’t believe us? Then look for yourself.” Applebloom then flipped the television on to the news channel and the news ponies were still covering the story:

“foster-colt and now wanted killer, avion, went missing yesterday before his court appearence and is now wanted for the life of three ponies, 65 year old Ms. Burns, and two police ponies, both were found dead at the scene, one was shot multiple times in the chest and twice in the head, the other was found in the police station dumpster with multiple stab wounds to the neck. Police are advising that if you see this pony DO NOT try to apprehend and instead, inform the local authorities, suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous. Here is the suspect’s mug shot.” The television then showed a picture that sent a chill down scootaloo’s back, avion’s head was tilted to the side and he was smiling an insane, twisted smile.

“N-no that’s not avion, it can’t be, at least…not the one I know.”

“Well, then where is he?” sweetiebell asked in disbelief.

“I don’t know…and right now, I don’t care, right now I got problems of my own.”

“Well what y’all gonna do scoots?”

Scootaloo let out a sigh. “I have something to tell you guys, you may wanna sit down for this.”

Scootaloo then spent the whole afternoon explaining to her friends that if she wasn’t adopted by the end of the month then she’d have to leave ponyville for a long time. She figured they were going to find out eventually so she might as well tell them while she was still in ponyville.

“WHAT!? N-no they can’t take you, somepony has to adopt you. You just can’t leave scootaloo, what will me and applebloom do without you?” Sweetiebell had tears flowing down her eyes as she asked this; she didn’t want to see her friend leave.

“You think I WANT to move? Of course not. But it looks like it’s gonna happen, but there are some “things” I need to take care of before I leave. I think this where we’re gonna have to say goodbye guys.”

Applebloom looked mad and sweeitebell was softly sobbing. “Now just wait a minute scoots, ever since you’ve been in this hospital you’ve kept nothing but secrets from me an sweetie here. Now tellin me this is where we gotta say goodbye aint gonna cut it, I wanna know what happened and why you’ve been so secretive all this time you aint actin’ normal scoots and I don’t like it. We’ll leave but first we wanna know what happened the night you came here and why you’ve been actin so strange.”

Scootaloo wanted to turn them down and say “no” right then and there, but applebloom’s look on her face persuaded scootaloo to do otherwise, she sighed “Oh all right, fair enough, maybe now you’ll understand why I have to do the things I have to do if I tell you. Do you guys still have time?”

“Of course.” Applebloom said, still with the same determined look on her face.

It was 10:00 p.m. the sun had already set and stars were barely visible in the sky. Scootaloo had just finished explaining to her friends everything that went on while they were gone during the summer break all the way until today. Applebloom and sweetiebell both had their mouths agape in disbelief at the incredible story their friend had just told them. A couple moments passed and sweetiebell finaly spoke up:

“I don’t get it, why enter that race if you’ve never liked professional flying to begin with?”

“That is something, I feel, needs to happen. And I told you already; I wanna beat rainbow dash and make her jealous of me before I leave.”

“But I thought you liked rainbow dash, I thought you two were really close.”

Scootaloo looked down and sighed “I thought so too, but it looks like I was just another Pegasus passing by, to her at least. I don’t know why but, I feel as though I HAVE to do this.”

Sweetiebell and applebloom looked at each other in surprise; they couldn’t believe what scootaloo was telling them. This wasn’t the scootaloo they knew, this was somepony else, it had to be, the scootaloo they knew always wore a smile when they were together, now a smile from scootaloo was a rare sight to behold. Applebloom figured that the laughter and happiness that was shared between them was beaten out of her by her abusive foster-mom; even though she might be dead the pain still resonated strongly inside of scootaloo.

“Well okay scoots, whatever makes you happy, just know that your friends are here to support ya every step of the way and we’ll be there see you win at that race, okay?” applebloom had a smile on in attempt to cheer up her fellow crusader and friend. Scootaloo only looked up and with a depressed frown she said:

“Yeah, okay thanks guys, you don’t have to come to the race though, it’s just something I feel as though I have to do but thanks anyway.”

Applebloom was a bit disappointed that scootaloo didn’t smile back but she did her best to keep the little happiness scootaloo had alive. “Alright scoots well we better be headin’ on out, and me an sweetie will definitely show up to your race and root for ya.”

“Yeah, thanks guys, see ya later.” And on that, the two fillies quietly exited the room and proceeded to go on home.

Scootaloo looked at the ceiling before falling into a deep sleep, she only had a week till the race, she was ready and she was NOT going to lose even if it, literally, killed her.

unedited chapter 6-a new beggining (part 2)-equinox

Chapter 6- a new begging- (part 2)- equinox

*authors note* I want comments guys, what did you think? Oh and for enhanced reading listen to the song the catalyst and waiting for the end, both are by linkin park

Morning dawned upon ponyville and everypony was eagerly awaiting the pegasi of the decade race this very day. Scootaloo woke up at around 11:00 a.m. and got her belongings ready for after the race since she was ,unfortunantly, still unadopted. A knock came from the door as scootaloo was finishing up packing the rest of her belongings,

“scootaloo, are you ready?” the nurse pony asked.

“Yeah, I guess so…So my train leaves at five right?”

“Yep, that’s right, good luck at your race dear.”

The nurse pony then handed scootaloo her train ticket and proceeded to leave. Scootaloo looked out the window of her room and took whatever bit of ponyville she could see for the last time. She looked out and saw the flowing green grass, the tall hills that surrounded ponyville and caused beautiful sunsets in the evening, memories of scootaloo and her friends played in the back of her head as she looked out the window and reminisced her days in ponyville. With a depressed look on her face she sighed and proceeded to leave the hospital. Once out, she looked back at the hospital one last time, though it may not have been a place where a “good” memory was made, it still a memory from ponyville, she wanted to take in every bit of her home town before she left. Her next stop was ponyville square; everypony was busy going about their own way, there were ballet boxes to place bets for certain ponies lined up everywhere. One of the boxes had spitfire, the current leader of the wonder bolts, lined next to soarin and the other members of the wonderbolts team. What have I gotten myself into? Scootaloo thought to herself as she continued her walk through town.

It was the afternoon when scootaloo finaly arrived to the starting point of her 50 mile race. Lots and lots of pegasi were there, famous flyers, some looked to be like trainers, others looked to be like just common pegasi wanting to compete. Scootaloo felt inferior but then, a familiar blue Pegasus showed up at the start point and began to do some stretches, just then scootaloo remembered the whole reason she entered the race in the first place and immediately wore a look of anger on her face. Scootaloo felt a tap on her back and turned around to see two familiar little fillies with smiles on their faces.

“heya scoots, good luck out there, I know you’ll do just fine. We believe in ya.”

Scootaloo then dropped the sudden hostility she had and tried her best to calm down as she didn’t want to upset her friends.

“Oh, h-hey guys, you made it um, glad you could make it….” Scootaloo didn’t know what to say, she was going to have to leave right after the race but she wanted to let her friends know that she still cared about them the words and actions just couldn’t be expressed at the time. An awkward silence grew between them until applebloom decided to break it.

“well scoots, we’ll be in the stands rootin for ya, good luck.”

“Thanks guys, i-it means a lot, you didn’t have to come.”

Applebloom and sweetiebell then headed back to the stands and scootaloo got into her starting position and began stretching, she looked around and noticed that she was the only filly to compete, no pony her age was seen among the large crowd of pegasi. As she looked she noticed some were awkwardly staring at her, most likely in disbelief that a Pegasus her age would even THINK to compete in a race like this. “Now what would a little filly do with 100,000 bits?” scootaloo heard this and immeadiatly turned back to see who said it, she couldn’t find him or her and turned back around, still mad at the insult that was poorly disguised. Scootaloo finished her stretching and as she did the announcer pony stood up in the big box next to the stands and began to start the race.

“Fillies and gentle-colts, welcome to the first annual pegasi of the decade race, a race that will be sure to leave you speechless as the weak are weeded out from amongst the strong. Some ponies will not be able to finish the race others will collapse out of exhaustion, and only ONE will remain and that “one” will be the pony to claim the pegasi of the decade title in the pegasi hall of fame. So without further adieu, on your marks;”

Scootaloo and all the other racers knelt down in preparation.

“Get set”

Scootaloo and the others placed their good hoof in, in order to have a more powerful takeoff. Scootaloo looked to her left and right and saw rainbow dash a couple of places next to her, rainbow wasn’t even bothered by scootaloo being so close, she looked determined so scootaloo went back to focusing on the long race ahead of her. Scootaloo’s heart pounded, each beat getting louder and louder, everything seemed to slow down and seem quieter, the roaring audience was silenced and the sound of her rhythmic heartbeat was the only thing that she heard. Just then, a gunshot rang out and the word “GO!” hit scootaloo’s ears as she shot off in a blaze of speed.

There were at least 100 pegasi that entered and the sudden burst of speed from them sent a strong and powerfull wind that almost sent some ponies backward at the sudden force. The first part of her race was the longest, a 35 mile dash across ponyville to canterlot. Scootaloo was in 35th place at the time, flying high and maintaining her speed. As she was flying one Pegasus who appeared to be a member of the wonderbolts nudged scootaloo almost knocking her off balance. The Pegasus laughed and said:

“You might as well fly home kid; let the big ponies handle the race.”

Scootaloo then flew around the Pegasus multiple times, each time circling around him faster and faster until the force from her circling was so great, it sent the wonderbolt spinning in a very fast loop to the ground below. Scootaloo then flew back to her position and continued on with her race. She finally reached canterlot and multiple pegasi could be seen resting on the ground below. Scootaloo wanted to rest but she needed to catch up with rainbow dash.

The next part of her race was ascending to 15,000 feet and freefalling to the bottom of ghastly gorge. She climbed and climbed and finally made it to the cloud that informs the pegasi that they have reached the required altitude. She was surprised at her being in second place and STILL not finding rainbow dash, she was somewhat amazed at herself for how far she came just because she told herself that she needed to pass rainbow dash no matter what place she was in. Just as she was passing the checkpoint cloud rainbow dash could be seen standing atop a cloud, panting and wheezing out of exhaustion. Just then rainbow dash’s eyes and scootaloo’s met. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as scootaloo was about to descend, rainbow dash said something but scootaloo couldn’t hear it as she dropped face first, aiming for the gorge below. Scootaloo looked back and saw rainbow dash falling face first as well. Scootaloo laughed and said:

“Face it rainbow dash, I’ve won, the student has beat the master.”

Rainbow dash had a grin on her face as she fell

“You forget something kid.”

Scootaloo had a confused look on her face. She was obviously winning so she didn’t know what rainbow dash could be referring to.

“Oh yeah, and just what would that be exactly?”

Rainbow dash, with the same grin said:

“That I was the one that taught you.”

Just then rainbow dash put her front hooves behind her, closed her wings and proceeded to do a sonic rainboom right before scootaloo. The force from the blast caused scootaloo to be knocked off balance and she was sent falling off balance in a rapid decent, flailing about this way and that. Scootaloo was angry, she almost had rainbow dash. She felt an anger unlike she had ever experienced before, an anger so intense, so enraging, so passionate that it almost…burned, she didn’t know what it was but this anger she was feeling hurt and she didn’t know how to stop it. Her whole body stung and she screamed in pain, just then her mane and tail turned into a dancing bright red flame, her eyes went from purple to red and a trail of fire could be seen spewing from behind her, she caught herself in mid-air and shot off in a burst of speed no pony in equestria had ever seen before. She followed the rainbow trail rainbow dash had left and disintegrated it with the unbelievably extreme heat she was giving off, she shot passed rainbow who was almost at the bottom until the force from scootaloo’s sonic boom sent rainbow falling and hitting the bottom of ghastly gorge so hard that it left a small crater from the impact. Scootaloo didn’t know what was happening or how, she just knew that she was beating rainbow dash, and she enjoyed this very much. She scraped the bottom of ghastly gorge and in one swift motion, shot up for the last part of the race, another climb of 15,000 feet to cloudsdale. Scootaloo wasn’t sure how, but she felt “different” like she had control of herself but she didn’t. She shot straight up to cloudsdale and a giant, vertical line of fire lit up the skies and all of equestria was able to witness this breathtaking sight. She passed the finish line in a blaze of speed, lighting the “finish” banner on fire before taking a victory lap, as she was celebrating, a sharp and brutal pain attacked at her chest violently, she felt as though her organs were eating her, a sharp pain after another sharp pain, she couldn’t continue, she couldn’t take it anymore. She clenched her stomach and screamed at the top of her lungs as she didn’t know what was going on but severely wanted it to stop. She tried to lie on top of a nearby cloud to save herself from using her wings but the pain kept gnawing at her, she let out another blood-curdling scream before collapsing in mid-air. Her mane and tail turned back into their regular purple and her eyes were no longer red. She was now falling back down to the ground, unconscious and unaware at what was happening.

Rainbow dash was still pretty shaken up about what happened earlier and she could barely stand, she opened her eyes to see what appeared to be a black figure falling from cloudsdale. She immediately sat up and realized that it was scootaloo, she mouthed to herself “oh no.” before taking off as fast she could after being hit so hard. Scootaloo was falling faster and faster and rainbow dash was struggling to build up enough speed. It looked like the worst was about to happen until suddenly, out of nowhere, another sonic rainboom emitted from rainbow dash and she shot at scootaloo with a blaze of speed, grabbing scootaloo in time and, unwillingly, landing a bit too hard. Rainbow dash hit the ground hard and released scootaloo, sending the filly across from her a little bit. Scootaloo was unconscious and rainbow dash was getting weaker, she struggled to get up but she limped to scootaloo to look at her:

“h-hey….kid…d-don’t quit on me now…..y-you wo-“ rainbow dash stopped at the horrible sight that was before her, she turned over scootaloo who was originally, laying on her side, to reveal to rainbow dash scootaloo with her eyes rolled back and glazed over with profuse amounts of vomit and blood that had been released from her mouth. Rainbow dash had tears coming to her eyes.
“S-scoots?...” rainbow dash was only able to let out that name before grabbing scootaloo close to her body and screaming for help. “Kid look at me…LOOK AT ME COLT-DAMMIT!” rainbow dash shook scootaloo in hopes that she would somehow regain consciousness. She was wailing now “NO, KID YOU’RE A FIGHTER I’VE SEEN YOU FIGHT, FIGHT FOR ME ONE LAST TIME!…DON’T YOU LEAVE ME SCOOTALOO,DON’T YOU LEAVE ME!...SOME PONY HELP!” rainbow dash wasn’t aware of it, but scootaloo had used up all the “fight” she had left in her. Scootaloo was gone; luckily some nurse ponies from cloudsdale noticed what had happened and brought a stretcher and rushed scootaloo to the nearest hospital.

It was 7:30 p.m. rainbow dash was in the waiting room of cloudsdale hospital nervously awaiting the operation that went on for 4 hours. Just then a doctor came and called for rainbow dash, she sat up and immediately rushed over to where the doctor was.

“S-so doc, how is she?” rainbow asked nervously.

The doctor sighed “I honestly don’t know how she lived, by some abounding grace this young filly survived having her pancreas, quite literally explode within her, the normal body of an ADULT pony isn’t even supposed to be pushed this far. Yet somehow this filly was able to overcome what is scientifically and physically, until now, impossible. This filly is a modern miracle to both science and humanity (or ponamity in this case) itself.”

Rainbow dash chuckled; remembering how hard scootaloo had pushed during her training and how no amount of pain or fatigue seemed to even SHAKE her.

“Yeah, that DOES sound like scootaloo alright. So you’re saying she’s all right, right? She’s gonna be okay?”

“Well she did survive, she’s yet to regain consciousness, all we can do now is wait and have her on the machine until she wakes up.”

“She’s come this far, she won’t give up, I know this filly, surviving a pancreas attack is only a FRACTION at what she’s capable of.”

Rainbow dash then went into the room where scootaloo was being hospitalized in. She got into the room and placed a hoof to her mouth at the gut-wrenching sight before her. It was scootaloo, mouth agape holding what appeared to be a tube that was causing her to breath in and out, she was hooked up to so many pieces of machinery it was almost impossible to even see the poor filly. Her eyes were closed and she was in a deep sleep. Rainbow dash walked over to the bed and sat next to her former student. She was choking on tears and tried her best not to cry. She grabbed scootaloo’s hoof and placed it in hers as she leaned in and said:

“hey kid…I-I don’t know if you can hear me, b-but…” rainbow paused because she was beginning to let out more and more tears “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me…I love you more than flying, more than the wonderbolts themselves…a-and if you leave me I’ll never forgive myself…I shoulda told you this more often, I know, but…” rainbow dash couldn’t hold it in, she wept softly “don’t leave me kid *hic* just don’t, you’re my student…But…I want you to be more than that....I....I want you to be my daughter.”

*beep*

*beep* *beep*

*beep* *beep* *beep*

The heartbeat monitor slowly gained speed. And scootaloo could be seen with her eyes still closed but a smile spread wide across her face, as if those very words caused a smile to spread across scootaloo’s face. That happy, unbreakable smile rainbow dash saw each time she was with her student. It had been a while before scootaloo smiled but somehow, like everything else, she managed…

THE END

Authors note; well guys…how bout’ a sequel?
5 comments and I’ll write a sequel
10 comments and I’ll write a sequel and a prequel
15 comments (I put this cause I know it will never happen XD) and I’ll animate this very chapter and put it on youtube.

bonus chapters unused crap I found in word

NOTE:*these are just trashed ideas of mine that I thought you guys might enjoy before I begin to write my sequel, so the total is 13 comments, I guess that means im gonna be busy writing both a sequel AND a prequel huh? Welp better get started, anyway here’s a little bonus, somewhat of my way of saying “thank you for reading my fic.” This is SUPER short and that’s why it’s called a bonus XD. I will post the prologue of the sequel on my birthday which is coming up (feb 28th) And after that I’ll be taking a week off to catch up on my drawing, then back to one or more chaps a week. Anyway enjoy;

Alternate chapter- James’s new beginning (Scootaloo breaks the 4th wall)
(this was just an old idea I had, but then my little dashie came out and I basically kicked this one to the curb)
It was a day like any other for James, shirking his school responsibilities and, instead, continuing his writing for fimfiction. He sat in his room typing away at his laptop, ideas flew through his mind like a tornado and his fingers matched the pace of the thoughts that raced through his mind, one after the other. Just then he heard a noise come from his closet, it sounded like a crash of some sort. He jumped back in surprise at the unexpected sound and slowly went to investigate. He slowly opened the closet to see a pile of clothes in a giant lump, thinking that his clothes fell off the shelf he went in to pick up the pile when a little orange head emerged from the pile of clothes. James stopped what he was doing and had stared at the unknown figure that was before him. A moment passed and both the figure and James screamed and stumbled backward. James fell back and hit his head on the edge of his bed and slowly faded into a black haze.

“ungh, wow what a weird dream, I coulda’ sworn I thought I saw scootaloo here.” James said, getting back up from being knocked out for a while. “Now what was that idea for the last chapter of mine? AGH! Come on James get some ideas.” He got up and went to close his closet when the little orange pony shot out of the closet and ran to the corner of his room. James jumped back in surprise again, now he knew something was up, he just didn’t know what.
“S-scootaloo? Is that you?” James asked, tilting his head to the side in disbelief of what stood before him. The little filly was curled up, scared at the unknown creature that stood before her. But she did her best to answer
“H-how do you know my name? W-where am I? Who are you?” scootaloo said as she trembled in fear.
James ran his fingers through his hair and let out a breath of air. “god, heh where do I start?”
(god I really gotta stop writing at 5 in the morning.)

Alternate ending 1: game over
Scootaloo whizzed past the finish line, lighting it on fire as she shot past it. Just then a massive pain pulsated throughout her body and she screamed in pain. She tried to find a place to lie but as her bad luck would have it, she couldn’t and was wailing in misery because of it. She couldn’t fight the pain and instead, gave up and descended to the ground below. Rainbow dash saw this and was desperately trying to get up, but the hit she took wouldn’t let her move, she struggled and struggled every bone in her body felt numb but she finaly got up, but it was too late….Scootaloo had already met the unforgiving ground with a loud *thud* rainbow sat there with her mouth open, she couldn’t believe she wasn’t there to save her. *cue the sad music*

heres you:

unedited When heroes aren't there to save you: part 2 (Flight of the phoenix) Prologue:

When Heroes aren’t there to save you: Part 2 (Flight of the phoenix)

Written by: Rainbow Warrior

A note to my loyal fans: Thank you for the positive feedback on the last one, and again I apologize for writing an extremely rushed sequel, I KNOW this one will be better. This will take place only two years after Scootaloo was adopted.

Prologue: Flight of the Phoenix

“So, do you remember what we learned Scoots?” Rainbow asked as she circled Scootaloo who was on the ground, attentively watching and taking mental notes at what her mentor, and now, mother was telling her.

“When going in for a sonic boom: always make sure your wings are closed and hooves out in front b-because it helps with the aerodynamics right?”

“Right! Very good! Now, do you think you’re ready to show me that awesome move again?” Rainbow asked as she landed in front of Scootaloo. Scootaloo then bit her lip nervously, she wasn’t sure if she even wanted to attempt that move again. She didn’t want to look bad in front of her own mom but she figured she’d understand if she was nervous.

“B-but mom, I-I don’t know if want to do it again. What if I end up bursting another organ? I don’t want to go to the hospital again, two times in one year was enough. Don’t you ever feel pain when you do a sonic rainboom?” Scootaloo felt way too embarrassed to look up but she did and saw Rainbow with a hoof on her chin pondering her question.

“Hmm well, to be honest kid, no I don’t feel anything when I do that. But then again I don’t know why you would’ve felt something that bad when you do it. But don’t you worry Scootaloo, I promise NOTHING bad will happen to you, I’ll protect you okay?” Rainbow offered a smile to the little filly and Scootaloo smiled back. She knew Rainbow meant what she said; it was just her history with trust issues that was making her cautious about the situation.

“Okay mom, Let’s do this.” Scootaloo said with a determined look on her face

“That’s my girl. Now c’mon.” And with that, Rainbow and Scootaloo darted into the sky above at a blaze of speed. Both Rainbow and Scootaloo were flying high into the sky.

“Alright, ready?” Rainbow asked as they both continued their climb.

“Ready!” And with that Rainbow nodded and began to free fall to the ground below. Rainbow put her front hooves out and closed her wings just like she instructed Scootaloo to do. And then a rainbow emitted from rainbow’s tail and she fell down in a blaze of speed.

Scootaloo then closed her wings and put her front hooves out and let nature take its course, she felt the fire in her stomach again and almost panicked until she felt a force shoot her downward faster. She then looked at the lake below and noticed her fire mane and tail, along with her red eyes. She laughed and flew back to Rainbow.

“Alright Scootaloo! I knew you could do it! Now let’s work on our routine.” Rainbow then motioned Scootaloo with her hoof to follow her and rainbow made a giant straight rainbow in the sky, Scootaloo then emitted the fire from her mane and flew in circles around the Rainbow, making a giant visible rainbow, encircled with fire, in the sky. This breathtaking sight lit up the skies of ponyville and everypony looked in awe at this rare occurrence.

Scootaloo then felt her energy drop and her mane and tail were no longer flames, she felt exhausted, her eyes were slowly closing, sleep was creeping up on her, she began to slow down and eventually she couldn't even keep her self airborne and because of this, she halted in the air and fell. But before she had time to scream she felt two hooves cradle her from beneath. She looked up and saw Rainbow Dash with a smile across her face. Scootaloo had tears in her eyes and she smiled her trademark smile before hugging the pony she loved the most. She was so glad she had somepony she could trust with her life.

Author's note: I know it's a short chapter but just like to let you guys know it's back :) I know you probably cant see where Im going with this and that's good, cause you're not supposed to heheheheee >:)

revised chapter 1-and so it begins

When heroes arn't there to save you

edited by: your antagonist (VegaKS03)

It was a bright and sunny day in ponyville and all of the little fillies in Ponyville Elementary School had their minds set on one thing today, and one thing only: summer. Scootaloo was the most excited because today was the day she would get to become the protege and student of her hero, Rainbow Dash. It had been six months after she was removed from the custody of her abusive parents, and life in her foster home wasn't going so well.

She hoped that if Rainbow Dash saw how determined she was, maybe, just maybe she would adopt her. But she rationalized with herself, the odds of that happening anytime soon. If she couldn't train with Rainbow, then her whole summer would be practically ruined because Applebloom would be going with her family to Appleloosa for another apple family reunion, and Sweetie belle would be going with her sister to Canterlot to help with her sister’s new fashion line. So she was determined to make sure Rainbow Dash would become her personal flight trainer.

No one in the world was more important to her than this Pegasus, and just talking to her for a brief "what's up Rainbow Dash?" was enough to brighten her whole day and spread an impenetrable smile across the little filly’s face.

UGH! Why won't time go faster? Scootaloo thought as she watched the clock slowly tick for each minute. To Scootaloo, it seemed like every minute seemed to go by slower and slower.

"Hey Scootaloo whats keepin’ ya down?" Applebloom asked,

"I wanna get out of here sooooooo bad, I gotta get to Rainbow Dash to start my training."

"Oh well school's done in about an hour Scoots, Ah reckon that after the yearbook signin’ and last recess you'll be feelin’ much better. Besides ya don't have to do anything other than have fun!" Applebloom said in an attempt to cheer up her fellow crusader.

"I know, I know, it’s just that school has been so lame all year, I just wanna do something cool, and I wanna do it now.”

"Yeah, Ah hear ya, but let's try an have some fun while us crusaders are still together, it's gonna be so boring without you two with me all summer. Now c'mon scoots let's go sign some yearbooks."

"Oh alright" Scootaloo said with a sigh as she went with her friend.

After the passing of an hour, school finally ended, and Scootaloo couldn't more excited: her enthusiasm was off the charts as she pondered the type of flight training Rainbow Dash had in store for her. She said goodbye to her classmates and sang the ‘Cutie Mark Crusaders’ theme song privately with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom before saying goodbye to both of them for the summer. Hopping on her scooter, the filly took off with a blaze of speed in search of her role model and soon to be flight coach. Scootaloo eventually arrived at Ponyville Square, where Rainbow Dash was normally spotted, but as of right now she couldn't see a cloud in the sky, which meant that she was already done with her Job. Scootaloo sighed and her head dropped in sadness as she continued to walk.

"Hey! What’s with that frown silly filly? It’s time to turn it upside down, don’t you know it’s summer?!"

Scootaloo then raised her head up to see Ponyville’s pink premier party-pony standing right in front of her.

“OH! Pinkie Pie!” Scootaloo knew that if anyone would know where Rainbow Dash would be, it would be pinkie pie, after all they were always pulling pranks together when they had the chance.

"I'm glad I caught you. Do you have any idea where Rainbow Dash is? I need to see her."

"Hmm," Pinkie pondered the question, placing her hoof to her chin, "last I remember, I think she said something about visiting with applejack over at sweet apple acres, I think it was for that iron pony competition a while back, said something about unfinished business. Then after she took off and that's the last I saw and heard of her".

"Alright, thanks Pinkie Pie!" Scootaloo grinned as she immediately took off to Sweet Apple Acres. Hopefully she won't be too busy with Applejack to see me Scootaloo thought as she whizzed off to sweet apple acres.

Scootaloo finally arrived to sweet apple acres and saw two familiar ponies racing. Scootaloo was in awe at her idol as she saw Rainbow’s mane flowing in the wind as each of her legs propelled her forward, each hoof coming down like clockwork, one after the other. Rainbow Dash was the most majestic pony to ever grace Ponyville, in Scootaloo's mind. The chromatic maned thrill seeker was her idol and Scootaloo was determined to let Rainbow Dash know by any means possible.

"Ha! beat ya again ‘Applesmack’. That's what? The third time today?" Rainbow Dash bragged to Applejack, an inflection of pride evident in her voice.

"Ha! Y'all wish it was the third time today. It’s the second time, and that’s out of the four other times I beat ya".

"YEAH! Rainbow Dash! WOOHOO!" Both ponies turned their heads to see a young orange Pegasus jumping up and down, punching the air above her.

"Well looks like you won't be needin’ Me for a while, you got yer fan club to worry about now heheheh. So same time next week rainbow?”

"You’re on!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed before turning her attention to her number one fan. "Hey Scoota-" Scootaloo buzzed over to Rainbow Dash on her scooter, Moving so quickly that Rainbow Dash couldn’t even finish her sentence. "Heh, wow that's some pretty impressive speed you got there kid, maybe this summer your wings will finally get you off the ground."

"You really think so!?" Scootaloo said as her eyes lit up and a smile spread across her face she couldn't believe that her idol, the fastest flier in ponyville, just gave her a compliment on her speed.

"Haha you betcha, Scoots, speed like that in the sky would put me out of business for sure" Rainbow Dash said with a bit of modesty.

"Nah, no way dash, the weather and the sky itself would be 80% lamer if you weren't there to make it awesome." Even though Scootaloo was trying to flatter Rainbow, that compliment couldn't have been more honest if her life depended on it.

"Aww thanks Scoots... you're alright kid you know that? Anyway what's up? What brought you over here? Did you come to see me beat Applejack?”

"Well yes and no..." Scootaloo bit her lip nervously as she dug her hoof in the ground "umm, one quick question Rainbow Dash, what are you doing this summer?”

"Hmm well actually, nothing really, just gonna be preparing for some races if they ever come up. Other than that probably sleeping and trying to get this lame summer done with".

Scootaloo couldn't have been happier to hear those words; her face began to light up again almost immediately after.

"REALLY? THAT’S GREAT, well about you not doing anything...um... anyway. Rainbow Dash, I have something super important to ask you, it's very, very, VERY important to me".

"Alright kid, fire away" Rainbow Dash said with a bit of "get on with it" in her voice.

"Rainbow Dash," Scootaloo gulped "I want to be your apprentice, I want to be taught everything you know about flying, I want to be as awesome and as cool as you are, and I'm willing to do ANYTHING to prove that I'm worthy of teaching." Scootaloo’s brow furrowed with determination, as she divulged that last part.

Rainbow Dash was stern-faced as she gave er admirer a once over. Scootaloo prepared for rejection,turning to head for her scooter when Rainbow Dash said with a low tone "Anything?" Scootaloo turned around and nodded, causing a grin to curl across Rainbow Dash’s lips.

"Alright kid I'll teach ya but I need to see you're ready for the type of training I'm gonna give you." Scootaloo almost exploded by excitement by what she heard

"OH THANK YOU, Rainbow Dash! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" Scootaloo dove in to hug Rainbow Dash when a hoof pushed her head back

"Hey! I didn't say you were my apprentice yet. Tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. We start our trial, so get some rest cause you're gonna need it for what we're doing tomorrow. If you're late by even one millisecond I'm leaving. Got it?"

"Sir Yes sir!" Scootaloo gave a clumsy salute in affirmation

"That’s what I like to hear. Now get outta here, get some sleep and remember, tomorrow morning, edge of Everfree forest, 7:00 am SHARP!" Scootaloo nodded, jumping on her scooter, headed for her foster home.

When she arrived, she saw the other two kids in her foster home eating dinner.

"Hey SCREW-taloo" the little orange pony said in attempt to annoy her.

"Oh hey, Zelos " Scootaloo replied. She didn't even pay attention to the filly’s insult as her mind was still in the clouds, contemplating how fun it was going to be, being trained by her idol.

"Hey, Avion" Scootaloo called to the grey pegasus pony.

"H-hi S-Scootaloo" the little pony stuttered nervously "um, I, uh, I fixed your scooter this morning it h-had a loose bolt on the wheel because Zelos rode it this morning".

"HEY! I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL HER, YOU TURD!” Zelos blurted out.

"I-I’m sorry I was just wanted to help out Scootaloo since she made me that blanket in school a couple days back. S-s-so I felt that I would have to return the favor even though it wasn't much."

"Well thanks Avion, I was wondering why it felt a bit different today, but I won't be needing it after a few weeks."

"Oh um really? W-why's that?" Avion asked shyly.

"Well, I have been hoof-picked by THE one and only, Rainbow Dash to be her apprentice this summer and she's going to teach me how to fly.” Scootaloo said with her head held high and pride in her voice.

"W-wow that's great. Y-you don’t think she may adopt you, do you?"

"Aww heck no I'm just going to be her temporary protégé, but I'm hoping she will, she's the best pony ever and I would be honored to have her as my mom, so that's why I'm going to take whatever she dishes out at me."

"HAHAHA YOU? ADOPTED? BAHAHAHAHA" Zelos burst out in laughter at the thought.

Again Scootaloo ignored the insult and continued talking to Avion.

"I um, made you a sandwich just how you like it, it's o-on the table over there.” Avion pointed a hoof to a grilled daffodil sandwich to a table counter behind him.

"Well gee Avion, what would I do without you?” Scootaloo said as she hugged her foster friend and headed off to eat her sandwich. Avion blushed a dopy smile playing across his lips, while Zelos on the otherhoof almost gagged. Scootaloo ravenously gobbled her sandwich in three bites.

"Mmm! that was good Avion, I wish I could always have you cook me stuff. ‘Cause the stuff that I make is total crap."

"Oh, um, you're welcome Scootaloo. It was nothing. You should probably get to bed. C-cause you have you're training Tomorrow right?”

“Heck ya I do, I can't wait, I don’t know how I'm gonna sleep but I know I need to. Good night Avion." Scootaloo smiled as she went to her room and

"G-goodnight Scootaloo.........I love you.” Avion’s last words fell on deaf ears as Scootaloo shut the door behind her. But she didn't care at the moment she was ready to fly and spend time with the pony she admired most.

Morning came quickly, as Scootaloo got up at six and arrived at the edge of the everfree forest at 6:30. Currently, there was nopony present, but after a few moments she saw a familiar blue and rainbow mane and coat approaching her rapidly.

"So, you said anything right?" Rainbow Dash asked with a serious tone.

"Yes, anything Rainbow Dash. I will prove to yo-" she had no time to react as a sudden force began lifting her off the ground at high speeds. "R-Rainbow Dash! WHATS HAPPENING?!" they kept ascending and ascending till Scootaloo could see all of ponyville from under her.

Rainbow Dash held Scootaloo’s mane by her mouth and with the room she had left in her mouth she spat "firsht fly'ng lesthon kid"

Scootaloo hoped that she had heard wrong, but as her bad luck would have it: she didn't. Rainbow released her mane and Scootaloo flailed around helplessly as she descended at increasingly high speeds. She was screaming and still in disbelief that her Idol would do this.

Did I do something wrong? Does she hate me? She didn't know. All she knew was that she better start flapping her wings and fast. The filly flailed around some more before instinct took over as she turned right side up, spread her wings and began gliding. She still wasn't sure how to brake in min-flight or how to maneuver left or right so she kept descending at a rapid pace, but balanced herself enough see where she was going to land. She aimed for a rough spot of sand, as she thought the sand would give her more cushion to land on.

She tilted her wings as best as she could but overshot the sand and instead did a barrel roll into the grass below her. Scootaloo skidded across the grass catching dirt in her mouth as she kept going she even did a couple of flips eventually she rolled around and caught herself even though she was pretty bruised up.

Rainbow Dash landed right in front of the terrified filly. And with a tone of pride that Scootaloo lived she said. "Welcome to flying 101...........my apprentice".

unedited When heroes aren't there to save you: part 2 (Flight of the phoenix) Chapter 1: Confessions

Chapter 1: Confessions.

It was a dark and quiet night: Scootaloo was sound asleep in her cloud home. Rainbow Dash was curled up next to filly on her right., Rainbow then woke up and went to the kitchen. Scootaloo heard the sink running and assumed she was only getting a glass of water. Once Rainbow curled back up into bed, Scootaloo asked something that has been heavy on her heart for a quite a long while, ever since she was adopted at least.

“Hey Rainbow…A-are you awake?” There was a slight pause between the two but eventually Rainbow spoke up and said.

“Yeah I’m awake, what is it?”

“W-well, I don’t know really how to ask you but…Do you like me living here, y’know with you and all?” Another brief moment of silence went by before Rainbow turned around to look at her daughter.

“Of course I love you being here Scoots, why would you ask something like that?” Scootaloo looked to the side with a nervous look on her face and bit her lip. She didn’t want to make anything awkward but she felt as though she might as well express what she was feeling for a while.

“Well It’s just that…I’ve been thinking and, those times when you and I were training…When you used to call me a….Y-you know, did you really mean all that? And those times when I messed up, you used to hit me on the back of the head, It just…Doesn’t make sense to me how you would all of a sudden adopt me, it actually seemed like you hated me Rainbow Dash and…” Scootaloo couldn’t continue as tears were coming down her little face. She choked a little as she began to speak again.

“And I-I hate myself f-for thinking that, you might actually… In some way…be like my parents. I know you’re nothing like them but… I can’t help but look back on what we did and slowly realize that, it looked you enjoyed hurting me. I’m sorry Rainbow b-but I can’t go back to being scared to come home. I…I just want somepony I can trust. I want that to be you Rainbow, you don’t know how much I want that but…” That was all the poor filly could get out before letting out small hiccups as she sobbed in front of Rainbow.

Rainbow looked at her daughter with a depressed look, she wasn’t sure how to react to that. Tough love was the only thing she knew when she was growing up, she wasn’t sure how to be sentimental but she tried her best.

“Scoots…I know I said some harsh things, very harsh actually. But, you have to know that when I was growing up, being strict and humiliation was the only thing I knew on how talk to ponies and how to train them. It wasn’t until I met you that I learned to praise somepony when they do well and to be caring for somepony when they slip up. That’s why I wanted you Scoots, not just because you’re a great flyer. I need you to help me be the pony I should and I’m proud to call you my daughter. I know you only hear me say things like that when you’re flying but I think it’s time I showed my love to you a bit more.”

Rainbow then grabbed the sobbing filly and hugged her close. Scootaloo buried her head within Rainbow’s blue coat. Scootaloo held Rainbow tight, she wished she hadn’t told her what she was feeling but she was so glad that she did, so in a way she felt as though this needed to happen and was glad that it did. Rainbow lowered her neck onto Scootaloo’s in a full embrace, she wanted to make sure Scootaloo knew that she was loved deeply and that whatever that history has done to them in the past, was now over.

“Scootaloo, I’m sorry... I should have never said those things, it wasn’t because I meant them, it’s because I knew you had something special in you and I just wanted to bring it out. I should have been more supportive and considerate of what happened before we began to train. Can you…Ever forgive me Scoots? I don’t blame you for asking what you needed to Scoots, I think now I see why.”

Scootaloo looked back up at Rainbow who had a bit of tears in her eyes too. Just then Scootaloo knew that she was telling the truth, because in Rainbow’s eyes she saw love. Pure, genuine, unfathomable love for her filly, this was something she never ever saw in the eyes of her parents. They never showed remorse or regret for the unimaginable pain they brought upon her both physically and mentally. This was something completely new to Scootaloo and she was so glad that came to pass. She looked back up at Rainbow and with one last tear filled smile she said.

“Yes mommy, I forgive you…I love you mommy *yawn* goodnight.” Scootaloo then closed her eyes and fell asleep in Rainbow’s arms.