Finding Scootaloo

"I'm sorry, sweetie" Twilight said putting her hoof on Scootaloo's shoulder, "But there just isn't anything I can do. What you have is one thing magic can't help."

Scootaloo held back her tears. "What are you saying? That I can never be n-normal?!"

Twilight stared at the sad filly, wishing she knew what to say.

Scootaloo took a deep breath, "I-It's n-not fai-r" she started to cry softly into her hooves.

Twilight put one of her fore arms around Scootaloo, "It'll be OK, sweetie. Trust me" Twilight knew her words weren't doing anything to help, Scootaloo kept crying.

"I-I don't know what, I-I'm gonna do. M-My life's sc-screw up enou-"

There was a knock on the door. "Come in!" Twilight shouted, and in walked Twilight's good friend, Fluttershy.

"O-Oh... I-I'm so sorry to interupt y-you, I-I'll just come back later-"

Twilight cut her off. "No, I could really use your kindness right now" Twilight said making her way over to Fluttershy. She gestured to the sobbing filly and whispered the whole story to Fluttershy.

"O-Oh dear..." Fluttershy said with concern. "I'll see what I can do." Fluttershy made her way to the couch where a the crying Scootaloo was. "Sc-Scootaloo, are you o-ok?"

Scootaloo heard the soft voice and looked up to find the gentle yellow pegasus looking at her with genuine concern. Scootaloo shook her head.

"O-Oh my... W-What's going on?" Fluttershy asked.

Scootaloo slowly sad up and managed to tell Fluttershy the whole story before bursting into tears.

"It's ok, Scootaloo. I-I'm a v-very weak fl-flyer. B-But look at me n-now. I st-still managed to find my sp-special talent."

Scootaloo wiped her eyes, "I know! But my dream was to be just like Rainbow Dash! She'll never like me now!" Scootaloo grunted with anger and sorrow. "Why does the world hate me?!"

"Oh, no no no. The world doesn't hate you." Fluttershy reassured.

"Yes it does! First my parents, now this! I just don't know what to do anymore!" Scootaloo began to cry once more.

"Parents?" Twilight asked, joining the conversation.

"What?" Scootaloo said. "Oh, it's nothing... Just forget I even said anything."

"It's obviously not something, since it's gotten you all upset. What's going on?" A concerned Twilight asked.

Scootaloo gulped. She couldn't tell them that she's been living in the clubhouse for months now. What would happen to her. She tried to think of a lie, but she couldn't. "Alright whe I was really little, my parents both got into a really bad accident and you know... d-died. I was sent to live in an orphanage in Fillydelphia. I hated it there, no one liked me. It was torture to watch all the other foals get adopted, while I just sat there. I got tired of it, so I ran away and ended up here in Ponyville."

When Scootaloo finished her story, Twilight and Fluttershy sat there in disbelief. How could this little filly, who was only eleven, have gone through so much heartbreak and now the wing situation.

"O-Oh my..." Fluttershy said.

"Yeah, just please don't tell anyone. Please!" Scootaloo said.

"But -"

"Please!!" Scootaloo begged.

Twilight and Fluttershy looked at each other with concern.

"Alright" Twilight said. "But what about your wings? What do you need to do for them?"

"Nothing. No one else knows about them either. You can't tell anyone about this either! Especially Rainbow Dash!"

Twilight sighed and nodded.

Scootaloo looked out the window, evening time. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle would be in their houses by now., so she could go to the clubhouse.

Frantically, Scootaloo made up an excuse for having to leave and ran out the door. She went down to the old abandoned alley and grabbed her scooter and helmet. She strapped on the helmet and made her way towards the clubhouse. When she got there, she took off her helmet and hid it in a shrub. She reached inside another shrub and pulled out a dirty old blanket. Scootaloo climbed up the ladder and layed herself down on the clubhouse floor. She covered herself up in the blanket and looked up at the ceiling. Alone with her thoughts.

"What am I going to do?" she thought. "I can't avoid my friends like I can avoid Rainbow Dash. Can I?" She thought hard until one terrifying thought popped into her head....

School.