RD & S And The Search For The Starswirl

“Could I please search for her alone?” Scootaloo asked trotting through Sugarcube Corner with her fellow crusaders.

“Why? Is something wrong Scootaloo?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“No...I just...I just want to be alone right now.” responded Scootaloo turning away from her two friends.

“Why’s that?” asked Apple Bloom in a rather rude matter. Sweetie Belle then hits Apple Bloom’s left foreleg as to say, ‘Apple Bloom! That’s rude!’

“I don’t know...I just wanna be alone.” Scootaloo replied in a slightly upset tone.

“Come on Apple Bloom, let’s leave Scootaloo alone, she wants to search for Rainbow Dash by herself.” said Sweetie Belle giving Scootaloo a knowing smile and wink.

“Oh alright’. Apple Bloom replied but still wanting an answer, and so the two fillies ran off to leave Scootaloo alone. As the light orange filly was walking alone, she started thinking, and soon became lost in her thoughts.

‘I wonder where Rainbow Dash could be, she’s always off practicing to become a Wonderbolt, or having some big adventure with her friends and I never get to go! She always says that ‘if I find her before she leaves’ that I can tag along, but I never do. But this time for sure I’m going to go with her!’

Scootaloo was lost in her thoughts, but quickly snapped out of them when she saw Dash and her pet tortoise Tank leaving Ponyville, Scootaloo gasped; she knew Dash was leaving for another adventure, could she be going deep into the Everfree Forest, or to the high peaks of the Appleloosan Mountains? She had to find out where Rainbow Dash was going!

“Hey Rainbow Dash! Where are you going?!” the filly called out, running as fast as she could to catch up with the pegasus.

“Did you hear something Tank?” Rainbow asked; the tortoise just turned his head to Dash, and then losing control of his propeller ended up on his back in the ground. Dash just facehooved and helped the poor tortoise get up, putting his propeller back on his shell.

And at the very moment that Dash finished strapping the propeller onto Tank’s shell, the young filly finally reached them, “Hey Rainbow Dash! Where are you going?” Scootaloo asked knowing exactly what she was going to say.

The pegasus turned to look at the young filly and responded. “Oh hey Scoots, Uh Tank and I were just going on an adventure again so…” “…Can I come?!” interrupted Scootaloo excitedly.

“Well I uh…”

“Aww c’mon, you always say maybe next time. C’mon please. Please, please, please.” Scootaloo begged her idol hoping to finally allow her to go on an adventure together.

The pegasus just smirked and said. “Sure kid, you can come. Just stay close and try not to get in the way.”

“Yes ma’am! This is going to be the most awesome thing ever!” Scootaloo squealed excitedly jumping up into the air. “But why do I have to ‘stay close’?” she asked curiously falling to the ground.

“Because…” began Rainbow, “…because you might get hurt, and the closer you are to me the less of a chance there is that you’ll get hurt. But not too close ok?”

“Yes ma’am! I won’t get too close to you, or too far away!” Scootaloo replied saluting Dash and giving her most serious face. As they started walking, Scootaloo heard two voices calling after them.

“Hey Scootaloo! Hey Rainbow Dash!” called the two voices from behind them.

Scootaloo’s ears perked up, she knew those voices, and she knew who those fillies were, so she needed to get Dash to stop.

“Hey Rainbow Dash, can we stop for a minute?”

“Why?” Rainbow asked as she came to a stop.

“I heard Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom shout out to us.” answered Scootaloo waiting for her two friends to catch up to them. After a minute of waiting, the two fillies finally caught up.

“Hey Scootaloo, I see you found Rainbow Dash!” Sweetie Belle stated.

“Yeah I did! And I finally get to go on an adventure with her!” Scootaloo squealed.

“Oh that’s so cool!” replied Apple Bloom who was now excited as well.

“Can we tag along?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“Umm…” Dash began; “…I think it’s just going to be me, Tank, and Scoots here.”

“Why’s that?” Apple Bloom asked.

“Uh…because I would have to keep track of all of you and no offense, but you girls can be a hoofful to keep track of.” Rainbow Dash replied trying her best not to hurt the two fillies’ feelings.

“But you’re taking Scootaloo with you.” said Sweetie Belle trying to make a point.

“Yeah but, Scootaloo isn’t all of you.” Rainbow replied trying to politely make the annoying fillies leave. “Besides, where we’re going is dangerous! And I don’t want to have to protect three fillies, Tank, plus myself. And besides, what would Rarity or Applejack do to me if you two got hurt?”

“Oh…well…Rarity would hate for me to get hurt so…uh…have fun!” Sweetie Belle replied nervously, the two fillies then took off back into Ponyville.

“I’m sorry.” Scootaloo apologized as they continued their journey.

“For what?” Dash asked looking confused.

“For causing trouble here already, maybe I should stay.” replied the young filly with her head hung low.

“No it’s ok, it wasn’t much trouble at all, and trust me, it could have been 20% worse!” said Dash trying to make the filly feel better.

“It wasn’t much trouble but it was still trouble.” Scootaloo responded.

“Scoots, you’re not causing any trouble right now, but you are starting to get slightly annoying. You wanted to come on this adventure with me, so I’m not letting you back out of it now.”

“But didn’t you say that where we’re going is dangerous?” Scootaloo replied trying to get out of the uncomfortable conversation.

“Scoots, I thought you liked danger?” responded Dash raising a brow.

“Yeah, but...never mind let’s just go.” said Scootaloo quickly and nervously.

“Wait, are you scared?” asked the pegasus.

“What?! Oh no no no, I’m not scared!” Scootaloo replied quickly with a little bit of shock on her face.

“Oh? Whatever you say.” responded the pegasus smirking down before running off into the Everfree Forest.

“Hey! Wait for me!” Scootaloo called out as she chased after Dash.