RD & S And The Search For The Starswirl

Scootaloo awoke in the dark, unaware of where she was or what was around her, with her memory now blank, she had no idea what was going on. She was cold and scared laying in the dark.

‘Ugh…my head…w-where am I? I can’t see anything, how did I get here?’

With thoughts racing through her head only making it hurt worse, she got up, and used what little green light there was to explore her surroundings. But she couldn’t go far, for there was a chain around her right hind leg, she could only look while standing still. As her eyes adjusted to the dim green light she noticed the walls were made of rocks, and what looked like of old rusted jail bars in front of her.

‘Am I in a cave? Are those jail bars?! Where am I?!!!’

Scootaloo now getting worried, what if she was trapped in the cave forever? Without any food nor water how would she survive? Then she started to remember what happened, she remembered a hoof...a black hoof of what looked like it had holes in it, she remembered Rainbow Dash calling out to her, telling her to, ‘WAIT!!!’ But she had passed out and couldn’t remember anything beyond that point, but she did remember what she and Dash were doing, they were searching for the gem known as the ‘Starswirl’, and she remembered the story Rainbow Dash had told her, she remembered the Moonflowers, the civil war that lasted for a hundred years.

‘I’ve got to find a way out of here!’ Scootaloo thought to herself.

“Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!!! Whattodo whattodo whattodo?!!!” Dash was running in place worrying like crazy, she didn’t have any clue of what to do; she didn’t even know if Scootaloo was still alive.

‘Ok Rainbow, calm down, it will all be fine...I just have to figure out where those things took her, Celestia only knows what they’re doing to her right now, I have to find her!’

The pegasus was determined to find and save Scootaloo from the changelings, but first, she had to find her, and to find her meant that she would have to fight the changelings, and to fight the changelings meant possible death or serious injuries.

“Psst…” Scootaloo heard a faint whisper, “Who’s there?!” Scootaloo asked quickly. “Psst…over here.” was the voice’s response. Scootaloo followed the voice over to the bars, and she saw somepony in a black cloak…his coat was light brown, and he had a British accent.

“W-who are you?” Scootaloo asked slowly. But the pony while looking around only replied with, “Look, that’s not important right now, what’s important is for you to get out of here.”

“You can help me get out of here?” asked the light orange filly excitedly. “Maybe, but you have to be quiet! Unlike you’re doing!” “Oh sorry…” replied the filly with her head hung low.

“It’s okay; just try to be quite, we don’t want to get caught. Now you have to follow me, and do exactly as I tell you.”

“I will, but what about this chain on my leg? I can’t go anywhere.”

“That chain is the least of our worries kid. I can take care of that in a second.”

“Oh really? Prove it.” Scootaloo dared with a smirk.

“Shh! You have to keep it down!” “Oh, sorry…” “It’s okay, now then just let me…” the stallion took his saddlebag off his back and reached his muzzle down into it and pulled out a pen in his mouth.

“And just what is a pen supposed to do?” asked Scootaloo.

The stallion placed the pen’s tip on the jail bars and turned it on; it then cuts through the rusty metal with a red light that looked like a laser. As the last of the three bars dissolves, the stallion turned off the pen.

Scootaloo, now with a shocked expression on her face finally spoke. “I-is that a laser pen?! That’s so cool!”

“Yes it is, it’s pretty useful, although I have to use it pretty often. Now, show me that chain on your leg.”

“Uhh, okay…” Scootaloo then shows the strange stallion the chain on her leg; he then turned on his pen and cut the chain off the filly’s leg. As the chain falls off, the stallion turns off the pen and places it back in his saddlebag, which he then puts onto his back.

“Oh, thank you so much!” Scootaloo then quickly gives the stallion a tight hug.

“Uhh, yeah…you’re welcome…now c-could you please let go?” “Oh, I’msosorry! I…” “…It’s okay kid, now, let’s get you out of here.” “Yes please!”

“Hello?! Is anypony there?!” Dash, whom is searching for Scootaloo finds herself to be lost, and alone, in the dark Everfree, ‘Gosh, I hope nothing has happened to her, if those Changelings did anything to hurt her then they have another thing comin!’

*Crack* The sound of a stick cracking sets Dash’s nerves on edge, she felt her wings spring out, as well as her ears perking up. “Who’s there?!” she asks quickly……no response was given.

“Look, I don’t know who you are or what you want, but you’d better show yourself!” with those last two words, a shadowy figure of an alicorn appeared before her. “That’s better, now who are you?” ……No response…… “I said, who are you?!” the shadow lets out a faint chuckle before whispering, “That is none of your business…”

“What do you want from me?” snapped Dash, “That you will find out with ‘time’…” and with that last word, the shadow vanishes into thin air.