//------------------------------// // Scroll 3 "enter Scootaloo" // Story: Shadow of the Crusaders // by Spore Harvest //------------------------------// "Ah come on! I lost again?!" Scootaloo yelled at her TV. She's been playing Mortal Combat again. She almost defeated the final boss Shao Kahn, but she got defeated by him still being on one hp. You may say that's a miner nitpick, but she got to him almost one hundred times and yet she still hasn't beat him. She used every single character possible and still nothing. She refuses to put the game difficulty down. "One hp! He was down to one hp! This game cheats, I can't believe it." I yelled out. "Scootaloo, sweaty could you please calm down. If the game is giving you so much trouble, maybe you should take a break and go outside." A slightly annoyed yet caring voice yelled from down stairs. It was Scootaloo's mother Comet Crash, she was a pegasus just like her, she had a yellow coat colour and a red mane which, wasn't really that styled. She didn't like to get pampered, she was more of a tomboy,but she still goes to the spa to get a massage every once in a while. But I digress, she's right I need a break and the only way I can take a break is by going out on a nice leisurely drive on my scooter. "Okay mom!" I yelled downstairs. "And sorry for yelling." "Okay sweaty just make sure to come back before dinner time." "Yeah. I'll make sure to come back before eight." My mom always knows what I do to relax so she always warns to come back home before sundown or I would get grounded for a whole week. And I hate being stuck indoors. It makes me feel cramped. It's bad enough that we had to move from Cloudsdale to Ponywille, just because of my stupid wings. The doctor says that they are going to grow out eventually, but it still hasn't happened. My parents say that it's gonna happen eventually, they're always positive about my wings. If they haven't given up yet than I won't either. Wow that's a depressing thought, that is not what I need right now. What I need right now is to get dressed and go out for a nice cruse. With that thought in mind I went to my wardrobe to get myself dressed for the drive. I put a nice pair of jeans, a white tank top shirt. After those I put one of my blue jackets, which were recently modified to include my cutie mark, after that I put on my black fingerless gloves and my blue wonderbolt goggles, which I got from rainbow dash at my cute cenera. They are so awesome. Now, that I got dressed, I went downstairs. There I found my dad sitting in the living room playing his own video game. My dad, Thunder Strike was the best dad ever. Yes he was strict sometimes, but I can always count on him for advice and as a player two for any video game that I can get him play. He was also a pegasus, but he had a more subdued colour scheme compared to my mother. He had a red coat colour and blue mane with a white stripe. Since he looked like he was having fun playing Daring do and the griffins goblet. Quite the great game, but deceptively difficult, so I left him alone. He'll probably be asking me to help him later, but for now I'm just going to go for that ride. So with that thought in mind I went to my front door, grabbed my scooter and went out. It a beautiful spring afternoon. The perfect day for a ride. But first I need to get myself something small to eat, maybe I can get something at Sugar cube corner. Yeah I'll go there and get myself a nice chocolate doughnut. And so I speed of to get myself a little snack. When I arrived at Sugar cube I was presented with a peculiar sight. Everything was quite, way to quite. Usually when it is this quite it means that Pinkie is preparing a welcome to Ponywille party and since I didn't want to interrupt it, I decided to go to Bon Bon's bonbons. It is a little disappointing to not be able to get my favorite treat, but hey it's not the end of the world, at least I'm going to be able to share the candy with the other crusaders. So I quickly changed directions and drove of to the shop. When I arrived at the shop I was happy to find that the shop was still open. So with nothing else to do I leaned my scooter against the shop and went inside. The candy shop looked amazing on the inside. There were shelves upon shelves of different kinds of candy, they had every kind of candy from rock candy to regular candy. From chocolate to sour candy. They were also every single colour imaginable. With that observation done I went straight up to the counter and rang the bell. After a couple of minutes a beige furred earth pony with dark blue and pink mane. She was happy to see me so she said her stores catchphrase. "Welcome to Bon Bon's bonbons. What can I get for you?" "Hello Bon Bon. I want to get a bag of gummy bears. Do you have any." I asked hopefully. "Yeah Scoots I have a couple. Here you go. That's going to be three bits." With that I handed her the bits and I got the candy. Now that I was done with that I finally went to the park to unwind. When I arrived I was happy to find the place completely empty. With that observation made I went right on to practicing my tricks. I did flips, grinds and even a couple of ollies, but it didn't come without any fails but hey practice makes perfect. One day I'm going to be able to fly and I can't wait for that, because I have a couple of sick tricks that I want to try, but that will have to wait. After a couple of hours of me practicing, I heard a very familiar voice it was the voice of Apple Bloom. "Hello Scootaloo. Do you have some time tomorrow, because we need to have an emergency CMC meeting at the clubhouse." "Yeah I have time," I said "but why do we have another cutie mark problem to save." "Well it's not exactly a cutie mark problem, but a problem non the less." "And why can't you tell me now?" I asked a little skeptical. "Well this problem requires us to all be present. So how about tomorrow after school." "Ah so it's a big problem I get ya. After school, okay, I can do that. Do you need me to tell Sweetie Belle?" "No since I'm already here I'm going to go there and tell her. The boutique is not that far away from here." "Okay than Apple Bloom see you in school." And with that she left the park. "Is it just me or does she look a little paler than usual, well, she didn't look sick so I guess I'll ask her about it tomorrow." Now with her gone I decided to continue my little stunt routine, until it was time to get home. *** I came back home just in time to hear my dad cry out in joy. "Finally! Finally I bested this game you can suck an egg in tartarus, and they said this game was hard." "Well dad that's exactly what they say. The Darring doo games are one of the hardest games that you can buy.Oh yeah and congratulations on beating it. How many times have you died?" "Well hello there squirt. I died around seventy-six times. That beats my old record by at least half. Now I'm going to ask you a question. How was you're drive?" "Very relaxing and I only fell a couple of times doing tricks, but I did improve by a large margin." I said with a grin. "Very god. Hey you think dinner's ready?" When he asked this I sniffed the air to check and sure enough it smelled like dinner was ready. "Yup lets go and get seated." And with that we left the living room and into the kitchen, where mom was patiently waiting for us. She somehow always knows when we will come to eat, because she never calls us to get it. Well except in the morning, but I digress. When we got seated and handed out our portions, we started to eat. When we finally finished I decided to ask them if I can go to Apple Bloom's. "Of course you can go sweaty. You know the rules, as long as you do your homework, you can go to the moon." "Okay mom. Well I'm pooped. I think I'm going to hit the hay a little early. Wake me up for school okay." "Sure squirt cause Celestia knows nothing gets you up in the morning if we don't wake you. Good night Scoots." "Good night dad. Good night mom." And then I went upstairs changed into my pajamas and crawled into bed. Before I went to sleep I was thinking of only one thing, why was Apple Bloom so pale looking. Then I just reasoned to myself that she didn't act sick so with that thought squared away for later use I went of to sleep.