A Dream of Flight
The town was thriving after yesterday’s rain. A thin layer of fog from the condensed water lay on top of the ground. The sun started to rise up over the rooftops.
Behind Sugarcube Corner stood a small hilltop with tall grass. A small gust of wind shifted it back and forth, revealing a small pegasus with a purple mane. As the vegetation shifted back and forth, the rest of her became visible. Her light brown coat glistened in the morning sun. Scootaloo was looking towards the sky: the one place she could not reach, but the one place she belonged. She sighed as she turned around to her scooter, looking at it with discomfort. The dark blue scooter leaned against a the crumbling remains of a tree stump. The brightly colored red wheels on it were starting to fade, needing a new touch of paint. Scootaloo shifted through the grass towards her scooter; she needed to head down to school before it started.
“Hi, squirt! What’s gotcha down?”
Scootaloo stopped in her tracks. She bowed her head. A small gust of wind shifted through her mane, leaving it tufting out to the side. Rainbow Dash landed next to Scootaloo, gently brushing the grass, whirling up water to create a light rainbow around them. Rainbow folded her wings together as she landed. Her light blue coat started to shine as the water she had lifted fell down onto her. The colors in her mane aligned themselves perfectly next to each other, making the perfect rainbow. She stared at Scootaloo with her bright red eyes.
Scootaloo sighed as she looked at the colors surrounding her, such an amazing display of skills. But she expected nothing else from her Idol.
“I’m just tired of not being able to fly. Why have I got to be stuck on the ground when I’m a pegasus? It’s not fair!”
Rainbow Dash tilted her head slightly to the side as she grinned a little towards the young pegasus. She placed a hoof on top of Scootaloo’s head and ruffled it.
“That’s what’s gotcha down? You can’t think like that, Squirt. If you only focus on what you don’t have, you forget what you do have. You have two very good friends, who always support you. And you do, of course, have me around.”
Scootaloo smiled towards Rainbow Dash, blushing as she realized her idol was smiling back at her.
“You’re right as always, Rainbow Dash. I do have great friends.”
Scootaloo turned around and sat down. With her back towards Rainbow Dash, she sighed.
“But sometimes I dream about flying up there in the clouds, feeling the breeze in my mane, and maybe, just maybe, flying with you. I want the freedom you get with flying. I don’t want to be stuck with this stupid scooter anymore.”
She glared and huffed towards her scooter.
Rainbow Dash sighed as she sat down next to Scootaloo, looking up at the clouds with her. Rainbow Dash realized that she had no idea what Scootaloo was going through. She had been capable of flight as long as she remember, almost from birth. She could just imagine how it would feel if she couldn’t have flown before Scootaloo’s age.
Rainbow Dash looked at her little fan, a sad frown on her face. She could not help but to feel a bit helpless when it came to stuff like this, mushy, gooey, girly stuff. Suddenly, she hit upon a stroke of genius. She turned towards Scootaloo with a big grin.
Scootaloo looked at Rainbow Dash, raising an eyebrow, squinting her eyes in suspicion as she tried to figure out what Dash was planning. Rainbow Dash stood up, still looking at Scootaloo.
“Hey squirt, what if you skipped school today?”
Scootaloo stood up, looking at Rainbow Dash with a surprised expression stretched over her face. “Skip school? For what?”
Rainbow Dash grinned even more towards the little pegasus, clearly confident in her plan to cheer up Scootaloo.
“Oh, I don’t know... how about a trip on my back... up there?” Rainbow Dash nodded up towards the sky.
It seemed like it took a moment for it to sink in for Scootaloo. But as it did, her deep purple eyes widened, releasing a small tear down her chin.
She jumped up and grabbed a tight hold around Rainbow Dash’s neck. With her muzzle buried in Rainbow Dash’s coat, her sentence became muffled.
“I would love to, thank you, Dash!”
Rainbow Dash smiled, realizing how much such a small gesture meant for this little pegasi. It was an easy task for her to fly, but for somepony who wasn’t able too it meant so much. She grabbed hold of Scootaloo and looked at her with a much more serious face.
“When we’re up there, you must promise to hold on tight. Do not let go, no matter what. Okay?”
Scootaloo nodded in excitement towards Rainbow Dash, almost so much that her whole body started to shake. Rainbow Dash smiled at her once more and turned her back to Scootaloo.
“Alright, Squirt! Jump on and let’s fly! I’ll show you what true freedom is like.”
A beam of colors could be seen from the hilltop as they took off into the air. All that was left was grass that had dried up from the downdraft. A small stream of water got thrown up into the air from the dragging wind, but eventually it had to give in to gravity. As it fell down again, the sun beams hit them in such an angle that they gave off small beams of rainbow. After a bit, all that gave away that there was ever anypony there, was a lonely scooter with a fading layer of paint, resting against a small stump of wood.