//------------------------------// // Troubles // Story: Loyalty Tested // by Secret_Shadows //------------------------------// Loyalty Tested Part III ‘Troubles’ Written By: Secret_Shadows Edited By: avorin         In the back of Scootaloo’s mind she realised they were not going to make it, with a broken leg Scootaloo could not pull Rainbow Dash, and with Rainbow Dash being unconscious she was unable to help in any way. Scootaloo started crying, things always ended up this way, no matter who it was, no matter how hard she tried, her parents, her friends, her idol, everyone, she lost them all, and now she was going to loose herself. Rainbow moved slightly and inhaled. “Scoot” Rainbow said, her eyes closed and her breathing slow, she was in a terrible condition now. “Rainbow” Scootaloo said, she was still laying in the mud puddle she fell in. “Scootaloo, w-where a-are you?” She said, she was unable to muster the strength to open her eyes. “Over here” Scootaloo said. ‘Thats great but were is “over here” ‘ Rainbow thought to herself. There was a flash of light followed by a loud boom, Scootaloo whimpered in fear. “It’s just thunder” Rainbow said “I-I know” Scootaloo said sniffling, she was crying again, not out of pain, but out of fear. Rainbow managed to open her eyes and turn her head slightly to see Scootaloo sitting in a mud puddle curled up into a ball of orange and purple. Her eyesight was a haze but she could still make out what was going on and how bad their situation really was. “Scootaloo, we need to get to that tree” Rainbow said “I, I can’t, I. . . my leg” Scootaloo said “Can you get over to me?” Rainbow asked, she was still unable to move the majority of her body from being so weak. “I-I think so” Scootaloo said, she dragged herself with her forehooves over to Rainbow, she was still crying and sniffling. There was another flash followed by a crack of lightning, Scootaloo flinched and she fell onto her broken leg, she fell next to Rainbow. Rainbow managed to put her forehoof around Scootaloo and she spoke. “I-I just w-want t-to g-g-go h-home” She said through her tears. “I know, I know” Rainbow said, she was actually starting to feel bad for the filly. As annoying as Scootaloo was to her, she couldn’t help but feel bad for her, after all, this was her fault that they were in the forest. Again there was a crack of thunder, Scootaloo again flinched, but less as she was in the embrace of Rainbow’s forehooves. “Scootaloo listen to me, I don’t know how long I will be awake, you have to get us to the tree, do you understand me?” Rainbow said, she was starting to feel weak again. “I, I can’t” Scootaloo said Rainbow Sighed “Yes you can, just try” she didn’t want to present the filly with the truth that they might die, she used her forehoof to clean some of the tears off of Scootaloo’s face. “Ok, I guess” Scootaloo said still tearing up. She grabbed the end of the leaf in her mouth and started pulling, she unintentionally put weight on her broken leg and collapsed in pain. “Owch!” She yelped as she stumbled back onto her hooves to try again. “Keep going, you can do this” Rainbow said, she was unable to move, she felt so helpless, it disgusted her. Scootaloo tried again, this time managing to pull Rainbow Dash, and after a few moments of falling, getting hurt, and getting even more wet in the rain Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash were finally at the tree. “Ok, we are here” Scootaloo said, Rainbow had closed her eyes again, but she was still conscious. “Get us into it” She mumbled, she was fading in and out, she wasn’t going to be awake much longer. “Ok, I can try” Scootaloo said as she pulled Rainbow into the open trunk of the tree. It was small, but it was protection from the rain, and thats all that mattered. She sneezed, she was catching a cold. “You ok over there squirt?” Rainbow asked, she was fading fast. “I, I’m fine I just-” She sneezed again, in truth she was not fine, she was cold, wet, and developing a cold. Rainbow moaned, her pain was getting unbearable, her wings felt like they were going to fall off, her hind legs felt like someone had taken them like they were twigs and snapped them and she had a splitting headache. “Scootaloo, I don’t think I” she stopped, she thought very carefully about what she was going to say next. “I don’t think I am going to be....awake much longer, if that happens, you’re going to have to go find help, do you understand me?” “No Rainbow, no, you can’t do that, not yet” Scootaloo said, she knew exactly what Rainbow was saying. “Scootaloo, just listen to me, I....I, ok?” Rainbow said, she was starting to fade out fast. “Rainbow....Rainbow!” Scootaloo yelled as she stumbled over to Rainbow, she had fallen unconscious, but Scootaloo thought she had died. “No, no Rainbow don’t do this, no, wake up, come on, wake up Rainbow” she said, she nudged Rainbow’s foreleg to no avail. “Come on, don’t give up, you can’t die, wake up Rainbow, come on, w-wake u-up-p, p-p-pl-leas-es-es” Scootaloo said now frantically crying, she put her Forehoof over Rainbow’s chest, her heart was beating, but just barely. “Rainbow, Rainbow you have to wake up, Rainb-” Scootaloo stopped as a bolt of lightning hit the ground where they were only a few minutes earlier, then a boom so loud it shook the entire tree and even the ground. Scootaloo flinched and covered her head with her forehooves, she was crying as much as anypony could even cry at this point, it was too much. “Please Rainbow, please wake up” Scootaloo said softly through her tears, of which she was now sitting in a puddle of. She was shaken and dirty and soaking wet, how anypony could survive this was beyond imagination, Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash truly needed a miracle.