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// Past Mistakes 
// Story: I Dream to Fly 
// by MrDynasty 
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Four hours earlier:




Rainbow Dash was inside the library, holding Scootaloo in her arms like a baby as the filly slept quietly. Nothing seemed to have changed; it was just the same as when she walked in. Rainbow looked down to Scootaloo and stared at the filly for a short time before looking back around the deserted library.


Rainbow’s eyes were dreary, dry and focused. Everything looked dry to her, everything looked vivid and salty. The filly slept quietly and peacefully in Rainbow’s arms. Rainbow looked down to Scootaloo and stared at her before looking back over to the door. “… I’ll be back Scootaloo, I need to do something… don’t worry about me. Don’t call for me. I…. I love you squirt.” Rainbow lifted herself up with her wings, flying up to Twilight’s bedroom with Scootaloo in her arms.


Once they got into Twilight’s bedroom, Rainbow pulled away the covers and laid Scootaloo down on the bed gently. Before fully letting her go, Rainbow hugged Scootaloo tight and kisses her on the forehead. “I’ll be back, I promise.” Rainbow then let go of Scootaloo and covered her up with the bed sheets. Everything was quiet. 


The sounds of Rainbow Dash trotting echoed through the library as she came down the hard wooden stairs. She had a determined look on her. Rainbow leapt off the stairs and started to flap her wings to start flying. She immediately flew towards the library’s entrance door. She pulled it open and slowly flew out the door, holding onto the handle on the way out so the door would close after she left.


Rainbow Dash then flew over to a small cloud in the sky and landed on it. She then looked all around Ponyville for something. “Where is the general direction? ...where is it?” Rainbow squinted her eyes and looked around, her eyes stopped when she saw the train station that was next to a sign that said ‘Canterlot Trains’. Rainbow Dash leapt off the cloud and flew over to the train station.


She looked at a map that showed all of Equestria’s landmarks, such as Ponyville, Canterlot, Manehatton, Las Pegasus and Fillydelphia. She placed her hoof on Ponyville and dragged it across the map till she met Canterlot. “I can’t afford a ticket… I’ll haft to fly to Canterlot. I hope Scootaloo will be okay, I don’t want her…” Rainbow Dash shook her head to get rid of the bad thoughts that roamed her mind; it was horrifying to her that she even thought of anything bad that could happen to Scootaloo. It was just her instinct kicking in. “No, I gotta keep on track. I need to go to Canterlot.” Rainbow launched herself upwards, opening her wings and flying up as high as she could.


She looked around the train station and spotted a train leaving for Canterlot. She flew down towards the train and landed on top of it, the sound of her landing on the train echoed though the metal frame. Rainbow looked in the direction that the train was going to try and spot Canterlot, it was forty or fifty miles away from Ponyville. The sky was getting darker and night was approaching quickly as the stars began to shine in the sky. Rainbow leapt off the train and started to fly in the direction leading to Canterlot as the train began pulling away from her. It was true that Rainbow Dash was the fastest flier in all Equestria, but she only had the endurance to fly at those speeds for very short distances. It would take some time before she came close to her destination.





Scootaloo was sleeping peacefully throughout the time that Rainbow Dash was galloping off to Canterlot with no mention at all. The night was perfect; everything was lit in a blue hue and was gleaming with sparkles. The only thing that was making the night even more perfect was the ambient sound of silence, it was peaceful and calming. The occasional sound of hoof steps never ruined the silent glaze of the night, instead, provoked it to be even more calming.


The night would not suffer from any sound that edged itself through the open window in Twilight’s bedroom. Scootaloo slept through everything that sounded, but the only thing that was different from the ambient silence, was the sound of an opening door…