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// Chapter Ten: Scootaloo This Isn't Your Life 
// Story: Bart and Scoots 
// by Gazmanafc 
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Chapter Ten
Scootaloo This Isn't Your Life


It's been a week since Scootaloo has turned human. She's gotten used to walking bipdeally, and is now getting a proper tour of the town so she has a basic idea on some of Bart and Lisa's favourite hangouts such as the Kwik-E-Mart, Noiseland Arcade, Androids Dungeon and Jazzy Goodtimes, Lisa even states that there are a few buildings she should avoid like the plague such as Krusty Burger, Bart still contests that the school is a place to avoid, but Lisa tells her to ignore him. 

In Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle is still working hard on trying to open a portal, though she has made some progress, she's at least been able to open a portal that can carry a ponies across space within Equestria, the portals aren't open for long, so she has in effect at least made it easier for Rainbow Dash to travel from Canterlot to Ponyville, though there isn't any need for her to do so anymore since Twilight will simply open a portal for herself to do the deliveries instead, then when it's made, she'll use a second portal to go back to Canterlot. She would liked to have moved back to Ponyville and “commute” to Canterlot each morning, but the portal is only currently strong enough to carry one organic being, so Spike can't come along which would make keeping Princess Celestia in the know on what's going on in a timely manner. Sadly, keeping the Princess in the know was placed above keeping Scootaloo's own mother in the know, but she's kept up to date all the same. 

Marge suggested in a letter that if it'll take a long time, that Scootaloo should enroll into school just so that the local authorities, (which as she admits rather stupid, given the lack of attention to detail that Chief Wiggum has) wont catch on that there's a minor in the house not attending school. Twilight stated that it would take at least another month for a spell that can create portals that can carry more than one pony, let alone across dimensions at that. 

One of the first things the family sent to Equestria was a picture of Scootaloo's new form sitting on the couch with them. When Rainbow Dash showed it to Skylight she got a small chuckle out of it, especially how out-of-place the wings that Flanders had made her seem, but as long as her daughter was happy with them, so was she.

Though the outfit she wore was mostly borrowed from Lisa, Scootaloo did ask for a patch to be added to the shorts, which happened to be of Rainbow Dash's cutie mark. A Blue-Yellow-Red stripped lightning bolt attached to a cloud, according to the letter that she wrote, she would've preferred to have her own mark as the patch, but naturally didn't have one, her second choice was the emblem of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, designed by Sweetie Belle for their capes, since it featured a pony, Marge and Lisa suggested that it would probably be a bad idea to use that patch, so trying to think of a different symbol to use, it was settled to use Rainbow Dash's cutie mark instead, Rainbow Dash is Scootaloo's idol after all. 

Rarity, Sweetie Belle's older sister and the fashion designer of Ponyville after seeing the photo of Scootaloo's new look wanted to get her measurements so that she could make her a new outfit of her own instead of simply borrowing clothes from the Simpsons, but it took some convincing from both Twilight and Rainbow Dash to not do that. Pony fashion is obviously vastly different from Human fashion and that it would be hard for Rarity to scale back her work enough to blend in with Springfieldian culture a notion that even Rarity herself though begrudgingly admitted, much to Twilight and Rainbow Dash's relief. Besides, Sweetie Belle has to remind her that she has other clients lined up. 

Princess Celestia did allow Skylight to keep the photograph, but since the ordeal is top-secret Equestria-side, and even more-so Springfield-side, that the Princess had to ask the pegasus mother-of-one to not put on display in her house, but offered allow it to be kept in a photo album or scrapbook, as much as anypony with treasured memories such as their child's birth, first step, first word, first wing-flap among others, Skylight knew that very few would be interested in looking at them outside of immediate family, which outside of Scootaloo she didn't have much of, Scootaloo's father walked out years ago when Scootaloo was a mere baby. 

In Springfield, Marge was sitting in the Principals office of Springfield Elementary, next to her was Scootaloo, and behind her was Lisa, in front of her behind the desk was the Principal of the school, Principal Seymour Skinner. Principal Skinner was well known to Marge, for two different reasons. For Bart, it was for his delinquency, and his poor grades, while for Lisa it was the exact opposite, Lisa's widely known amongst the faculty for her smarts, though there have been times when even Lisa has been known for her own trouble making such as a time when she rebelled against a future career in homemaking result, and stole every teachers edition book in the school, which Bart took the rap for to save her from ruining her life, there was also a time when she was student body president and staged a strike to bring back music, gym and art the teachers attempted to get rid of her by transferring her to a different school, but they were thwarted by Homer. 

“So, Marge, what brings you to my office. Bart's not done any pranking this week. Which has to be a new school record.” Principal Skinner says as he clasps his hands together. 
“Actually, I'm here to enroll a new student into Lisa's class” says Marge.
“Oh? And who might that be Marge. I'm sure you know that this isn't a pre-school, we can't exactly enroll Maggie here.” Skinner laughs. 
“No. Not Maggie. My uh- niece from Manhattan is staying in Springfield for a few months. She's been living on a farm since she was a baby, but wants to get a feel for urban life, so she's been staying with us for the past few weeks.” says Marge. 
“Okay Marge, I think we can handle that. Though there aren't any farms in Manhattan...” Skinner says as he gets out some paperwork. 
“Well, I was born in Manehattan but then my mom and I moved to the farm” says Scootaloo.

Principal Skinner raised an eyebrow to the accidental quip that Scootaloo made as he hands Marge the paperwork.

“...'Manehattan'?”
“You see, uh, 'Harmony' got a little too used to growing up on the farm, so she tends to speak with a lot of horse puns as a force of habit” states Lisa looking at Scootaloo who was nervous yet thankful to Lisa for the save. She's been trying all week to break the habit of saying things such as “everybody” instead of “everypony” but it's hard for her, she's too used to the Equestrian terms, but she's trying. 
“Oh. Okay then. Just as long as the paperwork is filled out, then everything is good.”

On the form, one field that needed to be entered was Scootaloo's date of birth, Marge knew that such a question was going to come up since practically everything needs a date of birth, not knowing the time progression for Equestria, Marge had to ask Scootaloo before arriving, which turned out into her favour that Springfield and Equestria run on a 1:1 time difference, so strangely enough the date of birth that Marge was able to put down was actually accurate, the only difference being that the year had to be changed to signify 2004 which is the Springfieldian year she would've been born in rather than the Equestrian counterpart instead of 992-ANM (1)

Once the form was filled out, and everything was signed off by Marge and Principal Skinner she was officially enrolled into the same class as Lisa, the second grade which is taught by Miss. Elizabeth Hoover. 

“Alright then. Everything is set. Harmony, you can follow me and we'll introduce you to your class. Lisa why don't you help me out.” says Skinner.
“Sure, Principal Skinner.” replies Lisa.
“I'll see you kids later then” Marge replies as she leaves the school and heads home to Evergreen Terrace. 

The two kids walked down to the second grade classroom, a familiar sight for Lisa, where her teacher was already given some poorly thought out lesson plan that she didn't really care about. Principal Skinner walks in, with the two kids in tow, Miss. Hoover automatically turns around to notice who has just entered the room.

“Lisa, we thought you were absent.” says Miss Hoover.
“She was with me, Elizabeth. She's not tardy.” says Skinner. 

Miss. Hoover shrugs with an “eh” murmured. 
“Class, I have a new student for you today.” Skinner says turning to the class. 
“Just keep rolling them in Seymour” says Miss Hoover sarcastically.
“We'll talk about that later Elizabeth.” says Seymour under his breath, turning to the class “Now it's not easy to come to a new school, so lets give a big Springfield Elementary hello, to Harmony.”
“Uh... hi...” says Scootaloo, with a nervous wave to the class.
“Yes... well... Goodbye!” Skinner says making a hasty retreat out of the room. 
“I'm sure this is a nervous time for you Harmony,” says Miss. Hoover, she gives Scootaloo a chance to reply with “uh-huh” before continuing, “So why don't you stand up in front of the class and introduce yourself.”
“Well.. there's not much to say really. I came to Springfield to get a new feel for city life after living on a farm for a few years, before that, me and my mom lived in Manehattan, but I don't remember living there too well...” she hated to have to make an excuse on where she lived and why she was in here, but it helped her to keep her cover in Springfield, she knew that she couldn't say that she was a talking pony-with-wings from another dimension she thought that she might have lucked out in getting the Simpsons to believe her let alone an entire classroom of second graders. 

The class just stared at her. Before anyone could say anything, Lisa spoke up, with the same thing that she had told Principal Skinner.

“Y'see, Harmony has lived on the farm for so long that she's gotten into a weird habit of inserting horse puns into her speech, so when she says 'Manehattan' she actually means 'Manhattan'.”
“Uh... yeah. While I'm in Springfield, I'm staying with Lisa... she's kinda uh... my cousin.” Scootloo continues. It felt weird to say that Lisa was her cousin, and being from Manhattan, it parallels exactly with the relationship that Apple Bloom has with her cousin, Babs Seed, everything is an exact match, with the lack of an 'e', and that Scootaloo has to use an alias. 

“Hmm... okay. Why don't you find a seat, Harmony.” says Miss. Hoover interrupting Scootaloo's small introduction.
“O-Okay.” she replies.

Lisa quickly takes to her own desk, which is in the front row, next to it, is an empty seat, which Scootaloo takes to, Miss Hoover hands her a notebook that has blank sheets of paper for her to write stuff onto. She opens the desk to find an array of pencils and pens to write with. 

“And now, back onto the lesson of Springfield History.” says Miss Hoover.
“Sweet, history.” Scootaloo thought. Despite her attitude towards school in Ponyville, she had a keen interest in history, she wasn't really sure why, but there was always something about learning about the past interested her, though she had an image to maintain in Equestria so she never went to Twilight to check out books, or simply ask the unicorn about the events herself. Here, things would be tougher because while all the events of the past in Springfield were mostly common knowledge to someone like Lisa, to Scootaloo it was all new, she didn't know anything about Springfield's History. Going to school in Springfield was going to be a tough ride.