//------------------------------// // Chapter Fifteen: Lost Our Scootaloo // Story: Bart and Scoots // by Gazmanafc //------------------------------// Chapter Fifteen Lost Our Scootaloo The basement to the Simpsons's household was dark, so dark that quite often, Homer would try to turn the light on, and end up with nothing and falling flat on his face down the stairs which like always he did, grunting and cursing as he fell down, despite the darkness, a bright light of nothing shone out of nowhere, as a portal to someplace opened up in front of him, and two ponies walked out from it. Getting a brief look at them before the portal closed behind them, Homer could spot what they looked like, one of these ponies was purple coloured mare, with a mane of a darker purple shade with streaks of pink colours, with a horn sticking through it. The other was also a mare, cyan coloured with wings on her extending from her shoulder-blades and a mane and tail of rainbow colours. "Oh great. I'm hallucinating again" says Homer. Twilight fires up her horn to brighten the room up. She and Rainbow Dash look at each other. "...Homer?" Twilight queries. "Oh great, and they can somehow talk and know my name too!" he exclaims "Get away you figments of my imagination" he says. Rainbow Dash looks at Twilight "Is this guy for real?" she says. Just then, Lisa appears and comes down the stairs, "Dad, what are you yelling about...?" she queries, before stopping in her tracks, and looks at Twilight and Rainbow Dash. "OH MY GOSH, THERE ARE MORE PONIES IN OUR BASEMENT! AND ONE OF THEM IS A UNICORN!" she squeals running up to Twilight "Uh..." Twilight can only respond uneasy. "Wait, Lisa you can see the ponies too?" questions Homer "So, Daddy isn't going crazy?" "No dad, they're really here." Lisa says trying to contain herself. "You must be from Equestria, right?" "That's right." Says Twilight. "Well, why don't we talk properly upstairs in the living room. Scootaloo should be home from school pretty soon. I'd say that there's no need for introductions, I'm sure, we all know each other's names, right?" Lisa says walking to the stairs. "Okay, Thanks Lisa" says Twilight following behind with Rainbow Dash. "Though if you and Scootaloo are in the same class, how come you're here and she's not?" Twilight asks. "Oh. She got detention earlier for beating on someone." Lisa replies. "Really? We ponies never resort to violence, what caused such behaviour?" Twilight says, shocked. "Well, Sherri, the girl she beat, said that whoever gave Scootaloo her wings was a moron. Scootaloo took that extremely personally." Lisa replies. "I'll bet she did." comments Rainbow Dash. The trio are now in the Living Room where Maggie is sitting on the couch watching TV, with Marge in the Kitchen. Twilight turns to the baby sitting on the couch, who has noticed the new ponies in the room and jumps off waddling over to Rainbow Dash, then stretching her arms out. "Uhm... what's she doing?" Rainbow Dash asks. "Maggie wants to jump on your back. Scootaloo gave her plenty of pony-back rides before we used Princess Celestia's magic, so I think Maggie wants one from you, Rainbow Dash." Lisa answers. "But why me?" "You are the cooler pony between us Rainbow. Twenty Percent Cooler as it were." jokes Twilight in response. "Well, that's true, alright little one, you can jump on my back for a little while" Rainbow Dash says, lowering herself so that Maggie can climb on which she does, the pegasus mare stands back up, flaring her wings open so that they can act as a safety barrier for Maggie. "Aww... that's adorable Rainbow Dash." Twilight teases. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever..." Having completed whatever task she was doing in the kitchen, Marge walks into the living room, as at the same time, Homer finally recovers from his apparent episode in the basement. Just as Homer sets his butt on to the couch to watch TV while Lisa somehow talks to the ponies that appeared out of the darkness of the basement, Bart busts through the front door. "MOM! DAD! LISA! WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE!" he shouts. "I'm in the Living Room Bart!" Lisa responds. Bart instantly runs into the Living room to join Homer, Lisa, Maggie, Twilight and Rainbow Dash, though Bart totally ignored the two new ponies in the room. "Lis, we have a problem, Scoots has been kidnapped." Bart says. Rainbow Dash jumped, surprising Maggie who was still sitting on her back. "WHAT?!" she exclaims. It was Bart's turn to be surprised. Turning around to spot the two new ponies standing in the room in front of the TV. "Woah. I didn't see you there uh..." Bart stutters Realising that Bart hasn't figured out who they are Twilight speaks up. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and this is Rainbow Dash." "Yeah!" Rainbow Dash boasts. "Now what's this about Scootaloo being kidnapped?!" she shouts. "Please calm down Rainbow Dash. Give Bart some time to explain. Flying off the handle isn't going to help." says Lisa. "She's right, Rainbow. Bart hasn't told us a single detail about what happened." says Twilight. Rainbow Dash tries to compose herself, but despite her reputation, she really cared about Scootaloo. "Well. I don't know everything that happened like how she was kidnapped, but I do know two things. Who took her, and where." says Bart. "You do? How?" says Twilight. "Experience. Both Lisa and I have dealt with this guy before." says Bart. "Bart, you mean...?" Lisa asks. "Yes. It was Sideshow Bob." says Bart. "It seems he's gone nostalgia on us too, he's taken Scootaloo to the 7G12 Television Studio." "What? But that's where you caught him the first time." says Lisa. "Um... can you fill us in here, who's this Sideshow Bob?" asks Rainbow Dash. "Oh right. Sideshow Bob was Krusty the Clown's former sideshow on his television show for many years. Until one night he decided to frame Krusty for a robbery at a local convenience store called the Kwik-E-Mart. Thanks to an eyewitness account by our own father," Lisa says turning towards him "Krusty was declared guilty, and sentenced to jail. All Krusty merchandise was destroyed and Sideshow Bob took over the show. Bart was the only person to believe that Krusty was innocent, and asked for my help in finding clues. Live on his show Bart found the final piece of evidence that pointed to Sideshow Bob as the culprit of the robbery. As a result, over the years, Sideshow Bob has tried several revenge attempts against Bart, but all of them have failed." Lisa explains. "But if he was jailed, how does he keep getting out." asks Twilight. "Oh the police force here sucks!" says Bart. "Whatever. So, now he's using Scootaloo to get back at Bart. We have to save her!" states Rainbow Dash. "Right. Lisa, this is your department." says Bart. "As always," says Lisa. "It's too early to go now." "WHAT! We have to go get her now!" shouts Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow, take it easy. Bart and Lisa have dealt with this guy before. I'm she knows what's she's saying." replies Twilight. "But--" Lisa ignores Rainbow Dash's protests to continue with her plan. "As I was saying, it may be dark, but there are still people outside, so we can't let you two be seen. So, later tonight we'll go to the 7G12 Studio in the shadows of darkness, sneak in, and find Scootaloo. Bart and Twilight can distract Sideshow Bob, while Rainbow Dash and I focus on freeing Scootaloo." "Alright, that sounds like a plan" says Rainbow Dash. "...so what do we do until mission time?" "Sit around and watch TV, I suppose. But Bart, how did you know where Bob had taken Scootaloo?" asks Lisa. "Simple. He left a message for me on the chalkboard Scootaloo was writing her lines on." says Bart. "Really? He must be running out of creative ideas to trap us..." responds Lisa...