“Alright y’all let’s just take a little break,” Applejack said. “We can get back ta workin on the place later.”
There was the sound of hooves walking through the snow for a few minutes and then a door opening and closing. Afterwards there was silence with nothing moving on the yard. But eventually there was the shaking of snow covered leaves as Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle all hopped out of a snow bush.
“Good their gone,” Scootaloo said. “Let’s get started!”
Scootaloo walked forwards but as she walked she noticed she didn’t hear the sounds of hooves behind her. She looked back to see Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were both shivering and their teeth chattering from the cold, both their scarves white with snow. Scootaloo rolled her eyes when she saw them.
“Was it really that cold in there?” Scootaloo asked.
“Y-yeah,” Apple Bloom though the cold.
“H-how the heck are you fine?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Pfft, try flying above the clouds during the winter at night sometime,” Scootaloo said. “Then talk to me about cold.”
“C-can you try and m-make it a bit warmer?” Apple Bloom asked.
Scootaloo rolled her eyes before looking up into the sky. She flew up into the sky and above the clouds. Eventually some of the clouds parted directly over Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom and the sun shown down on the two, allowing then to warm up a bit from the sunlight. The snow quickly melted from their scarves and they felt much better.
“Thanks Scootaloo,” Sweetie Belle said.
“No problem,” Scootaloo said as she flew back down. She landed and looked at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell, her eyes brimming with determination. “Alright girls let’s get down to business!”
Scootaloo pointed a hoof towards Apple Bloom. “Apple Bloom, are you able to get the seeds from the barn?”
“Ah can try,” Apple Bloom said. “Ah don’t think anypony should be in the barn ta see me.”
“Alright good!” Scootaloo said. Apple Bloom nodded and walked over in the direction of the barn.
Scootaloo then turned over to Sweetie Belle. “Alright Sweetie Belle, will you be able to handle getting rid of some of the snow on the ground?”
“Some,” Sweetie Belle said. “I don’t think there’s any way I can get it all. I specialize in music magic and stuff that involves my voice. I’m not really that good with anything beyond basic telekinesis and low level magic that don’t involve my voice. And unfortunately none of those low level magic spells involve Anima Magic.”
“What are you, a dictionary?” Scootaloo asked. “What is Anima Magic anyways?”
“Magic involving fire, electricity, or wind,” Sweetie Belle explained. “But that’s beside the point. I’m going to have to lift the snow up with telekinesis and I don’t know how fast that is going to be. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it before they come back from their break.”
“Well then…” Scootaloo looked around at the area when she noticed the white arch that was near the farmhouse. The arch looked similar to the one that was over a stand during Soarin’ and Rainbow Dash’s wedding, however the decorations on it were suited to Big Macintosh and Fluttershy.
“Right here,” Scootaloo said as she showed Sweetie Belle the arch. “If we’re going to get rid of the snow in one area then it should be here. This is probably where they’re going to put that same platform Rainbow Dash and Soarin’ got married on. So we should clear the snow away from here and make it look really awesome!”
“I…guess I can try that,” Sweetie Belle said.
“Good,” Scootaloo said. “As for me…”
Scootaloo looked up into the sky. “Heh, I’m gonna fly up and get rid of these clouds. It’s not going to really help that much since the wedding isn’t today, but maybe it’ll help melt the snow a bit.”
“Alright I guess…” Sweetie Belle said, but she wasn’t really paying attention to what was going on. She was instead looking at the area thinking of where she was going to get rid of the snow first.
As Scootaloo took off for the skies Sweetie Bell walked over to a few yards away from the arch. She looked at her distance between that location and the arch and didn’t really like it. So she moved a few steps closer and after looking back over at the arch she decided she liked the position she was in.
As soon as she got into the right position she put her horn close to the ground and it started to glow. As it glowed Sweetie Bell lifted up her head and the snow in front of her flew up along with her. She then walked around the arch in a circular area lifting up the snow as she goes counterclockwise around the arch. Whenever the snowball she materialized from the snow she was picking up got large enough that she was having trouble keeping it up she would throw it to her right to get it out of the circle.
As soon as Sweetie Belle got done making the large circle around the wedding arch she looked up into the sky. There was no sight of the orange pegasus within the air when Sweetie Belle looked up at first however eventually Scootaloo finally poked her head down from the clouds. As soon as Scootaloo descended near enough Sweetie Belle raised her hoof to bring Scootaloo down.
“Yeah, what do you need?” Scootaloo asked in an annoyed voice. She flew down and hovered over Sweetie Belle.
“Are you really doing anything that interesting that you need to ignore me?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Well I’m just…pushing clouds so…no,” Scootaloo said. She sighed “I have no clue how someone as awesome as Rainbow Dash would seriously push clouds for a job. It’s so boring.”
“I don’t really know,” Sweetie Belle said, not really caring. “Anyways, do you see this circle that I drew around the arch?” Sweetie Belle spun her hoof around so Scootaloo could get the idea.
“Yeah…and?” Scootaloo asked.
“I want you to push the clouds away around that circle first so that the sun shines down and helps warm up the snow,” Sweetie Belle said. “That’ll help me clear it out a bit faster.”
“Alright I’m on it,” Scootaloo said as she flew back into the sky.
Eventually little splotches of light started appearing around the circle as Scootaloo pushed the clouds away. As Scootaloo was pushing the clouds away Sweetie Belle was continuing using he telekinesis to pick up the snow around the circle going closer and closer in as she completes each circle. It was very slow progress at first but as she got closer in and as soon as Scootaloo started clearing a wider area of clouds causing the sun to shine down and warm up the snow.
Scootaloo cleared the clouds around the circle Sweetie Belle asked her to much faster than Sweetie Belle managed to get rid of the snow. As soon as she pushed the last cloud away she looked down to see Sweetie Belle hadn’t even gotten half the snow around her circle. Scootaloo, annoyed at how little progress Sweetie Belle was making and how little time they had, flew down to see her.
“Do you need some help clearing this place out?!” Scootaloo asked in an annoyed expression. Sweetie Belle somewhat ignored her and kept walking around in the circle. “Sweetie Belle!” Scootaloo yelled to get her attention as she flew around with her.
“You just move on with your cloud pushing around the area,” Sweetie Belle said. “I’ll be fine.”
“Sweetie Belle we don’t have a lot of time,” Scootaloo pointed out. “Soarin’ could come back from his break any time now! We need to be going 20% faster!”
“I’ll be fine,” Sweetie Belle said. “You’ll just do a messy job with it anyways. I’d rather do a good job then a sloppy job even if it isn’t as fast as it should be. Just keep clearing out the clouds and I’ll be done with this eventually.”
“Sweetie Bell, it’s not like it matters anyways,” Scootaloo said. “The weatherponies will probably move the clouds around before the wedding anyways so it’s not like me pushing the clouds will do anything. I might as well help out here.”
Before Sweetie Belle could further protest Scootaloo flew away towards the center of the arch. “Alright wings don’t fail me now,” Scootaloo said as she started flying around the arch in as high of speeds she could manage. …Which wasn’t very fast at all.
That’s…not fast enough to whip a tornado, Scootaloo thought as she flew around, remembering while she was flying to keep her wings flapping. Well then I guess instead of doing that I’ll try something else.
Scootaloo paused in mid-flight as she thought of something that just might work. There was an advanced level flight trick that she saw Rainbow Dash doing one time while she was practicing. Rainbow Dash told Scootaloo not only it was an awesome trick but it also was an old Winter Wrap Up trick that was used a long time ago.
Heh, Rainbow Dash and Soarin’ told me not to try this move until I’m better but I think I can manage. It didn’t really look that hard to do. I’m sure I’ll be able to pull it off. After all, Rainbow Dash taught me everything she knows. And this will really prove that I can be left alone!
Scootaloo flew into the snow to the point of where her belly was touching the cold snow for a few seconds before she took off again and did a barrel roll as fast as she could. The wind force around her caused the snow where she hit down to come up with her, and the rotation drew snow around there in to fly up along with her.
Alright just keep this up Scootaloo and you’ll be able to get rid of all this snow, Scootaloo managed to think through the vertigo from spinning around too fast. She didn’t really expect how spinning that fast would affect her and it was hard for her to concentrate on where she was going. Heck it was hard for her to see where she was going with the world spinning around her. She eventually closed her eyes to try and avoid getting too dizzy.
“…loo!” Scootaloo just barely heard but she wasn’t able to make out what it was or where. She didn’t even know where she was flying anymore. She kept her wings flapping but by now all sense of direction was lost on her as she spiraled around and around and around. She could be heading on a direct route to the ground and she wouldn’t know it.
This…isn’t…working…out! Scootaloo thought. I…need...to…stop…spinning.
But Scootaloo’s body was not functioning as she wanted it to and she could not stop spinning no matter what she tried to do. She was having trouble gaining a single breath because the air around her was blowing all the oxygen away from her. The nausea was causing her to lose function all over her body and she felt on the verge of fainting. And to add more to it she felt snow hitting her constantly on all sides causing her to freeze up on all sides.
Eventually when Scootaloo reached her limit, when she was just seconds away from conking out she felt the wind pressure on her sides lessoning greatly. She was eventually able to stop spinning and she felt herself land on something solid. What happened after she hit that solid thing she didn’t exactly know, but whatever happened it brought her to the ground.
As Scootaloo landed on the cold ground she tried to figure out exactly what was going on so she finally opened her eyes. She tried to look around but all she saw was swirling white around her with maybe a splotch of color here and there but she was unable to get any idea of what those colors were. She was barely able to stay conscious right now, so figuring out shapes wasn’t going to happen.
“Scootaloo!”
“S-S…Soarin’?” Scootaloo asked. She tried looking at the area were the voice came from and she could just barely make out the white pegasus because of his navy blue mane.
“Scootaloo what were you thinking?!” Soarin’ asked harshly.
While Scootaloo wasn’t able to see her ears tuned into Soarin’ out of surprise. She had never heard the normally easy going pegasus yell ever before, especially at her, and while it horrified her she couldn’t block it out. She was compelled to listen to it.
“Rainbow Dash and I told you that is a dangerous move, we told you shouldn’t try that until you’re a better flyer! What in the world made you think to try it?! Do you realize what you could have done Scootaloo?! You were high in the sky and you didn’t look like you were going down any time soon! You could have flown too high and been unable to breath! You could have seriously hurt yourself, or even killed yourself Scootaloo!”
Every single word Soarin’ said almost hurt Scootaloo. This was the first time she was being yelled at by a somepony she trusts almost like a parent. Somepony who almost was a parent, even if it hadn’t been for that long. And it hurt. It really hurt her right in the heart.
“Soarin I’m…sorry,” Scootaloo said while trying not to cry in front of everybody. “I-I thought…”
“You thought you were invincible! You thought you were able to do anything you wanted to! It didn’t matter how good you actually were, you thought you were good enough! You overestimated yourself and could have hurt yourself or other ponies!”
“I…I…”
“Scootaloo you’re coming straight with me! We’re going back home and when we get there, you're grounded!”