Scootaloo rounded the corner on her scooter, quickly followed by a cart with her two friends, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, hanging on for dear life.
Tonight was the night. The night to gather all of their candy needs for a year! Or a month. Maybe just a couple of days; It didn’t matter. Tonight was Nightmare Night and this trio was going to collect as much candy as they could.
They were of course dressed up in their own costumes. Sweetie Belle was a stereotypical opera singer, Applebloom was an astropony, and Scootaloo was dressed up as the dreaded changeling, the creature that plagued the nightmares of Canterlot residents.
As they ‘flew’ down the street towards their first house, they could just about see their destination. Pinkie Pie gave them the best route to get the most amount of candy, and they planned on following it to the ‘T’.
There were of course waaaay too old to go with the ‘scared-y-ponies’ that hear the story of nightmare night, it’s not like they were scared or anything...
They reached the first house, and received only one candy each. It would take forever to fill up their bags! So they hunkered down and continued on through their list, sometime getting a lot of candy, and sometimes getting just a few pieces.
After hours of trick-or-treating, long after they had to use the cart to carry all of their candy, the trio of crusaders made it back to their clubhouse at Sweet Apple Acres. They started to count out their stash to see what they got and traded what they did and didn’t want.
After their negotiations were done, they loaded up into the scooter and cart, and made their way downtown. They dropped the cart off and started to play some games. After a while, Applebloom noticed that Scootaloo wasn’t with them. They started to make their way over to the center of town hall: where they agreed to go if they were split up.
There they saw a distraught looking Scootaloo. She was sitting next to Rarity, AppleJack and Rainbow Dash, and even with their camaraderie, she looked like she had been abandoned.
Scootaloo must have changed her costume, because she was wearing a timber-wolf suit.
As they made their way over, the foals two sister saw them. They were given the chewing out of a lifetime. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle didn’t know what they had done wrong. They hadn’t left their friend here all night; they had spent the night with Scootaloo!
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After Rainbow Dash, AppleJack, and Rarity had gathered up the rest of their friends, all sides of the story were laid out to interpret.
Scootaloo had calm down, and confirmed that she had not been dressed in a changeling suit all night. This caused some worry within the elements.
Twilight tested for changeling magic on Applebloom and Sweetie Belle and confirmed that they had been fed off of, but that there would be no lasting damage.
The adults, including a Mrs. Mayor who had joined the conversation, agreed that a town-wide changeling test was in order. They would call a town meeting that all would need to attend, and they went their separate ways, seeing as the festivities were coming to a close.
The three friends made up, and Scootaloo was able to keep all of the candy under her name at the club-house.
The changeling, or impersonator, was never found...