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Prologue - Once a Crusader...1,077 words
Chapter 1 - The Last Crusader1,116 words
Chapter 2 - Dreamscape1,185 words
Chapter 3 - Work In Progress1,006 words
Chapter 4 - School933 words
Chapter 5 - Small Talk723 words
Chapter 6 - The Unexpected Twist559 words

Chapter 6 - The Unexpected Twist

Chapter 6 - Attempts

School seemed to fly by after recess. Scootaloo didn't think about anything else except for what she planned to do to earn her cutie mark.

Once school actually did let out, she ran(as fast as she could in a dress) toward the clubhouse. It would have been faster with her scooter, but you don't ride a scooter while in a dress.

She eventually reached the clubhouse. The first thing she did there was take the dress off and threw it onto a hanger, which hung from a rack.

The next thing she did was find a paper and pencil, and wrote down all the activities she had done while Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were still in the club. Scuba diving, bowling, ect.

Once she finished coming up with all those, she flipped the paper over, and began to brainstorm ideas about what she could do to get her cutie mark.

No ideas came to mind.

"This is hard," she said to herself. "We've already done everything! What else is there to do?"

She thought a bit about Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. Both of them had their cutie marks. What difference was there between what the three of them had done and what those two did to earn their cutie marks.

Apple Bloom had gotten hers for apple bucking, which was something that they hadn't done before. Sweetie Belle had gotten hers for singing, which was also something they hadn't done before.

Well, they did try singing before, once. It was when they were taking a part of the play for school. But that was Scootaloo singing, not Sweetie Belle.

Then the answer crossed her mind. Of course! she thought. It's not what we all do together. It's what we enjoy! We always tried to get the same cutie marks for all three of us! I should focus on what I like doing, and not what we did!

And that's what she did. She darted outside, completely forgetting about writing down stuff to crusade about. She knew exactly what she enjoined doing.

Scootaloo dashed down from the clubhouse, though it wasn't much of a clubhouse without a club. There was once the Rainbow Dash Fan Club, but that disbanded after the Mare Do Well incident, and Rainbow wasn't as popular anymore.

She thought about the mare she admired as somepony to look up to. She had earned her cutie mark when she was probably the same age as her, and when she found what she loved doing.

She eventually reached her home, and for the first time, there were two ponies waiting there. A mare and a stallion. This confused Scootaloo greatly. Why were they there... for what reason?

She cautiously approached the couple, or whom she assumed she was a couple since they were together. When she came close enough to talk to them, she spoke.

"Umm, can I help you two?"

The two ponies turned to Scootaloo, slightly shocked in the process. "Scootaloo?" the mare called. "Is that really you?"

"Um, yeah, can I help you two?"

"Of course you can!" the mare continued. "We're your parents, and we've come to take you home!"

Author's Note:

The title to this chapter is a bit too cliché, don't ya think?

Anyway, I'm sorry for yet another(EXTREMELY) short chapter, and for the long time its taken to update. School started recently, and I haven't had much time to work on this story as much as I wanted.

For those of you who have noticed, this story of mine is now part of an actual series I created! I haven't come up with an actual name for the series, so I just called it The Scootaloo Series.

You may have also noticed that the sequel of this story is definitely planned! It will be called Taking Off, but that's all the spoilers I will give about it.

In other news actually relating to this chapter: Scootaloo's parents?!? Who expected that, honestly? Well, me obviously, but who else?

Don't answer that, it was rhetorical.

In other news that totally does not relate to this story at all: I've done another story based off BlackGryph0n and Bassik's song: Another End! You can find it in my stories list, or the 'top ten stories of mine' list off to the side of the cover of this story.

In even more unrelated news, I'm also working on Zero Gravity! It's another story based off of the amazing BlackGryph0n and Bassik, so I hope you all look forward to that one as well!

Well, hopefully I'll have the next update soon. Until then, continue reading!

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