As the sun rose across the sky and brightness filled the land,everypony began to wake.
Dizzy walked into her daughter’s room and opened the curtains revealing the sun light. “Time to wake up Scootaloo, it's time for school, silly filly” she said walking out of the room so that she could prepare breakfast.
Scootaloo rubbed her eyes, still drowsy. She laid in bed for a few minutes before finally getting up. Once up and barely awake she walked out of the room and headed downstairs. Upon arriving downstairs her breakfast was ready and waiting, her mother had made her pancakes with a bit of chocolate syrup.
Scootaloo took a few bites of her pancakes and within a few minutes she had finished her food leaving a mess, but she grabbed a napkin and wiped herself off getting all the sticky syrup off her muzzle.
Finished, she grabbed her saddlebag and headed out waving bye to her mom as she left. Once she was far out of her house instead of heading to school she headed to the arcade to have some fun.
“Today is going to be one fantastic day” she thought as she arrived at the arcade.
Once she got there it was no surprise that Button Mash was there, he was like a brain dead zombie when playing games. The world around him didn’t exist when he played.
Scootaloo didn’t bother saying hello to him because it would do nothing. She went to the arcade mare and gave her some bits for some arcade tokens. When she finished with that she smiled and went to play Super PonyO, it was about a mare with blue and red clothing, on a journey to save the princess from her arch nemesis.
Cheerilee paced back and forth, nopony, not even Scootaloo’s friends had seen her since yesterday. She called for help from the guards but they hadn’t reported anything yet.
Diamond Tiara giggled, “Maybe she finally decided to runaway. I mean she is pretty useless,” she said with Silver Spoon chuckling.
“Y’all take that back” she said crushing her hooves together. She normally never fought with her classmates, Applejack had taught her that fighting was wrong. But Big Mac taught her that being strong meant using that strength to protect the weak, so if somepony messed with a friend then they had a problem. The threat caused both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to back off and apologize, she seemed serious.
“Where do ya think she is? This isn’t like her,” Sweetie Belle worried.
Apple Bloom thought for a minute until she thought back to yesterday she remembered seeing Scootaloo drop her paper out the window. Thinking real hard she finally realized what had happened to her friend. “Ah don’t believe it, I think she’s…. skipping school today,” Apple Bloom said seeing one piece of paper stuck on the window. “Ah know Scootaloo won’t like this but Ah gotta tell,” Apple Bloom said getting out of her seat.
“Where are you going Apple Bloom?” Sweetie asked.
Apple Bloom turned to her friend, “Ah know why Scoots isn’t here, she might be sneaky but she's not good at hiding her paper.” Sweetie Belle just sat there not really understanding but shrugged it off.
Apple Bloom walked over to her teacher, and tapped her shoulder, “Miss Cheerilee, Ah thank I know why Scootaloo isn’t here today. Ah remember seeing her throw her study guide out the window, ya know the one for the test?” she said pointing at the window to the one piece of paper stuck to the glass.
Cheerilee walked over to the window and looked at the paper, it did have Scootaloo’s name on it. “Alright you fillies stay here, I need to tell Scootaloo’s mother about this. Featherweight you're in charge while I’m gone” she said walking out.
Apple Bloom sighed. “Ah hope Scootaloo can forgive me for telling on her,” she said sitting back down.
“Don’t worry Apple Bloom, I’m sure she’ll forgive you. Besides we’re best friends, nothing will ever split us up,” Sweetie Belle said.
Five minutes of walking on the rough road and Cheerilee arrived at Scootaloo’s home. Luckily for her, Scootaloo’s mother was outside working in the garden. “Miss Twister I need some help” she started.
Dizzy Twister was actually surprised to see Scootaloo’s teacher here, “What's going on? Aren’t you supposed to be teaching school right now?” she asked, concerned that her daughter was currently unsupervised.
“That's the thing, your daughter never showed up at school today. I think she might be playing hooky, I found this piece of paper with Scootaloo’s name on it by the window; it’s the study guide for a test that we had today,” she said.
Dizzy Twister’s mouth fell wide open, “How could Scootaloo do this? She's such a good filly” she thought and started walking away from Cheerilee. Before she left she turned back, “Go back and teach, she's my foal and I think I know where she could be,” she said galloping away.
Cheerilee waved bye to Twister and walked back the road to the school, she trusted Dizzy to get the job done. “If she finds her.I hope she finds out why she did it,” she thought. Worrying was only slowing her down so she pushed the thoughts from her mind. She had other students who needed her attention who didn’t skip school today.
When she arrived at the school she wasn’t surprised to see that the classroom was a mess and Apple Bloom was on top of Diamond Tiara hitting her in the snout.
“Whats going on here?” she asked. The entire classroom turned around in shock that she returned so quickly. Apple Bloom slowly climbed off Tiara.
“We were just…. playing a game” she said trying to lie but the look Cheerilee gave them told her it wasn’t working, “I attacked her because she called Scoots a chichkin” she said truthfully.
Diamond Tiara growled at her enemy, “Who me? I would never call her that, I mean what kinda monster do you take me for?” she said acting as if she never said that about Scootaloo.
Cherilee knew she couldn’t let any student get away with hitting a classmate. Apple Bloom would have to be punished, “There’s no excuse for fighting Apple Bloom, two weeks detention” she said walking back to her desk.
“Now lets get back to work, you ponies have a test to take,” she said with a bright smile.
Scootaloo spent nearly an hour in the arcade playing all of their wonderful games, but she couldn’t spend all her time in there she had other plans. Her second item for the day was to find a spot to train with Rainbow Dash so she left the arcade. Upon getting out of the building, she noticed a familiar pony flying through town, looking close she noticed it was her mother.
“Buck” Scootaloo thought and quickly galloped away trying her best to make sure her mother didn’t see her. She made a turn to the park were Rainbow Dash was to find Dash waiting patiently.
“Glad ya made it squirt, and that you took my advice. You don’t need school,” she said flapping her wings and floating five feet above Scootaloo. “First off lets start some warm ups. I want you to give me one hundred wing ups, and no breaks” she said.
Scootaloo saluted and began doing the wing ups, at least she did until she heard the flap of wings behind her.
Dizzy Twister landed right behind them and she didn’t look to happy. She took a deep breath and gave her daughter a stern look. “Scootaloo! Where have you been today?” she asked. Her daughter ignored her. Scootaloo heard but didn’t want to turn to face her mother, she was scared.
Dizzy asked again this time raising her voice more. “Look at me when I’m talking to you!” she snapped. Scootaloo flinched and looked at her mother digging a hoof at at the ground.
“Scootaloo I am very disappointed in you. I always thought I could trust you, but I guess I was wrong…. now tell me where you got this very irresponsible idea,” she said still keeping a firm look.
Rainbow Dash looked from left to right, she knew Scootaloo would be in trouble no matter what but maybe she could help, so she stepped in. I shouldn’t have given her that idea. I can’t let her get in trouble for a silly mistake. “It's my fault I’m the one who gave her the idea yesterday” she said, revealing the truth.
“Dash no!” Scootaloo shouted she didn’t want her surrogate sister getting in trouble for something she chose to do.
Dizzy Twister was more than shocked, as much as she loved Scootaloo hanging out with Dash she had no choice. She had to do everything she can to make sure her daughter was safe. She was more worried her daughter might eventually drop out like Dash did. The thought just made her more worried, she cared about Scootaloo’s future.
Dizzy Twister gave Rainbow Dash a dirty look; one that made both Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo flinch, “How could you? She's just a filly, she doesn’t need to grow up to be a delinquent,”she said in both anger and fear.
Dizzy Twister walked over to Scootaloo and put her on her back, “Scootaloo you are now forbidden from seeing Rainbow Dash. She's a bad influence on you, and from now on I will be escorting you to school and home,” she said, not regretting a single word.
Scootaloo squirmed on her mother's back, “WHAT! NO, no no, you can’t do this….I...I need her,” Scootaloo said a few tears beginning to form.
Dizzy Twister began to flap her wings as she started lifting into the air “I’m sorry Scootaloo, but this is for your own good,” she said leaving the area and a sad and shocked Rainbow Dash behind.
Wow:
I added this story to my tracking literally seconds before you posted the second chapter. That's the first time this has ever happened to me.
6368295 LOL that's awesome.
I think Rainbow Dash needs to learn a lesson in responsibility. That being said, I think this idea would've worked better if Scootaloo came to the conclusion to skip school on her own, rather than have it be planted in her head by Rainbow Dash.
6368318 If I had Scootaloo come up with the idea first, I prob wouldn't of been able to have Dizzy say what she said. speaking of which do you thank Dizzy did the right thing?
6368329 I think she may have overreacted a little bit, but I think she was justified. Rainbow Dash needs to prove to Dizzy Twister that she can be trusted, and I'd be pretty mad if my child had a role model that encouraged her to ditch school. Even if schools in America are way too concerned with test scores, nothing good ever comes from ditching it.
6368312 Yes it is.
And now that I've read this chapter, I can already tell that it'll be the kind of Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash story that the show is still missing.
6368335 I have one idea as to how she can gain trust again, protecting her young sister from Timberwolfs that being said the next few Chapters as soon as I type them will be about mostly how the characters feel during this time, What will Dash do first? what will Dizzy Do with Scootaloo once they get home? and how much will Dizzy change to make sure scootaloo is safe? these are the 3 things I'm going to focus on.
his? you said mare not stallion.
great story!
6368352 you know that thing I said about not imposing my will on the story...apparently I lied. I refuse to let you have a timberwolf attack be the reason dizzy trust RD You have a potentially great story here, don't cheapen character development for an easy way out.
Imagine what effect this has on Rainbow Dash here. For a pony who embodies Loyalty, being considered untrustworthy must be a powerful blow.
6368428 Very well, I'll just have to have something like RD and Dizzy talking with one another get to know one another better and see if within time she begins to trust her.
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"Who actually studies one day before the test?"
Hoho, boy, you'd be surprised.
There's a bunch of idiots in this world that like doing things the hard way for some reason. I for one was always the lazy kid that never paid any attention in class and then just studied like crazy at the last second. Pretty much went through the entire school with the bare minimum scores and doing things at the last second.
Or even better, there were some years on which that process was extended through the whole freaking school year rather than just for a single test. I did absolutely nothing and all my grades were shit and was well on my way to failing the school year... Until the final exams came where I aced everything out of sheer willpower and it was just enough to make my grades go from absolute shit to barely acceptable. Do nothing for a year and then make yourself explode with stress and effort at the last second was basically my philosophy.
Those were the days.
The only downside is that this strategy works like crap at a freaking University, whoops.
I see nothing wroong with skipping school..
Well, maybe a whole schoolday.
But not like one school hour on highschool.
One problem-
This doesn't sound quite right here; you should probably use a semicolon or simplify the description. ("Once she arrived, she was unfazed to see Button Mash sitting at one of the plexiglass windows of another arcade game. Secretly, Scootaloo thought he was a brain-dead zombie when immersed in a game; the world around him seemingly hazed out into an expanse of nothing when he played.") Also...may I ask why Button Mash isn't at school? I mean, wouldn't Caring Heart take him home at some point? Myeh, this is a fun concept in any case!
I'm also partially tempted to believe that Rainbow Dash knew Scootaloo would try to skip anyway and set up a "safe spot" near her just so someone would have some idea of where Scoots was. Good job!