"Hey, Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo called out in her squeaky, young voice. She was still a few years off hitting adolescence and she dreaded it. All the voice cracks, how all of her physical attributes would change and reshape, and her wings were already playing the catch-up game. But what scared her most out of all these factors... were the zits.
Even rainbow had shown her a few of her old photos, and was, bar-none, the most spotty, zitty teen of all her friends and family. Perhaps even Ponyville! Sure now she was fine and definitely the best looking out of all the ponies in Equestria what with her beautiful, chromatic mane that blew perfectly in the wind, her soft cyan fur that she had once snuggled up to on that one cold night. That one cold night she would never forget. That one time she had anything like a hug... And from her role model! She wished Rainbow Dash was more than just her sister.
She never knew what mothers were like or what they did, her friends Applebloom and Sweetie Belle both had... Problems. Sweetie Belle's parents fight all the time (It's no wonder where she and Rarity gets it from!) and are often leaving to go on vacations all over Equestria. They were recently in Phillydelphia. Probably not anymore by now.
Applebloom's parents died long ago, just after she was born... Applejack and Big Macintosh have practically been her parents ever since. I guess because she missed the 'experience'.
She wished she had a mother and father. Only her best friends knew she was an orphan, and the CMC pledged not to tell a single living soul.
"Sup Scoots! Haven't seen you around for a while!" She replied, casually gliding down to her no.1 fan and best little sitter ever.
Oh I wish I could tell you Dash... "Not much. I've been working on my flying by doing all those exercises you taught me!" Scootaloo put on a her best cheesy grin that she could muster, which she had practically mastered by now.
"Great! I've yet to teach you ho...OLY LONELY PONY EATING MACARONIS!" (Scoots blinks wide-eyed and slowly reverses, to the reaction she got for saying she practises) "When was the last time you preened? Scoots, stop edging away I'm talking to you." (Continues to edge away, only faster and with a face of silent 'I'm in some deeeeeep $h!t...'
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Scootaloo's mind:
"NOW EVERYBODY STAY CALM, DENY EVERYTHING THAT THE MAD MARE SAYS AND LEG IT AS SOON AS SHE POINTS OUT THAT SHE KNOWS YOU'RE LYING. IF WE CAN MAKE IT TO TH-"
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"Scoots I know what you're doing, so don't even think about bolting it. We both know I can shatter the sound barrier faster than you can scream (Pun intended). And don't deny the truth. When did you last preen?" She demanded firmly. She obviously wouldn't let this slide anytime soon.
Scootaloo by this point had stalled like a computer from 2003 and was currently processing its choices: Spill the beans and admit the truth, run like a coward (unimpressive option) or curl up in a ball and cry (very unimpressive option).
Her brain being that 2003 computer it is, stalled for roughly thirty seconds before stuttering and deciding what to do. A mix of all three.
Scoots turned and galloped five meters before tripping on a large tree root, falling, and like a nut, instantly cracking.
"I'VENEVERPREENEDINMYLIFE! IDON'TKNOWHOWTOPREENANDIWASEMBARRASEDTOASKYOU!" She sputtered before shaking rather violently.
"Woah! Calm Scoots, calm. Why would you be embarrassed to ask?"
Scoots begged Celestia herself that RD didn't hear the last bit of her three second speech.
"And what's more, why me?" She asked inquisitively. What Scoots had done was give out her most valuable secret, like a password... And Rainbow just hacked in.
"Ummm..." RUN.
Too late. Dash had already grabbed the filly by her waist and had launched them both roughly 2000ft in the air.
"Let me go!"
"Nope."
"LET ME GO!"
"Nope."
"RAINBOW DASH I DEMAND YOU LET ME GO!"
"If I do that you'll fall to your perilous doom. I'm not an idiot, and I know you aren't either so just think about what you're saying. Now tell me. What. Is. Going. On?!" She grasped the filly tighter to stop herself from getting elbowed in the gut or head butted in the face.
"I CAN'T FLY BUT I CAN GLIDE!" She roared, and with one final squirm broke free, accidentally hitting Rainbow with her flailing arms, stunning her as she plummeted straight down towards Sweet Apple Acres...
Seconds before splatting on the ground, she flared her stubby wings and half landed, half crashed into a hole in a hollow tree. Mere seconds longer and she would have been an orange pancake and somepony else's problem to take care of.
Suddenly before her she saw the trees unnaturally bend downwards and animals everywhere shrieked from the loud sound noise as the hazel-orange sky burst into a quickly spreading spectrum of colours. She was petrified.
The next thing scoots knew, she was in a bed in a strange room.
"Wait a minute... I don't have a bed..."
"But you do have a lot of explaining to do."