//------------------------------// // What To Do With Scootaloo-Side Chapter // Story: Hunter's Story // by Horatiojones //------------------------------// Short sweet chapter, doesn't actually contain hunter, and occurs on the same day as the previous chapter Rainbow Dash flew away from her friends gathering, thinking on what Fluttershy had done, adopting somebody they had just met, merely because they were an orphan. Dash landed on a cloud, lay down, and thought about her own childhood, filled with sadness on how her parents had died when she was a young filly, and how she had grown up in an orphanage all by herself, with no one to help her, all alone. She had realised, along time ago, that the only way to find love was to make everybody happy, and the only way she could think of to do that was to do acts of awesomeness, aweing people into loving and respecting her. No one more so was affected by these acts than her number one fan Scootaloo, who was an orphan, having grown up without her parents after a rogue dragon had killed them as they travelled near Ponyville. Rainbow Dash yawned and continued to think, she knew all this, but still she couldn’t bring herself to do anything about it, she liked Scootaloo, but she just wasn’t sure if she could really be a mother, and so had just decided to be a good role model to her. But Fluttershy’s actions had thrown this idea to the wind, she realised now she was just scared, but what could she do, it wasn’t as if Scootaloo wanted her as a mother, or was it. Then the rainbow maned Pegasus rolled onto her side, and fell asleep. Scootaloo was wondering home, with her friends, thinking on what they planned to do with Hunter, their new friend, and how great it was going to be when he started going to school. She looked up into the sky, and noticed her favourite Pegasus was sleeping on a rapidly dissipating cloud, she shouted out, waking rainbow dash, who looked at her cloud and flew up, narrowly avoiding a very nasty wake up call. She looked to the person who had woken her up, happy to see her friend, but annoyed by the confused feeling she brought up in the older mare, of maternal instincts and loyalty, but also of fear and sadness. She flew down to give her thanks, to which Scootaloo said “no its alright, I'm sure you would have done the same for me”. Noticing how happy Scootaloo was to even talk to her, she came to a decision and said to the rest of the cutiemark crusaders “girls could you give us a minute, I want to talk to Scootaloo about something”, they nodded their heads and continued on. Scootaloo looked at Rainbow Dash, who was looking at her with a expression that the young filly hadn’t seen in a long time, of love. Rainbow Dash said “honey, I want to ask, what did you think of Hunter and Fluttershy’s relationship, would you like something similar”. Scootaloo, gasped on realising what Rainbow Dash meant, and began doing the Yes dance, that she had first seen performed by Twilight Sparkle, when they asked about her cutiemark. Dash looked on in happy amusement, as the purple maned, orange furred Pegasus danced around in front of her, showing to be quite adept at it. When Scootaloo came to her senses, she saw Rainbow on the floor laughing; this caused her considerable sadness as she began to think it had been a prank. She got back onto her Scooter and raced of, eyes filling with tears. Rainbow was shocked by this, she wasn’t sure what she had done wrong, and she just thought that Scootaloo looked so funny, so she had started laughing. She raced after the younger pony, rapidly approaching the grounded Pegasus, who was giving all she had to get away, not even noticing were she was going, but Rainbow Dash did. She was headed towards a cliff that overlooked Ponyville. Rainbow Dash started going even faster, hoping to catch up in time, encountering the wind barrier, which she now looked on as an old foe, she pushed against, and broke through, creating a giant rainboom, the force of which blasted outwards. She flew towards Scootaloo, who was pushed by the rainboom, over the cliff, and started falling; Rainbow Dash reached the edge of the cliff, and dived straight towards the younger Pegasus, who was screaming loudly. She dove, and just as Scootaloo was about to hit the ground, she caught her, and straightened out, racing just above the ground, trying to lose momentum. The younger Pegasus’s beloved scooter, however was not as lucky, hitting the ground with a huge, unexplainable, explosion. Eventually, Rainbow Dash slowed enough to be able to look at Scootaloo, who was looking up at her, her eyes as big as plates, “you saved me, after pulling such a cruel prank, you saved me, why?” she asked. Rainbow alighted on a nearby cloud, and placed the Pegasus down, “firstly, of course I would save you, I'm loyal to my friends, and you just so happen to be one of them, and secondly what prank” she asked confused and angry, with herself or Scootaloo she wasn’t quite sure. “You know, the one where you were offering to adopt me, and then laughed at me when I got excited”, she said, looking at Rainbow Dash with daggers in her eyes. Rainbow Dash trotted over to her younger charge, with an expression of surprise quite clear on her face, saying “Scootaloo, that wasn’t a prank, I honestly want to adopt you, I know how bad it is being an orphan, and just seeing how happy Hunter was today, made me realise just how easily I could give someone I care about the same happiness”. Scootaloo started crying, and sobbed out “you care about me”, to which Rainbow Dash responded, “of course I do Scootaloo, now let’s go see the mayor about me adopting you as my daughter”. She picked up Scootaloo in her arms, and hugged her, then headed towards the mayor’s office. They arrived, landing on the mayors office’s porch, Rainbow Dash opened the doors, while Scootaloo, danced around with excitement. The mayor was sitting at her desk, eating a daisie sandwich, munching quietly, and looking at them with something along the lines of calm acceptance, as if people walked through her 2nd story outside door every day. “Rainbow Dash wants to adopt me”, Scootaloo yelled, bursting with excitement, to which the mayor, pulled a draw behind her open, pulled out a large document, and an ink pad, and then said, “okay, place a hoof print here, here, here, and here, please Rainbow Dash”, pointing at random points on the document. Rainbow Dash complied, dipping her hoof on the ink pad, and then signing the paper, before wiping her hoof on a cloth the mayor provided, the mayor then put her own hoof print on the paper and said “alright she is now your daughter, any clothing or other personal items will be removed from the orphanage by tomorrow. Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo thanked the mayor, and left, Scootaloo in Rainbow Dash’s arms as she flew towards her, or now, their home. Rainbow Dash spent the rest of the day building a partition on to her home, extending it with a new room for Scootaloo, while the younger filly offered directions, more of hindrance than a help, which led too many ridiculous placing’s of walls, beds, wardrobes and other particulars, but all in good fun. They tried to make dinner together, both finding out that the other had absolutely no cooking skills, and so Rainbow Dash flew to a nearby Prance patisserie and got them both croissants, and hot chocolates, before bringing it back and eating it with her new daughter. They went to bed, with Scootaloo sleeping in her new cloud bed, while Rainbow Dash watched her sleep for a little while, before going to bed herself. Scootaloo woke the next morning, refreshed and happy, and got out of bed, wandering into Rainbow Dashes room; she looked for her new mother, but couldn’t find her. She walked into the kitchen, were she found a note, which said “good morning Scoots, I’m sorry I couldn’t be there to see you wake up on your first day with me, but I have to work, have a good day go play with your friends, I’ll see you later, maybe we could get lunch together, love Rainbow”. Scootaloo was a little sad, but she knew people have to work, so she understood, and besides, she always had a good time with her friends, maybe they should go see Hunter, and bring spike along she thought. She opened Rainbows front door, when she realised, she couldn’t leave, as she wasn’t a good enough flyer yet, and with a big breath she did the only thing she could think of, and yelled “RAINBOW DASH” Rate Review do what ever you want do