WOOT WOOT!!!! 7000 TOTAL CHAPTER VIEWS!!! Sorry everypony, short chapter but the story arc isn't done yet. There will be more. I also know this isn't my best material. Just deal with it. I tried to use the comedy tag once or twice and I think it may have detracted from it but oh well. A penny for your thoughts?
"Now tell me Rainbow Dash, how would you like to defy the laws of nature?"
Dash looked at Star Swirl in mild confusion. "The laws of what now?"
Star Swirl quickly facehooved and dismissed the remarkably stupid question. "Ok... let me rephrase that. How would you like to bring somepony back from the dead?" he said a little annoyed.
"Ohh... Ok."
"But first I need a DNA sample. Would you happen to have anything that belonged to Scootaloo? Like a hair or something?"
"I have a feather." she offered.
"Great, even better." Rainbow Promptly gave the feather and he opened a compartment to the machine. He then began to start pressing buttons which Dash couldn't make any sense of. She watched curiously as he finished up.
"So... how exactly does this work?"
Star Swirl the Bearded cracked a wide smile. "To be completely honest I have no Idea. The humans apparently are masters a technology and look what they invented!" he yelled laughing manically. "Isn't this magnificent? A device that actually brings back the dead and can do it with no less than a few simple cells let alone a feather. I can't help but to wonder at the marvels of the human world, past and future. I've been inclined to ask some of them about there world. I started with the more primitive looking ones and then asked the more technologically sound humans about there world in the time they inhabited it. Oh wht they told me made my imagination wonder... Oh look at me going on off on a tangent." He slammed the door shut and went to a panel across the room which had a giant monitor that dominated the wall that said "Ready to proceed" and had a dot on the end that blinked in and out of existence. "LETS DO THIS!" he yelled comically and flipped the switch.
The compartment had a glass view port that allowed ponies to view the processes that the body was being reconstructed from. The machine whirred to life as the crackling of electricity could be heard and light began to pour out of the view port making it redundant. Rainbow Dash turned away from the blinding light as she faintly heard Star Swirl laughing over the powerful noise of the machine. There was then a small whining noise which grew louder and louder to the point where Rainbow had to cover her ears from the audio assault. She looked back at the machine and could see a small body silhouetted in the light. She watched as muscle grew over the bones that had been formed and then watched skin grow atop that. She turned away again because the sight of so much of the body exposed the way it was sickened her a little.
"ONE MORE MINUTE!" Star Swirl yelled over commotion. Rainbow Dash gave him a quizzical look. "What? I like to really act out the moment! It makes things more fun!"
Rainbow shrugged it off and returned her focus to the machine. She noticed that the light had dimmed considerably and that Scootaloo lie in the belly of the metal machine as she was a week ago. She lie there unmoving, and not breathing. The sound in the machines "gut" had stopped and everything went quiet. Rainbow Dash stared at the unmoving filly and a tear crept from her eye. She furiously shook her head to stop herself from crying not let Scootaloo see her in such a state. She started to walk forward towards the machine. She still had her eyes locked onto the filly and blocked out all reality under her gaze.
"GET BACK ITS NOT DONE YET!" Star Swirl yelled snapping her to attention.
"Huh?" This was all she could utter before a blinding light shot from the machine into her eyes. She yelled out in pain as the light burned her retinas. She held her eyes closed and had fallen to the ground while wallowing in the immense pain she was in. She opened her eyes to find there was nothing but blackness. She waved a hoof in front of her face but could still only see empty featureless blackness.
"Sorry... heh heh. I should have warned you earlier to avert your eyes. Um you may be blind anywhere from and five minutes to five days."
"WHAT?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't remember. It was my fault. Just don't get angry. We don't need an angry blind mare running around a dangerous lab with machines that I don't even know how they work... ah look who's awake. Hello there little one. I wouldn't try moving around too much because your new body has to adjust to... you know, being alive."
"Wheres Scoots?" she practically screamed.
"Shes right here. You must allow her a minute to recuperate. She was just zapped enough electricity to power a small village. Her mind also needs to catch up with her. I swear I will never know how these humans do it. This machine can somehow get memories from a feather of all things. Brilliant I say."
"R-r-rainbow?" the filly squeaked. She simply stared at the ceiling allowing her minds gears slowly start to turn. She looked over at Rainbow dash again. As soon as she realized she was alive she rushed to Rainbow Dash and hugged her as tightly as she could, breaking into tears.
"I'm here squirt, I'm here." Rainbow Dash said trying to contain her own tears. She knew this wasn't her style at all but it was defiantly needed. She decided to sing a lullaby to the crying filly to help calm her. She racked her mind over a song she knew and she then remembered something Fluttershy taught her.
"Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.
Drifting off to sleep,
leave exciting day behind you.
Drifting off to sleep,
let the joy of dream land find you.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.
The orange filly was asleep in the blind pegasus' hooves. Rainbow couldn't be happier. She cradled the filly and smile at her while gently stroking her mane. She wouldn't let anything happen to her again. She continued to hum in the middle of the floor with Scootaloo safely in her arms, not caring about anything else in the world.
Star Swirl was going to leave to give the to some privacy but the tenderness of the moment made him stop midway in his exit from the room. He stood there with the door hanging open. He was going to compliment Rainbow for her singing but then a beeping noise caught him off guard. He looked up at the monitor. It read "Password accepted. Beginning defrost procedures". Star Swirl's smile threatened to leave his face as galloped as fast as he could to wake everyone that helped the city run. They were in for a surprise.
Celestia got to the end of the tunnel and was taken by complete surprise when she saw that inside the mountain was a city that dwarfed Canterlot in size. She gawked at the city wondering what could possibly be responsible for creating something so massive. She then flared her wings and took flight towards the tallest building. Rainbow Dash had to be there.