Epilogue
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo practically had to drag Sweetie Bell out of their hiding hole, the fighting was over. Sweet Apple Acres was located about a kilometre to the southwest of Ponyville, the gryphons hadn’t even made it this far. Scootaloo’s Crusader Machine Carbine had gone unused, something that the fillies were both grateful for.
“Sweetie Bell! You need to snap out of it now!” Scootaloo said.
Sweetie Bell looked at Scootaloo blankly, as if she didn’t even recognise her. Scootaloo rose a hoof and gave Sweetie Bell a hard smack across her muzzle, to which she felt instantly guilty for afterwards
“Ow! Hey!” Sweetie Bell called out, bringing a hoof up and rubbing where Scootaloo had hit her. “What was that for?!”
Scootaloo looked down at the ground. “I’m sorry Sweetie... that was wrong, I shouldn’t have done that.”
“I forgive you!” Sweetie Bell said cheerfully. “I know you didn’t mean it.”
Guilt filled Scootaloo intensely.
“Well wha’ do we do now?” Apple Bloom asked. “All the fightin’ is over.”
“I guess we should probably go home?” Sweetie Bell suggested.
Scootaloo frowned. “Home... yeah, I guess,” however, Scootaloo was quick to put on a smile for her friends, “I’ll come find you guys tomorrow morning, maybe we can get our Cutie Marks by helping clean up town!”
Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell grinned in excitement at the prospect. “Cutie Mark Crusader War cleaner-uppers! YAY!” they cheered.
Scootaloo waved them goodbye as they went to walk home. Sweetie Bell turned northeast, heading into town, Apple Bloom had gone inside her house. When Scootaloo was out of sight from both of them, she doubled back into the farm fields, heading for their clubhouse as fast as she could.
She didn’t want Apple Bloom or Sweetie Bell that she didn’t actually have a home to go back to.