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// Ch. 3 Un-expectations 
// Story: Scootaloo's Years 
// by Broneyofnoel 
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	Red and I shot into the air, each of us flying and banking to avoid the clouds. Although he had much larger wings than me, I was more slender than him, allowing me to keep pace with him. the two of us rocketed past cloud after cloud, building after building. I looked down at the campus below and saw pones staring in awe at the speed we were racing at.

I started to see the dorm out in the distance, probably about a quarter mile out, I started to descend, and Red followed. We were still dead even by the time we were only five seconds from the building. I knew I had to think of something quick, so I opened my wings for a split second, and then closed them again. 

My action caused me to shoot a few feet forward and win the race just as he was about to touch the building's side. He stopped dead and his jaw dropped.

"How'd, why....when did you learn to do that?"  he asked while he set himself down on the grass near me.

"I told you,  raced with the fastest flyer in Equestria, I picked up on a few tricks." I said loosely.

"I thought you were just joking." Red said, still in amazement.

"I don't joke about flying." I said, I'd gone far too long without flying to joke about it now.

The two of us trotted through the open doors at the bottom of the building, we parted ways. Red had to go and try out for something across campus, and I had to take a nap, taking a train across Equestria and then going to a concert with a race involved was hard work.

I trotted upstairs, I was too out of energy to fly. Once I arrived at my floor, I walked a couple rooms down the all and unlocked my door. I noticed something completely different about my room when I walked in. My roommate had unpacked most of their things, they had put three of four posters along their back wall, and put some other items on their bed.

I saw some letters on the bed, so against my good morals, I peeked at the letter...it read;

	"Dear Mr. 544T54ar

We regret to inform you that your friend, Subtle Rampage, has passed away at the age of 16 due to an undecided cause. His funeral will be held on June 6th, 2010. Thank you for understanding and his family hopes to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Trottingham Coroner's office

The letter was really old, it was shipped to my roommate before I'd really made an impression on Ponyville. It was sent a few weeks before I became great friends with Sweetie Belle.

The name was too small and crossed for me to read, but I got the message of the letter. I set it back into place and went over to my bed to sleep. As I was about to lay my head on the pillow, I saw something that I had only heard ofin Ponyville. A large television set was instilled in the wall beside my bed, it could even be adjusted so that I could watch it while I laid down!

I pressed a button on the TV and it switched channels. I sped through a lot of channels, seeing stuff like "Know your Mare, Tip-Top Trottingham", and even independent channels that were run by other students from the academy. It was amazing, I could even watch a recording of some of the drama tryouts that had been going on all day. I kept looking for Peachy as I started to doze off, i thought I'd seen her a few times, but no, it wasn't her.

As I fell asleep, I saw Peachy announce herself to the audience, but I fell asleep before I saw any more of her audition. I fell asleep just after setting my alarm for 4:30, which would give me about 45 minutes of sleep. i didn't dream at all, but I did get some nice rest in before I spent my first night this far from home.

My bed was so comfy, it had to be the softest, or at least one of the softest thing that I had ever slept on. I sunk into the bed and I embraced the warm fabric of my blanket, I almost purred because it was so comfortable. As the alarm blared, I shot out of my bed and latched to the ceiling, which itself was surprisingly soft.


I quickly ran into the shower in my room and cleaned up, and used my wings to dry myself off in seconds, the old rainblow dry that Dash taught me. As I looked at the clock, I heard a small knock at the door. I unlatched it and opened the door. 

Outside was Peachy, she looked like she had been running for a while, and she was panting a bit.

"Sorry...I didn't want to be late." she said in between breaths.

"Want to use my shower?" I asked, she nodded without an instant between my words.

After she went into the shower, i looked out of the window at the common grounds, I noticed a banner that wasn't there earlier, it had a Freshmen orientation that was tonight at 7:30. I heard the water stop, and then i saw a semi-dry Peachy King step out of the shower. Peachy's golden mane looked amazing when it was wet, it shot beams of reflected light allover the blank walls around us.

"You look nice!" i said in a probably overly friendly way.

"Thanks, so whats up?" Peachy said, her hair now almost dry.

"Well there is a freshman orientation tonight, i think we have to go." I said, she looked out the window.

"Oh yeah, I saw a banner in the back of the theatre, I guess there goes our night." she said glumly.

"Nah, we can still have fun.." I said.

"How?" Peachy seemed curious.

"Follow me," I said as i opened the door and ran out.