(note: this is an unedited chapter meaning THERE WILL be grammar mistakes, I put this on every unedited chapter because alot of people have been complaining about it, I try my best to make sure there isnt too many errors but for right now just wait until I get out the edited one.)
It was the eighth week of summer; scootaloo had been training long and hard with rainbow dash and today was their last day for the summer together. Scootaloo had come a long way since her struggle in the beginning and she was now almost just as fast and agile as rainbow herself.
"Well scoots, I've taught you all I possibly can. The only thing that's left is to go out and celebrate.
"really? Oh my goodness thank you soooooo much rainbow dash, I promise I'll make you proud even after I’m gone. I will become even better than the wonderbolts themselves."
"heh heh, shoot for the stars kid I know you'll make me proud, you're the only one who was able to keep up with me when flying and you survived my methods of training, if you arn't better than every other pegasi in equestria than I've failed and I DONT like failure so I know I taught you well."
Scootaloo couldn't be more happier to hear those words, words of acknowledgement, words implying that she did something right, words that said someone one was proud of her. Her heart was melting, she almost cried but kept her composure as to not ruin the moment before her.
"I got a little surprise for ya scoots."
"Really? Okay, what is it?"
"I'm not telling you-butfirstonetosugarcubecornerwins GO!"
Just then rainbow dash shot off in a burst of speed and scootaloo followed suit.
The two ponies eventually got to sugarcube corner, it was much too dark out to be out-and-about so scootaloo was contemplating all the possibilities as to what her surprise probably was. As they were walking up the stairs to the entrance scootaloo noticed that there was a "closed" sign on the door ahead
"Was my surprise a cake rainbow? Cause if it was, sugar cube corner is closed now, we're too late."
"Hmm, that's odd well I'm sure pinkie won't mind making a quick one." rainbow knocked on the door twice, opened it and walked inside. The lights were off and nopony was there, just then a flash of bright light pierced the darkness followed by a very loud "SURPRISE!” Scootaloo almost jumped in excitement, everypony that was near and dear to her was there applebloom, sweetiebell, some of her other classmates, and even avion. Of course pinkie pie and her friends were there as well, pinkie pie was the first to jump up to the little filly
"scootaloo! Were you surprised, were you? Huh,huh,huh?"
"haha, yes pinkie I was most definantly surprised thank you for this"
"aww you're welcome, now c’mon let's get this party started!" Scootaloo looked back at rainbow dash who standing behind her, tears were welling up in scootaloo's eyes and a wrinkled smile quivered across her lips. She ran back to rainbow and hugged her
"Thank you rainbow dash, this is the nicest thing anypony's ever done for me."
"Aww scoots don't thank me, you earned it, now go and have fun ya little goofball you know I hate this mushy-gushy type of stuff."
And scootaloo did just that. She played games with her friends, sang, danced, and ate as much cake to hearts content, even though she didn't have much of a family, the company of her friends made it seem like she did, she wished this night to never end. The party went on and she decided to go mingle with some of her friends, she noticed her foster friend in the corner of the room sipping on punch by himself, so scootaloo headed over to go talk with him.
“Hey avion, glad you could make it, having a good time?”
"Haha, yeah I am, I heard you can fully fly now scootaloo, that's great you should teach me sometime."
"I'd love to avion, it would give me someone to mentor. I'm so glad you're here, you dont know how much it means it to me that you came." Scootaloo then gave her Pegasus friend a big hug
"It was my pleasure coming here, I've never been to a party before so I don't know what to do, w-would you mind if I stick with you for tonight?"
"Heck no not at all, having my best friend by me the whole night sounds fun. Here I wanna introduce you to applebloom and sweetiebell they’re my friends from school, you’ll like em’. This is gonna be so much fun"
And the night went on without a worry or care to distract anypony from just having fun and enjoying themselves. But, like all good things, the party had to come to an unfortunate end. It was about 12:30 p.m. when they finally brought it to a close. Everypony went home for the night; scootaloo was a bit disappointed that they couldn’t party longer but more happy at the joy that surrounded the party while it lasted. Everypony was gone and it was just scootaloo, rainbow dash, and pinkie pie, they all were picking up the mess the party had made.
"yawn* great party as always pinkie pie." rainbow said as she was throwing away the last bit of trash
"yeah *yawn* real great party, I had tons of fun."
"awww thanks it was my pleasure scoots, you guys have helped enough now go on home, it's late."
"thanks pinks see ya later" rainbow said as she headed out the door.
"yeah pinkie see ya later"
And on that, the two walked out the door and headed home.
As the two were walking rainbow looked over to scootaloo. "so did you like your surprise?"
"are you kidding me I loved it.”
"Glad to hear it scoots” rainbow paused for a brief moment “so what’s it like you know, living in a foster home and all? I've never had the chance to experience it and it's a pretty long walk back home and I don't feel like flying right now, probably cause I’m too tired, anyway back to my question."
Scootaloo looked up at rainbow in excitement and in a bit of surprise, she wasn’t sure what brought them to that topic but she was hoping that maybe, just maybe, rainbow was thinking of adopting her so she wasted no time in compiling her response.
“Well, it’s pretty hard to explain if you’ve never been a fosterfilly but, sometimes you feel as though nopony loves or even cares that you exist, sometimes you wonder how you got to a foster home in the first place. Did you do something wrong, why would somepony give you up? Those questions are the ones that I ask myself a lot and each time I do I realize, even though I don’t want to, that my parents didn’t care about me and that I’m in a foster home because of it. Then you start to hate ponies, you feel as though the world is out to stab you in the back and everypony, but you, is the enemy. I felt that feeling a lot during my early days in the foster home but when I met my friends and we hanged out some more, I slowly lost that hostility and anger inside. Then as you keep going and going, you’re pretty much just desperate for a home, even if it means going back to what you left, you don’t care if the ponies you left hurt you; at least you have something to call “family” again. And I guess that’s where I’m at. Sorry if I rambled a little bit rainbow its just nopony’s ever asked me that question before and I’m not sure how to answer it but in that way, I hope I didn’t confuse you too much.”
Rainbow Dash almost dropped her jaw, she couldn’t believe how much this little filly overcame on top of the brutal training she gave her but she kept her composure and continued their little walk and talk.
“Oh don’t worry about it scoots, I wasn’t a fosterfilly when I grew up so I wouldn’t get it anyways, I was really just wondering on how you felt about it all. It sounds pretty tough but it also sounds like you’re making it through pretty well. Anyway looks like we’re just about to your house, think you can make it back?”
“Yeah rainbow, don’t worry about it, thank you so much for the party. You’re the best rainbow dash.”
“keep on flying kid, you got something special so use it.”
And with that the two parted and went their separate ways.
Scootaloo finaly got home and entered the house, upon entering she almost jumped back in surprise; there were empty bottles of beer everywhere, some were broken others were not; there were some razor blades with specs of cocaine on them to the coffee table to her left. Scootaloo was stunned by this rather unusual sight and was going to investigate it more if it wasn’t for the “no, NO PLEA-” that pierced her ears; it was coming from the bathroom and scootaloo immediately took off in hopes of finding out who screamed. She got to the door and noticed it was a little bit open, when she got inside she almost screamed in fear, it was Mrs. Burns, she had a hoof placed behind avion’s head and was forcing it into the bath tub, the little Pegasus was screaming but his cries were muffled by the water. Scootaloo didn’t know what to do; she wanted to help, but she didn’t know how, she kept thinking faster and faster until only a “STOP IT!” escaped her mouth. Mrs. Burns turned her head, her eyes were bloodshot and her teeth were showing “YOU! I have just about had it with you. C’MERE!” the purple pony then pulled up avion’s head by his blonde mane and threw him to wall next to her. The little colt was coughing violently and gasping for air, wheezing between random breaths. Scootaloo wanted to go and help her friend but had no time to as the pony started chasing her around the house knocking over lamps and furniture on her way. Scootaloo fled to the basement and didn’t bother turning the lights on her way down. She ran straight to the very back where the washing machine was and hid behind it, the door to the basement creaked opened again and Mrs. Burns flipped on the lights, she walked slowly looking for scootaloo, poking her head around every inch of furniture, equipment, and anything that was downstairs.
“COME ON OUT YOU WORHLESS SHIT I’M ONLY GONNA END YOU WHEN I FIND YOU SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT NOW!”
Scootaloo was scared but she didn’t like being called a coward, she immediately leapt out the back of the washing machine and charged at Mrs. Burns only to be hit on the side of the face with a heavy hoof that knocked her to the wall beside her.
“NO WHERE TO RUN NOW IS THERE? I’M GONNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS TIME YOU DON’T WAKE UP!”
Scootaloo wanted to move but couldn’t as her back was in a lot of pain from being struck so violently. She tried to move and was only able to move her torso at the moment until she heard a loud “crack” that came from her right leg. Scootaloo screamed in pain, she had endured pain but none like the one she was feeling now. She looked up and saw Mrs.Burns smiling a crooked and twisted smile much like the smile she saw in her nightmare. She wanted to run but her leg was broken and she couldn’t do anything, she tried to crawl with her good leg but it was immediately pulled back and another “crack” could be heard from the other leg. Scootaloo screamed again, she thought she was going to die, her eyes felt like they were going to pop out of her head any minuet if the pain didn’t stop soon. She was crying hard and was crawling for the exit again when she was pulled back again by her broken legs. Mrs. Burns turned the poor filly over and with the same crooked expression on her face said:
“This is where it ends my dear, here and now”
Scootaloo didn’t want to believe it but it looked to be inevitable. At this point she was hoping that whatever was about to come, came quick and without any more pain than she already had. Mrs. Burns raised her hoof right in front in front of scootaloo’s face and was just about to drop it when Mrs. Burns screamed and fell to the ground with a loud thud. Behind Mrs. Burns stood avion with a bloody meat cleaver in his mouth, he spat it to the side, sat down, and began to weep, his mane still dripping from when he was almost drowned.
Scootaloo looked at her friend and sympathized for him, celestia knows what that poor colt has been through, and an experience like this would surely forever traumatize him. As she was thinking, everything started to become hazy again, the world started to spin slowly but increasing speed, then a blackness started to surround her and she slowly faded into the black.
"vital signs are rising, she's regaining consciousness. Scootaloo, sweetie can you hear me?"
Scootaloo woke up and looked around, she could only squint as the light above was unbelievably bright but she tried talking and only let out a groan.
"Alright she'll be fine go ahead and start the procedure."
This was the last thing scootaloo heard before falling into sleep again.
Two hours eventually passed and scootaloo woke up again to another bright light, she was in the same room she came from only this time her friends were resting their heads on the rail of the bed she was in.
"Ungh, guys? What are you all doing here, don't we have school tomorrow? You should be in bed."
Just then each of the faces that were planted on the rails of the bed shot up and looked at straight at scootaloo
"Oh my celestia, scootaloo are you okay?" sweetie bell's eyes were tearing up as she asked this "We heard the sirens around your house and everything then they brought you out on a stretcher and-oh my celestia it was the most horrible thing ever.”
"Y-yeah I'm fine where's avion? Is he okay?"
"Yeah he's fine he's downstairs talking to the police but anyway, what happened? We asked avion but he didn't talk."
"It’s not important right now, I need to see him, he saved my life.......again. Now I gotta go-”
Scootaloo looked down and noticed bandages on her legs; she had almost forgotten why she was in the hospital in the first place. She then moved her body back to where it was originally.
"Y'all gonna tell us what happened eventually ain't ya scoots? Ya had me an sweetie here worried sick not to mention practically all of ponyville in a stir. Ya can't blame us if we seem a lil bit over-concerned."
"I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT OKAY!?" just then a nurse pony walked in and glared at the fillies informing them to leave. Applebloom and scootaloo left and the nurse pony came over to scootaloo's bed
"How are you feeling sweetie, are you comfortable?"
"Y-yeah I'm fine, what's gonna happen now?"
"Well we're gonna go and let you rest here for the night an-"
"No, not that, what's gonna happen to ME, Where will I go now? If you know why my legs are broken then you'll know what happened to the pony that did it."
The nurse pony had a nervous look on her face "Well, the only other foster home is in manehattan so I think they'll be sending you there after you're done here, I assume they're going to send you there. So unless you're adopted here and now while in ponyville, I'm afraid you won’t be able to see your friends again for a long time. Luckily you’ll be here for about a month so I’m sure something could happen by then. Y-you okay honey?”
“Y-yeah I’m fine” but scootaloo wasn’t fine she didn’t know what she was gonna do now that she may have to move, she only had a month left in ponyville, tears began to well up in her eyes she wanted to cry then and there, but she decided not to, she figured she had cried a lot before and that it never solved anything so she saw no point in expressing her sadness and instead just laid there with a depressed look on her face.
“Well it’s late sweetie, take some of this medicine and go to sleep.”
“Okay thank you.”
The nurse then handed her some pink liquid and water and started to leave the room when scootaloo spoke up.
“Oh hey one quick question before you leave Ms. do you know what will happen to avion, my friend down there?”
The nurse had a grim look on her face but she turned around and tried her best to find words that wouldn’t upset scootaloo.
“It looks like he’ll be put in a mental hospital or juvenile hall; the mayor will decide his fate.”
“W-WHAT? NO! You can’t he saved my life, I wouldn’t be in this bed if he hadn’t killed that witch why would they even THINK of such a thing. Where are the police I need to talk to them, no I need to talk to avion and thank him for saving me. Don’t put him away, lemme out of here NOW!"
“That’s just it honey, he killed a pony and now he has to pay the price. It’s just the way things work in equestria an eye for an eye, or in this case, a life for a life. He’s lucky that they’re not considering an adult trial.”
“look I made a promise to that colt that I would watch over him like he has watched over me if I break that promise it would kill him, you don’t know what that poor colt has been through anymore suffering and he’s sure to take his own life!”
“I’ll talk to the police, but for right now get some sleep and don’t worry about it.”
Scootaloo’s medicine was starting to kick in and she was getting sleepy, she wanted to argue more but sleep was overwhelming her more and more, she couldn’t fight it anymore, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.