It had only been a few hours since Scootaloo had last woken up; a few hours since she had seen who had saved her, a few hours since she made herself to never tear up at her unwanted memories, and some time since she had been rescued for that Celestia-forsaken factory. In truth, she wasn't sure how long it had been since she was saved from her near-death fate; a few hours, a few days, heck, she even contemplated that it might have been a few weeks since she was rescued, but, however, she only thought about this for a minute, as she remembered to no longer think about these thoughts.
She had an epiphany; forget about the troubles of her past, and only care about the problems that will arise in the future, for they are what truly matter. Or at least, that was what only mattered to Scootaloo's mind. She had no idea how long it had been since she was awake again from the last time she awoke in the same bed in the same house and still wrapped in the same bandages. A couple of hours, maybe, but sadly she hadn't awoke again of her slumber from a normal awakening. No, she had awoken from a terrible, unforgettable nightmare:
"Your a terrible flyer, you know!" Came a voice from seemingly nowhere, and at the same time it seemed to come from everywhere.
"You couldn't even pass the bleeding factory exam!" Yelled another voice that was both different and the same than the last.
"Your wings are pitiful! You shouldn't have been born a pegasus to begin with!" Announced another voice.
"Heck, you shouldn't have been born at all!" Snide another unknown voice, laughing at the wreck of the pony.
She was alone, scared and breaking out in a fear-induced sweat, but her whole body was shaking and cold. The cowering pony, Scootaloo, was quivering as she listened to the harsh remarks of the voices. She was nowhere; as all she could see around her was darkness, darkness to everything but a small circle that seemed to be formed around her, illuminating her and a small space on the floor. This was all she could see.
"St-st-stop it! Pl-please stop i-it!" the scared young mare uttered out, her body bathed in fear from the onslaught of insults coming from the hidden voices. "You-y-you are-"
"We are what?!" The callous voice interrupted "Telling the truth!"
"No-no!" she opposed, backing up behind her, hoping to get away from the ignominious voices spurting out insult after insult.
"You can't get away!" A loud sudden voice came out from behind the orange pony, causing her to scream and fall forwards back into the center of the lighted void.
"WHERE ARE YOU!!" Scootaloo yelled frantically towards the darkness enclosing her. "GET AWAY!! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!!"
"Oh really!" another unknown voice replied with hate. "Who's to say you didn't"
"But I don't know you." Scootaloo said in weak, hopeless tone. "I don't know who you are."
"That saddens me" came a more gentle, familiar voice to Scootaloo, coming from behind her. As Scootaloo turned her head to look behind her, her eyes widened and her mouth stood agape as her gaze fell onto the identity of the voice.
"Au.....Aurora" Scootaloo uttered out in disbelief. Her whole body froze as she eyed the said filly. "Is that really you?"
The pony is question was none other than her friend, Aurora Dawn. The same pony that she met and befriended in the deathly factory was sitting near her, no more than a few pony lengths away. She was sitting in her own light, much the same as Scootaloo was. However, the orange pegasus noticed that her friend was not looking at her, instead her she was staring at the ground in front of her.
"Yes" she finally replied, but her eyes not moving off the ground "It is me."
"Oh Aurora you're alive!" Scootaloo said as she immediately twisted her body around to face her properly "How are you alive?" She asked as unconsciously formed a grin on her face.
"I'm not" she replied in an emotionless tone.
"Wh-wh-what do you mean?" She stuttered as her mouth turned into a frown. "You can't say 'I'm not' when your'e right there, you-you're not making any sense." She finished as she cautiously took a step towards her.
"Don't take a step towards me!!" Aurora abruptly yelled when Scootaloo placed her hoof forward. "Never come near me."
"But...but Aurora it's me your friend Scootaloo. Don't you remember?" Her eyes started to fill with tears as she couldn't believe what her apparently dead friend was saying. "You gotta remember me."
"I don't wanna remember." Aurora Dawn announced as she slowly lifted her head. "I don't wanna remember" she paused as she looked Scootaloo dead in the eye "A FRIEND THAT LEFT ME TO DIE!!!" She screamed as she gave Scootaloo a cold, uncaring gaze into her eyes; freezing Scootaloo's body frigid as if she was lying in the coldest snow in Equestria.
"But-but Aurora I didn't leave you to die!" She yelled back at the filly as tears fell off her now-soaked face. "I didn't want this to happen! We both know this!"
"But you LET this happen!" Aurora shouted out in an accusing manner. "And because of YOU, I'm now nothing more than gone. Because. Of. You."
"N-n-n-NOOOOOO" Scootaloo screamed at the top of voice, her body shaky and her voice weak. "It! Wasn't! My! Fault!" And before she even realized it, she was sprinting towards Aurora, her face still damp with tears. "It can't be my fault!" As the crying pony ran towards her friend, she did not notice that the light that encompassed her was following her in toe; as if it was a part of her.
"AURORA!!" Scootaloo screamed as she jumped at her unkind friend, reaching for her and wanting her to stop the hurtful accusations. As the young mare was about to reach Aurora, her hooves out-stretched, she vanished instantly, both her and her own light disappeared, making the now-alone pony fall and slam into the alabaster floor with a thud.
"Au...Aurora?" Scootaloo asked in disbelief as she picked herself up from the floor and looked around the void of darkness. "Aurora?" she repeated again, her voice broken and hopeless.
"AURORA!!!!" She hollowed at the top of her voice, before running of in a random direction. She did not know where she was going, all she know was she had to escape, find a way out of this terrible and heart-breaking place. Her light still following her in toe.
Scootaloo ran and ran across the cold white seemingly metallic floor, crying and yelling to escape and get away, but all that happened was her face went damp from tears and her body was continuously getting more exhausted with every step.
"What about me?" Came a new but familiar voice, which made the pony skid to stop and turn her head round; seeing a another old 'friend' of Scootaloo, a colt pegasus she recognized as Orion. "You left me to die too!" He yelled to the breaking down orange pony, and just as quickly as he appeared, he vanished.
"Not you too Orion?" she asked through falling tears, before receiving an unexpected blow to her face, the punch strong enough to pass her backwards and onto the edge of the light. "Wh...what?" she said before a powerful hoof landed dead center on her stomach. Telling her head slowly to face her adversary, she gazed upon the hulking form that was her previous enemy, mentor, and near-murderer: Rainbow Dash.
"What?" The cyan pegasus asked coldly. "Did you think you could escape my clutches? I mean, just look at you? You don't even have wings!" As a mixture look of confusion and terror held a grasp on her face she looked down, and did indeed notice she had lost her wings.
"How-" she began before feeling the clutch of the larger pegasus press harder on her stomach.
"Shut up, you worthless cunt!! Come on now, you shouldn't be here! You should be six feet under by now! But nooo, you instead had to cause me bother! ME!"
"Please Rainbow you gotta understand-" she stuttered out as she tried to squeeze herself out of the grasp.
"Enough!!" The cyan pony yelled out to interrupt Scootaloo, and swiftly held out her other front hoof, as if ready to punch her again.
"No-please" Scootaloo said, trying to reason with her; but to no avail, as the last thing she saw was the hoof striking her!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Scootaloo screamed out in terror, her heart racing in her body. Her mouth panted heavily and her body shaking with pure unadulterated fear. Opening her eyes slowly, she noticed she was back in the bed of her rescuers house. "My wings!" Scootaloo said as she looked to see if her wings had not disappeared, and just as she hoped, they were still there.
Lying back down on the the bed, she brought her hooves up to her face, as her crying once again returned to her.
"Rainbow Dash" she said through gritted teeth "If I ever see you" her voiced wracked not in sadness, but in anger.
"I will do but one thing:
I will destroy you with my own hooves!"