//------------------------------// // *unedited* chapter 6-a new beggining (part 2)-equinox // Story: when heroes aren't there to save you // by Rainbow warrior //------------------------------// Chapter 6- a new begging- (part 2)- equinox *authors note* I want comments guys, what did you think? Oh and for enhanced reading listen to the song the catalyst and waiting for the end, both are by linkin park Morning dawned upon ponyville and everypony was eagerly awaiting the pegasi of the decade race this very day. Scootaloo woke up at around 11:00 a.m. and got her belongings ready for after the race since she was ,unfortunantly, still unadopted. A knock came from the door as scootaloo was finishing up packing the rest of her belongings, “scootaloo, are you ready?” the nurse pony asked. “Yeah, I guess so…So my train leaves at five right?” “Yep, that’s right, good luck at your race dear.” The nurse pony then handed scootaloo her train ticket and proceeded to leave. Scootaloo looked out the window of her room and took whatever bit of ponyville she could see for the last time. She looked out and saw the flowing green grass, the tall hills that surrounded ponyville and caused beautiful sunsets in the evening, memories of scootaloo and her friends played in the back of her head as she looked out the window and reminisced her days in ponyville. With a depressed look on her face she sighed and proceeded to leave the hospital. Once out, she looked back at the hospital one last time, though it may not have been a place where a “good” memory was made, it still a memory from ponyville, she wanted to take in every bit of her home town before she left. Her next stop was ponyville square; everypony was busy going about their own way, there were ballet boxes to place bets for certain ponies lined up everywhere. One of the boxes had spitfire, the current leader of the wonder bolts, lined next to soarin and the other members of the wonderbolts team. What have I gotten myself into? Scootaloo thought to herself as she continued her walk through town. It was the afternoon when scootaloo finaly arrived to the starting point of her 50 mile race. Lots and lots of pegasi were there, famous flyers, some looked to be like trainers, others looked to be like just common pegasi wanting to compete. Scootaloo felt inferior but then, a familiar blue Pegasus showed up at the start point and began to do some stretches, just then scootaloo remembered the whole reason she entered the race in the first place and immediately wore a look of anger on her face. Scootaloo felt a tap on her back and turned around to see two familiar little fillies with smiles on their faces. “heya scoots, good luck out there, I know you’ll do just fine. We believe in ya.” Scootaloo then dropped the sudden hostility she had and tried her best to calm down as she didn’t want to upset her friends. “Oh, h-hey guys, you made it um, glad you could make it….” Scootaloo didn’t know what to say, she was going to have to leave right after the race but she wanted to let her friends know that she still cared about them the words and actions just couldn’t be expressed at the time. An awkward silence grew between them until applebloom decided to break it. “well scoots, we’ll be in the stands rootin for ya, good luck.” “Thanks guys, i-it means a lot, you didn’t have to come.” Applebloom and sweetiebell then headed back to the stands and scootaloo got into her starting position and began stretching, she looked around and noticed that she was the only filly to compete, no pony her age was seen among the large crowd of pegasi. As she looked she noticed some were awkwardly staring at her, most likely in disbelief that a Pegasus her age would even THINK to compete in a race like this. “Now what would a little filly do with 100,000 bits?” scootaloo heard this and immeadiatly turned back to see who said it, she couldn’t find him or her and turned back around, still mad at the insult that was poorly disguised. Scootaloo finished her stretching and as she did the announcer pony stood up in the big box next to the stands and began to start the race. “Fillies and gentle-colts, welcome to the first annual pegasi of the decade race, a race that will be sure to leave you speechless as the weak are weeded out from amongst the strong. Some ponies will not be able to finish the race others will collapse out of exhaustion, and only ONE will remain and that “one” will be the pony to claim the pegasi of the decade title in the pegasi hall of fame. So without further adieu, on your marks;” Scootaloo and all the other racers knelt down in preparation. “Get set” Scootaloo and the others placed their good hoof in, in order to have a more powerful takeoff. Scootaloo looked to her left and right and saw rainbow dash a couple of places next to her, rainbow wasn’t even bothered by scootaloo being so close, she looked determined so scootaloo went back to focusing on the long race ahead of her. Scootaloo’s heart pounded, each beat getting louder and louder, everything seemed to slow down and seem quieter, the roaring audience was silenced and the sound of her rhythmic heartbeat was the only thing that she heard. Just then, a gunshot rang out and the word “GO!” hit scootaloo’s ears as she shot off in a blaze of speed. There were at least 100 pegasi that entered and the sudden burst of speed from them sent a strong and powerfull wind that almost sent some ponies backward at the sudden force. The first part of her race was the longest, a 35 mile dash across ponyville to canterlot. Scootaloo was in 35th place at the time, flying high and maintaining her speed. As she was flying one Pegasus who appeared to be a member of the wonderbolts nudged scootaloo almost knocking her off balance. The Pegasus laughed and said: “You might as well fly home kid; let the big ponies handle the race.” Scootaloo then flew around the Pegasus multiple times, each time circling around him faster and faster until the force from her circling was so great, it sent the wonderbolt spinning in a very fast loop to the ground below. Scootaloo then flew back to her position and continued on with her race. She finally reached canterlot and multiple pegasi could be seen resting on the ground below. Scootaloo wanted to rest but she needed to catch up with rainbow dash. The next part of her race was ascending to 15,000 feet and freefalling to the bottom of ghastly gorge. She climbed and climbed and finally made it to the cloud that informs the pegasi that they have reached the required altitude. She was surprised at her being in second place and STILL not finding rainbow dash, she was somewhat amazed at herself for how far she came just because she told herself that she needed to pass rainbow dash no matter what place she was in. Just as she was passing the checkpoint cloud rainbow dash could be seen standing atop a cloud, panting and wheezing out of exhaustion. Just then rainbow dash’s eyes and scootaloo’s met. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as scootaloo was about to descend, rainbow dash said something but scootaloo couldn’t hear it as she dropped face first, aiming for the gorge below. Scootaloo looked back and saw rainbow dash falling face first as well. Scootaloo laughed and said: “Face it rainbow dash, I’ve won, the student has beat the master.” Rainbow dash had a grin on her face as she fell “You forget something kid.” Scootaloo had a confused look on her face. She was obviously winning so she didn’t know what rainbow dash could be referring to. “Oh yeah, and just what would that be exactly?” Rainbow dash, with the same grin said: “That I was the one that taught you.” Just then rainbow dash put her front hooves behind her, closed her wings and proceeded to do a sonic rainboom right before scootaloo. The force from the blast caused scootaloo to be knocked off balance and she was sent falling off balance in a rapid decent, flailing about this way and that. Scootaloo was angry, she almost had rainbow dash. She felt an anger unlike she had ever experienced before, an anger so intense, so enraging, so passionate that it almost…burned, she didn’t know what it was but this anger she was feeling hurt and she didn’t know how to stop it. Her whole body stung and she screamed in pain, just then her mane and tail turned into a dancing bright red flame, her eyes went from purple to red and a trail of fire could be seen spewing from behind her, she caught herself in mid-air and shot off in a burst of speed no pony in equestria had ever seen before. She followed the rainbow trail rainbow dash had left and disintegrated it with the unbelievably extreme heat she was giving off, she shot passed rainbow who was almost at the bottom until the force from scootaloo’s sonic boom sent rainbow falling and hitting the bottom of ghastly gorge so hard that it left a small crater from the impact. Scootaloo didn’t know what was happening or how, she just knew that she was beating rainbow dash, and she enjoyed this very much. She scraped the bottom of ghastly gorge and in one swift motion, shot up for the last part of the race, another climb of 15,000 feet to cloudsdale. Scootaloo wasn’t sure how, but she felt “different” like she had control of herself but she didn’t. She shot straight up to cloudsdale and a giant, vertical line of fire lit up the skies and all of equestria was able to witness this breathtaking sight. She passed the finish line in a blaze of speed, lighting the “finish” banner on fire before taking a victory lap, as she was celebrating, a sharp and brutal pain attacked at her chest violently, she felt as though her organs were eating her, a sharp pain after another sharp pain, she couldn’t continue, she couldn’t take it anymore. She clenched her stomach and screamed at the top of her lungs as she didn’t know what was going on but severely wanted it to stop. She tried to lie on top of a nearby cloud to save herself from using her wings but the pain kept gnawing at her, she let out another blood-curdling scream before collapsing in mid-air. Her mane and tail turned back into their regular purple and her eyes were no longer red. She was now falling back down to the ground, unconscious and unaware at what was happening. Rainbow dash was still pretty shaken up about what happened earlier and she could barely stand, she opened her eyes to see what appeared to be a black figure falling from cloudsdale. She immediately sat up and realized that it was scootaloo, she mouthed to herself “oh no.” before taking off as fast she could after being hit so hard. Scootaloo was falling faster and faster and rainbow dash was struggling to build up enough speed. It looked like the worst was about to happen until suddenly, out of nowhere, another sonic rainboom emitted from rainbow dash and she shot at scootaloo with a blaze of speed, grabbing scootaloo in time and, unwillingly, landing a bit too hard. Rainbow dash hit the ground hard and released scootaloo, sending the filly across from her a little bit. Scootaloo was unconscious and rainbow dash was getting weaker, she struggled to get up but she limped to scootaloo to look at her: “h-hey….kid…d-don’t quit on me now…..y-you wo-“ rainbow dash stopped at the horrible sight that was before her, she turned over scootaloo who was originally, laying on her side, to reveal to rainbow dash scootaloo with her eyes rolled back and glazed over with profuse amounts of vomit and blood that had been released from her mouth. Rainbow dash had tears coming to her eyes. “S-scoots?...” rainbow dash was only able to let out that name before grabbing scootaloo close to her body and screaming for help. “Kid look at me…LOOK AT ME COLT-DAMMIT!” rainbow dash shook scootaloo in hopes that she would somehow regain consciousness. She was wailing now “NO, KID YOU’RE A FIGHTER I’VE SEEN YOU FIGHT, FIGHT FOR ME ONE LAST TIME!…DON’T YOU LEAVE ME SCOOTALOO,DON’T YOU LEAVE ME!...SOME PONY HELP!” rainbow dash wasn’t aware of it, but scootaloo had used up all the “fight” she had left in her. Scootaloo was gone; luckily some nurse ponies from cloudsdale noticed what had happened and brought a stretcher and rushed scootaloo to the nearest hospital. It was 7:30 p.m. rainbow dash was in the waiting room of cloudsdale hospital nervously awaiting the operation that went on for 4 hours. Just then a doctor came and called for rainbow dash, she sat up and immediately rushed over to where the doctor was. “S-so doc, how is she?” rainbow asked nervously. The doctor sighed “I honestly don’t know how she lived, by some abounding grace this young filly survived having her pancreas, quite literally explode within her, the normal body of an ADULT pony isn’t even supposed to be pushed this far. Yet somehow this filly was able to overcome what is scientifically and physically, until now, impossible. This filly is a modern miracle to both science and humanity (or ponamity in this case) itself.” Rainbow dash chuckled; remembering how hard scootaloo had pushed during her training and how no amount of pain or fatigue seemed to even SHAKE her. “Yeah, that DOES sound like scootaloo alright. So you’re saying she’s all right, right? She’s gonna be okay?” “Well she did survive, she’s yet to regain consciousness, all we can do now is wait and have her on the machine until she wakes up.” “She’s come this far, she won’t give up, I know this filly, surviving a pancreas attack is only a FRACTION at what she’s capable of.” Rainbow dash then went into the room where scootaloo was being hospitalized in. She got into the room and placed a hoof to her mouth at the gut-wrenching sight before her. It was scootaloo, mouth agape holding what appeared to be a tube that was causing her to breath in and out, she was hooked up to so many pieces of machinery it was almost impossible to even see the poor filly. Her eyes were closed and she was in a deep sleep. Rainbow dash walked over to the bed and sat next to her former student. She was choking on tears and tried her best not to cry. She grabbed scootaloo’s hoof and placed it in hers as she leaned in and said: “hey kid…I-I don’t know if you can hear me, b-but…” rainbow paused because she was beginning to let out more and more tears “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me…I love you more than flying, more than the wonderbolts themselves…a-and if you leave me I’ll never forgive myself…I shoulda told you this more often, I know, but…” rainbow dash couldn’t hold it in, she wept softly “don’t leave me kid *hic* just don’t, you’re my student…But…I want you to be more than that....I....I want you to be my daughter.” *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* The heartbeat monitor slowly gained speed. And scootaloo could be seen with her eyes still closed but a smile spread wide across her face, as if those very words caused a smile to spread across scootaloo’s face. That happy, unbreakable smile rainbow dash saw each time she was with her student. It had been a while before scootaloo smiled but somehow, like everything else, she managed… THE END Authors note; well guys…how bout’ a sequel? 5 comments and I’ll write a sequel 10 comments and I’ll write a sequel and a prequel 15 comments (I put this cause I know it will never happen XD) and I’ll animate this very chapter and put it on youtube.