Love You Scootaloo
Chapter 1: The Day She Left
Rainbow Dash was walking down the streets of Ponyville enjoying the lovely sights. The day was warm and sunny with no cloud in the sky, the weather team had just finished a long period of work clearing them all away. As she reached the front gates of Ponyville she saw a small orange foal leaning on one post with a duffle bag by their side. As Dash got closer she relized that the small foal was her young filly friend Scootaloo who looked quite sad. Rainbow Dash thought it would be the right thing to do to try and cheer her up.
"Hey Scoots, what's with the long face." Dash said in a joking manner trying to crack a smile on Scootaloos' face.
"Hey Rainbow Dash." said the sad little orange filly who still wouldn't smile, even after Dashs witty crack.
"What's wrong sport, why ya' looking so down?" said Rainbow Dash. She was starting to worry, she had never seen Scootaloo so sad in her life.
"Well." Scootaloo started. "I have to go to Canterlot for awhile. I've been selected to join a special flying school to strengthen my wings. It wasn't even my decision to go, my mom agreed to it." Scootaloo was crying at this point. "I don't want to leave. I don't want to leave Ponyville. I don't want to leave my mom. I don't want to leave my friends. I especially don't want tp leave you, Rainbow Dash."
Dash was choking on her emotions, tears welling in her eyes. In the distance she could see a small gold carriage pulled by two armor clad white pegasi stallions. They were approaching rapidly. Dash knew this was Scootaloo's ride and that they didn't have much time for their emotional scene.
"Scootaloo, I want you to know, while you're away we will think of you." said Rainbow Dash trying to make Scootaloo feel a little better, even though she was now crying. "Remember, time is nothing, it passes and passes quickly. Remember, I will always be here and when you get back, I want you to find me and we'll spend the whole day together. Okay."
"Okay." said Scootaloo, still crying.
The carriage touched down to earth, stopping at the entrance gate. A slim, brown unicorn stallion sat in the carriage. He wore a dark suit and sported a clipboard cutiemark. His mane was a shiny coal black color that was slicked back with a feminine smelling gel. He didn't seem like a happy pony.
The brown pony glanced at the clipboard he held in his hooves, opend the carriage door, and gesterd at Scootaloo to get in. Scootaloo looked at the carriage then back to Rainbow Dash. She proped up on her hind legs and threw her fore legs around Dashes neck.
"I'll miss you, Rainbow Dash." whimperd Scootaloo.
"I'll miss you too, Scootaloo." said Rainbow Dash. "I love you."
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Rainbow Dashs' head shot from her pillow. She sat straight in her bed."Its been four years since she left. Why have I been thinking of that day more and more."
It was six in the morning, a full hour before Dash normally woke up. She didn't want to go back to sleep, so with the little energy she had she got up to start her day. Her body felt like it was made of lead, though any pony would feel that way if they were up till one in the morning partying with the Wonderbolts.
Rainbow Dash drug her hooves to the shower to wash of the sweat that had accumulated and clumped her fur because of her dream. The clumps were uncomfortable and would have been a distraction while busting clouds, though thinking of her dream would probably be even more of a distraction then matted fur.
"Why can't I get this out of my head." said the upset blue pony." Ugh, hopefully a good day of work will help"
It didn't help. The scheduled weather for the day had been changed, rather than being rainy it was now supposed to be sunny. Half the clouds for the original schedule were already set prior to today. It was Dash and her teams job to remove them. She really didn't want too.
Running on a tight schedule and missing half her team Rainbow Dash had to get the clouds removed before ten o'clock.
"Alright team, this is an important job," commanded captain Dash. "If these clouds aren't removed before ten no one gets paid, so I don't want to see anypony slacking. To the ready...now off."
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A few hours had passed and the sky was partly cleared. Rainbow Dash was now feeling stressed on top of being quite upset. It had started to affect hear flying speed to the point that she just stopped and sat on a near by cloud. A young pink pony with a bright blue mane saw her on her cloud of emotion and approached her to make sure her captain was alright.
"Hey Dash, what's the matter?" said the pink pony now sitting on the cloud next to Dash.
"It's nothing, Firefly." said Rainbow Dash turning her face so that her friend couldn't see it.
"Come on Rainbow, I can tell it's not nothing. Please just tell me what's wrong?" said Firefly placing a reassuring hoof on Dashies shoulder
"I've just been thinking and stuff." said Dash still refusing to look at her friend.
"You know I won't accept that as an answer." Said the pink Pegasus who was giving Dash the look a mother would give their foal when they know that the full truth was not being told.
Rainbow Dash could feel her friends eyes staring. "Hu-huh...a few years ago a close friend of mine left Ponyville for some schooling." said the poor upset Rainbow Dash, "I haven't heard from her since she left, I don't even know when she'll be coming back. I've been thinking about her a lot lately."
"Oh~~~, Rainbow Dash." said the pink pony, wrapping her fore legs around the cyan tinted mare giving her a hug that could only be compared to a Pinkie Pie hug. "The sky is almost completely clear, why don't you head home for the day, I'll go talk to the boss so he understands why you left."
Dash mustered a sad smile and gave the pink mare a nice tight squeeze back. "Thank you, Firefly."
Rainbow Dash lazily flew back to her house. She only was a mile from her cozy cloud abode before she gave up and landed on a lone cloud that drifted through the sky, she never questioned why the cloud was there and didn't care, it was a quiet place to rest and relax her feelings. She tried to doze off but feared having the same dream from this morning.