Love You Scootaloo
Chapter 2: Welcome Home
Rainbow Dash had finally been capabale of settling her thoughts enough to fall in to a short, not-so-peaceful, slumber. During this period of twitchy unconsiousness the dream continued to rewind and play, her subconscious screaming for her to wake up. Oh, if only the rest of her mind would listen. Just about ten miles west of Dashes current position, at the gates of Ponyville, something was happening, something she would wish to be there for.
><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
At the Ponyville gates a small gold carriage pulled by two armor clad white pegasi stallion touched down and halted. A tall, slim orange pegasus mare stepped off. Her mane was a dark violet that curled ever so slightly and had gorgeous light lavender eyes. She tossed on her saddle bag and started a trot through the entrance, but not without a:
"Thanks fellas'."
"Not a problam madame." said one "driver".
"All in a days work." said the other.
She continued her trot down the road that led from the gates, catching the eyes of several colts and stallions as she moved; they were of no imprtance to her right now.
"Hello Ponyville," said the lovely orange mare to herself. "Its been awhile hasn't it? I can tell much has changed, I don't remember that giant hat store being there, but I don't care about that,no, I just care about one thing right now, or should I say, one pony."
She stopped mid-trot and spread her wings. With a strong leap she shot in the air, high above the common cloud line. Now hovering, she let out a decent yell.
"HEY RAINBOW DASH," the sound reverberated through the surrounding area. "I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW...BUT I'LL FIND YOU...and I hope you remeber what you said before I left."
And with that she was off.
><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Rainbow Dash laid on her cloud in a dead like state, her ears twitching her back to life. Eyes fluttering open, refusing to move from sleeping position, she lay there, still tired.
"Why must the day drag on." Dash groand
Mentally motavating herself to rise, Dash got into a typical sitting manner. She started rubbing the sleep from her eyes when her ears started twitching again.
"Heh, guess somepony's thinking about me, but who wouldn't think about someone as awesome as me." said Rainbow Dash. "I wonder who it is"
At that moment Rainbow Dash could hear a voice coming from behind her, mummbled by the distance but still audible. "Hey Rainbow Dash...Lets Race!" the voice made Dash perk. It sounded familiar but she couldn't quite put her hoof on it.Once her thoughts were finished a large orange blur whizzed past, bursting the cloud and stunning Dash.
Falling a few feet Dash gaind back her composure and flew back up to her desiered hight. Rainbow glared at the orange blur flying ahead of her, she didn't know who this pony was right now and she didn't care. Nothing mattered at this moment, not even the dream, all that matterd was that she was challenged and that her competitor was ahead by several lengths. This did NOT make Rainbow Dash happy, she ruffled her feathers and shot forward gaining more and more speed as her wings sliced the air.
The orange pegasus was still ahead, but not by much. She pumped her wings like a mad colt, which she knew was not a good idea, she could feel her muscles starting to knot and cramp. It hurt, bad, but she just ignored it. Glimpsing back, she gave Dash a cocky smile.
"Last one to your house buys lunch."
Now Dash had a bigger reason to win rather then just to win, she can't afford lunch for two ponies.
Force didn't exist in the eyes of these two pegasus, the wind sliding over their aerodynamic bodies like melted butter on toast. Only within a few hundred yards of the cloud house the violet maned mare started to slow to speedy glide. Rainbow Dash taking this oppotunity to zip pass the other found her vision begining to blur.
She finaly stopped when she crased through the wall of her own home. The orange mare coming to a gentle stand still in Rainbows side lawn, flopped down onto her belly and shoved her face in the cool cloud. Rainbow Dash used her hind legs to de-wedge herself from the wall. Popping free, she roled backwards onto her flank panting like a race dog.
"Hey kid *huff* you alright?" asked Dash while facing her home, back towred the younger one.
"I'ff hood," mutterd the pony with her face in the cloud.
"What?"
Yanking her face from the cloud, the pretty little pony repeated herself.
"I'm good."
"Good," said Dash as she started turning to face the race loser. "I hope you have enough to pay for both of our luyuyuyuhwha?"
Laying there, right infront of Rainbow Dash was the little filly from her dream, though she wasn't much of a filly anymore.
"SCOOTALOO!" exclamed a surprised and happy Rainbow Dash
Yes, Scootaloo. Who'da thunk it, eh.
Scootaloo stood up onto all fours, she whipped the sweat and cloud moister from her mane. Rainbow Dash couldn't help but to stare.
"She's become so beautiful." Dash thought to her self.
Scootaloo didn't notice Rainbow Dashes eyes wondering her body. Not in the way a stallions eyes wonder the body of a mare of intrest but in a way that a grandmare looks at her growing grandfoals.
"Scootaloo, I can't belive you're back!" Dash pretty much screamed as she takled her slightly smaller friend to the cloud ground in a massive, emotion filled hug. Tears were almost streaming from Rainbows eyes, she was so happy. "Oh Celestia you've gotten so big...even though you're still smaller than me."
"HEY, I can't help that I'm short!" said Scootaloo as she tried to fight off her assulter. "Now can you please get off, you're making it hard to breath."
"Heh, sorry Scoots," Dashie helped Scootaloo back to her hooves. "Now, since I can see that your body has grown, lets see how big those wings have gotten."
"ALRIGHT!" said a hyped Scootaloo. She struck the most amazingly awesome pose she could and flared her wings, giving Dash a good veiw of them and her new cutie mark.
"Wo~~ow, though they're kinda large for your body size." said the cyan mare in a mockingly jokeing manner.
"HEY! I can't help that."
"I know, I know...I see you got your cutie mark, thats great." said Rainbow after seeing the little picture tattooed on Scootaloos flank.
"I know, isn't it so awesome." said the happy little mare. Her coutie mark was a black scooter wheel with a pair of flared silver wings.
"So, can I hear the story about how you got it?"
"Uh..Uh...I don't really feel like telling it...it's kind of long...and painful." said Scootaloo as she cringed remembering crashing through a brick wall during a trick.
"Okay, I understand, so you wanna come in for a bit before you buy me lunch." said Rainbow Dash, giving Scootaloo a little smirk.
"Sure."
The two ponies popped through the hole that is in Rainbows wall now, ince it was the quickest way. Dashes house was no longer an elagent display of clouds but more of a nice two story apartment.
"Dash, what happend to your house?" asked a confused Scootaloo.
"HeHe. yeah. well. It kinda got repoed when my parents stopped sending me money, I had to build one rather then rent a piece of Cloudsdale."
"...Oh, its still nice though, I've never seen a cloud house with hard wood floors." said Scootaloo, tapping her hoof on the floor.
"Heh, thanks. I had Twilight help me with that, if I didn't Tank would have to stay in his heli-harnis more than he should."
"That makes sence." said Scootaloo while staring up at Dash.
All of a suddon Scootaloos hind legs were slipped out from under her, knocking her back onto her haunches. Rather than landing on floor she feels something slightly rough and rounded. Looking down between her legs, Scoot sees a green head with two small black eyes staring at her.
"...HI TANK, It's me, Scootaloo. Do you remember me?"
Tank stared at her and started to slowly smile.
"That means yes." said Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash walked out to the kitchen to grt them some water, leaving Scootaloo and Tank in her living room. A few seconds later Dash walks back into the living room, only to see Scootaloo riding around the room on Tanks back.
"Scootaloo, what are you doing?" chuckled Rainbow Dash.
"Nothing," said Scootaloo as Tank walked her around the living room on his back. She was now wearing Dashs black sunglasses that were originally sitting on a small coffee table in the middle of the room.
Rainbow Dash walked up to her coffee table and placed two glasses of water, that were balenced on her out stretched wings, onto it. She took a seat on the light blue couch behind the coffee table, watching as Scootaloo gentaly bounced with every step Tank took.
"So Scoot', did you have a good time at flight school." said Dash, trying to form a conversation.
"Heck yeah!" said Scootaloo hopping off of Tanks back and walking towred the couch to sit with Rainbow Dash. "It was pretty fun."
"Did you make any new friends"
"Yeah, a colt named Orion and a filly named Aurora, they were really cool but they could never compare to you, Rainbow Dash."
The feels that were going through Rainbows heart at that moment had been doubled.
"Come on kid, lets go get that lunch now." said Dash as she grabbed Scootaloos hoof and flew out the door.