It had been a just under a month now. Applebloom had been given a choice by AJ: she could hang out with Scootaloo or be grounded. Apparently, seems Scootaloo hadn’t seen her at all outside of school, she’d chosen the latter. But at least she’d kept a promised she never actually made. Sweetie Belle didn’t know about how Scootaloo felt about her and the others. Or if she did, she didn’t care.
Scootaloo hadn’t told Sweetie Belle she could fly yet for two reasons. One: Sweetie Belle still couldn’t use magic which she saw as the unicorn equivalent and didn’t want to show up her friend. Two: she still kinda sucked at it… really badly. She could fly perfectly!... for about five seconds. Then she would sputter going up and down for about a minute or two. Then she would slowly start to sink. But still. She could fly! And she was getting better. Even though Scootaloo knew she sucked now, she was happy every second she was in the air. And every second made her just a bit better at it.
Sweetie Belle was still dating Button Mash and Scootaloo had found out why. Her sister had started dating some ‘Prince Bluevein’ or something and Sweetie Belle had just copied her. Of course she did like Snails and even made Twist a little jealous and competitive with Snips. It was cute actually, even by Scootaloo’s standard. It was because of them that had made her start seeing Spike.
He’d gone through a few things similar to Scootaloo. He loved Rarity and had basically been dumped when she had started seeing ‘Prince Blueballs’. Scootaloo told him what had happened with Rainbow Dash and how similar it was. They both knew that what they had wasn’t anything serious and they were probably just filling a void. They’d even admitted it to each other but that hadn’t stopped them from getting close. Very close.
But that was at an end. As was her friendship with Sweetie Belle. And so had been her friendship with Applebloom for weeks now. Scootaloo was about to leave. She’d be back every now and then but not often. Her father was taking her to live in Cloudsdale and they wouldn’t be coming down to Ponyville on a regular basis. Once or twice a year at most. All of her stuff was already packed and put on the chariot her father would be pulling.
Sweetie Belle, Spike and Rainbow Dash where there to wave her off. Twilight and Rarity had been there earlier but had had to leave for who knows what… some stupid unicorn stuff Scootaloo assumed. But it was finally time to leave. Her father called to her to get into her seat. Naturally he felt bad that he was taking her from her friends, but he was sure she’d make new ones. She was just a kid after all. And of course he had a surprise for her; that she was enrolled in flight school and would start in a few weeks time, learning how to fly.
As the chariot started to move, it was Scootaloo’s last look at her friends as they all waved. Dash tried to look cool about it but it was obvious she wasn’t, Spike did the same only he was much worse at hiding it. And Sweetie Belle... well, Sweetie Belle was sodding uncontrollably. Once the chariot had gotten into the air and they were pulling away from her friends, that's when she heard it.
“Scootaloo!” yelled Applebloom as she ran past the others. Scootaloo would've got her father to stop the chariot but didn’t even wait for him to before jumping out of the chariot now a few dozen meters in the air. She glided down over to Appelbloom and tackled her into a hug. “I’m so sorry! I’m so SO sorry Scootaloo! I don’t wanna fight and I don’t want you ta hate me!”
“But I though… you hated me?” Scootaloo said with letting go of her hug.
“I don’t! I screwed up so badly! We lost so much time and now… I don’t want you ta leave! Move in with me and AJ and Big Mac! We got plenty of room!”
“I missed you too. But I can’t… I’ll visit. I’ll write!”
“And I’ll learn ta read…” Applebloom joked.
“And I’ll learn to actually write.” Scootaloo joked back
“And I’ll learn to… I got nothing.” added Sweetie Belle who joined on the hug.
“Cutie Mark Crusaders… goodbye?” Scootaloo said as she pulled away from the hug and looked at them both.
“Cutie Mark Crusaders goodbye.” the two both said with a forced smile. Scootaloo pulled them both back into a hug for a few moments before breaking away and walking over to Rainbow Dash and hugging her again. Then over to Spike and hugging him. Giving him a strong kiss that she knew would be hilarious to see him explaining to Applebloom who didn’t know anything about what they had gone over the last few weeks.
With that, she took a few steps towards the chariot that was still in the sky, raised her wings and took off towards it. She flew with a smooth grace that she hadn’t been able to do since when she’d first learnt. When she was had been so happy.
She was happy.