//------------------------------// // Mother // Story: My Foal.... // by Futile Task //------------------------------// “Rainbow you need to calm dow…” “Calm down!” yelled Rainbow, rounding on her wife with a glare. “Our baby has run off alone and she is hurt, so don’t you dare ask me to calm down!” Spitfire didn’t flinch, grabbing her mare by the shoulder to stop her. “Dashie listen to me, you need to calm down now. I know you babe and when you get like this you can’t think strait, so just breathe deep and calm down.” Rainbow stopped, taking a deep breath and forcing herself to calm down, realizing Spitfire was right. “Ok, but what are we going to do, we don’t know where she could be.” “Well she had to have gone to school right, so why don’t we check…” “Um…Misses Dash?” Rainbow turned around to see Applebloom walking up to her, looking nervous as she approached. “I’m sorry Applebloom I won’t be able to play with you today, I’m kind of…” “I’m not here to play; I heard you was looking for mah friend Scootaloo?” Rainbow’s eyes widened, “You know Scootaloo?” Applebloom nodded, “yeah, but that’s not why ah came, ah think ah might know where she is.” “Where?” asked Rainbow, getting closer as hope started to rekindle itself inside her. “We have a clubhouse I know she stays in when she doesn’t want to return to the orphanage, come on I’ll show yah.” Scootaloo cried as she laid on the makeshift bed she kept in the clubhouse, watching as the last of her Rainbow memorabilia burn away in the fire she had constructed. She still could barely believe that Rainbow Dash, her idol, was the one who had abandoned her when she was young. Why she thought, why did she do it, why would the most dependable mare in all Equestria abandon her, her own child, it was just unthinkable. She was broken out of her thoughts by the sound of a pony landing inside the clubhouse, but when she turned around she growled, for it was Rainbow standing behind her. “I thought I told you to stay away!” “And I told you I am not leaving till you have heard what I have to say.” Scootaloo made for the door, only to be stopped as Rainbow grabbed her and held her at bay. “Let me go!” “No not until you heard what I had to…” “I don’t want to hear what you got to say! Now let me go!” “NO I’M NOT GOING TO LOSE YOU AGAIN!” Scootaloo froze in her forelegs, her mind halting on what she had just said. She slowly looked up, noting the tears streaming down Rainbow’s face as she gazed down at her, and then she finally found the urge to speak. “Lose me again…wha…what do you…” “That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you Scootaloo, I didn’t abandon you…you were taken from me…” She then let Scootaloo go, backing away as the young pegasus stared at her in disbelief. “I…I never wanted to give you up Scootaloo, you were my little foal…the one good thing I can say I did right with my life, but…” “Who?” asked Scootaloo, still a little wary but willing to hear this time. “What?” “You said I was taken from you, I want to know who did it…and where the hay where you for these last eight years of my life?” Rainbow hesitated for a moment, than nodded, sitting down before speaking to her. “It…it was my mother who took you from me Scootaloo, she…she had this vision of where I was supposed to go in life and…and she saw you as a mistake. She…she knew I wouldn’t give you up though, I…I told her as much when I told her I was pregnant with you, about how I was going to be a mother to you…so…so she waited till I was away and…and she took you away.” Her face was running with tears as she kept talking, her voice choked with sobs as her daughter stared at her with a mixture of disbelief and horror. “And…as for where I was these last eight years…I was looking for you Scootaloo, every day when I had the time, I would go out and look for you, but each time I couldn’t find you…till I that day in the ally…” Rainbow then squeaked in surprise as Scootaloo tackled her, then wrapped her forelegs around her foal as she felt her begin to cry. “I’m sorry…I’m so sorry…” “Shh,” said Rainbow, rubbing the back of Scootaloo’s head as she tried to calm her down. “You have nothing to be sorry for Scoots, it was my fault I couldn’t find you sooner, and I just hope you can forgive me for being gone for so long.” “I do Rain…mom…” With that one word Rainbow’s heart soared, and so she hugged her little girl tighter, simply holding her as they both cried their torment away. “Ah come on, do I really have to go back to that crummy hospital?” Rainbow laughed, holding her filly close as she flew her closer to the hospital. “Yes you do, your still injured Scoots, so it’s back to the hospital for you. Anyway I told your dad to wait for me there, so it will be a good chance for you to meet her.” “Mom, I know dads aren’t she’s, you can at least not joke around with me.” Rainbow laughed again, “I know you know that squirt, but in your case your dad is a mare, whom I am in very much love with and plan to introduce you to today.” Scootaloo shot her a look, but decided to remain silent; she figured she would get the truth once they got back to the hospital. As they drew closer Scootaloo saw a mare waiting outside, and her jaw slowly began to fall open as she realized who it was. “No way, no bucking…” “Hey, watch you language squirt.” Down on the ground Spitfire watched as the two drew closer, barley containing the urge to just leap into the sky and fly to them so that she could embrace her foal. Eventually they landed on the ground, Rainbow placing her gently onto her back and then walking over to Spitfire. “Hey,” said rainbow, nuzzling into her wife with affection as she nuzzled back. Spitfire then looked up at Scootaloo, who was staring at her with slack jawed disbelief, only to squeak as Spitfire pulled her off Rainbow’s back, hugging her close as she started to cry happy tears at finally being able to hold her baby girl. After a while Rainbow joined in on the hug, and Scootaloo had to admit, for the first time in her messed up life, she felt things were finally right, and they were only going to get better from here on. *One Day Latter: Cloudsdale* Firefly trotted along the road on the way to her favorite news stand, bouncing a little on the clouds as she thought of the good date she had just had. She felt like a young mare again, happily dancing along the street till she made it to the stand and asking for a paper, handing over the bits and then turning to look at the front page as she leaned against the news stand. However when she noticed the front page, her eyes shot open, and she quickly ripped open the paper and began reading, not even trying to hide the glare she shot the picture of two mares hugging a little filly. After eight long years of searching the Element of Loyalty, a misses Rainbow Aurora Dash and her wife, the legendary leader of the Wonderbolts, Captain Spitfire, have finally been reunited with their long lost filly Scootaloo, who has been living the last eight years of her life in the Ponyville Orphanage. Local reporter Flying quill managed to get an interview with the head of the Orphanage, miss Gleaming Shores. “Well Rainbow came by after I had just gotten the news that Scootaloo was in the hospital, and after a brief conversation I invited her inside and she told me about how she had lost Scootaloo, though she asked me to keep it a secret, but I assure you it is a very sad tale.” As of yet reporters have not been able to get an interview with the celebrity parents nor their long lost child, having been stopped by both hospital staff and even royal guards at one point. Even the close friends of the Element of Loyalty refuse to comment on the matter, saying it was their business and that they did not want to betray their friends trust… The article went on more, but Firefly couldn’t continue, dropping the paper into her saddle bags and running over to the nearest pay phone. She inserted the bits and quickly dialed the number of her boss, waiting impatiently till she heard the ringing stop. “Hello?” “Hello Sal this is Firefly.” “Oh hey Fly, whatcha need this time?” Firefly giggled, “Well you know all that vacation time I have saved up, well today I’m cashing in, I just got the newspaper today and saw my little girl has found her daughter.” “Ah, so you want to go down there celebrate the good news with them?” “Why of course, what kind of mother would I be if I did otherwise?” That got her a laugh, “well I’ll grant it then, I know it’s been a while since you have seen your little girl, just make sure you enjoy yourself ok?” “I will Sal, and thanks for this, I promise to talk with you when I get back, Bye.” The minute she set down the phone her face changed, her smile vanishing to be replaced by an angry grimace. She couldn’t believe it, after all the bucking trouble she went through to get rid of that little bump in Rainbow’s road to glory, that little bundle of hell still somehow managed to make it back into her life. She quickly turned and headed straight for home, she had to pack a few things before she made her way to Ponyville. One way or another she was going to fix this, no matter what she had to do; she would not let her filly’s life be ruined again.