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// Look in his eyes 
// Story: Changes for Scootaloo 
// by TheDerpyOutcast 
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                                          THREE MONTHS AFTER LAST CHAPTER

“Come on, you can do it. Just look him in the eye and tell him the truth.” Scootaloo kicked a stone away from the path, her wings flapping occasionally out of excitement. She jogged along to Ponyville School, her thoughts encased by the item in her saddle bag. 

She walked to the school yard to wait for Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. Quickly glancing around, she spotted him. Rumble stood off on the far side of the school yard. She smiled slightly and made her way off to him.

About half way there, Scootaloo saw Diamond Tiara talking to Rumble, a paper heart in her mouth. Diamond looked at Rumble expectantly, who took the card from Diamond.  Scootaloo couldn’t believe her eyes. She felt sadness – no, immortal rage, rise up in her. Still suffering from earlier happenings, she couldn’t help but envision herself killing Diamond Tiara. 

Twisted by these thoughts, her mind began to envision farther than that. She saw Diamond and Rumble, then a filly, and then she saw herself, blinded by rage. She watched in her mind as the filly died at her hooves, and all the way to stuff that would make me tag this mature. I want to avoid that. 

She watched Rumble and Diamond walk off together.  In the midst of blind rage, Scootaloo ripped up the note she made for her crush. This Hearts and Hooves day she was going to get her own very special somepony. It was going to be the only colt in the Cutie Mark Crusaders.  Or she thought.

The rush of sudden emotion caused some damage to the falling sanity of the orange Pegasus. Most ponies didn’t realize the distortion in her world emotions created.  But with the weak barrier that surrounded her insanity, it was quite easy to damage her. 

As images flashed through her semi consciousness, Scootaloo was blinded by her pain, fear, and anger. As if the walls of sanity were cracking.  

“But… I love… him…” Cringing as her mind lost a piece of the barrier, a twisted smile formed on Scootaloo. By this point, most had backed away from her, in fear of the results. All who remained inside of the circle surrounding the insanity were the CMC, and the Glitz Princesses.  

“Scootaloo!” Sweetie Belle tried to grip her friend in magic. 

“Snap out of it, LooLoo!” Rumble shouted as he rushed to the filly’s side.  While no one else could tell, Scootaloo could feel herself relax in the presence of Rumble. “Don’t let yourself slip…” his voice grew distant.  As if he could feel Scootaloo’s pain, he added, “LooLoo… I… “, He sighed before continuing. “A rumble of thunder is just a loud noise without lightning.” 

“And a storm without light shall just be a blackened void of pain” Scootaloo finished. She looked up at him with eyes that showed no pain, no anger, no fear, only kindness and sorrow. Slowly, feeling the mood and atmosphere of the moment, they kissed. “You are the thunder...” Scootaloo said as the kiss ended. 

“And you are the lightning.” Rumble finished. 

While no one could tell, something changed in Scootaloo that day. As if the barrier that kept in her insanity had rebuilt itself stronger than ever.