//------------------------------// // Day Two // Story: To Disappear // by ImpossibleReflection //------------------------------// Kind Heart shifted under the blanket as the sun started to shine through a window. She slowly opened her teal eyes. Wiping away the sleep from her eyes with a light brown hoof and pushing the dark brown mane from her eyes and back over her ears, she looked around taking in the surroundings. She recalled waiting for Scootaloo the night before, and then falling asleep on the couch. However she did not remember getting a blanket. Thinking as hard as she could she could not find any recollection of getting a blanket. A thought crossed her mind, Maybe Scootaloo's back and she got it for me when I slept. The middle aged mare rushed down the hall to Scootaloo's room. Looking in the open door to see an empty room, "Scootaloo, where have you gone?" The gentle voice of the light brown earth pony caused Scootaloo to awaken, but she remained silent, as she wouldn't remember how to operate her jaw enough to be capable of proper speech for another few minutes. Kind Heart left the doorway a few moments later, Scootaloo had gotten up and began to follow her, trying to be quiet as possible. She wasn't very quite, but she was quiet enough not to be discovered. The caretaker walked down the hall, through the living room and stopping at the entryway, but only long enough to put a scarf around her neck, before she made her way outside. Scootaloo rushed out the door as Kind Heart opened it, being the best time to do it as to prevent being closed inside, or squeezing as she is going out or closing the door. Scootaloo's caretaker started walking down the street. Which normally would not intrigue Scootaloo, however, it was opposite of the way she would normally go. If she were going to get groceries, she would have traveled in the other direction. So Scootaloo decided to follow Kind Heart to find out what she was going to do. During the walk Scootaloo got a good look at her caretaker. She had bags under her eyes, and a frown etched across her face. Scootaloo also noticed something that she had never seen Kind do before. She kept looking up and watching the sky. After about ten minutes of walking Kind Heart had reached her destination, the Ponyville guardhouse. She walked up to the front door and pulled it open. Scootaloo squeezing in as the door was pulled outwards. As the light brown earth pony entered the building a guard in silver armor walked up, "Hello ma'am, what brings you to the guard station today?" "My name is Kind Heart, and I own the local orphanage. A few nights ago, Scootaloo, the foal that I take care of didn't show up, and she hasn't shown up since." "Follow me, ma'am, I will get you the necessary paperwork." _-~/|\~-_ After Filling out the necessary paperwork, the guard said he would make posters to notify the public and send a copy to the local dairy to have it printed on the milk cartons. Kind Heart thanked them and made her way out, unbeknown to her the filly she was searching for was mere feet away. Currently she was looking up, walking towards a cloud, with a prismatic multi-chromatic tail dangling over the edge. _-~/|\~-_ Meanwhile in the crusader's clubhouse, two fillies are wondering what to make of the current predicament. "What if Scootaloo's an alien!?" "And what would give ya that idea?" "Pinkie Pie didn't know about where Scootaloo lived or who her parents are, what if she's an alien from outer space? What if she left to go back to her home world?" "That makes about as much sense as Scootaloo suddenly becoming invisible. She ain't an alien." "What if she turned invisible and she needs our help, but we can't see her to help her!?" "Now yer jus' bein' stupid. She's probably at her home, in Ponyville havin' hot soup and layin' under some warm blankets." "But we don't know that!" "Makes a lot more sense than aliens." _-~/|\~-_ "Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo wondered what Kind Heart wanted with Rainbow Dash. "Huh?" Rainbow's head peered from over the edge of the cloud. "I need your help." Kind Heart yelled up. Rainbow Dash dropped down from her cloud and landed in front of the light brown earth pony, "What's up?" "Well, my name is Kind Heart, I run the local orphanage," Rainbow raised an eyebrow at this, "And Scootaloo hasn't shown up for a couple days. I thought that since she never seems to stop talking about you, that you might have seen her recently. Have you seen Scootaloo recently?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Scoots is an orphan?" "Yes," Kind Heart answered, "Have you seen her in the last couple of days?" "No," Rainbow Dash had lost her confident grin. Instead it had been replaced with a determined scowl, "But, I'm going to find her." "Oh thank you, I've been so worried." Scootaloo had made her way over to Rainbow Dash, and because of this she heard her muttering, "Why didn't she tell me. I didn't know she wanted a big sister because she had nopony. I have to fix this." She took off Immediately after finishing that last sentence, leaving Scootaloo in a cloud of dust. Rainbow Dash was now flying across Ponyville at a breakneck pace, looking out over as much of the town as she could as she made her way over to sweet apple acres, "First things first, gotta check her clubhouse." She's probably just hanging out with her friends. _-~/|\~-_ Meanwhile at the clubhouse the the crusaders with the only invisible parts being the images on their flanks were still in a tizzy. Sweetie Belle had mastered her unintentional possessed Diamond Tiara impersonation, and Apple Bloom was trying to get her to stop. "Calm down Sweetie, everthin' is gonna be a'right." THUNK!!!! "What in tarnation was that?" On the clubhouse balcony, just outside the door Rainbow Dash was dusting herself off from the impact landing. She walked into the clubhouse to see a muttering confused filly, with a bewildered filly right next to her. "Hey, you girls seen Scoots recently?" "No, we were just wonderin' where she lived to see if she is alright." They didn't know either. I guess she didn't tell anypony.Darn it, I should've known though, Why the feather didn't she tell me. She realized she was beginning to show anger, so she calmed herself before saying, "Well, you too keep an eye out for her, she's bound to be around somewhere. Tell her Rainbow Dash is looking for her." "Alright." Apple Bloom replied. _-~/|\~-_ The sun was setting, and Rainbow Dash was dead tired from flying non-stop looking for Scootaloo, as well as all the stops she made at her friend's places to get their help. She hadn't found Scootaloo, and was becoming very distressed. Some element of loyalty I turned out to be. She thought from her vantage point atop a cloud. "Please Scoots, just come back. I didn't know, I'll adopt you scoots, just please come back." She said, looking at the kaleidoscope her tears made when mixed with the sunset.