As they got the hot air balloon ready they told Pinkie the gist of the story. Even though they took out every piece of extra detail, Pinkie still showed overly dramatic attitude towards the story, especially the good parts where Scootaloo finds her father and joins the Wonderbolts.
The hot air balloon wasn't working correctly and they spent nearly an hour trying to fix it, until the discovered the problem.
"Looks like someone broke it." Pinkie said with a frown. "The thingy that makes the balloony part rise isn't right. Someone broke it on purpose!"
"Ah'm guessing Rainbow wants to be alone, or someone is screwin with ya Pinkie." Applejack said guessing it was the former herself.
"Oh if she wants to be alone, maybe we should check on her later." Fluttershy said.
"No, shes obviously upset about this, I can teleport us all up there and use the cloud-walk spell. Get ready to catch me though since its a lot of energy to cast that much." Twilight said as the others agreed.
Her horn began to glow as the she cast the cloud-walk spell on everypony before huddling up and then porting up to Rainbow's house above. As she predicted, she nearly fainted after they all arrived. She couldn't remember a time where she expended so much energy in such a small time period as under a minute.
Applejack flipped Twilight onto her back to carry her inside, as she couldn't walk on her own without stumbling on every step.
"Rainbow are you home?!" Pinkie called as she relentlessly knocked on the door. The only answer she received was what seemed to be a small wooden box fly through the door and knock her backwards causing her to fall off the cloud followed a shout saying to go away.
Fluttershy quickly reacted and dove down catching her mid-fall and then promptly brought her back up. The five of them then invited themselves into Rainbow Dash's home through the now broken cloud-door.
"Dashie, that wasn't very nice!" Pinkie yelled back once she caught her breath. "You could've killed me!"
"Well I didn't." She replied walking into the front room to meet the others. "I want to be alone right now." She said in an angry tone. They could tell she had been crying as well from her tone and her eyes.
"Come on, you never even heard how and why Scootaloo got in. You should be proud anyways. The one pony who looked up to you more than anypony else, and was trained personally by you joined the Wonderbolts. You must be a great teacher as well as a great flyer." Twilight said trying to cheer her friend up.
"Well, then I'm only a great teacher. If I was a good flyer I would be with them. Please, I just want to be alone!" Rainbow said getting impatient.
"Scoots found her daddy!" Pinkie burst out trying to help both sides. "And he was in the Wonderbolts or something before he went missing. How'd that story go again?" Pinkie then asked.
"Turns out, Scootaloo's father was poisoned and left in the Everfree forest with amnesia by somepony named Speedy. The two were competing to be in the Wonderbolts, and Speedy cheated. There's more to it, but that's important now, err it must not be at all since Soarin wouldn't tell us who Speedy was, since he was never in the Wonderbolts." Twilight explained.
"Well that's great, no, amazing for her. But she's still a million times younger than me and still is a better flyer than me apparently." Rainbow's mood didn't seem phased at all by the new revelations. She was still depressed and enraged at the same time. She seemed to be trying her hardest to hold back more tears as well. "Please, just GO!" She shouted at them.
"Come 'ere! Somepony needs a hug!" Pinkie said as she bounced over to Rainbow wrapping her in her hoofs.
"No, go away, I WANT TO BE ALONE!" Rainbow screamed this time as she pushed away Pinkie.
"I... I think we should listen to her." Fluttershy said quietly.
"Maybe your right dear." Rarity agreed.
"OK fine." Pinkie humphed sadly. "Bye Dashie! We'll be back later to see how your doing! We still love you!" She said in her normal cheery voice which was then followed by partly sullen goodbyes from the rest as well before they all left.
"Oh and you might want this back." Applejack said as she tossed the box Rainbow had chucked at Pinkie back inside.
"Good, give her more ammo." Pinkie muttered inaudibly to herself.
Rainbow went back to her bed after they all left and let loose the barrage of tears she had been trying her hardest to prevent her friends from seeing.
"Its not fair! I'm ages better than her! I doubt she got in for the sole reason of her dad being good. Its not fair!!" She shouted into her pillow through her sobs.
Her room was a mess. The door wasn't the only thing she had broken. Tissues littered the floor along with her bed sheets. In her initial release of anger she had smashed one of her tables in half. If her room wasn't enchanted to hold all of this, her floor would have busted wide open allowing a plethora of Rainbow's stuff to fall on Ponyville.
Throughout all of this she still had one more worry: What would she do if Scootaloo came over to flaunt her new title even more? It sure wouldn't make her happier to see this. It would only hurt her, making her idol do this. As pissed to hell Rainbow was about this she didn't want to hurt the little filly.
Her pet turtle Tank finally managed to stroll into Rainbow's room. Ever since Tank had heard Rainbow come home crashing through everything in her way, he had began is long journey to comfort her. Rainbow had decided to run all over the house at first which only made his journey take much longer.
As if on queue Rainbow momentarily glanced up to see the turtle strolling in through the doorway. "Oh Tank, you agree with me, don't you? This is crap, its not fair at all. I should be the one in the Wonderbolts topping the charts, not her!" She wailed.
As if to agree in reassurance Tank's head bobbed into his shell and then quickly reemerged wearing a pair of sunglasses and bobbed his head at Rainbow as if to say 'Your still awesome.' Rainbow seemed to get the message since she let out a small laugh. It was the first sign of happiness she had shown since arriving home.
After another hour or two of complaining and crying she began to get tired of it all. She wanted to cry more, she felt like she should, but she couldn't. She had cried herself dry and could feel her heart racing like crazy from hyperventilating during it as well. She finally began to think straight again and not have every thought filled with indignation and jealousy. She thought how pathetic she seemed right now. She had never, not once, ever broke out like that. She had been bullied as a filly and yet she never took it this hard. It was like she had reached her limit and everything just exploded out of her in one big bang.
Tank had eventually managed to make his way over to her on the floor-as she had previously rolled out of bed and plopped onto the floor during her rage session-to comfort her.
"Damn... I should really clean this up." She muttered to herself finally free of the tears as she wiped the final ones from her eyes.
She began to get up weakly and pick up her room. She would definitely have to go out and buy some new things, but that wouldn't be too bad. She had the money anyways. Her recent convention trip had earned her a nice bonus as a reward for going. It wasn't mandatory for her to go, and she had easily complained and refused to go because of that. Her boss really wanted her to go and present there, and in the end the only way to get her to go was to give her a bonus.
A new thought rushed into her mind as she was medially cleaning up. What was she going to do next? She couldn't just ignore Scootaloo or tell her to shut up and go away. There was no answer. She wished that she hadn't been so short with her friends and they were still here. She wasn't going to kill her pride-if she had any left, she thought-by going out to find them for that kind of help. She decided to be up front about it and go to Spitfire. If Scootaloo could get in, there was no reason that she couldn't. If Spitfire said they were full, she could just tell her to drop one of the lower ranked ones. More ponies probably knew Rainbow's name than their's. She immediately pushed that evil thought out of her head. She wanted to get in, but not at the expense of being a total ass.
"RAAAAIIIINBOW DASH!" Scootaloo called from the other room. "Are you home from work yet?"
Rainbow didn't want to see Scootaloo yet. She would probably end up letting loose on her, and she looked terrible from her recent fit. She put a finger to her lips looking at Tank, as if he could make enough noise to pull Scootaloo into here. She remained completely still and it was killing her.
"Rainbow? Are you home yet!" Scootaloo called again. "Is anypony here?" She didn't want to give up.
Rainbow Dash stayed completely still. It was only about 30 seconds so far, yet she had still never consciously stayed this inactive and still for this long a time span before. Even in her fit she was all over the place. A few bruises were on her side from where she had hit herself falling out of bed a few times.
"Hmph. I guess nopony is home." Scootaloo said a saddened. "I wonder why her door is broken open like this... *GASP* maybe she was robbed while away at work!" Scootaloo then thought. "I should go tell her boss so he can get her, I bet she has his information around here somewhere." She wondered aloud as she walked inside the house.
Rainbow Dash silently gasped. If Scootaloo found her here now then she would know she was purposely ignoring her. Scootaloo wouldn't take too kindly to that. Luckily no information about her boss had been left lying around, she couldn't even remember if she had any at all. That only led her to think even worse. If she found nothing outside her room, she might come in here to look. Rainbow was screaming in her mind and wracking it attempting to find a way out of this.
She could hear Scootaloo shuffling around in the room next to her bedroom. Luckily the door to her room was open, because she had a plan. She walked more silently than she ever had before over to her hand-mirror. It was diamond encrusted and was a gift from Rarity. Even so, she had rarely ever used it. Her mane seemed to work itself into position every morning after she showered. She never really cared about her looks anyways. Looks didn't make you faster.
She remembered Rarity had said maybe she could change her mane a bit too, maybe let it grow out and style it. She had even asked if she could do it herself. Of course Rainbow had refused completely and that was that. She liked her mane shorter anyways, shorter hair was less wind resistance and it worked for her. She may not have always been the smartest mare but she knew enough about physics to fly faster.
She took the mirror in her mouth and silently slid it across the floor over near the door. The mirror had its own little stand on it so she was able to see it from over here. Her plan was once she saw Scootaloo either go into the kitchen or the living room out of view of her room and entrance room she would sneak out of there. Or even better, she could just completely relax if Scootaloo decided it a lost cause and left. Her only hope was that Scootaloo wouldn't check her room first.