AppleBloom, trying to take Sweetie’s mind off her problems asked, “Hey Scoots what did you do with Rainbow Dash II?”
At Applebloom’s question, Scootaloo’s eyes went large, and she looked around panicking, as her wings flapped quickly behind her. Then with a sigh, she lowered her head. “Well you see, it didn’t exactly work out the way I thought.
With that statement, both of her filly friends ears perked up. “Now, I’ve got to hear this,” exclaimed Sweetie, momentarily forgetting her own problems.
“You see, after I left school I didn’t have to go home right away…”
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Friday – After School
“What the hay am I supposed to do with this thing?”, grumbled Scootaloo as she contemplated the egg in her hoof. She should have been paying attention to where she was going as she was racing through Ponyville on her scooter, but luckily for her, it was a relatively slow day. She only knocked down, three ponies, one vegetable stand, and one white bunny. As it was Angel Bunny, the only one sad to see him hurt was Fluttershy, and even she was secretly glad to have a new animal to rehabilitate.
Scootaloos wanderings eventually led her to the CMC’s clubhouse. After the 3rd time circling the tree, she looked up and seeing where she was at, stopped her scooter and jumping off, sat down at the bottom step and continued to stare at her egg. Just as she was about to leave her egg at the clubhouse and take her scooter out for some crusading, she saw movement in the sky. Looking closer, she noticed a cerulean coat of her favorite Pegasus.
“OOH, OOH, RainbowDash! RainbowDash! RAINBOWDAAAAASH!”
The bright blue Pegasus reacted as if she hit a wall. Scootaloo watched as colorful flags fell down from the sky. Rainbow Dash recovered quickly and snatched up the rainbow colored pennants and made a perfect 10 landing right in front of the smiling filly.
“S’up kid. Except me of course.” Teased Rainbow, as she began to fly around Scootaloo, her saddlebags, bouncing around as a few flags poked out of the bag, making her seem even more colorful. She noticed the egg, Scootaloo was carrying, and with a flash, grabbed it out of the filly’s hoof.
“Hey, squirt, what do you have the egg for? Gonna, egg somepony’s house? When I was your age, there was this one neighbor that drove me crazy. Always complaining to my parents that I was too loud! Me, too loud! Yeah right. As if. So one night I snuck out of my house, grabbed a bunch of eggs and flew over to his house. Then I took one in my hoof and…” Rainbow paused and looked at Scootaloo. A small thought entered her mind, maybe this story wasn’t the best story to tell her. “Ehh, never mind that. So if your not going to chuck it at someone, what are you going to do with it?”
“Well you see, Miss Cheerilee gave the class an assignment over the weekend….” Scootaloo quickly summarized her assignment ending with, “But the coolest thing? I’ve named it after the best flyer in Ponyville, Rainbow Dash II.” Her eyes shone as she waited for Rainbow’s response.
“So pretty much a bunch of egg head stuff, huh?” Snorted Rainbow as she tossed the egg from one hoof to another. Scootaloo’s face began to fall, as she heard Rainbow’s reaction. “Still it is a pretty cool name kiddo.” Scootaloo’s smile returned and her wings began to buzz with excitement.
“But…it needs something more, something that says this egg isn’t just the best sounding egg, it’s the most awesome, radical, and cool egg there is.”
“Those things are so different from each other. How is one egg going to be all three,” wondered Scootaloo.
“Exactly! I’m glad at least one pony knows the difference.” Rainbow patted Scootaloo on the head. “That’s why we need to do something spectacular.”
Both Scootaloo and Rainbow began to stare at the egg, trying to see how to accomplish that with a simple white chicken egg.
Suddenly, Rainbow Dash’s eyes expanded. Tossing the egg into the sky and catching it right before it smashed onto the ground, Rainbow smiled at Scootaloo. “Racing stripes! Rainbow Dash II needs racing stripes. Everything looks better with racing stripes. Plus it makes everything faster. That’s a fact I just made up.” Giving Scootaloo a wink, she tossed the egg at her, who caught it quickly in her two hooves.
“Well, gotta Dash, I have to put these at the end of Ghastly Gorge. Tomorrow, I’m going to find out what is the most awesome, radical, and cool pet there is. And it’s not going to be a stupid turtle tortoise that’s for sure. See ya.” With almost a sonic Rainboom behind her, she was off.
As Scootaloo watched Rainbow Dash fly off to become a speck in the sky, she realized what she’d forgotton to say, “Rainbow Dash, wait! Choose me! Choose ME!” Seeing she lost her chance, her ears hung low and her body slumped down to the ground. “Aww, buck this. I would have made a great pet.” With one last sigh, she got up and went into the clubhouse.
Taking the egg to the clubhouse’s table, she grabbed the paints from the bookshelf and tossed them onto the wooden table. Contemplating Rainbow Dash II, she pondered, what type of racing stripes would be best. “Dragon flames? Nah!. Gryphon claws? As if! Shark teeth? Pppht, that’s just dumb. No it needs to be awesome, radical, and just a hint of coolness.” Setting her hoof under her chin, she continued thinking. After thinking for a few moments longer, she realized what would be the perfect racing stripes. “Rainbow Lightning bolts. It’s perfect. Woo hoo!” Smiling at her genius idea she quickly got to work.
After a half an hour, both she and Rainbow Dash II were covered in paint. But while there were splotches of blue, green, red, yellow and other different colors over her hoofs, fur, and wings, on the egg itself, there were two simple crude looking lightning bolts, filled in with rainbow colors.
Scootaloo’s eyes sparkled as she raised the egg in her hooves. “It’s, it’s…beautiful.” She smiled. Holding it in her hoof, she walked to the clubhouse’s window. “This is the most awesome, radical and cool egg in the history of EVER!” Scootaloo’s egg seemed to glow and sparkle in the light. “This egg is amazing. It can be the best egg ever. Why I bet it could do anything. I bet it could even fly!” Pulling her hoof back, she looked back at the egg and…
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“Wait a second. Let me get this straight. Yer telling us you tossed the egg out the window?” Questioned AppleBloom.
Scootaloo’s head looked down and she shuffled her hooves. She looked up at her two friends and mumbled, “yeah.”
Both AppleBloom and Sweetie Belle looked at each other and began giggling. Scootaloo slumped down on the school yard and hung her head down, embarrassed over the giggling. When her friends saw what their laughter had done they both stopped and gave her a big group hug. “We’re sorry.” “Yah, we didn’t mean to make you sad,”
Scootaloo squirmed in between the two fillies. “Okay okay, whatever, just don’t get all girly on me okay?” She began to smile, but then her ears flopped down on her head and she frowned. “Guess this means I’ve got summer school too huh?”
Sweetie patted her on her back. “Well it’s not so bad, at least we get to be together during the summer.” She glanced at the small straw basket beside AppleBloom. “Looks like you’re the only one that’s not going to have summer school.”
AppleBloom looked down at her basket, and gave it a nudge with her hoof. “Um, yah, about that, see…”
Scootaloo and Sweetie looked at each other, then back at AppleBloom.
“Okay, I’ve gotta here this.”
“Yeah what happened?”
“Well ya see, I had to git on home right after school. We were goin to be workin in the vegetable garden this weekend an I want’ed to show the family Cinnamon Muffin fer we got started….”