In Ponyville not too far away from the foal schoolhouse run by Cheerilee, was a house that belonged to a married Pegasus couple who had an orange filly called Scootaloo. Both Scootaloo’s parents worked nine to five jobs so they were not seen in Ponyville that often, it lead to some wondering if Scootaloo was an orphan or that they were neglectful abusive parents;
Amazing what conclusions someponies could come to just by what they don’t see, isn’t it?
Anyway that morning Scootaloo woke up, her stomach full of excitement: Applebloom told her and Sweetie Belle that her cousin Babs Seed would be coming to stay! They could not wait to get a new friend!
After getting out of her bed and then making it she saw that in her cupboard which was right next her Power Ponies comic book collection lying in a huge stack, her yellow and red Kid Dash costume was still there; months ago during a storm of some kind she was almost injured before her idol who was like a big sister to her Rainbow Dash swooped in and saved her while doing a Sonic Rainboom.
However they were both struck by lightning that caused them to be able to run and fly at incredible speed, even for Rainbow Dash’s standards! Rainbow Dash became one of those superheroes called the Dash and was even one of the ten heroes that saved all of Equestria from the Pony of Shadows and formed the Super Friends of Equestria!
Rainbow Dash was now training her to be her sidekick – Kid Dash, maybe one day she might join her hero and idol in the Super Friends of Equestria! That would be so cool, the Dash and Kid Dash may be remembered as the greatest superhero duo that there ever was!
She knew that there would be competition for that honour to be sure, another of Ponyville’s heroes Supermare not had her own filly sidekick called Superfilly and Ponyville’s infamous night time masked guardian Mare Do Well had recently gotten her own filly sidekick Filly-Be-Goode. She could not her hoove on it but she was certain there was something familiar about both Superfilly and Filly-Be-Goode....
Eh, she was just probably imagining things!
She walked downstairs and saw that her parents were still there, her father was drinking coffee while reading the Ponyville Gazette’s headline article of Mare Do Well and Filly-Be-Goode stopping Miss Freeze the previous night, and her mother was getting things ready to go work.
“Hello honey!” Scootaloo’s mother cheerfully greeted as Scootaloo quickly eat her breakfast toast as she was going to the door “going to be with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle for the day, aren’t you?”
“Yes we are!” Scootaloo said with excitement deep in her voice as she spoke and jumped with joy “Applebloom’s cousin from Manehattan is coming to visit and we may have a fourth member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders!”
“Okay well have fun you three!” Scootaloo’s father said as Scootaloo walked at a normal pace through the door, after she exited both he and his wife shared a smile.
Not to get too many ponies suspicious she was walking at a normal pace as she bumped into Applebloom and Sweetie Belle was just behind her, for some strange reason it felt like she had hit a steel wall when she hit Applebloom and she promptly fell down:
Weird.........
After she got up she gave a huge great big grin at her two best friends, if only she could tell them that she was Kid Dash, unfortunately Rainbow Dash told her that it would be best if she kept her identity a secret.
Scootaloo to tell you the truth did not actually get why it was so important to keep her identity a secret, after all didn’t Rainbow Dash’s teammate and leader of the Super Friends of Equestria the Green Lantern have her identity known to the public since she first appeared defeating Nightmare Moon and turning her back into Nightmare Moon (how exciting that was when she watched it in the crowd) and she did not seem to have any trouble about it.
“You guys ready to come to the train station so that we can meet mah cousin Babs?” Applebloom asked her two friends while jumping up and down with excitement and joy “Applejack says that Babs doesn’t have her Cutie Mark yet either so we have ourselves a fourth Cutie Mark Crusader!””
“You bet!” Scootaloo jumping up and down at the same pace as Applebloom, Scootaloo managed to control herself and not make her super speed show or be revealed.
“Come one let’s start going!” Scootaloo shouted with glee as she started flying at a few feet off the ground to the Train Station “last one there is a rotten egg!”
“Wait for us!” Applebloom laughed as she and Sweetie Belle began running in the same direction, despite not using a speed that one would consider suspicious from a filly her age Scootaloo was still managing to be fast enough to be in the lead of her fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders.
The three Cutie Mark Crusaders began on their journey to the train station to meet Babs Seed, unaware how life changing and how big that day will actually turn out. For the three of them plus Applebloom’s Cousin Babs Seed would be united in what would be a first for Equestria.
But it would not just be that four that would change things that day: for there would be a fourth foal that would join them in the great adventure that they were about to bark on: unlike the other fillies this fourth foal was not a young male foal and not a filly.
Now we will introduce to you’re the male foal that would join these four foals on the adventure that would greatly change all of their lives forever........
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In a house in Equestria playing on his portable Joy Boy gaming console was a young earth pony foal with no Cutie Mark, he had dark brown fur and his mane and tail had a lighter shade of brown with streaks of an ever lighter shade. On his head he was wearing a yellow and red beanie propeller hat that had the propeller green.
He was Buttons Mash a huge video game and juice box enthusiast, “Dammit the penultimate boss beat me again!”Buttons said agitated as he just got killed in the game.
“I will have to start this fight again......” Buttons but screamed in frustration and annoyance as the Joy Boy’s screen had the battery warning on red and flashing and then the screen went back as it ran out of power!
Five minutes later he was walking out of the house really annoyed, after turning his Joy Boy off when his mum made him go outside and get some fresh air. His mum could be so unfair sometimes, just like when she grounded him just because he spent an entire night on his Joy Boy and admitingly it was a school night but he really wanted to finish that game!
Ten minutes of walking later Buttons was bored and wished he was still on his Joy Boy at home, “Nothing cool happens outside..........” Buttons said with a bored look on his face which became interested when he spotted several trees with something shiny and blue.
Curiously he walked up to it and saw it was a large Scarab that looked like a huge robotic dark blue beetle, “I wonder what this is............” Buttons thought in his head as he curiously started poking it with his hooves, for curiosity tends to cause young ones to do something pretty stupid like reawakening a dangerous powerful weapon. “I think it looks like one of the artefacts Daring Do got before Dr Caballeron in the comic version of those Daring Do books...........”
Then the Scarab suddenly became active as it was released from the dormant state it was in since crashing into Equestria after surviving the encounter with the previous Green Lantern of Sector 2812. The Scarab then was floating in the air much to Buttons’ shock and awe. It then spoke in a deep robotic flat tone of voice “REACH SCARAB REACTIVATED, SEARCHING FOR HOST TO RECRUIT SLEEPER AGENT FOR THE REACH”
The Scarab then scanned its surround and finding Buttons as the nearest life form it then began charging towards Buttons’ direction, it missed as Buttons managed to dodge at the last second. Buttons began screaming as he began running for list and as fast as his little foal legs could carry him.
The Reach Scarab continued its chase against the young video game loving foal and it was going faster every second that the Chase went on. The Scarab managed to get near enough to Buttons that it attached itself to Button’ back.
Buttons closed his eyes worrying the thing was going to eat him as he was becoming encased by the wings of the Scarab........