//------------------------------// // Mommy? (Edited) // Story: Mommy // by fluttercord4ever //------------------------------// "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS ANIMAL CARE!!!" the CMC exclaimed as they trotted out of school. Scootaloo hopped onto her scooter parked along the fence and began pushing it along by buzzing her wings. "Ok girls, I'll see you at Fluttershy's cottage. I'll go ask her if it's alright if we can take care of some of her animals," Scootaloo called out to Apple bloom and Sweetie belle as she started to push the scooter along to the pegusus' cottage. While she rode through along the streets of Ponyville, she noticed a filly smiling and laughing with an older similar looking mare, who Scootaloo assumed was her mother. She braked her ride for a moment and stared at the pair sadly. "If only I knew my mommy, it's to bad whoever she is... is dead," Scootaloo thought to herself. "I wonder what mom looked like? Did she look like me? Was she kind or is she mean? Who knows...? If only I had a picture of her or at least a note, so that at I can have something from her. Why did she leave me at an orphanage? Was I just nothing to her? Was I not perfect for her? Oh Mommy, I wish could find you..." Right in the middle of the street, Scootaloo began to cry. Ponies glanced at her with a puzzled look in their eyes, but they did nothing to help. Someponies even appeared to whispering and pointing her out, but Scootaloo didn't care about their gossip, she just sat on her scooter, crying by herself, until a gentle hoof touched her on her shoulder. Scootaloo turned to see a pale yellow mare patting her back. Fluttershy's face looked just as miserable as her own. She wondered why the mare looked so sad. Was Fluttershy upset over her, or some other pony? "I-Is everything alright, Scootaloo?" Fluttershy whispered to Scootaloo in a comforting voice, putting a hoof to Scootaloo's cheek and wiping the filly's tears. "It's alright Fluttershy, I'm just not feeling well today.." Fluttershy sighed and asked her, "So what are you doing then?" Scootaloo cheered up a bit when she remembered why she was racing through the town. "Oh yeah, I was going to your cottage to check if Apple Bloom, Sweetie Bell and I could try to get our cutie mark for animal care. Is it ok if we use some of your animals?" Fluttershy smiled warmly at Scootaloo, it made her happy to see other ponies interested in animals. "Ok. That is fine with me, maybe I can give you girls some tips on how to take care of them. Just, um, make sure they're alright at all times, I wouldn't want anyone or anypony getting hurt." Scootaloo eyes grew bigger at the thought of Fluttershy's offer, to have the best animal expert in all of Equestria help her and her friends, she gave the pegasus an enthusiastic yes. It was not to long before Scootaloo and Fluttershy reached her cottage. Animals were everywhere eating what was left of their lunch. Right in front of them, Angel Bunny munched on half of a carrot, gobbling most of it down in a few seconds. "Oh Angel, please don't eat your carrot too fast, you'll get a tummy ache." Fluttershy begged, walking over to pat the bunny. However, Angel glanced at Fluttershy angrily and dashed off towards the garden. "Oh Angel, wait! It's not time to play yet.. Angel!" Fluttershy cried out to Angel picking up rest of the carrot in her hoof and started to run after the bunny, but turned back to Scootaloo. "Scootaloo can you wait for me inside my cottage, please. I will not be long. Oh Angel Bunny, get back here!" Scootaloo nodded her head and walked around the cottage. The filly was surround by animals. There was some squirrels and mice eating acorns, a giant bear (which she tried to avoid), goats, and a dozen chickens to name a few. Looking around Scootaloo saw a seat on the couch in the den (quite literally a den in Fluttershy's case). She walked over to it, in doing so she accidentally clipped a mouse's tail with her hoof. With a loud "SQUEAK" from the mouse, it caused Scootaloo to loose her balance and trip into a bookcase. The case rocked, but remained standing, to Scootaloo's relief. However, as the filly rubbed her bruised head, a book from the wobbling shelf plopped onto her lap. The book was a light brown and medium sized, but huge compared to the books Scootaloo would read at her age. Although for a fully grown pony, it was not too thick or too skinny, but just what an average pony would read in a whole afternoon or ten minutes in the case of a local purple princess. Curious, Scootaloo opened the book and to her surprise it was a photo album. On the first page was a picture of a newborn filly with a mess of pink mane and yellow fur, embroidered in a white lace and labeled "Baby's First Picture". "Is that Fluttershy?" Scootaloo thought to herself. She turned the page to see the same filly except slightly older and with similar looking older mare, who also had pink hair and yellow fur, but instead lacked wings and a cutie mark of three pink flowers. The mare in the picture was smiling broadly and holding the filly in the air with her hooves. "I guess that's Fluttershy's mother." Scootaloo turned a few more pages to see Fluttershy with another filly around her age, who had light cyan fur and a distinct rainbow mane. Immediately, Scootaloo recognized the filly as her hero, Rainbow Dash. She continued to flip through pages and more pictures of Fluttershy's childhood, some of flight school (there was very few of them compared to the other pages), until she turned to a picture of a pregnant Fluttershy "Wait," she thought to herself, "Fluttershy was pregnant? Why have I never seen her filly or colt?" Confused, Scootaloo turned the page to a picture Fluttershy in a hospital bed, holding a foal in her hooves. The mare was smiling although appearing a bit tired, but what caught Scootaloo's eyes was the filly's appearence. The baby in Fluttershy's hooves had light orange fur and a darker purple mane. The filly was asleep in the picture, but had a smile of her face, as if she was happy to be with her mother. Scootaloo turned the last page frantically, only to be met with a family tree which followed several generations. The names above were not important to her, but at the bottom was Fluttershy being connected by a line with a name was scratched out and couldn't be read, the line turned downwards and pointed to- Suddenly, there was a loud "CRASH" coming from the back door. Scootaloo turned to see Fluttershy with a terrified look on her face. There are carrots, acorns, and different types of plants, seeds, and an empty bowl all over the floor. Shaking, Fluttershy slowly made her way over to Scootaloo and put a hoof on the filly's shoulder. "Scootaloo, I-" Fluttershy began to explain, but was cut off by the filly innocently glancing up at her and asking, "M-Mommy?" .