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// Chapter 3: Under the... lake? (Edited) 
// Story: Scootaloo's Big Daddy 
// by DarthVendar 
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"This little Sea Slug has come along and glued together all the crazy ideas I've had since the war... it doesn't just heal damaged cells, it... resurrects them... I can bend the double helix... black can be reborn white, tall, short, weak, strong..."
―Brigid Tenenbaum




Scootaloo was on edge. Somehow nopony had seen her new massive daddy; even with his earthquake inducing trot. They were nearing the school and it was inevitable that they would bump into somepony. Suddenly she heard the sound of rustling behind them. Her eyes grew wide and her heart threatened to beat out of her chest.
"Somepony is coming! Quick hide behind a tree or something!" She commanded, staring at the nearing source of rustling bushes and grass. Several rapid tremors followed by silence told her that her Daddy had done what she asked; she just hoped that whoever the pony was that they somehow couldn't feel or hear the ground shake. Her heart thumped faster and faster as the rustling drew near, until finally a squirrel jumped out of the foliage. Scootaloo let out a deep breath she didn't know she was holding. She took a moment to steady her shaky legs and calm herself. 'Be brave, like Rainbow Dash.' She told herself silently. She turned to face the direction her thundering daddy had gone and immediately facehoofed.Sitting behind a thin tiny sapling of a tree in complete view of the world was her big daddy.
"That isn't hiding!" She yelled at him. 'This could not be any worse. The big lug is as subtle as the 's' in subtle.' She thought to herself, while the towering cyclops peeked out from behind the tree confused; as if the little 2 inch wide trunk could actually block his vision. Scootaloo knew it was time; she had to convince the tan giant to not go to school with her. "Okay... I got to go to School." She spoke loud, clear, and slowly pointing towards the school for emphasis. "You, go hide and make sure that nopony can see you. I'll come out later when school ends. Okay?" He nodded yes, and Scootaloo sighed with relief before walking towards the school. Unfortunately after only a few feet her foot steps had a thundering echo. She facehoofed again and looked back at the giant. "No, you stay. I go." She pointed to a big nearby bush which he climbed into, it hid him pretty well, but she could still see his glowing yellow eye. "Stay." Scootaloo slowly backed away still looking at him until she reached the school. Finally confident he would stay safe and put she went inside to the horrors of school.





Alpha peered from his bush into the school windows; inside he could see many Little Sisters  sitting in desks in front of a teacher. Now his Little Sister's actions started making sense. However, he didn't understand why she hadn't told him that the building was a Little Wonders Educational Facility, or why it wasn't properly marked. Although why she had pointed out things for him to get, but then got angry that he had gotten them still confused him greatly. Almost as much as why she had tried to get him to talk. Didn't she know that he could only speak in deep grunts, growls, moans, and roars as designed by Dr. Suchong.  It was luck that he was able to make that hard 'T' sound for tree. Now that he thought about it, he was surprised by the amount of trees the ponies here had just left out in the open. Didn't they realize how easy it would be to sabotage them and destroy their source of oxygen. He shook his head confused, these ponies were so strange. He looked back up to watch his Little Sister learn reassuring himself that she was safe.
Now normally he wouldn't disobey an order from his Little Sister, however, since her safety takes priority over her orders he headed back out to the forest he recovered her in. It felt strange to him to see so many tall trees unguarded, and with strange wildlife living freely. Lost in his thoughts Alpha nearly walked straight into a large stream of water, but managed to catch himself and not fall in. The third part of Alpha's programing kicked in. 'Repair and maintain Rapture.' He had, at least as far as his programing was concerned, discovered a massive leak probably due to a hull breach. Although judging from the amount of water pouring out he concluded that the breach would be too large for him to close off alone, it did however give him a direction. 'I simply have to follow up the river to the breach and I'll find Adam slugs in no time.' With time being something he did not have very much of  he thundered up beside the river causing several seismographs nearby to detect a small anomalous earthquake in an area that otherwise had no fault lines.
Eventually Alpha made it to the large Saddle Lake and trotted straight in believing he had made it to the sea. He marched towards the deepest area of the lake. His footsteps finally stopped causing the ground to shake. As he walked about he combed the lake bed for large black slugs, unfortunately before he could find any something else found him. Alpha had just found a small cloth bag with a loop on the end when he noticed the twenty or so creatures swimming around him. They were strange fish like equines with colorful patterned scales instead of fur and a multitude of fins and sails across their bodies resembling hair. They had surrounded him and were floating about gracefully at various depths pointing rusted tridents at him, which was very different from him walking on the seafloor due to his great weight. He didn't know exactly what was going on, but he assumed that they wanted him to leave. They had left a small gap in their formation away from where he wanted to go, and they hadn't attacked him yet despite their numbers advantage. They were most likely attempting to herd him through the hole in their formation and away from his goal. Alpha however wanted no part in their plan. 'I don't have time for this.' He lifted up his right hoof and focused on using a particular plasmid. Suddenly the water surrounding Alpha became charged with high voltage electricity which caused varying effects to the sea pony guards. Those that were particularly close to Alpha suffered from cardiac arrest while those further away felt excruciating pain and muscle spasms. Although Alpha was at ground zero the attack didn’t faze him. He was far tougher than the sea ponies, and despite a few muscle spasms he shrugged it off. Their reaction was almost instant as they fled away from him in every direction, it was almost as chaotic and fast as when there was a half price sale on Adam. 'Didn't like that shock jockey did you.... No wait... Electro bolt...' The feeling of blood running out his muzzle and yet another headache stopped his thoughts. 'I have to find an adam slug these headaches may be my body failing me already.' He left the wounded and dying sea creatures that remained and continued his search.
Nearly four hours later Alpha finally found a large black slug, ironically enough near a undersea stone village he assumed the sea ponies lived in. It took him some effort to remove the slug off its rock without killing it but he eventually accomplished his task and placed it in his sack. His mission accomplished Alpha went on his way to return to his Little Sister.





Scootaloo had never been more glad to get out of school. She was going to make sure nothing bad had happened to the giant cyclops and show him to Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. She had been resisting the urge to run back to the big tan giant and instead walked calmly to keep the surprise for her best friends. Unfortunately the only thing that could possibly ruin her mood turned out to be right behind her.
"Hey blank flanks move out of the way and let ponies with actual parents through." Diamond Tiara commanded like the brat she was.
Scootaloo stopped and faced the little snob and her side kick Silver Spoon her teeth grinding. That was a low blow even by Diamond Tiara's standards. She would have let it go if Tiara had just been insulting her, but the fact that Tiara had insulted Sweetie Belle for having busy parents and Apple Bloom for what happened to her’s was just wrong. She tried to think of a comeback. "Hey I have a dad!" Scootaloo caught Applebloom flinching slightly. Horse apples she just insulted Bloom and not defended her, definitely not Scootaloo's proudest moment.
Diamond Tiara didn't seem to care about any of that though and continued being a smug rotten brat. "Oh yeah? Well then why don't I see you with him more often? Is he embarrassed that you’re just a blank flank?" Thankfully before Scootaloo could teach that rotten filly a lesson the ground began to shake and the rhythmic thumping began to grow louder heralding only one thing. Scootaloo smiled smugly as Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's expressions evolved from confusion, to disbelief, to terror as their eyes grew wide and their hooves quaked frozen in place. Finally a large shadow fell over Scootaloo and her friends while a yellow light targeted Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Pointing up and behind her Scootaloo proudly proclaimed to her friends and enemies. "This is my Dad."
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon stood there for a moment before running away as fast as they could leaving a couple small dust clouds in their wake. Scootaloo took a deep breath of the justice that still hung in the air, before turning to try to calm down her friends. Unfortunately they seemed to have had a similar idea to Tiara and Spoon. 'I probably should have told them about him... I didn’t really think this one through.' Scootaloo looked up at the giant. "Hey. Thanks for scaring those bullies off, but can you be a little less scary around my friends?" He tilted his head to the side confused. She facehoofed again and decided that explaining how to be less scary wasn't going to work. "So... How was your day?" Scootaloo asked trying to end the awkwardness of the situation.
The massive cyclops brought out a filthy moss covered object  she thought may have once been a bag. He  unstrapped it from around his neck and placed it on the ground. Just when she thought it couldn't be any  weirder he pulled out of the bag a massive slimy black thing and placed it in front of her. Scootaloo looked between the black thing and her big daddy, absolutely confused. However, he didn't offer any answers and just leaned in looking at her expectantly. Still with no idea what was going on she poked the black blob with her right hoof a couple of times only to watch as two black eyestalks shot out and it slowly start to crawl away. She looked back up at the tan cyclops her ears splayed back. "Was I supposed to do something with that.... Or were you just showing it to me?"
His shoulders and head fell instantly making him appear sad. Scootaloo didn't know what had happened but it was very strange to see him express any emotion besides confusion. Before she could even attempt to comfort him though the massive stallion broke out into a coughing fit his yellow eye flashing red with each cough. Without warning he punched a nearby  pine tree into splinters. Scootaloo watched as the behemoth took his anger out on the tree, she wasn't sure if it was something she had done that caused it but it was terrifying.
He eventually calmed down and looked at her with his glowing yellow eye. Before he could even do anything something fast and multi colored slammed into his side.