It's been 3 days since Scootaloo was let free by Babs Seed, however her presence had still remained a mystery as nopony still knew where she was or where she had gone, there was a short search made for her, but sadly, there wasn't much effort put into it and the search was called off after a mere whole day, meanwhile Applebloom and friends were currently in school at the moment, it just starting for the day and there was currently a one week project being worked on, it had already been 3 days, and it was due Friday, but Sweetie and Applebloom had barely managed to start, they just didn't seem to be able to finish it without Scootaloo, but Sweetie was trying her best so didn't bring it up, and Applebloom simply just didn't even hint at acknowledging it.
"Applebloom" Cheerilee began calling roll in random order.
"Here" Applebloom said.
"Sweetie Belle" Cheerilee then called out.
"Here!" Sweetie squeaked.
"Diamond Tiara" Cheerilee next called.
"I'm here." Diamond said.
"Silver Spoon" Cheerilee called with some disdain.
"Here." Silver said with a sly chuckle and creepy grin.
"....alrighty then. Babs Seed" Cheerilee called out.
Babs was not present, Silver then interrupted.
"Oh, I'm sorry Babs can't be here today the cutie mark crusaders little ex crusader punched her in the eye socket." Silver said, definitely directing that at Applebloom, trying to anger her.
"She what?!" Applebloom yelled in disbelief, sure Babs and her weren't exactly two family members that cared for each other, but Applebloom still didn't like the idea of Scootaloo hitting her cousin.
"Yep. Swollen up pretty bad." Silver said, grinning.
"Class, calm down." Cheerilee said calmly.
Applebloom and Silver kept on which escalated with Diamond and Sweetie joining in, followed by the rest of the classroom.
"SHUT UP!" Cheerilee screamed.
The whole class went silent
"Thank you... I come to work today with a headache so it would be much appreciated if you didn't explode my ear drums.." Cheerilee said, sighing and rubbing her head, before continuing, calling out the whole rest of the class until finally she got to the last name.
"Scootaloo" Cheerilee said, before looking around the room, and hearing a cricket chirp, she looked down at her desk and saw a cricket chirping.
"YOU SHUT UP TOO!" Cheerilee yelled at the cricket, her voice sending it off the desk, it didn't chirp after that, and Cheerilee began to mark Scootaloo's name as absent."
The door to the class then bursted open, it was Discord, wearing sunshades and a hat, carrying Scootaloo in his paw.
"She's here." Discord said.
"Oh Celestia not you again.." Cheerilee groaned.
"Oh don't be such a sour sap Cheerilee, you know you loved me being in your classroom." Discord grinned.
"If I was a Unicorn, I'd have taken my own horn off and stabbed myself with it the last time you were here." Cheerilee stated.
"Well... that's not very nice, and why would you hurt yourself over little old me?" Discord replied, chuckling.
"Just put her in her seat and go away." Cheerilee somewhat coldly stated.
"Well.. I guess someponies don't like good company these days.. hmmph. Here you go Scootaloo." Discord said, sitting the orange pegasus in her seat.
"Thanks..." Scootaloo said back to the draconequus.
"It is no problem, but I can see my welcome has been overstayed... ta-ta." Discord replied, before snapping his fingers and disappearing.
"Now then..." Cheerilee said, and class then started.
Several Hours Later
The bell for school to get out rung loudly, followed by Cheerilee nearly getting mowed over by stampeding fillies and colts before she could even assign homework or say anything really.
Back at the Farm
"Come on Sweetie we need to finish this project!" Applebloom whined.
"I know, I know, I'm trying!" Sweetie squeaked.
There was then a knock at the door
"Huh?" Applebloom wondered who it was, going to the door and opening it, the pony she saw she wasn't exactly thrilled to see.
"Hey..." Scootaloo said.
"Hi...." Applebloom said back.
"Can I come in?" Scootaloo asked.
"No." Applebloom replied.
"What? Why not? I thought we were--" Scootaloo was cut off before she could finish.
"Friends? Pretty sure you threw that away when you walked out on us, and ya punched my cousin." Applebloom said.
"No I didn't!" Scootaloo defensively answered.
"Then why does she have a black eye?" Applebloom questioned.
"How'd you know about the black eye?" Scootaloo answered with another question.
"Ah-ha! So it was you!" Applebloom said madly.
"N-no... wait Applebloom it wasn't.. I-It w-was--" Scootaloo was cut off by the door slamming her face and she sadly said to herself.
"I-It was Babs herself..." Scootaloo whimpered, tearing up a bit, before walking off the farm and looking back for a moment before turning back away.
"Rejected by my own best friends..." Scootaloo said, breaking into tears and running as far as she could, away from Ponyville, and away from everypony she ever knew.
Back in the Clubhouse
"Who was that?" Sweetie asked, she'd been busy focusing on the project so she really didn't hear the conversation.
"Nopony... ah just looked around for a bit, musta been the wind." Applebloom said, chuckling a bit awkwardly.
"But there's no wi-" Sweetie was cut off before she could even finish the word wind.
"It was the wind, ok?!" Applebloom aggressively shouted.
"O-O-Ok it was the wind..." Sweetie said, a bit scared of her friend.
"Let's just get this done alright?" Applebloom said.
The two continued on their project while Silver Spoon had gone back to plotting again while Scootaloo.. remains a mystery where she went, while Babs is just spending time relaxing with the bum eye she gave herself.