Scootaloo was walking home from a normal day at school with her adoptive mom, Fluttershy. Her grades were sinking again and Fluttershy was talking about having her take Princess Twilight Sparkle's class again. Fluttershy was so busy talking about options for studying partners that she didn't even notice when Scootaloo turned and walked into the Everfree Forest. Scootaloo shivered a little from the tingling sensation she always got when she walked into the forest. Scootaloo heard Fluttershy calling for her behind her and she hesitated, she didn't want Fluttershy to worry about her, but she really needed a distraction and the forest usually provided a decent one for her. Turning her back on the road she walked deeper into the forest. As Scootaloo walked she noted that a storm was brewing overhead and it had already started to pour down further ahead of her. She started to get concerned, her mother would be looking for her and Everfree storms tended to be very dangerous. As she turned to head home she looked at the storm one more time when something caught her attention. There was a dark shape flying through the storm. As she strained her eyes to see what it was she realized with awe that it was a pony. Three lightning bolts arced toward the pony in quick succession and to Scootaloo's amazement he dodged all three and continued to fly almost in defiance of the raging storm above. Then ten bolts arced all at once hitting the pony from all directions. Scootaloo watched in horror as the pony fell.
Scootaloo's wings buzzed to life as she frantically tried to catch the falling pony. As Scootaloo flew to rescue the falling pony flashes of memory from the day of her dad's death flew through her mind. The launch off the ramp, the short flight through the air, and the explosion after he crashed into the gorge. Her wings burned and ached, but all she could think was "Don't die. Please don't die.". She and the falling pony collided in midair. She tried to grab hold of young colt, but the impact caused her grip to slip and he plummeted to the ground 20 feet below. Scootaloo flew down to the ground and luckily the collision with Scootaloo and a few large branches on the way down had slowed his fall so he didn't hit the ground that hard. However as she landed next to the colt she noticed a huge gash on his flank where a branch had cut him. The young colt was her age. His coat was a dark grey color akin to that of pencil lead. His mane and tail were short and choppy as if he cut it himself, and were the color of charcoal save for streaks of purple and blood red through out it. The young colt was a pegasus pony like herself, but his wings were larger than her own. Scootaloo gasped when she realized that the pony was not only was her age, but he also went to her school. He was one of the few ponies who were nice to her. He had even stood up for her once or twice when Diamond Tiara had been bullying her about her wings. Once he had even (in reply to DT calling her a "Blank Flank") had said " At least we're not stuck being as stuck up and stupid as you are.". Smiling at the fond memory she noticed that the gash in his flank was starting to bleed profusely, and picked him up on her back and started carrying him in the direction she thought the entrance was. Scootaloo started yelling for her mom hoping that she was still looking for her and by some crazy chance she would hear her through the rain.
"MOM! MAMA! MOM! HELP!" yelled Scootaloo at the top of her lungs. She listened as best as she could through the rain for any sound.
"SCOOOOOTAALLOOO. WHERE ARE YOU?" yelled Fluttershy. Scootaloo struggled to get to her mother under the weight of the unconscious colt. Then as she struggled through the last few feet of forest and onto the road she saw her mother run toward her and then stopped short a few feet of her when she saw the colt and the blood pouring from it's flank.
Then Scootaloo spoke haltingly, still out of breath, " He was fl-flying and got st-struck by lightning. H-he fell, I tried to catch him, but he slipped and hit some branches on the way down and got cut up pretty badly.". Then with tears in her eyes she said "Mama I think he is going to die.".
Fluttershy examined the wound and then putting Scootaloo and the injured colt on her back she flew as fast as she could toward Ponyville's only hospital, Heartton Care Hospital.