As the sun rose across the sky and brightness filled the land,everypony began to wake.
Dizzy walked into her daughter’s room and opened the curtains revealing the sun light. “Time to wake up Scootaloo, it's time for school, silly filly” she said walking out of the room so that she could prepare breakfast.
Scootaloo rubbed her eyes, still drowsy. She laid in bed for a few minutes before finally getting up. Once up and barely awake she walked out of the room and headed downstairs. Upon arriving downstairs her breakfast was ready and waiting, her mother had made her pancakes with a bit of chocolate syrup.
Scootaloo took a few bites of her pancakes and within a few minutes she had finished her food leaving a mess, but she grabbed a napkin and wiped herself off getting all the sticky syrup off her muzzle.
Finished, she grabbed her saddlebag and headed out waving bye to her mom as she left. Once she was far out of her house instead of heading to school she headed to the arcade to have some fun.
“Today is going to be one fantastic day” she thought as she arrived at the arcade.
Once she got there it was no surprise that Button Mash was there, he was like a brain dead zombie when playing games. The world around him didn’t exist when he played.
Scootaloo didn’t bother saying hello to him because it would do nothing. She went to the arcade mare and gave her some bits for some arcade tokens. When she finished with that she smiled and went to play Super PonyO, it was about a mare with blue and red clothing, on a journey to save the princess from her arch nemesis.
Cheerilee paced back and forth, nopony, not even Scootaloo’s friends had seen her since yesterday. She called for help from the guards but they hadn’t reported anything yet.
Diamond Tiara giggled, “Maybe she finally decided to runaway. I mean she is pretty useless,” she said with Silver Spoon chuckling.
“Y’all take that back” she said crushing her hooves together. She normally never fought with her classmates, Applejack had taught her that fighting was wrong. But Big Mac taught her that being strong meant using that strength to protect the weak, so if somepony messed with a friend then they had a problem. The threat caused both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to back off and apologize, she seemed serious.
“Where do ya think she is? This isn’t like her,” Sweetie Belle worried.
Apple Bloom thought for a minute until she thought back to yesterday she remembered seeing Scootaloo drop her paper out the window. Thinking real hard she finally realized what had happened to her friend. “Ah don’t believe it, I think she’s…. skipping school today,” Apple Bloom said seeing one piece of paper stuck on the window. “Ah know Scootaloo won’t like this but Ah gotta tell,” Apple Bloom said getting out of her seat.
“Where are you going Apple Bloom?” Sweetie asked.
Apple Bloom turned to her friend, “Ah know why Scoots isn’t here, she might be sneaky but she's not good at hiding her paper.” Sweetie Belle just sat there not really understanding but shrugged it off.
Apple Bloom walked over to her teacher, and tapped her shoulder, “Miss Cheerilee, Ah thank I know why Scootaloo isn’t here today. Ah remember seeing her throw her study guide out the window, ya know the one for the test?” she said pointing at the window to the one piece of paper stuck to the glass.
Cheerilee walked over to the window and looked at the paper, it did have Scootaloo’s name on it. “Alright you fillies stay here, I need to tell Scootaloo’s mother about this. Featherweight you're in charge while I’m gone” she said walking out.
Apple Bloom sighed. “Ah hope Scootaloo can forgive me for telling on her,” she said sitting back down.
“Don’t worry Apple Bloom, I’m sure she’ll forgive you. Besides we’re best friends, nothing will ever split us up,” Sweetie Belle said.
Five minutes of walking on the rough road and Cheerilee arrived at Scootaloo’s home. Luckily for her, Scootaloo’s mother was outside working in the garden. “Miss Twister I need some help” she started.
Dizzy Twister was actually surprised to see Scootaloo’s teacher here, “What's going on? Aren’t you supposed to be teaching school right now?” she asked, concerned that her daughter was currently unsupervised.
“That's the thing, your daughter never showed up at school today. I think she might be playing hooky, I found this piece of paper with Scootaloo’s name on it by the window; it’s the study guide for a test that we had today,” she said.
Dizzy Twister’s mouth fell wide open, “How could Scootaloo do this? She's such a good filly” she thought and started walking away from Cheerilee. Before she left she turned back, “Go back and teach, she's my foal and I think I know where she could be,” she said galloping away.
Cheerilee waved bye to Twister and walked back the road to the school, she trusted Dizzy to get the job done. “If she finds her.I hope she finds out why she did it,” she thought. Worrying was only slowing her down so she pushed the thoughts from her mind. She had other students who needed her attention who didn’t skip school today.
When she arrived at the school she wasn’t surprised to see that the classroom was a mess and Apple Bloom was on top of Diamond Tiara hitting her in the snout.
“Whats going on here?” she asked. The entire classroom turned around in shock that she returned so quickly. Apple Bloom slowly climbed off Tiara.
“We were just…. playing a game” she said trying to lie but the look Cheerilee gave them told her it wasn’t working, “I attacked her because she called Scoots a chichkin” she said truthfully.
Diamond Tiara growled at her enemy, “Who me? I would never call her that, I mean what kinda monster do you take me for?” she said acting as if she never said that about Scootaloo.
Cherilee knew she couldn’t let any student get away with hitting a classmate. Apple Bloom would have to be punished, “There’s no excuse for fighting Apple Bloom, two weeks detention” she said walking back to her desk.
“Now lets get back to work, you ponies have a test to take,” she said with a bright smile.
Scootaloo spent nearly an hour in the arcade playing all of their wonderful games, but she couldn’t spend all her time in there she had other plans. Her second item for the day was to find a spot to train with Rainbow Dash so she left the arcade. Upon getting out of the building, she noticed a familiar pony flying through town, looking close she noticed it was her mother.
“Buck” Scootaloo thought and quickly galloped away trying her best to make sure her mother didn’t see her. She made a turn to the park were Rainbow Dash was to find Dash waiting patiently.
“Glad ya made it squirt, and that you took my advice. You don’t need school,” she said flapping her wings and floating five feet above Scootaloo. “First off lets start some warm ups. I want you to give me one hundred wing ups, and no breaks” she said.
Scootaloo saluted and began doing the wing ups, at least she did until she heard the flap of wings behind her.
Dizzy Twister landed right behind them and she didn’t look to happy. She took a deep breath and gave her daughter a stern look. “Scootaloo! Where have you been today?” she asked. Her daughter ignored her. Scootaloo heard but didn’t want to turn to face her mother, she was scared.
Dizzy asked again this time raising her voice more. “Look at me when I’m talking to you!” she snapped. Scootaloo flinched and looked at her mother digging a hoof at at the ground.
“Scootaloo I am very disappointed in you. I always thought I could trust you, but I guess I was wrong…. now tell me where you got this very irresponsible idea,” she said still keeping a firm look.
Rainbow Dash looked from left to right, she knew Scootaloo would be in trouble no matter what but maybe she could help, so she stepped in. I shouldn’t have given her that idea. I can’t let her get in trouble for a silly mistake. “It's my fault I’m the one who gave her the idea yesterday” she said, revealing the truth.
“Dash no!” Scootaloo shouted she didn’t want her surrogate sister getting in trouble for something she chose to do.
Dizzy Twister was more than shocked, as much as she loved Scootaloo hanging out with Dash she had no choice. She had to do everything she can to make sure her daughter was safe. She was more worried her daughter might eventually drop out like Dash did. The thought just made her more worried, she cared about Scootaloo’s future.
Dizzy Twister gave Rainbow Dash a dirty look; one that made both Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo flinch, “How could you? She's just a filly, she doesn’t need to grow up to be a delinquent,”she said in both anger and fear.
Dizzy Twister walked over to Scootaloo and put her on her back, “Scootaloo you are now forbidden from seeing Rainbow Dash. She's a bad influence on you, and from now on I will be escorting you to school and home,” she said, not regretting a single word.
Scootaloo squirmed on her mother's back, “WHAT! NO, no no, you can’t do this….I...I need her,” Scootaloo said a few tears beginning to form.
Dizzy Twister began to flap her wings as she started lifting into the air “I’m sorry Scootaloo, but this is for your own good,” she said leaving the area and a sad and shocked Rainbow Dash behind.