Jurassic Pony

by mistercokehold8


Scootaloo

At the bottom of the concrete wall Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and the CMC were still reeling from the ordeal they just went through with the Tyrannosaurus. Everypony present was soaked to the bone, covered in mud and several had some rather nasty cuts and bruises. Applejack had to dip her face in the water spilling out from the drainage pipe just to clear her eyes out. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle huddled closed together, whimpering and sniffling. Rarity was busy examining Rainbow’s wing.

“Does it hurt when I do this?” The unicorn tilted the wing up. The cyan pegasus began hissing in horrible pain. “I’m afraid your wing is broken darling.” She let the pegasus carefully fold her wing up. “This was such a wonderful weekend too! Now look at us!” She fretted over the fact she was dripping with mud.

“Oh forget about us!” Rainbow Dash stumbled back onto her hooves, before stumbling over to the base of a large tree in front of them. “Scoot?! Scootaloo?! Can you hear me?!” She called up. Perched right at the top was the jeep that was just pushed off the cliff. It had to be stuck at least a hundred feet off the ground.

“That poor filly. Who knows how hurt she must be.” Applejack said. “We gotta get her down.”

“How? Rainbow can’t fly and ponies can’t climb trees.”

“Watch me!” Rainbow stuck her hooves in the vines only for her friends to pull her back.

“Rainbow no! Ya’ll got a broken wing and shouldn’t be climbing!” Applejack said, concerned for her friend.

“I just can’t leave her up there!” Rarity ducked her head under the spillway pipe in an attempt to get some cleanliness. The two fillies on the ground were beginning to panic. Seeing everypony was on the verge of a major freakout, Applejack corralled the group together.

“Alright everypony, listen up. I know this weekend has gone down the cadoodle, and what we just went through was pretty horrifying..."

“Horrifying?!” Rarity shrieked. “We got thrown off a cliff by a T-Rex!!!

“Shut up!” Applejack snapped, before regaining her composure. “"This ain't time for spittin bits. Everypony's gotta keep their heads on. We'all don't know what were gonna do just yet, and we're all scared as we got extinct lizards runnin around with a sweet tooth for pony. But we're gonna stick together, all of us."

“He left us…….he left us!” Sweetie Belle wailed loudly, until the southern pony grabbed her gently.

“But we ain’t.” The older mare turned to the others. “We’re gonna be fine. All of us are gonna make it out of this.”

“I’m gonna go get Scootaloo.” Rainbow said. Applejack didn’t want her friend to hurt herself more, but didn’t try to stop her as the cyan mare trotted off.

“Sorry for snapping there Rarity.”

“No trouble sweetness. Anypony could lose their mind in a situation like this."


Rainbow clopped to the base of the giant tree in front of her. The headlights of the jeep at the top shined down below, lighting up the branches, leaves and drops of water falling down from above.

“If dinosaurs can be brought back, why can’t a pony climb a tree?” Rainbow asked herself. She stood up on her hind hooves and started feeling around for where she could place her hooves. She found a spot and firmly placed her hoof. Like a rock climber, she felt around for other safe spots, and slowly but surely, began her climb up the trunk. “Scootaloo? I’m coming up!” She called to the top of the tree.

After fifteen feet the mare finally reached the lowest branches on the tree. Climbing a tree with hooves was certainly a challenge, but this mare wasn’t one to back down from a challenge, especially when a friend was in danger. Inch by inch……foot by foot……

“Sweet Celestia how tall is this tree?” The mare grumbled to herself. After what felt like forever to her, Rainbow finally could touch the bottom of the jeep. “Scoot?” She called, her heart sinking when there wasn’t an answer. Pulling herself up a few more feet, she was finally able to look inside the broken window of the driver side door. “Scootaloo?” The little pegasus in question was huddled over on the passenger side of the jeep. Covered in cuts and bruises, the filly was shaking, quietly sobbing to herself. Rainbow’s heart was breaking at the sight.

“Scootaloo it’s me.” She said softly, getting the fillies attention. “Are you ok?” The mare slowly lowered the door so she could reach in.

“I-I-I threw up.” The filly said quietly.

“I’m sorry, just give me your hoof.” Rainbow reached out but Scootaloo wasn’t moving.

“I wanna go home…..” Scootaloo said with fresh tears mixing with the mud and blood on her face.

“Scoot, we all do, but we’re not gonna leave with you up here. Please give your hoof.” Rainbow reached in further, inadvertently turning the steering wheel. The wheels creaked loudly. Still shaking, Scootaloo finally reached out to the cyan pegasus. “Easy, I gotcha. Just go slowly.’

“You’re pulling me.”

“Sorry, but your almost there.” Finally Scootaloo stepped out of the car, and onto the same branch with Rainbow. Both ignored the sounds the jeep was making. Rainbow realized climbing up the tree was one thing, but climbing down was a whole new problem entirely.

“How do we get down?”

“There’s only one way down and trust me, it’s not as bad as it looks.”

“Yes it is!” Rainbow tried to think of a way to talk her down.

"It's...uh...it's liking climbing down from your clubhouse."

"It's not this high."

"I know it's not. Most important rule about climbing, never never look down."

"This is crazy."

"I know it's crazy."

How am I going to do this?"

"I'm going to help you, just..."

*SNAP*

Both pegasi looked up, and saw the jeep jerk. Rainbow turned to Scootaloo with a very nervous smile.

“Oh no…” She laughed nervously, realizing the situation had just gotten worst. “Go! Now!” The two started climbing down as the branch holding the tree began to bend. They had only gone a few feet when the branch snapped. The jeep slid down, only to be stopped by a large branch overhead. The two knew this branch probably wouldn’t hold, so the two got to climbing faster.

The loud creaking noise could be heard above them. Looking up like deer caught in the headlights, the two had to hurry.

“Go go Scootaloo go!” The branch gave way. Now the two had to race the car to avoid being crushed. The sounds of branches being destroyed behind them wasn’t helping with the situation. “Faster Scoots!”

“I’m trying!” The two raced down until they ran out of branches to climb.

“Scoots jump!” The two jumped down, with the jeep crashing down on the base right behind them. Rainbow glanced behind them. “Go Scootaloo.” With a loud creak the jeep pivoted forward. Rainbow threw herself onto Scootaloo as the jeep came crashing down on top of them. However by an extreme stroke of luck, they made it through the sunroof.

“Well…..we’re back…..in the car again.” Scootaloo’s voice echoed.

“Yeah, but at least you’re out of the tree.”