Scootaloo was sitting on the couch in Rainbow Dash’s living room, thinking about the nightmare she had a couple days ago. It was brought back into her mind due to her seeing the state her original home was in; especially considering the floor met a similar fate to the floor in her dream.
She couldn’t stop thinking about it, despite knowing that it was just a really weird coincidence. There were probably more logical reasons for her having a nightmare like that; maybe it was just one of those nightmares you have when you’re sick.
Visiting her old home again gave her quite an odd feeling, especially when she saw the state it was in now. All those memories she had of staying there seemed perfect to her, despite knowing that in reality, it wasn’t. She never realized how dirty and fragile the house was; that any shunt or bang could have easily knocked a screw loose while she was in it. But she was out of it now, so she figured it was best to just forget about it again.
She thought back to the nightmare and what might have triggered it. The only things that came to mind were a sense of loneliness and maybe even a small case of Acrophobia, a fear of heights. She does feel a little uncomfortable being up so high in the sky, especially when there’s nothing to catch her if she falls. It could easily just be a left over fear from two years ago when she fell and got injured.
“Something on your mind, Scoots?” Rainbow Dash asked as she was sitting at the other side of the couch.
Scootaloo shrugged as she looked over to her. “I guess so. Me, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle found the old house I used to live in, the one from over two years ago. It was all broken down and had holes all over the roof. My room was completely destroyed since the entire flooring of it had collapsed onto the bottom floor, meaning we couldn’t even enter it to examine the rest of the damage. It made me think about the nightmare I had a couple nights ago, where my floor collapsed in it as well,” she said, putting one of her hooves on her cheek.
Rainbow Dash nodded and pulled her hoof up onto her chin. “Hmm, it’s probably just coincidence. That house has been broken like that for quite a while, at least a year. It’s probably gotten much, much worse since I last saw it, but I already knew about your bedroom’s floor being collapsed,” she said, scooting a little bit closer to her.
Scootaloo tilted her head and raised one of her eyebrows. “Wait, you did? Since when did you know that?” She asked, taking her hoof off of her cheek.
Rainbow Dash had to think for a second, patting her hoof on her chin as she looked over to her again. “Maaaaaybe about… 13 months ago? I can’t remember exactly when, but it was like that the last time I checked,” she lowered her hoof as she continued to speak. “But hey, don’t worry about that house any more; at least you’re out of it now.”
Scootaloo nodded a little, having a soft smile on her face. “I know, I’m not worrying about it,” she said, starting to grin. “What, you think I’d like to go back and live there again? Even if the floor hadn’t collapsed, I wouldn’t go back. Your place is so much better than that house ever was, and I get to live with you! The only downside before was that there was quite a big drop between here and the ground, but now I’m able to fly down myself, so that isn’t a problem any more,” she said, her grin going back to a smile.
Rainbow Dash smiled back to her. “Well, it’s nice to know how much you like my house,” she said, pulling her over to her with her wing. “I would never have let you stay in that disaster of a house, it just wouldn’t have been fair, or safe. If you weren’t going to stay with me, you probably would have been able to stay with Twilight and Spike,” she put her arm around Scootaloo’s side. “…Actually, I wonder what they’re up to. Last time I saw Twilight was when I came back from speaking with Spitfire about the whole disqualification thing. I’m surprised she didn’t even come over to see if you were okay, but I’m going to guess she was engrossed in a book or something,” she said, shrugging.
Scootaloo gives a small chuckle as she began to speak sarcastically. “What makes you think Twilight of all ponies would get too focused on reading to visit her friends? Seeeeems a bit silly to me,” she said as she gained a small grin again.
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and grinned back to her. “Just a hunch, that’s all. You never know what she could be up to!” She said, hopping off of the couch.
Scootaloo stayed where she was, sitting on the couch. She looked over to Rainbow Dash who seemed to have been heading over to the front door. “…Where you going, Dash?” Scootaloo asked curiously as she tilted her head.
Rainbow Dash shrugged again, waiting at the front door. “If Twilight isn’t going to come to us, then maybe we could go over to her instead. Plus, I’m quite curious as to what would be so important that she didn’t have the time to come visit us,” she said, fluttering her wings.
Scootaloo nodded and slipped off the couch, trotting over to Rainbow Dash and smiling to her. “I suppose we could. Not like there’s anything else we could be doing in this time.”
Rainbow Dash opened the front door, trotted outside and leaned over the edge. She waited until Scootaloo came out and over to her before flying down and over towards the Friendship Castle.
Twilight was sitting on her throne with her head buried in-between the pages of a book. Loud snores echoed through the interior and down the long hallway, causing a certain easily irritable baby Dragon to plug his ears with his claws. “It’s nice knowing you’re sometimes louder when you’re asleep than when you’re awake, Twilight,” Spike said, talking to himself as he rolled his eyes and groaned.
He walked down the hallway with his ears plugged before he entered the main throne room that Twilight was in. Upon reaching where Twilight sat, he pulled his fingers out of his ears and tapped on her shoulder. There wasn’t much of a response coming from her, even when she was tapped on the shoulder a couple more times.
She was in quite a deep sleep by the looks of it, making Spike put his hand on his chin. He wondered what made her go in such a deep sleep all of a sudden, but whatever it was wasn’t going to stop him from trying to wake her up again.
He shook her slightly by the shoulder, causing her to bob back and forth a bit. It only took a little bit more shaking before she suddenly collapsed and fell onto the ground, which inevitably woke her up. She quickly leaned up from where she fell and blabbed something incoherently. “I was just magnifying the words! I think… Spike?” She said, looking a tiny bit confused.
Spike walked over to where she was laying and chuckled slightly. “Sorry, I was just trying to wake you up. How long have you been sleeping there? Or more importantly, how long have you been snoring for?” He said, crossing his arms.
Twilight cocked her head in curiosity. “I snore? Since when did I snore?” She asked, standing up and looking over to the book she was reading. It looked like one of the pages was a little damp at the bottom.
Spike saw the small wet spot and grinned. “And apparently you drool too,” he said with a small giggle. “You don’t usually snore, but sometimes you do. And when you do snore, it’s usually loud enough to make Cerberus roll around in his sleep.”
Twilight picked up the book with her magic and rubbed the damp spot with her hoof. “What does that even mean, Spike? Isn’t the phrase ‘rolling around in their grave’ and not rolling around in their sleep?” She said, closing the book and levitating it onto a pile of books on the table.
Spike shrugged slightly to her. “I know; it’s just all I could think of on the spot. I think it still works though, but you know what I mean either way,” He said as he walked over to his small throne beside hers.
Twilight nodded, stretching and sitting down on her throne again. “Yeah, I know what you mean. Never knew I snored that badly though; I bet it must create quite the echo in this castle,” she stated, looking around the large interior of the throne room.
Spike nodded as he sat down on his throne as well, however his comfort was short lived as a loud pair of knocks came from the front door. Spike paused for a second and looked over to Twilight, seemingly annoyed that he had just sat down when the door was knocked. Twilight smiled nervously, getting up off of her throne and beginning to fly over to the large hallway. “I’ll go get that, I suppose,” she said, glancing back to him as she left the room.
Twilight floated down the hall until she reached the front door, where she dropped down onto her hooves and opened it with her magic. Standing at the front door was Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash, seemingly wanting to come inside. “What’s up, Twilight? You busy or anything?” Rainbow Dash asked.
Due to just waking up, Twilight’s mind wasn’t as quick as it usually was. “Uuuhhh… yes! Wait, no. I’m not busy right now; I thought you asked if you could come in at first,” she said, laughing nervously. “…Sorry, I’m a bit tired; I have the usual woozy feeling from just having woken up.”
Rainbow Dash grinned a little. “Wait, aren’t you usually up before I am? It’s nearly twelve in the morning. Guessing you had a late night or something?” She asked, tilting her head to her.
Twilight stepped out of the way slightly, allowing both Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo to come in. “Sort of, I’ve been engrossed in the books Celestia gave me not too long ago. I think I must have fallen asleep around midnight last night while reading, because apparently I was using one of my books as a pillow,” she said, following the two up the hallway.
Rainbow Dash chuckled as Scootaloo sped ahead of her. “You say that as if that’s a surprise, Twilight. Isn’t your bed made of books or something?”
Twilight caught up to her and pouted. “No! Why does everypony act as if I have some sort of romantic attachment to books or something, when I don’t?”
Rainbow Dash glanced over to her with a big grin. “Yeah, I think I’m going to doubt you on that one.”