Chapter 1
Finding Myself as a Flightless Filly
Chapter 1
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Burning. That’s all I can feel. A searing, white hot pain coursing through my body as I tumble through what seems like a void of white light.
Where am I? What’s going on? Who am I? When and how did I get here? Was this how things have been since the beginning?
I don’t know, and none of these questions are being answered as I plimmit through this endless void of white and pain.
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“Scoots? Squirt? Hey, guys! I think she’s waking up!”
I know that voice. It’s Rainbow Dash.
I slowly open my eyes, something that takes more effort than it really should and see a blurry world around me.
At once I feel something warm wrap around me and hear the sound of sniffling.
“I— I thought we’d lost you, Squirt,” Rainbow’s voice comes, her sobs seeming to rack her body as she held me.
I’d never seen Rainbow Dash cry before. This was weird.
“She’s here, Rainbow. Let her hold her daughter, okay?” Twilight Sparkle’s voice says from somewhere.
Dash reluctantly pulls away from me and I’m suddenly encompassed by a pink something this time.
“Oh, Scoots! Don’t ever scare me like that again,” my mom, Cadance’s voice says.
I give a small weak smile and nod. “Okay, Mom. Sorry.”
My vision clears enough for me to see again. Rainbow Dash and all her friends are standing around. They all look like they’ve been crying.
Once Mom lets me go I lay back against the pillow of the bed I know realize I’m lying in. I’m in a hospital gown.
“Um... what happened?” I asked, looking around at them all. “Why am I in the hospital?”
Mom has tears in her eyes and she wipes them away. Twilight is the one to answer.
“You fainted, Scootaloo. Can you tell us the last thing you remember?”
I frowned, closing my eyes as I try to remember what happened before I woke up to find Rainbow Dash hugging me.
“It was... two days after that Tirek guy came and stole all our magic,” I said, rubbing my head, trying to keep my mind focused. “Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and I were trying to get our Cutie Marks in... um... I dunno. We were trying to get Cutie Marks, anyway. We’d just finished and were heading over to Sugarcube Corner for a snack. I remember suddenly feeling really tired and falling over and... That’s it. I don’t remember anything after that.”
I open my eyes and look around at all the adult ponies.
I frown. “Where’re Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle?”
Applejack sighed. “They’ve been stayin’ up fer nights on end, tryin’a figure out how ta wake ya, sugarcube. We sent ’em home only an hour ago to finally get some rest. They ain’t slept well since ya’ll were admitted.”
“How long was that?” I asked and they all glance at each other, as if worried about something. “What?”
Rainbow Dash takes a deep breath, as if steadying herself for some reason. “Scoots, don’t be alarmed, but you’ve been out for almost three weeks.”
My eyes widen. Three weeks? I was out for three weeks?
I move to sit up, but that’s when I notice something I’m wearing other than the hospital gown. There’s something wrapped around my flanks. Something cushy.
I frown. “Why am I wearing a diaper?”
Mom gives me an apologetic smile. “Sorry, honey. You wouldn’t wake up, so we couldn’t get you to use the bathroom, so the doctors put diapers on you so you wouldn’t wet the bed.”
I raise an eyebrow. “Well, I’m awake now, so can I take it off?”
Twilight shook her head. “I wouldn’t advise that, Scootaloo. You’re body’s really tired right now. Do you feel you’ve enough strength to walk to the bathroom?” She pointed a hoof to a door on the wall to my right.
I try to get up, but suddenly feel really tired. It was as if my body wasn’t used to me moving at all. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I’d been dead.
I pout. “No. I feel really tired.”
Twilight nodded. “Well then, for the sake of your bedsheets, until you can move on your own to the bathroom, you’ll have to wear those diapers.”
I turn away, before I give her a really ugly look. She might be the Princess of Friendship, but she’s not too tactful when it comes to handing out bad news to somepony. A lot of the fanfics involving her certainly capture that.
Wait. What? What fanfics? Where in the hay did that come from?
“Come on, girls,” Twilight said, ushering the other mares aside from my mom out, her voice pulling me away from my confused thoughts. “Let’s let Scootaloo get some rest. She needs it.”
Rainbow smirked. “And ponies say I’m lazy,” she joked. “You wake up after sleeping for three weeks and seconds later, you wanna rest again. Talk about lazy, Squirt.”
I give a slow, weak wink. “Sure, Dash. Whatever you say.”
Mom give me a final hug, whispering, “I love you, honey. Always remember that, okay?” before pulling back and leaving the room with the others.
I look around the room as the door closes. It’s pretty much your average hospital room. Light-blue painted walls, a few chairs for visitors to sit in, a window showing a garden outside, nothing special.
I lean back and smile. Man, my mom and Rainbow Dash are the best ponies ever. They’re even better than the show portrays them. I blink. What?
I sit up, frowning. “Show? What show? The Wonderbolts shows? Is that what I’m thinking about?” I ponder over this for a few second before shaking my head. “No. I wasn’t talking about the Wonderbolts shows. But, what show involving Rainbow Dash could I possibly be thinking about then?”
A mournful sigh comes from somewhere I can’t see. “I had honestly hoped this wouldn’t happen.”
There was a popping noise and suddenly Discord was standing by my bed, looking even sadder than right after Tirek had taken his magic away, or back when he was apologising to Fluttershy after Twilight got Tirek to let him go.
I froze. What? How do I know that? I wasn’t with them when that happened. I was lying on the ground, barely able to move after my inner magic had been taken. What was going on?
Discord pulled a chair over and clicked his clawed fingers. “I’m sorry.”
At once my eyes widened as I was slammed by memories of another world. Hands and fingers, humans and animals, TV shows, including one about this world, writing fanfics, going to work, talking with work friends.
I held my hooves to my head as the memories poured in, conflicting with the memories of my life in Ponyville after Mom let me come here so I wouldn’t get teased and bullied by the Canterlot fillies and colts.
Once the memory onslaught stopped, I stared at Discord, my eyes wide with fear and rage.
“What have you done?!” I shouted, pointing a hoof at him. “Why have you put me in Scootaloo’s body?”
I remember who I am now. I am Mike Johns, known online as Autum Breeze, an MLP FiM fanfic writer. I have two bothers and three sisters. I live in Australia, on Earth.
However, the last thing I remembered of that life was posting the latest chapter of my fic Wings, a Horn and Hooves, the chapter linking it to the season four finale and then... I woke up here, thinking I was Scootaloo.
Discord looked away.
Were... were those tears in his eyes?
“I... I just wanted to make my friends happy again,” he sobbed.
I reeled back. Discord... sobbed? He really just sobbed? I know he’s a good guy 100% since the end of season four but... I don’t think I ever heard him sob before.
“What...? What happened?” I asked, more softly this time. While I don’t know what’s going on, I can’t just be mean to someone... er, Discord when he seems really upset about something, can I?
Discord looked at me, his eyes already red from crying. Man, that chaos magic can really suck for him sometimes, huh?
He sighed. “I suppose you know about the whole Tirek taking everypony’s magic, right?”
I nodded. I was getting a very bad feeling about this. Scootaloo’s memories about how it felt to have your magic drained out of you wasn’t helping, either. I shivered as I wrapped my forelegs around me.
Discord sighed. “Well, I suppose you know how Scootaloo had yet to fly before that, then?”
I nodded again. I really didn’t like where this was going, not to mention I felt a little insulted by his talking about how I couldn’t fly.
How Scootlaoo couldn’t fly, Scootaloo! I cannot let myself start thinking as if I’m her.
Discord looked away. “Tirek took all the pegasi’s flight away from them.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Yeah. So what?”
“At the time, Scootaloo didn’t have any flight to be taken.”
I shrugged. “You point is?”
“Something else was taken.”
Another shiver, far worse than the one from before went down my back, making my wings buzz uncomfortably.
I inwardly shook my head. Stop thinking about this body as if it’s yours. It’s not. It’s Scootaloo’s!
“Wh-what was taken?” I asked, though personally I didn’t want to know. This was sounding really creepy and that’s saying something when you’re someone who’s been yanked out of their world by a master of chaos and placed into the body of a Pegasus filly from a television show.
“Her essence.”
That cold shiver suddenly felt like a blizzard spreading throughout my— Scootaloo’s body.
“Wha...? What do you mean?” I squeaked.
Discord looked down at the floor. “After Twilight and the others all returned magic to Equestria, Scootaloo seemed to be back to normal too. However, her spirit was badly damage from the temporary loss of her essence and... well...”
“That’s why I woke up here,” I said, finishing it for him. I frowned. “But... what happened to me, back on Earth?” I wince as I feel a pain in the back of my head. “And why does it feel like something hit me in the head, yet I don’t feel a bump or anything?”
Discord sighed again. “The girls were all distraught while Scootlaoo was here, unconscious. Rainbow Dash didn’t even come out of the room. She was here the whole time, watching you, waiting for you to wake up.”
“For Scootaloo, you mean,” I said quietly. I’d wanted to correct him sharply, to remind him that I’m not Scootaloo, but, from the atmosphere of the room, I couldn’t bring myself to.
“When I searched your world for a spirit that could help her recover, I saw what you wrote in that message to Night Mist.”
I blinked, then glared. “Were you spying on my private messages? There's a reason they’re called private, Discord. And you actually hit me in the head with a frying pan?" I let out an exasperated sigh. "Look, Scootaloo’s obviously fine now, so just take me out of her body and send me back to my world and we’ll both forget this ever happened, okay? I won’t even write a fanfic about it.”
Discord looked... ashamed? “I can’t.”
I frown. “What do you mean, “I can’t”? You’re Discord, master of chaos. You can do things every single pony and other living creature in this world can only dream of. And you pulled me into your world; you can easily send me out, right?”
Discord sighed. “The only reason I was able to visit your world is because Tirek upset the balance between the worlds.”
I raised an eyebrow. “That sounds like something out of a Doctor Who episode... or Doctor Whooves, even.”
Discord looked away. “I was desperate, and that message you sent to your friend was an open invitation.”
I scowl. “So, you just took me, without even asking?” his silence was my answer. I face hoof. “Okay. Why can’t you send me back?”
“You took a while to fit in Scootaloo’s mind and synchronise with it. By the time you woke up... the worlds had sealed themselves again.”
I sighed. “You only copied me, right? Just a fragment of my mind? I’m still okay, back on Earth?”
He somehow looked even more ashamed. “I’m so, so sorry, Autum.”
I frown, both by what he said and what he called me. “So, you’re going to address me by my user name?”
He looks at me, not saying anything.
I roll my eyes. “Fine. But, why do you still look sad? If I’m only a fragment of my real world self’s memories, I can live with that.”
He shook his head. “You’re dead.”
Silence.
I stare at him. “Wha...? What?” I manage.
He clicks his fingers and a television appears in front of me. On it I can see my family, all standing around a coffin... crying. I can see my mother, my father, my brothers and sisters... but I don’t see me. The picture on the screen showing who the funeral was for... was me.
I slowly turn to Discord. “I’m... dead?”
Discord slumped, tears still sliding down her face. “If I’d only been more careful, a small piece of you would’ve been all I’d have taken. Just enough to heel Scootaloo, but I... I—”
I stared down at the hooves that felt like they were my own. “You... You took all of me. You... left my human body with no spirit.”
Discord gave a weak nod.
Rage filled my very being and I snarled at him. “YOUR RUINED MY FAMILY’S LIFE! I WAS THE FIRST BORN. NOW MY PARENTS, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, MY AUNTS, UNCLES, COUSINS, THEY ALL THINK I’M DEAD AND IT’S YOUR FAULT! TWILIGHT SHOULD’VE LET THE OTHERS TURN YOU BACK TO STONE IN EPISODE ONE OF SEASON FOUR! YOU’VE RUINED MY WHOLE FAMILY’S LIVES JUST TO SAVE SOME CARTOON FILLY!”
Discord sobbed, whimpering as he shrank down against my rage-filled onslaught.
“WHAT UP AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW? I CAN’T LIVE AS SCOOTALOO! I’M A HUMAN! YOU’VE RUINED EVERYTHING YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER! GET OUT!”
“B-but—” Discord stammered.
“GET OUT!” I screamed, my eyes wide with murderous rage. “IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN I’LL KILL YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME, DRACONEQUUS! I WILL KILL YOU! LEAVE AND NEVER RETURN, YOU MURDERING BASTARD!”
Discord’s lips quivered before he vanished with a popping sound.
The door opened and the ponies from before came running in, worry on their faces.
“Scootaloo’s what’s wrong?” Cadance asked, coming up to me. “We heard you screaming from down the hall.”
I stared at her, Scootaloo’s memories of her mother flooding my mind.
I burst into tears. This was too much. I couldn’t handle this.
Cadance wrapped her hooves and wings around me, and started saying comforting words, but they fell on deaf ears.
Her hugging me only made it worse as a feeling of love that I knew wasn’t mine came to the surface and caused me to cry even harder.
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You spelt 'Autumn' wrong.
yeah, but i couldn't change my name, since someone else has autumn breeze as their user name so i stuck with autum breeze. it's a typo and i run with it.
What can I say? This story isn't bad at all.
However, I feel in need to point out the fact that Scootaloo begin Cadence's mother... makes little sense.
Assuming that Cadence didn't divorce and married again later on with Shining Armour, this would mean that Cadence had a sexual relationship with somepony before the marriage with Shining Armour, thus making Scootaloo either an unwanted child (it doesn't seem the case here however) or a out-of-marriage one that she has been leaving in Ponyville for keep her chances to make a successfull political marriage.
Or Cadence is supposed to be like Theodora in this fic?
4434081 well *spoiler warning here* cadance's first husband, Scoots father died in an accident.
4434081 by the way, who the heck is Theodora?
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Theodora was Justinian I's wife. Rumors say that, before marry Justinian, she was a dancer and a wench.
Justinian met her in a brothel, found her charming and intelligent, and turned down his first marriage proposal for marry the dancer.
I like it so far. Let's see what comes with the next chapter. Will he/she tell the others what Discord did? How will they react?
I hope you will still write on the other stories as well. I personally like Wings, a Horn and Hooves
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it, its amazing. . . . . . . .. . poor discord
4434145 i'm sorry, you lost me after
who's Justinian?
4434152 yes. my other stories will still be done. i haven't given up on them
I'll keep my eye on this. Good job!
I'm not really one to complain about this, but why do all of your fics involve diapers in some way? I mean they make sense with how the story is set up (which is more then I can say for some), however, I am starting to suspect some sort of conspiracy.
Not too bad, but not really my thing.
4434526 the diaper thing, or the human put in scootaloo's body thing? Cos if the former, it's will only be there for a short time
It is maybe a bit weird that you bring yourself in the story as Scootaloo, but it is a ,,good" weird
-Hhmmm i thought you want to be suddenly Scootaloo, but at the beginning it sounds a bit like Scootaloo is Scootaloo, a few seconds later i see that your ,,memories mix with Scootaloos.^^
I think i had prefer if your memories be the main memories and Scootaloo´s memories would add your brain from time to time. (But it seems ok like this^^)
well i like it if Orphans like Scootaloo would be adopet but Cadance as a mother seems like a nice idea.
Now i finished the chapter and want to say that i like it, but i would like it if they would know that Scootaloo isn´t herself.
Maybe you could just let them known that her feelings or just memories are still in him/her but he/you are now Scootaloo
Don´t mind me i just want to give a few of my ideas if i start to like a fanfic very much.
Mom gives me an apologetic smile. “Sorry, honey. You wouldn’t wake up, so we couldn’t get you to use the bathroom, so the doctors put diapers on you so you wouldn’t wet the bed.”
Referencing your own fic, eh?
Seems to much like flutttershy, flutterguy. But this could out if, I believe, that you switch between the family and Equestria. And Scootaloo beating down those two bullies. That's just my belief.
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THe "Human in Scoot's body" I guess, considered the user in question.
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I guess that History isn't your strong suit.
Justinian was the Byzantine Empereor that tried to reunite the Roman Empire after the fall of Ravenna in 476 D.C.
*your
Hmmm. I don't like that you made Scoots Cadences daughter. Doesn't seem right. I would have just made a pair of OC parents.
Eh. Your fic though. And I like it anyway.
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I think your the only one who new about that history....
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Justinian I, unknown?
I find that unlikely.
4434615 Human in Scootaloo. I like the diaper content silly, I do enjoy padded ponies after all
4436114 I learned about Justinian in my first year of highschool, that was like 10 years a go now and I still remember a fair bit about him. Hell my name is even derived from him. (My irl name is Justin.)
nice
Did not expect to like this. Color me pleasantly surprised.
Now Scootaloo has an Australian accent. Somebody has to notice.
4437459 for the record, despite being Australian, because of all the American TV i watched when i was a little kid, I've somehow got a half-Australian half-American accent.
damn....
but i have a feeling he'll be back down the road.
No No it is fine I think Cadence being your mother is a great idea who better than the princess of love. So how does it feel to be Scootaloo trapped in Equestria while you are supposedly dead and do you think you could REALLY kill Discord
LOL
Man... This is kinda sad... I feel bad now... great story though...
Cadance being Scootaloo's mother makes perfect sense.
They both suck at flying.
5983641 LOL
SOOO TRUE
Insaadomkro: Heh heh heh, and that's where Discord and I stand apart. I can easily solve all those problems. I am afraid... that Discord is not the lord of Chaos... I am. And I'm also so, so much more.
... go away, Insaadomkro. I'm the guy who comments on stories, not you!
Cadance? WHAT?
4434103 so... cadence left scootaloo?.... higher! Higher! suspend that disbelief higher!
This was definitely an interesting beginning. Also, don't ask me why (I don't even know why), but I felt sorry for Discord as well...
So you killed yourself in the story...
Does that count as suicide?
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Nope just shows dedication to the work.
Does that mean flurry heart is at least scoot’s half sister and that scoots is technically royalty.
Damn, he's harsh to Discord.
Not that I'm complaining. It's refreshing to see someone that knows how heavy such news is.
Harsh, but deserved