She's moved on
She’s moved on.
Winter dragged on, and with it came more snow. It fell almost nonstop for nearly a week, and when the air finally cleared of white flakes the layer on the ground was too thick for anypony to go outside. So Fluttershy and Scootaloo spent their days inside with Angel.
Scootaloo felt different than she used to. She was calmer, as if some of Fluttershy’s slower lifestyle was rubbing off onto her. Angel seemed to be less scared of her and acted around her more like he did around Fluttershy, indignant and slightly annoyed, but with the occasional sign of compassion.
Tea was commonplace in Fluttershy’s house, as was warm soup, a fire, and soft beds. Needless to say, this was the best winter of Scootaloo’s life. She spent it dancing, talking, laughing, and sharing moments with her newfound friend.
It was a good winter for almost everypony in Ponyville.
Almost.
“I should never have yelled… s-she’s gone…” Rainbow Dash mumbled to herself in her dreams. Her ability to sleep had returned during the winter, but now her dreams were plagued with the filly she thought she’d never see again.
She’d searched and searched, but too soon had everyone had to shut themselves in. The snow finally stopped her search and forced the blue pegasus indoors as well. So it was inside that her emotions flowed for a time. It was here that she felt truly alone.
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“So after all of that, when it came down to it I… well I suppose I became brave for a little while.” Fluttershy finished recounting her story.
“So you TALKED that dragon into leaving?!?!?”
“W-well it was more yelling than anything but…”
“That’s amazing!”
Fluttershy smiled at the little one’s enthusiasm.
Days passed, snow built up, plants died, and hopes for the future blossomed.
“So what are you gonna do in the spring?”
“Well, I’m going to wake up all the animals on winter wrap up day, and then I’m going to care for them until winter comes again. It’s that simple really.”
“You’re lucky.”
“Why’s that?”
“Well… you know what you’re meant to do. You’ve got Angel and all the other animals, and you’ve got your house, and… you… I dunno, you have a purpose.” Scootaloo shrugged meekly, “I guess being cooped up inside instead of going crusading has got me thinking about my cutie mark again.”
Angel rolled his eyes. He had heard this conversation before.
“You’ll find what you’re good at. In fact, I’m pretty certain… I mean… um... you are a really good dancer Scootaloo, you know that right?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yeah… but I’ve been dancing and dancing and still no cutie mark.” Scootaloo huffed.
“Well… maybe if you did something special… like, maybe the talent show?”
Scootaloo stopped and stared at the yellow pegasus. She stared for about twenty seconds before bringing a hoof to her forehead and nearly yelling.
“WELL DUH! Why didn’t I think of that?”
Fluttershy giggled, “So come spring you’ll enter?”
“Sure, why not?”
“You’ll need to practice a lot.”
“I know.”
The rest of the winter seemed to go faster for Scootaloo. She had a goal, and she was determined to make it. She practiced and practiced and practiced until, seemingly out of nowhere, it was spring. Winter wrap up day came and Scootaloo helped Fluttershy with the animals. As usual, Apple Bloom was hlping her family with the planting and Sweetie Belle gathered supplies for her sister’s birdhouses. Everypony did their usual jobs, except for a certain cyan pegasus.
Rainbow Dash sadly watched everyone from her floating house.
Everypony below her was working hard, but try hard as she might she couldn’t make out the speck of orange and purple.
She sighed. She didn’t feel like working. She didn’t feel like doing much of anything these days.
“Hey Rainbow!” A voice called from the ground.
Dash looked, and saw the color she was looking for. ORANGE!
She took off as fast as she could and landed with a thump. She was standing next to Applejack.
“Oh… hi AJ…”
“Rainbow, what’re ya doing up there?” She asked accusingly, “You’re supposed to be helping the weather team water the new seeds.”
“Right… I-I’ll get right on that…”
“Something wrong? It’s spring, you should be happy.”
“I… I lost something over the winter… something important.”
“What was it?” Applejack seemed genuinely concerned.
“I lost… lost… well, what it is isn’t important. What’s important is that I lost it and I’m not sure I’ll ever find it again.”
Applejack studied her sad friend.
“Now that’s not the Rainbow Dash I know. Dash wouldn’t let one little loss destroy her. She’d get back up and keep moving. So, why aren’t you?”
Rainbow Dash looked up.
“Yeah… YEAH!” She stood at her full height, “I’m Rainbow Dash! I’m the best flier in all of Equestria! I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt! I can do Sonic rainbooms in my sleep!”
“And yer gonna go water the fields for me now right?”
Dash gave her friend a salute.
“I’m on it!”
She alighted and flew off without another word, planning on getting her job done as quickly as possible. As she flew she felt something again, the wind whipping past her face. She could feel the speed, the adrenaline, the awesomeness to once again be flying free.
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The bell tinkered in Scootaloo’s mouth.
“Rise and shine!” She called into the den. Little eyes opened and stared back at her. From within, two hedgehogs appeared, rubbing the sleep from their eyes. Behind them walked three tinier hedgehogs, their litter for the year.
“Awwwww….” Scootaloo straightened up, “I-I mean, uh… Good morning. Sleep well?” The hedgehogs nodded in response, and the babies squeaked happily.
Scootaloo smiled and moved on to the next den.
Fluttershy took a moment to look up from her own work to watch the younger pegasus. She couldn’t help smiling. She felt proud of Scootaloo. She had taught her how to act around the animals.
And look at her now the yellow pegasus thought. She was a natural. A warm smile crept over the yellow pony's face and she turned back to her own work.
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Rainbow Dash finished her winter wrap up work in exactly ten minutes. Her share of the birds were herded back in just three minutes, the watering done in five, clearing snow from rooftops took a minute fifty seconds, and the clouds were cleared in ten seconds flat.
She had kept count of the time in her head, and she felt proud, it was her best time in years.
“Great job Rainbow Dash!” A young, awe-filled voice called up to her. Dash froze.
“Squirt?” she whispered to herself.
She turned to look at the ground below her. Nothing was there but melting snow and the occasional blade of new spring grass poking through.
Dash shook her head. She was just hearing things.
“No. I don’t need her. She’s… moved on! Yeah, that’s it. Moved on. I need to pony up and deal with it. She just can’t keep up with my awesomeness!” Dash struck a heroic pose and flew up as high as she could. “But really, who could hope to keep up with THIS!” with the last syllable she darted towards the ground. She went faster, and faster, and faster, and FASTER! The sky began to bend around her and wind howled past her ears.
Come on, come on! she thought to herself. Just a little more... and that was it. The sound barrier broke, and with it a shockwave rippled outwards.
The Sonic Rainboom was as amazing as ever. The rainbow spread across the sky, clearing the snow where it went.
Ponies watched and cheered.
Dash felt proud. She stared across the group who called her name.
See? I don’t need her. The looked over the crowd again. She couldn’t stop herself. No matter what, a part of her wanted to see her number one fan among the cheering ponies.
She wasn’t there.
Dash flew home.
She’s moved on. She said to herself again and again, you need to just deal with it.
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In a small cottage by the forest, the Sonic Rainboom could be seen, and as it happened, a pair of eyes stared out of the window. This wasn’t the first time those eyes had seen that trick, nor would it be the last, but no matter how many times Scootaloo watched that amazing feat, she couldn’t help but remember what she had seen in the pony who could pull it off. She couldn’t stop herself from remembering the times when she had watched the pony practice that trick, the times when she had watched from her own personal front row seat, and even though some of the memories hurt, she knew she wanted to see that pony again.
As always, edits were done by Chocolateunicorn.
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nice
Been looking for a good Scootalove fanfic and this is it!
Very nice work and hope you the best when it comes to future chapters
(so going to track this fanfic
have to say its a great story i was really getting sick of all the grim dark/extremely sad stories
Wow, it's not going to be simple, right? When they'll met it wouldn't be the same... and I get a feeling they'll see each other at this talent show...
MOAR!
this is great keep up the good work
43488
Glad to hear it fits your wants
43530
No, I'm gonna have them meet and everything becomes better instantly and the plothole that creates get ignored.
That was sarcasm by the way
43546
Well... okay, I guess I'll write more
43548
*Salute*
I will, I promise!
Maybe this will have something to do with the g3 scootaloo's cutie mark being a butterfly?
43694 Copycat scootaloo lol
I must say for such a great storyline idea as Fluttershy overseeing Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash realizing how important Scootaloo is in her life, is something else.
This is truly a great and emotional storyline so far and a great job in showing the mothering skills of Fluttershy.
I have to say I never thought Rainbow Dash would care that much over the little orange filly, but I guess I was wrong. Please do keep up the good work upon such a great tale like this one.
nice
I made an account JUST to track this <3 it is that great
HOW ADORABLE <3!
Lol.. something orange.
43694
... Is it bad that I didn't realize that G3 scootaloo existed?
43747
Well RD didn't care... until she realized that nopony was cheering for her all the time, then she realized what she was missing.
43763
Thanks~
43821
Well of course Fluttershy is best pony! Who would suspect different?
43829
um... maybe? I dunno lol
43873
Really? WOAH! Well now that you have an account why don't you track some of the fics written by actual writers? Cause really, I'm not that strong of a writer in comparison to some of the others
43882
yes, something orange. Problem?
Awww… What a sweet story…
After some cajoling by a friend, I finally caved and agreed to submit to EQD. I just sent the email, wish me luck
Awww Poor RD she feels bad about Scoots. Glad that Scoots and Flutter are doing well together. I can't wait to read what happens next.
I was
then when it went to Rainbow I was 
Poor RD
This is pretty good.
Some little grammar mistakes here and there, the "mommy" at the start feels a little too fast and out of place, but I really like what you've got going on.
Hoping Scoots and Dash can find a good middle.
MOAR!!!
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the one thing im confused about is, its been an entire season right? wouldn't RD and shy have talked at some point, and shy would have mentioned scoot at some point? or even if RD and shy didnt talk during then, shy did talk to rarity about it right? did dashie go reclusive on us?
ooh, ima gonna track this :D
44177
Heh, I'm hoping I can find them a good middle
44221
Well, I tried to imply that everypony was stuck inside most of the winter, and yes Dash did go a little reclusive
44375
I'm a 15 year old male WRITING this story. Keep your man card, I HAVE PONIES!
This is really good, Scootalove gets me every time.
the time for moar is... nao.
This chapter needs to serious proofreading. There is poor grammer and tense shifting all over the place.
Besides that storyline is interesting and worth seeing through to the end...
44585
Hey, if you're willing to invest the time to give it a proofread, or anyone for that matter, I'd gladly accept it.. If someone would like give the chapters an edit job I say power to you. I'm really not a good self editor and would greatly appreciate the help
Dear makers of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
I would like you to read this story, tell the writer he is doing a fantastic job
and then I want to to take this story (once the whole thing is done, (which I hope won't be for at least another 20-30 chapter)
and make it into as many episodes as it take to make the story as amazing in the show as it is here,
thank you for the great show and I hope you have a wonderful day.
sincerely
all bronies and pegisisters 
44585
"This chapter needs to serious proofreading."
Oh, the irony.
Why is it that Dash never thought to ask Apple Bloom or Sweetie Bell where Scootaloo was?
46515
?
Um... because plothole
In reality, Dash doesn't know them that well, but yeah... that is a little weird isn't it
I want more! :)
46915
and what about she's just too proud of herself to go ask lil fillies about Scootaloo? it's just like admitting guilt... She only asked Twilight's advice after all.
46953
uh, yeah. sure. Let's go with that. I-I mean that's how I planned it all along! I deffinatly dont make this story up as I go along, that's be absurd
This is amazing. You're amazing.
I..I just... Marry me, for real.
Nice to see Dash regain some of her old mojo, but things won't be easy when she see Scootaloo again.
i'm looking forward to when rainbow learns where scoots has been. also, how her role as carer (which she never really took up anyway) has been filled by the shyest of ponies
At the part where you write "AppleBloom is helping her family" you wrote: "AppleBloom is hlping her family".
The suspense is really building up. :)
Cap (Holiday), delete 'day'.
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Move down a line.
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Applejack studied her sad friend. “Now that’s not the Rainbow Dash I know. Dash wouldn’t let one little loss destroy her. She’d get back up and keep moving. So, why aren’t you?”
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Rainbow Dash looked up. “Yeah… YEAH!” She stood at her full height, “I’m Rainbow Dash! I’m the best flier in all of Equestria! I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt! I can do Sonic rainbooms in my sleep!”
Sonic Rainbooms (name of technique).
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