> Red Star's new Adventure > by Red_Star > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Beginning/ Intro > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wake up with a bolt. There has never been a sound in my house like that before. I spring to life, running down my hallway, determined to find out what that noise was. I dashed down the stairs, and rounded the corner to find........ nothing. I sigh in relief. A deep growl comes from behind me. I turn around to see a strange figure holding a knife. It growls and lunges. Survival instinct makes me hit it in the face. The creature quickly sprawls to its feet in the most inhuman way possible. It moves like a bullet and stabs me in the chest. I stare, in shock, at the blade lodged inbetween my ribs. The monster screeches, "Jeremy!!" "Jeremy!" It sounded more human that time! I slowly wake up to see my brother violently shaking me awake, then slapping me. "Dude! We're gonna be late for school!!" That's enough to make me shoot up. I get dressed, eat breakfast, and put my coat on when my mom wakes up. "What are you doing so early?" "I-" I look t the clock on my iPhone. It reads "7:30 AM", the day is Saturday. I sigh in anger, looking at my brother, who is laughing his pants off. "Zach!!" He looks up with fear, then turns and runs up to his room. I'm not far behind. He locks his door and hides. I groan and take my coat and backpack off. I lay in my bed and quickly fall asleep. I'm in a dark room, tied to a chair, with a small hanging light shining down on me. I can't see the walls. Suddenly a deep voice speaks, "Red Star, you have had your chance." "What? Who's Red Star?" "Don't play stupid Red! Or we'll hurt Aero!" I don't know who Aero is, but I don't want them getting hurt. Maybe if its a girl, I'll "score" "Okay what do you want?" "Where is Heliacal Brisinger!?" "What?" "If you don't tell me, you will regret it!" "I-I uuhhh it's-" I once again awaken. I decide to check the time," 3:00 PM" "Wow, I slept for a while!" As I go about my day, I worry more and more about the strange dream I had...... I pass it off as just a dream. As I start to get tired, I hope I won't have another one of those dreams. I close my eyes and try not to think about it. I once again awake to an alien noise down stairs. I decide to check it out. I realize this happened before. I decide to try something I read about, to try to push my hand through a door, to test if I'm dreaming. To my surprise, my hand slams into the door, making a loud thud. Almost waking my brother, Zach. "What?" I'm surprised that this isn't a dream. I go down the stairs and around the corner into my living room, where a strange figure, definently not human, looks at me with soft, glistening eyes. "Hello? Are you going to Hurt me?" A light voice replies," No, but I have come looking for someone." "Who?" "Does one named 'Jeremy' live here?" " uhh I'm Jeremy." "Well then, I guess it's time!" The figure pulls down a hood revealing messy hair and a pointy object that appears to be bone, sticking out of its forehead. "Time for what!?" "You have been chosen." The anomaly starts to glow and a portal forms on the floor, slowly sucking me in. > In a new World > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As Scootaloo walks home from the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse, she hears a sudden scream coming from above. She looks up to find a light blue maned, red color foal falling from the sky. I scream in fear as I fall, when I land on my chest, surprisingly, barely injured from such a long fall. Scootaloo's voice is very worried,"Are you okay?!" "Yea surprisingly I'm barely hurt." "How?" "I don't know!" He looks up at Scootaloo and sees a bright shining face. "Oh wow!" "What?" "You're cu-!" stops in mid-sentance, making both of them blush. "Uuhh thanks, want to go to the hospital to make sure you're not hurt?" Jeremy nods. On the way to the hospital, they have a small conversation. Scootaloo starts. "So what's your name?" "I'm uhh Jeremy?" Scootaloo laughs, "What kind of name is that?!" "Fine what about............ Red Star?" "Oohh I like that name!" "Thanks, so what's your name?" "I'm Scootaloo! Nice to meet ya Red Star!" "Nice to meet you to- WHAT ARE THESE?!" I motion to the strange appendage on my back. "Those are you wings silly!" "Wings?!" "Yea I have them too." Scootaloo then stretches her tiny wings. "You mean I can fly?" "Well of course! What's the point of having wings if you can't-" She stops in embarrassment "What's wrong?" "Nothing, look we're here!" Red and Scootaloo enter the hospital and they admit Red Star into a room. "Hey Scootaloo?" "Yea?" "I've been wondering, what are you guys? You aren't human!" "Hu-man? What's that? Oh and I'm a pony! Well don't look so shocked, you are one too!" "What?!" Looks at himself and realizes its true. "Oh hey look at that!" "What?" Scootaloo gets a wide smile with this sentance, " You're a blank flank too!" Realizes where she's looking,"Hey I don't like people looking at my butt!" "What? No! I was looking right here!" Scootaloo proceeds to put a hoof on Red's flank, making him squirm with discomfort. "Please remove your hoof from my butt." "I am not! It's just your-" Scootaloo gets cut off by Red "We'll I don't see anything so stop!" "Okay, I'm sorry. So you were saying earlier.....?" "Saying what?" "You thought I was......?" Red takes a deep breath, ".....cute....." "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't hear you!" "I said I think you're cute...." "Say it louder I can't hear you!" Scootaloo puts on a smirk and looks at the pony who she knows has a crush. " I SAID I THINK YOU'RE VERY CUTE!!" "Okay geez I heard you, calm down! Now what are we gonna do about what you think?" Red blushes and says, " I don't know....." "Are you open this Hearts and Hooves day?" "Hearts and what?" "Tell me your joking." "I'm guessing its like Valentines day." "Well now I don't know what that is!" After a little story she tells me, I'm released from the hospital. "So you have some where to sleep right?" "Not really." "Well you can stay with me as long as you don't have anywhere to go, okay?" "Thanks, you don't have to." Scootaloo brings Red to her house, where she finds it empty like usual. "Where are your parents?" "I don't want to talk about it." "Oh sorry, where will I be sleeping?" "Follow me." Scootaloo takes him to her room, where the window is open and covered with curtains, so it goes unnoticed. "It gets kinda cold up here, so here" She shows me to a bed with thick blankets, and soft sheets. I yawn and say, "Thanks Scoots, you don't mind me calling you that do you?" "Nope not at all. Just let me do some things, you go ahead in to sleep" I climb into the bed and she puts the blanket over me and leaves. I wake up and notice a warmth on my back and notice a hoof on my chin, and I realizes pretty quick that Scootaloo is in the bed with me, hugging me. I put on a warm smile and hug her back, when she wakes up and blushes. "Do you like me?" She quietly responds, "yea, you're pretty cute and nice." I nuzzle her on her snout and get up. "Well do you have any money?" "Not really." "Well lets get something to eat, then you can show me around this town okay?" Scootaloo nods and she gets up, fixed her mane, and they walk out of the house. > A New World, A New Opportunity > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I walk on a dirt path for a while and Scootaloo tells me that we're going to the town hall. "So where should we get some food?" "Oh I know! Follow me!" She takes a lot of turns and trots up to a late apple tree farm thing. I see an orange pony kicking some trees and apples fall out and land in buckets. She looks like she's hard at work so I leave her alone, but Scootaloo doesn't hesitate to call her over. "Hey AppleJack! Come here!" As she walks towards us I notice a strange image on her hip. "Oh howdy Scootaloo! How are you today? And who's this? Ah've never seen him around here before!" "Yeah he fell out of the sky! He doesn't know what a cutie mark is!" "Wow! don't show him pinkie just yet! So whatcha need?" "Do you know where Apple Bloom is?" "She's probably at y'all's clubhouse." "Okay thanks Apple Jack!" Apple Jack returns to kicking apples, while me and Scootaloo take a small dirt road deep into the apple tree fields, and I gotta say, they have a lot of apple trees! After a long walk, we come up to a tree house with a small ramp leading up to the front door. I can hear the ramp creaking as we walk up it. Scootaloo opens the door and I duck out, being shy to new people, and I listen to the conversation. "Oh howdy Scoot! What brings you here so early?" "Well it's just I don't have many bits, and I'm kinda hungry for some breakfast, can you get me something? "Oh sure scoot! How does an apple pie sound?" "Really good!" "And scoot? We have to go crusading again! What should we do today?" "Let's talk about that later I'm kind of busy right now, and could you get me that apple pie now?" "Okay!" I hear hoofsteps coming towards the door and I freeze up. The door opens and I look up to see a yellow, red maned filly, angrily staring at me. "Didn't your mom ever tell you not to eavesdrop?!" She pulls her hoof back, and hits me really really hard in the face, leaving a bloody nose and a large dark red spot on the side of my head. I look up at her with really sad eyes and Scootaloo runs out the door to see what happened. She runs and hugs me, then, while hugging me, looks at the yellow filly and says angrily, "Apple Bloom!! Why did you do that!? He's new! I brought him here! He doesn't know anypony and that's a good way to make a bad impression!" "Oh my, I'm sorry!" Apple Bloom goes to hug me but Scootaloo stops her and shoves her away. "Look, can you please just go get us that pie? I'll try to calm Red down, okay?" "Okay......" She walks off sadly. A tear runs down Red's face. "It's okay Red." Scootaloo wipes the tear off my face. "Wh-why did she do that?" "She didn't know, please forgive her!" "Is she your friend?" "Yes a very good one." "Okay I'll forgive your friend" My stomach growls. "Look I know what will cheer you up! You like me right?" I can feel myself blush, "Yea, yea I really do." At that moment, Apple Bloom rushes in with 2 warm Apple pies. "Hai guys! I got the pies! Are you feeling better Red?" "I cheered him up!" "Scoot! What did you do? Does it have to do with our crusading?" "Apple Bloom! Meet my new coltfriend!" Me and Apple Bloom stare at Scootaloo in shock, then I blush again. "..........scoot.........are you sure?" Apple Bloom sounds very nervous and quiet. "Yea now the suns coming up, can we eat now?" The three go inside and Apple Bloom eats a pie, while Red and Scootaloo share a pie and connect eyes often. When they finish, they hear a knock on the door. A strange high pitched voice spoke. "Hello? Has my brother been here?" Apple Bloom answers the door. "What's your brother's name?" My brother is Red Star! Has he been around here?!" Apple Bloom steps aside letting a small filly look inside. "Yea Red is right there! The tiny filly steps inside and runs to Red, hugging him tight. "Red I found you! Where have you been? Butter Scotch want to show us something! Come on! Please? For your sister, Poison?" Poison pulls on his leg but it doesn't do much, she's a lot younger than him. Scootaloo whispers into Red's ear, "Maybe she is your sister! Why not play along for a while?" Red stops and thinks for a second. "Okay squirt! Why don't you go and see what Butter Scotch wants?" She nods and leaves, and Red notices an image of a jar with a skull and crossbones on the jar on her hip. He then looks at his own hip, and sees it blank, and Apple Bloom takes notice to it. "He's a blank flank too!" "A what?" "You don't have your cutie mark! Scootaloo! We need to talk!" Scootaloo and Apple Bloom Huddle together and whisper for a minute, then they turn and look at Red and Scootaloo says, "We will consult Sweetiebelle on this matter." "Okay? Oh yea and can Poison stay at your house with us tonight?" "Sure! But not in our bed." "Y'all sleep together? Eewww!! Why?" "Apple Bloom. We are dating. Don't judge!" "Okay can we leave now? I want to see the town!" "Okay Red! Lets go!" They say bye to Apple Bloom, and walk out the door > When Death is your Friend > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Star looks at the ramp leading to the ground. "Scoots I'm not sure if I trust this thing." "Fine Red! Then use your wings!" "What these? I don't know how wings even work!" "It's just like your legs. Now try to move them." Red extends his wings and notices they are bigger than Scootaloo's. "Why are my wings so big?" "They aren't" "What? Then why are yours so small?" "I was born like this okay? Please just don't talk about it." Red flaps his wings and he slowly rises into the air. "Look at me! How do I go forward?" Scootaloo sighs, "you have to lean forward and extend your forelegs forward." Red slightly leans forward and he loses Balance and falls on his face. "Ow! Could anyone teach me to fly?" "We could ask Rainbow Dash! She's an amazing flier!" They agree and walk down the ramp. They walk into ponyville and Red gets hit by a flying pony, And falls to the ground, dead. A silver maned, night-sky black pony turns around and looks in horror at his actions, "Oh Celestia! No! Hold on, let me get Mr. Book!" He rummages through his bag and pulls out a talking book, "yes Aero? What do you need?" "Uuhh I just killed somepony can you help?" When Scootaloo hears the word 'killed', she runs toward Red's body and starts crying while she hugs it. The Book says, "Yes Aero! You have a horn! You can put his soul back! You are the Reaper!" "Aw yea." His horn glows and Red gasps for air then starts crying. Scootaloo looks at Aero with a sad, confused look, "Why would you do that? Do you know who he is?" Aero starts flipping through Mr. Book. "Hhmmmmm actually neither me, nor Mr. Book knows who he is! Mr. Book knows Everypony! As soon as a new pony is born, their name goes into Mr. Book! How is his name not in here?" "What? I don't know! His name is Red Star!" She cuddles me similar to what she did 10 mins ago, "Wow the world does not like you, Red!" "Whyyyyy?!" "Look at me," she forces Red's head so that he looks her in the eyes, "I know what will cheer you up!" She leans down and kisses Red on the lips. Red is shocked at first, but then He just stop and enjoy it. She breaks the kiss and He feels a lot better. Aero looks shocked at them and nervously says, "uuhhh aren't you guys a little young for that?" "We're dating! We can do what we want!" Aero looks even more shocked, "you're DATING?!" Scootaloo gets mad. "Yes we are dating, and you shouldn't decide what we do with our lives!" Aero looks at Red softly, and Red takes notice to his combination of a bone on his forehead and wings. "What is that?" Red walks over and hits the bone on his forehead. Aero shrieks in pain and shouts, "Ow why did you do that? You know what this is dont you?" "Not exactly." Red looks at the ground. Aero sighs. "It's called a horn, I can do magic with it, like, watch!" Aero's horn glows a deep red and an apple lifts off the ground, then explodes. "Woah that was awesome! How do I get a horn?" "You're born with it." Red quickly becomes sad. "Aaawwww I want one!" Aero looks at him Sternly "Well too bad! You were born a Pegasus and you should stay that way!" Red gets sad and gives up, "fine, but what happened?" "I uhh I killed you-" Aero gets interrupted by Red "I DIED?! Why?" "It was an accident I swear! Look, your back and I'm now in trouble for killing a foal less than half my age, so just be quiet about it okay?" "Fine, but do you want to hang out sometime? You seem really cool!" Aero shrugs and says, "Why not? Sure we can hangout sometime!" "Okay Red! Lets get going! I want you to meet somepony!" "Alright scoots, Bye Aero!" They wave to each other and Scootaloo pulls Red along.after a bit of a walk, they reach a cloud with a stringy rainbow pouring off the side. It's not moving. "Rainbow!" The rainbow moves revealing a cyan pony with a rainbow mane and tail. "What's up scoot?" She jumps off the cloud and lands next to me. "And who's this? A new pony in town?" "He's new, Rainbow, can you do me a favor?" "Sure Scoot, shoot." "Can you teach Red here how to use his wings?" "You mean he doesn't know?" "No like I said he's new so be easy on him okay?" "Okay Scoot!" She picks red up and quickly flies to a cloud and puts him down. Red Star looks at the cloud in horror as he remembers that he cannot stand on clouds as a human. Rainbow Dash rolls her eyes and puts Red on the cloud. As his hooves touch the cloud he feels a sturdy platform underneath him. He rushes towards the edge an looks over the side. After doing so he returns to the center of the cloud and sits down, waiting for Rainbow's instructions. "Okay first you have to know how to use your wings! Just move them okay?" Red proceeds to open his wings and stretch them a little. "Good now move them up and down like this." Rainbow them flaps her wings slowly, and Red does the same. "Now faster!" Red flaps his wings until he leaves the cloud. Rainbow Dash follows. "Good now point your front hooves forward and lean like this!" She shows him how to fly straight. On his first try, he gets it, leaving Rainbow slightly impressed. "Now just follow me, and tell me if I'm going too fast!" She starts flying away and Red follows. He gets to the point he's going so fast for his first flight, that he closes his eyes. He has a really bad crash into a house. > Magic Finally Shows > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nonononononononono! Red!!" Red has a hard time opening his eyes. He peeks his eyes open to see a pool of red liquid around his head, a torn down wall leading inside, red laying on the opposite wall to the hole, and rainbow comes flying in the hole, looking really scared. She sees his eye slightly open, and runs to him, "Red! It's okay! I'll get you to the hospital!" His Vision goes black..... "Where Is Heliacal?!" It was back to this nightmare. "Last time I saw him, he was running through your friend's chest!" Red couldn't control what He was saying. "Be that way but let's see what your little lover thinks? BRING HER IN!" Scootaloo gets pushed into the light and she's cut all over, also tied to a chair. "Scoots! No!" "If you tell us where Heliacal is, you'll die a quick an painless death!" A blade then cuts Red's leg. "Aaahh! Fine you want him so bad?! Here-" Red wakes up slowly in a hospital bed, the first pony he sees is Scootaloo, sleeping next to him. Next he sees Rainbow Dash, she sleeping too even though He can see the sun out the window. Then he sees Aero, in the corner, reading a book. He can't see out of one eye then realizes there's a bandage around his head, covering his eye. He shakes Scootaloo slightly and she wakes up quickly. "Red! You're awake!!" "Sshhhh I want to have some time to ourselves." He motions toward Rainbow Dash. "Ooohhhhh okay, so what's on your mind?" She then blushes. "What's on yours? I see you blushing!" "Nothing! It's not 'appropriate' for our age." Red is shocked at that sentance, but his thoughts are quickly lost from a searing pain in his right foreleg. He looks down to see most of his body in a cast. "You know what? Wake up Rainbow." Scootaloo jumps off the bed and wakes Rainbow who, by reflexes, kicks aero in the face. "Ow! Rainbow! What the hay?!" "Sorry! Reflexes! So what's up kid?" Her attention turns to Scootaloo. "Rainbow look!" She points to me, with one eye open, and I moan in pain. "Red! You're finally awake!" "Finally? How long has it been?" "Uuhhh 3 weeks." "Three weeks?!" "Uuhh yea." Aero walks over holding his book and a quill. "Okay 'Red' mind if I ask you some questions?" "No not at all." "Okay, what is your full name?" "Red Star." "Do you have any siblings?" "Just one, a small foal named Poison." The questions carry on for some time. Afterwards, Rainbow trots up, and hugs me and starts softly crying. Inbetween sobs I hear her say, "I was my fault. I was going too fast! Why didn't you say anything?" "I-" a unicorn bursts into the room and looks directly at Red Star, "Are you Red Star? Asleep for 3 weeks, crashed into a house and destroyed an entire room?" "Yes?" Everypony looks in shock at the strange mare. "Good." She picks up Red with magic. Scootaloo shouts, "take me too!" She picks up Scootaloo and walks out the door keeping us close. As we walk past the receptionist, she starts to say something but the mare grabs her hair and pulls it across her face with magic. As we leave the hospital, she says, "this place is full of quacks!" She rips the casts from my body, revealing a wing twisted 90 degrees and 3 broken legs. For the next few seconds, the air is filled with cracking bones and screams of pain. Scootaloo covers her ears and the unicorn calls Red a wuss for screaming so much. We eventually reach a house and she brings us inside and sets us on the couch. Red is bleeding pretty badly, but the unicorn doesn't seem to care, "okay my name is Asteroid. I study magic just as much as twilight but nopony cares about me! Now! I'll fix you completely if you promise to help me." Scootaloo and Red both agree quickly. Asteroid picks up Red with magic and her horn flares. Red's wounds heal and the blood goes away. "Now if you tell anypony about what happens between us, I'll snap Red's neck! I just made a small connection between our souls so if you disobey me, Red dies, you got that?!" They both look at Asteroid in shock, 'kill red'? "Now sleep." Asteroid's horn glows and both foals fall asleep. > A Familiar Face > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Star slowly opens his eyes to find him laying on a couch. He gets up and looks around. He sees a large crowd of ponies staring at him. "Heh-hello? What going on?" Apple Jack steps forward towards Red. "Uuhh Red? Do ya feel......... Strange?" "No not really, why is everypony staring at me?" She backs away, "Ah'd rather not tell you....." "What?! What's wrong with me?! Please somepony tell me!" A voice comes from behind him and startles him, "What have we here?" He turns around to see a tall black pony with a large flowing black mane. "This is impossible! Come little one, I need to talk to you." She puts her wing over him and they teleport to a large tower. "What is thy name?" "I'm Red Star...." Red has a very scared voice. She stares deep into his eyes, making him back away slowly in fear, but she follows. "You are a very smart pony. To not lie to those who scare you. I am your princess of the night, Princess Luna. I see you have a fascination to the starry sky. Keep towards that fascination, and you will not be disappointed. Now what about this? Why are you an alicorn?" "A what?" Luna proceeds to point to his horn and wings. "When did I get a horn?! Oooohhhhh I know what happened!" "Well I'm going to test you, take this and try to teleport home." Luna touches horns with Red and his eyes widen. "Now go! Use your new magic to return home! Talk to twilight sparkle for a lesson on magic!" Luna flies into the moon leaving Red Star standing there in the tower, alone. He focuses on his horn, and teleports to Scootaloo's house. He walks into Scootaloo's bedroom to find her sleeping. He joins her in the bed and he falls asleep. In the morning he wakes up to find Scootaloo gone, and some hay on the table. He eats some hay, then goes to look for Scootaloo, not realizing the note taped on the bedroom door. He runs outside then decides to ask around. He makes way to the town center, and reluctantly starts flying there. He crashes into a light tan/sand colored, black maned stallion, with drawing on his forelegs. They both crash into the ground and Red dislocates his arm. "Oh hello! Didn't see you there! Uuhh are you okay?" He gets up and looks at red, with his arm going backwards. "This is why I never fly! Ooww my leg!" They both look at his leg, then the tan stallion shoves it back in place with bone cracking sounds. Red screams in pain and thanks the strange pony. "So I don't think we've met before! My name is Dust Storm! I've been sent here from America-" Red cuts him off, "You're from America?! What part?" "Hammond Indiana." "Me too! I go, or WENT, to Highland middle school! My name Is Jeremy Hillman!" Dust Storm stops and thinks, "oh yea, you were that kid in orchestra? Who was always talking about minecraft?" "Yeah! You were?" "I am Moises Enrique Flores." "You lived with that, Carlos, guy, right?" "You got it! Dude! It's been so long since I've been there!" "Moises? Do you know where we are?" "Yes Jeremy, we are in the pony world of Equestria! Try to make some friends okay?" "Okay! I've been here for over 3 weeks so far, so I made some friends!" "Alright well I got to get going, see ya!" They wave bye and Dust rockets off, leaving Red in a storm a dust. He starts running towards the town center and gets stopped by a bright pink pony with poofy pink hair. "Who are you? I'veneverseenyouaroundherebefore!" She speaks barely understandably fast. "Who are you?" "My names piiinkie Pie!" Red remembers what Apple Jack said 'don't show him to pinkie just yet.' "Wooow are you royalty? You're an alicorn!" "You mean my horn?" "Yea! Are ya? Huh huh huh huh huh??" "No I'm not! Please stop! You're kinda scaring me!" "Aw come on! You just need to smile!" She puts her snout on red's stomach and flicks up, throwing him on her back, and she runs off to sugar cube corner. > A life changer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red tries to escape from the pink pony but she forces him to stay there. She takes him into a candy shop and drops him on the ground. "Welcome to Ponyville! This is Sugarcube Corner! I live and work here! Are you hungry? I'll be right back!" She runs behind a counter into a different room leaving Red Star sitting there, alone. He decides to look around a little bit. He walks around looking at cupcakes and brownies, when a small crocodile walks into the room and looks at Red strangely. He walks up to it and looks at it very softly. "Hey little guy! What's your name?" The small crocodile jumps on his head and lays in his mane and falls asleep, putting Red in a very ackward position, but decides to leave it alone. At that moment, Pinkie rushes back into the room holding a small cake. "I'm kind of busy right now, so I can't throw you a proper welcome party yet, but here's a cake!" she sets down the cake and shoves Red to it. "Welcome!" Red sits there very ackwardly and inspects the cake. Pinkie gets slightly sad, "what's wrong? You don't like your cake?" "No no it's not that it's just, I........" "You what?" "It's just kind of weird how a random pony walks up and gives me cake." "What's wrong with that?" "Never mind, what flavor is it?" "Oh! It's chocolate! You can eat chocolate right?" Red Star nods then looks at the cake feeling guilty and decides to try the cake. He takes a bite and immediately regrets doubting Pinkie. He wolfs down most of the cake and gets up with cake all over his face. Pinkie laughs and says, "clean up yourself!" And hoofs him a napkin. He wipes off the cake and puts the napkin in the garbage. She grabs the crocodile from Red's mane and says, "Gummy! What did I tell you about going in other ponies manes?" She puts the small crocodile into her poofy mane and it seems to disappear. Pinkie smiles and looks at Red and the half eaten cake. "Ooohhhh, I know who you are, you're Red Star right?" "Yea, why? what have you heard about me?" "Oh nothing, you were in a coma for three weeks, wrecked a portion of a house, and have a 'romance' with little Scootaloo!" She winks at Red with that last part and he blushes. "Well I should get going now. Bye Pinkie!" They wave bye and Red leaves and walks down the street. He asks around for Scootaloo and finally comes across a white unicorn with her hair done up weird, curly. "Do I know where Scootaloo is? She's probably with Sweetiebelle at their clubhouse." Red thanks her and runs off toward the apple farm, and to Scootaloo's clubhouse. When he gets there, he opens the door to find four fillies standing there, one on a large podium, which he recognizes her to be Apple Bloom. There's a small white filly next to her, and on the other side of her is Scootaloo. There a brown filly next to her. They are all wearing dark red capes with a picture of a pony on it. Red asks nervously, "What's going on here?" Apple Bloom speaks, "Red Star, you have been accepted to be a brother....." She continues on with a long list of names, when she just starts skipping through them until she stops, "ah! And fellow Cutie Mark Crusader!" "A what?" She looks at Red disapprovingly. "We basically try every activity we can to try and get our Cutie Marks!" "A cutie....... Wha?" The three fillies stare at Scootaloo in shock. "Y'all haven't told him yet?!" "I haven't really had time to yet. Just get on with it." They all stare at Red. Apple Bloom speaks again, " Scoot it doesn't look like you revised this." "Oh, I forgot to sorry." "Should I even finish it then?" "You don't have to." "Okay then." Apple Bloom throws confetti into the air and Scootaloo throws a cape on Red like they're wearing. Red can't help but smile. The fillies start laughing and they walk Red outside, where the white filly walks up to him. "Hi welcome to the Cutie Mark Crusaders! My name is Sweetiebelle! Nice to meet you!" She leans in close and says, "So I heard you got punched by Apple Bloom?" "You heard about that?" "Look, don't take it personally, she was feeling weird that day, okay?" "Okay." She backs up and walks away toward Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. The brown filly walks toward Red but says nothing. She walks up close and looks him over throughly, then kicks him in his forelegs, making him fall to the ground. She then proceeds to kick him in the face, chipping his tooth and she breaks his foreleg. The other fillies run over and push her away from him and angrily ask, "What's wrong with you?! Babs! Why did you do that?!" She points to the broken, now crying colt on the ground, "He's a colt! Why should we let him in?!" "Babs please stay away from him. He's very delicate, this is the 6th injury he's gotten since he fell from the sky! Please don't make his life worse!" She grunts and walks away angrily. Red lays in the grass, bleeding from his nose, mouth and broken foreleg. "We need to get him to the hospital!" They all three pick him up and carry him to the Ponyville hospital. > The Best News Yet! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the three fillies rush into the hospital carrying the broken colt, the receptionist quickly remembers who the colt is. They admit Red into a room and a white alicorn with a pink and white striped mane and tail walks in. "Hello, I'll be your Nurse/Doctor." She looks and sees the red pony with wings and a horn. "My name is Heartsong. Another one of those glue accidents?" They look at Heartsong with puzzled looks. "What?" Red asks. Heartsong walks over to the side of the bed. "Move your wings." Red opens his wings and wiggles them around. Heartsong grabs a bottle of glue remover out of the cabinet and parts Red's mane. Her jaw drops and she drops the glue remover on the floor. "An alicorn?! How can this be?!" Red looks at Scootaloo nervously. Heartsong picks the glue remover up and applies some to the base of Red's horn. Nothing happens. For the next hour, Heartsong is basically rocking back and forth in the corner, in disbelief of such a young alicorn. For the first few minutes, they all stared at Heartsong, and Apple Bloom asks, "Seriously?" Then the attention goes back to Red. They gather around the bed, Scootaloo getting the closest. Right then, 2 ponies burst into the room. A black, filly with purple hair and a Black stallion with silver hair. The purple haired one jumps on the bed and stands on Red, crushing his lungs. "Brother! Brother! Are you alright!?" Poison shouts. Red struggles for air and Poison gives Red some Literal, breathing room. "Poison?! How did you get here so fast?!" "You remember how Butter Scotch wanted to show us something?" Red Star nods. "He got his first scooter and the first thing he decided to do was try a jump." "How did it go?" "Let's just say he has a room not far from here." They stare at Poison in shock, then the silver maned pony shouts, "Did nopony notice me walk in?" "Aero! What are you doing here?" Red looks at Aero quizzically. Aero pulls out the talking book. "Just doing my job." "Aero! Something bad is about to happen. Step back." The book says. Aero takes a step back. Scootaloo looks at Poison with an annoyed look, "Can you move? I want to see my coltfriend!" "BROTHEEERRR!!! NOOOOOOO!!!" She turns a deep green and wraps her arms around Red. Red Star immediately tints green. "Owww! I don't feel so good......." Red looks like he is going to puke. Poison turns black again. "Brother! Whats wrong?!" Poison panicks. Aero walks over and puts his hoof on Red's shoulder. "He's been poisoned." The whole group gasps. "From the looks of it, he has 3 days to live unless we find an antidote." Aero has a look of greiveance. Poison starts crying over his head. "Brother......" Tears drip off her and land on Red's nose. The green fades from his nose out. He blinks a few times, then looks around and sees Scootaloo with tears in her eyes. "Scoots........ Come here!" Poison doesn't let go and Scootaloo runs over and kisses Red on the lips. Aero looks at Red, a small filly hugging him, and a big filly kissing him and thinks, 'Lucky.......' Sweetiebelle and Apple Bloom look at Scootaloo in shock. All the while, Red Star and Scootaloo are still kissing. Heartsong puts her hoof on her head, then gets up. She sees Red and Scootaloo kissing and stares at them in shock as well. "Red Star?!" She says in shock. Scootaloo breaks the kiss and blushes, realizing what she did. Aero puts his hoof on Red's shoulder. "He's cured!" The group cheers. "Uuhh Poison?" "Yes brother?" "Ooww! Move! You're crushing my broken leg!" "Oh! Sorry!" She steps aside but stays on the bed. "Heartsong!" They all look at heartsong. She walks to the side of the bed. "Show me your legs." Poison pulls the covers off his torso, showing mangled forelegs. Heartsong smirks. "Hey Red, guess what." "What?" He looks at her curiously. She magically knocks him out. He wakes up during night with te lights out. Both of his forelegs are in casts, he has a fake tooth and his forehead around the base of his horn slightly hurts. He looks around to see Scootaloo sleeping softly next to him. He looks at the clock and it takes his eyes a second to adjust to the darkness. It reads: 2:37 AM. He looks down at Scootaloo and decides to let her sleep. Upon his eyes adjusting further, he sees his sister, Poison, sleeping on a chair across the room. She's small enough to be able to curl into a ball on the seat. He looks out the door and sees two floating red lights in the doorway. They seem to be staring at him. A second passes in silence, then the red light start slowly moving closer. Red panicks and thinks its a monster, here to kill him, but he can't move. His forelegs are in casts. He squeezes his eyes shut and whimpers softly. When the red lights reach him, a hoof goes on his shoulder and he hears a familiar voice. "Red Star it's me!" Red Star opens his eyes and the figure pulls off a hood revealing a silver mane. Red's eyes adjust even more, and he sees a black stallion with said silver mane. He speaks softly, "Sorry about my eyes, it helps me see in the dark. Did I scare you?" Red Star nods, shaking slightly. The stallion speaks in a very sincere voice, "we'll it's just me, your buddy Aero. Don't worry you're safe here. You have Scootsloo there." Aero points to the sleeping filly against Red's side, facing him. "She hasn't left your side, she refuses to go home until your better. That young filly over there has been in and out." Aero points to Poison, "She goes down the hall to one of her friend's room. She leaves the hospital every once in a while, and brings back gifts." He points to a table next to Red, and it's covered in gifts to Red. There's a sweatshirt, a scooter, a bouquet of flowers, a few boxes of chocolates, and a balloon. Red smiles and a tear of joy runs down his cheek. He looks back at Aero. Aero looks back at Red with a warm smile. "Do you know what today is?" Red shakes his head, "No, why? What's today?" "You'll seeeeee!!!" "Fine but why are you here?" "I wanted to ask you some questions." Aero asks Red a long series of questions and writes down Red's answers. He thanks Red and leaves. Soon after that, Red falls asleep. He dreams of back home, on earth, as a human and thinks, 'Was that even real?' And passes it off as a dream, because its been so long. He slowly opens his eyes in the morning and sees Scootaloo standing over him, looking straight down at him. A familiar voice comes from the doorway, "Is he awake yet?!" Scootaloo calmly replies, "yea." And leans down and kisses Red. He thinks, 'best. Way. To wake up. EVER!!!'. Red hears a lot of hoofsteps in the hall. He looks at the door in anticipation. Heartsong, Aero, and Poison all walk in carrying a breakfast in bed tray with 2 balloons and one giant cupcake on it, with a lit candle sticking out of it. Poison extends the legs of the tray and Heartsong and Aero softly set it down in front of Red. He looks at it and looks around and sees Aero, Heartsong, Apple Bloom, Apple Jack, Sweetiebelle, Dust Storm, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Scootaloo all looking at him happily. He asks, "What's this?" They all shout in unison, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" Red looks at them surprised and says, "It's my birthday?!" Scootaloo walks over and says, "Yea, Happy Birthday Red! Now blow out your candle and eat up!" Red thinks for a second, Blows out the candle and eats the cupcake. What comes into the room next surprises him greatly. > Dawn of a New Day > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 9 A large red and baby blue striped wrapped box gets slowly pushed into the room by a grey Pegasus with blonde hair. Her eyes are messed up though. She struggles to push it into the room and when she reaches the middle of the room, she looks at Red and sees a cupcake wrapper and Red's snout is covered in frosting. She gets sad and lowers her head, "Awww I missed it!" Apple Jack walks over. "It's ah'll right. He hasn't opened any presents yet!" Red looks around and sees the table, only now it has birthday cards all over it. "Presents?" Scootaloo smiles at Red warmly, "Well since its your first birthday here in ponyville, We like to make it special!" Scootaloo hoofs him a card, "Open this one, its from Dash." Red looks at Rainbow Dash and smiles, then looks down at the card and opens it. He reads what it says out loud, "Dear Red Star, I'm sorry about what happened on your first flight. That was my bad. I scraped together some bits for a present to make up for it. I hope it helps! Your friend, Rainbow Dash." He holds the bits in his hoof and counts them. 75 bits! He looks up and asks, "what's 'bits'?" Rainbow Dash replies, "Bits is our currency, we use bits to buy things." Red Star looks at the bits and then smiles. Scootaloo hoofs him another card, one after another, Red Star reads them, and counts the bits. In the end, Red Star collects 317 bits! Then Scootaloo hoofs him a wrapped gift. He opens it with his teeth. It's a red and baby blue set of 2 bags with straps connecting them. Aero Speaks up, "It's a saddle bag! I had it made just to match you! Red, like your fur, and baby blue like your mane!" Red Star smiles, "How do I put it on?" "Like this." Aero fits the saddlebag on Red Star, making sure to make it not too tight. Where the buckle is, is the CMC Insignia. Aero shows Red how to open and close them. "Wow thanks Aero! This is cool!" Scootaloo hoofs him another gift. He opens it the same way. It's a pair of baby blue boots and a scarf. Apple Bloom says, "For, you know, when y'all get chilly." The only present that remains is the large one the grey mare pushed in. The whole group looks at it. Finally, Scootaloo says, "We all pitched in a little bit to make this birthday special. Aero said Mr.Book says you like the stars and galaxies and stuff so we got you this!" The grey pony and Aero rip down the wrapping paper in unison. Behind it is a large telescope in its box from the store. He stares at it with happy shock. He starts crying tears of joy. "This......... Is....... The best..... Day.......EVER!!!" He the whole group smiles and hugs Red, Saying "happy birthday Red." For the next few days, Red eats, sleeps, uses the colt's room, and talks with friends. Heartsong gives him strong medicine, which greatly speeds up the healing process, and knocks him out for a few hours. Scootaloo continues to stay with him, leaving the room only to use the filly's room. After a week or so, they cut the casts off Red's forelegs. Good as new. Red Star hugs Scootaloo and they carry the presents to Scootaloo's house. When they finish, Red heads to the bank, Scootaloo showing him the way. When they get there, Red deposits 250 bits into a long term safe. In case something happens. He is left with 67 bits. He takes Scootaloo for a nice dinner date, and buys some food for her house. As they walk home, they hear a loud bang and hear a fire. The couple rushes to the noise and see a tree on fire. Standing at the base of the tree is a demonic looking Aero. Red get scared and asks Aero what happened, Aero seems to have 2 voices, a demonic one and a normal one, speaking at the same time. "Yoooou......." The ground cracks at Aero's hooves. "Aero! What's wrong?!" "Red! You don't deserve that filly!!! I deserve a marefriend more than you!! The one you call 'Aero' isn't here!!" "Then who are you?" "My name is Aeris!" > The Waking Dead > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You just fall out of the sky and suddenly you think your better than me!!" Aeris screams with a very demonic voice. Red steps forward and says back, "I never said that! I don't know why you I'm so popular!" Aeris stomps his hoof into the ground and it cracks and lightning strikes his hoof, "LIES ALL LIES!!!" Aeris stares at Red and his hooves spark as electricity goes into the ground. The dirt cracks all the way up to Red and a large electric charge enters through his hooves. Red screams in pain and passes out. Aeris laughs evilly. Electric bolts jump around Red's body. Scootaloo stands a safe distance and cries. Suddenly Red's veins start glowing yellow. He wakes up and gets up. He struggles to live and shoots all the lightning into the ground. He falls on the ground writhing in pain, and it starts raining. "Ha. Learn your place!" Red passes out. He wakes up back in a hospital bed, with a 'beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' in his ear. He hears somepony crying and he looks around. "He's.....*sniff* dead........." Red Star looks down and sees an orange filly with purple hair, crying on his body. "Heeeh-heeeeey......" Her head darts up. She stares at Red and hugs him tightly. "Red.......... You died........." "What? I'm still *coughs* here!" Scootaloo looks at the heartbeat thing. "It's says your dead." "Well I'm not." Aero bursts through a wall, "RED!!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!" Red cringes in pain. "Yea I am." "I thought Aeris killed you!" "Me too." Red's body shocks with electricity. "Aaaaahhhh!" "You still have electricity in you. I'm sorry Red." "It's okay Aero." Heartsong walks in crying a little, then she sees Red alive and rushes to him. "Red! How is this possible?!" "I don't know! How long have I been out?" "5 days." "Wow......... What happened?" Aero speaks up, "Aeris happened. He/I was jealous because you seem to be so popular. I'm so sorry......." "It's okay Aero, I- AAAAAAHHH" electricity bolts through him. When it dies down, he asks, "How long is this going to last?!" Aero thinks for a moment. "It seems until your heart restarts." "What? How am I alive if my heart isn't working?" Aero points to the dead line. Red Star sighs. Heartsong puts on a stethoscope and puts it to his chest. "He's right, your heart isn't beating." Red's body sparks again, catching Heartsong in the shock. The hospital is filled with a duet of screams. The dead line on the machine pulses once then goes dead again.Red Star feels a slight pain and his soul tries to detach from his body, but he holds on. While this happens, his eyes dilate and his fur turns slightly grey. When he comes back, his eyes fix and his fur goes back to normal. "Oh god I'm going to die......." They all look at him confused. "I think you mean 'oh Celestia'" Red star quickly remembers he's not a human and those terms are long gone for him. He shocks one last time and the dead line jumps back to life and keeps beating. Red starts crying tears of joy. "I'm alive! I'm not going to die!" The group hugs Red. Over the next few days, they hold Red in the hospital. He feels a buzzing in his spine from the high voltage still in his body. When he leaves, he walks outside into the sunshine and smiles. A large group of fillies and colts his age run up to him. There is a long series of shouting and Red gets hugged, pet, and over all touched alot. Then they pick him up and start running down the road. They run into a school house and set Red in the center desk and sit around him. Red Star slightly blushes from all the sudden attention. A purple and pink mare with smiling flowers on her flank walks up to the front desk. One of the fillies shout, "Miss Cheerilee!! We have a new student!!" And she points directly at Red. "Oh so we do! Why not you come up here and tell us about yourself?" Red gets shy. He looks around and spots Scootaloo and the crusaders sitting together, but no empty seats around them. "Excuse me little colt?" Miss Cheerilee looks at him with concern. "What's wrong?" "Well........... I'm a little shy......." Red buries his head on his desk. "Come on little guy, it's okay!" She gives him a warm and inviting smile. Red gets up and slowly walks to the front of the room. He stands next to Cheerilee and looks out over the class. "H-hi my names Red Star......." Miss Cheerilee smiles and says, "Hi Red Star! Welcome to my school!" Red gives a half smile. "Why don't you tell us about yourself Red Star?" "Uuuhhhhhhh......." "Do you want the class to ask questions?" "Su-sure........." A bunch of hooves raise. "You." Red Star points to a blue filly. "How old are you?" "I'm 14." Red Star picks a colt. "How long have you been in ponyville?" Red thinks. "About 4 weeks now." Red then makes the mistake of picking a pink filly wearing a tiara. "What's your cutie mark?" "Oh......" Red shows his flank and its blank. A large portion of the class starts laughing and Red Star gets really sad. Miss Cheerilee gets mad and yells at the class. Red Star sits sadly on the floor, his long mane covering his eyes as he starts softly crying. His second worst fear, being made fun of, has just happened. He hears 6 hooves rushing towards him. > Gaining a Family > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Leave him alone!" SweetieBelle stands next to Red Star and shouts at the class. Red Star looks up at the class and a ball of paper hits him in the eye. He starts crying and staring at the floor. Scootaloo runs up to Red and gives him a kiss to cheer him up. He stops crying but the class sees it and starts laughing harder. He moves closer to Scootaloo so their bodies touch and he puts a wing around her as she sits next to him. The crusaders stand Infront of them and yells, "Red Star is an amazing colt! And unlike all of you, he can still be who he wants to be! You all have your cutie marks, you're stuck being what your cutie mark says, he can be anything! He could be an amazing musician!" A violin suddenly slides up to him, followed by a bow . Cheerilee has had enough and face-desks and lets it all play out. Red nervously picks up the violin. He puts the bow on the string and it makes a beautiful sound. Red gains confidence and starts playing a violin solo. The entire class is shocked at how well he plays. He had never played the violin before, and the graceful sounds surprised him. When he finishes the song, the entire class applauds. Applebloom suddenly shouts, "Maybe he's good at balancing!" She puts a plate on his head and it immediately falls off and shatters. Red gets embaressed. The crusaders walk back to their seats and Red takes a seat next to Scootaloo. He notices ponies glance at him a lot and he gets nervous. He slides his seat over and shares a desk with Scootaloo. She smiles at him and scoots closer to him. He blushes as she puts a wing around him. Cheerilee continues her lessons. After school, Red Star walks outside and is followed by Scootaloo. They start to walk home but hear sword fighting and screaming in the distance. They run towards the noise and see two heavily armored ponies, wearing helmets that cover their faces, and holding huge bloody swords. They both look at Red and Scootaloo. One slowly walks toward them and Red and Scootaloo lower to the ground, shaking in fear, and Red puts a wing over Scootaloo to try to protect her. The armored pony raises its sword high, and stabs it into the ground in front of him. The other does the same. The one farthest away takes its helmet off, revealing a yellow mare earth pony with a purple mane. "ERA! You scared them!" The pony standing above them takes their helmet off, showing a blue stallion with a deeper blue mane. "Sorry Syn!" "Look at them! they are absolutely terrified!" Syn Shouts pointing at Red and Scootaloo. They are both laying on the ground, shivering in fear, staring at the two ponies. "I'm sorry!" Era says back and lays next to them. "I'm so so sorry little ponies! Please don't be scared! I dont want to hurt you!" Syn walks over. "Awww! Look at how cute they look together! The red one has his wing over her!" Syn sits down and pets Red's mane. "Where are your parents? Why are you out so late?" Red whimpers and Scootaloo stares at Syn. "My name is Synphony, but everypony calls me Syn for short. This is Era, he's my Coltfriend." "I'm sorry for scaring you." Era lowers his head in shame. Syn lifts his chin with her hoof and gives him a little kiss. His mood immediately shoots up. Red and Scootaloo get a lot less scared. "Wheres your family?" "I don't have one besides my sister Poison......." Red Star says cautiously. Scootaloo stays quiet. "You don't have a family!? Where do you live?" "I live with Scootaloo here..... We don't have parents......." "What?! No parents?!" Syn shouts. Scootaloo looks at the ground and cries a little. Red comforts her. "How about this: How about I adopt you guys?" Syn says with a smile. "Really?!" Red Shouts hopefully. "Yup! I've always wanted foals but...." She looks at Era and he looks down with a guilty face. "Nevermind it's complicated." Red cries tears of joy and stands up. "Mommy!" He runs to syn and hugs her foreleg, crying into her fur. She looks down softly at him and puts her other hoof around his back, hugging him. She then looks at Scootaloo, still on the ground. "I can adopt you too!" "Noooo....." Scootaloo sounds really sad. Red stops crying and looks at Scootaloo. "What's wrong?" "Nothing, I just don't want to be adopted....." "That's okay, it's your choice." Syn says with a comforting voice. "Okay...." "If you need a place to stay, you are always welcome at my house!" "Yes please....." Syn smiles. "No problem! Lets go to the orphanage so I can legally adopt.......... Uuhhh red foal?" "Yes?" "This might be a weird time to ask but, what's your guys's names?" "I'm Red Star, and this is Scootaloo." "Okay thanks! Lets go Red!" They go to the orphanage and Syn successfully adopts Red Star. They head to Scootaloo's house and help her pack the bigger things. Then they head to outer ponyville. They walk to the rich pony's neighborhood. They walk up to a mansion with an 'S' above the door. "You live in a mansion?!" Syn giggles a little, "Yup! Pretty surprised aren't ya?" Red and Scootaloo's jaws drop. They open the door and walk in. There's a beautiful Chandelier hanging from the ceiling and a soft carpet. Syn leads then to a room made for 2 foals. Syn confesses, "I always wanted 2 foals but that never happened.... You're too young to talk about this sort of thing but, I thought you should know. There's two of everything in here, dressers, closets, beds....... Please make yourself comfortable." Syn smiles and leaves. Red and Scootaloo put all their stuff in their dressers and closets. They sit on their beds and relax on the covers. Syn walks in a few minutes later, "You two aren't trapped in here, explore around! You live here after all!" Syn steps aside giving Red and Scootaloo enough room to walk out of the room. Red gets up and runs to Syn and hugs her leg again. "I love you mommy! Thank you so much for adopting me!" "I love you too Red, you're very welcome!" Red lets go and runs down the hall and into a room. Scootaloo gets up and walks to the door. Syn stops her, "I may not have adopted you Scootaloo, but I still think of you as my own filly. Please be happy." Syn smiles at Scootaloo and Scootaloo hugs her like Red did. "Thank you so much Synphony!" Syn hugs back, "You're very welcome! Now go explore with Red!" Syn lets go and let's Scootaloo out of the room. "Thank you Synphony." She lets go and runs to the room Red is in. For the next few hours they explore the house and end up back in their room. They flop on their beds and relax from all the running. A few seconds later, Synphony walks in and says dinner is ready. They get up and walk to the dining room. There's biscuits and salad and corn. Red Star gets surprised, "You'll even cook for us?!" Syn gets confused, "Of course I would! I'm your mom! I don't want my new foals to starve!" Red Star smiles hearing that and sits next to Syn and Scootaloo. They eat happily and when they finish, Synphony brings out fresh brownies. Red and Scootaloo's jaws drop again. Synphony gives them both 2 brownies and a glass of milk. Red Star shouts, "I have the best mommy ever!" And slams his snout onto the brownie, eating it really quickly. Synphony laughs at the silliness of Red. Scootaloo eats it with a fork. When they all finish, Syn leads them to a room with paper and crayons and a TV. Syn sits down and watches TV while Red and Scootaloo draw. Red draws a picture of them all in a group hug and it says 'I love you guys.' Scootaloo draws a picture of her and Red kissing, and Syn looks at it weird, "who are those ponies?" "It's me and Red!" Scootaloo shouts happily. Red looks over and sees the picture. He smiles and walks over to Scootaloo. Then he gives her a little kiss on the cheek, and she gets really happy. Syn looks at them shocked, "Whaaaaaat?" "Oh we never told you." Red Star says, "She's my fillyfriend!" Syn gets even more shocked. "It's okay mommy, please don't think this is weird." Syn regains her composure, "it's fine! Don't worry! I understand." Red looks around, confused. "Where's Era?" "He doesn't live with me, I get a little lonely, so I wanted foals............. Now I have you and I'm happy." Syn gives a warm smile. Red and Scootaloo go back to drawing and after a while Syn says its bed time. She leads them back to their room and Red gets in his bed, and Scootaloo in hers. Synphony gives both of them a kiss on the forehead and says good night. She goes to the door and turns off the light and as she slowly closes to door, she hears a faint, "I love you mommy..........."