Scootaloo awoke in an environment she had become all too familiar with, a plain white room with a single window, about three beds and medical equipment. However, normally every time she was in here she would wake up sore, yet today she felt like she was bursting with energy. Just as she was about to call for Rainbow Dash the very same mare opened the door to check on her.
"Hey Twilight! Looks like we won't need to wait, she's awake." Dash called Twilight over, yet she seemed to be eyeing Scootaloo suspiciously.
"Wait for what Dash?" Scootaloo asked fearing she already knew the answer.
"Well kid, you have been out for around twelve hours, but the strange part is that no-one has come looking for you. Also when you passed out you fell on your side with your wings spread so, I saw that scar you're carrying around, and I want to know how you got it." Dash explained calmly, not wanting to beat around the bush. "Oh, and we finally managed to get that blood sample by the way, though I though the doc would be back by now with that." she added.
"Oh, you saw that?" Scoots sighed; she knew there was no way out of this. "So, what do you wanna ask first?"
"Wait, what?" Dash asked stunned.
"I'm sure you have a lot of questions, about this," She said showing off the scar under her wing, "And about plenty of other things, so go on, ask away, but don't expect answers you will like."
"Okay, twilight said your scar looked like a number, care to clarify?" dash asked.
"Yeah, it's a number, two-four-one-four, to be precise." Scootaloo stated.
"Wow. Did it hurt? Never mind. What is it supposed to mean?" Dash asked, but got the feeling the answer was not going to be pretty.
"It means I was the two thousand four hundred fourteenth orphan left to the home in Las Pegasus. The crazy mare that owned the place basically strapped us down and carved our numbers into us!" Scootaloo felt she should clarify.
"Wait? Las Pegasus? Then how in the hay did you end up in Ponyville? That's like, a thousand miles from here!" Dash exclaimed.
"Well, that's a long story." Scootaloo explained.
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"I was getting it pretty rough from that bitch that ran the joint, some foals I had never seen before came and tackled her to the ground and told me to scram for the entrance. I wasn't about to hesitate at getting out of there. When I got into the front yard there was someone standing there wearing an old looking cloak, and just told me to follow her so I did. When I asked about the other foals she just said they could look after themselves and that they would be fine." Scootaloo started to explain.
"The weird thing is she already knew my name. However, she asked me everything about my life so far, but when I asked her she would just say that I would find out when I was ready. We would walk for days, stopping at the occasional town or village. At about the fourth one she just told me to wait on a park bench when she came back she gave me my scooter. She said it would help me keep up, I was only around six at the time, and obviously, I couldn't fly. The only thing I ever found out about her is that she was a pegasus. Anyway we had been walking for around four months, she had been teaching me how to live off what small amounts of food she could find, mostly fish though. She said it was a special thing for us pegasi to eat, I didn't really care, it tasted delicious."
"But anyway we eventually came to a small hill overlooking Ponyville; she said this place would do. We found a place to live," Scootaloo did not want to give up where she lived just yet. So she didn't say where it was. "And settled in, but one morning I woke up to find that she had left, but there was a note next to my bed, telling me she would return when I was ready and that I had learned how to take care of myself."
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"And that's how I came to live in Ponyville." Scootaloo finished. She opened her eyes to find out that not only were Twilight and Dash there but I also her fellow crusaders and the rest of the mane six, turns out they had all been waiting outside, but came in when she started telling her story, and were looking at her with expressions of shock.
"Whoa, kid. I never woulda' thought you had it that rough." Dash stated, saying what the rest all were thinking.
"Rough? Nah, I mean the home sucked, but after that, it was kinda cool. Do you guys realize how many different cities and towns I got to see? It was awesome!" Scootaloo said beaming. "Though, I still wonder where that mare got to, I know she'll show up sometime."
"Scoots, how come ya never told us before now?" Apple Bloom spoke up for the first time since entering the room.
"Yeah!" Sweetie Belle agreed.
"No-one ever asked." Scootaloo stated.
"Oh..." was the only reply from the crusaders.
"Wait!" Apple Bloom interrupted, "You said you settled in, but ya never told us where."
"How bout I show you all sometime, you might like it! Especially you Rarity!" Scootaloo chuckled, remembering she lived in a cave with a hot spring. "But can I ask some questions now?"
"Uh, sure kid. Ask away." Dash answered, Twilight smiled knowing what Scootaloo was likely to ask.
"Did the spell work Twilight?" Scootaloo asked her eyes shining with hope.
"Well, yes it did, but something else happened alongside that. It turns out the spell not only freed your magic but also your ancestors magic too," Twilight explained.
"Uh, what?" was Scootaloo's only reply. Twilight face hoofed 'I should have seen that coming'
"It means that all the magic you have lingering from whatever you parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on has been freed too. Turns out Celestia sent me that spell to fix that. But that means that somehow you have been given the magic of all three pony races."
"Wait, then shouldn't I be an alicorn, like you?" Scootaloo asked expecting a horn to sprout from her head any second now.
"No, sorry to rain on your parade, but no." Twilight seemed amused by this.
"Why not?" Scootaloo asked, not disappointed, just curious.
"Scootaloo can you tell me what Princess Luna and Princess Celestia represent" Twilight asked knowing what the little filly would say.
"Uh? The sun and the moon?" Scootaloo answered thinking it was obvious.
"Nope, they control the sun and the moon, but they represent harmony between the three pony races. They are both exactly a third of all pony races. You on the other hand are mostly pegasus.
Mind you might have some unicorn abilities and a bit more strength now, I'd need to figure out how much of each race you are, but we can do that, or maybe the blood sample can help me do that. But you're still going to be a pegasus." Twilight clarified, not only for Scootaloo, but for the others in the room as well.
"What sort of unicorn abilities are we talking about here Twi?" Dash asked, piquing Scootaloo's curiosity as well.
"Hmm, well I'd need to run some tests but I'm not sure, now I have to admit I'm quite curious as well." Twilight stated, now also full of curiosity about Scootaloo's unicorn side.
"Well how 'bout we get the kid out of here, go to your library, then find out? Then after that, we might as well find out where she lives. Sound good to you kid?" Dash asked, setting out a plan of action.
"Sounds good to me" Scootaloo answered, getting off the bed.
