"What's this place? I've never see this part of the school before," Scootaloo whispered as she and her friends all made their way down a long flight of cold concrete stairs that lead to the basement.
"This is where Mrs. Zinnia's classroom is. She's teaches a small class of special Ed students. All the special Ed kids have to stay down here in the basement all day so that way we don't bother the normal students. Because of that I don't have many friends and that's why you've most likely never seen me around school before," explained Silver Mane sounding depressed as he thought about how great it would be too able to socialize with all the other students for a change.
"That's sad," Scootaloo commented as she and her friends kept walking down the cold dark stairs.
"Special Ed huh? Why are you in there? Are you mentally challenged or something," Sweetie Belle asked her new friend.
"No, I'm not. I was placed in special end because I'm physically challenged," Silver Mane informed.
"That's silly you should be in regular ED classes with us. You seem like a perfectly intelligent guy to me," Scootaloo chimed in.
"So, this Ivy girl she's in special Ed too," Apple Bloom inquired as the continued to walk.
"Yes she has a degenerate eye condition which is slowly causing her to go blind. She could get an operation done to fix her eye sight but her family can't afford it. She and I used to be best friends until one day we had a massive fight that ended our friendship forever," lamented Silver Mane. "Here we are, room 1914," he said as he opened the door and looked around the dimly lit classroom.
"Oh man! This is a classroom? What a dump! No offense," Apple Boom exclaimed looking around and observing a very bare bones classroom that only had ten old desk a cement floor and an old teacher's desk along with a beat up old black board that hung on the wall. She also saw a shelf of very old looking text books standing in the comer.
"None taken," he replied with a smile.
"You see not much concern is felt for the special Ed class or it's students by the people who are in charge of the school's budget so we don't get to have all the fancy thing that the normal kids do," The blue-haired boy explained as Sweetie Belle walked over to the wall of the classroom and picked up a old photo of Silver Mane posing with his friends and teacher one day while they were all outside together sanding in what looked like a garden of some sort.
"This picture was taken in what everyone in my class called the secret rooftop garden," explained Silver Mane. "It's a secret place that I and all of my fellow students help to build and care for."
"This is Mrs. Zinnia." The boy said pointing to a young woman with light brown skin and long green hair. "Mrs. Zinnia is very kind and pretty and those are my classmates. Mrs. Zinnia use to take us up to the roof top garden on a regular basis to plant stuff like flowers and fruit bushes in these raised garden beds that are up there. We all have a good time there. Most people don't even know that the rooftop gardens exist," Silver Mane informed her. "I love the roof top garden I had some of the best times of my life up there hanging out with my friend."
"Who's that," Sweetie Belle inquired pointing to one of the female student in the picture who had long red hair and green eyes and a light green skin.
"That's Ivy. That's who I'm looking for," he told her.
The four children all gathered around and gazed at the photo for a long moment taking it in.
Bang! The heavy metal door that lead to the basement and room 1914 slammed heavily followed by the sounds of fast heavy foot falls coming down the stairs.
"We gotta run," Sweetie Belle gasped as the quiet was suddenly broken and she and her friends were jolted by the loud sudden frightening noise!
"The stairs are the only way out! We're tapped down here," said Apple Bloom looking around frantically for any exit she could find.
"Come quickly! I know a secret passage," whispered the boy as he lead the girls as fast as he could to the back of the basement where there was a small ventilation grate just big enough for them to squeeze sat. The grate pop right off with ease and Silver Mane lead the girls along as fast as he could.