"Woo!" Scootaloo cried estatically as she leaned her head out of the train car's window. "Canterlot here we come! Ack!"

"Scootaloo! Get yer gosh darn head in here before it gets takin off!" Applejack snapped at her from behind as she wrapped a foreleg around the rambunctious pegasi's neck and pulled her back into the train car.

Scoot rubbed the back of her head with a hoof sheepishly. "Jeez! Sorry mom!" She retorted playfully causing the older mare to sigh. Not a day went by that the girls didn't remind her of the time that her overprotective streak got the better of her.

"Ah'm sorry Scoots, it's just, Ah don't want ya'll ta miss tonight's activities.

"Yeah!" Apple Bloom chimed in, quickly grabbing Scootaloo's attention. "Now that we're all twenty one, we can finally go to the Stardust Nightclub!" She said with a great amount of excitement.

Applejack had given up protesting about the girls wanting to visit Stardust, though the look she had was enough for Rarity to jump in.

"I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about darling! All Stardust is, is a high society bar where musicians from all walks of life come to perform."

"And they have some of the best drinks in town at half the price that the more hoity toity bars serve them at." Rainbow Dash added, causing Rarity's eyes to widen.

"Rainbow Dash!" The mare wailed. "I will have you know that Hoity Toity is a very reputable stallion who..."

"Oh for sun's sake! I know that Rarity! I wasn't taking about him!" Rainbow Dash interrupted, exasperated.

"Girls! It's just a figure of speech, please don't fight over it!" Twilight finally spoke up, putting a stop to the conflict and causing Sweetie Belle to snicker.

"Um...Do they have non alcoholic drinks there?" Fluttershy peeped up softly.

"Sure they do!" Sweetie Belle reasured her friend, pulling her into a gentle hug.

"Oh...Ok then." Fluttershy whispered, uncertainly.

(Five Years Earlier...)

"Bluuaaaargh! Ptth!" Fluttershy hacked, before flushing the toilet, and weakly crawling into bed. "I swear...I'm. Never Drinking. Again..."

"We have been waiting ever since our twenty first birthdays for this night, so we could have our first adult drinks in style." Scootaloo said as she lit up a long flavored cigar with a plastic tip on the end, filling the car with the scent of strawberry mango creme.

"Yuck, Scoot!" Twilight cried, as she opened the window next to her seat and took in a breath of fresh air.

"Aw c'mon! It doesn't smell that bad does it?" Scootaloo protested with a dismissive flick of her tail, as she passed the cigar to Apple Bloom. This causing Applejack to cringe. Ever since the girls had turned eighteen they had been into these things, much to the others dismay. Applejack being the one to protest the loudest, while Rarity was surprising accepting.
Speaking of Rarity she had quickly placed a decorative sky blue breathing mask over her muzzle before calmly answering
the question.

"It smells rather nice but, it makes it hard to breathe darling."

"It actually does smell pretty good!" Spike agreed, earning a glare from Twilight that could petrify a cockatrice. "Heh heh,

not that I would want to try it or anything." The dragon backpeddled.

POP

The sound of a party popper caused everyone in the car to jump and cry out.

"PINKIE! What in tarnation did ya do that for!?" Applejack yelled to her friend who was leaning against the back wall of the train car nonchalantly.

"So tonight is gonna be the big night when you girls have your first real taste of the nightlife? You know what that calls for!" Pinkie Pie cried, a bright smile lighting up her whole face as she pulled her party cannon out from seemingly nowhere.

Firing the cannon she decked out the whole train car in nightclub themed decorations with snacks and drinks at every table, as well as a mirror ball on the ceiling.

"A PARTY!" The mare cried as the crusaders' eyes lit up.

"Wow Pinkie!" Scootaloo exclaimed as her cigar was passed back to her from Applebloom. "You always seem to out do yourself!"

"Yeah! How do ya do it?" Applebloom asked.

"It's not hard!..." Pinkie explained, with all three crusaders listening intently. After a few moments of silence, Pinkie started hopping in place. "What is everypony waiting for? Oh oh oh wait!" She cried as she swiftly vanished from the room only to appear a few seconds later. "Here we go! Nine invitations, and one for myself!" The pink mare giggled as she handed out the cards, causing several ponies to giggle loudly.

Scootaloo shrugged and wrapped her forelegs around her friends. "'C'mon girls let's get this party started." She said with
a smirk. "I bet I can dance both of you off the floor!"

"Oh yeah Scoot? I'll take yer bet!" Applebloom said with a smirk of her own.

"Oh it is so ON!" Sweetie Belle cried as the three began their dance off. Leaving the other mares to their own devices.

(Two Hours Later...)

Scootaloo and her friends were making their way through the streets of Canterlot. The capital being as vibrant as ever.

"It never gets old being her does it?" She asked idly

"It's like a celebrities dream come true!" Rarity responded in a starstruck manner.

"Hey guys! Over here!" Fleetfoot waved them over.

"How was the train ride Ma'am?" Soarin asked Rainbow Dash, as the rest of the team gave her a salute.

"At ease." Rainbow responded kindly. "It was alright. With the exception of getting my flank handed to me in a dance off."

"Hey! It's not my fault that you were born with four left hooves!" Scootaloo retorted with a wink, causing everypony to laugh.

"Yeah, well if somepony didn't nearly spill her punch on me..."

Ah think mah sis thinks ya have a cute butt!" Applebloom teased, before a red faced Applejack cut her off.

"More like a bulldozer fer a butt! Ya'll nearly took the whole damn table with ya Rainbow Dash!"

"Anyway!" Twilight walked between the two mares. "How was your trip here?"

"It was good Princess." Blaze spoke respectfully.

"It's just, we couldn't find Spitfire anywhere." Soarin mentioned

"Don't worry guys, I'm sure she's here somewhere." Dash offered confidantly.

"I'm sure she is!" Spitfire called out from behind Fluttershy spooking the mare and causing her to let a small 'eep' noise.

"Hey there you are!" Surprise cried as she lept forward and hugged the former Captain.

"Yep, here I am!" Spitfire giggled. "Sorry if I worried you guys, I left for Canterlot last night."

"Why? I thought we were gonna fly together like the old times." Soarin asked.

"I thought so too but, it was really hard to get any sleep last night. I mean...It's been so long since I've been out here."
"Is that all?" Fleetfoot asked.

"Well, I mean, I guess I still feel like I don't fit in anymore." The mare admited guiltily.

"Hey...You may not be the Captain anymore, but that doesn't mean we don't see you as a part of our team." Rainbow Dash reassured her old friend.

"Thank you." Spitfire replied gratefully.

"EWW! That's it, I'm outta here!" Scootaloo cried, throwing her hooves in the air.
The other ponies laughed.

"You know, you'd think she'd catch on to the fact that she's a mare. Sweetie Belle whispered to Applebloom, causing her to chuckle.

(Ten Minutes Later...)

"Seriously? How gross can you get?" Scootaloo lamented to herself.

"Ay! Pretty lady! Over ere!" A voice called out from a nearby alleyway.

Not caring that nopony was around at this point Scootaloo followed the voice and was quickly greeted by a group of younger colts, the leader easily identifiable from his fancy jacket, and gel slicked mane.

-*Canterlot Punks*-

Ay, pretty lady! How's bout a kiss for daddy?" The leader asked as his gang surrounded the mare.

"How bout a spanking instead kiddo?" Scootaloo retorted with the raise of an eyebrow.

The mare then swiftly whiped around as the gang leader lunged at her and swiftly kicked her left hindhoof up into the underside of his jaw, before following it up with her right.

"Guuuagh!" The colt yelled as the force of the second kick caused his teeth the grind painfully before launching him into the air.

Scootaloo quickly spun around and caught the falling colt with a foreleg, holding him over her shoulder before throwing him into the two punks in front of her as they charged forward.

'Strike!'

"Ay! Yer gonna pay fer that you cheap bitch! Augh!"

The punk to the Scootaloo's right was swiftly silenced with a back hoof to the muzzle, before Scootaloo lifted him up onto her shoulders and flipped him into the punk on her left.

However before she could celebrate, a hot splash of pain across the top of her head followed by the scent of week old whiskey, then by a pronouced. "Ahhhuugh!" Coming from her own muzzle, Had the mare realise that one of the two bit rapist wannabes had nailed her.

'How'd he do that?'

Turning, Scoot saw much to her shock that the leader had gotten back up.

"So, tha's how it's gonna be ay pretty lady!?" The colt yelled at her in a rage before punching her in the gut, and then landing his own backhoof one the left side of her face.

"Ouuugh!" Scoot cried out before rolling with the last blow to the colt's right side and wrapping a foreleg around his neck. Using all of her weight, Scootaloo slammed the colt into the nearby wall just as a voice yelled out.

"The hell's going on DOWN HERE!?"

Scootaloo turned to see a creature that until just that moment she had considered a myth.

'Damn...Heartstrings was right...Humans are huge.'

"Mr. Hammond sir!? I swear t'is ain't what it looks like!" The leader of the gang that Scootaloo had been fighting quickly protested.

"Save it! I've been following you colts all day!" The man growled in an authoritative voice as he approached Scootaloo with several of Canterlot's guards filling in after him.

"Are you alright miss?" The dark skined human asked as he got down on a knee to speak to her eye to eye.

"Mmmhmm...I just...Need a nap...is all..." Was all Scootaloo was able to get out before succumbing to her own injuries and blacking out on the spot.