Galloping at what seemed like the speed of light, i still felt like i couldn't get to my teacher fast enough. It wasn't making the situation better that the thing that had crashed continued making things as weird as possible.

After the chickens dissappeared, more random things either came out of it or changed stuff around us, like the trees turning purple or fireworks shooting into the sky, making immorphous shapes as they detonated.

We reached our teacher as the roof started to shake, the bell pleading to dive onto us. Applebloom was prying Ms. Cheerily out of the wood as i pulled her out. She was pretty heavy and unconscious, which made the weight worse. As we tugged her out a large peice of wood fell with a lot of rocks and sticks, apparently some stones that had been previously thrown to the roof. The the wood caught applebloom's tail and rocks pelted all of us.

"Scootaloo! A-Ahm stuck!" She yelled, and i released my teacher to run to her

"I've got you!" I shouted over the fire, trying to lift the wood. No good, it was far too heavy for me.

Smoke poured around us, making us cough uncontrollably. I needed to get everypony out as quickly as possible, before we suffocated. Appleblooms tail was really stuck, and pulling on it wasn't working. Nothing sharp was around to cut it either. I stood for a moment, thinking over what to do. Then another wave hit.

My mind suddenly spun, new ideas came to my head. New theories, thoughts, guesses, plans. I predicted every event of the next 10 minutes. The bell was going to fall at about 6 minutes, the wood was connected to the support, so that would break as the bell fell, giving Applebloom about 1.5 seconds to get out of the way. The shockwaves happened once every minute and lasted about equal the time, having a small knockback as it hit, with the fire getting worse aside each wave. The best bet was to either stop the shockwaves from happening, since that's what seemed to be controlling the fire, stick with Applebloom and Miss Cherrily and try to stop the bell (which was impossible), or leave Applebloom and get my teacher to safety.

That last one wasn't going to happen. Even if it ment dieing, i was NOT going to leave Applebloom. She had too much of a life to fulfill. The way she always strived to get her Cutiemark was amazing, never giving up, even when it seemed pointless.

The more i thought of it, the more i found that i cared for Applebloom more than i did Sweetiebelle, or any other pony. My dad left me, my mom was never there, but Applebloom had always been there, even when Sweetiebelle couldn't.

I am not going to lose Applebloom, we haven't even had our fake date!~ The wave left about ten seconds later, leaving me standing, feeling a new sensation, an urge to protect my friend by any costs. I smiled proudly when i realized that that must have been what Rainbowdash feels like with her friends, especially Applejack.

"Never leave your friends behind." I mumbled to myself.

"Get to the rock and stop the fire! I'll be ok with cheerily, just go!" Applebloom said, apparently having the same hypothesis as me. She seemed to be in bad shape from the rocks that fell on her, which meant she could get more hurt if the wave did so. I nodded and leapt through the flames, yelling to my out-cold teacher to watch her.

The closer i was to the crashed object, the better of a look i could see of it. It was definitely crystal, and it was certainly green, and it was positively not anything I've seen before. Flames danced across the sides of it, but it seemed to be cooling, glowing less from heat than something bright inside of it. The crash had made it sink about ten feet into the dirt and debris, with sharp planks sticking out everywhere like a giant toothpick cup.

I slid down the debris, dodging the planks and catching onto level ground, just above the crystal. It radiated power, showing an intense amount of energy as it shot out a new wave. The closer i got, the more my fur stood on end. This crystal wasn't anything i had ever seen or felt, and it was simply awesome.

That didn't matter to me then. Applebloom was in trouble, and the crystal was making it worse. I figured i had about eight minutes to get the crystal, that i had no knowledge of, to stop firing random stuff from it.

I hopped off the level floor and slid the rest of the way. Before i could touch it, the crystal shimmered, and i felt something go into my head and start bringing all my memories up. A few seconds later i realized the crystal was taking in what i knew, what i have seen and learned, and storing it into itself. I reached out my hoof and touched the crystal gingerly. It was fully cooled and was slick to the feel. As i ran my hoof across it, the feeling of it's info storing stuff stopped and inside glowed a small scene, fully tinted green so i had a hard time making out what i was watching.

It had what i thought was a monkey, but it stood more like Spike, running from what seemed to be two other things following it. There was a flash of light and the thing stood in place, watching as the other two circled him and ran, after another flash of light and the two dissappearing, the thing ran where the camera would be. A final flash and pictures started flying up and in front of the shimmering video. What came up were random things, like butterflies then knives, then what seemed to be a giant key with a full handle, then a tree. It showed close to twenty items, switching from dangerous to peace making.

After a chiming noise, the play glowed and dissappeared, making me realize i lost track of time. There was a bright flash of light then nothing. The meteor was gone, replaced with what seemed to be just a shard. I walked to it and picked it up quickly. I didn't have time to question how that happened or even what just happened, Applebloom needed me.

The waves had stopped and the fire seemed to dissappear with the rest of the crystal, but the bell was still in bad shape. I didn't know how long i was in the pit, staring at a rock, but i figured i didn't have time to slow down. I planted my hooves to the ground, holding the shard in my mouth, and began up the hill.

Applebloom was watching the bell start breaking the weakened support as i came to her, shard in my mouth. Mrs. Cheerily was looking at the Bell, awake now and horrified, not daring to pry the wood off. AB noticed me as the wood finally broke, snapping the wood trapping her. I was still a hundred feet away, never to get there in time. Ms Cheerily screamed and bolted to her, forgetting that the bell was about to toll on them.

Time slowed down. My heartbeat picked up. The only thought in my head was ,save Applebloom.

Immediately the world blurred as i ran, the sides of my wings felt warm and tingly, so i flapped them. One flap and i felt like i was on my scooter, jumping long leaps. Flapping my wings again, i cleared the school in less than a second.

Within the moment the brass death toy started to make a shadow upon her i leaped. beating the bell quick enough to grab Applebloom by the waist. Cheerily grabbing my arm and we rocketed out as the brass hit the ground with the loudest DING, missing my hoof by a centimeter.

I realized too late that i had no way to stop. My hop to get Applebloom was too powerful somehow, and we all sped out like the wind. We flew into the ground and slid into a stop, or more so, as i got up to see, that i caused a five foot area of quaked ground. I knew i should have felt extremely worn out, but i stood on four legs.

Applebloom was laying down, breathing heavily and shaking. Her tail was ripped abit and she was covered in smokey soot, but she seemed okay. I was checking on Cheerily, who also seemed fine, when i remembered the crystal in my mouth.

As i spat it out to the ground, i felt as if i took a fifty mile run in ten minutes and had an elephant sitting on me. All four legs felt like lead and i dropped. Pulling my front leg up, i used all my remaining strength to grab the crystal. Immediately i felt my body surge with power again, so i stood resilient.

I saw Applebloom look up giddly and become wide eyed before passing out, so i looked behind me to the school, making me stare dumbfounded at what i did. The trail i made from the crater to where i was was covered in dark green flames, which glowed brightly before getting cooled off by the winds of February. The weather ponies seemed to be veering off, avoiding the smoke left in the sky, too afraid of it even though the fire was gone. I saw a rainbow mane fly into the cloud of smoke, and in a few quick seconds the smoke imploded, then dissappeared, leaving my favorite pony to hover in the air, scanning the crash scene.

"Rainbow!" I yelled, grabbing her attention. I didn't have anywhere to put the crystal that was giving me my strength, so i held it in my hoof.

She swept down and landed next to me, checking me intently. "Scoots! You ok kid?", She rushed, searching around me for broken bones or cuts, "Just scratches right? Good, brush off, they could be hurt, even with the fire gone." She grabbed my teacher, who still seemed to be in shock, and slumped her in her back. "Get Applebloom", she said, pointing to my scooter, which had itself stuck in a tree that amazingly wasn't destroyed from the explosion.

Applebloom was knocked out when i placed her in the wagon and rode off. Looking at the crystal in my hoof, it seemed to be more than a shard. It was filled with the same glow as the full rock, cut into a rhombus and spiking just slightly out of the middle. I didn't have anywhere to put it still, so i just held onto it as i rode through town to the hospital.

Maybe Twilight will know what to make of it. I thought as I sped up, my wings returning to it's normal strength. The crystal stopped glowing, now looking like an ordinary emerald. Applebloom had slept through the ride, so i parked next to the hospital and placed her on my back carefully, walking us in.

The hospital looked pretty empty, with only about a dozen ponies, which was good considering there had just been an explosion at a kids school (or for any occasion it's good). A random nurse came up to us, seeing our condition i guess made her pretty convinced we were hurt, so she took Applebloom and i followed closely. I kept the shard on me, it made me feel more comforted by holding it.

She escorted us in a waiting room and set Applebloom up in a chair, who was still out of it. She said the waiting time would be about an hour and it looked that she was going to be alright. I thanked her and decided sleeping would be a good idea, so i laid my head next to Applebloom and placed the crystal in my lap. It glowed abit before going back out, so i pulled her closer to me and rested her on my shoulder, though she slid off and her head also fell to my lap.

She seemed comfy enough, besides being covered in dirt and cuts from the rocks and smudgy stuff from the fire. Her hair was swirled around messily, coated black in spots with her bow undone. Her eyes were shut tight and she was nuzzling my belly, mumbling abit, so i figured she wasn't having the best of dreams. I patted her head and rubbed her ears, stringing her hair back and fixing the bow. She smiled abit and stopped moving, so i slouched to the side and fell asleep instantly.