Scootaloo was making it, she was the first pegasus to ever go so high. It was really cold, her wings where starting to freeze, her body temperature was going down fast. Probably she had a minute or two left before her wings totally froze. But this was Scootaloo moment of glory, she was about to do the impossible, she was going to go at DOUBLE the speed of sound! If the pegasus made it, she would be a legend, if something went wrong...

"Scootaloo..." a familiar voice came through her ears, who could be this high up with her? Never mind, probably her mind was starting to play tricks on her. It was about time, she headed down and closed her wings, she needed that to gain speed. She started to fall increasingly fast... the ice covering her body melted.

"Scootaloo!" The voice was more insistent, louder. No time for distractions, she was getting closer to the ground faster than expected! Time to open her wings and slow down her decent... her body starting to get a bit too hot for her taste.

"Wake up, Scootaloo, PLEASE!" The loud sound made the young filly open her eyes and look around. She was sleeping in the clubhouse, her friend Sweetie Belle was next to her and seemed worried.

"Uh... I'm not going to reach mach two? It was just a dream?" the young pegasus Scootaloo said, clearly disappointed. Then she wondered what the unicorn was doing at clubhouse, specially since it seemed to be so early in the morning. In fact the sun was just rising. "Hey Sweetie Belle, what's the idea? There's no school today!"

"You told me to wake you early, remember? We're going to have breakfast at Sweet Apple Acres with Applebloom!"

"Oh, right!" Scootaloo got up fast and headed down the tree, and got onto her scooter. Sweetie Belle soon followed after her running, and shouting, "Hey wait for me!"

Scootaloo decided to ditch the scooter and said "Okay, it's a race then!", and started to run in direction to the farm "Hey, that's not fair, you didn't wait for me!" the young unicorn yelled.

"Not my fault if you're a slowpoke!" the pegasus said, even going back running around her friend to make a point on how slow Sweetie Belle was.

"Well, at least I'm not a dodo!"

Scoots then kicked Sweetie Belle slightly "You are gonna need a new insult, I know the dodo is a bird that cannot fly and is extinct!"

"What? You read a book? Unbelievable!"

"Nah, I just found out about it on my comic books, there is a new villain called the Dodo who almost beats Batmare!"

"Well... can't we just walk? If you want a race you could challenge Applebloom or something..."

"Okay... sorry..." Scootaloo started to walk next to Sweetie Belle "You did wake me up after all, besides it's hard to fight on an empty stomach!"

Sweetie Belle would have probably gotten a new insult ready for her pegasus friend, but it was true, it was hard to fight without eating something first, plus she wasn't used to waking up so early. All of that could wait until after breakfast...

Applebloom was getting things ready. She couldn't bake to save her life, but the apple based food was already done, and boiling some water to make tea was something even she could do. Her brother and sister where out bucking apples, and Applebloom had been feeling... strange lately. She wanted to talk about that with someone, but adults were always busy or did not listen or believe her. That was one of the reasons she had insisted on inviting her friends for breakfast in a day she was sure adults where not going to be around.

The other was because they had started to follow their own interests and they did not hang out like they used to so much anymore. Sweetie Belle, after some tough love convincing, was usually practicing her singing with Fluttershy. Scootaloo has "secretly" taking ballet classes, even if she keep denying it and it was a secret everypony knew. And she... she has been having those strange dreams, and the other time where those two stuck up fillies got on her nerves again... she could swear her pencil moved on it's own to hit Silver Spoon on the head!

Of course no pony believed her and she was punished for throwing a pencil at another pony's head, even if her hooves where under the desk when that happened and she was an earth pony, not an unicorn to have done that with magic.

There was enough apple pie for everypony, but they had to eat it soon or it would get bad. That was the main reason Applejack and Granny let her do this. The water started to boil as her friends arrived.

"Hi Applebloom!" said her unicorn friend happily. Scootaloo was a bit more direct "Hi, can we eat now? I'm hungry!"

"Uh... sure! I will just make some tea and we can start eating" Applebloom boiled some water then noticed Scootaloo had already eaten an slice of pie while she wasn't looking "Hey, couldn't you wait a few minutes more?"

"What? I was hungry!" the pegasus filly defen ded herself "Besides, who are you to enforce table manners, Rarity's sister?"

"At least I do have a sister!" Sweetie Belle said, getting offended by what her friend just said

"Look, I don't need to have a stupid... "

"Enough!" Applebloom yelled , she normally let her friends fight, but this was her house after all "Can't you two wait until we have breakfast at least?"

"Good for me, I am hungry!" Scootaloo said, she was slightly ashamed of what she had done, and probably would have apologized if her earth pony friend had asked for it. But sometimes, she was a bit too proud for her own good.

"Okay, sorry Applebloom" Sweetie Belle said, she had noticed Applebloom seemed a bit tense. She did not want to be yelled AGAIN for breaking something, and besides they where guests. Not that she did not plan to get her revenge on the pegasus later, when they where outside with a lot less things they could break.

After that the tea was soon ready and they ate in an uncomfortable silence, thing weren't going as Applebloom had planned. Somepony had to break the ice...

"So, Sweetie Belle, how are your singing lessons going? Ready to make your big debut in public yet?" Applebloom asked

"Me? Singing in front of a crowd? No way!"

"Eh... I am sorry girls..." Scootaloo said in a low voice

"What? You just apologized without some adult pony forcing you to do it? The world is gonna end!" Sweetie Belle said

"Look, I said I was sorry! Don't rub it into my face, okay?"

"Apology acepted, so how are your ballet classes doing?" Applebloom said smiling

"What ballet classes? Whose pony is taking ballet classes? Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo sounded really nervous

" Look, everypony knows you are taking ballet classes already, drop it off!" Sweetie Belle smiled, this sure was better than kicking her friend flank.

"How? I made sure no pony... you guys didn't tell, right?"

"Well, there was that time you took you ballet shoes to school, and the rumours of a filly pegasus in a scooter wearing a tutu..." Applebloom said

"So... everypony knows?"

"YES!" both Applebloom and Sweetie Belle yelled at the same time

"So um... if..." Scootaloo was desperate to change the subject of the conversation "If am taking ballet classes, and Sweetie Belle is practising her singing, what have you been doing Applebloom?"

"Well, you know the usual, helping in da farm, fixing some broken stuff, having strange dreams about aliens and levitating stuff with my mind when I get angry..."

"Yes sure, I can believe about aliens , but you are an unicorn now? What next? A lamp floating and attacking us?"

GRUMBLE!!!

"What the hay is that?" Screamed Scootaloo, using a language unproper for a lady, it seemed as if... the house was shacking? The three fillies got under the table becoming really scared, as everything moved and the family porcelain started to fell off the table.

"No!" Applebloom almost ran out the table to try to save it, but her friends held her under the table. Then the chandelier felt off next to the table, just to where she was going to go, she could have got killed!

After a few minutes, the tremor was gone, and the fillies got out from under the table.

"That was pretty strange, this is not an earthquake zone, maybe it was a monster?" Sweetie Belle said.

"A monster that causes quakes? That would be AWESOME!" Scoots said smiling, quickly forgetting the trouble they had just been in.

"Uh..." Applebloom looked behind the pegasus with a worried face " Sweetie Belle, you aren't levitating Granny Smith's antique lamp, are you?" For some reason that lamp had survived the quake, but was slightly cracked.

"No, why do you...Oh I see..." Sweetie Belle also looked behind Scootaloo, the unicorn filly mouth opened wide.

"What? I got a cutie mark? No, wait, why are you talking about a lamp?" Scootaloo looked behind her and saw a glass lamp floating. There was something bizarre with that lamp, since when do lamps have mouths?

Thanks to Dawn_Shadowdancer from #fimfiction at irc.irchighway.net for editing this story.