“MLP: Sleepless in Ponyville Colt Version”
Chapter 2: Opening Scene
Previous ChapterPrologue:
(Opening shot: fade in to a rooftop-level view of a street in Ponyville
during the day. Rainbow Blitz flies past in no hurry, jingling a couple of coins, and one stallion opens up his second-story window to look out when the camera tilts down to ground level. The peace and quiet go bye-bye once Scooteroll into view and down the block on his scooter, kitted out in his usual crash helmet and coming a hair’s breadth away from wiping out Dan Dan (r63 Bon Bon).
He zooms between two conversing mares and sets them spinning wildly toward each other; they skid to a stop in a severely disoriented tangle of manes and legs.)
(Down the street he goes, almost knocking out a couple of bystanders and heading straight for Pappy Smith. The old green stallion lifts his body slightly and arches his back so that Scooteroll can jump over him while the scooter rolls neatly through his legs, then winks after he has gone on his way. After a few hundred more yards, the orange face of scooteroll goes slack with shock; cut to his perspective, rapidly approaching a flipped cart in the middle of the street. The camera cuts back to Scooteroll just in time for him to jump his rig onto the exposed bottom, ride up it like a ramp, and launch himself into a gravity-defying long jump.)
Scooteroll: (letting go of handlebars briefly) AHH YEAH!! THIS IS AWESOME!!
(As he re-establishes his grip, Rainbow Blitz sails lazily past—now flying along on his back and sipping from a soda resting on his belly.)
Rainbow Blitz: Nice moves, kid.
Scooteroll: (to himself) “Nice moves ?"(he stops in midair.)
Rainbow Blitz thinks I’ve got…
(The end of that thought is lost in a fall and loud thud from o.s. below,
gravity having decided to clock in again. Cut to a corral on the Sweet AppleAcres property; the upside-down scooter protrudes from a haystack, and two cows are busy chowing down. One reaches in for a fresh mouthful but gets Scootaleroll's tail instead; he pops his head out with a pained but happy gasp.)
Scooteroll: …nice moves!
(Looking back at the bovine, he voices a second, surprised gasp and gets a slightly puzzled moo in return. Fade to black.)