Day had broken out through the horizon and the sunlight filtered down through the trees and grassy plains. Eventually, the light went through the window of a certain short-purple-haired, white footie pajama-clad 11-year-old girl sleeping in her fluffy cloud-pattern bed. As soon as the sun hit her eyes, she groaned and squinted a bit before slowly opening her orbs to the day.

She yawned and stretched her limbs before looking outside her house with a smile on her face. Still half-asleep, she never realized what today was as she got out of bed and headed downstairs to meet with her rainbow-haired sister.

"Morning, Rainbow..." she groggily spoke as she went directly for the cereal in the cupboard "How... How're you doing?"

"Whoa, Scoots" Rainbow Dash, who was sitting at the kitchen table wearing nothing more than a tank top and underwear, laughed at her sister's still half-asleep antics "You feeling okay? Still a bit groggy?"

"Y-Yeah..." Scootaloo shook her head trying to wake herself up "Hey... What is it today?"

"Tuesday, June 15th" Rainbow smiled knowingly before completing her sentence "Or as you would know it as; your friend Sweetie Belle's birthday."

Scootaloo immediately felt like a bullet train had slapped her across the face and woke her up. She stared into space with a blank expression on her face before she finally smiled and began bouncing around the kitchen.

"Today is Sweetie's birthday!" she chanted over and over again "Today is Sweetie's birthday! Today is Sweetie's birthday!! Yes! Now we can all get our Pokemon at the same time!"

Scootaloo was the eldest of her three friends, so when she turned ten, the legal age to have a Pokemon license, it pained her to have a Pokemon before her friends did. So, she promised to wait until all her friends had turned ten so they could get their license at the same time. It was a grueling year-and-a-half, but she pulled through, and now she could finally become a Pokemon Trainer!

"Whoa, whoa, slow down there, squirt!" Rainbow got up and put her hand on her sister's shoulders, stopping her from continuing her bouncing "It's still early in the morning. Why don't you have something to eat and-"

Suddenly, the doorbell rang, exciting the 11-year-old once again. She immediately rushed to open the door, to which her friends Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were waiting for her.

Apple Bloom had long red hair with a pink bow tied behind it. She wore a simple cream tie-up shirt and a pair ripped short jeans, along with yellow and pink boots. Sweetie Belle had long, curly pink and violet hair she always had her sister do for her in the morning. She wore a pink dress that went down to her waist, along with white knee-shorts, a violet belt around her waist, and purple sandals.

"Mornin' Scootaloo!" Apple Bloom spoke in her country accent "As soon as Sweetie got up, we rushed to yer house as fast as we cou- Oh, yer still in yer PJs..."

"Who cares?! Let's go and get our Pokemon!" Scootaloo cheered, to which the other girls did as well soon after.

"Hold on there, kiddo" Rainbow picked her up playfully, much to the latter's dismay "You're not going out in that. It's bad enough I let you wear that thing INSIDE the house, but not outside."

"Aww, c'mon Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo whined a bit, struggling to break free from her sister's grasp "Ash Ketchum began his journey in his pajamas, why can't I?"

"Because at least his pajamas were decent" she argued as she took her younger sister back inside "Besides, Ash is a character in a TV show. TV show characters can do what they want."

"Wait for me girls! Promise me that you'll...." was all Scootaloo could shout out before she and Rainbow turned the corner to head upstairs and change her attire.

(Music Stop)

It was ten minutes later when Scootaloo finally emerged from her bedroom and appeared before her friends. She now wore an orange tank top overlapping a white t-shirt, a pair of olive green knee-shorts, orange sleeve-gloves with black at the hand part, orange socks and purple sneakers. She proudly showed off her outfit to her friends.

"Okay, now I'm ready to go!" she nodded before joining her friends hand-in-hand and skipping all the way to their new adventure. However, Scootaloo stopped for a second and looked back at her home decorated with cloud paintings she and her sister did when she was younger. In the doorway was Rainbow Dash, now wearing some grey pants, giving a confident smirk to her younger sister. Scoots smiled before once again hopping along with her friends.

After a while, they finally reached the Pokemon professor's make-shift outdoor lab, which her assistants set up for her as she came from a far-away land to study the Pokemon species here.

"Professor Zecora?!" Sweetie Belle shouted in a cute but slightly squeaky voice "It's my birthday today! Do you remember what that means?"

"Uh... Sweetie?" Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow in confusion as she looked around the entire facility "Ah'm not sure she's 'ere..."

As soon as the country 10-year-old finished her sentence, a loud crash was heard from behind an iron cabinet in the lab's boundaries, followed by a female voice quietly saying "Ow!", which was only followed by more crashing around. Finally, a redheaded, poofy haired young girl with a white labcoat on fell out from behind the cabinet. As she got up and dusted herself off, she revealed that she wore a pink and yellow t-shirt under her coat, a purple skirt, pink socks, purple shoes, and large purple glasses. She looked at her visitors after cleaning herself up and gasped slightly.

"Oh, hey guys!" she greeted with a nervous smile "Sorry about the mess... Anyway, what can I do for you?"

"Hey there, Twist!" Scootaloo smirked "Good to see you haven't changed. Well, Sweetie Belle here is finally ten years old, and you know what that means!"

"Oh, you guys are here for that?" Twist asked, slightly saddened "Well, you see... I can't give you your Pokemon right now..."

"WHAT?!" the three friends all shouted at the same time.

"What do ya mean ya can't?" Apple Bloom crossly questioned "Well then, ifin y'all can't, maybe Professor Zecora can!"

"No, guys, you don't understand!" Twist desperately cried out "That's the point! I can't give you your Pokemon right now because the professor is out trying to get them back!"

"Get them... back?" Sweetie wondered.

"A little while ago, they escaped from our lab and went off to who-knows-where!" Twist nervously shuddered "The professor, Pip and Feather went out to try and get them back, tasking me with keeping this place under control. But, let's face it; with my track record of botching things up, that's probably for the better."

"So, what, do we just wait for them to come back?" Scootaloo asked, slightly frustrated at the whole scenario.

"Sorry, guys" Twist apologized "That's just the way things have to be..."

"Nuh-uh! I don't wanna wait that long!" Sweetie squeaked "I CAN'T wait that long! C'mon guys; let's go and get our Pokemon back!"

"W-WAIT!! Twist shouted at the young girl dragging her elder friends along much to their displeasure, but it was too late; the three girls were out of earshot "Oh no... The professor isn't gonna be happy..."

"Not happy about what, dear Twist?" a familiar voice to the redhead said, making her even more nervous than before "Could it be that something's amiss?"

"Uh oh..." Twist quietly spoke.

(Music Stop)

The three girls had finally reached the center of Ponyville and begun forming a plan to capture the loose Pokemon. Sweetie Belle would investigate the north part of town, whereas Apple Bloom would search the south east part, and Scootaloo the south west. The latter was already beginning to become tired from walking around, searching for a Pokemon she wasn't even sure was in the city right now.

"Maybe this is just one giant wild goose chase" she pondered "Who knows? Maybe Pipsqueak and Featherweight already have the missing Pokemon, or maybe Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle got lucky and found two in one place."

After a while longer, she saw a nearby bench on the edge of town next to a forest, known to most people as Everfree Forest, and finally decided to take a short break searching. She sat down and let out a huge sigh, a large smile across her face.

"Ah... Much better..."

Mere seconds into relaxing, she heard a rustling coming from a bush in the forest's edge. She perked up and saw an orange head poke out from said bush and search around the area for some food. She didn't know too many Pokemon species, but she knew from watching her favourite TV show that this particular Pokemon was a Torchic, and it didn't take an IQ of 300 to know this was one of Professor Zecora's missing Pokemon. From the way it hopped around, it looked like it hadn't seen her yet, so she took advantage of this.

Slowly, she got out of her seat and crouched, getting closer and closer to the unsuspecting Pokemon, readying herself to pounce on it and capture it. Unfortunately, she had stepped on an cracked a small twig on the ground by accident and alerted the small Pokemon to her presence. It quickly turned around to face her, a curious look on its face. The two stood there until Scootaloo broke the silence.

"Um... Hey there, Torchic" she nervously greeted "Uh... Mind if you just... hold... STILL!" she quickly reached to grab the Pokemon chick only to have it scratch her face and run off deeper into the forest.

"Ow!" she cried out, clutching her face to try and ease the pain, "Shoot, it got away..." she got up and put her hand back down and looked into the forest "Great, now what? Am I supposed to chase it into the forest?"

She looked around devilishly, making sure no one was around her.

"Well, it's just a quick in-and-out mission, right?" Scootaloo confirmed to herself with a grin "Not like anything bad will happen to me in a minute or two."

With those words spoken, she entered the forest.

"Here, Torchic! Come out, come out, wherever you are..." Scootaloo chanted as she continued her travels through the surprisingly dense forest. The very moment she had entered the wood, the skies became darker and she could barely see two feet in front of her. Her eyes eventually adjusted to the darkness, but it was still rather hard to see.

"Ugh... This is hopeless" she sighed in defeat "Maybe it would be a good idea to- WHOA!!"

(Music Stop)

Her sentence was interrupted when a rope of sorts wrapped around her ankle and pulled her up high into the treetops. She bounced around upsidedown, the only thing keeping her up being a rope and a branch. However, as she looked around, she saw that a rope wasn't what caught her. It was in fact a huge string of spiderweb connected to a whole web nest.

"Uh oh..." Scootaloo's pupils shrank at the realization of where she was "HELP!! SOMEONE HELP ME!!"

"Torchic..." spoke a rather rude voice beside the purple haired girl. She looked to her left and saw that the Torchic she had been after got trapped in the very same web she had, it's body all tied up and it too upsidedown. She couldn't help but stifle a laugh.

"Wow, you too?" she chuckled.

"TORCHIC!!" the little Pokemon shouted at her, an angry look in its eyes.

"So, you can escape from Professor Zecora and outrun both me and her assistants, but you can't seem to avoid spiderweb traps, is that right?"

"TOR!! TORCHIC, TOR!!" it flailed around fruitlessly, causing Scootaloo to laugh even more. However, the fun was cut short when a hiss from the trees was heard. The single hiss turned into ten, then thirty, then a hundred. Soon enough, thousands of red eyes began opening up all around the Pokemon and person.

"Torchic, mind if you shut-up?" Scootaloo whispered to the little Pokemon, of which it didn't seem to notice the intimidating eyes all around it.

"Tor. Chic" it rudely refused, scoffing its head away from the young girl. However, this was about the same moment it noticed the hundreds upon thousands of red eyes staring right at it.

"Tor..." it whimpered a bit before going ballistic "TORCHIC!! TOR!!"

"Aw, nuts!" Scootaloo exclaimed before trying to struggle out of her trap as well "HELP! SOMEONE!!"

No response. This was all up to them now. Sure enough, as they struggled, the eyes came out of the shadows to reveal themselves as a horde of red and black, spider-like Pokemon with purple and yellow legs. Scootaloo realized what they were from the lessons she barely missed in school; they were Ariados, extremely poisonous Pokemon that resided within the forest.

"Ariadosssssss..." one of them, much larger than the other ones, hissed. Soon the others began hissing as well, preparing themselves to dine on their recently caught feast.

"Torchic, you're a Pokemon! Do something!" Scootaloo urged desperately.

"...Tor?" Torchic asked confusingly before a smug grin appeared on its face "Torchic..."

Without thinking, its feet claws glowed with a bright light and slightly grew in size. It then used its newly grown feet to slice right through the thick web surrounding its body. It face-planted right into the soil when it hit the ground, but quickly got back up and shook itself off. Its feet then shrank back down to normal size.

"Awesome! You're out!" Scootaloo smiled "Now, mind if you help me out too, please?"

Torchic merely looked at the purple haired girl in disbelief. It then scoffed and began strutting away from her, leaving her to deal with the oncoming threat.

"Oh, yeah, THANK YOU!" Scootaloo shouted at the exiting Torchic before remembering she was still trapped and surrounded by a swarm of Ariados "Oh, right... So, how are you guys- er, girls doing today?"

The Ariados horde simply hissed in hungriness.

"Uh oh... Um... OH, what would Rainbow Dash do in a situation like this?!"

Scootaloo's expression deadpanned as she realized she had overlooked something important. After giving herself a face-palm, she pulled her body up and untied herself from the web, falling down onto the soil with a quiet 'whump' sound. She quickly got up and hightailed it out of there faster than a speeding Linoone.

"Gotta go fast... Gotta go fast... Gotta go fast..." she chanted as she both tried to run away from the Ariados nest and find the missing Torchic "C'mon, Torchic! This isn't funny! Come on ou- WAAAAAA!!"

Scootaloo had tripped over a fallen branch and was unfortunate enough to be sent falling down a steep hill right next to it. She tumbled all the way down until she finally came to a halt, her face planting itself in a small puddle of water. That unfortunate accident was followed by the chirping laughter of a familiar snarky chick Pokemon. The young girl lifted her head up to see Torchic laughing its butt off at her fall.

"Not cool, man..." she groaned before sinking her face back into the puddle.

A little later on, she finally got herself out of the water and cleaned up. Just as she was about to scold the Torchic for bringing her all the way out here, albeit unintentionally, she noticed she was in a large forest clearing. In the middle was a completely wrecked structure that appeared to be an ancient castle of sorts. Something about it made her shudder in fear, telling her to stay away from it. But at the same time, she couldn't repress the urge to go closer.

"Torchic, how about you and I explore something?" Scootaloo suggested to the little chicken Pokemon "Some way to bond? Y'know, a bit of off-time, person and Pokemon?"

"Tor. Chic" it stated in an uptight tone "Torchic, Tor."

"Fine, be that way, stupid chicken" Scootaloo groaned before heading toward the ruined castle "Just remember that those Ariados are still pretty hungry! Maybe they're in the mood for some roasted chicken with extra BBQ sauce! Mmmm..."

The Torchic sweated a bit, but still held its snarky expression upon its face. However, it soon heard a hissing sound slowly approaching it. Not being able to handle the sounds of the forest, it panicked and quickly ran to Scootaloo, hopping right on top of her head and shivering in fear.

"Aww, poor guy..." she chuckled a bit "But, I guess this means we're a team now."

"Torchic..." the Torchic spoke with venom in its voice, as if to say 'I hate you'. Scootaloo just rolled her eyes as she continued heading toward the castle, unbeknownst of what would be in store for her there...

Author's Notes:

Will Scootaloo survive the perils of the castle, or will she fail and be sent to another dimension? Find out next time, same Kamek hour, same Kamek channel!

This was a fun one to write, even if I accidentally deleted a bit of the chapter, lost motivation and sorta left it for a bit... Sorry... But I'm going to put my all into this story. THIS will be my next big project, with action, adventure, sadness, romance (okay, maybe not so much that one...), happiness, and, in normal MLP fashion, lessons!

I promise this won't be like any other of my stories you've seen! Whether you interpret that as good or bad, I still technically would've fulfilled my promise right?

Be sure to Like, Comment, Favourite and Follow, and until then, this has been SuperKamek saying thank you, have a great night, and stuff as many legendary gods into baseballs as you can!