It was the end of the day on Wednesday and Rainbow Dash was waiting on Scootaloo. Scoot was usually on time. No later than five minutes. She loved spending as much time with Rainbow as possible. Rainbow didn't mind either. Scoot was like the little sister she never had. They were so much alike it was hard to believe they weren't actual sisters. If not for the fact the two girls were of different races; any passer by would be forgiven for thinking they were blood sisters.

Scootaloo came running up to Rainbow at full force. She stopped mere inches form Rainbow, out of breath. Rainbow looked at her with a little bit of confusion and amusement.

"I, ha, ha, I had to ask my, ha, ha, geology teacher something," Scootaloo panted. She then took a few deep breaths and continued. "Sorry if I'm late."

Rainbow laughed. "You're ok there little buddy. Heck, you're right on time. C'mon; or do you need a minute yet?"

"Nah, I good," Scoot replied with a smile.

The started walking. At first both were quiet; which was strange since Scootaloo loved to talk to Rainbow. Rainbow didn't mind. She barely noticed in fact. Her mind thought about everything that was going on. She was excited, nervous (or nervocited as Pinkie called it), happy that Soarin was here, but not sure how he would fit in with fighting this new monster. She thought about her new title and power. "The Warrior", it had a nice ring to it. Real nice!

"Rainbow?"

Rainbow was brought out of here thoughts by the sudden of the softly spoken question by Scootaloo. She looked at her in somewhat surprise. Usually Scoot was just out there. She wasn't one to be shy or speak softly. So it wasn't so much what Scoot said that caught her attention, it was the volume and manner in which she asked it.

"What is it little buddy?" Rainbow asked back as warm and caringly as she could.

"With Soarin here now, are things going to change between us?"

Once again it was a soft, almost whispered, sad question. Rainbow was even more taken aback by it. Was Scoot jealous? She must be. Rainbow suddenly felt very strange. It was like being feeling you were in trouble but you actually weren't. It was a mixture of all types and shades of emotions all welling up in her at once yet a strange numbness as well. Finally she spoke if for no other reason than because she felt obliged to.

"Yes. Yes they will." It was not what she had planned on saying, not what she felt she should say, but the words came in spite of herself.

"Oh. That's what I thought." Scootaloo spoke like someone who already knew what the answer to her question was but still had been hoping the other person would lie to them.

"If I was Twilight or Sunset I could say, put things a lot better than I'm going to, but I'm not. I don't have the words or the smarts, but I'll do my best. Soarin's my boyfriend. Of course I want to spend time with him. I got other stuff going on too. Everything changes Scoot. Me and my folks, we don't act the same as we did when I was a little kid. Times change, people change. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it rules. Most of the time I can't tell which."

Rainbow stopped walking and turned to Scootaloo. She took the girl's chin in her hand. "But that doesn't mean my feelings have changed. You know, my relationship is different with my folks but I still love them as much as ever. And I still love you. Your my sister. I see that way, I think of you that way, we live in separate houses, have different parents; but you're my sister. Does that help?"

Scootaloo sighed. "Yes and no. I mean, yeah, it does. It makes sense. I talk to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle and both of them aren't as close to their sisters as they were. We hang out together more than we do with you guys. So I get that. But, they still go home to their sisters. You walk me home and then that's it.

"You were my idol Dash. I looked up to you. You taught me a girl can be a kick butt athlete as any boy. Heck better than the boys. You gave me the inspiration to be me. And meeting you for the first time? Hanging out, talking to you! It's a dream come true. But now, Now I'm just worried we'll drift apart and I'll just be some kid you'll look at in the year book twenty years from now and vaguely remember."

"Uh-uh. Ain't gonna happen little buddy. You and me; we're sisters. I will always be a part of your life and you'll be a part of mine."

"But, as you said, everything changes and I'm not blood."

"And? My parents aren't 'blood' to me; but they're still my parents. They're still my mom and dad. What's all this blood non-sense. Heck, we both no people who can't stand their blood relatives. Blood doesn't make you a family. Love makes you a family. And just as my folks adopted me as their daughter, I've adopted you as my sister. You dig?"

Scoot shrugged. She still felt sad and like she was losing Rainbow, but the fact Rainbow made the effort was a little comfort. Then Rainbow did something she had never done before - she gave Scootaloo a hug. Sure they had high fived and Rainbow had put her arm around her before, but they had never hugged, Scoot started crying and hugged Rainbow back.

After a few minutes, Rainbow pulled away. "If I hadn't had gotten a boyfriend, you would have. I plan on going to college and you'd better be planning on it. There's no guarantee that we'd get into the same school, even if we wanted to. People, friends, family, grow apart. I'm not going to live with my parents forever. But that never means you stop loving them."

"I know you're right Dash. I do. I mean, I barely talk to my folks anymore. I come home and it's up to my room. But, it still feels weird, and sad."

"I know." Suddenly Rainbow realized just how much she had taken everything for granted in her life. Sure she knew she was going to leave and go out on her own but she never fully considered what that actually meant. Eventually she and the others would drift apart. Social media made it more possible to stay in touch nowadays. In here parents day graduation was almost like a wake. You split apart and that was it. But still, social media only goes so far. Life was and would change and loss is an inevitable part of that change.

"But I'm not gone yet. Not that I plan to be! But you know. Let's just walk and enjoy ourselves."

"I'd like that."

The two walked on in silence again but then Scootaloo spoke up again. "Are you afraid of what's been going on? The two murders?"

"Yes. Yes I am." Rainbow paused for a moment thinking about what she should say next (and somewhat surprised by the speed and honesty of her answer). "Sunset and Twilight think it might be a creature that escaped from Equestria to here. We're going to try and find it and stop it."

"DASH!" It was all Scootaloo could say. It was all she needed to say. It held everything she was thinking and feeling it. The fear of losing Dash not just to a guy or normal life changes; but that she might actually get killed. It held her anger as well with Rainbow for not telling her sooner.

"We have to Scoot. Besides, we've done it before. Maybe not to this degree. But we can, we have to."

"I wanna help!"

"No! Absolutely not. I'm not risking you. And don't tell Apple Bloom or Sweetie Belle either. They don't need to know."

"And if something happens? Then what? What am I going to do? Or how could I face Apple Bloom or Sweetie Belle if something happen to Apple Jack or Rarity knowing what they were up to all along?"

"I don't know. But people do the worse things for the best reasons and I don't you putting yourself, or the other two, in harms way trying to help us."

"Fine, for now. But I will tell Dash if I have to."

Rainbow nodded. "I understand."