Prompt: Spread 'em

"I'm gonna do it this time!" The orange filly fastened her purple helmet and set off, her wings flapping rapidly creating a low buzzing sound as they propelled her across the road and towards the ramp the other crusaders had helped her build.

She could feel the wind in her face and had to squint her eyes to be able to see -and avoid- obstacles like pebbles and pits in the road, something she did with ease.

"Yay Scootaloo!"

"Go Scoots! Ya can do it!"

Sweetie Belle and Applebloom were sitting close to the ramp they had helped build, Scootaloo had been asking them to help with it's construction for months saying that it would help her practice her newest tricks.

It had taken a lot of time to get all the materials together, but once that was done they had put the ramp together in a day, after which they had to rebuild it because it came out looking like a chest, they still had no idea how that had happened.

Both fillies cheered as they watched their Pegasus friend pick up speed and dash towards the ramp at a breakneck pace once more.

Scootaloo had been practicing this trick ever since the ramp had been finished, she had come up with the idea after analyzing her idol -Rainbow Dash-'s super speed strut.

She figured that if she could get enough momentum to hover for a few seconds she could preform a similar trotting motion in the air.

And with that in mind she was once again barreling towards the ramp, previous attempts hadn't gone well, she was covered in more scrapes, cuts and bruises in one day than she normally got in weeks.

This time, no errant pebble stood in the path between her and glory and with an elated cry she zoomed over the edge of the ramp and hit her air time.

Her cry of elation soon turned into a cry for help, she had gone higher than she had expected and they had not prepared a safe landing zone for her.

Oh crap! This is going to hurt. She was grateful for her helm at least, letting go of her scooter and closing her eyes she curled up into a ball as best she could and waited for the inevitable impact with the ground, which was sure to result in a broken bone or two from this height.

Instead she suddenly felt two hooves wrap around her midsection and stop her disastrous fall to the ground.

Unsure as to what had happened she curiously opened one eye, and then the other, looking at Sweetie and Applebloom waiting for her on the ground as she was being lowered onto slowly.

"Are ya alright Scoots?"

"You didn't tell us it was that dangerous Scootaloo..."

The orange filly merely blinked a couple of times, still trying to figure out what had happened, and then she glanced up towards her Saviour.

Silhouetted by the sun stood her inspiration and idol:  Rainbow Dash

"I uh.." she stuttered "Thanks for saving me Rainbow Dash." she lowered her head and allowed herself to be embraced by her friends.

"Scoots, that was dangerous! Why'd you do something like that?" The cerulean mare asked with no small amount of agitation in her voice.

The yellow earthpony and white unicorn both yelped as Scootaloo pushed them away and raced off, sobbing trailing behind her.

But no matter how fast she ran, she knew she couldn't outrun her idol, the fastest flier in Equestria and the only pony ever to break the spectrum barrier to create a Sonic Rainboom.

"Scoots, slow down!" she looked to her side and saw Dash keeping pace with her almost lazily, only occasionally flapping her wings to keep up her speed.

Grudgingly she slowed down and eventually stopped moving, sitting down on her haunches and lamenting her failure.

Dash furled up her wings and with a light hooffall landed next to the crying filly.

"Okay Scoots." she sighed "What's going on?

"I-I'm ss.. sho....sorry" her fan sniffed, "I only wanted to impress you."

She sighed again, it was always the same thing, Scootaloo looked up to her so the filly would do the craziest things imaginable to get in her good graces, such as driving her scooter of an eight foot ramp which had entirely the wrong inclination.

"Scoots, stop crying." The filly sniffed a few more times and used her hoof to wipe away the tears that were still rolling down her face before she started inspecting the dirt closely.

"Look at me." Scootaloo looked up hesitantly to see Dash's smiling face.

"I'm not mad." the weather pony wrapped a wing around the filly that reminded her so much of herself at that same age, "Nor am I disappointed or sad or any of those sappy things."

"Yo-you're not?" The older pony gently nuzzled her. "No I'm not, you want to be as awesome as I am, and to be awesome you sometimes have to try stupid things!"

Dash laughed and shifted a little, "You can't imagine how many times I've done something stupid."

She quickly sobered up.. "But that doesn't mean that I'm not concerned about you."

Scootaloo just nodded, "So you want me to stop using my scooter." she intoned, lowering her head and spilling more tears silently.

She looked up when Dash nudged her. And once again she found the smiling face of her idol. "No Scoots, I want you to learn how to fly. So I'm going to teach you."

It took her a few seconds to process those words Rainbow Dash wants to teach -me- how to fly?

She surprised the older Pegasus with a bone crushing hug smiling from ear to ear.

"Will you really teach me?" she asked, tears still in her eyes, but the biggest smile she'd ever had plastered on her face.

"Oh yeah scoots." Dash replied returning the hug as best she could from the awkward position. "Count on it."

They walked back to the ramp where Sweetie and Applebloom had retrieved her scooter and were trying to figure out what had gone wrong.

They had also managed to become covered in tree sap for some reason.

"Guys! Dash is going to teach me how to fly!" Scootaloo bounded towards her friends and hugged them tightly.

"Really?"

"Good on ya Scoots! When are y'all gonna start?"

Scootaloo looked at her new teacher in question.

"Right now Squirt! Spread 'em! And show me what you can do!"

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