Chapter 3 - Showing Up Empty-Hooved

First chapter: [link]

== Author's Notes ==
Sorry this one took so long. I've been working on working forward, so I have bits of future chapters typed out. Hopefully this will give me plenty of chances to find where I need to do re-writes on the chapters where it really counts, and also make the delays between chapters shorter as I get deeper into the story.

A few people have mentioned to me they don't understand why Rainbow Dash dislikes Scootaloo so much in the first chapter. I have already said this story will not include anything past the Season 2 finale, so based on that, the last time we saw any interaction between the two was Ponyville Confidential. Dash is still holding a bit of a grudge, but has other (petty) reasons. I have very specific reasons.

I do want to thank everyone who has read, upvoted, and favorited this story. I'm trying something ambitious by my standards, and support from others directly influences how much I want to write. The story's already inside my noggin, getting it into words is the tricky par. Each email from here and Fanfiction.net, as well as the notifications on DeviantArt, still makes me very happy and motivates me to write this the way I want to tell it.

Also, if you go by this publish date, Scootaloo's birthday is now March 4th. I swear I didn't plan it that way, but I think it's kinda funny that for my birthday I'm making Scootaloo happy.

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