"Yo, Scoots!"
Scootaloo and Peanut Butter stopped and turned around to see who had called out the orange pegasus. Approaching them was a very light blue pegasus colt with a bluish-grey mane. Scootaloo smirked.
"Hey, Rumble," she said, meeting him halfway and brohoofing, "How's it going, bro."
"Pretty good. How 'bout yourself?"
"Awesome, I just left Bon Bon's after trying out her new candy. This guy," she gestured towards Peanut Butter, "completely devoured all the samples."
Rumble looked behind Scootaloo and saw Peanut Butter sitting there. He walked over to him and raised a hoof. Peanut met his hoof with a tentacle. He felt a tingling sensation run up his foreleg. "Nice to see ya again," Rumble said with a grin. Peanut just gurgled happily. "So what was that about candy samples?" Rumble asked, turning his attention back to Scootaloo.
"Bon Bon had asked me and PB if we wanted to try out her new candy called Tortoise Shells, which by the way, were absolutely delicious. We go into the back and she gives us each a little sample cup and as soon as this guy tries his, he freezes up before going berserk and eating the rest of my sample and the bowl full of the stuff."
Rumble raised an eyebrow and frowned. "Was she mad?" he asked.
Scootaloo waved a hoof, "Nah, just a little irritated. PB actually hugged her until she forgave him," she said smirking.
Rumble grinned, "He abused the power of his hugs, huh? We'll have to keep an eye on him, he may use his powers to control the princesses."
"I'm pretty sure he actually could." They both burst out laughing. "Come on, let's walk and talk. I don't like standing around." Scootaloo began to move along pushing her scooter with Rumble matching her pace, Peanut following behind them.
"So, where are the guys?" Scootaloo asked.
Rumble paused for a couple seconds before answering, "Featherweight is working on the school newspaper, Button Mash and Truffle Shuffle are playing this new game called 'Minecraft,' Snips and Snails are being Snips and Snails, and Pipsqueak is asking Dinky on a date."
Scootaloo almost tripped and landed on her face. "Woah, what!?"
"I know! I was surprised too. I thought we were still at that age where we think girls are gross. Gotta hoof it to him though, he may be short, but he's probably got more guts than the rest of the guys or me."
"No denying that. Anyway, did you look for me just to chat or did you need something?"
"Oh, right!" Rumble pulled out a pair of Wonderbolt show tickets making Scootaloo's eyes widen. "Would you like to go on a date with me?"
This time, Scootaloo did tip, but thankfully avoided using her face to cushion her fall.
Peanut and Rumble helped her back on her hooves. "EW! WHAT!" she said in disgust, although she was blushing. Rumble burst out laughing at her response.
"D-don't worry. I-I'm just k-kiding," he said before bursting out into more laughter. By the time finished, Scootaloo was blushing in anger and glaring at him. "I did that just to see your reaction, which was funnier than I expected." Scootaloo punched him in the shoulder. "Worth it," he said rubbing where she had hit him.
Scootaloo groaned before asking, "Where did you get those tickets anyway?" Peanut Butter hugged her to calm her down, which she greatly appreciated.
"Thunderlane gave them to me. He tried asking Rainbow Dash on a date again."
"Even after the grape juice incident? How can he even show his face around her again after that?"
"I said the exact same thing to him! He's just lucky that Rarity was able to get the stains out of Dash's coat or I might have been an only child. Still, to actually turn down tickets to the Wonderbolts? Dang, she must be holding some grudge."
Scootaloo barked out a laugh. "Yeah. So, how 'bout them tickets?"
Rumble glanced at them before turning back to Scootaloo. "I actually wanted to make you a deal," he said with a devious grin.
"Go on, I'm listening."
"I need yours and Peanut's help to pull off some pranks and if things go south, you two take the heat. In return, I'll give you both tickets. How does that sound?"
Scootaloo thought about it for a minute with Rumble waving the tickets in her face. "Fiiiine," she said, "but only because I can't think of anything else to do at the moment and this will earn me some serious kudos with Dash. But you'll have to treat PB at Sugarcube Corner," she pointed to the mentioned blob, who gurgled in agreement.
"Deal," Rumble said, shaking Scootaloo's hoof and Peanut Butter's tentacle. "Now, let's go pay the flower fillies a visit." They started heading towards Ponyville market where the flower ponies were hopefully still present.
...
...
"...So, what would you have done if I had said yes?" Scootaloo asked mischieviously.
Rumble tripped, falling flat on his face. He got back up rubbing his muzzle and blushing up a storm. Scootaloo and Peanut laughed at his reaction.
...
"What do you mean they closed early?" Scootaloo asked. She, along with Peanut and Rumble, were in front of the flower ponies stall. They were talking with Time Turner, who had just been passing by when they approached him.
"After your little friend here," Time Turner gestured towards Peanut, "scared them off—don't worry, you're not to blame, those three are just cowards—they hid until he left. When they were sure he was gone (an hour later) they came back and closed up shop before heading to Sugarcube Corner. They're probably still there if you hurry."
Scootaloo and Rumble grinned before speeding off towards their targets with Peanut Butter following behind. Time Turner yelled after them, "A thank you would have been nice!"
"You said we had to hurry!" Scootaloo yelled over her shoulder. Time Turner huffed and walked away, mumbling something about children this day and millenium being disrespectful.
The trio stopped just outside the door of the gingerbread house; Rumble made a shushing gesture before cracking the door open, being careful not to ring the bell up top. Peeking in, he spotted their victims enjoying some milkshakes while chatting amicably. Rumble let the door close before turning to his partners in crime. "Alright, they're talking," he said, "so we have about ten minutes before they leave. What's the plan?"
Scootaloo looked at him incredulously. "Why are you asking me?" she asked, "It was your idea to prank them in the first place."
"Yeah, but if we get in trouble, it will be more believable that it was your idea if we use a prank you came up with."
"...I think that makes sense."
"Don't strain yourself," Rumble said with a smirk. Scootaloo punched his shoulder again. "Worth it."
"You're a jerk, ya know that?" she said, glaring at him.
"Yet, you love me anyways."
"Gross. Anyway, give me a minute to think." Rumble opened his mouth. "I'll hit below the belt next time." He kept his mouth closed.
...
5 minutes later
The flower ponies were still talking when Daisy noticed Gummy staring at them. "Girls," she whispered to Lily and Roseluck, "he's staring at us again." The other two turned arouned at the staring toothless alligator. The three of them visably shivered.
"Ugh, I never liked that that thing," Roseluck began, "the way it just sits and stares at you is just creepy."
"And then there's that feeling of foreboding whenever you try to pet him," Lily said nervously, "Thank Celestia he has no teeth."
"Yeah," Daisy said in agreement. She looked at the clock at the wall. "We should head home now. We've been here long enough and I'd rather not run into that foal eating monster." The other two nodded in agreement.
"Hey, Peanut Butter is not a monster!" Pinkie exclaimed, popping out of nowhere and making the other three mares jump. "He just likes to make ponies smile and laugh and he eats sweets, not foals! In fact, he's me if I was a blob!" she said at the end happily.
Daisy's eyes narrowed, "It's probably just a facade, we let our guard down and then he snatches our ponies up." Pinkie rolled her eyes (something she rarely did) and walked away from them. The three flower ponies stood up and walked out the front door.
What they saw out front absolutely terrified them.
Peanut Butter was dragging Scootaloo and Rumble into his body, the two foals performing some of the worst acting anypony has ever seen.
"Help us, pleeease!" Scootaloo said with an overdramtic voice, raising a hoof to her head in mock distress.
"He's gonna eeeeeaat uuuuuuuusss!" Rumble said in an exaggerated manner.
There terrible acting fooled the three gullible mares, who ran screaming their heads off. Lily shouted out about being right the whole way. Peanut Butter let his 'victims' go and the three pranksters burst out laughing. Well two were laughing and one was gurgling in a way that could be taken for laughter.
Once they recovered, Scootaloo asked, "So, whose gonna be our next victim?"
Rumble grinned, "A better question would be 'Who isn't?'"
...
So as the day wore on, the three little monsters pranked various ponies throughout the town usually by scaring them. They got Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon in a hit-and-run tickle attack, running off before the two bullies could yell at them for making them almost pee themselves. When the bell struck five, however, their fun had to end, sadly.
"I gotta head home now, it's getting close to dinner," Scootaloo said.
"Yeah, me too. I had a lot of fun today," Rumble said raising a hoof.
"Same here, bro," Scootaloo said, meeting his hoof.
Rumble raised his hoof towards Peanut Butter. He wasn't going to have any of that. Instead, Peanut gave Rumble a hug making him laugh. He returned the hug before saying, "Alright, alright, you can let go now." Peanut Butter let go, somewhat to Rumble's disappointment. "We definitely need to do this again sometime."
"I hear that," Scootaloo said, "You alright to head back to the library by yourself, PB?" Peanut gurgled an affirmative before giving Scootaloo a thirty second hug. Rumble gave him a hoofful of bits so he could by something at Sugarcube Corner as was their deal. He slithered back to the treebrary after that. Scootaloo turned back to Rumble "Welp, I guess I'll see ya tomorrow at school?"
Rumble nodded, "Yep, see ya tomorrow." He turned around to go home before realizing something. "Hey, Scoots!" he said before she could take off on her scooter, "I almost forgot to give you these." He hoofed her the Wonderbolt tickets.
Scootaloo laughed, "I totally forgot! Thanks for remembering dude."
"No problem."
Scootaloo suddenly got an idea in her head that she'd probably regret later. Key word being later. She planted a big wet kiss right on the left side of his face. Rumble froze in shock, eyes wide and pupils dialated with his jaw hanging. His shock slowly turned into disgust.
"Ugh! What the heck, Scoots?! You know I don't like girls yet! Bleh!"
Scootaloo just laughed, speeding away to Rainbow's on her scooter, leaving behind a disgusted Rumble behind who was trying to get the cooties off his face.