"You ready for this Rumble?" Soarin' asked. "A couple of days is a pretty short time for perfecting your skills."
"I'm ready. I've worked on my routine a bit."
"You can do this Rumble," Scootaloo reminded him.
"Alright. Let's do this then kid. Go ahead and start." Soarin' motioned. The three stepped back while Rumble took a deep breath before crouching.
'I can do this.' he told himself. In an instant, he snapped off the ground. leaving the three with their manes blowing back and the grass as overturned as it was days before. He whipped up to the clouds above and weaved his way around them, his back towards the surface as he circled them at dizzying speeds.
"Better." Soarin' muttered.
"Come on Rumble." Scootaloo said.
Rumble recovered quickly from the dizzying turns and dropped onto a single cloud, snapping back up as it turned gray and thunder emitted from it.
'Now the trees.' Rumble reminded himself. With another flap of his wings, he looped in violent turns and was dodging tree trunks in the blink of an eye. He raced past the three, blowing their manes back again. He managed to get closer to the trunks, and came close with a few branches. Just in reaching distance of his frantically flapping wings as sticks and twigs fell past him.
By the time he managed to emerge from the trees without clipping his wings, he decided to end the performance by dropping. He flew up as high as he could go, until he started feeling light headed from the altitude, and closed his wings.
He dropped at bone breaking speeds, his eyes completely shut as a cone made it's way around him. He was nose down towards the trio, and in the knick of time, he opened his wings and with a mighty crack landing softly on the ground. The sound echoed over the field, and caught the attention of other ponies far off. The sky seemed to shake from the sound of it.
Scootaloo ran up to him and nearly knocked the poor colt over with her bone crushing hug. "That. Was. Awesome!" she declared. Rumble smiled as she hung off of his neck.
"Really? It wasn't much different from last time."
"But there was a huge improvement in the agility." Soarin' said, stepping up to the pair. "I'm actually pretty impressed with how quickly you cleaned up."
"Does that mean...?" Rumble said hopefully. Soarin' smiled.
"I'll be sure to get a good word in about you."
"Really?" Rumble asked, his eyes lighting up.
"Yes. Really."
The two erupted into a cheer. Smiling to their hearts contempt as they had a bit of a celebration.
Scootaloo looked to Rumble and wasn't able to stop the words from coming out of her mouth. "I could just kiss you!" she then clamped a hoof over her mouth as everyone looked her direction. She immediately regretted those words.
Rumble was taken back as Rainbow Dash broke into a smirk. "What was that?" he asked. He couldn't tell if he heard properly.
"You don't have to worry about it." Scootaloo quickly covered up. She held her hooves up defensively and gave a nervous grin, her face completely scarlet.
"Did you really say you could kissme?" Rumble asked.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid...' Scootaloo thought to herself repeatedly. 'Why can't I keep my big mouth shut?'
"I guess that we should leave you two love birds alone." Rainbow Dash butted in. "See ya later Squirt." Rainbow Dash said.
"Wait!" but she was already gone.
"You don't have to hide it ya know." Rumble said.
"It just slipped out, okay?!" Scootaloo shot back, blush still painting her cheeks. "I was just excited-"
"Excited enough to want to kiss me?" Rumble asked.
Scootaloo was taken back by the remark and stuttered. "why aren't you blushing?"
"I'm not the one who just claimed they wanted to kiss someone."
"Now you're just pushing it." Scootaloo replied.
"Oh lighten up Scoots, I don't mind it."
"Why aren't you bothered by this?" Scootaloo asked, trying to veer the subject to something else.
"Because I know you care. You really are a big old sweet heart aren't you?"
"Ugh! You're impossible!" Scootaloo said with a roll of her eyes. She stomped off, her face still as red as a tomato. Making Rumble bust a gut over the ordeal.
"See you tomorrow then!" he called out. He continued laughing as Scootaloo continuously stomped off, you could nearly see the steam coming out of her ears.