Scootaloo paced around impatiently. Her scooter was taking FOREVER to get fixed! First she had to go ahead and crash it, and NOW she had spent up all her pocket money to get it fixed! The flightless pegasus sighed angrily. She kicked impatiently at a rock nearby. The rock rolled and rolled, until it was stopped by a sky-blue hoof.

Scootaloo's head snapped up. Her eyes widened as she took in the sight of her awesome idol: Rainbow Dash.

Her spectrum mane was slightly ruffled by the wind. Her awesome Cutie Mark was in plain sight for all to see. Her feathered wings were opened, and the feathers swayed in the slight breeze. Her magenta-rose eyes were alight with life. Rainbow Dash kicked the rock towards Scootaloo, who watched it roll in front of her and stop, stunned.

"Hey, squirt!" was Rainbow Dash's greeting.

Scootaloo swallowed and looked up at her idol. "H-hi Rainbow Dash!" she stammered.

Dash chuckled. "Why ya waiting here all by yourself when you could be out crusading with AB and Sweet?"

The pegasus filly hung her head and kicked again at the rock. "They're busy. 'Sides, I needed to get my scooter fixed. I crashed it yesterday evening."

"Well, I hope it gets fixed soon," replied Rainbow Dash sincerely.

As if her words were magic, the repaircolt suddenly trotted out of his garage, wheeling Scootaloo's scooter behind him. The flat tire and broken hoofbars were completely unnoticeable, and the surface shone with a brand-new coat of paint.

"Here ya go, kid," grunted the repaircolt, handing the scooter to Scootaloo.

"Awesome!" exclaimed Scootaloo excitedly. She hopped on her scooter and slipped on her helmet. She was so excited, she almost forgot that Rainbow Dash was there. Until, that is, the older pegasus spoke.

"Pretty neat lil' scooter ya got here, Scoots," remarked Rainbow Dash, trotting up to the scooter and looking appreciatively at the shining hoofbars. "How many bits did it cost ya?"

Scootaloo laughed. Rainbow Dash could be so awesomely funny sometimes! "I got it for my third birthday. It's got unicorn magic in it, so it grows as I do or something like that."

"Pretty awesome," grinned Rainbow Dash.

Scootaloo was so excited! She was having a casual chat WITH HER IDOL! Rainbow Dash! THE Rainbow Dash! Scootaloo felt like squealing, but she refrained from doing so in the midst of somepony as cool as Rainbow Dash.

"Yeah, it is, I guess," said Scootaloo, trying to lean against the hoofbars in a casual manner.

"You're pretty good, huh?" continued Dash. "Cuz if you're as awesome as AJ says, I'd like to check out some of your moves on that thing! How about it, kiddo?"

Gulp. Scootaloo suddenly felt nervous all over. Tricks? Check out? Rainbow Dash? Fragments of Dash's sentence swirled around in Scootaloo's head. However, she shook her head to try and clear it and swallowed some of her nerves. "If you really wanna, I guess..."

Rainbow Dash grinned again, then flew up to a low-hanging cloud. Her head popped out of the cloud, and she smirked. "Show me whatcha got, Scoot!"

Scootaloo grinned half-heartedly up at the other pegasus, then wheeled her scooter around so that she was facing the bustling streets of Ponyville. She powered up her wings and shot off into the crowd.

Immediately, Scootaloo felt like she was flying, that she was Rainbow Dash and that she was really truly flying. She did a 360-turn in mid-air to the awe of the onlooking ponies. The scooter landed cleanly on its wheels and Scootaloo tore off, weaving in and out of stunned ponies with expertise. Then, she saw two pegasi heading to a low-hanging cloud, preparing to clear it. Grinning, Scootaloo launched herself off the still-moving scooter and did a karate kick squarely in the cloud's middle. The two pegasi collided with each other as Scootaloo landed with grace back on her scooter.

Suddenly, Scootaloo saw a large tree looming up in front of her. Scootaloo narrowed her eyes, and the orange pegasus shot up the trunk and did a complete upside-down mid-air flip, to cheers from the onlookers. Then, Scootaloo landed expertly once more, and shot with epic speed right back from where she had come from. In ten seconds flat, she was zooming past Rainbow Dash. She whirled around the garage of the repaircolt, and using the wooden planks behind the store, shot into the air.

She had taken off with such force, and had been going so fast beforehand, that Scootaloo's tail-tip was crackling with purple electricity, the exact same shade as her mane. Grinning, Scootaloo used the hoofbars to propel herself up so that her tail was pointing upwards. With a single mighty thunderclap, bolts of purple lightning shot from her tail.

The ponies on the ground - and in the air - watched in awe as the spectacular lightning died down and Scootaloo landed once more on her scooter.

Rainbow Dash was now standing on her cloud. Her mouth was open in surprise. Scootaloo grinned sheepishly and kicked once more at the rock. "Did you like it?"

And suddenly there were cheering ponies everywhere, and Rainbow Dash was hollering words like "AWESOME!" and "Coolest filly EVER!" and Scootaloo was beaming and amazed at how highly Rainbow Dash thought of her and there was a tingling on her flank and suddenly Dash was hugging her and Scootaloo was laughing and she looked down at her flank and saw her Cutie Mark.

It was a lightning bolt. A perfect, pristine, jagged lightning bolt. It was the same shade of purple as her mane and tail. But the thing that made it awesomer was that the top half of it was surrounded in fire. Purple fire, a few shades lighter than Scootaloo's mane. And Scootaloo knew just what it represented.

When Rainbow Dash released Scootaloo, the pegasus was grinning madly. "So what d'you reckon your talent is?" asked Rainbow.

Scootaloo's grin widened, if possible. "Living life to the extreme!"