Cardcaptor Twilight

Trixie awoke with a loud yawn, and stretched her hooves as she sat up in her bed. The sheet felt rather heavy, for some reason. Looking around her, Trixie found that her very spacious trailer was lit up with the brightness of the morning sun. But, it still seemed rather early, so Trixie buried herself in giant blanket, and tried to go back to sleep…

“Wait!” Trixie’s eyes shot open, and she tried to push the blanket off of herself, only succeeding in straining the muscles in her legs as she pushed. She then tried to make the task easier with her magic, but even that proved to be difficult. By the time she was free of the colossal-sized blanket, Trixie was panting and sweating heavily from all the effort that it took. “W-Why is all of Trixie’s stuff so big all of a sudden?!”

“Good morning, Miss Lulamoon.”

“Morning. Now, as Trixie was saying-” Trixie stopped, and turned around to see another pony occupying her bed. It was the cloaked pony who had taken the Maze card from her. “W-WAA! Why are you in Trixie’s bed?!”

The pony held up a hoof to ask Trixie to calm down. “Please be calm, Miss Lulamoon. I sensed a magic presence here, and simply came by to make sure that you are okay… And, I’m ashamed to say that… I was affected, too…”

“‘Affected’? By wha- Wait, a Clow Card?!”

The cloaked pony nodded. “That is correct. The Clow Cards are aware that they are being hunted, and many of them are targeting their hunters… That’s why, I have taken it upon myself to keep a close eye on you. At her request.”

“‘Her’? Who?”

“The Dimensional Witch. Yuko Ichihara.”

Trixie frowned at that. “Yuko? She asked you to- No, that can’t be right! Yuko wants Trixie to capture the Clow Cards! There’s no way that she would send you, who took one of the cards from Trixie!”

“Ah, but Yuko doesn’t want her Cardcaptor falling victim to the cards’ powers. The other Cardcaptor, Twilight Sparkle, has the Guardian Beast Keroberos to aid her. You, on the other hoof… Could you identify the card that you are currently faced with?”

“… Everything seems to have grown, so… the Grow?”

“There is no such card,” the cloaked pony giggled, causing Trixie’s face to flush red. “Try again. What else has changed?”

“… Trixie’s magic… Trixie found it harder to use her magic than usual. Though, that could just as easily be attributed to the fact that Trixie has only just woke up.”

“The card you are faced with right now, is the Little card.”

“‘The Little’… So, it’s not that everything else has grown, but that Trixie has shrunk?” The cloaked pony nodded. “Alright, so now that we know that, we just have to capture it, right? And by ‘we’, Trixie of course means herself.”

“It won’t be that easy, though. Little is quite a fast, agile being, and you won’t be able to use Time in your condition.”

Trixie shot the cloaked pony an icy glare. “How do you know so much about Trixie, anyway? Did Yuko tell you this stuff?”

“I’ve been keeping tabs on you.”

“Oh? Then you should know, that even in this state, the Great and Powerful Trixie can use whatever spell she wants!”

“I assure you, Time is not a card that you want to be using without full access to your magic.” The cloaked pony sighed. “But, if you still want to try, go ahead. That is, assuming you can reach you key and Clow Cards.”

Trixie’s ears stood up, and she quickly looked behind herself, to find the vanity where her key and Clow Cards rested on top. It was big… Bigger than mountain Trixie had ever climbed. Or at least, that’s how it seemed at the time.

“W-What do we do?” Trixie asked, trying not to let the fear in her voice be too obvious.

“We must find Little, and touch it. After that, we will revert back to our true heights, and you can seal it away. Providing you can trap it in time.”

“But where is the Little?! It could be anywhere by now!”

“Don’t you have something that can help you with that?” Trixie wondered what the pony meant for a second, before remembering her compass. Which was left on the floor last night!

“The compass!” Trixie exclaimed cheerfully as she looked behind herself. “Yes! There it is!” Trixie ran over to the compassed, which took a lot longer than it would have in her normal form. By the time she finally reached the compass, she felt like she had just run a marathon.

“Can you still use it, in this form?” the cloaked pony asked from their seated position atop the compass, not the least bit out of breath. This earned a sharp glare from Trixie.

“Hmph! Just you… watch…” Trixie took a moment to catch her breath, and then, closed her eyes as she began to channel her magic through her horn. The compass was enveloped by her purple aura, and a light shot out of it, and flew towards the back of the trailer. It hit a chest of props at the back, but didn’t go any further. “A-ha! It’s still in here!”

“Of course it is,” the cloaked pony said. “Little likes to have a laugh at its victims, after all.”

“… Anyway, the Great and Powerful Trixie had better capture this thing before that meddlesome Sparkle interferes.”

“I don’t think you have anything to worry about there.”

“Why not?”

Meanwhile, in Ponyville, ponies were running through the streets, screaming and panicking as ‘monsters’ filled the streets. The ‘monsters’ in question were Opalescence, Rarity’s cat, Winona, Applejack’s dog, Tank, Rainbow Dash’s tortoise, Angel Bunny, Fluttershy’s rabbit, Owlowiscious, Twilight’s owl, and Gummy, Pinkie Pie’s alligator. All of which were twenty times their normal size.

“What’s going on here?!” Rainbow Dash shouted as she flew around her idle pet. “Why are they so big?!”

“Do you think it was something we put in their food?” Fluttershy asked.

“Do you think Discord’s come back?” Applejack asked.

“Do you think it’s the apocalypse and we should throw the world a goodbye party?” Pinkie Pie asked, earning strange looks from her friends. “… What?”

Rarity leaned over to Twilight. “Do you think it’s a Clow Card?” she whispered, receiving a nod from Twilight.

“I can sense it… It’s nearby.”

“It’s the Big card,” Kero explained. “If we capture it, the pets should all go back to normal.”

“Well then, let’s capture it,” Twilight said, frowning when she saw the glint in Rarity’s eyes. “… After a quick change,” she added with a sigh.

Trixie felt like her legs were made of lead. She had been trudging across the floor of her trailer for a while now, and she still hadn’t reached her destination. She was fairly close, though. What annoyed her the most, though, was how the other pony didn’t seem at all tired from all the walking. In fact, they were already at the chest where the light from the compass had told them to go.

“If you don’t hurry, I’m going to find the Clow Card first!” the cloaked pony called over to Trixie, enraging the showmare even more.

“Who the hell are you, anyway?!” Trixie called back, hoping to stall the other pony, but also wanting to know just who this pony was.

“I am your long-lost mother, back from the depths of hell to train you, my daughter, to become the next successor of my dark legacy.”

Trixie stopped, and stared at the cloaked pony in complete bewilderment. “A-Are you taking Trixie for a fool?! Because if you are, that will be the last mistake you’ll ever make!”

“Then, I am your guardian angel. I have been sent down from heaven to-”

“GAH! Just forget it!” Trixie shouted, finally catching up to the cloaked pony, who had indeed stopped to answer Trixie’s question. “If you’re not going to answer seriously, then just shut up, let Trixie capture this card, and get out!”

“I can’t get out until the card is capture,” the cloaked pony pointed out. “And as confident as I am in your ability to capture Little, I would still rather help out than simply sit back and watch.”

Trixie was about to respond, when she suddenly heard the sounds of giggling above her head. Looking up, Trixie saw a very large pawn piece from her chess set falling towards her. “AH!” Trixie quickly rolled to the side, narrowly dodging the object before it could crush her. “W-What the hell?!”

“Ah, there it is,” the cloaked pony said, looking up at something in the air. Trixie followed their gaze, and saw a small yellow pony flying in the air, giggling as it looked down at Trixie. “Mischievous little thing, isn’t she?”

“‘Mischievous’?! She tried to kill me!”

“I’m sure she meant no harm by it. Anyway, you need to touch her to change back to your true size.”

“And how do we do that, when she’s all the way up there?!”

“Like this.” The pony’s white wings extended from their sides, and they ascended into the sky quickly towards Little, who quickly turned around and dropped down to the ground to avoid the incoming pony. “Now!”

Little turned around, and saw Trixie leaping at her. She was unable to dodge, and Trixie collided with her, pinning her down to the floor. “Gotcha!” Trixie shouted as her body began to grow back to its normal size. She looked down at Little, who was now shaking as she looked back up at the angry-looking mare.

Trixie used her magic to pull her key towards her. “The key that hides the power of dimensions, show your true form before me. I, Trixie, command you under our contract: Release!” Trixie’s key transformed into her wand, and Little quickly scrambled to her hooves, and tired to run away. Trixie didn’t give her the chance to get away, though.

“Return to the guise you were meant to be in! Clow Card!” Twilight shouted as she swung her staff down onto Big, who was found sitting in the middle of the Ponyville park. Big transformed to her card form, and floated into Twilight’s hooves. “… This should fix all of the pets, right?”

“Yep!” Kero said cheerfully, but then looked serious as he landed on Twilight’s shoulders. “… It’s happening, huh?”

“What’s happening?” Rarity asked.

“… The Clow Cards. They’re aware that somepony’s capturing them. They’re now starting to reach out and attack you personally.”

“They’re what?!” Twilight shouted. “And you didn’t think to warn me earlier?!”

“I was hoping we could capture ‘em all before it happened… Well, it should be fine! Ya already have Earthy, so now we just need Firey, and I’ll be able ta transform and help ya out!”

“‘Transform’?”

Kero nodded. “That’s right. My real form… is much cooler than this! But without Firey and Earthy, I can’t assume it… Anyway, I think we’d better get back to Ponyville, and clean up some of the collateral damage from the enlarged pets.”

Twilight and Rarity looked over at the town in the distance, and their faces fell as they saw the crushed stalls and the knocked over trees in the streets. “… Ooh boy. Guess I’d better get Dash out…”

Trixie signed her name onto the Little card, and then looked over at the cloaked pony standing beside her, who still hadn’t left her trailer. “Why are you still here?”

“Forgive me. I was under the impression that ponies offered tea to their guests, but maybe that doesn’t apply to everywhere in the world.”

“You’re not Trixie’s ‘guest’. You’re an intruder. And you still haven’t told Trixie what you’re even doing here in the first place!”

“Like I said, I was concerned. The Clow Cards are starting to act aggressively towards you and Twilight Sparkle, so I wanted to make sure that you were okay when I felt a presence here.”

“And the time in Maze?”

“Oh? You wanted to be lost in there forever?”

“… Anyway, the Great and Powerful Trixie is still tired, so she will not attempt to take her card back. However, she will have to ask you to leave now.”

“… Very well then. We shall meet again. Until then, I wish you luck, Miss Lulamoon.”

The cloaked pony turned around and left the trailer, with Trixie glaring at the back of their head the entire time. Once they were gone, Trixie put a hoof to her chin, and considered who this mysterious pony could be. “They used magic in Maze… but they had wings earlier… Who are they?”

A loud yawn escaped Trixie’s mouth, and she rubbed her eye as she looked over at her clock. “… The Great and Powerful Trixie thinks she’s just going to take the rest of this day off, and think about it tomorrow…”

Trixie moved over to her now-normal-sized bed, and wrapped herself up in blanket, smiling contentedly as she rested her head on her pillows. As she drifted off to sleep, her brow furrowed as an image entered her mind. An image of herself and Twilight Sparkle, in the middle of a town she did not recognise, the two of them completely surrounded by flames.