Twilight hummed a happy tune as she sat at her desk, reading aloud her copy of Ponies Do What?! – An Introduction to Sexual Reproduction, with Spike staring in shock, his mouth agape and his eyes threatening to pop out of their sockets. Twilight didn’t even seem to notice. She figured this would be his reaction, but he’s the one who asked the question. And it was about time he learned about the birds and the bees at any rate.
When she looked up from her book, she finally took note of the baby dragon staring at her as if she were choking a puppy. “Eheheh…” She decided it was probably time for a break. “Any questions, so far?”
Spike had a million questions that he wanted to ask, most of them some form of ‘what the buck?!’. However, he knew that he would only get away with one or two, and besides, Twilight was taking the time to seriously answer a question that he himself had asked. Even if the question was only about kissing, and she had possibly taken the lecture a tad too far. He still decided that he should at least honour her with a serious question.
“So how does this work for dragons?”
Twilight was silent for a moment. “A fair question!”
“… And?”
“I have no idea! But I know what my next research project for the Princess will be!”
A knock at the door interrupts their lesson, much to Twilight’s chagrin, and Spike’s relief. Spike excused himself to use the bathroom, and Twilight decided to go and see who was at the door. So she got up, and made her way over to the door, opening it to find…
“Good morning, Twilight Sparkle!”
“T-Trixie?!” A thud could be heard from the bathroom, suggesting that Spike had heard who was at the door. “What… I don’t… What are you…”
“The Great and Powerful Trixie understands you’re shocked to see her here, Twilight, but please let me explain!”
“I’m listening.”
“The… The Great and Powerful Trixie has… decided that it is time to change…” Twilight clearly wasn’t expecting to hear that. “She… wants to change, Twilight Sparkle.”
“… Well, I-”
“Yes, I’m aware that it is rather hard to believe, but you were right! Trixie really does need to change!”
Twilight smiled, and motioned for Trixie to enter the library. An invitation that Trixie accepted. “So, you’ve finally come around, huh? I knew you’d make the right decision!”
“You ‘knew’?”
“Of course! I didn’t expect it to happen so soon, but… Anyway, Rainbow Dash sure will be surprised. She thought you’d never change. Said you were too stubborn, but I knew better!”
Trixie smiled, and let out a small giggle. “Trixie can’t wait to show that airhead the new me.” She grinned at her own joke. “Get it? ‘Air’ head, ‘cause she-”
“Yeah, I got it,” Twilight said flatly, rolling her eyes at the lame pun. “So, about you changing?”
“Oh, right. Trixie thought that she could do it alone, but…” Trixie blushed, and averted her gaze from Twilight.
Twilight simply smiled reassuringly, and threw her hoof around Trixie’s shoulders. “Don’t worry. You can ask me for help anytime, and I won’t laugh at you, or think any less of you for it. In fact, I’d be honoured, as your friend, to help you change in whatever way I can.”
Trixie smiled back, and took a step back from Twilight’s hold. “Right, well then…” She pointed down to the broach on her cape. “This thing is stuck. Trixie sealed it with her magic, to ensure that it wouldn’t come undone, but she may have overshot the spell, and now… well, just give it a try.”
Twilight nodded, and her horn lit up. She focused on the broach, studying the magic that was holding it in place. Trixie was right. She had overshot it, and there was no way that sucker was coming undone anytime soon. Not without some exceptionally powerful spell to counteract it…
“Trixie, I have an idea. I think that if we both pull at it together with our magic, it should come off.”
“Wouldn’t forcing it off damage Trixie’s Great and Powerful cape?”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Don’t worry, I’ll ask Rarity to fix it up. Or maybe you could ask her yourself! After a quick change, I’m sure she’ll let you back in her shop.”
Trixie nodded. “A-Alright then. Let’s do this.” Both Unicorns’ horns lit up simultaneously, and the room become flooded with an intense purple light. “It’s working!” Trixie shouted cheerfully.
The magic around the two started to build up quickly, before finally settling at a power level just slightly above nine thousand kiloMagics. The ground beneath them began to shake, and books started to fall off of their shelves around the two. Twilight was momentarily distracted by this, but regained her focus soon enough. ‘Trixie is a friend, and friends come first!’ she told herself as she began to pull at the broach with her magic.
Trixie did the same thing. “Why isn’t this working?!” she shouted.
“You’re pulling the wrong way! Pull the same way I am!”
“Trixie is pulling the right way! You pull the same way as Trixie!”
Twilight scowled at the showmare. “I thought you wanted to change!”
Trixie flinched, and then hesitated for a moment. “Oh, fine! Here!” In just a few short moments, the broach was off, and the magic began to die down to safe levels. “We did it! It’s off!”
Twilight breathed a sigh of relief. “Phew!” she watched as Trixie threw off her old, filthy cape, and pulled a new one out from… somewhere.
Trixie noticed the confused look on Twilight’s face. “Pinkie Pie stored these around Ponyville.”
“‘Cape emergencies’?” Twilight guessed, to which Trixie responded with a simple nod. “Well, just don’t weld this one shut with magic this time, okay?”
Trixie nodded again, grinning sheepishly. “Man, you were right! A change of clothes is truly what I needed. Trixie doesn’t know what I was thinking, keeping that cape on for three months straight!”
“Rarity will definitely be pleased, that’s for sure.” Twilight looked over at the other, darker cape. “So, what ultimately helped you reach your decision?”
“… They wouldn’t let Trixie into Disney Land.”
Twilight facehooved. She had hoped it would be something like ‘my friends were being bothered by it’, or ‘I didn’t want to risk losing something precious, like my friends, over my stubborn pride’. She was even getting ready to have Trixie write a letter about it to the Princess, but…
“Incidentally, now that Trixie has changed, perhaps you and the others would like to accompany her? They have free admission for children this weekend!”
“But we’re not-” Twilight was cut off by a flash of light from Trixie’s horn, and frowned as she saw Trixie’s body shrink before her eyes. She forgot that Trixie could use a shrinking spell. It’s how she got discounts at the cinema, and she often used it for those play areas at places like Wacky Marehouse. Twilight sighed, and looked at the mess around her. “… Sure, why not?” She decided that she’d put this out of her mind, and clean up when she got back.
BONUS: Rainbow Dash Does Not Approve
Rainbow Dash sat in the Ponyville laundromat, quietly reading an issue of Playmare magazine whilst waiting for her karate uniform to finish being washed. The only other pony in there was Derpy Hooves, who seemed to be having trouble with the controls on her machine. Rainbow Dash looked up to see what was wrong, but when she saw a sea of bubbles pouring out of the machine and submerging the panicking mare, she turned back to her magazine and simply ignored it. ‘Yep, that seems about right.’
Her machine began to beep, letting her know that he uniform was done. “Finally! If I had known it would take this long, I’d have just pestered Rarity to do it!”
She opened up the machine, and pulled out the white uniform from inside. Only, something was wrong. It wasn’t white. It wasn’t white at all. It was…
“Hey, Rainbow Dash!” Apple Bloom shouted as she walked inside. “Have you seen mah- AH!” She ran up to the open machine, and poked her head inside. She pulled it out a moment later, a red ribbon in her mouth. “Ah found it! Mah ribbon! Ah knew it was around here somewhere!”
The energetic filly ran outside, and took off down the streets of Ponyville. Rainbow Dash felt a vein popping in her head, and, clutching her uniform in one hoof, and throwing both forehooves into the air, she roared: “APPLE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!”
Author's Note
Yes, I know. Apple Bloom's ribbon is actually pink. Let's just say she has more than one, okay?
Or maybe, it's not really pink. Just a kind of light-reddish colour.
