Trixie's Redemption: From Cinders and Flame

As the endless void ebb and flowed Trixie's powdered self, she was left with infinite time to herself. The area around the former cyan unicorn was as infinite as her supposed travel would be, drenched in bright light and an eerie green tone. While unable to perform any real magic, her eyes were a subtle background within her flowing form, those tender rose irises shimmering among her equally glittering form. Well Trixie she said to herself, you deserve this, don't you? She idly rolled her eyes, trying to find something to focus on to change her viewing pallet. Dash was never meant to even KNOW you, and yet you unknowingly interfered with the timeline...just for love. Celestia be damned, if you didn't manage to revert everything, you couldn't come back. She huffed, knowing all too well the reality, nay, the severity of her situation. You're fucking traveling through WHO KNOWS WHERE and you have nothing to say...Tartarus, you don't even know where you ARE, do you?!

As she slowly scanned her surroundings, Trixie furrowed her brow, or at least, she tried to furrow what her brow had become. A spec, slowly getting closer, appeared in the distance. Celestia damn it, something else damned to this infernal purgatory! she though, trying to mobilize without knowing if she actually had begun moving at all. The form grew larger and larger until a subtle color was distinguished...blue. Midnight blue. Only one pony Trixie knew had that color...LUNA!!!...LUNA!? Trixie desperately screamed, quickly coming to terms that without a mouth, Trixie could do nothing to communicate. All she could do was emanate a soft glow as she whimpered to herself.

Wait Trixie thought, looking around,Luna has no memory of me...I reversed the timeline...reversed her knowledge of any relationship, or the possible recollection of me. What the heck do I do now? She could only watch as the mare slowly got closer, the unicorn trying fruitlessly to flail and grab the alicorn's attention. Luna merely hummed as she lightly swam in the emptiness. She was completely normal. No demons. No Nightmare Moon. Just normal Luna, backstroking as she breathed easy. Her vision slowly locked onto the blue cloud of magic."Hmm?" she let out, rolling over. There should have been nothing in the void, and that's why Luna would use it to clear her mind."What...how in the land~?" Luna slowly materialized a floor, making her way forward as soft, white tiles connected firmly below the mare's hoof-falls. She sat, leaning in and locking eyes with those rose eyes."Well now, what, in my sister's name, are you?"

Trixie knew this was her chance, and without thinking pushed forward. She could only hope that this Luna wasn't from some weird, third dimension she might have created while erasing her own. She charged her magic and created a memory link. It was all she could do. She couldn't speak, and had only her memory and what little magic her dusted form would allow. Luna's eyes widened as she gasped, rock stiff as she was given memories from her alternate self. She whined, shivering as thoughts and ideas spliced. It wasn't like past experiences, since it was like someone took two ideas and just smeared the details, making her question everything from the past few months.

The princess backpedaled as the link ended, falling onto her flank and panting hard as she felt herself give in to Nightmare Moon in her other timeline."No...nononononono..." she grasped her head, tearing up as she was forced to remember everything, including her possession."I...I tried to kill Celestia...I...I killed Shining Armor, oh gosh!" The alicorn's head pounded."He...his neck..." she flinched as the sound of Armor's neck cracking shot through her ears, making tears fall into nothingness as she sobbed.

"Please stop crying~" a voice rang out in Luna's ear, making her look around."Please don't cry...I...I didn't realize what my spell would do to someone with a different remembrance of history." Trixie's voice rang out in the mare's mind. The princess looked up at the mass, blinking as she sniffed and wiped away her tears.

"T-Trixie?" Luna rang out, getting to her hooves."Is that...you?" she tilted her head. With her own memories, and those of the altered timeline, were her memories of Trixie. Tutoring, love, and even the tender last moments before Trixie reversed it all. She rose slowly, front hooves shaking lightly as she stared at the blur."Oh Trixie...what happened to you?"

Trixie's eyes glinted as she squeaked."Oh, thank Celestia" she hollered, huffing to herself as she could not hug her mentor."You can hear me?"

"I...I believe I have obtained the ability to understand you when your spell rattled my conscious mind..." the alicorn admitted, slowly trotting around the ethereal powder, looking over what little there was to see."Regardless...let us take you from this place, Trixie." She tapped the ground, producing a small jar. It's design was as simplistic as the mind could conjure, with the thinnest of glass and an equally disappointing lid.

"You must be joking" Trixie shot back, irises narrowing as Luna trotting forward. With one swift swipe, all of Trixie shot into the container, her gaseous form filling the cylinder and her eyes sliding around to glare at her captor."I do hope my memory spell has not endowed some satanic God Complex~" the unicorn power huffed, shaking the jar as Luna giggled, making it hover with her magic.

"Oh hush now" Luna ordered casually, setting her down and getting on her level."Now...before we go...is there anything else you should do? Shall I inform you of this timeline's events." The midnight equine crossed her front hooves as she laid down, tilting her head. Trixie's glare barely lightened as Luna spoke, tempting the alicorn to take more drastic measures.

"Listen, i think i know enough to...h-hey, let me go, Luna!" She barked, being lifted until a soft scratching was heard. It was a distinctive scratching that could only come from something sharp sliding along glass. Moments later the jar was lowered, a crude smile etched below the unicorns, now fed-up, pair of eyes."Oh har har" she let out, watching her mentor snicker with satisfaction.

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"So..." Trixie began,"Twilight's brother is getting married to her old babysitter, who is also an alicorn that happens to be destined to lead a civilization to love? Damn. What, did I accidentally step on a lollipop as I was reversing the timeline? This place sounds sugar-coated as shit!" The mare voiced plainly.

"It does seem as though your timeline was much more aggressive than ours, but we have our share of grievances." Luna rose, sighing as she looked out into the blankness of the void."Just today, mere hours before the wedding is set to happen, we were given a threat, saying that our love was finite, and we were not safe from invasion."

"N-No shit? What's going on?"

"We don't know" Luna bounced back, scrunching her muzzle."Celestia doubled guard duty, and odds are, we need to worry about infiltration more than an invasion. I mean really..,who sends a note, then attacks with a force? They obviously are attempting to fool us, or make us nervous, for some reason."

"We should get back...no time to waste." Trixie's voice was that of mild confusion, obviously wanting to leave this realm as soon as possible.

"Agreed. The wedding will be in a few minutes...and my door to this void is in my chambers. Come along..." Luna announced, clicking an invisible key into the entrance, which was also transparent. A door opened slowly, allowing Luna to teleport Trixie into the real world along with herself."Alright...I think keeping you in that jar until you're back to normal would be best...I have no idea what kind of magic could reverse such a transformation.

"So...you believe me then?"

"I don't know what to believe. You were my student, then you had feelings for Twilight, then Dash, then stuff happened and I turned into Nightmare. You went back and changed everything, and since you changed everything back, you were turned to dust because you were a loose end...that it?" Luna put a hoof on her forehead, sighing."I don't know if this is the timeline you fixed, but it's the only thing I can guess. You saw Dash living her life as it is now because you saw that when you watched things revert to normal after you went back and stopped Nightmare from moving that rock in your way, starting this butterfly effect. The way I see it, you're either telling the truth, or a really good lier. Either way..."

Luna stopped her soliloquy as she looked outside, gripping the railing of her balcony with her magic as she panted."Luna?" Trixie called back."Luna, what is it?" The unicorn used all of her might, unscrewing the cap on her glass prison and billowing out. She hastily made her way outside, widening her eyes as as saw the chaos that had been caused."Luna...how in Celestia's name did this..."

"Changelings!" She yelped, leaping from the balcony, using her wings to break her fall and land on the nearest awning. Tearing through, she looked up, seeing Trixie's dust cloud."Trixie...you should stay back...who knows what could happen if you.."

"No time...I can help. Let's just try to...LOOK OUT." She barked in the mare's head, making Luna turn forward and duck, just barely avoiding a changeling barreling toward her. The green energy crackling and fizzing around the insectoid equine made the alicorn's mane frizz momentarily as she spun, watching the creature drop onto all fours and kick a hoof into the ground as it hissed. It's sleek black texture shined and mirrored the sun as it bared it teeth, digging at the cobblestone road as it's irises narrowed.

Luna's stance stiffened as she pressed her back hooves to the ground, potental energy making the mare shake and stiffen as she lowered her front half. Her soft panting echoing in her ears as the world drowned out. Magic buzzed and popped at the tip of her horn as she zeroed in on the creature. The silence seemed as if it would last an eternity, distant explosions and screams making the alicorn's ears swivel. Finally, the silence was broken when a loud screaming of green crashed between them. From the smoke darted the chageling, the second shaking off it's crash-landing before entering the fray as well. They barreled towards the midnight mare, snarling and clicking as it's hollow legs fluted air.

The mare's breath slowed in harmony with her heartbeat as she breathed in, the distance between them lessened and shrunk rapidly. Twenty feet. Fifteen feet. Ten feet. Five feet. The hard grinding of pebbles and chitin grew louder and louder, drowned out by the loud buzz of it's tiny wings and the glow of it's horn. Luna juked left, narrowly avoiding the creature's horn as she barreled forward, knocking the changeling off balance and slamming it to the ground. Hollow limbs meant easy maneuverability, but also stunted strength and power. It swung back hard, a hind leg crashing against the alicorn's muzzle and sent her stumbling back. She shook it off, huffing as blood trickled from her nose. She growled, slamming into the insect's side and sending it careening into a cafe banner.

Luna smiled lightly before her ear turned, making her leap backwards as another lept at her from behind. Her front hooves buckled as they connected with it's muzzle at full-force, cracking and shattering from such a dead-stop. It slumped, dripping green viscera as it's eyes glazed over. She went to finish the beast off before the other bounded infront of it, turning to the alicorn and hissing defensively. Luna stopped, taking a step back and watching the creature whimper, touching horns with it's fallen comrade before closing it's eyes.

Before Luna could react, something beyond power itself shook the ground. She gasped, looking to Trixie's powdered self before eyeing the castle, watching an aura of magic explode outward and cascade in a flowing magical shield. The changelings were catapulted from the grounds, launched outwards and out of sight. She sighed, trotting to Trixie and wiping excess blood from her nose as she made her way to the main hall. She was just in time to watch Shining Armor and Cadance kiss, married at last, as she sat in the garden. Trixie's essence billowed around the alicorn, sighing.

"Well...maybe things aren't going so great, eh?"

"Things are going according to plan...who knows what might have happened if this occurred in your old timeline~"

Trixie let out a snicker as she watched Rainbow Dash performing her sonic rainboom. She would have smiled if she could, seeing the object of her affection doing what she was always meant to do...fly."Beautiful~" she let out, looking to the alicorn."So...what happens now?"

"Well," Luna retorted,"Maybe we can get the Trixie from this world to learn what you know about your old timeline."

"What will that accomplish?"

"Trixie, if we can't make you a pony again, don't you want Dash to love the Trixie you were?"

"O-Of course! So we give them both my memories of our relationship, Dash getting her love for me, and Trixie getting my love for Dash?"

Luna nodded."We just have to get them into the same place at the same time...and one spell can give them your memories."

Trixie hummed as she thought."Let's get going...I have an idea."