After having been run out of Ponyville twice, Trixie takes to the bigger cities of Equestria in hopes of attracting larger crowds so she can really start raking in the bits. When she is unsuccessful, she is forced to retreat back to the more rural parts of Equestria in search of some honest labor that can see her through the harsher months. She hops from town to town, rejected at every turn until eventually she is lead back to the town that had so cruelly ostracized her, depressed and at the end of her rope. That is, until she happens upon two young colts that were at one time her biggest fans. Thinking back on the destruction they wrought by bringing the Ursa Minor to Ponyville, she gets one heck of a devilish idea.