Today had started out so well for Trixie, she woke up from a peaceful sleep, had a nice breakfast, bathed and the weather was bright and sunny. This was all ruined when one of the wheels on her caravan broke off, however with a bit of magic and a spare wheel, she had quickly fixed the issue.
Then the replacement wheel decided the of broken wheel was feeling lonely and decided to join it.
"Dammit, that was my last spare, why must I have to suffer like this? today started out so well as well."
She slowly thought on her options.
"The nearest town if I recall is...... no, I refuse to go back there, not after what happened last time, and from what I heard Canterlot is still a big mess." She sighed, realising the only option was to attempt to fix the wheel, although she had done this before, the time it took was a massive pain.

"Hey there." The sudden voice from behind made Trixie jump in shock, she quickly turned to face the voice.
"Who dares sneak up on..." she slowly raised her head to meet Nova's eyes. "On..... the.... great and powerful...."
She gulped, Nova simply stood there waiting for her to finish.
"T-Trixie...." She finally finished, Nova chuckled a little before responding.
"Sorry, wasn't my attention to startle you, and since you introduced yourself to me, allow me to do the same, I'm Nova."
Trixie wasn't sure how to respond, Nova's sudden appearance and alien look completely threw her off, Nova decided to ignore the fact she was just staring at him and bent down to look at the broken wheel.
"Hmm, seems your having some technical difficulty here, do you have a spare?"
The question snapped her out of the stupor, she quickly took a deep breath to calm herself before responding.
"The great and powerful Trixie never has any difficulty with any task, this is a simple fix."
"Are...... you speaking in third person?"
She was caught off guard by the sudden judgement of her speech.
"The way Trixie speaks is none of your concern, now if you will excuse Trixie, she needs to fix her wheel."
Nova let out a long sigh, quickly getting tired of Trixie's obsession with third person speech.
"Whatever, do you want some help with you wheel, or are you just gonna magic it back to full condition?" he asked, making note on her horn.
"Yes, Trixie will be, now if you could please leave...."
Nova shook his head, given the way she was acting earlier and the fact she refused help and was trying to rush him away, he suspected she might be a bit too proud to admit she needed the help.
"What, you think I'm in some rush to get somewhere? besides, I want to see if you can actually magic a wheel back together."
She groaned in frustration and quickly turned her back to Nova, her horn quickly flashed and she turned back towards him, the still broken wheel being help up by levitation.
"See? Trixie has fixed her problem." She said, a smug look on her face.
Nova looked at the wheel, it was still clearly broken.
"Do you think I'm blind or something?" He asked her. "The thing is clearly still broken."
Trixie's face quickly dropped to an expression of shock.
"How can you tell?! Trixie cast her best illusion spell on it!" she suddenly shouted at him.
Nova once again sighed, it was clear to him that this mare needed to O.D. on some humility, he also noted that he couldn't even see the apparently illusion she had cast.
"You can't fix the wheel with magic can't you?" He asked, causing Trixie to flinch violently.
"T-Trixie already said she doesn't need your help so-"
Nova cut her off by suddenly yanking the wheel out of her levitation.
"Hey! what do you think you are doing?"
"Helping." He replied, he stared at the broken part of the wheel for a second, suddenly a gust of power flew out from Nova, almost knocking Trixie onto her flank.
"What did you do to Trixie's wheel?!" She yelled, worried he had destroyed it, but much to her surprises, he suddenly handed the wheel back, fully repaired.
"I'm helping."

After a little while, Trixie finally managed to put the wheel back into place.
"Trixie..... is thankful for your help, but Trixie is curious about something."
"About what?" He asked.
"Everything, what are you doing here, How did you see through Trixie's illusion, and how did you fix the wheel so easily." She asked, Nova let out a small chuckle.
"In that order? well okay, I'm travelling, I didn't see your illusion, and because I can."
Trixie didn't look satisfied with any of those answers.
"All right, where are you travelling to?"
"Dunno."
Trixie visibly twitched with rage, but took a deep breath to calm herself.
"Fine, so how did you 'not see' Trixie's illusion then? it is one of her specialities." Nova responded by pointing to his left eye.
"Magic."
She suddenly stomped her hoof down in anger.
"Why are you being so infuriating?!" She yelled in anger.
Nova face was suddenly covered with a large grin, getting a kick out of trolling the pony.
"Because I know your type, and the right way to get a reaction out of you, that and I don't actually have a set destination yet."
She scoffed at Nova and turn towards her caravan.
"Well, Trixie had best be off, it will take a while to reach the next city, Trixie can not afford to waste any more time."
"You're absolutely right, we should be heading off immediately."
Trixie followed the voice up to the roof of her home, Nova now laid there like a cat on a roof.
"What do you think you're doing on Trixie's house? get down immediately!" She shouted, Nova simply stretched out further on the roof in response, causing Trixie's Jimmies to get even more rustled.
"Look, I fixed your wheel, the least you can do is give me a ride, besides, I don't really know where I'm going anyway, it would help to have such a experienced traveller such as yourself to get me started."
Trixie stopped for a second, before suddenly looking very smug.
"Very well, since you seemed to realise Trixie is a seasoned traveller, I will give you a ride to the next town, and if your lucky Trixie may even help you find your next destination."
Trixie took a seat at the front of the caravan, her horn glowed and wrapped its magic around the wheels, slowly turning them, Nova slid down from the roof and next to Trixie.
"I get the feeling this is the start of a horrible, horrible friendship."
"Don't get ahead of yourself, Trixie is only doing this because you helped." She quickly corrected.
"Yep, a horrible, horrible friendship." He repeated, Trixie simply rolled her eyes in annoyance as they slowly made their way down the long road.

Author's Note

Companion gained? maybe, maybe not, one thing for sure though is that remembering to write in third person for Trixie is gonna be a bitch.