Chapter Seven: Showdown With Trixie

Section II: Fear Me

It’s been around four days at this point and I still haven’t seen Trixie. Asking around Ponyville only brought up hatred when I mention the name of Trixie. I figured I’d just laze about on the outskirts of town where I first met her and wait for her there. Instead, I just saw many separate colored ponies. I guess I must’ve dazed off because I was awoken by an orange pony with a cowboy type hat on.

“Wuzzat?” I asked, groggily. I must’ve been sleeping for about five hours because it looked a little past noon.

“Howdy there, red fella’. Was just makin’ sure ya were still alive”. She tipped her hat with courtesy and said “I’m Applejack.” She pointed her hoof, covered with dirt and rather rough looking, at me and asked “What’s yours?” I didn’t know what to say since I couldn’t remember my name, so I just said that my name was Earth. While Applejack talked to me, my mind was more absorbed in the fact of what I had forgotten.

Perhaps it was just under the stress of the moment that had made me forget things, considering there was a giant, cute looking pony standing on top of me at that moment. Wait, did I just say cute?! I thought, my mind racing quickly.

Feeling a little light headed, I laid down. Applejack had apparently not noticed, as she kept talking about the summer harvest. Applebloom bounded up to her and said “Come on Applejack, we gotta’ sell them apples!” Applejack looked at her sister and nodded cheerfully “Alrighty sis, was just talking to this stallion I thought was dead.” Applebloom looked past her sister and said “Howdy mister! I met you yesterday!”

How could I forget?

“Would you be so kind as to buy some apples?” the cheerful filly asked. I shrugged and paid the filly five bits for an apple. Applejack smiled lightly and said, “Red feller, you’re going to need a shower or something…your coat is kinda matted. Plus…uh…well let’s just say ya don’t smell the best.” I blushed, embarrassed. That was really brutally Honest of her to say that. They trotted off and a familiar voice spoke from behind.

“My my, how you've changed!” I turned to face Trixie, and she tossed a disdainful look towards me. “What is it you would like?”

“I’d like you know why you brought me here.”

“Hah! You think the Great and Powerful Trixie would tell you?”

“Why, yes. I don’t think so, either. I know so.”

“Haha! What makes you ‘knoooOW’-“ she began, before I pinned her against a nearby tree. She smiled smugly at me and teleported behind me, knocking me on my back. She then sat on top of my back and grinned. “Did you honestly think you could stand a chance against the Great and Powerful Trixie?” She drew her face close to mine and arrogantly whispered “Well…you can’t!” She drew up and got off of me. She looked at me one more time before she teleported away. In a flash of magnificent purple and yellow, she was gone.
She dropped something, though.

A green book. I went over to observe it and found out the book was named Pony Transformation Guides: The Complete Edition. I picked up the book and headed back to the Café. When I arrived, I was met with a smile from Pinkie. I trotted up the stairs to my room and cracked open the book. I initially thought I needed to be a unicorned pony to use the spell, until I figured out I could use many herbs and spices. “Pinkie?” I called downstairs.

“What?” she answered back.

“I’m going to need you to make a brew.”

Author's Note

Originally, Applejack was to have thought that the main character was dead, to showcase her Element of Harmony, Honesty. She was going to repeatedly say how she thought the main character was dead. Thinking of how poor of a choice that would seem, and how stupid that would make Applejack look, I decided to make her a little more brutally Honest than anything.