The Element of Shipping: Trixie, Fluttershy and Applejack

by Kyoko

Rating: everyone
Tags: Applejack, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Fluttershy, Trixie
Length: 1414

Trixie returns to Ponyville and is helped by a kind pegasus, but not everypony supports her return.

It's the night she left town and Trixie is looking for her stuff. Instead, she finds a pegasus who is intent on helping her.
Fluttershy gives her treatment. Applejack comes over and gets angry at Trixie, but Fluttershy gets angry at AJ's prejudice an, through intimidation, convinces Applejack to give her a chance.

A slight warning: It was made randomly and rapidly for a thread on /oat/.

Published 2012-05-03 01:14:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-05-03 01:14:02 UTC

Part Three

"You!"
Applejack barged into the room, full of hatred. She dropped her wet dog and marched up to the showmare. Her beautiful green eyes now aglow with hatred.
"Y'all come to mah town, humiliate me and mah friends and then bully the sweetest filly this side of Celestia's great orb? Ah should buck you to the moon for what y'all have done!"
The showmare looked up at the enraged worker, her eyes glistening full of tears. "I-I am sorry for w-what I did, I wa..." She began.
"That's a load of manure! Y'all should be ashamed of yourself! Get out of mah town!" She said, flaming up in anger more than Twilight encountering the book of the same name.
Fluttershy began crying even more hearing her friend yell, Trixie suddenly looked scared and worried. "Miss, it's not as it se..." She began hesitantly.
"Look at yourself, yah made her cry again!" She yelled at the horned one before lending a hoof to the pegasus. "It'll be alright Fluttershy, Ah'll protect y'all." She whispered in a soothing tone.
Fluttershy just began to cry more, hating the prejudice of her friend. "T-t-trixie isn't that bad... S-s-she just needs love..." She tried to say to the earth pony.
Applejack turned to the strange mare, still angry at her. "Have you brainwashed her? Witch!" She cried, letting the hate course through her.
"S-s-she's not a witch, Apple..." The sad but calming pegasus tried to make out. Her voice was overshadowed by the caring friend, however.
"Of course she's a witch. She probably weighs as much as a duck!" The workpony was overloaded, unable to distinguish mare from myth.
Trixie began to cry, Fluttershy stopped hers and instead stood up tall, her determination breaching her shy exterior. She looked the angry mare right in the eye and almost yelled, "I decided to care for Trixie because it's always best to share kindness! You're actions have frightened not only my animals, but has made you forget why you even came here in the first place!"
Fluttershy gestured towards Winona, now huddled up in a corner, hugging Angel out of fear. "Fluttershy ah..." Applejack began, but Fluttershy did not let her continue.
"You insulted my guests! Do you know how poorly that reflects on me as a host Applejack?" The cream pegasus shot a glance at Applejack that would traumatise a lesser pony.
"Fluttershy, ah'm sorry." Applejack finally managed to get out. "I should have respected you more. Can y'all forgive me?"
Fluttershy snapped out of her rampage. "I'm sorry Applejack... But yes, I forgive you." She said, backing away to attend to the sick puppy. "Oh, you're going to need the special medicine." She said, floating into the other room to prepare said medicine.
Applejack watched the mare fly by, still curious about what kind of weird power she had. "I'm sorry." A voice came from behind. In her fear, Applejack had forgotten the reason for her outburst.
"Ah'm sorry too missy." The worker replied, grabbing the spoon and helping to feed the sick pony in front of her. "Ah should not have jumped to conclusions so fast."
Fluttershy returned and administrated the medicine to the sick and frightened dog. Applejack stayed around because the storm was too heavy. As the rabbit and dog curled up together in a basket, the three fillies all laughed at tales they had to tell.
Upstairs atop a cloak of purple lay a golden locket. It flew open suddenly, revealing a picture of a young unicorn hugging her two best friends. As it did so, the mare downstairs gave a smile and read the inscription from memory.
"Never give up, follow your instincts." She said, before joining in a laugh with her new friends.

Part One

Err... Before submitting this to this site, I need to say a few things.
1. This was made in an /oat/ roll thread. All of it. Three posts. I rushed it, as well.
2. This has a few references to Ponychan Posters. Like Moony, a poster who posts as Fluttershy and has the heart of her too.
3. The title is such because of my /oat/ name.
4. I suck at writing. I would like feedback.
5. Enough of this, lets go!

Trixie crept into the town. The nighttime air surrounded her, but she needed her stuff. She had no money, no clothing. She was alone.
She reached the site of her destroyed vehicle, her stuff was gone. There were some feathers there, but not her precious locket... She had nothing. She began to cry.
"Err... Excuse me." A timid voice said behind her. "Do you need help?"
The gallant unicorn turned around and found herself faced with a pegasus. The bright pink mane of this cream filly was prominent in the nightlight.
"The great and powerful Trixie does not need help..." The performer said. It had been only a few hours since she had fled. "But I am no longer great or powerful. I'm just a mare."
She pouted, she was worthless. Nopony in the town cared for her. The light blue mare's tears of the same colour hit the floor below her, but a wing wiped them from her face.
"Trixie, I have your things. If you need somewhere to stay, I shall give you shelter for the night."
The pegasus was like an angel, not assertive, but not weak. She held out her hoof to the destroyed mare before her. The mare looked at her with a pitiful look upon her once proud face.
"You would do that for Trixie?" She asked, bewildered by kindness. She sneezed as she took the hoof in hers.
Our angelic hero smiled at the broken one. "Of course, I'll take care of you no matter what."
And with that, Fluttershy and Trixie wandered over to Fluttershy's cottage at the edge of town.

Part Two

It was midnight before the two mares arrived at the cottage blessed by the animals. The great sky had clouded over, and they had just got in before the main torrent of rain attacked. The once-great performer was shivering from the cold. She looked strong, but she was weak.
"W-why are you h-helping me, F-f-fluttershy?" The cold one began, but the pegasus simply guided her into the cottage and onto the green sofa.
"Hush now, quiet now. Dr Fluttershy is here to help all friends." While her voice was quite, her voice was pure enough to breach the confines of mere mortality and enter the ears of the one she was caring for.
"T-t-trixie is your friend?" The unicorn asked, a little doubtful of this. Since a fellow blue traveller had met on her journeys a long time ago, nopony had cared for her.
"Of course. My daddy Moony told me to love everypony, so I do!" She smiled, looking at a picture that seemed to be of herself, but upon Trixie's closer inspection turned out to be a very effeminate stallion.
Trixie began to rest, tired from the day's activities. No sooner had she drifted off to sleep was she awakened by the timid pegasus carrying some soup, honey and herbal tea.
"Err.... I'm very sorry to disturb you Trixie but... I brought you something to help you get better."
The unicorn was thirsty, and thus used her magic to float the cup over to her lips and gave it a taste. It gave her a fishy taste in her mouth, causing her to give a spit take.
"The great and powerful Trixie feels like you are trying to poison the great and powerful Trixie!" The powdered blue one exclaimed in her showmare voice.
Fluttershy was on the verge of tears. "I wasn't trying to hurt you..." She wiped some from her eyes, "I just made you some Green Tea with Jasmine... It helps the sniffles... I even brought you the last of my honey to sweeten it..."
She dropped to the floor, cursing herself for being such a bad host. Trixie felt ashamed of doing such a thing to such a nice helper, and extended a hood to stroke the pegasus' ear.
"I'm sorry... I just grew up with a few bad ponies that would do that... Even so soon after meeting you, I know I can tr..."
Before she could finish what she was saying, the door burst wide open. A crack of lightning as it did so.
"Winona's been hurt, ah need your help Flu..."