S1E6: Spike Busters

Twilight and Spike were in the library, Twilight practicing her magic on her drakefriend. They were giggling at all of the antics that she was doing. Apple Bloom had come to watch of course. It was going to be a good day...

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Once Twilight finished practicing her magic, 25 "tricks" in total, Snips and Snails came in saying that there was a magical unicorn with ridiculous amounts of magical prowess. Spike and Apple Bloom of course denied this. They all then went down to see what all the hoopla was about. A Unicorn named "The Great and Powerful Trixie" had come into town. It seemed at first very impressive for her display, but then when one looked at it a bit more, one would realize it's just a fancy light show that even Pegasi and Earth Ponies could recreate. Of course they did so and proved to Trixie they could do the same. She wouldn't have any of it apparently since that's what a pony with a giant ego would do. The apparently rude citizens of Ponyville laughed and the misfortune of the Pegasi and Earth Ponies who got blackened faces from their sabotaged attempt to use fireworks to prove Trixie was a sham. Trixie went as so far as to say she vanquished an Ursa Major.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, then Rarity tried to prove Trixie wrong. Unfortunately for them, the three of them got tied up, self-rainbowed, and got a messy hairdo respectively. Fortunately, someone (Twilight Sparkle) would not have any of it and secretly sabotaged Trixie back by tying her up after Applejack hopped off the stage, then rainbowed her after Rainbow Dash's antics, and then changed her hat into a pile of snakes. Trixie made it look like she did those three things on purpose, idiot. Twilight, Apple Bloom, and Spike still giggled at Trixie's own backfire. The very rude and ungrateful Ponyville citizens of course laughed at all the misfortunes of both sides.

Anyways, later in the day after the show that Trixie made, Snips and Snails decided to see if Trixie was lying, so they woke up what they thought was an Ursa Major (really an Ursa Minor) and ended up bringing it to Ponyville. The Ursa Minor apparently only had a budget to wreck one building. Trixie of course freaked out and trembled as she looked at the Ursa Minor.

"Stop goofin' around and vanquish it, eh?" Snails got impatient.

Trixie attempted to summon a spell but it was a dud.

"Come on! Where's all the cool explosions and smoke and stuff like earlier?" Snips questioned.

Trixie tried again but to no avail.

"Uh-oh," was all the dashed unicorn could say.

The Ursa roared and general chaos ensued. Twilight and Spike ran out to see what all the commotion was about.

"Alright, what's going on!" Twilight yelled.

"We brought an ursa to town!" Snips and Snails dumbly exclaimed.

"You what!?!" was what Twilight and Spike yelled.

"Don't worry, the Great and Powerful Trixie will vanquish it," Snails commented.

Trixie realizing the jig was up, sighed.

"I can't," Trixie spoke out.

"What!?" the colts yelled out in shock.

"Oh, I can't, I never have. No one can vanquish an ursa major. I just made the whole story up to make me look better," Trixie bawled out.

"Made it up!?"

It was at this point that Twilight knew she had to act fast, she used cattails to lullaby the Ursa Minor to sleep and got it a nice big bottle of milk that WAS NOT Ponyville's water tower that they needed oh so much, and then sent it back to its loving parent in peace. Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Spike, and Applejack were impressed and cheered their friend on for being humble and just acting rather than boasting.

"Unbelievable!" Rainbow cheered.

"That was amazing!" Was Spike's cheer.

"Heavens to Betsy! We knew you had ability, but not that much!" Applejack wow'ed.

"I'm sorry. Please, please don't hate me," Twilight was scared.

Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity all questioned, "Hate you?"

"Why, whatever do you mean, darling?" Rarity asked.

"Well, I know how much you all hated Trixie's showing off with her magic tricks, and I just thought--" Twilight began.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Magic's got nothing to do with it. Trixie's just a loudmouth," Rainbow commented truthfully.

"Most unpleasant," Rarity matter of factly stated.

"All hat and no cattle," Applejack expressed.

"So, you don't mind my magic tricks?" Twilight meekly asked.

"Your magic is a part of who you are, sugarcube, and we like who you are. We're proud to have such a powerful, talented unicorn as our friend," Applejack proudly proclaimed.

"And after saving Ponyville, we're even prouder," Rainbow added.

"You are?" Twilight asked.

The response was a simultaneous "mmhmm" from the three of them, all ever so thankful for Twilight being their friend.

"Wow, Twilight, how'd you know what to do with that ursa major?" Spike was impressed by his marefriend's intuition.

"That's what I was doing when you came looking for me. I was so intrigued by Trixie's bragging that I was compelled to do a little reading up on them," Twilight replied to her drakefriend.

"So it is possible to vanquish an ursa major all by yourself?" Spike curiously asked.

"That wasn't an ursa major. It was a baby, an ursa minor," Twilight matter-of-factly stated.

"That was just a baby?" Trixie exlcaimed.

"And it wasn't rampaging. It was just cranky because someone woke it up," Twilight also matter-of-factly stated.

"Well, if that was an ursa minor, then what's an ursa major like?" Spike asked.

"You don't wanna know," Twilight matter-of-factly stated.

"Huh. You may have vanquished an ursa minor, but you will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability of--" Trixie tried to begin.

"No Trixie, boasting is not a quality I would want to have, not to mention lying blatantly to the crowd. It just isn't the right thing to be doing. Luckily, you can still redeem yourself," Twilight commented.

Trixie disagreed, still thinking that she was just shown up, then ran away.

"Maybe someday she'll learn her lesson," Twilight commented, then turned to the two idiot colts, "now, about you two."

Snips just laughed nervously.

"Uh, we're sorry that we woke up the ursa minor," Snips nervously trembled.

"We just wanted to see some awesome magic," Snails honestly spoke.

"Yeah! And the way you vanquished that ursa minor was awesome!" Snips continued.

"We deserve whatever punishment you give us," Snails finished off.

Twilight Sparkle pulled out a paddle, everypony knows that a spanking was in order.

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have learned a very valuable lesson about friendship: I was so afraid of being thought of as a showoff that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents, and there are times when it's appropriate to show them off... Especially when you're standing up for your friends.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

Apple Bloom had gone home with Applejack after she hung out with the Mane 6 and Spike for a while after all the chaos.

"So, you finally admit that you're the most talented unicorn in all of Ponyville?" Spike asked with interest.

"Well, yeah, but it's nothing to brag about," Twilight commented.

"You'll always be my talented Unicorn though," Spike gave Twilight a peck on the lips.

Twilight blushed at that and smiled knowing Spike genuinely meant that. They then had a good slumber in Twilight's bed.

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