Author's Note

Oh man! this one took months to get right! my second pull of Blind Boxes got me figures of Trixe and Twilight! As we all know, that Ship has sailed so many times that doing a clopfic just wasnt going to do it for me, but the only other type of story we usually get from that pairing is some kind of magic contest between them, willing or unwilling doesnt seem to matter.

Well, we've got another Challenge here, but to keep this more interesting, this story is taking place in Dragon version of Equestria, Trixie and Twilight have been friends for a while so this is more of a friendly contest, oh, and Twilight cant use her magic, just science. Let's see what happens, shall we?

Story contains: Alchemy, cloning, genetic manipulation and some general silliness all characters depicted within are Dragons instead of Ponies and are of consenting age. Any OCs mentioned in the story are the writers own and any similarity they might have to other OCs is purely coincidental

Second Pull: Mage Against the Machine

Mage Against the Machine

Trixie carefully poured the contents of the flask she was holding into the mixture she prepared last night, the silvery Dragoness keeping her claws as steady as possible. Just last week, she had issued a new challenge to Twilight Sparkle, and this time she was sure that she would win! It was a stroke of pure brilliance of course, while the Royal-Class Dragoness was completely out of her weight class, magic-wise, Trixie had thought of an interesting way for Trixie, even as a mortal Magic-Class Dragon, to compete with her friend. She had challenged Twight’s mastery of Science over her mastery of Magic.

Which was why the Showdragoness was being so careful with her current potion work, everything had to be perfect if she was going to defeat the lavender scaled Princess this time. To that end, Trixie had created her greatest and most powerful magic brew yet, even going so far as to use her own blood and scale in its creation. This last flask held the final component of the brew that would finally bring Trixie the victory she sought, and she had gone to great lengths to ensure she would not be disturbed until she was done.

With the last of the flask’s contents added to the cauldron in a very precise pattern, Trixie muttered the final spells under her breath to complete the effect. As a light began to spread from the centre of the brew to the edge of the cauldron, the Silvery Dragoness began to smile. ‘Let’s see Twilight top this with her Science!’

The next day, both Dragonesses, silver scaled and lavender, stood outside the Castle of Friendship’s main gate. Twilight’s friends all stood to one side as she and Trixie approached each other.

The lavender Princess was wearing her regalia as a matter of course, Trixie knew that the enchanted limiters within the various pieces were all that held that Princess’s tremendous power in check, making it far safer for mortals like Trixie to get close to her. Trixie herself wore her usual star and moon spangled cloak and wizard hat, though she had also taken great pains to ensure that her horns and scales were polished to almost mirror brightness this morning so that she looked her best. The silver Dragoness was a bit surprised to see a new Dragoness among Twilight’s friends, another Magic-Class no less, but she focused most of her attention to the blanket wrapped basket that contained her entry into the challenge than what had changed with Twilight’s friends for now.

“Greeting Twilight Sparkle, Trixie has arrived on the agreed upon Day of Challenge and stands ready to defend her statement that your Science can never match the glory that is Magic. The spell that Trixie has worked can surly never be repeated by any save the greatest of Mages, let nodragon question that Trixie has succeeded! Behold!” Trixie pulled the blankets from the basket with a dramatic flourish, revealing the tiny Dragoness sleeping within. Several of the onlookers cooed at the sight of her as Trixie carefully picked the little one up and held her close. As silver as her mother, though with small purple highlights such as her belly scales, claws and wing membranes, the little Sky-Class was completely adorable. “This is Trixie’s creation, as well as her child, a child forged of Magic and given life through the aether. Trixie presents the future Great and Powerful Moonbeam Lunawing!” Twilight smiled at the little Dragoness in Trixie’s arms, her tail flicking a little to the left and the right.

“She’s adorable Trixie, congratulations. Not only do you now have a daughter to love, but very few Magic-Class dragons have ever fully created new life using nothing but Magic. You should be very proud of your accomplishment and I wish you luck in your new role as a mother, Sky-Class hatchlings can be quite the clawfull. As for me, what I bring to the Challenge is much the same as you likely did with your new daughter.” She beckoned to her assistant-slash-brother, Spike, and he brought out three steel coloured pods. “It was a lot of work without the aid of Magic, but I think that I managed well enough. But may I present Twinkle, Soar and Ironclaw, the Children of Science given life through genetic engineering and alchemy?” the three pods opened and within each was another tiny Dragon, two males and a female, as well as each of them being a different Class. Twinkle, the female, was a Magic-Class hatchling, her scales a light pink and her horns and claws being pure white. The smaller male, Soar, was a Sky-Class hatchling, having mostly blue scales with a rainbow crest and yellow highlights. Ironclaw was a sturdy little Earth-Class, somewhat pudgier than Soar, with russet red scales that carried a slight orange undertone.

Trixie stared at the three hatchlings for a few moments before turning to Twilight in shock. The unspoken ‘how?’ must have been visible in her expression because the lavender Dragoness started to speak again.

“Donations of blood from my friends to start with, from their DNA I created the genetic bases, then it was just a matter altering the genetics of the embryos generated though the use of alchemy and growing them in artificial eggs at a slightly accelerated rate. I didn’t do as well as you though Trixie, I created four, but only thee survived.”

“That is still more than Trixie…but how to judge the contest…”

“How about we call this one a draw Tixie? We both succeeded after all, and the next few months are going to be kind of trying for both of us. You have your new daughter, but I have three little terrors now!”

“Heh heh, true enough, true enough Twilight. Trixie agrees to the draw, though she must say that she will be victorious in our next battle as a matter of course.”

“Sure you will Trixie, the score is only thirty five to one, my favour after all. By the way, why does Moonbeam have some purple scales when you don’t?”

“Um, Trixie may, or may not, have bribed your little brother with a bag of emeralds for some of his scales and blood.”

“Oh Spike…”