Spells, Summons, Strikes... and Trixie?

8:30 AM, Sugarcube Corner

Rainbow Dash's P.O.V.

I was enjoying her early morning snack at Sugarcube Corner: A wheat bran muffin and a choco-protein shake, and who else the greatly annoying Trixie. I was completely oblivious to the aura of power surrounding Trixie, Trixie's new 'IT' Factor. As Trixie walked over to Pinkie at the counter I snidely remarked, "Hey! the greatly annoying Trixie, bet your magic can't make you as awesomely cool as me?."

Pinkie though for some reason started screaming. "No Dashie you really don't wanna do that 'cause she's..."

"Gonna make you eat those words. By taking your bet, just name the activity and time and Trixie will crush you! Oh, my dear Dashie bring your little friends I'm sure they'll love me schooling you in the follies of your own pride Aha haha ha!"

"Then I call a tri athletic face off! At a Quarter to eleven, First the obstacle course, Then one-on-one basketball most points in ten minutes and finally 'beat the goalie'."

"Deal, But magic is allowed. if your allowed your brute strength dash, then Trixie must have her sheer cunning. Now if you don't mind the great and powerful Trixie could use a Cherry-Cheese Danish."

Pinkie Pie's P.O.V.

Pinkie noticed the strange energy radiating from her newly awakened spell matrix that reminded the pink party planner to though Trixie a 'Happy Awakening' party."Oh! off topic, bad mindset obsession she had to warn the girls. Most people naturally awaken when there still toddling. Trixie managed to force her awakening while not unheard of in grade school. Trixie was in high school going on College!

Trixie's Ego X raw untrained potential, much needed background & experience + Rainbow Dash's challenge = Catastrophe in monumentally epic proportions. No matter how Pinkamina Diane Pie did the math, expect one far flung hair brain never gonna work plan. she needed to 'spike the punch' as it were, but first the danish TRIXIE wanted.

Pinkie already knew of the mages in the world, they were excellent customers. Just a handful of their pocket change could buy her a new hyper deluxe party cannon special and have enough for the ammo, but back to the matter at hand, How was she gonna get the power restrict potion down. Trixie smug throat? Hmmm! Yes that should work, it has to or Trixie might hurt her self or someone else.

"One Cherry/Cheese Danish coming up, and we're trying something new just for the danishes? A new glaze adds flavor and boosts your energy. No charge."

"Trixie will consider it next time, right now all Trixie wants is her pastry. That and a bottle of diet cola"

No! I need to feed her this glaze for all our sakes, time for plan B.

"Won't you consider a sampler? N-no trouble at-t all."

"Trixie will NOT take a 'sampler. Pinkie your acting weirder than normal, and Trixie didn't thing that was possible. Now good day and au due. "  With that, Trixie bit into the danish as she payed for it and then walked out.

Pinkster why didn't you offer ME any that glaze and why were you selling it so hard to Trix?"

I did something that defied my very being: I glared venom drenched daggers at my best friend. If looks could kill Dash would be dead twenty times over.

One last plan. Desperate times and all. "Dash I want you to pinkie promise to do what I tell you, no questions asked. Do I have your word?" My face was smiling, but my hair had lost nearly all it's fluff. (My hair never could lie worth a darn.)

"Pink you're starting to scare me, what is it you want me to do? Tell me that and I'll give you my answer."

"I was afraid you say that. I want you to let Trixie win. Now pinkie promise!" My voice was flatter than Granny Pie's flapjacks.

"Heck no! Ain't gonna happen! No way! I'll just throw the match! Pinkie have you been hit on the head? maybe we need to get you to a doctor."

My tear dam broke. "Its gonna be YOU WHO'LL NEED A DOCTOR, IF NOT AN UNDERTAKER!"

Dash was stunned. Pinkie Pie could almost see the cogs gears and pistons work in her spectrum haired friend.

I didn't want to call the cavalry, but I'm plum out options.

10:30 AM, CHS Track and Field Complex

3thd Person P.O.V.

Sunset shimmer was intently listening to a irate Pinkie. Sunset clarified  was saying confirming facts and details with the Twilight Sparkle affectionately dubbed 'Sci-Twi'.

Fluttershy was relaxing. Dash, Applejack and Rarity AFTER one go through of Pinkie, were betting the odds 21:2 Trixie's favor, and Pinkie had not yet gotten to the powerful spells.  Pinkie was still holding back one of the first and therefore 'Weakest' was 'summon spellbound'. since she hadn't that meant one of any number of things, foremost; 1) She could not summon it for some reason. (Best scenario.) 2) She wouldn't summon it for reasons of pride. (Close second) 3) It had sealed itself until it deemed her worthy. (which was bad) 4) And 5); she can't control it, for It was cloaked WAAAY too well.( Either way was really, really bad.)

"Pinkie Darling, how do you know so much about these 'Spellbinders'? I would expected Sunset to know, but she looks just as befuddled as the rest of us and from what you say they don't like the spotlight. While our friend Trixie seems to not 'fit the build' as it were." Rarity Belle said with the elegance (and snobby arrogance,) of an uptown girl.

"Ah have eh feeling' Pinkie's telling the truth," AJ said, and Pinkie visibly relaxed. " BUT MY Granny Smith bakes Plum liar pies, ifn' your selling' the whole bushel of apples Cuz'."  Pinkie was tense again.

"Uh! if you don't mind me asking... but why are the called 'Spellbinders'? That i-is, If you want too." Fluttershy asked with the innocence of the ignorant, But now 'Shy had brought it to the light Pinkie had no choice but to answer it.

Pinkie close her shining blue eyes and let out a deep mournful sigh. A thing practically unheard-of from the up beat party master.

"Their call that because they own, from conception of their power, one magic spirit to serve them until the spirit passes from this world. Sorta like the Dazzlings' Spirit Avatars, only more like a mirror of the owner's soul rather then a weapon construct. Really who in their right mind thinks hypno-music is a good weapon choice??"

Sci-Twi tried to calm Pinkie Pie, knowing all to well the corrupting force pure power was. Sci-Twi STILL had nightmares of the 'Midnight Incident'.  "Can't we find to peacefully defuse the situation? Like take way her magic?" She asked a hint of comprehension of the mess Rainbow had wrought.

"Uh uh! All Magi are a proud folk and take challenges seriously, and take away their mana they could die!" Pinkie explained while trying not to have a fit.

"Pinkie you've been my friend for a couple of years and you've never been this flat haired talking about anything, but if what you say is true, we have a real problem.  It begs the question: How do you know all this?"

" 'Cause I'ma 'magic shopkeep'! I can see their aura waves and then get them just what they need!" Pinkie blubbered.

everyone but Pinke. " HUHWHAT???"

"Oh-great! Now my friends think I'm a freak! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!"

"Pinkie! Pinkie!! Pinkie!!!!" Dash yelled. "It's not working! Anybody got any sweets?"

Applejack pulled out a neatly rapped parcel. "It the last slice o' me granny's world famous pie. Ah WAS gonna eat it fer lunch, But seen' Pinkie in such a state. Here. Use it as you see fit." Dash took the pie and unceremoniously rammed it down Pinkie's wailing maw!

"Hey just a minute, when ah said 'as you see fit'. ah DID NOT MEAN STUFF'ER LIKE HOG!"

10:30 AM Trixie's house

Trixie's P.O.V.

OH Dangit! With the public library opening at 9 o'clock, And the spellbook claiming that everyone before doing any magic need at lest thirty minutes to an hour to meditate and gain mystical equilibrium. Having done the full hour Trixie could almost feel the cosmic flow.

To keep her mind sharp she had done some research on the ins and outs of the Arcane Element.

There was not much solid spells in the 'Young Magi's Handbook,' or 'Spells and Your Attribute'. What did have the most Arcane spells was a book the librarian snuck into her bag when she wasn't looking.( She had gotten A LOT of books.) 'Magic at the Core, Basic Spells for Anyone'.

First thing i'm going to need in my bag of tricks in my summons, is a line of defence.

A Wildvine Ent if caught young, will obey if your charming skill is a C or higher, see charms cross reference grades, 'appendix B.'

Trixie huffed and opened the back of the tome. what she read next made Trixie feel like she had won some-universal lottery because this had to be a joke.

S Instinct summoning.

A Instinct force projection, Permanent

B Instinct force projection, Temporary

C Focused instinct charm

D Unfocused charm, any

F Unable to cast any charm.

She cast the ritual for the plant monster to cross a finish in five minutes. Now that Trixie have a Shieldman the great and powerful Trixie needs a vanguard,  and Trixie knows just what she wants... A Stardust Drago-Crusher, the most adaptable dragon type there is but that means there hard to control maybe a young one? No! Trixie was not a quitter, yes a hatchling! that who Trixie will call forth.

Trixie tossed a pack of hotdogs in the microwave and began the summon a uncontracted stardust dragon-crusher that fit her build. Finally after what felt like forever, she got a bite and dragon had accepted her as master. Now time for the medic, devine and able to fight as well as recover the mind and body. Hmmm!.... An angel Is too power for even the great Trixie, But what's this? The pages are stuck to gather?

Mechaloid

Mechanoid, or the 'worker bee of the heavens' is a magical clockwork Golem. Varying in size and shape, Mechanoids are creatures that are built to serve their masters. They take great pride in their work, whether it is building a monument to the gods, or scrubbing floors.  For a summoner lucky enough to have one shows good charming skills, or just dumb luck. Either way there's a gem in the world of light.

The only thing bad you could say is this; They're both slow in mind and body.

Size: Varies

Attribute: Light/Divine

Physical strength: high

Physical hardiness: mid-high

Magical strength: high-mid

Magical resistance: mid

Speed:low-mid

Intellectual equal: a very bright child

Ease of summoning: Easy, But are highly willful making for poor gates.

Trixie wrote a note detailing what her demands:

I, The great and powerful Trixie Lulamoon humbly seek my own mechanoid as a fighter, but foremost as a healer and mage supplemental caster. I, Trixie Lulamoon pledge not to abuse my rights as either summoner nor master. Other requirements is you fit though my front door. I, Trixie Lulamoon also pledge to protect and care for my new ally.

This is my terms

Your arcane summoner,

The great and powerful Trixie

Trixie rolled the note took the spool of white 'sending' ribbon, which said would give to Hermes.(though she didn't know how. but she wasn't gonna question magic, that was playing with an inferno and Trixie knew it. Before she tied the bow Trixie put a tag that read; "To the best candidate."

As Trixie checked her watch, 10:44!! Damn! She was gonna be late! welp as per maoto, go big or die! Was slowly becoming.

10:45 AM CHS Track and Field Complex

Third person P.O.V.

The air crackled to life as a sphere of brown light started to build.The seven teens on the beachers rushed to see what on earth was going on.

Suddenly, Pinkie started to shake all over. "Cover your ears the boom is gonna be a doisy!" Crouching down and covering her ears with her arms. "Ya'll better do as she says, Pinkie tends to be right bout these things." Applejack said, putting her hat in her teeth and holding her ears. Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash covered their ears as a silhouette of a girl formed in the thundering brown orb two meters tall.

Scientific Twilight transfixed stare plastered over her face like cheap wallpaper, As the image in the ball of energy became more pronounced, Sci-Twi stared to walk trance like tord the oaker globe of light.

"Twi no! If that is what I think it is, you don't wanna be anywhere near one."Sunset cried out. Desperately trying to snap her friend from the grips of a deadly fate. That's when three ghostly wisps infused the orb, it turn white then grey blowing away, then came a ear shattering implosion.

Trixie was singed, but other than that she was fine. She was wearing her battle robes she had in her nightmares.

Trixie was clad in a set of Ivory and Ebony robes, they seem to forgo flash and flare and more function based.

"Trixie will give you a back out point, but it is only good for ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two ... one... zero. Okay but since this is your ballgame, when it comes to the obstacle course I will need only one spell to win."

"One spell? Ha! You're awfully confident, are we or you forgetting last spring's physical? You had the longest time, and I had the best of all the senior grade."

Trixie was ignoring Dash and sitting at the starting line, crossed arms, and a look of PURE boredom on her face. Huffing Rainbow readied her stance.

Event 1# the obstacle course.

Rainbow ran the tires with ease, then climbed the swinging ladder to the platform above crossed the mailman bridge. On the knotted rope next was the belly crawl, after that the mud pit.  The finish line Trixie form started to become more and more ghost-like. 'Spector Trixie' wafted over the tires in moments, creeped up and over and under the next three obstacles in a matter of seconds before gliding to victory. " Told you!! Fool. Here! get out of that mud, and hit the showers. Levitation!" as the spell engaged rocketing Dash in to the CHS locker room Discord had mysteriously left open.

Brake. Showers

Rainbow had never had second thoughts about her brash actions before but now? Now Dash was aching for a good ol' heaping helping of humble pie, and maybe a side of think-before-you-act. After the first event, Trixie spell demolished any chance of an even playing field. Trixie had always been a blowhard, but now she could back the brag RD was regretting, ever challenging the magician.

Well as Dad used to say; Dash, my little lady, you made this mess, now your going to have to clean it up.

Well best get the apology over.

"Yo! Trixie! I, I just wanted to say, I'm sorry. Sooo, maybe we can drop the challenge? No hard feelings?" Dash asked, but then wished she hadn't.

"Sorry? your not sorry! Oh! but you will be, have you forgotten the pranks,  Pranks the great and forgiving Trixie can abide by, but you're heckling. You're heckling of my craft is sacrilege! You went and got pony magic and made my illusions nothing but old news, nothing special. You're only apologizing to save face, you aren't sorry, but after I get done. you. Will. Be.

Event 2# ten min. basketball shoot out

"Trixie WAS going to go easy on you, Rainbow Dash, but you reminded Trixie how very much you need to be taught a lesson. Well I hope you studied math because... THIS QUIZ IS YOUR FINAL GRADE!!!" Trixie yelled wind blowing around her as brown lightning danced over Trixie's form. "First question, Addison: Lighting plus Wind equals?"

Rainbow put on her game face, she knew that she knew nothing about magic she just had to score.

"Oh! The timer has run out, the answer was Mobility." Trixie moved in a flash, scoring 5 points in succession.

"Maybe you were out of school that day? How 'bout subtraction: Darkness minus Light?" Dash mind went dark and fearful.

"What did you do Trixie? What happened to Dash?" Sunset cried.

"I took her, 'hope of a better'. Now if you will." *swoosh* 2 points, *dunk* 1 point, * swoosh, swoosh* 4 points.

"Hey Dash..." Trixie said with and on Rainbow Dash's right back shoulder, "Here I have no use for it, Soo take it, It is yours by right." A shining crystal star sunk into RD and she gasped.

"Next subject, Mutilation, Question: Gemini times caster is how much trouble are you in?"

Trixie stepped to the left and the right leaving nothing where Trixie had originally stood. "Well times up, if you wrote down: 'Twice as much as I can handle.' A+ any thing other F." the two Trixies said in eerie sync.

*Running* it was the buzzer saying the ten minutes were up.

The score board read as follows:

Rainbow Dash      Trixie Lulamoon

           0                              12

Event 3# attack on the goalie

Dash had never been one for cowardice, far from it, but the fear was starting to become all to real. Who went first was decided by coin flip. Trixie won the toss, taking second half of the competition was hers to defend.

"The great and powerful Trixie is bored, Trixie wants to even the field as it were. 'Rainbow Dash limit release'!"

At the end of the showgirl's simple incantation,  Dash sprouted her sky blue wings and pony ears.

"Now the playing field is a little less lopsided, my power still far surpasses yours Dash but since we are playing one-on-one. Pity really for the great and powerful Trixie when called to a challenge. The one thing she wanted was a challenge!" Trixie snorted. "Twilight what are the rules of this game 'Attack the Goalie'?"

Sci-Twi pulled out a old paperback titled '5,001 sport games and drills'. You decide who goes first...Who attack who and what order...oh here it is. Five balls (or pucks, Hockey version.) at the scoring line. The goalie must block as many balls as they can." Sci-Twilight pulled her nose out of her book.

"No restrictions on magic, how very odd and fortunate. Fortunate for me!! Dash I will on the magician's honor to pay you in full, but only if you beat me here. This event last events not withholding, but if you should lose, I want you to give Rarity free reign over your dress code for a month."

The shoot out began in earnest.  The first two shots were laced, one with fire and the other electricity. Rainbow tried to block block an easy shot, only to have it phase though her hand. "Time for my double header, speed AND power enhancement." Trixie crooned. "Oh Rainbolt. If you lose this block, you won't be such hot stuff, because you'll be Rarity's personal manikin, and even you do best you can do is TIE! Now last shot how to humiliate you? Hmm yes I think that'll do nicely." With a devilish gleam in her eye, Trixie putted the soccer ball into a hole that appeared out of no where.

"Hey! Now we'll never get this over..... which means I can still win this!!" Cried an overjoyed Rainbow Dash.

"My, My, My! Trixie never knew you would count your trophies before you earned them, Raindolt Crash." Trixie said confidence strong as a steel bar.

"No ball, no score. Right Twily?" Dash asked the bookworm.

"If a shot fails to stay in the area of play and cannot be retrieved, Then yes it is a loss." 'Twily' answered.

"Then why don't you let thee net speak for itself."

"What do yo..." Rainbow started to say as her eye bulged, the net was the ball magic residue crackling all over it."BUCK!!"

Now it's Trixie's turn to defend. Trixie needs to block one measly goal to win, and since the great and magnanimous Trixie will give you four point on the board to start, but Crashie can only kick once. Or we can draw out little Crashie's misfortune of going five kicks longer, the choice is yours Dashiekins."

Dash looked to the thing she prized most."If I take this deal you'll not harm my buddies, then yes I will."

"Splened! Now, Take your best shot!" Trixie made her way to the center of the net..... and sat down, crossed her arms over her chest and legs under her.

"Any time you're ready Dashie." Said the sitting Trixie.

Rainbow was deeply confused, She looked to her friends who were giving her the 'we don't know either' sign.

"Well here goes nothing and everything." A Dash rocketed the ball straight into a invisible wall where it spun picking up speed and power.

"You best duck Dash, if you don't want a hurtin'." AJ screamed, but it was already much too little too late, the ball shot out like a cannonball out of a over loaded cannon! It hit Dash in the gut making her fly back a revert to normal. Her friend rushed to help her.

"What were you thinking Trixie? A simple barrier would have done the trick, but nnooo! You have to be mean fancypants and use a supped u mirror wall. You keep your word to the letter but, who got hurt?? You wanted power, *Sniff* Well now you got the power of a monster! I hope your happy." A strait hared Pinkie Pie traded at a stunned Trixie. Trixie had nearly killed Rainbow Dash, if it wasn't for Dash's magic, she be singing with the celestial choir. Trixie need help, but first she need to fix what was damaged.

"MEDICO!!!!" As soon as the word left Trixie's lips, dash was bathed in a warm green glow.

"Woah! talk about a pick me up." Dash said as the glow faded.

"Trixie must go now, I must get to a new teacher. My winning are hereby mute and forfeit. Good bye. "