Rise of the Prince of Justice

  “Are you sure that it is fine for me to just leave my stuff in this room here Twilight? I mean I’ve got quite a lot of stuff here…” Eclipse asked Twilight, concerning that his stuff occupying Twilight’s castle’s space.

  “No problem there, just follow this address and you’ll find the mare you’re looking for. Don’t worry though, AJ will show you the way.”

  “Alright there sugercube, let’s get going!” Applejack hopped into the air, feeling really energetic for whatever reason.

  They said goodbye to Twilight and stepped out of the castle. He followed Applejack and navigated his way through the town. After a short walk they both arrived at a stage.

  “Here’s where you can find that mare, ‘The Great and Powerful Trixie’ as she refers herself as. She’s kinda arrogant by the way so good luck for you sugercube.”

  “Alright then, see you later Applejack.” Eclipse waved a hoof. He then turned towards the stage again, trying to figure out what to do next.

  In a sudden, a light blue colored mare popped up from nowhere, and she shouted,

  “THE GREAT, AND POWERFUL, TRIXIE~~~!”

  “Whoa!” Eclipse got surprised by the shout and he fell backwards, landing on his back. After he had figured out what on Equestria just happened, he rapidly stood back up and tried not to look embarrassed.

  “Mares and gentlecolts, for The Great and Powerful Trixie has 2 tricks to perform today for all of you!”

  She then took a piece of wooden board and did some magic on it, she started throwing some stuff towards the board. Surprisingly those stuff didn’t stop and fall while it made contact with the board, instead it flew right through the board, and the board is still in one piece!

  Then she took out another piece of wooden board and stood it parallel against the previous one, spacing them for around 10 feet apart from each other. And after some more magic, she jumped straight towards one of the boards and popped out from the other piece of board. She turned the boards in to portal!

  Eclipse clapped his hoof hard after Trixie’s show. Not much of the other audience seemed to be amused and they just walked away, continue with their own business.

  Trixie went down the stage and goes behind it. Eclipse followed the mare and meanwhile thinking, how should he start the conversation with her and what to say.

  Soon Trixie arrived at a rather large trailer, which looks like to be her home. Right before she steps into her trailer, she seemed to have noticed that somepony is tailing her and therefore she turned around to see who it is. She saw Eclipse standing a few meters away from her.

  “There, what may the Great and Powerful Trixie do for you?” She started.

  “Well there, the Great and Powerful Trixie, I’m actually looking for a new job around and Princess Twilight Sparkle told me to find you and that you may need a new assistant…” Eclipse replied, not really sure about what should he say while talking to this mare.

  “Hmpf.” She took a mocking smile “You? A Pegasus with only one wing, like how on Equestria am I gonna hire a Pegasus with one freaking wing?” She spoke with her nose high in the air, showing little to now respect to the war hero in front of her.

  “Well although I can’t fly as you may have expected, I can still do the laboring work for you. Also I was a Wonderbolt Engineer and I can build and fix a lot of stuff.” Eclipse tried to act as calm and natural as he can possibly be while talking to this kind of racist and arrogant mare.

   “Hmm… Very well then. Trixie can hire you. From now on you are Trixie’s personal assistant. That room there to the right is now yours.”

  “Thank you very much then, Trixie” Eclipse thanked her, at least he has a job to gain some bits now.

She simply turned back towards her trailer and stepped in without any response, that’s how proud she can get.

  “Great show of you by the way, I’m really entertained.” He added a line.

  She stood still there for a moment, her ears twitched while she heard what Eclipse said, but soon went back to normal and went back to her room. Not a single word left her throat.

  Eclipse smiled and sighed simply. Just one typical demanding mare.

  At the very first month working for Trixie, she literally treated Eclipse nothing more than just a work horse. Eclipse is kind of busy for being her personal assistant, Doing setups and preparation for her shows, clean-ups and prop management, and basically all different kinds of laboring work. Although the salary is nowhere close to when he was in the Wonderbolts, it’s still a decent amount of bits.

  During the days he works for Trixie, he spent almost all of his free time reading his books about engineering, hoping to regain a qualification of being an Expert Engineer. After some time, he came up with a crazy, innovative idea – why not build a device that can replace his right wing and fly again? That’s the thing. A bionic wing.

  Within his pile of stuff in Twilight’s castle, he found some savings a long time ago in one of the boxes. I t was supposed to be used as rainy day funds, and now it finally come to a use. With some help of his friends he managed to come up with a design of a compact yet fancy prototype. He started to gather his resources around Ponyville.

  After another month or two, Trixie finally started to warm up to Eclipse as she is much more willing to give credit to him for his effort. Also she started chatting with him and treats him more like a close friend than just a personal assistant.

  As the days past, Trixie and Eclipse friendship grows stronger and stronger, up until a point where Eclipse found himself felt being more than just a close friend with Trixie. He can’t deny that she is actually rally good looking and can be genuinely really caring about the others sometimes.’

  That’s the feeling. That one long lost sentiment in his heart after that long coma, love. He is having a crush on Trixie, but for Celestia’s sake he knows her personalities right. You can’t just simply walk up to her and tells her the fact. She just can’t accept it like this.

  In his free time, he spends those time assembling and making tweaks on his bionic wing, he just can’t wait to fly around the limitless sky once again, just like what he used to do in the Wonderbolts 13 years ago. Right before he completes his prototype, he now has a new ‘Project’ in his hoof and he brainstormed really hard about how to make it as perfect as he can.

  Performing on the stage is basically everything for Trixie. She legitimately cannot survive without performing on a stage, she is born for performing. And for any successful and enjoyable show, there’s always the one assistant that makes sure everything is ready and not gonna fail by any means. And for Eclipse he even design props and tricks for her to make more thrilling and somewhat crazy shows, and that’s probably one thing that made Trixie way more famous than before. So now he thinks, “For being her assistant I can always have access to all of her props. So as long as I not let her find out that I did some surprise on them, she won’t be suspicious until she performs the trick. Great idea!”

   Trixie’s latest show starts tomorrow, so he hopped straight in to “prepare” the props. Trixie trusted Eclipse so much since Eclipse never

screwed up once in her shows, so she never suspects a thing whenever Eclipse just decided to mess with her props. Eclipse is definitely a really trusty personal assistant for her.

  Eclipse dug through all of Trixie’s props, hoping to find the ones that is suitable for him to do some sneaky tricks on it without being spotted right away. This is very time consuming but he finally managed to complete his modification on the props and add the props to Trixie’s performing list for tomorrow. It’s already 11pm in the evening and Trixie is already asleep, conserving energy for tomorrow’s show. Eclipse walked back into his room and silently shut the door. After all of his hard work today he is exhausted and so he swiftly drifted to sleep. In his dream, he dreamt about how happy Trixie is to know about the surprise, and so as he.

  It’s 7am in the morning, most of the ponies aren’t awake yet since today’s a weekend, Saturday to be exact. Eclipse is already awake and he started his day by going for a little jog around the town just as usual. Since there’s almost no pony on the street what so ever. The lonely street is so quiet that every step he made echoes into a big loud stomp around the streets. Some of the shops are already opened and waiting for customers. Eclipse went to one of the stores and bought 2 cans of RedPony energy drink. He paid with his last few bits in his pocket since Trixie haven’t paid him yet, and his savings is almost running empty for making the bionic wing.

  After a 30-minute jog he made his way back to the trailer. He started to prepare his breakfast right after he put down his stuff. And just like usual he fried an egg and make a piece of toast with peanut butter on it. Most of the time Trixie will have her breakfast outside rather than cooking by herself, even if Eclipse is there, she never orders him to prepare a meal for her. But this time he decided to give her some spoilers first, so he prepared 2 sets of breakfast. One for himself, one for Trixie, obviously. He then took out the 2 cans of drink he bought a while ago. He set the table efficiently and sat down, continue doing the final touch on his brand new wing while watching the TV news.

  Not long after that, Trixie came out from her room. She got up a few minutes earlier and had already groomed herself. She’s wearing her iconic, purple cape that’s clean, sparkly and wrinkleless. That’s Eclipse’s great work again, of course.

  “Good Morning there, the Great and Powerful Trixie.” Eclipse greeted her with a smile warm as the morning sunshine on his face.

  “Good Morning, my trusty assistant.” Trixie greeted him back and looked at the table, “Why are there 2 sets of food here? What’s this one for?”

  “You, silly!” Eclipse smirked, “This one’s mine and this is yours, Trixie. Don’t need to go out for a breakfast now do you? It’s boring eating outside by yourself, right?”

“So, you prepared this for Trixie?”

“Exactly! So now just sit down and enjoy.” He put his bionic wing away and started eating right away.

She sat down and took a good look at the food. “Alright… That is kind of… surprising…” She finally started eating. And from the look on her face she really did enjoyed the meal.

  They both finished their meal really quickly. Trixie thanked Eclipse for his delicious meal and went dressing. Eclipse went back to his room and put on a cyan shirt with Trixie’s cutie mark on it.

  It’s now 10am and audience started gathering around the stage. Twilight and her friends are here too, and Eclipse head straight to them and stand next to them. They all waited patiently for the show to begin.

  Just like every other show she teleported herself onto the stage and greeted the audience with her stunning shout. Just the classic Trixie intro.

  For her first trick of the day, she levitated a rope in the air with her magic, light blue aura surrounding the rope. In this trick she was supposed to make the rope act like a snake, but the rope kept twisting and turning, until it forms a heart shape. Trixie have absolute no idea what is happening right now, and kind of anxious about screwing up. Did her trusty assistant fail her? However, she scanned the audience down the stage, they seemed really hyped and entertained, and they clapped their hooves loudly. She took a glimpse around and saw Eclipse looking passionately at the stage, and her. That moment their eyes locked in a contact, Eclipse gave Trixie a wink and smiled, indicated her to carry on with her show. She raised an eyebrow to show her confusion, but she did realize that she has a show to carry on.

She then took out a deck of poker cards from her purple hat and shuffled the cards with speed faster than a bullet. She lied her cards open and showed the front side to the audience. Then she swiftly and skillfully flipped the cards with one grab of her hoof, but instead of the fancy back side with the patterns were shown, it showed a message:

“ECLIPSE <3 TRIX”

  Trixie’s mouth is wide open after seeing this. Eclipse can’t hold his emotion and giggled. Twilight and her friends stared at him, looking both surprised and confused. He likes Trixie?

Meanwhile the audience is going absolutely crazy right now, they’re clapping their hooves and cheering so hard that the noise sounds more like a shockwave than just noise.

  Eclipse seized the opportunity and dashed towards the stage. He walked on the stage and waited for the mare to respond.

  “Whatever you’re gonna say, let Trixie finish her show first.” Trixie whispered to Eclipse, trying to escape the embarrassing situation she’s in right now.

  The show’s finally over. Trixie got off the stage and back to her own trailer. Eclipse went back to his room and minded his own business. They

didn’t talk about anything until night falls.

  It was after dinner that Eclipse went to the outside and once again stared at the night sky. He didn’t think about the whole thing at all. It wasn’t until Trixie saw him sitting outside and walked out of the trailer and started,

  “What’s with that face Eclipse, did Trixie make you sad?”

  “No, I’m just bored. Nothing, really.” Eclipse is a stallion who’s really good at hiding his emotion, but this is not tricking the mare who plays with tricks for a living.

  “You think Trixie doesn’t like you?”

“No…”

  “Trixie won’t lie,” She sighed, “She actually have the same feeling for you, just like how you feeling about Trixie. No stallion appreciated Trixie’s work like you before. But Trixie’s concern is that…  Our age.”

  “So you think I’m too old?” Sure their age difference is a bit to significant to be ignored.

  “No, no, no. Trixie is just…”

  “I’ve heard that Twilight Sparkle has a big brother, Shining Armor, the Prince of the Crystal Empire just in case you don’t know about him. To my surprise, although older than you and Twilight and all her other friends, I’m still 5 years younger than Shining Armor!  Will you call me old?”

  There was an awkward dead air. They both went completely silent for quite a bit of time.

  Eclipse lied down to stare at the night stars. Trixie sat down and looked at him. Suddenly she came up with an idea, so she said,

  “Actually, Trixie has one thing in mind…”

  “What is it?”

  She blushed. Her light blue colored face is covered with rose red. She felt her face’s temperature rising.

  “Can you cuddle Trixie?”

  Eclipse turned his head and looked at Trixie’s rose red face. Trixie looked away to not let Eclipse look at her emotion on her face.

  He smirked, “Sure. I would glad to.”

  Wasting no time, Trixie lied down and snugged her head underneath Eclipse’s chin and on his chest. She can feel the stallion’s chest rising and dropping with his breath. She leaned her body towards Eclipse’s belly and relaxed. Eclipse wrapped his hooves around her and gently ran one of them down her back. It didn’t take long for Trixie to fall asleep in Eclipse’s arms. They both ignored the fact that they are actually lying down, cuddling outside of the trailer, meaning that any pony passes by can see them lying down like this. They didn’t mind. A cool breeze drifted passed and giving the both ponies a chill. Eclipse popped his left wing opened and covered up Trixie’s shivering body. He is exhausted after today’s experience and desperately needed some rest, but he remembered that there’s a mare in his hug and he didn’t want to disturb her. He sighed and slowly drifted to a sweet, deep sleep with Trixie in her arms.

“Goodnight now, my Great and Powerful Trixie.”