Author's Note

This chapter will primarily be done in a back and forth dialogue between Starlight and Trixie.

History Sharing

Trixie's Past

Trixie and Starlight had decided to talk to one another about their pasts to see if they could relate. At first they just stared at one another nervously until Starlight broke the ice, "So Trixie, what has happened in the past to make ponies hate you so much?"

Trixie stood up and boasted, "Well, when Trixie was just a filly she learned that she was really good with magic. Trixie discovered that she could make fireworks appear out of nowhere, she can create other things out of thin air and that she can manipulate other objects."

Starlight replied, "Alright, well I don't see why anypony would hate you over that."

Trixie continued, "Well, at first everypony just thought Trixie was being cute and then we earned our cutie mark. When Trixie earned her mark her parents thought she was destined for greatness so Trixie's parents sent Trixie up to Celestia's school for gifted unicorns." Trixie began to become agitated as she continued, "But when Trixie got to magic school, she failed. Trixie couldn't do all the advanced magic the other students could do. Trixie was laughed out of Canterlot!"

Starlight put her hoof around Trixie and replied, "I'm sorry about that Trixie. I'm sorry that they laughed you out of town."

Trixie continued, "Well after that Trixie had to do something for a living so Trixie became a showpony........"

Trixie's constant speaking in the third-pony was driving Starlight nuts and she wanted to find out why she did it. Starlight asked, "Trixie, I mean no offense but why do you speak in the third-pony. Why don't you ever say I or me when referring to yourself."

Trixie shoved Starlight and snapped, "Oh, so you are here to belittle The Great and Powerful Trixie?" She opened her door and ordered, "Just go Starlight. If you can't handle Trixie's speaking then just go."

Starlight closed her door and continued, "Trixie, again I meant no offense. I was just curious but if it is how you prefer to speak, then I'm fine with it."

Trixie sighed, "Ok, well where was Trixie? Oh yes, to make a living Trixie had to become a showpony because she had no real job skills. For quite some time Trixie was going out and entertaining ponies all over Equestria. Trixie would earn lots of money UNTIL she came here and made the mistake of telling everypony that Trixie vanquished an Ursa Major."

Starlight gasped, "Seriously, you told them you could vanquish an Ursa Major?"

Trixie ranted, "Yes Trixie did but that gave two idiot colts the idea to bring one to town for Trixie to vanquish. Well that thing comes into town and when Trixie couldn't vanquish it, everypony discovered that Trixie lied about the Ursa and then SHE had to come along and vanquish it."

Starlight asked, "Who is she?"

Trixie screamed, "Twilight Sparkle! And even worse after Twilight vanquished it she told everypony it was just an Ursa Minor."

Starlight was stunned. She had no clue that Twilight could actually do something like that and was more stunned that she had never told her about it. Starlight replied, "Wow, I didn't know Twilight could do that. She never told me."

Trixie growled, "Oh, and how do you know Twilight and why does it seem like you are close to her?"

Starlight replied, "Well Twilight and I have had a couple of run-ins but now I'm her student. I would think she would share something like that with her pupil."

Trixie screamed, "Oh, so you're on Twilight's side. Let Trixie guess, you're going to go tell Twilight that Trixie is in town and have her run Trixie out of town for the THIRD time!"

Starlight asked, "Third time? You two had a second run-in?"

While Trixie was frustrated and wanted to throw Starlight out, she also wanted her to hear about her other confrontation with Twilight. Trixie said, "Well, after it was discovered that Trixie was a fraud we had to take odd jobs to make money. Trixie even had to work on a rock farm, A ROCK FARM!"

Starlight asked, "Oh, you mean like what Pinkie's family runs."

Trixie grunted, "Well it was Pinkie's family's rock farm. The old stallion was always ordering us around and this one daughter of his was always yelling at Trixie and telling Trixie to stay away from this dumb rock she loved. Even worse, Trixie almost starved because they EAT ROCKS!"

This shocked Starlight. While she did not know the Pie family, she couldn't fathom that such a nice and joyful pony could come from such a family. She asked, "Wait a minute, those are Pinkie's folks. Pinkie is so hyper and friendly, how could she come from such a family?" Suddenly it hit her, the rainboom. She continued, "Wait a minute, Pinkie saw that rainboom and that altered her personality didn't it."

Trixie snapped, "Trixie doesn't know anything about a rainboom altering Pinkie but after a long time of having to eat tree branches we would find and stomach small rocks, Trixie finally made enough money she could move on."

Starlight asked, "Oh and where did you move on to?"

Trixie replied, "Well Trixie just traveled across Equestria until one time we learned about a special amulet being located in a store. Trixie was unsure about this but at night Trixie broke into this store. Unfortunately for Trixie, she was caught but luckily for Trixie, Trixie was able to buy what she wanted. Trixie was able to buy the Alicorn Amulet and then Trixie decided that Twilight must pay for all the pain she caused Trixie."

Starlight gasped, "What? The Alicorn Amulet is real? I thought it was nothing more than an old mares' tale."

Trixie boasted, "Nope, it is real and Trixie had it. Trixie headed to Ponyville and began to cast spells. Well Twilight comes along and Trixie challenged her to a magic duel. The terms were that if Trixie lost, she would leave Ponyville forever but if Twilight lost, she would be banished from Ponyville forever. Trixie cast an age spell on the same colts that brought the Ursa to town and Twilight couldn't reverse it so Trixie ran Twilight out of town and put a force-field around the town."

Starlight replied, "Wow, I didn't know anypony could do age spells. I know a lot of advanced magic but outside of Starswirl, I had never heard of ponies doing that."

Trixie replied, "Well Trixie did. Unfortunately for Trixie, Twilight runs off to some zebra who gives her an amulet and claims it is more powerful. Trixie thought she was full of herself so Trixie removed the force field and took part in a second duel."

Starlight asked, "What happened there?"

Trixie yelled, "Well all of a sudden Twilight can do more than Trixie can but you want to know the bad thing. Twilight had done nothing more than paint her friends different colors and had them jump out from behind statues." Trixie began to cry, "And then Trixie makes the mistake of taking Trixie's amulet off and going after Twilight's. Some pegasus stole the Alicorn Amulet from Trixie and as it turns out, Twilight's amulet was nothing more than a damn doorstop! A damn doorstop!"

Starlight again put her hoof around Trixie, "I know what it's like to be defeated by Twilight twice."

Trixie continued to cry, "Trixie lost, AGAIN! Trixie lost in front of the whole town, AGAIN! Trixie was ran out of town, AGAIN!" Trixie had become so distraught that she completely forgot to speak like she normally would, "I hate her Starlight, I truly hate her!" Trixie caught herself and remembered Starlight saying she was Twilight's pupil. She continued, "Starlight, please don't tell any of this to Twilight. Trixie doesn't want her doing something to Trixie."

Starlight replied, "Don't worry Trixie, I won't say a word. While I am her student, let's just say that I have a history with her of my own and if I wouldn't have made one dumb mistake, I could have prevented her and her friends from ever meeting."

Trixie's eyes grew wide. She asked, "How could you have stopped them from ever meeting."

Starlight asked in return, "Well to fully understand my history with Twilight, I'll have to go all the way back to when I was a filly. How long do you have?"

Trixie replied, "Trixie has all day."

Starlight's Past

After Trixie shared her history, Starlight knew that it was time to share her's. Starlight began, "Well my history began off in a small town in eastern Equestria. I had this friend named Sunburst, him and I did basically everything together as fillies. He seemed to know so much and could do so many things while I struggled with magic."

Trixie asked, "So he was a unicorn?"

Starlight replied, "Yes, he was a unicorn. Then one day he does some fancy trick with books and earns his cutie mark. Right then and there his parents sent him off to Celestia's school for gifted unicorns and I never heard from him again." Starlight's voice became more grim as she continued, "At that moment I vowed that I would never forge any more friendships because of the chance that a cutie mark would destroy it."

Trixie put her hoof around Starlight, groped her flank and asked, "About cutie marks, Trixie wishes to know how you got yours."

When Trixie groped her flank, Starlight blushed and Trixie saw this. Trixie continued, "Oooh, it looks like somepony likes Trixie touching her flank!"

Starlight replied, "Well you see, it's just that I've never been touched like that before and it felt so good." Starlight sat up straight and continued, "Ok, back to how I got my mark. Well I saw some pony bullying a pegasus who had to use a wheelchair so I fired energy at him. Odd thing is, I actually grabbed him in my aura, ripped his cutie mark off of him and in it's place appeared an equals sign."

Trixie's jaw dropped. She asked, "Seriously? You can take cutie marks? Trixie finds that far fetched."

Starlight replied, "I'll prove it if you want me to."

Trixie laughed, "We'll see."

Starlight grabbed Trixie in her aura and removed her cutie mark, causing an equals sign to appear. Trixie fell to the floor and looked up at Starlight and her mark. Starlight asked, "So Trixie, do you believe me now?"

Given the state she was in, she replied, "Yes, I believe you."

Starlight let go of her mark and returned it to her. Once she got her bearings straight she continued, "Wow, Trixie has never seen anything like that. Trixie finds it amazing."

Starlight replied, "Oh there's more but that is further down the road. Ok, after I stole this pony's cutie mark I was ran out of town. Ponies considered me a freak, a rebel and most of all they considered me a threat to other ponies."

Trixie asked, "But how could you be a threat if you can't keep the marks."

Starlight laughed, "Oh it wasn't long after that that I discovered how to keep them. I store them in glass jars and as long as the lid stays on it, the mark stays put."

Trixie asked, "So what did you want to accomplish by stealing cutie marks?"

Starlight replied, "I wanted to equalize Equestria. From the moment Sunburst got his mark and I didn't get mine, I got this idea that cutie marks make ponies think that they are better than other ponies." Starlight became more agitated as she continued, "I wanted to make sure that a damn cutie mark wouldn't cause anypony else any heartache ever again! I didn't want ponies to go through what I went through!"

Trixie asked, "Let's get back on your timeline. What did you do after you were ran out of your hometown?"

Starlight replied, "Well I wandered around that part of Equestria for quite a while until I found this pony in the mountains. He led me down to this town in the desert. While the ponies there seemed happy, I could sense that some felt that they were better than others so I took their cutie marks, put them in this special vault and indoctrinated them in my own way. I indoctrinated them to accept that true happiness only happens in sameness, when everypony is equal."

This made Trixie a bit nervous. While she didn't think Starlight would unmark her in a malicious way, the pink unicorn's power did unnerve her. She also couldn't help but wonder what other powers this pony had, powers that if angered she would have absolutely no problems or regrets using against her.

Trixie asked, "So what caused you to leave this town."

Starlight sighed, "This is where Princess Twilight and her friends came into play. They came out to MY village and exposed a little secret I had. You see, I covered up my real cutie mark and wore a fake equals sign on my flank."

Trixie asked, "But if you were all supposed to be equal, didn't they catch on to you having that power that they didn't?"

Starlight replied, "No. I found a piece of wood out in the desert and told them it was the 'Staff of Sameness.' They believed that it was the staff that removed the marks, not me." Starlight became more agitated as she continued, "Like I said, everything was going perfectly fine until SHE and her friends had to come and take my village away from me!"

Trixie asked, "How did they take it away from you?"

Starlight replied, "Well let me tell you something funny first. You know how I unmarked you?"

Trixie sighed, "Yes, Trixie knows."

Starlight continued, "Well I unmarked those six. I'll admit, unmarking Twilight took a bit more power than it did with the other ponies but I discovered that even a princess isn't immune to my powers."

Trixie's jaw dropped open. She gasped, "Seriously, you even took TWILIGHT'S cutie mark?"

Starlight replied, "Yes I did. Ok, back to where I was, well I don't know how she knew it but Fluttershy must have known my equals sign was a fake because she threw a tub of water at me. Only a tiny bit of water hit my flank but it erased enough to expose my real one. After that all my townsponies got their marks back and I was ran into the cold, dark caves in the mountains."

Trixie asked, "Ok, so what happened that led to your second confrontation with Twilight?"

Starlight replied, "Well I hid out in the caves for a couple of weeks and then I decided I would head to Canterlot. I decided to alter my plans. No longer was I dead set on trying to make everypony the same, I wanted to do something bigger, much bigger. I wanted to travel to the past and alter the present."

Trixie's eyes grew wide. She asked, "How could you do that? Nopony but Starswirl could do that!"

Starlight replied, "Once you study enough and you alter things here and there, you can do anything you want. Eventually I altered the spell but I needed to find a time to go back to and a way to do it. When I heard that Twilight was holding some sort of lecture for Celestia's other pupils involving cutie marks and the magic behind them, I decided to go."

Trixie asked, "So you didn't go to it just to learn? You did it to fulfill what you considered your destiny was?"

Starlight replied, "Well yes and no. I did go to it to learn, but to learn when and where to travel to. I wasn't going so much for destiny, I wanted to make sure that Twilight and her friends NEVER got their cutie marks all at the same time. I wanted to prevent that bond from ever happening."

Trixie asked, "And what happened next?"

Starlight replied, "Well I broke into Twilight's castle and waited for her in her throne room. When she arrived I used my magic to make this map of Equestria appear on her table. I fired my magic into Cloudsdale and traveled back to right before Rainbow Dash performed her sonic rainboom."

Trixie asked, "Did you stop it?"

Starlight replied, "Before I get to that I'll admit I made the mistake of leaving the scroll behind after I traveled through time. Well they decide to travel to the same place and time I did. Now about the rainboom, I did stop it and they got sucked into a different present! One in which Twilight and her friends never made their special connection."

Trixie asked, "So then why wasn't Equestria altered? Why didn't that alternate time line become a reality?"

Starlight replied, "Well given that they kept the time scroll with them they were able to keep traveling back to Cloudsdale because apparently that map thing never went anywhere so back and forth we continued. I would stop the rainboom and she would get sent back to the present but then cast the spell and come back. Finally though, she takes me back with her to show me a potential present for Equestria."

Trixie asked, "And what was that?"

Starlight replied, "Desolation, nothing but desolation. Just a few dead trees, dust storms and a lifeless landscape. In this she kept on going on and on about how important her and her precious friends are to Equestria. She claimed that she couldn't beat me and didn't understand why I turned out the way I did so I used that map to show her what happened."

Trixie asked, "So where did you take her?"

Starlight began to cry, "I took her to my hometown when I was a filly. I took her to that exact moment Sunburst got his cutie mark and headed off to magic school. We were supposed to be friends but he didn't even stay in touch. Then after that we returned to Cloudsdale one final time. This is the part that I regret."

Trixie asked, "Why do you regret it."

Starlight only became more distraught, "Because that was the time when I could have prevented it once and for all. I took the scroll. Rainbow Dash's dumb race had started. All I had to do was tear up the scroll and stop the rainboom! That's all I would have had to do to ensure that Twilight would never meet her friends, that she would never develop that DAMN cutie mark bond! But oh no, I had to listen to her when she went on about how I should try giving friendship a chance again. I listened to her and my plan failed." She grabbed a hold of Trixie crying "I failed AGAIN! I failed against her TWICE!"

It was at that moment that Trixie realized how truly powerful Starlight was but that wasn't the only thing. She realized that both her and Starlight had been defeated by Twilight twice. She also realized that the second time Twilight defeated them was because of a mistake on their part. She felt like she could truly relate with Starlight and knew there was only one thing to do.

As Starlight was crying, Trixie pounced on top of her and began to kiss her passionately. This stunned Starlight at first but it didn't take long for her to reciprocate the passionate kisses. The two mares laid there on her bed moaning in pleasure cuddling and groping one another. After twenty minutes they stopped and gazed into one another's eyes. Starlight, her face red as an apple said, "Wow, I've never experienced anything like that."

Trixie replied, "Neither has Trixie."

Starlight asked, "Trixie, why did you just start kissing me and pin me down?"

Trixie replied, "Because Trixie can relate with you a lot. We both lost to Twilight twice, we both lost the second time because of a careless mistake and despite you being her student, Trixie can tell you resent her as much as Trixie does." Trixie gave her another kiss and asked, "Starlight, would you want to be 'friends' with Trixie?"

Starlight grabbed Trixie's flank and replied, "Yeah, we can be 'friends!'" Starlight gave her a more serious look and continued, "Trixie, I need to let you know something. Twilight told me that my friendship lesson was to go out, make a friend and bring her back to meet her. Would you be willing to come to the castle and meet Twilight?"

While Trixie had no desire to go and see Twilight, she knew that if she helped Starlight with her friendship lesson, that she could grow closer to her. Trixie felt something that she had never felt before, "friendship", and she didn't want to lose that. She replied, "Of course Trixie will go and meet Twilight! Come on sexy, oops, Trixie means 'friend,' let's go and see Twilight.

Starlight had a feeling that Twilight would likely be shocked by who her new friend is and perhaps upset but she did say to go out and make a friend, she never specified what kind of friend. Starlight knew that things between her and Trixie would likely get more heated and besides, Twilight doesn't have to know that her and Trixie have a special kind of "friendship".