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“FOUL REPREHENSABLE CRETIN,” Luna screamed in rage, “HOW DARE THEE INTRUDE UPON OUR HOME IN THIS MANNER!”

Trixie was pinned, frozen in place as the princess barked her threat. She had no idea if it was the royal Canterlot voice that made it hard for her to move her or the fear of finally facing one of the princesses.

She tried to stammer and all she could do was mutter weakly under her breath.

“What are you doing? You’re supposed to be moving not muttering! Get a move on!” Discord said loudly in Trixie’s head.

Trixie could feel the raw power pooling over Luna, rising into the air like steam bleeding heat into the air around her.

“PREPARE THYSELF FOR THINE RETRIBUTION HEATHEN!”

Trixie felt the air grow heavy as the power built up in Luna’s horn. She saw a blinding flash followed by the air growing terribly warm. She felt the light growing hotter and hotter around her until it became almost to difficult to breathe.
Trixie hastily built up power into her horn and warped.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself standing behind the princess who had dispelled whatever spell she was used and turned around to look for her. When Trixie looked at the spot where she stood, she thought that she could see smoke rising from the grass.

She shivered when she tried thinking of what could’ve caused the smoke…

Trixie ran away from the princess and began to climb the stairs of the tower.

“STAY WHERE THEE ARE, THOU CANNOT ESCAPE THY PUNISHMENT!”

Trixie could feel the raw energy building behind her as she ran up the stairs. She saw a bright flash spark behind her before she felt the air growing warm around her. She looked back to see Luna flying after her. She warped herself up the spiral staircase when the heat grew too warm. She continued to progress slowly up the never-ending stairs, running and warping her way up several steps at a time until she found herself standing before a large wooden door at the top of the tower.

Bursting through the doorway, she found herself standing on a bridge which led to an adjacent tower a few feet away.
Trixie ran onto the bridge and looked back to see Luna absent. For a moment, her hope began to rise before she saw a dark flash appear before her which stopped her in her tracks.

Luna had teleported before Trixie and stood poised to deliver her punishment. Her wings had unfurled as if she was hawk diving to capture its prey and her eyes had glowed white with rage and power. She stood before Trixie, silently leering as Trixie could feel the rage boiling over inside Luna’s body. Luna tucked in her wings and built up the power in her horn.

“THIS GAME ENDS NOW! PREPARE THYSELF FOR THINE PUNISHMENT!”

Trixie saw the flash and felt the air grow warm and instantly warped only to find the air still growing continually warmer. She tried warping around Luna only for Luna to block her path, preventing her from making any progress to the other tower. The air continued to grow warmer and Trixie was starting to have trouble breathing from the rising heat and exhaustion.

“Please…help.” Trixie pleaded as she tried to talk to Discord.

“Oh I’m sure you can handle it dear, what kind of person would I be if I put myself in the middle of your spat?”
“But you said that you’d take care of the princesses…”

“I said that I’d take care of the princesses after you made it to the throne room. Clearly we’re both having some trouble holding up our ends of the bargain aren’t we dear?”

Trixie clenched her teeth as she felt the air becoming more and more unbearable. She wished that she could strangle Discord for putting her in this position, fighting a princess while she felt herself slowly succumbing to the heat. She wished that she could go back in time and stop herself from falling into Discord’s web of lies. Nothing could’ve made this debacle worth it, not even the magic she gained and the tricks she’d learned.

“The tricks…I’ve learned…”

An idea formed in Trixie’s head, it was a longshot but she had to bet everything she had on it.

Trixie forced herself to run in spite of the heat. She felt the sweat pouring down her face and could feel her vision growing darker as the heat exhaustion began to take hold.

“You’re kidding…”

Trixie charged Luna and kept the last of her energy charged in the base of her horn, she couldn’t afford to waste any more than absolutely necessary. Surprisingly, Luna charged as well, head forward and horn pointed dangerously at Trixie’s head. She guessed the distance between herself and Luna and silently counted down to the last possible second.

“Five…”

Luna was a few feet away and closing the distance fast.

“Four…”

Trixie looked to the side to scan the horizon.

“Three…”

She found what she was looking for, a large ornate tower in the center of the castle grounds.

“Two…”

She spotted a row of windows which showed an elegant room where Princess Celestia was speaking to a lone guard.

“One…”

At the last possible second, she released all the stored energy in her horn and warped herself away from the bridge. When she looked at her surroundings, she found herself standing in the center of an elegant throne room, in the presence of a very surprised princess and the guard who was talking to her.

With the last of her strength spent, Trixie succumbed to her weariness and allowed her vision to go dark. The last thing that Trixie heard before she collapsed was…

“Go ahead and rest dear, I’ve got it from here.”

●●●

In a dark abyss, Trixie lied unconsciously on the ground as Discord walked past her body.

As she slept, Discord snapped his fingers and two rotary fans appeared and blew cool wind onto Trixie’s body. He silently patted Trixie on her head and smiled as he said “Good job, my little vessel.”

Discord made a door of light appear before him before he took a step through and found himself in the princess’s throne room.

●●●

Discord opened its eyes and found itself drenched in cold sweat. The air around him seemed to bake its fur and parch its throat. It exhaled a breath of wind and immediately felt the temperature drop around him as Luna’s spell was dispelled.

“Who are you?”

Discord looked ahead and saw a lone guard standing before the princess, teeth bared, crouched, and ready to charge.
It had just occurred to Discord that, while in Trixie’s body, it’d need a new name to differentiate itself from the being that controlled the mind and the mare who owned the body.

“You can call me Dixie.” Dixie said off the top of its head. As it thought about the its new alias, it began to chuckle at the ridiculousness of its new persona, it infinitely preferred Discord, a name to match its chaotic, whimsical nature.

Though it supposed it’d have to do.

“How did you get here?” The guard said as he took an angry step forward.

“The same way you left.”

Discord sent the guard away to the chest deep within its mind; it’d be able to find a use for him later.

Seconds later, Luna teleported into the room, standing beside her sister as Celestia looked at Dixie with shock.

“Wha…what did you do?” Celestia asked Dixie slowly.

Dixie could see the tears running down Celestia’s face as she stared at the spot where the guard stood. It surprised it how much someone as powerful as her could’ve felt such love for such a lowly creature.

“What happened sister?” Luna asked, “Where’s Conroy?”

“What an ordinary name for a guard,” Dixie said with a smile, “I suppose you only hand out unique names to the important ponies here? What a shame, so ordinary I already forgot about, ooh what’s his face…Cammy?”

“It! Was! Conroy!”

The room’s temperature rose sharply as Celestia gave a glare that seemed to burn into Dixie’s soul. Her eyes began to glow white, her colorful mane became muted as sparks danced before combusting into flames, and the air became overwhelmingly hot, like the room had suddenly been transported to the center of an active volcano.

Dixie made a shield to protect itself from the worse of the heat and merely smiled cockily as Celestia’s anger continued to rise.

“YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS DIXIE!” Celestia roared.

Celestia disappeared in a flash of yellow before she suddenly appeared before Dixie. She reared her front hooves up brought them down before her. Dixie wasn’t impressed until it saw the floor glowing below it and a geyser of flames erupted from beneath.

Thanks to its shield, it had managed to avoid the worse of the flames and quickly warped away to get some more breathing room. As it watched Celestia, it looked up to see a storm cloud slowly growing larger before a bolt of lightning shot forth from the cloud.

Dixie dodged the bolt and warped to the far side of the room. It saw Celestia disappearing in a flash while Luna stood where she was and seemed to be studying the cloud. Another bolt of lightning shot forth from the cloud, forcing Dixie to warp away to find Celestia already standing before it.

Celestia encased Dixie in cocoon of magic, forcing Dixie to fall to the ground, unable to stand under the tremendous weight of her hold. The temperature started to grow colder, colder than ice, as Celestia’s eyes glowed brighter and brighter by the second. The room slowly became darker and the air became thinner, as if Dixie was standing atop a mountain…

"NOW IT'S MY TURN TO MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR!"