Starlight Glimmer: The Mane One

Starlight slowly and carefully leaned from behind the castle, trying to see who was knocking at the door. She strained her eyes and noticed a tiny purple triangle shaking about on the head of a blue pony in front of the doorway. It didn't notice Starlight, and was holding a tiny box, or at least, it looked tiny. Starlight was still adjusting to how small everything looked to her at her new size. She still couldn't make out what this blue thing was until it squeaked loudly.

"THe GRRREAT and POWERRRFUL Trixie demands that somepony open this door, for she has a GREAT and POWERFUL gift for her GOOD and WONDERFUL friend!"

Oh no, Starlight thought, it's Trixie! She can't see me like this! Her thought was interrupted by a chorus of annoyed groaning by her friends.

"Oh great," Rainbow Dash complained, "As if my day wasn't going bad enough, now we have to deal with HER."

"Please don't talk to her, Starlight" Twilight begged, desperately trying to avoid having to hear Trixie's screeching voice again, "m-maybe if you talk to her she'l be afraid of you forever, so uh, just leave her there and you won't get any problems!"

Even Fluttershy tried to chime in, "Starlight... I...don't really, uhm.. like..."

"She's a real meanie pants Starlight, can we not spend your birthday with her?" Pinkie interrupted.

AppleJack shook her head too, "U'hm gonna be honest, but that there pony is only going to make things worse~"

"QUIET!" Starlight shouted in her head. Her friends rattled around in her conscience like popcorn, dazed. She recollected herself, took a deep breath, thankful that Trixie didn't hear any of that. She raised one large hoof in front of the other, stepping carefully around the castle. Trixie lost her balance, letting out a yelp as she fell over and dropped her wrapped gift on the steps. She looked around her, confused as to why it became really dark all of a sudden. She looked up, seeing a massive hoof come crashing down in front of her, making her panic and fall backwards, scurrying into the nearest bush.

"Help! The great and...Whatever! Trixie needs help!" She wailed, hiding in the bush, hoping that she would live to perform another day.

Starlight lowered her head sadly, her hair brushing against the castle as she leveled eye-to-eye near Trixie's new hiding place. "Trixie, please, don't be like that. it's only me." Starlight looked sadly and closely at the bush, trying to be as gentle and slow as possible.

Trixie slowly popped her head out of the bush, looking up at these two big adorable eyes looking down on her. She still shivered from head to hoof, unable to make sense of it. Her fight or flight response gradually faded and finally spoke.
"Trixie demands an explanation!" she spluttered accusingly, "Trixie does NOT like to get spooked by her best friend. Goodness, what's happened to you?" She jumped out from the bush, recollecting her dropped hat and wrapped gift huffily.

"It's..." Starlight was getting lost for words, trying to explain to her now tiny friend what happened. "It's... a little hard to explain. It's not just me, apparently I, erm, absorbed my friends...?"

Trixie kept arranging her hat, still upset. "There is no excuse for giving Trixie the fright of her-" She paused as she made sense of what Starlight had just explained and froze. "Wait WHAT?!"

"Yeah..." Starlight continued, "They're kind of stuck in my head, and it made me six times bigger. I think even more somehow, I don't fully understand it myself. I'm still me though, honest! Though the others have been saying...a lot of bad things in my head." She turned her attention to the others, "Which I would really appreciate it if all of you stopped complaining, please?" Starlight looked up angrily, as if she was trying to look at herself, gritting her teeth together impatiently. Her friends had been whining incoherently during the whole conversation, and Starlight was trying her best to block it out.

Trixie shook her head quickly, taking multiple looks at Starlight towering over her, trying to make sense of it all. "Trixie feels she must reveal something important to you, Starlight. Trixie often feels inferior to many ponies, and hates it very much. But this whole concept interests Trixie. Every time, the better pony has always been Trixie's enemies, but today, it is an ally of Trixie that has the abilities and size to overpower anypony! We can rule ponyvile! No, Equestria! Everypony will bow down to Trixie and her great and powerful friend! They will all apologize for the mockery they have made of Trixie...I mean... us! You can crush anyone in your path, nobody can stop us!"

An angry debacle instantly went off inside Starlight's head.

"SERIOUSLY?!" Rainbow Dash shouted, flying around angrily in the black void. "I can't believe you're even friends with this pony, she's TERRIBLE!"

"You can't seriously even CONSIDER what she's saying, Starlight!" Rarity yelled.

"You've changed, Starlight, you're better than that." Twilight pleaded. "I know you have."

Starlight sighed, trying to think clearly through the bombarding thoughts of her friends yelling in her conscience. "Trixie, I hate to be the one to say this, but that's a really selfish idea. I'm still terrified of leading anything. Being this huge is terrifying to me. I don't want to step on anypony. I don't want to hurt or overpower anypony. I've done enough damage by entrapping my friends inside my head today. Honestly... I'm hurt... I'm hurt that you'd even suggest something like that, Trixie. I thought you knew me better. I thought you'd treat me more than just... a tool..." Starlight stood up sadly, turning around and began walking away from the castle. She could barely believe that Trixie would just want to selfishly use her for her powers like that. Her friends often warned her of this, but she refused to believe it until now.

"No, wait!" Trixie yelled, stumbling over her hooves from the shaking ground. "The great and powerful Trixie takes it back! I take it back! Starlight!" It was too late, Starlight had already walked a great distance away thanks to her large body, leaving Trixie alone in front of the castle. Trixie tugged her gift, deeply regretting what she said. "Trixie...thought she could be honest with her..." Trixie hiccuped, wobbling her lower lip against her wrapped gift, "No longer is she the Great and Powerful Trixie... but the Lonely and... Powerless... Trixie..." She held the gift tightly, the only bit of Starlight she could have left. She covered her face with her large performer's hat to hide her tears, leaving the gift in front of the castle door before running away towards her tiny poor home to rethink about what she said.