Size Up Starlight

The sun was still shining that afternoon when Starlight arrived in the middle of a clear patch of grass by the Everfree forest's border. To her right, she could see Ponyville in the slight distance, a few stones throws away. Looking back to her left, the thick trees of the Everfree forest formed a wall of wood and darkness, marking the edge of it's territory. This is where she usually met Trixie to help her set up, so she called out to her while looking.

"Hello? Trixie?" Starlight called out while searching. As she walked a few steps, she suddenly spotted a violet four-wheeled wagon with shiny yellow brass stripes. It was unmistakeably' Trixie's travelling wagon. It had been apparent that she had just arrived recently, because it was still fully packed and nothing had been unloaded yet. "Oh hey, Trixie, are you in there?"

"Starlight, is that you?" A female voice from inside the wagon asked. The wagon shook left and right, along with the sound of some objects clanging and falling to the floor. Starlight raised an eyebrow at the apparent untidiness of Trixie's wagon. The window on the side of the wagon slid open, and Trixie, Starlight's blue-colored unicorn friend, popped her head out. She seemed quite happy to see her friend Starlight again.

'Oh, it is an absolute pleasure to meet you, Starlight! Or should Trixie say, Trixie's number one assistant, hmm?" Trixie shot a playful wink at Starlight, making her giggle.

"Nice to meet you again Trixie. I read your letter a week ago. You said something about a new magic show?"

"Indeed! The Great and Powerful Trixie has prepared a new act that will blow the minds of Ponyville away!" Trixie stood up on two legs from within the cabin, flailing her front hooves excitedly as she continued. "Trixie will finally get the recognition and fame that she rightfully deserves!"

Starlight smiled and gave an encouraging gesture with her hoof. "I'm sure you will, Trixie." Even though it was hard to see into the wagon, Starlight could make out some of Trixie's heavy boxes and wooden stage planks untidly stacked and packed inside the wagon. It was a mess, and that's only what Starlight could see from the small window. Trixie looked back at the boxes behind her, then turned around and gave an adorably sad begging look at Starlight while resting on the window.

"Would Starlight like to help the Great and Powerful Trixie unpack...?"

Starlight giggled. "Of course, Trixie. What are friends for?"

Trixie seemed ecstatic at her response, giving off a few high pitched horsey sounds that could only be described as extremely happy. She let the wagon's door open and fold out into a ramp in front, and then turned around to begin sorting something deep inside the wagon. Starlight walked around Trixie's wagon and walked up to the open entrance. The wooden violet ramp seemed to creak under her and bend, and Starlight had to duck under the entrance of the doorway to enter.

Entering the wagon, she felt strange, as if something was building up inside her. She ignored the feeling as she felt distracted by how her head seemed to rub and press against the roof of the wagon from inside, despite the fact that she was ducking.

"Trixie," she asked, "did you happen to get a new wagon? This place is horribly small..." Starlight's head pressed against the roof of the wagon, and to her horror, she realized that the wagon felt like it was shrinking around her body. "T-Trixie..."

Trixie, who was too busy looking inside a box to notice Starlight becoming increasingly uncomfortable behind her, snorted. "Nonsense, Starlight. The Great and Powerful Trixie has been using the same wagon long before since we first met. Now, it's time to move this box outside..." Trixie then closed the box she was inspecting and grabbed the box's handle with her mouth, and began to pull it backwards. Her movement was quickly interrupted when she felt something large and soft behind her. She didn't let go of the box, and spoke with her mouth muffled with the box's handle-piece. "Starlight, this is no time for any games, the Great and Powerful Trixie need to pull this outside!"

"T-Trixie, I'm, the wagon is..." Starlight was beginning to stutter. She could feel her body pressing against the inside of the wagon, as if she was growing bigger altogether. "Trixie..!"

"Starlight, what are you doing back there?" Trixie said in a muffled way. She was getting annoyed now, no matter how much she tried to back up Starlight didn't seem to budge. "What is it that is so important as to prevent the Great and Powerful Trixie from exiting her own wagon?

Her answer came in the form of a loud crunch, as the roof of the wagon collapsed as it was unable to hold Starlight's alarmingly increasing height. Trixie barely had a chance to look backwards before being pushed by a large light-pink rump behind her, pinning Trixie against the other end of the wagon. In seconds, the wagon exploded, flinging Trixie through the air majestically as fireworks from the wagon were set alight from the friction of Starlight's giant body rubbing against the fuses, exploding grandly around Trixie mid-flight. Trixie, trailing through the air at a fast speed and screaming for dear life, landed head-first into a nearby bush, the high impact and shock making her faint and lose conscienceness.

Trixie opened her eyes weakly, mumbling something about a great and powerful wizard named Hoofdini. Her vision was extremely blurry and dizzy as she tried to make out what was in front of her.
"Trixie, are you alright!?" Echoed a voice in her ears. Trixie was still regaining consciousness, and could make out Starlight's face from the light pink haze in front of her. Starlight's face and muzzle appeared double, swaying left and right in Trixie's disorientation, appearing extremely close up.

"Star..light..?" Trixie said weakly. She rubbed her eyes with her hooves, trying to clear her vision. Trixie groaned, looking at the ground. She noticed that it was also light-pink, like Starlight's fur color. She then began to register that the ground was in fact furry and warm, and somewhat soft. Her dizziness subsided, and Trixie suddenly understood where she was.

She was standing on Starlight's raised forearm. More specifically, Starlight appeared to be the size of the entire friendship castle in comparison to Trixie, and towered over the Everfree forest trees nearby. Trixie held onto the edge of Starlight's forearm, daring to look down at the ground, only to find that she was about fifty feet above the field which she had just been standing in previously. She began to panic, and Starlight noticed this. "Trixie, listen, I'm sorry about the wagon. Just, calm down..."

Trixie couldn't calm down. She was hyper ventilating, this was too much for her. As a unicorn who couldn't fly or levitate herself she felt extremely anxious of heights, and this sight was triggering Trixie to snap.

"OH CELESTIA HOW AM I UP HERE AND HOW ARE YOU THERE AND OH I'm going to be SICK" Trixie spluttered nonsensically while clutching Starlight's elbow for dear life. "LET ME DOOOWN! AAA!"

Starlight grimaced at this sad display. While Starlight was equally confused and scared, Trixie seemed to be handling the situation far worse than her. However, being the quick-thinking unicorn that she was, Starlight knew she had to keep calm for her friend's safety. Panicking could be left for later, as she couldn't risk flailing her giant hooves and hurting Trixie. She took a deep breath and tossed her worried feelings aside to help her friend.

"Trixie, it's okay. Calm down." Starlight lowered her other massive hoof to gently pet Trixie on her head, letting Trixie rest against Starlight's hoof for comfort. "It's going to be okay, alright? Starlight's here."

Trixie looked at this massive mass of pony approach and slowly brush against her whole body. Calming down slightly, her mind tried to make sense of the situation in the most basic way possible: I am really far above the ground, I am standing on Starlight's arm, this is my friend Starlight, Starlight is big now, Starlight won't hurt me and Starlight wants me to calm down. The soothing sensations of Starlight's gentle petting was more than enough to placate Trixie and let her think more reasonably.

Trixie looked up at Starlight, who was grooming her fur protectively. "Starlight... If Trixie may ever be so blunt..." Trixie closed her right eye as Starlight kept slowly rubbing her fur unnecessarily, getting a little carried away. "What just happened?"

Starlight wasn't sure how to answer. "Erm. I'm not too sure. It might have something to do with a spell I casted earlier with three hundred poison joke plants." She smiled nervously, her hoof-rubbing getting a little more intense on the tiny-looking Trixie sitting on her forearm.

Trixie was not amused, but didn't mind the petting. "Right... Wait, didn't you say something about Trixie's wagon?"

Starlight stopped petting and blushed in a worried way. She knew that Trixie wasn't going to like the answer. "Erm. I kind of sat on it. By mistake."

Trixie stared at Starlight's big face blankly for a few seconds while processing what she had just said. Her neutral expression quickly turned into pure anger.

"You SAT on it?!" Trixie snorted while banging her front hooves on Starlight's forearm. "You SAT and DESTROYED Trixie's performing wagon?!" While she looked harmless and perhaps a little adorable banging about on her arm, Starlight still decided to treat Trixie seriously.

"It was a mistake, Trixie, honest!" Starlight lowered her head down to Trixie's level, clearly sorry for what happened. "I didn't mean to become a fifty or sixty foot giantess, you know! I couldn't help it!"

Trixie pressed her hoof against her own forehead tightly, letting out an extremely distressed and annoyed breath. "Okay. Fine. Trixie can live with this blunder." She raised her head to focus on Starlight's house-sized eyes. "Trixie must improvise, and the show must, go on."

Starlight seemed a little confused. "Wait, aren't you worried about me being, like, big?"

Trixie whipped her hair with a swish of her mane. "Nonsense, Starlight. That's your problem, after all. Trixie has a much bigger problem on her hooves, and she simply can not focus on helping you at the moment. In fact, Trixie demands that you help her instead!"

Starlight raised her left hoof to rub her own head in a nervous way. "Well, I guess I did kind of break your wagon and probably everything you needed for the show, so, I guess that does kinda sound fair in a weird way. I'm just worried what Twilight's going to say..."

"Twilight," Trixie interjected with a rude snort, "can call you all the names in Equestria, but if you haven't noticed, you're the bigger pony now, quite literally, and that simply means you have more power over her, so if Trixie were you, Trixie would start acting your size, and..." She ended with a very harsh and high-pitched voice, "START HELPING TRIXIE!"

Starlight bit her lip as she thought about it. "I... I guess..."

"Well," Trixie huffed, "you can start helping by lowering Trixie safely onto the ground! Trixie has felt that she has had enough coddling and comforting for now." Trixie crossed her arms together, deciding to admit something. "Which, yes, Trixie has enjoyed and appreciated immensely."

Starlight giggled a little, lowering Trixie to the ground gently. Trixie jumped off and quickly surveyed the damage of her flattened wagon. Everything inside it was almost definitely broken or unusable. It almost brought a tear to her eye, but instead, it brought an idea.

"Starlight..." Trixie asked thoughtfully, "Do you think you can... fix this wagon with your magic?"

Starlight rubbed the bottom of her muzzle with her hoof. "Hmm. I've never really trained too much in construction magic, but I could give it a shot. It's only fair since I broke it." Starlight stood up, towering amazingly over the nearby trees, and aimed her horn at the flattened wagon, powering up her magic. The ground shook slightly as turquoise magic built up in front of Starlight's horn, and Trixie let out an eep and scurried away behind Starlight's hoof for safety.

A powerful beam of turquoise magic hit the destroyed remains of rubble, making it float into the air. It's parts began to re-arrange themselves back into their previous positions, wooden shards merging back into full planks, and complicated contraptions coming together from their broken pieces looking as if they were brand new. The wagon gently lowered to the ground, good as new, as if it were never broken, and Starlight didn't seem to have broken a sweat over it. Trixie gasped in amazement at the immense display of magic, running up to her fixed wagon, dancing with pure joy at finding her fixed items inside.

"Oh, Trixie is most impressed!" Trixie jumped a few more times for good measure, and then bounced outside the wagon to look up at the giant unicorn friend of hers. "That must have taken a lot of magic!" Trixie said as she began to passively look for her wizard's hat, which she realized had fallen off from the blast earlier.

Starlight raised her eyebrows a little curiously. "Trixie, it's kind of weird, but that actually felt like it barely needed any magic at all. I think my magical abilities have scaled up with me, somehow. I felt like I was levitating a tiny cart and putting all it's parts back together, as if it were some kind of toy." Starlight smiled, and then quickly padded her wording. "Your magic props aren't toys, I didn't mean that, I just meant that it was super easy for me to levitate and fix."

Trixie found her hat sticking out between two nearby rocks, and put it on while Starlight was speaking. "So let Trixie get this straight; Not only are you the giant and gentle assistant, but a great and indescribably powerful friend?"

Starlight blushed, rubbing the back of her mane bashfully while looking away. "Y-Yes, you could say that, Trixie." She then sighed, letting her hoof back down with a slight shake of the ground. "But I'm still worried. What if Twilight finds out about this? What do you think she's going to do to me?"

Trixie rolled her eyes, "you're still worried about her? You really need to think realistically, Starlight. What is she going to do, shoot you with the elements of harmonics or something? Say 'you're a bad pony' when all you've doing is help your great and powerful friend? Lecture you to death?"

"Well, that last one does sound pretty plausible," Starlight said while chuckling nervously. Trixie found it quite hilarious, and continued after a good laugh.

"Well, as a good, good friend, Trixie will help you take cover from Twilight until you sort things out."

Starlight felt relieved, "oh, thank you Trixie, you have no idea how much that means-"

"Of course, that is, if you help Trixie with her magic show..." Trixie squinted her eyes up at a dismayed Starlight, "Trixie believes that she can make good use of your current... condition, for one of her magic tricks, which will also help you hide from your..." she urked her tongue to the back of her throat to withhold her disgust and contempt, "Tutor."

Starlight lowered her head to the ground, realizing that it was probably best to start keeping a low profile. "Right... So what do you have in mind, oh great and definately-not-black-mailing-her-best-friend magician?" Starlight didn't seem so keen on the idea, but what other choice did she have?

"You see, dear sizeable apprentice, some years ago, when Trixie first came to Ponyville, she... gave a spectacular performance about vanquishing an ursa major..."

Starlight seemed less and less happy about where this was going, and interrupted. "Oh, yeah, you told me about this. Two colts actually brought in an Ursa major to see you stop it, except it was an Ursa minor, and you still couldn't stop it, because you were bluffing at your performance, and then Twilight accidentally up-staged you and sent it packing peacefully. Why are you telling me all this exactly?"

Trixie lowered her eyebrows and frowned. She had remembered it much differently, but decided to roll with it. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. What Trixie was thinking was, what if, for my next act, the residents of ponyville actually got to witness the great and powerful Trixie actually vanquish an 'ursa minor', hmm?" Trixie stretched her neck up while gesturing towards Starlight's massive body.

"Trixie... Where are we going to get a..." Starlight looked at Trixie's maniacal expression, getting a little flustered. "Trixie, I hope you're not thinking what I think you're thinking."

"Oh Starlight," Trixie exclaimed with increasing excitement, "Trixie is thinking exactly what Starlight is thinking that Trixie is thinking!"

Starlight covered her face with her hooves as she was now feeling equally annoyed and embarassed. "Trixie, you wouldn't... Not after everything you've gone through..."

"Oh but Trixie insists! After all, how else can the great and powerful Trixie top her previous stunning act, the Moonshot Manticore Mouth Dive?"

Starlight groaned. She had to agree to help Trixie, or else she wouldn't agree to help hide her from Twilight and Spike. It was going to be a long afternoon.

Later that evening, Starlight and Trixie had cleared the wagon and had been preparing the stage. Trixie enjoyed pretending that Starlight was some kind of crane that obeyed her every whim. "A little to the left, Starlight!" she would say, "No, wait, a little more to the right!"

Starlight had since convinced herself that there was some greater good to come from all this, but she wasn't sure what it would be. Either-way, she didn't want to let her friend down, and she couldn't go back to the castle in this condition either-way, so she might as well be helping Trixie. She gently placed a large sign with Trixie's face painted on top of the stage, securing it in place and wiped her forehead. "Wow, that was kind of fun," she said aloud to Trixie as she stretched her aching arms and legs. "Helping you set up the stage with my hooves really reminded me of a doll-house play-set I used to play with when I was a little filly. I have to admit, it almost made me forget about how much trouble I'm in right now."

"Trixie is glad that she was able to help you relax in the end." As it was getting slightly dark, Trixie shook a bit as a slightly cold breeze tickled her body underneath her magician's skirt and hooves. She casually walked up to Starlight, who was sitting down next to the stage and yet still towering over it, and stood between her large resting hooves. "You know, Trixie is content with the effort that her friend is willing to go through for Trixie, but now... Trixie is feeling cold and uncomfortable in this weather, but as you helped Trixie so much, she does not want to abandon her good friend!" Trixie rested against Starlight's left leg, shivering a little. "Could Trixie... rest on you again?"

Starlight was glad to get some kind of congratulation for helping out. Because of her newfound powerful size, Starlight's body maintained enough heat to keep herself warm, so without any questions she picked up Trixie with her hoof and placed her safely on her shoulder. At first, Trixie clung onto Starlight's hoof tightly in fear of falling, but later felt immensely relaxed as she rested on Starlight's warm neck. She wrapped her tiny blue arms against the large light-pink wall that supported her weight effortlessly, and snuggled up quite adorably. She gave a tired little yawn while stretching her back, rubbing against Starlight's neck. Trixie began to speak in a slightly tired way, having handled all the smaller details on the stage that Starlight hadn't been able to handle at her size.

"Starlight... You're the best apprentice and friend ever... And don't tell anypony that Trixie said this, but you are absolutely amazing to snuggle with right now, Trixie feels incredibly comfortable enveloped in your endless coat..." Trixie snuggled up even further, rubbing her face happily, her eyes barely able to keep open. "Basically, you're the best, Starlight Glimmer."

A smile fell on Starlight's face, making her blush. This was a side of Trixie she rarely ever got to see before, and she enjoyed watching Trixie twist and turn in many different comfortable positions, each more comfortable than the last, on her shoulder. "That's really sweet of you, Trixie. I, err, don't think anypony's said that about me before. I really don't know what to say..."

Starlight's bashful response was cut short by a worryingly loud rumble that shook Starlight's body, taking Trixie by surprise and making her lose balance. "Wh-What was THAT?" Trixie exclaimed as she regained her posture on Starlight's shoulder. Starlight blushed again, except she didn't look too happy this time.

Starlight began to explain. "Oh no, I've been so busy today I forgot to eat... I haven't eaten at all today, Trixie, I'm so hungry..." She held her tummy, the hunger twangs beginning to kick in. Trixie looked up anxiously, somewhat relieved that it wasn't some kind of Everfree monster on the loose, but on the other hoof she couldn't leave her big friend in pain like this. She drew up some courage, and spoke reassuringly.

"Then the brave and caring Trixie shall go into Ponyville and see if she can find some food for her friend in need!" Trixie said bravely. She looked up at Starlight's massive cringing muzzle, and began to have second thoughts. "If...she has enough money to get enough food for her...that is!"

Starlight groaned, gently lying belly-first on the ground, making sure not to hit the stage or the wagon with her street-long legs. "Thanks for helping me out, Trixie. I really don't know what I'd do without ya."

Trixie carefully slid down Starlight's arm and onto the ground, turning around to face her friend's giant muzzle. "The Great and Powerful Trixie will do anything for her best friend, Starlight! You have helped Trixie, and now she shall return the favour!" She spun around, quickly picking up her personal saddlebags and darted off into the night. "Trixie will try her best, and she will cover up for you in case anypony asks!"

Starlight tried to wave goodbye, but felt another intense tummy rumbling that shook the trees next to her, disturbing some birds from their nests. She held her chest, and tried her best to stay put, hoping Trixie would come back soon.